Long before Bahai was defeated and retreated to Baoding, the Qing army in Baoding City had already prepared to defend the city in advance. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Because the Qing army dug up the Yellow River embankment, delaying Wu Sangui for half a year, the Qing army has recruited 200,000 people in Baoding. After the arrival of Bahai, 50,000 landlords were successively recruited.

Before Wu Sangui's main force came to Baoding City, there were already more than 20,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners including the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the Eight Banners of Korea, more than 50,000 soldiers of the Green Battalion, more than 10,000 newly transferred North Korean Green Battalions, more than 60,000 local armed forces, more than 200,000 people, and as many as 350,000 soldiers and civilians defending the city.

If the militia and auxiliary soldiers are pulled out of the field battle outside the city, these rabble will be vulnerable no matter how many they are, but relying on the strong city wall defense still plays a great role.

But to be honest, this Baoding Mansion City, which has a circumference of twelve miles and three hundred and thirty steps, is really not a big city, and there are more than 300,000 people crammed into such a city, which is naturally crowded. The inconsequential people in the city, such as women, children, old and weak who could not go to the city to fight, have been expelled from the city, and the young and middle-aged people in the city have long been conscripted into the city. In today's Baoding City, in addition to the army, there are some gentry and wealthy people and their families.

However, the gentry and wealthy and their families who want to enter the city to escape the war are also strictly restricted, except for the family members and male servants who have a certain combat effectiveness, that is, the immediate family members of the gentry and rich men can be allowed to enter the city, and even the maids and small servants can not all be brought into the city, only the personal maids and the small servants who are regarded as cronies can enter the city to accompany the head of the family.

The Qing army supervised the construction of the Baoding city wall, the original three zhang five feet high Baoding city wall, was heightened to four zhang high, and on the city wall, every hundred steps to build a high five zhang, two zhang square circle of the fortress, the fortress protrudes to the outside of the city wall. The urn city at the city gate was renovated, the arc-shaped urn city was changed to a square one, and the corner tower was added. Originally, Baoding City was built with long stones and glutinous rice pulp, which was extremely strong, and after transformation, it was even more solid.

Just when the Qing army was in full swing to defend the city, a group of Wu cavalry appeared outside the city, and the number was not very large, about 500 people.

"Wu Dog is here! Close the gates! The Qing army on the tower of the city always shouted in horror.

The Qing soldiers at the head of the city were in a hurry, pulled up the drawbridge, and the Qing soldiers inside the city gate hurriedly closed the city gate.

The cavalry of the Wu army came quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they rushed to the outside of the city. However, the 500 cavalry of the Wu army ran around the outside of the city, and none of the more than 300,000 defenders in the city dared to go out of the city to face the battle.

When the cavalry of the Wu army ran from the Yingxun Gate in the south to the Gongji Gate in the north, all the way through, the Qing troops defending the city closed the upper city gate one after another, pulled up the suspension bridge, and no one dared to go out of the city. The cavalry of the Wu army ran to the north gate, and the arch gate was also closed.

"When did our Qing army reach this point?" Ba Hai roared angrily, "But there are only hundreds of thieves and horses, and none of the hundreds of thousands of troops dare to go out of the city to face the battle? ”

"Your Excellency!" An Eight Banners leader said, "The thieves only have five hundred cavalry daring to show off their might, there must be an ambush behind!" If you rashly go out of the city to meet the enemy, Wu Gou will take the opportunity to seize the door, and Baoding City will be in danger! ”

Ba Hai could only sigh helplessly, the Qing army, which had been defeated repeatedly, had long since lost its fighting spirit, so that they could still fight with Wu Sangui's army with their strong city defense. But if you want to let them out of the city to fight, no one has the guts.

After the arrival of the 500 cavalry of the Wu army, the follow-up cavalry came one after another, but the cavalry of the Wu army who arrived the first day was only more than 3,000 people.

After all, the more than 3,000 cavalry of the Wu army were too few in number, and they did not dare to station too close to the city. Before dark, the cavalry of the Wu army simply set up camp two miles south of Baoding City, because there were no auxiliaries to follow, the Wu army simply surrounded a wooden fence and set up tents for camping at night. However, the Wu cavalry guerrilla still kept an eye on it: a secret post was arranged on the periphery of the barracks to prevent the Qing army from sneaking attack.

A whole night passed, and the Qing army in the city did not send a single soldier. At dawn the next day, the south gate of Baoding Mansion City was still closed, only the north gate was opened, and the messenger sent by Bahai to deliver a letter to the capital rushed out of the arch gate, and galloped away to the north with a whip.

It was not until the afternoon that the first group of lightly armed Wu infantry and a group of heavy cavalry arrived one after another. In the evening, the cavalry of Li Dingguo's army, which joined forces with the Wu army on the Northern Expedition, also rushed to the city of Baoding.

More than 100,000 troops arrived in Baoding one after another, with the arrival of Wu army auxiliaries, Wu army pushed the camp forward nearly a mile, dug a trench from the city wall, built a barracks, erected a tower, pulled up a wooden fence, and also set up a walled gate and a suspension bridge, and gradually arranged a continuous piece of solid camp.

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Hundreds of miles away, the capital.

In the imperial study of the Forbidden City, Kong Sizhen, who was kneeling on the ground, said to Kangxi: "Your Majesty, the slave maid thinks that the matter has come to this point, and only by making peace with the puppet Ming traitor can I save the Qing Dynasty!" ”

"Peace?" Kangxi smiled bitterly, "Will the puppet traitor agree to negotiate peace?" Didn't we reject the pseudo-Ming peace negotiation back then? Now that the puppet traitors are powerful, they still meet and make peace? ”

Kong Sizhen said: "Your Majesty, although the pseudo-Ming traitors are powerful, they are not monolithic. There are countless puppet and rebel vassal kings, and there are six of them with heavy troops, and no one is subordinate to each other. What's more, Wu Sangui's son is still in our hands! The slave maid is Wu Sangui's righteous daughter again, and her blood is thicker than water, and Wu Sangui will agree to negotiate peace......"

"Impossible!" Bumu Butai interrupted Kong Sizhen's words, "If you want to blackmail Wu Sangui's son, you can't blackmail this old thief at all!" The best way now is to kill Wu Yingxiong when Wu Sangui hits the capital! ”

"Killing Wu Yingxiong, didn't it anger Wu Sangui?" Kong Sizhen was shocked.

Bumu Butai said: "The banner people in the city are gradually evacuated!" If Baoding is lost, the capital will not be able to hold it! We can only hurry up and remove the flag men. The capital only needs to leave the green camp and the Koreans to defend the city, and if the capital is broken, let them go. Hum! When my Eight Banners Lang retreats outside the border, it won't take a few years, and it will be an elite again! ”

"Didn't the Rakshasas help us train our troops? There are 10,000 Rakshasa people to teach the new army of the Eight Banners, and they will definitely be able to hold the Beijing Division. Kong Sizhen asked.

"The training is not so fast, you can retreat outside the customs and practice slowly!" Bumu Butai turned his head to Kangxi and said, "Emperor Sun! While Baoding is not lost, we must hurry up and evacuate the capital! Take away all the gold and silver treasures that can be taken away, don't be cheap Wu Dog! There is no need to destroy this Forbidden City, leave it to the Han people for the time being, and we will have a chance to fight back in the future! ”