"Minggou is here!" Cries of terror echoed on the shores of Lake Baikal.

The cold air suddenly became tense, and the bannermen and wrappers who were busy outside the city left their work behind and fled into the city in embarrassment. In the year and a half since the Manchu court fled here, they gradually expanded their residence into a city with outer walls made of wood and earth. Although the walls were rudimentary, the birch wood was already hard, and in winter, the soil froze as hard as iron, and the bannermen poured water on the walls and froze, making this simple city extremely strong.

The city built by the banner people using the local slaves who were clothed and captured was named Beihai City, the circumference of the city was 3,620 zhang, and a fortress was built every 30 zhang on the city wall, and the fortress was built with stone, which was relatively strong.

The scout who reported the news hurriedly broke into the city and went straight to the prime minister's yamen where Tuhai was located.

"How many of them came?" Tuhai asked.

The scout replied, "They're here about two thousand chariots!" Their cars are running fast! ”

"Chariots?" Prince Gong Aixin Jueluo Chang Ning, who was standing on the side, paused for a moment, "It's icy and snowy, but the chariot can still run in the snow?" How could there be such a thing? ”

"Rare and weird!" Tu Hai snorted coldly, "The Ming dog who occupied our Manchuria made a kind of snowmobile, and the bigger the snow, the happier this kind of car will be." This kind of chariot had no wheels, only two boards to walk on the snow, and was pulled by a war horse, and ran faster than a carriage walking on wheels. ”

"That's them!" Chang Ning glared at his blood-red eyes and shouted, "They are the ones who occupy Shengjing!" They were the ones who dug up our ancestral graves! Since they're here today, you can't let them go! ”

Tu Hai stopped the furious Chang Ning, and asked the scout again: "Minggou has two thousand chariots, how many people have come?" ”

The scout replied: "They have only charioteers, no infantry and cavalry to follow. There were about three soldiers in one of their vehicles, about six thousand people. ”

"It's just six thousand dogs, and it's scared of you like this!" Chang Ning roared hoarsely, "Raise eight thousand elite soldiers for this king, so that these Ming dogs will not come back!" ”

"Lord Wang, don't be impulsive!" Tu Hai dissuaded Chang Ning, "Since Minggou dares to come, they must be fearless!" Don't look at the fact that there are few dogs, but they are well-armed. If you go out of the city to fight, I'm afraid it's not an opponent. ”

Chang Ning snorted coldly and said: "We have 22,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners, more than 20,000 clothed infantry, 1,500 Rakshasa cavalry, 2,000 Rakshasa infantry, and we are afraid of 6,000 Ming dogs?" ”

The so-called 22,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners actually included the people of the Manchu and Mongolian and Han Eight Banners, and the clothed minions and green battalion soldiers who fled to Lake Baikal with the Manchu court had all been carried and incorporated into the Eight Banners. As for the 20,000 coated infantry, they were actually local slaves captured by the Eight Banners nearby, and some of the slaves were incorporated into the coated infantry. The population of Beihai City has increased from less than 100,000 when the Manchu court first arrived to 200,000, and most of the increased population is captured by the neighborhood, except for some of the bannermen who were separated on the road and came here one after another.

In the past six months, after the arrival of the Russians, the Manchu court was under the protection of the Russian army, Kangxi on the one hand ordered to build a city, on the other hand, he took the initiative to attack, attacked Mobei Mongolia many times, rescued some of the banner people captured by the Mongols, and also captured many Mongolian prisoners.

With a population of 200,000 and a military force of more than 40,000 people, this proportion is higher, but it is normal for the current Qing court, most of the current population are young and middle-aged men, and the Manchu court fled here from the capital, most of the women and children, the old and weak have been lost, and the rest are naturally mostly young and middle-aged men.

As for captives to replenish the population, although the bannermen were in dire need of women to be wives, they also took men as slaves, and those who were captured became the new coats. Of course, the arresters were all young people, and the old ones had already been cut down by them.

"What?" Kangxi in the imperial city heard that the Ming army was only 6,000 people, so he dared to come here to call for battle, and immediately became angry and bounced up from the dragon chair, "But only 6,000 Ming dogs, our more than 20,000 cavalry out of the city, we will be able to wipe them out in one fell swoop!" Are you still cowering in the city? Someone! I want to drive the expedition myself! ”

"Your Majesty, you must not!" Tu Hai hurriedly knelt on the ground and persuaded him bitterly, "Since Minggou dares to come, they must have no fear!" Ming Dog is well-armed, if we simply charge into battle with cavalry, we will suffer a big loss! ”

"Then call all the infantry artillery out of the city! And Rakshasa artillery! With the help of the Rakshasa artillery, I don't believe that I can't destroy these Ming dogs who dug up the tomb of our Qing Emperor! Kangxi's roar filled the humble Imperial City Hall.

Mingzhu persuaded: "Your Majesty, don't go out of the city to fight!" The Ming dogs are all chariot soldiers, and the chariots are all well-made Rakshasa war horses, and their snow chariots are flying fast, if they go out of the city to meet them, even if we win, we will not be able to catch up with them. Not to mention the fact that their chariots were sturdy and difficult to penetrate. When they assemble, they are a city that can move, and when they run, they are a charioteer faster than cavalry. We went out of the city to fight in the field, and it was not good for us. ”

"Do you just watch the six thousand bright dogs show off their power outside our city?" Kangxi asked unwillingly.

Tu Haidao: "They are all snow chariots, and they can only walk in the snow. As long as we hold on until the climate warms and the snow melts, Minggou's snow chariot will become waste. When the time comes, if we kill it in one fell swoop, we will definitely be able to kill Ming Gou! They lost their chariots, and they didn't even want to run! ”

"Good! Then it's up to you, we can't hold on! Kangxi said unwillingly.

Zheng Zheng's army arrived five miles away from Beihai City, originally he thought that the Qing army would go out of the city to attack him, but at a distance of five miles from the city, he ordered a halt to advance, and all the sleds formed a formation, ready to meet the Qing army out of the city. Who knew that when it was completely dark, I didn't see a single Qing army out of the city.

"It seems that the Tartars are scared by us! We had 6,000 men, and they didn't dare to go out of the city to meet them! Zheng Xi sneered, "Pass my order, rest on the spot, and attack the city early tomorrow morning!" ”

The sled riders set up camp, and it was very simple for them to set up camp, as long as they formed a circle around the outermost sled, and put the gun cart and the like in the middle. Soldiers do not need to set up tents, the car has a canvas canopy, and you can rest in the car by pulling it up. A bonfire was lit in the middle of the car array, and horse lanterns were hung on the cars on the periphery, and this was a moonlit night, and the moonlight shone on the snow like day, as long as a few sentries were left, the Qing army had no chance to sneak attack.

The Ming soldiers began to make fires to cook, and they had been running on the road for several days, all of them were gnawing on dry and hard dry food, eating cold jerky, and the soldiers were eager to eat a hot meal.