Chapter 620: The Peacock Turns into a White-Striped Chicken
Daoguang, who failed to make peace with his relatives, could only curse Yang Feng and his incompetent subordinates in the palace with grief and indignation.
He already regretted not running sooner.
After the end of the battle of Tianjin, there were already ministers who persuaded him to patrol Xingrehe, anyway, to avoid the Ming army first, but those princes and nobles were unanimously opposed, after all, he was gone, and the people's hearts were scattered, and those princes and nobles could follow but the family business could not run. These guys who sacrifice their lives and money have to pull Daoguang, only if Daoguang stays in Beijing, there will be an army of King Qin, if Daoguang runs away from Beijing, he will not be able to keep it, and then all their property will be cheaper for those poor ghosts. In addition, Daoguang himself lacked understanding of the Ming army's attack speed, so he didn't go, and when Yang Feng beat Tongzhou like a bamboo, it was not so easy for him to run at that time, at least there was a city wall to protect him in Beijing, but when he came out, Beijing had no city wall protection outside, and once the Ming army pursued, it was easy to catch up with him in the wilderness.
The Ming army also had a large number of horses.
In fact, at least two battalions of the Ming army at this time were acting on horseback, Yangcun, Hexiwu, Zhangjiawan, and Tongzhou came all the way, and it was very easy to collect 2,000 horses, and more than 1,000 horses were collected in Tongzhou City alone.
More after the Battle of Bali Bridge.
It is true that the Ming marines are not cavalry, and it is not okay to expect them to fight on horseback, but it is okay to act as dragoons on horseback.
So even if the Ming army only blocked Chaoyangmen, Daoguang didn't dare to run at this time, he couldn't run away from Juyong Pass and had to be caught up, and then in the wild, he would be **** with the Ming army, at least it would be safe to hide in Beijing, and he could also fantasize about the army of King Qin. Even if he knew that those green battalions had no hope, but there were still the three generals of the outer world, as well as the general of Suiyuan, and the general of Xi'an, these people would not sit idly by and watch him be trapped, especially the three generals outside the Guan, before the general of Shengjing, Xi'en, had received the holy decree to go south. The Eight Banners outside the Guan, especially Sauron, can still put together a real army, and these people are also the strongest in the entire Qing Dynasty, as long as Xi'en's army goes south, it will definitely be able to solve the demon, in the end......
After all, Daoguang is still very naïve!
He didn't want to think about how his nearly 100,000 troops had been defeated by the Ming army, so what was the use of the Eight Banners outside the gate?
"Eight Banners outside the Guanwai?"
Yang Feng smiled disdainfully.
Beside him a donkey cart drove by, loaded with all kinds of fine silk and even a box with a military seal, and the driver of the cart was wearing a robe that was obviously refined by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and on his head he was wearing a beautifully carved gilded helmet, and the lightning rod stood high, and he was talking happily with his companions as he went. His companion was even more exaggerated, at this time it was still early autumn, and he was wearing a luxurious white fox skin robe of a noble woman, and he was carrying a huge burden on his back, in which he could see a gold thread embroidered curtain torn from nowhere, and a delicate vase showing the mouth of the bottle. And such donkey carts, horse-drawn carts, ox carts and even carts lined up in a long winding line, escorted by Ming soldiers on horseback, all the way to Tongzhou in the distance, and at the other end of the long line is the Old Summer Palace.
The clean-up of this famous garden has plunged almost all the poor people around Beijing into a carnival, not only organized by the Ming army from Tongzhou, but also many people from other places who have received the news spontaneously.
Anyway, the Ming army only needs gold, silver and jewelry.
In addition, there are some ancient books and rare books, and as for everything else, it is completely up to the common people to take it, even if it is to demolish the house and the Ming army.
Of course, no one demolished the house.
At least not yet.
For those common people, all kinds of cloth and antiques are the most important, and even some furniture utensils, especially metal utensils are popular, in short, the Ming army takes gold, silver and jewelry, they take everything left, this huge garden is being emptied at a very fast speed, and even the palace maids who have not had time to escape into Beijing have been carried away. As for the guard camp of the Old Summer Palace, after the Ming army arrived, they ran into Beijing, and then lay on the city wall with the princes and nobles of Beijing, watching the people who carried everything in the garden like a carnival and cursing these Diao people, cursing them for ignoring the grace of the Qing Dynasty, and cursing the bandits and demons who taught them badly.
This is not just emptying the Old Summer Palace, this is still stripping off their fig leaf!
This garden symbolizes their so-called prosperity!
Now those Diao people are slapping them over and over again, stepping on their faces, smashing the dignity of the Qing Dynasty, the lies of the Qing Dynasty, and the majesty they have erected by killing and enslavement for hundreds of years.
No one will fear them anymore.
They have become a laughing stock, their weakness and incompetence are well known, and those people who carry the royal supplies and walk out of the royal garden happily will continue to spread their jokes for the rest of the year, and then the whole country will know that the alien ruler who once pressed down on this land like a mountain is nothing more than a papier-mâché empty shell, if this empty shell was still scary before, but now even the tissue paper outside has been ruthlessly torn apart.
And then......
And then a lot of things happen.
According to the merchant who returned from Niuzhuang, when he left Niuzhuang, the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai led by the Shengjing general Xi En were passing through the Sancha River pontoon bridge, and he was carrying a group of cavalry from the Shengjing Garrison Eight Banners and the Horqin Division, and the total strength would not exceed 10,000 people. The Heilongjiang generals and the Jilin generals also rushed to Shengjing and south, and eventually the total strength of this group of Tartars may exceed 20,000, in addition to the Mongol cavalry of the Chechen Khan. This is what the Tartars of Niuzhuang said when they boasted, if you add the Chechen Khan, there are definitely more than 20,000, and all of them are cavalry or heavy infantry on horseback, but there are not many guns, especially the Mongolian cavalry and the Buhat Eight Banners are basically all bows and arquebuses, and even flintlock muskets are very few. ”
Xu Hui said.
This is actually quite normal.
Before this, the Qing army was an arquebus, but in recent years by the Ming army and the British army repeatedly stimulated before changing the flintlock pistol, and mainly in the southern theater of operations, the more north the proportion of flintlock pistols is lower, the proportion of flintlock pistols in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang and green battalions has been more than half, and there are only a small number of flintlock pistols in Beijing, and the green battalion is simply still a fire arquebus, and outside the gate is not a war zone at all, where the eight banners can have arquebuses is already good.
However, it is true that these people still have a certain combat effectiveness, especially the Sauron soldiers of the Eight Banners of Buhat can be called the pillars of the middle of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, since the beginning of the Qianlong Dynasty, the Eight Banners can only rely on the Sauron people to support the scene, and most of the generals who are still a little talented are Saurons.
Like Highlanza.
Although Dorona is a white flag, he is actually a Sauronian.
"Then it's time for them to go to Shanhaiguan."
Yang Feng groaned.
"Send a report to the fleet at Dagukou, and order the second brigade and three battalions left behind to transfer a sentry and board the ship with a machine gun team to go to Shanhaiguan immediately, if Xien has already crossed the Shanhaiguan, forget it, if Xien has not crossed the Shanhaiguan, land and seize the old dragon's head, and then attract the Qing army to attack in the past and then bombard it with naval artillery, if the Qing army does not counterattack, take the machine gun and make a feint along the Great Wall."
Then he said.
He had to say hello to Sheen first, and it would be perfect if he could attract the Qing army into the range of the ship's guns.
It is said that the range of his current naval guns is still a little insufficient, otherwise it would be perfect to bombard Shanhaiguan from the sea, but even his latest six-inch main gun has a range of only 5,000 meters, and such a range cannot hit Shanhaiguan in any case, not that he can't make a longer tube, but the ability of black powder is not enough, even if the range of rifled guns is limited, if you want to fight farther, you have to wait for a higher level of propellant in the future.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's better to simply attack Niuzhuang."
Xu Hui said cautiously.
"Niuzhuang, forget it for the time being, our ship can't drive Niuzhuang, even if the frigate can't drive there this season."
Yang Feng said.
Niu Zhuang is sure to fight.
But at this time, it was already early autumn, the water level of the Liao River had begun to drop, and his frigate was also 500 tons, even if this tonnage could be driven into Liangfangkou, it would not be able to open the Sancha River, otherwise the British would not have changed Yingkou to open the port in history.
"Your Majesty, the captive cannons are reloaded!"
An officer saluted.
On the specially rammed position behind him, a huge water tank was pointing to the sky, this was the exterminator cannon made by Yang Feng himself, he used several tons of high-quality bronze to make this less than two meters long, but with a terrifying eleven-inch caliber cannon, or simply a bronze cylinder. However, there are trunnions on both sides on the pig iron ear mounts, the tail of the cannon is a semi-circle on the steel plate, which can be adjusted at an angle within a small range, and the pig iron and steel base below are flat on the rammed earth ground, and the four sides are also locked with a circle of wooden stakes, and there are crane arms and inverted chains on the base, which are used to fill those huge cannonballs that resemble the stone balls decorated in front of the doors of some buildings.
Giant flowering bombs.
A giant flowering bomb weighing two hundred pounds and filled with black powder produced in the Qing Dynasty.
"Then let the Tartar chiefs listen to your roar!"
Yang Feng looked at his latest work and said with satisfaction.
The officer saluted at once, then turned to take the ignition rod from the hand of one of the soldiers, and without hesitation slammed into the ignition hole at the end of the gun, when he heard a sudden loud bang, accompanied by the flames from the muzzle, a black shadow almost visible to the naked eye, with a small fuse burning tail soaring into the sky.
Yili, who had been staring at this thing for a long time on the Chaoyang Gate, with a shocked dazedness, raised his head with the little tail of the fireworks, and then turned around mechanically, watching it fall in an elegant arc in the sky, but it was obvious that it landed a little far, and this rather spectacular meteor had been over the entire Dongcheng District, and even over the walls of the Imperial City......