"My marshal asked me to greet the general of the Zhou Dynasty, I heard that your war in Shandong is only a few hundred casualties every day, my marshal said, there are thousands of casualties every day under the town of Jizhou, if you don't know how to fight, my marshal can teach you, but if you don't dare to fight, put down your weapons and surrender as soon as possible, it's better than standing up here."

The generals in the Gao Dajie army all clenched their fists, but everyone knew that they couldn't move this person now, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty could live if they withdrew from the Guanwai, but if they didn't have Jiangnan, they could only go to Nanyang to leave their hometown, and even go to the sea to feed the fish.

Even if this envoy is very unreasonable, these generals can't really beat him, sometimes patience is more difficult than hands, which requires strong self-control.

Gao Dajie sighed: "You have also seen this envoy, most of the soldiers in our army were lost in the last Shandong War, and now they are all new soldiers, I need time to run them in, if I rush up in one go, it will be just another big defeat, and when the time comes, it will increase the ambition of the false Ming and destroy my prestige." ”

"I can't control what the situation is in your army, but you must know that our Qing Dynasty closely relied on the land of Liaodong, so we took out so many troops, and Jizhou Town was about to be gnawed by us. You earn your own face, and you can't get it by relying on other people's handouts. ”

Tuhai also took into account a little when he sent the envoys, if he said that his side and the Ming army were still winning or losing fifty-fifths, I am afraid that it would be of no use to the generals of the Zhou Dynasty who could not support the power, and they could only use this way to stimulate them, telling them that the Qing Dynasty was going to win, and when the time came, they would occupy Shandong, but there would be nothing to do with you.

This Shandong may not be very important in the view of the Gao Da Festival, but the largest city behind Jizhou Town is Beijing, where the Ming Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty fought desperately at the beginning, and now the situation has changed, and it has become a place where the Qing Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty compete, but I can't help but not care about the Gao Da Festival.

"Please go back and tell Marshal Tuhai, just say that within three days, I will let him see a satisfactory result."

"I hope so, then I'll take my leave." After saying this, the messenger left the camp without looking back.

Looking at the indignation on the faces of the generals in the army, Gao Dajie laughed: "There is nothing to resent, if you are not as good as others, you have to let people step on them, instead of resenting others, you should fight for face, so that I can be tough when I speak in front of others." ”

On the second day, Gao Dajie launched a fierce offensive, although Yuan Zonghao was a little surprised, but he did not mess up, he never relaxed his vigilance, at his age is no longer hot-blooded and arrogant can be satisfied, his goal is to watch his emperor recover this Ming River and Mountain, and when the time comes, he will not be worthy of the trust of the prince.

The situation in Shandong suddenly became severe, and at this time, Wang Jiyong was busy, while containing Tuhai in the field, he was ready to rush to Shandong's aid at any time, and his containment of Tuhai was much less.

After all, the city of Jizhou town has been abandoned for many years, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs he lost its original utility, the original nine-sided towns were used to defend the Manchu Qing and Mongolia, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs or because of the support of Mongolia, so the city wall has not been repaired for many years, and even in order to vent hatred, some defensive arrow towers and other things were demolished at the beginning.

Finally, one day, under the fierce attack of Tuhai, the city wall was directly blasted out of a big hole by artillery, if it were not for the desperate fighting of the brothers in the city, I am afraid that Tuhai has already entered the city.

And not only this wall, but also other walls have cracks, and in less than two or three days, this city will have to be torn down.

Daniel Zhang immediately made a decision, and immediately led people to take advantage of the night to withdraw from Jizhou Town and go south, although Tuhai got the news at the same time, but because the sky was too dark, and Wang Jiyong's cavalry was on the side, he wanted to pursue without success.

Fortunately, Jizhou Town was originally a military town city, and there were not many people in it, although many people moved over later, most people had already moved away when Daniel Zhang wanted to defend the city, and everyone knew that if this city could not be defended, the soldiers outside the city would definitely do something to them in order to vent their hatred.

Therefore, there were not too many casualties in Jizhou Town, but after this defeat, Daniel Zhang led the Northern Sweeping Army to retreat to Beijing, and for a while, people in Beijing were panicked.

But no matter what else, the older generation of Beijingers still remember it clearly, when Li Zicheng led people to surround the Beijing of the Ming Dynasty, there were people on the street every day who shouted that the thieves would withdraw after two days, but on the third day, they heard a shout of killing, and the thieves entered the city, and now I am afraid that the story will repeat itself.

But these people in the city are still calm, after all, the big scene has seen so much, and these years are fighting everywhere, it is not safe to run anywhere, but this Beijing is also the national capital, no matter who is the emperor, it can probably be regarded as the foot of the Son of Heaven, life can be passed, if you run to other places, maybe you still can't escape this catastrophe, then there will be no such good luck, those people dare not slaughter Beijing, but may not dare to slaughter other cities.

Even those ministers sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, and even a few ministers swore to live and die with the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Cheng Xiaolian doesn't believe in these oaths at all, they can't live to this time, they can't be loyal ministers and righteous people, otherwise the Manchu Qing will not enter the court as an official after entering the customs, and the Manchu Qing will not deliberately stay when they leave.

You must know that there is still a difference between this year and a few decades later, because of the influence of Gu Yanwu and their great Confucians, many scholars were ashamed of being Manchu officials when they first entered the Manchu Dynasty, and it was not until the middle of the Kangxi Dynasty that the atmosphere was reversed.

However, at this time, it is still necessary to gather people's hearts, Cheng Xiaolian naturally will not do anything to destroy the city wall, and immediately gave these people officials, and also publicized their deeds everywhere, showing the determination of the Ming monarchs and ministers to live and die with Beijing.

Qu Songtin assisted Daniel Zhang in defending Beijing City, Meng Ke and Hu Dadao received a secret order, once the situation was not right, they immediately escorted Cheng Xiaolian to the south, Daming could not produce another Chongzhen Emperor, if Chongzhen Emperor had not died in Beijing City, Wu Sangui might not have let the Manchu Qing enter the pass at all, and the Ming Dynasty might still have a chance.

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