(ps: The Internet is cut off all day, and the information on old Beijing's city walls is searched online with mobile phones, which wastes a lot of time, so the number of words is smaller, please understand.

The fat man army's side division Gao Dejie team was mostly cavalry, and its maneuver power was stronger than the main force of the Fat Man army led by Fat Man himself. At the same time, it was fighting for the glory of the first to reach the capital of Miqing. Gao Dejie team rushed and fought hard, and its propulsion speed exceeded that of the main force of the Fat Man army. On the 9th day of June, the main force of the Fat Man army had just broken through Nanpi and advanced towards Cangzhou. Gao Dejie's team hit the foot of Zhengding City.

The fat man army was at the city. The prefect of Zhengding, who had only more than a thousand local rural soldiers, knew that he was not an enemy. He honestly opened the city and surrendered. Gao Dejie's army entered Zhengding. The vanguard team quickly advanced towards Dingzhou. The prefect of Dingzhou Chang Wenkui was a traitor of the Zhenglan Banner of Mizhou. He was known for his greed and violentness. He was very famous among the people. He knew that the Fat Man Army could not forgive him. He also heard that the old witch in Xiaozhuang had already taken Kang Mazi away, so Chang Wenkui did not hesitate and fled to Liaodong with gold, silver, jewelry and his wife and children early on. Gao Dejie's army took the small city of Dingzhou without any effort and continued to advance to Baoding, the Zhili Provincial Government. At the same time, the main force of the Fat Man army led by Fat Man himself had just arrived in Cangzhou, and was more than 100 miles behind Beijing.

However, at this point, the Gaodejie Army, who was so vigorously promoted by Fatty Lu's crow, encountered the most fierce resistance since the Northern Expedition of the Fatty Army, under the city of Baoding, which was guarded by Jackie Chan. Yu Chenglong, who has always been known for his foolish loyalty, not only refused the surrender of the Fatty Army's vanguard Gao Qi, but also carried the coffin to the Baoding City Wall, personally led more than a thousand green camp soldiers and four thousand towns soldiers in Baoding City to fight to the death to fight the Fatty Army's siege. However, Jackie Chan's official voice was very good. Among the people, most of the 100,000 people in Baoding City went to the city to help, and used various weapons to fight to repel the two sieges of Gao Qi's 5,000 vanguards.

Gao Qi's team, who failed to siege twice, had to stop and wait for the brigade led by Gao Dejie to arrive with heavy artillery, and then joined forces with the main force of Gao Dejie's army to attack Baoding Prefecture City with regular siege tactics. At the same time, the fat man's army led by Fatty Lu surrendered the small city of Cangzhou without any blood. The traitor continued to advance towards Jinghai County with a trepidation.

There was no Tianjin Prefecture in Mazi Dynasty, but only one Tianjin Guard. The Tianjin General led the army to garrison. The notorious traitor Zhao Liangdong and Liu Guoxuan, who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, both served this position. The current general of Tianjin is Li Zhending, who is also a traitor Zhenglan Banner. He has about four or five thousand traitor green camp soldiers, stationed in Jinghai, Tanggu and Tianjin Acropolis. At the same time, because the Tianjin Guard needs to consolidate the defense of the capital, the fortifications of the city is quite complete and solid. If the city is defended, it will indeed cause some trouble for the Fatty Army, so Fatty Lu did not dare to underestimate the enemy. In addition to sending a large number of scouts to closely reconnaissance the every move of the Tianjin Qing army, he also sent an envoy to Tianjin Acropolis with great gifts to recruit surrender, and strive to take down Li Zhending's team by means of responsibility.

What surprised Fatty Lu was that the scout had not long after scattered it, and brought news that Li Zhending Army had given up the relatively complete fortifications in Tianjin, retreated to Beijing, and took away all the food, grass and weapons that could be taken away. A large number of young men and women were also taken away. Now, Tianjin Weizhucheng is basically empty. After hearing this news, Fatty Lu felt a slum in his heart. Yao Qisheng, who was on the side of the army, immediately warned: "Prince, this siege in Beijing is not as easy as expected. Our army is only afraid that it will be mentally prepared for a long-term hard battle."

Fatty Lu nodded slowly. He deeply felt the warning of Yao Qisheng. Since Jieshu left behind decisively gave up the Tianjin Acropolis, he would definitely give up all the small cities around Beijing, and concentrate all the cities that can be concentrated in Beijing to fight stubbornly, striving to delay time as much as possible. His main force went alone to two thousand miles, occupying almost no food for new land, and the logistics burden was extremely heavy. If Beijing could not be captured quickly, the siege war would be delayed for a long time, and the food and grass would be insufficient and the fire broke out in the rear. He missed the precious summer and autumn time. The southern army was not withstand the wind and snow, and the capsized ship in the gutter and tasted the first defeat in his life.

After careful consideration, Fatty Lu, in addition to ordering the army to continue to drive and take over Zhucheng, Tianjin, he also called Mao Yougui, the deputy general of the navy who led the fleet to escort the food and supplies, and ordered him: "General Mao, from now on, in addition to carrying food and grass, your fleet must cut down all the wood that can be used to build siege weapons on both sides of the canal to ship, and send it to Beijing together. Is there enough manpower? If there is not enough, I will give you a few thousand infantry?"

"Cutting wood?" Mao Yougui was stunned and asked hurriedly: "Dare you ask the prince, why should he cut wood?"

"You have never been to Beijing and don't know what's happening around Beijing." Fatty Lu casually explained: "Because of the large population growth and the large land development, there are no tall trees used in Beijing. The wood used is basically transported from the south by the canal and stored in the Tongzhou Wharf to Beijing for sale. Now the Mangou Prince Jieshu is determined to defend Beijing and will definitely not leave the wood on the Tongzhou Wharf for us. If we don't prepare in advance, we will look for trees to be cut down everywhere when we get to the city of Beijing and look for trees to be cut down, it will be too late."

"I understand." Mao Yougui suddenly realized and quickly flattered: "The prince was still considerate. I just had dozens of grain ships in the team. I asked the prince to send some people to the store and put the dozens of ships in the storage to Beijing. "

"I'll give you three thousand infantrymen to choose from the newly surrendered soldiers." Fatty Lu gave a casual order. Mao Yougui agreed and hurriedly took Fatty Lu's arrow. Fatty Lu called Xiao Erlang to the front and ordered: "Erlang, arrange people to send orders to each army. From now on, our army is only allowed to drink boiled water, not drink raw water, and arrange special people to boil water to deliver water, so as to prevent the water and land from being unacceptable." Xiao Erlang agreed and hurriedly went down to arrange the order.

The situation was once again said by Fatty Lu. In order to defend Beijing as much as possible and wait for the turnaround, Jieshu not only ordered the burning of all the timber that could not be taken away on the Tongzhou wharf, but also burned the entire Tongzhou city to ashes, leaving not even a safe grain storage land for Fatty Lu. At the same time, Jieshu set fire to the two counties near Daxing and Wanping, and moved all the young people of these two counties to Beijing, and joined the army together with the young men and women in Beijing. He formed a militia and righteous army of about 80,000.

In order to allow these militias to help Mi Qing Eight Banners defend Beijing, Jieshu not only imitated Tuhai to spread rumors that the Fat Sect Army would massacre the city after the Fat Sect Army broke through the city, but also made a wish to these militias to be appointed officials, promising countless benefits that Jesects himself dared not imagine, and encouraged these people who could not even have weapons to charge for the Mi Qing court and resist the Fat Sect Army's siege.

In addition, Jieshu tried his best to expel the elderly, weak women and children who were destined to waste food from the city, and transferred all the green camp soldiers, village tyrants and various auxiliary troops back to Beijing. In addition, the Fengtai garrison and Miyun garrison left by the old witch of Xiaozhuang. As well as the servants and powerful slaves from major yamen in Beijing, they even formed nearly 40,000 regular troops - the regular troops referred to here are actually regular troops that can barely be equipped with military weapons such as bows, arrows, swords and guns. They have severely lack combat experience and their morale is also very low.

Fortunately, Jieshu also has two major reliances. One is that he relies on Yu Chenglong to kowtow and bow everywhere in Zhili provinces and prefectures, and the grain borrowed from the people. The grain and grass in Beijing can last at least three months, and the saving point can last more than four months; the second is that the city of Beijing is quite solid, and the walls of the inner nine cities are four meters low. The widest moat is twenty meters, and the narrowest part is ten meters deep, and each city gate has an inner wall. There are as many as 172 enemy platforms on the city wall, and a large number of arrow towers are built. Each city corner has a corner tower to enhance the defense of the corners. In addition, there are a large enemy platform outside each city gate, with rope ladders up and down, and the clear water of food can be hidden on the platform for long-term persistence. The fortifications are even better than Nanjing.

As for the hardness of the Beijing city wall, Liang Qichao's son had made it clear when he opposed the demolition of the Beijing city wall. The rammed earth was sturdy and rammed earth with special materials. It was as strong as concrete after hundreds of years. It happened to be the nemesis of the fat man's army's heavy artillery attack. At the same time, he learned from the fat man's army's lessons from the fat man's army's explosion of the door, and Jieshu also prepared a large amount of brick, earth and stones, which could block the gate corridors of all the city gates at any time. Even if the fat man's army exploded, he could not attack the city. It was precisely because of these two major reliances that Jieshu, who had been wiped out in front of Fat Man twice, was once again full of confidence and was ready to teach Fat Man Lu a lesson under the city of Beijing, Yixue's great shame and humiliation back then.

What should come is always coming. On June 29th, the main force of the Fat Soldiers' Army, who had been in a strong way, finally arrived at the Tongzhou Wharf under the leadership of Fat Soldiers himself. They set up camp outside the ruins of Tongzhou City, and began to build a large number of siege weapons and build a granary warehouse to prepare for a long-term hard battle.

At the same time, the partial division of the Fat Son Army led by Gao Dejie finally captured Baoding city after 12 days of hard battle and consuming a large amount of artillery and ammunition, and captured Yu Jackie Chan, who was already injured all over. However, the result was just as Fatty Lu expected, Yu Chenglong certainly refused Gao Dejie's surrender. Gao Dejie, as Fatty Lu's order, allowed Yu Chenglong to kneel down to the northeast and die, and was given a coffin to collect it. At the same time, Yu Chenglong's deputy guarding the city was buried alive, and their families were also executed together, avenging the more than 4,000 fat Son Army soldiers who died in the attack on Baoding.

The camp was settled, and Fatty Lu must lead Yao Qisheng and other dog-headed military advisors and a team of elite soldiers to the city of Beijing to observe the defense of Beijing and find tactics to break the city. After eight years and six months, he returned to the city of Beijing again and looked at the tall and dark walls of the capital standing in the distance. Fatty Lu was so excited that his heart was pounding again. He couldn't help but hold back the war horse. He sighed to the sky: "Beijing, I'm finally back. The oath I said outside Beijing that year was finally coming true."

"The prince's oath?" Yao Qisheng, Zhu Fangdan and others next to him were stunned, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Prince, what oath did you make outside Beijing?"

"The twelfth lunar month of the sixth year of Mangokang Mazi... It seems to be the 18th lunar month." Fatty Lu recalled the past and said, "I led Erlang and the others to Beijing for the first time, and walked the Chaoyangmen road. When I first saw the Beijing wall, I quietly swear that one day I must lead my army to break through this Beijing city, kill all the dirty Mangou entrenched in our capital of China, and drive all the Tungus home to their hometown! Eight and a half years have passed, and I finally realized my wish!" (See Chapter 44 of this book)

"I finally realized my wish back then!" Fatty Lu waved his right hand, closed his eyes and looked up at the sky, and said with emotion: "Eight and a half years of hardship, eight and a half years of hard work, finally saw the reward."

"I remember, I remember too." Xiao Erlang shouted, "I also remember that outside this Beijing city, my biggest wish was that the young master would become the prefect of Beijing city. Liu Zhen and I could follow the young master to take the party to Jing. I didn't expect that we would come back to Beijing city in eight and a half years later. The young master is already the prince."

"I remember too." Zhu Fangdan sighed, "The first time I met the prince was in a winery on Qianmen Street, Beijing. At that time, I was still... but I didn't know if the restaurant was still there. If it were still there, I really wanted to have a few more drinks with the prince."

"If that restaurant is still there, when the city of Beijing is broken, I will definitely go and have a few drinks with you." Fatty Lu said with a sensation: "This time, we will pack that restaurant and drink enough!"

Zhu Fangdan shouted loudly. Yao Qisheng, Huang Ji and others on the side were extremely surprised. They said that they had never thought that Fatty Lu had already been holding back to Beijing City eight and a half years ago, but Fatty Lu actually realized this wish. While secretly admiring Fatty Lu's forbearance, Yao Qisheng smiled and said, "Prince Zhu, I want to sigh that I should wait to enter Beijing City. It's getting late, so we have to hurry up and inspect the Beijing City Defense, otherwise it will be too late."

In fact, the so-called patrol is to roughly observe the defense situation of the defenders in Beijing and the general situation of the city. Eight and a half years ago, Fatty Lu had already figured it out clearly. The Beijing city wall was in the shape of a "Pin" wide in the south, narrow in the north, with an inner city entrenched by mites, with a total of nine gates, and the imperial city in the middle of the inner city. The imperial city is also the Forbidden City in the middle, and the outer city is the outer city, and the Han civilians live there. There is also a moat between the outer city and the inner city.

Even if you break through the outer city, you still have to attack the inner city. In the siege battle, innocent Han people will be involved. Therefore, the best choice for the Fatty Army to attack the city is the six inner city gates without the outer city, Chaoyang Gate, Dongzhi Gate, Andingmen, Desheng Gate, Xizhi Gate and Fucheng Gate. As long as you break through any of these six city gates, the main force of the Fatty Army can enter the inner city occupied by Mangou and realize Fatty Lu's oath to retake Beijing.

Of course, Jie Shu, who had gradually accumulated a lot of battlefield experience, also expected that Fatty Lu would choose these six city gates to attack, so he arranged most of the defending forces on these six city gates and guarded them very closely.

Amid the fear and hatred of the Beijing defenders, Fatty Lu rode around Beijing for a short while, quickly stopped the horse, pointed to the way he came and said, "No need to patrol. The breakthrough point of the siege is Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate, which mainly attacks Chaoyang Gate."

"Prince, these two city gates are very tightly guarded, so let's take a look." Yao Qisheng kindly advised: "Also, Chaoyang Gate is close to the canal dock, which is not conducive to the development of our troops, and is not as good as Dongzhi Gate."

"No need." Fatty Lu shook his head and pointed to the defenders on the city and said, "See, many defenders on the city wall are people wearing ordinary clothes? Jieshumangou must have recruited a large number of people to go to the city to help defend. No matter which city gate we attack, it is the same. Instead of wasting time to find impossible flaws, it would be better to attack Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate directly in the east. We can also save a lot of time to transport siege weapons, and it is more convenient for the army to go back and forth from the camp."

"Then the problem of the dock at Chaoyangmen..." Yao Qisheng asked again.

"The Chaoyang Gate is indeed not suitable for our troops to expand." Fatty Lu replied: "But they are the same. The Beijing moat is so wide, no matter which city gate we attack, it is difficult for us to fully expand our troops. In addition, attacking Chaoyang Gate, there is another convenient point for our army to exploit, that is, the bridge of Chaoyang Gate. In order to transport heavy grain into the city, the bridge on the Chaoyang Gate moat should not only be spacious, but also very strong, suitable for transporting siege weapons across the river."

"Your Majesty, Xiaguan has seen this just now. The bridge of Chaoyang Gate is indeed wider, but I didn't expect it to be used in siege." Yao Qisheng quickly flattered, "Xiaguan is sure, and Jieshu must have not paid attention to this."

"Have he been careful not to care about him for the time being, but this guy has grown a little bit." Fatty Lu sighed: "From his organization to the city to assist in the defense and the extremely strict arrangement of the city defense, this guy has been fighting and learning on the battlefield over the years. If he gives him a team of elite troops to defend the city and give him some more time to arrange the arrangements, I may not be sure to conquer Beijing."

He put a high hat on the enemy and raised himself in disguise. Fatty Lu ordered: "Send the order and let Hu Tongchun lead his army 20,000 westward, build another camp twenty miles outside Chaoyang Gate, transfer all our artillery outside Chaoyang Gate, bombard the Chaoyang Gate wall day and night, destroy the city tower and city defense fortifications of Chaoyang Gate, and destroy the morale of the dogs. When the siege weapons are ready, start the siege!"

Speaking of this, Fatty Lu paused, gritted his teeth and gave an unprecedented order, "Also, tell your brothers that after breaking through Beijing, the inner city of Beijing where the Mangou people live, and the military discipline will be disbanded for seven days. Brothers can do whatever they want! No chickens and dogs are left!"
Chapter completed!