: Back-up gun

In Zhigu City, the garrison headquarters.

When hearing that the brigade of Jiannu was killed outside the city, Zhao Datuo, the guard of the three guards of Tianjin, did not dare to neglect. While sending people to the Central Army in Beijing from the north gate to inquire, he also pointed out the two thousand guards and the civilians in the city to defend the city. When Duoduo dispatched Jiannu outside the south gate, Zhao Datuo was taking his thousands of households and the hundred households were guarding the enemy building on the south gate with fear.

By the way, Zhao Datuo did not have the courage to fight against Jiannu, but now he did not dare to surrender anymore. It was not that he could not ignore this face, nor was he worried that the Central Army of the Ming Dynasty would retaliate against them in the future. At this time, Zhigu still had no idea about the latest progress of the Battle of Jining. Zhao Datuo did not know that hundreds of thousands of Jiannu and the Tartar coalition had been defeated.

Zhao Datuo was afraid that Jiannu would not let him go after surrender!

Therefore, Zhao Datuo had surrendered once before, and it was difficult for Jiannu to allow him to surrender for the second time. After all, there are very few precedents that can surrender twice like Zu Dashou. Moreover, they are generals and great families in western Liaoning, and Zhao Datuo is just a small guard, which cannot be compared with Zu Dashou.

While Zhao Datuo was worried about gains and losses on the enemy's building, a Qianhu suddenly shouted: "General, Jiannu seems to have left."

"Is that true?" Zhao Datuo was overjoyed when he heard this, "Jiannu is not planning to attack the city?"

Na Qianhu said, "General, look, Jiannu is heading east, it seems that he is planning to walk around the city."

Zhao Datuo saw it with sincerity and said with ease: "It's true, God bless you, God bless you."

This happiness came too suddenly, and Zhao Datuo couldn't believe it. He said that Jiannu outside the city had tens of thousands of people, but there were only two thousand guards in the city. Most of these guards were old, weak, sick and disabled. If Jiannu really wanted to attack the city, the two thousand guards could not resist it for too long.

A Baihu suddenly said, "General, could this be Jiannu's conspiracy?"

"Nonsense." The Qianhu said just now, "Jiannu is a barbarian who doesn't know a single word. What strategy do you know?"

Zhao Datuo said: "No matter whether Jiannu has any conspiracy or not, we must be careful and pass the orders on four doors to guard the situation. We must be especially vigilant at night. Before the Central Military reinforcements arrive at Zhigu, no one should be careless, otherwise... don't blame me for turning against me."

A thousand households, hundreds of households took the order.

However, the garrison troops in Zhigu City did not take Zhao Datuo's military order seriously. At night, there were only a few scattered people at the entrance of the Simen City and the Water Gate, and most of them hid in the gatehouse and refused to come out. It was cold and cold, who would like to go out to drink the northwest wind?

The eight hundred elite soldiers led by Suna and Suksaha and his son walked through the frozen Wei River into Zhigu City without any effort. After a brief and fierce battle, the two hundred guards stationed in the East Gate were completely wiped out, and the closed city gate opened, and Dorgon's iron cavalry of Zhengbai Banner rushed into Zhigu City like a surging torrent.

The two thousand guards collapsed without any decent resistance. Zhao Datuo only brought more than a dozen cavalry soldiers out of the city in panic.

The fall of Zhigu was easier than Duoduo expected. In fact, Duoduo was too cautious. He thought that the Ming Central Army would be stationed in Zhigu City, so he deliberately used the revenge. He pretended to go around the city and relaxed the guards' vigilance, and then sent elite soldiers to sneak attack from the water gate while the night was dark.

However, Duoduo's prudence is not redundant. Duoduo's prudence at least reduced unnecessary casualties from Jiannu, because during the day, more than 10,000 Jiannu's army was tired, hungry, sleepy and exhausted. If he had attacked the city head-on at that time, even if he could finally capture Zhigu, there would be many casualties.

North Zhishun Tianfu, Xianghe.

Wang Pu led a thousand musketeers from the Mixed Battalion to enter Xianghe and met a dozen cavalry fleeing in a panic. These dozen cavalry were either other people, Zhao Datuo, who escaped from Zhigu, and his dozen cavalry. The Central Army, who was marching, immediately divided two squadrons and arranged a shooting queue in less than ten seconds, waiting for the battle.

"Stop!" Tang Shengyangdao shouted, "If you don't stop, you'll shoot!"

Seeing the Central Army of the Ming Dynasty moving forward on the snow field ahead, Zhao Datuo, who was running horses and dozens of cavalry behind him, quickly stopped the horse and then turned over and dismounted.

Tang Sheng shouted vigilantly: "Who are you?"

Zhao Datuo knelt down on the ground and cried in tears: "General, do you not recognize the humble position? Huyi is Zhao Datuo, the guardian of the three guards of Tianjin."

"Tianjin Guard?" Tang Sheng's face changed and he asked, "What are you doing when you don't guard Zhigu?"

"General..." Zhao Datuo cried loudly, "Last evening, a large group of Jiannu drove outside Zhigu City. There were more than 10,000 Jiannu people. Although Beizhi fought with the two thousand soldiers under his command, he was outnumbered after all. Zhigu City... was lost like this."

"What did you say?" Tang Sheng said sternly, "There are more than 10,000 Jiannu in the brigade!?"

"That's right." Zhao Datuo nodded affirmatively, "There are at least ten thousand people!"

"Zhao Datuo!" Tang Sheng said with a grim voice, "Listen carefully. If you dare to lie about military information, your crime will be unforgivable!"

Zhao Datuo said repeatedly: "Everything that Beizhi said is true, and I will never dare to lie about military information. If the general doesn't believe it, he can ask Beizhi's subordinates' followers, and they have witnessed it with their own eyes."

Tang Sheng turned his cold eyes to the dozens of followers behind Zhao Datuo, and the dozens of followers nodded quickly.

"General, what should I do now?" a Central Army officer stepped forward and asked, "Go to Zhigu or Shanhaiguan?"

"Go to Shanhaiguan!" Tang Shengsenran said, "It's too late to go to Zhigu. When we chased him to Zhigu, I'm afraid that this group of Jiannu had already headed towards Shanhaiguan. In this way, we can only follow Jiannu and drink the northwest wind! We have to rush in front of Jiannu, rush to Shanhaiguan in front of this group of Jiannu, and then capture Shanhaiguan and intercept them."

"Yes." The officer said, "If more than 10,000 Jiannu escaped back to the outside of the pass, I don't know how much trouble it will take in the future. No matter what, we can't let this group of Jiannu escape back to the outside of the pass!"

"Send the order." Tang Sheng said sternly, "The whole army speeds up the marching and runs forward!"

"yes!"

The officer slapped his legs on the ground, saluted Tang Sheng, and then turned around and ran away.

Zhao Datuo looked at Tang Sheng blankly and asked in a low voice: "General, General, where is that humble position?"

"You?" Tang Sheng frowned and looked at Zhao Datuo, and said coldly, "Since you are the garrison of Tianjin, you should live and die with Zhigu City, but you abandoned the city and ran away. According to the Ming Dynasty, this general should ask you for a punishment and behead him! But now is an extraordinary period. This general gives you a chance to make meritorious contributions. If you can find a way to regain Zhigu, you will be able to repay the merits and demerits."

"Ah?" Zhao Datuo said in a lost voice, "Take Beizhi's troops do not have an army?"

"Here." Tang Sheng pointed to the dozens of followers in Zhao Datuo's body and said coldly, "Aren't they?"

"Just... just these ten people?" Zhao Datuo said tragically, "General, Bei Zhi only takes these ten people to fight with more than ten thousand Jiannu. Isn't that asking for death?"

"That's your business."

Tang Sheng groaned, turned around and left.

Watching Tang Sheng's figure go away, a follower stepped forward and asked, "General, what should we do now?"

"What else can I do?" Zhao Datuo lamented, "Go back to Zhigu."

"Ah?" said the following in person, "General, are you really going to die?"

"Shut up." Zhao Datuo said angrily, "Have you heard what the Central Army brothers said just now? Jiannu has been defeated in Jining. They are running away. Since they are running away, they are just passing by Zhigu and will not stay away all the time. So... if we are lucky, we may be able to pick up an empty city."

Zhigu, Duoduo Headquarters.

The charcoal fire in the brazier was burning vigorously. Dodo, Suna, Suksaha and more than a dozen Jiannu confidants were eating large pieces of meat and drinking in large bowls of wine. Several large bowls of hot and burning knives were getting belly-up. These Jiannu slowly recovered their strength, and their expressions began to become excited, and their eyes began to show wolves' eyes.

Suksaha said: "Master Yu, many Han women were found in Zhigu City. Do you want to pick a few of them to bring them?"

"Woman?" Duoduo pondered for a moment and shook his head, "No, now is an extraordinary period. The Central Army of the Ming Dynasty may catch up at any time. We must keep our physical strength and must not be wasted on women. I warn you that no one is allowed to touch women tonight, and that we will keep our physical strength to march tomorrow."

If Duoduo is usually the most lustful, he is carrying the fate of the Jurchens and does not dare to take it lightly.

Although Suna, Suksaha and other Jiannu's confidants felt a little disappointed, since Duoduo had already said that they could only abide by the military orders. Don't look at Duoduo's young, he was the second-ranked second in the Qing Dynasty after Dorgon. He usually had extremely strict military governance. How dare Suna and the others disobey orders?

Duoduo thought about it and was still a little worried, and said to Suksaha: "Suksaha."

Suksaha stood up and beat Qian, and said loudly: "The slave is here."

A trace of hideousness flashed through Duoduo's eyes and said in a deep voice: "Go and kill those Han women, no one is allowed to stay!"

"twitter!"

Suksaha agreed and took the order.

As soon as Suksaha left, Goshha hurried into the lobby and knelt down and reported: "Master, the patrol team met the blue flag on the snow field north of Zhigu."

"The person with blue flags? He must have come from Beijing!"

Duoduo was worried that there was no news from Beijing, and hesitated in his heart whether to go directly to Shanhaiguan or wait for two days to explore the news from Beijing before saying that when he heard that the patrol team met the people with the blue flag, he knew that Beijing had fallen. He stood up and asked in a deep voice, "How many people are there? Where are they?"

Goshha said: "There are seven people in total, but when the patrol meets them, they are no longer able to do it. After returning to the city, two of them died, and four of them are dying, and only one is barely able to speak."
Chapter completed!