The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 443 surprise attack behind the enemy
As soon as Zhang Gaowen returned to the mansion, he pulled his wife into the house, turned back and closed the door, and said seriously: "The Ming army is approaching Beijing, we have to make plans early."

"Ming Army?" His wife was shocked, "How many people are here?"

"Although there are only a few thousand people, but with this first time, there will be two or three times." On the way home, Zhang Gaowen recalled the situation that the Jin Dynasty continued to harass Beijing. At first, there were only a few thousand people, and later it became more and more More and more, until finally taking over Beijing.

Mrs. Zhang panicked: "At the beginning when you were asked to become an official, you insisted on pretending to be noble and waited at home for a year. It's easy to figure it out. You just got your hair cut and spent a lot of money. Before I could sit still, the Ming army came back... Hey, why am I so miserable?"

Zhang Gaowen sighed helplessly, "Don't talk about this now, tell the servants to pack up quickly, and go out of the city with my mother first, to..."

When he said this, he felt that if the Ming army attacked, even the countryside would not be safe. Since he had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, it was absolutely impossible for him to become a Ming minister again.

After thinking about it, he found that it was better to go north to the outside of the pass. After all, it was a place where the Manchus were thriving, and they would definitely defend it with all their might. In addition, it was far away from the Central Plains battlefield, so it was considered the safest place.

"I'm going to find a way to send you to Shen, no, to settle near Shengjing."

He did what he said, and immediately prepared the money, and went to follow Tan Bai's way.He himself is a member of the Han army, and only a few family members have left the customs. Tan Bai accepted the money and readily helped him with this favor.

Two days later, the Zhang family loaded three carriages with valuable belongings, and went straight to Shanhaiguan via Funing...

"It's better to prepare early. The Ming army broke through Tianjin, and a large number of people came straight to Beijing!" On the Xianpeng Building, the busiest restaurant next to Guang'an Gate in Beijing, a middle-aged man dressed as a merchant lowered his voice and surrounded him The humane said, "It is said that the army has captured Dongli Village yesterday, and maybe it will arrive at the city tomorrow or the day after tomorrow!"

This person is one of the twelve policy officers set up by the Propaganda Department in Beijing, named Bao Yang'an.

Some diners took a sneak peek around and saw that there were Han Chinese nearby, so they asked cautiously, "Treasurer Bao, how many Ming troops are here?"

"I don't know the exact number, but it should be quite a lot." Bao Yang'an pretended to be mysterious, "It is said that the Forbidden City was greatly shaken, and six armies were conscripted to stop it!"

Dorgon originally wanted to reduce panic in the city, so he did not use the imperial army and the Beijing camp, but transferred troops from around Beijing, and the number of troops in each route was not very large.

But in the mouth of the responding officer, it became evidence that the defense forces in Beijing City were insufficient and had to mobilize six armies from all over the country to assist in the defense.

"Sixth Route Army?!" Sure enough, someone exclaimed immediately, "Then at least tens of thousands of Ming troops have to attack for this to happen!"

"That's right, when the bandits attacked Beijing back then, Emperor Chongzhen mobilized troops everywhere, which is somewhat similar to now..."

"If you ask me, there must be more than [-] people. If there is no Ming army of [-] to [-], the imperial court will not mobilize so many troops..."

"That makes sense. Otherwise, why was Tianjin captured so quickly?"

How did these people know that the six troops sent by Dorgon had only more than [-] people, and they didn't even know that Tianjin had no more than three or four thousand defenders because there had been no fighting.After all the people made such a blind calculation, they only felt that Beijing was on the verge of collapse.

Bao Yang'an was very satisfied with the results of the "discussion", and continued to "add material" and said: "Have you heard that? Hong Chengchou was deflated everywhere in northern Zhejiang. Fuyang, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other places deployed 10 people to defend him, but they were still defended by the Ming army." We captured Pinghu, which is next to Jiaxing. Now that the Qing army is retreating steadily in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, according to the situation, it won’t be long before the Ming army will reach Nanjing!”

What he said was tinged with lies, and the lies were contained in the truth. Some of the diners beside him who had heard some news about the battle in the south of the Yangtze River could not stop nodding in agreement with what he said.

"Is it going to change again?"

"As I said, the Tartars won't be in Beijing for long..."

"Keep down, you don't want to die?!"

"What are you afraid of? When the Han army comes, I will follow them to kill these Tartars!"

"It's useless to talk about it." Someone turned to Bao Yangan and said, "Boss Bao, you said that this army is attacking the city, what should we do?"

Bao Yangan said sternly: "It goes without saying, of course I pack up my things and take my family to the countryside to take refuge first. To tell you the truth, I packed up all my things, and I will leave the city today and tomorrow..."

"Hey, this official, please come inside."

As the store clerk sang, everyone dispersed, but they rushed home to tell their relatives and friends to avoid the flames of war.But Bao Yang'an quickly moved to the next place to spread "rumors".

In just a day or two, news of the Ming army approaching the city spread to the streets and alleys of Beijing.It's not that the response officers are efficient. With more than a dozen of them, even if they are exhausted, they can't pass it so fast.

Most of the news is spread by small traders.Since the Ming army broke through Zhigu, traders in Beijing who privately sold wigs, Hanfu and even Chongzhen tablets have made a fortune.

In order to expand sales, they spread the news heard from the response officer everywhere, and even further added fuel, and the number of the Ming army was "soared" to 30 million by them all the way.

Under the influence of the atmosphere of the imminent war, many people in the city wore Hanfu and wigs before going out, waiting to welcome the Ming army at any time.Tens of thousands of people even left the city to avoid the battle in the past two days.

Someone from Dorgon's side reported the chaos in Beijing, and he was furious immediately. On the one hand, he asked people to arrest those who spread rumors, and on the other hand, he ordered a strict inspection of the city gates.

On that day, thousands of people in the city were arrested for "rumours to confuse the people", and more people gathered near the city gate waiting to leave the city, and the price of grain skyrocketed under the hoarding of profiteers. News, the whole of Beijing suddenly plunged into chaos.

With four or two strokes of a thousand catties, the Ming army only used more than a thousand people to stir up such a big storm in the capital of Jianlu. This is the power of public opinion warfare and psychological warfare!

Although the chaos gradually disappeared after more than half a month as the Ming army withdrew from Dagu, the city of Beijing was far less lively than it used to be.

However, the already disheartened non-government anti-Qing organizations were inspired by this, and started to move again...

At the same time that Beijing was in chaos, the expeditionary force of the Daming Navy sailed from Gaizhouwei in the northern part of the Bohai Sea, which is later known as Yingkou Port, into the Sancha River, and then north into the Hun River.In the end, [-] soldiers from the Navy Infantry landed near Long Beach, less than a hundred miles southwest of Shenyang.

It's just that because the Hunhe River is too shallow, only small boats under [-] tons can easily sail in, but the landing troops cannot get support from warships.

(End of this chapter)