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Text Chapter 245: The Rebirth of the First Disaster

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    "What does Li Chengdong want to do?" I was very angry when I saw the memorials that Li Chengdong handed back one after another. It is understandable that he concealed the massacre of the city before. It is normal to do so when he is eager for quick success, but after he captured Xuanhua, the army disappeared.  This makes me a little unsure. Although Huang Shiren's pressure has been reduced a lot, and I believe it won't take long to break through Datong. However, Li Chengdong and those troops disappeared out of thin air. I am still worried. If Li Chengdong's entire army is destroyed, the situation will be dire.  "Good-looking".

    Release Juyongguan is a famous pass on the Great Wall. The canyon where it is located belongs to the Jundu Mountain in the remaining mountains of the Taihang Mountains. The terrain is extremely dangerous. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Yan State stationed troops here. It was called Juyongsai at that time. In the Han Dynasty, it was called Juyongguan.  The Juyong Pass, which was expanded to guard against the Huns, was quite large. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Juyong Pass was connected with the Great Wall. The current Juyong Pass was rebuilt by General Xu Da and Chang Yuchun during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. The natural landscape near Guancheng is very magnificent, and Juyong Pass is verdant.  It is one of the eight scenic spots in Yanshan.

    Release Li Chengdong looked at Juyong Pass in the canyon. Some time ago, he marched in secret and completely cut off contact with the outside world. The main force of the Ming army did not know where they were. Li Chengdong and his men also suffered a lot. After retreating from Xuanhua, in order  Not being followed by the Qing army returning to Xuanhua, Li Chengdong chose a mountainous area that was more difficult to walk than the Taihang Mountains. But when he arrived at the Juyong Pass and came to this choke point between inside and outside the Great Wall, he could not get around it no matter what.  Juyong Pass is an important barrier in the northwest of Beijing. It has always been a battleground for military strategists. Li Chengdong sighed in his heart. It seems that there is no way to capture Juyong Pass like he captured Xuanhua.

    "General, the key to defeating Juyongguan City is to fight quickly. If the Tatars in Guanzhong light up the flames of war, our army will definitely fall into the hinterland of the Tatars and be unable to escape. However, if we want to take this Guancheng quickly, we can't." Lin Chengcheng followed.  Li Chengdong went to see the terrain and general situation of Juyongguan, and was very pessimistic about the prospects.

    Posted Dang Shousu nodded, "Yes, it's not easy to cut through the mess quickly. In this battle, we can only outsmart the enemy, but there is no way to outsmart them."

    "How about we bypass this problem and go north to capture Huairou?" He Dacheng felt that attacking Juyongguan would definitely outweigh the gains and losses, so it was better to go north to capture Huairou.

    Li Benzhen disapproved of the announcement, "In that case, our army will be exposed and completely lose the effectiveness of the surprise force. As long as we can capture Juyong Pass, we can go straight to Changping. The road from Changping to Beijing City is smooth, and we can directly deter Beijing."  , the Qing army fell into chaos. As long as the Qing army mobilizes troops, it will inevitably disrupt the current deployment, and the emperor will definitely be able to seize the opportunity to break through across the board."

    Li Chengdong agreed with his nephew's idea, but it was too difficult to overcome the obstacles in front of him. "I don't have a good way. I didn't bring much food and grass when I came out of Xuanhua. If it takes too long to pass the Juyong Pass, our army will  It is very dangerous and there is a possibility of collapse without a fight, so it is too late to consider taking other routes in terms of time.¡±

    Wang Zhigang coughed and said, "Generals, I have an idea. We can move the tiger away from the mountain! As long as the Qing army in Juyongguan is transferred out, it will be much easier to attack. I am not talented, so I am willing to lead two thousand troops to Badaling.  , where to create a feint attack and light up the smoke, then the Qing army in Juyongguan may divide their troops to rescue!"

    "Our army has less than 20,000 troops at this time, and the strategy of dividing the troops is not feasible." Lin Chengcheng did not want to use the few men and horses separately. "It is most taboo to disperse the troops deep behind the enemy's rear. In that case, there is a possibility of being defeated one by one.  I think it¡¯s better to fight!¡±

    Release Li Chengdong also thought about moving the tiger away from the mountain, but as Lin Chengcheng was worried, the dispersion of troops was not conducive to the situation at this time. Now not only the Qing army did not know where he was, but even the emperor did not know that this group of people had arrived in Beijing.  , if one is not careful, the result will definitely be the destruction of the entire army, and Shunzhi will definitely dispatch the Royal Forbidden Army to eliminate them.

    "Report to General, we found a group of people in the mountains, about two hundred people" While Li Chengdong and others were discussing, soldiers dressed in tatters came to report, because marching all the way was very difficult.  Everyone in the army is almost becoming a "beggar gang hero".

    Release Li Chengdong and others were shocked. The Ming army was stationed in the mountains because they were afraid of being discovered. If the news was leaked, it would be a matter of life and death for the army!  Therefore, he took action before the soldiers finished speaking, "Kill them all, and then immediately expand the scope of reconnaissance. We must hide our troops well."

    The expression of the soldier changed, "General, then those people are your family members, and one of the women claimed to be the general's first wife!" The Ming army discovered the secret hidden in the mountains during a routine reconnaissance at the station.  Originally, these people would have been silenced by the Ming army without Li Chengdong's order. However, when those people saw that the scouts were wearing Ming army uniforms, they were very happy. After understanding, these people turned out to be Li Chengdong.Dong's family.

    Release Li Chengdong and Li Benzhen's uncle and nephew looked at each other, both looking in disbelief. When Li Chengdong wanted to surrender, he asked his nephew to go back to Beijing to secretly pick up his family, but Li Benzhen heard about Beijing just a few days after he left.  When the news of the fire broke out, the alley where Li Chengdong's home was located was reduced to rubble, and Li Benshen did not go to Beijing. Later, he received confirmation from Wu Sangui that the alley where they lived had indeed caught fire, killing many people, including Li Chengdong's family members.  , now I heard that there are people in the mountains outside Juyongguan who claim to be members of the Li family. Can these uncle and nephew not be stupid!

    Li Benshen came to his senses first. His wife was more than five months pregnant at the time. When he heard that the whole family was destroyed in a fire, he felt heartbroken, so he ran out first to see who those people were.  Not your own family.

    When he saw the people being brought out of the mountains by the soldiers, Li Benzhen cried. It was true, they were indeed his family members, but there seemed to be something wrong. The Li family only had more than eighty people, and there were no family members of He Dacheng and Wang Zhigang.  There were only a few people here, but now there were more than 200 people here. But Li Benzhen didn't care about that and came over to cry with his family.

    Release Li Chengdong and others then came out to take a look, and they were all overjoyed. What surprised Li Chengdong was that the extra people were Wu Sangui's family members, including the famous Chen Yuanyuan, the most troubled person in the world.

    Release Five people stood out among these people. They were all in their thirties, and their faces were shrewd. The first person raised a fist at Li Chengdong, "The general is Li Chengdong?"

    It was announced that Li Chengdong was not sure about the other party's method, but he knew at a glance that the safety of his family was related to these people, and he could not neglect his benefactor. Therefore, Li Chengdong was very polite and enthusiastic, "I am Li Tingyu. Thank you to these brave men. Thank you very much.  "I thought I was alone, but I didn't expect it would be possible for my relatives to meet each other.

    The man who posted the message had no expression, "General Li took a step to speak." He took Li Chengdong to a deserted place, "I didn't expect to meet General Li here. I know something about General Li, don't ask me what it is."  Man, I was also working for the emperor. When I heard that General Li had abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side, I created a fire as mentioned above and took General Li¡¯s family members out of the capital. As for Wu Sangui¡¯s family members, they wanted to use this as a threat.  Wu Sangui, now Wu Sangui has surrendered to the emperor, it seems that I have done a good job in this good deed."

    Published When Li Chengdong heard that the other party said that he was doing things for the emperor, and it was probably the emperor's intention to get the Li family members out of the capital, Li Chengdong didn't know how to express his gratitude to Emperor Hongguang.

    The person who announced that he was talking to Li Chengdong was Qi Yu, the person in charge of Tiandihui in Beijing. As for what Qi Yu said above, it was naturally based on what Hu Maozhen meant. When Li Chengdong surrendered, Zhao Ting sent the news first  In the hands of Hu Maozhen, Hu Maozhen thought that Li's family must be in danger, so he directed the fire in the alley. After Hu Maozhen ordered people to set the fire, Qi Yu discovered that Wu Sangui's home was only separated from Li Chengdong's home by a wall, so he also took Wu Sangui's family members hostage.  In Beijing, Qi Yu intended to blackmail Wu Sangui. Unexpectedly, Wu Sangui turned against Nanming faster than he thought. This was something Qi Yu and Hu Maozhen did not expect.

    Originally, Qi Yu wanted to leave Beijing as soon as possible after taking his two families out of Beijing, but the situation developed faster than Qi Yu imagined. Shunzhi issued martial law shortly after the fire, but it was not that he noticed something fishy about the fire.  , but the whole situation had to force him to do this. In this way, the family members of the two families were stuck on the road and dared not move. If they moved, they would be exposed and all of them would die. Qi Yu had no choice but to pull the people into the mountains for temporary shelter.  , through the intelligence network of the Tiandihui, he learned that the situation was becoming more and more favorable to Nanming, so Qi Yu was not in a hurry to leave this place. It was originally a very secret place, but because of the sudden arrival of the Ming army, they were caught out and used  Li Chengdong's uncle, nephew and family members embraced each other in tears.

    Release Li Chengdong really didn¡¯t expect that Emperor Hongguang had extended his tentacles to Beijing. It was easy to say that he would put a fire under the emperor¡¯s feet to get people out and create a false impression, but it was unimaginably difficult to do. ¡°Tingyu thought that his family  Everyone was killed. Today I really don¡¯t know what to say!" Li Chengdong is also a human being. Even if he crooked his lips and said massacre, he is also a person with feelings. Who is not born from his parents!

    What does it mean to find nowhere after breaking through iron shoes? It takes no effort to get it. Li Chengdong has such good luck. When Qi Yu heard that Li Chengdong, with nearly 20,000 troops, was worrying about how to capture Juyongguan, he suddenly  He patted his chest and said, "Leave this problem to me. The general will wait until he enters Juyong Pass tomorrow night!"

    Published Qi Yu is not bragging. His superficial identity is a big fur goods merchant, specializing in all kinds of fur goods such as ginseng and other things from outside the customs. That day, he brought Li Chengdong and WuSangui's family members were brought out of Beijing in a large amount of goods, and now those goods are still hidden in the mountains!  There was a lot of food in it, otherwise these two hundred people wouldn't be able to survive now, and they would be hungry and confused.

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