Liu Yu did not know what Li Zicheng was thinking, nor did he care.
What Liu Yu cared about was the city. Even if it was just a small county, it was still a valuable asset to him.
Li Zicheng's strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness actually allowed the Royal Guards to advance even faster.
There was no need to attack the city. They only needed to take over the city.
Every time they occupied a county, Liu Yu would ask Li Ji to arrange for officials to take up their posts.
Although these small counties did not have any special attributes or special buildings, they enjoyed the blessing of Beijing's attributes.
As one of the granaries of the Ming Dynasty, the land here was fertile and very suitable for planting crops.
Now that it was almost spring plowing season, Liu Yu specially asked the official to bring the seeds he bought from the trading market to his post.
The seeds of hybrid rice, potatoes, and corn that Liu Yu had bought were enough to increase the food production of Baoding Prefecture by several times.
Other regions would still be affected by the climate of the Little Ice Age, but the territory controlled by Liu Yu would not.
The attribute of favorable weather was no joke.
"My lord, Wu Sangui and the Manchu Eight Banners Army have already reached Kaiping (today's Tangshan City).”
Just as Liu Yu was looking at the System Map, Chen Jian ran over to report.
"Have we arrived in Kaiping?"
Liu Yu frowned. He didn't expect Wu Sangui and Dorgon to act so quickly.
Was he treating him as a weakling?
They wanted to take down Beijing as soon as possible and then go south?
"How many soldiers do they have?" Liu Yu asked.
"My lord, according to Chen Miao's investigation and the scouts at the front, Wu Sangui and Dorgon have a total of 200,000 soldiers.
Among them, there were 70,000 soldiers of the Manchu Eight Banners, 40,000 elite cavalry, 20,000 Mongolian troops and 20,000 Han troops outside the Pass, totaling up to 120,000 troops.
Wu Sangui had more than ten thousand cavalrymen and seventy thousand infantrymen, making a total of eighty thousand soldiers.
Apart from that, they also brought a large number of siege weapons, and there were about 100,000 auxiliary soldiers escorting rations.”Chen Jian replied.
Chen Jian's meaning was very clear. Only those 200,000 soldiers could be considered an army.
The remaining 100,000 auxiliary soldiers were used to transport grain and equipment. They could not be considered an army at all.
Liu Yu didn't care about this.
In ancient wars, if an army lost more than 30% of its troops, the entire army would collapse. There was no such thing as fighting to the last soldier.
With the strength of the Royal Guards, it was normal for them to look down on the auxiliary soldiers.
However, what made Liu Yu unhappy was that the number of soldiers from the Manchu Eight Banners was far less than he had imagined.
He had thought that there were four to five hundred thousand soldiers in the Manchu Eight Banners Army, but there were only seventy thousand.
"70,000 Manchu Eight Banners soldiers took down the entire Ming Dynasty.”
The corners of Liu Yu's mouth twitched. He did not know what to say.
With just a few tens of thousands of people, they actually ruled the entire country in the end.
"Inform the people outside the city to enter the city and then close the city gates. I'll wait for them here.”Liu Yu said disdainfully.
"Yes, my lord." Chen Jian accepted the order and left.
After Beijing City had been strengthened by the Divine Level City Building Token, the city walls were already indestructible and could not be broken unless it was a divine artifact.
Although the Manchu Empire had cannons, they were nothing to the walls of Beijing.
Liu Yu really wanted to know what their expressions would be like when their artillery fire couldn't even damage a single brick on the city wall.
……
Four hours later, the Manchu army arrived outside Beijing.
These vanguard troops were all Manchu cavalry.
When they saw that the city gates of Beijing were tightly shut and that there were no civilians around the city, they knew that there was nothing to gain and retreated to Shiliwan.
At night, when the sun had just set, Wu Sangui and Dorgon's troops finally arrived outside the city.
Liu Yu stood on top of the city wall and looked at the army that covered the mountains and plains in the distance. For the first time, he felt the grandeur of the ancient war.
There was no end to the number of people.
Moreover, this was an army of 200,000. Even if they did not spread out their formation and only set up camp, it was still very spectacular.
At this moment, a group of people rode to the moat in Beijing.
"Ask if your master is here. There is a letter from the Great Qing Dynasty.”The Qing cavalrymen roared arrogantly in front of the moat.
Liu Yu ignored them and continued to look into the distance.
Without Liu Yu's orders, the soldiers on the city walls would not bother with them.
A group of Qing cavalrymen shouted for a while, but when they saw that no one was paying attention to them, they could only take their bows and arrows and shoot the letter at the city wall.
"Give me the letter."
Liu Yu said to Chen Jian beside him.
"Yes, my lord."
Soon, Chen Jian delivered the letter to Liu Yu.
"What Ji Ba word? I don't even understand it.”
Liu Yu looked at the letter in his hand and said disdainfully.
Although it was a traditional Chinese character, Liu Yu could barely understand it. If he couldn't understand the part, he could guess what it meant.
The letter was written by Dorgon, meaning that Liu Yu had to surrender.
What good would it do to surrender to the Qing Dynasty? What would the consequences be if they didn't surrender? Anyway, they were bragging.
After Liu Yu finished reading the letter, he tore it up.
Then, he wrote a letter and asked a soldier to send it over.
He didn't send them to the Manchu camp, but directly shot them from afar.
"Your Highness, the other party shot a letter in.”
The Manchu soldiers handed the letter to Dorgon.
"So fast?"
Dorgon was stunned. He hadn't expected the reply to be so fast.
He opened the letter, only to see four words on it.
"Eat sh * t!"
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