Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

In Beijing City, the battle for the southern city wall of the inner city (hereinafter referred to as the southern city wall) has also reached a fever pitch.

In the middle of the night on the [-]th, after Li Zicheng entered the inner city of Beijing, the Dashun Army unexpectedly stopped moving for the whole day on the [-]th, without launching any attacks on the outer city.

The core old battalion of the Dashun Army is of course busy taking over important places such as the imperial city, major yamen, and warehouses in the city.Of course, we must find out the whereabouts of Emperor Chongzhen's family.

The remains of Emperor Chongzhen, Empress Zhou and others were quickly found, but the whereabouts of the three princes including the crown prince were unknown.So Li Zicheng made a big search for the whole city, and of course he did his hard work in vain.

But the rest of the Dashun Army troops were in disarray. How could this group of mud-legged people be able to hold back their greed when they entered the capital?Robbery, arson and other incidents emerged one after another, and the city of Beijing was also in chaos.

Seeing the chaos, Li Zicheng couldn't sit still. It turned out that when he was a rogue, it was no big deal to indulge his troops.But now he is ready to be the emperor, this Beijing city will be the capital of the Dashun Dynasty in the future, and the people in the city will also be his subjects, it is unreasonable for one person to rob his own person!

But Li Zicheng can't use all his strength to suppress him. After all, many army leaders have close friendships with Li Zicheng.Besides, the Dashun army is also full of hills, and Li Zicheng is similar to the role of the leader of the martial arts in many places, and he cannot command all the troops as he likes.After all, the rise of the Dashun Army was so fast that Li Zicheng had no time to fully integrate the troops.

Another point is that the main policy of the Dashun Army is to not pay food for three years.And this policy has indeed attracted many people to join the Dashun Army. After all, they can stop paying taxes for three years, so who would have trouble with money?

But on the other hand, if the people do not pay taxes, Dashun will not be able to collect taxes.What about the government's fiscal expenditure?At least the food and pay of the army needs to be guaranteed!so.The only financial means to maintain the Dashun regime is left - torture.To put it more clearly, it is to kill the rich and help the poor.

But this time Li Zicheng mobilized a total of more than one million troops, and he personally led 10,000+ troops to Beijing. Except for the food and salaries of the core old battalion, which can barely be guaranteed, the troops that are a little bit farther away are really helpless.

Therefore, although the Dashun army has always advertised that they have committed no crimes, they have opened their eyes and closed their eyes to the private torture of their own troops, and only asked not to go too far.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Li Zicheng and others could not suppress the atrocities in the capital too much. He could only send out all the civil and military officials with status in the army to greet the leaders of the various troops.Raise your hand high, don't make trouble in the capital.

Now that Brother Chuang said hello, those leaders still have to show face.So they gathered their soldiers and horses one after another, and the situation in the capital quickly calmed down.

But then, those leaders began to use their little brains.Since it is not possible to "hunt wild food" in the capital.Then go near the capital!Anyway, this area is also rich, and brother Chuang Wang eats meat.Let's have a few sips of soup too.So those leaders called friends and friends.With their own troops, they left Beijing one after another.

So when Li Zicheng found out that the prince and others might be hiding in the outer city, and that there were remaining Ming troops in the outer city stubbornly resisting, he found that he could not gather enough troops to attack the outer city.By the time Li Zicheng finally gathered the troops near the capital, a whole day had passed.

But Li Zicheng and the others didn't think it was a big deal, they just relied on the defeated soldiers in the outer city.Even if they were given one more day, they would not be able to withstand the overwhelming momentum of the Dashun Army.

The strange thing is that the Dashun Army didn't even know that the Runing Army came to help.Although they knew that a Ming army broke through the siege outside the city last night and broke into the inner city to kill some soldiers of the Dashun Army, Li Zicheng and the others just took it for granted that this army was the original Ming army near the capital.It doesn't affect the battle situation.The Great Ming Dynasty is gone, why don't you come back to the light?From this, it can be seen how arrogant and arrogant the current Dashun Army is.

But for this day, Li Zicheng and the others think it doesn't matter, but it is extremely precious to Yang Rusong and the others.They took advantage of this time to consolidate the city's defenses, rectify order, build inner walls, and organize the troops and young men in the outer city, which greatly strengthened the power to defend the city.

In fact, in this short period of time, it is unrealistic to say how many things have been done.However, with the organization in place, the soldiers and civilians in the outer city all performed their duties, and when they got busy with their work, the hearts of these soldiers and civilians settled down.This is also the biggest gain of the day.

On the 21st, the Dashun Army began to attack the outer city, and the first method they adopted was to blow down the city wall.So after the prologue failed to persuade them to surrender, the Dashun Army began to concentrate the gunpowder in the army and put it under the southern city wall.

The placement process was fairly smooth.With the residential houses under the southern city wall as cover, the soldiers of the Dashun Army were able to break through the city wall smoothly.In addition, the cave for hiding soldiers under the city wall is simply a natural place to store gunpowder. There is no need to dig holes in the city wall at all, and the gunpowder can be placed in place very conveniently.

After the Dashun Army transported three large carts of gunpowder to the Cangbing Cave one after another, the Dashun Army lit the match, and then there was a loud noise, and then the southern city wall... remained motionless! ?

During the explosion of Wang Gongchang during the reign of Tianqi, a section of the southern city wall was also blown down.Afterwards, the imperial court organized rebuilding and re-strengthened the city walls that had not collapsed.

In this construction, it is inevitable that officials, big and small, will work hard, but the quality of the whole project is impeccable.

After all, this is a project in the capital, and no one dares to cut corners.Coupled with the lessons learned from the Wanggong factory explosion, the officials who supervised the construction even strengthened the city wall a bit.

Of course, if the city wall is strengthened, the amount of work will increase, and the salary of the supervising officials will definitely increase.But no matter what, this section of the southern city wall has become a "model project" of the Ming Dynasty.

So now this happened that the Dashun army returned without success.Moreover, after the explosion, a lot of residential buildings under the city wall were destroyed by the shock wave, but the southern city wall only blasted a shallow hole.Obviously, in order to blow up the southern city wall, all the gunpowder of the Dashun Army may not be effective, and the gunpowder has to be used on firearms, and the Dashun Army can't squander it, so - this way is dead.

And the city walls of Beijing are also surprisingly high, and it is difficult to attack the city with ant-attachment methods such as ladders, so the remaining methods are to attack the city through the three gates, the passages on the inner and outer city walls, and the stairs on the southern city wall. up. (To be continued..)