Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 115

Beijing City, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the millennium imperial capital ushered in another catastrophe. 10,000+ Tartars stationed troops outside the city, and the Ming army also had 10,000+ at this time, but they didn't dare to fight, they only dared to hide in the city and defend by danger.There are black cannons on the top of the city, and the national flag of Ming Dynasty is still flying high.

However, the Tartars outside the city were very arrogant. Outside the city of Beijing, at the foot of the emperor, it became a racecourse and a battlefield for the Tartars. What's more, Qing Taizu Huang Taiji led Dorgon, Haoge Amin, etc. They clamored outside the city, threatening to ask Emperor Chongzhen to answer back.

Emperor Chongzhen, with all the civil and military officials, bravely appeared at the top of the city, but this Sizong did not talk to the head of Huangtaiji City, probably because he thought it was disdainful.After all, he is the king of a big country in the Celestial Dynasty, and Huang Taiji is at most His Majesty the King Khan of a small tribe in the field. How can he talk to him in full view?

But at this time, Huang Taiji didn't dare to get too close to the city wall. Daming's red-clothed cannon was still very powerful. His father, Nurhachi, died after being injured by the bomb. We must remember this lesson.In case the cannon at the top of the city opened fire suddenly and blown him away, he had to find a relatively safe distance.

About 2000 meters away from the moat, Huang Taiji took Dorgon Hao Ge Amin and his guard battalion to gallop under the city. His army was densely packed all around, and the eight-color military flag covered the sky and the sun.

The red cannons of the Qing army were also aimed at the head of the city of Beijing. The Eight Banners army was like a mountain and the sea, white armored soldiers and leather armored soldiers and unarmored soldiers.

Huang Taiji's words were magnified infinitely by the soldiers under him, and he shouted to the top of the city for a long time, only to see Emperor Chongzhen appearing on the top of the city, but he didn't talk to him.

Huang Taiji was also a little annoyed. He rode his horse forward for another few hundred meters and came near the moat. He pointed the whip in his hand at Emperor Chongzhen on the top of the city and shouted: "Listen, Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Why not open the city and surrender? If this is the case, I will not leave here, and from tomorrow on, you will be herding horses and killing people here."

In this way, Huang Taiji yelled outside the city for a day, but Chongzhen on the top of the city never said a word to him.Civil and military officials also felt a sense of humiliation, and it was also the main fighters, Yang Tinglin, Liu Zhaoji, and Huang Degong, who wanted to go out of the city to fight the Tartars to the death, but they were shot back by Yang Sichang and others with a few words.

"The battle is invincible, and the casualties will only increase. Even if you risk your life and put your majesty in danger, what do you want!"

In this way, Emperor Chongzhen and his ministers were on the top of the city, watching Huang Taiji and the Tartars rampant outside the city.

Back in the palace, Emperor Chongzhen sighed more than a short time, and the concubine Chongzhen brought him dinner in person, but was thrown away by Emperor Chongzhen. The water and rice hadn’t touched their lips all day. After packing up the food, he retreated out.

Emperor Chongzhen saw Lu Jiude who was waiting on the sidelines, and said: "I am a big country in the sky, but there are no people?"

The inner supervisor Lu Jiude bravely said: "Your Majesty, the Celestial Dynasty is not invincible, but the elite soldiers and strong generals have all gone to suppress the thieves. Now, besides the Guanning Army, there are also those from Sichuan who can solve the crisis of the capital. Loyalty Marquis, but far water will not quench your near thirst."

Eunuch Lu Jiude is a man who is well versed in soldiers and armor. He once personally supervised the division and suppressed bandits, and achieved a lot of success.With his few words, Emperor Chongzhen's eyes lit up.He knows about Guan Ningjun, but because of Yuan Chonghuan's incident, whether they can be transferred here is another matter.

At this time, he thought of a person, Qin Liangyu from Shizhu, Sichuan.Although this person is female, she is proficient in military tactics and martial arts.Loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and her brother and son bravely won the three armies. As early as the first year of Tianqi and the third year of Chongzhen, Qin Liangyu led white soldiers and rushed thousands of miles to break the siege of Shenyang. .

"Why did I forget the Marquis of Zhongzhen, and immediately convey my will to make the old lady Qin rush to serve the king."

Emperor Chongzhen is really a little scared now. If the Tartars really attack the city on a large scale, the day the city is destroyed, the country will be destroyed, and there will be no peace talks at that time.

Before that, courtiers had advised him many times to give up Beijing and move the capital to Nanjing, but Emperor Chongzhen flatly refused.The emperor guarded the gate of the country, and Chengzu moved north. As a descendant of Yongle, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't let himself be too ashamed.In addition, although the Tatars have frequently invaded in recent years, they come and go every time, and there is no fatal threat to Daming.

If they attacked the city aggressively, with 10,000+ soldiers of the Ming army defending the city in front of them, with red cannons and a dangerous city, he believed they could last for a while.

Qin Liangyu, the Marquis of Zhongzhen, is far away in Sichuan. Although the water far away cannot quench his thirst, but now there is only a dead horse as a living horse doctor. He has nothing to fear.

Fortunately, the Tartars are not besieged now. Emperor Chongzhen drafted a decree overnight, and sent eunuch Lu Jiude as an angel officer, and rushed out of the city overnight to Sichuan.

Emperor Chongzhen gave another order to Gao Qi, the commander-in-chief of soldiers and horses in Liaodong. Zu Dashou, the commander-in-chief of Jinzhou, Wu Xiang, the commander-in-chief of Ningyuan, and Wu Sangui, the new commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, asked them to immediately send troops to King Qin of the capital.

After Emperor Chongzhen made these two decrees, the Zhuhe faction headed by Yang Sichang became terrified.This shows that his master has begun to ignite the fighting spirit again. If they want to use them to sacrifice the flag, it will be bad.If the ruler wants his ministers to die, the ministers have no choice but to die. If he wants to commit a crime, why is there no excuse?
But this master has changed too fast, he will fight for a while, how can we serve him?Yang Sichang and others thought about this, and felt a cool breeze blowing from the back of their necks.

After six o'clock in the morning, Emperor Chongzhen took Yang Sichang and others to the top of the city again.Because Huang Taiji said yesterday that if the Emperor Daming refused to agree to his conditions today, he would graze horses and kill them in the city, and live his life.

It is undoubtedly a disgrace to Emperor Chongzhen, a disgrace to civil and military officials, and a disgrace to the entire Ming Dynasty that the Tartars were so arrogant under his nose.Chongzhen didn't want to go to the top of the city, but he couldn't help it.

It is still the head of the East Gate.Emperor Chongzhen led all the civil and military officials, holding the crenel with their hands, and looked down from the city.

The weather in September is high and crisp, the weather is exceptionally clear, the blue sky is cloudless, and you can see everything from standing outside the city. Emperor Chongzhen's eyes are very good. As long as there are no obstacles, he can do everything within a dozen miles. see.

Outside the moat, the Tartars had withdrawn from a large open space.They come and go freely, like strolling in a courtyard.Even some Tartars, ignoring the black muzzles and swords on the top of the city, rode their horses to the moat and drank their horses by the river.They were talking and laughing, as if the heavily guarded soldiers of the Ming army on the top of the city did not exist at all.

The generals Liu Zhaoji and Huang Degong on the top of the wall were so angry that they would rather go out and fight to the death if they could not win the battle than suffer such humiliation.But fate is hard to disobey, and they can only watch the Tartars arrogant and grit their teeth here.

They neither dared to attack the city without authorization, nor did they dare to order the cannons to fire from the top of the city, and all arrows to be fired.The above means that as long as the Tartars do not attack the city aggressively, they will not open fire. This is to preserve their strength.The soldiers in the city are limited, and the ammunition is even more limited. I don't know when the king's divisions from all over the place will come. Facing a strong enemy, they can only wait for a day.

At this time, Huang Taiji gave an order, and the Tartar soldiers moved aside, exposing the common people. These were all the Han people they had captured these days, and there was an unknown number of them in a large black area.

The first batch of ordinary people were driven into the center of the field.There were men, women and children, all in ragged clothes, with sad faces, children and women crying.There are at least 100 more.

At this time, Huang Taiji began to shout again, and every word he shouted was infinitely amplified by his subordinates, specially for the soldiers of the Ming army on the top of the city, mainly for Emperor Chongzhen and all civil and military officials to listen.

The main content of Huang Taiji's proclamation was to let Emperor Chongzhen and his civil and military officials listen, either go out of the city to fight him, or agree to their conditions, and they can retreat.The specific conditions are: ceding land and paying compensation, setting up guards in frontier fortresses, protecting bilateral free trade, severely punishing the thieves Lin Yi and others who attacked Shanxi merchants, and so on.

Emperor Chongzhen could not agree to any of these conditions.In Emperor Chongzhen's opinion, it was not because of the harsh conditions proposed by Huang Taiji, but mainly because he was the king of the Ming Empire under the watchful eyes of everyone, how could he bargain with King Khan of a small border tribe?Because the Son of Heaven, in the whole world, is it the land of the king, the shore of the land, or the ministers of the king? These Manchurian slaves should pay homage to him, and they should all be his subjects. Whoever he wants will die, and whoever he calls Who will be born, now the rules have changed, Huang Taiji wants to sit on an equal footing with him, how can he be embarrassed?

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen flatly refused.

Looking at Chongzhen on the top of the city wall, Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and said, "Zhu Youjian, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you can't keep your people safe. Let's see how you have the face to sit in this Golden Palace in the future. Now in my hands There are 10 of your people, remember, they all died because of your incompetence, I want to kill all of these [-] people, you forced this. Come and kill me! Kill until Until they agree to my terms."

Huang Taiji's ferocity was revealed, and as soon as he gave an order, these tartars rushed over on horseback. They waved their sabers like wild beasts one by one, and began to chop and kill the plundered common people in the circle.

These people are unarmed, and out of their survival instinct, they can't wait to be stabbed.Men, women and children scattered and fled in all directions, shouting to the sky.But how can their two legs catch up with the four legs of a war horse?Soon he was overtaken by the Tartars, and he fell to the ground with blood spattering.

The old man fell, the woman fell, and the child cried and threw himself on the mother. No matter how much he cried and shouted, the mother could not wake up. into a pool of blood.

There was also a woman who was holding a baby in swaddling clothes and was chased by a Tartar crying and shouting. She lost her shoes and continued to run with bare feet.

"Help! Help my child..." He ran and cried to the Ming army on the top of the wall.

This tartar also deliberately played with her, treating the two women as prey that was about to reach his mouth. The woman screamed and ran desperately, and the baby croaked and cried.

After all, no one came to rescue him, and soon the woman couldn't run anymore, fell to the ground, her face was smashed, she didn't care, she hugged the baby tightly in her arms and crawled forward, still shouting for help to the top of the city .

This Tartar had had enough fun, he opened his bow and set up an arrow, and the arrow shot out. The woman who was still holding a baby in her arms was climbing to the edge of the moat, and was pierced through the back of the heart by a sword. arm, and finally shouted, "Save... my child, my child..."

The soldiers on the top of the city were filled with righteous indignation. Emperor Chongzhen couldn't bear to look any longer, and closed his eyes. Some civil and military officials shook their heads, some turned their faces away, and some shed tears of sympathy.

In the blink of an eye, more than 100 men, women and children were cut down on the ground by the Tartars, and the blood stained the ground red.

This scene was really unbearable. The newly-appointed governor Yang Tinglin, the commander-in-chief Liu Zhaoji, and the deputy commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp, Huang Degong, came over one after another.

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen hesitated, the peace faction headed by Yang Sichang quickly opposed it. Now they are not peace, the key is that they are afraid of death.If people like Liu Zhaoji were killed, they would surely die in battle. Naturally, there would be fewer people protecting the capital and the emperor. If the capital was captured by the Tartars, they would be finished.

"Your Majesty can't. This is obviously a trick used by Huang Taiji and the others, which angered us and sent us out of the city to die. The adults must not be arrogant, and if you can't bear it, you will make a big mess."

Yang Tinglin couldn't bear it anymore: "Now you are still holding back, the people outside the city who were slaughtered by the Tartars don't have your wife and children!"

Yang Sichang blushed and had a thick neck when he was robbed, but he was Yang Tinglin's superior after all, so he quibbled: "What are you talking about? This pavilion is not a person who is greedy for life and fear of death. If you go out and do your best to serve the country with your own body, you will lose your reputation. But have you thought about the safety of the capital, where do you put His Majesty's safety? This pavilion will not let you go out of the city to be fooled, but you will be notorious!"

"Hmph, treachery seems loyal!"

"Who do you say is a traitor?"

"Whoever is a traitor knows himself!"

In front of Emperor Chongzhen, the two started yelling at the top of the city.

"Look, Your Majesty!" Si Li Jian Wang Cheng'en shouted pointing to the distance, Chongzhen looked up, and saw thousands of horses galloping in the distance, and dust billowing.

Behind Huang Taiji's Chinese army, a group of people was killed overwhelmingly, and this group of people fought under the banner of Daming.

This time, Yang Tinglin, Yang Sichang and others stopped arguing, and all the civil and military officials also saw it, and all of them stared intently at the cavalry team coming from a distance.

"It's Guan Ning's army coming from that direction, it must be the official army!"

"Yes, it's Guan Ning's iron cavalry. I saw the grand banner of the ancestral family inside."

Only Emperor Chongzhen murmured in his heart, but my decree was issued only yesterday, the Guan Ning Army is thousands of miles away from here, how could it be so fast?Whose team is this Qin Wang's division?

Emperor Chongzhen was thinking this in his heart, the team was getting closer and closer, and the word "Lin" on the fiery red satin banner became more and more eye-catching.

"No, this is not Guan Ning's iron cavalry, but Governor Lu's team, General Lin is inside!" A general shouted from the top of the city.

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Suddenly a cavalry came, as if it had fallen from the sky. At this time, the Tartars under the city were in a mess, and they didn't get any report. They were caught off guard for a while, and of course they couldn't figure out where the King's army came. How much, but they all clamored: "Protect Your Majesty, meet the enemy, hurry up!"

(End of this chapter)