Outside the city of Beijing, the sound of artillery rumbled, and the Qing army's carts, shield carts and ladders continued to advance, gathering under the city to climb the wall.

On the city wall, Emperor Chongzhen's face was ugly, and the Qing army's tactics of driving the people to attack the city made him very angry, but he was helpless.

"Look, it's reinforcements!"

As Fang Zhenghua shouted loudly, everyone's eyes looked over the female wall to the battlefield, and sure enough, they saw a group of men and horses killed from the south, and they were already fighting with the Qing army.

Chongzhen exclaimed: "Which one is this?" ”

Fang Zhenghua closed his eyes and took a closer look, but when he saw a few big characters written on the scarlet battle flag, he shouted: "It's Ding Wenming, the guerrilla general who is in the camp of the head river!" ”

"Ding Wenming?" Chongzhen frowned slightly, only feeling that this name was a little familiar, and he couldn't remember who it was.

Fang Zhenghua reminded: "Emperor, he is Ding Wenming, who participated in the martial arts examination with the qualification of Jinyiwei and the martial arts scholar of the third secondary school, and you personally praised him at the beginning!" ”

Ding Wenming was born in Yiwu in a family that admires literature and martial arts, cultivates and reads heirlooms, and takes the Qi family army as an example since he was a child, practicing martial arts hard, and is familiar with literature and history.

After Ding Wenming arrived in Beijing, he relied on his own martial arts, and became a Jinyi Wei after reviewing and assessing layer by layer, and soon the imperial court opened the martial arts test, and he participated in the martial arts test with the qualification of Jinyiwei, which caused a lot of topics at that time.

Ding Wenming's excellent grades, the third branch of the martial arts and won the appreciation of Emperor Chongzhen, and then made great achievements, was repeatedly promoted, and also learned Qi Jiguang to form a Yiwu soldier.

The brocade guards in the early Ming Dynasty were quite powerful, and if they wanted to join, they needed to go through strict review and assessment, requiring good citizens, no criminal record, and a lot of training and selection before making selection.

In the late Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei was not very good, many people were hereditary, a Jinyiwei died, his own son or brother could become his substitute, and there were martyrs or descendants of meritorious officials, all of whom would be sealed Jinyiwei, resulting in a general decline in Jinyiwei's ability.

Ding Wenming, a brocade guard selected from the people, was also both civil and military, and was admitted to the Wujinshi, which quickly attracted Chongzhen's attention.

Thinking of Ding Wenming's information, Chongzhen sighed with emotion: "I didn't expect Ding Wenming to become the first Qinwang army to rush to Beijing, and I am glad that there are such generals in the Ming Dynasty!" ”

The arrival of the Ming reinforcements brought a lot of shock to the Qing army, and the rear wing began to become chaotic by the impact, and the morale of the Qing army besieging the city was greatly hit, the offensive was frustrated, and the pressure on the city was suddenly relieved.

Ding Wenming's Yiwu soldiers have become more and more tightly entangled with the rear wing of the Tartars, and Zhu Cihong's brows are getting tighter and tighter, Ding Wenming is now just a guerrilla general, and he only has 2,000 men and horses, how can he beat the Qing army.

He opened his mouth and said: "Father, please open the city gate and send soldiers and horses to join forces with Ding Wenming outside the city to fight the slaves and thieves!" ”

"No!" Yang Sichang and several other ministers spoke out in unison.

"Your Majesty, this is the Ming Jingshi, and there are countless Tartar soldiers gathered outside the city, and the city gate must not be opened lightly, that is, the Tartars have not attacked the city, and important people who want to enter and exit need to be hung up and down by ropes and baskets."

Chongzhen didn't know this truth, he wanted to save it, but he couldn't take this risk because of a guerrilla general.

Zhu Cihong walked a few steps to the edge of the city wall, holding the female wall probe and looking out, but was stopped by Xu Sheng and pulled back: "Your Highness, don't, be careful of the Tartar feather arrows!" ”

Zhu Cihong retreated, he was also concerned and anxious before leaning out, Xu Sheng's worry was not unreasonable, and it happened from time to time that a stray arrow shot injured the soldiers defending the city.

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Outside Beijing, in the face of the surprise attack of the Ming army, the rear wing of the Qing army fell into chaos, and under the Chinese army, among the layers of guards, the Prince of Rui, Dolgon, looked as usual, and did not seem to take this Ming army in his eyes.

"A group of Nanban who don't know whether to live or die, since they are deliberately seeking death, then the king will help you!"

Dolgon stretched out his hand and pointed to the scarred city of Beijing under the bright sun, as if embarrassed, and said: "This king wants to let the great tomorrow see with his own eyes how he forced these loyal ministers and good generals to die willingly one by one!" ”

He motioned to the flag-holding armor soldier beside him, and said coldly: "Order, kill them all, and leave no one behind!" ”

The flag-holding armor ordered the flag to change, and the cavalry on both wings of the white flag immediately set out, and in an instant, it was like two sharp blades, one left and one right, straight into Ding Wenming's department.

With the addition of the cavalry of the Qing army, more than 2,000 Yiwu soldiers of Ding Wenming gradually lost their support, and finally showed the signs of collapse.

In the city of Beijing, Du Zhiyi and others exclaimed: "Ding Wenming is very bad, but why don't you withdraw?" ”

Fang Zhenghua smiled bitterly, if he was Ding Wenming, he would not retreat, when the country is in danger, only to repay the country with death is the best choice, many people don't understand this truth, but there are always people who understand.

Emperor Chongzhen, civil and military officials, and soldiers in the city could only watch this reinforcement army be wiped out by the Tartars, and many people finally couldn't bear to watch from the wall anymore and turned away.

Zhu Cihong asked for his life again: "Erchen asked for his life again, and led the troops to rush out!" ”

Chongzhen was also extremely angry in his heart, and just wanted to agree, only to hear dozens of ministers kneeling on the ground, crying and shouting to their mothers.

"Your Majesty, you can't, the thieves are too strong to risk opening the city gates!"

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, you have to think about the millions of people in the city, don't be impulsive......."

For a while, there was a dissuasion from the ministers all around, and they flew around like a swarm of flies, which made Zhu Cihong upset for a while.

After a while, I heard Du Zhizhi exclaim again: "Look, Tartar, Tartar is watching ...... in Zhujing"

Zhu Cihong's heart jumped suddenly, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "What did you say?" ”

"The Tartars are here, and they are in the base of the capital!" Du Zhizhi Muran replied.

What is Kyokan? Gather enemy corpses and become a high mound!

Zhu Cihong leaned against the female wall and looked down, only to see that the Qing army cut off the heads of the Ming soldiers one by one, and then piled them up in front of the Chaoyang Gate, and the corpses of the Ming soldiers were lined up behind the heads.

The defenders of the Beijing camp in the city finally understood, what did the Tartars want to do under the city, and all of a sudden, the Ming soldiers had cracked eyes and wanted to drip blood, and Zhang Shize and other generals took the initiative to ask for help, to go out of the city to fight, and destroy the prestige of the Tartars.

Several civilian officials first reprimanded the generals who asked for battle, forcibly suppressed the soldiers who took the initiative to ask for battle, and then knelt down to Chongzhen to dissuade them.

An imperial historian said: "Your Majesty, Dolgon humiliated our soldiers so much, it is clearly a blow to the morale of our army, and he wants my Ming generals to mess up and go out of the city to fight impulsively, as long as we go out of the city to fight, we will fall for Dolgon's vicious trick!" ”

Chongzhen's face was pale, his hands trembled slightly, and he only felt a great shame in his heart, but he still couldn't decide for a while.

A commotion began to spread among the defenders of the capital camp, and some people had already whispered it in private, and the court was timid and afraid of war......

Zhu Cihong couldn't hold back any longer, kicked over the imperial history that had been there for a long time, and shouted: "Take my battle armor and go out of the city!" ”