Chapter 582: The Fall of the Old Dynasty
When the Jingshi Campaign was completely encircled, although more than half of the troops defending the Jingcheng area were Jingzhou troops, half of them belonged to Gaoqingzhou, Ningwuzhou and about 10,000 Pingnanzhou troops who went south to reinforce at the last moment.
It was not only the Jingzhou army that was fighting with the Daheng Unification Army, but the four-state coalition army.
With the gradual advance of the unified army, the coalition forces suffered heavy losses, and finally more than 20,000 remnants of the southern bank city were forced to retreat to the inner city.
At this time, the Jinghe River was already completely blocked, and it was impossible to cross the river to the north bank of the city, and even if it crossed the river to the north bank of the city, it would be impossible to break through the strategic encirclement of the Daheng unified army, and it would not be possible to join the reinforcements about 20 kilometers away in the northeast.
If it can't be stopped, and there is no hope of breaking through, it is enough to make many people desperate and give birth to the idea of giving up resistance.
In fact, when it came to this point, many ordinary officers and ordinary soldiers were already unwilling to continue fighting, and it was meaningless for them to continue fighting.
Even if it is the Ji royal family itself, they are not willing to continue to fight, they already want to negotiate with the Daheng Unification Army, and in the end, this final surrender will inevitably be very humiliating, and it is impossible to maintain the throne, and it is even impossible to maintain the glory and wealth, and the final outcome is estimated to be no better.
But at least, I can continue to live in front of me!
No one wanted to die, the Son of Yongchang didn't want to, and the other members of the royal family didn't want to.
Therefore, even if they are under house arrest in the future, spend their lives like prisoners, and even be poisoned in a few years, they still want to read the difficulties in front of them first.
They are all ready to promise Lin Ziran Chan to give up the emperor's throne, so that Lin Ziran can justifiably claim the emperor's system, all they want is to survive.
But some people disagree!
Zuo Yuanzhi, the leading general of the Pingnan Prefecture reinforcements, was the son of the Pingnan Prefecture Commander, and before he came, he already knew that it was impossible for him to go back alive.
No matter how the Battle of Jingshi is fought, it is a loss!
When he came here, he never thought of going back alive!
All he had to do was to prolong the Jingshi Battle as much as possible, consume more troops, ammunition and time of the Daheng Unification Army, and buy more time for the preparation and defense of Pingnan Prefecture.
Seeing that other people wanted to surrender, and even the Ji royal family was shaken, Zuo Yuanzhi made a move!
He led the remnants of more than 4,000 to directly attack many high-ranking generals in the other three states, intending to control them, and then control the remnants of the troops under them.
As a result, before the Daheng Unification Army launched an attack, the inner city itself was fighting first, and it seemed that the more it fought, the more lively it became.
At the same time, the remnants of the city came out one after another to surrender to the Daheng unified army.
This inner city, you don't have to fight it to end it first.
And by the time the Daheng Unification Army finally entered the inner city, even the imperial palace was already completely caught in the flames of war, and many palaces were on fire.
When the rebel army entered the palace, the son of Yongchang killed himself with a sword in the palace of the court, ending his sad life!
He ascended the throne as emperor at the age of eleven, when the Heng Olympic War had just ended (the time description of some of the previous chapters is different, subject to this), this just ascended the throne Daheng fell into the post-war financial crisis, and before he could pro-government, Daheng was already in flames.
By the time he was sixteen years old, he completely controlled the court and began to govern himself, only half of the empire was left in the area that the Ji royal family could control, and no matter what he did with it in the future, he could not stop wave after wave of uprisings and rebellions.
For decades, he watched his empire collapse!
In the end, the royal family was left with only one territory like Jingzhou!
Now, even Jingzhou can't be saved, and the entire dynasty has collapsed!
The Son of Heaven Yongchang is dead!
However, another important figure, the crown prince, is missing.
Some people say that he died in the fire, and there is also news that he secretly absconded, in short, tens of thousands of troops of the Daheng unified army, searched the inner city and even the entire capital to the south bank city again, but they were stunned and failed to find this person.
The prince is alive and dead, and he can't see the corpse, which makes Liang Chenglei, who is still outside the city, quite angry!
The whereabouts of the crown prince are unknown, which is not a good thing, in case he escapes to the northern Pingnan Prefecture or other places to put up the flag, and then one of them ascends the throne as emperor, it will create trouble for the unified army.
But I couldn't find anyone, and I couldn't help it.
Fortunately, in addition to the crown prince, the other princes of Yongchang Tianzi in Beijing have clear whereabouts, and they either died in battle, committed suicide, or were captured, and they all have clear whereabouts.
Among them, Prince Kang, the third son of the emperor, was finally forced to lead the last more than 1,000 guards to announce their surrender, which was also the last guard unit to hold on.
Prince Kang, who had already become a prisoner, looked at the palace with fire and smoke in the distance, and the banner of the Daheng Unification Army in the firelight, and lamented.
He knew that the Ji dynasty was completely finished!
After the Hengao War, although the Ji dynasty fell into civil strife for decades, the Ji royal family controlled fewer and fewer places, and finally only one Jingzhou remained, but the Ji royal family still existed.
This Daheng still belongs to the Ji Dynasty!
Even Lin Ziran, the big feudal towns, have to obediently admit that the Son of Heaven Yongchang is the only emperor of Daheng.
But now, the Ji dynasty can be declared completely destroyed.
What's even more ridiculous is that although it was the capital area conquered by the Daheng unified army, in fact, the fall of the Ji dynasty at the last moment was destroyed by the hands of the rebels.
Although Zuo Zhiyuan of Pingnan Prefecture rebelled at the last moment, this was just an introduction, and the subsequent infighting was actually a big brawl between many parties, and even the Guards were involved.
Why?
Everyone knows that the unified army is coming in, and the dynasty is going to fall.
At the last moment, no one wanted to resist, and at this time, Zuo Zhiyuan raised an army again, trying to control other generals and coercing them to continue to resist, making the situation extremely chaotic.
And many of them are thinking of taking advantage of the chaos to get a vote, and then throw down their weapons, take off their uniforms, and hide with their money, or hide their money and then surrender, and then come back to get it later.
When there are more people who think this way, then the inner city is completely finished.
The fire in the palace was set by those looting rebels.
But no matter what, the Ji dynasty has fallen, even if there is a missing prince, but it still can't change the fact that the Ji dynasty has completely ended.
This is also just after conquering the inner city and confirming the death of the Yongchang Emperor, Liang Chenglei didn't even care about the follow-up battle in the north bank city, and after making some proper arrangements, he took the train directly to the south!
He wanted to personally report to Lin Ziran on the process and results of the Battle of Jingshi, and more importantly:
Daheng is about to usher in the Seventh Dynasty: the Li Dynasty!
Daheng is about to usher in a new son of heaven: Lin Ziran!
At such a critical moment, he must not be missing Liang Chenglei!
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