The Ming Dynasty went north to Beijing, and the thousand-year-old imperial capital ushered in another catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands of Tartars were outside the city, and there were more than 100,000 Ming troops at this time, but they didn't dare to fight, they only dared to hide in the city and defend in danger. There are black cannons on the head of the city, and the national flag of the Ming Dynasty is still flying high.

However, the Tartars outside the city were very arrogant, and when they went north to Beijing, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, it became a racecourse and a battlefield for the Tartars, and even more, Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty took Dolgon and Haoge Amin to shout outside the city, threatening to reply to the head of the city of Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen appeared in the city with hundreds of civil and military officials, but this Sizong did not talk to the head of the Emperor Taiji City, probably because he thought he was disdainful. After all, he is the king of a country in the great power of the Celestial Empire, and Huang Taiji is at most His Majesty the Khan King of the Border Wild Clan, so how can he have a word with him?

However, at this time, Huang Taiji did not dare to get too close to the city wall, Daming's red-clothed cannon was still very powerful, and his father Emperor Nurhachi was injured by the explosion and died after whining, and he must remember this lesson. lest the cannon at the head of the city suddenly fire and blow him away, he had to find a relatively safe distance.

About a kilometer or two away from the moat, Huang Taiji took Dolgon's brother Amin and his escort battalion to ride horses under the city, surrounded by his army, and the eight-colored military flag covered the sky and the sun.

The red-clothed artillery of the Qing army was also aimed at the city head of Beijing in the north, the Eight Banners Army was like a mountain of soldiers, a sea of soldiers, white-armored soldiers and leather armor soldiers and unarmored soldiers, the armor was distinct, the swords and guns were like ears of wheat, and the swords and halberds were like hemp forests.

Huang Taiji's words were infinitely amplified by his soldiers, and he shouted to the city for a long time, only to see Emperor Chongzhen appear at the city, but he didn't talk to him.

Huang Taiji was also a little annoyed, ran forward a few hundred meters, came to the vicinity of the moat, and pointed at Emperor Chongzhen at the head of the city with the horsewhip in his hand and shouted: "Listen to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, since he does not dare to fight, what is the reason for not opening the city and surrendering?" If that's the case, I'll not leave here, and from tomorrow onwards, you'll be here to herd horses and kill people. ”

In this way, Huang Taiji shouted outside the city for a day, and Chongzhen at the head of the city never said a word to him. The civil and military officials also felt a sense of humiliation, and it was also those main battle factions, Yang Tinglin, Liu Zhaoji, and Huang Degong, who had to go out of the city to fight to the death with the Tartars, but were slapped back by Yang Sichang and others with a few words.

"The battle is not won, and the casualties will only increase, even if you do not hesitate to kill and put Your Majesty in danger, what is his heart!"

In this way, Emperor Chongzhen's ministers were at the head of the city, watching Huang Taiji and the Tartars arrogant outside the city.

Back in the palace, Emperor Chongzhen sighed for a long time, and the favorite concubine personally sent him dinner, which was also lifted by Emperor Chongzhen, and the water and rice were not touched by the lips for a day.

Emperor Chongzhen saw Lu Jiude who was waiting on the side, and said, "I am a big country in the Heavenly Empire, but no one cares?"

The inner supervisor Lu Jiude said with courage: "Your Majesty, the Celestial Empire is not unbeatable, but the elite soldiers and strong generals have all gone to suppress the thieves, and now the people who can solve the danger of the Beijing Division, in addition to the Guanning Army, there are also the loyal marquis of Sichuan, but the distant water does not quench the thirst."

The eunuch Lu Jiude was a man who was well versed in military armor, and he once personally supervised and suppressed thieves, and his achievements were not cheap. His words made Emperor Chongzhen's eyes light up. Guan Ningjun knew about it, but because of Yuan Chonghuan's matter, whether he could transfer them was a different matter.

At this time, he thought of a person, Qin Liangyu of Sichuan Shizhu. Although this person is a woman, she is proficient in military books and war strategies, and her martial arts are outstanding. Loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but also her brother and son Yongguan three armies, as early as the first year of the Apocalypse and the third year of Chongzhen, Qin Liangyu led the white pole soldiers, thousands of miles to relieve the siege of Shenyang, the king of Jingshi, the war achievements are impressive, so that the Tartars are frightened.

"How did I forget the loyal marquis, and immediately spread my will, so that the old lady of Qin will fire up the army and 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 broken, the country will not be a country, and then there will be a fart to talk about peace.

Previously, some courtiers had persuaded him many times to give up Yanjing and move the capital to Nanjing, but Emperor Chongzhen categorically refused. The Son of Heaven guards the country, Chengzu moves north, as the descendant of Yongle, Emperor Chongzhen, can't let himself be too embarrassed. In addition, although the Tartars have invaded frequently in recent years, they have come and gone every time, and there is no fatal threat to the Ming Dynasty.

If they attacked the city on a large scale, and there were more than 100,000 Ming soldiers in front of them to hold the city, there were red-clothed cannons, and there were dangerous cities, he believed that they would be able to support it for a while.

Qin Liangyu, the loyal marquis, is far away in Sichuan, although it is far away and does not quench the thirst of the near, but now there are only dead horses as live horse doctors, as long as the white pole soldiers who can survive to the loyal marquis come, or the Ning Yuan army in Liaodong arrives, he has nothing to fear.

Fortunately, now the Tartars are not trapped in the city, and Emperor Chongzhen drafted a will overnight, sending the eunuch Lu Jiude as an angel official, and rushed out of the city to Sichuan overnight.

Emperor Chongzhen gave a decree to the commander of the soldiers and horses in Liaodong, Gao Qi, the chief soldier of Jinzhou, Wu Xiang, the chief soldier of Ningyuan, and Wu Sangui, the new chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and asked them to immediately send troops to King Qin, the commander of Beijing.

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen made these two wills, the lord and faction headed by Yang Sichang were scared in their hearts. This shows that his master has begun to fight again, and it would be bad if he wanted to use them to sacrifice the flag. The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die, and if he wants to add to the crime, why should he be in trouble?

But this master has changed too fast, right, the main battle for a while, the main peace for a while, how can we serve the people? Yang Sichang and the others thought about this, and felt a cool breeze coming from the back of their necks.

After midnight, Emperor Chongzhen took Yang Sichang and others to the top of the city again. Because Huang Taiji said yesterday that if the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty does not agree to his conditions today, he will herd horses and kill under the city, and the day will pass.

Tartar is so arrogant under his nose, this is undoubtedly a shame for Emperor Chongzhen, a shame for civil and military officials, and a shame for the entire Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen didn't want to go to the city, but he couldn't help it.

It is still the head of the East Gate. Emperor Chongzhen led hundreds of civil and military officials, holding the battlement, and watched the city.

The weather in September, the autumn is high and cool, the weather is exceptionally clear, the blue sky is cloudless, standing at the head of the city outside the four corners, Emperor Chongzhen's eyes are very good, as long as there are no obstacles, he can see the situation within more than ten miles.

Outside the moat, the Tartars had withdrawn from a large clearing. They come and go freely, like a leisurely stroll. Some of the Tartars, ignoring the muzzles of the black holes and the tension of the swords at the head of the city, rode to the moat and drank their war horses on the riverside. There are talking and laughing, as if the soldiers of the Ming army who are heavily guarded at the head of the city do not exist at all.

At the head of the city, Liu Zhaoji and Huang Degong were so angry that they would rather go out and die than suffer this kind of humiliation. But the fate is hard to disobey, and they can only watch the arrogance of the Tartars here and gnash their teeth.

They did not dare to open the city without authorization, nor did they dare to order the cannon fire and ten thousand arrows to fire at the top of the city. The above means that as long as the Tartars do not attack the city, they will not fire, which is to preserve their strength. The soldiers in the city are limited, and the ammunition is even more limited, and they don't know when the army of King Qin will come, and in the face of a strong enemy, they can only delay it for a day.

At this time, Huang Taiji gave an order, and the Tartar soldiers flashed to the side, revealing the common people, these are all the Han people they have taken captive these days, and I don't know how many of them are pressed by the black.

The first civilians were driven into the center of the field. Men, women, and children, all ragged and sad, and children and women weeping and weeping. There are at least a hundred of them.

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

The main content of Huang Taiji's shouting 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 could retreat. The specific conditions are to pay compensation for the cession of land, set up a city protection in the border fortress, protect bilateral free trade, severely punish the thieves Lin Yi and others who attacked the Jin merchants, and so on.

Emperor Chongzhen could not agree to any of these conditions. In Emperor Chongzhen's opinion, it was not because of how harsh the conditions proposed by Huang Taiji, but mainly because in front of everyone, as the king of the Ming Empire, how could he bargain with a Khan king of a small border tribe? Because of the great tomorrow, under the whole world, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, it is not the king's ministers, these Manchurian slaves should bow to him, they should all be his subjects, who he wants to die, who he calls who is born, now the rules have changed, Huang Taiji wants to be on an equal footing with him, so how can he be embarrassed?

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen categorically refused.

Huang Taiji looked at Chongzhen at the head of the city, gritted his teeth and said: "Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you can't keep the safety of your people, look at what kind of face you have to sit in this Jinluan Palace in the future." I now have 100,000 of your people in my hands, remember, they all died because of your ignorance and incompetence, and I want to kill all these 100,000 people, and you forced them all. Come on, kill me! Kill until they agree to my terms. ”

Huang Taiji's fierce face was revealed, and at the sound of an order, these Tartars rushed over, and one by one they were like crazy beasts, waving the war knives in their hands, and began to slash and kill the people who had been captured in the circle.

These people are unarmed, and out of the instinct to survive, they can't wait to be stabbed. Men, women, and children scattered and fled, shouting and shouting. But how can their two legs catch up with the four legs of a war horse? Soon they were caught up by the Tartars and slashed to the ground, blood splattering.

The old man fell, the woman fell, the child cried and threw himself on the mother's body, no matter how much she cried and screamed, the mother could not wake up, and then he was stabbed through by the Tartar who rushed up, and the child fell in a pool of blood.

There was also a woman holding her infant baby, who was chased by a Tartar and cried and cried, lost her shoe run, and continued to run barefoot.

"Help! Save my child......" He cried out to the Ming army at the head of the city as he ran.

The Tartar also deliberately played with her, taking them as prey to the mouth, and the women screamed and ran desperately, and the babies cried and cried.

After all, no one came to save him, and soon the woman could not run anymore, and fell to the ground, her face broken, and she ignored it completely, and crawled forward with the baby in her arms tightly, and still shouted for help to the city.

The Tartar had had enough, and with a bow and arrow, an arrow was fired, and the woman, who was still holding the baby in her arms, was crawling to the edge of the moat, was pierced through the back of the heart by a sword, waved her bloody arm, and finally shouted, "Help...... Child, my child ......"

The soldiers at the head of the city were filled with righteous indignation, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't bear to look at it anymore, closed his eyes, some of the civil and military officials shook their heads, some twisted their faces, and some shed tears of sympathy.

In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred men, women, and children were cut down by the Tartars, and the blood stained the land red.

The new governor Yang Tinglin, the chief military officer Liu Zhaoji, and the deputy chief soldier of the Beijing camp Huang Degong came over one after another, and asked Emperor Chongzhen for orders again, expressing their willingness to go out of the city to carry the coffin for a decisive battle.

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen hesitated, the lord and faction led by Yang Sichang hurriedly opposed, now they are not the lord and the peace, the key is to be afraid of death. If Liu Zhaoji and these people are killed, they will inevitably die in battle, and there will naturally be fewer people to protect Shangjing and the emperor, and if the Jingshi is broken by the Tartars, they will be finished.

"Your Majesty, no. This is obviously the trick used by Huang Taiji, which angered us and sent us out of the city to death. ”

Yang Tinglin couldn't bear it: "Until now, you are still putting up with it, the people who were killed by the Tartars outside the city don't have your wife and children!"

Yang Sichang's face was red and his neck was thick, but he was Yang Tinglin's superior after all, and he quibbled: "What are you talking about?" This pavilion is not greedy for life and afraid of death, you wait to go out and work hard, to serve the country with your body, but you have a good name, but do you want to live the safety of Shangjing, where is the safety of Your Majesty? This pavilion is kind enough not to let you go out of the city and be fooled, but you will be infamy! ”

"Hmph, it's like a traitor!"

"Who do you say is a traitor?"

"Who is a traitor, who knows himself!"

In front of Emperor Chongzhen, the two of them shouted at the head of the city.

"Your Majesty, please look!" Wang Chengen, the master of ceremonies, pointed to the distance and shouted, Chongzhen looked up, and thousands of horses were galloping in the distance, and the dust was rolling.

At the back of the Huang Taiji Chinese army, a group of people and horses were killed overwhelmingly, and this team was under the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Yang Tinglin, Yang Sichang and the others stopped arguing, and the civil and military officials also saw it, and they all watched the cavalry team from a distance with bated breath.

"From that direction, it's Guan Ningjun, it must be the official army!"

"Yes, it's Guanning Tieqi, I saw the ancestral banner inside."

Only Emperor Chongzhen muttered in his heart, but my will was only issued yesterday, Guan Ningjun is thousands of miles away from here, how can it be so fast? Whose team is this Qinwang Division?

Emperor Chongzhen, thinking so in his heart, this team is getting closer and closer, and the word "Lin" on the fiery red satin curtain is becoming more and more eye-catching.

"No, this is not the Guanning Iron Cavalry, it is Governor Lu's team, and Lin Da is in it!" At the head of the city there were generals shouting.

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Suddenly, a cavalry came, as if it had fallen from the sky, and at this time the Tartars under the city were also in a mess, and they did not get any report, and they were caught off guard for a while, of course, they couldn't figure out for a while, where the army of King Qin, how many came, but they shouted one after another: "Protect Your Majesty, meet the enemy, quickly!"