"Your Majesty, should we take a rest, it's already night, and we're not in a hurry to do it."

After a busy day with the army, Li Yi, who lacked exercise, now feels that his two legs are not his own.

"No, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and if we delay, we don't know what will happen ahead, so we must continue to set off."

"Then Your Majesty, you leave some people to follow me, I can't run, you go first."

Ying Zheng thought about it, anyway, it didn't make much difference whether Li Yi was following behind or not, so he agreed to Li Yi's decision, leaving a hundred people to rest in place with Li Yi, and then he himself led the army to continue to move forward.

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"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something is wrong, and an enemy is attacking the city."

Li Zicheng was sleeping with a newly canonized concubine in his arms at this time, and in his dream he had unified the world, and there were people of Dashun everywhere, when he suddenly heard someone shouting and waking up from his sweet dream.

"Your Majesty, an enemy is attacking the city."

"What?"

Hearing this news, Li Zicheng's anger disappeared in an instant, the whole person seemed to be poured with a basin of cold water, the whole person was awake, he hurriedly got dressed, and ran outside to watch the situation.

At this time, there was a riot everywhere in the whole city of Beijing, and these exile soldiers did not know where to get the news, saying that the emperor was also going to run away, so they all started to rob the city with the intention of snatching and then escaping, and at the same time, many people packed up their belongings and prepared to take advantage of the turmoil to escape from Beijing.

"Strategist, what's going on outside?"

There had just been an accident outside the city, and Niu Jinxing came to find Li Zicheng as soon as possible, and he had been waiting in the hall for a while at this time.

"Your Majesty, the enemy has bypassed the ambush I arranged, and has already appeared outside the city at this time, and according to the people below, the other party still has artillery, and we are afraid that our city will not be able to hold it."

"How can this be, why did the other party come so quickly, what about you?"

"You wait to go to the city wall at this time to organize people to resist, otherwise the enemy will come in, the emperor, take this time to clean up, let's prepare to retreat."

"Okay, military advisor, you also go and inform you, you can come and gather with us directly at a critical moment, and these soldiers and horses in the capital are not needed."

"Okay, I'll go."

Li Zicheng did not hesitate at all this time, after all, if it is delayed any longer, let alone the Daming Palace, his life will be gone.

Niu Jinxing came to the city wall, glanced at the lineup of the Qin army outside the city, and couldn't help but take a breath.

I thought that my side relied on the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to defend the city and occupy an advantage, even if he couldn't win the battle, how could he defend it all night.

But at this time, look at the military power on the opposite side and the column of cannons in front of you, and then look at your side, the city wall is full of panicked people, and many people don't even know where they should stand, in this case it would be good to hold on for an hour or two.

"Strategist, you're here, what did the emperor say?"

Seeing Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing secretly pulled him to a corner, avoiding the people around him, and said:

"Just now the emperor has agreed to run away immediately, and you are here too, try to organize troops to delay the opposite side, as long as you can delay, and come to gather with us directly when necessary, don't care about the remaining soldiers and horses."

"Okay, I've packed my things there, I'll go over after a little more arrangement."

"Okay, then I'll go first, you pay attention to yourself."

After speaking, Niu Jinxing said goodbye to Liu Zongmin and ran home to pack his things.

"Come on, prepare our Hongyi cannon, and let the people on the other side see and understand."

"Yes."

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Seeing the torches on the opposite city wall and those panicked figures, Meng Tian was in a good mood, as long as there was no accident, he and the others could enter the city tonight, and they could greet His Majesty in the city tomorrow.

"Centurion, wait a minute, you will aim at the enemy's city gate and cannon, if you can't blast the opponent's city gate open in time, don't blame the ruthless military law at that time, of course, if it is blasted open, I will naturally report your name to Your Majesty, reward you, and promote you."

"Yes, please rest assured that the subordinates will not disappoint the general."

After arranging the artillery here, suddenly a bunch of generals quarreled with Meng Tian.

"General, wait for our troops to fight to be the vanguard, the last general promises that as long as the opponent's city gate is opened, he will be able to capture the city tower within two moments."

"General, I think our department is more suitable, the last general will ensure that while capturing the city tower, all the enemies of the other side will be emptied, and no one will be let go."

"Fart, General Niu, don't talk big about it here and deceive the general."

"Hehe, how do you know that I'm talking big to deceive the general, you let me try it to know if I really can't do it."

"Don't you think, this pioneer is more suitable for our department at first glance."

Seeing the two generals arguing, Meng Tian was not angry, what the army wants is this spirit and courage to dare to be the first, as long as there is no internal friction, this kind of situation of competing for the first Meng Tian wishes the more the better, if everyone is cowering, that is when Meng Tian should have a headache.

"Okay, don't quarrel, wait a minute, one of you is in charge of the left gate, and the other is in charge of the right gate, if you let one go, you won't have good fruit to eat."

"The last general will obey orders."

After the army was ready, Meng Tian did not continue to wait and delay time, but directly let people start attacking, and the province had many long nights.

Meng Tian kept the army about four miles away from the city of Beijing, and did not use the old methods to attack the city, and there was no need to fill the city with human lives when the gunpowder was sufficient.

The farthest distance of the Hongyi cannon in the Ming Dynasty is said to be 2.5 kilometers, but in fact, the real effective range is only 1.5 kilometers, but what about the artillery of the Qing Dynasty? The maximum range is three kilometers, and the effective range is probably within two kilometers.

It can also be seen from this how awesome the research and development of firearms in my Qing Dynasty is, hundreds of years, a kilometer long, hehe.

However, because the opposite side is on the city wall, and the Qin army is on flat ground, the artillery gap between the two sides has been flattened by the terrain, but the Qin army still has another advantage, that is, there are more artillery and sufficient firepower.

Meng Tian let the army out of the effective range of the opposite side, and only the centurion of the artillery battalion began to bombard the opponent with their artillery in range.

In the midst of the artillery fire on both sides, the two miles in the middle have almost become a dead field, even if you want to go around it, because both sides are rookies who use artillery, and from time to time they hit a few crooked shots, and these scattered shells are enough to kill people.

After a half-hour rookie peck, the final result was naturally that the Qin army won, not because of strong combat power, more gunpowder or anything like that, just one reason, the gates of the capital have been blasted open, and the Qin army began to charge without artillery.

"Kill, rush!"

A group of people poured into the city gate, but they were not met with any effective resistance, because the general of the exiles, Liu Zongmin, had already run away, and then the other generals of all sizes also ran away, and the remaining exiles had no one to organize them, and they were very scattered, so they could only be divided and slaughtered by the organized Qin army.

"Princess, lead the way, where is the palace?"

"Over here, General Meng will come with me."

Ignoring the fighting in the city, Meng Tian ordered all the Qin troops to clean up the remnants of the displaced people in the streets, but the Qin army was not allowed to enter the houses, and then followed Wang Chengen to arrest Li Zicheng.

Meng Tian is a person who has been allowed by Yingzheng to read the history books, so he naturally knows that most of the wealth in the capital is in Li Zicheng, and if Li Zicheng is allowed to run away, then they will come in vain.

Along the way to the palace, almost all the displaced people on the road were cleared, and a pair of frightened eyes appeared in the windows of many houses to observe the situation, and in some houses there were still the cries of children, but they disappeared immediately.

The gate of the imperial city has been captured by the Qin army, and the displaced people who originally stayed here to guard ran and died, and the rest were all lying on the ground trembling.

As he walked, suddenly a voice came from the pile of displaced people,

"Wang Chengen, you're not dead?"