Chapter Twenty-Four: The King Meets the King
Huang Taiji led his troops around Tongzhou and went straight to Beijing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Inside the Imperial Palace in the city of Beijing
"Your Majesty, Huang Taiji has arrived, and now the hundreds of thousands of Jurchen troops have come to the city of Beijing" Chongzhen, who was sitting on the dragon chair, heard Wang Chengen's intelligence and did not reflect, so he sat quietly on the dragon chair, and the atmosphere in the hall became extremely solemn for a while.
After half a ring, "Big companion, hasn't there been any news from Jizhou City and Shanhaiguan?" "As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he sits on the whole world and has an army of millions, but now he is surrounded by a barbarian with a population of only a few hundred thousand barbarians, how ironic it is.
"Your Majesty, there is still no news from Jizhou City, and the eunuchs of nearby Yutian Town have been notified to investigate, and there is no information sent back yet" said here Wang Chengen saw that Chongzhen was not furious, so he cautiously continued to say, "Shanhaiguan side, the supervisor Liu Yingkun sent back information, and Yuan Chonghuan has been ordered to lead his troops out of Shanhaiguan a few days ago."
"Sun Chuanting, where is Sun Aiqing now" Chongzhen got up and walked down the steps from the dragon chair, in fact, this dragon chair has been sitting for a long time, and it is not very comfortable, but Chongzhen doesn't know when he started, he likes to sit alone on this dragon chair that symbolizes imperial power and quietly taste the taste of power.
"Back to the emperor, Lord Sun should now command the soldiers to defend the city on the city wall" Recently, Chongzhen's temper has become more and more weird, and Wang Chengen, an old eunuch who watched Chongzhen grow up, is now beginning to see through Chongzhen.
"Companion, get ready, I want to go up to the city wall, I want to go and see the Huang Taiji who led the army all the way to Beijing City" Suddenly, Chongzhen really wanted to see the one who took advantage of the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty in the later generations, and liked to bring people to rob and make trouble for the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty was tired of running for his life, the unstoppable Huang Taiji.
"Your Majesty, now there are Jurchens all over the city, in case something happens to the emperor, let this Ming and the people of the world how to make it good" Hearing that Chongzhen was going to go up the city wall, Wang Chengen immediately opened his mouth to persuade.
"He Huang Taiji dared to personally lead the troops to my imperial city, I am in the city, how can I not go up to the city wall, my companion, no need to persuade me, go and arrange it immediately" Hearing Chongzhen's words, Wang Chengen did not dare to insist anymore, while sending people to prepare the guards, while informing Sun Chuanting, who was guarding the city, to be ready to greet him.
Under the escort of a large number of people, Chongzhen sat in the dragon palace with six horses, and rushed to Guangqu Gate, where Huang Taiji's army was stationed.
Chongzhen stood on the Guangqu Gate, followed by Sun Chuanting and Wang Chengen. Looking at the endless marching camp below, watching the Jurchens galloping under their own Beijing city, Chongzhen, who originally thought he would be angry or scared, found himself extremely calm at this moment.
"Deliver a letter to the Jurchens outside the city, and let me tell Huang Taiji that I am waiting for him on this city wall" Soon a prepared letter was tied to the giant crossbow defending the city, and with a "bang" sound, the crossbow arrow with thick arms shot the letter to Huang Taiji's camp.
The Great Tent of the Emperor Taiji
"Great Khan, a letter has just been shot out in the city, it is for the Great Khan, it has been checked, there is no problem" Amin who had just been patrolling the camp outside held a letter in his hand and dedicated it to Huang Taiji, who was sitting on the throne.
"This is really strange, in the imperial city of Emperor Ming, someone actually wrote a letter to Ben Khan, bring it, let Ben Khan see what was written" Huang Taiji took the letter and opened it a little strangely.
Looking at Huang Taiji's strange expression after reading the letter, Dai Shan's group asked one after another, "Great Khan, what is written in it" Huang Taiji handed the letter to a few people present, "Hehe, it was actually Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Emperor who met under the city tower" Huang Taiji himself was still jealous of the Ming Emperor who was less than twenty years old to tell the truth, so big, he had such a huge empire as the Ming Dynasty, and he was about forty people, and he had to fight everywhere for Dajin.
"What are the plans of the Great Khan?" Dai Shan on the side began to ask what Huang Taiji meant.
"Ben Khan is going to go to the appointment, and he has arrived in the city of Beijing, why don't you go to meet the young little emperor, don't you wonder what Chongzhen looks like" Huang Taiji said to the ministers with a smile, now that he has led the army to surround the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it is the time to be high-spirited, why not be afraid of a Chongzhen child.
"The Great Khan is right, I'll go and meet the little emperor together" Mang Gurtai and Amin supported on the side, and they and others fought a lifetime with the Ming Dynasty, and this was the first time to be able to see the Ming Emperor.
"It's just a big sweat, be careful of deception" Dai Shan on the side is still a little uneasy.
"Dai Shan, you are good at everything, but you are too careful, under this imperial city, can Emperor Ming dare to open the city gate and send people out to sneak attack, if that is the case, my man from the Eight Banners just broke through the city." A group of people laughed and rode in the direction of Guangqumen.
Chongzhen stood on the city wall, looking down at Huang Taiji under the city, Chongzhen stood on the high city wall across a moat, looking at it from a distance, Huang Taiji is a figure, because the distance is too far Huang Taiji and the specific appearance of the others can not be seen clearly, but Chongzhen still recognized at a glance, the person who stood in the middle on horseback was Huang Taiji, not because of Huang Taiji's bright armor, nor because Huang Taiji was guarded by the crowd in the middle, but Chongzhen saw him and had a feeling that he was Huang Taiji, although he couldn't see clearly, But Chongzhen was extremely sure that that person was Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji was under the protection of many guards, standing on the side of the moat from afar, and saw at a glance the Ming Emperor Chongzhen wearing a dragon robe on the city wall, the dragon robe was too eye-catching against the backdrop of a group of soldiers wearing armor, but the distance was too far, Huang Taiji couldn't see Chongzhen's appearance clearly, and Huang Taiji also saw that the other party had such a long-range attack weapon, and Huang Taiji didn't dare to approach it, otherwise when he saw Chongzhen clearly, the other party's crossbow arrows also saw himself clearly, When the time comes, if you are killed by random arrows, there will be no place to cry.
Chongzhen and Huang Taiji looked at each other quietly, both sides tacitly did not speak, and after half a day, Huang Taiji rode back to the camp.
Chongzhen on the city wall asked the people around him, "Can you hit the crossbow arrow at this distance?" while controlling the giant crossbow soldier replied, "Back to the emperor, the other party has been hovering outside the range of the crossbow arrow and can't hit it."
"Sun Aiqing, did you say that you could hit that far with artillery?" The range of the crossbow arrows is not enough, isn't there still artillery, Chongzhen has never given up any opportunity to kill Huang Taiji.
"Your Majesty, there is no problem with hitting this distance, but it depends on your luck" Sun Chuanting on the side still knew a lot about artillery and immediately returned.
"Then let people shoot, maybe today's luck is particularly good, if I hit, I can't kill Huang Taiji, it's good to scare him" Seeing Huang Taiji's pampered and unfazed appearance, Chongzhen felt uncomfortable, he couldn't kill him, and he had to be embarrassed to break his pampered aura.
"Boom" "Boom" With the sound of a few cannons, looking at the chaotic scene of soldiers and horses on the opposite side, Chongzhen felt much more comfortable at this moment.