Chapter Twenty-Three: The Emperor Is Lost

"Protect Your Majesty!"

Yang Qing, who was holding the dead body as a meat shield, yelled at dozens of house slaves who suddenly appeared behind the collapsed wall.

The next moment, a dense burst of bullets instantly hit the dead body.

He kept backing under the constant impact.

But at the same time, the armed men behind swarmed.

At this moment, Cao Youyi also broke out bravely, wielding the Yanling knife in his hand to kill two people in a row, but he was not a fierce general like Yang Qing after all, at the moment when he cut down the third person, a spear pierced into his abdomen, and at the moment when he fell screaming, his house slaves and the last dozen internal also fell under the knife. Their blood was even splashed all over Chongzhen's dragon robe, Yuan Guifei was directly frightened and fainted to the ground, Wang Chengen subconsciously pounced on Chongzhen to protect him, but was pushed away by Chongzhen with a blue face, the latter's face was also splashed with a few points of blood, looking as hideous as a ghost, and also like a ghost staring at the armed people around him with blood-red eyes.

"Quick, take the Holy One away!"

Zhang Ruoqi, who got up from under the collapsed wall, said with blood on his head.

Yang Qing suddenly threw the dead body, and jumped in front of him in a blink of an eye, before he could react, a fist with a strong wind fell on his face, Zhang Ruoqi screamed, and his entire nose was beaten into a piece of rotten meat, Yang Qing's left arm immediately circled his neck, and his right fist fell on his face at a speed that was almost with an afterimage.

Blood and rotten flesh splattered.

Just half a minute later, Zhang Ruoqi's entire head had been beaten into rotten meat.

Yang Qing threw the dead body to the side and roared like a wolf.

But there was nothing he could do about it.

Those armed men who had already controlled Chongzhen looked at him with fear, and then held Chongzhen hostage, and Yuan Guifei and Wang Chengen retreated cautiously.

Yang Qing looked at them like a bloodthirsty beast, watching them take Chongzhen away like this, all his efforts were in vain after all, these people would take Chongzhen to Shanhaiguan, and there in the name of Chongzhen issued a holy decree to overturn everything before, and at the same time borrowed troops from Dorgon with the holy decree to suppress the Kou. As long as he can get enough benefits, Wu Sangui will not mind sacrificing his relatives in Beijing, including his own father, since he can do this in history, then of course he can do the same this time.

As for Chongzhen......

I'm afraid he'll die of illness at some point.

Of course, it depends on whether he is obedient or not, if he is obedient, maybe Wu Sangui and others will continue to keep this puppet, but no matter what his ending is in the end, it is difficult to change the ending of the Qing army's entry into the customs.

Li Zicheng couldn't beat them together.

Just after Chongzhen was taken away, the soldiers of the Longwu Battalion also retreated, and soon only Yang Qing and his dozens of house slaves were left on the street, in addition to the dead corpses everywhere, those house slaves consciously began to search among the dead bodies after the initial confusion, and then carried out Cao Youyi, who was not dead, six internal exercises, and four Cao family house slaves. Yang Qing sighed and threw away the gloom in his heart, and gave them a little examination, these people, including Cao Youyi, were not lightly injured, but it was not without hope at all, he waved his hand and asked the house slave to carry these people directly to the nearby medicine store, and after smashing the door open, the people inside quickly treated their wounds under the panicked eyes.

And during this period, as the people who surrounded Beitang withdrew one after another, all his domestic slaves who were originally blocked outside entered the city.

Those who were clever before, mixed with those armed people to follow up, they have the same accent as the latter, and many of them have even been to Beitang, even those who have mixed with the salt merchants before, and those armed people are a patchwork of many forces, most of them do not know each other, in this chaotic situation, it can be said that there is no difficulty in mixing in it. Then under the leadership of a member who is familiar with the terrain, it can be said that Yang Qing was saved at the most critical time, nearly a third of those bird gunners were pressed down by the wall they knocked down, if these are added, even if Yang Qing has a meat shield in his hand, he will inevitably take a few more bullets, so he will also take three shots.

At such a distance, even a shoddy bird gun could inflict heavy damage on him, especially since he was not wearing cotton iron armor, which was soaked in blood, and of course he could not wear it again.

Beitang was temporarily controlled by Yang Qing in this way.

In fact, no one pays attention to him at this time, whether it is intercepting Chongzhen or kidnapping Chongzhen, their purpose is actually the same, since the goal is achieved, who still cares about him!

Yang Qing sent a message to Li Zicheng the next day.

He also gave Li Zicheng advice.

The content of this suggestion is very simple, that is, let Li Zicheng fulfill his duties as the king of Qin in the Ming Dynasty and stay in Beijing, take the crown prince to conquer the rebellion and rescue the Ming Emperor, and don't call yourself emperor in anger.

As for whether Li Zicheng listens or not......

This one is left to fate!

Yang Qing also sent his house slaves to act as secret agents to disperse to find out the news, and he himself stayed in Beitang as a doctor, and he also took a break, he himself was also scarred, although these injuries healed much faster than ordinary people, but they were injuries after all. On the eighth day, all kinds of unfavorable news began to come continuously, first Wu Sangui blocked Tian Jianxiu in Funing, the latter and Li Laiheng had to retreat to Lulong, and then Wu Sangui returned to the division and Gao first repelled Tang Tong, who was originally going to Shanhaiguan to replace him.

And Chongzhen's holy decree was finally issued.

It is not known whether he sent it himself or whether the ministers stamped it on his hand.

In the form of announcing to the world, the holy decree completely overturned all the previous appointments to Li Zicheng, re-called him a traitor, and all the official positions he sealed were anti-party pseudo-officials, and called on the officials and people in various places to raise volunteers to crusade against the anti-party. Changed the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the Duke of Wu Sangui was the county duke, with Wu Sangui as the Metropolitan Governor, who governed all the soldiers and horses north of the Huai River, and crusaded against the rebels to recover Beijing and sweep away the temple. In the past, Wang Yongji, the governor of Jiliao, was the first assistant of the cabinet, and the military and political affairs south of the Huai River were governed by the ministers of Nanjing, and the military and political affairs north of the Huai River were under the control of the cabinet by the Shanhaiguan Bank. As for the matter of borrowing troops to suppress the Kou, it must not be said in the holy decree, but this guess can also be guessed, and the envoy who borrowed troops must have rushed to Shenyang from Shanhaiguan.

And Li Zicheng's reaction was quite comforting to Yang Qing.

He accepted Yang Qing's suggestion.

Li Zicheng stayed in Beijing, received Yang Qing, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Cao Youyi, the chief soldier of Tianjin Town, and the governor of Liaodong, Li Yutian, the governor of Shanyong, Li Xixin, and Zhang Ruoqi, the governor of Yongping, conspired against the rebellion and hijacked the holy car and fled to Shanhaiguan, and then the prince ordered a crusade against the party, and he led an army of 100,000 soldiers to Shanhaiguan, and the prince and the two kings accompanied the personal expedition, and the officials and people in various places were blocked, and all the holy decrees issued by Shanhaiguan were against the party's edict, and those who held the edict beheaded the people on the spot.

In short, the battle of Shanhaiguan is inevitable.

As for the results......

"I'm afraid Li Zicheng can't do it."

Cao Youyi sighed while lying on the hospital bed.

Relying on Yang Qing, the miracle doctor, he and the other injured were rescued, in fact, their injuries are not worth mentioning in modern times, but it is still a miracle that they can be rescued in this era, especially when he has a spear pierced in his stomach, although he is protected by armor, the tip of the spear is still nearly ten centimeters deep, and Yang Qing even had to risk operating on him without antibiotics.

Fortunately, this guy is also a fortune teller, and he actually survived the initial high fever.

Then he pulled Yang Qing to bow.

"We have to find another way, and we can't just hope for Li Zicheng."

Yang Qing said.

"Are you so afraid of Jiannu entering the customs? Their eight banners combined are less than 100,000 soldiers, even if they enter the customs, what can they do? Back then, it was just a plundering and hurriedly withdrew, Jiannu actually wanted to survive, the place in Liaodong was bitterly cold, even if we were in Tuntian in Liaodong, we were actually just chatting to supplement, and we really had to rely on the transportation of the imperial court, otherwise Liaodong would not be able to stay. If Jiannu wants to survive there, they can only loot in the Guannei, and then exchange the looted property and Jin merchants for food, otherwise they will have to starve to death, but their population is limited, even if they want to occupy the land of my Daming, at most it is not limited to Hebei, and their internal migration cannot fill a Shuntian Mansion! Do they really want to swallow elephants? ”

Cao Youyi said.

"They don't have much population, but they are different from the northern gentry combined, poor in the north or poor in the south of the Yangtze River?"

Yang Qing said.

"Of course, it's the north, the wealth of Jiangnan can be compared with the north, and a large number of people are starving to death in the north, Jiangnan is not rare to farm, directly change to mulberry and silkworm breeding to sell silk overseas, the silver falls into the pocket like flowing water, and the annual income of the Ming Dynasty may not be comparable to a big rich family in Jiangnan."

Cao Youyi said.

"Do you want to rob them?"

Yang Qing said.

Cao Youyi was silent.

He thought, of course he did, but he couldn't do it himself! So how about partnering with Jiannu?

"It's as simple as that, as long as Jiannu enters the customs, the rest is to wash Jiangnan in blood."

Yang Qing said.

"Master, master, water master, water master is here!"

A house slave suddenly rushed in and said breathlessly.

"Where's the sailor?"

Yang Qing asked.

"I don't know, I can't see the side of the warships at sea, I'm afraid there will be one or two hundred, all of them are big warships."

The slave said.

"It's Huang Fei, it's Huang Fei's Denglai Water Master!"

Yang Qing stood up without hesitation and said.

He guessed correctly, when he rushed to the dock, he was in front of him a boundless forest of sails, and large and small warships were slowly approaching the sea with a magnificent momentum, and the largest of them had entered the estuary and leaned towards the dock. And on the deck of this warship, Zhang Yan, dressed in palace clothes, stood with the queen's majestic railing, behind her, Princess Kunxing and Yuan Yuan, who were still waving their arms at him excitedly, and behind them, a general in full armor stood respectfully.

The Denlai Sailor has finally arrived.