A month later, under the Forbidden City, the vanguard of the Ming army suddenly came to the city, completely waking up Li Zicheng, who was discussing life with Chen Yuanyuan.

The speed of the advance of the Ming army was simply completely beyond Li Zicheng's expectations, and the forces he had deployed around the capital did not work at all, and they collapsed at the first touch, and now he experienced the taste of his former opponent, and it was his turn to be surrounded this time.

And this assault of the Ming army fully reflected the rhythm of modern warfare, a large number of cavalry became the mainstream, and after occupying the north, the cavalry of the Ming army was not a problem at all.

"Li Zicheng, you traitor, quickly open the city and surrender, otherwise you will die without a place to be buried!"

According to the usual practice, Nian Qianyao, the vanguard general of the Ming army, still sent people to call the city.

Naturally, the city will not surrender, what are you kidding, the walls of the Forbidden City are tall, and if you surrender without a fight, won't you be laughed to death?

Seeing that there was no response, the Ming soldiers who called the city ran back and said: "General, the thieves will definitely not surrender, let's attack the city." ”

Nian Qianyao nodded slightly, but he also knew that Ming Jian's explanation could not let the Forbidden City suffer too much damage.

"Concentrate firepower to attack Desheng Gate, and directly attack the inner city after breaking the city gate, the attack must be ruthless, and anyone who resists will be killed!"

Nian Qianyao began to order.

The artillery of the Ming army began to move towards Deshengmen, and soon began to fire, and a large number of shells poured down, and soon the Deshengmen was blasted into slag.

Nian then ordered the Ming army to attack and rushed into the Forbidden City.

Because this time to protect the Forbidden City, the artillery shells of the Ming army were only a function of breaking the city, so a large number of Dashun troops quickly surrounded it.

At this time, Nian Qianyao ordered the Shenji Battalion to find an opportunity to set up a position, and quickly built a bunker.

Subsequently, the automatic rifles of the Shenji battalion began to wield, shooting the rushing Dashun army continuously, while the Ming army's own casualty figure was relatively small.

After an hour of attacking, the casualties of the Dashun army had exceeded 50,000, and the ground was full of corpses of the Dashun army, which looked heartbreaking.

However, Li Zicheng knew very well that the military strength of the Dashun army was not as good as that of the Ming army, and he could only take people to pile up and consume the ammunition of the Ming army.

The officers and soldiers of the Dashun army still quickly felt that the future was bleak, rushing up was death, not rushing up was waiting for death, waiting for the Ming army to enter the city, with their military strength, so many firearms, do you still need to think about it?

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the large army of the Ming army to arrive, and Ming Jian ordered the Forbidden City to be surrounded, and then personally led Long Wei into the city and joined forces with Nian Qianyao.

"Your Majesty, Li Chuang's traitors keep driving innocent soldiers to come to their deaths, and if this continues, I'm afraid that many people will be killed, do you think it's persuaded to surrender?"

Nian Qianyao immediately came to Ming Jian's jeep and said.

Ming Jian also felt that this was a problem, but this was something that could not be avoided in military war, and if he was soft-hearted, he was afraid that it would be difficult to quickly take the Forbidden City.

He said, "Don't worry about that, come up with more ferocious offensive methods, and in three days, I will sit back on that dragon chair!" ”

Nian Qianyao nodded and said, "Your Majesty, the minister understands. ”

Nian Qianyao then ordered his subordinates to throw grenades at the Dashun army, and suddenly, there was a burst of explosions in the Forbidden City, one after another, and the Dashun army was soon blown up, with heavy casualties, and the Ming army took the opportunity to advance and encroach step by step.

Ming Jian saw clearly in the rear, and smiled with satisfaction, the destructive power of the grenade is much smaller than that of artillery, but the lethality of the Dashun army is not small, and the Dashun army is completely killed.

That night, the Ming army drove all the Dashun troops from the outer city into the inner city.

Cleaning up the battlefield, a large number of corpses of the Dashun Army made Ming Jian feel heavy in his heart, these people were actually used by Li Zicheng, what did they actually get?

In the next day's attack, the Ming army still used firearms to concentrate firepower on Xihua Gate, and the other city gates were surrounded and not attacked.

This kind of crushing attack made the Dashun army completely collapse, and soon some people began to surrender, among which there were also some Ming Dynasty civil and military who had defected to the Dashun army, and chose to fan the flames and incite the Dashun army to surrender, trying to use this as an advanced capital, after all, they were traitors at the beginning, and now they want to take refuge in it, and they need some means.

More and more people surrendered, and a large number of Dashun troops were immediately disarmed and all sent to the northeast, which needed a large number of people and was also the industrial base of the imperial court, and after these people went, most of them would be sent to factories and mines.

In the face of such a situation, the Ming army is also willing to accept, without a fight and surrender to the army, is the best policy, since the Dashun army can not bear the pressure to surrender, then accept it, and it is easy to clean up, all sent to the northeast as workers.

After two days of siege, there was not much left of the Dashun army, and even a few of Li Zicheng's most loyal subordinates were a little shaken, but they knew their sins very well, and even if they surrendered, it would be difficult to be forgiven.

By the third day, Li Zicheng still had more than 3,000 soldiers and horses left, and the Ming army immediately attacked the inner city with all its might.

Ming Jian sat in a jeep and went straight to the palace, and arrived at the palace smoothly.

The Dashun army had been completely defeated, Li Zicheng fled to the coal mountain in embarrassment, and all his family members were captured by the Ming army.

Ming Jian got out of the car and continued the pursuit, and soon surrounded Li Zicheng.

Seeing the crooked-necked tree not far away, Ming Jian suddenly had an idea, and secretly thought that it would be better to hang Li Zicheng on this tree, this is really a coincidence.

"Li Zicheng, I miss you as a hero, reward you with a whole corpse, there is a tree over there, you can hang yourself on it."

Ming Jian shouted directly at Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng's face was stunned, and at this time he regretted it a little, why didn't he strike while the iron was hot and destroy the Ming Sword? Why were you blinded by glory and wealth in the first place?

Now that I've come to this end, it's really self-inflicted.

Looking at the surrounding situation, he knew that he couldn't run, and after looking at the tree again, Li Zicheng walked over blankly and untied his belt.

After tying a knot, Li Zicheng grabbed his belt and slowly stretched his head into the knot, but he still glanced back at the direction of the palace nostalgically.

"Li Zicheng, don't look at it anymore, the more nostalgic it is, the more painful it is, forget it, remember in the next life, don't rebel again, maybe you can be glorious for a while, but the final ending is tragic."

Ming Jian urged.

Li Zicheng sighed, stretched his head over, and then let go, the belt tightly strangled Li Zicheng's neck, and after a painful struggle, Li Zicheng did not move.

Immediately, a soldier of the Ming army rushed over to inspect it, and then ran over and said, "Your Majesty, the traitor is dead, do you want to hang his body on the city gate to show the public?" ”

Ming Jian shook his head and said, "Forget it, everyone is dead, there's no point, bury him under the pine tree, and at the same time announce the news to the Dashun army, so that they can give up their last resistance immediately." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

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As soon as Li Zicheng died, the last resistance of the Dashun army soon ended, Niu Jinxing and others were all captured alive and taken to Fengtianmen, Ming Jian had no good impression of Niu Jinxing, this is a villain, he has no ability, but he is good at engaging in infighting, a big reason for Li Zicheng's failure is also Niu Jinxing's demagoguery.

He is obsessed with power, and he wants to be the one who is under one man and above ten thousand.

Therefore, Ming Jian ordered Niu Jinxing to be executed, but Li Guo and others were pardoned by Ming Jian and all of them were pressed to the northeast to mine and atone for their sins.

The Ming army then cleaned up the Forbidden City on a large scale to stabilize order in the city, and three days later, the entire Forbidden City was completely controlled by the Ming army.

Ming Jian made a decision at this time to set up a monument on the coal mountain to commemorate the Ming soldiers and members of the imperial family who died at the beginning, and at the same time warn future generations not to forget this history.