At this time, the guards on the imperial city were all some of the emperor's personal guards, including the Jinyi Wei Dahan General, the government army avant-garde with sword officers, red helmet generals, Ming Jia generals, Han generals, five military camp fork and knife rounders, as well as Xun Wei scattered horsemen, standard-bearers and other guards with sword officers and so on barely gathered thousands of people.

There are also eunuchs in the palace, eunuchs from teenagers to dozens of years old have gone to the city, and there are thousands of eunuchs and soldiers in the palace who participated in internal exercises, and there are less than 10,000 guards in the Forbidden City.

These people are the most loyal to Chongzhen in today's Ming Dynasty. When the Far Eastern army came to the city, they asked the eunuch to ring the Jingyang bell and let the minister enter the palace to escort them, but only twenty or thirty people came, and the rest stayed at home under various pretexts, and some even pretended not to hear it.

However, the combat effectiveness of these Ouchi guards and eunuchs was not very good. Don't look at their majesty on weekdays, but if they are really going to the battlefield, they are really not as good as those ruffians. Although the armor is bright, they are all appearances, and they are not materials for war at all.

The palace was surrounded by the Far Eastern Army, and at a glance, the black pressure was full of fierce cavalry. Moreover, these cavalry looked like the elite of the elite, and the team of thousands of people stood silently under the city, except for the occasional neighing of a few war horses, there was no noise at all.

The boundless momentum permeated all around, and even the defenders in the Forbidden City could feel a trace of cold murderous aura.

In particular, more than a dozen behemoths floated above the Forbidden City, the imperial palace, and these dozens of zhang long Shenzhou brought tremendous pressure to the Forbidden City.

In the face of the incomparably powerful military momentum of the Far Eastern Army, the guards and eunuchs defending the city were already frightened and almost urinated, so how could they have any intention of resisting. Now there are no people in the Forbidden City, and at this time, it is true to live your life.

The entire Forbidden City Palace is like a dead city, and there is a sad atmosphere everywhere. This also indicates that the Ming Dynasty, which has lasted for more than 200 years, is about to collapse.

Li Ming, Song Tao, Lin Hua and others stood at the head of the Jinshui Bridge, looking at the majestic Forbidden City in the distance, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in their hearts.

"We launched the Central Plains campaign to the present, although most of the Central Plains has not been recovered, but has basically controlled the major cities, transportation hubs and major rivers and rivers in the north of the Ming River, and at present, the troops are taking the company and platoon as a unit, leading the armed police force and a large number of militia to gradually recover the county towns and grassroots villages in all parts of the Ming Dynasty. A large number of grassroots management cadres of the working group of the Nationalities Affairs Committee are also following the troops to the grassroots rural areas in various localities to actively carry out local work.

The main reason why this battle went so smoothly was that the company was very well prepared before the war, and the speed of the attack of the ten cavalry divisions of our Northern Army was also extremely rapid, coupled with the company's armed forces in more than a dozen base areas in Daming, which launched an attack on the main targets in their surrounding areas at the first time, and received the great assistance of the intelligence department's intelligence stations in various places, so the battle situation could be so smooth. But the fact that the military system of the Ming Dynasty has completely rotted is also an important reason.

Judging from the battle reports sent by the various troops, the main forces participating in the battle almost did not encounter stubborn resistance, and basically collapsed at the first touch, even if the various state cities and capital cities were defended by strong cities, they were broken in one day. In addition, through the efforts of the Ministry of Intelligence, after the launch of the campaign, the vast majority of the leaders of the border army led their subordinates to surrender in formation, which also made it easy for our Far Eastern Army to cross the border wall. ”

Li Ming listened to the words of Chief of Staff Lin Hua and said with a smile: "From the launch of the Central Plains Campaign to the present, only more than half a month has passed. This is something that we didn't fundamentally expect before the war, no one thought that the broken ship of the Ming Dynasty had been rotten to such an extent, and it has been trying its best to maintain it in the past few years, and our Far Eastern Army has only poked it fiercely, and it will be full of holes immediately. ”

Song Tao next to him asked: "Dude, let's just attack the Forbidden City in one go, why waste all that time." I think it's better to send a special operations team to parachute into the Forbidden City, directly capture Chongzhen alive, and have a decapitation tactic. ”

Li Ming shook his head with a smile and said: "No matter what, Daming has come to this day, and it is not all his fault, in history, he has achieved "the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies in the society", and this point is also worthy of our respect. It's better to wait another half an hour and save some dignity for Chongzhen. ”

Everyone listened to Li Ming's words, and they all knew his thoughts in their hearts. Li Ming still hopes that Chongzhen can be like in history, in fact, this is also everyone's inner thoughts.

Zhao Lianhe's platoon was patrolling outside the Forbidden City, and because he had not received the order to attack the Forbidden City for a long time, all the troops dismounted and rested, leaving only a few troops to ride on horses around.

"Platoon commander...... A group of people came, saying they wanted to see our commander-in-chief......"

Zhao Lianhe heard the shout of a non-commissioned officer in the platoon, and hurriedly hit his horse and ran over. The platoon commander went to the battalion headquarters, so now everything in the platoon is handled by his company.

It turned out that a group of people who rushed to the Forbidden City were a group of officials from the capital of Daming. The two scholars of the cabinet, Wei Zaode and Chen Yan, as well as Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ming Military Department, and more than 100 civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty.

The Far Eastern army approached the city of Beijing, and only two days later, the Ming civil officials in the city could not sit still. They gathered together to discuss, and finally decided to simply open the door to welcome the surrender and lead the Far Eastern Army into the city of Beijing.

Among them, the key figure is Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ming Military Department, who went around the alliance, although he did not persuade Jiang Dejing, the first assistant of the cabinet, but he contacted Wei Zaode and Chen Yan, two cabinet scholars, as well as more than 100 civil officials and nobles at all levels.

When Li Ming arrived at the city of Beijing, with the organization and cooperation of the intelligence department in the city, he opened the Xizhi Gate of Beijing and occupied the entire city of Beijing in one fell swoop.

When the Far Eastern Army entered the city, because it was dark, these people were afraid that they would go out to welcome the army into the city after dark, and they would be accidentally injured by the Far Eastern Army, so they had to wait until it was dark before leaving the house.

They gathered together, first contacted the intelligence officers in the city, and learned that the supreme commander of the Far Eastern Army was in front of the palace, so they rushed to the Forbidden City together, wanting to meet Li Ming.

These people are now very excited in their hearts, after all, they also belong to the meritorious personnel of the new dynasty, and they opened the city gate to help the Far Eastern Army successfully break through the capital. When the Far Eastern Army first entered the Central Plains, it was of course inseparable from them to govern the country, and if they took advantage of this time to seek a position in the new dynasty, it could be regarded as taking the lead, and they might be able to serve the new dynasty in the future. (To be continued.) )