Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Fall of Beijing

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The battlefield on Guo Sheng's side had already been cleaned up, and eight intact horn bows were harvested, as well as ten war horses, counting the eight brought back by Wang Guoxing, except for the injured and abandoned war horse, only one man in black escaped on horseback.

In order to get out of the city, I had to sell my war horse and throw away the cold weapon, but I didn't expect that not long after I got out of the city, the other party sent the war horse and the cold weapon over, and by the way, I also sent a batch of horn bows.

What's even funnier is that there are a few war horses among them, which were sold by Li Hongfei and his party before, which shows that the other party is indeed the defender of Sanhe County.

"Did you catch a live mouth?" Li Hongfei asked.

was chased all the way, if there was a living mouth, Li Hongfei would definitely have to torture it to dissipate his anger.

"This group of people is very tenacious, and the brothers have injured several of them in the mouth in order to catch them alive, but they still let the other party bite their tongues and commit suicide." Guo Sheng explained.

"These people are dead soldiers, not so easy to catch." Wang Guoxing said.

There are a lot of such dead soldiers, but the treatment of Jinyi Guards is slightly better, and they usually have a poisonous naan in their mouths, and once they bite it, they can kill instantly.

"Don't think about it, these people are good at riding and shooting, they should be Manchu Tartars, it seems that Dolgon has infiltrated the Ming army." Qi Hongying affirmed.

"That's right, they knew that the assassination failed, but they also deliberately said that they were Cheng Guogong's subordinates, and they must have wanted us to shift our attention to Cheng Guogong." Guo Sheng nodded in agreement.

Ancient people were not stupid, and they couldn't see such an obvious flaw.

As for whether the other party is suspicious, this is absolutely impossible, Zhu Youzhen's whereabouts were decided temporarily, no one could have thought of it in advance, and it turned out that it was true, if the other party was fully prepared, he would not only send such a few people to death.

"It's imperative to get out of here! This place is not far from Sanhe County, whether the other party is Dolgon or Zhu Chunchen's subordinates, since one of them has escaped, he will definitely find a way to retaliate, and it is no longer safe here. Li Hongfei urged everyone to leave quickly.

In his opinion, since Sanhe County has Manchu spies, then Jizhou may not be absent, if this time all annihilated this group of people in black, it is better to say, the most fucked up is to escape one, the other party is ready to hurry this time, and the next time it appears, it must be prepared.

Li Hongfei, who cherishes his life very much, is naturally unwilling to stay in this realm for longer.

After Li Hongfei's analysis, everyone also felt that it was very reasonable, and immediately decided to rush overnight and go south to Tianjin.

Wang Chengen previously informed Tianjin Wei's Dongchang stall through the flying pigeon that as long as Zhu Youjian and his entourage could arrive in Tianjin smoothly, then they could take a boat and go down the Grand Canal and directly into Suzhou and Hangzhou under the arrangement of the local Dongchang Fanzi.

Taking the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is currently the only fast and safe road.

Before, the Jingshi and Caoyun near Tongzhou were all under the jurisdiction of Zhu Chunchen, and the other party had a sailor in charge, so everyone did not dare to take a boat south on the other party's territory, in case it was blocked, it was not easy to escape in the river.

As for Langfang, it is Li Zicheng's territory, and he can't go there.

It's Tianjin, although it's a little farther, but at least it's still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty government, and now in this world, even government officials are busy fleeing south, who still has the heart to manage the canal, and then Dongchang Fanzi, and then properly take care of the local officials, and it's no problem to go south smoothly.

Everyone has not yet penetrated into the territory of Jizhou, so it is not too far from Tianjin, plus this time a lot of war horses have been harvested, and the speed of the journey has also been greatly accelerated, if there is no accident on the way, it only takes two days to arrive in Tianjin.

It's just that in the past two days, Li Hongfei has had to live a day of eating and sleeping in the open again, fortunately, Qi Hongying bought a lot of steamed buns as dry food before, otherwise with the broken silver in everyone's hands, I am afraid that I will not even be able to eat.

Li Hongfei hurried overnight, while Li Zicheng's army in Beijing had just finished fighting with Zhu Chunchen's 20,000 soldiers and horses.

Li Zicheng's 10,000-strong team went out of Andingmen and attacked directly towards Dongzhimen.

Because Li Zicheng's army had already gone around from inside the city to outside the city, it was impossible for Zhu Chunchen to rely on the city wall to defend it.

The only way is to fight a field battle with the intruding army outside the city.

At the beginning, the Ming army used Hongyi artillery to help, with Shenhuo Flying Crow, cluster rockets, and musket arrays, but it was on par with Li Zicheng's army who attacked lightly.

Until the afternoon, Li Zicheng transferred a batch of cannons captured from the city, dozens of Hongyi cannons, and hundreds of tiger squat cannons and invincible general cannons, forming a powerful artillery array.

The giant artillery bombarded Zhu Chunchen's army for nearly an hour, and took advantage of the dusk to dispatch a cavalry of 5,000 people to launch a general attack on the Ming army.

The previous artillery battle had already made the soldiers of the Ming army panic, coupled with the fact that the sky was darkening, the hit rate of firearms was greatly reduced, and only one charge of the intruding army made Zhu Chunchen's 20,000 troops scattered.

After all, most of these Ming troops were forcibly annexed by Zhu Chunchen, and they had no sense of belonging to Zhu Chunchen, and many soldiers had only known each other for four or five days, and the army that had not been thoroughly run-in could not form an effective military formation at all.

In addition, the palace was occupied by Li Zicheng, and the emperor's whereabouts are unknown, these Ming soldiers have no fighting spirit one by one, and it is strange that they are undefeated against the morale of the breaking army.

In one day, the army defeated 20,000 Ming troops, and Zhu Chunchen only had 10,000 old and weak soldiers left.

Zhu Chunchen, who surrendered, in order to protect himself, even offered the crown prince Zhu Cihong, and Li Zicheng named Zhu Cihong as the king of Song in order to win over the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Poor Zhu Youzhen, before Li Zicheng broke the city, killed his wife and daughter, the only important son, and now he has also been caught by Li Zicheng, he is really alone now.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, on the evening of March 20, the five-day defense of Beijing ended with Zhu Chunchen's surrender.

At the same time, in several inconspicuous places in the capital, several carrier pigeons flew out at the same time, and these carrier pigeons went in different directions, some to the south, some to the east........

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