Chapter 545: This is just the beginning of the consequences of the Manchurians' own suffering
This decisive battle that decided the fate of the Manchu Qing lasted no more than two quarters of an hour from beginning to end, after which the Liang army went out and began to hunt down the scattered Qing soldiers and scattered cavalry. [No pop-up novel network]
And the chase and pursuit took half a day, the scattered Qing soldiers were finally captured only 30,000, and the rest were all gone, and the cavalry, in addition to the opportunity to quickly forbidden brigade Eight Banners most of them fled back to Yanjing City, the nearly 20,000 Mongolian Eight Banners more than half fell in front of the position of the Liang Army, and the scattered Mongolian Eight Banners were also the main pursuit target of the Liang Army Cavalry Division, and finally captured more than 2,000, nearly 3,000, and the rest became a cold corpse on the way to chase and escape.
The foot soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade, except for 10,000 who were arranged to supervise the battle outside the city, all the rest stayed in the city, which not only allowed them to escape the fate of being chased by the Liang family's army, but also trapped and died in Yanjing City.
However, fortunately, there were still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the city, and the turmoil in the city did not turn Yanjing City into a concentration camp for desperate madmen. However, the city of Yanjing has also become lifeless, except for some soldiers standing on the head of the city, who seem to have lost all hope from the bottom of their hearts.
Qianlong sat on the throne, staring blankly at the imperial case in front of him, the jade seal carved from a whole piece of white jade, four inches and four inches square, one inch thick, coiled dragon buttons, and two inches high.
Xiwen Zhuwen, jade tendon seal, left Manchu characters, right Chinese. Above: The treasure of the Qing Dynasty. The Manchu text can be translated as: Chengtian was appointed as the treasure of the Qing Dynasty. The system stipulates that it is "in the order of the emperor of the chapter", that is, it shows the orthodox identity of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty under the command of heaven. This is also the most symbolic and practical jade seal of the Qing Dynasty. It is the old seal of Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty since Taiji, and it has been passed down by the emperors, and it has been passed down to five generations of Qing emperors in the hands of Qianlong.
"Great Qing Kingdom, Great Qing Kingdom......" Qianlong's hoarse voice was hoarse and weak, his eyes almost lost all their brilliance, his face was withered, his expression was numb, and only occasionally the blinking eyelids seemed to indicate that he was still alive.
He was still wearing the same Da Yue armor that he wore on the city wall, and the jewels on it were still extremely shiny, but with his old face and his body that was not thin enough to support this Da Yue armor, it seemed that this armor and the people in it should just be an exhibit in the history museum, a mummy display wrapped in gorgeous armor.
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He was wrapped in a piece of gauze on the left side of his neck, and there were faint red marks, which was after Qianlong saw the collapse of the hundreds of thousands of troops on the city wall, and he desperately picked up the sword and wanted to kill himself, and was finally taken down by the courtiers around him, but the wound left by the epidermis was cut by the sharp blade.
In the main hall, the faces of all the officials showed a desperate death gray, and occasionally some people were sobbing and weeping, as if they were remembering that the glory of the Qing Dynasty was dissipating and dying, and since it became a cloud of garbage in the dust of history, it would eventually be buried and deposited without a trace.
Liu Yong stood at the foot of the imperial stairs with a numb face, listening to the low sobs of his colleagues around him, looking at Qianlong, who seemed to have been stripped of his bones after failing to kill himself from the top of the city, and a trace of strangeness rose in his heart for no reason. In the former Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen lost his country and died by hanging, and he didn't know how to deal with himself after the emperor who had been loyal to him for so many years lost his country.
And Liu Yong's memory went back to a few hours ago, at that time, after Qianlong was stopped, the prince Yongyan had no opinion at all, only knew that he was holding the Qianlong and crying, and finally it was the most hated Zhanchen and Shen who asked for the Qianlong's life, in order to prevent the Liang family army from taking advantage of the Qing Dynasty [***] when the people were in turmoil to attack the city, slaughter the people, and prevent hundreds of thousands of banner people from messing up the pain of the military disaster, he was willing to negotiate with the Liang family army camp in person.
Qianlong, who regained his senses, immediately took off the identity certificate he carried with him and handed the Tian Huangshi triple seal engraved with "Qianlong Chenhan" to Na Heshen, and watched with anticipation as Na Heshen resolutely left the city wall under the escort of dozens of death-defying guards, raised a white flag, and headed towards the camp of the Liang family's army.
He Shen's move seems to have really worked, at least the Liang family army seems to lack any interest in Yanjing City, just annihilating and capturing those defeated soldiers who fled the enemy on the outskirts of the city, and it seems that they don't care about Nuoda Yanjing City.
At the moment when Qianlong and other Manchu officials at the head of the Yanjing city wall were worried, a guard who went with He Shen rushed back, and the Liang family army would not attack the city for the time being, and He Shen had already negotiated with Liang Pengfei in the Liang family army camp, and Liang Pengfei, the leader of the Liang family army, even suggested that Qianlong pacify the banner people in the city.
After that, whether they believed it or not, Qianlong and a cadre of important ministers who could only believe it for the time being returned to the palace, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners who stayed in the city finally did not let the chaos spread, and after that, it was a painful wait.
"Your Majesty, here, here, and Zhongtang are back!" Outside the main hall, a eunuch rushed madly, and he didn't even have time to brake, so he knelt on the ground and slipped forward for several feet before falling on the smooth gold brick ground. This action made the ministers and guards present all stunned, as if they had seen the undefeated Dongfang who had practiced the Sunflower Treasure Book.
Hearing this shout, there seemed to be a little more vitality in the originally lifeless hall, everyone looked their heads out of the door of the hall, Qianlong had already stood up, looking forward to the figure that was gradually revealed on the white marble steps outside the hall, and his most trusted courtier, He Shen, finally appeared.
"Slave and Shen, see my emperor." With a tired face and a cotton armor that already looked gray, He Shen entered the main hall, and quickly stepped forward and knelt down under the imperial steps.
"Aiqing is flat, Aiqing has worked hard." Qianlong walked down from behind the imperial case tremblingly, stretched out his hand to help He Shen, his face was moved and relieved, no matter what, in that case, in that case, He Shen is the only minister who has kept his senses and can have the courage to face those Liang thieves who are more terrible than the demons of hell, no, he is a loyal minister.
"For the sake of my Qing Dynasty, for the sake of the emperor, even if the slave is a fool, he will not hesitate." He Shen seemed to be moved to tears by Qianlong's action, and said in a choked voice.
"Okay, okay, I didn't misread you, I didn't misread you." The wrinkles on Qianlong's face seemed to have all turned into smiles.
"Your Majesty, the minion, the minion brought back Liang Pengfei's conditions." He Shen wiped the tears on his face and knelt on the ground again, looking heartbroken and grief-stricken.
Looking at He Shen, who knelt down again, the hall became dead silence again, and everyone held their breath and stunned their ears, for fear that they would hear a word wrong.
Qianlong raised his head, straightened out the big reading armor on his body, slowly, step by step, walked back to the royal steps that were high above and could overlook the ministers, turned around, raised his head, as if to maintain the prestige of a monarch and an emperor, and then said slowly: "Say!" ”
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After listening to the conditions that He Shen said in some words, in fact, they were not conditions at all, because what Liang Pengfei asked was that Qing Zhengaxe unconditionally give up resistance and surrender to the Liang family's army.
"What if I don't agree?" After being silent for a long time, there was no trace of blood on his face, but his eyes were frighteningly red, Qianlong, stared at Na Heshen and asked again.
"If, Liang Pengfei said, so the emperor insisted, if the Qing Kingdom insisted on fighting to the end, then, he would castrate all captured banner men, regardless of nobility and cheapness, into slavery, and all banner women regardless of nobility and lowness would be free official tricks, and they would not be allowed to marry for life, and the blood of my banner people would be cut ......off forever" He Shen gritted his teeth, and finally said Liang Pengfei's prestige, recalling Liang Pengfei's vicious expression when he said this, as well as his cold eyes, and Shen couldn't help but have a cold war, He knew very well what kind of character that guy was, and when he said it, he would definitely do it.
"Hiss......" The officials present all felt as if a large basin of ice water was poured on their heads, and their hearts were directly cold to their assholes, and even some flag officials subconsciously clamped their legs, and their eyes were full of fear.
Prince Yongyan's face turned pale, if it weren't for the princes and princes of the clan standing on the left and right who supported him in time, he might have fallen to the floor on the spot.
Qianlong standing in front of the imperial case couldn't help but shake his figure, Kankan stretched out his hand to support the imperial case before standing firmly, the eunuch waiting next to him was startled, and hurriedly rushed forward to reach out to help him, but was pushed away by Qianlong. "Get out, get out of the way, I'm not old enough to be helped, I'm not dead, I'm still the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Get out of here! ”
Qianlong's roar was like the desperate wail of the dying old wolf, echoing in the empty and dead hall...... "Your Majesty, please calm your anger, the servants are incompetent, and they will not be redeemed for their deaths, Your Majesty." An old minister knelt on the ground, hit his head on the floor brick, and cried loudly, like a switch, and those ministers in the palace were all beating their chests and feet, or tearing their clothes and sleeves, all in various shapes, loyalty, annihilation, evil, and righteousness, and at this moment they were making the final show for the irreversible collapse of the dynasty to which they were loyal.
"Ancestors and ancestors, I have no face to see you after death......" Qianlong, the Manchu emperor who reigned for 60 years after Kangxi, fell to his knees in despair, pounded the ground with his hands, and his face was covered with snot and tears.
At this moment, where is there still half a thought, tens of millions of heads fall to the ground, fingers pointed, countless lackeys sweat annihilation tampered with the truth of history, the majesty of Emperor Qianlong, who holds the authority and squints at the world, is just a desperate and pitiful old man, a beggar who knelt down at the door of the rich family in the cold winter wax moon, begging to be able to enjoy a bowl of cold porridge to satisfy his stomach.
has lost the skin on his body, that identity, how is he different from the people of the world? It's just an old dog full of viciousness and wiping his face with hypocrisy.
The Manchu Dynasty's bullying and domination of the land of China came to an end at this moment, but this was only the beginning of the Manchu people's self-inflicted consequences...
(To be continued)