Chapter 526: Are the Manchu Bones Hard?
When dawn came, the banner people living in the inner city were stunned to find that the originally noisy Yanjing City was a little too quiet, and the children of the banner people who were idle and playing cocks and birds found that on the main road of the capital, a team of heavily armed forbidden brigades and eight banners, as if overnight, the originally prosperous Beijing division became a murderous military camp. 【】
And those surrounding people who wanted to enter the city to sell firewood, fruits and vegetables were stunned to find that the capital of the Great Qing Kingdom was actually closed and the people were forbidden to enter and exit. On the city wall, the figure of the soldiers, as well as the equipment that defended the city, seemed to indicate something.
On the second day of the seventh month, at dusk, a team of cavalry appeared in the eastern suburbs of Yanjing City, and for a while, the guards at the Dongzhi Gate were inlaid with white flags, and suddenly became nervous.
However, the hasty figure of the cavalry battalion cavalry, which numbered only about 200 horsemen, made a sense of foreboding rise in the hearts of the white-flaged Dutong Qichen who was guarding the Dongzhi Gate in the city.
He felt as if his heart was beating faster, and his fingers holding the clairvoyant mirror seemed to be trembling, no, the dust that had accumulated on the wall of Dongzhimen for I don't know how many years seemed to be shaken to the dust.
"What's going on?!" Qichen shouted loudly. Looking left and right, I found that the expressions on the faces of the Eight Banners soldiers near me were not much better.
"Cavalry, it's cavalry." Standing behind the Metropolitan Lord, a white flag leader in his fifties, stared at the distant horizon with his eyes fixed on him, his mouth squirming.
"What do you mean?" Qichen couldn't help frowning, and shouted unhappily to this old Xingwu who had participated in the battle of Jinchuan, this old guy has high merits, and he has always been a bird to himself, if it weren't for this old guy or his cousin, Qichen would have to give him small shoes to wear.
And the old fellow ignored the floating earth on the city wall, and lay on the floor tiles of the city wall, listening to something with a solemn face. "A lot of cavalry, at least tens of thousands." As soon as Qichen heard this, his little face turned much whiter.
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"Open the gates! Hengrui, the deputy capital of the white flag, is here, you dogs are blind, open the city gate quickly! Hengrui, who finally led the remnants of the cavalry battalion to the Dongzhi Gate, pushed his helmet, which had run crookedly, and shouted loudly.
"Quick, put the suspension bridge, open the city gate, it's Evergrande people." Qichen also couldn't care about the other party's angry scolding by the moat, because, on the horizon a few miles away from these cavalry camps, a large amount of smoke and dust had already floated, and at this time, it was not good to ask for it, I am afraid that this deputy commander who was ordered to go to Tianjin to reconnoiter was afraid that he would die by this moat.
In the anxious scolding of Hengrui, Dongzhimen slowly lowered the suspension bridge, the city gate slowly moved a thin slit, Hengrui and others rushed across the suspension bridge, struggling to squeeze into the city gate, Hengrui couldn't even get off the horse, and finally reluctantly got off the horse with the support of the soldiers, and sat directly on the ground.
Qi Chen didn't have time to go downstairs to greet this colleague at this time, because his eyes were completely attracted by the distant horizon, the smoke and dust flying all over the sky like a sandstorm almost covered the eastern sky, on the ground line, a long black ridge flickered, and finally became more and more clear, and the hoofs that were originally like muffled thunder exploded, thousands, tens of thousands of black-armored cavalry silently instigated the reins, and the horses galloped wildly, wrapped in a momentum of collapse and collapse, which made people shocked.
Boom Boom Boom ......
A panicked Qing soldier lit the fuse of the city's artillery in panic, and soon, it caused a chain reaction, and the artillery in the area of Dongzhimen roared one after another, these Qing soldiers who defended the city were trained for a long time, and even some of the Eight Banners soldiers guarded the city gate for several years and did not even open the artillery once. There are also some cast iron cannons because there has been no police in Beijing for a long time, and no one cares about the rust in the barrel, and the shells stuffed in Kadena cannot enter or exit.
Of the more than 70 artillery pieces, only 60% of them were ignited, and the rest were not because they didn't want to light them, but only now did they find that the artillery had not yet been loaded with gunpowder projectiles, and even so, seven guns were blown up on the spot, and the shells of the successfully fired artillery, even the gunners could not figure out whether they had shot the shells to Java or Wajima.
At the moment when the city wall fell into chaos and busyness, the ten thousand elite riders had stopped advancing about five miles away from Yanjing City.
"Damn, are those guys looking at the majesty of my Liang Jiajun. I feel that I have no face to see people, so I simply blew up the cannon and played suicide? Looking at Yanjing City excitedly, Wu Qianjin was like a paparazzi who had just been injected with an excessive amount of chicken blood injections, chattering non-stop.
This guy is a naval commander, but the problem is that Wu Qianjin is also a fanatical war maniac, and after the bombardment of Tianjin City, he strongly demanded to go to the battlefield, saying that although he is a naval commander, he is also the commander-in-chief of the Marine Corps of the Exhaustion Stone Fleet, and he has the right, responsibility, and obligation to lead his subordinates to move with the large army.
Liang Pengfei made this guy really can't do anything.
But the problem is that the navy is the navy, and this kind of in-depth inland combat is not what the marines should do, otherwise, wouldn't those armies make a fuss, Liang Pengfei had to choose a compromise method, found a reason, suspended the commander of the exhausting stone fleet, and let this guy follow him as his own soldier.
Today's Wu Qianjin's military rank has changed from a rear admiral to an army second lieutenant, and he has been ridiculed by many comrades-in-arms, but this guy is super thick-skinned, who you are sarcastic, Lao Tzu is just here to join in the fun.
"I love to hear this, by the way, young master, should we give these Eight Banners soldiers some gifts, so that their emperor will really treat us as thieves and horse bandits." Bai Shusheng also had an expression of excitement that could not be controlled, after all, who would have thought that one day, the once pirate horse bandits would actually represent the righteous side and overthrow this corrupt court.
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"Don't worry, we only have the cavalry division rushing to the city of Yanjing now, and the other troops are still on the way, there is no need to let the brothers of the cavalry division take light mortars to play with our opponents in order to say hello." Liang Pengfei shook his head. "Look at the top of the city, there are also a lot of artillery, although they don't even have flower shells, but please don't forget, our soldiers came here to see this Manchu court overthrown, not to wait for us to burn yellow paper for them, understand?"
Hearing Liang Pengfei's words, the military generals who originally wanted to instigate the merit all quieted down, including war maniacs like Wu Qianjin.
"Your Excellency is right, you don't need to be in too much of a hurry, when those infantry divisions and artillery brigades arrive, we will clean up all those artillery pieces first, and at that time, we can play as much as we want." Ni Ming straightened the steel helmet on his head and smiled.
Liang Pengfei nodded with a faint smile, looking at the Yanjing city wall that was built in the Yuan Dynasty, built in the Ming Dynasty, towering to this day, about two feet and five feet tall, this was once the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to Yanjing in order to facilitate the strengthening of the northern border defense and protect the security of the north.
"Do you know that there was an ancestral precept in the former Ming Dynasty, which was specially used to warn those emperors of the Ming Dynasty." Liang Pengfei suddenly felt that he had a lot to say, as if there was an indescribable emotion surging in his heart at the moment, as if he was about to walk to the podium and prepare to deliver an acceptance speech.
The laughter around Liang Pengfei gradually stopped, and some looked at Liang Pengfei incomprehensibly, and even the expressions on the faces of those staff officers looked strange, and they thought that Liang Pengfei was going to do something to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?
However, Liang Pengfei looked at the tall and majestic city wall without looking back, and replied to himself: "The Ming Dynasty has ancestral teachings: no harmony, no compensation, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies!" ”
Liang Pengfei's clear and majestic voice, like reciting poetry, recited this paragraph, and everyone couldn't help but be moved when they heard this.
"The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies!" Sun Shijie muttered this sentence, I don't know why, and there was a sour feeling in his heart.
"In the more than 270 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have good ones, bad ones, fun-loving ones, and ridiculous ones. But there is one point, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not have soft bones, Chongzhen was martyred, orthodox was captured but never begged for mercy, Longwu died on the battlefield, and Shaowu was captured and committed suicide by hunger strike...... Today, I came to Yanjing in this era, I just want to see, are the bones of the Manchu Qing Dynasty hard? Is there a style like our Han people? ”
"Guess what." Liang Pengfei turned his head, looking at the iron cavalry of the Liang family army all over the mountains, and at the frank and eager faces.
"They didn't!" Sun Shijie sneered.
"They won't have!" Wu Qianjin stroked the sword at his waist.
"They don't deserve it!" Ni Ming raised his eyebrows and smiled.
“…… That's right, history has proven that they are not worthy of, and are not qualified to, have that kind of Han family backbone. And today, I'm just here to prove once again that they don't deserve it! Liang Pengfei looked up and laughed, laughing heartily and passionately.
(To be continued)