Chapter 130: The Emperor is out of the palace

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The re-arrival of the Ming army met with no resistance, and the Battle of Shanhaiguan had worn away the last bit of loyalty of the Green Battalion to the imperial court.

They were originally a group of descendants of the grass on the wall, half a century ago their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, without any worries to abandon the Ming Dynasty into the arms of foreign invaders, at this time today, they are also like their ancestors without any worries into the arms of the new monarch, the final result is that the Beitang defenders saw the Ming fleet sailing towards them, very quickly chopped off their flag officers, and then held a white flag out to line up to welcome.

Not even a single one to report to Kang Mazi.

Immediately afterwards, with the help of local fishermen, the Ming army quickly completed the landing, and then the surrendered Green Battalion acted as a guide, or even as a forward, and rushed to the Haihe Barrage in Gegu with murderous spirit.

Similarly, the green battalion guarding the dam here also chopped off their own flag officers, and then welcomed their relatives with open arms, the People's Liberation Army, as for the rest of the work, there was no need to trouble the Ming army masters, they found a good position to dig a hole, and piled up more than 5,000 catties of gunpowder that they themselves used to resist the Ming army. After a fire was lit, with a loud sound like the sky and the earth cracking, the dam directly collapsed a hole more than 20 zhang wide, and the water of the Haihe River, which had to flow southeast to form a swamp, was originally blocked upstream, and instantly vented down from this opening to refill the original river.

At the same time, the two infantry brigades of the Ming army completed the landing in Beitang, and the fleet returned to Shanhaiguan to receive the cavalry brigade.

Only one battalion of the two infantry brigades was left to guard Beitang, while the rest of the horses went up the river to Tianjin.

Those inland river warships and fishing boats hired from Beitang were loaded with all kinds of ammunition and materials and sailed into the Haihe River to accompany the Ming army to march towards Tianjin, and even a large number of green battalions volunteered to drive forward for the king's division, and also with their footsteps, the plague of surrender was also spreading rapidly, all the Qing troops along the way without exception chopped off all the flag officers and then joined the arms of the Ming Dynasty anyway, as a result, when the army led by He Jin arrived in Tianjin, not only a Ming army was not killed or wounded, but nearly 10,000 more men opened the way.

"Tianjin, this city is not so easy to fight!"

He Jin stood on the edge of the canal and looked at the small square city on the other side and said.

At this time, Tianjin was a square military fortress of 1.8 by 1.1 kilometer, stuck in the southwest of the Sancha estuary of the South Canal, the North Canal, and the Haihe River, so that together with the moat, the Ming army had to cross two rivers in succession, and all of them were covered by artillery on the city wall, and it was undoubtedly necessary to bear certain casualties.

"Or, you're going to attack?"

He said very purely to the Green Battalion Commander who surrendered beside him.

"The ......"

The latter said yes with a sad face, and it was not that he didn't agree, although he also had this awareness, but after all, he still wanted to struggle.

"Don't be afraid, I'll cover you with artillery fire."

He Jin patted him on the shoulder and said in an encouraging tone.

Nadusi had a constipated expression on his face, gritted his teeth and nodded.

"Ha, ha, look at the scared you, just kidding you!"

He Jin said happily.

"Jokes, jokes, adults are really joking."

Nadusi wiped his cold sweat and said with an expression like laughing and crying.

"Shoot a heavy rocket, just hit it outside the city!"

He Jin ignored him, but turned his head to the staff officer next to him and said, the latter immediately ran to the heavy rocket artillery position that had just been erected, and then a heavy rocket jet flame flew out, smashed to the ground with a piercing roar, and then suddenly turned into a terrifying flame, and the explosion of eighty catties of gunpowder even made the ground under their feet tremble.

Just a few minutes later, there was a sudden chaotic sound of gunfire in Tianjin.

He Jin immediately showed a faint smile.

After more than ten minutes, the Tianjin city gate opposite them suddenly opened, and a group of green battalion soldiers who had cut their own braids, carrying hundreds of heads with rat tails under white flags, came out of the city, nodded with a smile on their faces and nodded to welcome Wang Shi's recovery of Tianjin Wei, and then the stranded boats nearby were driven by the green battalion, and quickly erected a pontoon bridge across the canal for the Ming army masters, and then the army led by He Jin crossed the river in a procession, and entered this fortress under the watchful eyes of the people of Tianjin.

And at this time, Kang Mazi in Beijing was going crazy.

Why didn't he meet, Yang Feng, the bastard, actually tricked him again, but this time it really killed him, what did he do to stop the advance of the Ming army? Yinchu's hands are already the last mobile force he can use, but he can't withdraw back from Shanhaiguan for half a month, and the direction of Tianjin is just some vigilant green battalion miscellaneous cards, and there is no combat effectiveness at all, even if he doesn't mutiny, he can't stop the Ming army, that is to say, before the Ming army comes to the city, he has no ability to resist.

But what about when the soldiers come to the city?

The defenders of Beijing only have his new army of 20,000 people, and the others who can fight are under Yinchu, and even the commander of Jiumen has sent a group of Menghan Eight Banners to Shanhaiguan, and then even if he desperately collects, at most he can collect thirty or twenty thousand people from the Eight Banners stationed in Beijing who can take up arms to fight, that is to say, there will be no more than 50,000 people who can be used to defend Beijing, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled.

Unless, of course, those Han people in the outer city are willing to help him, but this is impossible, and even he has to be careful of these people.

Yang Feng's move was like a general, and he was forced to a dead end all of a sudden.

"Master, let's go!"

Nian Qianyao lay on the ground and cried.

At this time, everyone else also shut up, if you still need to think about it before, then you don't need to think about anything now, if Yang Feng goes south from Shanhaiguan, there is always a glimmer of hope, after all, there is still a logistical problem restricted, but from the direction of Tianjin, there is no hope at all, the transportation system of the Haihe River and the Canal is enough for Yang Feng to fight as long as he wants under the city of Beijing.

"Master, the slave begs the master to leave quickly! The defenders of Tianjin can't stand for long, and the minions estimate that it would be good if they can hold out for a day, if the thief army takes Tianjin, they will only walk for four days at most for the remaining two hundred miles, and it is absolutely impossible for the army of the big brother to rush back. ”

Nian Qianyao continued to lie there, snotting and tearful to show his loyalty.

"Master, the slave asks the master to put his safety first, the Qing Dynasty can't do without the master!"

Li Guangdi also knelt down.

"Please ask the master (emperor) to move!"

Immediately afterwards, the princes and ministers also knelt down and shouted.

"You make me think again!"

Kang Mazi said weakly.

Still thinking about a fart, He Jin is out of Tianjin at this time, he is not stupid, how can he run away, what are those canal boats for? All the Ming troops got on the boat, just in the Tianjin official office to find a pile of grain and silver, the grain was distributed to the people, the silver was thrown to the owners of the boats, the Ming army of the two infantry brigades all got on the boat, one by one the hard sails were raised, the North Canal from Tianjin to Tongzhou is only a little more than two hundred miles, day and night, even if the water is estimated to have been two or three days.

When he was rushing to Beijing at full speed, after learning that the defenders of Tianjin not only did not hold on for a day, but also directly chopped off the flag officers to open the city and surrender to the thieves, Kang Mazi finally put aside his little dignity, and quickly ordered him to patrol Baoding that night. Immediately afterwards, the whole palace was in chaos, although everyone knew that this time it had nothing to do with what patrol, to put it bluntly, it was just forced to run away by the Ming army, but as the emperor, those pomp and circumstance could not be settled, and all kinds of honor guards for the emperor to patrol these had to be ......

What the? Too late?

No matter how late it is, you have to have it, otherwise wouldn't it really be a runaway, so what do the people outside think?

What's more, I don't know when I will come back this time, or I don't know if I can come back, the emperor will have to live outside in the future, although it is impossible to take everything away, but those gold, silver and jewelry must be taken away, otherwise what will be used to raise the army in the future? And this time it's not just the emperor who runs away, but the other princes, concubines, princesses, and even palace maids and eunuchs all have to run together, and each family has its own family that needs to be taken away. In addition, not only the living, but also the dead must be taken away, just like those tablets in the temple or something have to be carried, otherwise the thieves will throw the tablets of the wild boar skin family into the pit, and the Tartar Emperor will not be very unfilial?

In addition to the palace, those civil and military officials also have to run away, and the valuable things in the yamen everywhere also have to be taken away, especially the silver of the household department, the arms in the arsenal of the military department, and so on. Not only these upper-class figures, all the banner people in the inner city of Beijing have to run, the ferocity of the demon is famous all over the world, and the hardcore crops are generally caught by men as slaves and women as prostitutes, and the courtyard in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is now full of women from the relatives of the former emperor.

The escape of these people is a big project, and the inner city of Beijing is the hardcore crops of the whole city, how can there be more than 100,000 people, this is not a patrol, this is the whole African wildebeest migration.

As soon as the holy decree of Kang Mazi went out to patrol, chaos began to spread rapidly from the palace, the inner city, the outer city, and even the Zhuangzi of the banner people outside the city, said that the Yang demon people did not even let go of the clothes, they were all dealt with the same as their masters, but at this time, those clothes were about to cry, we recruited you to provoke you, treat us as our masters, but have we enjoyed the blessings of our masters? Of course, grief and indignation are grief and indignation, and if you run away, you still have to run away, and the demon will not be reasonable.

With the addition of these coatings, the migratory army swelled again.

Kang Mazi and his three palaces and six courts, those princes, county kings, Baylors and the old and young in their mansions, those yamen officials at all levels stationed in Beijing and their families, the escort army, in short, a huge migration army spent sleepless nights, ready to embark on a long journey, embarking on their uncertain journey. (To be continued.) )