In the early days of the dynasty today, Emperor Chongzhen summoned the ministers of civil and military affairs to discuss the strategy, and he suddenly came from sorrow, crying tears, and the ministers also cried to each other, all helpless. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info they either said that Feng Quan should be, or that Huo Weihua and Yang Weiyuan should be used, but Emperor Chongzhen just listened silently and did not respond.

He remembered the secret report of Wang Chengen, the commander of the inner and outer city defense, saying that the words of all parties were extremely untrue, and that there were 260,000 battalions and squad troops in the capital, even if there was a false salary, Zhou Yanru also sent 50,000 soldiers and horses to the south, but there were still 150,000 or 60,000 soldiers. In fact, the number of troops defending the city may only be 50,000 or 60,000, and most of them are weak.

The Beijing battalion army has been short of food and salary for a long time, and the rate of driving the city to the city is not enough, and the garrison army has many nobles and nobles close to their homes, all of them have false names and pretend to be food, and they are temporarily poor people on their behalf. At the current moment of national crisis, they are still hiding at home, and they don't take guarding the throne seriously.

Wang Chengen was shocked after statistics, there may only be one pawn for every five battlements in the inner and outer cities, and they are all exhausted and incompetent.

Thinking of this, his heart was full of resentment, and he thought of Zhou Yanru, the first minister, who was useless after he went south, and now he was in a hurry to avoid Baoding City.

The noise of the minister of civil and military affairs sounded in his ears, and Emperor Chongzhen turned a deaf ear, he wrote twelve characters on the imperial case, but it was: "All civil and military officials can be killed, but the people cannot be killed." ”

The secret revealed the heart of the eunuch king, and then wiped it away.

After the next court, he summoned the ministers to be selected for each examination and asked the people of Yu'an. Huang Guoqi, the magistrate of Ziyang, said: "Yu Yu is not in the search for prudence, and the people are tied to the sacred heart. When the Sacred Heart is at peace, so is the people. Emperor Chongzhen thought that Huang Guoqi was right, and immediately ordered it to be given to the matter.

Compare the remaining ministers, less than half, suddenly there is a secret seal sent in, Emperor Chongzhen saw the color change, that is, entered, the ministers immediately waited to move, and their lives were retreated.

Then everyone knew that Tongzhou was lost, and they all sighed blankly.

Emperor Chongzhen returned to his Qianqing Palace, he paced back and forth in the pavilion, he was a little hesitant to call Wang Dou.

If he still had some confidence in Shou Chen before, but now he ......

He persuaded himself that he had already summoned Wang Pu, and it was logical to summon Wang Dou again.

It's just that......

He recalled the bits and pieces of his relationship with Wang Dou, and he believed that he had always been loyal to him, but it was a fact that the lord was weak and the minister was strong, and many things could not be Wang Dou's own thoughts. Li Banghua's words have been echoing in the ears of Emperor Chongzhen, making him shudder.

Thinking about Wang Dou's disobedience to himself, especially that incident, he lost all his face, and the royal face was gone.

Thinking about it now, he still had feelings of extreme irritation.

Do you want to summon the king? In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen was hesitant and hesitant.

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The rain and snow were flying in the Forbidden City, and in the palace, Princess Zhu Yujiao of Kunxing was sitting in a daze, and Princess Zhaoren was playing happily next to her.

Even if she is in the deep palace, Zhu Yujiao also knows that the thieves are about to come to the city, and people everywhere in the palace are panicking.

She looked at her sister and thought to herself, "He promised me...... Only, will he come to the rescue? ”

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"The thieves and traitors are coming, will this great city be destroyed like the city of Rome and Constantinople?"

In the Qin Heavenly Prison, with a high nose and deep eyes, Tang Ruowang, a Westerner dressed in a Ming official uniform, sighed, kneeling in front of the cross, and behind him was a group of Westerners wearing a Ming official uniform.

"Leave everything to the Lord Almighty, priests, let us pray."

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At the moment, suddenly a probe horse rushed to the city of Guangqu Gate and knocked on his feet: "The dust is far away and the sky is rushing, and I am afraid that most of the thieves are coming." ”

The minister guarding the gate hurriedly sent a sentry cavalry detective and came back to report: "Ranger." ”

So he didn't care.

Nearly noon, Wang Chengen on the tower of Yongding Gate stood up violently, and Li Guozhen beside him also stood up, and saw a cloud of smoke and dust rolling in the distance on the plain, and it seemed that there were dozens of horses.

They ran closer and closer, Wang Chengen frowned slightly, these people have superb riding skills, not like officers and soldiers sentry horses.

He took out the clairvoyant mirror and looked over there, and saw that these people were all wearing red tasseled felt hats and yellow uniforms, with the word "Shun" on them.

Wang Chengen muttered, "Rogue." ”

He said suddenly: "Order the guards on the other side of the arrow tower, when the thieves enter Erli, immediately bombard them with Hongyi heavy artillery!" ”

A small eunuch beside him hurriedly took the order.

Yongdingmun Gate is used as a thoroughfare to enter and exit the southern part of Gyeonggi, and there are also arrow towers, and there are 14 arrow windows on the front, which are divided into two floors, seven on each floor. There are four-wheel grinding disc cannons on each arrow window, and there are fourteen four-wheel grinding disc Hongyi heavy cannons in the entire arrow tower.

There are more than a dozen Hongyi cannons at the battlements of the city wall, and there are hundreds of Franc machines of various sizes.

The rest of the city gate is as heavily armed, of course, no gate in the capital can be compared with the Desheng Gate, there are forty-eight arrow windows there, divided into four layers, twelve arrow windows on each floor.

Soon, the little eunuch passed Wang Chengen's order, and then there was a creaking sound in the arrow tower, and the four-wheel grinding disc cannon began to rotate, they rotated the cannon body, adjusted the angle, and the black muzzle of the cannon leaned out of the window, ready to bombard at any time.

These four-wheel grinding disc cannons were carefully cast by the Qing Dynasty, and it took countless painstaking efforts and energy, and the doors were more than ten catties of cannons, and each cannon could almost hit three or four miles. The gunners of the Beijing camp were somewhat inferior to the gunners of the Wuzhenha Chaoying of the Qing State, but they were still very accurate at a distance of two miles.

The rogue horses were still roaring, and they were getting closer and closer, and the rumbling hooves of the horses thundered like thunder, and struck the hearts of the soldiers at the head of the city.

Although they only had dozens of horses, they were quite powerful, which made the faces of many people in the city change color.

Wang Chengen put down the clairvoyant mirror violently, looked at the arrow tower, and entered the second mile.

At that moment, there was a thunderclap, and a thick puff of white smoke rose from one of the arrow windows, followed by the terrible whistling of cannonballs.

With this cannon sound, the thunderous cannon roared incessantly, and the arrow window was drowned in billowing smoke, leaving only sharp fires coming out.

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The thieves arrived, and in the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen looked fiercely in the direction of Yongding Gate.

When the thief arrived, Princess Kunxing was shocked, and Princess Zhaoren next to her was so frightened that she threw herself into her arms.

When the thieves arrived, John Tang in the Qintian Prison paused and began to lead the Westerners to continue praying.

When the thief arrived, Fu Yingchong, who was taking silver in his own house, trembled, then gritted his teeth and accelerated the pace of taking silver.

When the thieves arrived, Yang Bagu on Chongwenmen Street was startled, and suddenly felt palpitations.

When the thieves arrived, the guards of the gates, the Chinese military officials in Beijing, the noble eunuchs, and the merchants and ordinary people all looked at each other, and everyone in Beijing listened in this direction. They had different minds, but they knew that the time had come for a turning point in their fate.

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The cannonballs screamed down and landed on the slippery ground, stirring up large clouds of mud and dust, and the cannonballs, with the smell of sulfur and steaming heat, rolled for a long time before they stopped.

The high-speed rotating cannonballs fell into the cavalry, and there was immediately a sound of broken muscles and bones, flesh and blood flying sideways, stumps dancing wildly, and blood raining like a fine mist. A cannonball pierced the horse's belly, knocking out the horse's internal organs and intestines, and the horse neighed and threw the knight far away.

A cannonball directly smashed a thief and his horse into minced meat, and a blood mist soared. Another cannonball knocked the head of a thief away, and the thief was on the horse, and the blood of the headless body gushed wildly, and the horse galloped for a while, and then the headless body fell down.

The lethality of the solid cannonballs was too terrifying, and the fourteen four-wheeled grinding disc cannons of the Yongdingmen Arrow Tower hit the dozens of rogue horse teams hard, even if they couldn't hit one by one, but in the huge screams, the side still continued to blood mist in the air, bursts of screams and screams rang out, and in the blink of an eye, only more than twenty horses were left in fifty or sixty horses.

The rest of the thieves were also very panicked, and the horses were jumping and jumping in terror, and several riders were thrown off their horses, and the rest of the thieves did not dare to stay in the rest of the panic, and turned their horses' heads and fled desperately.

The sound of the cannon in the arrow tower of Yongding Gate stopped, and the smoke was still billowing from the arrow window, and light smoke was rising from the muzzle of the cannon of one door.

"Close the gates!"

Wang Chengen roared hoarsely.

His arrows were sent out in all directions, and the gates that had not been closed began to close, and the gates of the capital were made of very hard wood such as elm, and were wrapped in very thick iron sheets, and nailed with large copper-plated bubble nails, and each door was very heavy, requiring several people to push, and even the bolts were extremely thick.

After the gates were closed, all contact with the outside world was basically cut off, and refugees outside the city were no longer allowed to enter.

"Close the gates!"

"Close the door!"

Amid the roaring and shouting sounds, the creaking sound of the door closing, and the tense atmosphere spread throughout the Jingshi.

At this time, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves sounded, and dozens of horsemen appeared in everyone's sight, and they spied from afar, running around the city, and the rumbling hooves were endless.

After these dozens of horses, there were dozens of horses, and they were the same as the previous thieves and horses, basically wearing red tasseled felt hats and yellow uniforms, and some people were wrapped in yellow turbans, and each of them had the word "Shun" on them.

They were either in a group or scattered in all directions, all of them skilful horses, and they let out a strange cry, and the sound of hooves struck the earth, putting heavy pressure on the defenders of the city.

It is said that the thieves are tough, and the thieves are tough, and sure enough, let's just say that the horse teams below, there are not many people in the defenders of the Beijing camp who can deal with them.

Suddenly, there was a thunderclap outside the city, and hundreds of horsemen came, they formed a scattered formation and rushed unhurriedly, and stopped a few miles away from Yongding Gate, only riding their horses and standing there quietly observing.

Then it seemed that there were thousands of horsemen coming, the black pressure was overwhelming, they had more and more soldiers and horses, Wang Chengen had fought the battle of Jinzhou, but he had been holding a clairvoyant mirror to look at, and Li Guozhen beside him was a little pale.

This Xiangcheng Bo has always been clothed and fed, how have you ever seen any battle formations?

The fog was shining, and in the light rain and snow, the sky seemed to be quiet, and then the defenders at the head of the city faintly felt that the ground trembled a little, and they looked hard, and suddenly a sea of people appeared in front of them.

This sea of people came slowly, and the mist and drizzle were distorted like a mirage, looming, and as unfathomable as the boundless sea.

They got closer and closer, and the sound of footsteps shook the earth, and then there were endless yellow armor, countless yellow flags fluttering in the hunt, and the spears that were like forests and wilds.

In front of them were a dense army of horses, and behind them were boundless infantry formations, and they were constantly moving in a sea that covered everything outside, like an unstoppable sea of high waves, and like locusts that covered the sky and the sun, they vowed to swallow everything in the world.

The thief is dressed in yellow armor, and the yellow clouds cover the wilderness. (To be continued.) )