On this day, the entire Beiping City was in turmoil, and countless powerful ministers of the Qing court, whether they were Manchu ministers or Han ministers, were all dragging their families and preparing to flee, and a large number of troops who originally defended Beiping City, especially the only one that the Qing court could use, directly withdrew the city wall, and then went to the vicinity of the east gate, ready to cover Xianfeng Dongjiao.

Of course, the other troops, such as some of the green battalions and the Beijing battalion, were all left behind, and Mu Yin wanted them to act as the troops after the break, pretending to be in Beiping, so as not to be detected by the Chinese army that Xianfeng wanted to hunt east.

Being left behind as a broken army means that these Qing troops have been completely abandoned by the Qing court!

The Qing court is not stupid, although the combat effectiveness of this new army of the Eight Banners is far inferior to the new army in the other Qing armies, but it is a new army, much stronger than those green battalions and the old army of the Eight Banners.

The Qing army moved all over the city, and many powerful people in the city who got the news also hurriedly packed up, and then dragged their families to the east gate.

Of course, not everyone will follow Xianfeng Dongjiao, some of them took the initiative to stay and try to slow down the pace of the Chinese army, and some people simply fled with their families and fine softness, this is not to go to the Northeast, but to leave Beiping to avoid the war, and then go back to their hometown directly, this official is not right.

And every time there is chaos, there will always be some people who have different ideas, for example, when Emperor Xianfeng was about to flee, there were already many civil ministers discussing in private.

Discuss what? It's nothing more than surrendering.

From ancient times to the present, most of the civil officials, especially those so-called Qingliu, say one thing and do another. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, he faced Li Chuang's entry into Beijing. They surrendered en masse once, and waited for the Qing army to enter the customs. They surrendered en masse again, and this time the Chinese army entered Beijing, and it was not uncommon for them to surrender again.

In thousands of years of history, although there will be a few straight-strapped people in the group of literati, such as Wen Tianxiang, etc., most of the scholars are a group of loyal people, and they all say that they have studied hard for decades just to sell to the emperor's family, but they don't care who this emperor is.

Whenever it is a life-and-death moment for the country, they are the ones who cry out for war. They were the first to surrender, and then they surrendered and said some good birds and trees, and those who know the times are handsome, for fear that people in the world will not know their faces.

Why don't you take a look, since the rebellion of the Chinese army, except for a few officials who were loyal to Lin Zhe in the era of Yu Shengjun, such as Xue Huan and others, how many people took the initiative to defect to the Chinese army after the Chinese army rebelled?

To put it mildly, 80 percent of the middle- and lower-level officials in the Chinese Empire today, especially those at the prefectural and county levels. They are all former Qing officials.

The reason why they rebelled against the Manchus and turned to the Chinese Empire was definitely not because they saw the benefits of the Chinese Empire system for China, let alone because they were worried about the country and the people. Or to say that they were shrouded by the aura of Lin Zhe's protagonist, their reason for surrendering to the Chinese Empire is quite simple, and it can be described in four words: glory and wealth!

The Chinese army fought under the city or simply broke the city. They have lost the strength to resist, and more importantly, the Chinese army generally accepts these officials who voluntarily surrender. In many cases, they stay in their original positions, such as in the case of the prefect Toucheng. Generally, they will continue to stay in the prefect, and the subsequent transfer is generally flat, that is to say, if they surrender to the Chinese Empire, they can continue to maintain glory and wealth!

Under these circumstances, it was not uncommon for a large number of Manchu local officials to defect to the Chinese Empire.

However, local officials can surrender, so why can't these Beijing officials surrender?

Not to mention ordinary Beijing officials, even the ministers of the ministry have a lot of people in their hearts, not only the Han people, but even many Manchu ministers have this idea, not everyone is willing to go to the barren land in the northeast to suffer.

In front of glory and wealth, there is no distinction between Manchu and Han, they all have the same identity, that is, officials.

When there was chaos in Beiping City, there was also chaos in the Forbidden City, and some well-informed eunuchs and palace maids had already begun to steal all kinds of jewelry and treasures in the palace, some secretly went out of the palace, and some went into hiding.

Now that the palace is in chaos, a sign in the first town on duty in the palace ban has been withdrawn, and even plays the role of a transport team, and is carrying a large amount of gold and silver stored in the palace to the car.

As for the rest of the huge Forbidden City, they are already too lazy to care.

Emperor Xianfeng changed into civilian clothes, and looked at the concubines who were urgently called over in a mink coat, as well as his own daughter Zaichun and Rong'an, his daughter Rong'an is only three years old this year, and his son Zaichun is only more than two years old.

And the woman holding Zaichun has beautiful eyebrows, and she looks extremely outstanding in a group of women, this woman is not noticed by anyone in contemporary times, but if she takes a photo in another 50 years, then future generations will recognize her from this yellowed photo, this woman is a famous woman in modern Chinese history, who has been in the limelight for 50 years, and is second only to Wu Zetian's awesome woman Cixi and Yehenara in China's thousands of years of history.

Of course, now she is not the powerful Lafayette, now she is just a twenty-three-year-old panicked woman, before she grasped power, her performance is not much stronger than the Empress Dowager Ci'an and Concubine Mei on the side.

As a large number of gold and silver were carried into the car, Xianfeng also took six or seven concubines and a pair of daughters into the carriage, and then went directly out of the palace under the escort of the first town of the Qing Army.

This time in the east hunt, Xianfeng didn't bring a lot of people, just a pair of children, and then a few concubines, and there must be more than these people in a huge palace, even Xianfeng's concubines have dozens, not to mention others.

But the matter was urgent, and the Chinese army in front was already about to arrive at Beiping City, which did not give Xianfeng much time to escape, and the preparation time was actually about half a day. It's not a day.

After Xianfeng decided to hunt east in the morning, Xianfeng had already taken a few close relatives out of the Forbidden City in the afternoon under the escort of the first town of the Qing Army. Then go straight to the east gate.

As for the other people in the palace, such as those concubines from the Daoguang Emperor's era. For example, Xianfeng's own concubines who don't care much about it, Emperor Xianfeng doesn't have much to worry about.

You must know that this is not a vacation to Rehe Palace, let alone a trip to the Northeast, this is an escape, in the itinerary arranged by Mu Yin, the first two days should be done to travel eighty miles a day, and it will set off in the afternoon.

Why? Because the Chinese army will be able to fight to Beiping this afternoon, and once it is decided to hunt in the east, it means that the only town that can be relied on must be transferred out to escort it, and this Beiping city has no first town to defend. Just rely on those green battalions and the old army of the Eight Banners? Not to mention a day or two, it is estimated that it will not be able to hold on for an hour or two.

Although most of the Qing troops, including Du Xing'a, looked down on the first town of the Qing Army, thinking that this new army had nothing to show for it, but now this new army is the only military force that Xianfeng can rely on to escape, as for those green battalions and the old army of the Eight Banners, they were ignored by Du Xing'a and others in the past, and now they are directly abandoned by Mu Yin and act as an outcast.

This is a light car to escape, and the preparation time is seriously insufficient. Therefore, Emperor Xianfeng will definitely not bring too much burden, if he brings hundreds of palace people, especially when most of them are still some women, Xianfeng should not escape. Just kill yourself.

In order to increase the speed of escape, he didn't even bring the palace maids who were waiting, only a dozen or so strong eunuchs with him.

After Emperor Xianfeng and his entourage fled in a hurry. Soon he met up with some of the ministers outside the east gate, most of whom were also dragging their families. But Emperor Xianfeng would never flee with their families, at most he would flee with his ministers. As for their families, whether they can escape or not depends on the destiny of heaven.

On the carriage, Emperor Xianfeng glanced at these ministers waiting outside, and found that many familiar figures were no longer visible, Emperor Xianfeng did not want to use the idea that they were delayed on the road and would arrive later.

He sighed: "Let's go!" ”

Mu Yin personally arranged and settled these ministers, and then the procession of more than 300 carriages galloped quickly.

When Emperor Xianfeng went out of the east gate and then rushed towards the east, the city of Beiping was already in complete chaos, and the old troops of the Green Battalion and the Beijing Camp who were originally expected to be able to slow down the pace of the Chinese Army had not yet seen the Chinese Army, and they ran away first.

The patrol camp and other people who maintained law and order in the city also ran home one by one, some of them packed up and were busy running out of the city to escape for their lives, while others wanted to wait for the limelight to pass.

Without the maintenance of official power, coupled with the panic in the city, it directly led to the turmoil in the city, a large number of people began to loot the rice grain store, burning, killing and looting, the turmoil is always the most able to show the ugliness in people's hearts, an ordinary small people in order to compete for the last bag of grain in the grain store, can fight to the death with three or five big Hans, and cut down several women and children at will.

In order to keep a small bag of food that she had finally grabbed, the mother of a child could let the people behind her punch and kick her, and then bite the neck of the strong man in front of her until her face was soaked in blood and did not let go, because at this time she was almost killed by the people behind her, and she clung to the food she wanted to take home for a pair of children and daughters, and she did not know who snatched it.

More people who steal chickens and dogs even take advantage of the chaos in the city to harm people's families, robbery and theft are nothing, and even hooligans directly rush into other people's families, rape other people's wives and daughters, and rob everything that can be snatched.

The whole of Peking is already completely messed up!

At three o'clock in the afternoon, a group of soldiers wearing military training uniforms entered the Forbidden City and the surrounding important official residences, and the leader of the team was the surprising Prince Gong Yixun.

"Immediately clear the palace, all the palace people who make a rebellion will be killed on the spot, and then let people contact the Soldiers and Horses Division, let them immediately send troops to maintain order in the city, and tell them that if the city is in chaos at this juncture, even if I don't kill them at that time, see if those Chinese troops will kill them after entering the city!"

Watching his subordinates run out one by one, and then watching the soldiers under his command directly behead the rows of eunuchs and palace maids who tried to steal the treasures in the palace and escape in a panic, Yixun sighed deeply.

He has endured it for so many years, and he has always wanted to wait for the opportunity for Emperor Xianfeng to reuse him, but he didn't expect that since he was kicked out of the military aircraft, Xianfeng used him for the first time, but it was to let him defend Beiping and give him a broken back.

Where is this a chance to give yourself a chance to display your talents, he is going to kill me!

Yixun sighed deeply, he and Xianfeng have been fighting for many years, it is understandable that Xianfeng is not worried about him, but he can't do this, it doesn't matter if he doesn't take himself away, why should he let himself be cut off? (To be continued.) )