On the snow, Xianfeng looked at the last five or six knights left around him, and then looked at the more than ten Chinese cavalrymen wearing dark blue military uniforms in front of him, he sighed deeply with despair, he didn't expect that he would be caught up in the end!

Due to the unfamiliarity with the terrain, and the retinue are not professional cavalry, their riding skills are quite limited, and their horses are not special riding horses, but only service horses that originally pull carriages, which can run at a very limited speed.

At first, he ran quite fast, but soon the war horse under his crotch was tired and had to slow down.

However, as soon as this speed was full, they were immediately chased by the Chinese pursuers behind them, although there were only four chasers behind them at that time, but they were all professional cavalry, and they did not dare to stop at all.

But this kind of thing is something that Xianfeng and the others can't decide by themselves, no matter how they urge the horses under their crotches to speed up, but they just can't run, and finally when the horses are foaming at the mouth and getting tired, Xianfeng and the others are also completely caught up.

By the time Zhuo Jiechen arrived with more than a dozen cavalrymen, there were only five or six guards left around Xianfeng!

Looking at the only five or six cavalrymen left in front of him to protect a young man in the middle, Zhuo Jiechen didn't know that he had caught up with the main master, and the young man in the middle didn't need to guess to know that it should be the puppet Qing Emperor Xianfeng!

Zhuo Jiechen looked at him as if he had seen his own merits and saw the title!

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, he raised his hand, and in an instant, the more than ten cavalry under his command launched the last charge!

This time they did not shoot from a distance with their guns, nor did they use cavalry pistols, and they rushed forward directly brandishing their sabers. Although the five or six guards around Xianfeng resisted desperately, they could block the charge of the Chinese cavalry, which was more than three times as large as them!

It's just less than thirty seconds. The six guards around Xianfeng were already lying in the snow one after another, leaving Xianfeng alone in the same place. More than ten meters away from him were more than a dozen Chinese cavalrymen surrounding him.

Xianfeng looked at this scene, took a deep breath, and then raised the revolver in his hand, this pistol was specially imitated by the Tianjin Machinery Bureau to imitate the pistol of the Chinese army, due to the technical difficulty, so only more than ten handmade as tribute to the palace, Xianfeng brought one as a self-defense weapon.

In the face of the Chinese army, Li Hongzhang can surrender, and even Prince Gong Yixun can surrender, but he Xianfeng cannot, because he is the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

As the emperor of a country, he has his own pride. It was already quite unacceptable for him to abandon the two hundred years of the country in Guannai and flee Beiping, but if he could escape to Shengjing, it would be easy to say.

But now that he has no hope of going to Shengjing, with the last guard around him dying in battle, he can't imagine what kind of treatment he will receive after falling into the Chinese army.

He couldn't imagine it, and he didn't want to let himself fall into the hands of the Chinese army, so now, he was left with only one last option.

Seeing Xianfeng raise his pistol, the Chinese cavalry surrounding Xianfeng couldn't help but get nervous. Then, I don't know who shouted, and a group of people just brandished their swords and rushed forward again.

But contrary to their expectations, Xianfeng did not aim the muzzle of the pistol at them, but aimed the muzzle of the pistol at his own head. Then without hesitation, he pulled the trigger, and with the crisp sound of gunshots, his head burst red and white like a broken watermelon. Then the whole person fell from the horse.

Is he Aixin Jueluo? Yi Xu, Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty. The ruler of the Qing Dynasty for two hundred years, he absolutely could not tolerate being a prisoner. and then drank poisonous wine while singing the backyard flowers like Li Yu, thus ending his life miserably.

Even if he wants to die, he has to choose to end his life by himself, he is the emperor, no one can end his life but himself.

Looking at Xianfeng, who fell from the horse to the ground after committing suicide, Zhuo Jiechen did not show any expressions of pity, because whether Xianfeng was dead or alive had little impact on him, because the reward promised by Shi Qingxuan and other senior generals was no difference between life and death, or whether it was caught or killed directly.

got off the horse, and then took out a portrait from his arms and compared it carefully, and then searched out several seals from Xianfeng's arms and compared, and finally confirmed that this person was Xianfeng.

"Take his body with you and go back!" Zhuo Jiechen was excited, and then ordered his subordinates to carry Xianfeng's body on horseback and tie it tightly, and then the group rode back.

When Zhuo Jiechen returned to Qian Qiushi with Xianfeng's corpse, he saw that the cavalry under Qian Qiushi's command was already cleaning the battlefield, and the battlefield was covered with corpses, most of which were the corpses of the Qing army's new army, and then many of them were the corpses of the Chinese army's cavalry.

Seeing Zhuo Jiechen returning with a corpse, Qian Qiushi excitedly stepped forward to check it in person, and then took out a portrait himself to carefully identify it, and then laughed after a while: "That's right, it's him, gentlemen, today we have made great contributions, especially your table lieutenant, you should be the first to kill the puppet emperor Xianfeng!" ”

Just when Zhuo Jiechen and Qian Qiushi and other cavalrymen of the Chinese army were laughing loudly because of the future reward, in a corner of the battlefield, next to Niu Colu's corpse, Mei Guifei and Yehenala held Zaichun and Rong'an tightly, I don't know if it was because of the cold or because of fear, the whole body was trembling.

Together with the Yehenara clan and Mei Guifei, the two women of Emperor Xianfeng each held their children, and then looked at these Chinese cavalrymen who had captured them with fear on their faces, they did not have the courage to commit suicide like Ci'an, but they were full of fear for the future.

After cleaning the battlefield in a hurry, mainly after looting the corpses and some valuable trophies on the prisoners, such as gold and silver, weapons, etc., they didn't even bother to bury the corpses, and then they slowly rushed back with the Yehenala clan, Mei Guifei, Zaichun, Rong'an, and a few powerful ministers who did not commit suicide, as well as a large number of captured Qing soldiers.

Of course, there were nearly 20 carts of gold taken away by Xianfeng!

When Song Xiangtang also arrived with his men, the prisoners and Xianfeng's bodies were handed over to the division headquarters, and Song Xiangtang personally assured Qian Qiushi and Zhuo Jiechen that he would personally ask His Majesty for them.

When he learned that he had completely defeated the first town, killed Xianfeng, and captured Xianfeng's only son, that is, Zaichun and many other powerful people, Shi Qingxuan was in front of Shanhaiguan.

"Okay, the officers and men of the First Division really lived up to my expectations of them, and they are worthy of being the first troops of our army to become an army, and it is not easy to be able to do these things under such difficult conditions!"

The process of the first division pursuing the first town was quite hard, the pursuit was lightly armed, and it was still in the deep mountains and snow forests, not to mention the difficulty of marching, and the more important thing was that the supplies could not be guaranteed, and the soldiers were hungry and full of food to pursue, and many soldiers had lost weight in the past ten days, and there were even more wounded and sick.

After Shi Qingxuan put down Song Xiangtang's battle report, he said to the adjutant beside him: "Prepare good news, just send it to Jingshi!" ”

But as soon as he finished speaking, he changed his words again: "Forget it, it's better for Ben Hou to write it himself!" ”

Excited, he just went back to his desk and picked up his pen to write.

This killing of Xianfeng is undoubtedly a great credit, and this credit is not only Zhuo Jiechen's, not only Qian Qiushi's, not only Song Xiangtang's, but also the overall credit of the Sixth Army, of course, his Shi Qingxuan's share.

The Chinese army has always been a whole, and it pays attention to collective merit, not to say that the individual merit of a single person, and a victory can only be achieved by the full cooperation of the whole army, and it is absolutely not something that a single person can achieve.

After this good news was sent to Jingshi, it was enough to offset the mistake of letting Du Xing'a escape to Shanhaiguan!

Speaking of this, Xing'a fled to Shanhaiguan, which made Shi Qingxuan a little depressed!

This is not a good place to fight, but the ability to escape is first-class, at that time from northern Jiangsu, and then from Jinan let him escape, but when it came to Tianjin, he still let him break through with the main force, and he chased desperately all the way behind, but he was stunned and failed to catch up, so that he successfully escaped to Shanhaiguan.

Now in the face of such a majestic pass as Shanhaiguan, Shi Qingxuan is also deeply embarrassed, Shanhaiguan is notoriously easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is not easy to take Shanhaiguan.

But it's not easy to take it down, this Duxinga still has nearly 20,000 troops, if you don't wipe out this army of Duxinga, let alone the Northeast in the future, it is estimated that Zhili will not be able to settle down.

The core of the Chinese Army's Northern Expedition was to eliminate the Qing army's living forces in several northern provinces and completely crush the resistance of the Qing army.

In order to shake the morale of the Qing army in Shanhaiguan, Shi Qingxuan began to send people to the city to shout, saying that Emperor Xianfeng was dead, and a large number of powerful people had been killed or captured by the Chinese army.

Even in order to increase the persuasiveness, Shi Qingxuan also specially sent someone to send a letter of surrender to Shanhaiguan, and the letter also attached the original text of Song Xiangtang's report to Shi Qingxuan to prove that Xianfeng was dead.

Xianfeng is dead, which brought a great shock to the defenders in Shanhaiguan, after Du Xing'a fell ill, Shi Rongchun, who was in charge of military affairs, looked at Du Xing'a, who was still asleep on the hospital bed, and said with a sad face: "My lord, what should I do now?" ”

It's a pity that Du Xing'a can't answer him, Du Xing'a has been seriously ill since he fled Tianjin, and when he arrived in Tangshan, he basically fell into a coma for most of the day, and continued to have a fever, taking advantage of the last trace of waking time, he had already handed over the military affairs to Shi Rongchun.

The doctors in the army all said that Du Xing'a is now cold and poisonous, and I am afraid that he will not be able to support it for a few days!

Coming out of Du Xing'a's room, Shi Rongchun summoned other generals to discuss military affairs together, and the theme was: What should I do now? (To be continued.) )