Lu Daobao was ordered to attack Beiping alone, and he only had one First Strike Corps and a small number of artillery and baggage troops of the First Division, and the Royal Army was only 2,000 men, in addition to an auxiliary defense division of almost 4,000 men.

As far as he knew, although the Qing army in the city was the main force, it was initially judged that there were at least more than 15,000 Qing troops, and there were many artillery pieces on the city, and there were more than 30 artillery pieces on the west wall alone.

Although Lu Daobao does not think that the combat effectiveness of these Qing troops is strong, the gap between the forces of the two sides is there, and Beiping can be said to be a lonely city, and there is not much difference between taking it one day earlier and taking it one day later, so Lu Daobao is ready to take a steady and steady approach.

But what he didn't expect was that he just routinely sent a letter of surrender to the city, but he didn't expect that the Qing army inside really agreed, which was obviously beyond his expectations.

The Chinese army and the Qing army have been fighting for several years, although the Qing army surrendered very often, but most of the time it was after being defeated and captured, and the situation of surrendering all over the city without firing a single shot generally only appeared in some prefectures and counties.

But today, as the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the city of Beiping surrendered without firing a shot at this time, and the person who signed the letter was Yixun, the Manchu Prince Gong.

This surprised Lu Daobao and at the same time had doubts, could it be a fraud?

They want to ambush themselves when they enter the city?

The other party wanted to surrender so simply, which made Lu Daobao vigilant, and immediately issued several requests for surrender. Ask the opposing garrison soldiers to leave the city immediately and hand over all their weapons to the Chinese army. Well, to put it simply, it is to ask the Qing army to go out of the city and disarm!

At the same time, it is required that Yixun and others in the city have weight. High-ranking officials who surrendered on behalf of the Qing army went out of the city to the Chinese army camp to participate in the surrender ceremony, and Lu Daobao also specially arranged a surrender ceremony for this purpose.

After Yi Xun and the others in the city received the letter, although some people objected, if they said that if they left the city, the other party would definitely detain or even kill Yi Xun and the others directly.

But Yixun smiled wryly: "Could it be that this can escape this catastrophe by hiding in the city and not going out?" Well, since it's going to fall, then do what they say! ”

At noon that day, Yixun took many ministers and dignitaries who were still in Beiping out of the city, and before that, a large number of Qing soldiers had already begun to leave the city at about ten o'clock in the morning. Then one by one they threw down their weapons in the clearing, and then sat in a line with their bare hands.

Some of these soldiers were apprehensive, while some were relaxed, and even showed an expression of immortality, indeed, perhaps for Yixun and other high-ranking officials, the road ahead is still unknown whether it is life or death, but for these ordinary soldiers, from the moment they throw down their weapons, their lives have been guaranteed.

It is no secret that the Chinese army gives preferential treatment to the soldiers who surrender to Cheng. And they know it too!

Even many soldiers heard that serving as a soldier in the Chinese Army was well paid, and many of them were already thinking about going straight to the ground and then joining the Chinese Army.

It's a pity that among these soldiers who surrendered. With the exception of the soldiers of the new army and a small number of elite soldiers of the old army, most of them were not eligible to join the Chinese army, and their fate awaited them was either temporarily supervised and left to do manual labor. Either simply summarily dismissed.

Lu Daobao looked at Yixun outside and walked in with a large group of people, and looked at the dress of Yixun and the others with interest. At this time, Yixun, along with other officials, was wearing formal court clothes. There were also a few people who wore the new military dress of the Qing Army.

It's just that they are dressed brightly, but all of them have gloomy expressions, just like their family members are dying and going to mourn.

There was an old man in his seventies and eighties who walked and walked, and when he was about to enter the tent, he was crying, which attracted the frequent attention of others, and an official next to him stepped forward to comfort him, and then stopped crying and continued to come in.

And Lu Daobao, who was sitting in the camp tent, looked at this scene, but his face was full of smiles, this is the smile that belongs to the victor, and there is nothing more pleasant than seeing the enemy wailing and crying.

When Yixun walked into the tent, he was greeted by a young face, even if this person deliberately had a beard and a shaved head, but it could be seen that this person was only in his early twenties at most.

Looking at the rank on his shoulders again, Yixun couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, this person turned out to be just a lieutenant colonel of the Chinese army, I came to surrender to Prince Yixun, this Chinese army only sent a lieutenant colonel!

But the bitterness in his heart is absolutely indescribable, he didn't know that the Chinese army never thought that Yixin would take the initiative to surrender with people.

Moreover, there were many northward troops of the Chinese army, but Shi Qingxuan led the main force of the Sixth Army to pursue Duxing'a, and Song Xiangtang also took the main force of the first division to chase Xianfeng, leaving only the first regiment responsible for attacking the huge Beiping.

Let a lieutenant colonel be responsible for attacking a big city like Beiping, and it is estimated that only the current Chinese army can appear.

The whole surrender ceremony was simple and fast, according to the requirements of the Chinese army, Yixun and some of the generals of the Qing army handed over their sabers to Lu Daobao, and then did not sign the so-called surrender agreement or anything like that.

Next, Yixun and some high-ranking officials returned to Beiping City, but when they returned to the city, there were many soldiers of the Chinese Army who entered the city with them.

The Chinese army has conquered quite a lot of enemy cities, all kinds of experience, the first time after entering the city is to control the city gate and other access routes, and then quickly control the important buildings in the city, such as the official yamen, of course, the Forbidden City.

Because there are not many soldiers in the Royal Army under Lu Daobao's command, even if you add an auxiliary defense division, there are not many people, and if you want to control a large city with a population of seven or eight hundred thousand, the number of troops required is absolutely indispensable.

In order to be able to quickly and effectively control the city, the Chinese army even directly incorporated the two new army recruit battalions of the Qing army, that is, the two new military camps that Yixun used to suppress the city yesterday, although these people are all recruits. But they were very different from the many Qing troops in the city.

Like all the new troops trained by Duxing'a (except for the first town), these soldiers were all Han Chinese recruited in the Zhili area. In addition, the officers are mainly Han students. Secondly, even if they have not yet completed the training of recruits, their physical and tactical qualities far exceed those of the old Qing army.

Again. These soldiers can be regarded as professional soldiers, and the reason why they serve as soldiers and eat food is to earn money to support their families, which is not much different from working for the Qing court and serving the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, it will not be too difficult to accept the words of these soldiers, and it will also reassure the Chinese army.

For this reason, the Chinese army directly reorganized the more than 1,200 soldiers of the New Army into two garrison battalions, and transferred some junior officers and senior noncommissioned officers from the first regiment.

Since the Chinese Imperial Command had not yet established a garrison headquarters in Zhili, the two garrison battalions were temporarily under the jurisdiction of the Sixth Army.

When the Chinese army entered the city, the first time it was to control all parts of the city, and then Lu Daobao did what the Chinese army often did after breaking the city in the early years: raiding the house!

Whenever a city is breached in a place. The Chinese army will always raid the homes of recalcitrant officials, powerful gentry, on the one hand, to maintain deterrence, and on the other hand, to confiscate some booty to supplement military expenses.

As the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for 200 years, Beiping has lived in many powerful people and accumulated wealth for more than 200 years, so it is natural that these Chinese troops will not be indifferent.

In addition to confiscating and sealing the warehouses of the Forbidden City, the Ministry of Households, and other official institutions, the Chinese troops who entered the city went directly to the door one by one according to the list of high-ranking Manchu officials and the list of Manchu nobles.

If the family is the kind of person who cooperates and takes the initiative to surrender, such as those ministers and magnates who followed Yixun out of the city and surrendered before, the Chinese army will give some face. Generally, they will not be all searched, and people will not be evicted from the house, but only some obvious belongings of the treasury, such as gold and silver, will be removed. Others generally don't move.

And some recalcitrant people, especially the aristocracy, basically directly raided the whole government. The family rushed straight to the street, and the raid was not only for the floating wealth. All property, such as land, houses, and shops, was confiscated, and all the direct males of the family were taken away.

The Chinese army has done all these things. Although Beiping is a little bigger, there are more places to be raided, but it didn't take much time to investigate one by one.

The only thing that made Lu Daobao feel a little embarrassed was the Forbidden City!

This is the palace, although it is said that this is the palace of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, but this is also the palace, and he will not dare to mess around if he gives Lu Daobao a hundred dares.

He immediately put the masters in the palace, that is, the various concubines of the Manchu royal family, and so on, to gather and detain, of course, they will not be directly put into the cell, but concentrated in a courtyard to guard, considering that these concubines are old and weak, and none of them have the ability to take care of themselves, he specially allowed some willing eunuchs and palace maids to stay and serve them.

As for most of the other palace maids and eunuchs, those who are willing to leave the palace and go home are directly released, and those who are unwilling to leave or have no home to return are left to stay in a centralized settlement, as for why there is no way to drive them out of the palace, on the one hand, if they are forcibly driven out, these people will have no place to live or even starve to death.

In addition, this Forbidden City is much larger than the Zhonghua Palace, so if a large place is to be maintained, hundreds of people are not enough.

And Lu Daobao didn't know what those people above would do with the Forbidden City in the future, so he could only try to maintain the original appearance of the Forbidden City, and it was none of his business how to deal with it in the future.

After riding directly into the Forbidden City, Lu Daobao even looked at the dragon chair of the Taihe Hall with great interest, of course, he was not so bold to sit on it directly, if people saw someone else to say, 'peep into the position of the Ninety-Five', he Lu Daobao would not be unlucky!

Such a large Forbidden City, a larger Beiping City, just military control is not a big problem, the current Chinese army is already completely militarily controlled the city, but to maintain the operation of the city, well, at least not let the seven or eight hundred thousand residents in the city starve to death, it is not an easy task.

However, these things had little to do with Lu Daobao, and after he entered the city to take control of Beiping and the Forbidden City, he only carried out the state of military administration for two days, and on the third day he handed over the administrative power of the city to Wu Xi, the governor of Zhili, who had been appointed by the Chinese Empire only last month. (To be continued.) )