Episode 187 Night Battle in Beijing
"Oops," Ha Yukun hurriedly rolled off the horse, stepped forward in small steps, and then plunged down, "The last general will meet Chairman Mu!" …… Chairman Mu has a lot of opportunities, but he is still so far away, it is really a torture! ”
Mu Hu laughed and said with a smile:
"In the face of the superior Ming army, all the rats are kneeling and begging to surrender, only General Ha is mighty and unyielding, so iron-clad, is really my Eight Banners man! It is too late for this chairman to welcome him, so General Ha should not be so humble! Hahaha, come, come, and ...... with me"
The laughter came to an abrupt end.
Mu Hu bent down to help, and suddenly his eyes widened, staring at the pistol on his chest.
Ha Yukun slowly stood up and pressed a pistol against Mu Hu's chest.
Mu Hu immediately understood.
"I see......" he said through gritted teeth, "you have also surrendered to the Ming army......"
At the same time, there was a sudden earth-shattering shout on both sides:
"Don't move! Don't move! ”
"Put down the gun!"
"Hands up and surrender!"
"Put down your guns!"
The Praetorian Guards on both sides of the road suddenly had a gun on their backs. Twice as many soldiers of the Eight Banners Division held their guns and shouted loudly.
Ha Yukun grabbed Mu Hu's collar with one hand, put a gun against Mu Hu's head with the other, and shouted loudly to the surroundings:
"Mu Hu jumped over the clown, in a vain attempt to steal the country, he would have inherited the will of heaven, obeyed the will of the people, arrested Mu Hu, and welcomed the Ming King into the city! Put down your guns, and you won't die! If you don't come to your senses, Hugh blame will kill you all! ”
At the same time, the soldiers of the Eight Banners Division on both sides also shouted:
"Surrender! Surrender! ”
There was almost no need to shout a second time, and the Praetorian Guards soldiers on both sides of the road threw down their guns in a daze, raised their hands and surrendered.
Ha Yukun beckoned to the two guards, tied up Mu Hu, then stepped on the horse, waved his pistol, and shouted:
"Brothers, the opportunity is right now! Occupy Beijing, rush with me! ”
"Rush, !!"
"Ah............h
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The soldiers of the Second Division of the Eighth Banner poured into the streets of Beijing. At the same time, the heads of several city gates were also occupied, and more soldiers of the Second Division of the Eight Banners rushed into several city gates. The soldiers of the Eight Banners Division in the city increased from more than 1,000 at the beginning to thousands or tens of thousands, and finally except for a small number of troops left outside the city, the main force of the remaining 10,000 or several thousand people all poured into the city.
Soon, gunshots began to sound throughout the city. Occasionally, there is the sound of grenade explosions.
The division commander Ha Yukun was very nervous. He watched the soldiers so crazy and sweaty. He tugged at the reins and rode around the horse, firing his gun into the air from time to time, shouting:
"Again, there are those who dare to rob, set fires, rape women, and those who hide a lot of property on their bodies, and there is no forgiveness !!for killing."
He shouted, sweating profusely down his forehead. Then, he turned to a few of his cronies and said:
"The brothers have been with me for so long, and everyone knows how I treat you...... It's hard work for everyone this time, and it's hard for everyone to work hard for military discipline and bullet pressure...... That Xiang Xiaoqiang is a master who really dares to kill, whether all of us are rewarded for meritorious service or fall to the ground, it depends on tonight...... If nothing happens, my brother and I will get a bonus for the uprising, and you will have to share it! ”
Several cronies hurriedly said:
"What do you say?"
"Don't worry, sir!"
"Who dares to get along with adults, his subordinates will kill him!"
Ha Yukun's nervousness was not in vain, and Xiang Xiaoqiang's last sentence was not said in vain. What Xiang Xiaoqiang is most worried about is that so many Qing troops enter the city in the middle of the night to "fire and merge", and it can easily turn into large-scale robbery if you are not careful. This is Beijing, in particular, the center of culture and wealth throughout North China. Needless to say, the ordinary wealthy and the silver buildings of the shops, what worries him more are the imperial gold reserves in the Forbidden City, the north, the middle and the south, the palaces, and the banks......
Wherever these places are, there is an amazing wealth in them. As long as they are swept away by the rebels, in the face of such dazzling treasures, no matter how strict the military discipline is, I am afraid that they will not be able to restrain these Qing soldiers. Then it will be looted and burned in an instant. Moreover, more rebels who did not grab it will be red-eyed and will turn their targets to other places...... Then, a city-wide robbery is inevitable. It is an exaggeration to say that this thousand-year-old capital is facing another catastrophe of the "Eight-Nation Alliance Gengzi National Disaster".
Then, as the initiator of this idea, Xiang Xiaoqiang himself doesn't know if he can save his head. The best result has to be that the future is smashed, and Zhu Yourong blows it.
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The sound of gunfire and shouting on the streets of Beijing City, the citizens of the whole city were so frightened that they closed their doors and windows, trembling and chanting Buddha, blessing the whole family to spend the night safely, bless not to be broken into by the rebels, and even if the rebels broke in, they only grabbed things and did not set fire, and even if they set fire, they only set fire to others and did not hurt people......
Ha Yukun had already organized a reinforced gendarmerie in advance. The total number of men in the division was less than 20,000, and now there are more than 1,000 gendarmerie. Before entering the city, these people were given stern warnings, and the first thing they did after entering the city was to guard the Forbidden City, the major royal palaces, banks, and other key places, and set up machine guns. The rest of the gendarmes scattered around to suppress military discipline, and if there was any burning and killing, they would be killed. If military discipline is not restrained and leads to mass robbery, all officers of the gendarmerie will be shot.
Outside the city, Xiang Xiaoqiang personally led the First Division of the People's Guard, quietly approaching Beijing along the highway. Vehicles and armored vehicles passed through the positions where the former Eight Banners Division was stationed until they came to a stop a few kilometers from Guangqu Gate. A small group of scouts in front of them drove sidecars back and forth, constantly reporting the latest situation in Beijing. Xiang Xiaoqiang pinched a handful of sweat, and couldn't wait to get the troops closer and stick them to the root of the city wall. He prepared that once there was a change in Beijing, he would immediately wave his army into the city.
Now the Second Division of the Eight Banners is equivalent to saying that it has surrendered to the Ming army, and these Ming scouts also drove sidecar motorcycles to the bottom of the city tower, and then climbed the city tower to look at the battle situation in the city with binoculars. The Qing defenders on the tower of the city also poured water and lit cigarettes, and were busy waiting.
"What," a squad leader of the Eight Banners Division handed over a cigarette and stammered with a grin, "Sir, are you going to pull off the original flag now and put on our Ming flag?" ”
"No," the Ming soldier looked at the city with a telescope, still saying coldly, "Not now." Now it has nothing to do with the Ming army. ”
The sound of motorcycles approaching from a distance under the city was again, and then stopped. The Qing soldiers at the head of the city hurriedly laughed:
"Sir, your brethren are here."
The Ming scout below looked up and shouted:
"How?"
The Ming scouts at the head of the city came to the other side and shouted downward:
"It's fine!"
Then he asked:
"How much longer?"
The Ming army in the city shouted:
"Not a big problem! Looks like it's coming soon! ”
"Understood!"
The sidecar motorcycle under the city turned around and drove away.
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Minutes and seconds passed. It's been more than an hour since the initial hands-on. The massive gunfire has long since stopped, and now only the occasional scattered gunfire remains. The Praetorian Guard prisoners in the city were all gathered on Chang'an Avenue. On the long Chang'an Avenue, thousands of captives squatted in the middle of the road, holding their heads in their hands, black and oppressive in the moonlight.
Ha Yukun established a temporary division headquarters in the Qing Imperial Bank in Dongdan. The marble hall is cold, and there is a fire on the mirrored granite floor, which also brings some warmth. Two orderlies were chopping broken tables and chairs, and threw the cut wood into the fire.
A few meters below the concrete beneath your feet is the state treasury. Hundreds of tons of gold, silver, and various foreign currencies were piled up inside. In addition to the Forbidden City, it was the largest concentration of wealth in the Qing Empire. A big reason why Ha Yukun built the temporary division headquarters here was that he felt that it was necessary to take care of it himself. His courage is not as great as Mu Hu, otherwise he would have built the division headquarters directly in the Forbidden City.
Several phone calls were received here, and the staff officers next to them were busy sweating profusely, constantly contacting various places in the city that had been occupied.
Now the city of Beijing has been basically controlled. So far, there has not been a single fire in the city, at least no artificially set fires. Only one fire broke out in the snack street on the south side of Dashilar, which was not a big problem. Grenades were reportedly used in the crossfire.
Ha Yukun's nerves relaxed at this time, and he felt that he could inform Xiang Xiaoqiang.
A staff officer hurriedly ran over and whispered a few words in Ha Yukun's ear.
Ha Yukun was taken aback:
"Huh? It's true? ”
The staff officer nodded:
"That's right! Mu Hu's confidant Na Shun said that only he knows where he is hiding, and he is willing to say it and atone for his sins! ”
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