On the sixth day of the first month of March, at dusk, the suburbs were camped by the army.

"Go back and tell your general, if he comes to vote sincerely, the widow will never hurt him a single hair."

Niu Jinxing, who was beside King Shun, followed and urged: "It's too late to descend early!" ”

"King Xie, the villain will go back and tell the master of the house."

After the envoy withdrew from the camp, Li Zicheng, the king of Shun, looked at Yu Shenhe on the side: "Brother Yu, is it so easy?" ”

After seeing Li Zicheng's Wang Qi, the defenders who had been fighting hard with their former colleagues for many days knew that the opportunity they had been waiting for had arrived, and if they did not surrender at this time, there would really be only one way to die once the city was broken. The former Ming Jing battalion that had attacked the city before didn't care much about the casualties of the soldiers, and if the defenders surrendered to them, most of them would be killed, so that more heads would ask Li Zicheng for credit.

And Li Zicheng's strategy was of course different from Li Guojiao, he desperately needed to end the battle as soon as possible, so Li Zicheng immediately pardoned them after the defenders surrendered, and he didn't need any military exploits.

Yu Shenhe smiled when he heard this: "It's really easy." ”

"It's all the king's Hongwei." Niu Jinxing also congratulated.

The generals in the other battalions were all old men of the Shun army, and there were no newly surrendered Ming army generals, and they hurriedly followed to congratulate after hearing Niu Jinxing's words. Yu Shenhe was a little annoyed in his heart, since the founding of Dashun, this etiquette has become more and more, and he is not used to it. It's just that although everyone can't help but complain, Niu Jinxing said that this is the rule of the dynasty, and if there are no rules, it will not be a circle, and it will lose the dignity of the Wang family, and Yu Shenhe also understands that this is indeed the truth.

"Hehe, your brothers have lifted me." If it weren't for outsiders, Li Zicheng would not be used to calling himself a widow, and when he heard all kinds of praise every day when he spoke, Li Zicheng still felt uncomfortable all over his body, and even had goosebumps. But after a long time, he is now gradually able to adapt, as Niu Venus said, the high place is not cold. Now that the role of the monarch and the minister has been decided, even the old brothers like Liu Zongmin only use the king or His Majesty to call themselves, Niu Jinxing also stipulates that the words "self" and "cheng" are not allowed to appear in the documents of Dashun, but whenever they encounter "since", they will be changed to the newly coined word "big" and add "day", and the word "cheng" will remove the knife edge inside and replace it with "noon" at noon. What exactly do these two words are pronounced, the vast majority of Dashun officials and generals still don't know what to do.

"Don't hurt Emperor Ming's life." Niu Jinxing also instructed the generals, especially Yu Shenhedao, on this issue he has argued many times, Emperor Ming Chan can make the last group of diehards completely die, so that the people of the world are completely disappointed in the Ming Dynasty, and in the future in the history books will be extremely beneficial to the Dashun regime. Before and after his death, Bull Venus values them very much.

"Yes, Xiangye." Yu Shenhe clasped his fists and saluted, looked back at Li Zicheng, King Shun's face was a little displeased, he had been thinking about digging the Zhu family's grave to avenge his parents, and then kill Chongzhen to pay tribute to his ancestors.

"If the king digs the grave, the lower official doesn't say anything, but this Ming Emperor can't be killed," Niu Jinxing noticed Li Zicheng's face, and he had said to Li Zicheng privately before, leaving Chongzhen alive to be a vassal king, and if he was unhappy that day, he could scold him for being angry, wouldn't it be a hundred times better than slaughtering him with a knife: "Hasn't the king already promised to crown Emperor Ming as the king of Song?" The king can't go back on his word. ”

"Got it." Li Zicheng said impatiently: "Prepare to attack the city." ”

……

As the first batch of soldiers of the Guards Battalion approaching the city wall, Yue Mu put the ladder on the city wall of Beijing, and after his companions held it hard, he began to climb upward, with his comrades in the battalion carefully covering them with muskets.

There was already chaos on the Changyi Gate, and the guards were trying to take the city gate with their henchmen, but the soldiers under him had their own plans, and the soldiers who were called up knew that the general was planning to surrender and knew that the Jingshi would be broken, and many refused to continue to risk their lives to fight the army that was still loyal to the Ming court. Believing that the war was over, the soldiers scattered and fled back to their homes in front of the guards, none of whom intended to die in the last battle of Myeong-shun, either for Myong-shun or for Myong-shun.

When the guards of Changyi Gate tried in vain to gather troops, his attempt was already *** in front of the envoy of the prison army, and the eunuch sent by Wang Chengen was still loyal to the Ming court, and he gathered the troops that the guards had not gathered, that is, those who were considered unreliable by the traitors, and launched an attack on the rebels.

By the time the Guards battalion attacked, the rebels in the city had already been defeated, and although meritorious service was important, as long as the city broke and most of the promises made to King Shun were also fulfilled, and the defective Ming army of Changyimen also retreated to the city, no one thought that the severely weakened city gate could still be held under the attack of the Shun army - these people were also unwilling to die on the last night before the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

And just from the enemy in the city to protect the city tower of the Ming army, do not care about the pursuit of the rebels to urgently turn around to meet the siege of the Shun army, at this time most of the defenders have deserted, the rest of the majority of the mutiny, still loyal to the Ming Dynasty soldiers are less than yesterday's defenders.

Although a few Shun soldiers were stoned down by the recalcitrant Ming army before ascending the city, soon some Shun soldiers climbed to the top of the city, Yue Mu followed behind the squad officer, with a military flag tied to his back and crawled towards the city, and behind him were the soldiers of the Yiguo Guards Battalion under him.

The companion above his head jumped over the battlement, and after his figure disappeared, the starry bucket in the sky reappeared in front of Yue Mu's eyes, he climbed up with all his strength with his hands and feet, and finally grasped the cold battlements with both hands. Yue Mu took a deep breath and slammed his body over the city wall of Beijing.

There were many red and black figures shaking in front of them, and those enemies in red military uniforms let out a roar of rage, while the men in black were silent and silent, meeting the battle with their weapons in their hands.

Yue Mu didn't let out any shouts, he easily knocked down an enemy with a sword light with his bare hands, and after removing the flag on his back, he knocked over two red-clothed enemy soldiers in a row. During this time, there was a whirring wind behind Yue Mu, and more and more soldiers of the Guards Battalion climbed over the city wall behind him and joined the battle group on the city tower.

The bright blades stabbed back and forth in the air, and the people on the city seemed to be more and more, but the shouts were getting lower and lower. Another red-clothed enemy rushed in the direction of Yue Mu with a big sword in an orderly manner, and before he could get closer, this enemy soldier was stabbed by a bayonet that suddenly rushed out of the darkness, and the red-clothed man let out a terrible scream, threw himself to the ground, and fell heavily on the tower of Changyi Gate.

More torches were lit and raised, and with these bright lights, Yue Mu saw that the enemy soldier at the end was a big fat man, and according to what he had learned during the three days of preparation for the siege, Yue Mu recognized that this person was wearing the costume of a eunuch.

"Shouldn't these eunuchs serve the emperor and the mother in the palace?" When Yue Mu strode past this corpse, he felt that the situation in front of him was a little strange: "What are they doing in the city?" ”

As the overseer arrived, the wall fell silent, and in the distance there were cries of killing, and the soldiers of the Guards trotted towards the place where the noise had been made. Yue Mu walked to the wall and looked into the dark city, unlike the countryside or the cities he had seen before, although it was dark at night, there were still a little fires in the city, these lights flickered in the city, like stars in the sky - most of the soldiers of the Shun army, like Yue Mu, they had seen such a magnificent imperial city as Beijing for the first time.

……

"It's urgent! Long live the lord, the big thing is not good! Wang Chengen rushed in and shouted at Emperor Chongzhen regardless of etiquette.

After learning of the change in Changyi Gate just now, Emperor Chongzhen ordered a personal expedition and ordered the last remnants of the Praetorian Guard to follow him to reinforce Changyi Gate, but the army could no longer be organized. After learning that the Shun army was storming the city and many city gates began to be in an emergency, the Praetorian Guards mutinied, and the soldiers collectively threw down their posts and fled the Forbidden City, allowing the envoys to shout their throats, and no Praetorian Guard soldiers were willing to stay and follow Emperor Chongzhen to go to the expedition in person.

The other guards of the Beijing camp were similarly unmoved, and they found all sorts of excuses to refuse to leave their heavily guarded posts or send reinforcements to Emperor Chongzhen's emissaries. In desperation, Emperor Chongzhen also ordered to ring the Jingyang bell, hoping that a few ministers could bring their servants to protect the emperor, so that these people could be sent to Changyimen as reinforcements.

However, none of the ministers came, and just as Chongzhen was considering sending the Jingjun, who had no combat experience and was the last guard of the Forbidden City, Wang Chengen reported that the Changyi Gate had been attacked by the main force of the Shun army, and was quickly defeated. The envoy sent to report the imminent loss of the tower, and the little eunuch who reported the news said that when he was leaving, the envoy himself had already taken up his sword and ran to the city wall.

"Let the Long Live Lord break through and leave Beijing quickly." These were the last words that the messenger of the prison army dropped as he rushed to the city with his sword.

"Long live the Lord, the Changyi Gate is broken!"

Another eunuch rushed in with a rolling belt, and he didn't care about letting Wang Chengen convey it, so he reported directly to Chongzhen.

The left and right faces were pale, Chongzhen flicked his sleeves lightly, and commanded softly: "Go and tell my imperial sister-in-law, and the queen." ”

"Yes." An attendant ran out, and Chongzhen had prepared medicine for the royal ladies in advance.

"How come the people who went to the edict haven't heard from them yet?" Chongzhen muttered to himself, just now Chongzhen ordered to mention Xu Ping's visit, but the Jinyi guards of the Imperial Prison did not agree to the decree anything, and even did not open the door, and the quarrel ended to the end, and the guards of the Imperial Prison actually shot at the eunuch who delivered the decree with a musket. When Chongzhen learned about it, he ordered Wang Chengen to send a team of pure troops to rob Xu Ping in the prison.

"I can't die yet, I have to tell him the inside story, so that I can't keep the world, and he will get his ancestral business back." Before the city was not broken, Emperor Chongzhen was lucky, if he told Xu Ping the inside story, it would be asking for trouble to keep the Jingshi in the end, and now Chongzhen is already very anxious, but his face is still calm, and he strives to maintain the image of the emperor.

……

"General," Commander Chen rushed into the door in a rage, shouting at Xu Ping: "The city is broken, the Changyi Gate is broken!" ”

"Oh." Xu Ping was about to get up and go out when he heard this.

"Great general, slow down," a group of brocade guards hurriedly stopped him, and now Xu Ping is their talisman, the guarantee of their lives, and the hope of retaining wealth and wealth: "There are soldiers and chaos outside, and this place is the safest." ”

"I know, but you don't have any credit for keeping me," Xu Ping is not afraid of the so-called chaos, this is not an evenly matched confrontation at all, but a scene of falling trees, it is impossible to compare with the danger that Xu Ping encountered before, he said to the Jinyi guards who were crowded around him: "Follow me to arrest Emperor Ming, this is a great achievement." ”

Seeing that the surrounding Jinyi guards were still hesitant, Xu Ping encouraged them and said: "This time King Shun asked me to enter Beijing to persuade Emperor Ming to surrender, if he escapes from the city, even I will be blamed by King Shun, let alone you?" ”

Hearing Xu Ping say seriously, in addition, Jinyiwei is the personal soldier of the great tomorrow, these people really need a lot of credit to keep their current status, and now they need to save Xu Ping's life without worry, Commander Chen and others also have to look at Shu, thinking about making a greater contribution to make King Shun look at him differently.

Hearing Xu Ping say this, some people took the lead in applauding the response, and Commander Chen also slapped his thigh fiercely: "The general has an order, how dare he disobey his humble position?" ”

Don't care about continuing to take care of other prisoners, at this time, no one will think that this is a credit even if they are loyal to their duties, and the Jinyi guards in the edict prison are all following Xu Ping, and they all plan to go to the Forbidden City to make meritorious contributions together.

The heavy gate of the prison slowly opened in front of him, and as soon as Xu Ping walked out of the door, he suddenly saw more than a dozen corpses lying in front of the camp gate, and then raised his eyes to look around, there were more around, and it looked like there were dozens of them if not a hundred. These dead men were all dressed in eunuch clothes, and some of them were still holding muskets or broadswords, looking a bit like the Jingjun that Xu Ping had seen a few days earlier.

"What is this?" Xu Ping asked, pointing to the corpses around him.

"So that the general will know," Commander Chen hurriedly came up to report, "these rats want to harm the general, and the lowly rank will defeat them in one fell swoop." ”

After saying that, Commander Chen also pulled over a small leader of the Jinyi Guard who specifically commanded the battle, and this person introduced to Xu Ping with a smug face: "These rats have come twice, and after being repelled by the lowly officials first, they brought more people and horses to storm the Imperial Prison. These eunuchs don't want to think about it, they are a group of eggless people, and they are the opponents of us seven-foot men?! After hiding behind the prison wall, the lowly officials deliberately showed weakness and put them in front of them, and then all at once they fired a volley of guns, killing them to the point of throwing off their armor and holding their heads," the high-spirited Jinyi Wei waved his hand vigorously, laughed loudly and said in a loud voice: "Kill these eunuchs to the point of a river of blood!" ”

After laughing a few times, this heroic Jinyi Wei did not forget to say two good words for his boss Commander Chen: "Relying on the generals Hongfu Qitian and Commander Chen to use the troops properly, the brothers have no casualties." ”

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