Chapter 42: Siege of the Palace!

From the nine outer gates of Beijing City to the gate of the Imperial Palace, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Yue Family Army, lined up in a mighty and neat queue, entered the city of Beijing and went straight to the outside of the palace!

Countless lines of dazed and frightened eyes peeked through the crack in the door, and were cast into a queue that stretched for dozens of miles like a long dragon!

Wearing dozens of catties of in-person iron armor, the surface of the iron armor is coated with scarlet paint, holding a heavy iron axe weighing ten catties, carrying a divine arm crossbow that can pierce double leather armor within fifty steps, wearing a fine iron armor that covers most of the head, pieces of neck armor made of fine iron hang down, leaving only a pair of eyes the size of a copper bell with a fierce and murderous aura exposed to the air!

And this is just the standard configuration of an ordinary soldier of the Yue Family's Army!

This is the Yue family army that almost single-handedly recovered the Central Plains!

This is the pinnacle of the Chinese classical cold weapon period!

This is the powerful backing that Su Ming relies on to despise the world's heroes!

At this moment, on the side of the street, in a slightly dilapidated house, a middle-aged scribe closed the window, and he sighed softly, his tired face with a shock that could not be concealed.

Although he had heard that the army that defeated Li Zicheng was extremely strong, he only thought that the so-called toughness was just like the elite of the Nine Sides.

After all, the nine-sided elite of the Ming Dynasty is the strongest force in the entire Ming Dynasty, even if it is Li Zicheng's Dashun army, if it is not for the crushing advantage in numbers, it is not the opponent of the nine-sided elite at all!

After getting the news that Li Zicheng's soldiers had invaded Beijing, Wu Sangui and other nine-border guards had already led tens of thousands of elite troops to rush to Beijing's aid in the starry night!

Wu Sangui alone brought 30,000 Guanning iron cavalry, 30,000 of the most powerful cavalry of the Ming Dynasty!

Previously, the middle-aged scribe had always believed that as long as the palace could be guarded for a few more days, so that Wu Sangui and other Qinwang armies could arrive in time, then the Ming Dynasty could still be saved!

It wasn't until now that he saw this army with his own eyes that the middle-aged scribe knew what the so-called strong army was like!

Compared with the nine-sided elite of Wu Sangui and others, it is like a world of difference!

Not to mention whether the palace can hold out until the arrival of King Qin's army, even if all King Qin's army arrives in time, it is still unknown whether it can withstand the one-handed fight of others.

Thinking of this, the tiredness on the middle-aged scribe's face suddenly became more obvious, he looked up at the sky outside the window, and muttered, "This day, it's going to change-"

And when the middle-aged scribe was silent, the 100,000 Yue family army, which had an armor rate of up to 100%, had all entered the city of Beijing and surrounded the Beijing Imperial Palace!

Although the defense capability of the Forbidden City in Beijing is not inferior to that of any other Xiongcheng, and there are still 50,000 Ming soldiers guarding the palace, in the eyes of the 100,000 Yuejia soldiers, it is just a façade.

Just from the outer wall of the palace, those Ming soldiers who were so frightened by the Yue family's army that their legs and feet were trembling could clearly see what the so-called palace's defense capability was!

It can be said that if the Yue family army wants to forcibly capture this palace, a cup of tea is enough!

In fact, the generals of the Ming army on the outer wall of the palace also thought so, although they didn't think that they couldn't even hold a cup of tea, but if they were to be allowed to stay for half a day, they didn't have the slightest certainty.

Even, some generals have begun to make small calculations, thinking about how much status they can exchange for themselves in the new dynasty if they sell Chongzhen!

And the soldiers of the Ming army on the outer wall of the palace, their only thought now is to return home alive.

As for being loyal to the emperor, it's better to leave it to those high-ranking officials!

At this time, outside the palace surrounded by regiments, there was a commotion in the tens of thousands of Yuejia army formations, thousands of Yuejia soldiers scattered to both sides, and a road more than ten meters wide was vacated.

Su Ming rode on top of the black horse, holding an overlord gun weighing more than 100 catties in his hand, and drove towards the location of the palace step by step.

Half a meter behind Su Ming, a middle-aged general full of vicissitudes followed behind Su Ming on horseback, and the middle-aged general's eyes looked at Su Ming with a strong sense of respect, and even, in the deepest part of his eyes, there was a faint hint of worship.

The two of them talked and laughed along the road that was more than ten meters wide, and behind the two of them were Yue Yun, Wang Gang and more than a dozen fierce generals of the Yue family army who had left their names in history.

Side by side with the fierce generals of the Yue family army were the commanders and regiments of the original Beiwei First Infantry Division and the Beiwei First Cavalry Regiment under Su Ming, as well as Zhu Ronghua, the head of the armored artillery regiment and other major officers.