"I can't go." Zhu Jun made up his mind after a short hesitation. He raised his head: "I am also afraid of death, but the Ming Ancestor is especially saying, I can't make an exception, if this example is opened, if future generations follow suit, won't I set a bad example?" ”

No harmony, no compensation, no land, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies! This is not just an empty word in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, when the Tumubao Change, the tile spur army kidnapped Ming Yingzong, forced the city of Beijing, asked the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, and the ministers guarding Beijing resolutely opposed, so Yao respected Yingzong as the emperor, and continued to fight against the tile spur. In the last years of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's troops came to the city of Beijing, some people proposed to move south, but they were soon opposed by most people, when the Manchurians knocked on the pass, the elite of the Ming Dynasty were all in the Shanhaiguan area, Emperor Chongzhen would rather commit suicide in the coal mountain, and did not transfer the Ningyuan iron cavalry into the Central Plains to fight Li Zicheng, and abided by the promise of the Ming emperors of the past dynasties since Zhu Di to the subjects of the Son of Heaven to guard the country.

Until the establishment of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Yongli became an outlier among the Ming Dynasty Son of Heaven, running around not to mention, but also afraid of death very, at that time the Southern Ming Dynasty also controlled the southwestern provinces, and fled into Myanmar like a panicked dog.

But Zhu Jun is different, the reputation of Emperor Yongli has become stinky, but the name of the new first emperor can no longer stink, and if he wants to become the spiritual pillar of the Han people in Nanyang, Zhu Jun must not go.

"The king is willing to die, and the ministers are so impressed that they are willing to live and die with my emperor." Mu Tianbo solemnly stood out of the class, the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty were a very strange group of people, when the foreign enemy invaded, the courtiers of other dynasties hurriedly wanted to protect the safety of the emperor, moving the capital, suing for peace, paying tribute, cutting land, and relatives and other ways emerged in endlessly, but in the Ming Dynasty, the courtiers thought that the emperor should die to guard the society.

"The minister seconded the proposal." Yang Side came out solemnly.

More ministers stepped forward: "The ministers seconded it." ”

"My emperor is wise, long live long live long live!" All the ministers shouted that this time they were sincere.

Zhu Jun laughed heartily, dispelled a trace of fear in his heart, and said: "Life and death are fate, I am the son of heaven." If the heavens look down, they will surely save the day. All of you Aiqing followed me to the inner city tower to watch the battle, in order to show the momentum of my Ming soldiers. ”

Outside the palace, thousands of Ming troops had gathered, and the rest of the soldiers were rushing from all corners of the city to help in the battle, and the Dutch army of the three roads began to gradually gather on the long street in front of the square and lined up.

"These barbarians are finally going to compete with us openly." The Dutch officers were greatly encouraged. In their experience with the Orientals, the soldiers of the Orientals were poorly trained, and often the whole army would retreat if they suffered 10% casualties, and now what they had to do was to break up the ranks of the barbarians with muskets, and then they could pursue the remnants of the enemy.

"Obey my commands. All of them come closer to the military flag. "The Dutch officers restrained their men. Drew a sharp saber and pointed forward: "Forward!" ”

The drummers beat the drum again to a brisk rhythm. Nearly 2,000 heavily armed Dutch troops marched forward in orderly steps.

"Kids. They are only half as large as we are. Most of them were also armed with broadswords and spears. We will kill the Barbarians of Indochina as we did to defeat them. Victory belongs to the Netherlands! "The officers did not miss any opportunity to humiliate their opponents. In order to boost the morale of the low-landed landers. And they weren't lying. In front of them, there were only more than 1,000 Ming troops. Except for the soldiers of the mountain camp and a small number of soldiers of the new barracks. The rest of the warriors still wield improvised melee weapons.

The guards outside the palace did not have many ground steel crossbows. There are only more than 100 pairs. The rest of the land is still on the way to Miyagichi. Commanding the commander of the Ming army's mountain battalion, Tongzhi's forehead was full of cold sweat. He commanded the crossbow warriors to squat in the front row. The rest of the land is guarded by soldiers on both wings. The steel crossbow has a long range. But the number is too small. He wasn't much sure.

"Hit the string!" The commander had estimated that the Dutch had entered the range of the crossbow. Shouted: "Shoot! ”

Laugh at... Sneer...... A row of crossbow arrows came out of the crossbow. The burst is scattered forward. Dozens of corpses were left behind for the advancing Dutch.

"The second column stepped forward, and the first column stepped back." The commander waved his raised hand heavily: "Shoot!" ”

Dozens more Dutchmen screamed and fell, even as they were. The formation of the Dutch was not out of order, and the officers were shouting: "Go ahead and leave your wounded companions alone." ”

The Dutch soldiers continued to advance, they were a military organization in the true sense of the word in modern times, after strict military training and the baptism of war, no one knew better than them that the rout would only make them die faster, so they would not retreat, they still walked in order, just waiting for the Ming army to enter the range of the musket and then return fire.

More than a dozen rounds of crossbow arrows were fired, leaving nearly two hundred corpses behind the Dutch. By this time, the Dutch had gradually approached the ranks of the Ming army. The Ming army was already exposed to the range of the Dutch muskets.

"Shoot!" The Dutch officers could not wait to give the order to attack, and after a burst of gunfire accompanied by gunsmoke. The Ming army also began to suffer casualties.

The wide square became a battlefield for grinding meat at this moment, the minaret of the martyrs was filled with gunsmoke, and the two sides began to shoot at each other without any shelter, it was obvious that although the steel crossbow of the Ming army was more lethal than the musket of the Dutch, but the Dutch were more numerous, and in a moment, the steel crossbow was pressed by the powerful firepower of the Dutch, and the commander had to order the Ming army to retreat slowly, and try to let the Ming army get out of the range of the Dutch for crossbow attacks, but their backs were getting closer and closer to the palace wall, and after a while, There is no way back for them.

"Reinforcements will come soon, and the brothers will hold me back."

"Wang Qianhu, you take a team of brothers to rush to kill on both wings, Your Majesty is behind us, you must not let the red-haired people enter the palace, this battle is related to the fortune of the Ming Dynasty, the safety of the Son of Heaven is in danger, and you must not retreat." The commander summoned a thousand households to give instructions.

"Subordinates obey." Qianhu didn't say much, turned his head and shouted at the recruit with a big sword and spear: "Those who are not afraid of death will follow the future." ”

The long-range shooting of the Ming army was suppressed by the Dutch, and as a last resort, they could only form a death squad to fight hard, and Qianhu led more than 400 death squads around the right flank and began to attack.

"Brethren, the time has come to make a difference!" Qianhu roared, rushing to the front with a single knife in hand, and behind him were recruits who swarmed to follow like a tide.

"Kill!" Under the cover of the frontal steel crossbow, a group of crazy Ming troops slaughtered from the flanks with red eyes, and let out an earth-shattering roar.

The ranks of the Dutch were suddenly scattered, and the officers hurriedly divided a part of the musketeers to protect the flanks, which made the frontal fire stagnant for a long time, and the crossbowmen in the front of the Ming army took the opportunity to counterattack, and the vitality of the Dutch was suppressed under the salvo of steel crossbows.