"The emperor has died!"

The next day, when the eunuch entered the imperial study in the early morning according to the will of Emperor Shunzhi, he saw a corpse floating in the air, and Emperor Shunzhi used his belt to hang himself on the beam of the house, so as to preserve his dignity as the king of a country.

With the frightened screams of the eunuchs, the whole palace city fell into chaos, and the surviving civil and military officials in the city hurried to the palace after getting the news, and when they entered the palace, the emperor's body had been put down, lying quietly on the dragon bed, his face was dead, and a blue and purple stamp on his neck was clearly visible.

"Your Majesty!"

The ministers fell to their knees together, howling and crying, and Fan Wencheng, led by Han Chen, lay on the ground and cried in pain, as if it was his own father who died, and fainted directly from crying.

Yue Le, who was dressed in bloody armor, also cried incessantly, he pounded the ground in pain, in order to vent the grief in his heart, he was full of self-blame, he thought that if he saw the emperor's strange appearance last night and stayed by the emperor's side all night, maybe the emperor would not hang himself.

In the midst of a burst of crying, the eunuch who was the first to find the body suddenly remembered something, he stumbled to the imperial study, took the edict written by the emperor last night, and returned to the palace where the body was placed, he said to the officials sadly: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the edict written by the emperor himself last night, and the servants are ordered to send it to the army early this morning to read it.

When the civil and military officials heard his words, their eyes immediately focused on the edict in his hand, and then they looked at each other, nodded their heads, and let the eunuch read it in public.

The eunuch then read out the contents of the edict, the Shunzhi Emperor had a will to die when he wrote the edict, he first self-criticized, saying that the imperial court has fallen to such a field today, and its crimes are all on the emperor himself, and then said that the people in the city were affected by the war, displaced, and hungry, which is also his responsibility, he could not bear more tragic deaths under the Xia army, and ordered the hundreds of officials and soldiers in the city to be headed by Fan Wencheng, Kaicheng surrendered to the Xia army, and did not continue to resist stubbornly.

At the end, he quoted the last words of the late Emperor Chongzhen of the former Ming Dynasty to the chief general of the Xia army, "Let the corpses be divided, and no one will be injured", hoping that the Xia army would not slaughter the city after entering the city and treat the people in the city well.

After the eunuch finished reading, there was another cry at the bottom, but Yue Le was not willing to surrender like this, he stood up suddenly, and said to the officials with tears: "I, Yue Le, do not want to be the prisoner of the Han people, I am determined to live and die with Shengjing, and die with Your Majesty, if you are determined to surrender, please go to Tianyoumen."

"Yue Le, what kind of bastard are you talking about! Do you think of us as cowards who are greedy for life and afraid of death?" The military department Shangshu Itu stood up, glared angrily at Yue Le, and said, "I've been deeply favored by the emperor for generations, how can I surrender to the Han people, and I'm also going to live and die with Shengjing!"

"Yes! Live and die with Shengjing!"

"The Han people forced the emperor to death, and I don't share the sky with him, and swear to live and die with Shengjing!"

With Itu at the beginning, the Manchu officials stood up one after another, hating the same enemy, while the Han officials among them knelt on the ground and remained silent, and they were caught in a dilemma, whether to live and die together for the so-called righteousness and the Qing Dynasty, or to surrender for the sake of small lives.

After the Manchu officials expressed their attitude, they turned their eyes to the Han officials who were kneeling on the ground, and their eyes were full of disdain and contempt, as if they had expected these Han people to betray the Qing Dynasty and surrender to the Xia army.

In the end, Fan Wencheng, who was still designated by Shunzhi, stood up, he was supported by others and stood up tremblingly, and said: "The old man has worked hard for the Qing Dynasty all his life, and the southerners will regard the old man as the hatred in their hearts, and the old man will also live and die with the Qing Dynasty."

Seeing Fan Wencheng's statement, those Han officials had no choice but to say that they wanted to stay one by one, and seeing that none of these Han officials wanted to leave, the Manchurian officials all snorted coldly and withdrew their gaze.

However, at this moment, the terrifying attack horn that was about to make people reflex sounded outside, and when they heard the horn that represented that the Xia army was about to attack, everyone's faces became ugly.

Yue Le

He shook off his robe and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the Xia army is about to attack, and the king of this county will return to the army first.

"We will obey the orders of the county king."

……

On this day's siege, the Xia army also attacked fiercely, and the Qing army in the city was completely unable to resist the fierce offensive of the Xia army, even if Wang Yuele of Anjun and a group of officials took the lead in the front line, the Qing army still failed to hold out for more than an hour, and was attacked into the city by the Xia army.

After the Xia army entered the city, the two sides immediately fell into a tragic street battle, because most of the houses in the city were burned into ruins, so the Qing army could not rely on the complex terrain to resist, and was defeated under the fierce attack of the Xia army, so it could only retreat to the palace city and rely on the palace wall to resist.

For these stubborn Qing troops, the Xia army did not hesitate at all, directly transferred several infantry cannons from outside the city, aimed at the closed palace gate and fired several cannons, forcibly blasted the palace gate open, and then replaced it with shotguns, braving the arrows fired by the Qing army to approach, and fired deadly shotguns at the Qing army behind the palace gate.

The shotgun shot by the infantry cannon forcibly tore the direction of the Qing army behind the palace gate, and for a time produced a fan-shaped no-man's land, and the Qing army behind the palace gate immediately suffered heavy losses, and the Xia army seized the opportunity in time, and the tall grenadiers threw grenades together, and rushed into the palace gate with their rifles under the opening of the grenade, and fell into a bloody fight with the Qing army that was blown up.

The grenadiers deserved to be the elite of the Xia army's infantry, and under their strong breakthrough, although the Qing army had *** to take the lead in resisting, they were still defeated and retreated, and finally had to retreat to the Great Palace.

The two sides launched the final battle in this splendid palace city, the sound of guns and cannons continued, from time to time there were stray bullets on the building, leaving an indelible mark on the palace itself, the old slave in the construction of the palace of the Jin Kingdom, presumably never imagined that one day their descendants would actually fight with the Han people in this palace.

In the end, the stubborn Qing army still caused a lot of casualties to the Xia army, they fought to the last man, Aixin Jueluo Yue Le was shot several times but stood still, he leaned on the pillar of the Dazheng Palace, his eyes were wide open, but he had already lost his breath, and the rest of the Manchu *** and the eunuchs in the palace also died in the palace, the palace was full of corpses, blood flowed like a river, and the exquisite relief was also splashed with bright red blood, and there were many bullet holes left on it.

With the death of the last Qing soldier who resisted, the inside and outside of the palace suddenly fell into a sea of cheers, and the soldiers of the Xia army cheered, raised their weapons high, shouted loudly, or threw their helmets into the air to vent the pressure accumulated in this battle.

Subsequently, under the organization of the grassroots officers, the soldiers scattered and rushed into the various palaces in the palace city, searching for the Manchu emperor and the remaining Qing court *** that had not appeared from beginning to end, with the search of the soldiers, the palace maids and eunuchs hiding in the palace were found one after another, they were full of fear, crying and being escorted by the bright bayonets to the wide square outside the Dazheng Hall to wait.

And the Manchu court did her best to do the Han female cadre Fan Wencheng, in the Xia army besieged the Dazheng Palace, resolutely chose to hang herself, under his leadership, several Han *** also followed the hanging, hanging on the beams, and after the Xia army rushed into the Dazheng Palace, what he saw was a few bodies floating in the air with hot corpses, as well as the surviving Han officials who knelt on the ground and trembled.

The soldiers stepped forward to put down the corpse of Na Fan Wencheng, and they were all extremely disgusted with this Han girl who betrayed his ancestors and compatriots, so they directly put a rope around his neck, dragged the corpse out of the main hall, and as they walked out, they cheered loudly:

"Fan Wencheng is dead, this damn big man really deserves it!"

The surrounding soldiers heard the cheers and hurriedly stepped forward to watch, they looked at the corpse that was dragged to the ground, and spat and cursed, venting their disdain for him in their hearts.

"He died too lightly, he should have been torn apart!"

"Yes! The corpses of the five horses are divided, and the bones are scattered!"

"Drag him out and hand him over to the Overseer, who is jealous and hateful, and will definitely not let him live well after death!"

The soldiers came up with ideas one after another, and the soldiers who found the corpse also felt that it made sense after hearing it, so they found a carriage and threw the corpse on it at will

Then he pulled the carriage and went out of the city.

On the other side, the soldiers searching for the Shunzhi Emperor also quickly found the emperor's body parked in the Qingning Palace, and the eunuch who read the edict in the morning was loyally waiting next to the body, and he did not show a frightened look when he saw the Xia soldiers who broke in, but took the initiative to greet him, and said calmly:

"I am the close eunuch beside Emperor Shunzhi of the Great Qing Dynasty, the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty died last night, please don't disturb the purity here."

After speaking, he paused, and then said, "I have the edict of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty here, take me to your chief general, and I will forward the edict to him, but I hope you can protect the emperor's body."

The soldiers who broke in were calmed by his calmness, they looked at each other a few times, and the highest-ranking commander at the head nodded, "I understand, you and I will go, I will leave a few people to guard here."

Although they hated the Manchu Emperor, now that the Manchu Emperor was dead, they would not rush to destroy the Manchu Emperor's corpse until they received the military order.

After saying that, the chief of the army ordered his subordinates to stay in Qingning Palace, and he himself left here with his close attendants and eunuchs, and reported the matter to his immediate superiors who were still in the palace.