Inside the Qianqing Palace.

Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair and thought carefully, there was a very realistic question in front of him, how to get out of the city?

The 100,000-strong army of thieves surrounded the nine gates of the inner city, and it was impossible to force them out of the city.

He knows very well that the center of the palace has different thoughts at the moment, and many people have ghosts in their hearts, and they must not bet their lives on one place, who should be used, and how to use it, which will affect the final result.

Fortunately, the royal family has not had too many constraints, and the three princes have already entrusted the palace people to secretly send them out of the palace, and they should be able to save their lives, as for the harem, alas...

When Chongzhen was worried, Wang Chengen led a person and walked in quickly, obviously Fang was ordered by Chongzhen to find someone.

"Your Majesty, Lord Luo, the Governor of the Left Capital of the Houjun Governor's Mansion, has brought it."

"Don't dare, the guilty minister has the emperor's grace, Jinyiwei, Luo Yang, meet Your Majesty."

Chongzhen looked at Luo Yangxing, who was wearing a unicorn suit in front of him, sorted out his emotions, and said: "Yangxing, don't be formal, get up, stand and talk to me." Luo Yangxing got up and stood still, and Chongzhen asked and answered with him.

"How many Jinyi guards are still in the palace? Where are they? ”

"Your Majesty, there are more than 1,000 people, of which 800 are uneven, and the ministers have been divided into four teams to guard the four gates of Tian'an, Di'an, Xi'an, and Dong'an. The rest are all good hands in the brocade guards, and the ministers have brought them, and now they are outside the Qianqing Palace, and they are ready to listen to His Majesty's dispatch at any time. ”

"Oh? Jinyi Wei is a good hand, and they are all loyal to the dead? ”

Luo Yangxing immediately knelt down after hearing this, and this time, Chongzhen did not call him again.

"Willing to die for Your Majesty!"

"Luo Aiqing, don't be afraid, I don't mean to be tempted, the three generations of officials of the Luo family have been in command of the Jinyi Guard, and they have been doing things for the Zhu family for a hundred years, and I can be trusted. It's just that I heard rumors that today is the time when the world changes hands, and it is I who should be afraid of the saying that it should be a two-handed plan. ”

"Who dares to utter such a rebellious remark? Weichen immediately took someone to investigate, gouged out his eyes and tongue, peeled off his skin and bones, and comforted the emperor's heart! ”

Chongzhen was already standing beside Luo Yangxing at this time.

"Hehe, it doesn't matter, compared to the thieves outside the city, this is also a trivial matter, and I have an important matter entrusted to you at the moment, and I don't need you to die, but I want you to live."

Luo Yangxing was puzzled, and looked up at Chongzhen, "Your Majesty, what do you mean by this?" ”

Chongzhen replied to the question, "What happened in front of you, what is the name behind you, which one does Luo Aiqing value more?" ”

"The minister only focuses on sharing worries and solving problems for His Majesty."

"Good!" Chongzhen patted Luo Yangxing's shoulder heavily, and said, "I want you to surrender to him after the thief invades, I don't want you to die, you have to live a good life, and you want to live a long life." ”

"I want you to widen your eyes and watch, who is loyal and who is traitor, loyal ministers are in trouble and hope you can try your best to save them, traitors live or die for me to write down firmly, this matter is important, do you hear clearly!"

Chongzhen roared, startling the somewhat confused Luo Yangxing into a cold sweat. It's no wonder that before he came, he had thought about many dialogue scenes, but he didn't expect Chongzhen to take the initiative to let him surrender to the thief, which had too much impact on him, and he didn't recall it for a while.

But Luo Yangxing, who has been in charge of Jinyiwei for many years, is he a stupid person? After a while, I understood the meaning.

"The minister is ordered, and he is willing to live for His Majesty."

"Go and defend the city, in the future, I will personally rehabilitate you and tell the world, but now, you know about this matter, and no third person can know about it."

Chongzhen pointed at Wang Chengen, a father-in-law's elf-like figure, and jumped up.

"The slave and maid should die, just fell asleep, please punish the emperor."

Luo Yangxing nodded heavily, no longer said anything, and was about to get up and walk towards the outside of the hall, at this time he felt that he was burdenless.

"Call all the brocade guards outside the hall in, I have other important things to order. Come over and change my clothes. ”

Luo Yang made a promise, went out of the house, and disappeared.

Wang Chengen quickly picked up a set of flying fish clothes from his side and stepped forward to change Chongzhen's clothes. In the hall, there were brocade guards with flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives pouring in, but the space in the hall was not enough, and the rest stood outside the door in order. When all of them are still standing, the first two immediately kneel down.

"Minister, Commander of Jinyiwei, Wang Guoxing, meet Your Majesty."

"Minister, commander of Jinyiwei, Li Ruolian, meet Your Majesty."

Chongzhen changed into a dark flying fish suit, looking like a brocade guard general flag, and he tightened the double buckle head belt around his waist to make the clothes fit better.

"No courtesy, let's be even." As he spoke, he took the saber from Wang Chengen's hand and held it in his hand.

"I will take you to death immediately, those who are willing, stay, those who do not want to leave the palace on their own or stay in the palace to surrender to the thieves, I will not pursue anything, the son of tomorrow will never break his word."

No one in the palace moved, and no one answered, Chongzhen knew in his heart that these good sons were the last few people who were loyal to the royal family, and one died one less. I can't bear it, but I can't help it, what is a lonely person? That's it.

At this point, Wang Chengen saw this, and stood in front of Li Ruolian with a set of dragon robes of the Ming and Huang Tianzi, and the figure of Li Ruolian in front of him seemed to be similar to Chongzhen.

Li Ruolian immediately understood, changed into a dragon robe without delay, and held the crown of the Son of Heaven on his waist.

Chongzhen raised the saber in front of him and said loudly: "You and the others are divided into two, and Li commands the envoy to dress up and lead a team out of the palace, trying to go out of the city through the three gates of Qihua, Chongwen, and Zhengyang." If you can't get out, go up the coal mountain, and I want you to make noise along the way, the bigger the better. ”

"Commander Wang will lead a team, and come with me!"

"No!" Including Li Ruolian and Wang Guoxing, more than 200 Jinyi guards were present, all of whom responded to the promise, and their voices shook the sky.

In this situation, Chongzhen had tears in the corners of his eyes, and he was extremely moved. As early as the early years of the Chongzhen Dynasty, because of Wei Zhongxian's eunuch and eunuch power, he greatly reduced the Jinyi Wei and withdrew many rewards from the children of the hereditary Jinyi Wei.

It's been ten years like this, Jinyiwei is weak, and he has long lost his demeanor.

But today, with his words, there are still people who are willing to die for him.

Chongzhen felt it, pulled out the embroidered spring knife, the tip of the knife pointed straight to the sky, and shouted: "Jinyi is immortal!" Just withering! ”

"Brocade clothes don't die! Just withering! Everyone drew their knives and shouted this new slogan, their eyes firmly fixed on Chongzhen.

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Although Li Zicheng claimed to have 100,000 soldiers and horses when he entered Beijing this time, the actual number should not be more than 80,000. The battalions of the Shun army are divided into good and bad, and the strongest is the old battalion, which is good to wear red clothes, mostly cavalry and first-class archery, but the number is the smallest, only bringing more than 20,000 people.

The majority of the number are displaced people, the weakest of whom are all coerced along the way, most of them are unarmed and unarmed, and can be used as cannon fodder in wartime.

The strength in the middle is the well-known bandits from all over Jiangbei, although it is in the middle, it is better than the homeless people who are not clothed.

In this siege, the nine gates of the capital were all arranged to attack the city.

The soldiers have three clouds and one of them, and Li Zicheng has fought a lot of battles and has also won this essential, so the focus is on the south, north, and east, and only some homeless bandits are arranged on the west side to watch, with a few old battalions to supervise the battle and chase the escape.

Xizhimen, as early as after the Shun army entered Gaobeidian, Li Zicheng ordered his subordinates to bombard this gate.

At this time, the Xizhi Gate, the gate was closed, and there were still palace forbidden troops guarding the city. The arrow tower on the urn city was shelled and a corner was missing, and the city wall was covered with black cannon marks, forming depressions of different sizes.

In the western suburbs five miles away from the city gate, there are several battalions of soldiers stationed here, and dozens of old bandits wearing red clothes patrol the middle of the camp back and forth, and from time to time also go to the direction of Xizhimen to observe the situation of the city tower.

There were three or two thousand people in the whole battalion, standing or sitting in all directions. Most of them were poorly clothed, with all sorts of strange weapons, and those with knives and sticks, and even those with hoes.

In a corner of the camp, three people were sitting around, eating dry food

One of them was not very old, about fifteen or sixteen years old, he was a little baby, he looked at the man eating wheat cakes next to him and drooled, and asked: "Third Brother Deng, can you beat this capital?" ”

"That's the king's business, but it's not my turn to worry about it." The man who replied lowered his head and nibbled on the wheat cake and wiped his mouth.

"Then when we enter Beijing, follow King Chuang to get a prince and a horse, then dare to be good."

When the man who ate the cake heard this, he slapped the little baby in the head, "A dog baby, just up to you?" ”

"Third Brother Deng, let's talk about it, can you not beat my brain? My mother said that she would fight stupidly! ”

The other person looked at Zhile and handed the wheat cake in his hand to the little baby, "Dog baby, take it and eat it, I said you too, what are you doing with the dog baby." The dog baby grabbed the wheat cake in her hand, ate it, and turned her body to the side, looking at Deng San defensively.

Deng San saw that the gouwa's cowardly appearance was not fighting, and he was about to fight again, but he was held down by the other person.

"Okay, okay, dog baby, eat more, the soles of your feet will be energetic later, and the camp will suddenly send dry food, most likely to attack the city."

Hearing this, Deng San looked around sneakily, and after confirming that there was no red-clothed figure in the old camp nearby, he asked, "Brother You, are we talking about it later?" ”

"The old battalion is staring at us, we can't run away, you both are closer to me when attacking the city, be smart."

After that, the three of them were speechless, and after eating, they quickly rested to save more energy.

About half an hour passed, and the frequency of the herald sentries between the battalions became more and more frequent, and the other battalions could be faintly heard gradually becoming noisy.

"Wake up." The man surnamed You kicked the sleeping dog baby and Deng San, and the two rubbed their sleepy eyes and didn't know why.

A hurried whistle sounded suddenly, and a red-clothed colonel rode a horse in the camp, his horse's mouth opening and closing, and it was steaming white.

"Roll up and line up for Lao Tzu, a bunch of rubbish!"

After that, the little colonel rode a horse and beat people when he saw someone, Deng San got up slowly, and was whipped on the face, and the skin of the cheeks was open, and the blood flowed, covering his face and screaming.

"Fuck! Lao Tzu is young to kill you! Deng San scolded angrily, ignoring the burning pain on his face, and wanted to step forward to fight with him. The little colonel smiled contemptuously, and whipped Deng San with his backhand, this whip was extremely fierce, hitting the dead hole on the top of the head.

The man surnamed You grabbed Deng San's body, raised his hand to block the fatal whip for him, his arm was dripping with blood, and the man was in pain but did not speak.

The little colonel was interested and was about to draw his knife, but he heard a burst of artillery sound of "boom, boom, boom", and it was the other battalions that began to attack the city, so he had to give up, pointed at the two of them with his finger, and said: "Run faster when attacking the city, grandpa will pay attention to the two of you, haha." ”

After saying that, he turned around and ordered everyone in the camp to leave the camp immediately and storm Xizhimen.