Heavy snow fell one after another, and the first heavy snow after the winter in Hebei was actually falling at the beginning of November (lunar calendar). It snowed heavily for three or four days. The temperature has long since dropped below freezing, and the originally dry and hard roads are completely covered with heavy snow, and the mountains, rivers and fields are all white.

Such heavy snow, such a cold winter, have reached the point of thousands of miles of snow and ice, but it has not stopped the rolling wheels of history from rushing towards the Qing Dynasty of Emperor Kangxi, let alone the Ming and Qing Dynasty rebellions that have lasted for more than 60 years have finally developed to the point where they are coming to an end.

Outside the city of Linqingzhou in the northwest corner of Shandong Province, tens of thousands of Qing troops, backed by the Grand Canal, lined up neatly and neatly, forming a neat vertical and horizontal formation. Before every Qing army, there is a tall standard-bearer, holding a dragon flag. These dragon flags are divided into yellow, white, red, blue, and blue five colors, of which the yellow, white, red, and blue four-color dragon flags are divided into two types: bordered and unedged, which symbolize the eight banners and green battalions that support the Qing Dynasty.

Snow flakes are like weaving, and the wind is like knives. In the midst of this wind and snow, nearly 70,000 Qing soldiers rode on foot, carrying flintlock pistols and red-clothed cannons against the wind and snow, preparing for the final battle for their homeland and country, their emperor, who had long been lying in the coffin!

And on the opposite side of them, less than two miles away, 50,000 Ming army tigers in bright red battle clothes also launched their own killing array in the howling north wind and heavy snow!

After several days of rapid marching, the officers and men of the Eighth Army of the Ming Army finally blocked the defeated Qing army of more than 70,000 people along the canal line north near the city of Linqingzhou on the second day of the first day of November.

The Qing army led by Chang Ning and Empress Yang came all the way, but there were interceptions in front and chasing soldiers in the back, which was really not easy!

And this is not the worst, because many of the counties that originally belonged to the Qing Dynasty have been changed to the Ming Dynasty, so it is difficult for the troops led by Changning and Empress Yang to get supplies and rest along the way. And they don't dare to waste time attacking cities that don't have much defense. After all, the pursuers of the Ming Dynasty were closely behind them, and the two sides were separated by dozens of miles at most, and they could be reached in half a day if they marched quickly.

Fortunately, Kochiri, who guards the state city of Lincheongju. Fu Nicheng is a Manchurian veteran who participated in the battle of the Qing Dynasty, and he is an old man who has fought Hong Chengchou, Li Zicheng, and Li Dingguo. It can be said that I saw the edifice of Manchuria rise and saw the edifice of Manchuria collapse. Such a Manchurian veteran with the blood of the Ming people on his hands will certainly not surrender to the Ming Dynasty. So the army of Chang Ning and Empress Yang finally got a castle to settle in here.

However, on the second day after Chang Ning and Empress Yang's troops entered the state city of Linqingzhou, the brigade of the eighth army of the Ming army crossed the Laozhang River in the northwest of Linqing Prefecture and appeared in the area on the west bank of the canal west of the state city of Linqingzhou!

At the same time, the pursuing force of more than 100,000 Ming troops also arrived on the south bank of the Maji River, thirty or forty miles south of Linqingzhou, and set up camp around the county seat of Qingping. In addition, the weather is too cold to wade. Therefore, the Ming army had to spend some time repairing a few pontoon bridges before advancing to the vicinity of Linqingzhou Prefecture.

And this little bit of time—a day or two at most, for Chang Ning and Empress Yang, it is the last window of time to break through the Ming army all the way and escape from Ascension!

If they could rush the pursuing Ming army to cross the Maji River and repel the 50,000 Ming troops on the west bank of the canal before approaching Linqingzhou, they would have been able to cross the Laozhang River and flee north.

Otherwise, they would either be trapped in Linqingzhou and waiting for reinforcements, or they would have to follow the east bank of the Grand Canal all the way north. And both of these strategies are very dangerous!

Sticking to waiting for help must be waiting for death, because this is not "waiting for help" at all, but waiting for the Ming army to send reinforcements! The Ming army placed in Shandong had hundreds of thousands! Once Chang Ning and Empress Yang are surrounded, who will dare to come to the rescue?

As for running along the canal, you can't do it!

Because the Qing army could run on the east side of the canal, the 50,000 Ming troops on the other side of the canal could also run on the west side of the canal. Race together! Can the Qing army outrun the Ming army? Can't run at all! This is not a question of long legs and short legs, but a question of whose side the world is on!

If the general trend of the world is clear, Chang Ning and Queen Yang will have someone to give them food and drink to welcome the king wherever they go, and they just have to run.

But if the world is in the Ming Dynasty, then the 50,000 Ming troops on the west bank of the canal will be the king's division. The towns and landlords along the way, of course, want to welcome them as kings! Along the way, there are houses to eat, drink and warm to live in, and there will also be meritorious militia regiments to help harass the Qing army and help tear down the roads and bridges in front of the Qing army.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a night, Chang Ning and Empress Yang and their generals finally made the only right choice - to fight against the water!

On the morning of the third day of October, in the midst of a snowstorm, the 50,000 Ming troops and the 70,000 Qing troops had already set up battle formations, and a decisive battle was about to begin.

In fact, Yang Xiaomi, who is already the Empress Dowager Yang, but still has the signboard of Empress Yang, took the Kangxi Emperor, who was already lying flat, and waited for the West Gate Tower of Linqingzhou City with Chen Tingjing, Funiqi, Gao Shiqi, Li Guangdi, Liang Jiucheng, and Zhao Chang. And also played the Yellow Dragon Banner of the Quartet, which symbolizes the Qing Emperor!

Yang Xiaomi turned his head to look at the coffin where Kangxi was, and sighed lightly: "Your Majesty, you must bless the fifth master to win!" If the fifth master is defeated this time, your Qing Dynasty will die, and you will be the king of the Qing Dynasty! ”

Although Emperor Kangxi's body has died, because Chang Ning and Empress Yang came to a secret, he is still alive in the history books!

If the Great Qing Dynasty can't get over the current hurdle, then he is the late emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, a proper monarch of the dead country. Don't even think about the "Holy Ancestor" temple number, it's good to have a "mourning sect" as a pawn.

At the same time, Chang Ning, who was immediately on a wooden bridge on the canal and watched the large formation of 50,000 Ming troops from a distance, also took a sharp breath of cold and biting air, and said loudly to the left and right: "Open the cannon. All the cannons fire together and shoot all the shells! ”

There's not much left to hit them all. After the battle, he could only withstand the fierce artillery bombardment of the Ming army, the fire of rifled guns, and the cavity bullets from the smoothbore guns!

As soon as Chang Ning's words fell, a row of large and small fires flashed in front of the Ming army front opposite, and then there was a roar like rolling thunder, and dozens of black dots flew towards the Qing army array in front of Changning at the same time at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Decide whether Kangxi will fight the Linqing War of the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and it will officially start!

On the second day of November, Beijing, the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty, was now shrouded in a white snowstorm.

However, no matter how strong and fierce the wind and snow are, it will not have much impact on the production and life of Beijing, a big city. Because as early as Suo Etu, Bandi, Bi Liktu, Yang Qilong and others left Beijing with nearly 80,000 troops, of course, a total of 16 city gates in Beijing, nine and seven outside, have all been closed, and they have not been opened again until now!

Although the Eight Banners disciples and Eight Banner sisters in Beijing who are not full enough are now not surrounded by the Ming army, they have come to a painting city as a prison under the order given by the Empress Dowager Bumu Butai, who ruled the city.

And the reason why the old queen mother gave such an order is, of course, because the city is now in extreme weakness!

In order to rescue the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi and Empress Dowager Bumu Butai have mobilized Beijing twice, and almost all of the bannermen who can take up arms to fight have already gone out to fight, and even the Han green battalion soldiers have been pulled away by Yang Qilong.

Now the only remaining Banner Army in Beijing are a few guards and guards pro-army. Because the troops were really insufficient to guard the nine gates of the inner city of Beijing, Bumu Butai had to arm the eunuchs in the palace and the clothed servants who were on errands in the internal affairs office, and let them guard the nine gates of the inner city of Beijing and the four palace gates of the imperial palace.

As for the defense of the outer city of Beijing, where there are still 230,000 Han people, it can only be handed over to Daniel Zhang and Zhang Yunyi's father and son - although Yang Qilong pulled away all the green battalion soldiers in the hands of the patrol five battalions, there are always Han people who can serve as soldiers, so the Zhang family father and son can only temporarily recruit thousands of unemployed hawkers and craftsmen, and barely fill the establishment of the five patrol battalions. Relying on these temporarily recruited green battalion soldiers, order in the outer city of Beijing was finally maintained. And the six gates of Beijing are finally guarded.

Although the city is barely guarded, the streets of the inner and outer cities are unusually deserted. Martial law began in the inner city after Suo Etu and their expedition, and apart from soldiers and officials, there were hardly any people on the streets of Beijing's inner city.

As for the martial law in the outer city, it is not enough, after all, the two or three hundred thousand Han people in the outer city have no hardcore crops to eat! If you really don't let people go out to make a living, can the old lady still give them food?

However, due to the fact that the sixteen gates inside and outside Beijing are closed, these two or three hundred thousand Han people really have nothing to do, so they have to eat old rice at home behind closed doors, and wait to starve to death when they are finished!

However, these Beijing Han people who sit and eat old rice at home don't know that the sky in Beijing will soon change!

On the gate tower and inside the city gate, all of them are dressed warmly, holding flintlock pistols and carrying waist knives of the five battalions of green battalion soldiers.

And looking at the posture of these green battalion soldiers holding guns and their military posture, they don't look like the vendors, craftsmen and vagrants who have just been recruited.

These green battalion soldiers also set up defenses and blockades on the streets of Yongdingmen, and even piled up barricades, looking like they were ready to fight street battles. It's just that the front of this barricade seems to be facing the Zhengyang Gate in the inner city of Beijing!

At this time, Daniel Zhang, who was not very sharp in his legs, was sitting leisurely on a soft bed placed in the Yongding Gate Tower, still guarding a red clay stove and a small table, and a large pot of mutton soup was burning on the stove, and the fragrance of mutton was floating in the huge city gate tower.

Daniel Zhang's son Zhang Yunyi was sitting on the other side of the table, holding a large bowl of mutton soup and steamed buns, enjoying it beautifully! When he was eating well, the gate of the city gate tower was suddenly pushed open, and a cold wind with snowflakes blew in, blowing Zhang Yunyi shivered for a while, he drank a large mouthful of mutton soup to warm his body, turned his head and glanced at the gate, and saw a little military attache dressed in a well-dressed suede and satin-faced gown, and a little sharp-beaked monkey cheeks walked in quickly, and his face was excited.

"See, you're here?" Zhang Yunyi put down the big bowl and beckoned to the military attaché, "Come here, come over and warm up with a bowl of mutton soup." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Yunyi also picked up a porcelain bowl and a soup spoon, among which he scooped a bowl of mutton soup for the military attaché, and then picked up chopsticks, picked up a large piece of mutton from the soup pot, and handed it to the little military attache who still had a lot of snowflakes on his clothes and hat with a smile.

This little military attache is a thousand generals under Daniel Zhang, surnamed Yue, named Shenglong, and the character is seen. He was from Lintao, Gansu, and was transferred to Beijing from Gansu with Daniel Zhang and Zhang Yunyi's father and son.

"Uncle Xie's mutton soup!" Yue Shenglong stretched out his hand to take the soup bowl and drank a large sip beautifully, before he smiled and said to Daniel Zhang and Zhang Yunyi, "Junmen, uncle is here!" ”

"Who's coming?" Daniel Zhang, who was originally squinting his eyes, as if he was recuperating his gods, suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Yue Shenglong with blazing eyes.

"Our Beiyang Army has come to the infantry of the brigade, marching against the wind and snow, it's really good!" Yue Shenglong put down the soup bowl, and then raised his thumb and said, "They are less than 20 miles away from Yongdingmen!" ”

"Good!" Daniel Zhang grinned and said, "See, go and light the fire, so that Grandpa knows that the Yongding Gate is already in our hands!" ”

"Whew!"

Yue Shenglong replied loudly, then saluted, and rushed out of the gate of the city gate tower as if flying.

Daniel Zhang turned back to his son Zhang Yunyi and said, "Yunyi. Who is guarding the Zhengyang Gate today? ”

"It's Cao Yin."

Daniel Zhang nodded: "Good Yunyi, take ten pistols to cheat the door!" ”

"Okay!" Zhang Yunyi nodded heavily, then swallowed his bowl of mutton soup, and strode out of the city gate.

"Papapapa, grandpa Guo."

Yang Qilong, who was huddled in a four-wheeled carriage with a stove and closed his eyes to recuperate, was first alarmed by a rapid knock on the door, he opened his eyes, turned his head and saw that it was Zhao Liangdong knocking on the door.

He hurriedly pushed the car door and hurriedly asked, "Qingzhi, what's going on in front?" ”

"Grandpa Guo, there is a fire on the edge of the Yongding Gate Tower!"

Zhao Liangdong said to Yang Qilong with a look of surprise, "This is the code we agreed with Zhang Junmen...... Yongdingmen is now in the hands of our people! ”

"Thank goodness!" Yang Qilong also breathed a sigh of relief.

With this little bit of firepower in his hands, it is very difficult to storm Beijing City.

Even if Bumu Butai didn't have a few soldiers in his hands, as long as he could close the city gate and tear down the wooden bridge over the moat. Yang Qilong's army could not enter the city for a few days...... The walls of Beijing are too high, and the moat is too wide!

And Yang Qilong was actually not good at attacking cities, so he simply arranged Neiying early - that was the paralyzed general Daniel Zhang.

This paralyzed general seems to be very reliable, and there has been no rebellion of paralyzed people throughout the ages, right?

Therefore, after Emperor Kangxi took away Yang Xiaomi's regent, he did not remove this paralyzed Admiral of Jiumen.

And these two Manchu expeditions, no one ordered his generals - they are all so old, and they can't ride horses, they can't walk, and they have to sit in a sedan chair when they go to the battlefield.

No one can bear to take him to fight against the Great Tomorrow soldiers!

As for Bumu Butai, before the 50,000 Mongol cavalry were dispatched, he was not worried about Daniel Zhang's rebellion at all.

Daniel Zhang's patrol battalion only had 5,000 people, how could it be the opponent of 50,000 Mongolian cavalry?

And after the 50,000 Mongolian cavalry was dispatched, the old lady was even less worried about Daniel Zhang's rebellion.

Everyone knows that Daniel Zhang is Empress Dowager Yang's person! Empress Dowager Yang saw that she had monopolized power, what other sect did Daniel Zhang create?

So the old queen mother was also very relieved and continued to let him be the commander of the Nine Gates......

But his old man never expected that this Daniel Zhang and his comrade Yang Qilong would not play cards according to the routine at all!

……

Forbidden City, Cining Palace.

Although the old lady Bumu Butai didn't expect Yang Qilong and Daniel Zhang to rebel, she already felt that something was wrong...... Because when she fell asleep last night, her old friend Dolgon slipped from Lord Hades to give her dreams.

In the dream, Bumu Butai took Dolgon's hand and cried to him, and asked him to come out and help!

But Dorgon told her that Da Ming was now helped by heaven! Even if he were to come back to life, he would not be able to turn the tide.

Dolgon also asked Bumu Butai to quickly take Baoqing to leave Beijing City, go to the Western Regions, and go to Taiping Valley...... Only when they get there, can the Qing Dynasty keep a little blood and incense.

And you have to go fast! If you go slowly, I'm afraid you won't be able to walk anymore.

Because this dream is so real, Bumu Butai's spirit today is very trance-like.

After breakfast, he has been holding Dolgon's tablet in Cining Palace and shedding tears, and muttering there: "Dolgon, it is better for you to mourn the family...... The mourning family can't stand you!

If you are still here, why is the Qing Dynasty like this? Fu Lin will not give his life, and Xuan Ye will be happy...... It's all bad to mourn the family! ”

When the old lady was sad, her most trusted "aunt" Su Malagu suddenly walked in briskly, with a panicked face. Seeing that your old lady was crying while holding Dolgon's tablet, she hurriedly said to her, "The Queen Mother...... There seems to be a gun outside the palace! ”

"What?" Bumu Butai was stunned for a moment, then listened to it, and vaguely, he heard gunshots and shouts!

"This ......" Bumu Butai looked at Su Malagu in horror, "Quick, let people prepare the chariot and horse guards......"

(End of chapter)