Chapter 545 This is just the beginning of a man's own consequences
This decisive battle that determined the fate of the Qing Dynasty lasted no more than two quarters of an hour from the beginning to the end. After that, the Liang army came out and began to hunt down the scattered Qing soldiers and scattered cavalry.
It took half a day to drive away and pursue. The scattered Qing soldiers were eventually captured only 30,000, and the rest were gone. The cavalry, except for most of the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade, who saw the opportunity, fled back to Yanjing City. More than half of the nearly 20,000 Mongolian Eight Banners of them fell in front of the position of Liang's army. The scattered Mongolian Eight Banners were also the main pursuit target of the Liang army's cavalry division. In the end, they captured more than 2,000 and scattered nearly 3,000, and the rest turned into cold corpses on the way to chase and escape.
The soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade, except for 10,000 people arranged to supervise the battle outside the city, all remained in the city, which not only made them escape the fate of being chased and killed by the Liang family army, but also trapped in Yanjing City.
Fortunately, there are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the city, and the chaos in the city did not turn Yanjing City into a concentration camp for desperate madmen. However, the city of Yanjing has also become dead. Except for some powerless soldiers standing on the head of the city, it seems that they have lost all hope from the bottom of their hearts.
Qianlong sat on the throne and stared at the imperial case in front of him. The square is four inches, four inches thick, one inch thick, two inches high, and the jade seal carved with a whole piece of white jade.
Xiwen Zhuwen, jade tendon seal, left full text, right Chinese. Book: The treasure of the order of the Qing Dynasty. The full text can be translated as: Chengtian was ordered to be the treasure of the Qing Dynasty. The system stipulates that it is "in the order of the emperor", which shows the orthodox identity of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty who was ordered by heaven. This is also the most symbolic and practical heirloom of the Qing Dynasty. It is the old seal of the emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, and it has been passed down by the emperors. In the hands of Qianlong, it has been passed down to the five generations of Qing emperors.
"Qing Kingdom, Qing Dynasty..." Qianlong's hoarse voice was hoarse and weak, and his eyes almost lost all the brilliance. His face was withered and his expression was numb. Only the occasional blinking eyelids seemed to indicate that he was still alive.
He is still wearing the big armor on the wall, and the pearls and jade on it are still extremely shiny. However, with his old face and the body that is too thin to support this big armor, as if the armor and the people in the armor should only be placed in the history museum. The display is just a mummy display wrapped in gorgeous armor.
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His left neck was wrapped in a piece of gauze, which was soaked with a faint red mark. After Qianlong saw the collapse of hundreds of thousands of troops on the wall, he desperately picked up the treasure knife and wanted to kill himself. Finally, he was taken away by the ministers around him, but the wound left by the sharp blade cut open.
In the hall, the faces of all officials showed a desperate dead gray. Occasionally, some people were sobbing and crying, as if remembering the glory of the Qing Dynasty was dissipating and disappearing. Since it has become a mass of garbage in the dust of history, it will eventually be buried and deposited.
Liu Yong stood under the imperial steps with a numb face and listened to the whispers of his colleagues around him. Looking at Qianlong, who seemed to have been pulled out of his bones after his failure on the top of the city, a trace of strangeness rose in his heart for no reason. In the pre-Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen lost his country and died by himself. He didn't know how to deal with himself after the emperor, who had been loyal to the country for so many years.
And Liu Yong's memory returned to a few hours ago. At that time, after the Qianlong was stopped, Prince Yongyan had no opinion at all. He only knew how to cry with Qianlong's voice in his arms. In the end, the most hated Jianchen and Shen asked Qianlong for his order to stop that Liang. The army took advantage of the chaos of the Qing Dynasty and the people to attack the city, slaughtered all over the people, and did not let hundreds of thousands of flags suffer the pain of the military disaster. He was willing to negotiate with the Liang family's army camp in person.
Qianlong, who replied to his reason, immediately untied his identity certificate from his body. Tian Huangshi's three consecutive seals engraved with "Qianlong Chenhan" were handed over to Na He Shen. He Shen with an expectant look on his face. Under the escort of dozens of desperate guards, he resolutely left the city wall, raised a white flag, and headed towards The Liang family's army camp left.
He Shen's move seems to have really had an effect. At least the Liang family army seems to lack any interest in Yanjing City, but to annihilate and capture the defeated soldiers and fleeing enemies on the outskirts of the city, and seems to be inconside the Yanjing City.
At the moment when Qianlong and other Qing officials at the head of the Yanjing city wall were worried, a bodyguard who went with He Shen rushed back. The Liang family army would not attack the city for the time being, and He Shen had started negotiations with Liang Pengfei in the Liang family's army camp. Liang Pengfei, the leader of the Liang family army, even suggested that Qianlong comfort the city. The flag of the people.
After that, whether you believe it or not, Qianlong and a number of important ministers who can only be believed for the time being returned to the palace. Those soldiers of the Eight Banners who stayed in the city finally did not let the chaos spread. After that, it was painful to wait.
"Your Majesty, I'm coming, I'm coming, He Zhongtang is back!" Outside the hall, an eunuch rushed over and didn't even have time to brake. He knelt directly and slid a few feet forward before falling on the smooth gold brick floor. This action made the ministers and bodyguards on the scene all stare, as if they had seen the Oriental Invincible who had practiced the Sunflower Book.
Hearing this shout, there seemed to be a trace of vitality in the originally dead hall. Everyone looked out of the door of the hall. Qianlong also stood up with a look of expectation, looking at the figure gradually emerging from the white jade steps outside the hall. His most trusted minister, He Shen, finally Yu appeared.
"I am a slave and Shen, see my emperor." With a tired face, He Shen, who had looked gray in cotton armor, entered the hall and quickly stepped forward and knelt under the imperial steps.
"Aiqing's body, Aiqing, thank you for your hard work." Qianlong came down tremblingly from the back of the imperial case and stretched out his hand to help He Shen. He was moved and gratified. In any case, under such circumstances, He Shen was the only minister who maintained his sanity and had the courage to face those Liang thieves who were more terrible than the demons in hell. No, he was a loyal minister.
"For the sake of my Qing Dynasty and the sake of the emperor, I will not hesitate to do it." He Shen seemed to be moved to tears by Qianlong's action and said with choking.
"Good, good, I'm not wrong about you. I've never been wrong about you." The wrinkles on Qianlong's face also seemed to have turned into a smile.
"Your Majesty, slave, I brought back Liang Pengfei's conditions." He Shen wiped the tears on his face and knelt down again, looking like he was heartbroken and grieving.
Looking at He Shen, who knelt down again, the hall became dead again. Everyone held their breath and stared for fear of hearing a word wrong.
Qianlong raised his head, straightened the big armor on his body, and slowly walked back to the high above the imperial steps that could look down on the ministers step by step. He turned around and raised his head, as if to maintain the majesty of a monarch and an emperor. Then he slowly said, "Say!"
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After listening to He Shen's hesitant and spit out the conditions, in fact, it was not a condition at all, because what Liang Pengfei asked for was that the Qing Zheng axe unconditionally gave up resistance and surrendered to the Liang family army.
"What if I don't agree?" After a long silence, there was no trace of blood on his face, but his eyes were so red that Qianlong stared at Heshen and asked again.
"If Liang Pengfei said, the emperor insists that if the Qing Dynasty insists on fighting to the end, then he will castrate all the captured flagmen and men, regardless of noble and lowly, and all the flagmen and women will be used as free official tricks regardless of noble and lowliness, and will not be married for life. The bloodline of our flagmen will be cut off forever..." He Shen Gritting his teeth, he finally said Liang Pengfei's power. He recalled Liang Pengfei's ferocious expression when he said this sentence, as well as his cold eyes. He Shen couldn't help fighting a cold war. He knew very well what kind of character that guy was. When he said it, he would definitely do it.
"Hizz..." The officials present felt as if there was a large basin of ice water poured on their heads, and a heart cooled directly to the asshole. Some flag officials even subconsciously clamped their legs, and their eyes were full of fear.
Prince Yong Yan's face turned white. If it hadn't been for the princes and princes standing on the left and right to help him in time, he might have fallen on the floor on the spot.
Qianlong, who was standing in front of the imperial case, couldn't help shaking. He could reach out his hand to hold the imperial case and then stand firm. The eunuch next to him was shocked and rushed forward to reach out to help him, but was pushed away by the Qianlong. Get out of here, get out of here. I'm not old enough to be helped. I'm not dead yet. I'm still the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Get out of here!"
Qianlong's roar is like the desperate wailing of the dying old wolf, echoing in the empty and silent hall... "Your Majesty, please calm your anger. I'm incompetent. I won't redeem it, my emperor." An old minister knelt on the ground, hit the floor tiles with his head, and cried loudly, just like a switch. The ministers in the hall either beat their chests and feet, or tore their clothes and sleeves. All kinds of things, loyalty, annihilaration, evil and righteousness, are making the final performance of the irreversible collapse of the dynasty they are loyal to.
"Ancestors, I have no face to see you after death..." Qianlong, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who reigned for 60 years after continuing Kangxi, knelt to the ground in despair and beat his hands hard on the ground, with his nose and tears on his face.
At this moment, there is no movement between his thoughts. Tens of millions of people fell to the ground, and his fingers were pointed. Countless running dogs sweating to annihigate the historical truth. He squinted at the prestige of Emperor Qianlong in the world. He was just a desperate and pitiful old man. In the cold winter, he knelt at the door of the rich man, mourning. Beggars who can enjoy a bowl of cold porridge.
The skin on his body has faded. What's the difference between him and the people in the world? It's just an old dog full of viciousness and wiping his face with hypocrisy.
The bullying and rule of the Qing Dynasty over the land of China came to an end at this moment, but this is only the beginning of the full man's own consequences...
(to be continued)