Chapter 106 Soldiers under the city

Chongzhen pinched a memorial, which was presented by a minister. In the memorial, the battle of Tongzhou between the Dazhong Army and Jiannu and the recent war outside Shanhaiguan was described in detail. After reading it, Chongzhen gently put the memorial on the dragon case.

Chongzhen stood up, slowly walked to the door of the Qianqing Palace, slowly walked into the garden, and stared at the northern sky for a long time.

Up to now, Chongzhen has already been in despair. The Ming Dynasty has passed on to his hands. Originally, he wanted to revive the majesty of the Ming Dynasty. For this reason, since he became the emperor, he has been diligent in government affairs. It can almost be said that it has been more than ten years. Even when he is sick, he has never been dealing with everything by himself. In the complicated government affairs, even at night, I often read the medals until the third day of the rest.

After a long period of hard work, he dyed his temples white early, and his body changed day by day, but what was the result of his diligence?

The situation outside the customs is rotten. Tens of millions of taels of silver have been invested in the land of Guanliao, but they have not been able to recover Liaodong. To this day, they have lost the whole Liaodong to Jiannu.

Even the year before last, he had to sign a humiliating peace treaty with Jiannu, and even Jinzhou, the most critical barrier outside the customs, was ceded to Jiannu Tatar. The price he paid for this was a sharp decline in prestige and became the target of secret spitting by the people in Guan.

What about China? Over the past ten years, more and more refugees have been subdued. First, they made noise in Shaanxi, and then Shanxi began to rot. Later, the refugees swept Henan and Nanzhili. Even Fengyang City, the land of their ancestors Longxing, was set on fire by Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves.

Then Xing Tianjun was born. First, it rose in the land of Jinnan, and then captured the whole of Henan. He tried his best to destroy it, but Xing Tianjun became stronger and stronger under the strong suppression of him and his ministers. First, he occupied the whole of Henan, then captured Huguang, and even in the past two years. Nanzhili, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and annexed a large number of civilian troops and became invincible opponents.

Now most of the Ming rivers and mountains have been occupied by Xiao Xingtian. Now he has gone north. First, he has occupied the auxiliary south of Beizhili, and then controlled the coast of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, almost pocketing Shandong.

Now Daming has become the fat meat between Xiao Tianjian and Jiannu. Jiannu tore up the peace treaty and brazenly went south and tried to attack the customs to seize his capital, but he was unable to resist Jiannu. On the contrary, Xiao Xingtian led the army to the north and blocked the Jiannu outside the customs for the people of Daming. Now it is even more defeated Jiannu in Tongzhou and Shanhaiguan. , annihilated nearly 100,000 slaves.

What a martial arts skill this is! Since he ascended the throne for more than ten years now, he has consumed countless national strength. Even in order to deal with Jiannu Tatars, he made the whole Daming people change everywhere, but the result was that the Ming army had not allowed the Ming army to establish such a merit outside the customs. However, the Xing Tian Army went north with a light division. With less than 100,000 troops, he would be horizontal. The construction slaves who have been fighting inside and outside the customs for decades are falling flowers and water.

Is it that Zhu Youjian is really an incompetent faint king? He has asked himself until now, thinking that it's not like this. He is not a faint king. He has done what he should do, but why has he come to this point? What on earth did he do wrong? How did Xiao Tianjian do this?

Take a look at his Ming Dynasty. Although it is rumored that the Dazhong army has not taken Fujian, Guangxi and other provinces, with the fierceness of the Dazhong army, once it is freed up, it is not a big problem to clean up those provinces, and his magnificent Ming emperor can now manage it. There is only the capital of Beijing. Ten miles out of the city, it is no longer within his control.

Those officials and generals who ate him and drank him. Seeing that the situation in the Ming Dynasty was not good, they immediately turned against him one after another and surrendered to the Dazhong army. Even Wu Xiang, who was finally pinning his hope on, now after reading this report, even if he was stupid, he knew that Wu Xiang had surrendered to the Dazhong army, or However, how can the Dazhong army allow him to stay in Shanhaiguan with the last elite of the 20,000 Ming army, but still dare to go out of the customs to pursue the Jiannu army?

Chongzhen was very angry with Wu Xiang's betrayal. In the afternoon, he sent someone to raid Wu Xiang's house. He wanted to catch all Wu Xiang's family members who had left in the capital and pushed them out to cut off their heads, but the people he didn't want to send came back and told him that Wu Xiang's family suddenly fled two days ago and was even sent. The people who went to monitor them also disappeared. In a word, the dozens of family of Wu Xiang's family left in the capital actually came to evaporate, and they couldn't find any trace at all!

Chongzhen was angry and very angry. There must be a big problem in the capital. Otherwise, under the supervision of many Jinyiwei, how could Wu Xiang's dozens of his family suddenly escape clean?

At this time, Wang Cheng'en, the waiter, came over and carefully knelt down and said to Chongzhen, "Your Majesty, several ministers asked to see your majesty. They asked your majesty if he had made up his mind whether to move the capital?"

Chongzhen's heart is in turmoil at this moment. After hearing Wang Chengen's words, he suddenly became very angry and waved his hand and said, "Go and tell them that the former emperor moved his capital to Beijing is to guard the gate of the country. As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I should stick to this place. Now although the Ming Dynasty has been swayed by the wind and rain, how can I connect with Xiao Xingtian? Not as good as it?

The traitor Xiao Tianjian can go north and pass through the capital without entering. He still knows that he will lead his troops straight to Shanhaiguan to resist the Jiannu and the Taizi breaking of the customs. As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how can I not even be as good as him?

Tell those ministers that I won't go anywhere! The edict is issued to inform the soldiers and civilians in the city to make all preparations. If I want to stay with them, I will stay here and wait for Xiao Tianjian to come to the capital. I will personally lead the troops to fight to the death! ......”

After listening to this, Wang Cheng'en immediately burst into tears. He originally wanted to persuade Chongzhen to abandon the capital. He quickly took advantage of the time when the traitor Xiao Tianjian was leading the elite of the Dazhong army to fight with Jiannu in Shanhaiguan. He took advantage of the opportunity that the capital had not yet been surrounded by the Dazhong army to escape from the capital and ran to Dengzhou and go south by boat. After all, the south In addition, Fujian Liangguang, Yungui and other places have not yet been captured by the Dazhong army. With those sites, as long as Chongzhen can move there, it is not necessarily impossible to revive the Ming Dynasty.

As for the mess in the north, just throw it to the Dazhong army, so that they can also taste the feeling of being attacked by the enemy. After all, at present, not only are there are slaves in the north, but also Li Chuang, who has not stopped. If his surname is Xiao, he has the ability, let him sit down and see if he can do better than today's emperor. !

But today, their idea was still flatly rejected by Chongzhen. It seems that Chongzhen has now made up his mind to die and want to stay in the capital and die in Yu Guotong. What can he, an old eunuch who has been following Chongzhen for more than ten years, say now? Seeing that Chongzhen had made up his mind, Wang Cheng'en couldn't help crying on the ground...

Although many ministers shouted that he wanted to move the capital, Chongzhen finally refused. He gave up taking advantage of this last opportunity and left the capital where he had lived for more than 30 years. However, on the seventh day of the seventh day of the lunar month, Chongzhen issued a secret order to make the eunuch of Si Li Zhenghua and make up the prince, Dingwang and Yongwang. After that, he was taken out of the capital.

On the morning of July 15, when the sun had just sprinkled on this Ming capital, outside the Deshengmen, Andingmen, Dongzhimen and other gates in Beijing, some Ming army suddenly saw a scarlet flag jumping out of the ground from the horizon, and then countless armies began to appear in their vision.

So all over Beijing, which had already been in the air, suddenly panicked, and people shouted loudly everywhere: "The Dazhong Army is coming! The Dazhong Army is coming!"

These shouts quickly spread to the city. Beijing, which was originally relatively quiet, was completely like a nest. A team of officers and soldiers began to climb the city wall in panic under the scolding of the generals.

In the eyes of these Ming soldiers, at this time, a large and medium-sized army slowly began to garrison outside Beijing and quickly surrounded Beijing.

At this time, Daming finally ushered in his last days. Compared with the time when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing in history, Daming was more desperate. At least in the history at that time, at least Chongzhen could expect Wu Sangui outside the customs to help the capital. However, today, in addition to the three battalions of the capital, they looked around and then There are no more rescuers to count on.

At this time, the whole city of Beijing has completely turned into an isolated island, and almost all the surrounding cities have fallen into the hands of the Dazhong army.

After Xiao Tianjian led the army back to Guannei from Ningyuan, he did not make any delay. He immediately led the army and rushed straight to Beijing, and after a large-scale supply of the army in Tongzhou, he immediately divided his troops and surrounded Beijing.

Although there are nominal three battalions and guards in Beijing at this time, with more than 30,000 officers and soldiers, these 30,000 officers and soldiers have been cut off their salaries and food for several months in a row, and have no combat effectiveness. In the past few months, many officers and soldiers have taken off their clothes and fled secretly. Leave their camp.

When the Dazhong army really appeared outside Beijing, the three battalions stationed outside the capital hardly did any decent resistance, so they quickly collapsed. Nearly half of the officers and soldiers did not make any resistance, so they surrendered to the generals of the Dazhong army on the spot. Only a very few loyal to the Ming Dynasty appeared around them. The Dazhong army made a weak and almost inciable resistance, but this resistance was like a pebble thrown into the sea. Almost no waves were aroused, and it was instantly submerged by the Dazhong Army like a torrent.

The whole battle to eliminate the three battalions outside Beijing was ended after only one day, making the generals of the Dazhong Army who were ready to kill.

In their eyes, no matter how bad these three battalions are, they are at least the forbidden army of the Ming Dynasty. At least there are 30,000 horses. Even if they line up to cut them, I'm afraid they can't cut them all in a day! What's more, in the Beijing camp, the Shenji camp is the most powerful, equipped with a large number of birds and artillery. The generals thought that when they were against them, they should at least have a good fight.

But I didn't think that after the three battalions were ordered to fight, the Dazhong army only fired a few cannons. The forbidden army of Daming collapsed. A large number of officers and soldiers hurriedly left their weapons, knelt on the ground and announced their surrender, and the first thing that these surrenders were collected was to reach out. Find the large and medium-sized soldiers who captured them to eat.

Looking at these yellow-faced and thin Ming army, the generals of the Dazhong Army didn't know what to say.