Su Hu led the soldiers of the Third Army to the Chengtian Gate, the south gate of the Forbidden City.
"Artillery, set up artillery positions immediately and prepare to attack the city."
The artillerymen who had just arrived at Chengtianmen quickly adjusted the muzzles of their heavy artillery and aimed at the city gate of Chengtianmen.
Su Hu heard the artillery's report that they could fire at any time.
Just as he was about to order artillery to attack the city, he heard gunshots coming from inside the Forbidden City.
It's not the sound of a muzzleloader gun, it's the unique sound of a rear chamber gun.
"The artillery has suspended the bombardment. The guard regiment is attacking Chengtianmen. We don't want to hurt the friendly forces. Gu Guangnian leads the troops to attack the city with ladders."
Su Hu changed the combat order, and Gu Guangnian, commander of the Third Division, began to command the Third Division to push the ladder and attack the city using traditional methods.
Su Hu guessed that the guard group came out of the palace and was leading the attack on Chengtianmen.
The two armies attacked from a pincer attack, and the Ming army at Chengtian Gate soon collapsed.
The soldiers of the Third Division did not encounter much obstacles and climbed onto the Chengtian Gate.
The gate of Chengtianmen opened, and Su Hu led the main force into the Forbidden City.
The soldiers of the Third Division immediately dispersed and occupied all parts of the Forbidden City.
Su Hu saw Qin Shanshui, the leader of the guard regiment, coming down from Chengtian Gate with more than 300 guard regiments.
"Captain Qin Shanshui, you are so courageous. You dare to attack Chengtianmen with only three hundred men."
Qin Shanshui smiled and said: "Commander Su Hu, I dare to attack Chengtianmen only because of the support of the Third Army.
Without the third army to storm Chengtianmen, how could I dare to attack Chengtianmen with such a small force?"
Qin Shanshui led the security group to control the situation in the palace.
He led three hundred people and rushed to Chengtianmen.
Through the observation post on the hot air balloon, he saw the Third Army attacking Chengtianmen, so he led his men to launch the attack.
Qin Shanshui wanted to help the Third Army capture Chengtianmen as soon as possible.
The troops of the Third Army entered the Forbidden City. With sufficient strength, the Qin Army could completely control the Forbidden City.
Su Hu rode a horse on the road to the Forbidden City.
He asked Qin Shanshui: "Will your security team capture Emperor Chongzhen?"
Qin Shanshui shook his head helplessly and said: "Many troops saw Emperor Chongzhen's presence, but because they were too far away and blocked by the Ming army, they failed to capture Emperor Chongzhen.
Emperor Chongzhen's wives and concubines were all executed on his orders.
He also wanted to kill his daughter, but at that time I arrived with my troops and scared Emperor Chongzhen away."
The guard regiment did not achieve full success in this battle, and the whereabouts of Emperor Chongzhen have not yet been found.
Su Hu said: "Don't worry! Emperor Chongzhen can't run far, we will catch him soon."
While they were talking, they saw a soldier from the guard regiment riding towards them on a fast horse.
He came to Qin Shanshui, gasped for air, and said: "Commander, we found traces of Emperor Chongzhen.
He hanged himself on Meishan, and his body is still there.
After Company Commander Zhao Manggang found out, he came to inform us.
Master Ding Degui has already rushed there to control the situation at the scene."
Qin Shanshui sent soldiers from the guard regiment to report the news to King Su He of Qin.
He hugged Su Hu and said, "Commander Su Hu, the defense of the Forbidden City is in the hands of the Third Army.
Our security group mainly handles important locations in the palace.
I also want to go to the place where Emperor Chongzhen died, control the scene there, and at the same time lead people to identify Emperor Chongzhen."
When Qin Shanshui heard the news, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Emperor Chongzhen is found, even if he is not captured alive, this is excellent news.
Now he will bring people to confirm whether Emperor Chongzhen is fake.
Su Hu smiled and said: "Commander Qin, please feel free to hand over the Forbidden City to our Third Army."
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It was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and the sound of gunfire in the capital gradually stopped.
Wang Shiyuan, deputy chief of general staff, walked to the Chinese army camp to report.
"Your Majesty, after the third army captured the southern city wall.
They divided into three parts and captured the East and West City Walls and the Forbidden City respectively.
The east and west city walls were attacked by our army from both inside and outside. The Ming army on the city wall was attacked from both sides and had no fighting spirit.
The Ming army collapsed quickly. Our army broke through the city walls of the capital and blocked the streets and the residences of distinguished officials of the Ming Dynasty.
Both the Imperial Guard and the Seventh Army sent a division to attack the North City Gate.
The Fourth Army, with the help of the Praetorian Guards and the Seventh Army, broke through the northern wall.
Now nearly 200,000 people from the four armies have all entered the capital.
Now our army has completely controlled the situation in the capital.
The large Ming army that dared to resist in the city were all wiped out by our army.
A large number of Ming army prisoners have also been pressed into prisoner camps outside the city."
Su He heard that the Qin army had completely controlled the situation in the capital.
He said happily: "Now I can enter the capital.
Inform everyone in the Chinese army to enter the city."
Su He's Chinese army, under the protection of the Third Division, began to enter the capital.
At noon, the guard regiment came to report that the third division and the guard regiment had captured the Forbidden City.
They discovered that Emperor Chongzhen had hanged himself at the Crooked Neck Tree in Meishan.
Su He wanted to enter the capital, but he thought that the situation in the capital was not yet completely stable.
There are still tens of thousands of Ming troops resisting in the city. If he enters the capital, it will completely cause trouble for the Qin troops entering the city.
Once a certain Ming army found traces of Su He, they wanted to reverse the situation of the war by hijacking Su He.
When the time comes, all the Qin troops in the city will come to rescue him, which will affect the plans of all the armies.
He might as well wait until the situation in the capital is completely stable before entering the capital.
Su He sat on the carriage and issued several orders one after another.
Wu Cheng, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, was temporarily in charge of the government affairs of the capital.
Civil officials and nobles who assisted the army in investigating the Ming Dynasty.
Recruit a group of unsuccessful officials to get the government's functions up and running as quickly as possible.
Various armies were stationed in various parts of the capital in batches, strictly checking the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in the city, and completely clearing out the remnants of the Ming army.
Su He looked through the carriage window at the capital city where the war had just ended.
The capital is now full of traces of gun smoke.
Especially when he walked through Zhengyang Gate, the traces left by the heavy artillery attack on the city gate were particularly obvious.
Suhe could see Qin soldiers patrolling everywhere from time to time.
There are also some Qin soldiers who are searching the residences of Ming officials and nobles.
There are Ming troops standing guard everywhere in the capital, and the capital is now under a curfew.
Under the protection of the Third Army, Su He quickly arrived at Chengtianmen.
The gate of the Forbidden City has not been affected by the war and is still intact.
Su Hu, Commander of the Third Army, and Qin Shanshui, Commander of the Guard Regiment, are waiting here.
Su He stopped here and called Su Hu and Qin Shanshui to enter the Forbidden City with him.
"How is the Forbidden City now?"
Su Hu heard the question from Qin King Su He.
He immediately replied: "Your Majesty, our Third Army has controlled all parts of the Forbidden City.
I even sent people to search carefully in the Taiye Pond and other waters.
The original eunuchs and maids in the palace were searched and sent outside the palace.
Now the huge Forbidden City has become an empty city."
Su He laughed when he saw Su Hu's approach.
The Qin army now has no way to guarantee the loyalty of the palace ladies and eunuchs in the Forbidden City. It is very unsafe for them to stay in the palace.
Su Hu's approach was to move all these people outside the Forbidden City.
Now the Forbidden City is filled with soldiers from the Guard Regiment and the Third Army.
This stupid method can ensure the absolute safety of King Qin Su He in the Forbidden City.
After Qin Shanshui saw that Su Hu had finished speaking, he continued: "Your Majesty, our security group is in charge of the palace.
Commander Su Hu just said that most of the maids and eunuchs in the palace have been arranged outside the Forbidden City.
In the palace, all the princes of Emperor Chongzhen have disappeared, and their whereabouts are now being traced.
The whereabouts of several princes have been determined. Emperor Chongzhen's father-in-law, Jiading Bo Zhou Kui, offered Zhu Cican and surrendered to us.
Zhu Chunchen, the former Duke of the Ming Dynasty, surrendered to us and offered Zhu Cihuan.
Now it can be confirmed that Emperor Chongzhen gave all the princes to the nobles to hide.
The people left in the palace are all the concubines of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
Some of the concubines of Emperor Wanli still remained in the palace and have not passed away.
Some of the concubines of Emperor Taichang and Emperor Tianqi of the Ming Dynasty still remain in the palace.
Emperor Chongzhen's concubines had all been executed by himself.
Only the young daughter of Emperor Chongzhen remained in the palace.
I arranged all these people in the harem.
Some palace maids were left to take care of them, and soldiers from the guard regiment were guarding the outside.
How to deal with these people still needs to be arranged by the king."
Su He pondered for a moment and then ordered: "Prince Ming will intensify the search efforts. It will be difficult to hide such a large living person.
The women of the Ming Dynasty clan found a farm outside the city and arranged them there.
I will let the secret guards monitor them.
The change of dynasty has nothing to do with these people, let them live the rest of their lives in peace.
These tasks will be left to Su Changsheng."
These women will not be used by careerists and pose very low threat to him.
Su He chose to let them live their lives peacefully under the supervision of secret guards.
The motorcade entered the palace from the Meridian Gate. Su He looked at the mighty Huangji Palace, also known as the Golden Palace.
This is the center of power for the entire country.
Su He did not choose to stay here and ordered: "Go to Meishan first to settle Emperor Chongzhen's funeral affairs.
The temperature is very high now, and if we delay any longer, the body will stink."
Under the leadership of the guard regiment, the convoy rushed directly to Xuanwu Gate.
Su He looked at the situation in the palace through the window.
Most of the buildings here are intact.
Only some buildings were affected by the war.
Su He and his party got off the bus at Xuanwumen and walked towards the top of Meishan Mountain.
Soon we came to the crooked neck tree.
When Ding Degui saw Su He arriving, he saluted and said, "Your Majesty, I was identified by the eunuchs, maids, nobles and ministers in the palace.
The person who died must be Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty."
Su He personally took a look at Emperor Chongzhen's body.
He ordered: "Zhu Youjian's mausoleum has been built, and he and the Zhou family have been buried together.
His wives and concubines who died today were buried in the Ming Dynasty Mausoleum.
Death is a big deal.
Zhu Youjian underestimated my mind. He is already dead, so why should he insult the body again?
Taking your anger out on a corpse is completely the work of a weak person."
Su He saw Zhu Youjian's royal robe with blood written on it.
"Don't bury this royal robe. Pack it carefully and put it under this crooked-neck tree.
Stay here to warn future generations."
After hearing Su He's order, the guard group began to sort out Emperor Chongzhen's body.
Emperor Chongzhen will be buried in the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum together with his queen.
Su He looked at the bloody words on the emperor's robe. Emperor Chongzhen had died a few years ago, but the words he left behind were accurate.
"I am cold and virtuous, but I bow my head with contempt, and I blame heaven for my fault. However, all my ministers have misunderstood me."
Su He muttered these words softly.
He shook his head slightly and said: "Before Zhu Youjian died, he thought that all problems were the fault of the ministers.
He was a diligent emperor, but not a qualified emperor.
Zhu Youjian was not the eldest son, and his education since childhood was the pig-raising education of the Ming dynasty.
He obviously didn't have Jiajing's power.
His efforts are in the wrong direction. The harder he works, the farther away he is from his goal.
The Ming Dynasty is riddled with holes and cannot withstand the torment.
Zhu Youjian also worked hard and arbitrarily consumed the national power of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youjian is far inferior to his elder brother Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao at least knew that the core contradictions of the Ming Dynasty were party strife and lack of money.
Appoint eunuchs to collect mining taxes and suppress the powerful Donglin Party.
During the years when Zhu Youxiao was in power, the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national power had been slowed down.
It's just that this young emperor didn't fight against the huge interest groups of the Ming Dynasty, so he died without any explanation.
Zhu Youjian wanted to succeed too much, treated his ministers too harshly, and was eager to succeed as soon as possible.
He is not accurate at all in judging people, and he likes to flatter people by flattering them.
There were so many capable officials in the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't make good use of them.
As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian must bear at least half of the responsibility for making the Ming Dynasty what it is now."
Su He saw that Emperor Chongzhen's body had been put into a coffin and taken away.
He also left Meishan and returned to the palace.
Su He will spend most of his future life in the palace.
From now on, he will have to adapt to life in the palace.
The carriage Su He rode arrived at Qianqing Palace.
Qin Shanshui asked: "Your Majesty, many people have died here in Qianqing Palace, and the yin energy is a bit strong.
Do you need to change the palace you live in?"
Su He laughed when he heard this.
"I'm still afraid of places with strong yin energy. Back then, I led an army to kill tens of thousands of people and slept in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
I am not afraid of living people, but I am also afraid of dead people.
I will live here without changing palaces.
Among the palaces, which one has fewer people dying?"
Su He walked into Qianqing Palace, and the layout here was basically unchanged.
Su He asked Qin Shanshui to make certain changes to the layout of Qianqing Palace.
"Qin Shanshui, please modify the Qianqing Palace according to the layout of Lingyun Palace.
The layout of Lingyun Hall is in line with my daily work habits.
In the bedroom of Qianqing Palace, just change the bed with a new quilt, no big changes are needed."
After Su He saw the Qianqing Palace, he came to the Huangji Hall, the most important part of the palace.
This is the place where large court gatherings are usually held.
The senior officers of the Qin army and the civilian officials accompanying the army were all waiting for Su He outside the Huangji Hall.
Su He led the civil and military officials into the Huangji Hall and saw the huge dragon chair above.
This dragon chair represents the highest power in the country during the feudal era.
Su He told Qin Shanshui: "The Huangji Palace should also be modified according to the Lingyun Palace.
The main layout does not need to be changed, except to add a row of tables and chairs for the officials.
If you attend court meetings while standing and discuss things for a long time, how can that person still have the energy to discuss things?"
Su He did not believe that only by showing the difference between the emperor and his ministers at all times could he firmly grasp the power in his hands.
How much power the emperor has in his hands depends entirely on how strong he is.
Relying solely on etiquette to maintain the majesty of imperial power is no longer applicable to the conditions of industrial society.
Su He walked towards the dragon chair. He sat on the dragon chair, looked at the civil and military officials kneeling down and saluted, and sighed.
After years of hard work, I grew up little by little from a tenant who was about to starve to death.
Now they have captured the capital and overthrew the Ming Dynasty.
Su He announced loudly: "The Ming Dynasty is dead!"
