In order to protect the Sky City worth three million taels, Liu Ziguang spent a lot of money. As soon as two anti-aircraft carriages stepped onto the official road in front of Yongding Gate, a group of people sprang out from the grass on both sides of the road, all naked.
He was tall with blue eyes, covered with thatch, and holding a sharp weapon in his hand. The first person slashed out with a long knife and cut off the horse pulling the cart in half!
The horses lost control, and the anti-aircraft gun carriage suddenly overturned. The copper cannon was thrown out of the carriage. The soldier who was operating the cannon was very agile. He rolled and pulled out the sword, but no matter how fast he moved, he could not keep up with the speed of the gun. Those people had quick eyes and quick hands. Bang
The gunner was dispatched with a few volleys of muskets, but even the escorting cavalry was not spared, being killed by bullets fired from unknown sources.
The whole process only took a minute. The small army sent by Kangxi was completely wiped out. The emperor was so angry that he gritted his teeth and watched the murderers walk away.
The Qing troops on the city wall were shocked again. Is this heavenly soldiers, heavenly generals or yaksha demons? Why did they emerge from the ground out of thin air? It seems that heaven is really on the side of the Han people this time.
In fact, this was just a small ambush by the Foreign Legion of the China Merchants Bureau. In order to prove their strength, these green hats lurked under the Yongding Gate and monitored them day and night. This was originally to deal with the Manchus sneaking out secretly, but in case of emergency
If the situation arises, they will take action decisively.
Seeing that the anti-aircraft carriage was annihilated, the cannons that quietly stretched out from under the Sky City retracted. Although this floating fortress was very fragile, its firepower against the ground was very powerful. To break through its fire network, you would have to have thousands of troops.
Just fine.
The Qing Emperor's contempt for the Heavenly Court aroused the Jade Emperor's wrath. Taibai Jinxing once again declared that Heavenly Court would send one hundred thousand heavenly troops to help the Ming Dynasty destroy the Qing Dynasty. Then smoke rose from below the Lingxiao Palace, and there was a local heavy rain. Then the Heavenly Court rose into the clouds.
Gone.
The City in the Sky threw away a few tons of water that had been used to pressurize the warehouse, and took off into the air to escape, leaving only the stunned Qing soldiers all over the city wall. In fact, there are some sensible people. Those veterans who have been fighting for many years all know the methods of the Ming army to create this kind of
It's easy to fake, but more people are completely deceived. Once people become superstitious about something, eight horses can't pull it back. Seeing that people are in panic, Kangxi has no choice but to prove that this is the Ming army's faking.
Only then can morale be restored, but this is not easy.
Heaven has come to earth, the Jade Emperor has announced that he will support the Ming Dynasty and destroy the Qing Dynasty, the Aixinjueluo family is the descendant of the wild boar spirit, and the Wuhou of Daming Town is the reincarnation of Erlang Zhenjun. These rumors spread like wildfire throughout Beijing's 49 cities, and the more outrageous they become.
The faster the rumor spread, not only the Han people talked about it, but also the bannermen began to spread it. The soldiers who came down from the city wall vividly told everyone about seeing the Jade Emperor and Guanyin Bodhisattva with their own eyes.
The two of them said they could cover it up and say it was a lie to deceive the public, but tens of thousands of defenders at the three gates of the outer city saw it, and they couldn't suppress it even with hard pressure.
The morale that the city of Beijing had finally built up was instantly destroyed. People were panicked and frightened. Who dared to disrespect ghosts and gods? Although Kangxi sent propaganda personnel everywhere to say that the heaven was fake and a witchcraft made by Ming people, this explanation was still widely used.
The "facts" looked extremely pale in front of them. Countless Han officials began to consider abandoning the dark side and turning to the bright side. Countless Manchus began to plan to abandon the city and flee for their lives, detouring through the Mongolian grasslands and returning to their hometown outside the customs. This colorful world of the Han people was not meant for the Manchus to enjoy. Don't you see the Jade Emperor Taibai
Do Jin Xing and others all wear Han clothes? Of course the Han gods will support the Han people.
There was still a little bit of determination to resist, but it was shattered by the gods who descended from the sky. All the royal palaces in the capital began to clean up their weaklings and went into the palace to inquire about the ancestors. After all, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor had control of the military, and their unauthorized escape angered them.
Grandfather and grandson, even the iron hat king has to consider the threat of moving his head.
The Han people were so excited that they couldn't sleep all night. They secretly prepared kitchen knives, rolling pins, dung forks and other weapons, preparing to help when the heavenly soldiers entered the city. Han people were strictly prohibited from gathering in the capital, so everyone communicated secretly and passed exciting news to each other.
Even the officers of the Green Battalion began to think about it and began to look for people who could talk to the Ming army, hoping to switch sides in the face of battle and make meritorious deeds.
In the Forbidden City and the Cining Palace, Kangxi sat in front of the Empress Dowager with a frown on his face. This drama caused by the Ming army gave Kangxi a headache. All his original plans were disrupted. People in the capital were worried. I am afraid that once the Ming army launched an attack,
I couldn't last even three days.
Da Yu'er had a calm look on his face, lowered his eyes and turned the beads in his hand. After reciting a volume of the Diamond Sutra, he opened his eyes and said: "My grandson, the Han people can do tricks, why can't we? You have forgotten what it means to treat others the way they should."
Do you want to treat his body?"
With one sentence to wake up the dreamer, Kangxi stood up excitedly and said: "My grandson understands."
The Manchus do not believe in the Jade Emperor or the Supreme Laojun. They have their own religion - Shamanism. Although many people have converted to Buddhism over the years, they still support a group of old shamans. Now it is these people who are exerting their remaining enthusiasm.
It's time.
Kangxi immediately found a group of shamans, lamas and monks, set up a stage near the Temple of Heaven, pretended to be possessed by Manjusri Bodhisattva in the West, and sent down the Tathagata's decree, saying that it was the Buddha in the West who protected the Qing Dynasty, and Nurhaci was the Tathagata driving the gold.
The reincarnation of Cicada came to the world to save the people of the Central Plains in the sea of suffering, and the Tathagata would also send down eighteen Arhats to help the Qing army defend the city, so that the people did not have to panic. At first, there were some people watching and applauding, but later there were no more people watching.
This kind of childish trick is simply too unconvincing compared to the Lingxiao Palace in mid-air.
On the one hand, they used Tathagata Buddha to suppress the Jade Emperor in a tit-for-tat manner; on the other hand, they summoned capable people in the capital to urgently discuss how to deal with the Ming army's air threat.
Kangxi summoned the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Qintian Supervisor, and some magicians recruited from the people to the Qianqing Palace to discuss strategies to defeat the enemy. Among these people, there were not many who had real skills, and there were many charlatans, including the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War.
All the officials, including the officials, believed that the Ming army's airship used some kind of magic. As long as their magic was broken, the airship could fall to the ground. The immortals were very happy and offered many strategies. Kangxi's brows were furrowed.
They were all stretched out. Only Nan Huairen said in a very ignorant way that the airship was probably made of a lighter gas based on the principle of the Kongming Lantern. In order to float in the air, it must not be equipped with heavy armor, so it still used artillery and giants.
The crossbow was more effective, but Nan Huairen's words could not be heard at all amid the noise of these charlatans.
Emperor Kangxi finally adopted all the opinions and used all the tricks. After one night, the three gate buildings of Zuo'anmen, You'anmen and Yongdingmen in the outer city of Beijing were covered with yellow paper.
, there are tadpoles and earthworm-like heavenly books drawn on the paper. This is the masterpiece of several experienced Taoists. At this moment, they are opening an altar on the top of the city to perform rituals. They hold mahogany swords in their hands, their hair is disheveled and they are barefoot. They are wearing Taoist robes and chanting. They have set up a platform next to them.
Several shamans wearing masks and colorful robes were performing the dance. Looking to the side, they saw a group of lamas wearing monk hats and red robes, exposing their muscular arms.
Hengrou put his hands together and muttered in his mouth, as if he was chanting sutras.
In addition, there is a large amount of black dog blood, and the blood-stained woman's riding belt is prepared in a large tube, ready to be used to break the Ming army's evil spells. Anyway, all imaginable methods have been thought of, not to mention, in this way, it is on the verge of
The collapsed morale was somewhat restored, and rumors began to spread in the capital, saying that the Aixinjueluo family represented the Tathagata of the West and competed with the Jade Emperor's agents in the mortal world, the Zhu family of Nanming, for the right to rule the human world.
In short, the Aixinjueluo family is not a wild boar spirit, they have a great background, and their background is no worse than that of the Jade Emperor.
A war gradually evolved into a human agent war between Taoism and Buddhism. People with rich imaginations discussed with excitement after dinner whether the eight hundred Arhats of the Tathagata system or the one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers of the Jade Emperor system were more powerful. As for the four
Some people have also made up various reasonable explanations for why people from the Tathagata lineage such as the Great Heavenly King and Guanyin Bodhisattva stand on the side of the Jade Emperor. Anyway, people's nerves, which have been oppressed by the war and are close to collapse, have been given a way to vent and relax. It seems that this
The imminent war has lost its connection with him and turned into a dispute between the gods in the sky.
The Qing army tried their best to defend the city, and the Ming army was also racking its brains to think of a strategy to break the city. Liu Ziguang had too few men and horses, and the red shirt army relied entirely on firepower to fight. They had an advantage in field battles, but not in urban street battles.
Even if they open an opening and rush in, if the Qing army imitates Tuhai and resists in every street and house, then this battle will be difficult to fight.
News came from Shandong that the Menghuo Oil Refinery in Dongying had been occupied by Hong Chengchou. Xu Zengshou's troops were ambushed again on the way to Qingzhou and suffered heavy losses. They had no choice but to return to Jinan. Shandong had already fallen into the hands of the Qing army.
In the meantime, Hong Chengchou was about to raise troops to go south to threaten Nanjing, and the war in the west was not ideal. According to inaccurate news, all of Shaanxi had been lost to the enemy, and the Xixia army was approaching Tongguan City.
Things were tight everywhere, and Liu Ziguang did not dare to delay any longer. He had to capture Beijing as soon as possible. Occupying Beijing meant that as Goryeo in the Three Kingdoms Anti-Ming Alliance, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties had withdrawn from the war. At least it felt a lot easier. The Qing army
He sneered at the performances on the city wall, but the several "human shields" of the Tiandihui tied to the top of Yongding Gate made him a little worried.
These people are the core figures of the Tiandihui, and they usually act together with Dai Wenpei. Now that they have fallen into the enemy's hands, it is difficult for Dai Wenpei to be saved. Although Liu Ziguang and Dai Wenpei do not have much communication, they are after all.
Promising her father to take care of her was tantamount to being engaged. The fiancée of the dignified Marquis Wu was taken away by others. This was something Liu Ziguang could not tolerate.