Chapter eight hundred and seventy-fifth motionless
In the city of Beijing, the battle for the south wall of the inner city (hereinafter referred to as the south wall) has also reached a fever pitch.
Late at night on the 19th, when Li Zicheng entered the inner city of Beijing, the Dashun Army actually stopped moving for the entire day of the 20th and did not launch any attack on the outer city.
The core old battalion of the Dashun Army is of course busy taking over the imperial city, major government offices, warehouses in the city and other important places. Of course, they also need to find out the whereabouts of Emperor Chongzhen's family.
The bodies of Emperor Chongzhen, Empress Zhou and others were quickly found, but the whereabouts of the prince and three other princes were unknown. So Li Zicheng conducted a city-wide search, but of course his efforts were in vain.
The other Dashun Army troops were in disarray. How could they resist their greed after these idiots entered the capital? Robbery, arson and other incidents occurred one after another, and the city of Beijing was also in chaos.
Seeing the chaos, Li Zicheng couldn't sit still. When he was a bandit, it wasn't a big deal to indulge his troops. But now he is ready to become the emperor, and this city of Beijing will be the capital of the Dashun Dynasty in the future.
The people in the city are also his subjects. It is unreasonable for one of his own people to rob his own people!
But Li Zicheng couldn't use force to suppress it. After all, many leaders of the army had close friendship with Li Zicheng. Besides, there were many hills inside the Dashun Army. In many places, Li Zicheng was similar to the leader of the martial arts alliance, and he could not control everyone.
The troops were commanded as expected. In the final analysis, the Dashun Army rose so fast that Li Zicheng had no time to fully integrate the troops.
Another point is that the main policy of the Dashun Army is to not pay taxes for three years. This policy has indeed attracted many people to join the Dashun Army. After all, they can not pay taxes for three years. Who would have trouble with money?
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But on the other hand, if the people don’t pay taxes, Dashun will not collect taxes. What about the regime’s financial expenditures? At least the army’s food and salary needs to be guaranteed! Therefore, the only financial means left to maintain the Dashun regime
Down - tortured and plundered. To put it more clearly, it means killing the rich and giving to the poor.
But this time Li Zicheng mobilized more than one million troops, and he personally led more than 800,000 troops to Beijing. Except for the core old battalion soldiers and horses, whose food and wages could barely be guaranteed, the slightly alienated troops were indeed powerless.
Therefore, although the Dashun Army has been boasting that it has committed no crimes, it has turned a blind eye to the private torture of its own troops and only asked not to go too far.
Therefore, in this case, Li Zicheng and others could not suppress the atrocities in the capital too much. He could only send out all the civil and military officials with status in the army to greet the leaders of each army. Please be noble and stop causing trouble in the capital.
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Now that Brother Chuang Wang had said hello, the leaders still had to show some respect. So they also gathered their troops and horses, and the situation in the capital quickly calmed down.
But then, those leaders started thinking. Since you can't "hunt for wild food" in the capital, let's go near the capital! Anyway, this area is rich. Brother Chuang Wang eats meat, and we also need to drink a few sips of soup.
So the leaders called their friends, took their troops, and left the capital one after another.
So when Li Zicheng discovered that the prince and others might be hiding in the outer city, and that there were remaining Ming troops resisting in the outer city, he found that he could not assemble enough troops to attack the outer city. When Li Zicheng finally summoned the troops near the capital,
When I got up, a whole day had passed.
However, Li Zicheng and the others didn't think this was a big deal. With the remaining defeated generals in the outer city, even if they were given one more day, they wouldn't be able to withstand the overwhelming power of the Dashun Army.
What is very strange is that the Dashun Army did not know that the Runing Army was coming to help. Although they knew that a Ming army broke through the siege outside the city last night and broke into the inner city and killed some Dashun Army soldiers, Li Zicheng and the others just
It is taken for granted that this army was the Ming army near the capital and could not affect the situation of the war. The Ming Dynasty was destroyed, why don't they come back to make a comeback? From this, it can be seen how arrogant the Dashun army is now.
, how arrogant.
But for this day, Li Zicheng and the others thought it was insignificant, but it was extremely precious to Yang Rusong and the others. They took advantage of this time to consolidate the city defense, straighten out the order, build the inner wall, and organize the troops and young men in the outer city, so that the defenders could
The strength has been greatly strengthened.
In fact, it is unrealistic to say how much has been done in this short period of time. However, after the organization was established, the soldiers and civilians in the outer city performed their duties and became busy at hand. The hearts of these soldiers and civilians were also at ease.
It was over. This was also the biggest gain of the day.
On the 21st, the Dashun Army began to attack the outer city. The first method they adopted to attack the city was to blow down the city wall. So after failing to persuade them to surrender, the Dashun Army began to concentrate the gunpowder in the army. It was to be placed on the south wall.
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The placement process was quite smooth. With the residences under the south city wall as cover, Dashun Army soldiers were able to successfully break through to the city wall. In addition, the Tibetan Soldier Cave under the city wall was simply a natural place to place gunpowder, and there was no need for it at all.
By digging a hole in the city wall, gunpowder can be easily placed.
When the Dashun Army transported three cartloads of gunpowder to the Cangbing Cave, the Dashun Army lit the match ropes, followed by a loud noise, and then the south city wall was... motionless!?
In the Wanggong Factory explosion during the Tianqi period, a section of the south city wall was also blown down. Afterwards, the court organized re-construction and re-strengthened the city wall that had not collapsed.
In this construction, it was inevitable that officials, big and small, would have their hands on it, but the quality of the entire project was impeccable.
After all, this is a project in the capital, and no one dares to cut corners. In addition, after learning the lessons of the Wanggong Factory explosion, the officials who supervised the construction even strengthened the city wall a bit.
Of course, if the city wall is strengthened, the amount of work will be larger, and the salary of the supervising officials will definitely increase. But no matter what, this section of the southern city wall has become a "model project" of the Ming Dynasty.
So what happened now is that the Dashun Army returned without success. Moreover, after the explosion, a lot of residential buildings under the city wall were destroyed by the shock wave. On the contrary, the south city wall only opened a very shallow pit. It was very small.
Obviously, if you want to blow up the south city wall, even if you concentrate all the gunpowder of the Dashun Army, it may not be effective. And the gunpowder has to be used in firearms, and the Dashun Army cannot squander it, so this way is blocked.
The walls of Beijing are also incredibly high, and it is difficult to attack the city with ladders and other methods. So the only other ways to attack the city are through the three city gates, the passages on the inner and outer city walls, and the stairs on the south wall.