The imperial city closed its doors at sunset, and so did the palace inside. One door and two worlds. Once the palace door was closed, outsiders were not allowed to enter. Likewise, the emperor would not go out. But since Chang Yu fell from the sky, many rules of the Ming Dynasty
Everyone is making exceptions.
For example, he could enter and leave the Forty-Nine City of the Imperial Capital at will, and he could also enter and exit the palace after dark. For example, now, Emperor Chongzhen actually rushed out of the palace in the middle of the night, followed by a group of eunuchs and went straight to Donghua Gate.
The British Duke Zhang Shize and others who were on duty in the imperial city hurried over without knowing what had happened: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what happened..."
Emperor Chongzhen had no time to pay attention to him, so he shouted to open the door from a long distance from Donghua Gate. The eunuch and bodyguard guarding the gate opened the door in confusion, and saw the emperor and his entourage heading straight for the Neidongchang Yamen.
Zhang Shize and others stopped at the gate of Donghua. They looked at the Neidongchang Yamen and suddenly laughed. As expected, what happened to the little eunuch? He has violated the power of God. This dog eunuch is doing bad things behind his back every day. He will be punished.
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Inside the Neidongchang Yamen, the lights were bright and the lobby was crowded. Chang Yu was sitting upright in the middle, and an imperial doctor was suturing his wound with needle and thread. His hands were covered with blood and it was chilling to the eyes.
"The Emperor has arrived!" a shout came from outside the courtyard, and everyone in the hall hurried to the outside to greet him. As soon as Chang Yu stood up, he rushed Emperor Chongzhen in: "Are you... seriously injured?" He saw Chang Yu's face.
He was pale, and his whole body was soaked in blood. It was obvious that he had lost too much blood, and his heart was shocked. He couldn't help but trembled: "Why bother working so hard, if something happens to you...hey, who will clean up this mess for me!"
Until this moment, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly realized how important this little eunuch who suddenly appeared was to him. From the beginning, he only knew this person because he was a confidant of the prince who buried treasures for royal secrets. Later, because of his good fists and kicks, he
The palace made a fortune and made a lot of money for the royal family, which made Emperor Chongzhen favor him.
Of course, when the gold shines, he still pays to go to Taiyuan, become famous in one battle, and then out of control, eventually becoming the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty, and the spiritual support of Emperor Chongzhen. At this time, seeing Chang Yu seriously injured, he was trembling with fear, fearing that this would happen
If the sea-suppressing needle breaks, the Ming Dynasty will be in danger or even perish.
"It's just a skin injury, don't worry about it, Your Majesty." Chang Yu pretended to be relaxed and smiled lightly, but everyone could see how reluctant he was. The arrow that broke out was very tricky. It actually hit the neck through the gap in the armor, almost killing him.
Broken arteries were the most serious injuries Chang Yu had ever suffered in time travel. In the past, broken bones and flesh would be back to normal in a few days due to his super self-healing ability, but this time his blood vessels were indeed broken.
It is said that if you are not careful, you can burp your fart.
Emperor Chongzhen sighed deeply and went to him to look at the wound. After asking the imperial doctor a few words, he was relieved and found out that the bleeding had stopped. He waved his hands and everyone in the room exited the door, leaving only him and Chang Yu.
"What happened to the cannon fire just now? You went out of the city to attack the camp. What did you get?" Emperor Chongzhen asked.
Chang Yu told the truth, and Emperor Chongzhen was stunned at the moment: "Two thousand dead soldiers, ten dead, Chang Yu, you are cruel!"
"If you don't want to give up your children, you can't trap the wolf." Chang Yu lowered his head and sighed: "I am willing to bear all the infamy and responsibility."
"You don't have to bear any responsibility." Emperor Chongzhen stood up and said: "There are no undead people in the war. They are the heroes of the Ming Dynasty who sacrificed their lives for the country. I will pay for the silver rewards and pensions of those who died, and they will be paid from internal funds.
Not a penny from the treasury."
Chang Yu remained silent and sighed in his heart, he has been waiting for your words for a long time.
"Are you really able to retain Dorgon with all this trouble? Does he really know how to attack the city?" Emperor Chongzhen asked again, and Chang Yu said: "I can't say that I can retain him, but I must have angered him. We will try again tomorrow.
Pour some oil on it and it will be done, leaving him for two or three days is not a big problem."
Chongzhen was silent for a long time, walked around the room for a long time, and took a long breath at the door: "In previous years, when the Tatars entered the customs, everyone in the court burned incense, worshiped Buddha, and prayed that the Tatars would go away. How do you do it? Try your best to keep him.
Even provoking them to attack the city, it's really... Hey, I hope those two thousand Ming men did not die in vain." He turned around and glanced at Chang Yu: "Have a good life and recover. If you have an accident, how many people will be buried with you?" He turned around
leave.
Chang Yu walked to the yamen gate and watched him enter the Donghua Gate. He walked to the railing of the moat and sighed. Emperor Chongzhen's words about how many people were buried with him contained a lot of helplessness and respect for him. What he meant now was that if he died,
, the Ming Dynasty was almost over, and many living beings were devastated at that time.
So I can't die. Chang Yu raised his hand and touched his neck. He felt very painful, dizzy, and lost too much blood.
Chang Yu was not alone in dizziness. Dorgon was also dizzy in the Qing army camp outside the city. However, he was not dizzy due to injury, but from anger. The Ming army attacked the camp at night and did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of two thousand dead soldiers.
The cost was great damage to him.
The fire in the camp took nearly an hour to put out before it was extinguished. A large number of tents, food, fodder and other supplies were burned, and many soldiers, horses and captured Ming civilians were burned to death. The total casualties were thousands.
"Rat, rat" Dorgon angrily cursed the Ming army for not daring to fight openly, so they would resort to these sneaky and dirty tricks. Then he roared that Shang Kexi and others were incompetent and useless. Even if they were prepared early in the morning, they would be attacked by them.
In the camp, it was absolutely useless.
Shang Kexi and other generals did not dare to speak.
"Passed to Azige and Nikan troops to besiege the city quickly, I want to conquer Beijing," Dorgon roared, and ordered all the Ming soldiers who died in the battle and those who were captured to carry their heads to the city with poles, and wait for dawn to demonstrate on the city.
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None of the generals objected. They were indeed furious because of the Ming army's sneak attack. In addition, they also imagined that if they really broke the city, they would gain far more than what they could rob by running around, and they could even easily occupy thousands of miles of the Ming Dynasty.
I thought that when the Gyeonggi Province was empty of troops again, even though there were reinforcements in the south, they did not dare to approach. It would be a pity to leave without fighting at such a good opportunity. The previous caution made Wannian Ship think that it would be better to leave early and plunder.
, but being provoked by Chang Yu, he took advantage of the situation and made a decision. Whether it worked or not, he had to do it before leaving.
Qing army spies sent letters to Changping and Pinggu all night long to urgently call for reinforcements to besiege the city and make a big deal.
In Pinggu County, although it was late at night, Tang Tong, the commander-in-chief, did not fall asleep, but patrolled the city. It was not that he was not sleepy, but that he was afraid! Among the generals of the Ming Dynasty, except Wu Sangui, he had the most fights with the Qing army.
Yes, I know full well that its combat power is powerful and its methods are cruel.
A few days ago, he suddenly heard that the Qing army had entered the pass. Chang Yu was so shocked that he quickly led his troops from Jizhou to intercept it. Even the troop dispatchers did not even arrive at that time. After all, it was an accident in the territory under his jurisdiction. How dare he neglect it.
It's just that Tang Tong also knew mentally that the few men he had on hand could not defeat the Qing army. He had no more than 10,000 people under his command. Previously, he led 8,000 troops out of the pass to assist the strategy and there were casualties. Now, only about 6,000 were brought out.
Moreover, although its combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the inland troops, it is still slightly inferior to the Qing cavalry.
But the duty had to be done, so Tang Tong led his troops to rush there, and at the same time sent someone to report to the court, saying that he should summon Chang Yu back to King Qin of the capital immediately. In his absence, no one in the capital would be able to stop the Qing troops.
Tang Tong decided to fill in the hole first, thinking that he had learned some dirty tricks from the little eunuch outside the customs. Even if he couldn't stop him, he could just hide and seek with him. Who knows, imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel. His men and horses
When we first arrived in Pinggu, we had to scout the horses to report urgently that there were tens of thousands of Tatar soldiers coming to the west of Pinggu County to kill them.
Damn it, the tired servants who have been traveling all the way can't beat him, and where can they hide? It was only then that Tang Tong realized that even if he wanted to learn the little eunuch's dirty tricks, he would have to have his brains.
In panic, he quickly ordered a rapid march and hid in Pinggu County before the Nikan troops arrived. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
But this made Nikan very angry. He secretly regretted that he only focused on robbery along the way and did not send a team of troops to occupy the city first. He was blocked outside the city and the duck flew away. How could Nikan just do it?
If they didn't believe that the city could not be taken down, they ordered the city to be besieged, yelling, cursing and threatening them, and surrendering without killing them, otherwise no chickens or dogs would be left after the city was broken.
The people in the city were terrified. Fortunately, Tang Tong had also seen big scenes. How could he be frightened by his few words, knowing that he was just trying to shake the morale of the army and induce them to surrender.
After seeing that the threats were ineffective, Nikan got angry and ordered an attack on the city. However, there were few siege equipment, and although Pinggu was a small city, there were many soldiers stationed there. If he could not attack for a long time, Nikan had no idea, so he ordered a small number of troops to besiege the city, and the rest went around to loot.
But even so, Tang Tong did not dare to be careless. People in the city were panicked. He was worried that some soldiers or ordinary people could not withstand the intimidation and temptation and would open the door to surrender at night and die without a burial place, so he did not hesitate to lead the soldiers himself.
Patrolling the city.
What's going on in the capital? Has the young governor come back? What if he is trapped in this city and will run out of ammunition and food in a short time? If reinforcements don't come, will Xuezu kill people and eat meat like the ancestors did? Tang Tong stood there
At the top of the city, I looked at the bright Qing army camp outside the city and then at the dark night due south, with a sad look on my face. (To be continued)