Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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"Your Majesty, why don't you leave the Forbidden City to me for a few days!"

As soon as Shang Zhixin's request was made, Burni was stunned, "Didn't you just want it? What's the matter now? Figured it out? Are you going to have an emperor's addiction in the Forbidden City?"

"No, no, no..." Shang Zhixin quickly shook his head, and said to Burni with a smile on his face, "Your Majesty, you misunderstood me. How dare I have such treacherous thoughts?"

Burni smiled: "My father, don't be modest, you have already asked the emperor for the Forbidden City... Isn't this treasonable enough?"

Shang Zhixin quickly shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, don't make fun of me... I am also struggling to find a way to survive now! And my way of life is not in Daming, nor in Daqing, I can only find it from President Wu. But if I want to have a delicious meal with President Wu, I must have a gift of meeting!

So I want to help President Wu occupy the Forbidden City in Beijing, even if it is only for one day, it is considered occupied, right?You see, the world is now divided into four parts, the Qing Dynasty occupied the Forbidden City, the Ming Dynasty also occupied the Forbidden City, and the Yuan Dynasty now occupies the Forbidden City... Should Da Zhou also occupy a part? "

"Should, indeed, it should be!" Burni nodded again and again, "But can you and Geng Jingzhong hold it?"

"You can always take one," Shang Zhixin nodded and said, "As long as the emperor can borrow some soldiers and horses, and then take away the family members of Pingnan Palace and Jingnan Palace... Geng Jingzhong and I can Under the banner of President Wu, I will cut off the empress for you!"

"Okay!" After hearing Shang Zhixin's idea, Burni felt that it was feasible, and immediately nodded, "Then I will lend you three thousand cavalrymen, and then three thousand horses... and I will give you one thousand shotguns and two thousand catties of gunpowder.

In addition, the cannons erected on Andingmen, Xizhimen, Fuchengmen, and Chaoyangmen are also given to you! "

After listening to Burni's words, Shang Zhixin hurriedly bowed and said loudly: "Then thank you, Your Majesty, for your fulfillment!"

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In fact, Bumbutai deliberately released the news that on January [-]th, he will "soldiers out of the Eight Alleys, and attack the Forbidden City in the north", the purpose is to let Burni leave quickly... Burni has made a fortune this time, Your Majesty He did it too, even the Great Yuan Dynasty cheated the corpse under his operation.

With the gold and silver treasures he snatched from the inner city of Beijing and the prestige of restoring the Yuan Dynasty, after returning to the grassland, wouldn't he be able to choose the Great Khan of all Mongolia?

Then why is he still hanging on in Beijing?Waiting for Kangxi, Wu Sangui and Zhu Heqi to call?

Any one of the three of them can beat Burni's strength to ashes!

Bumbutai, who thought she had figured out what Burni was thinking, actually didn't even think about fighting Burni at all. After all, the strength of the more than 1 Northern Expeditionary troops she put together was also very weak!

So when Bumbutai heard that the Mongolian army in Burni was detaining captives one after another, driving carts full of gold, silver, treasures, silk and satin, and happily leaving Beijing to retreat in the direction of Juyongguan , she didn't let anyone chase after her.

When Tongzhou dispatched envoys in an emergency, saying that the Mongols were approaching the city and the water workers in the city took the opportunity to revolt, Bumubutai ignored it... and even asked the Zhizhou of Tongzhou to abandon the city quickly and bring a small number of defenders there to the Eighth University Alley report!

In this way, the time soon came to the early morning of January 14th, the [-]th year of Kangxi.

When a total of [-] soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, under the leadership of Fuyuan General Prince Gong Changning, set off from Bada Hutong, walked along Zhengyangmen Street all the way, went two miles north, entered Zhengyangmen, and entered Zhengyangmen. Inside, when the chessboard street outside the Daqing Gate opened.

The three gates of the Daqing Gate were all wide open, and no large army was seen, only a Dazhou black flag fluttering and dancing in the southeast wind in spring.

The Daqing Gate is not the structure of the city gate tower, but a masonry structure with a single eaves and a mountain top with three door openings. There are also walls on both sides of the Daqing Gate, but they are not city walls. There are no people standing on the top, just two feet The left and right courtyard walls.Inside the Daqing Gate is the Thousand-step Long Street, on both sides of the street are the Yamen of the Six Departments and Jiuqing, and the strength of the long street is the main entrance of the Forbidden City-Tiananmen!

"What's the matter with that black flag?" Chang Ning, General Fuyuan's sharp eyes, saw the black flag waving in the wind at a glance.

Jin Duoduo, who was following him, raised a binoculars to take a look, and immediately reported: "Reporting to the lord, it is a black flag of fake Zhou...there is a word Zhou on the flag."

"What's going on here?" Chang Ning was stunned, "Wu Sangui is here?"

"How is this possible?" Wang Yuxi, the admiral of Zhili, said, "It should be playing tricks... Yesterday I came to report that Burni and Abu Nai had led most of the Mongols to withdraw, and only a few remained in the inner city of Beijing." The broken horses.

In addition, Xizhimen, Chaoyangmen, Fuchengmen, Dongzhimen, and Andingmen were all deserted. Only Deshengmen was still guarded by Mongolian soldiers. "

Chang Ning nodded, "Wang Yuxi!"

"The end is here!"

Chang Ning raised his horsewhip and said to Wang Yuxi: "This king ordered you to lead two thousand Tianjin soldiers to take the lead... to attack Daqing Gate and capture Tiananmen Square!"

"Whoo!"

Wang Yuxi responded loudly, then pulled out his waist knife and pointed at the Daqing Gate, "Brothers, the opportunity to make meritorious deeds has come, kill into the Daqing Gate! Kill into the Forbidden City... kill!"

Shouting, he took the lead and rushed towards Daqingmen and the Forbidden City with his Tianjin soldiers.

And when Chang Ning heard about "killing into the Daqing Gate" and "killing into the Forbidden City", don't mention how awkward it is...

Just when Chang Ning felt awkward, Wang Yuxi had rushed into the Daqing Gate with two thousand Tianjin soldiers under him.

Daqingmen, Tiananmen and the Forbidden City are, after all, the homes of the Qing emperors and empress dowagers, and it would be inappropriate to destroy them.

And... the Forbidden City looks like an empty city.

But when Wang Yuxi led a group of green battalion soldiers rushing to the bottom of Tiananmen Gate, suddenly a shrill suona sounded, resounding throughout the city.Then following an order, more than a thousand "black-clothed Zhou soldiers" appeared on the Tiananmen Gate tower, and thousands of black shotguns were already lit with matchlocks, pointing at the chaotic green camp soldiers below.

At this time, someone shouted from the tower: "Now the Forbidden City belongs to President Wu. If you don't want to die, you should retreat to the gate of Qing Dynasty!"

Chapter 458 Report to the Empress Dowager, the rebels occupying the Forbidden City have changed their shift!

what?

The Forbidden City now belongs to the President?

When the Tianjin soldiers below Tiananmen heard this, and then looked at the jet-black shotguns protruding from the tower of Tiananmen, they immediately became a little scared.

They are not afraid of the Chahar Mongols. The Qing Dynasty said something about the "Mongolian family" and "the Mongol-Manchu alliance is the foundation of the Qing Dynasty", but in fact it was very strict against the Chahar Mongols.Stuck their necks, does not let them have money, and does not let them get good soldiers and good armor.Their weapons are not to mention compared with the Eight Banners soldiers, they are far worse than the Green Battalion soldiers!

No matter how shabby the green battalion soldiers are, they can still reach the level of shotguns, bows and arrows, and spears each one-third of the level.That is to say, the "Eight Banners firearms" such as mother-child artillery and Weiyuan artillery are not allowed to be equipped.

However, those Mongolian soldiers in Chahar didn't have shotguns at all, and even their bows were soft things. There was no good steel on the knife edge, and there was no armor at all, only leather robes for body protection.Soldiers like this don't organize training because they don't have military pay.

These guys, even if you give them a shotgun, most of them won't be able to hit them!

But Wu Sangui's soldiers are formidable... If they had thousands of shotguns in their hands and fired a volley at this distance, wouldn't they kill one or two hundred people?

This group of green battalion soldiers is cowardly, and their Shangguan Zhili admiral Wang Yuxi has already yelled: "They are fake, they are not from Wu Ni, and Wu Ni's soldiers are still in Henan! They are all Chaha You Mongolian Tartars! Give me a damn... the first one to climb the gate tower will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver!"

As soon as he roared, the green battalion soldiers below suddenly mustered up their courage. Some lifted their ladders, some raised their shotguns, some raised their bows and arrows, and yelled, they rushed towards the city gate tower. I heard a piercing suona sound-this is the order to fire!

The lingering sound of the suona is still echoing, and rows of fire lights, large and small, have already flashed above the city gate!Among the green battalion soldiers who were rushing forward screaming, there were more than a hundred people who seemed to be struck by lightning suddenly, shaking and falling down.The screams were unstoppable, and there were dying people falling down and rolling on the ground everywhere on the entire front.

Now the Tianjin Green Battalion soldiers under Wang Yuxi's hands will not do it-how can this marksmanship be played by the Chahar Mongols?These people are really Wu Sangui's soldiers!

Now they are still a little far away from the city tower, and when they get close, they have to climb the wall to climb the city.

In other words, they have to carry at least two rounds of shotgun salvos from each other... How many people will die?

The Tianjin green camp soldiers immediately shouted in disorder.

"They are from Wu Sangui!"

"They are not Mongols..."

"Precise marksmanship!"

"I can't beat it..."

Wang Yuxi was also taken aback by the round of musket shooting just now-a Goshha beside him was shot down!

If this is a little more biased, then he is now a loyal and powerful Qing Dynasty!

Thinking of this, I immediately broke into a cold sweat!

The Qing Dynasty doesn't know how many days it can spend, it doesn't seem worthwhile to be a loyal hero to it!

"Back, back...Ming Jin, Ming Jin retreats!"

Thinking of this, Wang Yuxi hurriedly ordered Goshha beside him to ring the gong, and he also exited the Daqing Gate under the guard of several Geshha holding round shields, and then went to Prince Gong Changning who was sitting in the Zhengyang Gate in disgrace. Urgent.

Seeing the Green Battalion soldiers rushing into the Daqing Gate retreat, Shang Zhixin, who was standing on the tower commanding, ordered loudly without hesitation: "Blow the suona...fire!"

It is inconvenient to reload the shotgun, so most of the gunners have not finished the second round of reloading, but there are still dozens of masters from the Pingnan Palace and Jingnan Palace who have finished reloading. When they heard the sound of suona, Immediately, he raised the shotgun in his hand and aimed at the backs of the green battalion soldiers who were running. A wave of bullets was fired, and another twenty or so soldiers of the Tianjin green battalion were knocked down.

The rest of the Green Battalion soldiers were all shocked, crying and shouting, and retreated to the Daqing Gate.

At the same time, the Mongolian cavalrymen ambushing in the various yamen of Qianbu Long Street also rushed out of the yamen on horseback under the command of the old servants of the Shang and Geng palaces... They did not chase the green battalion soldiers, nor did they kill them. Shooting with a bow and arrow means rushing from one side of the Thousand Steps Street to the other.Whether or not a green battalion can be knocked over depends entirely on fate.

Not to mention, the level of the veterans in Shang Geng Second Mansion is much better than that of the Tianjin Green Camp soldiers-those people were killed by the remnants of the Ming Army who had been on the front line for a long time and in the Yanping Palace.How can the Tianjin green battalion compare?

Seeing that the veterans under him performed well, Shang Zhixin laughed loudly, and then said to Geng Jingzhong beside him: "We won... That kid Chang Ning knows how powerful our Great Zhou Tianbing is this time, and he will not dare to make mistakes next time." gone."

"Then what should we do? How many days are we going to guard?" Geng Jingzhong asked while turning his head to look at the Meridian Gate—behind the Meridian Gate is the Qianqing Palace!

In his past dreams, he always wanted to live in the Qianqing Palace, sit on a chair in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, and then sleep in the Qianqing Palace for a night... Unexpectedly, this unattainable goal may be realized tonight!

"Let's wait until tomorrow..." Shang Zhi said, "If we both live in the Forbidden City for two days, this life is not in vain!"

"Yes, yes!" Geng Jingzhong said, "Let's go to the Qianqing Palace and sit on the dragon chair later. You sit first, and I will sit later. After sitting on the dragon chair, let's take a nap in the Qianqing Palace tonight..."

Shang Zhixin knew that Geng Jingzhong had the dream of being an emperor, so he immediately followed him and said, "When the Mongols came in, they even caught a concubine named Ma Jia... I gave it to Burni, or I will give it to you. She will accompany you first?"

"Okay, okay," Geng Jingzhong was not polite, "That's it. Sleeping on the dragon bed, sleeping on the emperor's concubine, and sitting on the dragon chair in the Qianqing Palace, this can be regarded as the avatar of the emperor, right?"

"Forget it, of course forget it!" Shang Zhixin nodded again and again, and said in his heart: "You've given Kangxi a cuckold...it's worth it!"

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At the same time, Prince Gong Changning had already retreated to Bada Hutong to report the emergency military situation to the old lady Empress Bumbutai.

"Imperial Grandmother, Imperial Grandmother, it's not good... The rebels occupying the Forbidden City have changed their shifts!"

When Chang Ning yelled and ran in, the old lady was looking at the account book wearing reading glasses!

This is the "payment account book" sent by Fan Dahuang's businessman Fan Youying for various businesses in the outer city of Beijing. It is written in Mongolian characters, which the old lady can understand...but the faster you go, the more you sigh.

Those imperial merchants still donated a lot of silver - this is much better than that of the Chongzhen Dynasty!

But the problem is that as soon as the old lady saw the amount of money, she remembered the loss of the imperial court and the Eight Banners families in this battle of Beijing... just the money in the treasury of the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Internal Affairs disappeared several times at once. One million taels!

In addition to the losses of the yamen of the Eight Banners and the children of the Eight Banners who have made money as corrupt officials... Maybe there are two to 3000 million!

This is really hurting one's vitality!

Just as he was moaning and sighing, Chang Ning came in in a hurry, and also came with an inexplicable news unexpectedly.

"What do you mean?" The old lady put down the account book, "What do you mean the rebel has changed his shift?"

"Grandmother," Chang Ning was asked by the old lady, tears of sadness came down, "The rebels entrenched in the Forbidden City were originally Chahar Mongols, but now they have been replaced by Wu Sangui for some reason... Isn't this just a change of shift? ?"

"What? Changed to Wu Sangui's people? Fake?" The old lady frowned, "Wu Sangui's bandit army is still on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the emperor has blocked it for many days!"

Chang Ning shook his head, "Grandmother, the soldiers sent by my grandson to fight against the Forbidden City have just lost for a while. They lost more than 200 people, and half of them were killed by shotguns... I guess it's true!"

As soon as he said this, he suddenly heard the roar of "boom boom boom" outside.

Chang Ning's complexion suddenly changed, and he said to the old grandmother: "Grandmother... this is the traitor firing! How can the Mongols fire? It must be Wu Sangui's people who have sneaked into Beijing!

Grandmother, you can't go on like this!It's better to write a letter to the emperor and ask him to return to the army as soon as possible! "

Chapter 459 It's time for Emperor Chongzhen to come!

"Papa" two crisp sounds!

Chang Ning's smooth and tender face immediately felt a burning sensation... It hurts!

He covered his face subconsciously, looked up at the person who had just slapped him twice, and still didn't dare to get angry... because the person who slapped him was none other than his imperial grandmother Bumbutai!

The old lady also belonged to the bad guys and got old. After beating someone, she still looked righteous and confident. Her small eyes were round, she glared at Chang Ning angrily, and asked sharply, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Chang Ning was frightened by the old lady, and immediately knelt down, trembling and not daring to speak.

The old lady said angrily: "When the building is about to collapse, not only will you not be able to turn the tide, but you will also cause trouble for your brother. Why are you at ease?"

"I, I, I..." Chang Ning was so sweaty that he knelt down to the old grandmother with a plop!

His current status... is the real sub-emperor first class!If the emperor is gone, he should take over!

This is not a daydream, but an inevitable choice when the building is about to collapse!

If Kangxi died in battle in Henan, how could the old lady choose one of Kangxi's two youngest sons to take the throne?

Now that the Qing Dynasty is in trouble, of course the country has won the Lai Changjun!

So now Chang Ning is actually the "Emperor's younger brother"... Can the old lady say "what's the peace of mind", can you not scare him out of a heart attack?

"You! You are so confused..." Seeing that her grandson was about to die of fright, the old lady could only sigh softly, and said in a soft tone, "Chang Ning, I still keep the matter from your brother... and I still Write a letter to the family members of the ministers in charge of the Eight Banners New Army who forced them to run out from the inner city to report safety to the front line in Henan. The queen and I also wrote a letter to report safety to your brother. The purpose is to help your brother stabilize the morale of the army ...No matter what, we must wait until the battle of Zhuxian Town is over! If your brother returns to the army in a hurry now, then Wu Yingqi and Wu Guogui will definitely pursue it with all their strength.

And the Henan army must be in a panic now, if they are pursued again when they return to the army, the whole army may be wiped out!The Eight Banners New Army in Henan is the foundation of my Qing Dynasty... Once there is a mistake, the Qing Dynasty will be over! "

It has to be said that this old lady is still very able to suppress the scene.Beijing is like this, and she is still trying to block the news as much as possible to prevent Emperor Kangxi's army from disintegrating on the front line.

The means of long-distance communication these days are mainly writing and sending letters and word of mouth.

The main force of Kangxi's Eight Banners new army is now on the front line in Henan, and they are in a state of war, and there are not many means of communication with the rear. It is unlikely that ordinary messengers will enter the battle zone. After all, there are a large number of Qing army rangers around Zhuxian Town. One of their important tasks is to block the battlefield to cut off the contact between Wu Yingqi and Wu Sangui.

And now the official station is blocked by the old lady again—she sent out the most reliable yellow jackets to deliver the letters, and these yellow jackets were only to send letters to the post station in Baoding, and they were not allowed to go further south.

Although Baoding already knew that Beijing was attacked by the Mongols, they didn't know the specific situation.

In this case, as long as the yellow jacket sent by Bumbutai is tight enough, it can delay the spread of bad news.

As for those Chuanqi at the Baoding post station who sent the "Safety" letter to Henan, even if the tone is not tight enough, the problem is not big... After all, these people are not witnesses to the changes in Beijing, they themselves are hearsay.Moreover, Kangxi can also use some thunderous means to control the speed of the spread of the truth.