Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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In addition, the cavalry sent by these Baoding post stations will not go directly to the front of the army.They went as far as Changyuan County on the north bank of the Yellow River, and they didn't even reach the border of Henan Province!

And the letters they delivered to the post station in Changyuan County would not be forwarded to Junqian, but to Kangxi's line in Kaifeng Fucheng.

That is to say, when the news spread from Beijing to the front of Zhuxian Town's army, it had already changed hands several times... How can a piece of news that has changed hands so many times that one does not know whether it is true or not be compared with a personal letter from a family member?

Of course, paper can't contain fire after all!

But the walls do!

Seeing that his grandson already knew he was wrong, Bumbutai couldn't help him. He sighed and said, "You can't take down the Forbidden City, right? Then send troops to Fucheng Gate, Xizhimen, Chaoyangmen, Dongzhimen, Anding Snatch all the gates...and then put more flags on it, so that people will know that my Qing Dynasty has firmly controlled fifteen of the 76 gates in Beijing's Inner Nine Outers!"

Those city gates have been abandoned by Shang Zhixin and Geng Jingzhong.They now control a Deshengmen... This is actually a big mistake!

Although it is enough to control one Deshengmen, but voluntarily giving up so many castles (those gates have urns), but showing timidity, it is tantamount to letting Bumbutai see his cards.

Once the Qing army puts the flag on the gates of these city gates, it can greatly stabilize people's hearts.

Moreover, people who "watch the excitement" around Beijing, seeing the banners of the Qing Dynasty on most of the city gates in Beijing, would think that the Qing Dynasty had already controlled the situation in Beijing...

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Qianqing Palace, late at night.

Geng Jingzhong was crying with Emperor Kangxi's favorite concubine Ma Jiashi at this time!

Don't look at the fact that this woman Ma Jiashi is not very famous, but she is Kang Mazi's "first love"...but "sweet honey"!

In the original history, she gave birth to five sons and one daughter for Emperor Kangxi during the ten years of being favored. Although only one of the emperor's third son, Yinzhi, and the emperor's third daughter, Princess Gulun Rongxian survived, the speed of giving birth to six children in ten years was still very substantial.

And when Burni marched into the Forbidden City, the Ma Jia family was taking care of his son Saiyinchahun because of his illness.As a result, he did not get the notification of "turning into the Eight Great Alleys" in time, and the Mongolian in Burni was arrested.

And the Mongolian who caught her accidentally killed the sick Saiyinchahun...

Now Ma Jiashi is really heartbroken. He just lost his son, and he will never see his beloved Mazi again. He really wants to die.

At this moment, Geng Jingzhong actually wants to sleep with her, and won't let her die!

Ma Jiashi had no choice but to cry.

And when she cried... Geng Jingzhong also cried along with her!

Why is Geng Jingzhong crying?

The same is the end of the world!

Geng Jingzhong's wives and wives were all captured by Zhu Heqi's army, and the whereabouts of his sons are also unknown, most of them died in the rebellion army.

After being imprisoned in Beijing, because he is a "mad king", he can't marry again, so he's just there alone, do you think he's sad?

Geng Jingzhong and Ma Jiashi were hugging each other and crying together, when they suddenly heard a clanging noise outside, they don't know what happened?Just as he was about to go out to take a look, suddenly the door of Dongnuange where he was sleeping was pushed open, and then he saw Shang Zhixin entering the door with a few soldiers carrying a plaque.

Seeing Geng Jingzhong and Ma Jiashi crying together, Shang Zhixin smiled and asked, "What are you two crying for? Aren't you sleeping? Why are you hugging and crying together? Is it possible?"

When Geng Jingzhong heard this, he glared at Shang Zhixin: "What nonsense are you talking about? Why can't I do it? I'm thinking of something sad... Besides, Mrs. Ma Jia is also a hard-working person, I don't allow you to bully him!"

"Okay, okay... a woman!" Shang Zhixin waved his hand indifferently, "It's almost time, we should go!"

"Go?" Geng Jingzhong was still a little reluctant, and then he saw the plaque carried by the soldiers behind Shang Zhixin, "This plaque is..."

"The plaque is upright and bright!" Shang Zhixin laughed, "We can be regarded as the masters of the Forbidden City for two days, so we should do something before we leave, right?"

"Should, should..." Geng Jingzhong thought about it wrongly, "You left the plaque of integrity, why should I?"

"The plaque of the Daqing Gate!" Shang Zhixin laughed, "I've already had someone take it off... let's be together!"

"Okay," Geng Jingzhong nodded, and asked again, "Then we're gone, what about the Forbidden City? Is there anyone left behind?"

"Yes!" Shang Zhi said, "It has been arranged!"

"Who?"

"Emperor Chongzhen!"

Chapter 460 The Qing Dynasty is about to end, Kangxi stands up!

In the 14th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, on the morning of January [-]th.

As the elongated sound of "reporting" spread to Bada Hu, another sunny Qing Dynasty has arrived.

Bumbutai and Changning have already woken up... neither of them slept soundly last night, because the Forbidden City fired all night, and the cannonballs stopped abruptly in the early morning of this morning.

The Empress Dowager and Prince Gong, who finally squinted for a while, are discussing how to recover the Forbidden City and how to pursue the escaped Boolean while eating the Shanxi-style breakfast provided by Fan's private chef. Ni... It's not that the few of them drank too much mutton soup, and suddenly their confidence burst.Instead, the booklets of Shengjing General Bahai and Horqin County King Erdeni went to Bada Hutong!

These two men originally led troops into the pass to support the Henan battlefield at the order of Emperor Kangxi. When Burni raided Beijing, they had already arrived between Jinzhou and Ningyuan... Among them, Bahai brought a whole [-] soldiers from the Eight Banners outside the pass, including five A thousand Sauron cavalry.Erdeni led the [-] Mongolian cavalry gathered from various banners in Horqin.

Although they only have 3 people in total, they only need to take out 3 of the [-] people, or even [-] Sauron cavalry, which is enough to wipe out Burni's [-] Chahar army!

So today, knowing that Bahai and Erdeni's army will arrive in a few days, Bumbutai and Chang Ning finally settled down, and they can discuss how to eliminate the traitor of Burni!

Burni must be destroyed... This guy has captured most of the old Manchurians and Mongolian families of the Eight Banners in Beijing.

If they are not taken back, it will be doubtful whether the Eight Banners group can continue to exist.

This is no joke!

Regardless of the fact that there are still more than 4 strong men in Manchuria in the Eight Banners, if you count the strong men from "other households", there may be more than 20 more.But if we lose the [-] million family members who were looted by Burni, these Manchurians from the Eight Banners and other households will all become "lonely and widowed", with no one to take care of their lives, no one to bear children for them, No one can take their place in a few years or a decade...

This means that the Eight Banners Manchuria, a military aristocratic group, has fallen into a dilemma with no successors.

Although Kangxi can also help these people remarry and have children by abolishing the system of "banner people not getting married", there are many problems in doing so.

First, it costs a lot!

Marrying a wife and having children cost money!In order to raise military expenses, Kangxi has stopped paying the banner salary. Now that Beijing has just been looted, the emperor Kangxi is already so poor, how can he help his subordinates marry wives and have children?

The second is that the new Eight Banners whose family members have not been taken away will also "take advantage of the loopholes" and ask Emperor Kangxi to allow them to marry Namin girls, and they will also ask Kangxi to give money... What will Kangxi do?

The gap between the old and new Eight Banners is already very deep. If Kangxi does not agree to the requirements of the new Eight Banners, the contradiction between the two will be even deeper.

The third is that the Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners have been disgraced... Now it is no longer disgraced, but disgraced!

Combining these three issues together, it is hard to say whether the Eight Banners system can be maintained any longer!

And just when Bumbutai, Chang Ning and others were discussing to destroy Burni as soon as possible, someone came to "report".

"What's the matter? Report it quickly!" Chang Ning asked loudly.

The one who came to report was a man in a yellow mandarin jacket. He knelt outside without entering the house, "To the Empress Dowager, General... The rebels in the Forbidden City have changed their shift again!"

"Again, another shift change?" Chang Ning frowned, "Who will change this time?"

The anti-thieves this time are really outrageous. Not only did they form a team to engage in "rebellion", but they also came to "check in the Forbidden City". The first day was Dayuan. End and change...

"Change, change..." the yellow mantle stammered.

"Who changed this time?" Chang Ning asked, "Quickly tell me!"

"It's been changed...it's been changed to the false Ming Emperor Chongzhen!" The yellow mantle stammered.

"What? Chongzhen has been dead for so many years..." Chang Ning didn't know what to say.

Bumbutai snorted, "Changning, take someone to see what's going on?"

"The grandson leads the order!"

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The old grandmother told me to take a look, so of course Chang Ning had to go and see, but when he climbed up to the Zhengyangmen gate tower and looked towards Daqingmen with a binoculars, he always felt that something was wrong.

"Why does Daqingmen look so awkward today?" Chang Ning asked.

"Reply to the prince," Wang Yuxi replied, "The plaque on the Daqing Gate is gone..."

"It's really..." Chang Ning took a closer look, and sure enough, the plaque engraved with the words "Great Qing Gate" had been removed at some point.

"Who is so wicked..."

Chang Ning then held up the binoculars and looked towards Tiananmen Square, and found that the Dazhou black flag on the Tiananmen Gate tower had long since disappeared.It was replaced by a big red flag with the word "Ming" tattooed on it.

There seems to be a person standing under the banner with the word "Ming", and this person is still wearing a golden armor... It looks like a big man!

Is he the so-called Chongzhen?It can't be true, can it?

Chang Ning looked down again and found that this person was standing below the place where a very wide and long white cloth was still hanging on the outer wall of Tiananmen Square, with words written on it.

Chang Ning began to read in a low voice: "Chongzhen is back, the Qing Dynasty is about to end..." After reading this, he immediately became angry, "Who is this! He is so wicked that he cursed me in a different way!"

He should know that the golden light cannot be the real Chongzhen, but such a trick will probably cause a greater blow to the already flustered hearts!

This is hanging on the Tiananmen Gate tower!

At the same time, the plaque of Daqing Gate disappeared again!

And now the Qing Dynasty really has a little bit of meaning to end... the eight words "Chongzhen is coming back, the Qing Dynasty will end", can't they be turned into something like "prophecy" or "prophecy"?

Thinking of this, Chang Ning finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said to Wang Yuxi: "Wang Junmen, hurry up and send someone to take a look... Remember, you must be careful, don't be ambushed again!"

"Whoo!"

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The sound of gunfire, gunshots and shouts of killing resounded all over the field in the morning sun!

The shouts of Wu Zhou's army approached from the south, and the rain of bullets and bullets hit the outer wall of the Che Fort in the north of Zhuxian Town, which had been expanded and reinforced into a small fort long ago, and the sound of bullets hitting wood was everywhere. .

On the battlefield north of Zhuxian Town, the flames were raging.

At this time, Emperor Kangxi was also very close to the front line, on the roof of a brick and tile house in a village next to the Jialu River in the north of Zhuxian Town, holding a binoculars and staring at the battlefield ahead.Under this brick and tile house, there are all yellow jackets, and everyone wants to tear the emperor off the roof of the house—this place is not far from the battlefield, and from time to time there are solid bullets from the Wu Zhou army that fly and fall nearby Woolen cloth!

But Kangxi really doesn't care about his personal safety now, he is very anxious now!

Although he didn't know that Beijing had lost half of it, and that his "first love" had been "sleeped" by Geng Jingzhong...but he still knew that Beijing was attacked by Burni, a white-eyed wolf from Chahar.

Moreover, there have been rumors in the past two days of the Zhuxian Town Army, saying that the Mongols have captured the city of Beijing, and the Great Yuan Dynasty has been restored in Beijing!

After a while, Wu Sangui succeeded in attacking Beijing, and he has already ascended the throne in Beijing as the Great Zhou Emperor!

And there are even more exaggerated rumors, saying that the Mongols seized the inner city of Beijing, and the empress dowager and empress were exiled in the Eight Great Hutongs... It's just nonsense!

After killing a few nonsense bastards, the rumors in the army seemed to subside, but Wu Yingqi's offensive was still as fierce as fire!

Even after Yue Le voluntarily gave up the three chariot bases surrounding Zhuxian Town, east, west, and south, and concentrated his troops to guard the north base, Wu Jun's offensive was still fierce!

If this continues, the battle of Zhuxian Town will be defeated again!

Chapter 461 Your Majesty, Good News, Beijing Good News!

On the battlefield outside the north gate of Zhuxian Town, there is already a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

For this sake, the coaches of both sides understand that this is betting their last breath!This is the turning point related to the national destiny of the Zhou and Qing countries, and it may even be related to the ownership of the whole world!

If you don't count the Emperor Tianyou who suddenly appeared, the plates of the Ming and Qing Zhou kingdoms that are now vying for world hegemony are actually pretty much the same.

Although Daming has a larger population and still has a few "black technologies" in its hands, Zhu Hechi's heart is too big, and he wants to lead China to be the first to industrialize, so he has been in his "half Beijing and four provinces" early on. On the territory, it engaged in land equalization and education, and also set its sights on the vast ocean, which angered a lot of imperialists.Therefore, the army that Zhu Heqi can use to fight for hegemony in the Central Plains is only more than [-].

And the military plate of Wu Zhou and Qing Dynasty is only this big!

Although Wu Zhou's territory is not small, the population is too small, and Wu Zhou has not established a military system similar to the military system that combines soldiers with the people. Wu Sangui's army is still following the old path of Guanning professional soldiers.The basics are those of the second and third generations of the Guanning Army plus those who Wu Sangui defected to when he was King Pingxi, plus some recruits who defected or recruited after he raised his army.

Since Wu Sangui's financial resources are quite limited, he has done his best to feed an army of more than one hundred thousand!

The situation in the Qing Dynasty was also similar to that of Wu and Zhou. Although the territory was not small, the basic military base they relied on was still those under the Eight Banners system.Regardless of whether the Eight Banners are old or new, they all have to rely on the finances that have almost collapsed to support them.

Therefore, a field force of more than one hundred thousand people is almost the capital of each Zhou family in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Once it is lit, the country is over!

Therefore, the battle of Zhuxian Town is a real gamble for the whole country!

However, the goals of both parties involved in the gambling are different. Wu Zhou’s goal is to win—the Wu Zhou Group was originally a branch of the Eight Banners Group of the Qing Dynasty, and their relationship with the nobles of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty is very close. There is a possibility of absorbing and merging the Eight Banners Group.

Therefore, if Wu Zhou can win a decisive victory in the battle of Zhuxian Town, then Wu Sangui will be able to use "internal diplomatic means" to divide and absorb the Eight Banners Group, so that Wu Zhou's military base can be expanded by 50.00% to double.

But Emperor Kangxi's purpose was to keep peace and seek peace - he knew very well how heavy his army was, and it was impossible to win a big victory in Zhuxian Town.And it is impossible for his Eight Banners Group to absorb Wu Zhou Group!

Because for the Eight Banners Group, the Wu Zhou Group is a traitor and a traitor—this is worse than the enemy!

Even if Kangxi could grit his teeth and tolerate this group of rebels, Wu Zhou and his group would worry day and night that Qiuhou would settle accounts.

So once Wu Zhou's main force is wiped out, the collapsed Wu Zhou Group is likely to be absorbed and merged by Zhu Ming Group... At that time, Zhu Mingke will have an overwhelming advantage!

Compared with such a result, we should first maintain peace and curb the pace of Wu Zhou's northward advance.Then seek peace and maintain the situation of the Three Kingdoms contending for hegemony.In the end, it is the most ideal to strive to connect Wu to destroy Zhu and form a pattern of Southern Zhou and Northern Qing.

Therefore, the tactics adopted by Emperor Kangxi on the battlefield of Zhuxian Town were aimed at "keeping the tie" from the beginning.