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- Chapter 532: Capture of Beijing (5,000 words chapter)
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Brutal! Yes, this is the most brutal weapon in history. In terms of killing efficiency, even artillery cannot compare with it. Perhaps only after the emergence of biological and chemical weapons and weapons with higher technological content can we exclude him from the throne of the king of murder.
When he first decided to implement this plan, Xiao Mingqian hesitated whether to use it in a war in which Chinese people killed themselves, but in the end, on both the northern and southern fronts, an average of hundreds of Chinese Empire soldiers died every day and each time Faced with the reality that tens of thousands of Ming soldiers and even ordinary people died, Xiao Mingqian finally made up his mind and decided to use it.
¡° This way, it can at least shorten the entire unification war a lot, and at the same time avoid a war with more horrific casualties near Beijing.
It worked, just as Xiao Mingshan expected. The death of more than two thousand people and the terror of heavy machine guns completely shocked the Ming army who saw this scene later. Even those officers who had not seen this scene drove them away. Charge, those soldiers no longer obeyed the order, and even turned against each other for this reason.
"This group of cowards dare to call themselves traitors, come to me with the Shenji Camp and we must rescue the emperor."
It was already an hour and a half later when Wu Rongtang, who finally reached an agreement with other ministers and agreed to the Shenji Battalion entering the palace to quell the rebellion, arrived with an army of 40,000 Shenji Battalion. As many as 6,000 corpses of the Forbidden Army have been piled up at the entrances of the four city gates.
Although the Forbidden Army generals explained to Wu Rongtang, Wen Tiren and other important ministers why they could not attack and how terrifying the enemy's weapons were, Wu Rongtang and others who had not seen it with their own eyes could not believe it. They only thought that the Forbidden Army generals were excused for their own cowardice. and incompetence in justification.
"Shenji Camp, concentrate your firepower on Fengtianmen. I can't do it. The opponent has three heads and six arms." Wu Rongtang roared with red eyes.
"Master Wu, the emperor is still in their hands, so don't force yourself!" Upon seeing this formation, Wen Tiren immediately stood up to stop him.
If the emperor is not in the palace, but only the prince or something else is in the opponent's hands, then there is nothing wrong with attacking by force. However, together with the emperor and Zainei, all members of the royal family are in the opponent's hands. In this case, attacking by force will only anger other side.
If the emperor has any shortcomings, they will not be able to escape the responsibility of killing the emperor.
"No, even if you want to talk, you must let the other party know that they have no way to survive. If you don't fight, you are afraid of them. It's useless to say anything. The Shenji Battalion attacks!"
But the facts let him know that there are more terrifying existences in this world than gods and demons with three heads and six arms.
Just as the six thousand soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were about to set up a musket formation two hundred meters away, they heard an unimaginably dense burst of gunfire. The six thousand soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were knocked down as if they had been blown down by a hurricane. Rivers of blood flowed from there, and only more than 200 people escaped the call of death because they were not shot in the vital points and the number of bullets was small.
Such a scene made everyone extremely frightened. They fully understood that a strong attack was impossible. With this kind of weapon, even if hundreds of thousands of troops were mobilized, it would be useless unless everyone could be ruthless and bombard the place with cannons. A mess.
But the question is who has the courage to take such action. In this case, the emperor will inevitably be in danger.
The nightmare continued. Just when all the ministers and soldiers in the Forbidden City were unable to defend themselves against the defense of the reconnaissance company soldiers who were as helpless as hedgehogs, suddenly earth-shattering shouts of death and thin air were heard from the direction of Chaoyang Gate. Falling gunshots.
"What's going on? Could it be that Thief Xiao's army has already reached Beijing City?"
Wen Tiren completely lost his sense of proportion and asked in a panic.
"No, it's not Xiao Thief's army. Yang Guo's army is blocking the outskirts of Beijing. Even if we want to fight, we have to wait until Yang Guo's army breaks through before we can reach the capital. What I'm worried about now is whether Yang Guo will surrender to Xiao Thief. Wu Rongtang said with a gloomy face.
Wu Rongtang¡¯s judgment was correct. It was not the army of the Chinese Empire that attacked Chaoyang Gate, but the army led by Zhou Chen.
Starting last night, Zhou Chen moved all the troops around Beijing away from the defense line. Two hours ago, he led an army of 150,000 through Beijing on the pretext of entering Beijing to quell the Shenji Camp rebellion.
The momentum along the way was overwhelming. Before those troops could react to what had happened, all the peripheral armies not commanded by Zhou Chen were disarmed and guarded. Only when they arrived at Chaoyang Gate did they encounter strong resistance from the Jiumen defenders and the Shenji Battalion.
Zhou Chen insisted on entering Beijing to quell the rebellion, but ChaoyangThe guard general refused Zhou Chen's request to lead his army into the city on the grounds that foreign troops were not allowed to enter the city without the emperor's permission.
Both sides insisted on their own opinions. Zhou Chen couldn't care so much now and directly ordered his army to attack Chaoyang Gate.
That¡¯s right, Zhou Chen doesn¡¯t have to worry about so much now. After Zhou Chen transferred the peripheral defenders away from the defense line, the Chinese Empire's 100,000-strong army marched straight in, directly capturing those troops left by Zhou Chen on the periphery, and soon arrived outside Yongding Gate.
"Yang Guo rebelled!"
After receiving the report from the guard of Chaoyang Gate, Wu Rongtang made a direct judgment. The intensive gunshots and explosions coming from the direction of Yongdingmen shortly afterwards made him even more convinced of this.
After all, if there was no rebellion, we should fight the Chinese Imperial Army that is attacking Yongding Gate, instead of continuing to attack Chaoyang Gate at this critical moment.
It¡¯s over! Beijing is over! The Ming Dynasty is over!
The Forbidden City cannot be breached, and there are rebel Zhou Chen's army and the Chinese Empire's army outside. Under such circumstances, there is no possibility of defending the city of Beijing. And more importantly, the emperor is now in the hands of the other party, and it is impossible for him to save him.
Wu Rongtang's judgment was correct. The city of Beijing was doomed. After two rounds of bombardment, Yongding Gate was captured. Then one hundred thousand Chinese Empire troops poured into Beijing city like a tide. Wherever they passed, Ming troops poured in one after another. Some soldiers break into ordinary people's homes and do bad things.
At this time, no one has the heart to take care of these things. Even if they want to take care of them, they have to wait until the war in the city is over before they can allocate energy to deal with them.
One hundred thousand Chinese Imperial troops took full control of the entire outer city in the past forty minutes and quickly attacked Zhengyangmen. At this time, the 150,000-strong army led by Zhou Chen also captured Chaoyang Gate and advanced rapidly towards the imperial city.
"Let's go, Zhou Wenlong, lead your men to break out of the encirclement with me?"
The sound of gunfire from the direction of Zhengyang Gate and the closer and closer shouts of killing from the direction of Chaoyang Gate made Wu Rongtang make up his mind.
"Wu Rongtang, what do you want to do? The emperor is still in the other party's hands, don't you care?"
Looking at the posture of Wu Rongtang and Shenji Camp, Wen Tiren immediately saw that they were going to abandon Beijing.
"Master Wen, I advise you to leave Beijing as soon as possible, otherwise you won't know how you died by then! Let's go!"
There is no hope of saving the emperor. The Chinese Empire's army has also invaded Beijing. If you don't leave now, you will have to become a prisoner of the Chinese Empire.
Wu Rongtang will never be a prisoner of the Chinese Empire. From the beginning, the Wu family has sworn hatred for the Chinese Empire.
In order to escape the military front of the Chinese Empire, the Wu family panicked, leaving most of their property behind and fled from Fujian to the remote Jiangxi province, and then turned to Hunan.
Such hatred is simply impossible to resolve. It can only disappear if one of the parties melts. Unfortunately, it now seems that the Wu family is likely to be eliminated.
Although Wu Rongtang also saw it, he was still unwilling to give in. He could only fight for a while.
Wu Rongtang took his family in Beijing and led the 40,000 Shenji Battalion troops to leave from Xizhimen, then turned southwest and entered Henan.
Looking at Wu Rongtang¡¯s back, Wen Tiren¡¯s expression slowly turned from fear to indifference.
"Hmph, you can escape now, but you can escape to wherever you go in the future. My lords, let your men put down their weapons, and let us welcome the righteous masters of the Chinese Empire!"
Hearing Wen Tiren¡¯s words, many ministers present looked at each other, and then many ministers became furious and cursed Wen Tiren as a shameless traitor. But it is a pity that these ministers do not hold real power, at least they do not hold military power. Most of the ministers who held military power went back silently to arrange their own retreat. This is true even for Zhou Tingru, who has always been kind and gentle.
By eight o'clock in the morning, the entire city of Beijing quickly calmed down. Zhou Chen also formally led the army to accept reorganization and help stabilize the situation in Beijing.
Of course, it is still the soldiers of the Chinese Empire who are responsible for reassuring the people, stabilizing law and order, and accepting the surrender of many ministers. After all, many of the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Yang Guo are not good birds, so let them engage in such things. , I don¡¯t know how many people it will harm.
The Battle of Beijing ended in this way, which lasted less than four hours. Less than 300 people were killed on the Chinese Empire side, more than 4,000 people were killed on Zhou Chen's side, and as many as 40,000 people were killed on the Beijing defenders' side, of which nearly 20,000 died during the invasion. In the hands of the Forbidden City's reconnaissance company.
After the Chinese Imperial Army invaded the Forbidden City, as many as three?Many ministers committed suicide for their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty. Some were so strong-willed that their whole families committed suicide together, and their slaves were not left behind, including Shi Kefa and Xiong Tingbi who were still in prison.
There is nothing that can be done about it. Every dynasty has people who are loyal to it. Even those that were established only a few years ago, such as Wu, Shu, Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, and Zhou, Qi, Liang, and Chen during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there are countless people who would rather die than surrender to other countries. People, let alone the Ming Dynasty who ruled China for nearly three hundred years.
No one can tell whether this kind of thing is good or bad. Even from a certain perspective, the sentiment of these die-hard people is very worthy of praise.
Fortunately, the ordinary citizens of Beijing did not seem to be too repelled by the Chinese Empire's army. Although they could not be said to be friendly, and there would not be the kind of greetings mentioned in history books, but at least there were not a few One hundred thousand people persisted in resisting.
In the entire city of Beijing, only Yongding Gate collapsed due to artillery bombardment, while other places were basically intact.
The fall of Beijing and the rebellion led by Zhou Chen on the battlefield put the situation in the entire north on one side.
Hundreds of thousands of the Ming army disappeared completely in an instant, leaving the Ming army north of the Yangtze River with almost no soldiers except Hong Chengchou's army of nearly 200,000 in Shanhaiguan. The total number of troops in places such as Shandong, Henan, Hebei, and northern Jiangsu is less than 200,000, including the 40,000 Shenji Battalion soldiers who escaped.
What¡¯s more important is that Chongzhen was captured and the fall of Beijing meant the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Even if the local government elects another descendant of the Zhu family to be the emperor, so what, it can only be regarded as lingering on.
Another major impact of the fall of Beijing was that people such as Hong Chengchou lost their allegiance. They didn't even know whether they should continue to stay in Shanhaiguan.
After the capture of Beijing, Chen Yuanyun immediately appeased the surrendered ministers and assured them that in addition to land, their personal property would be respected and their past crimes would not be held accountable.
¡°Some people may not understand why Chen Yuanyun made such a promise. In fact, before the war started, Xiao Mingqian had discussed this issue with many people, as to whether to plunder the property of officials in Beijing. Many people wanted to confiscate it completely.
However, Xiao Mingqian, who was very persistent on many issues, vetoed such a proposal. In his opinion, the silver coins that could be found in the entire city of Beijing were less than one-fifth of his personal property. For such a small amount of money, he was like Li Zicheng who entered Beijing. The search can only make people demonize the Chinese Empire.
Therefore, Xiao Mingqian only requested that after entering Beijing, except for the confiscation of the land and redistribution of use rights, other family property would be ignored. Such a decision made many people breathe a sigh of relief. The Chinese Empire was at least not as barbaric as its previous rulers.
Chen Yuanyun was so busy that he was dizzy with many tasks such as reassuring the people, maintaining law and order, sealing off the public property of the Ming government, settling prisoners with special status, meeting some people with special status, and so on.
Although there are dedicated government personnel to share these matters, Chen Yuanyun still has to make decisions on many things, which makes Chen Yuanyun, who has always disliked these trivial matters, miserable.
But no matter how painful it was, he never forgot that there were still nearly 200,000 Hong Chengchou's troops at Shanhaiguan that had not yet been dealt with.
He mobilized 20,000 troops from Tianjin and 60,000 troops from Beijing. Qin Keren and Lu Leilei led the 80,000 troops to attack Shanhaiguan and force Hong Chengchou to surrender. Chen Yuanyun believed that under internal and external attacks and the fall of Beijing, Hong Chengchou would surrender.
Chen Yuanyun's estimate was correct. Hong Chengchou only hesitated for two days. Seeing nearly a hundred cannons deployed outside Shanhaiguan, he chose to surrender, and the person he surrendered turned out to be Shang Kexi, whom he had always looked down on.
Although he was very reluctant to surrender, his nearly 200,000 troops had no intention of fighting at all. If such an army is allowed to fight against the Chinese Empire's army, which is armed to the teeth, then his men will probably cut off their heads as soon as possible.
So Hong Chengchou surrendered without any resistance. Many officials loyal to the Ming Dynasty were despised. Even many years later, some people still give Hong Chengchou a very low evaluation because of this.
Once Hong Chengchou surrendered, the entire Northern Territory no longer had the large-scale military force to resist the Chinese Empire. If a large number of troops were not temporarily trapped by the chaotic situation in the north, they might be able to immediately go south to Shandong, Henan, Anhui and other places.
In order to solve this problem, Chen Yuanyun had to let the government employees who came with the army use means such as distributing food to summon local people to form a small-scale police-like security force. At the same time, Zhou Chen's reputation was used to allow some surrendered troops to temporarily maintain their positions.??The rule of vast rural areas to meet urgent needs.
Of course, all this is only temporary and will be canceled when everything is on track.
For the next twenty-five days, Chen Yuanyun did not launch any large-scale military operations and made every effort to stabilize the situation in Beizhili and Hebei.
Within these twenty-five days, the news of the fall of Beijing spread throughout the world. Even Sun Chuanting received the news, but sadly, the news came from Suzhou, which had been captured.
Sun Chuanting was distraught. He didn't understand why the situation collapsed so quickly when people like him had worked very hard.
When Beijing fell, Sun Chuanting in the south was also having a hard time. After Xiao Mingqian occupied the entire territory of Zhejiang, he quickly went north to Suzhou Songjiang and other places.
Although the power of the gentry in these areas was very strong, under Sun Chuanting's active organization, an army of up to 200,000 people was assembled with the local gentry's own funds. Including the Ming regular army in Sun Chuanting's hands, the number of troops under Sun Chuanting's control has exceeded 500,000.
But it is a pity that quantity does not represent combat effectiveness. The Chinese Empire only dispatched 80,000 people, and completely defeated the 260,000 Ming army in the Battle of Wujiang.
Except for more than 50,000 people who fled to Wuxi, the other armies were completely disbanded. Later, the entire Suzhou and Songjiang and other places were included in the rule of the Chinese Empire.
Although due to the land issue, the resistance of the wealthy families in this area is much stronger than that of the three provinces of Fujian, the suppression by the Chinese Empire is also very strong.
Eighty thousand people, close to eighty thousand people, were killed in less than twenty days for resisting the Chinese Empire's land policy and a series of other policies that were not in line with traditional Confucianism. Half of them were from the past. The families of those high-ranking families, and even the high-status literati class in the entire Suzhou area, were almost wiped out.
In the past, the scholarly family and the waterside gardens were filled with a strong smell of blood. Thirty percent of the scholars in Suzhou have disappeared. One can imagine how fierce the resistance was and how tough Xiao Mingqian was in suppressing it.
The bloody twenty days in the Songjiang area of ??Suzhou became the only incident in the history of Xiao Mingqian that received negative reviews. However, even if he knew this would happen, Xiao Mingqian would not regret it. If you compromise because of resistance, more people may die in the future, and the negative impact on the future will be greater.
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