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Volume 2: A Different Village Chief Chapter 773: A Real Man

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    During the morning session today, Emperor Chongzhen summoned the ministers of civil and military affairs to discuss the strategy. He suddenly felt sad and burst into tears. The ministers also cried at each other, and they were all helpless.  They either said that Feng Quan should be appointed, or that Huo Weihua or Yang Weiyuan should be appointed, but Emperor Chongzhen just listened silently and did not respond.  He remembered the secret report from Wang Chengen, the admiral of the inner and outer city defense, saying that the reports from various parties were extremely untrue. The capital originally had 260,000 battalions and squadrons. Even if they had empty pay, Zhou Yanru also sent 50,000 troops south, but ten thousand soldiers and horses were sent south.  There are still 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers.  In fact, the number of troops defending the city at Dengpi may only be 50,000 or 60,000, and most of them are weak.  The troops in the Beijing camp have been short of food and pay for a long time, and the number of people who were sent to the city to defend the city was too low. The troops guarding Pi were many honorary members of their families, so they all pretended to be under false pretenses and used their food supplies to temporarily serve as substitutes for the poor.  At the current critical moment of national crisis, they are still hiding at home and don't take guarding Pi seriously.  Wang Chengen¡¯s statistics are shocking: there may be only one soldier for every five crenellations in the inner and outer city, and all of them are exhausted and completely incompetent.  Thinking of this, his heart was full of resentment, and he also thought of Zhou Yanru, the chief minister. He was useless after going south, and now he hurriedly fled to Baoding City.  The noise of the civil and military ministers was ringing in his ears, but Emperor Chongzhen turned a deaf ear. He wrote twelve characters on the imperial case, but it was: "All civil and military officials can be killed, but the common people cannot be killed."  Wipe away.  After going down to the court, he summoned all the ministers to examine and select them, and asked about Yu's salary and peace.  Huang Guoqi, the magistrate of Ziyang County, said: "It's not about collecting money but being cautious, and the safety of people depends on the holy heart. When the holy heart is safe, people will be safe too." Emperor Chongzhen believed that Huang Guoqi was right, so he immediately gave the order to Shizhong.  He also tested the remaining ministers, but less than half of the time, a secret seal was suddenly sent in. When Emperor Chongzhen saw it, his expression changed, and he immediately got up and went inside.  Afterwards, everyone learned that Tongzhou had been lost, and they all sighed in confusion.  Emperor Chongzhen returned to his Qianqing Palace. He paced back and forth in the pavilion. He was a little hesitant about whether to call the king to fight.  If he had some confidence in Shoupi before, now He persuaded himself that he had already summoned Wang Pu, and it would be logical to summon Wang Dou again.  It¡¯s just He recalled every bit of his fight with Wang Dou. He believed that he had always been loyal to him, but it was a fact that the leader was weak and the minister was strong. There were many things that Wang Dou could not have his own ideas about.  Li Banghua's words have been echoing in Emperor Chongzhen's ears, making him shudder every time.  He also thought about Wang Dou¡¯s disobedience to him, especially that incident, which made him lose all face and the royal family¡¯s dignity was gone.  Thinking about it now, he still felt extremely angry.  Do you want to summon the king to fight?  In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen hesitated and hesitated.  ¡­ ¡­ Rain and snow were falling in the Forbidden City. In the palace, Princess Kunxing Zhu Auao was sitting blankly. Next to her, Princess Zhaoren was playing happily.  Even though she was deep in the palace, Zhu Aona knew that the bandits were about to attack the city, and people everywhere in the palace were in panic.  She looked at her sister and thought in a daze: "He promised mebut will he come to save me?"  "The thieves and traitors are coming. This great city will be like Rome and Constantine."  Is Dingbao destroyed like that? " Tang Ruowang, a Westerner with a tall nose and deep eyes, sighed in Qintian Prison. He was kneeling in front of the cross, and behind him was a group of Westerners wearing official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty.  "Everything is left to the almighty Lord's decision. Fathers, let us pray."  At this moment, a horse suddenly rushed to the foot of Guangqumen City and kowtowed: "The distant dust is rising into the sky, fearing that most of the thieves will come." The minister guarding the gate.  He quickly sent a sentry detective and came back to report: "Youqi." So he didn't take it seriously.  ??At nearly noon, Wang Chengen stood up suddenly on the Yongding Gate Tower, and Li Guozhen beside him also stood up. He saw a cloud of smoke and dust billowing from the plains in the distance, and there seemed to be dozens of riders.  Wang Chengen frowned slightly as they ran closer and closer. These people had superb riding skills and did not look like officers and soldiers riding on sentinels.  He took out his telescope and looked over there. He was shocked to see these people wearing red tassel felt hats and yellow uniforms with the word "Shun" written on them.  Wang Chengen murmured: "Thieves." He suddenly said: "Instruct the guards on the other side of the archery tower to hit the thieves with Hongyi heavy artillery as soon as they enter the second mile!" A young eunuch beside him quickly took the order.  .  Yongding Gate is the main thoroughfare in and out of the southern part of Gyeonggi Province. It also has an arrow tower. There are 14 arrow windows on the front, divided into two floors, seven on each floor.  There are four-wheel millstone cannons on each arrow window, and there are fourteen four-wheel millstone red barbarian heavy cannons in the entire arrow tower.  There are also Hongyi cannons at each crenellation of the city wall.There are several doors, and there are hundreds of Buddha machines of various sizes.  The rest of the city gates are equally well-armed. Of course, no gateway in the capital can compare with Desheng Gate. There are forty-eight arrow windows there, divided into four floors, with twelve arrow windows on each floor.  Soon, the little eunuch passed Wang Chengen's order, and then there was a creaking sound in the arrow tower, and the four-wheeled millstone cannons began to rotate. They rotated the cannon bodies and adjusted the angles. The black muzzles of the cannons stuck out of the window, ready to fire at any time.  Prepare for bombardment.  These four-wheeled millstone cannons were carefully forged by the Qing Dynasty. They spent countless efforts and efforts. Each cannon can fire more than ten kilograms, and each cannon can shoot almost three or four miles.  The gunners of the Beijing camp were not as good as the gunners of the Qing Dynasty's Wuzhenha Super Camp, but they were still very accurate at a distance of two miles.  The thieves and cavalry were still roaring towards them. They were getting closer and closer, and the rumble of horse hooves sounded like thunder, hammering into the hearts of the soldiers at the top of the city.  Although they only had a few dozen riders, they were quite powerful, causing many people in the city to change their faces.  Wang Chengen suddenly put down his telescope and looked towards the arrow tower, two miles in.  At this moment, there was a thunderbolt from a cannon, and a large plume of thick white smoke rose from an arrow window, followed by the shrill whistle of a cannonball.  With the sound of the cannon, the thunderous artillery roar continued, and the arrow window was submerged in the billowing smoke, leaving only sharp firelights.  ¡­¡­The bandits arrived. In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen looked sharply in the direction of Yongding Gate.  When the bandits arrived, Princess Kunxing looked in shock. Princess Zhaoren next to her was so frightened that she threw herself into her arms.  When the bandits arrived, Tang Ruowang in Qintian Prison paused, and then began to lead the Westerners to continue praying.  When the bandits arrived, Fu Yingchong, who was collecting silver from his house, trembled, then gritted his teeth and accelerated the pace of collecting the silver.  When the thieves arrived, Yang Bagu, who was on Chongwenmen Street, looked up in surprise and suddenly felt palpitations in her heart.  When the bandits arrived, the guards from all the gates, the civil and military officials in the capital, the noble eunuchs, and the merchants and people all looked at him together. Everyone in the capital was looking in this direction.  They have different thoughts, but they know that the moment of turning for their fate has arrived.  ¡­ ¡­ The cannonballs screamed down and landed on the somewhat slippery ground, stirring up large amounts of mud and dust. The cannonballs, carrying the smell of sulfur and steaming heat, kept rolling for a long time under the huge kinetic energy before they stopped.  The high-speed rotating cannonball fell into the cavalry, and there was an immediate sound of bones breaking, flesh and blood flying everywhere, residual limbs dancing wildly, and a rain of blood rising like a fine mist.  A cannonball directly pierced the horse's belly, knocking out the horse's internal organs and intestines. The horse neighed and threw the rider far away.  A cannonball directly beat a bandit, including his men and horses, into pieces, and a cloud of blood sprayed violently.  Another cannonball knocked off the head of a homeless thief. The homeless thief was riding on a horse. Blood surged from the headless body. The horse ran for a while, and then the headless body collapsed.  The destructive power of the solid artillery shells was too terrifying. The fourteen four-wheel millstone cannons in the Yongding Gate Archery Tower hit the dozens of horsemen and thieves. Even if they could not hit every one, in the huge screams, that side was hit hard.  The blood mist continued to rise into the sky, and bursts of screams and hisses were heard. In the blink of an eye, only about twenty of the fifty or sixty horsemen were left.  The remaining thieves were also extremely panicked. The horses jumped wildly in fear, knocking several riders off their horses. The remaining bandits did not dare to stop in the panic, turned their horses' heads and fled as fast as they could.  The sound of cannons from the Yongding Gate Archery Tower stopped, but smoke was still billowing from the arrow windows, and light smoke was rising from the muzzles of each gun.  "Close the city gate!" Wang Chengen roared at the top of his lungs.  His arrows were sent in all directions, and the unclosed city gates began to close. The city gates of the capital were made of very hard wood such as elm, wrapped in very thick iron sheets, and nailed with large copper-plated bubble nails.  The doors are very heavy and require several people to push them, and even the door bolts are extremely thick.  After the city gate is closed, contact with the outside world is basically cut off. There are refugees outside the city and they are no longer allowed to enter.  "Close the city gate!" "Close the door quickly!" Amidst the roaring orders and the creaking sound of the door closing, the tense atmosphere spread throughout the capital.  At this time, the thunderous sound of horse hooves sounded again, and dozens of horsemen appeared in everyone's sight. They spied from a distance, running around the city, and the rumbling sound of hooves was endless.  After these dozens of riders, there were dozens more. Like the previous bandit cavalry, they basically all wore red tassel felt hats and yellow uniforms. Some people also wore yellow turbans, and all of them had on their uniforms  The word "shun".  They either gathered together or galloped in all directions, all of them were skilled in equestrian skills. They made bursts of strange screams and the sound of hoofbeats.The earth put heavy pressure on the defenders at the top of the city.  It is said that the bandits are capable, and it is indeed true. As for the cavalry below, not many of the defenders in the Beijing camp can handle them.  Suddenly there was a thunderous sound outside the city, and hundreds more horses came. They formed a scattered formation and ran in a hurry. They stopped a few miles away from Yongding Gate and just stood there with their horses on.  Observe quietly.  Then it seemed that thousands more horses were coming, and the darkness was overwhelming. There were more and more soldiers and horses. Wang Chengen was fine after fighting in the Battle of Jinzhou, but he just kept looking with a telescope. Li Guozhen beside him looked a little pale.  This uncle of Xiangcheng has always been well-dressed and well-fed, but how has he ever seen any battle formations?  ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡­  This sea of ????people came slowly, distorted like a mirage in the mist and drizzle, looming, and as unfathomable as the boundless sea.  They are getting closer and closer, their footsteps shake the earth, and then there is an endless stream of yellow armor, countless yellow flags fluttering, and layers upon layers of spears like a forest and a wild field.  In front of them is a dense cavalry, and behind them is an endless troop. Their sea of ??people is constantly moving, covering everything outside. It is like a powerful sea that is unstoppable, and like locusts that cover the sky and the sun.  To swallow up everything in the world.  The thieves wear yellow armor, like yellow clouds covering the field.
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