I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 384: Treat the capital as the graveyard of the Qing Dynasty
Chapter 384

"Report to the Emperor, the Queen and the others escaped under the tunnel!"

"Ran?"

Huang Taiji's face became very ugly.

Of course, what he didn't know was that Queen Zhou and others had been running for a day and were now approaching Tianjin. He thought Chaoyang Gate had been attacked by rocket shells and the capital was in chaos. Queen Zhou and others escaped through the secret passage.

Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and said: "They can't escape! Immediately mobilize all hands to block all city gates and all traffic arteries outside the city! Wen Tiren, launch a city-wide search by the Beijing camp, and those who dare to harbor and assist the queen's escape will be killed without mercy!"

Seeing Huang Taiji furious, Fan Wencheng, Wen Tiren, Wang Yingxiong and other civil servants were even more shocked.

Queen Zhou and the prince were rescued again, and the capital was flooded with blood. The birth of a saintly king, and his unparalleled benevolence and righteousness were all broken!

Wen Tiren lost his voice and said, "What can we do? If the queen and the third prince are allowed to escape from the capital, everything will be over!"

"Even if I dig out the entire city of Beijing, I still have to dig them out!"

While Huang Taiji was speaking, several dull roars came from the tunnel. Air waves wrapped in dust surged out from the entrance of the tunnel. The ground shook, earth and rocks poured down, and the entrance of the tunnel collapsed suddenly!

In fact, Wang Chengen did not know the secret passage of the palace. Even the prince did not know about this secret passage. Only Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou knew that when the red lady left, although she had prepared explosives in the tunnel in advance, it was not to guard against pursuing soldiers, but there was no used, but the explosive detonated due to the fire in the Forbidden City, which made Huang Taiji think that Queen Zhou and others had just escaped and it was not too late to blockade the capital.

Everyone knew that the situation was serious and did not dare to neglect at all, so they immediately split up and acted.The Qing army blocked the city gates and all arteries outside the city, while the Guan Ning army and the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp searched house to house in the city, causing chaos.

There are many people in Guan Ning's army and the officers and soldiers in the Beijing Camp who are evil-minded and greedy for petty gains. Now they are taking advantage of the situation and using the pretext of search to break into houses and steal property and beautiful women. When they encounter resistance, they are charged with being an accessory and killed with one knife.

This behavior spread like a plague, and the raids soon turned into rape and robbery. The people in the capital were horrified. Countless gray-haired old men protected their daughters behind them, kneeling on the ground and begging the intruders to let them go. The daughter, not to mention how many young girls, with pale faces and screams, fled in the streets and alleys trying to escape the clutches of the devil, but to no avail, no amount of tears could change the heart of the jackal.

Escape, the entire capital is blocked, where can they run!
Just when the capital was sealed off, the entire city of Beijing turned into a purgatory on earth.

On the top of the city of Beijing, the flagpole of the Ming Cang Dragon Flag, which had been flying for more than 200 years, was cut off and fell from the city. The battle flag of the Qing army took its place and was planted all over Beijing.

The Ming Dynasty was destroyed.

They did not hesitate to ride a horse that was so tired that it was foaming at the mouth and galloped all the way south. The skin on its thighs was rubbed off due to long-term friction with the horse's back, and it was bleeding.

They looked fearful, as if there were demons chasing behind them, beating their horses desperately, with only one thought left in their minds: Hurry!quick!quick!Carry this bad news south before your horses tire out!

Accompanied by galloping horseshoes, the bad news of the fall of the capital spread all the way to the south. Wherever it went, there was chaos like the end of the world.

The capital was captured by the Qing army!

The life or death of the emperor is uncertain, the whereabouts of the queen and princes are unknown, and the Ming Dynasty has perished!
The people who heard the news were terrified and desperate. Although the Ming Dynasty has been in decline these years, natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued, and corrupt officials have been rampant. Everyone's life is getting more and more difficult, and there is almost no way out. They have no hope for this decadent and old dynasty. How much nostalgia, but seeing such a big country suddenly die, everyone is still at a loss.

Such a big country, how can you say that it will die if it dies?

Obviously, the Mongols were defeated last year and had no power to fight back. A few months ago, the Ming army was still victorious and regained most of its troops in the south, causing the unruly Xiyi to spit out this piece of fat; even Lu The Song Dynasty also became the territory of the Ming Dynasty. In the northeast, it regained the loyal barrier of North Korea and obtained Jeju Island from North Korea as a horse breeding ground. The Ning Navy and the North Korean Army cooperated with the powerful navy to blockade the Yalu River. , so that the Qing army could not cross the thunder pool even half a step.

Even people who know nothing about military affairs can see that if the Ming army can continue to maintain this intensity of military pressure, a civil war will break out in the Jin Dynasty in less than five years, falling apart, and finally being eliminated by the Ming army one by one!
It can be said that since the Liao Dynasty, Ming Dynasty has encountered such a favorable situation for the first time.

However, how could such a favorable situation be ruined all of a sudden?
I don't understand, I really don't understand!
The peasants were hesitant, fearful, at a loss, and full of worries about the future, while the reaction of the gentry was much more complicated.Many Jin gentlemen looked to the north and cried, bursting with blood and tears, crying heartbreakingly.

The Ming Dynasty has been raising scholars for 300 years, but it is not that they have completely fed the dogs. There are still some Jin gentlemen who love this country. When they see it die, they just feel that the whole sky has collapsed!Many scholars set fire to themselves in desperation and died for the country. In anger, some Jin gentry dispersed their wealth to buy food and weapons, and gathered local heroes to form a rebel army to prepare to resist the Qing army that was marauding southward.

On the official road from Beijing to Tianjin, dust and smoke billowed, and the cries were heartbreaking.

Empress Zhou is holding the third son of the emperor, with Princess Kunxing on the right, Empress Zhang on the right, and Concubine Yuan and Concubine Tian on the opposite side. Although they were in a very embarrassed state when they escaped from the capital, they had already changed when they arrived at Wanping Fengtai. carriage.These carriages and horses were originally prepared for Cheng Shijie, but they saved Queen Zhou and others from having to work so hard.

This specially made carriage not only carries a shield, but also has a thunderbolt and four rocket shells loaded on the back of the carriage. It has certain self-defense capabilities. Of course, this carriage has a very heavy weight. To pull the carriage, two Shire horses procured from Great Britain were used.

This horse has a traction force of five tons and can easily drag a weighted wagon.

After Empress Zhou parted with the Red Lady and others in Dong'an County, she could no longer hold on and fell asleep while lying on the carriage. When she woke up again, she found that a large number of people were supporting the old and the young, dragging their families with them. Escaped.

Refugees are an early warning signal of an enemy attack. Refugees can always rush into one's own defenses before the enemy.Most of these people heard that the Qing army was killing people in the capital, so they ran south without their lives.They must have been frightened. They all ran away without their lives. The children could not find their parents, the mothers could not find their children, and the old people were helpless. They cried loudly all the way.

At this moment, an army appeared on the official road and was marching northward. Seeing this army coming, the people on the official road were so frightened that they rushed to the roadside in panic. There was a pretty woman. They hid in the crowd like ostriches, and some women hurriedly grabbed the dirt on the road and wiped it on their faces.

Experience tells them that officers and soldiers are not much better than bandits, and are even worse than bandits. If they are not careful, they will suffer disaster!Fortunately, the officers and soldiers acted as if they had not seen them. They formed three columns and marched forward in a mighty way. They held their heads high and chests high, without squinting. They lifted up and dropped down at the same time, walking in a strange way. The whole army was as neat as marching between two straight ropes.

This silence was actually reassuring until about half of the troops had passed.Wang Chengen looked at the flag on this team, Ning Haijun Ninth Brigade and Fifth Regiment.

An officer on horseback bowed towards the carriage and said, "Where is the Queen?"

Wang Chengen finally relaxed and looked at Ning Haijun's thousands of soldiers. There was a cry in his voice: "My queen is in the carriage. I wonder if the general is..."

"Fan Dalong, Lieutenant Colonel Commander of the Fifth Regiment of Ninth Haijun Brigade, pays homage to the Queen!" In the carriage, Queen Zhou said excitedly: "General Fan is alive!"

"The general is only a colonel, not a general."

"Is Fan Qing here to pick me up?"

"Reply to the Queen, it's not the case!"

Fan Dalong bowed and said: "The order I received from my humble post is to head to the capital as quickly as possible!"

"But, what if..."

Queen Zhou was really worried in case the pursuers caught up with her.

Fan Dalong smiled lightly and said: "Please don't worry, my Majesty, I am just the vanguard. All the [-] regiments of our Ninth Brigade and Seventh Brigade have gone north. From now on, no one can disturb the Majesty!"

Fan Dalong said goodbye to Queen Zhou, and the vanguard of the Ninth Brigade began to move northward one after another. Unlike the First to Sixth Brigades, the Seventh to Ninth Brigades were the former Dayuan Dusi, Dayuan Garrison Bureau, and Fu The Ning Wei, Tianjin Left and Right Guards, Tianjin Guard, and Tianjin Prefecture Defense Bureau, Lushun Defense Bureau, and Gaizhou Defense Bureau were formed. These three brigades did not have time to change their equipment.

Of course, these three brigades are only not equipped with bolt-action rifles and improved thunderbolts. As for artillery and rocket launchers, they are also equipped.

Cheng Shijie almost emptied the garrison of Dajin. Of course, it was not that Dajin had no garrison. As for the garrison of Dajin, the Luzon army was transferred to Dajin. The entire Dajin still maintained more than [-] troops. The [-]th Ning Haijun Brigade was established, and at the same time, the Annan Army was exchanged with the Luzon Army.

A major overhaul of the Luzon garrison. As for the original small-time servant army, it will be deployed in Luzon and continue to undertake the plan to eliminate the Luzon natives. In the future, the Annan Army will assume the defense task of Luzon, and the original Luzon troops will be reorganized in southern Liaoning. Refit and complete the formation of No. 11 to No. 15 brigades.

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In Pinggu, a county under Jizhou, the 100th Brigade of Ning Haijun's vanguard arrived in Pinggu, which was only more than [-] miles away from Beijing. They raided all the way from Zunhua. If the Qing army had not blocked it, Cheng Shijie and Ning Haijun's troops should have arrived in the capital.

Cheng Shijie also received news that the Red Lady successfully escorted Queen Zhou, the princes and others out of the city. At the same time, the Qing army carried out a large-scale massacre in the capital, resulting in the tragic deaths of [-] to [-] people.

At the same time, many gentry in the Ming Dynasty also received reports that they had begun to form armed forces. Although these landlords' armed forces lacked actual combat experience and weapons and equipment, even if they had the courage, they would be extremely vulnerable in the future in front of the powerful Qing army's cavalry. Cheng Shijie clearly remembered that in history Above, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, landlord armed forces did not become a thing.

The reason for this is actually related to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. The Dashun Army and the Daxi Army were like a mudslide, killing all the gentry and landlords in various places.

Of course, everything has two sides, and many gentry and landowners, after learning the news that the Ming Dynasty had been destroyed, their eyes lit up, thinking that a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity had come.Most of the states and counties around Beijing took the initiative to change their banners and surrendered to the Qing army, which consisted of a hundred or dozens of people. Then all the officials and gentry went to Beijing to clear their relationships, find opportunities, and seek an official position at any cost!At that time, there were as many officials as dogs in Beijing, and there were more people seeking office than ants. They were all jumping up and down, trying their best, and it was so lively!
When Cheng Shijie was thinking, Zhou Ning thought Cheng Shijie was blaming himself.

"Commander, Jiannu still massacred the people. This is because the general is not thinking carefully. Please punish him!"

"It doesn't matter whether you are punished or not. The result has already been produced. Even if you are killed, will the dead people still live?"

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhou Ning and said, "There is one thing, have you ever considered it?"

"what?"

"Will I take the throne in the future?"

Li Xin hurriedly stepped forward and said: "The commander-in-chief is destined to return..."

Before Li Xin could finish speaking, Cheng Shijie waved his hand and said: "What destiny is, it's just a joke. When the Ming Dynasty was founded, Emperor Taizu Hongwu was granted wisdom and bravery by heaven. He rose up in civilian clothes, Weiwu scriptures, and unified Fang Xia. All its systems are accurate to the present and the ancients. Xian is very thorough, and no one but his descendants can exceed its scope. That is, the emperors of Han, Tang, and Song Dynasties have not reached it. Even Emperor Hongwu, a great genius, has unworthy descendants like Yingzong. What about me? Jialong, I can still do it. Keep an eye on it, but I will die. Have you ever considered it in the future?"

Zhou Ning, Li Xin and others looked at each other, wondering what Cheng Shijie meant.

"The situation where one person stands aloof and makes the world pay a heavy price for his existence year after year should change!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "We in Liaodong have never had an emperor. Even without an emperor, we can still live well. I think the people of the world should change their way of living..."

The cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty established by Zhu Yuanzhang and the system design of the Qing Dynasty were copied from Zhu Yuanzhang.

Is there anything wrong with the system of the Ming Dynasty?
Some do have problems, such as the monarchy, but the emperor also has problems. In the Ming Dynasty, the more the emperor did not take care of things, the world would not have much problems. If Emperor Tianqi did not die, a system like the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed. Nuha is dead.

The biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty was actually the problem of Emperor Chongzhen.

As an emperor, he doesn't understand the grains and general affairs, so why should he point fingers?
The best way is to make the emperor a symbol.

Zhou Ning and Li Xin were both thinking about Cheng Shijie's intentions.

"Next, we have to fight this battle well. If we lose, everything will be over!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Is it possible to treat the capital as the graveyard of the Qing Dynasty?"

"can!"

Zhou Ning answered without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)