The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 389
The capital city is very large, and the big one is full of traps.The outermost is the outer city wall with a radius of forty to fifty miles, and an inner city wall is surrounded inside.There is also an imperial city inside the inner city wall, and there is also a Forbidden City inside the imperial city.

But the big capital is also very deserted now.There were not many pedestrians to be seen on the street, only the groups of officers and soldiers who hurried past, all with expressions of rejoicing for their lives after the catastrophe.

A few days ago, seeing the millions of Dashun soldiers split into two groups, one from the south and the other from the west, encircling the capital, the entire capital was panicked and panicked.

All the rich and powerful people with connections and connections began to scramble to run away, and carts full of loads rattled and rattled out of the city.

Everyone knows that they can't count on those Beijing camps that have never fought at all, and staying in the capital can only lead to death.

The little commoners packed up their valuables one by one in a hurry, and rushed out.

But these people who ran out came back within a few days, because the roads on three sides were blocked by the Dashun army, leaving only the north side.But there is the Great Wall in the north, and if you cross the Great Wall, it is the territory of the Mongols, let alone go there.

Bad news spread into the capital every day. Today the Dashun Army occupied Zhending Mansion, and tomorrow the Dashun Army occupied Tianjin Wei. All these cities near the capital seemed to open their gates to welcome the Dashun Army.

These bad news made people in the capital even more terrified, and all kinds of rumors were flying everywhere.What Dashun army will come to the city tomorrow, and they will slaughter the city.All the emperors are planning to pass on the throne to the eight-year-old prince, and he is going to be the emperor...

These rumors are even more frightening.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were helpless in the face of the overwhelming forces. They all shouted that they would not be at odds with the bandits, and live and die with the capital, but in private, they had already packed up the gold and silver, wrote down the form, and so on. Immediately after the Dashun army entered the city, they pledged their allegiance.

The emperor was bubbling anxiously, anxious to discuss matters between the cabinet and the six ministers every day.But what good ideas can these people have at this time?
Many people have just been promoted. These people usually talk about their basic skills, but now at this time of life and death, they only have fear and think about their own way out. How can they have the ability and courage to turn the tide? Woolen cloth?

In the end, it was Xia Junze, the newly appointed chief minister of the cabinet, who shouldered the heavy burden.

This is a veteran who has been on the battlefield, and he is also a Confucian general.He used to be the Minister of the Ministry of War, but after the dismissal of the previous chief assistant, Wen Tiren, he was promoted to the chief assistant by the emperor Jianba.

Speaking of Jian Ba, in fact, no one is willing to be the chief assistant.The situation has been corrupted to the worst point, whoever becomes the chief assistant will be punished, so those smart people try their best to refuse.

Under such circumstances, the upright and staunch Xia Dapao took office.

Young and ignorant, the panic-stricken emperor was like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw. He bestowed Xia Junze with the Shang Fang sword and asked him to preside over the defense of the capital, with the right to cut first and then play.

The first thing Xia Junze did when he took office was to rectify the Beijing camp and the Forbidden Army. He executed a batch of those generals who ate people and didn't care about personnel, and promoted a wave of generals on the front line. Only then did the morale of the Beijing camp barely support itself.

The second thing is to seal off the nine gates of the capital, only allowing entry and not exiting, and those who violate the order will be beheaded on the spot.

The third thing is to mobilize the people and conscript the people to help defend the city.

The fourth thing is to suppress rumors, stabilize prices, and use thunder to suppress those who spread rumors and take the opportunity to drive up prices.

Through these few incidents, the panic in the capital was temporarily stabilized.

But Xia Junze knew very well that this was just a stopgap measure.Once the Dashun army besieged the city, the capital wouldn't last long at all.

So the most important thing he did, and the one thing he pinned his greatest hope on, was to write a letter to Qin Wang Jiangchuan who had already led troops into the pass, asking him to hurry up and lead troops to serve the king.

Xia Junze knew that the Ming Dynasty was hopeless, and he also saw that Qin Wang Jiangchuan was an ambitious man.In fact, he hesitated for a long time to make this decision.

But he is not the kind of foolish and loyal person after all. Compared with letting the Dashun army attack the capital and hand over the fate of the royal family and the people of the capital to a predatory regime, it is better to hand it over to Jiang Chuan, who has real means and has in the hands of ambitious people.

The lesser of two evils, as a battlefield veteran, Xia Junze finally chose Jiang Chuan.

As a veteran minister who is familiar with history books, he knows very well what it means to let a vassal king from outside the town enter the king of Jingqin when the court is in crisis.

But he felt that this was the best ending.

Jiang Chuan's reply made him feel at ease. Although the two had never met each other, the king of Qin who had risen suddenly like a comet gave Xia Junze a trustworthy impression.

With confidence in his heart, Xia Junze worked hard to maintain order in the capital, and at the same time sent people to inquire about Jiang's army.

The good news came one after another:

The Jiang family's army defeated Dashun Army Hao Yaoqi with 5 horses in Shanhaiguan, and beheaded the general Hao Yaoqi.

Jiang's army defeated the Dashun Army's 18 troops in two consecutive battles outside Tianjin Weicheng, beheaded Li Zicheng's wife and brother Gao Yigong, and defeated Li Zicheng's general Yuan Zongdi.

These news made Xia Junze both happy and surprised.He was overjoyed that the capital was saved, and he was shocked because the fighting power of Jiang's army was so powerful that it was shocking.

According to reports from time spies, the Jiang family's army was outnumbered in every battle, but in the end they won without a doubt.

The news came one by one, and the people in the capital were greatly relieved after being astonished. The name of Qin Wang Jiangchuan became the name that everyone in the capital chanted overnight.

Many people set up ancestral halls for Jiang Chuan at home, burned incense and prayed, and hoped that the gods and Buddhas would bless His Royal Highness King Qin in safety and health.

Qin Wang Jiangchuan's limelight was unparalleled for a while, and the people in the capital would talk about Qin Wang Jiangchuan whenever they met, and the one thing they would talk about was the outstanding achievements of Jiang's army.

Under this kind of atmosphere, Jiang Chuan was quickly portrayed as a heavenly general descending to earth, and his Jiang family army was descended from heaven to save the people of Ming Dynasty.

If Jiang Chuan knew, he would definitely feel that these rumors were close to the truth in a sense.

The common people have their own practices, and the officials also have their own practices.

They began to inquire about King Qin Jiang Chuan's preferences, whether he had a wife or not, and even planned to marry his daughter and sister to King Qin after King Qin entered the city, so as to curry favor with King Qin's thigh.

Everyone can tell that once the King of Qin enters the capital, he is an absolute powerful minister.If you don't curry favor in advance, I'm afraid it won't be your turn in the future.

At this time, no one thought about what the emperor was thinking.

In this frenzied atmosphere of the whole city, news came that Qin Wang Jiangchuan defeated Li Zicheng's 30 army and Li Zicheng fled in a big defeat, which made the frenzied atmosphere even more intense.

And two days after this great victory, news came that Li Zicheng's West Route Army had stopped advancing and retreated to Jinzhou, which made the people in the capital cheer even more.

Everyone knew that it was Qin Wang Jiangchuan's prestige that scared off the Dashun army, and the capital was truly saved.

Therefore, before Jiang Chuan entered Beijing, he had already become the savior and hero in the hearts of the people in the capital.In the hearts of the officials, he was already the number one official of Ming Dynasty who had to hug his thigh.

But today, the king of Qin sent a message that he was going to enter the city with an army.

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