The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 707 The End of the Empire

During this period of time, there were quite a few civilians in Daming's battalion of wounded soldiers.

Wu Tuo led the army to escort the main force of the Ming army, and defeated and destroyed the Qing army along the canal several times.

While defeating a large number of Qing troops, they also captured a large number of prisoners and civilian husbands.

Prisoners of war are not surrendered soldiers. Surrendered soldiers surrender voluntarily, so they will naturally be given preferential treatment.

But the prisoners of war surrendered only when they could not be beaten. Let alone preferential treatment, it was already kind enough for Da Ming to guarantee that they would not starve to death.

But the folk husband is different!
The civilian husband is not a soldier, but a civilian, but an innocent civilian who was involved in the war!

In order to win the hearts of the people in Beizhili, Zhu Hongyu ordered the Ming army to properly resettle the captured civilian husbands.

The general action is to distribute travel expenses home after giving the folks a good meal.

For those civilian husbands who were accidentally injured on the battlefield, Zhu Hongyu also ordered to treat them as much as possible.

Anyway, for the time being, the number of casualties of the Ming army during the Northern Expedition was very limited, and the military doctors were also idle.

Zhu Hongyu found something for them to do!
As for the medicinal materials and money and food needed for the resettlement of these civilian husbands!

Then don't worry!
Even without mentioning the large amount of food and supplies carried by the Ming army.

Without Zhu Hongyu deliberately ordering, the big gentry around Beizhili sent a large amount of money and food to buy peace.

As long as a small part of the money and food is allocated, it will be enough to resettle these peasants!
The Ming army marched along the canal all the way to Tianjin City, and there were not a few civilians gathered along the way.

……

In Tianjin City!

Ming Fu looked at the battlefield situation marked on the map, and cold sweat kept breaking out on his forehead with fine blue stubble.

Facts have proved that Ming Fu's trick of blocking the Haihe River is indeed effective.

To some extent, this move really greatly hindered the Ming army's offensive.

After the Ming army captured the Dagukou Fort, they began to attack Tianjin City.

Just when the fleet of the Ming army wanted to sail into the Haihe River, and then pass through the Haihe River directly to the city of Tianjin.

It was suddenly discovered that the Haihe River was blocked.

In desperation, the Ming army had no choice but to send land troops to attack Tianjin City without sufficient artillery cover.

On the one hand, start to clean up the Haihe River blocked by the Qing army!
Although the Ming army did not have the support of naval guns, the offensive was still fierce.

After a few days, the Ming army pulled out all the strongholds of the Qing army outside Tianjin, and besieged the remnants of the Qing army in Tianjin.

And, at the same time, the Ming army also successfully dredged the Haihe River, and the main force of the fleet headed for Tianjin.

Tianjin is in danger!
Just when Ming Fu was about to summon his generals to discuss countermeasures, news came from the rear.

Baoding guard Zhao Liangdong surrendered to the Ming thieves, and the Ming army went up the canal to the outskirts of Tianjin and stationed on the Tonghui River.

Before that, the Ming army who landed at Dagukou stormed Tianjin City, and then the main force of the Ming army led by Zhu Hongyu blocked the retreat of the Qing army in Tianjin.

In addition, Oboi in the capital was unable to support Tianjin at all. As long as he was a general with some military knowledge, he could tell that the fall of the Qing army in Tianjin was only a matter of time.

Although Ming Fu's military talent can't be said to be outstanding, it's not just a vase of ignorance.

Of course, he also has some understanding of the predicament facing the Qing army in Tianjin.

"Let's talk about it, everyone. How can I, the Qing Dynasty, solve the siege of Tianjin?"

Ming Fu looked away from the map, turned to face the generals of the Qing army in the hall, and asked.

When the generals of the Qing army heard the words, their eyes overlapped one after another.

Many people looked at each other without saying a word, and really felt the despair of imminent catastrophe.

Today's Tianjin City, relying on its city defenses and the food and grass accumulated in the city, may still last for ten days and a half months.

After all, the Qing army's management of Tianjin City Defense was no worse than its management of Baoding City.

If the Qing army defended the city with determination and the Ming army wanted to conquer Tianjin, it would really not be an easy task.

Even if the Qing army couldn't last for ten days and a half months, it would definitely be fine if it lasted for five, six, seven or eight days.

However, in the end they still could not avoid the final outcome of perishing!

Counselor Hatu stood up and said.

"General, the most important thing our army should consider now is not how to defend Tianjin, but how to break through!"

"From the current situation, it is a foregone conclusion that Tianjin cannot be defended."

"Even if our army is defending Tianjin to the death, it has only left a few more corpses in Tianjin recently."

"My army is limited in the Qing Dynasty now. If we can break out of the siege and withdraw to the capital or Liaodong, we will definitely be able to play a greater role!"

The rest of the generals also suggested after hearing the words.

"Yes, General, we should choose to break through!"

"For our army, breaking out is really the best choice!"

"General, please order to break through!"

"..."

The generals of the Qing army spoke one after another to persuade them.

After all, who would be willing to wait to die in place if they could break out and survive?
Do I really think that all the people in the Qing Dynasty are Zhongliang who would rather die than surrender?
Ming Fu's face turned blue and white, and finally said with a dark face.

"This general is entrusted by His Majesty and Shaobao to be in charge of the war in Tianjin. How can he escape without a fight?"

Ming Fu felt that he was a relative of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and he shouldered the heavy responsibility of defending the Qing Dynasty. Even if he was killed, he would not flee without a fight.

Hatu spoke persuasively.

"Why does the general think so?"

"Our army has been stationed in Tianjin and has resisted the Ming army's attack for nearly ten days. The brothers have lost countless lives and injuries, and we are already worthy of the Qing Dynasty."

"Now, because Zhao Liangdong's wolf-hearted man betrayed the Qing Dynasty and surrendered to the Ming bandits, our army was taken by the Ming army and surrounded in Tianjin."

"It even caused the defense line that my Qing Dynasty painstakingly managed to collapse!"

"But now that the defense line has collapsed, why should we continue to wait for death in Tianjin City? We should evacuate as soon as possible to preserve our strength!"

Hatu began to instill fallacies in Mingfu.

Obviously he felt that Tianjin was undefendable and wanted to escape for his life, but he said it was all Zhao Liangdong's fault, and what they had done was enough.

Ming Fu was moved by the persuasion, or in other words, Ming Fu didn't want to die at first, but just wanted a step up.

After pondering for a while, Ming Fu asked.

"Now that Tianjin is surrounded by Ming thieves, how can our army withdraw from Tianjin?"

Now Ming Fu has the idea of ​​wanting to withdraw.

But they were worried that if they left the city and left the fortifications, they would be wiped out by the Ming army outside the city.

The Qing army now has no psychological advantage against the Ming army!

They don't have three or five times as many troops, let alone field battles with the Ming army, and they don't even have the courage to defend the city.

It is even more fearful than the Ming army's fear of the Qing army back then!
Hattu said.

"The general doesn't know that my Qing Dynasty has nearly [-] war horses in Tianjin City, which is enough for my Qing Dynasty's Manchurian Eight Banners to withdraw from Tianjin City with one man and two horses and complete the breakout."

Hatu's meaning is very clear, as long as the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty can evacuate, they will not hesitate to abandon the green camp Han soldiers in Tianjin.

For the Qing Dynasty, the lives of the Han people were worthless, and it didn't matter whether they died or not. As long as the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry could be preserved, that was enough.

Ming Fu nodded and said.

"Let Hatu arrange this matter for you!"

"Remember not to let the news out, I'm going to withdraw from Tianjin City, and I still need someone to stop my army."

Mingfu's plan was already very clear, he wanted to keep all the Green Battalion Han troops in Eye City as cannon fodder in Tianjin City to buy time for the Manchurian cavalry to withdraw.

Hattu nodded.

"Don't worry, General, Hatu will definitely arrange this matter properly!"

……

Accompanied by fast horses entering Beijing, several bad news were also sent to Aobai's desk one after another.

First, Baoding fell, Zhao Liangdong came to the Ming Dynasty, and the defense line of Beizhili that the Qing Dynasty painstakingly managed was broken!
Then the two armies of Ming thieves gathered in Tianjin, and Tianjin was in a hurry!
Ao Bai felt that his headache was severe, his forehead was throbbing constantly, and the expression on his face was almost desperate.

Judging from the current situation, Obai can clearly realize that the Qing Dynasty's war situation in the pass is about to collapse.

Baoding has changed hands, and Tianjin's fall is only a matter of time!
When the Ming army gathered its main force and attacked the capital, it was only a matter of time before the capital fell!
At that time, with only Shanxi, how can we resist the attack of Ming thieves?

Rely on the Eight Shanxi Merchants?

"Pass down the order, prepare for the fall of Tianjin, and prepare for the battle with all your strength!"

"If Ming thief comes to commit a crime, he must give Ming thief a head-on blow!"

Obai opened his mouth and gave the order.

After receiving the order from top to bottom in the capital, they began to prepare for the war with more urgency.

……

Emperor Xuantong lived in the deep palace for a long time. As a puppet with almost no power, he naturally had no channels to obtain information from outside.

The situation in the world changes, and no one will come to tell him!

Therefore, now that the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty has reached Tianjin, Emperor Xuantong still doesn't know anything.

Just drinking and having fun in the deep palace every day, dreaming of his own emperor's dream.

"Ha ha!"

"Then play music, then dance!"

With Meiji in his arms, Xuantong ate delicious food and drank fine wine.

The beauty in her arms kept smiling coquettishly, and the two hugged each other, then turned their heads and gnawed at each other.

Listening to the faint sounds of singing, dancing, silk, bamboo, wind and music, and the melodious sounds, the few young eunuchs outside the hall were not happy at all.

Emperor Xuantong didn't know the current situation in the world, so he could happily sing, dance and feast every day.

But they know it!

Now that Daming has already reached Tianjin, they don't know when they will invade the capital, how can they still be happy? !

"Oh, what a joy it is to be ignorant!"

Xiao Anzi looked at the main hall behind him, and said in a tone full of sarcasm and contempt.

Xiao Xizi at the side also sighed and said.

"Who said it wasn't? Now that the soldiers of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty are about to reach Beijing, the Emperor Xuantong can still laugh. Who can say that ignorance is not a kind of happiness."

Xiao Anzi continued with sarcasm in his words.

"Hehe, don't look at him being happy now, wait until tomorrow's soldiers invade the capital, don't you believe that he, the false emperor, can still live?"

"Hey, I just don't know what will happen to us slaves in the future!"

Xiao Xizi was more open-minded, and said with a smile.

"As slaves, we are nothing more than changing masters to serve us!"

"But then again, serving who is not serving?"

"My father served the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty back then. When the Qing Dynasty entered the customs and shaved his hair, wouldn't he still serve the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty?"

The father that Xiao Xizi mentioned was actually his godfather, who was a foster father in the palace when he was young.

Xiao Anzi nodded in agreement.

"Who said no?"

"Our slaves have cheap lives, but there are ways to live with cheap lives."

"The man in this palace is lucky. He didn't do anything, and became an emperor. But, in the future, he may not live as well as us slaves."

When Xiao Anzi said this, his tone was full of gloating.

Emperor Xuantong had a violent and paranoid personality, and he especially liked to torture the servants under him, as if to use this to prove his power.

Emperor Xuantong's misfortune is something that many people are happy to see happen!
Especially these servants in the palace!
However, as soon as Xiao Anzi's voice fell, there was a burst of force behind him.

His figure suddenly jumped forward, and he fell heavily to the ground, knocking out a few of his front teeth.

And behind him, Emperor Xuantong in a uniform was standing there, his face full of disbelief.

After kicking Xiao Anzi down, Emperor Xuantong turned his head and kicked Xiao Xizi, turning the two of them into rolling gourds.

He opened his eyes angrily and growled.

"Dog slave, two dog slaves!"

"What did you just say? What did you say?"

"Have the soldiers and horses of the puppet dynasty hit the capital?"

Emperor Xuantong heard the conversation between the two, and listened to the two people's contempt for him. He was sensitive in his heart and felt that he was underestimated, and his anger was boiling.

But since he still had something to ask, he didn't order the two of them to be dragged down to be executed immediately, but instead pressed his anger and asked.

Seeing Emperor Xuantong with an angry face, Xiao Anzi and Xiao Xizi were scared to pee in an instant when they thought about their rebellious conversation just now.

The ground was wet in an instant, and the smell of urine permeated the surrounding area in an instant.

The two knelt on the ground, begging for mercy desperately.

"Slave should die, slave should die!"

"The slave was just talking nonsense just now, Your Majesty is magnanimous, please forgive the slave once!"

"..."

The heads of the two kept hitting the floor tiles, making a muffled bang bang bang bang, and even blood began to ooze from their foreheads.

But this can't cover up the fear in their hearts!
Xuan Tong was quite tyrannical, and according to Xuan Tong's temper in the past, the two of them might be dead today.

Seeing that the two of them just kowtowed to beg for mercy and did not answer his own question, Xuan Tong felt even more annoyed.

With a clang, he pulled out the saber from the hand of the guard at the side, and slashed at the two of them.

With a pop, Xiao Anzi's arm was cut off, and blood gushed out from the wound.

Little Anzi raised his head and let out a hysterical scream.

However, Xuan Tong's second sword immediately slashed at Xiao Anzi's face.

With a pop, the flesh turned outwards, and a huge wound was torn out on Xiao Anzi's delicate face by the sharp long sword.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Xizi was filled with fear.

He stopped kowtowing, got up and stumbled towards the distance.

Xuantong's face and body were splashed with blood everywhere, and he no longer cares about collapsing on the ground, he has already turned into Xiao Anzi of a corpse.

He strode towards Xiao Xizi who was running away!

Xiao Xizi stumbled forward and ran forward, but her legs and feet were weak because of extreme fear, and she couldn't stop moving.

Every time he took two steps, he fell to the ground uncontrollably.

After Xiao Xizi fell down again, she simply stopped standing up and began to crawl forward.

"Help... help!"

"Don't kill me, I don't want to die!"

"..."

However, no matter how much Xiao Xizi wailed and begged for mercy, no one would pay attention.

Facing the furious Emperor Xuantong, no one dared to stand up and save Xiaoxizi.

Although Emperor Xuantong was just a puppet, the puppet emperor was also an emperor.

I dare not say anything else, at least he has the right to kill two slaves.

Xiao Xizi crawled forward, her palms and knees were worn out after a while.

But even so, he couldn't escape the murderous hands of Emperor Xuantong.

Emperor Xuantong ran to catch up with Xiao Xizi who was crawling on the ground, and slashed with his sword mercilessly.

Puff!
The long sword slashed at Xiao Xizi's neck, but couldn't cut it off all at once.

Xiao Xizi's body fell to the ground, only a layer of skin and flesh remained between the neck and the head.

Big streams of blood gushed out, and the blue blood vessels and trachea and esophagus were clearly visible.

Emperor Xuantong was still angry, and continued to chop up Xiaoxizi's body with his sword.

Pfft!Pfft!
The sound of sharp knives piercing into flesh resounded one after another.

Blood shoots out, and pieces of meat fly away.

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Xizi turned into a puddle of meat.

Emperor Xuantong threw away the long sword that was covered in blood and minced meat, panting heavily.

As if he suddenly remembered something, he ran out of the palace with big strides as if he had gone crazy.

He yelled as he ran.

"I want to see Shaobao, I want to see Ao Shaobao!"

"..."

The emperor ran wildly on the blood-stained street. This vivid scene of the end of the empire was seen by many people.

In this way, Emperor Xuantong broke into Obai's festival hall all the way, and was stopped by Obai's guards.

The rest of the people dared not stop the blood-stained emperor who looked like he was going crazy, but Oboi's relatives who were born in the Eight Banners soldiers did not have such scruples.

Xuan Tong was directly blocked!

"Wait, Master will go to report now, but Shao Bao has the final say if he will see the emperor or not!"

Not long after, the informant came in front of Oboi.

"Reporting to Shaobao, Emperor Xuantong is seeking to see him outside!"

Aobai frowned subconsciously, but he still spoke.

"Bring people in!"

Before Aobai was made to wait for a long time, the person who quit to report brought Emperor Xuantong in.

Looking at Xuantong who was covered in blood all over his body, Aobai couldn't help frowning.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter?"

Xuantong ignored Aobai's question, but continued to speak.

"Shaobao, I heard that the puppet dynasty in Nanjing is about to invade the capital, is this true?"

Aobai's face instantly collapsed, and he was secretly annoyed, wondering who told this puppet Xuan Tong.

He was already annoying enough, but he didn't have any extra thoughts to deal with the puppet Xuan Tong, so he just said in a cold tone.

"Who did your Majesty listen to? It's pure nonsense, nothing!"

"If the Ming thief is really going to hit the capital, how can I still sit here?"

"Your Majesty, go back to the palace and stay at ease. If there is anything to do, I will inform His Majesty!"

Seeing Oboi was obviously unhappy.

Xuan Tong's courage that came from nowhere just now disappeared suddenly.

He just said submissively.

"Yes Yes Yes!"

"I've listened to Shaobao, so I'll go back to the palace now, I'll go back to the palace now!"

Hearing this, Aobai nodded in satisfaction, and looked away from Xuan Tong.

After Xuantong left, Oboi exhaled heavily, his eyes were full of exhaustion that could not be concealed.

Because, he has received the exact news!

Tianjin, lost!

　Today's day is very high!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)