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Chapter 445 Nearly Peaceful Occupation of Shuntian City (Please Subscribe!)

Fuquan, the actual controller of the capital city, also received the news. He quickly ordered the soldiers of the palace to stop it. At the same time, he sent someone to inform the Minister of War, Esang A, to lead his army to stop and close the city gate.

Because the admiral of the Nine Gates was detained by Pan Aqiang, and now the Minister of the Ministry of War, Ethan A, is in charge of the city gate.

All of a sudden, there was chaos at Andingmen, and those Qing soldiers who wanted to escape rushed out one after another, knocking the soldiers of King Yu's mansion into chaos, completely unable to control the situation.

Fuquan sent more than a hundred of his own soldiers to close the gate of the city, but he was stopped by the last group of idle clansmen who rushed out of the city and led the bannerman.

Fuquan had no choice but to wait for Ethan's leader to stop him.

However, it wasn't until dawn that the guards came to report: "My lord, it's not good! That goddamn Ethan Ah, led thousands of men, and ran away from Deshengmen with a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, etc. !"

"This is to put Prince Zhiben to death!"

Fuquan's face was pale, and even the guards of the city gate fled the capital. How can this capital be defended?

"How many Eight Banners disciples escaped from Beijing last night?"

"Going back to the prince, there are countless people. It seems that there are at least tens of thousands of people."

"Tens of thousands of people?" Fuquan muttered, while his mind was racing.

There are only less than [-] banner soldiers in the entire inner city, and tens of thousands of soldiers fled this time. How many banner soldiers are there in the capital now?
I'm afraid they all escaped!
Hey, it's time to think of a way out for yourself!

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered people to write a memorial to the princes and nobles, especially the news that even Shangshu Yisang'a of the Ministry of War and others had fled without authorization, and sent someone to send it to Kangxi in the north.

He suddenly realized that he should also make preparations immediately and leave Beijing.

But where?

Whether to follow Kangxi or set up his own family, Fuquan began to think.

Fuquan has never been a person with great ambitions. After weighing the pros and cons, he decided to take Chang Ning and join Kangxi in the north. As the saying goes, if brothers are of one mind, their benefits cut through gold. Few of those princes and uncles can be trusted, and they have to be brothers. Okay!
Thinking of this, Fuquan went back home, prepared to pack up valuables and other important utensils, and started to flee!
That morning, the news that most of the Manchu nobles in the city had fled spread throughout the inner city.

The whole capital was in a commotion, and the remaining Mongolian Eight Banners nobles began to curse. The Manchus were not authentic, and they didn’t take them with them when they ran away, so they led the Mongolian banner soldiers into the mansion of the Manchu nobles to search for property.

In the beginning, they were just looking for unattended empty houses to search for belongings. Later, they ransacked the streets and became wanton. The entire inner city has lost control.

The defenders on the tower also had no intention of fighting and fled secretly.

At the beginning, there were only a small number, but by noon, large-scale fleeing had begun. Even the generals such as Zuoling, Chengmenling and Menqian all led the flag soldiers to the city to loot property and prepare to flee.

That night, a piece of news came out that caused a sensation in the entire capital: Prince Yu led the personal guards of the palace and [-] Eight Banners new troops loyal to him hurried out of the city from Deshengmen.

Of course, such a big momentum and noise cannot be concealed from the scouts of the Ming army who have been watching outside the city and the people in the city.

Tazid is the head of Chongwenmen in the south, and he will be on duty in the second half of the night.But when he came to the tower of Chongwenmen as usual, he found that there were a lot fewer Qing soldiers on duty.

"What's going on? Why are there so many people, and what about Lord Qibei, the leader of the city gate?" Tazid asked.

"I do not know!"

"Mr. Qian, you really don't know?"

A Qing soldier shouted: "Prince Yu ran away with the Eight Banners new army, the city gate leader Qi Bei and other brothers on duty also fled with Prince Yu!"

"Didn't they all run away! Damn, we little soldiers are still guarding the city, waiting to die here obediently? Mr. Qian, let's run away too!"

"That's right, Mr. Qian, maybe the entire capital city has run away, and even a hundred or so of us can't keep it!"

"But we are the soldiers of the Red Banner. This is the capital of our Qing Dynasty, so we just abandoned it?" One person hesitantly raised an objection.

"Hey! Stupid! Those princes and nobles have all run away, and we, the bitter banner soldiers, are left to be buried with the capital?"

A Qing soldier shouted angrily: "Our salaries are only paid [-]%, and we can't even support our family. Why should we sacrifice our lives for them? It's better to go hunting outside the customs." When he said this, everyone They were all agitated and encouraged to escape out of the city.

"That's right, that's right, the so-called New Army of Eight Banners composed of Han Chinese received full pay, but we decent Manchurians were actually deducted from pay. Who would believe it!"

"Okay, guys, let's go!"

As a result, under the leadership of Tazid, the only remaining guards of Chongwenmen also escaped completely, and the entire Chongwenmen was empty without soldiers guarding.

The next day, that is, the morning of September [-]th, the scouts sent a letter saying that a large number of Qing troops had left the city from the north of the city last night, and that the troops on the entire inner city wall were sparse.

Pan Aqiang was overjoyed when he heard that!
He deliberately kept the north of the city out of siege, the purpose is to keep it for the Qing army to escape.

A few days ago, a group of Qing troops fled from the north of the city, but he did not send a beggar army to pursue them.

On the one hand, the troops are really insufficient, on the other hand, there are not many cavalry, how can they catch up?

In addition, Shuntian City is of great significance, and it used to be the old capital of Daming. If the new Daming is fully fired, it might be destroyed in one fell swoop!

But now, he decided not to let him escape, and ordered the cavalry infantry composed of newly captured [-] horses to intercept and kill as many as he could.

Immediately afterwards, Pan Aqiang ordered a full-scale attack on the city in three directions: east, west and south.

Pan Aqiang personally led the allied forces of the Ming Dynasty, bypassed the Yanfa Temple in front of Fucheng Gate, passed the stone bridge, and rushed to the foot of Fucheng Gate.

Originally thinking of bearing hundreds of casualties, he desperately wanted to put a long ladder of more than ten meters on the city wall.

Unexpectedly, beyond Pan Aqiang's expectation, there were only a few sporadic gunshots on the tower.

After being shot by the big Ming musket in the hands of the infantry regiment soldiers below the city, he retreated behind the wall and never dared to show his head again.

The space next to the tower was only enough for five or six ladders, but even so, the Ming allied forces managed to climb up the tower smoothly.

To the astonishment of the allied forces of the Ming Dynasty, there was no one on the Fuchengmen tower, and even the few Qing soldiers who had just escaped in a panic.

Pan Aqiang did not expect to occupy Fuchengmen so smoothly, he almost thought it was a dream.He hurriedly ordered to go down to the city tower to open the gate of Fuchengmen, and let the main force enter the city.

Shuntian City, the former capital of the Ming Dynasty, was breached like a child's play, not at all tragic.

(End of this chapter)