Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 481 Kangxi, you are going to be the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty!Down
The gunfire Bumubutai heard came from the direction of Zhengyangmen!

Zhang Yunyi and the ten pistol soldiers he led pretended to have an urgent military report from the front line and wanted to report it to the Empress Dowager, so they opened the city gate.Although only a crack was opened, allowing Zhang Yunyi to enter alone, it still caused a disaster.

Who is Zhang Yunyi?That was Zhang Yong's son, who had been fighting in the Gansu army since he was a child.The Gansu region of the Qing Dynasty has never been at peace since its establishment. Sometimes it was fighting the Mongols, sometimes it was fighting the Huihui, and sometimes it was fighting the powerful Han people. In short, there was no year without fighting.Later, the Zhang family and his son were transferred to Beijing, and their lives became more stable.But Zhang Yunyi also fought many battles. In his early years, he had a share in the battle against Burney. Later, he also participated in the battles with Fuquan and Kangxi. Later, he followed Yang Qilong to Korea, and even went to Japan for a time, leading the Beiyang cavalry on Kyushu Island. Fight with Japanese samurai.

How could Cao Yin's spies at Sticky Branch and the eunuchs sent from the palace resist such a ruthless man who made it his profession to kill people?As soon as Zhang Yunyi entered, the two guns in his hand were fired. One shot at a time, the heads of the two spies at the stick were blown off. The brains spurted out and splashed all over Cao Yin.Cao Yin was so frightened that he couldn't speak coherently. He actually shouted: "Don't shoot, I am Cao Yin, Li Datou and I are good brothers, and my mother and Li Datou's father are good friends!"

When Zhang Yunyi heard this, he really let Cao Yin go without killing him - what if he was "Li Yin"?However, the others were not so lucky. Zhang Yunyi drew out his sword and slashed violently, and even drove his war horse to knock away several people who were not running fast enough or too slowly.

Although Cao Yin and his spies and eunuchs were numerous in number, they were all frightened by Zhang Yunyi's fierce beatings and killings. Those who were not beaten to death and flew away exclaimed, "It's not good. Zhang Yong rebelled, and the Ming army came in." He ran towards the inner city gate of Zhengyangmen Wengcheng in Beijing - this half-opened gate is the inner city of Beijing!
Just as the useless stick spies and eunuchs were running away in surprise, Zhang Yunyi's ten pistol cavalrymen had also squeezed in through the "door crack".These pistol cavalry are all Zhang Yong's servants. Each one has two guns. They can shoot on horseback and charge with sabers. All of them are extremely brave.Following Cao Yin and his men, they fired guns to scare people, while charging on horseback towards the inner gate of Zhengyangmen Wengcheng.

On the wall of Zhengyangmen Wengcheng, there were some eunuchs and spies holding matchlocks and warming themselves around the brazier. When they heard gunshots coming from below the wall, they were all frightened. Dragging their muskets, they rushed behind the crenellations of the wall and went down. look.As a result, he saw Zhang Yong's cavalry chasing Cao Yin and his men. He immediately knew something was wrong, so he ran back to the brazier, hurriedly lit the match rope, loaded the ammunition, and started firing randomly.

As soon as they fired their guns, Zhang Yunyi, who had just rushed into the inner gate of Zhengyang Gate, was attracted.He did not continue to pursue Cao Yin and the others, but turned around and ran up the city wall along the horse path to kill the eunuchs and spies on the Zhengyang Gate wall.

At the same time, Yang Qilong "Yang Datou" had already led his Beiyang Army on a rapid march and entered the Yongding Gate, the south gate of the outer city of Beijing!

Then he saw that Yang Qilong had put on the python robe of the Duke of Ming Dynasty, was riding on a tall Western horse, and was holding a "Sword of Shang Fang" in his arms - this was the real "Sword of Shang Fang", which he got from somewhere Purchased from the descendants of important ministers of the Ming Dynasty!

However, the Beiyang soldiers under Yang Qilong were still dressed like Qing soldiers, wearing blue fur coats and warm hats, carrying flintlock guns with bayonets, and lined up in eight columns, shouting With the slogan of "Expelling the Tartars, opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty", they marched into Beijing with great force!
The Han people in the outer city of Beijing have actually been looking forward to the Ming Dynasty for a long time - they were imprisoned in the city by Bumbutai and had nothing to do, and they didn't even know where they could survive?Of course, I hope that tomorrow’s soldiers will come to save my life soon.

Now they finally see the Ming army coming, and it is the Beiyang Ming army Yang Qilong whom they are very familiar with. Yang Sanye was a man who lived in the city outside Beijing back then. His Beiyang Ming army was the "disciple soldier" of Beijing and even the entire Zhili Han people. You wouldn't want to rob and massacre the city, right?
News of the Beiyang Army's rebellion against the Qing Dynasty and restoration of the Ming Dynasty quickly spread like crazy in the outer cities of Beijing. Soon the streets were filled with countless "righteous people" carrying kitchen knives, rolling pins, poles, and wooden sticks. The "righteous people" and the heavily armed Beiyang soldiers rushed towards the open Zhengyang Gate like the tide breaking a dike, towards the tall and majestic Zhengyang Gate Archery Tower, which symbolized the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty!

This scene is simply comparable to another period of history in which citizens revolted in Paris and attacked the Bus Hell!

When the Han people from the outer city of Beijing and the Beiyang Army rushed into the Zhengyang Gate together and planted a huge red flag with the eight characters "Anti Qing and Fu Ming, Fengtian to fight against Hu" on the Zhengyang Gate tower, the inner city of Beijing had already Total chaos.

In fact, people in the inner city of Beijing have long known that something bad is going on, but the city has not yet been destroyed, and the Ming army has not yet arrived, so let’s just live one day at a time!

So when the gunshots at Zhengyangmen rang out, and when the shouts were heard like a roaring mountain and a tsunami, everyone rushed onto the streets like crazy. Some people were dragging their children and the elderly with them, while others were holding their arms and had already packed them away. A good baggage - it contains their most valuable things!
But where can they escape?
No place in Beijing is safe anymore. How can it be better outside Beijing?

Perhaps the 80 heavenly soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have already surrounded the city of Beijing!
Soon, the streets were filled with crowds of people bumping around like headless flies. These panicked people had no direction at all, and they didn’t know how many there were. They could only feel groups of people shouting and shouting. Crying, struggling desperately in the apocalypse that only belongs to them.

There were sad and mournful cries everywhere: "Yang Qilong rebelled! The Beiyang Army entered the city! The Qing Dynasty is dead!"

The screams of fear in the inner city of Beijing soon spread over the palace walls and into the Forbidden City.

The Qing Palace was completely in chaos at this time and became a hell-like place.In this disaster of the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the bannermen in the inner city of Beijing might still have a chance to fight for their lives, but the chances of those in the palace to survive are really slim!

All order in the palace has completely collapsed.When Bumbutai and his companions' escape convoy headed straight from Cining Palace to Xuanwu Gate, countless eunuchs and maids followed them with cries, as if their old queen mother could still lead them to a way out.There are corpses hanging from the rafters everywhere, most of them are concubines left behind by Shunzhi and Kangxi.
Dozens of guards, plus the strong eunuchs led by Aunt Sumala herself, all had a musket regardless of whether they would die or not!
Bumbutai and Baoqing, who were still children, rode in a carriage together. Under the protection of these guards and eunuchs, they walked in fear - now the Forbidden City was not only in panic, but also in madness. No one could I wonder if those eunuchs, palace servants, and servants running around and crying loudly will attack the Empress Dowager and the Crown Prince of the Qing Dynasty?

Their heads must be very valuable, right?
Bumbutai just held Dorgon's tablet and muttered: "Dorgon, Dorgon"

At this time, the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty finally knew who was really good to her!
As for Kangxi's other children, Bumu Butai couldn't care less and let them fend for themselves!
Now that she can bring Baoqing to Shangjing on the Jinlianchuan grassland and let Baoqing ascend the throne as emperor there, she has done her best.

Suddenly, the little boy Baoqing sitting next to her shouted: "Great-grandmother, that's Jingshan, that's Jingshan!"

Bumbutai turned his head and looked out the carriage window, and saw the small Jingshan mountain made of cinders and covered with snow.
She suddenly thought of something, shook violently, and shouted like crazy: "Go quickly, go quickly, leave from Deshengmen quickly!"

Bumubutai had actually been prepared to run away for a long time. She had arranged for her most trusted Mongolian guards to guard her at Deshengmen in the north of Beijing. As long as she left Deshengmen and ran all the way out of Juyongguan, it would be temporary. A bullet dodged.

"It's over, it's over, the Qing Dynasty is over!"

Just when the inner city of Beijing and the Forbidden City were in chaos, Chang Ning, Prince Gong of the Qing Dynasty, already knew it was over!The Qing Dynasty is over!He's finished too!
His army of more than 7 people was now completely defeated!
This "Endgame Battle of the Qing Dynasty" can be said to be mediocre in military terms, with nothing worthy of praise.The coaches of both sides were not good at using surprises. Chang Ning's military ability was inferior to that of Kangxi and Fu Quan, and he couldn't think of any strange strategies to defeat the enemy.Luo Dawei is also not good at making surprise attacks. What he is best at is solid confrontation.

So both sides in today's battle adopted almost the same layout. They were divided into two rows, front and rear, composed of horizontal and vertical formations combined to form a "big horizontal formation". Then there were cavalry on the two wings and cannons. In front of the battle.

At the beginning of the battle, the cannons blasted fiercely, and it was a matter of competition to see who had more cannons and more ammunition first!

However, the artillery and ammunition on both sides did not have an overwhelming advantage. The Ming army was slightly better, firing more than ten rounds, forcing the Qing army to take the initiative to launch a charge.

Kangxi's army was actually dispersed, and Chang Ning had no time to reorganize, so he just put them together hastily.Now they can withstand the artillery fire of the Ming army, charge with flintlock guns, and even dare to engage in hand-to-hand bayonet combat with the Ming army. They are already quite powerful!

However, the Huaixi army under Luo Dawei was stronger than them, and every one of them was full of hatred.Holding back his anger, he wanted to capture Kangxi and cut him into pieces!

If Chang Ning could let the Huaixi Army opposite know at this time that Kang Mazi, who ordered the digging of the Yellow River dam, had been killed by him, the Ming Army opposite might not be so energetic.

But he couldn't say that. How should he say that the Qing army under him was not allowed to disband?Therefore, the unlucky Chang Ning could only bear all the anger of the Huaixi Army for his good brother Kangxi.

However, the Qing army, which was in a desperate situation and fought against the odds, still showed a strong will to fight.

Especially the subordinates of Tong Guogang, Tong Guowei, and Fan Chengxun—they all had a hand in digging the Yellow River dam!If this fell into the hands of the Huaixi Army on the opposite side, wouldn't it be broken into pieces by Ling Chi and minced into meat paste?
Therefore, Tong Jiajun and Fan Jiajun had to risk their lives.They were placed in the middle of the front line by Chang Ning. Against the densest artillery shells of the Ming army, they attacked like crazy towards the Ming army's concentrated artillery positions.After enduring two rounds of shotguns, they once engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the infantry of the Huaixi Army who rushed to support the artillery!
The two wings of cavalry commanded by Feiyanggu and Mahada are also extremely brave!Just when the Tong Jiajun, Fan Jiajun and Huaixi Army were fighting hand-to-hand, the Ming Army's artillery was blocked by the infantry on both sides and could not exert its power, and they launched a fierce charge towards the cavalry on both sides of the Ming Army!

As long as they can defeat the Ming army's cavalry, Chang Ning and Queen Yang may be able to escape and ascend to heaven!
However, after these days of fighting and marching, their horses have long been exhausted, and there is no way to replenish them, so their impact power has dropped by an unknown amount.

On the other hand, the Huaixi Army's cavalry is always at its strongest due to the strong reinforcements from Zhili.

In addition, the Qing army's cavalry no longer had an overwhelming advantage.Luo Dawei was able to gather 4000 cavalry, while the cavalry led by Feiyanggu and Mahada only had more than 6000. They were patched together and it was difficult to form a tight formation. As soon as they charged, the formation began to fall apart. .

The Huaixi cavalry of the Ming Army used the astonishingly powerful "Bamboo Spear Attack" tactic. 4000 cavalry were organized into battalions, holding bamboo spears, and launched wave after wave of attacks. Fei Yang was soon defeated. The cavalrymen of Gu and Mahada suffered heavy casualties!Even the general Fei Yanggu, who had experienced hundreds of battles and was famous for his bravery, was knocked off his horse by the Ming army cavalry with bamboo spears, and was then trampled to pulp by countless horse hooves!

Mahada's situation was not much better. After he found that he could not defeat the Ming army's cavalry, he simply became disheartened and led the remaining cavalry to charge into the Ming army's artillery positions, trying to create opportunities for the infantry to win.

As a result, when he led the cavalry past the Ming infantry formation, he was hit by intensive rifle fire. He was shot three times and died on the spot!

With the death of two Qing cavalry generals, Feiyanggu and Mahada, the initiative on the battlefield soon fell into the hands of the Ming army!The victorious Ming army cavalry immediately changed direction and began to attack the flanks of Tong Jiajun and Fan Jiajun.The Tong Jiajun and Fan Jiajun, who had been overwhelmed by the Ming army's infantry and were about to collapse, finally could no longer hold on. Under the side attack of the Ming army's cavalry, the entire line collapsed.Even Tong Guowei, Tong Guogang, and Fan Chengxun themselves were not spared, and they all died under the bayonets and random guns of the Ming army.

With the destruction of the cavalry and the Tong Jiajun and Fan Jiajun, the Qing army under Chang Ning began to fall into a passive position across the board. They were pressed on the bank of the canal by the Ming army, which was outnumbered by them. They were constantly bombarded with cannons and rifled guns with a longer range. Soon, Just kill him and leave his corpse everywhere!

When the hopeless fight to the death continued into the afternoon, the Qing army on the Linqing Prefecture battlefield was already in a miserable state of defeat!Looking from the city wall of Linqing Prefecture where Queen Yang was standing, we could see large groups of defeated soldiers, who were forced to the bank of the canal like a tide.

Although Chang Ning was arrayed with his back to the water, he did not break the wooden bridge on the canal, so the defeated Qing army could still scramble to squeeze across the wooden bridge to escape. Some officers and soldiers who were in a panic even jumped into the canal, trying to swim to the other side in the cold river water. , but often disappear into the water halfway through the swim.

Chang Ning himself ran into Linqing Prefecture City and came to his sister-in-law Yang Xiaomi crying: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, it's over. I defeated it, the Qing Dynasty is over!"

But Yang Xiaomi just smiled sadly and said to the veteran Koqili Funici beside him: "Old General, take Prince Gong with you and leave. Leave this place to me!"

"Leave? Sister-in-law." Chang Ning was stunned and looked at Yang Xiaomi, "Sister-in-law, I won't leave. If we want to leave, we will go together. If we die, we will die together!"

"Fifth Master, what nonsense are you talking about?" Yang Xiaomi smiled bitterly, "You are just a prince of the Qing Dynasty. Why should you die with me? I am the regent of the Qing Dynasty. The late emperor has handed over everything. If you give it to me, then let me put an end to the Qing Dynasty on behalf of the late emperor!"

As she spoke, she waved her hand to the veteran Fo Niqi without waiting for Chang Ning to argue with her: "Take Prince Gong and leave immediately."

"Hey!" the old general agreed, and winked at his own soldier Geshiha. Several people rushed up to pick up the lost Chang Ning, and then went to the bottom of the city wall.
(End of this chapter)