Saving the Ming Dynasty: I can exchange bodies with Chongzhen

Chapter 257 Blood Flows

The battle for the inner city was particularly fierce. The two sides fought several times to retake the city walls, and the area outside Shengjing City was filled with corpses and blood.

In a battle like this, no one will think about anything. All they have is a passion for blood, and they rush in one after another to fill the gap and plug the hole.

The elite troops from the five major camps, the Pinglu Army, and the nine frontiers took turns to fight, and like a millstone, they crushed the Tatars' front line, causing it to deform and retreat.

Shi Daoshen was carried back, Sun Yingyuan was carried back, and Ma Xianglin was carried back.

Chongzhen, who was protected in the rear, watched these scenes and understood the huge casualties. He clenched his fingers and stood there for a long time without speaking. His arms were shaking and he was unable to utter a word.

As an emperor, he understood that a general's achievements would be remembered for eternity, but knowing it was one thing, but seeing the life being wasted like this was another.

It is hard to imagine how many soldiers and civilians would be forced to surrender if the Tartars invaded the Ming Dynasty.

Boom boom boom~~~
The Ming army's artillery roared and the gun barrels were already red, but the Ming army's offensive was even more resolute and fierce to the point of being astonishing.

"Brothers, follow me and kill!"

"Kill one and you'll break even. Kill two and you'll make a profit!"

"I'm already disabled anyway, and I'll be a burden if I go back. Come and die..."

From generals to soldiers, each one was like a fierce devil, willing to take a Tartar away with him even at the cost of death.

Their reckless fighting style surprised and even frightened the Tatars, but with the joining of the bannermen and guards of the Manchu princes and nobles, they were able to stabilize the situation again and engage in a bitter battle with the Ming army.

The gap that was previously opened by Li Dingguo was also filled up little by little under the excellent command of the Qing generals.

A team of Qing cavalry also launched an attack on Li Dingguo's troops who had broken into Shengjing City with a resolute attitude.

dong dong dong~
The iron hooves flew, and the roar was like thunder.

Thousands of cavalrymen also came from the Ming court, and the shouting of tens of thousands of people made the eardrums buzz.

Leng Senji gritted his teeth, his eyes almost cracked, and shouted loudly: "Hold it, hold it for me!"

As all the troops of the central army where Li Banghua was located were also deployed to the battlefield, the war was pushed to its climax in a flash.

……

Flames and smoke rose into the sky.

The front line was like a tide hitting the shore, but the difference was that each time it produced waves of blood. The fierce Eight Banners soldiers tried several times to push the Ming soldiers off the walls of the inner city, but the Ming court's soldiers were extremely tenacious.

Their strong and tenacious fighting will, coupled with the coordinated use of artillery, muskets, spears and shields, continued to squeeze the Tatars' space.

A head-on confrontation means exchanging resources, equipment and life.

"kill--"

"You bastard, I'm going to fight you!" A soldier who had lost an arm rushed into the Tatars with several palm mines.

Boom~
With a loud bang, the eyes of the Ming army turned red and they rushed into the gap that was blown up. The entire battlefield went into a state of madness, and the front line of the fierce battle was churning like a boiling sea of ​​blood.

Snowflakes fell and night fell, but neither side showed any intention of retreating. Instead, the battle became more intense.

The Ming army broke through the blockade of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty and swept down like thunder.

……

On November 13, the tenth year of Chongzhen, there was a heavy snowfall in Shengjing.

It was freezing cold, and compared to the weather, the attack by the Ming army was the biggest disaster faced by the entire Shengjing and even the Qing Dynasty.

In just less than a month, it was a disaster for the Qing Dynasty.

The Battle of Songjin, the Battle of Dalinghhe, the Battle of Liaoyang... hundreds of thousands of Ming troops smashed into the Qing camp like a mad dragon, teaching the ambitious Tartars a harsh and brutal lesson.

For a long time, the Ming court was weak, civilian officials were in charge of the army, a lot of money was invested in city defense, all kinds of theoretical things were flying around in the court, but the field battles became weaker and weaker. On the other hand, the Qing Dynasty's fighting power became stronger and stronger. They entered the pass again and again. They watched the bandits in the Ming court's land and looked forward to the fall of the Ming court. When they were about to achieve their goal, they found that everything was not the same.

The sudden rise of the five major camps crushed all their extravagant hopes. The battle inside the Great Wall led by Cao Huachun and the two battles outside the Great Wall led by Li Banghua, each blow was like a sharp blade piercing the vital points of the Qing Dynasty.

There was not a single false move, the white knife went in and the red knife came out straight away.

At this time, Dorgon had woken up again. At this moment, the Shengjing City was engulfed in flames. There were raging fires everywhere, and the fire was still spreading.

The sounds of small-scale fighting could be faintly heard. Eunuchs and palace maids were running inside the palace. Some wanted to escape, but were killed by the palace guards.

There are some things that are beyond their control since they entered the palace.

Dorgon looked at the flames still burning in the sky. On the vast plain, countless Eight Banners flags fell to the ground, stained with black blood.

Until this moment, Dorgon had not felt much reality in his heart. The fall of Shengjing City was like a knife piercing into his nerves and twisting them several times, and the sense of reality came to him belatedly.

"Decades, decades..."

Dorgon was lamenting not only the hard work and efforts of the Qing Dynasty over the past decades, but also the fact that the accumulation of the Qing Dynasty over the past decades was not as good as the foundation of the Ming Dynasty over the past two hundred years.

The Ming court had been in the interior for more than two hundred years and had accumulated much more foundation than them. Even if the bandits in the interior had caused chaos several times and they had suffered several defeats outside the interior, they still had the opportunity, the energy, and the opportunity to annihilate them and then turn their troops outward.

But the Qing Dynasty couldn't do that. They had no tolerance for mistakes. They were at a disadvantage in the battle of Songjin. Now the only way to hold Shengjing was to fill it with a large number of lives.

But Mongolia south of the desert had been lost, and North Korea had rebelled again. There was no way to fill the gap in manpower from either side. Where could he get more lives?

"Your Majesty, let's go!"

Dorgon's two personal eunuchs knelt on the ground and pleaded, "If we don't leave now, it will be too late."

"Leave? Where can I go?"

"Going back to Hetuala, or even going back to Feala, is better than staying in Shengjing City. As long as there is green hills, there will be no shortage of firewood. Your Majesty~~"

“……” Dorgon closed his eyes, the muscles on his face bulged, but he did not say anything for a long time.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to speak out, but that he doesn’t want to retreat, and he can’t retreat.

He still remembered the words of Taizu Nurhaci: "The most important thing for a country is its land and its people. If we return to Liaoyang, we will have to defend it firmly even if the enemy comes back."

Occupying Liaoyang and Shengjing is equivalent to controlling a large piece of land. Since it can hold Korea hostage and strangle Mongolia, it can also maintain a confrontation with the Ming Dynasty. If they escape to the mountains and valleys, the Qing Dynasty will no longer exist.

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In the winter morning light, imagine that all the silver has been moistened. They are like clouds in the sky. At a glance, they are fine and endless, gradually melting into the gray and dim skyline.

The sunlight penetrated through the clouds, breaking through the dull color. Beams of light pierced through the blood-red sky with drifting snowflakes, reflecting the coldness of this world.

Inside and outside the walls of Shengjing, corpses were piled up like fish scales, densely packed and filling the view.

There were wild wolves, tigers and leopards roaming around, running and jumping into the wilderness as the morning light broke through the morning mist, along with human voices.

On the white snow, the distant woods and villages are clearly outlined, and the sounds of crows and wind can be heard one after another.

The biting cold froze the scene of the river of blood, and everything seemed so real, yet peaceful.

After a night of fighting, the Ming army finally captured the west gate of the inner city. The Ming army tried their best to rescue the wounded and collect the bodies. There was blood everywhere and signs of burning and scorching everywhere.

The fighting was still going on. In the inner city, the sound of artillery continued and houses were constantly being engulfed in flames.

"Hold on!" Gong Adai roared.

Xihan even looked like a slave who wanted to retreat.

The Manchu Tartar princes and nobles were no longer as high and mighty as before. Their faces were distorted and violent. They beat and scolded their slaves and let them take over.

However, this kind of beating and scolding only made the situation even more chaotic during the fight.

"You little dogs, you deserve to die! If it weren't for you North Korean soldiers stabbing us in the back..."

The next moment, Gong Adai's voice suddenly stopped speaking because a Korean soldier suddenly jumped up and stabbed him in the lung with a knife. He gasped like a rag and slowly fell down.

Similar situations continued to occur in Shengjing City, with the Ming army's street fighting and the Tatars' internal instability.

It constantly attacked the minds of all the noble lords of the Qing Dynasty. Compared with the princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty, they had no military power. At this moment, they also knew that it was the end, but they still had to find a way out.

Before daybreak, they disguised themselves as ragged warriors, not daring to even take too many valuables with them, and began to arrange for their escape. Before escaping, they purged the Han and Korean people under their command.

Because they are the least reliable, once their tracks are exposed, they may face a catastrophic disaster.

No matter how much the Han and Korean people who had surrendered to the Tartars cried and shouted, they were still killed by them.

Then they picked up the heads of these people and the pigtails on them, thinking that they would be their "pass".

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In Shengjing, everything was shrouded in a murderous atmosphere.

In Kyoto, the weather, which had been cloudy for several days, suddenly cleared up, and people expressed their feelings that this winter seemed to be much warmer than previous years.

Chongzhen, who was watching Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang Yan playing Cuju in the palace, was shocked and his eyes suddenly widened.

"How could this be? This is..."

"Main quest: Save the Ming Dynasty Completion: 9888/10000"

"The National Fortune of the Ming Dynasty: 10450 (The national fortune is over . The trend of natural disasters and the cooling of the Little Ice Age has been reversed. It has continued to warm up. The lives of the people have improved. Everything is stable and improving."

"The Ming Dynasty has lasted for 18000 days"

「Modern lifespan bonus: 18000 days」

「Funding reward: 183561642 yuan」

The country's life span was suddenly extended by thirty years, which stunned Zhu Changgan. At this moment, he suddenly realized... Did the Ming army flatten the Shengjing of the Qing Dynasty?

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ps: It’s the college entrance examination season again. I wish all the college entrance examination students success in the exam!
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