Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 607 Loyal minister and filial son Wu Sangui

The roaring cannons roared back and forth over the capital city. As Li Jiantai said, the Chuangjun did not hurt his muscles and bones. Only in the early morning of the next day, countless Chuangjun came up again. One time, the army fought more cautiously, and took out all the guns captured along the way, which can be regarded as the largest artillery battle of this era.

There are more than 15 battlements in the capital, and thousands of large and small artillery fires. The Chuangjun went up and down on the nine sides, and there were also thousands of cannons in their hands. Starting from the early morning of March 3000, the roaring shells fell one after another. Up and down the city wall, falling into the formation of the two armies, every time the artillery fire stopped, thousands of soldiers screamed and fought together, killing blood and blood.

However, Daming's advantage was lost bit by bit.

There is no shortage of talented people in the army. Gu Junen, Song Xiance, Niu Jinxing, and Li Yan are mostly wise people. It can be seen at a glance that the Ming army seems to have 10,000+. Those who can fight are Wu Sangui and Tang Tong. There are less than 4 people, and most of the rest are waving flags and shouting, and they don’t even have the strength to shout. The Beijing army only eats one meal a day, and the capital is facing an unprecedented plague, dying of illness and starvation every day Even more people died in the war than in the war!

Every day in the battle, the Chuang army would attack Tangtong, Wu Sanfu's Ji Town, Ningyuan soldiers and horses, and the Beijing camp was in a hurry, and the Ningyuan soldiers would come to the rescue. There is a big gap, and whenever Wu Sangui's cavalry goes to battle, Liu Fangliang, Hao Yaoqi, Tian Jianxiu, Gao Yigong and other generals lead the cavalry to entangle him with all their strength. Even if Wu Sangui's Guan Ning cavalry is brave, it is still two fists Lost to eight hands, often caught in the battle and screaming fiercely, killing Zheng Yi with blood, but there is nothing he can do.

In this way, the war lasted for five or six days, and blood flowed like a river under the capital city.

The night of March 22.

During March and April, the North China Plain during the Little Ice Age was still very cold. The officers and soldiers guarding the city hadn’t sown new clothes for more than ten years. The flames in the capital flickered like ghosts and ghosts, and there was always a feeling of dying.

At night, there was a team of black-clothed troops pushing carts, walking around the barracks, passing camp fires, and kicking the sergeants piled together for warmth. Just lift it into the car, and in about half an hour, these corpse collectors, known as the Hades team, can receive several carts full of corpses.

The Northern Army and the Ningyuan Army acted like the Wuying.

A large pot was gurgling on the fire, and there was a lot of porridge in the pot, but the rice grains were all yellowish in color, and the fragrance was also mixed with a musty smell, but for the poor soldiers who had fought hard all day Said, this can be regarded as the happiest time.

After stirring the porridge pot with a horse spoon, a group of hungry soldiers couldn't wait to drink it, but when they were fishing, a large piece seemed to fall into the spoon. A big rat with almost no fur came into his eyes.

After just a glance, a group of more than a dozen soldiers scratched their throats together and vomited loudly.

In terms of natural disasters and man-made disasters these days, it’s good to eat a little meat. Rat meat is also meat. In Liaodong, I’m hungry. The severe plague began in Shanxi and has continued until now. Even Song Qingshu's department was almost unlucky, especially in the past two years, the plague in the capital has become more and more violent.

The children in the neighborhood are absolutely in awe of it. There are more than [-] people with coffins and no coffins. Especially compared with the bubonic plague that Song Qingshu encountered, the death rate of the pneumonic plague that broke out today is even more astonishing. It is hard to imagine that there are officials and colleagues who drink tea and salute, and die after only a moment. There are also newlyweds, couples sit in the new house all night, check the next day, and they all die.

Even the poison of the plague, one rich family died, two thieves broke in and stole, one carried the stolen goods on the beam, and the other passed the stolen goods in the house.Under such circumstances, one can imagine the feeling of eating a dead mouse in the meal!

In anger, Ma Bao simply kicked the porridge pot over, and immediately stretched out his hand to open the grain bag and poured it out. The musty smell came to his face along with the stench, and it was mixed in the grain, full of mold spots and mouse feces. The person gagged, his eyes were as big as copper bells for a moment, and then Ma Baoli yelled angrily.

"Mom, I left my family and business and came all the way here to fight in the capital. My mother-in-law is still starving behind me, and my two sons are starving to death. They work for the imperial court every day, so the imperial court feeds me this?"

"I quit, I want to go back to Liaodong!"

Just like the roar of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in Daze Township, Ma Bao's yelling was like a spark that hit the gunpowder barrel, igniting the long-standing dissatisfaction of Ning Yuan's army, followed by Ma Bao's yelling, and in the blink of an eye, most of the Xiaowu camp was in chaos Get up, and walk to the north of Beijing in a turbulent manner.

However, outside the barracks, he was stopped by Xiao Wuying's garrison Wu Ji.

"Bold! Gathering people in the middle of the night, disrupting the barracks, shouting loudly, and bewitching your mind, you will be regarded as a lazy army and should be beheaded. Don't you want your heads?"

The majesty of the officer is still there, not to mention that there are more than 100 soldiers watching, many soldiers were frightened, but even so, Ma Bao was still full of anger, and shouted loudly at Wu Ji in front of the head: " Lord Garrison, the little ones can’t survive anymore. We are serving our lives for the imperial court. What will the imperial court give us? Rotten rice! It was eaten by mice. How many people have died in the military camp these days? If this continues, everyone will live I can't go down!"

"Bold! You dare to confuse people with evil words. Come, someone, arrest him and chop him up!"

Wu Ji was so furious that he waved his hands and yelled loudly. More than a dozen soldiers came as bee chrysalis. Seeing this scene, Ma Bao was also stunned. Only two clicks were heard, and the two leading soldiers were cut down to the ground in a short while.

"You, how dare you kill someone!" Wu Ji was so angry that his face turned into liver-colored, he stretched out his hand and asked to draw his knife, who knew that there was a bang of firecrackers behind him, Ma Bao was also quite famous in the army, One of his friends shot him in the back and killed him.

He also did not stop doing two things, pointing the bloody knife at the terrified and astonished soldiers, Ma Bao shouted fiercely: "Everyone is a poor soldier, his old Zhu's family will not give him a way to survive, why bother giving it to him?" He sold his life? Your land was also thrown to Jiannu by those officials, and your family also starved in the capital, do you fucking want your family to die?"

"Anyway, I can't survive anymore, so I might as well seek refuge with the intruders, so that I can have a full meal! I'm quitting, follow me, and go against the mother!"

The main generals are all dead, and the personal soldiers are indeed full of resentment these days. I don't know who followed suit and cursed against his mother, and the personal soldiers also fell into chaos.

The rebellion quickly followed the Xiaowu camp, and it turned into a fierce camp roar. Tens of thousands of Guan Ning troops ran out of the camp, some of them collapsed to the northeast, and the other part spread their anger in the nearby area. From Jingying's point of view, it seemed to them that they ate moldy rice and got implicated, all because of these veteran soldiers of the Jingshi!
In the middle of the night, the entire southwest of the capital became chaotic.

Five miles away, break into the army!

"The opportunity is here!"

Even at night, Li Yan couldn't sleep at night. Li Yan was on duty with the binoculars himself, and a large chaotic flame mixed with the sound of killing came into his eyes, making Li Yan's bloodshot eyes instantly reveal an incomparably sharp divine light.

"Immediately send an order to go down, the Qi battalion gathers, and goes to battle!"

What a shattered house, it was raining all night, Li Yan made a prompt decision, and tens of thousands of intruders charged out of the night with torches, entered the chaotic battle group, and intensified the chaos of the Ming army that night. decline.

"No chaos! No chaos! Let's fight!"

Holding a big knife and patrolling back and forth in the barracks, Wu Sangui was going crazy. It was just like the battle of Songjin. The Ming army was defeated inexplicably. However, by luck, the newly promoted Ping Xibo still went back and forth with the soldiers of the Wu family. The Mercedes-Benz killed countless rioting officers until ten o'clock in the morning, when loud howls suddenly sounded from the southwest. Amidst the shouts, there were countless invading troops rushing towards the capital.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Li Zicheng attacked across the board!

Chen Yongfu attacked Guang'anmen, Liu Fangliang attacked Zuo'anmen, Tian Jianxiu attacked Yongdingmen, Li Yan thought carefully, and in order to contain the Ming army, he allocated some troops to detour to the east of the city, attacked Guangqumen, and harassed the other gates. The gates were blown everywhere. Around seven or eight o'clock in the morning, the Ming army outside the city had fallen into a state of complete collapse.

Panicked and terrified officers and soldiers were everywhere, fighting for the whole night. Wu Sangui and his own soldiers had already killed people with blood and horses with blood. Gathered the last few hundred soldiers and horses, Wu Sangui also He retreated to Guang'an Gate in embarrassment, stood under the gate, facing exhaustedly, shouting from above the gate.

"I am Wu Sangui, Uncle Pingxi! Where is Uncle Xiangcheng, open the door quickly!"

"Ping Xibo, listen up!"

At this time, Li Guozhen actually took a lot of gloating, standing on the city gate and yelling loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree, all foreign reinforcements are not allowed to enter the city to defend against enemies outside the city!"

"Ping Xibo, you are the champion of the three armies. You must be mere intruders, and you won't be able to get into your eyes. Repel the enemy quickly!"

At this time, people with a discerning eye can see that the defeat has been decided at a glance. At this time, Li Guozhen is still talking sarcasticly, Wu Sangui's teeth are about to be gritted in anger, but no matter how much he yells, Li Guozhen actually avoids it again, just locks up The city gate didn't let him in, at this time, there was another loud commotion behind him, the guards pointed back in horror, and shouted again in fear.

"General, the intruder has returned!"

While speaking, tens of thousands of Chen Yongfu's soldiers from Henan and Yuan Shizhong's elite cavalry from the original Xiaoyuan camp rushed straight to Guang'anmen with their bloody sabers held high. Suddenly turned the horse's head and raised the sword.

"Kill me!!!"

(End of this chapter)