The candlelight in the council hall flickered, Wang Yinlin clicked the dry tobacco pouch in his hand, and the skin on his face that was always wrinkled finally relaxed."
yes, I've been dreaming these days.The Qing court's qi has run out, and it seems that the heavens want to restore the world of the Ming Dynasty" Wang Yinlin also suddenly felt a sense of loss, and he completely lost the excitement of the previous few days.I always feel that there is something wrong, it seems that it is too easy to succeed, and even I can't believe it."
I, Jiang Wanshan, have gambled all my life, and it seems that this time I won the gamble, the Qing court is rotten, and the Eight Banners Army is even more vulnerable.We are in charge of the world, and it is also the arrangement of fate" Jiang Wanshan was still full of excitement, feeling that all this was deserved."
Brother Wang, Brother Jiang, I have been nervous in my heart these days, do you think the whole thing is a little strange, we have been repeatedly defeated by Rong Lu's protection in Shandong, and he is responsible for garrisoning the Gyeonggi area.But why did the imperial court evacuate north so easily, there is an even more strange thing, according to the reliable information of Feigetang, the Huaxing army is stationed at Dagukou in Tianjin.Why haven't they moved at all in the past few days, are they just watching us be the first to enter Beijing" Meng Laicai analyzed it intently, and his words were full of worry."
Brother Meng, you're thinking too much.The Huaxing army has a total of no more than 10,000 people in Dagukou, and they just want to take Beijing, but also weigh the strength of our Boxers.It would be easier to explain the Qing court's retreat to the north, they only had Ronglu left in their hands, and if they let him stay and fight with us, the Qing court would never have a chance to turn the book around.Every gambler has to leave some money for himself, and the Qing court should want to go back to his hometown and reunite people to make a comeback" Jiang Wanshan explained to him, and he didn't take it to heart."
What Brother Meng said makes sense, since Qiao Zhiqing occupied Jiangnan, the Qing court was cut off from money.Not to mention the war, even the money for the soldiers is gone.They're still in Beijing, and that's what has a problem with their heads.Huaxingjun would explain it better, Tianjin still has the soldiers and horses of the Qing court stationed, and it will not be so easy for them to hit Beijing" Wang Yinlin agreed with Jiang Wanshan's opinion, and then added."
Maybe" Meng Laicai nodded, comforted himself, and continued, "Now that the periphery of Beijing has been taken by us, we should also think about the founding of the country, we can't always be like this without a name."
Although we have always been under the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty that we restored has been extinct for more than 200 years.We still lack an emperor now, so that we can justifiably rule the world and convince the people" There was a sudden silence in the room, and the three of them had considered this issue mentioned by Meng Laicai before.But because he was often in danger of being exterminated at the beginning, he didn't have the heart to think so far.Now that victory is in sight, the issue is naturally on the agenda.Under the leadership of the Heaven and Earth Society, the Boxers have always adhered to the slogan of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.Now that Beijing City is about to be taken, if the Ming Dynasty is restored, it is indeed necessary to find a royal family surnamed Zhu in the Ming Dynasty to come out and be honored in the ceremony."
Okay, I'll let the Flying Pigeon Hall do it.There are many descendants of Ming Taizu, and it is not difficult to find a person who can inherit the unification" Wang Yinlin nodded, and a trace of entanglement suddenly appeared in his heart.In the face of the temptation of power, no one wants to share it with others.But in order to appease the people of the world, Wang Yinlin is indeed not qualified, and he can only find a qualified person to serve as him."
Okay, it's decided, I don't have an opinion" Jiang Wanshan also agreed, they really haven't had a leader who can convince the public, and everything is up to the three of them.Three days later, the 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Boxers set out from Fangshan County and began their first attack on the city of Beijing.The walls of Beijing are hundreds of years old.Founded in the Yuan Dynasty, it was built in the Ming Dynasty, and was strengthened and expanded during the Qing Dynasty.The circumference of the city wall is 24 kilometers, the width of the base is 24 meters, and the height of the wall is 8 meters, all of which are made of bricks and stones.Compared with the Nanjing city wall, it is more majestic and magnificent, and if it is in the era of cold weapons, it is completely impregnable.The city wall is in the shape of a "convex" character, which is divided into three parts: the Forbidden City, the inner city and the outer city.The Forbidden City is the royal palace, the inner city is transformed from the city wall of the Ming Dynasty, and the outer city is expanded from the wall of the Yuan Dynasty.Because of the difference between the respective city gates, it is also called "Seven Imperial City Four".There are nine gates in the inner city, seven gates in the outer city, and only four gates in the Forbidden City.The main gate of the Boxers this time is the You'anmen Gate of the outer city, the outer city of Beijing is the gathering place of the Han people, and the inner city is the gathering place of the Manchus.Therefore, the outer city was also garrisoned by the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and although the Eight Banners Army stationed in the capital was not strong in combat, there were many people who were greedy for life and afraid of death.However, the weapons assembled are extremely advanced, and they are all the latest breech-loading foreign guns.In the direction of Yongding Gate, a total of nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han nationality were stationed.The Boxers had accumulated a lot of experience in attacking cities and plundering land for nearly two years, and they also had hundreds of breech-loading guns captured by the Qing army.At the beginning of the battle, the area around You'anmen gathered 50,000 elite Boxers to attack.The other 150,000 soldiers were in charge of feints at Yongdingmen and Zuo'anmen.After the infantry charged, all the artillery deployed in the area of You'anmen was fired.The cannonballs smashed towards the city wall like hammers, and the artillery men of the Eight Banners on the city wall also returned fire with their artillery at the same moment.Both sides were very poor in accuracy, and either fell in front of the city walls, or overhit and fell into the city.The artillery that the Qing army fired back also brushed over the heads of the Boxers, fell to the ground and smashed huge trenches, splashing bursts of dust.The guns roared, because the Beijing city wall was too strong, and the main force of the Boxers attacked You'anmen several times, but they were all repulsed by the Eight Banners Army on the city wall.Wang Yinlin personally commanded the battle on the front line, gritted his teeth angrily, and asked the soldiers to focus their artillery on the city gate and fire.After a round of shooting, several of the 100 20-pound iron balls hit the city gate, smashing the city gate to pieces.Wang Yinlin immediately waved down the command flag of the impact, and suddenly tens of thousands of people roared and launched an attack.The foreign spearmen lined up in a gun formation, constantly firing at the city wall, trying their best to suppress the firepower of the soldiers of the Eight Banners on the city wall.Bullets hit the walls like beans, crackling and splashing everywhere.The soldiers with cold weapons in their hands carried wooden planks on the moat and approached the city gate from all directions.The Eight Banners Army was already ready for defense, and had already set up a circular defensive position in the city gate.Nearly 1,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, armed with advanced foreign guns, crouched behind the bunkers stacked with sandbags, and constantly fired intensively at the Boxers who rushed into the city gate.The Boxers rushed in dozens of times, but all of them were repulsed by the bullets of the ring encirclement.After sunset, the Boxers were still blocked outside the city.All the chieftains were summoned to discuss the strategy of attacking the city.After discussing more than a dozen methods, it was finally decided to use the method of digging tunnels and filling them with explosives to blow up a few more breakthroughs, so that the annular defensive circle of the Eight Banners Army would no longer work.The next day, it was dawn.The Boxers sounded the horn of attack again.Because the foundation had been laid yesterday, after the foreign spearmen had completely suppressed the fire on the city wall, the sappers in charge of digging tunnels crossed the moat and dug tunnels outside the city walls.The Eight Banners Army also found out about this situation and hurriedly poured stones and fire oil down.Suddenly there was a wail, and the soldiers of the Boxers were set on fire by fire oil and stoned to death.However, because of the intensive shooting of foreign spearmen in front of the city wall, all the Eight Banners army on the city wall were all sieveed by bullets.Although the Eight Banners Army was equipped with the most advanced foreign guns, in the face of the suppressive shooting of the Boxers, no one dared to desperately block it.There were only occasional gunfire returns, but they did not form a fighting force at all.An hour after the battle, nearly dozens of sappers were able to take advantage of the battle, and thousands of pounds of gunpowder were planted under the tunnels."
Boom" rose outside the capital with a loud bang, and the entire city of Beijing shook with it.The city wall collapsed and was more than 100 meters long.The soldiers of the Boxers immediately launched a general attack, and nearly 50,000 foreign spearmen and more than 50,000 ordinary soldiers rushed into the city.The Qing troops defending on the city wall suffered thousands of casualties, and they had reached the limit after holding out for a day.Seeing that all the Boxers were attacking, they didn't have the courage to make the slightest resistance, so they all abandoned their weapons and fled.They didn't see hope, the emperor was no longer in the Forbidden City, and no one came to King Qin anymore.Even if he held out for a month, in the face of so many Boxer soldiers, the city was still broken and died in the end.Instead, give up resistance now, and maybe leave a life among the people.After the Boxers broke through the You'an Gate, they quickly climbed the city wall and rushed towards the other gates.Before dawn the next day, the three city gates of You'anmen, Yongdingmen, and Zuo'anmen on the southern city wall of Beijing had been taken one after another.Based on this, the Boxers quickly launched an attack on the other gates of the outer city.In the face of the firepower of the Qing army's advanced foreign guns, it still relied on the strength of the people to form a comprehensive firepower suppression of the Qing army.Before dark, the Boxers once again captured Guangqumen and Dongbianmen in the east, and Xibianmen and Guang'anmen in the west.The seven gates of the outer city were completely controlled by the Boxers, and the Boxer soldiers under the city walls also launched a search in the city, and all the soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Eight Banners were killed.Because of the Boxers' habit of "fighting local tyrants and dividing the land", as soon as the soldiers entered the city, they looted the silver from the mansions of the wealthy merchants in the city.What's more, when I saw the maid of the rich family, she vented her animal desires together and started to do mischief in the city.Wang Yinlin turned a blind eye to these things, his descendants were only 50,000 foreign spearmen, known as 200,000 soldiers and horses, but in fact, most of them were gangs and bandits on the rivers and lakes.He didn't want to hit the morale of the army now, originally everyone came to the capital for the silver and women, and in Wang Yinlin's eyes, most of the money and women of these rich merchants were not clean, and they deserved to rob them
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