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Zhu Cihong dared to kill Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Cheng, naturally for sufficient reasons. Just abandoning the city and escaping was enough to convict him.

If it's not enough, add a corruption account. If hundreds of thousands more taels of silver are found in the house, Chongzhen will definitely not let him go.

Zhu Cixiang looked at Zhang Zhiji and said: "Mr. Ying, I know that everyone in your line as Gong Ying is extremely loyal, so from now on, you will be solely responsible for the defense of the capital!"

"Your Highness, then you..." Zhang Zhiji couldn't understand what Zhu Cihong was doing. He killed someone and now handed over the power to him? Is this because he wanted to run away and take the blame? It seems that this blame is also

I can't get rid of him.

"Open the city gate, I will lead the army to fight!"

"This..." Zhang Zhiji looked at Zhu Cixiang's murderous eyes and became very knowledgeable. He stopped being verbose and quickly asked someone to open the city gate.

Zhu Cixiang did not want to give Zhang Zhiji a scapegoat or anything. He really believed in the lineage of the British princes. All the British princes in the Ming Dynasty were good.

Zhang Fu, the first British Duke, participated in the Jingnan Campaign with his father at a young age. Later, he pacified Annan three times and destroyed Vietnam. He followed Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty three times and led the Northern Expedition to Mongolia. He became famous and was the most dazzling general in the early Ming Dynasty.

Almost all the British princes in the following generations were extremely arrogant, armed with heavy troops, kept a low profile, and were loyal to the emperor. No matter how partisan they were in the court, basically no one dared to offend the British princes.

Even when Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian were in power, although they both hated the British princes at that time, they never dared to touch them and were silently cowardly.

By the eighth generation of British Dukes, that is, Zhang Zhiji's generation, it was difficult for the British Dukes to do anything in this dangerous situation. The ninth generation of British Dukes could not do anything and directly accompanied Emperor Chongzhen to die for their country.

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Zhu Cixiang wanted to return the power of the Beijing camp to the hands of the British public to see if they could reorganize the Beijing camp. Of course, even the worst outcome would be better than Zhu Chunchen, the loser of the capitulation faction!

In the end, Zhu Cixiang gave up his illusions about the Beijing Camp and personally led the 5,000-strong Guard Battalion out of Xizhimen and headed west. Seeing that an army dared to go out to fight out of the city, many soldiers in the Beijing Camp were shocked and unbelievable.

As soon as Zhu Cihong left the city, Zhang Zhiji immediately sent people to the palace to report the fact that the prince led the army out of the city.

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Zhu Cixiang was riding a white horse. Behind him, thousands of soldiers from the Yongwei camp followed closely without saying a word.

Zhu Cixiang suddenly tightened the reins of his horse and turned around suddenly, looking at the majestic city of Beijing behind him, with a look of emotion in his eyes.

This was called "the greatest individual project of mankind on the face of the earth" by later generations. It represented the highest achievement of ancient Chinese urban planning. He finally saw its true face from the outside for the first time. It was so spectacular!

Zhu Cixiang turned around, raised his riding whip, and shouted: "Let's go!"

Most of the areas outside Beijing are plains with fertile land. Originally there were densely populated villages and towns, the environment was elegant and lush, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.

But now, after being looted by the Qing army, the villages and towns are already devastated, in a mess, and nine out of ten houses are empty.

There are still raging fires burning in some villages, and in some places the fires have burned away everything, leaving only ruins and broken walls that are smoking.

When Zhu Cihong led the army, a group of frightened people, carrying their old and young, were about to flee into the capital. When they saw thousands of troops, many people showed fear in their eyes and hid from the Yongwei camp at a distance.

Zhu Cixi didn't understand why these people were like this. It wasn't until he entered a small town and saw some scenes in front of him that he finally understood.

After the Qing soldiers captured Changping, they chased the defeated Ming army all the way. Some Ming soldiers fled and hid in people's homes. Although they ran away when they saw the Qing soldiers, when they met the fleeing people, they acted like wolves and tigers, raping and plundering everywhere.

, not much better than the Qing soldiers.

"If you don't have the ability to kill Jiannu, you can easily capture the harm to your own people. What's the use of the imperial court supporting you?" Zhu Cixiang was furious and sent out cavalry to kill all the defeated soldiers who plundered the people along the way.

Along the way, the Yongwei Battalion was not moving very fast. Zhu Cixiang had not yet received the news that Long Xiangye was refusing to accept the troops. Although he had the information from the Jinyiwei, Zhu Cixiang wanted to summarize the intelligence from the two parties and determine the situation of the Qing army.

After leaving Xizhimen and marching about ten miles, Zhu Cixi found through the telescope that there were hundreds of cavalry in front of him chasing more than 20 cavalry.

The cavalry at the back were wearing cotton armor with thick copper nails and leather helmets with high helmet pins. They were Qing cavalry at first glance. The more than 20 cavalrymen being chased in front were wearing ordinary linen clothes and could not tell anything.

identity.

By the time Zhu Cixi put down the telescope, the two groups of men and horses had already come very close, and everyone could almost see their figures clearly. In front of the entrance of the Yongwei camp, rows of black hole muzzles were aimed at the two men in unison.

The troops were coming from the direction and were ready to go.

At this time, the two groups of men and horses were running closer and closer, and were almost within shooting range. Zhu Cihong signaled a musketeer to fire a warning shot in the sky, reminding the fleeing men and horses to be careful not to run into the formation.

The escaping group had already seen them, and they also saw clearly the flags of the army in front of them, and then one of them played a unique flag. Zhu Cixiang took a look and saw that it was Long Xiangye's unique flag.

It turned out that Ye Buzuan was entangled by the Qing cavalry, no wonder no news came. Zhu Cixiang asked people to play a flag and let Ye Buzuo's men and horses go around from the two wings of the Yongwei camp to the back. Ye Buzuu's people saw the signal

Then they immediately divided into two teams and ran to both sides.

At this time, the pursuing Qing army also saw the Yongwei camp in front of them with their muskets raised. Although the Ming army was large in number and still used firearms, the Qing army had always been arrogant and did not take the Ming army in front of them seriously.

In eyes.

They fought all the way without fighting a few tough battles. The tens of thousands of Ming troops collapsed instantly when they saw them charging. The Ming army's fire blunderbuss were even more of a joke. They were basically useless after a wave of shooting.

Therefore, this group of Qing troops were not afraid at all and rushed towards the Yongwei Camp's position. Many of them had their bows and arrows ready to launch a round of shooting at the Ming troops after entering the shooting range.

When the Qing cavalry entered the range of a hundred steps, Huang Degong immediately shouted: "Fire!"

Hundreds of muskets from the first row of the Brave Guard Battalion emitted a huge roar at the same time, making the air tremble, and quickly produced a large amount of thick smoke.

The Qing soldiers and horses marching forward bravely suddenly heard a loud noise, followed by a burst of screams of people shouting and horses neighing.

Among the dozens of cavalry in the front row, some were beaten upside down and fell from behind their horses, others were beaten so hard that they flew backwards from their horses, and some cavalrymen fell to the ground and were still alive.

, writhing in pain on the ground.

The Qing cavalry in the back row were shocked when they saw it. Some of the Qing soldiers were good at horseback riding. Their speed controlled the frightened horses with their front hooves raised high, and they did not fall off the horse's back.

Niu Luzhangjing, who was in the lead, and Gelabashi Bing, who was holding the flag, were the most unlucky. The flag was so obvious that they were taken care of by the Yongwei Battalion.

Although they all wore cotton armor, iron leaf armor, and chain mail underneath, and even the war horses were covered with a layer of cotton armor, they were beaten to a pulp after a round of shooting from the Yongwei Battalion.

The few white-armored soldiers following Niu Lu Zhangjing saw the leader in front of them being shot through and knocked down. They were extremely frightened. They didn't understand why the Ming army's muskets were so powerful and could penetrate three layers of heavy armor at about eighty steps.

Before they could think more, the gunshots from the opposite side rang out again. The horse soldiers, combat soldiers, and auxiliary soldiers in the rear row had even thinner armor. They were protected from the fierce fire of firecrackers and were beaten to the point where they were all knocked upside down.

lying on the ground.

The musketeers of the Yongwei Battalion fired row after row, firing five or six rounds in a row. This Niu Lu Qing cavalry was almost completely wiped out, with only five or six people left.

They still dared to charge, but they immediately became intimidated. They used their equestrian skills to great effect and immediately turned their horses' heads miraculously at high speed, trying to escape from the battlefield.

But it was too late now. The muskets of the Yongwei Battalion continued to load the ammunition in an orderly manner and fired according to the command rhythm.
Chapter completed!