The lid of the coffin was opened, and the stench immediately filled the sky. Because the weather was too hot, the Hong Chengchou inside was no longer too fresh and began to rot and stink.
Luo Yangxing and Guang Shiheng both recognized Hong Chengchou. They pinched their noses and took a few glances. Not only did they confirm that the person lying in the coffin was the real Hong Chengchou, but they also discovered the marks of cuts and sutures on Hong Chengchou's neck.
From the professional perspective of Luo Yangxing, the former commander of the Jinyiwei, Hong Chengchou obviously did not die of natural causes, but was killed by someone cutting his neck with a sharp weapon. It was really cruel...
"Did Governor Hong be beheaded?" Luo Yangxing's voice trembled when he asked.
Obai sighed again and nodded slightly: "The regent ordered him to be killed!"
"Why?" Luo Yangxing asked.
"It's not because he lives in the Qing Dynasty and has a bright mind, and he has been acting as a spy for the Southern Dynasty!"
How can it be? You've been fooled! Luo Yangxing said: If this is true, would I, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, know about it?
Oboi suddenly lowered his voice: "You said before that you would hand over the city of Beijing when you met Hong Chengchou! Now that Hong Chengchou has given it to you, when will the city of Beijing be handed over?"
What? What? This person who was packaged in a coffin can be regarded as Hong Chengchou! ?
Luo Yangxing and Guang Shiheng were both dumbfounded. Looking at Obai, whose face had sunk, they no longer knew what to say.
Oboi's tone was gloomy, and he went on to say: "Your emperor and prince have now abandoned Tianjin and Dagu and fled across the sea! Don't have any illusions. The city of Beijing is already in my possession!" "
In fact, he didn't leave completely... Zhu Cixiang also left an Xie garrison on Haisha Island to guard the bastion built with sandbags and rammed earth, and also on the four protruding bastions of the bastion. Four Hongyi cannons and eight Franco machine cannons were placed on the triangular fort.
In addition, Zhu Cixi also moved all the people in Dagukou to Haisha Island, and then transported them to Shandong in batches - these were all "righteous people" who had seen the bravery of the Ming Dynasty's soldiers, so they were very reliable!
But Obai will not tell Luo Yangxing and the others this news!
Luo Yangxing glanced at Guang Shiheng - What should we do about this?
At this time, Obai snorted coldly: "As I told you, our Qing Dynasty's Wu Zhenchaoha heavy troops carrying Hongyi cannons have arrived at the gates of Beijing and are now setting up cannons. It is futile for you to resist!
Moreover, you two don't know how our Qing Heavenly Soldiers treat the enemy who defends the city, right? "
Hearing what he said, Luo Yangxing and Guang Shiheng both trembled. Donglu likes massacre the most! When the Donglu captured the city in Liaodong, whenever they encountered resistance, they would often massacre the city in revenge! The Han people under his rule would be brutally massacred if they resisted even a little bit! In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Tianming Khan Nurhaci issued an edict nine times to "kill all the grainless Nikans found and sent from everywhere", which meant that all the Han people under his rule who had no grain should be killed to save food rations.
In the subsequent entrance battles, Donglu continued to kill people on a large scale. Once the cities that resisted were breached, they were often slaughtered! In later Qing history records, Huang Taiji wrote a letter to Chongzhen after the Jinan massacre in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, admitting that "millions of people died" and also said, "If I had not killed them, the emperor and his ministers would have committed suicide." This means that Jinan The resistance of the soldiers and civilians resulted in massacre, and they fully deserved it!
Obai sneered a few times, and then said: "In the fourth year of Chongde, our Qing troops entered Shandong and attacked more than 60 cities. Except for 8 cities that surrendered, the remaining 50 cities were all slaughtered!" If you dare to resist, our Qing soldiers will still slaughter them all! Then Li Zicheng cherishes the people of Beijing, but we, the Qing Dynasty, are not so merciful... We, the Qing Dynasty, would rather kill all the people in Beijing than destroy this iron wall. Let’s give the city to others again!”
Luo Yangxing laughed a few times: "Even if you kill all the people in Beijing, you won't be able to defend Beijing..."
"Who said that?" Obai raised his eyebrows, "The reason why he abandoned the city and fled was simply because he was afraid that the people in Beijing would cause chaos and lack of food. If he could be ruthless and kill hundreds of thousands of people, he wouldn't have to worry about anyone stirring up trouble inside. , and there is no need to worry about not having enough food to eat. With the fighting power of the bandit soldiers, how can this fortified city not be able to stop the Qing soldiers? You Nikans all say that rebellion is cruel and unpopular, but let me see, he is just not cruel enough. It will end in defeat! If I, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, are allowed to enter Beijing, haha..."
"Haha" means that all the Han people with Beijing household registration will be driven away - now if we surrender honestly, then all the Han people in Hecheng will be driven away to make room for the Eight Banners uncle!
Historically, this policy was called "occupying houses", and it was one of the six major bad policies after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. It is said to be a bad policy, but it was actually the key to the Qing Dynasty quickly gaining a foothold in Beijing!
Of course, this policy later became an important reason for the decline of the Qing Dynasty! The Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners became ordinary citizens in Beijing, and the birth rate dropped after urbanization. Later, the Eight Banners uncles who gathered in Beijing became hostages of various powers. As long as Beijing was threatened, the Qing Dynasty would readily pay to cede territory!
Oboi will not talk about the deprivation of Beijing's household registration and the handing over of Beijing real estate now, because he doesn't know yet. What he knows is that you Beijing Nikans must surrender or die!
The Qing Dynasty was not the soft-hearted rogue like Li Zicheng...
Luo Yangxing and Guang Shiheng both knew how cruel the Tatars were, and they could only sigh deeply at this time.
Luo Yangxing sighed: "Since it was Governor Hong's last wish to sacrifice the city of Beijing to protect the people, I have no choice but to comply!"
Guang Shiheng also reacted immediately and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, I mean the same thing..."
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"My lord, Governor Hong, Prince Yu and the uncle have arrived with their troops. They have entered Zhending City now. I want you to meet them as soon as possible!"
In Jingxing City, Wu Sangui, who is still the Duke of Jin Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, has just received the news that Hong Chengchou, Duoduo and Wu Sanfeng have arrived together.
He is currently joining forces with Azige, the king of Duoluowuying County, preparing to attack Guguan, which is guarded by General Luo Hu of the Dashun Army.
Although the Dashun Army was defeated repeatedly, it was not without the ability to resist. Moreover, the Dashun Army's several defeats were all in field battles, not because they could not defend the city passes - if Li Zicheng could really use Obai's method to kill or drive away all the people in Beijing, the Dashun Army would We can still defend Beijing!
How many talents are there in Manchuria? Where can we withstand the exhaustion of a bloody battle? If tens of thousands of people really die under the walls of Beijing, they will have nothing to do with them in the world...
So now facing Luo Hu, who was clinging to the pass, Wu Sangui and Azige were a little numb.
In addition, Wu Sangui was not sure what Dorgon was planning. Will he suddenly attack himself?
Hearing that Hong Chengchou and Duoduo were coming with reinforcements, Wu Sangui finally let out a sigh of relief. Now he is a little bit neither good nor bad. Only when he enters Taiyuan City can he be considered a stable Duke of Jin.
"Have you met Governor Hong?" Wu Sangui asked the confidant who came from Zhending.
"I haven't seen you yet," the general said, "but I have seen you... My uncle has now returned to the Ming Dynasty and became the admiral of the capital camp in Beijing."
Wu Sangui smiled: "It seems that the prince still relies on our family! That's good..."
He didn't think much about it. After all, his brother wouldn't lie to him, right? So he took a hundred servants and rushed to Zhending Fucheng on Pegasus.
In the city of Zhendingfu, the flags of the Eight Banners soldiers were juxtaposed with the flags of the Ming army. The palace of Duduo and the commander-in-chief of Hong Chengchou were also close together, showing the friendly relations between the Ming and Qing Dynasties everywhere.
After Wu Sangui entered the city, he didn't raise any suspicion and went straight into Hong Chengchou's mansion. Only when he reached the lobby did he realize that something was wrong.
Because he saw two coffins placed side by side. His brother Wu Sanfeng had changed into the clothes of a military attaché of the Qing Dynasty and was standing between the two coffins.
Seeing Wu Sangui coming in, he just smiled bitterly, pointed to the coffin on the left and said, "Second brother, Governor Hong has been killed by the regent, and it's in this coffin!" He pointed to the coffin on the right again, "This coffin is Brother Yu has prepared the coffin for you... If you don't vote for the Qing Dynasty today, you will have no choice but to sleep in it! Otherwise, you will be the King of Pingxi of the Qing Dynasty!"
Either sleep in the coffin, or become the King of Pingxi of the Qing Dynasty... But once you become the King of Pingxi, who doesn't have to go into the coffin?
Wu Sangui looked at his eldest brother with a tangled look on his face, shook his head and said: "Brother, our third sister is the chosen maid of the Prince Fujun of the Ming Dynasty! Maybe she will be the crown prince soon..."
Wu Sanfeng looked at his brother and smiled bitterly: "It doesn't matter... the Prince Regent's Princess will also marry the Prince of Ming Dynasty. By then, our family and the Prince Regent will be relatives!"
Is there such a thing as marriage?
"But, will the regent believe in our family?" Wu Sangui looked at Wu Sanfeng, "Half of our family is on the other side of the Ming Dynasty...and they are also high-ranking and are the confidants of the prince of the Ming Dynasty!"
Wu Sanfeng smiled and said: "Uncle, you are worrying too much... Brother Yu has been in the Qing Dynasty for a long time and knows the inside story. If the late emperor is still there, there is no way out for you to seek refuge in the Qing Dynasty. But now that the late emperor is gone, the regent After all, he is not the emperor! How many people can he use and trust? Apart from Prince Duduo of Yu and those buddies of Liangbaiqi, who else can be there? No matter how unreliable our family is, it is impossible to replace him as regent. It’s impossible to interfere in their Eight Banners’ household affairs, right?”
"this......"
Wu Sanfeng watched Wu Sangui lost in thought, and then said: "For our family, this situation is the best! You are going to the Southern Dynasties with tens of thousands of Guan Ning's troops. Can Prince Fujun rest assured? Our father and old man The number of servants in San's hands is only more than 600, which is just enough for the prince and can be controlled... That's why he can rest assured and treat San Mei well! If there are tens of thousands of troops and thousands of servants, Haha, it’s hard to say who will be the master and who will be the slave!
Uncle Chang, don’t worry! Follow me to see the regent, he will definitely use us again.
Because...he has no one to use! "
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