Today, the gatekeeper Baihu who is guarding the gate at Dongzhimen is still a "hero", that is, Yan Baoyi, who was shot in the buttocks during the Battle of Xiangkou, and finally cut off half of his buttocks.
Langzhong, who cut Yan Baoyi's buttocks, was not very good at cutting, and he didn't cut it properly. The knife cut too much with one click, cutting off a large piece of buttock meat and cutting Yan Baoyi into a cripple.
Naturally, Yan Baoyi, who had half his butt cut off and became a cripple, could no longer continue to kill thieves for the Qing Dynasty. However, the Qing Dynasty also forgot his contribution... and sent him back to Beijing to recuperate.
When he returned to Beijing, the injury on his buttocks was almost healed, but the limp leg was a disability and could not be cured.
At that time, Beijing's Eight Banners New Army was marching south in large numbers, and there was a shortage of manpower everywhere in Beijing. So Chang Ning took the idea of Yan Baoyi and his group of wounded soldiers and gave them the jobs he could.
Although Yan Baoyi was limping, he could still walk, and his dark face looked quite reliable, so he sent a hundred households from the city gate with dozens of green soldiers to guard Dongzhimen.
Now he saw a large group of strong refugees and heard them speaking authentic Beijing dialect, so he guessed that they were some kind of noble tenants. Since he was also a noble tenant, he naturally felt close to him, so he walked up to him with a cane.
What came over was a tall man in the wind, wearing a white gown and a melon cap on his head. At first glance, he could tell that he was a servant like a housekeeper or a master.
When a slave sees a slave, of course he feels more cordial.
So Yan Baoyi asked: "Which family does this guy in white shirt belong to? What are you going to do in the city?"
The man in the white shirt immediately stopped and said with an apologetic smile: "Returning to the official, the younger one is the steward of Tongzhou Zhuangzi, Prince Xinjun... The prince's Zhuangzi was robbed by a group of god-damn Mongols two days ago. , and they killed our people! They also took away a few girls! After that, they even burned Zhuangzi!
I am going to the city to complain to Fujin..."
When it comes to the Mongols killing, setting fires, and robbing people, this man has gnashed his teeth and seems to hate it very much.
Yan Baoyi knew that Dong E, the king of Xinjun, had Zhuangzi in Tongzhou, and he also knew that many Zhuangzi in Tongzhou had been plundered by the Mongols.
So he no longer had any doubts and said to the man with good intentions: "Brother, let me tell you that Chahar's prince Burni came into the city today...Prince Gong personally went to Chaoyang Gate to greet him! "
He was telling that person that the prince of Chahar was in good health, so he had to be patient...
The man sighed and said nothing more. He just shouted to the men with him outside the door: "Hurry up and enter the city... Fujin is kind-hearted and will always give us a way to survive!"
Yan Baoyi also followed suit: "Yes, yes, hurry into the city... there is always a way to survive."
As he spoke, he limped on a cane and became the leader!
The janitors under him are all green soldiers from the Third Patrol Battalion of Beijing - they are the most aggrieved and most disciplined green soldiers in the Qing Dynasty! During the Kangxi period, they could definitely do nothing wrong... Because at this time, there were either bannermen, banner slaves, or Han officials in Beijing, and even the businessmen who were doing business were nine out of ten. He is also an imperial merchant! In short, no one like them, Green Camp soldiers, dared to provoke.
When they saw Yan Baoyi and the man in white being so polite, they knew that this group of refugees who had taken refuge in the city had a background. There were too many people with backgrounds here in Beijing, and no one like them, stinky soldiers, could afford to offend them. !
So not only were no one searching, but they all invited these refugees into the city with smiling faces, nodding and bowing.
This group of refugees were not polite. Under the leadership of the leading man in white and Yan Baoyi, they passed through the long bridge on the moat outside Dongzhimen and the open city gate in groups, and entered the urn of Dongzhimen. .
When the leading man was about to reach the inner gate of Dongzhimen Wengcheng, he suddenly stopped, raised his head and looked around. With a flash of light in his eyes, he had already lifted up his robe and tied it to a He pulled out a flintlock pistol from the holster on his waist, pointed it at Yan Baoyi's chest and pulled the trigger.
Yan Baoyi was stunned when he saw the other party taking out a musket and pointing it at him. Before he could react, his chest was hit hard and he received a heavy blow. Then he felt a sharp pain and his whole body was numb. After losing a little strength, he collapsed and fell down.
what happened?
As soon as this thought came to Yan Baoyi's mind, the man had already shouted: "President Wu of the Great Zhou Dynasty has arrived with millions of heavenly troops! Long live the President! Long live the Great Zhou!"
Yan Baoyi thought to himself: "It turns out that Wu Sangui broke into Beijing..."
Then, Yan Baoyi didn't, but others still did.
More than a thousand men who had followed the man in white into the Dongzhimen Urn City shouted in unison: "Millions of soldiers from the Great Zhou Dynasty have arrived, long live President Wu!"
Then, they all pulled out various weapons, muskets and grenades from the bundles they carried, and rushed forward, knocking down the Qing green soldiers inside and outside the Dongzhimen Urn City in an instant. Some men with thick arms rushed into the inner gate of Dongzhimen Wengcheng and threw several grenade hammers with fuses on fire towards the inner street of Dongzhimen!
After the battle in the Dongzhimen Urn City was neatly ended, the men who rushed into the Dongzhimen Urn City were divided into several groups and rushed towards the inner and outer doorways of the Dongzhimen Urn City and the horse path leading to the Dongzhimen Urn City wall.
Several other men carefully opened a bag and took out a large black flag. They also found a Qing army's Zhangsan long gun and hung up the black flag. One of the tall men even waved it vigorously. Click the flag. The black flag unfolded in the wind, revealing a big white "zhou" character!
The man holding the black flag flew behind the man who had just shot Yan Baoyi. The man in white shouted loudly: "The Great Zhou Military Advisor Yang Qilong is here! Xuan Ye's entire army has been destroyed, and the Heavenly Soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty are approaching the city. Those who sacrifice the city will avoid death!"
The thousands and hundreds of men who followed Yang Qilong into the city also shouted loudly: "Xuan Ye has been completely wiped out, President Wu has arrived, and those who offer the city will be spared death!"
Amidst the shouts, Yang Qilong was already striding towards the stairs leading to the top of Dongzhimen City.
At this time, there were only a handful of defenders on the top of the Dongzhimen Urn City - originally there should have been at least a hundred defenders on the top of the Dongzhimen Urn City, but because today was the day when Burni entered the city with hundreds of cavalry. In order to prepare for Prince Chahar's sudden attack, Chang Ning transferred the green battalion soldiers originally guarding Dongzhimen to the Chaoyangmen Wengcheng and the streets inside Chaoyangmen to set up defenses.
Therefore, the Qing army's defense in Dongzhimen Wengcheng was very empty and could not stop the "high imitation Zhou soldiers" who rushed up like wolves and tigers, and were quickly cut down or driven away.
After a while, the black flag with the word "zhou" in it was already fluttering in the wind on the Wengcheng tower of Dongzhimen!
And when Yang Qilong led his men to a surprise attack on Dongzhimen Wengcheng, there were many passers-by at Dongzhimen... These were either bannermen, banner slaves, or tenants under his banner who had taken refuge in the city. When they saw Yang Qilong's men making an attack and heard them shouting "President Wu's troops have arrived," they immediately knew something was wrong, so they ran into the city, shouting: "It's not good," as they ran. Wu Sangui is calling! Oh no, Wu Sangui has broken into Beijing!"
This time it really scared people! Also covered!
Because most people in Beijing are well-informed, they all know that the new Ming Dynasty is in the "Cat Winter". They have not even attacked Guazhou and Yangzhou, and the sea outside Tianjin is freezing, so it is absolutely impossible to move north to the vicinity of Beijing.
If Yang Qilong and others shouted, "Prince Zhu San is here," no one would believe it.
But Yang Qilong played Wu Sangui's signature... This is a bit true. Wu Sangui's army has already entered Henan. Maybe the vanguard has really arrived near Beijing!
The Qing Dynasty is about to end!
