Chapter 525 A fire in the palace
"Report to the master! The slave has tied everyone to the Phoenix Tower as his master's instructions! Now only the imperial physician Li Cunde has not found it! The queen and Chen Fei have moved to the Phoenix Tower, but...!"
On the imperial throne in Chongzheng Hall, Huang Taiji, dressed in high costume, sat upright on the imperial throne with a calm expression. Dehun, the guard leader in full armor, was kneeling on one knee.
"Just how? Tell me quickly!"
The rumbling sound of cannons continued to come from outside the palace. In the wide square in front of Chongzheng Hall, a large group of Eight Banners soldiers rushed back and forth, and went to various palace gates to participate in the defense amid Shangguan's shouts.
"Report to the master! It's just that Concubine Zhuang refused to move to the Phoenix Tower on the grounds of her young age, and ordered her slaves to pray to her master if she could allow her to take the little prince to surrender!"
Dehun bowed his head and said with courage.
"Hmph! I love the Xinjueluo family only have warriors who died in battle! There are no cowards who beg for surrender! Concubine Zhuang's family is greedy for life and fears death, but she begs for mercy in the name of a prince! Forget it, I'll go there myself! Help me over!"
After saying that, Huang Taiji slowly stood up. Dehun hurriedly got up a few steps and stretched out his arm. After Huang Taiji put his right arm on, Dehun arched his body and moved his footsteps carefully. Huang Taiji endured the dizziness and disgusting feeling, tried his best to straighten his body, and went down the imperial stairs step by step and headed towards the harem.
In the main hall of Yongfu Palace, Zhuang Concubine Bumubutai sat on the brocade couch holding Fulin, who was only over one year old. Her expression on her face was both fear and nervous, and she also had some hope and desire.
Just now, she flatly rejected Huang Taiji's intention to ask her to go to the Phoenix Tower. This was the first time she dared to openly violate her husband's request since she came to the palace to marry Korqin.
She knows what it means to go to Phoenix Tower.
Huang Taiji had long sent people to pile up the tallest building in the palace with dry firewood, gunpowder and rapeseed oil, which was planned to use for self-immolation when the Ming army attacked the palace.
Bumubutai doesn't want to die.
He looked down at Fulin who was staring at her with big black and white eyes in his arms, curiously looking at her. Bumubutai felt a sharp pain in his heart, and tears fell like broken pearls. Su Moer (Su Malagu) next to him couldn't help but sobbed in a low voice.
"See you, the emperor!"
As a messy voice at the door, a cold voice came from the hall gate.
"What?, I heard that you dare to disobey my will? Who gave you the courage! He didn't even listen to my words!"
Huang Taiji, who was standing at the entrance of the hall, looked cold in his eyes when he looked at Bumubutai.
Bumubutai reached out and wiped the tears from his face, hugged Fulin and knelt down, choked and said, "Emperor, I am not afraid of death! My Borjigit has never been a person who is afraid of death! But the Ninth Prince is only one year old! This is your biological flesh and blood, so you can bear to see such a smart child die? Emperor! Just be kind and let him go! Woo ~~ ·"
"The Ninth Prince can live without death, but you must follow me! Dehun! Carry the Ninth Prince over, go find a dress of Mingren to change into it, and take a few people to protect the Ninth Prince out of the North Gate and run away!"
After Huang Taiji finished speaking sternly, he turned around and walked away. Dehun gritted his teeth and twisted his body, bowed to Bumubute and said, "Of course!", and then grabbed Fulin from Bumubute's arms.
Fulin suddenly left his mother's arms, and when he saw Dehun's ugly and strange face, he no longer smelled the familiar smell on his mother's body. He immediately opened his mouth and cried. His small body twisted with his hands and feet, struggling, trying to return to his mother's arms.
Bumubutai suddenly jumped up from the ground, and howled like a wounded beast from his mouth. He pounced on Dehun. He hugged the little master, who could not dodge in time, and had no choice but to stretch out his arm to block it, then pushed Bumubutai to the ground with a little force. Then he shouted and said, "Please invite the heroine to Phoenix Tower!"
After saying that, he looked around, and hugged Fulin, except for the main hall of Yongfu Palace, and rushed directly to the north gate of the harem. The two Huang Taiji guards stepped forward expressionlessly, raised Bumubutai who had fallen to the ground and wailed, and left the hall gate, and headed straight to the Phoenix Tower not far from the east.
Su Mo'er wiped her tears and saw that everyone was concentrated on Bumubutai who was dragged away in advance, she quietly left the hall gate and followed Dehun to the north gate of the harem.
Accompanied by a violent roar of artillery, a huge cheer came from the direction of the Qing Gate. Huang Taiji, who had reached the top floor of the Phoenix Tower, had his face changed drastically. His eyes that had been sunken in suddenly opened their strength, and his body suddenly became stiff, and he returned to his original state after a moment.
Through the huge noise outside, Huang Taiji could guess without looking at it. The Ming army had already broken through the Qing Dynasty and entered the palace. He tried his best to do so, but in the end he could not save the defeat. The Qing Dynasty was about to perish. All this came so suddenly that it made him still think it was a dream.
Shouldn’t this scene happen in the palace of Ming Kingdom?
Whether it is Haoge or Dorgon's brother, whether they have the ability to rebuild the Qing Dynasty in the future, it doesn't matter.
Taizu laid the foundation for the rise of the Eight Banners and created the Qing Dynasty himself. He thought it could last for everything, but he did not expect to die in the second lifetime!
I'm not willing to give up!
God is jealous of talent! God is jealous of talent!
As long as I give it ten years, no, in just five years, I will definitely have the confidence to revive the Qing Dynasty!
I really want to live another five hundred years!
The Qin army was the first to attack the palace.
After chasing the Qing army from the archway to the Qing Gate, most of the Qing soldiers were completely defeated in despair.
Hundreds of Qing troops threw away their weapons and crawled on the ground to surrender to the Ming army at the corner of the wall. The Ming army, which had already received orders before the war, did not kill these prisoners, but instead sent special personnel to escort the surrendered soldiers aside in batches. The army was still driving directly to the Qing Gate.
Under such a demonstration effect, the morale of the remaining Qing army quickly collapsed. The Ming army set up artillery formation outside the Qing Gate. More than a dozen cannons were fired for only one round. Most of the Qing army responsible for defense dispersed. Only a few absolutely loyal generals and soldiers of the Eight Banners continued to retreat, preparing to find opportunities to continue to resist.
After breaking through the defense line of the Qing Gate, a brigade of Ming troops rushed into the wide square in front of Chongzheng Hall. A few Qing troops could not resist at all, so they could only retreat to the back of the palace again. Soon, the brigade of Ming troops passed through Chongzheng Hall and the left and right Yimen Gate to the square in front of the third Phoenix Tower.
Oboi stood on the high steps in front of the Phoenix Tower with a knife in hand. His broken armor was stained with blood. Hundreds of Huang Taiji's guards on the steps were lying behind the white marble railings with bows and blades, preparing to make a last fight with the Ming army. Everyone's face showed a look of despair and unwillingness.
There were also huge noises on both sides of the palace, and the Ming army on both sides of the east and west had already entered the palace one after another.
Facing the Qing army that was still resisting stubbornly, Zhou Yuji did not order the Ming army to rush forward and fight. After more than a dozen Folang machine cannons and General Weiyuan cannons were placed, he immediately issued an order to fire.
Just after the sound of the cannon, the three-story Phoenix Tower began to burn from the first floor. Under the influence of dry firewood, vegetable oil and ignition-enhancing gunpowder, the fire quickly showed a rapid prairie fire. In just a moment, the tongue of breathing and breathing rushed to the top floor with thick smoke.
Huang Taiji, sitting upright, felt the heat of the fire. Scenes of decades passed by in his mind. Hai Lanzhu and Zhezhe leaned against him respectively, and in front of them was Bumubutai trapped in a ball.
"Empress, Concubine Chen, will you and the other two be with me in the next life? For many years, I have been busy with state affairs and have been ashamed of you. I hope I can meet you in the next life!"
Huang Taiji stretched out his arms and hugged the two of them, and said softly in a tone of regret and guilt.
"I will serve the emperor in the next life! I only hope that the emperor will be a mortal in the next life. I can live a life like a Ming man who farms and women who weave, have more children, watch the children grow up, marry and have children, take care of their husbands and children, and finally die of old age on the bed!"
Zhezhe leaned against Huang Taiji with tears in his eyes and said softly.
"No! I hope that the emperor will be like this in this life in the next life. He is a great hero and hero! An eternal emperor who makes everyone in the world crawl on the ground!"
Hai Lanzhu looked up at her husband with beautiful eyes, and her words were full of firmness and confidence.
"Okay! I will be a great hero in the next life and let the emperor of Ming fall to my feet! Hahaha! Hahaha!"
With a loud "boom", the Phoenix Tower finally collapsed in the fire, but the fire was still burning violently, without any intention of extinguishing it in a short period of time.
Under the bombardment of Ming army artillery fire, the Qing army was almost crying after the collapse of the Phoenix Tower. Oboi, who had been blown away half of his legs by the flowering bullet, struggled to stand up tremblingly from the ground, pulled out the long knife from his waist, pointed straight at the Ming army's spearman who rushed up the steps, and shouted with all his strength, "Eight Banners Kung Fu! Enter!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several spears stabbed several blood holes into his body. Obai opened his eyes wide, and after the long sword fell to the ground, he fell to the ground and died.
Chapter completed!