Chapter 4 Simple and Rough
"Don't be afraid, it's just a skin injury!"
Yang Qing said gently as he looked at those beautiful eyes.
"Thank you, thank you!"
Princess Kunxing said with difficulty.
A faint blush appeared on her pale face. She instinctively wanted to leave Yang Qing's arms, but she suddenly touched the wound that was being bandaged, then moaned in pain, and then fell weakly on Yang Qing's chest as if she had exhausted all her strength.
"Bold madman!"
Suddenly, Yang Qing roared in anger.
Chongzhen, who had just been helped by Wang Chengen, broke free and picked up the sword, and stabbed it into Yang Qing's back without hesitation. Yang Qing didn't even look at it. While avoiding it, he carefully completed the last step of bandaging for Princess Kunxing. Just as Chongzhen pulled the sword back, he poked out his right hand like lightning and grabbed his wrist. Then he exerted a little force. The sword came into his hand amid Chongzhen's screams. Before Chongzhen could react, the sword blade had already pressed on his neck.
At the same time, Yang Qing also stood up with Princess Kunxing in her arms, and then carefully supported her to stand. The latter was actually unconscious. After all, her weak body lost too much blood. This was the inevitable result.
"Let the sword be put down quickly and kill your nine clans if you hurt me!"
Wang Chengen said in a trembling voice.
Chongzhen also became honest and stood there looking at Yang Qing with a gloomy gaze. The armed eunuchs around him watched this scene at a loss. After all, no one had ever experienced the emperor being held hostage.
"Your Majesty, you can't even protect your own wife and daughter, who else can you kill?"
Yang Qing looked at Chongzhen with contempt and said.
However, the sword in his hand was not put down. At this time, the armed eunuchs with guns arrived. He didn't want to be beaten into a sieve. Even the raid gun was a gun. Chongzhen was pitiful. As the king of a country, at this time, there were only dozens of eunuchs left by his side. In addition, there was a beautiful woman who led a little girl, probably Concubine Yuan and Princess Zhaoren. Before summoning Princess Kunxing, Chongzhen had sent his sons away and asked them to go to court, Zhou Kui, Duke Cheng Guo Zhu Chunchen, and other ministers who he thought he could still trust. Of course, these people immediately presented them to Li Zicheng, and Queen Zhou cried with him and found a place to hang them, so these people were not here.
Yang Qing's words made Chongzhen's face dark.
"You should be loyal to the country and protect the country. How dare you hold the saint hostage? You don't put down your sword? You are also eager for the princess. If you can punish your merits and protect Your Majesty and escape, Your Majesty will be the Duke of Duke and Marquis for thousands of days."
Wang Chengen said.
Yang Qing looked at Chongzhen.
"You are just someone who wants to escort me to Nanjing? If so, you will definitely not let it go."
Chongzhen said slowly.
"That's my thank you for your kindness first!"
Yang Qing said.
While he was talking, he changed into a bright smile. Before Chongzhen could react, he suddenly hugged Princess Kunxing and stepped forward, and at the same time, the hilt of his right sword hit Chongzhen's head violently. The latter, who was caught off guard, was knocked unconscious. Wang Chengen next to him reacted quickly, and screamed and stepped forward to hug Chongzhen. The armed eunuchs raised their guns in chaos, but Wang Chengen raised his hand to stop them.
"You are so bold!"
Wang Chengen shouted gritted his teeth.
"I just want to beat him up!"
Yang Qing said indifferently: "Governor, why don't you clean up the jade seals and other things? If you don't leave, it will be dawn!"
"Hurry, hurry up!"
Wang Chengen yelled without hesitation.
The armed eunuchs were probably the last loyal ones. They packed Chongzhen's jade seal, crown, and even some jewelry as quickly as possible, especially the jade seal to Wang Chengen, while the unconscious Chongzhen was carried by a strong eunuch. As for Yang Qing, of course, carried Princess Kunxing on his back.
Concubine Yuan next to him looked at him with anticipation.
Yang Qing was confused for a moment.
He has too much burden, and a woman is really trying to kill herself.
"General, please take Zhaoren away, and I will die for my tribute."
Concubine Yuan said.
"Okay, the imperial concubine doesn't have to commit suicide. Go to the queen and other concubines to advise them not to commit suicide. Li Zicheng will not touch you, and he is not as terrible as you think. In short, no matter what happens outside in the future, you should try not to leave the palace. There will be even greater wars in the future. It will be difficult for you to survive after you leave the palace."
Yang Qing said.
After saying that, he took Princess Zhaoren, held her with one hand and exchanged gazes with Wang Chengen.
"How to escape?"
It is not so easy to escape from Beijing at this time. The Shun Army completely surrounded the city. The outer city has been occupied and the inner city has also begun to be occupied. However, the city is too big, so even if it is occupied, it will take some time. It is not difficult to go out to avoid the Shun Army. There are definitely no Shun Army in the north of the city, but the problem is that they are all outside the city! Hundreds of thousands of troops are blocking the inner city and waiting to enter the city. Even if they leave the city, they cannot run away. There are Shun Army outside the city, unless...
Unless you wear makeup and abscond.
The two nodded at each other as if they were in a sympathy, then waved to the eunuchs, and they left the Qianqing Palace amid Princess Zhaoren's crying.
They walked through the palace and walked northwards around Jingshan and left Bei'anmen Gate, and at dawn they left the imperial city.
At this time, the rain was still falling, and it turned into freezing rain. With the protection of the last darkness before dawn, they quickly broke into a nearby house. Half an hour later, when the weather began to brighten, they had all changed into ordinary people's clothes. At this time, Chongzhen also woke up, but he was always gloomy and didn't say anything. Even if Yang Qing changed his daughter's clothes with his own hands, he didn't say anything. He probably thought that he would kill the nine rebels. Princess Kunxing actually woke up, but pretended not to wake up, closed her eyes and let Yang Qing do it. Anyway, her injuries were treated by Yang Qing, so she was considered a skin-loving kiss.
But her injuries are not optimistic.
Especially too much blood loss.
Taking advantage of the time when no one was disturbed, Yang Qing quickly checked her wound again. He could only ensure that he could stop the bleeding, but there was no medicine or something, and whether it would be infected would be left to fate. After all, her entire arm was cut off from the middle of her upper arm. It was already Yang Qing's reaction that he could stop the bleeding quickly, and like him inexplicably, he had some first aid methods. But now there is no time to care about her injuries, because at this time the Shun Army had officially entered the city, especially Chaoyang, Dongzhi, and Andingmen were also opened one after another. Next, Li Zicheng would enter the city with cheers of the people and officials, and then search for Chongzhen throughout the city, and offered a reward of ten thousand gold and Fengjue.
They must leave the city as soon as possible.
"The only way is to go to Water Gate."
Yang Qing said.
They cannot walk during the day. Shunjun blocked all doors during the day, and no one could go out. The only choice is to climb over the city wall at night and drill into the water gate.
But it is too dangerous to climb over the city wall. If Yang Qing himself or just carry Princess Kunxing, it would be easy. With his current physical fitness, the city wall is not worth mentioning. If he has a rope, he will go up. But even if he abandons the armed eunuchs, he still has three Wang Chengen, Chongzhen and Zhaoren. He still hopes to be discovered four times. Then he is too confident, and once he is discovered, it will be difficult to leave.
Then the only option left is to drill water gate. Most water gates do not have much water in this season. Part of the Eight-Nation Alliance entering Beijing was to line up and enter through the water gate while Beijing people were watching.
"Can you get the gate that opens the water to close?"
Wang Chengen said sarcastically.
“Iron.”
He added one more thing.
"There are wooden stakes thickly tied inside and outside, which are closely arranged in a row."
An armed eunuch followed and added.
"Okay, let's climb over the city wall!"
Yang Qing immediately surrendered.
Since the method is determined, the rest is to make preparations, mainly to find some strong ropes and flying tiger claws. It is definitely difficult to find a suitable one. Fortunately, there are those combs, which are useless. If you really want to be blocked, you might as well take a knife! Yang Qing quickly dismantled this with great strength and bent the barrel into a hook shape, and tied the three barrels together, and it would be almost useful. After all, it was just a female wall, and it wasn't really necessary to go to rock climbing.
Just as they were about to run away, Li Zicheng's army entered Beijing from all the open city gates in the snowflakes and freezing rain, and then quickly completed control of the city.
But the order is pretty good.
In fact, the statements about Li Zicheng's rape and looting after entering Beijing are nonsense, and they were all implicated by those literati later. Even at that time, some literati said that after entering Beijing, he was in order. Not only did he strictly order and cut off two robbed subordinates, and the shops also ordered them to maintain normal business. However, these statements were quickly submerged in the imagination encouraged by our Qing Dynasty, and the stories he made up became more and more sensational.
As for his torture of all officials...
The matter of the people, he clamped Wei Zaode out of his brain, can be said to have avenged Chongzhen. When Chongzhen begged them to donate, Wei Zhuangyuan paid 500 taels, and then Liu Zongmin picked up 13,000 taels of gold. If such people are not clamped, Chongzhen cannot rest in peace, but if it is said that Shunjun harms the people, it would be nonsense. In fact, there is no need for them to harm the people. What do those wealthy and nobles want? If they want money, beauties and beauties, they will not bother with the people who cannot even eat enough.
So Yang Qing and the others did not encounter any trouble when hiding in the homes of this commoner. After all, the Shunjun was busy snatching the mansions of the rich, and only a small group of soldiers symbolically walked in the alley outside.
Chapter completed!