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 asked, his voice trembling.

Obai sighed again and nodded slightly: "The regent ordered me to kill him!"

"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 is it possible? You have been fooled! Luo Yangxing said: If this is true, would I, the commander of the Jinyiwei, not 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 packed in a coffin can be considered 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!"

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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 I do about this?

At this time, Obai snorted coldly: "As I told you, my 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 liked to massacre cities the most! When Donglu captured cities and territories in Liaodong, whenever they encountered resistance, they would often massacre cities in revenge! If the Han people under his rule resisted even a little, they would

They will be massacred crazily! In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Tianming Khan Nurhaci issued an edict nine times to "kill the Nikans who have no grain and are sent from everywhere", which means to kill all the Han people who have no food under their rule.

light to save food rations.

In the subsequent entrance battles, the Donglu massacred again. Once the resisting cities were conquered, they were often slaughtered! In later Qing history records, Huang Taiji was killed after the massacre of Jinan in the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

He wrote a letter to 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 the resistance of Jinan's soldiers and civilians led to massacres, and they fully deserved it!

Ao Bai 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 Chuangni abandoned the city 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.

, there is no need to worry about not having enough food to eat. With the fighting power of the bandit soldiers, how can the 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 in fact it was 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 the hostages of various powers.

, as soon as Beijing was threatened, the Qing Dynasty would readily spend money 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...

Both Luo Yangxing and Guang Shiheng 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..."

...

"My lord, Governor Hong, Prince Yu and the uncle have arrived with their troops. Now they have entered Zhending City. 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 Doluowuying County, preparing to attack Guguan, which is guarded by General Luo Hu of the Dashun Army.

Although the Dashun Army was defeated in many battles, it was not without the ability to resist. Moreover, the Dashun Army's several defeats were all in field battles. It was not because they could not defend the city pass - if Li Zicheng could really use Obai

By killing all the people in Beijing or driving them away, the Dashun Army can still hold Beijing!

How many talents are there in Manchuria? How can they withstand the consumption of bloody battles? 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 is holding on to the pass, Wu Sangui and Azige are a little numb.

In addition, Wu Sangui was not sure what Dorgon was planning? Would he suddenly attack him?

Hearing that Hong Chengchou and Duoduo were coming with reinforcements, Wu Sangui finally let out a sigh of relief. Now he was a bit stuck. Only when he entered Taiyuan City could his position as Duke of Jin be considered stable.

"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 flew to Zhending Fucheng on Pegasus.

In the city of Zhendingfu, the flags of the Eight Banners soldiers and the flags of the Ming army were juxtaposed, and the palace of Duduo and the commander-in-chief of Hong Chengchou were also close together, showing everywhere the friendly relations between the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

After Wu Sangui entered the city, he did not 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 attache 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 in this coffin!"

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 after becoming the King of Pingxi, no one has 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 attendant 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 they 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 Liangbai Banner, 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 go 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, don't worry! Follow me to see the regent, he will definitely use us.
Chapter completed!