Chapter 188 Actually it was destined

Not to mention that the court can no longer send troops to fight. Even if there are soldiers and generals, the city of Beijing is mysterious. Xin'an, Rongcheng, and Xiongxian all went down without fighting. It is said that the vanguard troops who went to the death have arrived in Gu'an.

If the previous battle was still at the door of the house, it had now completely entered the front yard and had hit the nose of Beijing City, and the army to die was already face to face.

Especially in the counties in the suburbs of Beijing, when talking about the army to die, the minimum amount of cover-up is not needed, and the Tatars are just shouting loudly.

Although the counties in the suburbs of Beijing are still nominally under the control of the Qing court, the braided soldiers from all over the country have long since run away. It is estimated that the surrender letters from several suburbs have been written.

The Qing court's various orders could no longer leave the four nine cities, and even if they went out, they would not expect any actual effect. The Qing Dynasty's actual control scope was only the capital, and it was already all over the north of the city.

Under such circumstances, Beijing is already in chaos.

Although the braided soldiers in the capital had long been strengthened and strictly checked the passing pedestrians, and teams of braided soldiers came and went on the streets, everyone knew that the good days of the Tatars were coming.

Especially in the inner city, the bannermen are trying every means to move. It is said that they are not used to the hot seasons of Beijing. They have to go to the north to escape the summer heat and move back when the weather gets cooler.

Rescue the summer heat? Let's coax the ghost.

I am afraid that the Fourth Master's team will come in and draw a list for them. They are afraid. There are still a few people in the world who don't know about the Fourth Master's thunder methods? The Tartars who have killed can fill in the Qianhouhai. Although there are many Tartars in the capital, they can't stop the Fourth Master's horse foot. Hearing the private rumors of well-informed people, the teams of the dead army had already arrived in Gu'an, and the Fourth Master was in charge. The Seven Killing Order was passed over and over again, and the murderous words were all the Tatars when they heard it. How could they dare to wait?

Those who have connections have moved away long ago. The inner city is now empty, and there are no personal buds in the big houses that are too late to sell. They all run outside the pass with big cars and small vehicles. Most of the bannermen who are still staying in the capital are powerless and are trying to leave in a different way.

Nowadays, the people in the banner speak a lot, and they can see people in their eyes, and they also take the initiative to say hello to people from time to time.

The young and old men in the capital pay the most attention to etiquette, even if they slap their hands on their smiling faces. Although they had answered a few words without a single word from these bannermen, their eyes changed.

"Hehe, it's easy to enter the capital, but it's not that easy to leave."

"That's right, when Beijing City is a big car shop, you can just come and go when you want to? There is no such good thing in the world."

"Beijing City must not be able to defend, the key is to protect it for a few days."

"How many days are you going to see the chaos in the city. How many days can you stay? Even if the Tartars have a promising time when they can hold a meal."

It is hard to say about this kind of thing. There is no decent force in the capital. The five thousand troops from the Nine Gate have long lost the intention of guarding and have tried their best to run out. God knows that there are still a few braided soldiers left. Even if Oboi's subordinates are full of all the staff, they will only have five thousand people killed. With the Beidaying and Xishanying, they can survive the 15,000 yuan.

The 15,000 braided soldiers wanted to defend the capital. This was not just talking in broad daylight or something. Besides, the 15,000 people were separated, especially the Xishanying, which had been taken away by Jierharang for a large part. When it was time to see the sword and gun, it was already a very worthy mother and son in the palace.

The army went to the death to advance together, and the eyes were staring at the Sijiu City. The spirit in my heart was still full of energy, and I was just waiting for the last battle. With such great ability, I fought from Huaixi all the way. What was the purpose of?

Haven't you captured the city of Beijing? You have been through all 81 difficulties, and you still care about this last tremor.

"I heard that the Fourth Master has tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, and everyone is a real man who beats three. You have never seen the cannons cast in Huaixi. A big and thin cannon can be stuffed into a fat pig. One door is next to another, and it can be placed ten miles away..."

"My God, if the cannon fires, the capital will collapse?"

It is impossible to count all the artillery on both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but people are willing to believe this. The reason is that the name of Zhongsheng Bo is too big, let alone overwhelming cannons. Even if it means that the beans are sprinkled into soldiers, there must be some people who believe it.

What is the real situation? Few people really know the details, that is, they just want to have a happy mouth. As they were talking about it, they picked up the curtain and Master Guan Er stepped in:

"It's rare, all the old and young men are here."

The courtesy of the man in the capital was already complete. As soon as Mr. Guan came, he would make a fuss about greetings and greetings: "Didn't Mr. Er say he wanted to go to the south to do things? Why did he come back so soon?"

"What's the matter? Everyone knows the current situation." Mr. Guan Er laughed and said directly without hiding anything: "As soon as I arrived in Zhuozhou, I was blocked back. There was a war there. I am a timid man and dare not walk around in such an occasion. If the Fourth Master's people hold it down, if I can't explain it, it's a spy, I'd better come back quickly."

"Haha, the second master is so hilarious. The fourth master has really hit Zhuozhou?"

Mr. Guan Er pretended to be mysterious and said, "You guys, young men, have no outsiders, so I'll give you some clues."

Second Master has a wide range of hands and many friends, so he must be reliable in the details. When he heard that there was a lot of knowledge, he immediately spontaneously surrounded him.

"What news did the Second Master get? Show me some truth to the man, and everyone is better prepared."

Mr. Guan Er whispered: "It's true that I went to Zhuozhou. I was going to visit an old friend who had been around for a long time. This old friend has also met him. What do you think?"

"How about it?"

"My friend is a little involved with the Fourth Master..."

The meaning of involvement is very interesting.

Everyone knew the behavior of the army who went to the death. Before we arrived at a certain place, the previous special forces had already been infiltrated. Before the army could start, the city was in chaos. When the army really attacked the city, it was just a matter of intention. Anyway, the righteousness inside had already started to be chaotic and did not use real hard attacks at all.

After Mr. Guan said this, everyone felt like a clear mirror in their hearts and raised their thumbs up: "Mr. Er. Mr. is all very good at having a big background and has great skills. It is not very rare to have something to do with Mr. Fourth."

The Queen Mother still looked calm and sat expressionlessly, not knowing how many times the rosary in her hand had been twisted back and forth. She just didn't say anything.

Hong Chengchou was standing in front of the Empress Dowager. Hong Chengchou's burly figure was slightly hunched, and he didn't say anything when he lowered his hands.

I don’t know how long it took, but the Queen Mother finally started, as if she was still sighing with a faint sigh: “No need to serve you anymore, let’s go down.”

Like an amnesty, the palace ladies in the front and back breathed a sigh of relief, lay on the ground and kowtowed, and bowed and retreated.

The quieter and quieter in the Buddhist temple is an unbearable dullness, just like the dullness that has been hot for half a month suddenly is shrouded in dark clouds, and the smell before the storm can be vaguely smelled.

After a while, the empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty finally said, "You sit down, don't stand."

Hong Chengchou sued his seat carefully and sat on the mat on the right side of the empress dowager.

"You also say, wouldn't it be too late to act according to the various strategies that Master Fan said?"

Hong Chengchou wanted to get up and reply. After Xiaozhuang made a gesture to show that there was no need to be polite, Hong Chengchou sat down and said with a blank expression: "If it were as Lord Fan said, and he would win over the Han gentry in advance, there might be a chance, but the situation was so decayed that Lord Fan must have not expected it. It would be too late to say these things now."

"I know it's too late," Xiaozhuang was just talking to himself: "I think now that the Regent went too early. If the Regent was still there, such a heavy burden would not fall on our mother and son's shoulders. There might be some savings in this situation."

Although Hong Chengchou was not good at saying anything about the regent of the Xiaozhuang, he also knew what happened. Although Dorgon died strangely and Xiaozhuang did it perfectly, it was too obvious after all. As soon as Dorgon died, the forces of the Qing Dynasty immediately split and no longer had the power to fight. I don’t know if Xiaozhuang regretted it and was so blue.

"The Empress Dowager still doesn't think long-term enough..." Although Xiaozhuang and Hong Chengchou have always been talking about you and me, they rarely call themselves official positions, and those who can come to this Buddha hall are considered to be extremely valued by the Empress Dowager, Hong Chengchou still sticks to his identity.

"You mean I'm short-sighted? Thinking about it now, my eyes are really too shallow." Xiaozhuang smiled relaxedly: "You don't have to hide it. This is the fact. Even if you don't say it, I understand it too late."

"It's not the case." Hong Chengchou knew that Xiaozhuang had misunderstood his meaning, and had already thought of Dorgon's death. Although he was still an expressionless expression, his speech speed changed a little: "No matter whether Dorgon... the Regent"

"Just talk about Dorgon. There is no regent anymore. There is no one else here, so you don't have to have so many concerns."

"Yes," Hong Chengchou responded: "Since Prince Yu's defeat, he has been destined to be today's situation. How many soldiers can I fight in the Qing Dynasty? There are only one hundred thousand Eight Banners, and no one can change it. If you blindly attack, there is really hope, but once you are setbacks, not to mention that Prince Yu is defeated and killed, it is impossible to keep going. Using a few elite soldiers to capture 30,000 miles of rivers and mountains, you will never be defeated. Once the offensive is blocked, you will immediately face a counterattack from the whole world, and the Eight Banners will ultimately be unable to withstand it."

"When Yu is defeated by the river, the court should shrink with all its might and then divide the river with the Jiangnan court to rule. If you want to unify the world, it is already a mirror and a moon..."

"If the Emperor had been here, I should have seen through this step long ago, right?" Thinking of Huang Taiji's cautious approach, Xiaozhuang finally understood the depth of his concerns and his distant eyes.

Hong Chengchou missed Huang Taiji and that era very much, but he didn't want to talk too much about Huang Taiji in this situation: "Maybe the Regent...Dorgon also saw this step. Dorgon tried his best to integrate the Eight Banners, but perhaps he still had a trace of luck in his heart and wanted to use the power of the Eight Banners to gamble. No matter how hard Dorgon tried, even if he could really integrate the Eight Banners, if he did not give up this kind of luck, he would definitely lose even worse. If he looked at it this way, Dorgon's death was a good thing."

"Well, after you said this, I also understood a lot in my heart. The current situation is not because we mother and son did something wrong, but because the overall situation has long been destined, and it cannot be saved by the power of one person and one clan." Xiaozhuang finally had a glimmer of expression on his face, and he looked up at Hong Chengchou: "Master Fan once said that the capital city was no longer guarded. Do you have this view as well?"

"Same, once Kaifeng is broken, the capital will no longer be defended." Hong Chengchou lowered his head, not looking at Xiaozhuang, as if he was avoiding the woman's gaze: "Now the King of England is defeated and died, and the Queen Mother doesn't have to care too much. Whether there is a King of England is the same situation. As for Wu Sangui... rebellion is inevitable. Unless the court can block the army to die south of the Yellow River, Wu Sangui will rebel."

"I understand these things and don't talk about them anymore. Just say, "Is there any possibility of turning the world back now?"

Hong Chengchou's head was even lower, as if he sighed: "No matter what it may be based on strength..."

Xiaozhuang has no bargaining chips in his hands, which means he has no strength, and of course there is no possibility.

Xiaozhuang smiled Yanran, and the woman smiled, which was really touching. But Hong Chengchou just refused to look up and just talked to himself: "The Empress Dowager should arrange a way out for herself, maybe the Empress Dowager has already made a plan."

"Me? No," Xiaozhuang said very easily, as if he was talking about some family matters: "I'm also doing it now. Please give me an idea and see what kind of way out there is?"

"minister……"

"Speak straight."

Hong Chengchou's head was even lower and he tried his best to dodge Xiaozhuang's gaze: "Have the Empress Dowager ever thought about having a peace talk with the army to die?"

The army was about to reach the city, and the peace talks were just to take care of Xiaozhuang's face. The fundamental meaning was to surrender.

"Peace talk?" Xiaozhuang seemed to have a little interest and said, "In the current situation, no one can stop the army going to die. Is there still a need to talk?"

"Prince Zheng stayed away from the pass, and seemed to lock the empress dowager's retreat. In fact, it also left a chance for the empress dowager. As long as Prince Zheng and others outside the pass are still there, the empress dowager will still have chips in hand..."

The army to die and the Qing Dynasty were definitely mortal enemies. However, in order to deal with and divide the old Manchu Manchu forces outside the pass, Li Si should leave the Manchu royal family in the pass, which is also a way to save his life.

"You don't have to say anything. You know what kind of person I am. I can't do anything about surrendering and going to the death, let alone that it's really not that there is no way out..."

Hong Chengchou was speechless for a while, as if he had thought too much, but finally knelt down in front of Xiaozhuang, his voice seemed to be a little sobbing: "Empress Dowager, I, Hong Chengchou, have become a traitor known to the world, and will not end well anyway. Thanks to the grace of the former emperor and the grace of the empress dowager back then. I will say another word today. I hope the empress dowager will think carefully."

"Tell me, I'll listen."

"I think the Queen Mother still wants to retreat to Mongolia, right? He goes to Mongolia with long live, and may really recruit some Manchurian power, and then mainly use Mongolian power. Even if he can no longer visit the gate, he can at least occupy the north of the Great Wall. He will reach the south and fight against the old Manchurian troops in the east. This idea is indeed grand. It is impossible to recruit Mongolian troops with the Queen Mother's wrists, and even close Manchurian step by step..." Hong Chengchou raised his head, but his face was filled with sadness, as if he had been aged for ten years: "The Queen Mother"

If you really have such a thought, please put it away quickly. This is clearly a desire to take away the sensation. Now the army to die is advancing with strong force, and behind us is the iron bureau that distributes land to attract the hearts of the people, which is no longer comparable to the Ming Dynasty before. In a blink of an eye, the army to die is under the rule of the army to die, and even Zhu Ming in Jiangnan is just a mess. Not to mention that the army to die will break through the Great Wall and enter the grassland, and the army to die will not fight, and the Mongolians still have the power to plunder even if they are too heavy to get supplies in the pass, how many days can it last?"

"Along the way, even a foolish person like me can think of the Queen Mother's thoughts. There are many secret spies to go to the death army, and you will not be able to guess the Queen Mother's chess way?" Hong Chengchou said with a very painful expression: "The Li Si who went to the death army can understand the general situation the most, how can he not see this point? I dare to use the head of the neck to guarantee that Li Si must have already figured out how to lock the Great Wall Pass..."

"Even if he is very capable, he can't lock the Great Wall." Although Xiaozhuang's voice was still soft and weak, his tone was unspeakable and decisive: "The north of the capital is still in my hands, I'm not afraid of him locking it."

Hong Chengchou seemed to tremble slightly, and sighed with no ministerial etiquette: "If the Empress Dowager can retreat to the north of the Great Wall, it would be even more dangerous. Not to mention the Empress Dowager herself, even the entire Mongolia would inevitably cause bloody storms. No matter what the Empress Dowager has, I will never believe that he could enter Mongolia under the all sides of the army to die. Even if he really returns to Mongolia, it must be that Li Si deliberately let the Empress Dowager go back, so as to use this as an excuse to attack the north of the Great Wall. At that time, whether it is the south of the desert or the north of the desert, whether it is Eastern Mongolia or Western Mongolia, in addition to the puppets of the army to die, there will be danger of extermination of the clan and destruction!"

"Hmph, even if he goes to the death army and is invincible in the world, even if he is Li Si, as long as he goes to the prairie, who can beat the Korqin warriors' cavalry and shooting skills?" The Central Plains of Mongolia is not in the pass where the death army can come and go freely. Without the support of thousands of Han people, Mongolia has taken advantage of the inside line and is not afraid of the death army.

"Empress Dowager..." Hong Chengchou stood up and took a step forward. He seemed to feel something was wrong. He retreated, his body seemed to tremble slightly: "The Empress Dowager is very scheming and far-scheming. I have never seen a strange woman like the Empress Dowager in my life. But this time the Empress Dowager was really confused by the affairs in front of me. Korqin could not even beat Manchuria, and could have fought the army to die? The current world is not the late Song Dynasty, nor is it the world where Mongolian light cavalry is invincible in the world. I really can't bear to see the Empress Dowager do this big mistake, and I really can't bear to see the world's most strange woman dies in the desert and falls on the grassland..."

This is definitely not a word between the monarch and the minister. For example, there is only once in this atmosphere.

When Concubine Zhuang tried to persuade Hong Chengchou to surrender, she was also as passionate as she did today, but when Concubine Zhuang was trying to persuade Hong Chengchou, it was Hong Chengchou's turn to persuade her today.

How pure can the relationship between Xiaozhuang and Hong Chengchou be "pure"? There have been various rumors among the people in the market. As for the facts, only the two of them know.

"I know you are for my own good, but if I surrender and go to the dead army and live with others, I will never be able to do it. This is not for the court, but for myself. I think you will know what kind of woman I am. "Xiaozhuang looked at Hong Chengchou and sighed: "You are also a hero of the world... Alas, let's not talk about it, you go down, I will try it anyway."

Hong Chengchou knew that Xiaozhuang was a gentle person on the outside and hard on the inside. Since it was decided, it could not be saved anyway.

Hong Chengchou, who was a little dazed, narrowed his old eyes and looked at Xiaozhuang: "The Empress Dowager is very concerned about himself. Another thing I want to remind the Empress Dowager is that the army to die is very cautious and rarely attacks the city. Especially in the capital, if I expected it, there are spies to die in the capital. When the army attacks the city, there will inevitably be civil strife in the city. The Empress Dowager should be careful."
To be continued...