Daming pirates

Now that the imperial court is doing this, it has already aroused the anger of the people. It is said that there are even rumors that many people are scolding the imperial court, saying that he is a foolish king, and that the ministers in the imperial court are all treacherous and sycophantic people, and they are eager for Xiaotian to hurry up.

Attack the capital and kill all these treacherous ministers.

When Chongzhen heard the news, he was more sad than anything else. Looking back on what he had done in the past ten years after he ascended the throne, he always thought that he had been diligent in government affairs all day long and had never enjoyed too much fun as an emperor.

, get up early every day to go to court and deal with government affairs, but why is the situation in the world still deteriorating, with wars everywhere and people everywhere living in dire straits?

Is he really wrong? When Chongzhen thought of this, he became very angry. He still doesn't think he was wrong. He has done everything he can and should do. Even if there is a mistake, it belongs to those ministers.

Wrong! It's Yuan Chonghuan, Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren, Yang Sichang...their fault!

If it weren't for them, how could the Ming Dynasty be in such a state? How could Yu Xiaotian be allowed to lead troops to directly attack the capital?

Now he can see that the Ming Dynasty will be over! Although there are still tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in the capital, and their strength is much greater than that of Yu Jiajun, but these officers and soldiers are not enough to sustain, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers are huddled in the capital.

Among them, like turtles, they didn't dare to stretch out their head and claws. Even though the Yu family's army smashed the shell of the capital like a giant hammer outside the city, no one dared to go out of the city to fight to the death.

Even today, he heard that there were a lot of deserters in Deshengmen, Xizhimen and Fuchengmen area last night. Some officers and soldiers guarding those places took advantage of the night to wrap up some soft objects and let them escape from the city.

I even heard that at the Xibian Gate, the guard accepted huge bribes from some wealthy people in the capital that night, secretly opened the Xibian Gate at night, and let some wealthy people escape from the capital.

How could the Ming Dynasty reach such a state? The officers and soldiers were so miserable that even the wealthy people in the city had obviously lost confidence in the Ming Dynasty court. They would rather drag their families and pay heavy bribes than abandon the place and escape.

Capital.

Could it be that he really couldn't stop the Yu family's army from attacking the city this time? The more he thought about it, the more worried he became, and he quickly sent his personal servant to Dongzhimen and Chaoyangmen to inquire about the situation there.

Although this time he handed over the defense of the east area of ​​the city to Gao Qiqian, and in his opinion, Gao Qiqian can be regarded as a person who knows military skills and is more suitable than ordinary people, but now after two days in a row,

But he did not hear any good news from Gao Qiqian, and the eunuchs in the palace told him that the fighting was fierce in the Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhimen areas. Gao Qiqian was personally stationed in the Chaoyang Gate area to resist the enemy, but the war was not going well.

Some people rumored that the officers and soldiers guarding the Chaoyang Gate area had suffered heavy losses in the past two days. The artillery fire of the Yu Jiajun outside the city was extremely sharp, and the officers and soldiers were unable to parry. However, no one came to verify this matter. Chongzhen was really worried, so

Decided to send someone to investigate.

As a result, shortly after dark, the eunuch sent to inquire about the news hurried back to the palace and told Chongzhen that Gao Qiqian was still sitting at Chaoyang Gate. Today, Yu Jiajun attacked the city several times, but he led his troops to resist desperately.

Next, the general's army repulsed the attack and killed thousands of rebels.

However, the rebels' artillery fire was sharp and the defenders suffered heavy casualties. In order to mobilize morale, Gao Qiqianzhuo asked the Holy Spirit to allocate some more silver coins to him as a reward to boost morale so that he could fight to the death with the rebels tomorrow.

At this moment, Chongzhen could no longer care about so much, and quickly ordered the Ministry of Revenue to find a way to raise some more silver for Gao Qiqian, and quickly send it to the Chaoyangmen area for Gao Qiqian to use.

But the Ministry of Finance was crying out loud now, saying that the treasury of the Ministry of Finance was already clear and it was time for mice to run away! Now there was not much silver left to give, so it was used as a bounty for Gao Qiqian.

Chongzhen was very angry. He thought that the Ministry of Finance was still guarding money at this time. When did this happen? If the rebels were allowed to attack the city, everything would be destroyed by then. What would be the use of leaving so much money? Is it going to be left to the rebels? Not successful?

However, the Ministry of Revenue insisted that there was no money, so Chongzhen had no choice but to allocate 20,000 taels of silver from his internal funds and rush to Chaoyang Gate to use it as a reward.

Anyway, the truth is now irreversible, and there is no point in regretting it. It seems that Yu Xiaotian is determined not to give up until he attacks the capital. Even if he admits his mistake now, he may not be able to recover it, not to mention that he is How can the majestic emperor admit his mistakes to a rebellious traitor like Yu Xiaotian?

So he can only grit his teeth and persevere. It depends on whether Gao Qi's potential can turn the tide this time and hold on to Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate. As long as he persists, it won't take too long, maybe a month. !

As long as they can persist for half a month, the soldiers and horses of Yan Jizu from Shandong will be able to reach the capital city and the reinforcements sent by Wu Zong from Shanxi will also arrive at the capital to help.

In this case, if Yu Xiaotian is unable to attack for a long time, he will definitely run out of ammunition and food, and eventually have to return to Fujian. Even if he does not return to Fujian, and goes south into Shandong and Hebei, it is still better than staying in the capital.

As long as he is given a certain amount of time to breathe, Ming Dynasty will still have the strength to mobilize more soldiers and horses to slowly destroy him, and Ming Dynasty will still be saved.

The premise is that Gao Qiqian must defend Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhimen and other places, and cannot allow the Yu family army to invade the capital city. If the rebels have already invaded the capital city before reinforcements from all walks of life arrive, then everything will be over. Being destroyed means that the Ming Dynasty has been completely overthrown. Even if he can escape from the capital, what can he do? Is it possible that he will follow the example of Song Gaozong Zhao Gou and run to the south to establish the capital again?

Chongzhen really didn't dare to think about it anymore, so he simply stopped asking about what would happen next and returned to the palace early for the first time to spend time with Empress Zhou, who had been with him for many years.

But what no one expected was that on that night, a big event happened in the capital. The cause of the big event was Gao Qiqian.

Gao Qiqian was stationed at Chaoyang Gate. After two days, his soldiers who defended the city suffered heavy casualties and had no fighting spirit. At this time, Gao Qiqian realized that he could no longer rely on these soldiers. He had to mobilize reinforcements to find a new soldier. A tiger general, and only a tiger general who is good at fighting.

However, he pulled over the generals at hand, but he could not find a general who could take on such a big task and guard Chaoyang Gate for him.

He knew very well that if the Yu family army launched another attack after dawn, then he would definitely not be able to defend here. If he did not find a general who could stabilize the morale of the army to take charge, everything would be completely over!

After thinking about it, he sent someone to discuss with Cao Huachun overnight, and asked Cao Huachun to mobilize some officers and soldiers that night. They would send out surprise troops from Anding Gate and You'an Gate to flank Chen Bing's Yu Jiajun in the east of the city. Using the cover of night,

Conduct a raid on the rebels.

In this way, even if not many thieves are killed, it can still scare the thieves so that they will have to estimate the safety of their flanks and not be able to attack Chaoyang Gate with all their strength.

This method of rising high and diving is actually a pretty good method, but the prerequisite is that someone is willing to take the order to go out of the city to do this.

Nowadays, the generals in the three major battalions of the capital are all in panic. When Cao Huachun called him to discuss this matter, these generals shook their heads like rattles and said, "Six, two, five, what to say?"

They all refused to take orders to go out of the city to sneak attack on the Yu Jiajun camp.

At this time, Cao Huachun also learned about the critical situation at Chaoyang Gate through the eunuch. Originally, he was not interested in Gao Qiqian and was unwilling to help Gao Qiqian, but now he heard that the war at Chaoyang Gate was dangerous. Once Chaoyang Gate was broken,

Then the egg of the Capital City will be completely smashed.

Considering that there would be no eggs left after the nest was overturned, everyone would be unlucky when the time came. Cao Huachun could only help Gao Qiqian, so he summoned his generals to discuss the matter and see if anyone was willing to take it.

He was ordered to go into battle, but in the end, all these generals made excuses and refused to accept the order. No one was willing to accept this hot taro.

Are you kidding me? Yu Jiajun beat the crap out of even the slaves, so they let them lead a group of old soldiers to steal the camp? What's the difference between this and committing suicide? If he took the order and led the soldiers out, it would be simply...

Just like committing suicide, after going out, Roubaozi will definitely beat the dog and never come back.

Each of them has a big business, so how can they be interested in doing this? When the division of labor was originally divided, it was made very clear that they would guard the west of the city, and Gao Qiqian would guard the east of the city. Now Gao Qiqian can't hold it anymore, and they are asked to get out.

Even if you die, you can't do anything about it.

Cao Huachun talked earnestly for a long time, but in the end he didn't persuade any generals to take over the job. And now he still relies on these generals to guard the gates in the west of the city, so he can't push them too hard. These guys are not good birds.

If things get tight, there's no telling what these guys can do. If not, they might just open up the city and surrender.

Therefore, Cao Huachun had no choice but to send someone to reply to Gao Qiqian, explaining various difficulties and saying that he could not help, and asked Gao Qiqian to think of a solution on his own.

After Gao Qiqian listened, he scolded Cao Huachun for adding insult to injury and wanting to see his joke, but he had no choice but to think of another solution quickly.

As a result, Gao Qi suddenly thought of Yang Guozhu. Yang Guozhu was the commander-in-chief of the Xuan Mansion. He could be considered a general. He once fought with Lu Xiangsheng and Jiannu in battles. It is said that he fought vigorously and was quite powerful.

But for some reason, when Yang Guozhu was obeying Chen Xinjia's orders, his entire army was defeated in the battle of Jinghai County and fled to Bazhou.

But no matter what, when Chen Xinjia's troops were defeated, only Yang Guozhu's troops finally retreated almost completely without losing much. Yang Guozhu can be considered a capable general among the lame.