Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 184
Looking at Liu Zongzhou's stiff corpse, Zhu Cihong finally came to his senses.He has always respected Liu Zongzhou's character and knowledge, and when he found Liu Zongzhou's tragic death, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

The soldiers on the city wall were raging with swords and rage, and they gradually surrounded Qingluan and these Tartar spies, wishing to skin them and cramp them.

"Stop, don't act rashly, or I will kill your Highness the Crown Prince!"

Qingluan sternly reprimanded, tightly strangled Zhu Cihong's neck, the dagger dangled in front of his eyes: "Prince, don't you surrender yet?"

Zhu Cihong said tremblingly: "My lord Liu said that there is no king who surrendered in our Ming Dynasty, let alone a prince who surrendered..."

"Bah, nonsense! During the Tumu Fortress change, Ming Yingzong fell into the hands of the Mongolian Wara tribe and became a prisoner. The Ming Dynasty already had a surrendered king, don't deceive yourself!" Qingluan spoke eloquently.

Zhu Cihong was at a loss for words for a while, but in fact, he was very clear about the story of Ming Yingzong.The Tumu Fortress Change was a scar in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Qingluan hit the iron while it was hot: "Zhu Cihong, you have become a prisoner, and it is better to live than to die. As long as you surrender, the slave family will still be your Qingluan and your good sister. If you don't surrender, you will die for sure, and you will take the city with you." Lieutenant soldiers and common people will also suffer!"

Zhu Cixiang was a little hesitant and wavered.

The soldiers on the city wall saw the prince's embarrassment, and they knelt down in unison and said, "Your Highness, if you die, you will die. I will never surrender!"

Zhu Cihong in history fell into the hands of Li Zicheng after Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself and died. He was named King of Song and followed Li Zicheng to attack Shanhaiguan.

Later Li Zicheng was defeated and escaped from the capital.In the midst of the chaos, Zhu Cihong escaped by chance.

But instead of fleeing to the south, he returned to the capital and hid in the house of his grandfather Zhou Kui.Zhou Kui was afraid of being implicated, so he dedicated him to the Manchu Qing court, and finally died under the knife of Dorgon.

Zhu Cihong's move was completely self-inflicted, not only costing his own life in vain, but also causing the Hongguang court to fall into endless internal strife.

When people of later generations read this period of history, they often sigh with regret and wonder why Zhu Cihong made such a stupid choice?

Some people said that Zhu Cihong didn't see the true face of the Tartars clearly at the time, thinking that the Tartars entered the pass to avenge Chongzhen, and had illusions about the Tartars.

Some people also say that Zhu Cixiang was born in the palace since childhood, with simple thoughts, weak character and no independent opinion.

All in all, Zhu Cihong is not a qualified prince, at least in this troubled world, he cannot take on the heavy responsibility that history has entrusted to him.

He was just a coward, a child who was at a loss and panicked when the country was ruined and his family was destroyed!
"Qingluan, will you stay with me in the future and never leave?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"Of course!" Qingluan smiled charmingly.

Zhu Cihong closed his eyes, and two lines of tears slowly rolled down.After a while, he opened his eyes and said weakly: "All the soldiers obey the order, open the city gate and surrender, there is no resistance!"

"His Royal Highness..." the soldiers burst into tears.

The gate of the city was opened, and the Tartar cavalry rushed into the city.First, they handed over the weapons of the soldiers of the Ming army, drove them into the barracks, and then surrounded them.

In less than half an hour, the Qing soldiers took full control of Kaifeng City and stabilized the situation.

Zhu Cixiang had been escorted back to the palace. He sat in silence for a long time and asked: "Qingluan, the Qing soldiers will not kill the people in the city, nor will they kill our soldiers, right?"

Qingluan said lightly: "I can't be the master of this..."

"Ah, you promised me!" Zhu Cihong jumped up and stared into Qingluan's eyes, "You...are those words you said when you persuaded me to surrender on the city wall a lie?"

At this moment, two people in full Qing dynasty uniforms walked in.One is Fan Wencheng and the other is Kong Youde.

It turns out that when he got the news that Azige led troops to attack Tongguan, Fan Wencheng expected that Chongzhen would not miss this great opportunity. He even predicted in advance what kind of strategic measures Chongzhen would adopt, knowing that Xi'an and Chengdu would be attacked by the Ming army. .

Azige is nothing to worry about, Chongzhen is the strong enemy.Therefore, Fan Wencheng planned a strategy for Dorgon to secretly cover Chencang, encircle Wei and save Zhao. Dorgon led the army to march west with great fanfare, not only to quell the chaos, but also to confuse the Ming army.

When the time was right, the Qing Dynasty sent a surprise army to raid Kaifeng City.In order to make the surprise attack work, Fan Wencheng used the trick of diverting the tiger away from the mountain to lure Zhou Yuji to Ningling.

At the beginning Fan Wencheng sent many spies to the south, and Li Cunming fought with him in the air. Nine out of ten spies were arrested, but in the end some of them slipped through the net.

Among them, Qingluan is the most successful spy.Hiding in Kaifeng City, she learned that the Ming Dynasty prince came to Kaifeng for training, and she worked hard to become the prince's maid, and finally brewed such a shocking change.

Fan Wencheng attacked Kaifeng with a very clear intention, that is to hijack the prince of the Ming Dynasty as a threat to force Chongzhen to retreat from Xi'an and Chengdu.

Fan Wencheng was originally the head of the civil servants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he had never led troops to fight.This time he personally went to the battlefield, which shows how much he attaches importance to this operation!
"Is he Zhu Cihong?" Kong Youde's eyes lit up.

"Yes!" Qingluan saluted and replied respectfully.

Kong Youde laughed loudly, rubbing his hands excitedly while laughing, and said: "Master Fan, congratulations, we have captured the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty! I have to say that this move of Master Fan is simply a stroke of genius. I admire him so much." !"

Fan Wencheng's face sank like water, he looked at Zhu Cihong carefully for a long while, and then told Qingluan: "Take care of him, not a hair of his hair will be lost. This person is in our hands, no less than a million soldiers."

"Those who have promised this palace will not harm the soldiers and civilians in the city, please fulfill your promise!" Zhu Cihong said eagerly.

Fan Wencheng and Kong Youde smiled at each other and did not talk to each other.

Zhu Cihong noticed something unusual and was about to argue a few words when he was dragged away by Qingluan and several soldiers.

"A man stands between heaven and earth, he keeps his word..." Zhu Cihong's shout came from afar.

Kong Youde laughed contemptuously: "This is the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty, childish!"

"Chongzhen is wise and powerful, why did he give birth to such a mediocre and ignorant son?" Fan Wencheng was a little surprised, and then said in a deep voice, "King Shun, follow the plan."

Kong Youde nodded, then left the palace surrounded by guards, came to the barracks, and ordered: "Kill all the soldiers of the Ming army, and then massacre the city!"

The Tatar soldiers rushed into the military camp and massacred more than 4 unarmed Ming army soldiers.At first, the Ming soldiers were filled with resentment and cursed, and some tried to resist.

But facing the ferocious Tatars, the Ming army lost their weapons. How could they still resist?
Blood flowed into rivers and corpses into mountains.

Gradually, people stopped swearing, and gathered together, silently and coldly facing the butcher's knives of the Tartars.

Silence, like a towering mountain, towered in front of the Tatars.

When the Ming soldiers cursed and resisted, the Tatars looked down upon them.But when they fell silent, the Tatars actually felt scared, filled with an invisible force.

I don't know who sang the song. The soldiers of the Ming army stood shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, and sang in unison:

"When the weather is angry, the spirit is angry, and the wilderness is abandoned.

You can't go in and out, and you can't go backwards, and the plain suddenly goes far.

With a long sword, Xi is holding Qin Gong, and his heart is not punished.

Sincerity is both brave and martial, and in the end is strong and can't be overthrown.

The body is dead, the spirit is the spirit, and the soul is the ghost hero! "

The singing voice is so powerful that it goes straight to the sky.Like a roar, the sound shook the world.

Kong Youde, who was sitting on the horse, could not help but shudder. The horse neighed and became restless.

Kong Youde roared tremblingly: "Kill, kill them quickly, don't let them continue singing!"

Fan Wencheng, who was sipping tea in the palace study, heard the singing and dropped the teacup in his hand to the ground.He stood up and murmured to himself: "This is Qu Yuan's "National Memorial"! Treat death as if you are going home, really treat death as if you are going home!"

In the bedroom of the royal palace, Zhu Cihong faintly heard the singing, and suddenly felt grief from it, first wept, then vomited blood, and finally slapped himself wildly.

(End of this chapter)