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The rapid fall of Yanjing City was both unexpected and expected.
The Qin army in black clothes and dark armor rushed into the city like mercury leaking on the ground, and bravely chased down the defeated Eight Banners soldiers along the streets.
The people in the outer city were in an instant of excitement. They cut off their braids, changed their Ma褂, put on the Hanfu that was hidden at the bottom of the box, and then rushed to the streets. Knowing each other and not knowing each other, they cheered and laughed to their heart's content.
More young and strong men took sticks and stones and joined the ranks of clearing out the defeated Qing soldiers. The vicious Eight Banners soldiers in the past were now like rats crossing the street, shouted and chased by everyone. They were pale and pissed themselves.
Anyone who was caught up was beaten to a pulp by the angry people.
Outside Xuanwu Gate, a Qing army lieutenant was forced into a dead beard cave. He raised his knife and wanted to rush out to commit murder. Suddenly, stones rained in from the alley, hitting him all over the head. Even several teeth were knocked out and blood was all over.
"kill him!"
"kill him!"
"... ... ... "
The angry crowd rushed into the alley, some grabbed his head, some grabbed his hands, and some grabbed his feet, and carried out the Qing army captain who was still trying to commit violence before his death. "One, two, three..." everyone shouted and threw him hard in the middle of the street.
Soon after, everyone from a seventy-year-old man to a three-foot-tall boy rushed over and kicked it, just like they were doing a dance.
Some even suggested a dirty trick: "Don't trample him to death first, don't trample him to death first, feed him some dog shit first..."
"Yes, yes, yes. If you can't swallow it, just pour horse urine down your throat."
"Everyone, look! There are two more over there. Chase them! Chase them! We can't let any of the Jian Nu escape!"
"Chase him, and take revenge!"
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There was cheering in the outer city, but in the inner city where the Jurchens lived, there were screams and cries everywhere. The Qin army temporarily ignored the Jurchens who were running around like headless flies. According to Niu Wanchuan's order, the troops rushed through the streets and went to control the city gates. Niu Wanchuan himself rushed to the Forbidden City to capture the young emperor Fulin and the Manchu nobles alive.
The city was broken so suddenly that the Manchu nobles in the inner city had no time to escape and were wiped out by Niu Wanchuan who rushed in.
Including Prince Zheng Jirgalang, Prince Li Daishan, Empress Dowager Bumbutai, Grand Secretary Fan Wencheng, Guwalgiya Ganglin, Feng Quan, and a large number of officials. In short, no matter you are a prince, a beile, or a concubine, you can't escape.
But what annoyed Niu Wanchuan was that the only person he didn't find was the little emperor Fulin.
"Search quickly! We must find him even if we have to dig three feet underground. We must find him alive or dead!" Niu Wanchuan yelled at his subordinates.
Although the little emperor was not yet eleven years old, he was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty after all and had extremely important political significance. No one could escape from him.
Yu Hong, the deputy minister, did not dare to neglect it, and immediately led people with Huang Lianshan to interrogate Jirgalang, Daishan, Bumbutai, and the eunuchs and maids in the palace to find the whereabouts of the little emperor.
At this time, there were already many chaotic soldiers fleeing out of the city. It was possible that some of them had protected the emperor and fled the city at the first opportunity. Niu Wanchuan's 5,000 soldiers were not enough to control the inner city. However, he had to quickly send out a small group of troops to rush out from various city gates to search.
Niu Wanchuan didn't know that before Dorgon went to Yongdingmen, he had just sent people to Juyongguan. He called Ajige to lead his troops back to the capital to help. He sent a team of cavalry to search for the young emperor. They ran into Ajige's two or three thousand troops near Dayuhe Town. They were so frightened that they turned around and ran back to the city to report to Niu Wanchuan.
Niu Wanchuan had just captured Yanjing and was in high spirits. He didn't care whether you were Ajige or not. He immediately gathered two thousand troops and charged out from Xizhimen in the northwest corner.
At Yanziling, twenty or thirty guards dressed as civilians escorted the young emperor Fulin, who was dressed in coarse cloth, to find Ajige. The young emperor cried and begged Ajige, "Uncle Thirteen, please bring your troops back to Beijing to save my mother. Please, my mother hasn't escaped yet..."
"Your Majesty, don't be anxious. Let me find out the situation clearly." Ajige said don't be anxious, but he was anxious and angry in his heart. His wife and children were still in the capital. How could he not be anxious
He grabbed a guard who had escorted Fulin to escape and shouted, "Tell me quickly, what is the situation in the capital? Didn't they say that the Qin army only had a few thousand troops? How could the capital be captured so quickly? Where is the regent? What is he doing?"
Ajige had too many questions, and the guard answered in panic: "Prince Ying, the Regent... He... At that time, there was a huge explosion on the overpass, and then someone shouted that the Regent was dead. The guards of Yongding Gate scattered, and the Qin army came. At that time, we were escorting the emperor to the Regent's Palace. When we saw the Qin army entering the city, we didn't care about anything else and fled with the emperor. We didn't know what happened in the city..."
"What did you say? Dorgon is dead..." Ajige opened his eyes wide, looked in the direction of the capital, and roared a few times like a wild beast to vent the hatred in his heart.
The young emperor Fulin kept pulling him and begging him to lead his troops back to the capital to rescue his mother. Ajige immediately carried him onto the horse and led his troops to continue galloping towards the capital.
Qinghedian is not far from Xizhimen, overlooking Yuquan Mountain to the west. The terrain is flat. Niu Wanchuan and Ajige met here. Two streams of smoke and dust rolled up to the sky.
Facing Ajige, Niu Wanchuan had a strong psychological advantage. In his first battle since his debut, he defeated Ajige with Qin Mu under the city of Hanyang.
A defeated general in the past and a stray dog today, Niu Wanchuan has no reason to be afraid of Ajige.
Ajige was obsessed with retaking the capital and rescuing his wife and children. The thought that his beloved wife and concubines might be knocked down by others at any time and moan under them made Ajige extremely anxious. He wished he could grow wings under his armpits and fly back to the capital.
Looking at the Qin army sweeping in like a hurricane, Ajige's eyes were bloodshot and he was furious. He rushed forward on his horse: "Kill! Kill all the Qin dogs..." Ajige seemed extremely brave, and his horse's four hooves were raised as he rushed forward like the wind.
But he ignored the feelings of his Eight Banners soldiers. Most of them were not as thick-skinned as Ajige. They knew who was the dog. At least 60% of the Eight Banners soldiers had the consciousness of a lost dog. They knew that the fall of the capital meant: the end of the Qing Dynasty...
The Qin soldiers on the opposite side crouched on their horses, roaring like waves crashing on the shore, with the power to destroy mountains. Many disheartened Eight Banners soldiers could not bear the Qin army's murderous aura before they even started the battle, and subconsciously controlled their horses to avoid the front... ...
Ajige, who was leading the way, rushed out a mile and suddenly found that there were only a hundred or so personal soldiers left behind him. He was horrified, "What's going on? What's going on!" Ajige yelled hysterically, his anger filled with despair.
“Hahaha…” Niu Wanchuan brandished a pair of giant meteor hammers and laughed proudly as he charged forward. “Listen up, my men! The food is on the table. Come on, don’t let the cooked duck fly away!”
"kill!"
The horses' hooves roared wildly, the sound of killing was like a tide, and the Qin army swept forward with unparalleled fierceness and billowing smoke and dust;
Ajige was alone and powerless, and it was too late for him to escape. Niu Wanchuan rushed straight towards him, and the meteor hammer in his hand flew out with a "whoosh!" and hit Ajige's horse's head hard. The power of this blow was like the Bolangsha hitting a chariot. The whole horse's head was instantly blown up, blood and flesh burst out, and the warhorse fell over with a loud bang!
The Eight Banners soldiers, who were already in a state of panic, were frightened by the power of this attack and screamed in fear. The entire army collapsed immediately, abandoning their weapons and armor, and fled in panic. The various ugly scenes were breathtaking.
“Kill!”
"Kill..."
Although the Qin army came with the belief that they would win, they did not expect victory to come so easily. They rode their horses, raised their spears, cheered, and whipped their horses to chase after the enemy.
The fields of Qinghedian were filled with yellow dust, and everywhere were the Eight Banners soldiers fleeing for their lives, and the Qin army was in pursuit all over the mountains and plains;
At the moment of the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the performance of these once fierce Eight Banners soldiers was not as good as that of the Ming army. They collapsed at the first blow and had no will to fight. Those who could not escape threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground begging for mercy. Their bald heads were bruised by the fierce blows.
The Qin army forced them to eat horse shit. In order to survive, they picked up the horse shit and ate it in big mouthfuls, grinning as if the food was delicious. Who would have thought that the Eight Banners soldiers, who were once known as "invincible", would become like this!
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