Chapter 918 Sunset West Mountain
At this time, the monarch and ministers in the capital put all their hopes on the Guanning Army, but at the most critical moment, the Guanning Army betrayed them, which made them particularly angry and desperate.
This is the last elite unit of the Guanning Army, the Ming Dynasty. It is different from many troops. Other troops all arrears of food and owes very much. Only the Guanning Army has not been owed.
And they are also rare, with an army with their own territory, which means that these troops have places to be stationed and can be cultivated at the same time, which means that their officers are also landlords of all sizes and big and small, and are quite rich.
Without the Ming Dynasty, there would be no Guanning Army. Many people believe that he and the court would prosper and lose both sides and would not rebel, but such an army actually betrayed the court at the most dangerous time.
When the spies from the court discovered that the Guanning Army appeared near Deshengmen and Andingmen under the banner of the court, many people were extremely frightened and desperate.
Emperor Chongzhen was no exception. Before this, he actively planned and prepared to resist to the death. During his term, there was no situation where the capital was surrounded by the enemy. In the end, the enemy still had no choice but to take the tall Beijing city. He gathered in various armies to serve the queen and retreated.
It can be said that he has also seen strong winds and waves.
But he gradually did not expect that the court would fall into such a desperate situation today. The surrounding towns of the capital were gathered, but the army was gone. The even more miserable part was that the Guanning Army, which they leaned on as the last straw, became the last rope to hang them.
The ministers and officials of the court only launched the Guanning army after Wu Sangui's troops arrived near Deshengmen, and they had become enemies.
But Emperor Chongzhen knew more. Xu Jianqiang's Jinyiwei was not a good friend after all, and he also sent undercover agents in these places, but these people could not inquire about the core information.
When the senior officials of the Guanning Army, Zu Dashou and others announced their joining the Chinese Army, the entire army was calm and unpredictable, and the censors sent by the court and the local inspectors were opposed.
But in front of these warlords who were in charge of the army and horses, they had no say at all. When they were about to object, they were stabbed into the stomach with one knife and could no longer make any sound.
Xu Jianqiang set up control here and knew the information here, but he could not control the direction. When they knew it, it was a foregone conclusion. What they could do was to let the emperor know one or two days earlier.
The Guanning Army rebelled.
It was just such information that the emperor really didn't want to know. It was like a terminally ill patient, who would eat and drink what he should drink. At that moment, he would naturally grow old.
Instead of knowing that you are going to die early in the morning and then waiting to die, can you still eat and drink with peace of mind?
The current situation is equivalent to a terminal illness for the Ming Dynasty, but there is no cure.
There were some medicines, but this medicine was not used, so I watched myself die step by step.
Emperor Chongzhen was still actively responding to the challenge. After learning this information, he was completely desperate. He felt deeply powerless, just like a person was unable to push a huge rock.
In fact, it was not just Emperor Chongzhen who felt powerless, but even his ministers felt desperate, panic, and real fear.
They had fantasies before that even if Liu Bu landed in Tianjin Wei and looked at the capital, they still had many troops to serve the king and rescue the emperor and defeat them.
But when the Guanning Army surrendered, they were truly desperate and afraid. The officials of the court knew that the treatment of the Guanning Army was the best among the Ming Army. It can be said that the Ming Dynasty court defeated the Ming army in the world but lived up to the Guanning Army.
Many people are saying that only Ning Jun is the biological son of the court, and the others are raised by stepmothers. Even many officials of the court think so. But today, their biological sons have rebelled, and the other stepmothers have raised by the court, will they not rebel?
They hoped that the Guanning Army would come to rescue the Jia, but it would be fine if Yang Sichang didn't come. Now even the Guanning Army could rebel, let alone the others.
The court destroyed Hong Chengchou and Yang Sichang so urgently that they could go south at all costs, mainly because they could force them to fight to the death as soon as possible.
The court also knew that their army was not reliable at all. It was surging with a momentary blood and energy. It was exhausted and then decayed, and after three times, they collapsed. After three times, they collapsed.
Now it happened to be the time when the three-way drum was passing and the momentum was declining, which made the ministers in the court extremely frightened.
They have not received military newspapers from the front line, and there is no information that shows that Hong Chengchou and Yang Sichang will rebel.
But many people understand that the Yang Sichang tribe of Hong Chengchou tribe, they rely on the authority of the court to push them forward. When the court has no authority, they will not be able to continue.
They can all imagine that the greatest confidence of the army at present is that the court and the court is threatened and faces the attack of the enemy, it is when this army collapses.
The army was about to collapse. With the means of the eight-faced Buddha Liu Yuanqiao, as long as he hooked his fingers, these people would use it for him. Therefore, these ministers were extremely frightened and extremely scared.
Of course, the court's confidence was completely defeated by Zhou Yanru. Zhou Yanru was an elite among the Ming Dynasty court and the top talent. Many people believe that he could bring his writing to the world and his martial arts could immediately determine the world. He led a soldier. Even if he couldn't beat Liu Bu, he could still equalize the beauty or block the other party.
But the fact is so cruel and slap in the face. Not to mention blocking the enemy and defeating the enemy, even a vanguard ranger of the enemy easily defeated them.
At this time, the officials of the court realized one thing, that is, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were extremely corrupt and useless, and their combat effectiveness and strength could not be measured by numbers.
When the Ming army rose in Huai and Si, they fought south and north, and were invincible. They wiped out all the heroes in the Central Plains and fought in the north of the Mobei, which made the Mongols unable to find the north. At that time, the Ming army was the most powerful in the world. Even if there were 100,000 people, the enemy was extremely afraid.
But at this moment, the Ming army was more than one million, but there was no way to deal with the various opposition forces that were both internal and external troubles. They were defeated here and rose up there, and they really started to press down on the gourd.
It was useless and incompetent. At this time, even if the king of Zhongshan Xu Da and Kaiping Chang Yuchun were reborn, they probably could not resist the enemy. Another point is that the court now has a million troops, but there is no famous general like Zhongshan Xu Da and Kaiping Chang Yuchun.
It is because of this that the ministers were really panicked and afraid. These days, Emperor Chongzhen had been performing martial arts in the ban and stopped the morning court.
Because he believed that it would be better to train more troops than to discuss with the ministers in the court.
The situation is now critical and the emperor dares not do anything wrong. He immediately arranged the morning court, hoping to convene all officials, hold a meeting together, work together, and study the current policies.
The current situation in the Ming Dynasty is extremely dangerous.
Liu Bu's troops went out of Tianjin Guard and marched towards the capital. Although there was no thunderous attack, the infantry and cavalry were launched together, and the troops were divided into multiple directions and advanced step by step, which put huge pressure on them.
The city gates of Beijing are divided into nine gates in the inner city, seven gates in the outer city and four gates in the imperial city, nine inside and seven outside the imperial city, and are known as four nine cities, and the nine gates and eight dictionaries are one bell.
Liu Bu personally led the main force, responsible for the three gates of You'anmen, Yongding Gate and Zuo'anmen in the south of the outer city.
Chen Wenruo and Burigude were responsible for the four gates of the west and southwest directions: Xizhi, Fucheng, Xibian and Guang'an.
Sun Kewang and Longmeier's troops were responsible for the four gates of Dongzhi, Dongbian, Chaoyang and Guangqu on the east side.
Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui's troops are responsible for the Desheng and Andingmen in the north.
The Chinese army has successfully imposed a preliminary blockade of the capital. As long as the Chinese are unwilling, no one in the city can come out, and even their messengers for help cannot be sent out.
They sent out helper envoys, rode fast horses and went out to seek help, but these people were killed one by one by one by the Chinese army, which means that even the imperial edicts from the capital could not be issued.
Such a critical situation is unprecedented. Beijing is very huge with a population of one million. In the past, the Mongolians all surrounded the capital, and even Jiannu surrounded the capital, but they were not surrounded by it and were not as difficult as it could be.
Moreover, what the other party is dispatching now is their vanguard. If they dispatch more follow-up troops and arrive one after another, they will be more besieged. The capital is really in danger.
Even the Ming court, the most optimistic and nervous people, knew one thing, that is, the Ming court was at a critical point of survival.
Emperor Chongzhen went to the morning court, but when he took the initiative to announce the morning court, only twenty or thirty civil and military officials came here, far less than the hundreds of people.
Looking at the sparse people in the court, and the main cabinet masters and the Secretary of the Shang Dynasty, they were all innocent, which made Emperor Chongzhen very sad.
Emperor Chongzhen asked Wang Chengen: "But I notified the civil and military ministers that I would like to go to court early this morning?"
Wang Chengen said in panic: "I have already issued an edict, and every minister has received a notice."
The emperor refused to give up, and he said, "Then why aren't these people coming?"
Chapter completed!