"Your Majesty, it's successful!" After only two hours, Mao Xiang came back to report the situation with a happy face.
"Um?"
"All nine city gates are under control?" Zhu Yuanzhang was a little unbelievable. It seemed that he had never fought such a smooth battle in his life. There was really no unexpected situation!
"Get it under control!"
"Those gatekeepers almost looked at the wind and surrendered. When they saw our people, they either collapsed or surrendered!" Mao Xiang said this with a trace of disdain in his eyes.
Those generals were too weak and completely vulnerable.
Even before I even drew my sword, I surrendered completely, leaving me no room to even show off.
"Well, you are very quick, go directly to the inner city!" Zhu Yuanzhang was only stunned for a moment, then he immediately reacted, waved his hand and led the people towards the inner city.
There is also an imperial city inside the inner city.
Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately chose to take action during the Great Court Meeting, because he was preparing to kill all the current officials in Beiping City.
"Your Majesty, surrender!"
"Both the inner city and the imperial city have been surrendered!" Zhu Yuanzhang was still on the road, planning how to capture the inner city and the imperial city as quickly as possible. As a result, just halfway through, Mao Xiang, who was the vanguard officer, ran back again.
"What did you say?" Zhu Yuanzhang thought there was something wrong with his ears, so he couldn't help but ask again.
"I really surrendered!"
We have people working as internal agents in both the inner city and the imperial city. As soon as I arrived with my people, those internal agents directly persuaded the generals guarding the gates to surrender, and the city gates were already opened!" Mao Xiang also felt incredible.
Zhu Yuanzhang: "...!"
"I've never seen such a cunning move like that of an internal commander directly persuading a general to surrender without receiving an order."
"The key is that it actually succeeded. It's so outrageous."
"Fortunately, I prepared countless backup plans, but they were all in vain. If I had known this, I would have taken action half a month ago."
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but vomit in his heart, and at the same time he sighed, the Ming Dynasty was really broken even to its roots!
"You lead people to take over the inner city and defend the outer city gates. Control the remnants of the soldiers and don't let them disrupt the order of Beiping City. At the same time, guard the three major camps outside the city."
Zhu Yuanzhang quickly gave Mao Xiang a few words, and then led the people directly into the imperial city through Huangji Gate, and then directly into Huangji Hall.
At this moment, in the Huangji Palace, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian was still arguing with the ministers.
Because the inner city surrendered too quickly, and Zhu Yuanzhang had many internal allies, he did not receive the news.
He is currently calling on ministers to donate salaries and recruit troops to support Zhou Yuji.
But after calling for it for half a month, the ministers only donated a total of 20,000 taels of silver. No more could be squeezed out.
"Do you really want to watch the Ming Dynasty fall?" Chongzhen couldn't help but roared in the court.
Next, the first assistant, Wei Zaode, and the six ministers, who were all red and purple, did not answer the call, and the situation was very embarrassing.
"Clang!" Suddenly there was a sound of a long sword being unsheathed.
Everyone in the court was shocked and turned around blankly.
But they saw an armored general holding a long sword and leading groups of soldiers into the Huangji Palace.
"Who are you?"
"Don't you know where this place is?" Some officials couldn't help but stand up and scold Zhu Yuanzhang, and blocked his only way.
Who is Zhu Yuanzhang? He is an emperor who crawls out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. He kills people without blinking an eye.
"Tsk!" A flash of sword light flashed by, and the man's head had fallen to the ground.
Many ministers who were about to scold him were immediately frightened to death. Even Emperor Chongzhen on the throne looked pale and could not utter a word.
"Who is the chief assistant?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked around and asked.
Everyone looked at Wei Zaode.
"Just you?" Zhu Yuanzhang stood in front of Wei Zaode with a knife in hand.
The fierce aura rushed towards his face, and Wei Zaode's legs went weak and he knelt on the ground.
"Your Majesty, spare my life, I am willing to serve your Majesty!" Wei Zaode didn't care about his dignity, and he didn't even have time to figure out who Zhu Yuanzhang was, so he knelt down in front of him.
"very good!"
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled coldly, looked around the entire hall, and said loudly: "Is there anyone else who wants to join us?"
"Plop, plop!" In an instant, more than twenty officials knelt down.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at this scene and burst out laughing. He turned to look at Chongzhen: "Look, this is the chief minister you chose, a high-ranking official. All of them are weaklings. Let these people manage our Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will not
It would be strange to have a country subjugated."
"Kill all those who are kneeling!"
"No need to drag him out, just kill him in this hall!" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a cold voice.
There was silence all around, and no one dared to say a word.
More than twenty people were killed in an instant. The smell of blood filled the entire hall, and a few timid ones were so frightened that they collapsed on the ground.
"Humph!" Zhu Yuanzhang looked around again, strode up to the high platform, and looked down at Emperor Chongzhen.
"Follow me!" He waved his hand with an unquestionable tone.
Emperor Chongzhen wanted to resist, and even wanted to raise his sword for a last-ditch effort, but there was no sword in his hand, and his whole body was so weak that he could not even stand up.
"Carry him away!" Zhu Yuanzhang's face instantly turned into a piece of ice when he saw his descendants acting like such bears.
Emperor Chongzhen was almost dragged behind Zhu Yuanzhang into a side room next to him.
"Get out!" Zhu Yuanzhang stuck his knife on the ground, waited for the two soldiers to go out, and closed the door. He couldn't help it anymore and slapped Emperor Chongzhen in the face.
"idiot!"
"waste!"
"Indulge the eunuch!"
"Luxurious and extravagant!"
"I won't go to court for thirty years!"
"Be a carpenter!"
"Indiscriminate killing!"
"How could I have such unfilial descendants like you!" Zhu Yuanzhang said while punching and kicking Emperor Chongzhen. After a quarter of an hour, he finally felt better, having been depressed but had nowhere to vent.
"A scholar cannot be killed, I will fight with you!" Emperor Chongzhen was fooled. He was the emperor of the Ming Empire. Who dared to beat him like this since he was a child?
But just as he stood up, Zhu Yuanzhang kicked him again.
"You have a long face, right?"
"How dare you beat your ancestors!"
"Crack!" A thunder exploded in Emperor Chongzhen's mind.
He felt that this person looked familiar to him just now in the Huangji Palace. Now when he heard the word "ancestor", Emperor Chongzhen suddenly woke up.
How the hell does this look familiar? This is clearly the appearance of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang!
There is still a portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang hanging in the palace!
"You...who are you?" Emperor Chongzhen asked with a trembling voice as if he had seen a ghost in the daytime.
"I already said that."
"It's your ancestor!"
Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of hiding anything. He pointed at Chongzhen and said, "I came here just to see how you unfilial descendants destroyed my empire."