Chapter 944

Since the Chinese Army surrounded the capital, the capital has been in a state of panic.

Although the Chinese army did not attack the city, the people in the city were even more frightened by their formation and the way of showing off their force.

The people in the capital are proud. They think they are superior everywhere and regard others as countrymen.

The tall and towering city walls also give them great confidence that there is no hostile force that can climb over the city wall and hurt them, so they can safely reproduce here.

Not only are they here, but also the emperors of the Ming Empire.

The emperor is here, which means that there will be a large number of elite generals stationed here to protect the safety of the royal family and their safety at the same time.

But the momentum of the Chinese army made them very afraid.

The Chinese army is different from the Mongols who surrounded the capital in those days. It is different from the JianNu who changed troops and knocked on the capital in their own time. The Chinese army has a strong ability to tackle tough problems.

In the process of its rise, the Chinese Army swept away all the leaves with the autumn wind and destroyed the withered and decadent. It was invincible, but it did not fight several very tragic sieges.

However, no one thinks that the Chinese army has no ability to tackle tough problems. This is because the Chinese army has a strong artillery camp. The number of red cannon in the artillery camp of the Chinese army is several times that of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, Daming also has many cannons. The number of cannons registered in its Ministry of industry and ordnance bureau is as much as 40000 or 50000. These are extremely backward iron cannons. These red cannons can't be compared.

After the battle of Ningyuan, Daming also realized the power of the red cannon and began to eliminate it in a planned way. However, due to the problem of funds, it was delayed.

What's more, there is no place where Daming is very pitiful. When the country was founded, they can use firearms very skillfully. The three camps mainly use firearms, but after hundreds of years of development, they have become more backward. They have very sophisticated and top weapons, such as Lumi gun and red cannon, but the number is very rare, Less than the number of giant pandas.

This means that it is impossible to pack. Daming has the technology to make advanced guns and cannons, but he does not have enough funds and enough craftsmen. At that time, the imperial court also believed that it was very inappropriate to spend a lot of funds on making guns and cannons. These strange and cunning things are always difficult to achieve elegance.

But the Chinese army was different. They used almost all their resources to make their guns and artillery, which made their army highly firearm. When they pulled out their artillery, they shocked and frightened the people in the capital.

The Chinese army may not have traditional siege weapons, such as tower cars, huge siege hammers, and all kinds of ladders, but they have so many cannons that they can blow down the city wall.

Everyone can see that the Chinese army is just around the corner. They are fully capable of seizing the capital and breaking in at any time, but they put the greatest pressure on these people.

When the guard of Zhengyang gate opened the gate, the army did not keep a low profile at all, but blew a horn and sounded a war drum from Zhengyang gate.

Like a flood, the Chinese army quickly poured in from Zhengyang gate and rushed to other gates.

After hearing that they were defeated, the guards of other major city gates were also shocked. Some quickly threw their weapons and fled home to avoid military disasters. Some simply asked for wealth and danger and directly opened the city gate to welcome the Chinese Army outside.

At the beginning, only the Zhengyang gate was opened, and soon other major city gates were opened, and the Chinese Army poured in from all directions.

The capital city is the largest city. Today, it is one of the best cities. It is divided into outer city and inner city. The inner city also includes the imperial city.

The Chinese army set out first to attack and occupy the outer city. For them, the only threat is the outer city. After taking the outer city, it is easy to attack the inner city.

The people were already in panic. When they heard that the Chinese army finally broke into the city, many people were terrified. The calm city suddenly became a mess, like an ant nest boiled by boiling water.

Since emperor Chongzhen heard that Hong Chengchou and Yang Sichang led the troops to surrender, he no longer had the fighting spirit. His last hope was the two armies. As a result, the two marshals he most relied on, the two marshals who regarded him as the Minister of brachial shares, actually surrendered.

They not only surrendered themselves, but also brought hundreds of thousands of troops. Daming was completely finished.

Although there was Zhu Xieyuan's hard support and desperate resistance, he knew that this was the tail of a rabbit and could not grow.

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen really collapsed. He began to abandon himself, no longer read any memorials, no longer read any military newspapers, eat and drink tomorrow, and spoil and toss his Empress and several imperial concubines desperately.

At this moment, even if emperor Chongzhen was unwilling, he knew that Daming was about to perish, and he would be running out of time.

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen's heart was extremely sad and frightened. When he ascended the throne, he was full of ambition and determined to be the Lord of ZTE Daming. Ten years later, he did not ZTE Daming, but let Daming perish. The despair in his heart was enormous.

The people around the emperor began to be afraid when they saw that the emperor abandoned himself and did not ask about the government. If it was the previous Ming emperor, it was normal. Most of them did not ask about the government affairs. They handed over the memorial to the Si Li supervisor, who approved Zhu.

Emperor Chongzhen never did so. He would not hand over military and state affairs to the Secretary of rites and supervisors, or miss the early dynasty or any political affairs. He attached more importance to political affairs than any other, because he thought that he held this position as the greatest responsibility to the Ming Dynasty and the people all over the world, and did not dare to take any light heart.

At the moment, he ignored everything and abandoned himself. Everyone was shocked by it. Everyone also felt frightened and uneasy that the end was coming.

Many eunuchs and palace maids, seeing that the wind was wrong, began to pack up and prepare to leave.

Are eunuchs and maids in the palace free to go? If it was in the past, I would never dare to escape. I'm afraid I will be caught and killed by the officers and soldiers guarding the city.

Now the first to escape is the bodyguards and officers and soldiers guarding the imperial city. Most of them are no longer on duty. Those who don't escape are all monks, hitting the clock for a day and muddling along.

Of course, these palace maids and eunuchs who fled abroad will still take care of them, but if they are willing to hand over a sum of money and some belongings, they pretend to turn a blind eye.

Inside the palace, they were real birds of the same fate. When a great disaster came, they flew away.

Emperor Chongzhen was drinking. At this time, he heard the horn roaring into the sky outside the city, the war drums rumbling, and countless people shouting. He listened attentively. It turned out that many people were shouting: "the city is broken! The city is broken!"

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly fell into an ice cave and his whole body was cold. He knew that it was only a matter of time for the Chinese army to break through the capital, but he still didn't expect it to be so fast.

Seeing the chaos and noise in the city, he knew that the city was completely chaotic. Out of an instinctive reaction, he threw down his wine glass and ran to the Jinluan hall.

The emperor was thinking that at this moment, the city was in a mess, and the ministers should gather at the imperial court to discuss state affairs and countermeasures.

However, when he walked into the Jinluan hall, he found that there was no one in the Jinluan hall except a few small eunuchs, which frightened him very much. He shouted, "haven't the ministers received the news? Has no one ordered the court meeting?"

After no one answered, he ran to the big clock outside the hall and struck the clock himself.

The bell is to call the court meeting. As long as the officials in the Imperial City hear the bell of the emergency court meeting, the ministers will come quickly to discuss countermeasures. However, Emperor Chongzhen hit the clock for half a day, but no one came. At this moment, he was really desperate.

Chongzhen burst into tears. He said loudly, "my God! Unexpectedly, people's hearts are here! I don't treat my ministers badly, but they treat me like this!"

Emperor Chongzhen fell into self pity and pain. Wang Chengen didn't know how to persuade him, but wept silently.

Chongzhen suddenly stood up. His face was pale and his eyes were fierce. He said loudly, "Daming is afraid it's over! We Royal people will have no luck to reason, but if we die, we have to die with integrity!"

The emperor mainly thought of how miserable and tragic they were when the country was destroyed. For example, after the enemy broke through the capital of Huizong of Song Dynasty, his Empress, his imperial concubine and many palace maids became the targets of the Jin people. They couldn't bear to talk to him about their tragic situation.

The emperor was thinking that as royalty, emperor and nobles, they could die, but not so without dignity, so he decided to run back to the back palace immediately and order these imperial concubines to commit suicide.

Emperor Chongzhen, dusty, rushed all the way to imperial concubine Tian's palace. When he rushed into imperial concubine Tian's palace, imperial concubine Tian had packed her luggage. She said, "the emperor has come to pick up her concubine and leave?"

Emperor Chongzhen said mercilessly, "why leave? As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I have not been close to each other for 200 years. If I do not cede land, the emperor will guard the country and the king will die. Since the country is broken and the family is destroyed today, I will commit suicide to repay my family and country."

Imperial concubine Tian almost thought she had heard wrong. The emperor actually wanted to commit suicide. Looking at his aggressive appearance with a sword, if she didn't commit suicide? He would do it himself. She was almost speechless.