Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 277 I, Zhu Cihong, Are Back

At the moment when the Ming army lit the torches and thousands of people left the camp and rushed to the capital, the Qing army on the city wall discovered the traces of the Ming army and lit the beacon fire on the city wall.

It's just a pity that this time, no reinforcements from the city came out to climb the city wall and guard the capital together with the guards.

Because Dorgon and all the Manchurian princes were busy packing up their belongings, loading everything they could take away on a cart, and burning what they couldn't take away.

Dorgon and a group of Manchu nobles would rather destroy the capital than return it to Zhu Cihong.

Because in their view, they are already the masters of the capital, so why should they leave their home intact to the enemy?

But that's not always the case, they mostly regard the capital as their own colony, otherwise they wouldn't be willing to burn it down.

For cities like Shengjing and Almaty, they would definitely not be destroyed by flames unless they reached the final moment of national subjugation.

At this moment, cries and screams were everywhere in the Forbidden City.

The Forbidden City is an imperial city, and the people living in it are not royal craftsmen, but also court ladies and eunuchs, and these are basically Han Chinese.

Bumbutai will follow the army back to the outside of the pass and return to their home base of Shengjing.

But she couldn't bear to part with the prosperity and beauty of the Han imperial city, but unfortunately she didn't have time to take away the original buildings, otherwise she would have to knock all these bright yellow glazed tiles and Han white marble bricks away.

However, dead things cannot be taken away, but living things can be carried.

So Bumbutai and Dorgon ordered the military to take away all the maids and eunuchs in the imperial city.

Of course, many people were unwilling to leave the capital to go to a place as bitter and cold as Shengjing. Even under the butcher knife of the Qing army warriors, many people were unwilling to obey orders.

There are also many officers and soldiers of the Qing army who took the opportunity to enter the imperial city to wantonly plunder wealth, and more people were either torturing eunuchs and maids, asking them to hand over their wealth, or humiliating court ladies to vent their animal desires.

When they defeated Li Zicheng and entered the capital, they were not allowed to enter the capital because they wanted to show their respect for the former Ming Dynasty, and they were not allowed to be presumptuous here. Can't even touch it.

Now that they were leaving the capital, they had a chance to vent their desires and break into the Han family's palace to wreak havoc and looting.

"What are you going to do, don't come here." At night, a maid of the Compassionate Ning Palace was just about to go back to her room to rest when she found several soldiers breaking into the room.

"Hey, the moon is dark and the wind is high, what do you think we can do." The two soldiers looked at the court lady with lewd smiles on their faces.

"I'm the maid next to the queen mother." Seeing several soldiers staring at her, the maid had no choice but to take Bumbutai out as her amulet.

If it was in the past, this amulet would definitely be invincible, and it would definitely make those soldiers pee their pants in fright.

After all, Bumbutai is the empress dowager whose status is higher than that of the emperor. Even if she has no real power in her hands, she is an extremely high existence for these soldiers, and one sentence can determine their life and death.

It's a pity that today is different from the past, even if the mud bodhisattva crosses the river, Bumbutai can't protect himself, so how can he have the time to take care of these palace people.

What's more, it was so chaotic tonight, no one noticed how many people disappeared in the palace, even if Bumbutai wanted to stand up for this maid, he was powerless.

"Ha, so what, the queen mother has already left the imperial city, and the regent has also left, otherwise do you think we dare to come in?" After speaking, several soldiers burst into laughter.

Now there is no one in the huge imperial city who can stop them, they can do whatever they want, after all, Dorgon and the nobles of Mitezhou have all cleaned up and left the city.

The troops staying in the city are either searching for wealth, or they are hurrying to supervise the transportation of materials and equipment by the strong men. This is a moment when they can be lawless.

"Don't come here, or I'll kill myself." After the soldiers finished speaking, the maid realized that she was hopeless, so she pulled the hairpin out of her head with a swipe and aimed it at her neck.

"Then you can kill yourself, anyway, you can play as dead." The soldiers of Mizhou didn't care whether the woman they were going to play with later was dead or alive.

Anyway, for them, a white and tender body is enough.

Hearing these words, the court lady strengthened her determination to commit suicide, with tears in her eyes, she held the hairpin tightly with both hands, and was about to stab her neck.

She thought, the executioner will cut here during the execution, and if I stab here, I will surely die quickly with no use and pain.

But just when she gritted her teeth and was cruel, and was about to poke it down, an accident happened suddenly.

I could only hear the sound of horse hooves outside the palace courtyard, and the screams of soldiers from time to time.

Just when several soldiers who wanted to insult the court ladies wanted to go out to see what happened, the gate of the courtyard was suddenly kicked open by several Ming soldiers armed with knives, guns and crossbows.

Seeing the arrival of the Ming army, those soldiers from Mizhou were very surprised, and stood there blankly, even forgetting to pull out their weapons.

But it was too late even if they pulled it out, because the crossbowmen and firecrackers had already aimed at their torsos, and before the soldiers could react, they shot arrows and projectiles into the chests of the soldiers.

In the blink of an eye, all the Manchu soldiers died and only one remained.

The Mizhou people are no different from the Han people. They are no better than the Han army, and they are even far inferior to the well-trained and experienced Ming army.

The remaining Manchurian soldier was beaten to death when he saw his companion. He turned around and ran away without hesitation. Unfortunately, he couldn't run for more than three or five steps before he was overtaken by a Ming soldier holding a long knife and hacked to death from behind. .

Seeing the familiar attire of these burly men, the maid was so moved that she almost burst into tears.

"Are you the Ming army? When did you come back?"

In the past few months, the Forbidden City has been occupied by Li Zicheng and Mite Qing. These palace ladies have changed their owners twice in a row, and their quality of life has become worse and worse.

The war made people's lives in the capital withered, even those who lived in the palace were no exception.

Moreover, both Li Zicheng and Mi Qing were born recklessly, they didn't pay much attention to the royal etiquette and ostentation, and they didn't pay attention to them palace people at all.

They are all women from good families and official families. When have they experienced such a tragic situation.

"I just came back. Don't worry, the emperor has entered the palace. You don't need to worry anymore." Ming's sergeant comforted her and said.

At the same time, Zhu Cihong came to the Hall of Supreme Harmony surrounded by the imperial guards.

Although it was night at this moment, hundreds of torches illuminated the place as if it were daytime.

Looking at the dragon chair on Danchi, Zhu Cihong couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "I, Zhu Cihong, are back!"

(End of this chapter)