Beijing, Chonghua Palace.

In Shang Kexi's study, the three of them were staring at each other silently. Today, the Prince of Daqing Zhong, Shang Kexi's house, has a distinguished guest, it is Kong Tingxun, the prince of Li. Kong Tingxun didn't come empty-handed, but brought a handwritten letter that was said to have been written by his sister-in-law Kong Sizhen!

This is a remarkable thing, all over Beijing know that Kong Sizhen is a chaste martyr, and her husband Fan Wencheng was martyred in the Qing Dynasty, and was cut alive by Emperor Zhu's people with 3,000 knives, and died tragically in Xuzhou City.

In order to commemorate this martyr, Fulin also ordered someone to repair his clothes mound in Beijing and set up a chaste archway - there is also one in Nanjing, this is the first martyr woman in the Ming and Qing dynasties!

Such a chaste martyr who was martyred in the Qing Dynasty has now written a handwritten letter to Kong Tingxun, this matter is ...... It's a little scary!

Therefore, Shang Kexi and his son Shang Zhixin's faces are quite dignified at this time!

The room was quiet, Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun sat face to face, Shang Zhixin stood next to his father, the three of them just look at me, I look at you, I don't know how long it took, Shang Kexi exhaled: "King Li, is the letter really written by your sister-in-law?" ”

Kong Tingxun nodded: "That's right, it's my sister-in-law's handwritten letter." ”

Shang Zhixin asked, "Wasn't she chopped?" Everyone knows about this, can there be a fake? ”

Kong Tingxun couldn't laugh or cry, shook his head and said: "According to my family's family who sent the letter, Sizhen was cut with 3,000 knives......"

"Not dead yet?"

"Your sister is beaten with iron?"

"No, no," Kong Tingxun hurriedly explained, "My sister's thin skin and tender flesh, where is it beaten with iron?" It's just that the three thousand knives were cut on the hair, so they didn't cut to death......"

Shang Kexi rolled his eyelids, "That's called Ling Chi?" That's called shaving! Can this still kill people? He touched his bare scalp, "According to this algorithm, Lao Tzu doesn't know how to cut too many knives, isn't it good now?" ”

Shang Zhixin still frowned: "Then, is the thing written in your sister-in-law's letter reliable?" ”

"This ......" Kong Tingxun shook his head slightly, "I don't know!" But...... The first evil in Beijing is Blessing after all, right? If we hand him over, Emperor Zhu can't ask us about our sins, right? ”

Shang Zhixin said: "Yes, yes...... Let's do it, a dead horse is a live horse doctor!

Now the trenches of the Ming army are almost dug to the edge of the trench outside the Chaoyangmen fortress. They dug trenches all the way to advance, and the Hongyi cannons and Furlong cannons we set up on the fortress couldn't hit anyone at all. Moreover, for more than a month, they have used huge cannons to fire flowering shells every day, bombarding the city at night and the Chaoyangmen fortress during the day, killing and wounding more than 2,000 of our people before and after, and also damaging more than a dozen of our cannons. Now no one dares to go to the Chaoyangmen fortress, and they don't dare to transport the cannons!

Father, it looks like they're about to hit Chaoyangmen Fortress! This fortress cannot be defended...... But if the fortress outside Chaoyang Gate is lost, then the next thing to be criticized is probably Chaoyang Gate Urn City and the nearby city wall! ”

Kong Tingxun nodded vigorously: "That's right!" The Ming army had many cannons called mortar cannons, which looked like a big iron pot, and could shoot flower shells, once they took the fortress outside Chaoyangmen, they could use this fortress as a cover to arrange mortars for bombardment of Chaoyangmen urn city...... At that time, it will be difficult to hold the urn city! ”

In fact, Kong Tingxun was a little too worried, and it was not enough for the Ming army to take the Chaoyangmen fortress to put large-caliber mortars outside Beijing to bombard the city wall and urn city. To arrange the mortar in this way, at least take the Dongzhimen Fort or the Xiaodongmen Fort.

Now the parallel trenches used to attack the Dongzhimen fortress and the small Dongmen fortress are also being excavated, and in a maximum of twenty days, they can also be dug in place. At that time, Chaoyangmen Fortress, Dongzhimen Fortress, and Xiaodongmen Fortress will be able to take it together.

With these three forts as a support, the Ming army was able to use 24-pounder and 48-pounder mortars to bombard the walls of Beijing, and could also move eight 48-pounder cannons forward, and concentrate more 24-pounder and 12-pounder guns for siege...... In another ten days and half of bombardment, a section of the city wall will almost be blasted open. A complete collapse is not possible due to the sandbags at the base of the wall, but it is still possible to blast out a ramp that can be attacked by grenadiers and flintlocks.

"Humph!" Shang Kexi snorted, looked at Kong Tingxun and said, "If you want to sacrifice the city pass, we will do it, but we have to catch Fulin...... He can't come out of the coal mountain fortress now, how are we going to catch it? The Coal Mountain Fort is so strong, we only have some 12-pounder Hongyi cannons on hand, and we can't beat them at all! ”

Fulin is now also learning to be obedient, shrinking on the coal mountain fortress as a little turtle, but he refuses to come out.

Moreover, the people who defend the coal mountain fortress are all Manchurian soldiers led by Ban Bushan, and they should fight to the death at the critical moment, with the strength of Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun, I am afraid that they will not be able to defeat the coal mountain!

Shang Zhixin suddenly said: "Father, my son has a plan to coax Fu Lin down the mountain...... At least you can coax Fu Lin to hand over the elite soldiers in his hands! ”

"What's the strategy?"

"Come on!"

Shang Zhixin gritted his teeth: "Father, King Li, let's go out of the city to fight to the death, and fight with the surname Zhu!" ”

......

"What? What did you say? ”

"Your Majesty, my father and King Li, King Yi, and King Xiao discussed it, and felt that they couldn't sit still, and they had to go to the city to fight to the death with the surname Zhu!"

"A decisive battle out of the city? Why? Are we going to run out of food? ”

"It's not that the food is running out, but that the Ming army has dug the trench under the Chaoyangmen fortress......"

On the coal mountain, Shang Zhixin was holding the joint recitals of Shang Kexi, Kong Tingxun, Geng Zhongming, Shen Yongxing and other four kings to ask Fulin to go out of the city for a decisive battle.

Fu Lin was so frightened by this proposal that his face turned pale!

There are hundreds of thousands of troops outside Beijing!

And they also have very powerful cannons! Although the coal mountain has not been bombarded these days, Fu Lin is condescending, but he really sees the scene of the bombardment in the area of Chaoyangmen in the east of the city...... The 48-pound flowering bomb exploded! Not to mention the rising fireworks, it also blew up several houses from time to time, causing several fires, and after more than a month of tossing, the surroundings of Chaoyangmen were about to become scorched earth.

The Ming army is so powerful that the city is like this, can you still go out of the city to die?

"Now it seems that the fortress of Chaoyangmen will inevitably not be defended," Shang Zhixin said, "as soon as the fortress is lost, the artillery of the Ming army will move forward, and the city walls around Chaoyangmen will not be able to be protected at that time." As soon as the city wall is lost, the Ming army will be able to directly bombard the coal mountain. ”

"What?" Fu Lin's voice trembled, "Bombarding the coal mountain......

"Your Majesty, when the time comes, you can just sit and wait to be killed, and it will be a cannon shot!"

"Cannon killed...... Fu Lin was afraid, "what can I do?" ”

"Fight!" Shang Zhixin gritted his teeth, "Your Majesty, it's better to fight with them!" ”

"Yes, can you win?"

"Win?" Shang Zhixin was stunned, "What are you talking about?" Now there are at least 300,000 Ming troops outside Beijing, and we are only 50,000 when we are full...... How is it possible to win? ”

"Can't win and still play?"

"Break through!" Shang Zhixin said, "The ministers will risk their lives to save the emperor and kill out of Beijing City!" ”

"Out of Beijing City?" Fu Lin's face drooped, "Where else can I go?" ”

That's a problem!

Shang Zhixin couldn't answer for a while, where else could Fulin go? In addition to Zhu Cihong, there is still a "disobedient marquis" who can be him, where can he be taken in?

"Let's go to the prairie!" Shang Zhixin thought for a long time, "Your Majesty...... You have been the Great Khan of Mongolia, and there is always a little hope on the steppe. Besides, there is still a living road on the north side of the grassland. ”

"North? Khalkha Mongolia? Fu Lin asked.

"Further north......," Shang Zhixin said, "you can go to Lake Baikal and cast the Rakshasa country!" Then go to Europa in the Rakshasa country, take refuge in the Zhisbanians, or go to Mongolia in Tianzhu, this is always a way to live, right? ”

This is exile...... I think I can live! But the question is, can you get there?

Fu Lin sighed: "Rong Zhen think about it, tomorrow, tomorrow I will give you an answer!" ”