Chang Jizu has followed the example of his fathers since he was a child.
Among the three generations of Chang family members, Chang Jizu, as the eldest brother, has strict requirements on himself in everything.
During the four years of studying in the martial arts hall.
Chang Jizu not only stayed in the martial arts hall, but also accompanied the army to different areas of the empire every year.
He has been to Yingzhou, also to the Southern Region, and even measured Jiubian with his own steps.
When the empire was about to embark on its Western Expedition, Chang Jizu was finishing his four-year study at the Military Academy, so he wrote a petition for war early, requesting the Governor-General to place him in the most dangerous position of the Western Expedition.
Location.
Today is the day when Emperor Hongwu abdicated, and the day when the most uncontroversial crown prince in the empire ascended the throne.
The martial arts students in this period of the martial arts hall have also graduated.
However, according to the requirements of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the martial arts students in the martial arts hall must assume part of the security duties on the Temple of Heaven Street even on their graduation day.
This is the area that Chang Jizu and his team of ten are responsible for. It is on the street near the Temple of Heaven, and to the south is Shenpingwang.
This is also the place where the most people from Yingtian gather.
Several times the number of Shanzhiqin military guards and Beijing officers and soldiers were arranged here than in other areas.
As the martial arts students of the Jiangwu Hall, Chang Jizu and the others, who will receive graduation awards from the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty at today's abdication ceremony, have the right to patrol the sentry when they are responsible for security duties.
Chang Jizu wore the military uniform specially made by the Jiangwu Hall and led his team members, walking along the Temple of Heaven Street from the direction of the Temple of Heaven to the Shanchuan Temple.
From a distance, Chang Jizu could see the straight west side of Temple of Heaven Street, where the emperor's chariot was moving slowly under heavy guard of imperial troops.
The people on both sides of the street burst into cheers as the emperor approached.
Fireworks were going off both inside and outside the city walls.
On both sides of the street, countless colorful flags were flying.
Chang Jizu slowly walked to the street and began to cooperate with the direct military guards and Beijing officers and soldiers to stop the people who were constantly squeezing towards the street due to crowding.
Suddenly.
Chang Jizu's eyes narrowed.
In his sight, among the crowd in front, there seemed to be fighting sounds due to the crowd being too crowded.
The surrounding crowd also became chaotic because of the fighting.
"Captain, I...I think I saw a Japanese?"
The deputy team leader, standing next to Chang Jizu, said something puzzled.
Chang Jizu held the knife in his left hand and immediately moved the handle of the knife toward the front of his body.
This is to make it easier to draw the knife at any time.
"Go over and have a look."
Chang Jizu didn't say anything, he just ordered his team to walk out of the street and approach the area where the fight took place.
"Handle according to the measures for dense crowd emergencies."
Chang Jizu warned again.
As a result, the nine people in his team began to form groups of three, and the two groups on the left and right slowly moved to both sides to distance themselves from the group of three in the middle, led by Chang Jizu himself.
The nearby Shanzhiqin military guards and Beijing officers and soldiers were already engaged in the task of quelling the fighting among the crowd.
The surrounding crowd was easily separated by the heavily armed officers and soldiers.
The crowded crowd in front of them gradually retreated to both sides like a tide.
Chang Jizu immediately shouted to his companions in the team: "It's a Japanese, kill them!"
The relevant details of the murder case on the Yamen Street in Yingtian City have been spread to several important departments in the court.
Since Chang Jizu was born in the Prince's Palace of Kaiping County, he naturally had his own news channels.
But it doesn’t matter whether there was a murder or not.
In the 31st year of Hongwu's reign, the appearance of Japanese people in Yingtian City was not a reasonable thing.
According to the top secret files of the imperial court, the Japanese have long been a race that can be put into history books to describe the past and end of the entire ethnic group in a few strokes.
For the Chang family, such top-secret files are naturally not really top-secret.
In an instant, Chang Jizu pulled out the knife from his waist.
The crowd around him didn't notice anything strange yet, and just thought it was the officers and soldiers calming down the chaos in the crowd.
The Japanese also discovered Chang Jizu who led the team.
However, the three Japanese in the crowd remained unmoved.
Chang Jizu had some doubts in his heart.
These Japanese had obviously discovered that they had been targeting them, and running away was their first reaction at this time.
But the three Japanese were unable to move.
Chang Jizu suddenly felt uneasy in his heart.
His eyes quickly searched around the Japanese people.
finally.
Chang Jizu's pupils trembled.
I saw a large wooden box piled beside the courtyard wall behind the Japanese.
This is something that should not appear on the Temple of Heaven Street today.
As early as yesterday, Yingtianfu hired personnel to clean the streets on Tiantan Street.
"It's gunpowder!"
Chang Jizu's eyes widened and he saw one of the three Japanese take out a fire stick from his arms and light the fuse under his feet.
Only then did he see clearly what was stored in the wooden box.
At this time, Chang Jizu no longer cared, and with a low roar, he held the knife in both hands and dragged it diagonally to the right side of his body, and rushed towards the three Japanese with big steps.
The three-person team following him also reacted immediately.
They may not know exactly what happened.
However, according to the academic requirements for confronting the enemy within the martial arts hall, as long as it is a decision or action made by the superior officer, they must react as quickly as possible in the shortest time and cooperate with the response actions.
The three-person team also drew their swords and followed closely behind Chang Jizu. The three spread out in an encircling formation and pressed forward with Chang Jizu.
At this time, the Japanese finally started to move.
The two knives hidden under the cloak were held in his left and right hands.
The faces of the three Japanese were ferocious, and they actually attracted Chang Jizu and killed them.
The Japanese wanted to hold themselves back with death in order to buy time for the fuse to detonate the gunpowder stored in the wooden box!
In an instant.
Chang Jizu did not have time to think about why Japanese people appeared on Tiantan Street, and why these Japanese people had gunpowder, a military item strictly controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and it was not clear why these Japanese people set off gunpowder here.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But he knew that he must not let the lit fuse detonate the gunpowder in the wooden box.
"rush!"
Chang Jizu shouted angrily.
He pressed down on his waist, and the tip of the sword held in both hands dragged on the ground, making a harsh sound.
In Chang Jizu's field of vision, a Japanese leader on the opposite side had cut the two knives in his hand, one long and one short, up and down to form a tight defensive network.
Chang Jizu, however, kept moving forward, and the Yanling Saber in his hand began to move from behind to in front of him.
Ding!
There was a crisp sound.
The Yanling knife in Chang Jizu's hand struck the long knife in the Japanese's hand, and the tiger's mouth shook.
The two of them had shifted their positions back and forth.
The short sword in the Japanese hand was dragged and cut on Chang Jizu's back.
The pain that penetrated into the bone marrow was transmitted to Chang Jizu's brain in an instant, but he still kept walking, maintaining the inertia of his body, and finally rushed to the wooden box.
Bang!
There was a muffled sound.
The Yanling knife struck the wooden box, cutting off the half-burned lead wire.
At this time, Chang Jizu finally lay down on the wooden box because of the pain in his back.
Behind him, a team of three people also fought with the three Japanese.
The people around him finally reacted.
The crowd became increasingly crowded.
Fortunately, due to the large number of officers and soldiers deployed around, there was no crowd surge.
The officers and soldiers fought desperately to block the situation, and more officers and soldiers came from other places to divide the crowd again.
Chang Jizu, who was lying on the wooden box, held the Yanling knife in his hands tightly on the ground and turned around.
After turning around, Chang Jizu's eyes were blood red.
He looked at the battle group fighting together, as well as the other two three-person teams that had rushed over from both sides, and yelled.
"Send the signal!"
The deputy team who led a three-person team on one side immediately took out a signal cannon from his arms, pointed it towards the sky, and pulled open a tab at the bottom.
Whoosh!
Whoosh whoosh!
boom!
A piercing scream spread in the air, and finally with a huge noise, a bright red color ball appeared in the sky.
In an instant, all the officers and soldiers on the Temple of Heaven Street looked up at the red mass in the sky.
The emperor's procession, which had already marched to the middle of the Temple of Heaven Street, stopped immediately.
Zhu Fang and Zhu Yunxi immediately rushed to the front of the team, looking solemnly at the bright red mass in the sky near the Temple of Heaven in front of them.
“Quarantine the crowd!”
"Heavy Shield Guard!"
Zhu Fang and Zhu Yunxi issued orders one after another.
The imperial officers and soldiers who were originally guarding the royal chariot began to push towards the streets on both sides. The officers and soldiers who were originally on the streets began to yell loudly, asking the people on both sides to retreat and disperse.
In the team behind the imperial chariot, a fat and round-waisted officer and soldier, holding a huge and thick heavy shield in both hands, surrounded the imperial chariot of the emperor and the prince.
drink!
The heavy shield fell to the ground, making heavy muffled sounds. The shield fell to the ground, but it could reach as high as a person's chest.
Shields were connected to each other on the left and right, making the surroundings of the imperial chariot airtight.
"The abdication ceremony continues."
In the chaos and silence, Zhu Yuanzhang's voice came out calmly and without any emotion in the imperial chariot.
Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Ping, who were standing in front of the royal chariot, looked at each other.
Obviously, the old man will not temporarily postpone the abdication ceremony just because of today's temporary turmoil.
Even though the imperial court had already arranged countless countermeasures.
Including the people who can appear on both sides of Tiantan Street today, officials have also been arranged in advance to teach them that in the event of unrest, they must consciously cooperate with the officers and soldiers to retreat away from Tiantan Street.
Zhu Xi was a little hesitant.
After a brief weighing, Zhu Yunxi said in a deep voice: "Keep going!"
The imperial chariot slowly started to move, but the surrounding officers and soldiers holding heavy shields kept moving and still closely guarded the imperial chariot.
Sun Cheng, who was on the south courtyard wall, finally understood today's layout.
Those Japanese people and those behind the scenes had no intention of starting anything in the Temple of Heaven.
Instead, we want to create chaos on the Temple of Heaven Street and use the countless people present today as threats to create even greater turmoil.
"Quick! Kill anyone suspicious!"
Sun Cheng stood on the wall of the courtyard, the embroidered spring knife in his hand shining brightly with a cold light, and he shouted lowly.
The imperial cavalryman beside him had already blown a bronze whistle.
Unique sounds began to spread on Temple of Heaven Street.
This is Jin Yiwei's internal communication method, and only people from Jin Yiwei can understand the difference in signals.
The royal chariot was still moving towards the Temple of Heaven, and the sounds of fighting began to be heard from the retreating crowds on both sides of the street.
Everything seems to be still within control.
Suddenly.
A huge roar exploded less than thirty steps in front of the chariot.
Dazzling firelight and huge plumes of smoke rose from the ground instantly.
The crowd that was still retreating in an orderly manner according to the backup plan finally became uncontrollable and chaotic.
The crowd began to rush towards all the vacant places.
The streets that were originally empty and reserved for the carriages were suddenly filled with crowded and frightened people.
Countless limbs and broken arms flew over the crowd with the sound of explosions, and were scattered everywhere.
The smell of gunpowder smoke filled the entire street.
Accompanied by the explosion and the horrified crowd, all the court officials and soldiers were stunned for a moment.
Sun Cheng's pupils on the courtyard wall shrank violently.
The thing that I least expected to see finally happened.
Zhu Yunxi trembled all over.
Today's abdication ceremony will be recorded in history.
And in the annals of history, during the abdication ceremony of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, a bandit detonated gunpowder, resulting in a bloody death. This was a huge incident.
In the team behind the imperial chariot, countless officials began to rush towards the imperial chariot.
This is probably the most loyal thing officials can do at the most chaotic time.
The heavy shields surrounding the chariot were pushed aside by the officials.
A number of palace ministers and officials began to block the area around the imperial chariot with their bodies. Some officials even tried to climb onto the imperial chariot and block the empty space with their bodies.
A strange scene appeared on the Temple of Heaven Street.
The officials of the Hongwu Dynasty were obviously afraid of the emperor to death, but at this critical moment, they all risked their lives to block the imperial chariot with their own flesh and blood.
But at this moment.
Zhu Shangbing, who was behind the chariot, suddenly roared angrily.
"There is a traitor!"
After a roar, Zhu Shangbing rushed to the rear of the chariot with his bare hands.
Zhu Gaochi, who was beside him, had his eyes widened, completely unaware of what happened.
I saw Zhu Shangbing rushing behind the heavy shield, and with a tiger pounce, he threw the two red-robed officials to the ground.
"Block!"
"kill!"
In front of the imperial chariot, Zhu Yunxi also grabbed a long knife from the hands of the officers and soldiers on the side. He looked at a group of Japanese people rushing out from the smoke and dust caused by the explosion. He roared and rushed forward.
There was chaos all around the imperial chariot.
And further away, you can see the entire Temple of Heaven Street.
A sneer sounded.
"The first case of the Yongsheng Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty is here."