Someone rushed to a distance of thirty steps and felt the ground shake. Bricks and stones flew everywhere, leaving the crowd covered in blood.
"No! It's Thunder Magic again!" Hui Shiyang was so frightened that he panicked and kept shouting Thunder Magic, Thunder Magic. His whole consciousness went blank and he forgot to escape quickly.
"That's it? Is that the five tiger generals of Donglin?"
Four cannons have been reloaded.
At the command, four more grape bullets were fired.
Hui Shiyang was broken.
The five tiger generals of the Donglin Party and the Tianmengxing Thunderbolt Fire of Donglin 108 generals were killed in battle.
Dozens more people were beaten until dozens of lines of blood were drawn.
Seeing this scene, the remaining Imperial College students also knelt down and kowtowed in surrender.
Zhu Youxiao sighed helplessly: "I think these scholars are stupid because of their imitation. They are stupid enough to be used as cannon fodder for others~"
"You surrender quickly!"
Liu Qiao also led the Jinyi guards and rushed into the crowd with their embroidered spring knives. No one who was seriously injured was spared the blow, and the others were taken down and tied up.
"His Royal Highness Jian Guo! Xuanwu Gate!"
At this time, Liu Shimin suddenly came in person.
Zhu Youxiao took off his iron helmet and entered the hall to talk with Liu Shimin.
Liu Shimin, who followed Fang Congzhe and others to the Xuanwu Gate, ran back in such a hurry. Something urgent must have happened.
"His Royal Highness Jianguo, the fifth son of the emperor appeared in Meishan, with Duke Cheng's servant beside him. Now he has arrived at Xuanwu Gate and said he wanted to enter the palace to quell the thieves."
"Oh? Brother Youjian..."
My younger brother Zhu Youjian has been staying in Xinuang Pavilion since this morning.
Later, Emperor Taichang fell into coma and the palace suddenly became tense, and Zhu Youjian disappeared.
Now he appears in Meishan and has gathered with Cheng Guogong’s servants.
"Brother Youjian is in Meishan...he is really destined to be there~"
"Ah?"
"It's okay. This is a serious matter. The battle in the East Palace is over. I will go to Xuanwu Gate right away."
After saying this, Zhu Youxiao took off his armor. This set of magnetic explosion-proof armor played an important role. It was very safe to throw grenades, and the bricks and tiles blown up by the mine explosion could not hurt him, but it was too heavy.
After taking off his armor, Liu Qiao also finished tying up the prisoners and came in to report: "To report to His Majesty the Prison State, the prisoners have been tied up and the bodies have been counted. The traitor Zhang Fengxiang has said everything.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, more than a dozen rebels immediately smeared their feet with oil and fled, including the bandit leader Wang Wenyan."
Colonel Zhu You nodded to Liu Qiao: "Wang Wenyan's attack has more people than I thought. We all fought well just now! Don't pay too much attention to him, there will be nowhere to hide at dawn."
After Liu Qiao finished his report, one of his confidants, Qian Hu, a member of the Imperial Guard, also came in: "Report to His Royal Highness, Liu Tongzhi, that Donghua Gate and Dong'an Gate are still in the hands of the rebels, but there are only a hundred Dongchang rebels." Zhu Youxiao was startled for a moment, his eyes rolled around and his mind quickly thought, and then he ordered:
"Liu Tongzhi, leave half of your people to watch the East Palace, and lead the other half to hold the heads of Hui Shiyang, Song Shixiang and other thieves to take back Donghua Gate for me."
"Yes!"
Zhu Youxiao and Liu Shimin were about to go to Xuanwu Gate as soon as possible.
Liu Qiao thinks it would be too dangerous for two people to go without a bodyguard?
"His Royal Highness Jian Guo, do you want to send dozens of people to protect your safety?"
"No need, the Xuanwu Sect is all our own."
"Then why don't you bring weapons? For example, grenades or something." Jin Yiwei Qianhu suggested.
"Yeah...that's fine."
Zhu Youxiao still wore soft armor, and hung several firearms that looked like grenades and two-kick thunder on the belt around his waist like an armed belt.
Liu Qiao and the former Qianhu went to attack, while the Qianhu who stayed behind immediately went to carry out the order.
After a while, the giants from the Eastern Palace Jinyiwei came.
"Did the investigation reveal anything?"
"Back to the boss, after many observations, we have locked the target."
"Okay."
Zhu Youxiao breathed a sigh of relief, this time the last hidden danger was solved.
"A giant from a hundred households, I have an important task for you...you can set out immediately."
The giants from hundreds of households set off immediately with a focused look in their eyes.
Zhu Youxiao and Liu Shimin prepared another time for burning incense, and then quickly left for the Xuanwu Gate in the north.
......
"Is there gunfire in the East Palace?"
Huangji Gate is very high. Zheng Yangxing looked eastward and saw many torches over there. There were gunshots just now, so it must be a battle.
I rested for a quarter of an hour.
The rebels regained some strength, but their fanaticism also subsided. Most people realized how ridiculous it was to welcome Concubine Zheng as the Queen Mother and to establish King Fu as the Emperor.
Even if Taichang dies, the prince will still be there.
Even if the East Palace is destroyed in a while, there will still be a 10-year-old fifth son of the emperor, Zhu Youjian.
Do the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty prefer Zhu Youjian, who is legal and upright, or do they prefer Prince Fu, who is middle-aged and has been a political enemy for many years?
Except for Zheng Yangxing, no one would choose King Fu...
But so what!?
Zheng Yangxing pointed at the East Palace and said: "Since the East Palace is under attack, we will go over and kill the prince with greater force."
It also points to the direction of the three incomplete halls and Qianqing Palace in the north.
"Look, everyone, we have defeated the Jingying camp. It has only been a quarter of an hour. Some of them were sitting on the ground and took off their armor, and some were still searching the palace to steal things.
We will defeat the Beijing camp first, chase them to Qianqing Palace in one breath, and then suddenly head east! In this way, we also bypassed Teng Xiang's left guard east of Huangji Gate."
The rebels had no other choice but to nod.
The 1,000 Tengxiang left guards on the east side of Huangji Gate frightened them, so everyone thought it would be better to go around the Qianqing Palace.
Even Tengxiang's left guard will follow them and will never let them go east easily. It is better than being surrounded here.
"Master! There's a situation!"
"Oh? What's wrong?"
"More than half of the Tengxiang left guards have withdrawn! Only 300 people are left staring at us!"
"What a good thing!"
Zheng Yangxing was ecstatic. After seeing it with his own eyes from the Huangji Gate, he even laughed wildly.
"God helps me!"
……
Zhu Youxiao and Liu Shimin left the East Palace and walked north.
The palace has already been under martial law.
Many eunuchs were armed and stationed at key positions. The palace ladies gathered in the harem to prepare for vital preparations such as putting out fires and rescuing people.
As soon as they reached the Fengxian Hall, many figures suddenly rushed out from the bushes, immediately surrounding the two of them.
Judging from the number of people, there are more than a dozen people.
There were trees planted in the Ming Dynasty Palace. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that the vegetation was cleared due to fires and assassins, and only the back garden was preserved.
There were actually a dozen rebels ambushed in the nearby bushes.
Each held a long sword or a short sword, pointing at the two of them.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince... Oh, it seems that I should call you His Royal Highness Jianguo, right?"
Wang Wenyan walked out with a smile and lightly lit a torch.
He waved his hand, and several rangers stepped forward and pinned Liu Shimin to the ground.
He sighed: "If it weren't for your father-in-law Liu Shimin who hindered Hui Shiyang, so many people wouldn't have died."
Zhu Youxiao sneered: "You asked those people to rush into the East Palace just now, and it was you who killed them."
"That's right, but it's also wrong. In the beginning, we expected thousands of people to capture it directly. Once the cannon went off, they could only be used as cannon fodder... But it was worth it! Because I caught you!"
Wang Wenyan didn't waste much time and drew his sword and pointed it at Zhu Youxiao.