Chapter 413: Destroying the palace city, killing people indiscriminately
Guiziliu didn't take action. He was still watching the fires all over the city at Chongwen Gate. He couldn't help reciting a poem, but at the same time he was worried that the Forbidden City would be burned down, making Guiziliu the great sinner of the country.
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Although, he may not have the idea of taking advantage of the situation to loot the Forbidden City.
But, if you think about it, it’s not a crime.
There are actually three groups of people who are attacking (setting fire to) the Forbidden City.
Three groups of people do not belong to each other and do not know each other's existence.
The first group is the Special Operations Division of the Gongjinhui, which is mainly composed of Han Army bannermen. There are 12 members in total, including three members from Sula and two members from Sichuan Green Camp.
Their mission was not to invade the Forbidden City, but to set fire to the Dongmenhua area to create the illusion that the clan members and even the Eight Banners were rebelling, thereby causing panic in the palace and achieving their ulterior motives.
This criminal gang has accomplished its mission very well.
After the fire broke out, Meng Qiwen, the forward commander of the Xianghuang Banner Han Army, prepared to lead his people to evacuate to avoid being blocked by the escort troops coming from nearby.
Meng Qiwen's ancestor was Meng Qiaofang, the governor of the three sides who was appointed as the second minister by the emperor, the minister of the Ministry of War, and the crown prince's Taibao.
It's just that the Meng family fell early in their family fortunes. During the Kangxi period, the title of third-class captain of light vehicles passed down from their ancestors was revoked. Therefore, the Meng family was a typical Eight Banners failure in both the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties.
Meng Qiwen was able to be given an opportunity by Qili to take the Tang Ashi exam and go to Jinchuan to train. It is said that he must be grateful to the lifelong honorary president Jia Jia.
If Lord Jia hadn't entrusted He Shen with his help and persuaded Shangshu Yinglian of the Ministry of Punishment to enter the palace and appointed him as the second minister, the families of the Han army's heroes would have been reduced to setting up stalls near the imperial city on weekdays.
How could Meng Qiwen, who was already listed on the flag list, be qualified to take the exam to worship Tang A, and how could he be qualified to become the vice president of the Beijing branch and the commander of the special operations.
After looking around, Meng Qiwen ordered to withdraw.
Their next mission was to pick up the members of the army who were posing as guards to massacre the clan members, and then escape while the city was in chaos to wait and see what would happen.
The action plan was personally deployed by Director Liu of the Liaison Office and Commissioner Vatican. The entire action had only one program, which was to create chaos.
Using rumors flying in the sky to impact the legitimacy of Qianlong's throne, using the clan's doubts about Qianlong, and through a series of events, conflicts escalated in the dark.
Fires were set outside the palace, all over the city, and fires were also set inside the palace at the same time.
"Hurry up, the guards are coming!"
Everyone rushed to smash the last oil cans on the palace wall and prepared to jump into the Jinshui River and swim away. They didn't want to wait for them to evacuate, but fireworks rose into the sky in the distance and continued to explode.
Looking at the direction of the fireworks, it looks like the direction of Shenwu Gate and Meridian Gate.
There were people at the Nansan Institute shouting at the top of their lungs about killing Qianlong and protecting the Qing Dynasty, and there were gunshots and shouts of killing.
This movement made Meng Qiwen and the others a little dazed. When the guards from Shangsanqi rushed towards them, they woke up like a dream and quickly jumped into the river and sneaked away.
"Who set off the fireworks?!"
Sun Wufu, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Han army who was running towards Xihua Gate with a red flag, was also looking at the fireworks exploding in the sky. He was surprised and wondered if they had been discovered in the palace, but he heard the shouts of killing Qianlong and protecting the Qing Dynasty in the distance.
He couldn't help but cheer up, and told his subordinates that someone else in the clan must have taken action.
"The Emperor is finished, everyone follow me into the palace!"
Sun Wufu pulled his cousin Lingxian, who was still confused, and led nearly three hundred Han soldiers who were seeking wealth and wealth in danger. They rushed toward Xihua Gate with muskets and bows and arrows.
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Outside the Xihua Gate, dozens of guards under Tuoyin Tuobu and his subordinates from the Zhengbai Banner Manchurian Guard School were also startled by the sudden explosion of fireworks. They all looked around, wondering what was going on.
Suddenly, he saw a large group of people approaching Xihua Gate in front of him. Tuoyin Tuobu quickly led people to stop them. However, before he knew what was happening, gunshots rang out from the opposite side.
Seven or eight gunshots rang out, and three of the guards fell to the ground. Before the rest of the group could clear their ears, a large group of people rushed up to attack them crazily.
Tuoyin Tuobu was hit in the face by a big arrow and died tragically on the spot.
"Close the door quickly, close the door quickly!"
The guards who fled hurriedly into the palace shouted at the people inside to close the door, but the gang of rebels who broke into the palace followed closely behind.
Datai, the military commander who was guarding the Xihua Gate, came out of his duty station. Hearing that there were rebels breaking into the palace, this military commander who had been favored by the emperor in this life actually felt weak in his legs and feet, and abandoned his men on the spot and fled to the palace.
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Datai's escape caused the guards guarding the Xihua Gate to panic. The thieves who broke into the palace were extremely ferocious. They rushed in along the palace gate, shouting slogans of killing the emperor.
More than a dozen guards plucked up the courage to stop him with their knives, but were instantly overwhelmed by the thieves.
When the other guards saw this, they fled separately.
Sun Wufu was overjoyed to succeed. Since he didn't know where the emperor was at this time, he asked his sworn brother Guo Qing to lead a group of people to kill in the direction of Cining Palace, while he and his cousin Lingxian rushed in the direction of Qianqing Palace.
On the way, he passed through Shangyi Prison, Wenying Hall, Wuying Hall and other places, killing everyone he saw.
The concubines in the palace and Princess Gege and Fujin who entered the palace to mourn were shocked and panicked when they heard the shouts of killing coming from outside.
The Yellow Sect lamas who performed rituals for the Queen Mother were also frightened and ran around.
At the same time, a team of more than a hundred people climbed over the wall from the direction of Shenwu Gate and entered the palace. They went from Yin'an Palace and Imperial Garden to Kunning Palace and went straight to Yangxin Palace.
The palace is very large and has many buildings, but these people seem to be familiar with the road and have no worries about getting lost.
Just because there were several palace eunuchs leading the way for this team.
The members of this team are either servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or slaves of the Prince Baylor's family.
Their leader is Yang Bao.
There are fourteen people with the surname Yang in the team, all of whom are Yang Bao's brothers and nephews.
This group of people has one identity in common, that is, they are all members of the Bagua cult.
The leader is Yang Bao.
The Yang family not only founded the Bagua Sect, but also founded many underground societies such as the Qingyang Sect and the Hongyang Sect in Gyeonggi Province, and was also related to the Qingshui Sect in Shandong.
The reason why these organizations were severely cracked down by the Qing government was because they all had a common program to fight against the Qing and exterminate Hu.
The ancestors of the Yang family started preaching hundreds of years ago and accepted a disciple named Han Shantong.
Going forward a hundred years, the Mongols destroyed the Song Dynasty. The Yang family fought hard against the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties in the southwest. They were named the Imperial Majesty Army by the Southern Song Dynasty court. After that, they built Diaoyu City and joined forces with other armies in the Southern Song Dynasty to kill Meng Ge, the great Khan of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.
Going forward in time, the ancestors of the Yang family traveled all the way from Taiyuan to the southwest with less than two thousand generals from the Ding family to drive away Nanzhao and regain most of Guizhou.
From then on, there was a branch of the Yang family there, namely the Bozhou Yang family.
For hundreds of years since then, the Yang family has been the guardian of Bozhou, until the birth of Yang Yinglong the year before last, ending the more than 700 years of hereditary rule of the Yang family in Bozhou.
In Yang Bao's generation, because his ancestors were kidnapped by Qing soldiers and enslaved outside the customs, they were forced to work as slaves for hundreds of years.
However, no matter which generation of the Yang family they belong to, all the children of the Yang family keep in mind the teachings of their ancestors and not to be slaves to foreigners.
Therefore, generations of the Yang family, whether they are Han people who are not in the banner, or slaves who are in the banner, have always been secretly preaching.
Yang Bao even used his status as a slave to preach in the palace, recruiting five eunuchs as followers, and also spread the message among the clan. Although he had only accepted two clan disciples and more than a dozen bannermen in more than ten years.
teaching, but it is a huge breakthrough in the history of Bagua Sect.
As time goes by, Yang Bao believes that more and more clan bannermen will join the Bagua Cult.
Originally, Yang Bao and the others would never take risks and expose their existence prematurely.
But now, it's a God-given opportunity.
If they miss it, I'm afraid God will punish them.
"Kill Qianlong and protect the Qing Dynasty!"
The man in front holding a sword in both hands is called Guitai. He came to Beijing from Shandong a few months ago to contact the Bagua Sect to prepare for a joint uprising, but Yang Bao did not agree because of his lack of strength.
Later, Mrs. Gui went to Sichuan to contact the ghost family, but on the way she heard that the Qing army surrounded Linqing and the leader Wang Lun died in the battle.
Unwilling to fail, Gui Taisui secretly sneaked back to Beijing, hoping to persuade Yang Bao to lead the Bagua Cult in revolt to avenge leader Wang Lun.
At this time, rumors that Qianlong was a Han had spread to the capital, and all kinds of soul-calling magic arts were emerging in endlessly. As the rumors in Beijing became more and more popular, Yang Bao finally decided to take risks.
"Kill Qianlong and protect the Qing Dynasty!"
Yang Bao was also shouting vigorously that this slogan was chosen by him, but it was absolutely impossible for his Bagua Cult to protect the Qing Dynasty.
Shouting this slogan is just to make the city full of blood.
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Author's note: Yang Bao and others first founded the Bagua Sect to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and then accepted disciples like Li Wencheng, Lin Qing, Hai Kang, etc., and launched the Tianli Sect uprising during the Jiaqing period.