Chapter 265: The End of the Qing Dynasty (9)
It's just that Dinghui Temple is a big temple, and there are no less than 100 houses in the temple.
When Yang Rui was anxious, he saw Zhu Jiong, the squadron leader of the first squadron of the second brigade, come over and said, "Chief, we caught a eunuch, and he said that he knew that Cixi and Guangxu were hiding there. ”
When Yang Rui heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said, "What about the people, bring him over." ”
After a short time, I saw several soldiers escorting one person to Yang Rui's face, this person was thin, with a pure white complexion, short eyebrows and fine eyes, but he had no beard under his chin, and he couldn't tell how old he was, but there were still a lot of wrinkles on his face and at the corners of his eyes, so he was about 40-50 years old.
It turned out that Zhu Jiong led the soldiers to clean up a side hall, and just fired two shots at the window, he heard someone inside shouting "spare life" and "surrender", and there was a woman's voice, so Zhu Jiong immediately stopped the soldiers from shooting, and when he opened the door of the palace, it turned out that there were several eunuchs and palace maids inside, and they were all frightened.
Zhu Jiong was also a little embarrassed, he didn't have much merit in capturing these prisoners, and he couldn't let them go, and he didn't know where to supervise them, so he finally decided to let them stay in this side hall and send two people to guard them. So Zhu Jiong also said a few words to these eunuchs and palace maids, "stay honest" and "don't play any tricks" and so on. And at this moment, Zhu Jiong suddenly remembered and asked, "Do any of you know where Cixi and Guangxu are hiding?"
These eunuchs and palace maids all looked at each other, and no one spoke. Zhu Jiong didn't care, and when he was about to leave, a eunuch suddenly said in a trembling voice: "Junmen, the slave knows, the slave knows." ”
Several other eunuchs and palace maids all looked at the eunuch just mentioned, and two of them still glared at him angrily, and the eunuch was also a little frightened and shrank back. But Zhu Jiong immediately came to his senses and said, "Do you know where Cixi and Guangxu are hiding? Tell me quickly, don't be afraid." As he spoke, he glared at several other eunuchs and palace maids, and when those people saw Zhu Jiong's fierce gaze, they were all frightened and shrunk into a ball.
When the eunuch saw that the others were frightened back, he couldn't help but be emboldened, and said, "Junmen, the slave can lead you there, just behind the main hall." ”
So Zhu Jiong immediately led the eunuch to see Yang Rui, and as soon as he heard that Yang Rui was the chief, the eunuch immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Slave Huang Jin, please say hello to the chief." ”
Although it was at this critical moment, Yang Rui almost didn't laugh out loud when he saw him like this, and said, "Stand up and speak first." ”
Huang Jin said: "Wow!" then stood up.
Yang Rui said: "Huang Jin, do you know where Cixi and Guangxu are hiding?"
Huang Jin hurriedly bowed down and said: "Looking back at the words of the chief, the slave knows, and the slave knows." ”
Yang Rui frowned, this dead eunuch was completely flattering, it was really disgusting, and several soldiers around couldn't help but cover their mouths and smile, Yang Rui glared at them fiercely, and said: "In front of us, don't come to this set, you take us to catch Cixi and Guangxu, if you really catch it, you have a meritorious performance." ”
Huang Jin hurriedly nodded again and again, and said, "Yes, yes, thank you, chief, thank you, chief." ”
Yang Rui was also a little crying and laughing, knowing that this set was already a conditioned reflex in Huang Jin, he came when he opened his mouth, and he didn't go through his brain at all, and he couldn't change it in a short time, so he didn't bother to say it anymore, so he said to Zhu Jiong: "You take two teams and go with him to see if what he said is true." ”
Zhu Jiong nodded and said, "Yes!" and turned to Huang Jin again: "Lead the way." ”
So under the leadership of Huang Jin, Zhu Jiong led two teams of about 30 soldiers through the Daxiong Treasure Hall and came to the backyard of the temple, which had not been affected by the war for the time being, and was still very calm.
Huang Jin pointed to a side hall with a closed door in front of him and said, "It's here." Before the words fell, a few gunshots were immediately heard.
Although the bullets flew somewhere, the soldiers of the People's Army still immediately found a place to hide, and even Zhu Jiong grabbed Huang Jin and hid behind a big tree, but two soldiers still raised their submachine guns and swept in the direction of the shooting.
In fact, no one could see where the bullets were coming from just now, so they could only fire in a general direction by feeling, and the main purpose was not to attack the person who fired the shot, but to carry out a certain amount of containment and buy time for others to conceal. But after a burst of shooting, a scream was heard, and it seemed that there was a great chance of hitting the big luck with the intensive shooting.
As soon as the other soldiers were hidden, they searched for the enemy's hiding position, opened fire, and after 2 or 3 minutes, they hit 7 or 8 enemies in a row, and then there was no more gunfire to counterattack.
After waiting for more than a minute, there was still no movement, and Zhu Jiong immediately signaled to send a team to break through. So the four soldiers of a combat group cautiously came out from behind the bunker, vigilantly pushed forward, crossed the courtyard, and came to the door of the side hall, and did not find any movement, so two more battle groups advanced, all of them were on guard at the door of the side hall, and the other soldiers, including Zhu Jiong and Huang Jin, also came to the door of the side hall.
Zhu Jiong asked Huang Jindao: "Is this in this?"
Huang Jin nodded again and again and said, "This is here, this is here." ”
Zhu Jiong nodded and said, "Knock on the door." ”
Two soldiers with submachine guns, a burst of strafing at the door, the gate of the hall is not thick, the bullets of the submachine gun can easily penetrate the door panel, but when the soldier shoots, he deliberately points the muzzle of the gun obliquely downward, so that after the bullet penetrates the door panel, it will shoot to the ground and will not cause harm to the people in the hall, because Zhu Jiong wants to capture Cixi and Guangxu, not kill the two, of course, if it is hit by a bullet that rebounds from the ground, then he can only blame his bad luck.
Sure enough, after the shooting was over, I only heard the screams and cries in the hall once, obviously there were people, not a few, so Zhu Jiong immediately said: "Kick the door and crash in." ”
A soldier raised his leg and kicked the door of the temple very hard, kicking the door open, and several soldiers rushed in with their guns, shouting: "Don't move", "Raise your hands", "Don't resist", etc.
Zhu Jiong took the soldiers into the hall to take a look, there were nearly 20 people inside, there were men and women, old and young, looking at the clothes and waiting for guards, eunuchs, palace maids, officials, and a few monks, although he didn't know who was Guangxu and who was Cixi, but looking at the clothes and accessories could also be roughly seen, after all, this escape, because of the full preparations, Cixi and Guangxu did not change their normal clothes, or they were dressed in the clothes and accessories of the queen mother and the emperor, which were completely different from others. It's just that all of them turned pale with fright, and some of them even trembled all over.
Zhu Jiong didn't ask quickly, but just commanded the soldiers to be optimistic about these people, and searched for anyone else in the hall, and at the same time sent someone to report to Yang Duan.
It turned out that Cixi and Guangxu were resting in the quiet room, and learned that Dinghui Temple was broken by the People's Army, and they also knew that the general trend was coming, but after all, they still had to struggle for a while, so Yixuan and Zaifeng found a few guards to protect Cixi, Guangxu and others from the quiet room, and wanted to escape from the side door, but the side door had already been blocked by the People's Army, and they couldn't escape at all, so they could only retreat to the temple.
After a while, he finally hid in a side hall behind the Daxiong Treasure Palace, where there were several monks hiding, Huang Jin followed Cixi and Guangxu to hide in the side hall first, and was later sent by Li Lianying to find someone to escort him, but was captured by the People's Army, and Cixi and Guangxu were confessed.
As soon as Yang Duan heard that he suspected of catching Cixi and Guangxu, he immediately lifted his spirits, and hurriedly rushed over with a team. However, before entering the hall, I saw Huang Jin standing outside the hall. It turned out that although Huang Jin confessed Cixi and Guangxu, after all, he had been coerced for many years, so he did not dare to enter the palace to face Cixi and Guangxu at this time.
Yang Duan listened to his reason, and was also a little disdainful in his heart, and said, "What are you afraid of, follow me in." They are all captives now, what else is there to be afraid of, you still have meritorious service. Of course, Huang Jin was not allowed to refuse at this time, so he had to follow Yang Duan into the hall together.
After entering the hall, Yang Duan said: "Take a good look, who is here." ”
And before Huang Jin could speak, Li Lianying jumped up, pointed at Huang Jin and scolded: "Huang Jin, you damn slave, you actually betrayed the queen mother and the emperor......"
But before he could finish speaking, a soldier raised a kick, kicked Li Lianying to the ground, and said, "Be honest." ”
But Li Lianying was still a little tough, although she was kicked to the ground, she still kept talking: "You dead slave, the queen mother and the emperor can't stand you, why do you want to do this, I won't spare you even if I am a ghost." ”
Huang Jin's face was red and white when he was scolded by Li Lianying, and he suddenly said: "Manager Li, why do I want to sell the Queen Mother and the Emperor, you first ask Lafayette how he killed Ping'er." ”
When Li Lianying heard this, she couldn't help but be stunned and speechless. At this time, Huang Jin obviously let it go, pointed at Cixi and said, "Lafayette, when you ordered Ping'er to be killed the day before yesterday, you didn't expect it to be today." ”
Only then did Cixi remember that the palace maid who was ordered to be killed by herself the day before yesterday was indeed called Ping'er, and Huang Jin was a vegetable household. The so-called vegetable household refers to the palace maid and the eunuch forming a nominal couple. In the palace, some eunuchs with status and power often find a palace maid to form a vegetable household, one is that someone serves the living, and the other is also after their retirement, there is a companion, and sometimes they will ask the emperor or queen to give a certain palace maid to themselves as a wife, and the palace maid can not refuse under normal circumstances, and after forming a vegetable household, there is also a reliance in the palace, after all, the eunuchs who can marry wives are quite powerful in the palace.
Of course, for Cixi, it is common to kill a few palace maids, and she doesn't care if this palace maid is a vegetable household, whose vegetable household it is, after all, whether it is a palace maid or a eunuch, the power of life and death is in Cixi's hands, fight if you want, kill if you want, kill if you want, when the palace maid named Ping'er was ordered to be killed in the palace the day before yesterday, Cixi didn't think much about it at all, so she knew that this time she really caused trouble.