Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Flames Soar into the Sky
Suddenly, a burst of fire rushed out from the southeast, and Sang Lanzhu exclaimed: "Princess! It's on fire! ”
Immediately after that, a burst of fire rushed out from the north, west, and south, and in a moment, the entire city of Beijing burst into flames, and the sky and the earth were illuminated as if it were day. Then, there was an earth-shattering shout from the direction of the prison of the Criminal Department behind, and Princess Jianning said stupidly: "It's started!" ”
"Let's go! Come on! Sang Lanzhu was shocked, she had never seen this meeting, and she was worried about Jianning's safety and urged.
"Leave it to fate! May they succeed! Princess Jianning glanced back and gently lowered the sedan curtain.
"It's on fire! It's on fire! ”
"Hurry up and put out the fire! Fight the fire! ”
They marched quickly to the sound of shouts one after another. After they walked away, the two black shadows behind them also retreated.
After turning a few streets, Sang Lanzhu pointed ahead and exclaimed, "Princess, look! There was also a fire in the palace! ”
"Stop! Stop it! Princess Jianning patted the sedan chair, she realized that the problem was serious, this was not a simple prison rescue, and she couldn't help but regret it a little.
Now the whole city of Beijing is in chaos, there are fires everywhere, shouts everywhere, and many people are running in panic, not knowing whether to run for their lives, to put out fires, or to see the excitement. A burly guard rudely grabbed a passerby running towards this direction and asked, "What's going on?" ”
Passers-by said abruptly: "The palace is on fire, someone is attacking the palace, and the sky is going to change!" Run! ”
"What are you talking nonsense?" The guard "snapped" the man to the ground.
Sang Lanzhu asked anxiously: "Princess! What to do? ”
Jian Ning pondered for a while, and said decisively: "Liu Jian, Li Qiang! Go ahead and see what's going on! Then he turned to the rest of the people, pointed not far away, and said, "Let's take shelter in that restaurant for a while!" ”
Sang Lanzhu cried: "No! I'm going to save the Queen Mother! Save the Emperor! ”
Princess Jianning comforted her with kind words: "Sister Lan! I'm more anxious than you, I want to save the emperor and the queen mother more than you, but we can't help anything, but become a burden to them, we are waiting for news here, rest assured! They'll be fine. ”
At the gate of the prison of the Criminal Department, there were more than a dozen corpses lying horizontally and vertically, but the big iron gate of the prison of the Criminal Department was still tightly closed, and the hundreds of people with black scarves outside punched, kicked, and shouted to kill, but they still could not shake it in the slightest. Inside, the warm and soft brocade was also "shouting and killing", Glenn hugged Yi Ying's smooth and crispy body and chrysalis frantically, and Yi Ying slipped a drop of clear eyes in the soft moaning under him.
There was a rush of footsteps in the distance, and after a moment he rushed to the door, and then a voice said urgently: "My lord! Something's wrong......"
In the cotton waves, Yi Ying suddenly turned over and rode on Glenn, shaking his body and humming: "My lord! The slave family said that they don't like people to make trouble, you see ......! Her words covered out the voices outside.
Glenn was so relieved that he was in heaven, resisted the urge to flow, picked up a shoe under the bed and threw it outside the door, shouting, "Get out!" ”
"Great, great! Big things are not good! There was another knock on the door.
Yi Yingjiao snorted, and the life-threatening ** sound made Glenn's blood tremble.
"Chunwang! You want to die! I chopped you! Glenn swept a cup next to the bed and smashed it over, "Don't get out yet!" ”
This sound, this loud shout made Chunwang tremble in fright, and Igren's character really couldn't help but say that he had cut him.
He took a step back wistfully, frowned anxiously, and said in the words of his hometown: "Who is this Luo?" "Turn around in place, there is nothing to do, just run outside, just don't have anything outside! As soon as he heard a shout outside, he ran to report it, and now he doesn't know what the situation is outside.
Outside, knives and slashes could not shake the gate of the prison of the Criminal Department, and the black-clothed masked people were as anxious as ants in a hot nest, and a thin black shadow said in a hoarse voice: "Commander Chen!" What to do? But it was Qian Yunfang's anxious voice, they attacked the prison of the Criminal Department except for starting to shoot down some Qing soldiers, and now there is no progress.
Chen Renjian also had nothing to do, he shook the big knife and looked at Gui Ming on the left, Gui Ming said in a deep voice: "Everyone retreat!" Tang Nan, led the first group to guard on the left; Chen Zhengcheng, led the second group on the right guard; Liu Shengming led the third group to search for wooden ladders in nearby houses; The rest of the people split into two rows of arrows and faced the gate! ”
Qian Yunfang asked inexplicably: "Chief Gui guard!" Don't attack the goal? They were all covered with black scarves, and no one could see anyone's expressions clearly, and Qian Yunfang also covered his head.
Gui Ming said: "Wait for the siege wood!" ”
"Then why hasn't the siege tree come yet? Why haven't you come yet? "Every minute and every second of time now is extremely precious, Qian Yunfang has always looked at the road, and he can only count on the siege wood.
The entire rescue operation started on time, with the fire in the horse room of the Qing court's military department in the southeast as a signal, and the various action groups acted in unison, and the people from the Efu Mansion specialized in the prison of the Criminal Department.
"Report! A group of people are running from the northwest! Chen Zhengcheng, who was on guard on the right, ran over to report.
Chen Zhengcheng was seriously injured when attacking the people of Mu Wangfu in West Hutong, and after recovering from his injuries, he was reused by Gui Ming, and is now the captain of Team B of the Flying Leopard Group. The other two, Tang Nan and Liu Shengming, are the captains of team A and team C respectively.
Chen Renjian asked nervously, "How many people?" ”
Gui Ming didn't care about this, and just calmly arranged: "The fourth and fifth groups will go to the right to reinforce the second group!" "All the people involved in the operation were divided into ten groups, nine of which participated in the operation, and the tenth group stayed outside the city to respond.
Qian Yunfang suddenly remembered something, and asked urgently: "Who is here?" Rest assured, he waved his hand: "Guard Chen!" Let's go, I'll go with you to see! ”
After a while, Qian Yunfang turned around happily and said excitedly: "It's the person sent by the third prince of Zhu to send reinforcements!" ”
Yin Renjian was overjoyed: "How many people? ”
Qian Yunfang said: "More than 200 people! All with knives and guns! ”
Gui Ming ordered: "Let them stand behind the arrow array, and when the door is opened, rush in together!" ”
"Good!" Qian Yunfang responded, and immediately became anxious again: "Then why hasn't the siege wood come yet?" Why haven't you come yet? ”
At this time, Liu Chunming from the third group hurriedly ran to report: "Commander Chen! Two wooden ladders were found! ”
Chen Renjian looked at Gui Ming, and Gui Ming did not hesitate: "Attack immediately on the shelf!" ”
Chen Renjian asked worriedly: "Will it be too little?" ”
Gui Ming said resolutely: "I can't care about it so much, let's attack it first!" ”
After the two wooden ladders were put on the frame, Fang found that one of them was too short to reach, and the other one was also a big section away, and people had to climb it to climb the wall, but it was not easy to go up to one, and the head was poked down by the people inside as soon as it was exposed, and the head hit the ground and died on the spot.
Qian Yunfang saw that it couldn't be done again, and was anxious: "What should I do?" ”
Gui Ming was expressionless, and said calmly: "Combine the two ladders into one, and continue to attack!" ”
At this moment, someone came to report: "Master! Command! The siege wood is coming! Sure enough, there was the sound of a carriage ahead.
This siege tree is a quarter of an hour after missing the patrol, and the siege wood is not big, it may only be the size of a coffin beam, but the gate of the prison of the Siege Department is still more than enough.
"Master! Command! Huang Lianqiang came to report! A man jumped out of the carriage, followed by four people.
Qian Yunfang was excited: "Hurry up!" Drag the siege timber over! ”
Gui Ming interrupted Qian Yunfang, who was screaming blindly, and gave an order in a clear manner: "The fourth group uses wood to attack the door; The fifth group is on guard and serves as a reserve for the fourth group; The sixth and seventh groups continued to draw their bows and keep guard; The rest gathered their bows and drew their swords, ready to charge inward; The third prince's man followed; The first and second groups continued to stay outside on guard; The third group is with the three of us! ”
The orders were passed down one by one, and Gui Ming glanced at Huang Lianqiang who was still standing in front of him and did not move, so he asked: "Huang Lianqiang!" Are you okay? ”
Huang Lianqiang glanced at Chen Renjian and said, "Chief Gui Guard!" Chen Tongfeng ...... "He wanted to speak and stopped.
"What's wrong with Chen Tongfeng? Say! Only then did Gui Ming find out that Chen Tongfeng did not appear, and Li Fenxian did not appear either. Both of them were arranged in Huang Lianqiang's group to be responsible for transporting siege trees.
"What's wrong with Tong Feng, say it quickly!" Chen Renjian also found that something was wrong and couldn't help but ask urgently.
Huang Lianqiang said: "Chen Tongfeng was killed by Li Fenxian!" ”
"What?" Qian Yunfang grabbed Huang Lianqiang.
Chen Renjian was dizzy for a while, he could barely stand, Gui Ming held him, and now he completely understood the sentence brought out by Shizi - if you want to eat plums, you must be big and sweet, which means that you want to kill Li Fenxian!
He regretted it! At the beginning, he and Qian Yunfang had doubts, but they didn't dare to make a decision easily without evidence, for fear of wronging a good person. As a precaution, they also took some precautionary measures: it was strictly forbidden to go out, not allowed to be alone, and also sent Chen Tongfeng to secretly monitor Li Fenxian, without thinking about harming his life!
No wonder the retreat plan was leaked, no wonder the prince was arrested, no wonder he was alone, no wonder he dared to swagger on the street, no wonder he kept wanting to go out when he was in the secret room, all because he was a traitor!
Shocked, Qian Yunfang asked worriedly: "Chief Gui Guard!" Li Fenxian, will the thief ruin our big deal? ”
Gui Ming said: "The action has been launched, and he is not in a hurry to think of bad things." ”
Qian Yunfang was still worried: "But he knows that we will retreat south from the south gate!" ”
Gui Ming sighed: "We had to really choose to retreat from the north gate!" "The original plan was to fake the north gate and choose the south gate.
The more Gui Ming spoke, the more irritable he became, and a monstrous hatred poured out: "Li Fenxian! You traitor, I will break your body to pieces, crush your bones and scatter ashes! At this time, after dozens of impacts, the gate of the prison of the Criminal Department had been smashed open, and Gui Ming took out his big knife and shouted: "Kill!" ”