When the funeral of Wu Yingxiong, the prince of Pingxi, and Hesheri Zhaohui, the deposed prince, was in full swing, the confrontation under the dark of Beijing City also reached a white-hot stage, in just three days, Kong Sizhen's bed was a replacement man with a price of beads, and Kangxi's henchmen at all levels were also attacking everywhere, and the nine deputy generals under Wu Liuyi, the commander of Jiumen who was in charge of the defense of Jiumen, were successively replaced by five people - Ao Bai also started the idea of setting up Wu Liuyi, and after several open and secret fights, Ao Bai's cronies Wu Gesai and Asiha were An** Libujun commanded the yamen, controlled the Xuanwu Gate and Desheng Gate, which were closest to the Forbidden City, plus the Andingmen with yellow flags stationed in Aobai's control, Aobai actually had one-third of the nine gates, which greatly increased Aobai's confidence, and decided to launch a coup d'état on May 24, the eighth year of Kangxi, to abolish Kangxi, and set up Shunzhi's youngest son Aixin Jueluo Longxi as a puppet emperor! And this day happened to be the day of Wu Yingxiong and Zhaohui's funeral......

As soon as the plan was decided, the gang of henchmen under Ao Xiangye quietly became active, and Aobai's nephew, the squire of the military department, Saiben, had to give several orders in a row, first secretly ordering the 15,000 green battalion soldiers stationed north of Badaling and Ao Bai transferred from Zhangjiakou to take the opportunity to pull out the camp on May 23, and be sure to arrive at the city of Beijing before the early morning of May 24, and listen to Aobai's orders at any time; At the same time, he ordered the commander of the Fengtai garrison, Omoktu, to start martial law on the evening of 23 May under the pretext of military drills, and to be on call at any time. In addition, Guan Bao, the commander-in-chief of the Tianjin garrison, was also an old general used by Aobai, and he also received an order to raise troops on the night of the 23rd, gallop to the aid of Beijing in the early morning of the 24th, and join forces with the Badaling garrison and the Fengtai garrison to besiege Beijing on three sides.

The army outside Beijing City is arranged, but the more critical thing is the control of the Forbidden City, if Aobai can't control this imperial court power pivot, then Kangxi can completely hold Beijing City with the city defense and Wu Liuyi's army, and insist on the arrival of reinforcements from other places, so Aobai only regards the three armies outside as a response and containment, and the real focus is on the city. And the layout in Aobai City is like this, not to mention the chengguan camp, although Taosai took over the chengguan camp, several deputy commanders are still left by Mulima, and when the time comes, just find an excuse to imprison Taosai, it is still a trustworthy army; The task of containing Wu Liuyi was handed over to Wu Gesai and Asiha, as for the most critical Forbidden City, it was arranged by Ao Bai's Yizi Forbidden Army Commander Nemo, and Ao Bai personally commanded, in addition, Bamburshan and Ji Shi and others also had 4,000 green battalion soldiers in their hands, which could fully undertake the task of blocking the various portals of the Forbidden City. After everything was smoothly arranged, Ao Bai was already full of confidence in his upcoming victory......

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the time is already ugly in the early morning of May 24, the eighth year of Kangxi......

Although the time is late at night, the Fengtai garrison camp is still brightly lit, each guard tower has added double guards, the whole army does not leave the body, standing with a fight, in the camp of the school yard black pressure stand a large area, anyone who sees it, knows that this big battalion guarding the safety of Gyeonggi is about to have a big move, but the sergeants do not know what action is about to happen, just waiting for the order from the main camp of the Chinese army. But what they didn't know was that in the main camp that was in charge of the movement of the Fengtai garrison, a bloody storm was being staged......

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor Zhao said." The commander of the Fengtai garrison, who was already sixty years old, held a Ming and Huang holy decree in his hand and read it aloud to the adjutant generals, guerrillas, and generals who knelt in the hall: "With Omoktu leading the Fengtai garrison, the Fengtai garrison will be immediately drawn out, stationed in the nine cities outside Beijing, and take over the city defense. Chin this. ”

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live." After all the generals kowtowed and thanked him, Omoktu put down the holy decree and smiled: "Everyone has heard clearly, hurry up and light your own soldiers and horses and prepare to pull." Wang Jiuqian, you lead the people of the headquarters to take over the Chongwen Gate, Asiqi, you lead the people of the headquarters to take charge of the ...... of the Hade Gate. ”

"Slow! The decree is not right! When Omoktu was dispatching troops, Bai Lutai, the deputy general of the Fengtai garrison, suddenly stood up and shouted: "The holy decree is false!" Don't be fooled! ”

"Is the decree false?" As soon as Bai Lutai said this, most of the army generals present except for a few people changed color in shock, and they all turned their heads and ears. Omoktu was even more shocked and angry, and shouted: "Bai Lutai, are you crazy about losing your heart? This holy decree was drafted in the study, written by the head of the Hanlin Academy, and sealed by the emperor himself, how can it be fake? On what basis do you say that this decree is false? ”

"Why?" Bai Lutai sneered: "Just rely on the holy decree of the emperor's handwritten edict in my arms!" As he spoke, Bai Lutai took out a bright yellow scroll from his arms, unfolded it and read: "The emperor has a hand on Chongqing, the Fengtai garrison Omoktu party is attached to worship, and he has ill intentions, so he will be dismissed from his post immediately, and the post of commander of the Fengtai garrison will be acted by the deputy general Bai Lutai." Chin this! ”

"Generals, please see, this is the emperor's handwritten handwriting, and the big seal of the Heart Nourishing Palace is used on it." Bai Lutai unfolded the holy decree written by Kangxi himself and showed it to the generals one by one, and then sneered at Omoktu and asked: "Lord Commander, this matter is strange, I have a special decree of the emperor in my hand, and you also have a holy decree drafted in the study, the content is completely different, how can this be explained?" The holy decree in Bai's hand has been checked by your colleagues, and the holy decree in the hand of the commander is also taken out for your colleagues to check and see? ”

"This is strange, it turns out that Vice Admiral Bai also has a holy decree in his hand." Omoktu forced his composure, and said with a smile on his face: "The commander didn't know that the emperor had such a secret edict, presumably he made a mistake in the study, and the commander sent someone into the city to inquire about the reason, and he would always find out." As he explained, the corners of his eyes were looking at several of the generals he had brought from Xi'an to Gyeonggi, signaling them to come out and relieve the siege, not wanting them all to look away, pretending not to see his eyes.

"Lord Commander, I don't have to bother you to inquire about the reason." Bai Lutai said murderously: "From now on, the villain will take your place, if there is anyone who does not serve the show, there will be no forgiveness!" Speaking of this, Bai Lutai strode to the main position of the hall, pushed away the Omoktu, grabbed the general order in the main hall, held up the holy decree and shouted angrily: "The emperor personally wrote for this, do you want to serve it?" ”

"Wait for the minister!" At least half of the middle and lower-ranking officers of the Fengtai garrison knelt neatly and shouted in unison, and the other officers also knelt down to accept the order when they saw that it was the trend of the times. Only Omoktu and a few of his cronies and generals stood upright and did not kneel, but their faces were already as white as dirt, and Omoktu, who had just taken over the Fengtai camp, was sweating profusely, not knowing what to do. At this time, Bai Lutai suddenly turned his face and yelled at Omoktu: "Omoktu, do you want to resist the decree?" ”

"Omoktu dares to resist?" Omoktu hesitated and replied: "It's just that the emperor's special decree is issued directly bypassing the Ministry of War, which is really a bit strange, and Omoktu wants to confirm it again." ”

"No need to confirm." Bai Lutai said coldly: "Those who violate the order will be killed!" ”

"How dare you ......." Omoktu's words were only half called, and more than 20 people jumped up in the middle of the james, Qianzong and guerrillas who knelt all over the hall, and drew their swords and swords to Omoktu and slashed them indiscriminately. When the other Omoktu cronies and generals saw it, they dared to resist at all, all kneeling down and kowtowing, begging for mercy, but several of them were new generals brought by Omoktu from Xi'an to Beijing to grab jobs. Suddenly, the hall was filled with blood......

"The generals will listen to the order and immediately move to the city of Beijing." Bai Lutai gritted his teeth and shouted: "Without the order of the general, anyone who trespasses into Beijing City will be immediately beheaded!" ”

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At the same time, more than 5,000 cavalry of the front team of the Tianjin garrison have been under the leadership of the general army Guan Bao, and rushed to the city of Beijing to wait for orders, and when they arrived in Langfang, the front army team suddenly rushed to a horse, and ran until the front of the Chinese army team where Guan Bao was located before dismounting, and reported: "General Yu, there are ten internal guards on the official road leading to Beijing City, and the leader of the team claims to be Zhang Wanqiang, the chief eunuch of the Six Palaces, saying that there is a holy decree to be read. The deputy general of the former army does not dare to call the shots, please decide. ”

"Zhang Wanqiang, isn't he Kangxi's henchman?" Guan Bao raised the corner of his eyes, and a sense of foreboding rose in his heart, and then he shouted: "This general was ordered by the military department to move to Beijing, and let them read the holy decree when they arrived in Beijing." ”

"My lord, isn't that right?" Zhao Liangdong, who was beside Guan Bao, interjected. Because of the merit of exterminating Zhong Sanlangxiang, Zhao Liangdong has been reinstated as the deputy general of Tianjin, Zhao Liangdong said loudly: "The emperor sent someone to pass the decree overnight, presumably because the military situation has changed, as an official of the imperial court, holding the imperial court's money, the emperor sent someone to pass the decree, how can we not immediately accept the decree?" ”

"Are you the chief soldier or am I the chief soldier? Are you in charge or am I in charge? Guan Bao glared at Zhao Liangdong viciously, but seeing the suspicious looks on the faces of the other lieutenants, Guan Bao still reluctantly said: "Okay, let them come over to pass the decree." ”

The herald took the order and left, and after a while, Zhang Wanqiang and ten Tainei guards rode over and marched to the front of the army, Zhang Wanqiang unfolded a holy decree without saying a word and shouted: "The holy decree has arrived, and the Tianjin garrison will receive the order!" Zhao Liangdong took the lead in rolling the saddle and kneeling down, and the other deputy generals and generals did the same, although Guan Bao was their chief soldier but also a citizen of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he reluctantly dismounted and knelt down, kowtowed: "Tianjin General Guan Bao led his subordinate generals to receive the order. ”

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor Zhao said." Zhang Wanqiang immediately read aloud: "The Tianjin General Soldier Guan Bao led the troops to be stationed on the spot, and if it is not written by me, not a single soldier shall be moved!" Chin this! After reading it, Zhang Wanqiang put the holy decree together and said sharply: "Lord Guan, please accept the decree." ”

Things have come to this point, Guan Bao still doesn't understand that Ao Bai's intention to transfer him to Beijing to assist in the coup has been seen through by Kangxi, but Guan Bao is still very hesitant, and has the heart to accept the order, if Ao Bai succeeds in Beijing, it is strange that Ao Bai does not peel off the skin of his old subordinate afterwards; But if you don't accept the order, it is equivalent to rebellion and usurpation, and if you miss it, your own nine clans will be explained. So after hesitating again and again, Guan Bao still couldn't make a decision, and his heart was up and down. And Zhang Wanqiang's side, because Guan Bao still led an army of 5,000, he could cut them into dog meat sauce with a casual word, and he didn't dare to say anything to urge, and the situation suddenly fell into a stalemate.

"Guan Zongbing, Guan Zongbing." Guan Baozheng hesitated, and Zhao Liangdong, who was kneeling next to him, suddenly reminded in a low voice: "General Guan, don't hesitate any longer, take the order." Guan Bao glanced at Zhao Liangdong obliquely, wanting to reprimand this unruly subordinate but did not have the courage, but the sweat on his face was sprinkled all over the ground because of the slight movement of his head and neck.

"General Guan, don't hesitate any longer, take the order." Zhao Liangdong's low voice was full of seriousness and sincerity, "Don't hide it, Liangdong also has a secret decree in his arms, if the general doesn't accept the holy decree, Liangdong will attack the general." And fifteen miles ahead, there is also an ambush of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, ready to assist Liangdong in all actions. General Guan, it is not too late to rein in the precipice. ”

"What?" Guan Bao's eyes widened, and he almost cried out. Zhao Liangdong said in a low and serious voice: "General, as long as you accept the order now, Zhao Liangdong will use his life to guarantee that you are safe and sound, at most, he will be demoted to the third level, but his life will not be hindered." General Guan, please believe in Liangdong! ”

Although Guan Bao hated Zhao Liangdong, a subordinate who was proud of his talents, he knew very well that this hated subordinate was a man of his word, and after hesitating again and again, Guan Bao replied in a low voice: "General Zhao, Guan Bao's family is full of people, but it is all in your hands." With that, Guan Bao raised his head and replied loudly: "The ministers are grateful!" ”

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"Quick, quick." Zhangjiakou General Soldier Kanur urged loudly: "Let the Chinese army and the rear army speed up their pace, and they must rush to Beijing before the hour!" ”

Unlike Omoktu, Guan Bao and others, Kanur is not only the same person with the yellow flag as Aobai, but also has the same surname Guarjia - in terms of seniority, he is regarded as a nephew of Aobai who has not come out of Wufu, but he is relatively young and his military exploits are not obvious - it is true that his military exploits are not bad, but the other generals under Aobai are far worse than others, so Aobai has always put Kanur in Zhangjiakou to drink wind and eat sand, and refuses to entrust him with important tasks. It is precisely because of this that Kanur regarded this entry into Beijing to assist in the coup d'état as a way to advance to the top, and even left the Chinese army unseated, personally rushed to the front line, and led the front army to Beijing City to relax.

"Beijing City, Lao Tzu is here." Thinking of the reward given to him after the success of the coup d'état, Kanur was overjoyed, and after urging the rear army of the Chinese army to speed up again, Kanur rushed to the front and shouted: "Pass the order, as long as you arrive at the city of Beijing half an hour in advance, each person will be rewarded with five taels of silver!" ”

The treatment of the Green Battalion soldiers was much worse than that of the Eight Banner soldiers, and they were only paid one tael of silver for a month's hard work, and when they heard that as long as they arrived in Beijing half an hour in advance, they would be rewarded with five taels of silver, and the morale of the whole army was suddenly greatly boosted, and the pace suddenly quickened a lot. All the way to the gallop, before the early morning of Yin, the army led by Kanur had already passed Changping Mansion, and when the time was almost over, the front army under the command of Kanur himself arrived at Shahe in the north of Beijing.

It was the height of summer, the rain was abundant, the water volume of the Shahe River had skyrocketed, it was difficult to cross the river on foot, fortunately there were two stone bridges on the Shahe River, and the troops of the eight battalions of the front army led by Kanur personally took only half an hour to reach the south bank through the stone bridge, but there were still more than 10,000 people in the middle army and the rear army who had not crossed the bridge, and the two stone bridges had become the bottleneck of the army's rapid travel. At the same time, Kanur himself led eight battalions of the front army to Beijing first, and let the adjutant general lead all the Chinese and rear troops across the river and then arrive later—a decision that cost Kanur his own life.

Let's not say that Kanur's middle and rear army slowly crossed the river, but the front army led by Kanur crossed the river and traveled six or seven miles, and a small group of cavalry suddenly appeared in front, running to this side with torches, and at the same time, the front sentry flew to pass the message, "General, there are ten imperial guards and a eunuch in front, and the eunuch claims to be the eunuch Li Yin, the head of Cining Palace, and came to convey the edict of the Empress Dowager. ”

"The Empress Dowager's decree of that stinky old woman?" Kanur secretly screamed that it was not good, knowing that the movements of his strange army had been known to the imperial court. Kanur hurriedly asked, "Have you ever found troops on the left and right sides of our army and in front of us?" How far did you sentry? ”

"General Hui, because it was a rapid march, we only sentry probed the front and the left and right sides for ten miles, and found no trace of the army." The sentinel replied. Kan Ur breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart that the distance of ten miles was enough, unless the Empress Dowager ambushed a large number of cavalry ten miles away, he would not want to swallow the eight battalions of his front army in one bite - most of the infantry near Beijing City, and the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry were stationed in Rehe. Thinking of this, Kanur ordered, "Let them come." ”

"Yes." The sentinel Pegasus went back to give the order, and after half a pillar of incense, ten imperial guards surrounded an old eunuch who was skinny and skinny, and the old eunuch rode his horse until he was more than ten steps in front of Kanur before dismounting, holding out a flat yellow scroll, pulling the male duck's throat and shouting sharply: "In front, is the Zhangjiakou general soldier Kanur?" Our family is the head of Cining Palace, Li Yin, who came to pass the decree by the order of the Empress Dowager's ancestor Yi, Lord Kan, please get off the horse and accept the decree. ”

"It's not a holy decree, Kanur is in armor, so take it right away." Kanur clasped his hands on his chest and said in a big way, and at the same time, Kanur sent out a code, telling the archers behind him to be ready, ready to shoot the old eunuch and the ten imperial guards at any time.

"Lord Kan is casual, our family will leave after passing on the decree." Li Yinzheng didn't bother with Kanur, but just unfolded the flat yellow scroll and read in a sharp voice: "The Empress Dowager decrees: Zhangjiakou General Soldier Kanur Party attached to the party, transferred foreign troops into Beijing without authorization, plotted great rebellion, and was heinous, and was immediately executed!" ”

"What?" Kanur didn't expect Xiaozhuang to directly order him to be executed, and he was surprised for a while, but what surprised Kanur even more was still behind - without waiting for him to send out the secret signal to release the arrow, the old eunuch Li Yinzhen, who seemed to have no ten catties of flesh on his body, waved his arm, and the ten imperial guards behind him pulled out a musket from his waist at the same time to aim at Kanur, the musket that Kanur had seen before could only be fired by manual ignition, and he was not very afraid of it, and immediately shouted: "Release the arrow!" But what Kan Ur didn't know was that the muskets in the hands of these imperial guards were no longer the old arquebuses - they were the flintlock muskets that Nan Huairen had just gotten for Kangxi! (Note 1)

After a series of thunderous sounds, all ten lead pellets accurately drilled into Kanur's body, blasting Kanur all over his body, turning over and falling off his horse, killing him on the spot.

"Kill!" Almost at the same time as the gunfire rang out, there were earth-shattering shouts and thunderous horse hooves on the left and right sides of the Kanur army at the same time, and the green battalion army led by Kanur was forced by the power of the new musket because of the death of the main general, and for a time the group of dragons was leaderless, and no one stood up to organize the army to resist. After a few moments, the cavalry, which could not see the end at a glance, completely surrounded the eight battalions, and the first general shouted: "General Rehe Fulancha entered the king of Jingqin by the order of Yi, captured and killed the thief leader Guerjia Kanur, those who surrendered live, and those who resist die!" ”

The generals and soldiers of the leaderless Kanur front army, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know who took the lead in throwing down the weapons and kneeling, and suddenly infected the surrounding companions like a plague, only to hear the sound of ping-pong weapons landing, and it didn't take long for them to kneel on the spot to the black and oppressive green battalion soldiers, and there was no one standing. And next to the Shahe crossing, more Eight Banners Iron Cavalry will be surrounded by the Kanur Chinese Army and the Rear Legion that the river is cut in two - these Eight Banners Iron Cavalry belonging to the Rehe garrison are all strange soldiers who have been ambushed in Niulanshan Fort by Xiaozhuang for a long time, and the original cavalry ambushed north of Badaling is just an abandoned son of Xiaozhuang to divert his attention......

In the early morning of May 24, the eighth year of Kangxi, the morning sun appeared, but the new dark clouds like splashing ink soon covered the sunlight and shrouded the head of this thousand-year-old capital......

Note 1: Between 1605 and 1615, the world's first flintlock pistol was invented, which was invented by the French freeman Mahan. In fact, a flintlock pistol is a special form of a lighter. The anvil of the flintlock pistol is an "L" shaped primer disc lid mounted on a primer disc that rotates around its axis. When the hammer rotates downward, it hits the impact surface on the primer disc cover, and the primer disc cover also opens, and the friction between the flint on the hammer and the impact surface produces sparks, which splash down into the primer disc and ignite the ignition powder.