Chapter 235 [The Prince's Accession to the Throne]
Just when the Ming army turned around with this person, dozens of sharp arrows suddenly flew in the distance, stabbing ten Ming soldiers to penetrate the chain mail, and the rest of the Ming troops raised their heads to look in the distance and found that someone was running away?
The Ming army, who did not dare to be careless, immediately chased after it, and a soldier ran to inform him of the situation, and learned that it might be the rogue army in the nearby Gyeonggi area? The general soldier of the Ming Ning Yuanwei got up angrily and decided to avenge the first emperor.
He took the lead in riding a war horse and chased in the direction of the Liukou's escape, and the jungle area was far away to see a foothold, so the Guanning Iron Cavalry quickly caught up with the Liukou army, and fired three shots on horseback with his customary three-eyed gun, killing more than a dozen escaped Liukou.
One of them, who seemed to be the leader, also said: "Quickly report to the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses!" ”
In response to this sentence, the general soldier of the Ming Ning Yuanwei looked at the distance, and hurriedly asked the soldier to hand over the halberd, stepped on the horse's head with his head up, raised his chest and stepped on the horse's head with one knee, and threw the halberd into the air with the help of inertia, directly inserting the robe and leg armor of the leader of the Liukou, and dragging it forward.
Just as the Liukou led the way back, the general soldier of the Mingning Yuanwei quickly rode over, put a saber on his neck, and scolded, "Don't move!" Your leader is in the hands of this general, and if you want to survive and surrender obediently! ”
General Ming Ning Yuanwei, who caught up, also echoed, "Stop, obey Lord Wu, you can spare him from dying!" ”
The leader of the cowardly rogue was afraid of being killed, and hurriedly clenched his fists and prayed, "Spare your life!" ”
When the rest of the rogue soldiers saw that the leader was cowardly, they also obediently put their weapons in their hands and surrendered, in order to find out what other troops were in the vicinity of Gyeonggi? The general soldier of the Ming Ning Yuanwei directly interrogated him.
The leader of the Liukou, who was so frightened that his legs and feet trembled, introduced: "The small, the small one is the commander and commander of the guards of the Dashun Imperial City, no, I haven't done anything that hurts the heavens and reason, and I ask the chief soldier to spare his life!" In addition to the 3,000 men and horses of the headquarters under my command, there are only 10,000 horses led by the soldiers and horses of the five cities left! ”
I learned that there are still 10,000 garrisons of rogues? The general soldiers of the Mingning Yuanwei are very worried! He looked at the Gyeonggi officials again to inquire about the situation, and some petty officials said that after the Li thief evacuated the capital, they opened fire to Gyeonggi.
In addition, there is an epidemic outside the capital, and it is estimated that the soldiers and horses of the five cities are searching for the survivors and treating the injured, right?
The most important thing is that the general army of the Ming Ning Yuanwei also learned from the commander of the guards of the Dashun Imperial City: Guo Zimeng, and the officials learned that the soldiers and horses of the five cities of Dashun were a benevolent person, and the probability of surrender was estimated to be particularly large?
He was relieved to hand it over to General Ming Ning Yuanwei to deal with the matter, and he went back to the Wu Mansion to see the situation.
Along the way, the markets and streets were lined with scattered stalls, rotting fruits and vegetables, and some foul-smelling food.
I walked to the door of my house and looked at the two stone lions, looking at the seal on the door! Not only did it make the general soldier of Mingning Yuanwei burst into tears, he hurriedly dismounted and walked over, tore off the seal and pushed the door open, staring at the courtyard with a melancholy expression.
He also quickened his pace and walked towards the inner room, and the Ming soldiers behind him also followed.
The general soldier of the Mingning Yuanwei who walked in front cried and shouted, "Father, mother, the child is back!" Madame, ma'am, where are you? Come out! Come out! ”
However, he screamed several times and broke into several rooms, only to see the scattered furniture and undried blood, and not a single person!
Sadness and anger instantly surged up, prompting the general soldier of Mingning Yuanwei to be furious and directly snatched the bird gun from the hands of the soldiers around him, opened a gun to the sky, and cried loudly on his knees on the ground, "It's a child who is not filial!" Incompetent! Only then did my Wu family thirteen people be beheaded, and Li thief, my Wu Sangui and you are incompatible! Kill Guangliukou to avenge the Wu clan, I will definitely take your head to worship my father! ”
At two o'clock in the morning, the guards in the palace of Nanzhili were still patrolling as usual, but these guards didn't look like palace troops? Because they all wore vermilion lacquer helmets, held halberds, and wore swords at their waists, dressed like the army of the Dusi Guard?
On this dark and windy night, there were two officials in a pavilion in the main hall of the palace, discussing the news while walking, "Have you heard? His Royal Highness Prince Fu of Tomorrow will be crowned as the prison country, and in the future, he will be the future emperor of our Ming Empire, and the ministers of the Donglin Party will lose in the hands of the Governor of Fengyang! Hehehe. ”
The two officials laughed as they walked, not noticing that the two of them had been targeted?
After taking a step forward, two throwing knives suddenly flew from the roof? He stabbed them in the neck, causing them to fall to the ground on the spot.
The sound of hitting the wooden plank on the ground as he fell to the ground alerted the patrolling guards, who quickly ran over to check on the situation.
When I got closer, I found two men in crimson uniforms and winged hats lying on the ground, and before the guards could take a closer look, they heard light footsteps on the roof?
The agile guard immediately shouted loudly, "What person? ”
Then he pulled his bow and aimed it at the roof to release arrows, and after a dozen arrows were fired, the man in black panicked and began to fight back, he took out the one-eyed gun on his waist and shot a guard in the head.
Seeing this, the rest of the guards guessed that they could sneak into the palace? And the person who carries the firearm with him must be a person in the middle of the court? Intending to capture him alive, he launched an all-round pursuit, and all the guards scattered and ran under the palaces, and prepared the guns and arrows to wait for the man in black to jump down.
Unexpectedly, the shrewd man in black saw this scene and jumped directly to the front and ran over one rooftop after another, and where he couldn't jump, he threw down a wind and fire thunderbolt that killed three or four guards, and took the opportunity to continue to jump to the high roof.
After chasing a cup of tea, Ming Nanzhi was directly subordinate to the commander of Si Fei Yingwei: You Xu, have you thought of a way?
I saw that he took out the Divine Fire Flying Crow and aimed it at the fleeing man in black, shot out (whoosh) and flew over quickly, the flames hit his legs, and many sparks gradually exploded in front, and the man in black hurriedly covered his legs and stopped.
At this time, Ming Nanzhi was directly subordinate to the commander of the Flying Eagle Guard, who stayed behind in the central capital, and took the opportunity to wave his hand and let the guards throw them to the roof with their flying claws and drag the black-clothed man alive.
The guards swarmed up and waved their knives at the man in black, and the commander of the Si Feiying Guard, who was left behind in the middle capital of Ming Nanzhi, looked at him and stepped forward to ask, "Who are you?" Why do you want to enter the palace at night to assassinate? What is the purpose? ”
The man in black never spoke, does it feel wrong? immediately lowered his body to pull the face towel, only to find that the man in black had committed suicide by taking poison!
The guards immediately began to search for clues, only to find a token from his waist? After getting this harvest, Ming Nanzhi was directly subordinate to the commander of the Si Fei Eagle Guard, who was left behind in the middle capital, and understood what happened tonight, and he ordered to block the news, and no one was allowed to disclose it, as if this incident had not happened.
On the second day, that is, on the 3rd day of the first month of May, after all the rituals were completed, His Royal Highness Prince Mingfu, who was wearing the prince's crown uniform, was welcomed by the ministers of the eunuch party and the Chu party faction from the outer city Hongwu Gate into the Nanxun Hall of the Imperial City Wumen for a temporary rest.
During this period, the Chu Party and the Eunuch Party waited for an opportunity to act, and the Governor of Ming Fengyang and the Ming Nanjing Garrison Eunuch also secretly observed the every move of the officials of the Donglin Party, and planned to kill all the people who jumped out to oppose the coronation of His Royal Highness Prince Fu at any time.
After everyone had breakfast, the drums sounded on the bell tower, and the civil and military officials began to rush to the direction of the Wuying Palace, and the rows of ministers wearing court clothes and red rewards on the attic of the palace were steady, holding jade gui step by step and slowly coming to the inside and outside of the palace, arranging in order according to the rank of officials.
When all the ministers have been assembled, they have not seen the shadow of His Royal Highness Prince Fu? So that the officials inside and outside the hall began to discuss?
But this time he didn't stop the Donglin Party ministers outside? Instead, they stayed in the palace and arranged them in a hierarchical order, and the curious ministers of the Donglin Party felt that there must be some conspiracy to see His Royal Highness Prince Fu for a long time this time?
Sure enough, just when they were puzzled, Ming Nanzhi was subordinate to the commander of the Feiying Guard, who stayed behind in the central capital, and led a group of guards to the palace and surrounded all the officials in the palace.
Some of the officials were frightened on the spot, among which Zhang Jieshu, the right attendant of the Ming Nan Zhili Department, directly pointed to the guards and leaders in the palace, and scolded, "Why are you?" In broad daylight, he openly led the guards to break into the main hall and intimidate the ministers? Do you want to rebel? ”
Unexpectedly, the commander of the Ming Nanzhi subordinate to the Zhongdu Fei Yingwei laughed three times, and said, "Check, Lord Zhang, the right attendant of the Nanzhi Subordinate Department, sent assassins to break into the palace at night with the intention of murdering His Highness, but His Highness Hongfu Qi Tianshenlong was blessed, but the envoy of the Tai Hospital and the Tai Hospital were poisoned to death!" The existing token is here, take it down quickly. ”
The right attendant of the Ming Nan Zhili Ministry who was wronged was taken down by the left and right guards in this way, and he scolded with a big grin in his heart!
When he was pulled out of the temple gate, he smiled and said, "I didn't expect the assassin sent out by the old man to miss!" Just killed two little Rolls! One person does things and one person should be, let Dali Temple behead the old man! Don't get the rest of the people involved. ”
As soon as he heard this, Governor Ming Fengyang took the opportunity to stand up and laugh, "It's almost dying!" Don't forget the people behind you! ”
The rest of the Donglin Party began to panic, fearing that the matter would involve them, so they hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Now that the matter has been resolved!" Why don't you quickly invite His Royal Highness Prince Fu to come out and ascend the throne to eliminate future troubles? ”
In this way, Prince Mingfu was helped out of the screen by the eunuchs and sat on the main hall, looking at all the ministers, and then the Ming Nanjing garrison came up with a crown of ten crowns, put it on His Royal Highness Prince Fu, and officially performed the coronation ceremony, and the civil and military officials knelt down and bowed their heads to worship.
At the beginning of the year, a young man in shabby clothes in the Gyeonggi area of Beizhili staggered to the outer city of Guangning Gate, and as soon as he saw the guard, he supported him with his hand and said, "Lonely, Lone is the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, send Lone into the palace quickly!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he fainted to the ground, and the unbelievable guards thought he was a refugee and ignored him, intending to drag him away and hand it over to the Gyeonggi garrison.
At this moment, Ming Ning Yuanwei Zongqi happened to pass by here, and he accidentally saw this young man who was helped up, and he felt a little familiar?
He grabbed the reins, stopped his horse, and asked the guards to hand them over to him, and he took them back to meet Master Wu.
At this moment, the general army of the Myeongning Yuanwei was arranging the defense of Gyeonggi and looking for the whereabouts of the crown prince and the three princes, when suddenly a soldier ran to his ear and reported good news?
This surprised the general soldier of Mingning Yuanwei, and learned that the emperor lived up to his wishes and let him find His Royal Highness the crown prince, but he still met him for safety.
After feeding him a bowl of chicken soup under the service of the palace maids, and after freshening up and changing his clothes, and the tone of the man's voice when he woke up, the chief soldier of the Ming Ning Yuanwei could be sure that this person was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince he was looking for.
So he showed the identity of the general soldier of the Ming Ning Yuanwei, and was willing to use the Guanning Iron Cavalry and part of the Shanhaiwei garrison as the escort army, and divided the Shanhaiwei and Jinggi as the regions to support the Ming Crown Prince Song: Zhu Cihong, as the Ming Emperor, chose the day to ascend the throne in the Wuying Palace and became the emperor, and the history called "Ming Shunzong" changed the name of the next year to "the first year of Yixing" with the intention of tearing the face with the Qing court to recover the Central Plains.