Chapter 179: Strangling the Manchu Dead (I)
"Emperor Qiqi, recently, Weichen inadvertently found out that there are Qing prisoners pretending to be monks and beggars, etc., taking turns to monitor outside the palace gate day and night, and their intentions are unknown!"
"There is such a thing! Have you ever found out how many of them are and where they are gathered! Zhu Cihong's eyes flashed with coldness.
There is Zhu Cihong living in the palace, and Qing Yi Rong monitors the palace gate day and night, there is no doubt that he really does it to Zhu Cihong, and the purpose of his actions is nothing more than to monitor the movements of the palace, or wait for an opportunity to assassinate him, the Ming Emperor.
Zhu Cihong prefers to believe in the latter, after all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is about to go south, if he, the Ming Emperor, is suddenly assassinated, and there is no prince under his knees, even if the Ming Dynasty wants to elect a new emperor, it will not be a momentary success, and it will be chaotic! At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be able to sweep the south of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop.
"Back to the emperor, I just found out that there are about more than 100 people in the Qing Dynasty, all of whom are not weak, and they gathered in a small temple five miles outside the city, and the original host and several monks have already been killed by them." In fact, it was pure luck that Peng Cheng was able to find out about this matter.
Since Peng Cheng took over Jinyiwei, he has undergone some improvements, and his efficiency has been greatly improved. A set of strict secrecy measures have also been formulated, and the area around the palace is one of the key areas, although the people sent by the Qing Yu to monitor the palace gate pretend to be various identities, but after all, there are some flaws, and a few brocade guards see the strangeness from their occasional expressions, and they have been tracking it for several days, and finally discovered the big secret.
"Hmph, Qing Yu must be trying to assassinate me, damn it! This time you have made a great contribution, and when you exterminate this group of Qing captives, I will definitely be rewarded, remember, don't let any of them go! Zhu Cihong's words revealed his murderous intentions.
"Obey the order!" Peng Cheng quickly retreated, preparing to gather his men to act.
Zhu Cihong watched Peng Cheng walk out with a gloomy face, the Manchu Qing would send assassins to sneak into Nanjing City with the intention of assassinating him, the Ming Emperor, Zhu Cihong did not have any surprises, because it was too normal, if he was afraid of Dolgon, he might do it.
Thinking of the Manchu Dynasty's premeditation, Zhu Cihong was really a little scared in his heart, not to mention, in fact, he did have the idea of leaving the palace in micro-service in the past few days, but fortunately he did not implement it, otherwise he really had an accident, and the Ming Dynasty was in chaos, and history was afraid that it would return to the original track, and it would still let the Manchus get the world, which he would never allow.
Zhu Cihong decided that for the sake of insurance, until he went north to fight a decisive battle with the Manchus, he tried not to leave the palace, and even if he went out, he must be heavily protected, and resolutely did not let himself have any chance to be exposed to danger, not that Zhu Cihong was afraid of death, but that he must not die before the Manchus were destroyed.
An hour later, Peng Cheng summoned nearly a thousand brocade guards, all of whom were equipped with embroidered spring knives on their waists, armed with bows and crossbows, and were very well-equipped.
"Xue Qingzhou, you take a few good skills to solve the secret agents at the gate of the palace." Peng Cheng said to a brocade-clothed guard Qianhu.
The predecessor of this Jinyi Wei Qianhu was Zhu Cihong's East Palace guard, who had been trained in the original Yinglong Army and was one of Zhu Cihong's several henchmen in the Jinyi Guard.
Zhu Cihong trusts Peng Cheng correctly, but it has not yet reached the point where he can put all the power of Jinyiwei in his hands, after all, the power of Jinyiwei is too big, and the number of people is also extremely large, and all the manpower together is tens of thousands of people, the reason why Zhu Cihong is willing to let Zhang Kuishan go out to command the army, in addition to the fact that the Yinglong army needs to command the generals, but also because most of the high-level Jinyiwei are one of the twenty Yinglong troops that Zhang Kuishan originally brought out, these twenty people were Zhu Cihong's East Palace guards, and they are absolutely loyal to Zhu Cihong. Zhu Cihong was not afraid that Peng Cheng would dare to think carefully.
One hundred meters in front of the palace gate, the interior does not allow any buildings and miscellaneous people, etc.
In a corner of the wall a hundred meters away, a burly, but dirty monk sat here, with a missing Huayuan bowl in front of him.
This scene does not seem strange in the city of Nanjing, the world is in turmoil, the people are displaced, many people will find opportunities to go to the temple under the difficult life, shaving as a monk, but the temple is not a good place to live, the monks who can be raised are also limited, many people after shaving, every once in a while, they also have to go out of the temple to practice.
There are many believers in Buddhism in the Ming Dynasty, and it is always easier for monks to beg for a living than beggars.
"Bang Bang"
No, an old lady who believes in Buddhism saw from a distance that there was a monk here, and she came over and donated two cents to the monk.
The monk didn't even raise his eyelids, he sat there motionless and chanted the scriptures, if anyone could hear them clearly, they would know what the monk was chanting, just pretending. Looking at the indifferent look in his eyes, it is not what a monk should have.
At this time, a beggar passed by the monk and gave him a look.
The monk nodded imperceptibly, picked up the broken Huayuan bowl on the ground and left, and the beggar took over the monk's work in another place not far away and continued to monitor every move of the palace gate.
"Hey, I didn't expect to run into their rotation time, good luck!" The five brocade guards were hidden in a corner, and they happened to see this scene.
"Mr. Qian, do you want to do it immediately!" One of the Jinyi guards said to Xue Qingzhou.
"Do it, don't let either go!" Xue Qingzhou nodded.
Immediately, two of the Jinyi guards walked towards the beggar, their faces were as usual, as if the Jinyi guards usually inspected the streets, while the other two were under the personal leadership of Xue Qingzhou, quietly chasing after the monk who had just left.
The beggar who was monitoring the palace gate saw two Jinyi guards walking in his direction, although he was secretly vigilant in his heart, he didn't dare to make any abnormal moves, and he didn't even dare to look at his eyes more, for fear that it would arouse the suspicion of Jinyiwei.
The two brocade guards walked past the beggar only three steps away from the beggar, and did not stop, until they took two more steps, the two brocade guards glanced at each other, their eyes were murderous, and the embroidered spring knife was pulled out instantly.
The beggar had just breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed his vigilance when he saw the two brocade guards passing by without any stops, when he heard the sound of two swords unsheathed, and the two brocade guards turned around at this moment, and the two embroidered spring knives slashed at him at the same time.
The beggars were full of cold hair, and they wanted to avoid in fear, but although the beggars had good martial arts, these two brocade guards were mediocre, and under the sudden attack, which round could get the beggars to dodge.
Burst!
The beggar was stabbed twice, blood splattered, and he did not see it.
This scene also happened in the middle of a street not far from here, Xue Qingzhou led the two brocade guards to the back of the monk with a normal face, the embroidered spring knife was instantly unsheathed, and under the monk's defenselessness, he slashed the monk's back, the monk fell to the ground, and did not die immediately, his face was hideous, at this moment he had realized that they must have been exposed, he wanted to marry the news, but it was too late.
Xue Qingzhou stepped forward with a cold expression, and stabbed the monk who was full of people pretending to be a monk, and the monk died without turning a blind eye.
At the same time, Peng Cheng led nearly 1,000 Jinyi guards to gallop through Nanjing City on fast horses, galloping towards the southeast with murderous spirit.
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