At the same time, after the eight kings dealt with the affairs of Huangzhou Mansion and carried materials and food, they organized their troops and horses to bypass Fancheng County and went to Wuchang Mansion. Even the local Ming officials were aware of the movement.

Ming Wuchang Prefect: Qin Youpeng, Ming Wuchang Mansion Tongzhi: Li Yage, Ming Wuchang Mansion General Judge: Huang Weilin, Ming Jiangxia Tui Guan: Long Wei, Ming Jiang Xia Zhixian: Mo Junlong, and other officials hurriedly broke into the Chu Palace, knelt on the ground and asked the subordinates to invite the Ming Chuding Prince: Zhu Huakui, out of the lobby, he saw all the officials kneeling together, and asked, "Everyone, what's wrong?" ”

At this moment, the prefect of Ming Wuchang opened his mouth and said: "His Royal Highness Prince Chu, the big thing is not good, the anti-thief Zhang Xianzhong led the soldiers and horses to kill him!" We implore His Royal Highness Prince Chu to open the treasury and take some silver taels out to recruit the army in case of trouble! ”

After listening to the words of the officials, Prince Ming Chuding hesitated, but he thought about it, his son is still young, if the palace is breached, I am afraid that the lives of the concubine and the prince will not be guaranteed! After thinking about it, he decided to give half of the silver taels to reward the army.

But he only gave 50,000 taels of silver! Moreover, 30,000 taels of silver is the military salary for the guard of honor of the Chu Palace, and 20,000 taels of silver is the military salary for recruiting local troops to fight against the Liukou.

The officials were disappointed! Then he said, "His Royal Highness Prince Chu, with all due respect, the official bluntly said that this little silver tael is not enough for military salaries at all?" Besides, ammunition and food also require a lot of expenses, and the old minister implores His Royal Highness to pull out more silver to replenish the soldiers", Prince Ming Chuding stopped hearing it!

He roared, "Presumptuous! As Ming officials, you don't even want to be loyal to the country? But only thinking about the silver taels of the lone king's treasury? The lone king is given by Emperor Taizu Wu and Emperor Hongwu Gao (wrapped in gold) worth one million taels of gold, yes, but that is also the highest glory of Taizu to the Chu clan of the Lone King, and other vassal kings do not have such glory at all. ”

I learned that His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu was reluctant to take out the silver taels! The officials had no choice but to retreat silently and scrape together some silver taels (60,000 taels of silver) by themselves, and almost all of them donated the silver taels to the city gate to post notices.

I saw that it was written; Those who kill the enemy bravely will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver, those who kill the enemy will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, and those who capture the enemy will be rewarded with 30 taels of silver....

The soldiers and civilians watched these people improve their courage, the morale of the Ming army defending the city increased a little, and they were patrolling in an orderly manner, and the people joined the defense of the city in order to get the reward, resulting in two or three soldiers on a city wall pier, but now the people have joined in and there are six or seven people on each city wall pier, which is very crowded and even a little difficult to turn around.

The prefect of Ming Wuchang, who was inspecting the city tower, also discovered this, and he immediately ordered the general soldier of Ming Wuchang: Liu Yilin, to pick up the whip and warn which people to let them divide a group of people to guard the city.

But everyone understands that once they are assigned to the city, it will be difficult to kill the enemy and receive rewards, so the people are pretending to be confused, and the general soldiers of Ming Wuchang are so angry that they are like thunder, and he keeps waving whips to beat the people to get them up.

At this moment, two hundred steps ahead, there was a rogue with a high (breaking) flag approaching the city gate, and the prefect of Wuchang in the Ming Dynasty hurriedly shouted: "The rogue is coming!" All-arms warfare. Before he finished speaking, he saw hundreds of sharp arrows galloping towards him, defeating the soldiers and civilians on the city tower.

As many as half of the soldiers and civilians were killed by arrows! The people were a little frightened when they saw this scene, and they got up and withdrew to the city and rushed the Ming army guarding the city, and nearly 100 soldiers and civilians were trampled to death!

The eight kings under the city saw the chaos in the city of Wuchang Mansion and knew that there was an opportunity, and he hurriedly ordered the left vanguard of the army: Ma Yuanli, and the right vanguard of the army: Sun Hualong, and led the two infantry cavalry to quickly rush to the city, and began to climb the city with a Lu chariot close to the city wall.

But as soon as they repelled the rogue soldiers who landed in the city on the left, but the rogue soldiers on the right came up to the city, and the rogues shot with five thunder god guns and (ten square guns), and after a round of ammunition, they replaced them with crossbow arrows to shoot the Ming army, so that the Ming army was powerless to fight back!

In this way, the Liukou soldiers climbed the city wall from the right, and the general soldiers of Ming Wuchang raised their guns and shot a gun, and then angrily pulled out their sabers and rushed up to cut and kill the Liukou, but the Liukou pounced more and more, and the general soldiers of Ming Wuchang were cut into pieces of meat by the Liukou in front of the city wall!

Seeing that the Ming army in the city can't resist! As soon as the prefect of Ming Wuchang hurriedly ran to the palace of the king of Chu to report the situation, as soon as the prince of Ming Chuding heard the news that Liukou was about to break the city, he called out his concubine Ming Chuding Princess: Zhang Yuehua, and the prince of Ming Chuding: Zhu Shengzhi, and handed them over to the Ming Wuchang prefect to entrust him to escape out of the city with the prince.

And the Prince of Ming Chuding stayed in the city with righteousness and awe, (in fact, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu was reluctant to have a family business), so the prefect of Ming Wuchang left from the back city with the prince.

Later, in order to prevent the concubine from being insulted by the rogues, Prince Ming Chuding decided to let the Ming Chu Palace's official guard: Qiu Daozhi, strangle the princess alive with white silk! Prince Ming Chuding next to him was very sad, he wiped his sweat and tears and said, "Someone? Help the Lone King change into a crown robe. ”

So the next person helped him change the crown of the Ming Dynasty (nine pearls and nine chapters), and after the change, he helped him to sit on the throne, and the prince of Ming Chuding asked the chief of the Ming Chu Palace, the treasurer ambassador: Zhao Guangqiao, handed over half of the treasury to the Ming Chu Palace's Zheng Yi Wei for safekeeping, and the Ming Chu Palace's Governor Shi Si Zuo Changshi: Chai Shaoyi, guarded in front of the Chu Palace's mansion and did not let anyone in.

After arranging things, everyone withdrew from the lobby, and the official guard of the Ming Chu Royal Mansion went to guard outside the palace under the pretext of going to the palace, and after coming to the outside of the palace, the Ming Chu Royal Mansion warned: Chu Zhongyou, he said to the Zheng Yiwei of the Ming Chu Palace, "Lord Zheng Yiwei, I won't really work for His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu, right?" It looks like the rogue is about to come over! Why don't we surrender to the rogue? ”

However, when the official guard of the Ming Chu Palace, hearing this, hurriedly looked around, and scolded him: "Don't talk nonsense, betraying His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu is a capital crime!" The Ming Chu Wangfu who was slapped in the face had to shut up honestly.

Then the city gate was broken by the Liukou army in one fell swoop, the eight kings of the army led the soldiers to kill in, and the rest of the army went door to door to loot money and food, and the eight kings went straight to the palace of the king of Chu, and also ordered to block the palace of the king of Chu so the way out, and the honor guards of the palace of the king of Chu outside the palace were ready to meet the soldiers of the king of Chu when they saw this.

But the guard of the Ming Chu Palace's palace stood up and shouted, "Stop!" Who made you go to war with yourselves? "Everyone doesn't know what Lord Zhengyi means?

I saw the Ming Chu Palace's Zheng Yiwei walking over and bowing down and saying, "The Ming Chu Palace's Zhengyi Wei welcomes the eight kings into the palace, please." After hearing this, the eight kings were very happy, and immediately dismounted to help the Ming Chu Palace's Zheng Yi Guard, and the two entered the gate of the Chu Palace's Mansion together, while the Liukou soldiers entered the palace from both sides to clean up the palace guards.

As soon as the eight kings entered the mansion and looked at the luxurious palace, they couldn't help but sigh, "This Chu palace is really magnificent!" It's a pity that His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu is a stingy person, otherwise I am afraid that I will not be able to kill the palace with the financial resources of the Chu Palace! After sighing, the eight kings walked into the hall and saw Prince Ming Chuding worshipping with incense, so they asked him to take him down.

By the way, all the royal nobles and men in the city of Wuchang Mansion were escorted to the river to prepare to sink into the river and drown, while the women were snatched by the rogue soldiers to be their daughters-in-law, and the crying of the nobles and men in the city spread all around in an instant.

Even the king of Xiangyin County of Ming Xiangyin: Zhu Yanyi, the prince of Xiangyin County of Ming, and the prince of Xiangyin County: Zhu Shengxun, were also arrested by Liukou and brought to the riverside, and the king of Xiangyin County of Ming hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged, "King, please let go of the widowed prince!" Xiao Wang is willing to bear all the blame, and is willing to give up the family property in the house to be handled by the king. ”

More than 300 people from the large and small clans of the Chu clan of Wuchang Mansion gathered on the shore, first pushed the prince of Ming Chuding into the river, and then retreated to drown the princes of the county, the prince and the general of Zhenguo, the general of the auxiliary state, the general of Fengguo, etc., the scene was very miserable, and the crying and wailing shook the sky.

Only Wang Shizi of Xiangyin County in the Ming Dynasty drifted down the river for thirty miles and did not die, and fled into Liangzi Mountain to change his name: Xie Shiren, and survived in seclusion in the mountains and forests.

On the other side, the Ming Changqing Zhixian and the maid: Xiaoling, with the soldiers hurried to the city tower, the maid saw the corpses of Jiannu and the Ming army lying on the side of the city wall, she was shocked and shouted, "Ah! It's terrible! Wu Gongzi retreat quickly! My county, oh no son, let you retreat immediately. ”

Wu Junzhen hurriedly looked back and found that it was the maid next to Brother Xian, so he said happily, "Don't worry, there are reinforcements from the city to save your son-in-law?" Oh, my son-in-law is still waiting at the inn! "Ma Wei felt a little strange? Then he asked, "How are you with Lord Zhixian?" ”

The Ming Chang Qingzhi next to him quickly said, "This is His Royal Highness the county lord, who asked the lower officials to come to support the adults." "When everyone heard the word (county lord)? Wu Junzhen then understood that it was no wonder that he felt that Brother Xian's skin was unusually fair before, but he didn't expect her to be a woman? He actually dared to admit that the county lord had sworn brothers, Wu Junzhen felt a little reckless when he thought about it now.