Chapter 36 Wan'an Palace
At this time, Zhu Cai, the king of Wan'an, who was hiding in the palace, was already frightened, and wanted to abandon the palace and escape from the county, but he couldn't give up this family business and his full warehouse of money and food, as well as those wives and concubines, that is, after a little hesitation, news came from outside the mansion, saying that the Xingtian Army had controlled the gates of Yongning County, and now they had no way to run even if they wanted to.
After hearing the news, King Wan'an was completely frightened, and he couldn't care about his money anymore, so he ran to the courtyard in a panic, gathered the remaining guards in the palace, and shouted at these guards: "Everyone listen, this king treats you well on weekdays, and now that the thieves enter the city, the king can only count on you, as long as you block the thieves for the king and don't let them enter the palace, everyone in this king will reward you with a hundred taels of silver, but whoever kills a thief will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver!" ”
Such a heavy reward, to say that it is not low, but these guards are all depressed, and did not cheer because of Zhu Cai's reward, many of them have seen the power of this torture army on the city wall, their terrible volley of guns, is not at all flesh and blood can resist, and these bandits are also extremely fierce, when attacking the city, they are not afraid of death, as if their lives are not their own, at this time the palace guards have long been frightened one by one hands and feet cold, although Zhu Cai's reward is really tempting, But this money is easy to get, but it has to be spent to make it!
Looking at the lifeless guards in the courtyard, Zhu Cai was angry and anxious at this time, and couldn't help scolding: "You are all dogs raised by this king, and under the maintenance of this king on weekdays, you are all powerful and blessed in Yongning County, but now it's good, the disaster is coming, but you bastards have become soft persimmons one by one!" ”
At this time, a guard leader couldn't help but say to Zhu Cai: "Lord Qiqi, it's not that the lowly people are unwilling to use their lives, but the thieves are really fierce, and their troops are far more than us, this battle is really impossible to fight!" Even if the subordinates are desperate, they may not be able to defend the palace! ”
Zhu Caiqi's lips trembled, and he pointed at the head of the guards under this subordinate and scolded: "If you can't keep it, you have to keep it, as the saying goes, raise soldiers for a thousand days, use soldiers for a while, you are all soldiers raised by this king, and now even if you die, you will have to block these thieves outside for this king!" ”
After smiling bitterly, the guard turned his head to look at the guards behind him who were shrunken in fright, so he waved his hand and said, "Did you hear it?" We have enjoyed many years of happiness with the prince, and now that the catastrophe has come, it is time for you to be loyal to the prince! As for the reward, I don't care, since the prince has rewarded it, you all take it! Let's copy the guys and climb the wall! You can hold on for as long as you can! ”
These guards know that this can only be the case, no matter what, although Zhu Cai is stingy, but for them the palace guards are not bad, this time the thieves broke the city, but also their lives are not good, and the personnel who should be done still have to be done, so after these guards received the reward in a chaotic manner, they all grabbed their weapons and began to climb the courtyard wall of the palace under the command of the leaders of the guards, and made a posture of resistance.
And the head of the guard turned his head to Zhu Cai and said, "Lord, if you don't hide it from you, I'm afraid this palace can't be defended!" Now that the matter has come to this, it is better for the prince to make other plans as soon as possible! Taking advantage of the fact that the city has not yet been fully controlled by thieves, the prince still changed his clothes and left the palace quickly, finding a safe place to hide, and finding an opportunity to sneak out of the city!
The lowly is not talented, but he has been following the prince for more than ten years, the prince treats me well, and the humble duty is willing to desperately protect the prince and flee to Luoyang City to join His Royal Highness King Fu! Even if it doesn't work, he will definitely be loyal in front of the prince! ”
Listening to the shouting and killing outside gradually getting closer and closer to the palace, Zhu Cai really didn't care about any family wealth at this time, and after a gloomy sigh, he nodded and said to the head of the palace guard: "So far, it can only be like this!" It's just that there are princesses in the house, what should they do? ”
The chief guard sighed and said: "Since it has reached this time, then there is no way to take care of so much, if there are many people, the prince will not be able to leave, so he can only let the princess and them ask for more blessings!" The prince should change his clothes quickly! It's too late, and it's really too late! And you can't let too many people know about this, otherwise the guards won't be desperately resisting the thief army! ”
After Zhu Cai heard this, he could only accept his fate with tears in his eyes, and ordered the wives and concubines in the mansion to return to their respective rooms, and once the thieves invaded the mansion, let them end up separately! In any case, it cannot fall into the hands of thieves and be humiliated!
Although his wives and concubines were scared to death, but until now, there was no way to do it, so they had to cry and go back to their respective rooms to make final preparations.
After watching these wives and concubines disperse, Zhu Cai didn't dare to delay, so he asked his subordinates to select a few loyal guards, found his two sons, and everyone changed into coarse cloth clothes, and the guards also wrapped their swords in cloth and hid them on their bodies......
After a while, I heard the sound of guns and cannons outside the palace, and the screams and angry scolding of people when they were dying resounded through half of Yongning County.
This time to attack the palace in the city, Xiao Tianjian personally came to the front line to supervise the battle, and all the artillery teams with the army were also transferred into the city, and spread around the palace, Xiao Tianjian originally wanted to persuade the guards in the palace to surrender, but the subordinates sent to persuade him to surrender greeted him with a rain of arrows shot from the palace.
The messenger who persuaded surrender was hit by several arrows on the spot and was robbed, so Xiao Tianjian also dispelled the idea of persuasion and immediately ordered to storm the palace.
More than a dozen three-pounder cannons immediately rumbled, and the cannonballs fell on the courtyard wall of the palace like a wind, and then hundreds of musketeers began to fire at the courtyard wall in turn, and the guards standing on the courtyard wall immediately fell down like harvested rice.
Dozens of strong men carried a thick beam that they didn't know where to get it, and rushed to the gate of the palace under the command of Luo Li......
Before the sky was completely dark, the gate of the palace was completely smashed open by the Xingtian Army from the outside, and a large number of soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army poured into the palace like a tide, and at this time, the guards in the palace finally gave up resistance, put down their weapons one after another, knelt on the ground and surrendered to the Xingtian Army.
After Xiao Tianjian walked into the palace under the escort of the generals, he looked around, and couldn't help but marvel at the luxury of this Wan'an Palace, since he came to this world, there have not been a few times he has really entered the city, the first time he entered the city may be the time when he took Yangcheng County, but after taking the county seat, he ordered to set fire to Yangcheng County that night, and this time he entered Yongning County, for him, it was just the second time to enter a county seat of this era, but even if he was such a well-informed person, After looking at the carved palace, I can't help but be shocked by the luxury here.
After he led the troops into Henan this time, the scene seen along the way was basically full of desolation, Henan after several years of famine and the continuous conquest of the displaced people's army, the people's livelihood has already withered to the extreme, and the hunger seen along the way can be said to abound, even if it has entered the winter, these hungry people still emit a foul smell, and the smell of corpses has almost become the most smell they smell along the way, but in this palace, it seems to be like two worlds, if it weren't for the bloodstains on the walls of the palace to tell himIf there had just been a fierce battle here, he almost had a feeling of being in a different world.
Looking at the incense burners in the main hall of the palace that were still wafting with aroma, as well as the messy pastry and fruit plates on the table, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help sighing: "Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road!" No wonder the Ming Dynasty is dying, just look at the days of these descendants of the Zhu family, you can know why! ”
Tietou reached out and picked up a white jade paperweight on the table, played with it in his hand, then put it back on the table and said to Xiao Tianjian with a smile: "General, I'm afraid this King Wan'an couldn't have imagined that he would have killed him a few days ago, and he will have today!" These fish and flesh people are really damned, and if I catch him in a moment, I will have to slaughter him with my own hands!" ”
At this time, Luo Li scolded and walked into the main hall of the palace, and said to Xiao Tianjian: "General, that Wan'an Wang Zhu Cai actually ran away with the two cubs by smearing oil on the soles of his feet in advance!" He didn't even care about his wives and concubines, and many of his wives and concubines were hanged at this time, swallowing gold, and only a few were reluctant to die, and they had been caught and locked up by us! ”
"Oh? Zhu Cai ran away? So you ask clearly, when did he run? Xiao Tianjian put down a sword in his hand and asked Luo Li.
"I asked, just now two guards confessed, saying that they escaped from the palace not long before we came, and they shouldn't be able to escape from the city! The humble has already ordered to search for this guy in the whole city, and he can't run away from this bastard! Luo Li gasped and found a chair to sit down, after a day of fierce fighting, Luo Li was already tired at this time.
Xiao Tianjian nodded and said: "This matter will be handed over to the guards to do, and another order will be sent to Luo Yingjie, so that he will immediately take over the civil affairs in the city, count the seized things, and at the same time put up a list of people, and at the same time offer a reward of fifty taels of silver to capture Zhu Cai, the second battalion and the third battalion After cleaning up the battlefield, each of the two battalions and the third battalion will leave a sentry in the city to assist the guards in controlling the situation in the city, and the rest of the soldiers will immediately restrain the soldiers and go out of the city to rest outside the city, and not disturb the people!" ”
After hearing this, Luo Li immediately stood up to receive the order, but after receiving the order, he said to Xiao Tianjian with a shy face: "General, the brothers have fought desperately to defeat Yongning County, why did they let the brothers go out to rest so quickly!" Why should the brothers be allowed to be happy in the city for two days? ”
Xiao Tianjian's eyes widened after hearing this, and he immediately scolded Luo Li: "What are you doing when you are our Xingtian Army?" Do you think we should be like those outcasts or the official army? We are the Xingtian Army, not ordinary bandits, and we are fighting the city just for enjoyment!
Not to mention you, even I, like you, will go out of the city and camp outside the city, if everyone thinks like you, then we will not be no different from the other rebels?
Tell you, we can't rest now, Yongning County is not finished, the government of Henan will not sit idly by and watch us take Yongning County, and will immediately send troops to attack us, in addition, there are a bucket of valleys and clay pots around the bandits, they will not sit back and watch us seize here, and I don't plan to be polite to them, now Yaoben has led his troops to the north of the city to cross the Yang River, blocking a bucket valley from approaching Yongning County, it is estimated that it is very likely that it has already started, and we still have a big battle to fight! Now is far from the time to relax!
Wait until we overthrow the emperor Lao'er, and then beat Jiannu back to their hometown, at that time, it is time for us to rest, do you understand? ”
(Shout again, red ticket, I want red ticket!) )