Chapter 145: The Bloody Imperial City
The army of hoes and traitors is like a bamboo.
In fact, it is impossible for them to encounter real resistance in the city of Nanjing, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, is the leader of this army of hoes, and he is the hereditary garrison of Nanjing, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled guards in Nanjing have been ruled by their Xu family for two hundred years, although it is unlikely to join in the attack on the palace, but it is also incourageous to attack him......
Actually, they don't have the ability to do that.
These people are all leftover remnants of the formation of the Beijing camp, and they are still considered an army just because they are military households.
The nearly 10,000 guards of Nanjing's city defense watched in a daze as this army marched towards the imperial city, and then retreated back to the city wall tremblingly.
Zhu Guobi and Kou Baimen in the forward are carrying three-foot Qingfeng, Chang Yingjun on the left and Zhao Chengfu on the right, Xiao Zhao is still wearing ancestral armor, learning from the posture of his ancestor Zhao Yi and carrying a pole cone gun, he looks quite like a young hero. The four horsemen rode side by side on the long street under the moonlight, with the mighty army behind them, and on both sides there were constantly awakened people peeking out through the cracks in the door, several startled wild dogs ran in front of them and kept barking, and the disturbed crows flew overhead, which could be regarded as playing a magnificent war song for them.
"Go, go for the country!"
Kou Baimen's white clothes fluttered, and the sword in his hand pointed ahead, and said to the young man who was watching in front of several doors.
The latter was so frightened that he quickly retracted.
"The great river goes east, the waves are exhausted, and the romantic characters ...... through the ages"
Her singing voice rang out again.
But in other words, she sings very well, and in modern times, the lowest level must be the queen of heaven, and at this moment, she sings a song of Nian Nujiao impassionedly, and even the soldiers with gold bars in the back suddenly have infinite pride.
In this way, accompanied by her singing, the hoe army arrived at the right Chang'an Gate.
Here you have to storm it.
A large number of soldiers of the tax police team ran chaotically on the city wall, quickly arranged a defensive line on the city wall, raised their bird guns and pointed out of the city, and even a few cannons also stretched out of the cannon between the arrow stacks, but this tax police team had no sense of existence, and few people knew that there was such a group of soldiers under the Jinyi Guard before this time they were assigned to guard the imperial city.
Just when the two sides could see each other, those cannons immediately spewed flames, and the sound of cannons that shook the night sky kicked off the battle of the Ming Imperial City.
"Don't mess around!"
Among the whistling shells, Zhao Chengfu, the first-class light car captain of our Qing Dynasty in history, raised his gun and shouted.
Immediately after a cannonball hit the house slaves, immediately smashed a splash of flesh and blood, those house slaves screamed in horror, and began to prepare to escape, but those bandits were quite calm, Hu Chao carried the mace and scolded these wastes with a fierce demeanor, and in this chaos, Kou Baimen urged the horse forward......
"Rush!"
She shouted with her sword.
"Rush up and open the palace to reward each person with two hundred taels of silver!"
Zhu Guobi gritted his teeth and shouted with his sword.
This number is indeed more effective, the bandits and scoundrels are first excited, and then the house slaves, and the chaotic attacking army, led by the white-clothed Kou Baimen in front, swarms forward along the wide long street carrying ladders. Soon the cannonballs fell again, but this time I had experienced it and knew that this thing was actually just to scare people, and it couldn't kill a few if it really fell, not to mention that such a beautiful woman in Kou Baimen in front of him could charge forward, how could these men retreat?
The chaotic army, led by a woman, eventually rushed to the range of the opposite bird with sporadic falling cannonballs.
And then immediately it was bad luck.
As the fire on the city wall shone brightly, the dense bullets immediately hit them, and even Chang Yingjun's horse was hit by a bullet, throwing Xiang Chengbo down directly, but Kou Baimen was unscathed.
"Open the palace and fight for the country!"
She shouted at the swing of her sword.
This woman was not only not afraid, but looked excited, which has to be said to be very surprising.
But it's a pity that now women are useless.
Chang Yingjun, who fell off the horse, got up and ran, and Zhu Guobi turned the horse's head in the same fright, and everyone crowded outside the Chang'an Gate on the right in confusion, and then on the city wall behind them, the second round of bullets was shot out with the flickering of the firelight, and the crowd that was crowded with each other because of the chaos suddenly piled up dead bodies.
Kou Baimen jumped off his horse and picked up a flag, waving it like the woman in the oil painting of Freedom Leading the People.
A soldier on the city wall just aimed at her, only to find that this was actually a beauty, he quickly aimed the muzzle of the gun at Chang Yingjun who was not far from her, and with the trigger pulling a bullet in Chang Yingjun's back, the self-made bird gun of the Jinyi Guard Ordnance was full of power, and Chang Yingjun, who was fleeing, was beaten and knocked down.
Kou Baimen still waved her flag in the whistling of bullets.
But everyone behind her was crowding for their lives.
"You shit!"
She shouted in grief.
Almost at the same time, a strange noise sounded at the city gate, and she turned her head in shock, only to see that the gate was slowly opening, and a man in a flying fish suit was appearing......
"It's the third child of the Wei family!"
Zhu Guobi shouted excitedly.
The morale of the hoe traitors in the chaos was greatly boosted, Kou Baimen waved the flag again, Hu Chao was the first to step on the dead corpses on the ground and rushed straight to the city gate, Zhu Guobi and Zhao Chengfu also rushed over, and then those soldiers who had originally fled all rushed to the open city gate. At this moment, there was also chaos on the city wall, and the soldiers of the tax police retreated, and quickly retreated along the city wall towards Chengtianmen, but before they could arrive, a large number of people dressed in brocade guards appeared there, and they did not attack the hoe army that entered the city, but pointed their guns at the tax police, who had to stop and shoot at them on the city wall.
And Zhu Guobi and the others who entered the city from the right Chang'an Gate below, together with the Jinyi guards who opened the door for them......
Jinyiwei is not just Beiya.
In fact, almost every family of Nanjing nobles has a hereditary position in the Jinyi Guard, taking the Xu family as an example, in addition to Xu Hongji, a hereditary Duke of Wei, there are several hereditary positions in the Jinyi Guard, from the commander to the thousand households, they are responsible for standing guard in the palace and other work, in fact, equivalent to the Tarqing Inner Guard.
The internal response of these people finally enabled the hoe traitor army to successfully attack the right Chang'an Gate.
The Gate of Chengtian was also opened.
While the tax police team blocked the right Chang'an Gate, these guys raided and attacked the Chengtian Gate, controlled the Chengtian Gate and opened the city gate.
"Kill!"
Zhu Guobi roared excitedly.
Immediately afterwards, he and Kou Baimen rode across the Jinshui Bridge and rushed straight into Chengtianmen, and the surging army behind them also rushed in, and even the follow-up Xu Hongji and others also rushed into the city with their own domestic slave army, and this long dragon was led by Zhu Guobi and Kou Baimen, and quickly entered the imperial city.
The tax police team quickly gave up the resistance, and they immediately rushed down the city wall, through the Sheji altar and straight to the end gate.
The two armies marched forward separately across a wall.
But Zhu Guobi and the others must have been much faster on horseback, and before the tax police team arrived, they had already arrived at Duanmen, and there were only dozens of vigilant tax police soldiers here, and when they saw them, they immediately raised their guns and opened fire, but they had already arrived here, and naturally no one would retreat anymore. Hu Chao led his bandits to move forward bravely with bullets, throwing out flying tiger claws and starting to climb towards the city wall, while some of the hoe traitors along the city wall attacked from the flank, and finally the tax police team guarding the end gate couldn't resist retreating one after another.
Hu Chao, who climbed the end gate, then led his subordinates to rush down and opened the closed door from the inside.
Zhu Guobi glanced at Kou Baimen with a triumphant smile, and then rushed into the end gate with satisfaction.
The next thing that unfolded in front of him was a corridor more than half a mile long, or a square, because this corridor was also more than thirty zhang wide, and at the end of the moonlight, an equally majestic city tower stood, together with the parts extending from both sides, like three black giants guarding the last line of defense of the palace, and behind them was the Daming Palace, or Zijin City.
It was the noon gate.
"Haha, it's done!"
He laughed.
"I can finally save Sister Xiangjun from the clutches of the devil!"
Kou Baimen, who was beside him, said with the same emotion.
Then the two of them looked at each other and smiled again, and at the same time urged the war horses, with the huge army that had almost all entered the imperial city, and rushed straight to the noon gate, on both sides of them, Xu Hongji and Liu Kongzhao and other nobles also urged the horses to speed up. In this corridor with a width of more than 100 meters, they moved forward in the confrontation between the city walls on both sides, and gradually approached Zhu Guobi and others.
Even if I was too old to come, it was his children and grandchildren who were present.
This splendid regiment of honors galloped through the imperial city and soon reached the noon gate.
There was silence at noon.
An eerie silence.
They suddenly looked at the towering city platforms on both sides with some uneasiness, because at this time, in the shadows, the city platforms on both sides that were nearly a hundred meters long were dark, as if countless monsters might burst out at any time.
Of course, this is purely self-scare.
There are simply no defenders here.
They continued and rode forward.
Soon they stopped less than ten zhang away from the main gate, lined up like charging cavalry, looking at the closed city gate in the darkness in front of them, looking at the towering city platform with their backs to the moonlight, and looking at the same towering Wufeng Tower, because their backs were to the moonlight, and the whole city tower was dark from this side. However, you can vaguely see that the door of Wufeng Tower is open, because of the penetration of the moonlight behind, you can see that there seems to be something blocking the middle of this shimmering background......
Zhu Guobi suddenly had a trace of inexplicable fear.
The next moment, the lights in front of the building suddenly lit up.
Under the plaque at the noon gate, a person sat on the railing on the Taishi chair, holding a half-eaten apple in his hand, and looked at them in the light with a smile......
"Surprise or not, surprise or not?"
He said happily.