After a long wait for the city gate to open, Wang Xian breathed a sigh of relief, he had thought that the east city gate would not open. In fact, Wang Xian thought too much, what Tong Guonai wanted was a surprise attack on Li Chengdong, how could he not open the city gate? If Li Chengdong finds that the east city gate is not open normally, he will immediately suspect Tong Guonai, so the city gate must be opened on time.

After Wang Xian took the people to pay the entrance tax, he mixed in the cart and entered the eastern city. After entering the urn city, Wang Xian found that the number of Qing soldiers guarding the gate today had doubled, and the soldiers guarding the gate had also been replaced by the Eight Banners of the Han Army, not the previous inspection department.

Wang Xian is also a person who has fought in battles, and at a glance, there is a faint murderous aura on these gatekeepers, which is not the murderous aura that those local garrisons of the Inspection Division can have, only those who have really killed people have.

Seeing this, Wang Xian knew that his guess was right, and the Manchu Qing was ready to do it at the East City Gate.

Following the cart into the city, the cart carrying vegetables scattered and entered the various markets throughout the city. But Wang Xian and they had nowhere to go, Wang Xian wanted to go to Li Chengdong's house to warn, but Li Chengdong's line has always been in contact with Tong Tuchang, Li Yuanyin is looking for Tong Tuchang every time, and Jinyiwei can't intervene at all. The identity of the secret agent lurking in the Li Mansion is too low, just some miscellaneous servants, and the Li family's father and son can't get up at all, Wang Xian is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

In order to monopolize the credit for plotting against Li Chengdong, Tong Tuchang excluded Jinyiwei from contact with Li Yuanyin. Wang Xian also knew Tong Tuchang's careful thinking, and Wang Xian was not optimistic about Li Chengdong's ability to do it anyway, so he let Tong Tuchang do it. The facts also show that Wang Xian's judgment is correct, after contacting Tong Tuchang several times, Li Chengdong lost interest in negotiating with Tong Tuchang, and has not looked for Tong Tuchang for half a month so far. Wang Xian thought that the line had failed, and put his mind at ease and prepared to storm the Li Mansion to rescue Princess Yuyang.

But when he thought that the peak would turn around, Tong Tuchang sent back a message to prepare to start, which made Wang Xian, who was completely unprepared, nowhere to start.

Wang Xian stood on the East Gate Street and thought for a long time, he still waited at the city gate, and decided what to do after Li Chengdong arrived. In this way, Wang Xian ordered his people to scatter and wait for Li Chengdong to arrive.

But Wang Xian still didn't estimate that Li Chengdong would be able to clear the way when he went out, and when Li Chengdong came, the ten people in front of him used whips to drive away the crowd on the street.

Wang Xian couldn't follow the crowd into the shops on both sides of the street. Wang Xian scolded in his heart: This Li Chengdong, a general soldier, dared to clear the road. You must know that in Guangdong, only the emperor can travel to clear the road, even Chen Zizhuang, as the prime minister, has never cleared the road when he goes out.

Wang Xian, who was crowded in the crowd, couldn't help it at all, watching Li Chengdong's horse team get closer and closer, if they were allowed to enter the city gate, everything would be over. Wang Xian took out a grenade * bomb on his body in a hurry, lit the fuse and threw it out, hoping to warn Li Chengdong.

The development of things was also the same as Wang Xian expected, Li Chengdong, who was already guarding against Tong Guonai, immediately stopped after hearing the explosion. The Qing army in ambush in the city gate received Tong Guonai's order and began to kill, and for a time the streets of Dongcheng were in chaos.

Jinyiwei is not an organized army, and the individual combat effectiveness may far exceed that of ordinary soldiers, but this kind of contingency is completely unprepared. The more than 300 brocade guards on the street were rushed by the crowd, and they were immediately torn apart, watching the Qing army chase Li Chengdong down Dongmen Street. By the time Wang Xian easily gathered the scattered Jinyi guards together, half an hour had passed since the incident, and Li Chengdong's mansion was in chaos. Wang Xian knew that the Qing army chased to the door of Li Chengdong's house, and Wang Xian was afraid that Li Chengdong, the slave surnamed the fourth family, would not be able to resist it, so he only rushed to reinforcements with less than 300 Jinyi guards who had gathered together.

After Li Chengdong separated from his son, he relied on his horse to lead his own soldiers back to the mansion first, and immediately ordered all members of the family to be fully armed and prepare to resist the attack of the Qing army.

Zhu Yu had just sent her husband out of the city, but within a quarter of an hour, she saw her family's soldiers return to the mansion and began to prepare for battle.

Zhu Yu was very worried about her husband, so she came from the backyard to the front yard to see her father-in-law Li Chengdong.

"Father, what's the matter? What about Boyu? ”

Li Chengdong saw Zhu Yu come out and shouted, "What are you doing when you come out of a woman's house?" The Manchu Tartars are ready to do something to our family, and Boyu has gone out of the city to rescue the soldiers! Go back to the backyard, the front yard will start in a moment! ”

Zhu Yu was taken aback, but he didn't expect that the peace talks with his father and emperor would be made in advance by the Manchu Qing Dynasty before they succeeded.

Li Chengdong looked at Zhu Yu and said, "Daughter-in-law, since you marry my son, you are a member of my Li family, if you don't work for a while, I hope you will be martyred!" ”

Zhu Yu nodded firmly when he heard Li Chengdong say this: "Don't worry, father-in-law, my daughter-in-law will definitely not embarrass the Li family!" ”

I didn't expect the usually weak Zhu Yu to say this, Li Chengdong was very surprised, nodded and called two soldiers to protect Zhu Yu back to the backyard.

At this time, the Qing army outside the gate had arrived, and 3,000 people began to attack the Li Mansion under the leadership of the commander.

Li Chengdong occupied the courtyard of a wealthy merchant at that time, covering a large area, but the courtyard wall was not very high, only two meters high. The Qing troops outside the door didn't have to make much effort at all, and climbed the wall one after another by taking a human ladder. Originally, the commander of the Qing army thought that this battle was very simple, there were only 500 people on the opposite side, but there were 3,000 people on his side, and it was not a matter of minutes to destroy them. But just when the Qing army climbed the wall, the courtyard began to shoot arrows, and the first Qing soldiers who went up the wall fell down with a scream.

Although Li Chengdong did not agree to Guangdong's conditions, he knew that his relationship with Tong Guonai was not good, and he was afraid that Tong Guonai would be honest with him first. So he prepared a large number of bows and arrows in his house early, and he also got two bed crossbows to defend the city, which came in handy at this time.

When the commander of the Qing army saw that his men were shot dead, he scolded his subordinates for rubbish and ordered them to find something and break open the door of the house.

The Qing army demolished a shop on the side, removed the beams of the house, and used them as battering rams.

Li Chengdong inside had already prepared, this guy had fought all his life, and he had extremely rich experience in actual combat, and after returning to the house, he asked people to fill the door of the house with a bunch of rocky seats and benches, so the Qing army outside the door hit more than a dozen times to no avail.

At this time, Tong Guonai took Tong Tuchang to the door of Li Chengdong's mansion, and saw that the Qing army was banging on the door, Tong Guonai couldn't help but scold the Qing army for leading the waste.

"You stupid, you've been fighting with me for half your life, so you can't see that the door is blocked inside? Don't bring anyone to hit the courtyard wall yet! ”

The commander was scolded by Tong Guonai and woke up, yes, blocking the door can hit the wall. This kind of courtyard wall is not a few feet thick of the city wall, this kind of courtyard wall only has two layers of bricks, and it can be knocked down in a few strokes.

Li Chengdong in the courtyard heard that the people outside the door began to prepare to hit the courtyard wall, and ordered his soldiers to abandon the courtyard wall and concentrate in the courtyard, preparing to fight hand-to-hand with the Qing army.

The Qing army outside the door carried the beams, and chose a spacious place on the courtyard wall next to the gate and began to hit the wall, as Tong Guonai said, the ordinary courtyard wall with only two layers of bricks was installed with a big hole in a few clicks, and the Qing army that had been waiting around for a long time began to rush into the courtyard.

As soon as the Qing army entered the courtyard, they were driven out by two bed crossbows, the crossbow arrows of the bed crossbow were one zhang long, and the shafts of the arrows were the thickness of a child's arm. Just entered a dozen Qing soldiers to the big mold, because of the narrow gap, the Qing army huddled together, each crossbow arrow like a string of sugar gourds shot many people, the heaviest arrow nailed three Qing soldiers to the wall. However, it was too troublesome to wind the bed crossbow, and it didn't take five or six minutes to get it done, and the rest of the Qing army rushed in by the time difference. Li Chengdong saw that the distance was too close and the bow and arrow could no longer be used, and there was only hand-to-hand combat, Li Chengdong waved his waist knife and rushed forward.

Li Chengdong's personal soldiers all knew that if the Qing army rushed in, they would all be killed, so they followed Li Chengdong and rushed forward desperately.

At this time, there were not many Qing troops who entered the courtyard, only more than 20 people, and there were Li Chengdong's opponents, who were quickly cut down, and the remaining few people were also driven out of the hospital.

Seeing that the Qing army had retreated, Li Chengdong was not the slightest bit happy, he knew that the opposite side was only temporarily retreating, whether he could live today was all on his son Li Yuanyin, if he couldn't take the army to save himself in time, then he had only a dead end.

Things were also as Li Chengdong thought, the Qing army that was driven out of the courtyard lined up under the leadership of Tong Guonai, waiting for more gaps in the wall, so they rushed in and killed them in one go.

The Qing army was too numerous, and soon opened five more gaps in the courtyard wall, this time Li Chengdong couldn't resist it at all, and Li Chengdong had to retreat to the second layer of the courtyard under the protection of his own soldiers.

At this time, Zhu Yu in the backyard heard the sound of killing in the front yard, and he was worried, not knowing if his husband could come back to save him. At this time, many people came in from outside the courtyard wall, and these people were the Jinyi guards lurking in the city led by Ding Wei, and their order was to take Princess Yuyang away.

Now that the Li Mansion is in a mess, there are people who care who comes in, Ding Wei took more than 100 of his subordinates to climb over the wall and entered, found a family member to ask Zhu Yu's residence, and hurried over.

When the two personal soldiers guarding Zhu Yu saw a large number of men rushing into the courtyard, they thought that the Qing army had attacked, and hurriedly drew their knives and prepared for battle.

Ding Wei saw these two soldiers and shouted: "Don't do it, I'm from Guangdong, we want to see Princess Yuyang!" ”

Zhu Yu heard someone in the courtyard calling him a title, and when he went out of the house, he saw people who stood in the courtyard and didn't know him, wearing all kinds of clothes, but they all had knives and guns.

"I am Princess Yuyang, who are you?"

Ding Wei saw a young woman who came out and called herself Princess Yuyang, and put his mind at ease, as long as he rescued the princess, it would be a great achievement.

Ding Wei stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty the Princess, the villain is Ding Wei of the Hundred Households of Jinyi Wei, the Manchu Governor wants to attack Li Chengdong, and the villain is ordered to lead people to rescue the princess first!" ”

Hearing that it was someone sent by his father, Zhu Yu was relieved, but when he heard that he had to save himself first, how could he do it, and he would die with his husband Li Yuanyin.