After Zhu Jiang and Ma Shaoguang finished discussing, they asked, "Uncle, what about the prince's official documents?" In order to avoid startling the snake, this king will enter the palace once tomorrow! ”

Ma Shaoguang hurriedly shook his head: "No, you must not take risks at this critical moment, who knows what news the prince has, what if King Qin, you enter the palace and are caught by the prince?" ”

Ma Shaoguang groaned and said: "In this way, tomorrow morning you order a little eunuch to enter the palace to ask for leave, and say that you are physically inconvenient and cannot enter the palace to attend the meeting!" ”

Zhu Jiang nodded when he heard Ma Shaoguang say this, but in fact, he didn't want to risk going to the palace.

The next day, Zhu Jiang sent someone to the palace to ask for leave according to Ma Shaoguang's arrangement, but thinking that the prince was not reluctant, he actually sent a eunuch with a eunuch to see Zhu Jiang.

Now things are not easy to do, Zhu Jiang is not sick at all, and the imperial doctor can see it with a pulse. What's more, King Qin's mansion is now full of heavily armed soldiers, and there is a reason to let outsiders in casually.

Zhu Jiang was in a dilemma, and he had no choice but to ask Ma Shaoguang for a solution.

Ma Shaoguang was also embarrassed to hear Zhu Jiang say this, Ma Shaoguang thought for a while and asked, "Lord Wang, how are you preparing here?" ”

"My side has already made preparations, and the third uncle, Jiang Pengju, and Jin Daoming have no problems, and a total of 4,000 soldiers from various provinces have gathered. It's just that it's not the appointed time yet, the arsenal in Nancheng hasn't been opened, and some heavy firearms can't be collected. The city wall of Donghua Gate is thick, and the palace gate cannot be opened without cannons! ”

"Lord, now that the matter is urgent, we have no choice but to do it first, if the prince realizes that something is wrong, then we will lose the first move!"

According to the prior plan, on the afternoon of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the arsenal of Nancheng was opened, and then Ma Rufeng would send people to transport a few cannons to enter the inner city through the Chongwen Gate under the control of Ding Changsheng. But now that the military situation is urgent, there is no choice but to bite the bullet.

Zhu Jiang thought about it and could only do this, Zhu Jiang found his own soldiers and asked him to find Ma Rufeng, Jiang Pengju, and Jin Daoming, and agreed to do it tonight, because Shenshi happened to be the time when the guards in the palace city changed guards, so he could be caught off guard.

Ma Rufeng was preparing at home, and he was very busy, but he didn't think that there was an order from the Qin Wangfu that he would do it tonight. This was a whole day early, and Ma Rufeng didn't know why King Qin wanted to do this, so he put down what he was doing to see Zhu Jiang.

After Ma Rufeng saw Zhu Jiang, he knew that things had come to this point, and he couldn't do it in advance, so Ma Rufeng had no choice but to sigh and bless the prince, who was not prepared.

Doctor Fang of the Tai Hospital had been waiting in the living room of King Qin's Mansion for two hours, and had not yet seen King Qin. Doctor Fang Taiyi is the eight-rank imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital, although he is a middle-level official position in the Tai Hospital, but his medical skills are indeed the crown of the Tai Hospital.

Today is the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, which was originally the time for the Tai Hospital to repair Mu, but at noon, an order came from the Zongren Mansion to let the Tai Hospital send a doctor to treat King Qin. King Qin was a prince or the emperor's prince, so the doctors of the Tai Hospital naturally did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent the best doctor to diagnose and treat him.

Who would have thought that Imperial Physician Fang had waited from noon to Shen, and had not yet seen King Qin's face. Imperial Physician Fang complained to the little eunuch who brought him, "This lieutenant official, why did King Qin have to prepare for such a long time? ”

The little eunuch was only a low-level lieutenant in the palace, and he didn't know anything at all, so the other party's imperial doctor had to comfort: "Wait a minute, King Qin probably forgot about this stubble, let's go and report it again!" ”

The little eunuch was just about to leave the house, when he saw the door of the reception room open, and the King of Qin, who should be sick, appeared in front of Imperial Doctor Fang in military uniform.

Zhu Jiang saw the two people in the room and smiled: "Doctor Fang, I've kept you waiting, this king is now well!" ”

Doctor Fang saw that the situation outside was not right, and the courtyard was full of soldiers covered in armor, and all of them were holding sharp blades, and they were going to fight with people at first glance.

After the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Doctor Fang trembled with fright when he saw these soldiers, and stumbled and said, "Wang... Lord Wang, the little official is just a doctor, and he came to see the prince on the orders of the prince, but he is not a bad person! ”

Zhu Jiang looked frightened like this and laughed: "Haha, don't worry, Imperial Doctor Fang, this king is not targeting you today!" This king is going to deal with the prince who is inferior to beasts! ”

After Zhu Jiang finished speaking, he turned around and said to the soldiers in the courtyard: "Brothers! You know that Lao Tzu is the second son of his father, originally the prince didn't have anything to do with the king, and Lao Tzu also hoped to get along with Zhu Hai before! But this king got the news that Zhu Hai, this guy, was mad, and took advantage of his father's time in Liaodong to collude with outsiders to murder his father! This king is the son of his father, how can he see Zhu Hai, a rebellious son, doing such an unfilial thing, so today this king wants to clear the king's side, eradicate Zhu Hai's rebellion, and the brothers and this king will kill together in the East Palace, and bring Zhu Hai's rebellion to justice and hand it over to his father! ”

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the prince had a personal army of 16,800 people in Sanwei, but after Zhu Di's battle of Jingjing, the emperors of previous dynasties were very wary of these cousins, so from Yongle to Jiajing, the prince's personal soldiers were gradually reduced to 300 people. However, Zhu Jiang is Zhu Hongsan's own son, so his personal army can be expanded to 500 people.

Zhu Jiang's personal soldiers are all brothers who were born and died with him back then, plus so many years of co-optation and bribery, they are all fed with silver, so there is no problem at all in terms of loyalty.

Now when these pro-soldiers heard Zhu Jiang say this, they shouted one by one: "Kill into the East Palace and capture Zhu Hai!" ”

Even if Imperial Physician Fang is ignorant, he knows what happened now, this is the second time in the Xuanwu Sect, Imperial Physician Fang is now so frightened that he is paralyzed on the ground like a pile of mud.

Zhu Jiang smiled when he saw Imperial Physician Fang's appearance: "Imperial Physician Fang, don't worry, you have nothing to do with this king, today this king let you go, but you!" After Zhu Jiang finished speaking, he pointed to the little eunuch in the house and said, "You Zhu Hai's gelding, Zhu Hai's persecution of Lao Tzu is your most contribution!" Come on, pull this gelding out and cut down the sacrificial flag! ”

In fact, that little eunuch was only the lowest-level lieutenant in the East Palace, and there was an opportunity to persecute Zhu Jiang, but now Zhu Jiang wanted to use his head to boost morale.

The little eunuch was quickly escorted out of the reception room by the soldiers, and at the door of the second hall of the Qin Palace, he cut off his head with a knife. These soldiers had been inspired by Zhu Jiang to kill just now, and now their eyes were red when they saw the human blood, and they rushed out of the Qin Wang's Mansion with a loud shout, rushing towards the Donghua Gate not far away.

Now is the time of Shen, that is, around four o'clock in the afternoon in the future, it is the time when the sky will be dark, because tomorrow is the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, so today Beijing Dongcheng is very lively, many businesses have begun to prepare lanterns, and the streets are crowded.

At this time, I didn't know that a group of red-eyed soldiers rushed out of there, killing people when they saw them, and for a time Dongcheng became like hell, and many Beijing citizens were hacked to death before they could dodge.

Beijing Dongcheng was in a mess, and Zhu Jiang also did it with Ma Rufeng, Jiang Pengju and Jin Daoming, Ma Rufeng contacted several generals, plus Jiang Pengju's 300 personal soldiers, Jin Daoming led the largest team, a total of more than 1,600 people, and nearly 3,000 troops in the three places, together to kill the Donghua Gate in Dongcheng.

Donghua Gate is the east gate of the imperial city, here is also the root of the imperial city in later generations, outside the imperial city is the street of ten zhang, here it is strictly forbidden for all people to walk, the first warning, the second shot on the spot, so few people here come to play.

Today, the quiet Donghuamen Street has become a busy city, and Zhu Jiang came to Donghuamen with 3,000 people and asked the soldiers guarding the city to open Donghuamen.

At this time, Zhu Hai, the prince of Donghua Gate, appeared, Zhu Hai had been waiting here in Donghua Gate for a long time, yesterday he discussed with Xia Wanchun, and decided to force Zhu Jiang to do it a day earlier, so that Zhu Jiang could be caught off guard, so Zhu Hai let Zhu Jiang enter the palace yesterday, preparing to catch him if Zhu Jiang entered the palace, if Zhu Jiang was suspicious, it was not bad to force him to do it first.

Zhu Hai stood on the Donghua Gate and looked down and shouted: "All the soldiers who rebelled with Zhu Jiang, the king of Qin, this palace tells you that Zhu Jiang is a rebel and wants to lose his head!" Now you put down the swords and guns in your hands and go home, this palace promises you that you can not blame the past! ”

Zhu Jiang heard Zhu Hai say this under the city, and also shouted: "Brothers, don't listen to him, the emperor has been held hostage by Zhu Hai, we are saving the emperor and making meritorious contributions!" This king promises you to rush into the palace and capture Zhu Hai and seal the marquis of ten thousand households! 10,000 taels of gold! ”

Zhu Jiang's subordinates are all veterans who have accumulated years, and they already knew what they were doing today, and when they heard Zhu Jiang say this, they shouted to enter the palace and catch Zhu Hai.

Seeing this, Zhu Jiang hurriedly ordered Ma Rufeng to move out the siege equipment hidden in the surrounding houses and prepare to attack the imperial city.

In fact, the siege equipment is just some ladders, and what equipment can be transported under the nose of the palace, even these ladders are also secretly transported into the materials and assembled in the houses.

Zhu Jiang saw that it was just some cloud ladders and regretted it a little in his heart, in his plan, he wanted to use cannons to blow up the Donghua Gate, but because of the urgency of time, he started one day earlier, and the cannons were still in the armory in Nancheng.

Zhu Jiang grabbed Ma Rufeng and shouted: "Uncle, you can't do it without cannons, quickly send people to Nancheng to transport cannons!" ”

While commanding his subordinates to attack the city with a ladder, Ma Rufeng shouted: "King Qin, I have already sent someone to Nancheng, and it is estimated that it will take half an hour to arrive!" ”

When Zhu Jiang and Ma Rufeng were talking, their soldiers had already begun to attack the city, and there was no heavy firepower on either side, only muskets and swords and guns, and they were fighting under the imperial city walls.

Unlike Zhu Jiang, who has been born and died many times, Zhu Hai only participated in a battle outside Nanchang, and now he saw real knives and guns on both sides, and he was so frightened that his legs and stomachs were fighting. Xia Wanchun, who was standing beside him, was not afraid of death, but this was the first time he had seen this kind of real battle.

Seeing that things were already like this, Xia Wanchun said to Zhu Hai: "Your Highness, now that you have started, it is too unsafe on the city wall, please go back to the East Palace and wait!" ”

The Jinyi Wei Qianhu who guarded the city was also an understanding person, and hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Lord Xia is right, please go back to the East Palace and wait, please rest assured that there is the last general here!" ”