Shenyang City in the Ming Dynasty was just a military town, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong set up 12 guards, of which stationed in the Shenyang area is Shenyang Zhongwei and Zuowei, and at the same time ordered Bao Cheng to lead the original Henan, Shandong school 10,328 people stationed in Shenyang.

In the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, Shenyang was located along the Liaohe River and was the throat of water and land transportation in eastern Liaodong, so it slowly became densely populated, but the status of Shenyang in the Ming Dynasty was not very important, and it was much worse than Liaoyang, where the Liaodong Metropolitan Division was stationed at that time.

In 1625, Nurhachi moved the capital to Shenyang, built a palace in Shenyang, and built buildings such as the Palace of the Mandate of Heaven, the Great Political Hall and the Ten Kings Pavilion, all of which made the appearance of Shenyang City change dramatically, and it was also the beginning of Shenyang's real development from a military town to a big city.

After Zhu Hongsan reoccupied Shenyang, he also used it as the garrison of the governor of Northeast China, moving a large number of people from Guannei to Shenyang, and at the same time directly promoting Shenyang from a military town to a prefecture-level unit.

The topography of the current Shenyang is an oval city, and the imperial palace is in the middle of the city in the north direction. Beicheng is also the residence of yamen at all levels, such as the Northeast Governor's Office, the Governor's Yamen, and the Political Envoy's Yamen.

The imperial palace in Shenyang is similar to the imperial palace in Beijing, and is also divided into the imperial city and the palace city. There are various yamen and the palaces of the princes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the imperial city, but now these princes' palaces have been rewarded by Zhu Hongsan to meritorious ministers, and Zhao Guodong's home is in the north of the palace city, Prince Ying's mansion, which is the residence of Azig back then.

In the middle of the imperial city is the imperial palace, that is, the Shenyang Palace Museum in later generations, of course, the area of the Shenyang Palace is far from being comparable with the Beijing Palace Museum, but because Shenyang is located in the cold Liaodong, the palaces and city walls in the palace are very thick, preventing the cold and increasing the defense ability at the same time.

The place where Zhu Hongsan lived was the Huangji Hall in the palace city, that is, the Qingning Palace where the emperor Taiji lived. Zhu Hongsan changed all the names of all the Manchu colors in the Shenyang Forbidden City, the Daqing Gate became the Daming Gate, and the Qingning Palace was also changed to the Huangji Palace.

Zhao Guodong, as Zhu Hongsan's descendant, naturally knew that the emperor lived there, so his main direction of attack was also this imperial palace. Thanks to the small area of the Shenyang Imperial Palace, the Huangji Hall is only less than 200 meters away from the back door of the back gate, it can be said that as long as the back gate is controlled, the emperor Zhu Hongsan will also fall into the hands of Zhao Guodong. Zhao Guodong also hit this idea, so he decided to start from Houzaimon today.

Zhao Guodong left the school at the gate of the Governor's Mansion with 2,000 people, patrolling the streets all the way to Houzaimun, and also encountered several horse teams from the Shenyang Inspection Division on the way, but they had already received a notice from the Shenyang Prefect's Yamen, and they didn't ask much about these soldiers who entered the city.

As Zhao Guodong got closer and closer to Houzaimen, his palms were full of sweat, Zhao Guodong had seen countless scenes in his life, but today was a rebellion to arrest the emperor, and it was impossible for Zhao Guodong not to be nervous.

When he was three hundred meters away from Houzaimen, a person stumbled out of the darkness, and the soldiers led by him saw a figure on the opposite side and hurriedly asked, "Who is in front?" Stop, don't stand and shoot! ”

The man shouted, "Don't shoot, I'm a guard in the palace, and you're part of it?" ”

When the leading officer heard him say this, he hurriedly said, "We are the officers and soldiers of the Second Division, and we are on patrol at night under the order of the Governor, and you are the palace guard."

？ Can I help you? ”

At this time, the person had already run to the front of the team, and then the light saw that the person was wearing a bright yellow flying fish suit, with an embroidered spring knife on his waist, but the knife was gone, only the scabbard was still there.

The brocade guard let out a sigh of relief when he saw the soldier, pulled the officer and whispered, "Brother, take me to see the Governor, there is something big!" ”

At this time, Zhao Guodong and Zhang Bao in the back had already walked to the front, and Zhao Guodong opened his mouth and asked, "What's the matter?" Why not go? ”

When the Jinyi guard saw Zhao Guodong, he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and said loudly, "Lord Governor, something big happened in the palace, the concubine Zhao Hu conspired to rebel, and he has already controlled His Majesty in the palace. ”

The news of this Jinyiwei is actually full of loopholes, Zhao Hu is a general in the army, where can he run to the palace to launch a rebellion? There is also a very strict ban in the palace of the Ming Dynasty, and the palace door is locked after the sun sets. However, the news of this Jinyi Wei is too exciting, and most of the soldiers of the second division are illiterate, and after hearing that their beloved emperor is being controlled, they still think carefully about what loopholes there are, and they all shout to go in to save the emperor.

Zhao Guodong heard what the brocade guard said and knew that this guy must be a pawn arranged by King Qin, but Zhao Guodong also needed this name, Zhao Guodong said to the four battalion commanders around him, "Everyone has heard it, you are usually deeply favored by the emperor, and now is the time when you need to be rescued, come!" Follow Lao Tzu to Houzaimen, let's save the emperor! ”

These soldiers were all seventeen or eighteen years old, and even the four battalion commanders were only in their twenties, which was the age when the flesh and blood Fang Gang wanted to make meritorious contributions.

Here is less than three hundred meters away from the Houzai Gate, so many people outside the city wall shouted naturally aroused the vigilance of the palace Jinyi guards, today guarding the Houzai Gate is Zhu Hongsan's son-in-law Li Fu, but also the concubine of Changsha Princess Zhu Xiang. After Li Fucheng got married, he couldn't serve as an officer of the Praetorian Guard, so he became the governor of Jinyiwei and became the governor of Jinyiwei, and this time he followed Zhu Hongsan out to be responsible for the emperor's protection.

Li Fu heard a commotion outside at the Houzai Gate, and hurriedly climbed the city wall, this is a palace city, who is so bold as to dare to make noise for no reason?

As soon as Li Fu boarded the Houzai Gate, he saw a team running in the distance, and the neat steps were none other than the soldiers in the army, led by Zhao Guodong, the governor of the Northeast.

Li Fu naturally recognized Zhao Guodong, and when he saw him coming, Li Fu stood on the city wall and shouted, "Your Excellency, there was a commotion outside the palace wall just now, have you caught anyone?" ”

Zhao Guodong looked at Li Fu, he recognized this as the emperor's concubine, but where can Li Fu's status be compared to Zhao Guodong? Even Li Fu's son, Li Fugui, was not in Zhao Guodong's eyes.

Zhao Guodong ignored Li Fu's questioning, and said directly, "Changsha donkey, open the palace gate quickly, this governor has received a secret report that someone wants to be disrespectful to the emperor, and this governor has brought someone to come to the rescue!" ”

Li Fu was stunned when he heard it, disrespectful to the emperor? What do you mean? Is there a rebellion? However, there was peace in Miyagi, and there was no change. Li Fu looked back at the palace city, except for a few main buildings that were lit up, everything else was dark, and it didn't look like there was anything unusual. You must know that the entire Shenyang Forbidden City is not very big, not in ancient times

The light pollution has a wide field of vision, and Li Fu can see the situation of the Daming Gate at the front here.

"Your Excellency the Governor, there is nothing unusual in the palace!"

Zhao Guodong listened to Li Fu's explanation, and said impatiently, "You open the palace gate first!" ”

At this time, Li Fu already felt something abnormal, but he still didn't believe that Zhao Guodong, as the emperor's descendant, could betray the emperor.

"Your Excellency the Governor, according to the system in the palace, it is strictly forbidden for anyone to open the palace door after dark, can the Governor have the emperor's holy decree?"

"Fart, do you still need to open the door if there is a holy decree? Hurry up and open the palace gate, and I want to delay Your Majesty's affairs for you! ”

The more Zhao Guodong said this, the more Li Fu felt suspicious, and naturally he couldn't open the door. Li Fu thought about it and called a small flag and asked him to enter the palace to find the great eunuch Li Chengen and ask him what he should do. and Li Fu signaled his subordinates to prepare in case Zhao Guodong took a risk.

Knowing that as soon as Li Fu asked his subordinates to prepare, he heard several loud noises coming from several houses outside the palace, and Li Fu, as an officer, naturally knew what the sound was, it was the sound of army artillery.

It turned out that Zhao Guodong was fighting with Li Fu here, and Zhang Bao saw that it was okay to go on like this, so he hurriedly asked a few henchmen to go to the side houses to fetch the artillery that had been hidden earlier, and fired a volley at Houzaimen.

After a burst of gunsmoke, Zhang Bao took a closer look at the Houzai Gate, and there was nothing unusual, except that the city gate was knocked off a few pieces of lacquer by solid bullets. This is thanks to the work of Huang Taiji, when Huang Taiji built this palace city as solid, in addition to the super thick city wall, the nine city gates are also made of pig iron wrapped in three-inch thick wooden planks. In addition, the field guns used by the army are all eight-pounder guns, and it is really difficult for this small-caliber field gun to encounter such thick walls and palace gates.

It took Li Fu a long time to recover from the roar of artillery, and he grabbed the deputy beside him and shouted, "Quick, go to the palace to report to the emperor, Zhao Guodong has rebelled!" And let everyone go to the city wall, ready to fight to the death with Zhao Guodong! ”

Li Fu didn't know how many people followed Zhao Guodong to rebel, but the Houzai Gate he was responsible for was only guarded by more than 200 people, and there were cannons on the opposite side, so this battle was not easy to fight.

After Zhao Guodong and the others dispersed, he found that there was no big loss at the city gate, and scolded angrily, "Your mother, Zhang Bao!" What's next? ”

Zhang Bao thought for a while and said, "My lord, the army's field artillery is not powerful enough, but the gunpowder bag brought by the last general is enough, why don't we pile the gunpowder bag at the city gate and blow up the Houzai gate!" ”

Zhao Guodong was right to think about it, now that time is pressing, catching the emperor is the top priority. Zhao Guodong hurriedly organized his soldiers to suppress and shoot at the Jinyi guards on the city wall, the Jinyi guards did not have long guns, but short guns were enough. While suppressing the Jinyi Guard, Zhao Guodong asked people to pile up gunpowder bags at the city gate, and in order to ensure the power, five or six hundred catties of gunpowder were piled up.

After all the preparations were completed, under Zhao Guodong's order, the entire Houzaimun turned into a huge fireball, and the Houzaimun was completely blown into the sky, even the surrounding city walls were also blown down more than 50 meters, and the poor brocade guards guarding the city wall were all turned into meat paste in the firelight.

Zhao Guodong was in charge of the life and death of Li Fu and those Jinyi guards, and was overjoyed when he saw that Houzaimun was blown up, so he quickly pulled out his waist knife and shouted, "Brothers, rush in, kill all those rebellious Jinyi guards, and rescue our Emperor His Majesty!" ”

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