Ma Xiaofang watched as the eunuchs and palace maids under him moved out of the furniture and scattered them on the ground two hundred meters away from the small building, and Zhang Sanqiang also led the soldiers of the two hundred guard companies to line up in front of the small building. The last one is the Han General of Jinyiwei, and the Han General is nominally under the command of Jinyiwei, but in fact, they and Jinyiwei are two completely different departments. Everyone knows that Jinyiwei is a secret service, and General Dahan is a ceremonial unit, which is somewhat similar to the national flag squad in later generations.

Zhu Hongsan said that in order to support the scene, the emperor found some tall and powerful guys among the refugees to be Han generals, and the combat effectiveness was limited compared to the government officials in Nanhai County. But now that there is a shortage of manpower, they also have to play, and the weapon Zhang Sanqiang gave them is a hand * grenade, fortunately, these Han generals are tall and large, and the hand * grenade can be thrown far away.

In the end, it was Ma Xiaofang and the palace maid and eunuch, at this time Zhu Hongsan's concubines and children all took over, and it was Ma Xiaofang's eldest daughter Zhu Luo who took someone to pick them up.

Seeing that her daughter was also dressed in military uniforms, Ma Xiaofang asked, "Daughter, how is it?" Have you received them all? ”

"Concubine Zhen took her sister Zhu Yu to Bachelor Tong's house, and she hasn't come back yet, and the others have been picked up!"

Ma Xiaofang nodded, saw that there was no one around, and whispered to her daughter: "Daughter, if you can't hold on for a while, you will take your brother to go first, there is a mother here!" ”

"Mother, I want to be with you!"

"What a stupid thing to say, you're only sixteen years old this year, and you have a better life to live. In addition, my mother is gone, your brother is young, and I have to rely on you to support him! ”

Zhu Yu didn't understand a little and asked, "Mother, isn't my brother the prince?" Still use me to support you? ”

Ma Xiaofang sneered: "You don't know your father too well, your father is unkind, his mother is gone, and your brother's position as the crown prince is probably unstable!" ”

"Isn't there still the eldest uncle and the second uncle?"

"Your second uncle is fine, but your eldest uncle may not be. This time your father ascended the throne and your uncle came back, didn't you see your aunt take Zhu Jiang to visit? I heard that your uncle is still very moved, people can change! ”

Zhu Luo is sixteen years old this year, and he is very smart about ice and snow, but after all, he is young and has little experience. Hearing what his mother said, he hurriedly asked, "Mother, do you mean that my father can make my second brother the prince?" ”

"My mother can't live yet, but it's not necessarily when my mother is gone!"

"My mother just said that I should support my brother, but I can't do it either!"

Ma Xiaofang touched Zhu Luo's hair lovingly and said, "Silly boy, why do you think I agree with you and Zhao Hu's relationship?" That Zhao Hu looks like a bear, if it weren't for his father being Zhu Hongyi, do you think your mother would agree to you marrying him? Zhu Hongyi is your father's most trusted brother, plus Zhu Hongyi has an unusual relationship with the generals in the army, with your relatives, the generals in the army can support your younger brother, so that your mother can be safe when she is not in the position of your brother's prince! ”

Zhu Luo didn't expect his mother to think so far, Zhu Luo thought about it and said, "Don't worry, my father will definitely come back to save us!" ”

Ma Xiaofang sneered a few times and didn't speak, Zhu Hongsan knows this person Ma Xiaofang too well, now he must have run away with Zhu Hongyi, his wife and children are a burden to him, only the army and territory are his favorites.

When Ma Xiaofang was slandering Zhu Hongsan, Li Chengdong's troops came to Ma Xiaofang's small building.

Li Chengdong led people into the palace of the king of Chu and found that there were not many people inside, only a few eunuchs and palace maids running around like headless flies.

Li Chengdong grabbed a eunuch and asked where the king of Chu was.

"Big lord, the little one doesn't know, but just now the little one saw a large group of people go to the queen's residence!"

Li Chengdong said viciously: "It should be there, lead the way!" Li Chengdong is also afraid that it will change later, now that the sky is already dawning, if he doesn't catch the king of Chu quickly, and wait for the army in the city to react, it is really difficult to do anything with the two thousand people under his command.

The eunuch didn't dare to resist, and hurriedly took Li Chengdong to the queen's residence.

After turning a few rockeries, a small five-story building can already be seen standing there in the distance.

The eunuch pointed to the small building and said, "Master, where is the queen's residence!" ”

As soon as Li Chengdong heard the place, he said to the soldiers behind him: "Brothers, rush in, catch the one in the yellow robe, and there will be a reward!" ”

The soldier's eyes were red from Li Chengdong's stimulation, and he screamed and urged the horses to rush forward. Skirting the hill, there is an open square in front of you, piled with all kinds of furniture and sundries. The first few horsemen could not dodge, the horse's hooves tripped over the furniture, the horse's legs were immediately broken, and the soldiers were thrown off their horses. But fortunately, these guys are skilled in horsemanship, and they are not injured.

The cavalry in the rear saw the situation in front and quickly grabbed the reins. Just when Li Chengdong's cavalry was in a hurry, the guard company of the New Army on the opposite side opened fire.

Now the guard company has concentrated more than 260 people, and this is all the soldiers that can be found. Zhang Sanqiang divided them into three teams and fired in turn. Fortunately, most of these people are veterans, and they have experienced the Battle of Nanzhili and the Battle of Luzon, so they are not flustered.

The Qing troops who were shot by the first platoon were caught off guard and immediately fell more than 20 people, and the others quickly retreated to the rockery when they found it bad.

Li Chengdong heard the gunshots in front of him and hurriedly asked what the situation was. It turned out that there was a Ming army musket team in front, and coupled with the uneven ground, the cavalry could not get on their horses and charge.

Li Chengdong climbed the rockery and looked at the situation opposite. Standing opposite were those red-clothed Ming soldiers, but they were a little different from those encountered by Nan Zhili, and these guys on the opposite side were wearing black fur hats, which were very majestic.

Li Chengdong estimated the distance, the rockery was about two hundred steps away from the Ming army, and their muskets seemed to be able to hit here, while his bow and arrow only had a range of one hundred and fifty paces at most, which could not reach them.

Li Chengdong looked around and looked at the situation, there was a small road more than ten steps away from the rockery, leading into a forest, which should be able to detour behind these Ming troops.

"Liu San, you take three hundred people and take a detour along that path to see if you can copy the back road of these Ming troops!"

Liu San led people down, and Li Chengdong led people to attack in the front.

Zhang Sanqiang's musket is not the same as the three-eyed gun of this era, the three-eyed gun is not as powerful as the slingshot at a distance of 50 meters, and the musket of the Guangdong New Army is still powerful at a distance of 150 meters. Seeing that the Qing army rushed out again behind the rockery, the musket team immediately opened fire, knocking down a large area of the Qing army for a while.

Li Chengdong was deadlocked in front, and Liu San had already led people to detour to the back. When I got out of the forest, I saw that it was less than fifty paces away from the Ming army, which was the maximum range of bows and arrows. The three hundred Qing troops began to shoot at the Ming army with open bows and arrows.

Zhang Sanqiang was caught off guard, was shot at more than a dozen soldiers, and when he looked back and saw the Qing army on the flank, Zhang Sanqiang had no choice but to retreat. First, let the musketeers throw dozens of grenades, and the Qing soldiers on the flanks of the bombing turned on their backs, and Zhang Sanqiang retreated to the front of the small building under the cover of gunsmoke to block again.

Just when the city of Guangzhou was in chaos, in Wushi Town, twenty miles outside the city, the Third Regiment of the First Division was having breakfast. The regiment commander Duan Fei had just gotten up and was ready to start training the troops after breakfast.

At this time, a brocade guard on horseback rushed outside the camp gate, carrying five red flags behind him, which was exactly the outfit of 100,000 urgent. The brocade-clothed guard took out a glittering gold token from a distance away from the camp gate, raised it above his head and shouted: "The emperor's golden order is here, open the door quickly, 100,000 are in a hurry!" ”

The soldiers guarding the gate did not dare to delay, and quickly opened the camp gate, and the brocade guard rushed into the camp on horseback, and as soon as he entered the barracks, the horse could no longer hold on, and fell to the ground with a neigh, and immediately the knight was caught off guard and fell to the ground.

When Duan Fei saw the knight coming in, he hurriedly stepped forward to help this brocade guard and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The brocade guard held high the golden order and said: "The emperor's decree is to order the third regiment Duan Fei to quickly lead the soldiers to Guangzhou to clear the Qing army that has entered the city, my lord!" The Qing army has entered Guangzhou! ”

As soon as Duan Fei heard that the big thing was not good, he hurriedly took over the golden order to check.

The Golden Order is just a small gold medal, made of pure gold, with four large characters engraved on the front of it: "If I am here".

After Zhu Hongsan took the command of all the troops into his own hands, he formulated two systems for transferring troops. One is the normal transfer, the emperor takes out the tiger talisman, and then the military aircraft department shows the order, and then the leading generals check that the tiger talisman mark is correct, and then the soldiers can be mobilized.

There is also an extraordinary situation, Zhu Hongsan made three golden orders, which were written "If I am here in person", and the back is a dragon pattern. When the generals leading the troops see this kind of golden order, they must unconditionally obey the orders of the holders, otherwise the deputy in the army can be removed from the command of the main post.

Duan Fei also saw this kind of golden order for the first time, he didn't dare to be careless, he quickly called the deputy head of the regiment, went back to the big tent and took out the golden order extension issued by the military aircraft department, and the two of them were tightly matched with the dragon pattern of the golden order, proving that this was true.

Seeing that the golden order was correct, Duan Fei said to the deputy commander: "His Majesty the Emperor ordered us to enter the city to exterminate the Qing army, you go down to give the order, immediately blow the assembly number, and then the whole army marches quickly, and must arrive in Guangzhou in two hours!" ”

The deputy head of the regiment hurriedly went down to organize the people to set off.

Duan Fei was going to save their emperor, but Zhu Hongsan had now fled to his own ship.

Zhu Hongsan was so afraid of death that he came to the Nancheng Wharf and immediately boarded his royal ship. It is said to be a royal ship, but it is actually a 500-ton gunboat.

When Zhu Hongsan came to the ship, he immediately ordered the sailors to lift anchor and stay away from the city of Guangzhou.

When the boat arrived at the center of the Pearl River, Zhu Hongsan was relieved, he ordered to anchor, and waited for news here.

In fact, after Zhu Hongsan arrived at the dock, he could organize the sailors on the ship to reinforce the palace, you must know that there were more than 300 sailors on this ship. However, Zhu Hongsan was greedy for life and afraid of death, and the current situation was unknown, so he dared to casually send his last defense force. So to rescue Ma Xiaofang, their last chance was lost by Zhu Hongsan.