readx;??? By the time all the officials had arrived at the palace gate, there were already one hundred and fifty elite Medeno soldiers waiting, all of them wearing armor, each with three or four horses by their side, each of these tall and sturdy horses was panting, looking around, a few Medeno soldiers were looking haughtily at some of the Praetorian soldiers who were burning and looting, wearing silk and silver in their hands, or a few people dragging a woman down the street. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info:

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"Come here! Feed my horses water! A Medenor, who looked like an officer, grabbed a Praetorian soldier with a beautifully crafted night pot in his hand and ordered.

"Who are you? Something is wrong with Lao Tzu! Don't bother me! The soldier impatiently reached out and pushed the man, but the Medeno officer was eight feet tall, wearing a hammered armor, a bright silver helmet on his head, a purple peacock feather on the top of the helmet, and a large red cloak draped over his back. Pushed by the short Annan soldier in front of him, he continued to tug at the soldier as if he didn't feel it, "Feed my horse water, or see how I clean you up!" ”

A few of the rest Medeno soldiers gathered around him, their right hands resting on the hilt of their swords hanging from their waists. This soldier of the Annam Forbidden Army complained bitterly, the Maidno people were notoriously unreasonable, and they were all tall and strong, and three or four Annam people might not be able to please them alone. A few of his companions laughed not far away, and it turned out that the Medenor people had used the night-pot toilet he was carrying for a bucket to feed the horses.

"What are you laughing at? Come and feed the water, too! The officer shouted, and pointed at a few Annan soldiers who were sneering over there, but those Annan soldiers were far away, and when they saw this Medeno man pointing over, they quickly turned around and ran away.

At this time, the gate of the palace slowly opened in a tooth-squeaking sound, and the traces of the siege of the city last night were still vivid, and there were traces of blackened gunsmoke everywhere, and there were still corpses floating in the water in the moat in front of the noon gate, and blood stains were all over the bridge, but someone had removed the corpses. After the gate was opened, a group of officials poured out of the noon gate to greet the descendants of the Li family.

"In Xia Nai Annan Left Minister, I specially came to greet the prince of the Li family, may I ask who you are?" Zuo Xiang had a lot of eyesight, and hurriedly walked to the officer who was covered in silver and had peacock feathers on top of his head and gave a salute. The officer was stunned for a moment, made a gesture, and asked a few soldiers around him to escort the Annan soldier with the toilet down to feed the horse.

"Below is Carlos Russell, the general of the Marine Corps in the East Sea City of Medno, who specially escorted the descendants of the Lê clan back to Hue to take the throne, and will serve as the palace guard for the rest of the time."

Carlos Russell is the commander-in-chief of the Marine Corps in Donghai City, and now he is only a reinforced company of dragoons who are coming as the vanguard, just to seize the palace and protect all the materials in the palace before the Annam Forbidden Army has time to loot the palace's belongings, and there are still 1,000 marines behind them who are rushing to this side. The dragoons and infantry equipment of these marines were considered the best among the Medeno, and each had a cuirass. Of course, the officers are equipped with hammer-forged steel armor, which can protect the wearer from direct fire damage from about fifty meters of firearms, and the soldiers are mainly equipped with bronze or iron armor, which is slightly less protective, but it is simply an artifact for the Annamites who are rarely equipped with firearms and most of them are only equipped with bows, arrows, knives and guns.

The 1,000-strong marines and 150-strong dragoons had landed at the port of Van Son the day before yesterday, and according to the plan, the two major forbidden military camps in the north and south of Hue would launch an attack five days later, and they would escort the descendants of the Lê clan to arrive on the sixth day, so that they could arrive in time for Hue to take over the power of Annam.

Who knew that yesterday the contradictions in the court suddenly intensified, and unexpectedly caused the Sixth Department and the Left to lose their power at the same time, and in order to prevent the plan from falling through, Medeno had already invested tens of thousands of taels of silver in advance for this plan, and had to launch a rebellion in advance. Carlos Russell had to speed up his march and lead the cavalry to Hue as fast as possible, and quickly took over the defense of the palace.

"Where are the descendants of the Li family?" Zuo Xiangchong's side of the Ministry of Rites Shangshu made a look. However, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu also secretly complained in his heart, he had a relationship with the descendants of the Li family, but the situation was urgent at the time, just a glance, and now it has been decades again, and the appearance of the person has become very large, so where can he recognize people?

However, all the officials looked around, and everywhere they saw were Medeno soldiers, some of them were robbing the belongings of the Annan soldiers around them, and some had already handed over their horses to their companions, and went directly into the houses on the side of the road and began to loot. Unlike the Annan soldiers, these Maidno soldiers didn't know which houses could be robbed and which were the houses of the officials, so they just rushed in and robbed them.

"My lord, Lord Zuo, let them restrain the soldiers, and be careful not to rob our own people." A few officials quietly came up and whispered to Zuo Xiang.

"The people of Maideno have come all the way to help with good intentions, and they have also protected the prince of my Dali Dynasty for decades, and it is nothing to grab points, and when the time comes, I will ask the emperor to allocate funds from the treasury to supplement it." Zuo Xiang is also at a loss, he knows that he still has to rely on these Maidno people at the moment, and the most annoying thing is that the 150,000 taels of silver promised by the Maidno people are far from being in his hands, and if he offends the Maidno people, this money will be troublesome.

"General Russell, at this time, the palace is still clearing the remnants of Ruan's rebellion, and it is inconvenient to enter immediately, please also ask the general and warriors to move to the north camp outside the city to rest for a while, and wait until the palace is safe before entering the palace. Please also let the descendants of the Li family come over first, and let me and other officials greet you to Honglu Temple for a while. Zuo Xiang smiled and asked Russell for instructions. Just kidding, Ruan Fuyuan still has a lot of silver in the inner library, if he lets Medeno's cavalry enter in advance, he will definitely directly occupy the silver in the inner library, although there is no time to count it, I don't know how much silver is in the inner library, but hundreds of thousands of taels or something should not be a problem, right? Therefore, it is important to take the Medeno cavalry away first and move the silver from the inner treasury.

However, Russell's face was obviously not good, "We were ordered to come to Hue in advance to defend the work, if we arrived in Hue and didn't even enter the imperial city, what would our infantry think of us when they arrived?" Maidno people do what they say and must do it, otherwise what kind of integrity can they talk about? In fact, he was ordered to rush to the palace as quickly as possible after the rebels captured the palace and to protect it from being looted by the rebels, and of course, the most important task was to keep the silver in the treasury of the palace from being taken by the rebels. At the moment, the small abacus on both sides are crackling, but they have to be bitches and set up archways again, all of them are sanctimonious.

"It's just a safety ...... in this imperial city," Zuo Xiang hurriedly excused himself, but he was interrupted before he could finish his words, "The Marines of Medeno are never afraid of danger, we just need to know where the enemy is." ”

"So," Zuo Xiang's eyes rolled, and an idea immediately popped up, "I don't know where the descendants of the Li family are?" According to the law of Annam, of course, the emperor must be the first to enter the imperial city. ”

"The descendants of the Li clan are still on their way here, and we have a thousand men of Marine infantry protecting him," replied Russell impatiently, "then let our dragoons advance into the city!" As he spoke, he waved his hand and shouted to the soldiers behind him, "Get ready to mount!" Enter the city now! ”

Seeing that this group of cavalry could not be stopped-just kidding, such a well-equipped cavalry, not to mention this group of civilian officials, even the forbidden army next to him who was looking for an opportunity to loot in the streets and alleys could not stop it. Zuo Xiang frowned, "General Russell, last night there was a group of Ruan Rebell's troops entrenched in the tunnel, this tunnel is very long, I only found the entrance for the time being, and we haven't sent anyone in, if we don't clear this group of Ruan Rebell's elite soldiers, I'm afraid the general's cavalry will not stay in this palace." ”

Since Ruan Phuc Yuan did not ruthlessly kill all the eunuchs who participated in the excavation of the secret passage, the princess's secret passage was very well-known among the eunuchs. After a night of interrogation, several eunuchs had already explained the location of the secret passage, but the forbidden army was now focused on going to the street to "not seal the knife" -- or robbing the common people and the powerless rich businessmen who could rely on it, and rashly went to the unfamiliar secret passage to pursue the new army with sharp weapons, and so many people died in disgrace last night, and it was not easy to survive, if they die again, who will be it?

So even if he already knows the location of the secret passage, the forbidden army has not yet carried out the secret passage, and Zuo Xiang is also very anxious about this, if Ruan Fuyuan really escapes by this secret passage and finds the south bank army in the north to wave his army back, this rebellion will be considered a vain, after all, he didn't plan to leave benefits for the south bank army at the beginning. At the moment, since the people of Maidno are in such a hurry to enter the palace, they might as well let them go after Ruan Fu Yuan, and send someone to rush the silver, which should be able to transport most of the silver before recovering Ruan Fu Yuan.

The enemy is far away, and the star is too much

"What? And the secret passages? Russell's heart twitched for no reason, "Take us there." "Saying that, he waved behind him, although some of the dragoons behind him also participated in the looting, but the military regulations of the Medeno army were very strict, and those who did not arrive after the three-way drum sounded were killed, and then the first assembly drum was beaten, and all the dragoons had already rushed back to their horses." Launched! Town! ”

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"This is it?" Russell looked at the entrance of this black hole behind the rockery, and couldn't help muttering, this kind of royal secret passage is often a good place to hide gold and silver, basically one treasure cave after another. However, the hole in front of him is inevitably too small, the highest is only 1.7 meters, and Russell who is about 1.8 meters tall can't get into it at all. Fortunately, although his subordinates also had people about 1.6 meters tall, he waved his hand to a few soldiers around him, "Take off your helmet, open the way with your pistol, and go explore the way!" As he spoke, he shouted to the soldiers of the forbidden army who were watching the excitement next to him: "What are you looking at? Why don't you bring the torches? ”

The soldiers were indeed armed with pistols, but they were not senate revolvers, but primitive smoothbore arquebuses, forty centimeters long, filled with black gunpowder, and fired fourteen millimeter lead projectiles. These pistols not only require complex loading actions, but also need to be ignited with a fire rope, which is cumbersome to operate and not very accurate, often exceeding ten meters and even hitting the elephant's butt. Because of the cumbersome reloading maneuvers, these soldiers often need to carry two pistols, and some can even carry six pistols, to ensure that they have enough firepower to destroy more enemies before they can engage the enemy.

The dragoons stripped themselves of their burdens, leaving their swords and spears out, armed only with daggers and pistols, the only weapons that could be wielded in such a narrow corridor.

The dragoons who entered the Yongdao complained bitterly, this Yongdao was inevitably too short, the torch in his hand was burning, the flame was at his head, and the hair and eyebrows were rolled up if he was lucky, and the bad luck directly burned himself or ignited his hair, so he had to lift the torch as far forward as possible, and his head was sideways.

After walking thirty or forty meters, suddenly a few people walking behind suddenly exclaimed: "Why is there a lead burning?" Before he could finish speaking, a string of flames stretched to the side at a rapid speed, burning a rope holding the stone, and then a round iron egg fell among them.

These are veterans of the battlefield for a long time, although I don't know what this iron egg is, but everything is abnormal is a demon, guess and guess that this must be a mechanism or something, they retreated to both sides, "boom" a loud sound, Russell who was still at the entrance of the cave first felt a violent shock under his feet, and then a huge air flow rushed out of the hole, stunned Russell flew out three or four meters, smashed on the rockery and rolled to the ground.

Yongdao was hit by a violent explosion, and soon collapsed a distance of more than ten meters, burying the Meedno people who were lucky not to die in the explosion just now in the rubble, and there was no hope for it.

"Leave me alone! Dig the passage first and save people! Dig out the road ahead and pursue! Russell pushed away a few soldiers who were trying to lift him up and yelled at them, "Catch up with those sinister Annam monkeys for me!" Kill them! He didn't notice that the Annan people next to him were watching with interest as they were unlucky, and they didn't mean to help at all.

The enemy is not far away

The dragoons dug desperately into the ground for almost an hour with thin swords and spears before they found a few buried Mederno dragoons, but by this time they were dead. Russell's face was about to drip, and he glanced at it, "Grab a few Annan soldiers and let them open the way in front!" Don't use our people to clear the way anymore! Find these insidious monkeys in Annan, catch them alive, I'm going to skin them and cut them apart!" Jay looks:

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