It will be July, just when the atmosphere in Nanjing is becoming more and more tense. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info two errand officials wearing plain red robes, wearing lion heads, and the red title of "Chengxuan of the North Palace" in the middle, hurried out of the Golden Dragon Gate, stepped on the fast horse, and calmly came to Yifeng Gate. This swaggered out of the city gate and galloped straight to the riverside pier.

Now the king of the north is supervising the division in the land of Jiangxi and Anhui, and there are often reports and letters to Beijing, and the personnel of the north hall enter and exit the city gate, naturally no one doubts, but these two officials are different from the past, they carry the secret edict of the king of heaven.

When the two arrived at the wharf, they took out the Beiwang emergency ship edict as in the past, and the battalion officer of the sailor division dared to be lazy, and immediately allocated a sixteen-oar double-oared boat, and urgently sent the two messengers to Dongliu County in southern Anhui with their horses, one of them landed on the boat, and the other went ashore from the north of the river, and galloped to the Luzhou front-line Yiwang camp to announce the decree.

It turned out that these two officials were not the officials of the North Palace, they were all the royal forest guards of the Heavenly King's Mansion, long before the North King went out of Beijing, Chen Chengying asked him for two copies of the "North Palace Chengxuan" title, which would just sew them on the "Royal Forest Guards in front of the Palace", and then easily mixed out the heavily guarded city gate.

King Qin's secret edict was soon sent to the camp of the Northern King, and because of the relatively long distance, King Yi, who was on the front line of Luzhou, did not receive the secret edict at the first time. ，

On July 28, as soon as he received the secret edict of the Heavenly King, Wei Changhui, who had been deeply affected by Yang Xiuqing's anger for many years, was about to hand over the military and political power of the front line to Huang Yukun to preside, and then led the 3,000 henchmen who had already been deployed, and the royal forest guards who came to announce the decree, set off day and night, traveling more than 100 miles a day, and the next day they arrived at Poyang County, the capital city of Raozhou, in northeast Jiangxi, which was originally owned by the Qing army, and was captured by the Northern King at the beginning of Jiangxi. The original intention of the East King was to send Yang Fuqing to closely monitor the Northern King and block the way for him to lead his troops into Beijing, but for Yang Fuqing, he was just going out of Beijing to avoid trouble, and he had always stood by and watched the internal strife between the kings of the Celestial Empire.

At the time of Wei Changhui's passage, Yang Fuqing was fighting in Guangxin Mansion south of Raozhou, and it was precisely because of this that Wei Changhui smoothly entered southern Anhui from Raozhou, abandoned his horses in Dongliu County and sent people to take care of them, and took the Taiping Army's naval warship, which happened to encounter a strong southwest wind on the river, and nearly 100 large and small warships sailed along the Yangtze River day and night, and arrived in Tianjing at midnight on the third day of August.

As soon as he arrived in Tianjing, Wei Changhui led three thousand soldiers to land without stopping at all, and ordered the imperial forest guards to still go to the gate in the name of Chengxuan in the North Palace. At this time, the city gate has long been closed, in the past, when the Qing army's Jiangnan camp approached Tianjing City, the city was heavily guarded, and the four-corner watchtower monitored the movement outside the city day and night, and now the Qing army has been defeated, the Jiangnan camp has been conquered, and the nearest front line from Nanjing is more than 100 miles away. Naturally, the security is not as strict as it used to be.

Although the sentry on the city wall was still there, the night guards had already fallen asleep, and only three or four night guards guarding the city gates were chatting on the tower. The guards of the royal forest carried lanterns and shouted loudly under the city:

"Brothers guarding the gate, open the door, open the door quickly, the king of the north has an urgent military report!"

As it was common to report an emergency military situation at night, it was not surprising that the soldiers on the night vigil were about to go downstairs to open the city gates, but they were stopped by a captain, who leaned over and shouted to the city:

"What the hell...... Shouting in the middle of the night, get out of here, don't open the city until dawn! ”

In the morning, the chief of the guards who spoke on the wall spoke in Cantonese, and it was obvious that the old brothers from Guangdong, but the guards under the city were not to be outdone, and scolded loudly in Cantonese:

"Boy, you have delayed the military situation, you should be careful of your head when the time comes."

Although he was speaking in Cantonese, the commander of the garrison apparently received the order, so he cried out:

"To open the city in the middle of the night, you have to play Ming Dongwang's Nine Thousand Years Old, you wait, I will send someone to play Ming Nine Thousand Years Old now!"

Before his words stopped, he was cut into two pieces by the soldiers behind him, but it was just an instant, and suddenly a brigade commander came out of the hidden soldier hole in the city wall, led dozens of soldiers, quickly opened the door lock, moved to the big wooden mullion that supported the door, and opened the city gate in a dignified manner, and the man said to the guards outside the door:

"His Royal Highness the Northern King's urgent report can't be delayed, please come in."

When sending the imperial guards to invite the north of the Jiangxi front to return to the city, Chen Chengying had already used tens of thousands of taels of silver and the promise of being promoted and rich in the future to dredge the brigade commander who guarded the Yifeng Gate, this person estimated that the king of the north must be leading troops into Beijing late at night, and he had been waiting here sleepless for several nights, and when he heard the shouts from the city tower tonight, he immediately opened the city gate to welcome the soldiers of the king of the north into the city.

Entering the city so easily, Wei Changhui was naturally very proud, but he knew that the real test was probably still in the city. When entering the city, Wei Changhui specially ordered the royal forest guards to carry lanterns in front, and at this time he had ripped off the title of "North Palace Chengxuan" on his hat, and still revealed the six prominent words of "Imperial Forest Guards in front of the palace".

On this day, the crescent moon is like a hook, and the neighborhoods of Nanjing are dark, because there is a ban in Nanjing at night, and those who violate the ban are killed, so there are naturally no passers-by on this street, and the lanterns of the royal forest guards are leading the way, just illuminating that small place. And the three thousand elite who followed behind Wei Changhui said that they were used to marching at night, and with the faint light, they didn't feel any difference, and when the fourth watch was knocked, they came to the drum tower. Wei Changhui, who was anxious, knew very well that if he waited until dawn, it would be difficult to enter the Dongwang Mansion, and not only would he not be able to enter the Dongwang Mansion at that time, but he would not even be able to save his own life.

At this time, a light appeared on the street in front of him, and it was the Taiping Army on the night watch.

Wei Changhui hurriedly waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to stop and flash in the dark, and let the royal forest guards deal with it alone. I saw the lanterns in front of me, with the official title of "Counselor of the East Temple" pasted on them, and seven or eight soldiers of the East Hall came from far and near, and when they saw someone carrying a lantern and walking at night, they shouted loudly:

"Who? Dare to walk at night and break the ban? ”

The lantern-carrying guard replied unhurriedly:

"The guards of the Imperial Forest of the Heavenly King's Mansion, according to the will of the Heavenly King, have important business to do!"

A leader carried a lantern and shone the official title on the guard's hat and lantern, and sure enough, it was the Heavenly King's Mansion, and he still asked with some suspicion:

"Although it is from the Heavenly King's Mansion, the East King has an order to enforce the prohibition of the sky, and how did you come from the north! Do you want to escape from the city? ”

When the guard was asked like this, he smiled and said, "I didn't feel nervous."

"At this time, the four gates of Tianjing are tightly closed, I can fly and I can't get out, it is true that Princess Nan is sick, and the king of heaven ordered me to visit, and it has been delayed for a long time."

Although the official title of the leader of the team was only "two horses" and he had jurisdiction over twenty-five soldiers, he said unrelentingly:

"No matter what you say, come with us to the East King's Mansion and see the East King 9,000 years old, and the East King will be 9,000 years old by then!"

Seeing that this was the case, Wei Changhui, who knew that he could no longer get through the tricks, was anxious, and with a wave of his hand, the soldiers of the North Hall who were lying in the shadows immediately rushed up and surrounded the patrols of the East Temple.

"Move the corpse to the alley, don't waste any more time, it's almost dawn."

Wei Changhui, who was anxious, led the team to speed up the pace to the south, and finally rushed to the front of the Dongwang Mansion before the dawn of the day, according to the pre-deployment plan, divided the troops into three roads, all the way three or five hundred people took the ladder along the towering wall to the back garden of the East Wangfu, and two thousand people all the way divided to surround the chamber hall with a thousand guards stationed in the east and west sides of the mansion gate, Wei Changhui personally led five or seven hundred people to attack the main gate of Huangni Lane. According to the plan set before, still by the royal forest guards alone with a lantern to call the door, the lights in front of the door are bright, the gate is hidden, because the king of the east often drives out in the middle of the night, so the door official in the palace does not dare to be lazy to sleep, hearing the sound of the door, grunting:

"Could it be that the emergency side report is coming from somewhere?"

When he opened the door, the doorman recognized that it was the guard of the Royal Forest, and asked in surprise:

"Brother, why did you come to deliver the decree before dawn?"

The royal guard hurriedly said:

"Old brother, it's not good, the King of Heaven is suffering from a sudden illness, and he can't see it, so I want to ask His Royal Highness the King of the East to go to the Heavenly King's Mansion to meet him, but I won't be able to see him if it's too late."

Seeing that the situation was urgent, the doorman hurriedly said:

"Brother, you wait in the Chengxuan Hall for a while, and I will report to the inner hall immediately."

Wei Changhui waved his hand, and hundreds of soldiers from the North Hall followed him rushed in, stabbing the door official to death, although there were dozens of guards on duty at the door of the palace, but when the day was about to dawn, they were the most sleepy, and they dozed off in a daze, and heard someone knocking on the door, opened their eyes and saw that it was okay, and fell asleep again, and when the soldiers of the North Hall rushed into the door, they were even in a dream, and they didn't have time to draw their knives to fight back, let alone rush to fight, and they were all killed in the porter.

"You go and report to the king of heaven now, play the kingdom of heaven, this king is edicted to quell the chaos, come here, and capture the thieves with this king!"

Wei Changhui ordered the royal forest guards to go to the Tianwang Mansion to report the news quickly, and at the same time ordered people to go straight to the inner courtyard to capture Yang Xiuqing, at this time, the rest of the North Hall soldiers had already rushed to the guard hall on the left side of the door under the leadership of the leader, and the two or three hundred East Hall soldiers who lived in it woke up and hurriedly touched their weapons to resist, but how could this come in a hurry, most of them were killed with their hands tied, and a few of them resisted the sudden attack of the enemy with their bare hands or were lucky enough to touch the knife, and they fought with the enemy shirtless, but they were also surrounded by the soldiers of the North Hall in a hurry, and they were killed one by one, Only one fled to the middle gate to call the police.

As he ran, the man fastened his fire cap to the musket, and through the air a shot broke the silence of the night, although the gun was unloaded......

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