The grenade exploded in the crowd, and the Qing army, which was caught off guard, was blown up in a large area. At the same time, the other team members also raised their flintlock revolvers one after another, aiming at the Qing troops who could still stand up, as well as the Qing troops in nearby cities.

Compared with its imitation counterpart, the revolver of the previous life, this newly developed weapon also has three obvious drawbacks: first, the ammunition pack cannot be compared with the bullet after all, and sometimes it fails, especially after being fired many times; The second is that it is still impossible to achieve a real continuous fire, and after a shot, you must turn the ammunition magazine by hand; Third, limited by the metal process, if the firing is too frequent, the hot chamber will not have time to cool, and it will be deformed, and the gun will be scrapped.

Even so, the flintlock revolver was a murderous weapon far superior to its contemporaries, and played a key role in Operation Plough Pig. As soon as the grenade exploded, the Qing army at the head of the city finally understood and began to fire bows and arrows at Yan Ling and the others. But it takes seven or eight seconds for them to draw their arrows, wind them, open their bows, aim them, and shoot them, no matter how fast they are. After the flintlock revolver is loaded with ammunition, it fires, turns the ammunition magazine, aims, and fires again, if the action is skillful, it only takes two or three seconds, and the accuracy is extremely high within ten steps, almost 100 shots. Some Qing soldiers were killed by a single shot as soon as they drew their arrows and before they could open their bows.

At the same time, Shi Chunhu rode past the Qing army full of dead and wounded, and rushed into the temporarily unguarded city gate. At this time, the city gate has been locked, and the big lock weighs more than 20 catties, and it is impossible to pull it open by brute force, and it is obviously too late to find the key now.

However, Shi Chunhu was also prepared, he took out another grenade from his arms, inserted it directly into the lock ring, and pulled the string and retreated. Hearing a bang, the bomb exploded and the lock fell, and two members of the team stepped forward to open the city gate, and everyone rode horses and roared past. The entire process of breaking through the city gate took less than three minutes, during which only four members of the team were wounded by arrows, and most of the Qing troops in the city had not yet had time to arrive.

There is still a wall outside the city, but the distance between the passes is nearly two miles, although the Qing army guarding the pass can hear some movements, but in the middle of the night, what happened, they can't know. Yan Ling and the others did the same, and deceived the door again. Here they threw off all the remaining grenades, and as soon as they left the city gates, they were like trapped dragons in the sea, and soon disappeared into the night.

Not to mention how everyone met with the other twenty team members outside the city, and how they returned to Beijing via the grassland. said that the city of Shenyang has now become a pot of porridge. The Zhenglan Banner Mutiny had just been suppressed, and the palace had been attacked again, and many people were confused about the situation, and thought that it was the remnants of Mang Gurtai's subordinates.

And the royal nobles such as Contemporary Shan, Zilharang, and Dolgon, as well as the ministers of the two yellow flags, such as Sony, Aobai, and Suppilon, hurried to the palace to "escort", and they were stunned. The two palaces of Guan Ju and Yanqing were already on fire, and the ground of the harem was full of dead bodies of guards, eunuchs and palace maids. In the Yongfu Palace, where the palace gate collapsed, everyone found a naked headless male corpse, the head was nowhere to be seen, but judging from the figure and the "objects" between the legs, it must be Huang Taiji.

The crowd immediately cried out to the heavens and the earth, but after a while they couldn't cry anymore. To be honest, they weren't even in the mood to hunt down the assassins at this time, because now they were only concerned about one thing: Huang Taiji died, who would inherit the emperor's throne?

Dolgon's brain turned the fastest, and immediately said to Daishan and Jilharang: "Two uncles, the Zhenglan Banner has just mutinied, and the emperor has died again, once the news spreads, people will inevitably be panicked, and even cause chaos. In the nephew's opinion, the mourning should be kept secret first, and the two uncles should preside over the overall situation. After the situation stabilized, it was said to the public that the emperor had died of pox, and he was still cremated, so as to save the royal face. ”

The last sentence of Dolgon was just a point, but of course Daishan and Zilharang understood what he meant: Huang Taiji was not only assassinated, but also died in such a terrible way, it was too embarrassing! There is a saying that "for the Venerable", this truth must be concealed no matter what, otherwise when the people of later generations talk about the past and the present, when they talk about the Huang Taiji, they will know that he was cut off by someone with a bare buttocks, which makes them embarrassed by the people who are also in the Aixin Jueluo clan?

And Dorgon's solution can solve this problem. Because smallpox was an incurable disease at that time, and it was extremely contagious, people with smallpox, that is, after "pox", had to be completely isolated, and the body was cremated after death, even the royal family could not be an exception. Burn Huang Taiji on fire, it doesn't matter if you have a head or not, anyway, they are all turned into ashes, and no one can see it.

The two of them nodded hurriedly and said, "What the virtuous nephew said is very good, so let's do it." However, Emperor Daxing was in full bloom in the Spring and Autumn Period and did not designate an heir. Only by deciding on this big thing in advance can it be mourned. ”

Dolgon was waiting for this sentence, and immediately pretended to say: "What the two uncles said is true. The throne of my Qing Dynasty is not as pedantic as the Han people, and I have to set up some prince, and it has always been a sage who lives in it. After Taizu's death, wasn't Emperor Daxing also elected by the Council of Ministers? I'll think it's the same for this time. ”

How did Dai Shan and Zilharang not know about Dolgon's little abacus, because they both knew that Dolgon and Hauge were on the same page, and Hauge, as the eldest son of Huang Taiji and the owner of the Blue Banner, was certainly qualified to inherit the throne. Now Dolgon deliberately said that the Qing Dynasty did not learn from the Han people to establish the prince, and said that a meeting of the king's ministers would be held, so Hauge would not become the emperor as a matter of course.

However, for Daishan and Zilharang, there is also great benefit to convening a council of kings. Although the two of them did not want to be emperors, they hoped to keep their existing interests, and it was better to expand them, and this was certain. To put it bluntly, the Council of Ministers is to seize power from the emperor, which is of course better than the emperor having the final say. It would be even better if we could restore the model of the "Four Baylor Prison Country" in the past.

So the two of them immediately convened a meeting of the king's ministers in the main hall, which was attended by:

Prince Li, the main flag of the red flag on behalf of the good;

Prince Zheng and the owner of the white flag, Zilharang;

Prince Cheng, the lord of the red flag flag;

Prince Ying Saharan;

Prince Azig of England;

Dorgon, Prince of Rui;

Prince Yu Duoduo;

Anping Baylor, inlaid with white flag flag master Dudu.

This is a good thing, Prince Su and the blue flag lord Hauge, who was originally the most qualified to inherit the throne, just went out of the city to hunt down Aibali on the order of Huang Taiji, but missed this meeting of Wang Ministers. As for Sony, Aobai, Kubilong and others, because they are not from the clan, they are just servants of the Aixin Jueluo family, so they are naturally not qualified to participate in the meeting. Thus began an absurd "election of the emperor"...