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Even those who have heard the legend of Li Chuang's entry into Beijing more than 200 years ago from the memories of their ancestors, or who have carefully read the history of the Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs, and who are familiar with the "majestic wind" of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry coming to the Forbidden City, will not think that for example, the Beijing city at the foot of the son today, why can't there be a commotion outside, but the city is suddenly inextricably fought?

After returning from Changchun Garden, Yi Xun is worthy of being a young hero, for today's action, he racked his brains and repeatedly considered it for more than a while and a half, as soon as he made a move, it was naturally a thief who did not go empty. Don't look at the guards of Desheng Gate and Anding Gate who are brilliant in brocade clothes on weekdays, they are all his house slaves, and when the master arrives, everything is suitable. Under the order of Yi Xun, the Desheng Gate was first opened, and Yi Xun entered it proudly, and then Anding Gate was like a beautiful woman with a half-covered face in her arms, and she opened her mind shyly, and the 1,500 "Guards" led by Colonel Corsini who were hiding outside the city quietly entered the city of Beijing.

Immediately afterwards, led by Yi Xun's personal guards, Kosiny's heavily armed Russian soldiers followed, passing through a group of stunned night patrol sentries of the Qing Dynasty, and hula-la-la-lung towards the thick gate.

With the sound of several cannons rising from the direction of Houzaimun, in the Russian Legation located in Mixiang of the Dongjiang River, groups of armed men poured out of the black pressure, and they rushed to the Daqing Gate with a light car.

At that time, the south of the main gate of the imperial city was not as bright as it is now. As soon as the ** is out, the south to the Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower, which is a "T-shaped" area sandwiched by the red wall. **On the front of Chang'an Street, stretching east and west, there are the left gate of Chang'an and the right gate of Chang'an. Across Chang'an Street, along a hundred steps wide, a thousand steps long left and right each has 110 east-west corridor rooms "Thousand Steps Corridor" to the south to the end, is the Ming and Qing dynasties of the main gate of the Imperial City ** of the outer gate, also known as the "first gate of the Imperial City" of the Qing Gate (the Qing Gate is located in the middle of the central axis between the Zhengyang Gate and **, that is, the location of the ** Chairman Memorial Hall today). This Daqing Gate was built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and it was called "Daming Gate" at that time. When the Manchu enslaved China, in order to show off the glory of the Manchu Dynasty, just like changing the Chengtianmen of the Ming Dynasty to **, it was renamed "Daqing Gate" in the first year of Shunzhi.

Outside the Daqing Gate, it is sandwiched in parallel between Chang'an Avenue and East and West Qianmen Street, the famous Jiangmi Lane in Beijing (after the Mongol invasion, the Dongjiang Rice Warehouse is the gathering place of grain and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, at first because there are many shops selling Jiangmi here, so it is called Jiangmi Lane. In addition, Jiangmi is used to make hibiscus cake, Jiangmi noodles, Jiangmi wine, Jiangmi lotus, Lantern Festival, sticky cake, cold cake, zongzi and other food raw materials, so this area soon has food shops, snack bars, and gradually developed into a commercial street, merchants gathered, and became a very lively and prosperous area. After Ming Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, he rebuilt the original Jiangmi Lane into a three-mile long street from Chongwenmen Inner Street in the east to North Xinhua Street in the west, which became the longest alley in Beijing that year. Later, due to the construction of Zhengyangmen, Jiangmi Lane was divided into two sections, the east section is Dongjiang Rice Lane, and the west section is Xijiang Rice Lane. And Dongjiang Rice Lane then became the place where the Ming and Qing dynasties of the royal palace officials were located).

"That night, it was like Chinese New Year's Eve, with guns and fires." Most of them were woken up in their sleep, and the people of the capital still remember that this night was really lively, "There must be a gap to stop when the firecrackers are set, but that night, the sound of gunfire has not been idle for a moment." Chaos, that's chaos, so chaotic that even if you are curious, you definitely don't even dare to go out of the door. It doesn't matter which way you listen to it, the screams of the whining GIs and the chaotic footsteps fill the streets, and the screams are scared to death. ”

For the well-prepared Russian soldiers, looking at the Daqing Gate from the legation was simply under their noses. As soon as they stepped out of the Russian Legation, which had been silent before, the Russian soldiers broke into the urn city behind the Zhengyang Gate, and easily surrendered the swords and spears of more than 100 imperial forest troops of the Great Qing Kingdom without much effort. But when they stood in front of the Daqing Gate, the square of the "Heavenly Street" with a depth and width of hundreds of paces, and turned their heads to face the Daqing Gate, the problem was not so simple.

Neither Muravyov nor Putiyatin listened carefully to the opinion of the "weak woman in the deep palace", and were confident that a planned, organized, and coordinated action would be as smooth as the first time. The reason why there is such a big uproar is just to deter and deter those "thieves" who still dare to have bad intentions, and to carry forward the power of the tsarist army, which has been defeated in successive battles.

That's often the way things go, and it's not enough to be hasty.

Putiyatin, who is known as "desperate for his lover", and Muravyov, who sacrificed his life and forgot to die for the face of the Tsar Emperor's ** team, thought that it would be easy to reach the ** through the Great Qing Gate, and pulled out the disobedient minions who were cowering in the Forbidden City one by one with their big braids, but they did not expect to meet the head-on resistance of the "Guards" of the Great Qing State here. The two exchanged fire, and they were not ready to climb the city at all, and they were counting on the Russian soldiers and horses who could enter the imperial city of the Qing Dynasty with a straight step to "feast their eyes and mouth", and they were defeated in an instant.

Muravyov was furious, and despite the repeated warnings he had planned in advance, he set up a cannon and bombarded the gates of the Great Qing Gate. After the sound of the cannon, the gate of the Daqing Gate, which was shrouded in smoke, shattered, and the red-eyed Russian soldiers flocked to the city gate hole again. Who knew that the wide city gate had long been blocked by sacks filled with dirt, and the Russian soldiers, who had no way forward, were once again subjected to the well-prepared "guards" of the Qing Dynasty with bullets, bows and arrows, and even stones and all kinds of debris.

"***, bang me, blow up all the walls for me, wipe this filthy palace off the ground!" Muravyov is mad, this is really *** bad years, it's just a bad year, it's just a bad time, and the Taiping rebels are fighting and losing, and when they get to this kind of place, they still can't slow down.

"You can't do that!" Putiyatin hastened to stop Muravyov's impulse, "Don't let a small mistake be a big one. Yi Xun is because he wants to sit here to cooperate with us, and once the matter is big, once Yi Xun turns against him, the result is out of control. ”

"Am I just watching my soldiers being teased by these shameless pigs?" Like a mad beast, Muravyov slammed Putiyatin, who was pulling him by the arm.

Putiyatin, who almost fell to the ground, stood up again, and grabbed one of Muravyov's arms again, "Calm down, what you need most at this time is to be calm!" He yelled, and quickly pointed at the herald who was stunned there and didn't know how to be a good herald, "Order them to continue to feign an assault and lure the Qing soldiers inside to consume ammunition." ”

"Your Excellency, there are not many soldiers and horses in this palace, not to mention whether there are Yiyun's henchmen to help, even if it is hard to consume, they will not spend much time." Putiyatin turned to Muravyov again and patiently reassured, "Didn't the intelligence say that their ammunition is limited. Besides, it won't be long before the attack at the North Gate will be successful, and when the time comes, they will be difficult to care about, so why fight for the level at this time. ”

The back door that Putiyating said, is the thick door that Yi Xun and Corsini pounced on, also called the back door of the Forbidden City, it is located in the middle of the north wall of the Forbidden City, the south is to Jingshan, the north is to the drum tower, it was built in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, called Bei'anmen, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs in the Shunzhi nine years and then rebuilt, and renamed Di'anmen, and the south gate of the imperial city ** north and south correspond to each other, known as the meaning of heaven and earth peace, wind and rain.

This is a brick and wood structure of the palace gate type building, there are seven rooms in the face of the wide enough, the middle and the two rooms are the passages, the bright room is seven meters wide, the two times are five meters wide respectively, the four tips are four meters wide respectively, the total face is 38 meters wide, the height is 11 meters eight, and the depth is 12 meters five. There are three vermilion gates in the middle. There is also a two-storey swallow wing building on the left and right sides of Di'anmen, which is the office of the three banners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mongolia and Hanshang.

As soon as the men and horses led by Colonel Corsini arrived at Di'anmen, if they had just taken the back gate of the Forbidden City in order to seize the back gate of the Forbidden City, as long as they shoved a large amount of gunpowder into the door of Di'anmen, they might not have had those troubles at all. However, Yi Xun is not allowed to do this.

The holy car is about to leave the customs, and the Forbidden City will be his property, even if he breaks a brick and a tile, he will be in pain. He stopped the soldiers of Corsini and shouted the name of the defender of the city under the gate of the Prancing Horse. At first he heard only the chaotic sounds inside, but no one paid any attention to him, and after a while, several bloody human skulls rolled down in front of his horse.

If you look closely, it turns out to be the heads of the confidants he called.

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