Chapter 430: The Forbidden City's Shocking Changes (8)

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"King Alcohol, not being called to lead troops into the city without authorization, this is a great sin of rebellion." The dark and dreary gatehouse suddenly had a tall lantern, and Shang Shurui of the Li Fan Yuan often appeared on the gatehouse, and he pointed to the Yiyun below, "Openly attacking the imperial city with knives and cannons is even more heinous, and please do it yourself, please do it yourself." ”

"Lord Rui......" Yi Xun looked at the Russian-made short gun in his hand, and stretched his neck a few times with difficulty, "This king is coming to greet the emperor at the behest of the Queen Mother." You won't know that it is precisely because Yi Xin and others held the emperor hostage, connected with traitors, and harbored ill intentions, which caused the current internal and external difficulties of the imperial court. Lord Rui, the first emperor treats you well, please recognize the situation clearly, and don't joke about the safety of the emperor's dragon body in the palace. ”

As he spoke, Yi Xun's short spear swung in the air, "Listen, all the guys who betrayed the Qing Dynasty are now suffering from ruthless purges, and Yi Xin and the others will be arrested sooner or later." You know very well that in the face of the cannons of your Russian friends, any stubborn resistance is pointless and will only increase the damage. The Imperial Palace is the holy land of the Qing Dynasty, and if there is the slightest damage to the Imperial Palace due to your ignorance of current affairs, you will be the eternal sinners of the Qing Dynasty. ”

"I'd rather be a broken jade than a whole tile, King Alcohol, unless you dare to blow up Ruilin into powder, otherwise, you don't want to step into the palace for half a step!" Rui Chang sneered, "King Alcohol, I ask you to hurry back, otherwise, the guns and bullets in this city will also not know anyone." ”

"You'll regret it!" Yi Xun shouted hatefully at Ruilin above, his mouth was hard, but his heart was very empty, and he hurriedly flashed into the team behind him with a flick of his horse's head. He was indeed afraid of the "bullets of people he didn't know" on the castle tower.

At this moment, a row of deafening cannons rose into the sky, and the tower of Di'anmen Square was instantly annihilated in the billowing smoke of gunpowder.

Yi Xun was stunned for a moment, and when he understood what was going on, he immediately stared at Corsini with a pair of blood-red eyes and scolded, "Your grandma, who *** taught you to do this!" ”

"Your Excellency, I am a soldier, not a philanthropist." Corsini shook his eyes disdainfully, and continued to wave the saber in his hand, "up until you blow the city gate open!" ”

"Stop, stop me!"

Yi Xun went crazy and wanted to rush towards the artillery of the Russian soldiers, but was stopped by Corsini and grabbed the reins of his horse. Corsini raised his saber high and waved it on Yi Xun's head, and shouted viciously, "Your Excellency, if you *** interfere with my actions again, don't blame me for being rude!" ”

Seeing that although Yi Xun was still distressed, he was frightened a lot, Corsini put down his saber and sighed, "Your Excellency, this is a state of emergency, and I can't be merciful. If we don't enter the palace and rescue your little emperor, you won't know what the consequences will be. Let me tell you the truth, before I set out, I received instructions from your Queen Mother, and I must not be soft on anyone who hinders the Queen Mother's return to power. Besides, what's so terrible about breaking a few things now, your countrymen are very smart, let alone building another one, even ten or eight are not all easy things? I want to open up a little, my Excellency the President. ”

Yi Xun didn't struggle anymore, just looked at the city tower filled with gunsmoke and twisted a miserable white face.

When the first row of artillery fire exploded, Rui Chang fell in a pool of blood.

The dying Rui Chang was snatched down the city tower by several soldiers, looking at Fan Wenrui, who was directing the soldiers to prepare to block the city gate, he first squirmed his lips a few times, and then shook his head with difficulty, "Here...... Only...... I'll leave it to you......"

After speaking, his eyes that gradually became godless looked at the starry night sky, and sighed, "This...... Is this still a descendant of Nurhachi, and how...... How...... It's just that there will be so many scum......"

Rui Chang sighed at the end of his life, and there were more than one or two scum in the capital this night. The artillery fire of Di'anmen Gate was like a medicine primer thrown out, which caused the Tsarist Russians to become very drug-oriented, and Putiyatin and Muravyov lost their patience, and the flying artillery fire poured down above the Daqing Gate, symbolizing the so-called royal dignity of glazed tile fragments flying everywhere.

Li Hongzhang, who was also raided from the Russian legation, did not appear in the Tsarist army that was fighting for the Great Qing Gate head-on, but under the cover of the fierce attack of the Russian soldiers, he commanded Tang Dingkui, Cheng Xueqi and others to occupy the Zongren Mansion, Honglu Temple, Qintianjian, Tai Hospital and the yamen of the soldiers, workers, rites, households, officials and other departments located on the east side of the "Thousand Steps Corridor" from ** to the Great Qing Gate. In the midst of this chaos, the Yiwang Ancestral Hall, which is only separated from the Tai Hospital by a Dongjiang rice lane, became a sea of fire.

Cheng Xueqi led a team of people through the Hubu Sandwich Road (an east-west passage between the Hubu and the Ministry of Officials), through the house and over the wall, and suddenly appeared behind the defenders of the Daqing Gate. Under the sharp artillery attack of the Russians, the forward battalion generals who were already frightened to defend the Daqing Gate were caught off guard and encountered this kind of sneak attack after the arrival of themselves, and they suddenly became a mess, and the Daqing Gate was lost.

“***!” Looking at the Russian soldiers who swarmed in along the Daqing Gate, Duanhua, who was going to run there to personally supervise the battle, stomped his feet fiercely, shouting to close the city gate while cursing viciously.

And standing on the city tower of **, just from the raging fire not far away, Zaiyuan, who had already felt that his family ancestral hall would inevitably be destroyed, was even more bloody in his eyes, and his heart was in pain, "Li Hongzhang, you bastard, Lao Tzu is not finished with you!" ”

Less than an hour after the start of the war, he learned that Rui Chang had died in Di'anmen, and the Daqing Gate in front had been broken through, and Yi Xin felt cold all over. You can't fight like this anymore. In the entire palace, except for the battalion of Zhongyi Rescue, although there are still some men and horses of the guard battalion, the forward battalion and the firearms battalion, even if you add the original guards of the palace and Zaiyuan, Duanhua and their own palace guards, there are only four or five thousand people. It would be very difficult to spread out all this strength to resist the Russians. Just like the current Daqing Gate, if you give up the defense of the Daqing Gate at the beginning and shrink all the troops back to the palace, at least you won't lose another four or five hundred precious men and horses in vain. Now the most valuable thing is people, we must give up those useless burdens, concentrate on sticking to the inside, and wait for the rescue of the monks Greenqin, Mianxun, Yiliang and others outside.

"Give up Di'anmen as a last resort, retreat to Jingshan, and be sure to protect the Shenwu Gate without losing ......" After Yi Xin issued this order to Fan Wenrui and others who were still holding on to Di'anmen, he hurriedly ordered the guards to hug the little emperor and run out of the noon gate.

"Oh, my sixth master, why are you here at this time?" Duanhua, who was sweating profusely and was busy directing soldiers and horses to strengthen the defense of Taimiao and Shejitan, stomped his feet again and again when he saw Yi Xin.

"I'm not at ease...... Yi Xin briefly said about the situation at the back door, as well as his arrangements for the defenders at the back door, "Alas...... If it was ...... It's better to transfer Mianxun's military horses directly into the palace at that time......"

Duanhua looked at Yi Xin, who was full of frustration, and then at Zaiyuan, who was still heartbroken not far away, and shook his head with a wry smile, "Sixth, you are just too indecisive...... For today's such a thing, we actually expected it first, but we went to the back. ”

Yi Xin sighed. He understood that Duanhua was again mentioning a topic that Zaiyuan and Seng Greenqin insisted on just yesterday, concentrating on the soldiers and horses of Mianxun and Seng Greenqin in Liangxiang, attacking Changchun Garden first, and directly "getting rid of the woman who likes to make waves", cutting off the Russians' mind. I really knew this was the case, why bother in the first place!

"It's too late to say anything...... Yi Xin seemed to hear a familiar voice, which was passing over the high ** and drifting into his ears. He frowned, "Is it Li Hongzhang?" ”

"It's this bastard who copied the back of our Daqing Gate," Duanhua spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm to the ground, "No, it's been there to break our military morale." What are you talking about, let's hold the emperor hostage, connect with the red bandits, and bring disaster to the country and the people......"

"What?" Yi Xin couldn't help but be happy, "I'm a red bandit? Damn, if I had passed the Red Bandits, would I still have them today? ”

"Alas......" Duanhua smiled bitterly, "No matter what you say, the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother has issued an edict, specifically asking you and me and Zaiyuan, as well as the lives of our diehard comrades who will continue to follow us without repentance, and the rest will not ......be blamed for the past."

"Hehe, it's quite generous." Yi Xin thought for a while, waved at the guards holding the little emperor in his arms, and walked forward.

"Sixth, what are you trying to do?" Duanhua hurriedly stepped forward to stop Yi Xin.

"We can't just listen to this dog minion's shouting, we should say something." Yi Xin smiled a little bitterly.

"It's useless, there are some hard-nosed dog minions down there, these bastards, in addition to using your fists to teach them how to behave, you just wear out your mouth, and they won't be moved." Zai Yuan walked over with a pale face, and the clenched fist bones gurgled, "The most important thing now is to protect the safety of the emperor and your sixth master." I hope we can wait as long as we can for the monk king and Mianxun to come back with their troops, or else ......"

"Yes, I'm really a little worried, the monk king and Mianxun don't have any more accidents......" Yi Xin sighed, looking a little helpless. The guards of Desheng Gate and Anding Gate were carefully selected by him and Duanhua, who knew that one Yiyun would disrupt their one. He was really worried that the other soldiers and horses in the inner city would not have anything unexpected happening.

What Yi Xin feared the most really happened.

Monk Greenqin and Mianxun went out of the Xuanwu Gate with their front feet, and greeted their subordinates outside the Guang'an Gate, and when they wanted to re-enter the inner city through the Xuanwu Gate, the closed city gate could not be opened no matter how they were called.

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