Chapter 297: Xi'an Gate and Xihua Gate
Xi'an Gate, is the Ming Dynasty Jingshi, the west gate of the imperial city, built in the Ming Yongle fifteenth year. There is no city platform, the door base is blue and white stone, red wall; Single eaves rest mountain yellow glazed tile roof; Seven wide rooms, three deep rooms, the middle of the bright room and the left and right secondary rooms for the door, each with a pair of red lacquer gold nail doors; The left and right rooms and the last room are used as duty rooms.
Among the gates of the imperial city, only this gate was not built on the city platform, that is, on the city wall, it is precisely because of this that Sun Jizong decided to use this as a gap to break into the palace city, as long as the Xi'an Gate is taken, then you can pass through the sparsely populated royal garden to reach the Xihua Gate, naturally, this road is the best choice.
Although there is no city platform in this Xi'an Gate, its defensive function has plummeted, but after all, this is the imperial city, guarded by the soldiers of the right guard of Yulin in the 26th guard of the Shangzhi Twenty-six Guards, and during this time, after Zhu Qiyu fell ill, in addition to guarding against His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Qizhen, the access control of the capital, the guard of the imperial city and the palace city is also much stricter than in the past.
Therefore, in addition to the more than 300 Yulin right guards on normal duty, there are also 200 elites from the vanguard of the government army. The avant-garde of the government army, this unit is very special, also known as the "sword guard", commonly known as the guard with a knife, that is, the emperor's personal guard, because of the cabinet and those Zhu Qiyu's henchmen and eunuchs, this elite unit was also assigned a part of the army to monitor the situation of the four gates of the imperial city, and also had the meaning of coordinating the guard.
And at this moment, the sound of galloping iron hooves, when it was far away from this Xi'an Gate, the Yulin right guard and the soldiers of the front guard of the government army in the Xi'an Gate were already alarmed.
"What's going on? Just listening to the sound of hooves, at least no less than a thousand horsemen, who has the courage to run so boldly in front of the imperial city with such a large number of knights? Fu Changbo waited a moment, and the last general went to see who dared to scratch our wine. Yulin's right guard, Qianhu Lin Xing, slammed the wine cup in his hand and smiled at the Fuchang Bo Fang Kun, who led two hundred guards with knives to strengthen the Xi'an Gate.
"It's okay, just go together." That Fuchang Bo Fang Kun waved his hand with a smile, stood up, supported the war knife on his waist, and glanced at several pro-soldiers behind him intentionally or unintentionally, the pro-soldiers nodded understandingly, and the scolding Lin Xingfang walked to the door of the duty room, and suddenly felt a wind in the back of his head, and before he had time to return to check the abnormality, he felt a fog in the back of his head, and his dull gaze swept over Shi Chong's smiling face, and then it went black and lost consciousness.
"Let the brothers take action, Yulin's right guard deputy Qianhu Lin Xing is bold and reckless, with bad intentions, and has been taken by the general, as soon as the Yulin right guard is disarmed, otherwise, there will be no mercy!" Looking at Lin Xing, who was already on the ground and unconscious, Shi Chong's face suddenly turned cold, and he shouted loudly.
-------------------- momentary effort, before the soldiers of the Yulin Right Guard had time to react, the guards with knives who seemed to be fighting with them immediately turned their faces, and a sword overflowing with cold light came out of the sheath, although the number of the Yulin Right Guard was more than these guards with knives, but the problem was that the main general had been captured, and he had been placed on such an inexplicable crime.
In addition, although the same position is on the 26th guard, but the emperor is the personal guard, and the leader is still a lord, although the face is not angry and unwilling, but after more than a dozen Yulin right guards who intended to resist were killed on the spot, no one was willing to continue to resist, and abandoned the weapons in their hands stupidly, under the custody of those guards with knives, nearly 300 people, like chasing ducks, were all escorted into the rooms on the left and right sides of Xi'an Gate, and the two rooms were crowded.
At this moment, Sun Jizong had already rushed to the gate of Xi'an, and saw that Fuchang Bo Fang Kun arched his hand towards him with a smile, and even saw that the soldiers of the right guard of Yulin were being escorted into the two sides for a while, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Turned over and jumped off the horse, hurried a few steps, and took a deep look at the Fu Chang Bo Fang Kun: "I didn't expect Fu Chang Bo to help me here, Sun is really ......." ”
"Hehe, Wu Anhou has already informed Fang Mou, but I really didn't expect that an hour ago, Wu Anhou sent a letter to Fang, and Fang's affairs here have just been done, and Uncle Guo actually came." Fuchang Bo Fang Kun's round face was full of smiles, and he saluted back, and then raised his head to look behind Sun Jizong, after more than a thousand cavalry, there were also thousands of soldiers and horses, which made him secretly smack his tongue. I didn't think this old guy was really worth a lot of money.
As if seeing the doubts of the Fuchang Bo Fang Kun, Sun Jizong took a step forward and whispered: "In addition to my old Sun family's family, there are more than two thousand, who are the henchmen of His Majesty the Emperor, and they have already entered the city more than a month ago. ”
Hearing this, Fang Kun secretly took a breath and grinned. "His Majesty the Emperor is really far-sighted, okay, Xi'an Gate is now unimpeded, Fang will not delay Uncle Guo, please."
"So, thank you, there will be a report in the future." Sun Jizong was also not polite, he arched his hand towards the Fang Kun, and with a wave of his hand, the dead soldiers who had already gathered all entered the Xi'an Gate with murderous anger and ran towards the palace gate.
"Fang's surname was saved by His Majesty the Emperor, and I have been thinking about how to repay His Majesty the Emperor. Looking at the influx of those family members, dead soldiers, and the emperor's relatives, Fang Kun helped the short beard under his chin, and sighed with some emotion.
"Hehe, okay, Sun will go in first, here, I'm afraid I have to ask Fu Changbo to guard and answer, just in case." Sun Jizong smiled and solemnly saluted Nafang Kun, turned around and jumped on his mount, and rode straight towards the Naxi Gate.
And just after Sun Jizong, Wu'an Hou Zheng Neng led five hundred soldiers to arrive, Xining Hou Song Gui, Xincheng Bo Zhao Min and other nobles all led their soldiers to kill in front of Xi'an...... Wang Xi, who was on duty at the Xihua Gate, heard the footsteps behind him, looked back, and saw Cao Jixiang, who was wearing iron armor, walking towards him surrounded by dozens of Tengxiang guards, and couldn't help but be a little stunned.
"Hehe, Princess, there's nothing abnormal here in Xihuamen, right?" Cao Jixiang arched his hand towards the supervisor and asked loudly with a kind smile.
"Don't worry, with our family, what can happen here. But Gonggong Cao, why did you come here? Wang Xi's eyes narrowed, and he looked at his top boss with an unkind expression.
Wang Xi is also the old man of Zhu Qiyu when he was the king of Yu, although he is not as favored by Zhu Qiyu as Zhang Yong and others, but after all, he is a person from the palace of the king, and this guy is the godson of Zhang Yong, so after Zhang Yong became the palm print eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, he Wang Xi naturally rose and became the admiral eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, which can be regarded as the third person.
It's a pity that his surname is too greedy, not long after taking office, he was busy making a lot of money, and something happened, if it weren't for that Zhang Yong trying his best to protect him in front of the Son of Heaven, he was demoted and retained, and he was honest for a while, and he originally thought that he could return to the position of the top three in command, but who would have thought that Cao Jixiang didn't know where this guy came from.
Not only is his kung fu stronger than himself, but he is also very generous in his hands, and in the end, he can only watch this guy sit in the position that originally belonged to him: the position of the imperial horse supervisor and the eunuch.
-------------------- this makes Wang Ji not annoyed, so he has never given Cao Jixiang a good face, although Cao Jixiang wants to clean up this guy several times about this incompetent guy's attitude towards himself, but he is worried that his godfather is Zhang Yong, the first henchman eunuch around Zhu Qiyu, so Cao Jixiang either tries to avoid it, or simply ignores it.
However, today, Cao Jixiang's attitude made Wang Xi a little stunned, and Cao Jixiang, who was usually reluctant to meet him, waved his hand disapprovingly, as if he was not angered by Wang Xi's unreasonable reprimand, and explained earnestly: "Our family was ordered by Gonggong Zhang to come to inspect the doors to prevent abnormalities. ”
"Hmph, in that case, Grandpa Cao, please take a look. Although our family is not like Gonggong Cao, you have led soldiers to experience outside, but you are also a person who knows the soldiers, if there is any abnormality, could it be that our family will not be able to deal with it? Wang Xi snorted, raised his eyebrows in displeasure, and said sharply. He also specially supported the waist knife on the side of his waist, as if he wanted to make his round and fat body appear taller and more powerful, but unfortunately, standing in front of the burly and high-spirited Cao Jixiang, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like a grass chicken squatting next to a vicious dog.
"Why did the prince say this, our family also came by order, so why should the prince be so annoyed." Cao Jixiang heard this, laughed again, clasped his hands in front of his abdomen, and faced the king Xidao.
The dozens of Tengxiang guards also seemed to feel that it was a little inappropriate to stand in front of the two heads to watch the play, and they all retreated and scattered around, but the generals only retreated a few steps, but they were still faintly surrounded by Cao Jixiang's body, and turned their heads from time to time to look at Wang Xi and Cao Jixiang who had opened their posture.
And the soldiers of Wu Xiang's right guard, who were originally vigilantly observing the situation around Xihua Gate, quietly cast their attention on the two who were arguing.
No one noticed that in the Xihua Gate, under the corner of the wall, more than 100 Tengxiang guards wearing helmets and armor and unsheathed knives were quietly approaching the Xihua Gate along the root of the wall.
Inside the doorway, several Wuxiang guards who were in charge of staying below and guarding the gate gate didn't know what was happening overhead, and they were gathering together, talking and laughing in a low voice.
At this time, above the city, someone noticed that something was wrong, and suddenly pointed to the passage between the Xi'an Gate and the Xihua Gate, and shouted loudly......
(To be continued)