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~-~ The second watch has passed, and ordinary people's families have already slept peacefully in this dead of night, and as for those prodigal sons who are accustomed to sleeping in flowers and willows, they have also hugged the people around them at this moment and sunk into sleep. However, at this moment of silence, the gates of the palace city that had just been briefly repaired were opened, and nearly 2,000 officers and soldiers of the bannermen and Jinyi guards who were guarding the imperial city rushed out and rushed towards many targets in the city, among which the largest force was located in the Xia Wangfu, which was rebuilt by the yamen of the former Qing Liangjiang governor.

Speaking of which, it is almost a fool's dream to use more than 2,000 people to control the entire Nanjing Yingtianfu City, but the Ming court recruited too many useless people among the old sons of the former dynasty after the recovery, and they accounted for half of the posts of the two guards and horses in vain, so that the palace with Zhu Ciene and Zhu Qi as the palace could only rely on the power of the palace guards with more complex compositions.

However, most of these palace guards were speculative bandits, although they were fierce but their organization and discipline were very poor, so after seeing the signal, they scattered in the winding streets of Nanjing City soon after the princes and princes went out. Seeing that the master and the brigade were gone, the guards after the fall were so angry that they simply did not run towards the intended target, and turned around and killed the innocent people on the side, and suddenly a catastrophe befell Yingtian City, which had only been settled for a short time.

Seeing the shouts of killing and the cries of the suffering people, several commanders of the Su Guard who were originally planning to carry out a sneak attack were immediately angry, but the matter was irreparable, and they had no choice but to fight with open fire and fight on the side of the Qing monarch, and then kill the set target with the momentum of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat.

In addition to the Xia Wang's Mansion where Zheng Kezang's wife lived, there were also more than a dozen places such as the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the Cabinet, the Household Department, the Jinyi Guard Yamen, the Left-behind Division, Yingtianfu, and Shangyuan County, as for the mansion of Zheng Fan's heavy ministers, the palace did not have the strength to control it for the time being, so it was placed in the back.

But no matter how thorough the plan is, there is no way to implement it smoothly when it has been leaked.

No, the guards of the three mansions, such as King Zhou, King Yi, and King Lu, who attacked the household, were shot by the guards with rifles as soon as they broke into the street; The first standard-bearer who was responsible for storming the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was bombarded by field artillery in front of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion; In addition, after the king of Shucheng informed, the guards of the Shucheng palace also changed their positions, and participated in the attack on the corresponding Tianfu together in a fake appearance, but after the attack began, the guards of the undefended Luxi palace and the Badong palace stabbed in the back, causing the eldest son of the king of Luxi and the eldest grandson of the king of Badong to be killed on the spot, and the guards of the two mansions collapsed; In addition, the provinces were not monolithic, and although the agents of the Zheng clan during the infiltration period were restricted from being free before the rebellion and could not report the situation, they began to make trouble secretly after the rebellion began, so that at the beginning of the actions of the various royal palaces, suspicion appeared among each other.

What made the palace even more unexpected was that the flag-bearers and brocade guards they relied on for the Great Wall were also mixed with Zheng Fan's secret sentinels, although these secret posts could not grasp the overall situation, but in the chaos, they sniped the commander, destroyed the equipment, and poured the gunpowder, and the small number of artillery owned by the palace could not be used in the rebellion, thus adding to the process of resolving the incident.

Of course, although Zheng Fan made preparations to deal with it, due to the short time for response and the lack of troops in the city, Shangyuan County, Jiangning County, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate that were set on fire by the rebel army fell into the hands of the palace one after another, and the skyrocketing fire made the moonlight of this night even more scarlet.

On this night, the fiercest battle in Nanjing City was naturally born in the Xia Wangfu, which the palace must take. As the scattered guards of the various provinces were either attracted by the shouts of killing or forced into the area by the dominant Zheng army, the strength of the Su guards swelled to more than 1,300 at one point, which was three times the number of Zheng Fanyiwei who held the Xia Palace. However, compared with the Su Guards and the guards of various prefectures who had never been on the battlefield, the Yi guards selected from the elite of each division did not show weakness, and fought more with less, and the palace not only could not wield the numerical advantage, but had the posture of being pressed and beaten by a small number of enemies.

The palace also tried to find the weak defense of the Xia Palace, but the sixty flying fish robe guards and eighteen swordfish guards who did not follow Zheng Kezhang to the north formed two emergency reserve teams and were put into dangerous areas for rescue many times. With the physical fitness of these guards and the hundreds of corpses of Qizi Armor and Taixi Plate Armor stored in the palace, they were similar to mecha warriors, who repeatedly broke through the palace troops that broke through, and kept the important place of the palace that looked stormy.

Almost three days later, the Zheng Domain's important ministers' mansion received an order from Chen Miao, the princess of Xia, and the guards who had already been prepared immediately drove into the streets and alleys to join the ranks of Zhensu. At this time, led by the left-behind division, with veterans as the forerunner and the city patrol as the tail sweep, one neighborhood after another cleared out the rebels and the mob who took advantage of the fire to loot, and the guards who had previously guarded the various yas also counterattacked after leaving a very small garrison force. As a result, the fallen yamen were regained one after another, and the rebellious palace forces either fled to the city wall and tried to escape, or fled back to the provinces and the imperial city to hold on, or threw themselves into the last main force of the battle in the Xia Palace.

"It's all over." Hearing the shouts and killings everywhere gradually stopped, and then looking at the obvious panicked look on the faces of the various troops who came to the final battle zone, Zhu Chaokui, the new king of Fengxin, who had contracted Zhu Daoming, the king of Yiyang, to command the palace troops together, muttered with a dead face. "We're finished, and so is Daming"

"It's not over yet." Zhu Daoming stripped off the thick jacket on his body and pulled out the knife. "Liu Zhen's soldiers and horses will arrive at Longjiang Pass early tomorrow morning, so as long as we can take the Xia Wangfu and catch Zheng Kezang's wife and son, we will still have a chance." Speaking of this, Zhu Daoming raised his arms despite the fact that he was already in his sixties. "Yu Gong, Ding Daming Rise and Fall, Yu Private, Decide Personal Wealth and Life and Death, Gu is here to fight, sons, follow me who are not afraid of death!"

The veteran's desperate efforts really worked, as if he had exhausted all his strength before, and in the face of the last fight of the Ming clan, Zheng Fanyi's guards guarding the main gate of the Xia Wangfu retreated one after another, and the gate that once seemed to never be opened collapsed under the slashing of the frenzied rebels.

Seeing a glimmer of dawn, the palace rushed into the door with joy, but the people behind were still squeezing the people in front, but the few who were suddenly in front kept retreating, so there was a crowding of people at the door. Because everyone was still holding weapons in their hands, and there were even accidental injuries, the scene became more chaotic for a while.

"What's the matter," Zhu Daoming, who was sweating profusely in the crowd, scolded, and suddenly his front lit up, it turned out that he had broken through his own human wall, but it was not until this moment that he could see clearly why the striker hesitated, and it turned out that what was placed in front of the palace was a black hole in the barrel. "Damn, it's a trap!"

Zhu Daoming's roar was already late, and after a cannon shot, the bursting shotgun turned the doorway that looked incomparably wide on weekdays into a Shura field where corpses were gathered. But this was only the beginning, and then the rest of the artillery also fired, and the roaring buckshot completed the work that the Guards wanted to do but never finished pushing to the palace wall, beating the solid palace wall to the ground, and causing an equally terrifying effect on the other side of the wall.

Looking at this scene, Zhu Chaokui opened his mouth wide, and more rebels dispersed in a hurry, but they were already frightened, as long as a few officials with a ring ruler in their hands could easily clean up, but this scene, Zhu Chaokui was invisible, and just when he wanted to run away, a guard of King Fengxin was crowded on the side.

"Lord, come here, I'll carry you back to the palace." Hearing this call, Zhu Chaokui was extremely happy, and he secretly praised the other party's loyalty in his heart, but he didn't expect that as soon as he approached, a cold sword light flashed. "Sure enough, it's a fool." The guards of the Fengxin Palace, who grabbed Zhu Chaokui's death, pouted their lips disdainfully. "It's all this time, if there is no prince and your head, where should my head be?"

Zhu Qi stood on the roof of the palace and watched the fires in the distance extinguish one by one, his heart had sunk to the bottom, and the call in his ears was no longer audible, he knew that his time was numbered.

"Binchuan, Chungang, a few of you, take advantage of Zheng Bing's arrival, leave the palace immediately, there is a secret house on the edge of Mochou Lake, which was ordered by this king before moving the capital, you can hide there temporarily." Zhu Qibi, who came down from the roof, gestured and explained to several henchmen. "If you hear the news of Liu Zhenshun's entry into the city, you will come out again, and if Liu Zhen's army is defeated, you will change your disguise and surname, leave Nanjing, and never come back."

"Lord Wang!" Several of Zhu Qi's aides who had met during his campaign against the Qing Dynasty burst into tears. "Lord Wang, come with us."

"No, this king's goal is big, Zheng Cheng will definitely not let go of this king." Zhu Qian shook his head. "Besides, this king is a descendant of Taizu, and now even if the country is dead, he can't lose the face of his ancestors and ancestors."

Zhu Qi is actually a little disobedient here, he didn't live secretly under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at the beginning, but at this moment, everyone is in a mood, and no one will think of this problem. As a result, several staff, strategists, and Qingke reluctantly left through the back door of the palace, but they never thought that their actions all fell into the eyes of the Military Justice Department.

Sent away a cadre of old subordinates and old friends, Zhu Qi himself also took action, although he kept saying that he wanted to be martyred, but he was able to plot righteousness under the rule of the Qing court, and he was naturally a mentally tough person, and he would not be discouraged because of a temporary failure.

Zhu Qian first dismissed all the slaves and maids in the palace, and then he put on the clothes of a Taoist priest again, and then took advantage of the chaos in the palace to go to a side courtyard. Since the palace was provided by Zheng Fan, Zhu Qian could not dig a tunnel in a short time, but digging a Tibetan cave that could hide for ten days and half a month was not a problem. The most difficult soil has been thrown into the pond, and the eunuch who dug the hole was also executed in the name of Zheng Fan's secret agent before the uprising, and no one would guess that Zhu Qi, who was not martyred, did not flee with the people of the palace

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