4-38 Forcing the Palace

In front of the royalist army, a group of people and others were already shocked by the power of the bazooka.

"Brother Liu, are you using such weapons in the Central Plains now?" Zheng Sen was already stunned when he saw Weng Zhong and the airship, and then saw the powerful power of the bazooka, which made his young heart even more shocked, this time he came to make peace with Daming on behalf of his father, and he really came, if he continued to divide Taiwan and Fujian, I am afraid that these weapons will be used against their Zheng family.

"It's all pediatrics, and there's a lot of great ones you haven't seen before." Liu Ziguang patted Zheng Sen on the shoulder and boasted unashamedly.

"There is such a divine soldier, why worry about the immortality of the Tartars, don't talk about the Tartars, even if they fight all over the world, I don't think it will be effortless." Xu Zengshou laughed and said, just now they were chased by four Weng Zhong and ran all over the field, this evil breath can be calculated.

Hearing Wei Guogong's unintentional words, Qian Qianyi and Qi Zhenming couldn't help but glance at each other, their eyes contained a little worry, but they flashed and were replaced by a happy expression of victory.

"Generals, the Dongchang rebels have collapsed, let's take advantage of the victory to pursue and uproot their forces in the capital!" Qian Qianyi walked to the middle of Liu Ziguang and Xu Zengshou, like a leader, "Grandpa Guo, the matter of pursuing the remnants of the enemy will be handed over to you." ”

"Order!" Xu Zengshou arched his hand, and led the troops with excitement on his face.

"Lord Qi, you are responsible for maintaining law and order in the capital and purging the hidden remnants of the eunuchs."

"Yes!" Qi Zhenming also took the Donglin Army of his headquarters.

There were only the red-shirted regiments and the people of the South Factory left at the scene, Qian Qianyi arched his hand at Liu Ziguang: "General Liu, now that the eunuch party has been purged, there is only the Hou Party left, and the inner palace has been entrenched in the inner palace for ten years within three thousand, with strong force and loyalty, except for the general's red-shirted soldiers, no one can match it, in order to return His Majesty to a quiet harem, it is necessary to work hard to remove the generals." ”

"Lord Qian is serious, it is my duty to purge traitors for His Majesty, so why do you have to work hard." Seeing Qian Shangshu put on the commander-in-chief's number one order, Liu Ziguang was a little unhappy, but after all, he was the planner and organizer of the event, and although he made great efforts, he did not have the ability to integrate all the royal forces, so it was better to cooperate sincerely.

Qian Qianyi's words were beautiful and polite, and Liu Ziguang was not ambiguous: "Brothers! With my soldiers in the harem, by the way, the four bronze men must be protected, and all the craftsmen who operate the bronze men must be captured alive. After saying that, he left a team of soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and led the rest of the men and horses to go straight to Qianqingmen, and the thousand pikemen under the leadership of Zhao Erhu also followed closely behind, running around.

Nei Cao has been standing still, taking the strategy of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, waiting for the little emperor and Dongchang to fight both sides of the defeat and then unite the men and horses of the north camp of the city to kill in one fell swoop, and the inside and outside should join forces to win the final victory, but after waiting for a long time, I did not see the people of the north camp of the city coming, but the people who were loyal to the emperor drove to the Qianqing gate first.

Two airships hovered on the tower of Qianqingmen, the bombs in the air threatened the internal exercises below, and the red-shirted soldiers wearing leather armor and iron helmets surrounded Liu Ziguang and others, and the battlefield here had been cleared, so Zhu Youxiao and Xu Yuanhui also got down from the airship, and everyone came to Qianqing Gate together.

"Manager Li, open the door quickly, the emperor and the queen have been busy for most of the day and are going back to the palace to rest." Liu Ziguang shouted at the city tower. This is reasonable, the harem was originally the emperor's home, and the emperor and his family were busy with marriage and war for a long time, and now they go back to their own house to sleep in the cave, which is absolutely right, but the airship in the sky and the more than 2,000 armed soldiers on the ground are not as simple as just escorting the emperor back to the palace.

"Admiral Liu, the Queen Mother treats you well, how can you be ungrateful and lead troops to force the palace?" Li Lianying had already decided that Liu Ziguang was a traitor, and such a large-scale operation must have been planned for more than a day or two, perhaps from the first day he entered Beijing, this conspiracy was brewing.

"Mr. Li's words are wrong, the queen mother is the queen mother, everyone is a family, you people don't provoke the mother-son relationship between the queen mother and the emperor. Hurry up and open the door and let us in, otherwise the emperor will be furious, and we will have to open the door ourselves. Liu Ziguang's words were soft and steely, implying that if the internal gymnastics did not surrender, they would attack the door by force.

"When our family returns, the Queen Mother will make plans." Li Lianying took a treasure carving bow while perfunctory, and beckoned the internal gymnastics to raise their bows and crossbows to prepare to release arrows, there are still three thousand internal gymnastics in the harem, and Yu Linwei in the defenders of the imperial city is also loyal to the queen mother.

"Li Lianying, the old man advises you not to waste your efforts, the 100,000 Beijing troops in the north camp of the north of the city have been controlled by us, and Yu Linwei should not be counted on, at this time they may have blocked Bei'anmen, our actions are just to eradicate Huang Gelding, help the emperor to pro-government, and have no hostility towards the Queen Mother, you retreat like this to prevent the emperor from returning to the palace, don't you want to follow in the footsteps of Huang Gelding?"

Li Lianying's heart was cold when Qian Qianyi said it, the messenger sent to the camp in the north of the city was delayed, maybe something really happened over there, if Yu Linwei rebelled again, then the internal gymnastics would become turtles in the urn.

"Hurry up and open the door and let me in, do you still want to rebel, you dog minion?" Zhu Youxiao was surrounded by elite soldiers, his self-confidence increased greatly, and he pointed at Li Lianying and scolded, pitiful, he is a dignified emperor, and it is the first time to talk to Li Lianying in such a tone.

"The Queen Mother has arrived~~" With the shouting of the eunuch, the Queen Mother's chariot was carried up, and the Empress Dowager Li appeared on the Qianqing Gate, looking at Zhu Youxiao, who was guarded by the Red Shirt Regiment below, and smiled faintly: "The emperor is really wise and brave, worthy of being the descendant of my Zhu family, this time to exterminate the Huang Eunuch Rebellion, all the monarchs have made great contributions, the mourning family must reward you well, everyone is scattered, the harem is not allowed to enter the man, the emperor, bring your queen in, the mourning family has not taken a good look at the daughter-in-law." ”

Under the queen mother's prestige for many years, Zhu Youxiao was speechless and didn't dare to talk, but just set his eyes on his spokesperson Qian Qianyi at this moment.

The Queen Mother's speech is high, and she wants to deal with the situation with a few words of understatement, and Qian Qianyi, who is about to complete the battle, of course can't stop there, but the combat effectiveness of three thousand internal exercises is not trivial, and it is best if you can meet each other without fighting.

"The Huang eunuch party has endangered the imperial court for a long time, and the Dongchang fan is pervasive, who knows how many eunuch remnants are hidden in the deep palace of the people, and we have no choice but to protect the palace, and I hope that the queen mother will understand, and now the people of the capital are all hearted, and millions of soldiers and civilians are all willing to our emperor, and the emperor has also reached the age of pro-government after the wedding, and the queen mother, your old man should also enjoy a few days of blessings." What Qian Qianyi meant by this is that the situation is still like this anyway, and we don't plan to do anything to you, you should obediently hand over your military power and become your idle queen mother.

Soldiers are in the city, the abdomen is back by the enemy, in the face of the naked forced palace, the resourceful queen mother is helpless, look at the loyal internal exercises around, if you open the door and let people in, I am afraid that these people will be disarmed and imprisoned immediately, but if you don't open the door and resist, then I'm afraid the ending will be more tragic, look at the messy scene outside and the airship in the sky to know how strong the other party's combat effectiveness is, and even the life of the queen mother may not be able to be saved, anyway, the sentence "died in chaos" will be defeated.

The Queen Mother gritted her silver teeth: "Open the door!" ”

"Think twice!" Li Lianying fell to her knees with a thud.

"Think twice, if you open the door, you still have a chance to live, and if you don't open the door, everyone will die. Open the door. The Queen Mother patted Li Lianying on the shoulder and said calmly, as long as the two sides take the initiative to open the door, the two sides will not openly fight, after all, the Queen Mother is the emperor's nominal mother, and the charge of killing his mother as soon as he was in power is obviously not a glorious thing for Zhu Youxiao, and the folk discussion alone is enough to make him scratch his head. As long as you can survive the most dangerous days, with the power of the Queen Mother scattered in the court and the provinces, it is not impossible for the salted fish to be reborn.

The Qianqing Gate opened slowly, the internal gymnastics threw away their weapons, took off their armor, and knelt respectfully on both sides, and the Queen Mother also came down from the city tower and came to greet the emperor with a smile.

Zhu Youxiao forced a smile to kowtow to the Queen Mother, and was helped up by the Queen Mother, and then Zhu Youxiao and Xu Yuanhui held the arms of the Queen Mother left and right, and the family of three walked happily to the step chariot, boarded the chariot and swayed slowly towards the deep palace under the escort of the soldiers of the Red Shirt Regiment. Li Lianying still wanted to go along, but was blocked by two long knives, "All internal exercises must put down their weapons and be checked." ”

"Queen Mother!" Li Lianying shouted at the Queen Mother who was far away, but the steps did not stop, and the Queen Mother did not look back.

The various points in the inner palace were also occupied by Xun, the internal exercises were confiscated weapons, and they were concentrated in the square in front of the Qianqing Palace for screening, these armed eunuchs were strong, well-trained, and there was no family drag, it was indeed a powerful force, if it was left, it would definitely be a big disaster, but it would be a pity to slaughter it like this, and Liu Ziguang and they did not have a holiday, so they really couldn't do it.

"Lord Qian, look at ....." Liu Ziguang asked Qian Qianyi tentatively.

"Pity for the enemy is cruelty to oneself, there is internal exercise in the palace, how can the emperor sleep peacefully? General Liu has to make a decision on the spot. Qian Qianyi said and waved his right hand downward, making a gesture of cutting melons.

Liu Ziguang looked at these sincerely frightened eunuchs for a long time, and still shook his head: "After all, these people are all people of the Ming Dynasty, and they are already very pitiful because they have been castrated for six incomplete, and they are not as evil as the eunuchs of Dongchang, I think it is better to open the net, you can't kill them, but you can't let them stay in the palace, so let's hand them over to me these three thousand people, and they can be used during the Northern Expedition to the Manchu Dynasty in the future." ”

"General Liu is kind-hearted, so let's do it." Qian Qianyi saw that he didn't want to do it in the team, and it was inconvenient to say more, so he had to nod and agree.

The work in the palace is carried out in an orderly manner, in addition to the internal exercises, the other eunuchs and palace maids need to change blood, and now there are not enough people, so they can only wait for them to wait, and then transfer the new eunuchs and palace maids.

A palace girl walked over to this side, with a sword hanging from her waist, and more than a dozen men in strong suits behind her, Liu Ziguang turned out to be an old acquaintance at a glance: Hu Yimin, the big shopkeeper of Rishengchang, Qian Qianyi smiled and said: "General Liu, I'll introduce you, this is our right protector of the Donglin Party, the big shopkeeper of the Rishengchang ticket number, the niece of the Queen Mother, Miss Hu." Yu Linwei was controlled by her, and the information about the palace was also provided by the right protector. ”

"Admiral Liu, don't come unharmed?" Hu Yimin said a thousand blessings.

"It turned out to be Hu Protector, look up for a long time." Only then did Liu Ziguang understand why he was so favored by the Queen Mother, and his successive promotions turned out to be the credit of the niece of the Queen Mother's relatives. The Queen Mother's closest people are all undercover agents of the Donglin Party, so it's no wonder that she is undefeated.

"Everyone is hungry, the banquet prepared by the imperial dining room will be ready at noon, and now that the overall situation has been decided, let's go and drink." Hu Da shopkeeper said very proudly.

When she said this, everyone felt hungry, and they didn't eat lunch from noon to afternoon, "Okay, drink three hundred cups." Liu Ziguang was the first to respond.

The battle in the palace is important, the battle outside the palace is also the top priority, there are 100,000 horses stationed in the barracks in the north of Nanjing, these people are half of the eunuchs and half of the party, of course, it refers to the senior generals, ordinary soldiers don't care about those at all, today is the emperor's wedding day, the top generals have gone to the palace to participate in the celebration, the intermediate commanders and envoys were also invited to drink by the Duke of Wei, the soldiers also received a piece of wine and meat, after eating and drinking, they went out of the camp to play, more than half of the 100,000 people left, The remaining 30,000 or 40,000 people were also drunk, and lay staggered in the barracks.

Because of this, the envoys sent by Yang Bo and the Empress Dowager to ask for help failed to pull in the rescuers, and the envoys asked the remaining soldiers in a hurry, where did the envoys go? After hearing the news that they were going to the palace for a banquet, the envoys immediately rushed away, but they were detained as soon as they entered the door.

After Xu Zengshou pretended to be drunk and left the table, Yuan Chonghuan took over his responsibilities as the master, accompanied the generals to drink, they were all bold warriors, and the grandfather of the country was a well-known person for good wine, plus Yuan Chonghuan kept persuading him to drink, after dozens of jars of fine wine, there were basically no people who could stand and speak Lisuo, as for the guards brought by the generals, they were also overturned by the generals in the Guogong Mansion, and these people were properly arranged, Yuan Chonghuan arranged people and horses at the gate of the mansion to capture the messengers who came to find people, and then took a team of personal soldiers, I went straight to the camp in the north of the city.

Yuan Chonghuan's current identity is the title of the squire of the military department and the deputy governor, although it is a fictitious position, but the red second-grade official uniform is genuine, coupled with the wolf-like general subordinates and a holy decree, after beheading a few disobedient diehards, the northern camp of the city was successfully taken over. Then Yuan Chonghuan counted his troops and horses, announced the blockade of all city gates, and entered a state of martial law.

The takeover of the Five Cities Terracotta Division was smoother, except for Li Hongjie, the commanders and envoys were all invited by the leaders of the Shandong soldiers to drink on the Qinhuai River, and all the commanders went to the palace, either drunk, or directly solved with a knife, anyway, they got all the soldiers and arrows, and as soon as the battle started, these Shandong soldiers took over the Yamen of the Terracotta Division, coerced the original soldiers to the streets to clear out the Dongchang elements, and captured the hooligans and ruffians who took advantage of the fire to rob and maintain stability on the streets.

Jinyi Wei Yamen was almost infiltrated by Qi Zhenming, at this time, most of the people are looking at the wind, who is not mixed with it, and people are still under the banner of clearing the East Factory for the emperor, so whether it is true or false, most of the Jinyi Wei have wisely chosen to follow the deputy commander to attack the East Factory, and eighty percent of the personnel of the East Factory were transferred to the palace, and the remaining manpower was vulnerable, not to mention the steam cannons and ballistas of the South Factory to help, so it didn't take much effort to overcome.

When Yang Bo's defeated soldiers fled from the direction of the palace, the people on the street had been almost cleaned up by the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, the festive day of the emperor's wedding was actually under martial law, and the people of the capital suddenly realized after a short period of incomprehension, the coup d'état ten years ago is still vivid, it was also a big day, the coup d'état on the day of the emperor's funeral brought down the crown prince, and now this scene is going to repeat itself, I don't know that the unlucky little emperor is restless. is still the nine thousand years old who has been fighting with the Queen Mother recently. What they never dreamed of was that the protagonist of this coup d'état was actually today's groom official, sixteen-year-old Zhu Youxiao.

Although they were driven into the house, the common people were still driven by curiosity to look out from the crack in the door and listen, first the overwhelming strange heavenly soldiers who flew from Jiangbei, followed by the earth-shaking loud noise and killing sound of the palace, and then half an hour later, I saw that the Dongchang fans who were proud of their might in the past were fleeing in embarrassment on the street like lost dogs, followed by the officers and soldiers of Xiaolingwei, who were actually the current uncle Xu Zengshou.

"It's messy! It's a mess! "The people are confused, who is against whom I can't figure it out for a while, forget it, let's wait for tomorrow's Anmin notice to come out, no matter who is in charge of the government, it is still the world of the Ming Dynasty.