Within two hours after the gate of the palace was burned down by the fire, more than 600 Jinyi guards and horses attacked and more than 1,000 guards guarding the palace launched a tug-of-war.

The 500 pro-military battalions under Qiu Yue on the periphery and the 900 guards patrolling the city were also on the bar, and the two sides were fighting fiercely and inseparably.

As the palace guards have reinforced the front gate battlefield, although the gate and gatehouse were burned down and collapsed, but the guards still rely on the tall building of the palace front hall carrying hall, relying on the bow and arrow sufficient defense to defend strongly, although Hou Dabiao led people to occupy the front gate of the palace, but it is difficult to save step by step.

The two sides paid hundreds of casualties, and Hou Dabiao finally led people to open a small gap in the west corner of the carrier hall, and rushed into the courtyard on the side of the palace with hundreds of people, and started hand-to-hand street battles with the palace guards; The number of dead and wounded on both sides skyrocketed, the corpses and wounded soldiers were all over the Xishou courtyard, and the fire guns, bows, arrows, and arrows flew everywhere, and the battle was extremely tragic.

Just when Hou Dabiao was shocked that his Jinyi guards suffered too many casualties and wanted to withdraw from the reorganization of the troops and horses, he heard the explosion of firearms behind the carrier hall, roaring endlessly; The guards in the courtyard of the house in front of them shouted in panic, Hou Dabiao was overjoyed, and shouted loudly: "Lord Song, they are outflanked from the inside, kill them." ”

There were less than four hundred brocade guards left, and they quickly rushed to the avenue behind the carrying hall, but suddenly found that the seven or eight hundred palace guards who fled in front of them had stopped running, Hou Dabiao thought that they were going to turn back and charge, and were about to order to prepare for battle, so he heard someone shouting in the distance: "The rebel king Zhu Ningyan has been captured, and the palace guards immediately give up resistance, and the court has a decree, only punish the first evil, do not investigate the coercion, and put down the blade and do not blame the past, otherwise the nine clans will be exterminated with the theory of conspiracy and rebellion." ”

Hou Dabiao heard that it was Wang Yong's voice, and shouted with joy: "Brother Wang, have you caught the old thief?" ”

Wang Yong's voice came from behind the hundreds of stiff guards: "Needless to say, the old thief has been captured. ”

As he spoke, the palace guards in front of him dodged one after another, only to see more than 30 people walking out slowly, Zhu Ningxiao was tied up and walked in the middle of the team, and the four palace guards were also tied up and escorted aside.

Song Nan slowly glanced at the hundreds of palace guards standing in front of him, and said coldly: "The rebel king has been captured, and you still don't put down your blades, do you want to work for the rebels, so that the court can't punish your nine clans?" ”

"Lay down your blades and surrender at once." Hundreds of flag schools shouted in unison.

The guards glared at each other, bewildered.

Behind Song Nan, King Qingding walked out slowly, frowned and said, "Aren't you all the guards of my Qingwang Mansion?" Why are you following your uncle to make trouble? Didn't you listen to the words of Marquis Song and lost your blade? Lord Song promised not to kill your head if he didn't kill your head, what are you still doing in a daze? ”

The words of the little prince seemed to be more effective than Song Nan's words, and someone threw down his blade and squatted silently aside. One person took the lead, everyone was in a cluster, and the guards lost their fighting spirit and surrendered one after another; Suddenly, more than a dozen guards rushed wildly, trying to take advantage of the chaos to escape, those were the guards of the palace and some smart figures, they knew that the court could not spare them these officials, and wanted to take the opportunity to slip away.

Wang Yong shouted a shout, and more than a dozen Jinyi guards raised fire in pursuit, and shot them all a moment later.

At the fourth watch, the town of Ningxia, which had been noisy all night, finally returned to calm, except for the sporadic fighting of the officials arrested by the Jinyi guard, the battle in the city was basically over.

In the front yard of the palace, Song Nan is arranging the defense of the city, the sky will be bright in an hour or so, and the rebels in the West Cliff will return at dawn, and they must race against time to arrange at this moment, otherwise the rebels will fall back into crisis as soon as they arrive.

"General Qiu, how many people do you have on hand?"

Qiu Yue said with a calm face: "A little more than two hundred." ”

Song Nan said: "The matter of defending the city can only be entrusted to the general, you are better than me." ”

Qiu Yue said: "How can two hundred people defend the city? ”

Song Nan said: "I will assign three hundred brocade guards to you for dispatch, and give you another thirty fire guards to maneuver." ”

"It's still not enough, such a little person can't hold it at all." Qiu Yue sighed.

Song Nan pointed to the more than 1,000 palace guards who were squatting aside with their heads in the courtyard and said, "Don't forget that there are still them, they are all handed over to you to use." ”

Qiu Yue patted his thigh and said, "Hey, why did you forget these guys, it's enough to have them." ”

Song Nan said: "I want to explain to them the truth, this is a matter of making up for the merits, as long as they help defend the city, after the war, they will not be blamed for the past and restore their freedom." ”

Qiu Yue said: "Xia Guan understands that if they don't seize this opportunity, they will be really stupid as pigs and dogs." ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "You are responsible for defending the city, I still have a hundred men on hand, but I have to do everything possible to clear the remnants hidden in the city, in case we defend against the enemy in the city, their sons and sons make chaos in the city, will they not suffer from the enemy." In addition, I am also responsible for the people in the city, and it is better to help defend the city, in short, as long as you hold on for a day, the west cliff will be broken, and then the big event will be decided. ”

Qiu Yue arched his hand and said: "Follow the order of the marquis, and the lower official will hurry up and arrange it." ”

Song Nan nodded, and ordered Hou Dabiao to follow Qiu Yue to join the prisoners and arrange the defense of the city; Turning his head, he instructed Wang Yong to prepare his horses and go to purge the remnants of the absconding officials in the city. A hurried shout came from the direction of the carrier hall: "Brother, brother, are you there?" ”

King Qingding, who was standing beside Song Nan, said in surprise: "Sister is here, Sister I'm here." ”

The county lord of Ping'an was still wearing the clothes of a guard, but he didn't wear a hat on his head, and he rushed over, his hair was flying in the wind, and the little prince also rushed over, and the two sisters and brothers hugged their heads and cried.

Song Nan looked at them with a smile, sighed slightly and walked away, and the voice of the county lord of Ping'an came from behind him: "Lord Song, thank you very much; Are you hurt? ”

Song Nan looked at his bandaged left arm and said with a smile: "It's okay." ”

The county lord of Ping'an was moved in his heart, but it was not good for him to come forward to check the injury in front of the public, he glanced at Song Nan deeply, and urged King Qingding to say: "Brother, Lord Song saved us, can you thank you?" ”

King Qingding said: "Thank you, Lord Song." ”

Song Nan waved his hand and said, "You're welcome, don't walk around in the mansion, I will send someone to guard the palace, I still have important matters, let's go first." ”

The county lord of Ping'an walked over slowly, looked at Song Nan with blazing eyes and said softly: "You did it, you kept your promise." ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Yes, next time I won't make any more promises, it's so difficult." ”

The county lord of Ping'an sneered and said, "You go, be more careful, and turn back...... When I came back to see our sister and brother, I held a banquet in the name of King Qing's Mansion to entertain Lord Song. ”

The county lord of Ping'an smiled like a flower, and the city was beautiful, Song Nan actually didn't dare to look at it directly, nodded and agreed, settled down and surrendered his hand silently, turned around and crossed the horse and led the guards to gallop away.

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The situation was very different from what Song Nan expected, when he began to attack the palace last night, Zhu Ningxiao did order someone to go to the West Cliff to rescue the troops as soon as possible, and when the guards who delivered the letter arrived at He Jin's big tent in the West Cliff in the middle of the night, he was dumbfounded.

In the big tent of the West Cliff, shouting and killing the heavens, the flames were everywhere, and they were chaotic into a pot of porridge. At first, the guard thought that the officers and troops on the other side had crossed the river and were fighting fiercely with He Jin's army, but soon he figured out what was going on, and it was not the officers and soldiers crossing the river to attack at all, but the civil strife in his own camp.

The reason is very simple, He Jin returned to Ningxia to move the rescue troops, and Zhu Ningxiao smashed the pot and sold iron to gather 8,000 men and horses to bring him the West Cliff defense, of which 4,000 were strong men in the city who were forcibly recruited; The officers and soldiers on the other side of the bank did not bombard with artillery, so that the 4,000 strong men escaped with their lives, and when the shift was changed at night, because of the fear that the officers and soldiers would smuggle in and launch artillery bombardments at night, the former battalion commander Zhou Ping refused to take the soldiers to replace the 4,000 strong men stationed on the top of the West Cliff.

He Jin didn't take it seriously, these 4,000 strong men had already received cannonballs, except for a bow and arrow issued by their hands, they didn't even have armor, and He Jin didn't treat them as soldiers at all.

Four thousand strong men built the fortification arrow tower on the top of the cliff during the day, tired all day, and at night the cold wind on the top of the cliff was biting, and they had to be stationed here, they were forced to come here, and the mood can be imagined.

In this case, a sentence from an eyeless hundred households is like a fuse that ignites this powder keg, and the newcomers have veterans as the commanders, and the hundred households are originally members of the back battalion, and at this time they have to stay on the top of the cliff with the newcomers to suffer; After pouring a few sips of strong wine, the love was uncontrollable, so he scolded the new Ding around him, blaming them for causing himself to suffer, and he lost his life.

A newcomer heard what he said, so he slowly asked questions, and finally asked himself that the reason why the 4,000 people were not allowed to tear down the cliff was because the opposite side could bombard the cliff with heavy artillery at any time and cover the river crossing.

After the news spread, the love of the new Ding exploded immediately, the veteran officer scolded angrily, and the drunken Baihu slashed the two of them with a knife to threaten them, and the new Ding who knew that they were going to die began to defect, and they rushed down the cliff after killing the officers and veterans around them; The commander of the former battalion who arrived after hearing the news asked Zhou Ping to intercept and slaughter them at the bottom of the cliff, which immediately caused a big fight.

When the palace messenger guards arrived, it was when Xinding and the veterans were in full swing.