Yang Tinghe calmed down and said quietly: "Zhenguo Gong, the edict in the old man's hand was drawn up by the emperor himself, and the queen mother was present as evidence, stamped with the emperor's seal and jade seal, this is the real edict." How could the emperor leave two copies of the edict, and you vainly claim to have one in your hand, which is really ridiculous. ”

Song Nan said: "Lord Yang, Lord Yang, you have worked hard to establish the new emperor, and I also have a copy of your edict, which was also witnessed by the emperor, and the emperor spit out a few mouthfuls of blood in anger." I never thought that you, Yang Tinghe, would also make an edict, Lord Yang, it's not too late to restrain yourself from the precipice, if you insist on reading out your fake edict, don't blame me for making the inside story public, and then it will not be discussed with you, but the severe punishment of the national law. ”

The ministers were in an uproar, Song Nan couldn't be clearer, accusing Yang Tinghe of the edict in his hand of being fake, that is to say, Yang Tinghe was an edict, not an edict made by Zhengde himself at all, this crime is not trivial, and the content of the edict is related to the new emperor's candidate, and it is even more suspected of rebellion.

Yang Tinghe was unwilling to let Song Nan make such an accusation, although he was acting on the prerogative, but he would never admit it, so he said angrily: "Zhen Guogong, you are spewing blood." When the emperor made this edict, the queen mother testified, and you slandered the old man, but even the queen mother also slandered, you are guilty of rebellion. ”

Song Nan waved his hand and said: "It can't be fake, it can't be fake, if the content of your edict is true, it will not be made public, presumably except for you, Lord Yang and the Queen Mother, no one else knows the content?" ”

Yang Tinghe frowned and said: "That's natural, the edict has not yet been announced, how can the ministers know the content of the edict." ”

Song Nan said: "I know the content, I don't believe I will recite it to you, if you make a mistake, then your edict is true." Without waiting for Yang Tinghe to answer, Song Nan recited with his hands held high: "I am dying, and the heir has not been built." The eldest son of the emperor, the eldest son of the king of Xingxian, has grown up, is virtuous, benevolent and filial, and has respected the ancestral teachings. The elder brother and the younger brother reported to the temple, asking the Empress Dowager Cisheng to send an official to welcome her to Beijing on the same day and take the throne of the emperor. Fengli Temple, the king of the world. ”

Yang Tinghe was shocked, his eyes looked at the Empress Dowager Zhang, and the Empress Dowager Zhang also happened to cast a puzzled look, both of them suspected that the other party had leaked the content of the edict, but in fact, they both understood that this was impossible. The civil and military officials were surprised, Song Nan recited the content of the edict in a dignified manner, as if he had seen the melon thousands of times, if this was the content of the edict that was strictly confidential, it would be too child's play.

"Yang Shoufu, is what Zhenguo Gong recited the original text of the edict?" Someone couldn't help but ask.

Yang Tinghe's face was cold, and he nodded slowly: "Zhenguo Gong is so bold, only the queen mother and ministers know the content of the emperor's edict, and Zhenguo Gong dares to send someone to investigate privately, and make it public without authorization, as a child's play, this is a big crime." ”

Song Nan said: "What kind of crime do I have, the edict in your hand is fake, fabricate the emperor's edict, you have a big crime, and you are the one who should confess." ”

Yang Tinghe sneered: "Zhenguo Gong, the emperor was newly mourned, and the whole country mourned, at this time, we should be the courtiers to stabilize the Daming Society, arrange the emperor's affairs, and we should be more sincere and united with each other." Zhenguo Gong is my hero of the Ming Dynasty, even if there are inappropriate behaviors such as trespassing into the capital, trespassing into the emperor's bedroom, and revealing the content of the edict without authorization, the old man does not intend to be like you; But Zhenguo Gong was really too much, full of nonsense, accusing the queen mother and the old man of the so-called crime of exaggeration, disturbing the situation of the court at this time, and it seemed that there was a bad deed. In view of this, the old man has to take action against you. For the stability of the Daming Society, in order to maintain the dignity of the Queen Mother, and in order to live up to the emperor's will, today's old man must eradicate you, the scourge of the court. Zhang Wei and Tan You, the two marquis, the old man, please take Zhenguo Gong into custody immediately, and after the emperor's funeral and the new emperor's accession to the throne and other major events are decided, the crime of Zhenguo Gong will be publicly decided. ”

Hui'an Hou Zhang Wei and Xinning Hou Tan You had been waiting for Yang Tinghe to give an order, and when they heard this, they shouted in unison: "Obey the orders of the first assistant." ”

Yang Tinghe turned to the Empress Dowager Zhang and said: "The Empress Dowager, please avoid, it is not appropriate for the Empress Dowager to drive here on such occasions, after the matter calms down, the old minister will lead the lords to Cining Palace to return to the Empress Dowager." ”

Empress Dowager Zhang glanced at Song Nan, sighed slightly and nodded: "Okay, the mourning family will go back to Cining Palace, Zhenguo Gong is an important minister of the state, you can't be too rude to him." ”

Yang Tinghe lowered his head and said: "The old minister can save it." ”

Song Nan sneered and watched this man and woman play double reeds, and when she saw that the Queen Mother was leaving, she raised her hand and shouted, "Queen Mother, are you just leaving?" Don't you want to hear the content of the emperor's real edict? ”

Yang Tinghe reprimanded: "Zhenguo Gong, why are you doing this, everyone knows, what edict do you have in your hand; It's just something you made up. Hou Ye Zhang, Hou Ye Tan, still don't invite Zhen Guogong to leave here? The emperor's dragon body needs to be buried, can we let him stop at the door of the palace and talk nonsense, and let the emperor lie here all the time? ”

Zhang Wei and Tan You agreed, stepped forward slowly, came to the bottom of the stairs and looked up at Song Nan, Zhang Wei said coldly: "Zhen Guogong, please don't resist, otherwise you will not blame us for hurting Grandpa Guo." ”

Song Nan said coldly: "Very good, if you can't do it, you will come to Wu, you have planned this matter for a long time, Zhang Wei Tan You, the soldiers and horses of the Governor's Mansion led by the two of you are only responsible for the security of the periphery of Gyeonggi, why did they appear in the capital?" When did the Praetorian guards in the palace become your men? Who gave you the command to act so boldly? Do you know that you are digging your own grave? If I were you, I would never do such a stupid act. ”

Tan You said with a smile: "This doesn't have to worry about Zhen Guogong, Zhen Guogong still thinks about his own situation, don't blame me for not reminding Zhen Guogong, if you resist, the sword has no eyes, if you die here, you deserve it." ”

Song Nan sighed and said: "Obsessed, unrepentant, it's just that, it seems that today's matter can only be done by force, how I don't want this scene to happen, but I have to do it." ”

Zhang Wei and Tan You laughed, looked at each other and said, "Zhen Guogong is afraid that he is crazy, what kind of big things are he saying here alone." Someone, please leave this place. ”

Dozens of guards with knives rushed out from both sides, quickly approaching the steps in front of the hall, Song Nan shook his head helplessly, stretched out his hand to take out the fire gun from his waist, Yang Tinghe and the others hurriedly shrank behind the servants to dodge, for fear that Song Nan would rush to the crowd for a while, but seeing Song Nan raise his gun to the sky, he pulled the trigger, and there was a boom, and two red bullets flew up in the air and made a crackling and popping sound.

With the annihilation of these two fireworks, the side of the palace of the heart of the temple behind the flowers and trees behind the rapid footsteps of the figure pupils, thousands of brocade clothes guard Han general rushed madly, the sword and gun in his hand shining gold, for the first two big men from the front of the hall two big men from the front of the hall out of the crowd, to Song Nan Yaoyao shouted: "Humble Wan Zhi, Wang Yong see Lord Song." ”

Everyone was shocked, Song Nan seemed to have been prepared, and the Jinyi Wei Han General Camp had sneaked into the palace from Xiyuan at some point, but Zhang Wei and Tan You panicked, waved his hand and ordered three thousand forks and swordsmen to step forward, and the two sides were holding swords from a distance of dozens of steps, and the atmosphere suddenly fell into suffocating tension.

Yang Tinghe looked at Song Nan on the steps and said, "Song Nan, do you really want to do something rebellious?" ”

Song Nan shouted coldly: "It is you who are rebelling against the edict, it is not too late to restrain the horse from the precipice, I advise Lord Yang to stop immediately, otherwise I will take decisive action according to the emperor's edict." ”

Yang Tinghe sneered: "Even so, the old man is speechless, if you insist on making a mistake, the old man can't save you." Hou Ye Zhang, Hou Ye Tan, you two don't have to keep your hands. ”

Zhang Wei and Tan You didn't put this Qianjin Yiwei Han General Camp in their eyes, these people only hold a golden gourd and a golden knife on weekdays, and follow the emperor on a high-headed horse, they all look mighty and majestic, but they are useless in the head of a silver-like pewter gun, at this moment the three thousand fork knife hands in the palace, more than 300 guards with knives are all obedient to their own hands, and more than 3,000 people are not a piece of cake to deal with this Qianjin Yiwei Han general.

Chang Sheng listened to the order, captured the thief and captured the king, and immediately led people to take down Song Nan. If there is resistance, it will not be counted. The three battalions of the fork and knife hand immediately surrendered the weapons of the Jinyi Wei Dahan General Battalion, and if there was resistance, they would be killed. Zhang Weisen ordered.

Chang Sheng hesitated slightly, and immediately waved his hand to summon more than twenty guards with knives, drew out steel knives and stepped on the steps to approach Song Nan. Song Nan sighed and said: "Chang Sheng, Chang Sheng, you are really confused, you just escaped from my fire, but you have to come up to die." ”

Chang Sheng licked his lips and said, "Zhenguo Gong, I'm sorry, I do what I am ordered." ”

Song Nan ignored him anymore and shouted loudly: "Wanzhi Wang Yong listens to the order, Yang Ting, a member of the Cabinet University, and Liang Chu Fei Hong are guilty of rebellion, and I am the prince of the country, Song Nan, I hereby order you to arrest them immediately, and if you encounter those who resist, you will be killed immediately." ”

When the words fell, Song Nan raised his hand and pulled out another firearm from his waist, and shot at Chang Sheng who rushed up, Chang Sheng subconsciously raised his arm to protect his head and face, but he felt that the pain on his arm was incomparable, countless blood holes appeared on his arm, and the steel knife in his hand could not be grasped, and the person also fell down with his head up, gurgling and rolling down the steps.

Everyone didn't expect Song Nan to say that he would do it, and when he was frightened, he heard the loud noise in the confrontation between the fork and knife hand in the rear and General Jinyiwei Dahan, and thousands of Jinyi Wei Dahan generals didn't know when there were more guns in their hands, Song Nan's gunfire was an order, and they fired without hesitation. After only one round of earth-shattering shooting, on the south side of the square in front of the palace, where the smoke of gunpowder filled, the fork and knife hands were cut off like spring leeks.

The distance was too close, the launch was too sudden, and the firearms were too domineering, and the thousand Han generals instantly became man-eating devils, and they were no longer the silver-like pewter spearheads in the eyes of everyone. This is exactly the back hand carefully prepared by Song Nan, the entire Jinyi Wei Han General Camp has already been secretly equipped with Mrs. Song's firearm in hand, and the combat power of this thousand Han generals has soared with the firecracker equipment in place, but unfortunately no one outside knows.

This is the reason why Song Nan dared to enter the palace, when he knew that the camp of the Jinyi Wei Dahan was still in the palace and was only transferred to Xiyuan to garrison, Song Nan knew that even if he entered the palace alone, it would be enough to sweep away a single soldier and horse in the palace. When Song Nan was arguing with Yang Tinghe and the others on the steps, he saw the silent fireworks that rose into the air from the direction of Shouning Palace, which was a special silent fireworks bomb, which only drew a trajectory in the air, and if he didn't deliberately observe, he wouldn't notice the white trajectory in the air at all. When Song Nan saw those tracks, he knew that the Han general's camp had successfully entered the palace, but as for how to enter the palace but did not cause the confrontation of the palace guards, Song Nan did not know.

There was no room for compromise between Yang Tinghe and himself, and at this point, Song Nan launched this massacre without hesitation. The civil and military officials were lying on the ground with their heads in their hands, and the Empress Dowager Zhang had already been surrounded by several palace maids and eunuchs and shrunk behind Luan, and the entire Yangxin Palace Square seemed to be the end of the world.

Zhengde's lifeless body was lying quietly on the bed in the East Warm Pavilion of the Heart Nourishing Palace, the body was still warm, the torso was not yet stiff, and he was no longer aware of the fighting outside the Heart Nourishing Palace. He may never have imagined that when his bones were not cold, the brutal struggle for power in the Ming court had begun.

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The forkmen and swordsmen were all elite soldiers and horses, equipped with extremely sophisticated equipment and weapons, and more than 800 of the 3,000 forked swordsmen were archers, and when they were attacked by the first round of firearms, the archers immediately began to return fire without waiting for the order to be given. For a while, the sound of bows and arrows sneering through the air, and the roar of fire guns filled the square in front of the Heart Nourishing Palace. The pungent smell of gunpowder filled the nose, and the screams of the soldiers before they died echoed in the sky.

Wan Zhi rushed to the front, and when the rain of arrows like locusts hit him, he waved the long knife in his hand to block the arrows, but in a blink of an eye, he saw more than a dozen Han generals around him falling to the side with arrows, and immediately scolded loudly, and shouted angrily: "Kill, kill all these kings and eight calves." ”

Hundreds of firebolts spewed out flames, bombarding a row of fork knife hands in front of them to the ground, and the stumps of grass, trees, flowers and trees were splashed everywhere, tearing a gap in the formation of the fork knife hands blocking in front of him, Wang Yong killed from the rear and shouted: "Brother Wan, I will take someone to save Lord Song, the guards with knives on the dog day are besieging Lord Song." ”

Wan Zhi said: "Brother, go, leave it to me here, I want to kill all these kings and eight calves, and I dare to fight back." ”

Wang Yong nodded and said: "My lord has explained, there will be no mercy in the face of resisting soldiers, but don't kill the officials by mistake." ”

Wan Zhi raised his hand and put a firecracker, turned his head and shouted, "I know, give you a hundred people, go and rescue Lord Song." ”

Wang Yong turned around and yelled, "Come with me." ”

More than 100 Han generals and lieutenants followed Wang Yong's footsteps and rushed out from the side of the flower bed in the oblique thorn, and under the suppression of the powerful firepower ordered by Wan Zhi, they quickly broke through the defense line of the left fork knife hand and opened the road to the square in front of the palace; More than 100 Han generals and lieutenants rushed to the square like hungry wolves, and the firearms in their hands kept firing at both sides, knocking the fork-and-knife soldiers who rushed up to intercept them to the ground.

All the officials in the square lay on the ground and didn't dare to raise their heads, Wang Yong led the crowd to rush to, the ground was full of backs and buttocks, and there was nowhere to put his feet, Wang Yong didn't care about those, raised his feet and stepped on an official's fat buttocks, and stepped on the official's fat buttocks, and the officials screamed, and the lieutenants did the same, stepping on the meat pad and rushing to the steps at the entrance of the Palace of Nourishing Hearts. The fork and knife hand in the rear habitually shot a rain of arrows, shooting more than a dozen lieutenants under Wang Yong, and at the same time, the officials lying on the ground also suffered from the pond fish, and dozens of people were hit by arrows in their backs and buttocks, and they suddenly screamed.

Zhang Xiuxing, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, was stabbed with an arrow in the thigh, and he raised his head in pain and shouted: "Song Nan, do you really want to rebel?" Even the officials dare to kill, the old man fights with you. ”

Wang Yong happened to run in front of him, and hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Zhang Shilang, you can see clearly, it's not that we hurt you, it's the fork and knife hand who doesn't care about your life and then releases arrows indiscriminately, we don't hurt you at all, and we can't afford to splash dirty water on Lord Song." ”

Zhang Xianxing wanted to be scolded angrily, Wang Yong had already arrived outside Zhang Xu Kai, stepped on the head of the punishment department with his left foot, and stepped on the member of the ministry with his right foot, and rushed away.

On the steps, Song Nan was surrounded by more than ten fork and knife hands, and the fire gun in his hand had already been thrown on the ground and had no time to put on ammunition, resisting left and right with the embroidered spring knife, and did not forget to protect the little palace maid named Liu Yuer behind him.

Wang Yong shouted loudly: "Don't panic, adults, you can come to your humble position." ”

Song Nan shouted: "Don't worry about me, take down Yang Ting and Zhang Wei Tan You, and protect the Queen Mother." ”

Hundreds of forked knife hands protected Yang Tinghe and the others in the center, and Song Nan's words clearly fell into their ears, and Zhang Wei shouted: "Block them." ”

More than 100 forks and knives raised their blades to meet the attack, and Wang Yong shouted angrily: "Kill." ”

Dozens of firearms exploded violently, shaking people's ears and dissipating the smoke of gunpowder, Wang Wei, Tan You, Yang Tinghe and others were shocked to find that none of the more than 100 forked knife hands who rushed forward to meet the enemy stood up, and all fell in a low voice like coke, and black blood was rolling and flowing.

"Protect Yang Shoufu and protect the Queen Mother." Tan You shouted.

Song Nan also said to protect the Queen Mother, and Tan You also shouted to protect the Queen Mother, but in fact, there was not a single soldier next to the Queen Mother's Luan, and the Empress Dowager Zhang was holding her head with her hands and was surrounded by several palace maids and eunuchs, and the officials in the corner next to Luan's car were trembling.

The dozens of fork and knife men besieging Song Nan on the steps had no choice but to divide more than half of them to protect Yang Tinghe and the others, and a fork and knife hand leader rushed over with the shouts of the remaining dozens of people. Wang Yong roared and greeted him, and the embroidered spring knife in his hand emitted a dazzling cold light, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, he slashed diagonally at the man's neck; took the boss to block with a big sword, but when he heard a click, a gap popped out of the blade; The leader's hands were numb, half of his body could barely move, and suddenly there was a pain in his lower abdomen, and his whole body flew up like a cloud, crossed the distance, and rolled down Yang Tinghe's feet.

Yang Ting, Tan You and the others turned pale in shock, and Tan You stomped his feet and scolded: "Waste things, you can't stop a move." ”

The officer with the knife barely supported himself to explain, but a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth, and his body fell down on his back, and he couldn't get up again, this person was one of the best in martial arts among the guards with knives in the palace, but he didn't expect to lose with Wang Yong in one move, Wang Yong's kick almost kicked his ribs, and the internal organs in his chest and abdomen were moved, and he got up for a while.

Zhang Wei's gaze quickly patrolled, Song Nan was still alive and well on the steps, outside the square, the roar of the fire guns came and went, a large number of fork knife soldiers were cutting wheat and fell, in front of Wang Yong led dozens of people rushing over like fierce approach, and more than 100 forked knife hands and dozens of guards with knives who protected themselves were only about 20 people left, and if they didn't leave, they would be rushed to the front by Wang Yong.