Zhang Wei was stunned and said, "Yang Gong, how can you promise the post of governor of the regimental battalion?" Didn't you promise me ...... future"

Yang Tinghe smiled: "You, can't you hold your breath, if I don't say that, can they be obedient?" The Queen Mother ordered the regimental battalion to hold the camp and hold the troops still, and let the soldiers and horses of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies drive into the city to take over the city defense, do you think it will be so easy? That's bait. Don't worry, although the old man has made a promise to each of them in private, only the promise to you is true, this is called a daughter to marry more, and in the end there is only one who becomes a guest of the East Bed, and the rest of the people are all empty. When the situation stabilizes and the new emperor ascends the throne, the old man will ensure that you are the governor of the regiment and battalion, and then these people will be under your hands, if anyone is not convinced or uncomfortable, won't you Zhang Hou Ye rectify them? ”

Zhang Weixi smiled, opened his mouth to laugh, and praised repeatedly: "What a good woman to marry more, Yang Gong's strategy is clever, and the five-body body I admire is on the ground." ”

Yang Tinghe said lightly: "I have no choice but to say it, I think I, Yang Tinghe, have never deceived people like this in my life, but for the sake of the overall situation of the court and the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, I have to do this." Gossip is not mentioned, at the moment, it is necessary to immediately hold Song Nan and Zhang Lun to calm the situation in the capital. ”

Zhang Wei said in a low voice: "How to deal with the situation above and below Zhengyangmen City?" ”

Yang Tinghe said: "You still ask this, Song Nan has already done it in the palace, and thousands of people have died, this is no longer a reconciling thing, but an endless fight, do you still have illusions?" Song Nan and Zhang Lun are already rebel thieves, so what else is there to worry about. ”

Zhang Wei gritted his teeth and said: "I understand, I immediately ordered the head of the city to attack and contain Zhang Lun, and at the same time ordered the two guards and horses in the outer city to outflank him and strangle them in one fell swoop." ”

Yang Tinghe said: "Then what are you waiting for? Give it the order. ”

Zhang Wei immediately conveyed the order, declaring Zhang Lun and Song Nan to be traitors to the imperial court, ordering the soldiers at the head of the city not to be patient, but if there was a close enemy, shoot them immediately, and at the same time send people to the outer city to pass the order, mobilize the two guards and horses in the outer city to outflank Zhengyangmen from the east and west sides, and want to strangle Zhang Lun's two battalions of soldiers and horses and thousands of brocade clothes and banners on the square outside Zhengyangmen. Because of this, it happened that Jinyiwei stepped forward to negotiate and was immediately shot and killed by the soldiers and horses at the head of the city, which triggered a joint siege battle between the Shenji Battalion and the Jinyiwei, and this qiē was also the result that Zhang Wei needed.

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More than 6,000 soldiers and horses of the Governor's Mansion successively climbed the Zhengyangmen City Tower and various parts of the city wall to reinforce the Yingzhou guards and horses above the city wall, and at the same time, Zhang Wei gathered more than 5,000 soldiers and horses to prepare to return to the palace to annihilate the Jinyi Wei Han General Camp and capture Song Nan; But he missed one point, that is, there were thousands of people in the Jinyi Guard Yamen in the inner city, and when the fireworks flew into the sky on the east and west sides, Zhang Wei suddenly realized this layer, but it was too late.

On the east and west sides, thousands of Jinyi Guard captains poured out like a tide, and the total number of people was actually less than three thousand, but Zhang Wei only had five thousand available manpower on hand, and at the same time, it was a force that was ignored, and suddenly caught the soldiers and horses on Damingmen Square off guard.

The Jinyiwei Banner School rarely experienced this kind of army combat situation, which was not enough in terms of experience, but they were better equipped and better than well-trained and strict orders. These people endure hardships and stand hard work and listen to commands, and when they train, they all compete to be the first, and their appearance is very different from before; After the order was given, they all fought bravely, and their fearless spirit made up for the lack of part of the actual combat, and soon the soldiers and horses of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, who were in a hurry to respond to the battle, rushed out of the two gaps in the east and west.

Wang Yong and Hou Dabiao both took the lead, and the sword dance in their hands was vigorous, each leading hundreds of people to rush into the square, with the dispersion of the formation, tens of thousands of horses and horses were fighting together in the square, and the sound of the blade fighting was endless, as if hundreds of blacksmith shops were opened in the square.

Song Nan rode a horse, led 30 Great Khan General Banner School and more than 100 ordinary captains to the west side of the square, and looked at it, there were fights in all corners of the city, inside and outside the square, Zhang Lun outside the Zhengyang Gate was quite restrained, and did not order people to fire cannons indiscriminately, close to the boundary of the palace, and the indiscriminate firing of cannons would affect the palace in the palace and the safety of the royal family in the palace, so the Zhankou cannon only stared at the Zhengyangmen tower and the city wall bombardment, and did not come to disturb the fighting in the rear square at all.

Song Nan squinted and swept around, and on the avenue leading to the government office on the east side of the Daming Gate gate, he saw the figures of Yang Ting, Fei Hong, Liang Chu and others who were watching the battle with their hands in hand, and there was a team of hundreds of soldiers and horses guarding them in front of them; Song Nan clamped the horse's belly, the horse jumped out, and a Han general and a brocade guard Yamen Baihu behind him shouted in unison: "Where are you going, sir?" ”

Song Nantou didn't shout back: "Capture the thief and capture the king, Yang Tinghe actually dares to show his face, he doesn't shed tears when he doesn't see the coffin." ”

"Come back, my lord, I am responsible for your safety, how can you personally get into danger?"

Song Nan's voice came from outside Zhang Xu: "What's the wordy? The whole team followed and cleared the flanks for me. ”

Everyone was helpless, more than 30 horseback generals rushed in with whips, and more than 100 Jinyi Guard Banner Schools also shouted to join the rolling war group.

Song Nan rode his horse and galloped in, the front and back of the horse were full of fighting soldiers, the fire gun was useless here, Song Nan embroidered the spring knife in his hand, held it high above his head, and the red knife spike on the handle was like a flame burning in the air, it was really a skillful Yang Ko'er weaved the knife spike to Song Nan, and he had never left Song Nan's handle for several years.

"I am Song Nan, the prince of Daming Town, the emperor's edict has an order, Yang Ting and Zhang Wei, Tan You, Fei Hong, Liang Chu and others are rebellious and rebellious, I am ordered to arrest the thieves, and the others are not the first evil, but put down the blade and will not be investigated, if you are obsessed, you should rebel from the thief." Song Nan raised his voice and roared.

Although the scene was noisy, Song Nan's figure of waving an embroidered spring knife galloping in the sun was extremely eye-catching, and the scarlet cloak was flying and stretching behind him, making a hunting sound. The soldiers couldn't help but listen to Song Nan's shouting, and many people were moved.

Yang Tinghe and others in the northeast corner of the square also saw Song Nan galloping on horseback, and Liang Chu immediately ordered more than 200 soldiers in front of him to guard him and others to draw bows and arrows, and shoot Song Nan as soon as he approached; Yang Tinghe was also very panicked, but he didn't show any expression on his face.

After listening carefully to a few sentences, Yang Tinghe snorted angrily, and suddenly jumped on the side of the Qingtiao Stone and shouted: "The rebel minister Song Nan plotted against him and forcibly broke into the emperor's bedroom, causing the emperor to die; He also refused to accept the emperor's edict, and the queen mother conspired with Zhang Lun to usurp the throne, which is an unforgivable crime. Listen to the captains of the Jinyi Guard, Song Nan's crime should be punished, but you are deceived by his demagoguery, and immediately put down your sword and surrender, or assist in the arrest of Song Nan, I, Yang Tinghe, in the name of the first assistant of the cabinet, swear that I will forgive you and other crimes, and reward them. ”

The soldiers on both sides listened to Song Nan and Yang Tinghe accuse each other of being traitors, each claiming that they had a testament, and their brains were confused by them.

Song Nan laughed, and shouted at Yang Tinghe through dozens of teams of fighting soldiers: "Yang Tinghe, you are Dong Shi Xiaofeng, you can also shout when I shout, can you be a little creative." ”

Yang Tinghe sneered and shouted: "Phew, the rebels and thieves are also worthy of me Yang to learn from you, Yang doesn't want others to be deceived by you." ”

Song Nan laughed, pointed at Yang Tinghe with the embroidered spring knife in his hand, and said: "Originally, the emperor's edict remembered that you have worked hard for many years and have made meritorious contributions, and there is no too heavy punishment, and I have always thought that you will not ignore the overall situation, but at this moment I understand that you are a traitor, if you are not loyal to the outside, and you have committed a heinous crime, you will not admit your mistake and you will be wrong, and you will be guilty of the saint's grace." And what you just said made me very unhappy, so I decided not to spare you, Yang Tinghe, you are killing yourself! ”

Yang Tinghe sneered a few times and said loudly: "Zhen Guogong, it is still unknown who will live and who will die." ”

Song Nan was furious, patted his horse and led dozens of horsemen to rush over, Yang Tinghe hurriedly jumped off the Qingtiao Stone and disappeared behind hundreds of foreign soldiers, hundreds of soldiers and horses rushed forward with a nois, meeting the horse heads of Song Nan and others, and the two sides quickly fought fiercely.

Song Nan was angry in his heart, and his subordinates were even more ruthless, regardless of rushing to the front, how dare the Han generals around him let him get into danger, they rushed forward one after another, protecting the vacancy on both sides of Song Nan. The horse's hooves were trampled, the firearms roared, hundreds of foreign troops were afraid of the firearms in the hands of these dozens of people, and there were many people who shouted loudly, and there were few who really caught up with the horse's head, and after a cup of tea, the surrounding Jinyi Weiqi School heard that Lord Song was surrounded and rushed to the rescue, and after a while, the hundreds of foreign soldiers and horses were scattered, and at the same time, Song Nan's horseshoes had already stepped on the entrance of the government office avenue where Yang Tinghe and others had just stood.

Looking at it, Yang Ting, Liang Chu Fei Hong and others retreated in panic more than a hundred steps ahead, Song Nan turned around and looked at the square, the stalemate fight was far away, I don't know when the winner will be divided, maybe when he caught Yang Tinghe The moment he caught, this qiē will end, so the horse rushed to the government office avenue, wanting to rush to capture a cadre who escaped, etc., suddenly heard the sound of the cannon, there was a riot on the southeast corner of Daming Gate, Song Nan pulled the horse and asked: "What's the matter?" ”

A moment later, the news came that it was the arrival of enemy reinforcements, and all the 8,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Chongwenmen rushed to reinforce the battle at Zhengyangmen and Damingmen. As a result, the difference in strength between the two sides in the square is too great, and there is no need to fight at all, and if it continues to fight, it will be the end of the annihilation of the whole army.

Song Nan scolded loudly, but he understood in his heart that this was because there was only one battalion of soldiers and horses dispatched by the regimental battalion, plus the soldiers and horses of the Shenji battalion in Zhang Lun's hands, the total number of soldiers and horses was only about 11,000 people, and this point of soldiers and horses could only storm Zhengyangmen, and it was impossible to divide troops to attack the defenders of Xuanwumen and Chongwenmen leading to the inner city from the east and west. The soldiers and horses of the other battalions of the regiment camp were all stationed in the outer city barracks, so that the defenders of Chongwenmen and Xuanwumen were able to draw up their forces to solve the chaos in the inner city.

Song Nan sighed in his heart, at least half of the people in the regimental camp looked out of place, Song Nan had already told Zhang Lun to wait for an opportunity to change, and he had even made plans and arrangements for this, but Zhang Lun never made a move; Song Nan has been busy fighting abroad in recent years, and he can only hand over this matter to Zhang Lun, but until today, Zhang Lun has not been ruthless to solve it; So much so that at a critical time, the governor of the regiment and battalion could not even dispatch the regimental battalion, so that the shape shì fell into a crisis.

At this moment, the shape of the shì is not the most critical time, Song Nan is most worried not about the other soldiers and horses in the regiment and camp, but worried that once the shape is bad, those marquis will brazenly send troops to help Yang Ting and the other side, and come to a wall to knock down everyone to push, that is the most terrible. Picking up cheap and taking advantage has always been the strength of these guys, and if their own manpower in the inner city is lost, or they are captured by Yang Tinghe, it means that the balance is broken, and those guys are very likely to go out to fight the water dogs.

Song Nan had to order all the soldiers and horses to withdraw from the battle immediately, and the nearly 4,000 Jinyi Guard Banner School gathered in the inner city had less than 3,000 left, plus the soldiers and horses of the 800 Han generals' camp in the palace, these less than 4,000 men and horses were all the men and horses in the inner city, and these people were the last force to maintain balance.

"Retreat into the Daming Gate and guard the palace gate." Song Nan ordered loudly, Wan Zhi led three hundred Han generals to rush out of the palace as a cover, and kept the pursuing enemy soldiers out of the Daming Gate.

Song Nan climbed the tower of Daming Gate, looking at the situation outside Daming Gate, tens of thousands of enemy soldiers were lined up on the square, he saw Yang Tinghe and others Shi Shiran came to the square, accompanied by a military general, pointing at the Daming Gate tower, obviously planning how to attack the palace.

At the Zhengyang Gate in the south, there is still the rumbling sound of firearms, and the sound of shouting and killing is coming from the sky, although it is not clear that Zhang Lun led the troops to attack, but he can know the difficulty of the battle. The city wall of Zhengyangmen is strong, in recent years, the great power of artillery in the battle has attracted great attention from the imperial court, more than ten artillery pieces have been installed on the city wall on both sides of Zhengyangmen as a supplementary force to defend the inner city, it is conceivable how big the threat they bring.

Song Nan has nothing to do for the time being, what he can do at present is to hold the palace and be ready to attack at any time, and drag the more than 10,000 foreign soldiers and horses on Zhengyangmen Square in this situation, preventing them from reinforcing Zhengyangmen, and waiting for the moment when Zhengyangmen is breached.

"Give me some strength, my eldest brother, it's a great time for you to make a name for yourself." Song Nan squinted at the spring sun that was falling slanting westward, and prayed silently in his heart.

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Zhang Lun didn't want to break through Zhengyangmen quickly, when the siege began, more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Shenji Battalion and the Fenwu Battalion, plus the onslaught of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Jinyi Guard, were almost successful, but suddenly the artillery roared at the head of the city, and the enemy troops on the city tower suddenly doubled, and they forcibly strangled this wave of imminent charges.

When I asked about the situation, I learned that it was the soldiers and horses of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies guarding the Xuanwu Gate in the inner city in the west who had arrived, and nearly 7,000 reinforcements reinforced the upper and lower parts of Zhengyangmen City, which suddenly turned this attack into an impossible task. Although the Shenji Battalion has more than 100 cannons, if these cannons fall into the crowd of the opposing party, it is certainly amazing, but just bombarding these strongest inner city walls with a height of four or five zhang is quite ineffective, and every shell bombarded the city wall, exploding a deep pit on the city wall, but it was only a pit.

Hundreds of shells hit and bombarded a section of the city wall, after the smoke dissipated, although the city wall was not at present, but there was no sign of collapse at all, but the city wall was blown out of a deep depression, from the side of the city wall is still very early, and in this way, the shell consumption is not to mention, dozens of cannons are overheated, close to scrapping.

In fact, there are a lot of firearms on the attacking side, there are more than 1,000 firearms in the Shenji Battalion, and there are more and more firearms in the hands of Hou Dabiao of the Jinyi Guard's personal guard battalion, but they all need close-range shooting to be effective, and they can be used to defend the city or charge sniping on the flat ground, but when used to attack the city, it is almost useless. Shoot your head up at the head of the city? Not to mention whether you can shoot the enemy behind the battlements, it is a question of whether you can rush into the range of the firebolt, because long before you reach the range of the firebolt, you have already entered the range of the crossbow, and I am afraid that you will become a hedgehog before you run to the place.

Zhang Lun was so anxious that he almost cried, he felt that this was the most difficult time in his life, the siege manpower was being consumed in vain, but he couldn't stop, but if he didn't stop, it was another battle that could not be won, with the consumption of his men, this battle would sooner or later end with the enemy's counterattack and his own defeat.

Among the officials in the outer city, Li Daniu and Zhao Dapeng have the highest official positions, and they have naturally become the backbone of everyone. But these two people have nothing to fault in fighting and charging, but it is in vain to ask them to come up with a way in such a crisis, and the two of them are also anxious like ants on a hot pot, looking at the sun gradually setting westward and there is nothing to do.

"Master Li, Zhao Qianhu, the ladies of the Zhenguo Mansion have sent a letter to ask you to take someone to Yongding Gate to meet them." A Jinyi Wei personal guard who was transferred to the Zhenguo Mansion to guard the Song Mansion's family members rushed to the scene and found Li Zhao and the others who were in the group.

Li Daniu was stunned and said, "The ladies of the Zhenguo Mansion? Aren't they in the house? How did you run away from the gate of Yongding? How do you protect it? ”

The guard said helplessly: "When they go out of the city, we have no choice but to follow and protect." But ......"

"Don't be verbose, Zhao Qianhu, you are staring here, I will take two hundred brothers to answer, the safety of the ladies is not a trivial matter, if they are caught by the enemy soldiers in the outer city, it will be a big trouble."

Although Zhao Dapeng was very depressed about Lord Song's family members coming out to make trouble at this time, he also knew that they had to ensure their safety, if Lord Song's family members were captured, it would be all over, Lord Song was famous for protecting his family and pampering his wife and concubines, and as soon as the Duke of Zhenguo returned to the house, he changed from a tiger to a gentle lamb, and he had witnessed these things many times.

"Then what are you waiting for, go quickly, take my fire guns and guard brothers, and wait for more than a thousand people to deal with it." Zhao Dapeng said busily.

Li Daniu quickly gathered two hundred guards and rode to the south along Yongdingmen Street, heading straight to Yongdingmen, the south gate of the capital.