Chapter 49: Breaking the King's City

The area of Fuwang's Mansion is huge, accounting for almost one-third of Luoyang City. The wall is more than a foot high, not much shorter than the city wall of Luoyang City, and there are battlements and arrow towers on the city wall, and the defense is extremely strong.

In fact, the Fuwang Mansion is the shrunken Forbidden City, divided into the inner palace and the outer palace, with more than 400 palaces and houses inside, and all kinds of facilities are readily available.

In order to build this Fuwang Mansion, Emperor Wanli ordered the treasury to pay 380,000 taels of silver. It was also rebuilt on the basis of the original Yiwang Mansion. Yili Wang Zhu, the twenty-fifth son of Taizu, the feudal Luoyang, a total of six generations, more than 150 years, in Jiajing 43 years of exclusion, only 38 years after the construction of the Fu Wangfu, most of the buildings were intact at that time.

Lu Xiangsheng led the army into Luoyang and drove to the front of King Fu's mansion, looking at this magnificent palace, many people were very shocked.

In front of the palace, a pair of nearly zhang-high white marble lions stared coldly at everyone, and the white lion body represented the majesty of the royal family.

Lu Xiangsheng glanced at the stone lion, and sighed in his heart, this seemingly white stone lion didn't know how much blood of the people was stained with it.

On the wall of the palace, Zhu Changxun and Zhu Yousong looked angrily at Lu Xiangsheng and the others below. Zhu Yousong, the eldest son of Zhu Changxun, was named the son of King Fu, a few years older than Zhu Youzhen, Emperor Chongzhen, with a long body and a jade body, and a faint shadow of Zhu Changxun between his eyebrows.

"When you led the army to the palace, did you want to rebel?" Zhu Changxun grabbed the battlement, and shouted at the city with a fierce look.

Lu Xiangsheng got off the horse and bowed his hand slightly to the city: "The prince is polite, Lu Xiangsheng, the left of the Imperial Palace, was ordered to quell the rebellion of the Fu Domain, and asked the prince to order the city gate to be opened and let me wait to enter." ”

Zhu Changxun said angrily: "Lu Xiangsheng, you don't want to spew blood, this king is the uncle of today's son, how can he rebel against his own family?" It's you traitors who frame this king! ”

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head: "Lord Wang, why bother quibbling now, there is no point." ”

After speaking, he ordered his subordinates to unfurl the captured "Qingjun Side" flag:

"When Xia Guan led the army to cross the Yellow River in Zhengzhou, he was attacked by the army sent by the prince, and after defeating the army sent by the prince, this flag was captured.

Looking at the three big characters "Qingjun side", Zhu Changxun's eyes protruded. He knew very well what these three words meant, and his ancestor Zhu Di was under this banner from Beiping to Nanjing, and snatched the throne from his nephew Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen. This is the wealth of their Yan King for two hundred years!

Think about himself as the uncle of the current emperor, and the current emperor is also a young son of heaven, how imaginary he imagined Emperor Zhu Di Jianwen back then!

Thinking of this, a coldness came out of his heart, and in the blink of an eye, it spread all over his body, Zhu Changxun was cold all over his body like an ice cave, and his body was shaky and almost fell. Zhu Yousong hurriedly supported Zhu Changxun and shouted bitterly: "Father! ”

"Framed, all framed! This king has not sent any troops to attack you at all, and this king does not know where this flag came from! Zhu Changxun pushed Zhu Yousong away, shouting at the battlement, his voice was full of despair.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Zhu Changxun with some pity, and shook his head slightly, Zhu Changxun in front of him may indeed be wronged, but he is by no means innocent.

"Father, what should I do?" Zhu Yousong shouted in panic, "Do you want to let them in?" ”

Zhu Changxun gritted his teeth: "Can't let it go, if they come in, our father and son will be finished!" This king doesn't believe it, they dare to really attack the palace? ”

"Lord Wang, if there is human and material evidence, don't be lucky, and order the door of the mansion to be opened." Lu Xiangsheng persuaded.

Zhu Changxun said angrily: "What kind of human and material evidence is to frame this king, this king wants to go to the emperor, and the emperor will definitely deal with you traitors who framed the vassal king!"

Everyone listened, the bow was wound and the sword was unsheathed, and anyone who dared to approach the walls of the palace would kill the king! ”

"Yes......" The palace guards on the city wall agreed, looking at the army under the city with a suspicious face.

"If you dare to attack our army, you will rebel, and the whole clan will be involved, so you must think clearly!" Lu Xiangsheng's faint voice reached the city, and when those guards heard this, they lowered their weapons one by one. Being an errand in the palace is just why he eats with a mouthful of food, and he doesn't dare to rebel.

"Afraid of what? This king is His Majesty's uncle! Whoever dares to do something to this king, the whole family will be killed by His Majesty, and the vassal kings of the world will not let him go! ”

Zhu Changxun shouted inwardly, "Everyone listens to the king's orders, as long as they can keep the palace, each person will be rewarded with five taels, no, fifty taels of silver!" ”

Hearing that there was money to take, the morale of the guards recovered somewhat, but many people were still surprised, afraid that they would not be able to spend their lives if they had their lives to take the silver.

"Siege the city!" Seeing that Zhu Changxun was so stubborn, Lu Xiangsheng stopped talking nonsense.

With Lu Xiangsheng's order, Cao Bianjiao rushed out with his subordinates first.

During the conversation, the Praetorian Guards soldiers collected a lot of wooden ladders from the homes of the people, most of which were not long enough, so the two ladders were tied together, barely enough to reach the city.

More than a dozen ladders were set up on the city wall, and Cao Bianjiao took the lead in climbing up to the top of the city.

"Shoot him, shoot him!" Zhu Changxun roared, kicking and hitting the guards beside him.

As soon as one of the guards let go, a feathered arrow flew towards Cao Bianjiao. Cao Bianjiao didn't pay attention to it at all, just lowered his head to avoid the front door, and the arrow flew over Cao Bianjiao's shoulder and landed outside the city.

"Shoot!" The guards guarding the city really dared to make a move, and Lu Xiangsheng directly gave an order.

"Bang Bang Bang"

More than 100 firebolts opened fire at the same time, sparks flew from the city wall, and several guards fell from the city with screams.

"Dead!" Seeing that their companions were killed, the expressions of the other guards changed greatly, and they lay down under the battlements one after another, never daring to show their heads again.

Although they were the palace guards, they received a lot of money, and they were well-equipped, but they had never made a move, and at most they bullied the peasants who could not afford to pay the tenant rent on weekdays.

"Shoot, shoot them, don't let them climb up!" Zhu Changxun shouted frantically, but no one listened to him anymore.

Cao Bianjiao held a knife in one hand and a ladder in the other, quickly climbed up the battlement, jumped onto the city wall, and slashed at a guard with a bow and arrow.

"Bastard, you dare to shoot Lao Tzu!"

The guard was slashed with blood and fell down without saying a word, and the other guards shouted in fright, dropped their weapons and ran.

Zhu Changxun sat on the ground with a pale face, knowing that the general trend was gone.

Praetorian Guard soldiers climbed up to the top of the city, and the gates slowly opened from the inside.