He asked Wang Bao to be in Yuci City, to be a pair of eyes that only look and not speak, no matter what he sees, he must wait for him to come back and report, followed by strengthening the security of the palace to protect His Majesty Chongzhen from being snatched away by other forces.

Ling Jingyang did this because in the past two months, there were at least two assassin storms of the palace, these assassins infiltrated the city as refugees, found out the strength of the palace guards, and began to implement the assassination plan, killing Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the court, leaving the Ming army leaderless.

The first assassination was a month ago, more than 1,000 people poured into the city, all of them were people from nearby villages and tunzi, who were forced to not survive, and came to the city to pray for survival.

Ling Jingyang had just established himself in Yuci City at that time, and he didn't expect that someone would assassinate Zhu Youzhen, and the guards in the palace were not very strong, and the assassin saw that the palace guards were not strong enough, so he actually stormed the palace, intending to kill Zhu Youzhen.

Obviously, they underestimated the strength of the palace guards, and Zhu Youzhen in the palace was so frightened that he couldn't give up, but fortunately, the troops of the royal fort cruising nearby arrived in time to defuse the assassination, and the assassins were not afraid, so they fought their way out of the bloody road in broad daylight, ran to an alley, and defended it in a private house in the alley.

Wang Bao and Bai Dun surrounded the house with soldiers, but there was no movement inside, and the two of them attacked with soldiers a moment later, only to find that the assassins had already retreated from a tunnel to the outside of the city, and the secret passage was also blown up, and the only clue was gone.

This assassination made Ling Jingyang furious, and he had to strengthen the palace guards, and transferred 200 soldiers from the Iron Fist Battalion into the palace to protect the lives of Zhu Youzhen and some ministers.

Zhu Youzhen was also frightened, he didn't expect that there were assassins in Yuci City, and he wanted his life, and he also turned a blind eye to Ling Jingyang's addition of soldiers and horses in the palace.

However, some ministers who came back from other places to report on their work, and when they saw that there were so many soldiers in the palace who were wielding knives and guns, they ran to Zhu Youzhen to make small reports and ask Zhu Youzhen to blow these soldiers away, but Zhu Youzhen bombed them back and continued to govern the local people.

The second assassination appeared half a month ago, after the last assassination, Zhu Youzhen was cautious, he stayed out every night, and slept in a room with Wang Chengen, when going to the toilet at night

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, also in the room to solve a small solution.

The three assassins killed three Iron Fist Battalion soldiers after nightfall, changed into military uniforms and blended into the palace, wanting to kill Zhu Youzhen at night, but because Zhu Youzhen had a strong self-protection ability, the assassins never had a good chance, and were finally discovered by the soldiers of the Iron Fist Battalion in the palace.

The last assassination was the night before Ling Jingyang led his troops to Lu'an Prefecture, when a group of masked men with bows and crossbows climbed onto the roof of a room near the palace in an attempt to snipe Zhu Youzhen from a distance.

This was the closest the Assassins had come to succeeding, as two Assassins snuck up near the palace, found a house on high ground, climbed up to the roof with a tiger cannon they had gotten out of nowhere, and mounted it on the roof to bombard the palace in the near future.

Before the group could be launched, the group of Assassins was discovered by Kim Dashou, who continued to expand the palace.

The palace where Zhu Youzhen stayed was actually an uninhabited four-entry courtyard in Yuci City, and Jin Dashou led dozens of craftsmen and more than 100 people to clean this four-entry courtyard beautifully, and upgraded the courtyard to a small palace, so that Zhu Youzhen was comfortable.

However, when Jin Dashou was constantly expanding the palace, he suddenly thought of a terrible thing, that is, there were many houses nearby with roofs much higher than the palace, which was arrogant and disrespectful.

He hurriedly took the craftsman to the nearby house to have a look, and at this glance, he saw some strange things, that is, the roof of a nearby house was a little special, the roof of this house was not like other houses, although there were no people living in it, but the roof faced the palace, and it was still the sleeping palace where His Majesty slept.

Jin Dashou did not go to the courtyard, but reported the matter to Ling Jingyang, who had led the troops to set off that night, and received the information sent by Jin Dashou, and was forced to order the Iron Fist Legion to recuperate in the city tonight and set off tomorrow.

Then he remained silent, and ordered the palace guards to be the same as before, but secretly mobilized the cold and iron central army to impose martial law in Yuci City, and ordered Fang Xiaoyan to lead five hundred iron fist soldiers, change into ordinary people's clothes, and spread around the courtyard, after nightfall, Ling Jingyang came to the palace and met Zhu Youzhen.

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Zhu Youzhen was very surprised, in Yuci City, Ling Jingyang came to meet him several times, and twice he was assassinated and then saw him, this time Ling Jingyang suddenly came to see him, is there any important military information?

"Your Majesty, there are assassins outside the palace, please change your Majesty into armor and go to Lu'an Prefecture with me."

Zhu Youzhen's brain was blank, Ling Jingyang sent troops to Lu'an Prefecture, he knew, but Ling Jingyang actually wanted to take him to Lu'an Prefecture, which made him angry and afraid, and Ling Jingyang trembled and said: "Ling Jingyang, are you a big rebel?" ”

"Your Majesty, you are not safe here, going to Lu'an Prefecture with me can not only protect you, but also accomplish a big thing."

Zhu Youzhen was weak, and Ling Jingyang sarcastically said: "What's the big deal?" It's bigger than letting me run around with you? ”

"Your Majesty, have you ever heard that Ying Tianfu and the Qing army have joined forces to attack our dynasty and Dashun?"

"Didn't you let Wang Mu and I play a few days ago, why, you Ling Jingyang is also afraid of Zhu Yousong's group?"

"No, does Your Majesty know who the general of Ying Tianfu is this time?"

This made Zhu Youzhen a little curious.

"I am in this deep palace, my ears and eyes are closed, how can I know so much?"

"It's Gao Jie, the chief military officer appointed by His Majesty."

"Gao Jie?"

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "Is it Gao Jie who came from Li Zicheng?" ”

"Yes, it's him, he is now one of the four towns in the north of the Hongguang Puppet Dynasty, this time he led the troops from the south to the north, and joined the Qing army in Henan, he led the troops to attack Taiyuan Mansion, and the Qing army was divided into three roads, two ways to attack Datong Mansion."

Zhu Youzhen scolded disdainfully: "Hmph, a raccoon dog." ”

"Datong Mansion has been captured by the Qing army, and the other Qing army attacked Shanxi from Henan, defeated the Dashun army in the south of Shanxi, and launched the Tongguan Battle to the west.

Although Zhu Youzhen hated Li Zicheng very much, he still showed a regretful expression when he heard that Tongguan might be lost.

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