And at this time, a few kilometers away Chaoyang Gate.

"Crazy people, these crazy people!"

Guozhang is fleeing in panic.

Behind him, the main gate of Chaoyang Gate and the gate of Wengcheng had been blown open.

Of course, it wasn't the city platform that was blown open, it was just the city gate.

Two wagons carrying powder kegs, using his identity as cover, detonated at both gates at the same time......

He is the ruler of the country, he personally inspected the city defense of Chaoyangmen, and then walked with a group of people who came back from transporting military supplies, who would inspect these carriages of the soldiers guarding the gate?

Then the people who were hiding inside the carriage detonated the gunpowder directly inside.

Their plan should be to blow up the city platform, cause damage to the city wall that cannot be repaired in a short time, and even create an outward collapse, so that those who enter from the Cangbo Gate can directly rush into the inner city, but unfortunately the inner city wall of the capital is far stronger than they imagined. The huge explosion only destroyed the city gate inside, and blew down some of the green bricks on the top of the city gate hole, but did not cause any damage to the main body of the city platform......

The inner walls can certainly be blown apart.

Originally, after hundreds of years in history, King Hong did this.

But he dug tunnels and then filled them with gunpowder to blast the tunnels.

In addition, Zeng shaved his head and actually blew it up, they were also tunnels, and then filled with 6,000 bags of gunpowder, which collapsed the 20-zhang long city wall in one fell swoop.

But now it is still a bit naïve to expect that a cart of gunpowder kegs without any airtight can blow the Chaoyangmen city wall apart.

As a result, not only did it not form the collapse they imagined, but because of the falling green bricks, most of the two city gate holes were blocked, and now in the dust and smoke behind the national abbot, the defenders were fighting with the enemy army inside. Because the feet are all piled up with green bricks, and there are green bricks falling from time to time above the head, the battle between the two sides is extremely fierce, many people simply pick up the green bricks and smash each other, and the thieves who follow him into the city are also fighting with the soldiers who rushed down the city wall.

Those attackers actually have an advantage, although this is theoretically the closest gate to the imperial city, in fact, entering the city is the imperial city of Dong'anmen.

But on the contrary, it is the weakest defense.

Because there were no residents in it at all, only the left guard of the government army was defending.

The First Army of the Beijing Camp was at Dashengguan, the Third Army was in the southern part of the outer wall with Yuhuatai as the core and along the river as the second line of defense, and the Fifth Army was in the northern outer wall, Lion Rock, Shogunate Mountain, etc., and the inner city wall itself was guarded under the current war situation. After all, the enemy army is still more than ten miles away, only after the outer wall is broken through, the Beijing camp will retreat to the inner city wall to defend, and now it is the guard post to guard against the destruction of spies, and even if there is really an enemy surprise attack, the Beijing camp has no time to rush back, in a city where all the people are soldiers, there are countless young people nearby who will quickly climb the city wall to defend with the order to defend the city.

Jingying is not the main force of the city's defense, the city's population of two million, more than 700,000 young and strong is the real defender.

Not to mention those military households in the guards, even the civilian registration also has military training.

And the mountains of weapons piled up in warehouses all over the city, and the large number of cold weapons among the people, can also make everyone a soldier.

Even women.

The bullets fired by a woman are no different from those of a man.

All Yang Feng never worried about the city being captured, not to mention that there were less than 100,000 enemies, 200,000, 300,000 or even 500,000 were useless.

The city can pull out a million Guardians if needed.

But......

There is no one in Chaoyangmen.

Inside is a messy warehouse a few hundred meters wide between it and the eastern wall of the imperial city.

In the end, the one who could be put into defense in a short time was the 1,000 soldiers on duty on the left guard of the government army.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Guozhang, he just wants to quickly escape from this area to avoid being involved in the battle, because his guards and those helpers, at this time, many of them were killed by gunpowder, and the rest were also blocked in the urn city, so he fled alone, thanks to a few loyal guards, desperately blocking the thieves for him, and now as long as he escapes from the battlefield, it will be fine.

As for him bringing people in, it's not worth mentioning.

He is the ruler of the country, what can he do if he is taken hostage, he is also a victim, does he have to be killed by these thieves?

Are you worthy of the Queen Mother in that case? Won't the Queen Mother be sad? Wouldn't the Empress be sad? So in order for the queen mother and the empress not to be sad, he had no choice but to be the leading party.

Fortunately, it was still easy to escape.

After all, there is the imperial city in front, as long as you run into Dong'anmen, it will be safe.

At this time, the Dong'an Gate had been opened, and the guards on duty in the imperial city were rushing out.

According to the revised system, the pro-military guards in the capital are no longer on duty to guard the imperial city, mainly because the elite of the pro-military guards have entered the Beijing camp and have no time to wait for the emperor to watch the gate, so they are responsible for the guards alone, but the guards are not paid by the imperial court, but by the emperor himself. In other words, the inner court used the proceeds of the imperial property everywhere to recruit troops, and now the emperor has a lot of private property, including banks, as well as imperial villages in various places, and even Iwami Silver Mountain, which was originally dedicated to the emperor by the king of the Wa Kingdom, and of course it is also the emperor's property, but the emperor handed it over to the household department for management.

But theoretically, the profits from the silver produced went to the emperor.

That is to say, after the silver is mined and smelted, the costs incurred during the period are deducted, such as wages, various materials that need to be purchased, etc., and the final profit is the emperor's.

Of course, if there is.

If you think about it, it is difficult to have too much paper profit under the operation of the household department.

After all, the mined silver belongs to the household department, but the household department must repay the bank first, and they have borrowed a huge amount of debt from the bank.

Gotta pay it back.

But no matter what, it is a fact that the emperor has a large amount of private property, since the emperor has a large amount of private property, there is no need to let the household pay the emperor, so all kinds of expenses of the palace are the responsibility of the inner court itself, and the emperor also pays for the same thing as hiring guards to defend the imperial city. Even the specific number of guards, this is set by the emperor himself, in fact, the queen mother is completely handed over to her father, even the guard system and the commanders are all relatives, although everyone is relatives, but it is impossible not to make money from the queen mother. Therefore, although the prince and the queen mother have high hopes for the guards, and even invest huge sums of money every year, they do not hesitate to save palace expenses and eliminate the palace maids and eunuchs, but under the operation of his relatives, the guards have become a shame for the armed forces of the capital......

The armor is indeed plate armor, but because it was the Queen Mother's own brother who was responsible for the procurement, he finally purchased a bunch of wrought iron armor at the price of the best quality armor.

Not even carburizing.

But the polish is good.

Looking at the momentum of the essence armor Yaori.

It is indeed a flintlock pistol.

But in fact, the Queen Mother's cousin opened his own workshop, and then hired a group of craftsmen with two knives, made some of them with an astonishing failure rate, and then purchased them at a high price as the latest flintlock pistol.

……

In short, at this moment, these guards are completely created by the Guozhang family, and they appear in Guozhang's field of vision like saviors.

And behind Guozhang, the thieves who had been holding him hostage, and who had entered Chaoyangmen with him first, had already broken through the interception of the left guard soldiers of the government army, and rushed towards him, preparing to continue to hold him hostage.

"I'm the national abbot, save me!"

He shouted as he ran.

The guards on the other side rushed forward.

"Uncle, get down!"

The lead officer shouted.

Guozhang immediately sobered up and quickly threw himself down.

At the same time, the guards on the other side stopped, raised their flintlock pistols one by one, and pulled the trigger on the thieves, but less than a third of them spewed flames, and the barely trained guards barely hit any targets. After all, in order to save money, their generals never organized training, and the queen mother didn't understand it at all, just saw that the guards armor was reflective and carried a new type of firearm very majestic, and the same Guozhang didn't care, it was his own son and nephew, he didn't have anything to worry about.

Can they still pit themselves?

He was dumbfounded as he lay on the ground at the moment.

The thieves were originally startled, but then they found themselves unscathed, while the guards on the opposite side were panickingly reloading.

The leader scolded.

Then they galloped forward.

Guozhang also came to his senses, got up and continued to run wildly, and the guards on the opposite side also rushed forward, in the final analysis, even if it was the shame of the armed forces of the capital, it was not the courage of those who saw the enemy at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and even if it was a pure civilian in this era, he could also dare to fight. In fact, these guards are all hired by the in-laws of the clan of the country from their respective hometowns, and many of them are military households themselves, and such employment can be even if they are military households, if it is not for the inferior flintlock pistols in their hands, they will not be able to give them bows and arrows.

In this way, in the chaos, the two sides collided together, and in the frightened screams of the national abbot, the two sides fighting with cold weapons instantly drowned him.

In the Chaoyang Gate behind, the battle continued, and a total of more than 500 people followed into the city, a third of whom entered the Chaoyang Gate before the explosion.

There were more than two hundred blockages in the urn city.

There are still dozens of people outside.

Although there were 1,000 defenders on the left guard of the government army, the commander greeted the abbot below, and when it exploded, it was knocked away by the flames and broken bricks spewing out of the city gate hole, and life and death were uncertain at this time.

Other soldiers also suffered more than a hundred casualties.

The rest because the culprit is Guozhang, so no one went to save him, and even deliberately let those who chased him over, but they blocked the main city gate, and at the same time, the city wall was also shooting inside the urn city, and some of the blocked thieves were also trying to climb the city wall, and the two sides took the main gate of Chaoyang Gate as the core, and launched a fierce melee. Although these thieves are all elites, because it is difficult to obtain firearms, only the captured short guns of the national guards, and the rest is the fight of cold weapons, so they can only rely on bravery, but if this kind of surprise attack cannot be successful at first, it is actually impossible to succeed at all.

Even if there are indeed no people in Chaoyangmen, there are defenders at all gates in the entire inner city, including the defenders of the Water Gate not far from the south, and it is only a few minutes to arrive from there, and the thieves cannot successfully control Chaoyangmen in these few minutes, and it is impossible to control it anymore.

Soon the advance guards of Jingo, who rushed to reinforce them, arrived.

Although the remnants of the thieves resisted desperately, they were still unable to break through the city gates, especially since most of them were trapped in the urn city, and the last thief soon fell in a circle of fire.

As for the battle between the guards and the thieves......

"Quick, quickly send the Guozhang to the Tai Hospital, the Guozhang bravely killed the enemy, the blood was sprinkled on Chaoyangmen, and finally the thieves did not disturb the imperial city!"

Song Hu, the avant-garde commander of Jinwu, looked at the abbot who was covered in blood and was still twitching on the ground, and said somewhat gloatingly.

He is the second son of Song Sheng, and his elder brother Song Xuan, as the commander of the Beijing camp, has followed Yang Feng to the west, in fact, Yang Feng has promised that in the future, their Song family can be in Gansu......

This is not a good errand, at this time Gansu is the poorest place in the Ming Dynasty.

But for the Song family, it can indeed be said to be very face-saving.

And Song Hu was in the capital as a pro-military guard commander, and married Zhu Di's daughter, Zhu Di took the initiative to marry his daughter to the Song family, after all, he was in the Western Regions, and the Song family was the closest court aid he could get, and he had to have a good relationship with Song Sheng, who had also been crowned Duke of Ning Guo because of his military exploits in the Western Regions over the years, and he deserved to be the duke, after all, since the last time Yang Feng and Zhu Di went west, he led the army into the Western Regions, and after these two bastards left, it was all up to him to suppress the Western Regions.

At present, the generals of Anxi and Beiting towns have been promoted by him, including the military households that have moved to the two towns, and he is also in charge of the placement.

It is the first person in the northwest of the imperial court.

As for the poor ruler......

In fact, no one knows what's going on, after all, it's night, even if there are those kerosene lamps, you can't see it clearly, anyway, he ran to the guards, the thieves chased after him, and when he and the guards collided, the thieves also collided with the guards, and all that was left was a scuffle in the chaos, who knocked him down, and then how many people stepped on him, it was really impossible to find out. Anyway, after those guards finally dealt with the thief, they found Guozhang's python robe among the messy corpses on the ground, and then it was like this.

"I heard that the abbot was kidnapped by the thieves and took the thieves into Chaoyangmen, so the thieves blew up the city gate, and killed the commander of the left guard of the government army, and almost broke through Chaoyangmen."

Qianhu next to him also gloated and said.

"These guards are all flintlocks, and they didn't protect him?"

Song Hu said.

"Those flintlock guns are all made by Uncle Guo's factory, and their own army buys their own flintlock guns, and in the end they are blind to more than sixty percent, who can blame them?"

Qianhu said with a smile.

"Well, in that case, let's just report it truthfully."

Song Hu said with a smile.

In fact, both the nobles and the common people in the capital have no good impression of the country.

The latter looked down on him as an original commander who was expensive because of a woman, and the people annoyed him to control the patrol and then just wanted to make money, and now he was happy with this result.

Especially self-inflicted.

"Ma, these dogs have actually hidden so many people in the capital, this is obvious that there are many people in the capital to protect them, even if the people are allowed to hold weapons, it is not easy to get so much gunpowder, not to mention that they can hide so much gunpowder until now, what is this capital patrol for?"

Song Hu looked at the surrounding scenes that could be said to be dead corpses and said angrily.

Of course, patrolling is also the responsibility of the national abbot.