Chapter 111: Killing

The four gates of Nanyang are all broken, and only one Tang Wangfu is slightly threatened - on the side of the mansion, the two infantry teams of Tang Fu have been rebuilt, and the two teams A and B of the Tianyi Battalion have also found You Futian to join after opening the east gate for Gu Baihua...... If the six infantry teams can't take a prefect's yamen, then Lao You won't be mixed up in the future!

It takes a little effort to capture the Tang Palace.

The first reason is that there is a royal guard. The royal guards are different from the guards called Hanako, their equipment and training, including salaries and diets, have clear standards, which are much higher than those of the guards, and no civil official dares to make up his mind to the head of the vassal king, plus various rewards and subsidies from the prince...... It is good to eat well and be in good health, and if the salary is sufficient, the morale is high, and the guarantee is strong and the training is sufficient, so the combat power should not be underestimated.

The second reason is the courtyard walls of the royal palace. The walls of the Tang Wang's Mansion are higher than the walls of ordinary prefectures and counties, and if you want to break through from here, it is no different from the ant-attached siege city.

The third reason is that there is a rockery in the Tang Palace. There is a local folk song "There is a Wangfu Mountain in Nanyang, and the pickpocketing is almost close to the sky" to describe the height of Wangfu Mountain. There is a pavilion on the mountain called "Jietian Pavilion", as the name suggests, here is the commanding height of the whole city. Although the folk songs are somewhat exaggerated, in the era when there were no skyscrapers, the height of Wangfu Mountain was indeed the crown of the Ming Dynasty. The first generation of Tang King Zhu Huan* was the twenty-third son of his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang - his grandfather was fifty-eight years old at the time! The degree of favor can be imagined: not only named the prince of the son after the most powerful dynasty in Chinese history, but also built the Tang Palace, transported the Taihu Lake stone from 2,000 miles away with an ox cart, and built the highest artificial rockery in ancient China with manpower!

The Tang King of this generation is the Tang Duan King. Don't look at the word "end" in the name, the behavior is not "end" at all, he loves to play, and he plays very out of line. One of the favorite games to play is the Tang King robbing relatives: standing in the Jietian Pavilion to see who is marrying a daughter-in-law in Nanyang City...... Then let the guards snatch the bride into the palace - the beautiful ones are left, and the not beautiful ones are sent home after three days! Therefore, Nanyang has the old custom of "night marriage". Greeting relatives in the middle of the night is because of this prince: Even if you don't sleep in the middle of the night, you only hear a large group of people blowing and blowing, and you can't see anything clearly, where can you tell the difference between the funeral and the wedding? Grab back a dead body, and you will be responsible for burying it!

Duanwang once snatched one back and caused a big trouble. The bride is a "girl" in the "Yingchun Pavilion" - just listen to the name and know that the "Yingchun Pavilion" is a Goolan courtyard. The girl was very scheming, and met a businessman whose wife had died, so she used all her skills to fascinate this guy, not only redeeming her body, but also marrying a sedan chair to marry home to be a wife...... As a result, the merchant was not good for the year and offended Tai Sui, and the bride was carried into the palace by the guards halfway before entering the door.

When the girl came to her senses, she found that it was Tang Wang Ye who was sweating like rain and panting like a cow on her body, she was simply happy to descend from the sky, and immediately used the eighteen martial arts practiced in the Spring Festival Pavilion, and the Tang King almost died. Whether it is Princess Tang or other ordinary folk girls who robbed it, where does it have such kung fu, how can the fun-loving prince be willing to let it go?

A year later, the girl gave birth to a big fat boy, and Tang Wang was even happier. Girl, oh, it's time to call the side princess at this time, after all, she is a phoenix girl who came out of the courtyard, she only knows how to ascend to the sky in one step, where to care about the family law of the clan, keep blowing the wind on the pillow, and finally move the Tang Wang, who is not important except for the fun - to change the prince!

This is an earth-shattering event! The prince of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Qiqi (pronounced "Sheng"), has long been registered in the Zongren Mansion of the Jingshi - not only the son, but also the name of the grandson Zhu Yujian has also been determined. "There is a grandson, there is no grandson" is the rule set by the grandfather, a total of eight sons of the Tang King are concubines, so the prince can only be inherited by the eldest Zhu Qiqi. It is absolutely not possible to directly go to the book to change the world, not only is it impossible for the court to allow it, but even your own prince has to get in. Kill Zhu Qiqi directly? Tang Wang didn't dare to do it blatantly, as the saying goes, paper can't hold fire, and sooner or later he will implicate himself, even his beloved younger son. pondered for a long time, and finally in the name of "unfilial piety", the unlucky father and son were imprisoned in the palace Chengfeng prison. The people were not finished in prison, and they had to find a way to kill them, so they ordered that they should not be fed, and that they should starve to death to death. Fortunately, there was a little official named Zhang Shutang, who secretly delivered a little brown rice from time to time, and the father and son kept holding on to their breath. In the end, the impatient Tang King finally made up his mind and poisoned Zhu Qiqi to death - this is what the history of "King Duan is confused by the people" said. Just thinking about killing poor little Zhu Yujian* after a while, Guan Shengyun came.

You Futian finally smashed open the door of the prefect's yamen. There were nearly two hundred people in the courtyard as soon as they entered, but only forty or fifty Qian Yuchuan's guards were wearing armor, and the others were some six-room idlers. Qian Yuchuan's guards usually bully the people, of course, they show off their martial arts, where have they seen such thieves, although most of You Futianbu people only have half armor, and the murderous aura on their bodies alone is something that these guys have never seen in their lives, not to mention the absolute superiority in numbers and the experience of fighting with real knives and guns? After a while, there will be no living people in the courtyard - these days You Futian is full of anger, and he has to fight two times, and Lao You doesn't know what to treat prisoners preferentially. The soldiers rushed to the second courtyard, while the auxiliaries scattered into the lobby and the wings on both sides to search.

Qian Yuchuan was frightened and at a loss in the second courtyard, and the rest of the guards were also panicked, and when they were frightened, they threw a lot of things through the wall, and everyone looked at them, they were all the heads of the guards who had just run into the courtyard! Immediately, a heavy crash and a shout of killing sounded at the gate of the courtyard! Seeing this, Qian Yuchuan didn't say a word, and Qian Wu, the captain of the guard, gave a look, and the two fled to the back garden of the mansion in a panic.

After a few hits, there was a bang, and the second door was opened from the inside, and the armored guards knelt all over the ground. You Futian is not a good person, but since the other party took the initiative to open the door and ask for surrender, he was not embarrassed to kill on the spot, so he asked the auxiliary soldiers to tie up everyone first, and led his troops straight to the third courtyard of the mansion.

This is already the back house, only a few subordinates are running around, and in a moment they have become ghosts under the knife. Tang Fu, who was outflanked and blocked the back door, heard the movement and knew that there was only a wall between him and You Futian, and there was no longer any need to intercept the dog officer from absconding, so he kicked the door open a few times and led the crowd to rush in. Several soldiers pulled out a goatee from the side room, knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously and begged for mercy. The unintelligible Jiaodong dialect made It take You Futian a long time to understand that he claimed to be the cook of the government. Looking at the robe on his body and a small piece of silk rope hanging on his waist, without waiting for You Futian to speak, Tang Fule said: Do you really dare to coax the thief ancestor as a fool? The head of the rope was clearly tied with a jade pendant! You tear off the jade pendant and try to fool it? Who has ever seen a piece of jade hanging from the waist of a cook! I can't even hide it, and I still want to deceive such a learned General You? Tang Fu, who was too lazy to talk nonsense, took out a dagger and let his subordinates pull his hair bun, and cut off the left ear of the goatee with a knife, and then the right ear was also cut off in the howl of the ghost crying wolf, and before Tang Fu's dagger reached under his nose again, Master Kang under the feces and urine recruited himself.

Everyone looked around and didn't see the dog officer, so they couldn't help but look at each other. Master Kang has been hiding under the bed and doesn't know anything, the people are dead, You Futian regrets a little that he should be left alive. Will you run over the wall or through the dog hole? Facing You Futian's inquisitive eyes, Tang Fu felt a little annoyed: You look down on people a little! The battalion officers are all guerrilla ranks in the imperial court, and our Tang Fu should be considered a general anyway, so can the dog officer run away under his nose? Seeing a string of prisoners brought in in front of him, the angry Tang Fu wanted to cut down a few and then force the other frightened guys to question. Inserted the dagger back into his waist, and when he took the long knife handed over by his hand, he slipped and almost got out of his hand - cut Master Kang's ears and made his hands full of blood, slippery and greasy to hold the knife, caught a glimpse of the lotus pond so he went over to wash his hands, and just put his hand into the pool, Tang Fu was happy again: the water is a little muddy!

The water on both sides of the pool is still clear, but there is a turbid mark that leads straight into a lotus leaf two feet away! You Futian was greeted by Tang Fu, and he was happy to see it, and patted Tang Yingguan's shoulder heavily: "Good boy, there is you!" Everyone instantly surrounded the small pond, and some auxiliary soldiers found the hook used by the government to fight the fire from the tool room, and swung it out of the pond to the lotus leaf. Some people simply tied the iron hook with a rope, stood on the shore and shook it a few times......

"Ah", "Ah" screamed a few times, and Qian Wu and Qian Yuchuan were dragged out by the iron hook one after another.

Looking at the scale of the Tang Palace, Guan Shengyun knew that there would be no shortage of palace guards, at least more than a thousand, or even two thousand, and slamming the door or climbing the wall like You Futian would definitely be able to knock it down sooner or later, but the loss would not be small. When it came to this, the initiative was completely in his own hands, and he was not in a hurry for such a while, so he unhurriedly set up a siege, surrounded the palace in all directions, and then transferred 3,000 auxiliary soldiers to transport firewood and attack!

There are no tables, chairs, benches, quilts, and door panels in the house? The auxiliaries piled up combustibles at the gate with their shields, and the royal guards on the wall were helpless and frightened, and the feathered arrows they shot became weaker and weaker. When it was piled up to a height of one person, a few scoops of lamp oil were poured on it, and a few torches flew by, and in less than an hour the gate burned down.

There are those who can't bear the pressure of the guards who want to risk their lives to rush out, and they are all thrown down quickly, and there are also those who step on the ladder and climb the wall from the inside to jump outward, more than two feet high, without exception, they break their arms and legs and are paralyzed on the ground waiting for knives and guns, and more are mentally broken and kneeling to surrender.

Relatively speaking, Guan Shengyun was not very thirsty for killing, and he understood the risk of forcing the trapped beast to counterattack, so most of the troops temporarily picked up a life. Just as Guan Dashuai was calmly watching the auxiliaries pile firewood at the second gate of the palace, Luo Shifan You Futian and his entourage arrived with Qian Yuchuan Master Kang - Qian Wu was just a useless dog guard captain, and he was stabbed to death by Tang Fu on the spot.

Luo Shifan saw more than a hundred captives with their heads in their hands squatting on the ground, and the auxiliaries braved the feather arrows shot from the inner wall to send wood back and forth, and muttered a few words to Guan Shengyun with his eyes, Guan Shengyun was overjoyed: "The virtuous nephew really has you!" Called Guan Jianlin and ordered: "Withdraw the auxiliaries", stretched out his hand and pointed at the group of prisoners, "Tell them to pile up!" ”

The defenders on the inner wall watched their former comrades set up firewood under the pressure of knives and guns, some scolded and shot arrows, and many more, with a look of pity in their eyes...... The captives also shouted the names of their acquaintances one after another: "Zhang Yun, Li Gui, come down, you can't run out, the king said that if you surrender, you won't kill ......"

When the second gate was burned down, the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion and the Breaking Sky Battalion strode in, and the will to fight of the protectors completely collapsed. More than 300 people bowed their heads and asked to surrender, and the rest were killed on the spot.

Tang Wangfu fell.

Guan Shengyun sat in the Jietian Pavilion with a golden knife and looked down on the whole city of Nanyang Mansion condescendingly, although the place was relatively cramped, all the generals also gathered to squeeze into a pile, and King Tang was also tied up and knelt aside. The generals were annoyed by Qian Yuchuan's viciousness, and they all wanted to kill this guy, but they didn't have any unanimous opinion on how to deal with King Tang, Luo Yonghao muttered a few words in Guan Shengyun's ear, and Guan Shengyun nodded.

Under Guan Shengyun, everyone is not so particular, and there are no rules on weekdays. But if you have to arrange it, Gao Tengdou and You Futian are older than others, so they sometimes have to compete for the limelight. Two wooden stakes were erected at the foot of Wangfu Mountain, Qian Yuchuan and Master Kang were tied to them, and the two shirtless guys were holding knives in their hands and looking at Guan Shengyun waiting for his signal - it was Gao You and the two, they were going to perform another big slash for everyone to see who was more skilled.

A series of howls suddenly rang out, and then slowly faded away......

More than an hour later, Zhang Ding, who served as the referee, carefully examined it for a long time, and finally announced: Although they have all become skeletons, the heart of Qian Zhifu is still slightly fluctuating, so General You Futian, who is the chief sword, wins! Gao Tengdou approached unconvinced, put his face on Qian Yuchuan's ribs and looked through the gap, stared at it for a while, stabbed the knife in his hand to the heart, and said hatefully: "This guy is young, and he is more resistant to killing." Let's compare again! As he spoke, his eyes glanced at King Tang.

Tang Wang was already paralyzed on the ground like mud, and Guan Shengyun waved his hand: "Forget it, you are not tired Guan Mou, but you are still tired." ”

Hearing this, King Tang kept kowtowing and stammering to express his indescribable gratitude. Guan Shengyun said contemptuously: "Don't be happy, don't take your life, I'm afraid that the brothers will say that Guan is still afraid of what kind of bird, and the court will leave a way back!" You're a prince, let's send you on your way personally! With a wave of his hand, the generals lifted the fun-loving Tang prince with all hands and feet, and went straight down from the top of the high mountain!

The materials in the official treasury of Nanyang Mansion are piled up, and the houses of Qian Yuchuan and Kang Sheng, as well as the Tang Wang's Mansion, have made great gains - Guan Shengyun has also plundered prefectures and counties and even prefectures and cities before, but this is the first time in the palace. Moreover, even if they can turn it over, there will always be something that will leak through to the people. In the past few years, Qian Yuchuan has desperately scavenged it, but it seems to have been prepared in advance for Guan Shengyun!

Gu Baihua found a teenage baby in the dungeon, hungry with skin and bones, and the person was also very wooden, as if stupid. A small official named Zhang Shutang cried that it was his son who accidentally broke the prince's cup, was locked here, and was sentenced to starve to death in front of his eyes...... Gu Baihua was moved by compassion and casually gave more than 100 taels of silver and sent it away, so Zhu Yujian picked up a life.

* In order to avoid folk collisions, the names given by Zhu Yuanzhang to his children and grandchildren are basically unintelligible rare words, many of which are made by Lao Zhu himself, according to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, so look at the name of the clan to know which generation it is.

* Tang Duanwang, Zhu Qiqi, Zhu Yujian, etc., especially Zhu Yujian attacked Tang Wangjue and became Emperor Longwu, which is the most similar one among the four emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Duanwang is confused by the Huanren is also contained in the official history, of course, the Spring Festival Courtyard or something is an empty word.