Is this fake?

Why?

The Jiangning Tuanding, who was still clamoring to meet the third prince Zhu just now, including those who spoke an authentic Cantonese or Hakka accent in the Jiangning dialect, were all speechless, and everyone looked at Wang Huaxing with suspicious eyes, as if waiting for him to come up with evidence.

Wang Huaxing calmly opened his white face, pointed at the third prince of Zhu, and shouted: "He is fake!" The real Third Prince Zhu is dead, dead in Suzhou, and the whole world knows about it! And at that time, the left deputy general of my Jiangning regiment training was in Suzhou, and he was also responsible for taking care of the third prince Zhu! Zuo Xietai, is Zuo Xietai here? ”

"In, in, General Wang, are you looking for me?"

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived. As soon as he was summoned, his immediate boss Zuo Yuanyang rushed out of a deputy general's yamen next to him with a group of personal soldiers with straight-grooved flintlock rifled guns.

"Deputy General Zuo," Wang Huaxing asked, "tell the big guy quickly, is the third prince of Zhenzhu sick and dead in the Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou?" ”

"No, that's not true, that's Wu Sangui's cheap son-in-law Wang Yongkang." Zuo Yuanyang blurted out, without a trace of hesitation, obviously the truth.

"Then, then how did you report that you caught the third prince of Zhu?" Wang Huaxing was anxious for a moment, "That's bullying the king!" ”

"It's not me who bullied the king," Zuo Yuanyang looked innocent, "That's Ma Futai, Mu Fantai, and Jiangning's multi-system army and generals bullying the monarch together, they were afraid that Suzhou was almost attacked by Ao Bai and the third prince and the emperor would be questioned by the emperor, so they forced Wu Sangui's cheap son-in-law to be beaten into the third prince, and because they were afraid that the matter would be exposed, they also bought the doctor Le Tai from Beijing to poison Wang Yongkang, which has nothing to do with me!" General Wang, you can't wronged me as an honest man! ”

Hearing Zuo Yuanyang's words, Wang Huaxing was speechless, what kind of thinking does this surnamed Zuo have? How did you get to the wrong honest people? You don't have to be so honest, what if you admit that you killed the third prince of Zhu? Are you still afraid that Lu Qingtian, the iron-faced prefect of Jiangning Mansion, will be arrested as a murderer?

Thinking of this, Wang Huaxing stomped his feet, pointed to the third prince Zhu who had already dressed up, and shouted loudly: "Even if the third prince Zhu is still hiding among the people and has not been brought to justice for the time being, it cannot prove that he is the real third prince of Zhu!" ”

"General Wang!" Zuo Yuanyang suddenly interrupted Wang Huaxing's words and said seriously, "He is the third prince of Zhu!" Absolutely true! ”

"What? You, you." Wang Huaxing was stunned, "Deputy General Zuo, what do you mean?" ”

Zuo Yuanyang said: "Wang Shenrong, he is really the third prince of Zhu!" ”

"You, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"I don't talk nonsense, I'm an honest person and I never lie." Zuo Yuanyang looked honest, and while speaking, he hugged his fists in the direction of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum where Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in the north, "Last night, Taizu Hong Wuye gave me a dream, saying that he would send the third prince of the Ming Dynasty to Nanjing to reopen the Ming Dynasty, and let me be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. And the grandfather also let me see the portrait of the third prince of Dingwang, which is exactly the same as this one! ”

This Zuo Yuanyang is really honest, and he inherited Zuo Liangyu's Daming Ning Nanhou in a dream!

"Nonsense, you, you." Wang Huaxing was so angry that he couldn't say anything, he had never seen such an honest person who could lie in his life!

"General Wang, Zuohou is not talking nonsense, I also dreamed of Emperor Taizu!" Immediately, someone stood up and proved to Zuo Yuanyang, "Emperor Taizu also asked me to assist the third prince of Zhu!" ”

"And me, I also dreamed of grandpa!"

"I also dreamed that my grandfather would appear! Grandpa Tai also called me to assist Daming, and said that I should be a big official! ”

"That's what Emperor Taizu said to me."

“.”

Zhu Yuanzhang was very busy last night, I don't know how many people I dreamed of! Anyway, there was a lot of noise in the entire Xiaolingwei camp, and everyone said that they dreamed of Zhu Yuanzhang last night.

When the big guy was almost done arguing, Zuo Yuanyang, the marquis of Nanhou of Daming Ning, took a flintlock pistol made in Foshan, Guangdong, pointed at Wang Huaxing, and asked with a smile: "General Wang, did you dream of Hong Wuye last night?" If you don't have a dream, why don't you go down and see it now? ”

"I, I, I'll think about it," Wang Huaxing looked at the pistol, and immediately fell into deep thought, and after thinking for a while, he frowned and said, "It seems that I dreamed of a white-bearded old man wearing a yellow robe and a golden crown, he said a Huaixi dialect, I didn't understand it very well, it seemed to let me follow the Dingfan to fight the world, I thought it was the king of Dingnan, but I didn't expect it to mean the king of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"Okay, good, just think about it" Zuo Yuanyang smiled and put away the pistol that can help others improve their memory ability, and then raised his hand and pointed at the third prince Zhu, "Wang Shenrong, King Ding is there, hurry up and pay respects!" ”

Wang Huaxing had already completely figured it out, strode up to Zhu Cijiong, the third prince of Zhu, lifted his robe, knelt down, and said loudly: "The minister Wang Huaxing knocked on the meeting of His Royal Highness the King of the Ming Dynasty, and the minister is willing to protect the thousand years old to expel the Tartars and restore China!" ”

The third prince of Zhu saw that Wang Huaxing knelt down for himself, and the excitement in his heart was that Emperor Ming Xian was already stable! The good days of the eighty-eight concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards are coming soon!

Thinking of this, he laughed: "Okay, with the assistance of Zhuqing, my Daming will be able to prosper again hahaha, my Daming is back again!" ”

Immediately, there was a "Tuo", no, it was a native of Jiangning who spoke with a Lingnan accent in the Qingying camp and shouted together: "Taizu has appeared, Daming is back!" ”

As soon as they took the lead, everyone's emotions were mobilized and they cheered together.

These people, yesterday they were still penniless regiments, and they didn't even have the establishment of a green battalion today, they are already heroes entrusted by Zhu Yuanzhang to restore their sight!

It's a miracle!

"Taizu has appeared, and Daming has returned."

When the people in the Xiaolingwei camp were cheering for their life counterattack, Jiangning General Echu was riding a horse and galloping with the five hundred and eight banner soldiers below! Because of the urgency, Lu Sanhao, who was covered in injuries, had already been dumped by him in Chaoyangmen

But even if he got rid of Lu Sanhao, who was not good at his legs and feet, Echu was still a step late, and the Xiaolingwei camp was already cheering for "Taizu Manifestation" and "Daming is back"!

That's not going to work!

Didn't the emperor of the Qing Dynasty let his Echu guard Jiangning, just to prevent "Ming Taizu from appearing" and "Jiangning people rebelling"?

Now that he has manifested and rebelled, that is his dereliction of duty as a general!

Just thinking of this, he found that he had arrived outside the gate of the Xiaolingwei camp, and he also found that the gate of Xiaolingwei was wide open, and it seemed that no one was guarding it!

This Xiaolingwei camp is actually an acropolis, the so-called Xiaolingwei. It is a guard that is specially responsible for looking at the grave of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and the location of the Acropolis is at the foot of the Purple Mountain, just east of the Zhengyang Gate of the Nanjing Inner City (the Nanjing Inner City of the Ming Dynasty).

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the acropolis of Xiaolingwei was abandoned, but the acropolis did not mean collapse, this acropolis was still the location of the Jiangnan camp of the Qing demon besieging Tianjing City in the original history.

And the camp of Jiangning regimental training set up by Lu Sanhao was also chosen in the acropolis of Xiaolingwei.

Seeing the gate of Xiaolingwei's acropolis open, E Chu felt that the opportunity was rare, and those Jiangning Tuanding who made trouble must not have had time to set up defenses, otherwise why didn't they even close the door?

So rush in now, maybe you can use cavalry to break them up, so that the situation can still be controlled!

So, this Echu took out his waist knife and pointed at the door hole with an angry roar: "Eight Banners, rush me!" ”

"Huh!"

Although the "flag content" of the Eight Banners soldiers who followed him was not very high, they did not take Jiangning's regimental training too seriously, and when they heard General Jiangning's order, they all held their spears, roared and galloped on their horses, and there was no formation, they just rushed up one after another. In just the blink of an eye, the Eight Banners cavalry who rushed to the front had already rushed into the doorway.

The area of the acropolis of the Ming Dynasty is not large, it is generally a rectangular castle, a door is opened on each side of the southeast, northwest and northwest, the gate enters the street where two crosses intersect, the place where the two streets intersect is generally a school field, all kinds of yamen are in that area, as long as it occupies the surrounding of the school field, the entire acropolis is almost controlled.

And if someone in the Acropolis wants to make trouble, needless to say, they know that it must be on the school grounds.

Therefore, the Eight Banners who rushed into the gate of the Acropolis rushed towards the school field along the street with their heads covered. However, it was a little different from what they thought, right at the entrance of the school grounds, the Jiangning Tuanding had already set up defenses!

But it's not a great defense, it's just that two rows of infantry form a tight formation, and I don't know if there are a hundred people together? Everyone was holding a "shotgun" with a knife stuck in the muzzle, which was quite bluffing.

It's supposed to be bluffing, right?

These Eight Banner horsemen who rushed into the city were still quite fierce, not at all afraid of this shotgunner, not only did not retreat, but also rushed with spears, looking like a torrent composed of armored horses, rushing towards the two rows of Jiangning Tuanding wearing uniforms and wearing red scarves on their heads.

The distance between the two sides was rapidly approaching, and the two rows of thin-looking regimental spearmen were surprisingly calm, just standing there, flintlock pistols, aiming at the rapidly approaching enemy.

Eighty steps. Sixty steps. Forty steps. Twenty steps. Ten steps!

The bannermen who galloped on horseback did not even notice that on their way forward, someone had already drawn a thick white line with lime on the street to show the distance!

When the Eight Bannermen who rushed to the front stepped on the white line, the muzzles of a hundred flintlock muskets that had long been ready flashed out of two rows of large and small fires, and then there was a "boom" of gunfire.

Hundreds of lead bullets were like a hurricane, sweeping over the Eight Banners soldiers and horses who were galloping wildly! In an instant, all the seven or eight cavalrymen who rushed to the front were overturned, and they fell to the ground, and a few frightened war horses were screaming and rushing around the streets, which made the cavalry rushing behind also have to hold on to the reins to avoid the wounded, dead, and frightened war horses on the ground.

And just as they slowed down or paused their advance, the sharpshooters who were lying in ambush on the rooftops on both sides of the street fired their straight-grooved flintlock muskets.

This is a rifled gun!

It is also equipped with a wooden conical bullet similar to a Mine bullet!

And it was also used by sharpshooters selected from the Guangdong Township Army, although there were only a few dozen gunners, but the damage they caused was extremely amazing, almost no bullets, with a burst of scattered gunfire, more than 30 Eight Banner soldiers fell from their horses.

If you add the seven or eight cavalry who were knocked over by the salvo of smoothbore guns before, this group of Eight Banners who rushed into the Acropolis suffered more than forty casualties in a very short period of time!

The remaining Eight Banners soldiers were also frightened by this level of casualties, where did they dare to continue to rush inside? They all turned their horses and ran out, but the Eight Banners who had just entered the city gate behind them didn't know what was going on, and continued to rush inside, and the two sides collided together like this, and became a mess.

I don't know who it is, and I still tear my throat and shout blindly.

"Zhu Hongwu's men and horses are amazing!"

"Zhu Hongwu's shotgun is powerful."

"Run, Zhu Hongwu's shotgunmen are too fierce!"

"Woohoo"

Before the shouts fell, there was another dense burst of gunfire!

Echu, who was staying outside the city to command, was also stunned when he heard this movement.

What's going on? Did Zhu Yuanzhang really manifest? Shotgunners were also brought. Shotspearmen in the early years of the Ming Dynasty?

But even so, E Chu still didn't plan to "see Zhu Cai and escape", but ordered loudly: "Set up a cannon!" Shelf mother cannon! ”

The sub-mother cannon came from the Western Franco-Rang machine country, and Zhu Yuanzhang must not have this sharp weapon when he rebelled!

Several artillerymen of the Jiangning Banner Army listened to his order, and hurriedly set up their cannons, but they did not dare to approach the city wall, but set up their cannons at a distance of seventy or eighty steps from the city wall, and the muskets could not be fired at this distance.

Echu also saw the position of their cannons, and immediately became angry, what are you doing so far away? Is it accurate?

As soon as he wanted to reprimand, a burst of gunfire rang out in his ears.

Then E Chu saw the scene that made him unbelievable, those artillerymen who were hurriedly setting up their cannons actually fell one after another, and four or five fell at once. At such a distance, there is not much dense gunfire, and there is such a lethality!

Could it be that those shotgunmen were really blessed by Zhu Yuanzhang?

At this moment, the shouting and killing sound in the Xiaoling Acropolis had already been remembered.

"Kill. Emperor Taizu bless us! ”

Ming Taizu blessed. Did Ming Taizu really manifest?

Echu was almost frightened by the strange thoughts in his mind, Zhu Yuanzhang was about to show his spirit, how could he, a little Jiangning general, be able to fight? Why do you have to let Qing Taizu help?

But he wasn't the only one who was scared, and the Eight Banners under his command were also frightened, rushing out of the city gate hole like crazy.

The two house slaves beside Echu couldn't bear it anymore, so they came up and pulled the reins of Echu's war horse to escape.

But Echu was still struggling to maintain his image, shouting loudly: "What are you doing? Do. The official does not escape, the official and the surname Zhu fight! ”

An old slave who had followed Echu for many years was willing to listen to him, and only pulled his war horse to flee for his life, and returned a mouthful: "General, now this surname Zhu is not Zhu Chenggong, but Zhu Hongwu. How can it be beaten? ”

Of course, Zhu Hongwu can't be beaten, so let's escape quickly, escape back to the inner city and find a way!

Echu didn't struggle anymore, but let people lead their horses and run away.

Because these Eight Banner soldiers all have horses, the regimental training led by "Zhu Yuanzhang" can't catch up with them. After a while, Er Chu and the others fled outside the Chaoyangmen Urn City, where the gate was closed!

"Open the door, the general is back"

The Eight Banners who were at the forefront were already yelling and shouting.

I don't know why this Chaoyang Gate is closed, it's really a delay in escaping!

But the response to them from the upper floor of Chaoyang Gate was a few crisp gunshots!

"Woohoo."

Then the two red background flags embroidered with the word "Ming" and embroidered with the word "Zhu" were erected at the head of the city of Chaoyangmen Urn City!

When Echu saw these two flags, his heart sank.

Zhu Yuanzhang entered the city

How good is that?

"General Eh?"

At this moment, Lu Sanhao's voice with a little southwest accent suddenly sounded on the city wall.

It turned out that it was not Zhu Yuanzhang who won Chaoyangmen, but an elite team led by Li Zhongshan (Wang Zhongxiao), Liu Shuochuan and Lu Sanhao.

As soon as E Chu heard Lu Sanhao's voice, he already understood what was happening, and he was angry at that time: "The surname is Lu, you are a traitor"

"General E," Lu Sanhao lay behind the battlement, pulling his throat and shouting, "We have taken Nanjing City, and the third prince of Zhu is about to enter the city to become the emperor. If you still take care of those family members in Nanjing, give an order to let them withdraw to Beijing with you! Otherwise, when we break through the city, we will be slaughtered by the old and the young! ”

(End of chapter)