Chapter 379

Looking at the grenade in Zhu Cihong's hand, the important ministers in the hall were frightened.

With the increasing frequency of grenades on the battlefield, even if these ministers have not been on the battlefield, they are no strangers to grenades, after all, many of the heads handed in by the Ning Navy have been devastated by grenades, and of course, the legends about grenades are becoming more and more outrageous.

Some people say that a grenade can kill and injure more than a dozen people, some people say that a grenade can kill hundreds of people, and some people say that a grenade can kill a cow.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, don't be impulsive!"

The grenade was brought back by Zhu Cihong from Liaodong, but it was given to Zhu Cihong by his nominal cousin, Cheng Jialong Cheng's eldest son, at that time Cheng Jialong told Zhu Cihong that if someone bullies you, use the grenade to blow up the son of a bitch.

When the ministers forced the palace to Queen Zhou, no one paid attention to a seven-year-old doll, but just watched not letting the prince come out of the side hall, when he heard that the ministers were going to execute Queen Zhou, Zhu Cihong immediately remembered the grenade that Cheng Jialong gave him, in fact, Zhu Cihong did not throw the grenade himself, but watched Cheng Jialong take him to throw and play on the training ground.

The detonation method of the grenade has been changed from the initial ignition type to the pull ignition type, and the fuse only needs to be pulled out violently, and the grenade can be thrown out as long as it starts to smoke and count to three.

Fortunately, it was Zhu Cihong who came, and the guards holding Queen Zhou were a little embarrassed.

"Let go of the Queen Mother!"

Wen Tiren looked at the grenade in Zhu Cihong's hand, his face changed in fright, as long as the grenade in Zhu Cihong's hand detonated, at least half of the people present couldn't run away, especially an old arm and leg like him, even if there were a few guards standing in front of him, but Wen Tiren was still very scared, he heard that the grenade was pervasive, and no matter how thick the armor and shield were, it couldn't prevent it.

In desperation, he had to give the guards a look, and the two guards let go of Queen Zhou.

When Empress Zhou saw this scene, she also knew that she couldn't be good at this time, so she took a grenade from Zhu Cihong's waist, held the three-year-old third prince Zhu Cijiong, and slowly felt the fuse of the grenade.

"Prince, Jiong'er, do you remember the story that my mother told you?"

Zhu Cijiong was a little dazed.

Zhu Cihong said: "The queen mother is saying...... The last emperor was the most bleak? The children of the last emperor are even worse than death, and none of them have a good end......"

Empress Zhou nodded, tears flowed down: "It seems that your father is already more than lucky, are you willing to be the last emperor who buried the ancestral inheritance, carried the infamy through the ages, and was bullied by the usurper in every way, and finally died a good death?" ”

Zhu Cihong shook his head and said, "This palace is unwilling!" ”

"I don't want to!"

Zhu Cijiong hugged Empress Zhou's arm.

"Jiong'er, listen to your mother, close your eyes!"

Zhu Cijiong slowly closed his eyes.

Queen Zhou's face was very calm: "Mother doesn't want to see you end up like this, don't blame Mother for being ruthless...... Hong'er, you also close your eyes, my mother will take you to find your father, with him, these bad people will not dare to bully our mother and son. Good boy, don't be afraid, you are the descendants of the Zhu family, pluck up your courage, it won't hurt, and it will pass soon......"

Zhu Cihong also understands that this is not that Queen Zhou is ruthless, it is not that she does not love her children.

On the contrary, it is precisely because she loves her children that she wants to do this, she can't bear to see her children become puppets, and after burying the Ming Dynasty and bearing the infamy for these chaotic ministers and thieves, she will die in vain! Instead of letting children become the king of the dead country, saying that the earth and the earth should not be called spiritual, and the earth should not be spiritual, and the survival should not be death, it is better to free them as soon as possible!

Born in the royal family, he had no choice.

Zhu Cihong seemed to understand, he looked at Queen Zhou lightly and said with a smile: "Queen Mother, let's go first and let the teacher settle the account with them!" ”

The grenade in the hand of Empress Zhou was fused: "Cheng Qing? ”

Zhu Cihong remembered what his cousin told him, at a critical moment, he could pull the banner of the Ning Navy and scare people. He squeezed his eyes at Empress Zhou, and said solemnly: "The teacher is temporarily giving his son six grenades, once these six grenades explode in the Forbidden City, the teacher's people outside the city will receive the news, he is to open the last holy decree left by his father, and raise troops to ...... the king's side."

Hearing this, Wen Tiren's cold sweat flowed, Emperor Chongzhen did not dare to reach out to the palace before the Northern Expedition, and the crown prince at that time was indeed free to enter and exit the Forbidden City, and this time in the Northern Expedition, Emperor Chongzhen did not summon the Ning Navy to the north, and their plan at that time was to use this Northern Expedition to pit the elite soldiers and horses of the Ning Navy.

It's just that Ning Haijun didn't make a move, so this plan didn't succeed, and when he heard the prince say that Emperor Chongzhen left behind, he felt scared for a while.

Could it be that this is Emperor Chongzhen's plan, and Emperor Chongzhen is fishing?

Once they Ning Navy went north, only in their hands there was the holy decree of Emperor Chongzhen, they were famous, and now there were too many people in the capital who swore allegiance to Huang Taiji or wrote a letter of surrender, and they were exterminated, which could ensure that the Ming Dynasty had no worries about money and food for ten years.

Thinking of this, Wen Tiren was afraid for a while.

It is better to believe that it is there than to believe that it is not.

Zhu Cihong's words frightened all the ministers, they were all a group of bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, that is, bullying Emperor Chongzhen was gone, like Sun Chengzong, Fu Zonglong, etc., these ministers with strong and fair temperaments were also kicked out by them early, thinking that Queen Zhou was a woman's family, and the three princes were young and ignorant, so they dared to be so aggressive.

Now that Zhu Cihong and Cheng Shijie can go north at any time, Queen Zhou actually put on a tough posture of preferring to kill her own children with her own hands rather than cooperate with them, and they couldn't help but be in chaos!

Although these people have no lower limit of discipline, but people want faces, trees want bark, even if they sell butts, they have to sell better, right? The crown prince is still alive, if Empress Zhou is forced to kill the three princes and the prince with her own hands and then commit suicide, then no matter how nice they say, the infamy of "chaotic ministers and thieves" is also confirmed, and they stuff their faces into the crotch of their pants one by one!

Empress Zhou can die violently alone, and she can prevaricate with any reason, but the third prince and the crown prince can't die, and they can't make such a big move, and more importantly, they want to see what Ning Haijun is doing.

Wen Tiren hurriedly said: "The queen mother can't, never allow!" If you don't want to make the third prince the new king, we can discuss it again, it doesn't have to be so extreme! ”

Empress Zhou ordered the palace gate: "Either get out or die together!" ”

Wang Yingxiong sighed and said: "Niangniang, we are all for the common people in the world, and the society of the country is ......."

Zhu Cihong roared out of his lungs: "Get out of here!! ”

Everyone turned their eyes to Zhou Kui Zhou Guozhang, Zhou Guozhang hesitated, and was about to speak, Zhu Cihong raised his calf and kicked towards Zhou Guozhang's leg: "The palace counts to three, if you dare to be here, I will destroy you!" ”

Zhou Guozhang's heart was suffocated, and he involuntarily took two steps back, pointed at Queen Zhou and said, "You unfilial daughter, do you have to kill everyone to feel at ease!" ”

Zhou Guozhang stomped his foot and took the lead and walked out. As soon as he left, everyone could only follow him out, and he couldn't even give his subordinates a salute.

didn't even leave the hall, Wang Yingxiong said helplessly: "Queen Zhou would rather burn the jade than cooperate, how can this be good?" ”

Wen Tiren glared at Zhou Guozhang and said gloomily: "Zhou Guozhang, can you convince the queen?" ”

Zhou Guozhang was covered in cold sweat and said, "Wait for the old man to come over tomorrow to persuade him...... Her temperament is quite strong, if she is pressed, she really dares to burn the jade, she can't come in a hurry, she can't come in a hurry! ”

Wang Yingxiong also said with compassion: "Can't you come in a hurry? Kunijo-sama, do you think you have a lot of time? The Qing army is about to hit Beijing, and if you haven't done it well, you know what the consequences will be! ”

Zhou Guozhang shivered and said, "I'll do my best!" ”

Wang Yingxiong snorted: "It's a big deal that I will abolish the queen later, or let her die mysteriously, and then establish Concubine Tian as the queen, and then establish Concubine Tian's son as the new monarch, and she doesn't have to do it!" ”

These well-dressed beasts scolded and discussed countermeasures all the way, and gradually walked away.

The dormitory finally regained its calm, and for a long time, Queen Zhou was holding the frightened three princes and the prince and crying bitterly, the prince and the three princes were also crying, and the three of them cried together, and they all felt sad when they looked at it.

In the main hall, Queen Zhou was holding the prince and the prince and crying like pear blossoms, and she didn't notice the movement at the door at all, and when she found out that something was wrong, Wang Chengen had already walked in front of her. Empress Zhou's crying stopped abruptly, quickly wiped away her tears, and protected the prince and the crown prince behind her: "Princess, you also surrendered to them?" ”

Wang Chengen knelt on the ground with a puff, and he hid his cart of how he transported night incense through the palace in a vat filled with feces, so that he evaded the outside inspection and successfully infiltrated the palace.

He also told how Emperor Chongzhen ordered him to break through the siege and seek Cheng Shijie's help, and how he successfully arrived in Liaodong after nine deaths......

Without waiting for Wang Chengen to finish speaking, Queen Zhou hurriedly asked, "Is Cheng Qing here?" ”

"The prince arrived at Yongping Mansion with his troops!"

"Princess, can you take our mother and son out of the Forbidden City?"

"The slave maid has to do it no matter what, Weichen ventured into the palace to take Niangniang and His Royal Highness away."

Zhu Cihong was overjoyed: "You ...... Can you really take us out of this Hades Palace? ”

"Gotta give it a try."

"Run? Where can I escape, now the palace is full of the eyes and ears of these chaotic ministers and thieves, even the palace is difficult to move an inch, let alone flee to Liaodong, even if you escape from the palace, it is also difficult, the princess, the palace may not be able to go. ”

Empress Zhou's expression became more and more gloomy, and she smiled bitterly: "If you can, please take the palace and Concubine Yuan and a few princes away, and send them to Liaodong!" You tell Cheng Shijie, just say that the Ming Dynasty is over, he follows the example of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and sets up the prince as the new monarch to swear to the Northern Expedition, or if he establishes himself as the king and divides one party, the palace will not blame him, as long as he gives a few emperors a bite to eat! ”

Zhu Cihong shouted in fear: "Queen Mother! ”

Queen Zhou hugged Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong tightly, including Princess Kunxing and other children who had just come over, and tears rained down: "Good child, the queen mother can't take care of you in the future, prince, you are an elder brother, you have to take care of your younger brothers and sisters...... My hard-working child, if you can escape from this hell, you must forget your identity as a royal family, and be a common man under the rule of Cheng Qing, don't listen to others instigating Xiao to think about things that don't belong to you! In fact, there is nothing wrong with being a common man under his rule, at least you are freer and happier than staying in this cage! ”

Wang Chengen didn't know what to say. Originally, he was still thinking about how to send this family out of Beijing safely, but seeing that the imperial city was blocked so tightly, he realized how unrealistic his previous plans were! Not to mention taking such a big family away, it's not easy to send even a small child out!

But if he can't rescue the queen, what's the point of his trip to the capital? Emperor Chongzhen is more auspicious, the prince is young, and it all depends on Queen Zhou to support the overall situation, if Queen Zhou is gone, there will be no chaos in this world!

At this moment, a somewhat cold and neutral voice floated over: "Niangniang, and this father-in-law, you have time to talk this nonsense, you might as well think about how to escape from the capital!" ”

Empress Zhou was shocked, there were others here!

She looked at everyone and saw that she didn't know when, a female official dressed as a palace lady appeared next to her, although Queen Zhou didn't dare to say that all the palace ladies in the palace knew each other, and she had some impressions, but this palace lady was tall and heroic, even if it was placed in tens of thousands of palace laves, it definitely stood out from the crowd.

Not only did Queen Zhou not have an impression, but even Wang Chengen, an old guy who had been in the palace for more than ten years, had no impression at all.

Wang Chengen said loudly: "Who are you?" ”

"Lieutenant Colonel Tang Sanniang, commander of the reconnaissance battalion of the seventh brigade of the Ning Navy!"

Wang Chengen was taken aback: "You are the red lady who didn't let the women have her eyebrows and drove the Spanish people out of San Salvador with only a dozen people?" ”

History has a strong inertia, at this time, the red lady took refuge in advance Cheng Shijie, however, she broke out of his red lady's name in the big member, when the Ning Navy attacked the Spanish stronghold in Taipei, San Salvador, she wore a red wedding dress, sneaked into the city of San Salvador, took advantage of the Spanish defenseless, with more than a dozen people to capture the Spanish arsenal in San Salvador, and insisted on the arrival of the main force of the Ning Navy.

The name of the Red Lady also spread with this deed, and later became the protagonist in the script, and various stories were transmitted.

"Women don't let the eyebrows talk about it, our female soldiers in the Ning Navy are much more powerful than me, but the Red Lady is my nickname!"

Speaking of this, the red lady said: "Weichen Red Lady Tang Sanniang, on the order of the handsome, came to pick up Niangniang and His Royal Highnesses to move south, and took the liberty to break in, which frightened Niangniang, and asked for forgiveness." ”

Although Wang Chengen had heard of the name of the Red Lady, he still carefully inspected the Red Lady's waist card, but even if it was fake, he didn't know it, and he hadn't seen it before.

The red lady said: "Princess, how many people have you brought into the capital?" ”

"More than five hundred people, it is the elite unit of the Ning Navy Guards Brigade, and they can block ten with one, but only the two of us have infiltrated the palace!"

The red lady nodded and said, "I brought three hundred and twenty people into the city, and there are more than eight hundred people, which is enough!" ”

Empress Zhou said with some worry: "Red girl, is there a way to take us out of the Forbidden City?" ”

"Of course! I'm here to save people, not to die! ”

The red lady groaned slightly, and said: "It's not difficult to take everyone out of the capital, but you have to teach those rebellious ministers and thieves a lesson, and swell their faces in front of the whole world!" Hmph, they have done so many bad things, Hou Ye will settle accounts with them sooner or later, now let me charge them a little interest first! ”

"What are you going to do? Kill them? ”

"It's too cheap to kill them, I'm going to complain!"

……

Wen Tiren returned to the mansion in the city, sent someone to inquire about the news and arrived at the Wen Mansion before dawn, but the news made Wen Tiren feel cold in his hands and feet, the first news, a large number of Ning Navy soldiers appeared in Tianjin Wei, and the rough estimate was between 40,000 and 50,000 people.

The second news is that there is a Ning Navy in Yongping Mansion, and the number is also between thirty or forty thousand horses, and Zhu Guozi, the garrison of Yongping Mansion, reported that Cheng Shizhuo is now under the city of Yongping Mansion, and he will not be in office for long.

After receiving these two news, the faces of all the ministers changed greatly. Holding this information, Wen Tiren's hands were trembling, Wang Yingxiong's hands were trembling, and the other ministers were trembling all over.

The fear that Cheng Shijie brought to them was too deep, if this person didn't die for a day, it would be difficult for them to sit still! What Cheng Shijie brought to the Qing army was fear, and what he brought to these scholars was despair! It seems that nothing can stop Cheng Shijie's footsteps, conspiracy and trickery are useless to him, the wind and snow are useless to him, and the bad road conditions, local officials who violate the yang and yin, and the attacks and smears of the people's clear stream spraying dogs...... None of this will work for him, and once he has his sights on the target, nothing can stop him!

And this time, his target is likely to be these scholars who have ruined state affairs in the blink of an eye!

When the Ming Dynasty was in decline, how could such a strange thing appear!

Wen Tiren said with some panic: "This matter must be concluded as soon as possible, and it will change sooner!" The thief can't be measured by common sense at all, he ...... He really can act against the sky! ”

Hearing the words "acting against the sky", the faces of everyone present became even more ugly. Last year, Cheng Shijie with a weak force, to the death to block more than 400,000 Mobei Mongolian army, Cheng Shijie with the pot lid theory, thus the Confucian pursuit of 2,000 years of "monarchy and heavenly grant" theory smashed to smithereens, this scene is still fresh in everyone's memory, every time I think of it shuddering.

This guy can fight against natural disasters on his own, what are they, the scholars who control the fate of the country, in front of him!?

Wang Yingxiong gritted his teeth and asked, "Where is the Qing army now?" ”

Chen Xinjia quickly reported: "After the Qing army is taking Huairou, Miyun, Changping, Jixian and other places, the Qing army is rushing towards the capital, and their vanguard is not far from the capital!" ”

Wen Tiren jumped up a little irritably, and shouted: "Chen Shilang, you go and contact Huang Taiji immediately, just tell him that the tiger has returned to the nest, let him enter Beijing immediately, causing a fait accompli, and time is running out!" ”

Wang Yingxiong said: "Yes, yes, even if he can't come, send one to Beijing first and control the capital!" ”

The traitor is so eager to sell, so impatient, these few people here can be regarded as unprecedented and unprecedented.

On the morning of the tenth day of the ninth month of the ninth year of Emperor Chongzhen, the Qing army had two white flags, inlaid with a yellow flag and a blue flag, a total of more than 10,000 people, arrived at the east gate of Beijing, Wen Tiren and other ministers held a grand ceremony to enter the city at the Chaoyang Gate of the East City Gate.

However, just as the Qing army was lining up in a neat line and preparing to enter the city gate, a terrible howling sound came from all directions of Beijing, and one by one the fire dragons dragging tail flames rose into the air and rushed straight to the Qing troops outside the city to enter the city. These rockets and shells were originally smuggled into Beijing by Cheng Shijie, preparing to prevent Emperor Chongzhen from suddenly turning his face.

Although one-third of the total 560 rockets and artillery shells missed, nearly 400 still fell in the Qing army's formation, rising up in clusters of orange-red fireballs, and the rocket shells landed and exploded, and the shock wave of shrapnel and explosion swept unscrupulously in the Qing army's formation, and countless Qing army officers and men were blown up on their backs and turned into a mess.

"Retreat, it's a trap ......"

(End of chapter)