In front of Shi Heng, there is a very thorny problem: if he does not chase it, the emperor sees the right time and escapes from the city, then it is possible to turn things around.

If you chase it, your subordinates will all know about the white siege of the palace, and if you can't get it, the army will be in chaos.

Originally, most of the 15,000 Beijing camps were coerced.

Fortunately, the vast majority of the generals are devoted to the Emperor Taishang, and in line with the mentality that the law does not blame the public, since the voice of the restoration has the upper hand, then everyone will be wrong.

But if the momentum is reversed and the emperor has the upper hand, then these people will immediately scatter.

Rebellion is like this, the most important thing is that the soldiers are fast and hit the other party by surprise.

But if you don't win in one go, then the hammer deal is done.

If these soldiers in the Beijing camp don't get it right, they will in turn arrest the emperor as a traitor.

Then Amber Chen Shao saw that Shi Heng had made such a stupid mistake, and he didn't care about anything else, so he immediately took his family along the way he came, and ran home lifelessly.

Chen Shao felt that he was just an earl, and he couldn't make such a joke with the lives of the whole clan, even if Emperor Taishang successfully restored, he would not be able to rise to marquis, the wind direction was so bad, it was better to hurry home and save his life.

Shi Heng hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and ordered Liu Ju: "Quick, then Amber is going to tell the emperor and lead someone to hack him to death." ”

Liu Ju was stunned when he heard this: "Huh? Hacked to death by Amber? ”

Shi Heng threatened: "Quick, once Anber goes to tell the truth, all of us will be exterminated." ”

Rebellion is subject to tremendous psychological pressure, and people have long been stunned in this oppressive atmosphere.

What you can figure out under normal circumstances, you can't figure it out at this time.

Liu Ju was frightened by Shi Hengyi, and rushed forward with thousands of soldiers in a daze.

So the first battle after the mutiny was launched took place between Liu Ju and Chen Shao.

On one side is the Jingying Army led by Shi Heng, and on the other side is Sui Anbo Chen Shao, who is committed to Zhu Qizhen.

Sui Anbo Chen Shao's family members, where can they compare to the elite of the Beijing camp wearing heavy armor and holding a strong crossbow.

A cup of tea was less than enough, including Chen Shao, and everyone in Amber Mansion was shot into hedgehogs.

Chen Shao is innocent, and Shi Heng, Liu Ju and Chen Shao do not have any personal holidays. But it can't be helped, that's the way it is.

Chen Shao was in a hurry, only by letting the Jingying army get blood on their hands, everyone couldn't give up halfway.

Seeing this, Shi Heng breathed a sigh of relief: Now that everyone has been killed, the soldiers under him have to do whatever they want, so they can only continue to follow me forward.

Just when Shi Heng was about to command the army to pursue the emperor, Sun Bo suddenly looked in the direction of the palace in the west: "Marquis Wuqing, look, fireworks have been set off on the palace side. ”

Shi Heng looked back, good guy, it's really. What's going on here, is it so festive to rebel, it's the death knell and fireworks early in the morning.

"Forget it, no matter, divide the army into four teams, each team of 5,000 people, pass through the alley, and besiege the Wuding Marquis Mansion and Fengtian Dusi on all sides.

Sun Bo, you go to find the cannon, so far, don't care so much, just bombard it with artillery. ”

said that Zhu Qizhen and Empress Dowager Sun also noticed the fireworks in the imperial city.

Zhu Qizhen has been on the battlefield in the end, and he can see that this is some kind of signal.

Chen Xiang also exclaimed on the side: "Emperor, Queen Mother, this is the direction of the Imperial Horse Prison, I'm afraid that Tiance Wei is going to make trouble." ”

Zhu Qizhen immediately ordered: "Quickly, let the cabinet and the Ministry of Rites hurry up and prepare the prospectus and spread it everywhere." Ordered all unrelated soldiers in Beijing to return to the barracks and stand by. ”

Yu Shiyue, Zou Gan, Shang Shi, Peng Shi, and Shi Pu were all stunned for a while, and when they heard Zhu Qizhen's order, they all took up a pen to write the edict, and then stamped the jade seal, and the little eunuchs were protected by the brocade guards to pass the decree everywhere.

When the little eunuchs were gone, Yu Shiyue and the others reacted: Once Emperor Taishang is defeated, the edict written by himself and others for Emperor Taishang is evidence of his rebellion. The evidence is ironclad, and you can't rely on it.

Now Yu Shiyue and others can only pray to the ancestors and ancestors, and the restoration of Emperor Taishang is successful, and everyone will have a way to live.

At this time, Zhu Qizhen also found that something was wrong: among the ministers present, except for a few people such as Shi Pu and Kou Shen, the rest of the important ministers were basically from the Ministry of Rites.

The other important officials of the court, especially the emperor's cronies, were all gone.

There are quite a few middle- and lower-level officials, but they are just a few and are of little use.

Even Chen Xun, who was at the top of the cabinet, did not come.

So Zhu Qizhen asked Cao Jixiang and Liu Yongcheng: "Do we want to transfer the guards of the vassal king into the Forbidden City to strengthen the defense of each gate?" ”

Cao Jixiang immediately persuaded softly: "Emperor, no, if the situation is not right, these vassal kings' guards will turn against each other, then it will be over." ”

"So what do we do now? Now that things are getting more and more wrong, why are we just sitting here and waiting? ”

Cao Jixiang replied with a solemn face: "Emperor, as the saying goes, the thief captures the king first, and those who become big things are not informal." ”

Zhu Qizhen was stunned for a moment, and then nodded fiercely: "Go, send someone to announce my edict to the emperor's personal guards." If they refused to surrender, they ordered Shi Heng to launch a strong attack.

There are artillery in the military battle bureau and other places in the outer city, so Shi Heng can order someone to transfer it. ”

Cao Jixiang hurriedly sent his henchmen to deliver the message.

Not long after, Chengguo Gong Zhu Yi, Fengcheng Hou Li Xian, Cheng'an Hou Guo Sheng, Wu'an Hou Zheng Hong, Taining Hou Chen Jing, Gongshun Hou Wu Jin, Guangyi Bo Wu Cong and other nobles led their families to arrive one after another.

Seeing the nobles arrive with thousands of families, Zhu Qizhen felt a little relieved. At that moment, he ordered the nobles to lead these families to guard the Noon Gate and the Xihua Gate.

In this way, Cao Qin's 5,000 people, plus the 3,000 or so nobles who joined later, plus 3,000 or 4,000 brocade guards, there are more than 10,000 people guarding the Forbidden City, and I dare not say that I can sit back and relax, at least for a while, there will be no problems.

In order to relieve the tension, Zhu Qizhen walked around on the pedestals of the three major halls.

The ruins left by the three major halls that were burned down have been cleared away, and only this huge white marble pedestal remains.

Zhu Qizhen sighed while strolling around: "My younger brother, no wonder I have to use this white marble to build a palace, the wood can be burned, but the white marble can't be burned." ”

Chen Xiang flattered on the side: "The stone house is still a small family, far less magnificent than this Forbidden City." ”

Zhu Qizhen nodded, walked to the north side of the pedestal, and looked at most of the harem that was burned to the ground, and his heart was so painful that he couldn't speak. The Forbidden City, which he loved, was burned and demolished by his younger brother, and most of it was lost.

To rebuild these palaces, it would cost untold sumptuosies of wood alone.

These golden silk nanmu need to be mined in the depths of the mountains of Huguang and Guizhou, and then transported out with great effort, I don't know how much people's power will be spent and how many lives will be buried.

Suddenly, there was the sound of artillery in the east of the city. Hearing the sound of cannons, Zhu Qizhen's mood finally improved.

Zhu Qizhen paced again, and sighed for a long time before the little eunuch came back to report: "Emperor, the old palace has been emptied." The guards of the King of Yu had already retreated to the Marquis of Wuding's mansion, and set up bed crossbows and artillery in many alleys on all sides.

Marquis Wu launched an attack, but suffered heavy losses. Now the two sides have reached a stalemate. ”

Because in the edict of restoration just now, Zhu Qizhen had deposed his younger brother as the king of servants, so this clever little eunuch changed his words very positively.

thought that he would be favored by the emperor because of this, but Zhu Qizhen shouted angrily: "Where did the bed crossbow and artillery come from? ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Chen Xiang stood up and replied: "Emperor, the yamen of Fengtian Dusi was changed from Wang Zhen's family temple, Zhihua Temple.

At that time, Princess Qi bought all the houses and land on the north side of the Yamen of Fengtian Dusi and converted them into barracks and school yards, and also built a small arsenal.

So it's not surprising that there are bed crossbows and artillery there. ”

Zhu Qizhen was even more annoyed when he heard this: "What princess Qi, where is there any princess of Qi, they have all been abolished as rough servants of the Huanyi Bureau." ”

Chen Xiang retreated, lowering his head and not daring to speak again.

Empress Dowager Sun, Xing'an and others don't know anything about military affairs, and they don't feel anything when they hear the news.

Cao Jixiang was already panicked in his heart: "It's bad, I underestimated the emperor too much." It's all because I went to the south to supervise the army and came back late, so that I didn't know much about the emperor.

I thought that a gentleman who was born as a vassal king must be weak and deceitful.

But after thousands of calculations, I didn't count the emperor so shrewd. He even built a small arsenal in Fengtian Dusi, could it be that the emperor had already calculated that there would be a mutiny in the capital at that time?

If that's the case, it's really a last resort, and it's terrible! ’

Cao Jixiang retreated, but there was no way back.

Zhu Qizhen was also confused at this time, and he didn't know what to do next. Zhu Qizhen suddenly had a feeling: This Forbidden City is a prison, and there are obviously 10,000 people guarding the palace gates for him, but how can it be more like he is trapped inside.

You won't want to be embattled and overlord farewell concubine today, right?

Zhu Qizhen was thinking about it, when a little eunuch ran over and whispered a few words to Cao Jixiang.

Cao Jixiang's face suddenly changed greatly, and he reported to Zhu Qi Zhenyu: "Emperor, it's not good, Hao Yi, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor's palm seal, led thousands of people to attack the Xuanwu Gate. ”

(End of chapter)