The night has come to the sub-hour

There are far fewer people celebrating in the streets, and the same is true for the small traders and vendors, who will continue tomorrow after all. If you sleep late, tomorrow's livelihood will be delayed.

But for dignitaries and wealthy families, the night is still long.

Flower boat poetry meeting on the Qinhuai River. The raindrop on the platform of the smoke willow tower is the real good place.

Between the warblers and the swallows, by the railing on the second floor of the Wanqing Building, a Yanji was disheveled, holding the face of her lover tonight, ready to present a "leather cup".

"Hmm, what's wrong?" the lover seemed to be stunned when he saw the person in his arms, and couldn't help but wonder.

Yan Ji came back to her senses, pointed to a courtyard wall across the street downstairs and said, "Slave, the slave family seems to have seen a few black-clothed people climb into the courtyard." ”

"The man in black, the thief?" the lover turned his head and followed Yan Ji's gaze.

The location of the Wanqing Building is a bit strange, located behind the Huitong Hall (the Huitong Hall is a place set up by the imperial court to receive foreign guests from all over the world, equivalent to the current State Guesthouse), not far from the Guozijian.

The lover carefully identified it and found that according to Yan Ji, the thief should have entered the guild hall.

"You're wrong... The lover said, "There is no one in this hall, what are the thieves doing there?"

The hall symbolizes the face of the Ming Dynasty in front of the Yi people, covering an extremely wide area, and magnificent. However, it is not yet a few days, and I have not heard of any envoys from any country entering Beijing to pay tribute, so it is dark in this hall at night, and there is not a single ghost. The thief can't steal anything if he goes, it's completely unnecessary.

"Perhaps. "Yan Ji is not sure, the light is not good, and it is not impossible that she is wrong. Cleaning up the mood, a skilled smile appeared on his face again, and Jiao Didi leaned on the arms of the two: "Ah~, the slave family is drunk, son, you and the slave family should rest in peace earlier~"

"Hahaha. Childe laughed a few times, got up and competed, and hugged Yan Ji in his arms: "Childe, I'll 。。。。。。 ”

"Boom!"

A loud bang rang out from the hall. Bring up a wave and blow in all directions.

"Oops" was stunned, and Yan Ji fell to the ground with a "poof"!

"Yes... Huitong Hall... "Childe is already scared stupid, and the entire Wanqing Building and the people around him are all the same.

The city of Nanjing seemed to be trembling by this loud noise, and after a moment of silence, flames rose into the sky!

"Ah!!!h

"Help!!"

"Come on!"

"Walk the water, walk the water!"

The panicked cries, the blind running, the remaining pedestrians on the street, and the drunken gentry and gentry all turned into a swarm of headless flies at this moment, running around, but I don't know when the hasty shouts changed.

"Help!!"

"The White Lotus Sect is here!"

"Mother Buddha descends the !! of heavenly fire"

"The Imperial City Has Been Breached!!"

In fact, as long as people calm down a little, they will find that the fire caused by the explosion actually only happened in the Tongtong Pavilion and had no effect on them. If they could look at the palace again, they would find that in fact, the gates of the imperial city were still closed, as in the past, where there were any rebels.

It's a pity that in the midst of chaos, chaos is the only truth.

"It's a good idea to take advantage of the chaos to enter the city and use the excuse to escort you. Zhu Yuanzhang coldly overlooked the chaos in Nanjing: "Lan Yu, I'm waiting for you!"

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What happened inside the city had nothing to do with the soldiers guarding the gates, and their only task was to isolate the inside and outside.

Zhengyang Gate, the south gate of the capital city of Nanjing. It is on a central axis with the Hongwu Gate, Chengtian Gate, Fengtian Gate and so on of the Ming Imperial City, and it is a dangerous place to hold the Imperial City.

On the wall, Wu Qingsheng gestured with the steel knife in his hand and scolded his brothers loudly: "All panic." Let's just stay on this wall honestly, can the fire still pick up our hair?"

"Nope. Don't you have to fight the fire?" A small soldier next to him asked weakly, and the answer was a heavy shudder and a heavy kick on the buttocks: "You fucking stupid, save a fart, the city is in chaos like this, it's an explosion and a fire, are we going in to find death? ”

Before Wu Qingsheng could scold, a small soldier ran up the stone steps to the city: "Boss, there is a group of eunuchs below who want to see you, saying that they have brought the emperor's will." ”

"What?!" Wu Qingsheng grinned, and asked with some suspicion: "At this time, what will the emperor give me to watch the door?"

"Small. Small.. "How can Xiao Bing have the brain to answer Wu Qingsheng's question.

"Where is Wu Qingsheng, the captain of Zhengyang Gate, come and answer the order!" The domineering attitude, the clothes of the eunuchs in the inner palace, and the bright yellow silk in his hand, an old eunuch led forty or fifty middle-aged eunuchs to the city, and looked at Wu Qingsheng steadily.

"Why is your voice so rough?" A trace of suspicion flashed in his heart, but he still stepped forward in three steps and two steps, kowtowed and shouted: "Wu Qingsheng, the last general of Zhengyang Gate, will take the order." ”

The old eunuch unfolded the holy decree in his hand and read: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: The White Lotus Sect in the city is making trouble, and every soldier from Zhengyangmen will quickly enter the city to help me quell the chaos and disperse the people." Chin this. ”

After listening to the holy decree, Wu Qingsheng was silent.

In the early years, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to the people in various coastal areas to resist the Japanese, and it was written that "Fengtian carries the emperor, Zhao said, tell the people to prepare knives, these guys are coming, kill them." Chin this. ”

Although this kind of holy decree has been used less over the years, it is not impossible for the emperor to write it again in order to take care of them semi-literate. What really puzzled Wu Qingsheng was the shoes of the old eunuch in front of him!

Iron ruler combat boots, lieutenant generals are qualified to wear them! In the strict orders of the saints, yin and yang people are not qualified to wear boots, so the person in front of him...

Wu Qingsheng peeked at it, except for the old "eunuch" in front of him, the eunuchs behind him were all big-shouldered and round-waisted, but they deliberately bent their bodies, looking very sneaky. Moreover, if it is just a decree, how can so many eunuchs be used?

Thinking together, I saw more and more doubts in my eyes.

"Wu Qingsheng... Why don't you accept the order?"

Wu Qingsheng raised his head suddenly, his cold gaze, and the faintly visible stubble, these people are definitely not eunuchs!

"What should I do!! Wu Qingsheng only felt a cool breeze coming from behind his spine.

"Wu Qingsheng... Another urging, faintly impatient: "Why don't you take the order quickly? Do you want to rebel?!"

Wu Qingsheng hurriedly agreed: "The last general will receive the order, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

Standing up to take the holy decree in the eunuch's hand, Wu Qingsheng pretended to check it, and his mind changed sharply.

Although others are rough, they are not stupid.

The other party falsely preached the holy decree, and the purpose must be to open the city gate and do bad things. Since you have this kind of guts, you must be ready to take it by accident.

Looking around, Wu Qingsheng gritted his teeth violently and looked around: "The brothers have heard it... Take all the guys, come with me!"

"Yes!" the soldiers don't have so many twists and turns, what the boss says, they just listen to.

"Boss, are you all leaving?" asked a fire captain in a low voice.

"Let's go!" Wu Qingsheng took the lead and walked towards the stone steps.

In a moment, only a group of "eunuchs" remained in the city.

"Uncle Wang, let's... One of them asked the leading "eunuch".

In a quarter of an hour, I quickly opened the city gate and welcomed the grandfather's soldiers and horses into the city. In a sonorous and powerful voice, Wang Fang said as he took out a thousand miles of fire from his arms.

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"Quick, quick!" Wu Qingsheng led his brothers to run all the way, with a faint hideous look on his face.

"Head... Call... Head.. A small soldier next to him panted: "Didn't the emperor let us quell the chaos, let's... Where are we going?"

The city is full of chaotic people, and what they should do is to go directly to the crowd and kick them to disperse the people. It may not be useful, but you can't run through the streets and alleys like you are now.

"Jinyiwei!" Wu Qingsheng shouted, there was no way, the surroundings were too noisy, and if it wasn't loud, it couldn't be heard at all.

"Chief, what are you doing in Jinyiwei?" asked another soldier.

Wu Qingsheng replied loudly: "Too much Lao Tzu is too lazy to say. Those eunuchs just now were fake! We're going to transfer the brocade guards to rescue the soldiers!"

"Huh?!" there was an uproar.

"Fake? Why?"

"How do you see that?"

"Then why are we still leaving?"

"Just the three hundred of us who are watching the gate, if it weren't for Lao Tzu's alertness, if it was demolished just now, none of them would have survived." Wu Qingsheng thought to himself, but he didn't bother to explain, he just stepped up his steps. Now in this city, only Jinyiwei is relatively close. It only makes sense to report it quickly.

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The thirteen gates of the Forbidden City are closed, whether it is Hongwu Gate, Dongzhi Gate, or Xi'an Gate, all of them are heavily guarded, and everyone is ready for battle. Don't say that even 10,000 enemies are incapable of breaking through any of them.

Not to mention ...

Camp of the Divine Machine

"Master Bing, Liang Guogong has led the entire 3,000 battalions and 10,000 iron cavalry to the direction of Hongwumen!"

"How long?"

"It's been half an hour!"

"Hmmm... "Xinguo Gongtang and secretly calculated in his heart: 'Half an hour, 10,000 cavalry, the distance between the two places...

It's about half an hour before it arrives...

And then count the infantry on my side... ’

"The generals will obey!"

"The last general" The long sword in the armor clanged, and everyone stood solemnly.

"Rectify the army formation, and after a quarter of an hour, the whole army will go straight to Hongwumen!"

"Order!"

Looking at the full moon in the sky, Tang He sighed: "Your Majesty, they are all watching, only I, Tang He, stand up, do you want to believe me... ”

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Running water does not rot.

With the king in his hand, a thousand miles of fire exploded in the sky.

A flower boat on Xuanwu Lake

"It's time, jump!" ordered.

A thousand big men, covered with black gauze. With a single knife on their backs and wearing fish skin rubber clothes, they all jumped into the icy lake, and in an instant, the lake fell into calm again.

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The lobby of the Fusi Mansion in Beizhen.

Dressed in a flying fish brocade robe, Jiang Huan stood with his hands crossed and his eyes widened, listening to the noise outside the courtyard wall and the sharp sounds in the sky.

In front of him, the pacification envoys, thousands of households, hundreds of households, and general banners stood left and right, with serious expressions. On the school field outside the hall, there are 10,000 Jinyi guards in Nanjing City, except for 6,000 secret agents and spies who cannot be seen in the bright field, and the remaining 4,000 Jinyi captains and wrestlers have solemn expressions and brave expressions. Jinyiwei, formerly known as the Yiluan Division and the Pro-Army Governor's Mansion, was the emperor's pro-army at the beginning, and it was also the elite of the army, but now it is just a guy who eats again.

"Report~~~" At the door of the lobby, a brocade wrestler rushed to and knelt in front of Jiang Huan: "Lord Bing, there are three hundred soldiers from outside the Yafang, and the leader claims to be the captain of Zhengyangmen, saying that he has something important to see." ”

His eyes still didn't open, and his tone was indifferent with some impatience: "Tell him... Lao Tzu knows everything, just let him find a place to hide by himself. Lao Tzu didn't have time to see him. ”

"Yes!"

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Looking at the brocade wrestler in front of him, Wu Qingsheng's eyes were about to pop out, and he couldn't care about the humility of the upper and lower levels, and grabbed the other party's collar: "What the hell are you kidding, the city gate is almost gone, he asked Lao Tzu to find a place to hide?!"

"It's not that it's almost gone, it's gone. A hand knife slashed heavily on Wu Qingsheng's wrist, and while straightening his collar, Jinyi Lux said: "I will pass on whatever our adults say, my words have been brought, and it is up to you whether you listen or not." ”

"Lao Tzu wants to see your commander!" Wu Qingsheng lowered his head and was about to break into the yamen, but was hugged by a group of soldiers behind him: "Boss, you can't break in, something will happen!"

"Heh, it's been all these years, and it's the first time I've seen someone dare to rush at our Jinyi Wei Zhenfu Division. Jinyi's pro-army sneered: "Chong Chong Chong, you have to be able to come out alive Lao Tzu with your surname!"

"Enter your mother!" Wu Qingsheng is really anxious, his brothers are responsible for guarding Zhengyang Gate, but now they have been "tricked" out with a holy decree, if they can transfer out the brocade guard, it will be fine, if they can't be transferred, they don't need to turn back everyone's heads. Of course, he could explain that he "believed" in the divine decree before giving the order, but what if the higher authorities did not listen to it? More than 300 lives, is it a lot?

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Again led his three hundred brothers back to Zhengyangmen, Wu Qingsheng was a little silent. When he can live, he wants to live, seek advantage and avoid harm, and it is a kind of human nature as an animal. But when the road in front of him was blocked, he was willing to fight with the knife in his hand and give it a try.

Zhengyangmen was lost in his own hands, and he had no foundation on it. Originally, I thought that I would be able to pass the customs smoothly by holding on to the back and forth, and letting the Jinyi Guard send some masters to recapture the city gate together, but I didn't expect that I and the others didn't even enter the gate of the Yamen of the Zhenfu Division.

For today's plan, only by returning to the Zhengyang Gate and returning the city gate more, can there be an explanation to the top afterwards.

Wu Qingsheng had already told his brothers these truths on the way back, and now he is too lazy to repeat them, and his mother-in-law is easy to lose morale if he is verbose.

The Zhengyang Gate has been opened, and the city gate hole has become an outlet. Standing in the whining wind, the three hundred soldiers followed the example of the boss Wu Qingsheng, and wrapped the long knife in their hands slowly, tightly, and around their hands.

"Killing one is enough, killing two earns one. Those who run away can't live, and they will be spared when they see blood. After a roar, Wu Qingsheng stepped up the steps first: "Follow Lao Tzu!"

"Kill!" it was the roar of three hundred.

"Climb the steps and fight up, you dare to hand over your head, Lao Tzu still doesn't dare to cut it?" On the city wall, at the end of the steps, Wang Fang was still wearing the eunuch uniform, but the holy decree in his hand had been replaced by a steel knife.

I've already noticed the movement under the city, and now it's just a matter of waiting for the rabbit.

while

The powerful and heavy knife was blocked by Wu Qingsheng, who was the first to show his head.

At the head of the city, the murderous atmosphere is pervasive.