Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 460 "Eight Banners Soldiers" Attack Qufu (Please Subscribe!)

In order to save their lives and protect their families, the Confucius family discussed until dark.

In the end, they all felt that the Kong family should be safe and sound, only Kong Yuqi's face was gloomy.

Kong Yuqi was full of anger in his heart, and he wanted to leave the door with big strides.

It never occurred to him that he was the one who took the blame.

At this moment, the door of the ancestral hall was pushed open with a creak.

A servant stumbled in, his forehead and body were covered with sweat, and he looked terrified, as if he had been frightened.

"Holy... Sheng Gongye, the magistrate of Qufu County has an urgent visit!"

Generally speaking, the magistrate of Qufu County is basically a collateral descendant of the Kong family, and his status is low. Kong Yuqi frowned. What is he doing here?
However, since there is something urgent, let's call to see him.

The county magistrate of Qufu was a short and fat man, he knelt down on the ground as soon as he came in, his head full of big men: "Shenggong, it's not good, there are thousands of Eight Banners rebels outside Qufu city, they entered Qufu from the territory of Zou County in the south, and now they have all The city of Qufu County is under siege, let me open the city gate and offer the city."

"What?" Kong Yuqi panicked when he heard that, he was not afraid of officers and soldiers, but he was most afraid of rebels and bandits.

Moreover, he has now announced that he will surrender to Daming, so are the Eight Banners soldiers here to trouble him?
"Why did you report it now? Immediately organize the servants in the city to go up to the city wall and prepare to resist. We must not let this gang of rebellious soldiers enter the city, let alone let these soldiers tarnish my Confucian mansion, the place of saints!"

Kong Yuqi immediately yelled at the magistrate of Qufu.

The magistrate of Qufu nodded and crawled out the door backwards.

Kong Yuqi's face was gloomy, he had a bad premonition, as if something was wrong, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

When Kong Yuqi thought of his family soldiers in Yanshenggong Mansion, his heart felt a little more at ease.

Compared with the official government, his Yanshenggong Mansion is actually more like a shrunken kingdom.

In the mansion, there are three halls and six halls, which serve as the specific management and office of the Confucian family.

The three halls are all government offices, and the six halls that specifically help these government offices with their affairs are the six halls. They are said to be six halls, but in fact they are more like six departments. Completely form a small imperial court.

The Hall of Classics and Siyue is in charge of the rules and music for sacrificial rituals, and the Hall of Hundred Households is in charge of the guards of the Lin Temple.

The Guangou Office is in charge of collecting rented grain and rented silver, and consists of Guangou Yamen, Tuenguan, Zongjia, Xiaojia, etc., forming a set of subordinate staff institutions.

The second hall of Zhiyin and Zhangshu is in charge of seals and documents.

In addition, there are forty deacons in the "Sacred Temple" from the third rank to the ninth rank, and hundreds of subordinate members.

Not counting these personnel, the number of servants and tenants in the Confucian Mansion is extremely large, tens of thousands. The residents and tenants of the Confucian Mansion are also organized according to the Baojia system. I can't tell myself.

However, most of these large number of tenants are located outside Qufu, and far away water cannot save near fire.

Fortunately, there are more than [-] servants in Yanshenggong's mansion, and there are more than [-] servants in the mansion who can fight.

In addition, there are more than [-] soldiers in the Confucian Temple next to them. Together with the collateral descendants of the Confucian family, they can gather more than [-] people to guard the city.

Kong Yuqi immediately ordered that all the Confucian temples, Confucian mansion slaves and family soldiers be commanded by direct descendants of the Confucian family, and go up to the tower to guard the city.

He also ordered people to quickly notify Fu Xin, the deputy general of Yanzhou Town in charge of Qufu city defense, to let him guard the city well.

He himself led the servants of the two hundred mansions, and rushed to the tower in a hurry.

Kong Yuqi gave the order and thought at the same time: No, Shandong is now the front line, the Ming army is overwhelming, the Eight Banners soldiers should run north, and shouldn't come to trouble the Kong family, do you know that my Kong family has huge wealth?
Could it be that the Eight Banners soldiers want to make money again!
It's really possible that Kong Yuqi still doesn't know what the Eight Banners soldiers look like?

Kong Yuqi was thinking in his mind, he finally realized what was wrong!

This group of so-called Eight Banners Army, could it be the Ming Army?
Before he had time to think about it, Kong Yuqi's sedan chair had already arrived at the Zhengnan Gate of Qufu, where there were the most rebellious soldiers, and nearly one-third of the troops of the Confucian Mansion's family and the guards in the city were concentrated here, while the rest of the city gates were closed. It was defended by a small number of guards and servants of the Confucian Mansion.

It turned out that the so-called Eight Banners rebellious soldiers who appeared in the city of Qufu were actually about 5000 people from the Second Town of the Ming Guards led by Wang Xianwu. Except for not wearing the military uniform of the Ming Dynasty and wearing a fake braid, the weapons and equipment were completely unchanged.

When Kong Yuqi climbed to the top of the city, he realized that the number of "Eight Banners Rebels" outside the city of Qufu was astonishing. Why don't they surrender?
At this time, Kong Yuqi understood that if the "rebellious soldiers" outside were the Ming army, it must be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty who was unhappy with the Kong family, and surrendering would be a dead end.

If it was the Eight Banners soldiers, they must have come to kill him too!
The Kong family really hates both Ming and Qing now!

In order to protect his family, Kong Yuqi led a group of servants, Ding Haonu, to stand on the city wall, and shouted loudly: "Shoot them to death for me! Kill one person, and reward you ten taels of silver!"

Encouraged by rewarding silver, these servants really fired their guns.

However, these earth guns did little damage to the guards, and basically caused few casualties.

On the side of the guards, under the order of Wang Xianwu, they also started firing artillery.

In order to prevent the Kong family from staunch resistance, the second town of the Guards brought ten rifled guns.

boom!boom!boom!
With the loud bang of the Ming artillery, the walls of Qufu City immediately collapsed.

Then, the infantry of the Guards rushed over immediately.

"The city wall has collapsed!"

Some Xiangyong family members shouted in panic because of this, while some Xiangyong family members who had never seen the big scene ran away directly.

Seeing this, Kong Yuqi shouted anxiously: "Come back! Come back to me!"

For a moment, after Kong Yuqi finished shouting, he hurriedly called out to Kong Yuxun, his clan brother beside him: "My dear brother, you take the servants of your family to plug the gap! Otherwise, if these rebels enter the city, we will be finished!"

"Yes!"

Kong Yuxun hastily brought hundreds of family members here, but at this time, the guards had already been waiting outside for a long time.

Seeing this, the commander of the Rocket Battalion of the Guards shouted, "Set up the rockets! As soon as these Kong family servants arrive, launch the rockets!"

"Yes!"

As a result, a frame of black whirlwind rockets was set up, and when the servants of the Kong family came out of the gap with firearms and bows and arrows, countless rockets rushed in, and the gap was instantly melted Sea of ​​fire!
The servants of the Kong family were immediately engulfed in the sea of ​​flames, and even Kong Yuxun himself screamed on the ground covered in flames.

Seeing this, Kong Yuqi was stunned, and finally realized the reality. With such a powerful firearm, this group of people is definitely the Ming army!
After knowing the truth, he had no choice but to flee back to the Confucian mansion in a hurry!

(End of this chapter)