Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 221 I am back, I, Zhu Daming, am back again! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
This is fake?

Why do you say that?

The Jiangning Tuan Ding who were clamoring to meet the Third Prince Zhu just now, including those who spoke the Jiangning dialect with an authentic Cantonese or Hakka accent, were all silent. Everyone looked at Wang Huaxing suspiciously together, as if they were Wait for him to produce evidence.

Wang Huaxing put on a big white face, pointed at the third prince Zhu, and shouted: "He is a fake! The real third prince Zhu is dead, and he died in Suzhou, and the whole world knows it! And at that time, the left deputy general of my Jiangning regiment trained In Suzhou, he is also in charge of guarding the third prince Zhu! Zuo Xietai, is Zuo Xietai here?"

"Yes, yes, General Wang Shen, are you looking for me?"

Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives.This general Wang Dashen seemed to have practiced summoning skills. As soon as he summoned, his immediate superior Zuo Yuanyang rushed out from the deputy general's office next to him with a group of soldiers armed with straight-slotted flintlock rifles. up.

"Deputy General Zuo," Wang Huaxing asked, "tell everyone quickly, did the Third Prince Zhu die of illness 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 answered without a trace of hesitation, obviously the truth.

"Then, then why did you report that you have captured the Third Prince Zhu?" Wang Huaxing became impatient, "That's deceitful!"

"It's not that I deceived the emperor," Zuo Yuanyang said with an innocent face, "That's Mafutai, Mufantai, and Jiangning's Duozhi Army and General E all together deceived the emperor. They were afraid that Suzhou would almost be Oboi. The matter of breaking with the third prince was questioned by the emperor, so he forcibly beat Wu Sangui's cheap son-in-law into the third prince, and because he was afraid that the matter would be revealed, he even bribed the doctor Le from Beijing to poison Wang Yongkang. It doesn't matter! General Wang Shen, you can't wrong me as an honest person!"

Hearing Zuo Yuanyang's words, Wang Huaxing was also speechless. What kind of thinking does this surname Zuo have?How did it get involved in wronging honest people?You don't have to be so honest, so what if you admit that you killed the third prince Zhu?Are you afraid that Lu Qingtian, the stern magistrate of Jiangning Mansion, will be arrested as a murderer?
Thinking of this, Wang Huaxing stomped his feet, pointed at 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, it does not prove that he is the real third prince Zhu!"

"General Wang!" Zuo Yuanyang suddenly interrupted Wang Huaxing, and said solemnly, "He is the third prince Zhu! It's absolutely true!"

"What? You, you." Wang Huaxing was stunned, "Lieutenant Zuo, what do you mean?"

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

"You, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"I'm not talking nonsense, I'm an honest person, and I never lie." Zuo Yuanyang said with an honest face, and while talking, he cupped his fists towards the Ming Xiaoling Tomb where Zhu Yuanzhang is buried in the north, "Last night Taizu Lord Hongwu gave me a dream, saying that he would send the Third Prince Ding of the Ming Dynasty to Nanjing to reopen the Ming Dynasty, and he would also let me be the Marquis of Ningnan in the Ming Dynasty to assist King Ding as the emperor. And the Taizu Lord also let me meet the Third Prince Ding His portrait is exactly the same as this one!"

This Zuo Yuanyang is really honest, he inherited Zuo Liangyu's Great Ming Ningnan Hou in a dream!
"Nonsense, you, you." Wang Huaxing was so angry that he couldn't speak clearly. He had never seen such an honest person who could lie in his life!
"General Wang, Zuo Hou is not talking nonsense, I also dreamed of Emperor Taizu!" Someone immediately stood up to prove to Zuo Yuanyang, "Emperor Taizu also asked me to assist the third prince Zhu!"

"And me, I also dreamed of the great grandfather!"

"I also dreamed that the great grandfather appeared! The great grandfather also asked me to assist Daming, and said that he would let me be a high official!"

"Emperor Taizu also told me so."

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

When the big guys had almost finished their quarrel, Zuo Yuanyang, the Southern Marquis of Ningnan in the Ming Dynasty, took a flintlock pistol made in Foshan, Guangdong, pointed at Wang Huaxing with a smile, and asked, "General Wang Cang, did you dream about Lord Hongwu last night? If I didn't dream, why don't I go down now and meet?"

"I, I, I'll think about it," Wang Huaxing looked at the pistol, and immediately fell into deep thought. After thinking for a while, he frowned and said, "I seem to be dreaming of an old man with a white beard wearing a yellow robe and a golden crown. , he spoke Huaixi dialect, I couldn't quite understand it, it seemed that he was asking me to follow Dingfan to fight the world, I thought it was King Dingnan, but I didn't expect it was King Ding of Ming Dynasty!"

"Okay, okay, just remember it." Zuo Yuanyang smiled and put away the pistol that can help others improve their memory, and then raised his hand and pointed at the third prince Zhu, "Wang Canrong, King Ding is there, hurry up and pay homage!"

Wang Huaxing had already figured it out completely, strode up to Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Cijiong, the third prince, lifted up his robe, knelt down, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty Wang Huaxing kowtowed to His Royal Highness Qiansui, King Ding of Ming Dynasty, and I wish to protect Qiansui to expel the Tartars and restore China. !"

The Third Prince Zhu saw Wang Huaxing kneel down to himself, the excitement in his heart, Emperor Ming Xian has stabilized!The good days of the 88th concubine of Sangong Sixth Court are coming soon!

Thinking of this, he laughed loudly: "Okay, with the help of Zhu Qing, my Daming will be able to thrive again hahaha, my Daming is back!"

Immediately there was "Tuo", no, it was a native of Jiangning who lived in the Qing camp and spoke a Lingnan accent and shouted: "The Taizu has manifested and Ming is back!"

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

These people, who were penniless regiment members yesterday, did not even have the establishment of a green battalion soldier today. They are already entrusted by Zhu Yuanzhang to restore the Ming Dynasty!

This is simply a miracle!

"Taizu has manifested, and Daming is back."

When the people in the Xiaolingwei camp were cheering for their counterattack in life, General Echu of Jiangning came galloping on horseback with the five hundred and eight banner soldiers below!Because he came urgently, Lu Sanhao, who was covered in injuries, had already been thrown at the Chaoyang Gate by him.
But even if Lu Sanhao, who had bad legs and feet, was thrown away, Echu was still a step late. The Xiaolingwei camp was already cheering about "Taizu's manifestation" and "Daming is back"!

This can't be done!
Didn't the emperor of the Qing Dynasty let him guard Jiangning in Erchu just to prevent the "Ming Taizu from appearing" and "Jiangning's rebellion"?

Now he manifests and rebels again, that is his general dereliction of duty!

Thinking of this, he realized that he had already arrived at the gate of Xiaolingwei camp, and he also found that the gate of Xiaolingwei was wide open, as if no one was guarding it!

This Xiaolingwei camp is actually an acropolis, the so-called Xiaolingwei. It is a guard that is responsible for watching the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Zhengyangmen in the inner city) is in the east.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the acropolis of Xiaolingwei was abandoned, but abandonment does not mean collapsed. In the original history, this acropolis was the location of the Jiangnan Camp where the Qing demons besieged Tianjing City.

And the Jiangning regiment training camp established by Lu Sanhao also chose to be in the acropolis of Xiaolingwei.

Seeing the gate of Xiaolingwei's Acropolis opened, E Chu felt that the opportunity was rare and those Jiangning regiments who were making trouble must have not had time to deploy their defenses, otherwise why didn't they even close the gate?
So rushing in now, maybe we can use cavalry to disperse them, so that the situation can still be controlled!

So, this Echu drew out his waist knife, pointed at the door opening and roared angrily: "Baqierlang, charge me!"

"Whoo!"

Although the "flag content" of the Eight Banners soldiers who followed him was not very high, they didn't take the training of the Jiangning Regiment too seriously. When they heard General Jiangning's order, they all raised their spears, howling and galloping their horses, and there was no team. The shape, just swarmed up in such a chaotic way.In 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 in the Ming Dynasty was not large. It was generally a rectangular castle with one gate on each side in the southeast and northwest. Entering the gate would be two streets intersecting with a cross. In that area, as long as the area around the school grounds is occupied, the entire Acropolis is almost under control.

And if someone in the Acropolis wants to make trouble, it goes without saying that it must be on the school grounds.

So the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed into the gate of the Acropolis rushed towards the school field along the street with their heads covered.But it's a little different from what they thought, at the entrance of the school grounds, the Jiangning regiments have set up defenses!
But it's not a great defense, that is, two rows of infantry formed a tight formation, and I don't know if there are 100 people together?Everyone is holding a "shotgun" with a knife stuck in the muzzle, which is very bright and bluffing.

It should be just to scare people, right?
These Eight Banners cavalrymen who rushed into the city were quite fierce, and they were not afraid of the bird spearmen at all. Not only did they not retreat, but they also charged with their long spears. Wearing uniforms and red scarves, Jiangning Tuan Ding rushed forward.

The distance between the two sides was rapidly approaching, but the two rows of thin regiment shotgunners were surprisingly calm, just standing there, holding their flintlock guns, aiming at the rapidly approaching enemy.

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

The flag soldiers galloping wildly didn't notice at all that as they advanced, someone had already drawn a thick white line on the street with lime to show the distance!
When the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed to the front stepped on the white line, two rows of large and small flames flashed from the muzzles of a hundred flintlock muskets that had been prepared a long time ago, and then there was "Boom!" "A burst of gunfire.

Hundreds of lead bullets were like a hurricane, sweeping the Eight Banners soldiers and horses who were galloping head-on!In a blink of an eye, all the seven or eight cavalrymen rushing in the front were overthrown, and they fell to the ground in a mess, and a few frightened war horses rushed around the street screaming and screaming, which made the rushing behind The cavalry also had to rein in to avoid the wounded, dead, and frightened horses on the ground.

And just as they slowed down or paused, the sharpshooters ambushing on the roofs on both sides of the street also fired their straight-slotted flintlock muskets.

This is a rifled gun!

Also loaded with a wood-bottomed conical bomb similar to the Minie bomb!

And it was still used by sharpshooters selected from the Guangdong Township Army. Although there were only a few dozen gunmen, the damage they caused was extremely astonishing. The soldier fell off his horse.

If you add the seven or eight cavalry who were overturned by the volley of musket guns before, this team of Eight Banners soldiers who rushed into the Acropolis suffered more than 40 casualties in a very short period of time!
The remaining Eight Banners soldiers were also frightened by this level of casualties, how dare they continue to charge inside?They all turned their horses and ran out, but the Eight Banners soldiers who had just entered the city gate behind did not know what happened, and continued to charge in. The two sides collided with each other and became a mess.

I don't know who, and I opened my throat and yelled.

"Zhu Hongwu's men are powerful!"

"Zhu Hongwu's shotgun is powerful."

"Run, Zhu Hongwu's shotgun soldiers are too fierce!"

"boom blah blah"

Before the shouts fell, there was another burst of gunshots!

E Chu, who stayed outside the city to command, was also shocked when he heard the movement.

What's going on?Zhu Yuanzhang really appeared?They also brought shotgun soldiers. The shotgun soldiers in the early Ming Dynasty?
But even so, Er Chu still didn't intend to "run away after seeing Zhu", but ordered loudly: "Fire the cannon! Put the mother cannon!"

The mother-child cannon came from the Francophone country in the West. Zhu Yuanzhang must have not had this weapon when he rebelled!
After hearing his order, several artillerymen of the Jiangning Banner Army rushed to fire their cannons, but they didn't dare to get close to the city wall. Instead, they set up their cannons at a distance of seventy or eighty steps away from the city wall.

Echu also saw the location of their cannons, and immediately became angry. What are you doing so far away?Is it right?

Just as he was about to reprimand, there was a burst of gunshots in his ears.

Then Er Chu saw a scene that made him unbelievable. Those artillerymen who were scrambling to set up the cannons all fell down in response. Has such lethality!

Could it be that those shotgun soldiers really got Zhu Yuanzhang's blessing?
At this moment, the shouts of killing in the Xiaoling Acropolis had already been remembered.

"Kill it. Emperor Taizu bless us!"

Ming Taizu bless. Ming Taizu really appeared?

Er Chu was almost frightened silly by the strange thoughts in his mind. Zhu Yuanzhang was about to show his spirit. How could he beat a little general Jiang Ning?You have to ask Qing Taizu to help, right?

But he was not the only one who was afraid, the Eight Banners soldiers under him also collapsed in fright, rushing out of the city gate like crazy.

The two house slaves beside Echu couldn't bear it any longer, and they immediately came to pull the reins of Echu's war horse and were about to flee.

But Er Chu was still trying to maintain his image, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing? What are you doing? I won't run away, I will fight with the surnamed Zhu!"

How could an old slave who had followed Echu for many years be willing to listen to him? He only dragged his horse to flee for his life and replied, "General, the person surnamed Zhu is not Zhu Chenggong, but Zhu Hongwu. Why? Could it be possible?"

Of course Zhu Hongwu couldn't beat him, so let's run away quickly, go back to the inner city and think of a way!
Er Chu didn't struggle any more, but let someone lead his horse and run away.

Because these Eight Banners soldiers had horses, the regiments led by "Zhu Yuanzhang" could not catch up with them.After a while, Er Chu and others fled outside Chaoyangmen Urn City with its gates closed!
"Open the door, the general is back"

The Eight Banners soldiers walking in the front were already roaring anxiously.

The Chaoyang Gate was closed for some reason, it was really a delay in escaping!
But the response to them from Chaoyangmen Tower was a few crisp gunshots!
"Boom."

Then the red-bottomed flag with the characters "Ming" and "Zhu" embroidered on both sides was erected on the top of the Chaoyangmen Urn City!
When Er Chu saw these two flags, his heart sank.

Zhu Yuanzhang has entered the city
How can this be good?

"General?"

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

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

As soon as Er Chu heard Lu Sanhao's voice, he understood what was going on, and was angry at that time: "Your surname is Lu, you are a traitor!"

"General," Lu Sanhao yelled while lying on the back of a crenel, "We have already taken the city of Nanjing, and the third prince Zhu will soon enter the city to become the emperor. If you still take care of those family members in the city of Nanjing , just give an order to let them withdraw to Beijing with you! Otherwise, when we break through the city, we will kill everyone, young and old, without leaving behind!"

(End of this chapter)