Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 288 The enemy is in the East Palace!The enemy is in Mochou Lake! (Seeking a monthly pass, asking for a subscription)

"Jinzhong? How did you cross the river?"

When Shang Shuying asked this question, she already knew something was wrong.

Because she saw behind Liu Jinzhong standing on the street riding a horse, there was a brigade of infantry wearing cloth armor, hats, and armed with spears, simple knives, shotguns and bows-this is ready to go to the battlefield!
Moreover, the army led by Liu Jinzhong was quite large, filling the entire street, spreading all the way to the Jinchuan Gate at the top of the street. The number was at least several thousand!Of course, so many people could not be the guards protecting Liu Jinzhong, the northern king, but the army who followed Liu Beiwang to Nanjing to kill people!
Then the question arises. Who are they going to kill with Liu Jinzhong?
Kill the person on the side of the third prince Zhu?
Liu Jinzhong should be against the third prince Zhu, at least Shang Shuying thinks so.But the problem is that Shang Shuying doesn't know about Liu Jinzhong crossing the river!
The original plan was not like this, and Geng Jingzhong didn't seem to have given him an order to cross the river.What made Shang Shuying even more suspicious was that Jiang Sheng, the commander of the navy on the Yangtze River, was a member of Zheng Jing, and he was with Chen Yonghua in Nanjing, so it was impossible for him to be bought by Geng Jingzhong.
If Jiang Sheng wanted to stop him, Liu Jinzhong's [-] elite soldiers stationed in Jiangbei would not be able to cross the river without the consent of the third prince Zhu (theoretically, Lu Sanhao and Geng Jingzhong represented the third prince Zhu).

Before Shang Shuying was able to bring 5000 people across the river into Nanjing, it was approved by Geng Jingzhong and Lu Sanhao.

But as far as Shang Shuying knew, neither Geng Jingzhong nor Lu Sanhao approved Liu Jinzhong to lead five thousand soldiers across the river. Then how did he cross the river?How did you get into the city again?The Jinchuan Gate, Shence Gate, and Yifeng Gate in the north of Nanjing are all guarded by Ying Tiantuan. Without Lu Sanhao's order, how could Liu Jinzhong's people get in?
Could it be that Liu Jinzhong is the enemy of Geng and Shang?
Thinking of this, Shang Shuying shuddered, and looked at her husband in surprise.

Liu Jinzhong smiled wryly and said, "Shuying, I'm the king of the north, do you think I, the king of the north, can rebel with the king of the east, Geng Jingzhong?"

Shang Shuying's heart sank, her almond eyes widened, and she glared at Liu Jinzhong angrily: "Jinzhong, the Eastern King is kind to you!"

"The late emperor also showed me kindness!" Liu Jinzhong said sternly, "If the late emperor hadn't promoted me from the ranks, how could I, Liu Jinzhong, have had such a good life in the past few decades? As for Dong Wang's promotion, as long as Dong Wang doesn't rebel, I will definitely support Dong Wang. But if he wants to rebel against the third prince, then I can't follow him as a traitor!"

In fact, as long as the king or Da Zhongtang is in a normal mind and can be independent, he will not follow the Eastern King Geng Jingzhong to oppose the third prince Zhu.

Because only the third prince Zhu, the Xu Jun, stays on the throne, the princes and Da Zhongtang below can live comfortably!It doesn’t matter if you change Geng Jingzhong or Wu Sangui, even if Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan go to be emperors, the princes below will not be happy-this is not just replacing the virtual ruler with the real ruler, but also changing with the ruthless real ruler, sooner or later they will be killed!
In fact, Shang Shuying also understands this truth.She also didn't want to bring down the third prince Zhu, but she had an indissoluble grudge with Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan.

When Li Zhongshan took her to fight Huaixi last time, he had already shown some murderous intentions.But she can also try to curry favor and flatter the other party to defuse the other party's killing intent.

But in a short time, after Li Fuchen took down Anqing and Jiujiang, this murderous Lu Bu will arrive in Nanjing!That's a ruthless person who has really experienced several rounds of corpses and blood. How could he spare her?

Moreover, once Li Fuchen enters Beijing, the strength of the Li family in Nanjing will at least double. In addition to the "Three Zhongtang Alliance", even Geng Jingzhong will have to bow his head at that time, let alone Liu Jinzhong, the northern king who is not strong enough?

At that time, Shang Shuying might die of illness by herself.
Seeing that Shang Shuying didn't speak, Liu Jinzhong smiled and said: "If I don't rebel with him, I will be the King of the North. If I succeed in rebelling with him, I will still be the King of the North. If the rebellion is not successful, I will be ruined. What do you think I am trying to do? Shuying, don't make trouble with Geng Jingzhong, lead the way and lead the husband to arrest Geng Jingzhong! Once Geng Jingzhong is caught, you will be the first to put down the chaos!"

"Jinzhong!" Shang Shuying's face darkened, "Who do you think I am? How could I do such an ungrateful thing? I don't want this kind of first credit!"

Shang Shuying is not stupid, of course she knows that the first contribution to quelling the chaos cannot be her family's obvious tricks to trap people like Geng Jingzhong, Yue Le, Li Zhifang, and Fan Chengmo!
How could she have a share in this first work?

"Do you want to meet your husband in battle?" Seeing Shang Shuying's stubbornness, Liu Jinzhong's face darkened, and he looked a little scary.It's not that he really wants monk Shuying to turn his back on him, but that he has to make a statement!He has a large group of subordinates, and a large family!
Shang Shuying shook her head, sighed and said: "You are my husband, I am your wife, husband is the guide of wife, how can I lead soldiers to fight with you? Besides, my family has no deep hatred with the third prince Zhu, but the hatred with Nan Wang and Ying Wang's family is difficult to resolve."

Liu Jinzhong smiled: "Don't worry. As long as you don't care about this matter, King Nan and King Ying won't care!"

What he said made sense, it wasn't Li Zhongshan's grandfathers who were killed, what did he care about? If he really cared, he would have slaughtered Shang Shuying last time.

"Really?" Shang Shuying was still a little worried, with a worried look on her face, "Of course I can let go of the revenge of killing my father. I'm afraid that the King of England won't believe me. I was almost executed by him when he conquered Huaixi last time!"

Seeing that Shang Shuying's attitude was wavering, Liu Jinzhong hurriedly comforted her and said, "Yes, yes, you can let go of the mere revenge of killing your father, and of course that Li Fuchen's godfather will be killed by Azige? He and Azige will get better later on!"

It doesn't matter if you have more fathers
Shang Shuying shook her head: "Jinzhong, I don't believe you when you say this, His Royal Highness the King of England has to tell me personally!"

"That's easy," Liu Jinzhong said with a smile, "King Ying is in Mochou Lake. You first tell me where King Dong is. We will capture Dong Wang, and then we will go to see King Ying together, and settle our suspicions with him."

Shang Shuying sighed and said: "East King is sitting in the East King's Mansion. But I won't go to the East King's Mansion with you. I'd better go to Mochou Lake to find King Ying."

"That's fine," Liu Jinzhong nodded, "You have an old relationship with King Ying, talk to him, and the grievances will definitely be resolved."

Shang Shuying glanced around and asked, "Who wants to go with me to Mochou Lake to meet King Ying?"

Few people are really willing to follow Shang Shuying, that is, some slaves who married her to Duke Xushun's mansion still follow her loyally, and none of the generals from Duke Xushun's mansion is willing to follow her now.

Obviously, these people have been "digested" by Liu Jinzhong
Shang Shuying let out a breath, didn't say anything, just led dozens of soldiers and rode away towards Mochou Lake.

And Liu Jinzhong watched his wife leave, turned his head to look at the thousands of Liu Jiajun left by Shang Shuying, and suddenly opened his throat and shouted: "I am ordered to attack Geng Jingzhong, would you like to kill the thieves with me?"

"Wish to follow the king!"

Everyone cheers!

The backbone of Liu Jinzhong's department is either from the Yongwei Camp or from the Xushun Duke's Mansion. The former has a large number of people and belongs to the mainstream.But even the people from Duke Xushun's mansion are unwilling to follow Geng Jingzhong to rebel against Ming Dynasty. They have no enmity with Third Prince Zhu, Li Fuchen, and Li Zhongshan, so why bother serving as cannon fodder for Geng Jingzhong?

Seeing that everyone was willing to follow him, Liu Jinzhong became more confident, and shouted loudly: "The enemy is marching towards the East Palace!"

"The enemy is in the East Palace!"

Everyone shouted together, and then the whole army turned around and followed Liu Jinzhong towards the Bei'an Gate of the Imperial City of Nanjing!

Shang Shuying did not tell the truth to Liu Jinzhong, Geng Jingzhong is not in the East Palace, in fact Shang Shuying does not know Geng Jingzhong's real location.Because Geng Jingzhong led [-] elite soldiers to support Li Zhifang who was blocked in Changfu Street shortly after Shang Shuying led the team to leave Xi'an Gate.

At the same time that Liu Jinzhong led his troops to attack Bei'anmen, the area around Changfu Street was already filled with corpses and blood!

Because the rebels along this route were personally commanded by Geng Jingzhong, and they were so numerous that they couldn't afford to lose—if they were to lose, then why would the rebels elsewhere fight?Run now!

Therefore, the gains and losses of Changfu Street can directly determine the outcome of the Nanjing Change!
Therefore, the most intense fighting in the entire Nanjing Change was the area around the Chang's Mansion on Changfu Street.

On the one hand, Geng Jingzhong couldn't afford to lose, and on the other hand, relying on his strong army, he mobilized more than 1 people to attack a long street and a large mansion in an attempt to win quickly.So as soon as he came up, he used his strength and sent troops to attack wave after wave.I just want to unplug this point as soon as possible, and then continue to march along Changfu Street to the most prosperous area in Nanjing!
And Chang Wei is also defending with all his might!The strength of his men was not large at the beginning, only more than 2000 people.It seems that they can only defend to the death with a not very strong mansion!

But after a short while of fighting, those "National People" who were forced to hide in the Chang's mansion by the fire lit by the Geng's rebels began to "join the army" and joined the Chang's army to fight against Geng Jingzhong's people.

Their number is not too many, only two thousand.There were originally more than 2000 people under Chang Wei's command, but now it has become more than 4000, and the density of troops has increased immediately.

Moreover, this group of Nanjing people and national scholars had participated in the previous Nanjing Defense War. Although they had not participated in any fierce battles, they had smelled the smoke of gunpowder for more than half a year after all, and participated in quite strict military training during the siege of Nanjing.

In addition, their homeland has just been set on fire by Geng's rebels, and their eyes are red, so their morale is extremely high!
After the bloody battle for almost a morning, the corpses around the Chang family's mansion were piled up, and the walls were soaked in blood, and they were all dyed red.But this wall is also in jeopardy!This circle of walls can't be compared with the walls of Prince Ding's Mansion, it is much thinner and lower, and it has been in disrepair for a long time.The brick walls are full of gaps left by the years, large and small.The shortest part can be turned over with a hand.Near several large gaps, fierce hand-to-hand combat also took place. The corpses of soldiers from both sides overlapped and died together!
Chang Wei, who always showed off his literati appearance, now showed his true colors. The cloth-faced iron armor on his body was soaked in human blood—it was all the blood of Geng Jun who was beheaded by him himself!

I saw him standing in front of a group of blood-soaked Chang family disciples leaning on a long horizontally sharpened sword, cheering them up loudly, he really looked like a mighty fighter.

A bit of the legacy of his ancestor Chang Yuchun!
At this time, a national soldier with three long beards, fair skin, looked like a scholar, wearing a red robe, and wearing a gun helmet that he didn't know where he picked up on his head, rushed over with two big knives, and shouted: "Brother Wei, our reinforcements have arrived!"

"Reinforcement?" Chang Wei took a deep breath and asked loudly, "His Royal Highness's soldiers?"

"No," the "robber scholar" with two big knives smiled, and said proudly, "It's the national scholars and people from Nanjing who came to the rescue, thousands of people came!"

Chang Wei picked up the long sword, smiled and said to the left and right: "National soldiers, Chinese people are good. We are also national soldiers, Chinese people, call me a thousand soldiers, and go out with me to meet the reinforcements!"

"Yes!"

"Why did you get kicked out? You've been beaten in, so why can't you stand up?"

Shang Zhixin held up the binoculars, with a livid face, staring blankly at the palace in front of him.

He brought a few cannons in red to join the battle of Prince Ding's Mansion!

He originally thought that as long as he pushed the red-clothed cannon up and blasted a gap, and then the infantry swarmed in, the Prince Ding's Mansion should be taken down.

But the wall was blown open a little bit. Although the gap was not big, only about ten steps wide, and it was only half collapsed, the attacking troops could still climb in relatively easily.

So Yue Le immediately organized hundreds of daredevils to charge. They rushed in too!For a time, Shang Zhixin danced happily, thinking that victory was in sight.

But who knew that there was an ambush by the Ming army in that gap, and the daredevils who rushed in were immediately bombarded by intensive flintlock fire and a cannon, and suffered heavy casualties immediately, and then they were rushed out by a charge.
Seeing the heavy casualties, the daredevils were knocked down by lead bullets shot from behind while running.
Geng Jingzhong put down the binoculars, feeling a little shuddering.

The fighting power of the Dingwangfu defenders is too strong, and the number seems to be large, at least three or four thousand, and equipped with a large number of firearms, which is not the firepower that the original Dingwangfu guards could have.

Is it difficult for the other party to be prepared?

Is it difficult for someone to set up a bureau in Nanjing?

He suddenly trembled and listened attentively, as if he heard a familiar voice saying to him: "Brother, we have been fooled! Liu Jinzhong has sold us to the third prince Zhu and Wang Datou long ago. They set a trap together to trap us and the strength of the East King. Now Liu Jinzhong has brought an army of [-] to the imperial city."

Shang Zhixin turned around suddenly, and found that there was really someone talking to him beside him. That person was none other than his sister Shang Shuying.

"Shuying. What's going on? What you said just now" Shang Zhixin became even more nervous, and his voice trembled a little.

Tears flickered in Shang Shuying's eyes, and she tried her best to nod her head: "Brother, our ungrateful Liu Jinzhong has suffered a lot!"

"Is what you just said true?" Shang Zhixin seemed to have been hit hard on the head, unable to think for a while.

Shang Shuying nodded heavily.

"This, what should I do?" Shang Zhixin's head was dizzy, and he was already at a loss.

Liu Jinzhong was regarded as a confidant by that idiot Geng Jingzhong, and Liu Jinzhong knew nothing about Geng Jingzhong.If Liu Jinzhong wanted to betray Geng Jingzhong, the Third Prince Zhu, Li Zhongshan, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua would all be sorry for their bad conscience if they didn't set up a chain to trap Geng Jingzhong.

And the trap carefully designed by Li Zhongshan, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua.
"Brother," Shang Shuying waved at the soldiers around Shang Zhixin, signaling them to stay aside, and then leaned closer to Shang Zhixin, whispering, "Liu Jinzhong has already entered the city. But he still wants to pull me to defect, so I set out the whereabouts of the third prince Zhu, Li Zhongshan and others. As long as we destroy them, we can win the game and repay King Geng's great kindness!"

"Then, where are they?" Shang Zhixin asked.

"In Mochou Lake," Shang Shuying said, "They are all in Mochou Lake! The enemy is in Mochou Lake!"

In fact, Liu Jinzhong didn't have monk Shuying to say that the third prince Zhu was in Mochou Lake. This was made up by Shang Shuying herself.Since Li Zhongshan and the others knew that Geng Jingzhong was going to rebel, they would definitely remove Third Prince Zhu from Prince Ding's Mansion. Where could he be moved?

Shang Shuying also knew that the garden next to Mochou Lake was also heavily guarded, and Mochou Lake was located in the Western Outer City, far away from the imperial city, so it was not easily affected by the flames of war. If Li Zhongshan and the others had to find a safe place for Third Prince Zhu, it must be Mochou Lake.

"Mochou Lake" Shang Zhixin thought for a while, "But how do we get there?"

"I have a solution!" Shang Shuying said, "I have the token of the Northern King. Since Liu Jinzhong voted for the Third Prince Zhu, the Northern King's Order must still be effective. In addition, our military uniforms are the same as those of the Ming army, except that the helmets are wrapped with black cloth to show the difference. We only need to remove the black cloth and get the token again. Then we declare that we will go to Mochou Lake under the Northern King's order to escort us. The soldiers and checkpoints we meet along the way will definitely not be able to stop us!"

"This." Shang Zhixin was still thinking about it, when he suddenly and vaguely heard the shouts of "Bao Daming, punish the country's thieves"!
"It's the Nanjing regiment and the national soldiers." Shang Shuying's reaction was quite quick, and she immediately said to Shang Zhi, "Brother, this is our last chance! If we drag it on, it will be over. Let's do it, if it doesn't work, we can find a way to escape!"

Shang Zhixin nodded, gritted his teeth and said, "Sister, what shall we do? How many people will we take to Mochou Lake?"

"There is no way to bring more people, so let's order 1000 people!" Shang Shuying said, "If you bring too many people, it will easily arouse suspicion from others, and if you bring too few, you will not be able to accomplish great things."

Shang Zhidao: "Okay, just one thousand. Whether it can be done or not depends on this time!"

(End of this chapter)