Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 459 Tian Cewei Feigns Attack on Xuanwu Gate and Secretly Steals Chen Cang to Capture Nangong
"Tiance guards attack Xuanwu Gate?"

Everyone present was dumbfounded. Although thousands of people could not pose a fatal threat to the Forbidden City, it was too damaging to morale.

This shows that the emperor's power can also organize resistance.

According to the information known by Zhu Qizhen, there are at least thousands of Tiance Guards in the city, thousands of people are stationed in the military camp of Fengtian Capital Division, and there are also [-] battalions of state guards who entered the city yesterday.These troops add up to [-], and they are evenly matched with their own side, and there is not much disadvantage.

Zhu Qizhen repeated again: "Tian Cewei attacked Xuanwu Gate? Why does this sentence sound so familiar?"

After thinking for a few times, Zhu Qizhen suddenly realized: "Oh, I understand, isn't it the Xuanwu Gate that General Tiance Li Shimin attacked? Then the brothers fought each other, and finally General Tiance won the victory.

Could it be that when my younger brother named his personal guard Tiance Guard, he already thought of the day when he would attack Xuanwumen?
The younger brother already knew that such a day would come, so he was metaphorizing it at that time?Is this all calculated by him? "

When Cao Jixiang next to him heard this, his face turned pale with astonishment: The emperor is too scary, isn't he, he planned the Xuanwu Gate change of Ming Dynasty three years ago?

Zhu Qizhen came back to his senses and asked Cao Jixiang: "You have been in the army for a long time, tell me how to deal with it?"

Cao Jixiang thought for a while and then replied: "My lord, let's send two thousand honorable servants from Xizhimen to support Cao Rui who is guarding Xuanwumen."

Zhu Qizhen nodded and signaled Cao Jixiang to deploy immediately.

Outside the Xuanwu Gate, Hao Yi had already led [-] days of guards to block the Xuanwu Gate.

Cao Rui closed the gate tightly, and according to Cao Qin's order, drove out the palace servants, used them as meat shields, and squeezed them behind the palace gate.

Even if Tiance Guard broke through the palace gate, he would be blocked by the huddled palace people, while Cao Rui could lead his servants to stand on a high place and shoot arrows at Tiance Guard.

The palace wall is tall, and Cao Rui personally led the dead soldiers, standing on the palace wall and shooting arrows down.

Hao Yi stared blankly below, but did not fight back.

Because it was a disadvantage to shoot against the people on the high ground, Cao Rui couldn't hold back and ordered the dead soldiers to grab the palace people as shields.

The situation was deadlocked again.

Two quarters of an hour later, Zhu Yi, Duke of Cheng, Wu Jin, Marquis of Gongshun, and Wu Cong, Boss of Guangyi led two thousand family members to Xuanwu Gate to support them.

Hao Yi saw that there were reinforcements on the opposite side, so he retreated a little, and led the Tiance guards to the Longevity Mountain outside the Xuanwu Gate to defend.

When Zhu Qizhen heard the young eunuch's report on the latest battle situation, he felt a little relieved.

Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, a young eunuch came to report: "My lord, Uncle Huaining has already occupied the military battle in the outer city. In another hour, the artillery can be transported into the inner city."

This news is so exciting. Once the artillery is transported to the outside of Marquis Wuding's mansion and bombarded, there is a chance to break the situation.

Only Cao Jixiang was even more desperate: "It can be concluded that this is definitely a game set up by the emperor."Before that, the emperor clamored to expand and build an outer city on the south side of Beijing's original city wall.

The first to start work and the first to move out were the Bingjue Bureau and Gunpowder Bureau of the Inner Court, the six military craftsmen and thousands of households of Jinyiwei, and the ordnance factory of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War.

Moreover, these ordnance factories are all concentrated in the southeast corner of the outer city.

Well now, if you want to find a cannon, you have to bring it in from the outermost edge of the outer city.

By the time the artillery was set up outside Wudinghou's mansion, the day lily was already cold. "

Sure enough, everyone was afraid of what would happen, and within a moment of joy, a young eunuch rushed in to report: "My lord, it's not good, a large army from the north suddenly poured in from the Anding Gate.

There were several thousand of them, and they marched, shouting: Fengtian calms down, punishes and rebels, long live the Emperor Jingtai.

The north side is completely undefended, and they can reach Xuanwu Gate or Dong'an Gate in just half an hour. "

Now it was Zhu Qizhen's turn to look ashen.

Empress Dowager Sun asked sharply, "Why did a large army enter the city? Where did they come from?"

The little eunuch shook his head innocently.

Now everyone around Zhu Qizhen understood that everything was a chess game laid out by the emperor, otherwise it would be impossible for an army of nearly ten thousand people to suddenly enter the capital.

Fortunately, there are only a small number of people standing on the foundations of the three main halls.

Most of the vassals, nobles, and civil servants stood in the square under the steps.Even if they couldn't hear the latest battle report, everyone could sense that the atmosphere was not right.

But it's embarrassing, the guards of the vassal kings have been handed over to Shi Heng and Sun Tong, and the vassal kings themselves are all trapped in the Forbidden City, and are 'protected' by Cao Qin's dead soldiers.

If you want to betray the water, there is no way.

Not to mention civil servants, none of the four gates of the Forbidden City can be opened to everyone.Once in, don't even think about going out.

The nobles are somewhat stronger, except for a few who stayed in Fengtian Temple Square, the rest went to lead their servants to guard the palace gate.

At this time, Cao Jixiang proposed a plan that seemed feasible: "My lord, why don't we retreat. Taking advantage of the chaos in the capital, take the cavalry out of the city and go straight to Nanjing.

Once you arrive in Nanjing, you can gather the troops from the south, draw the river and conquer it, and then slowly map it out.

If we keep going, more emperors' troops will enter the city, then we will be unable to leave at all. "

"Retreat? Escape? Go to Nanjing?"

Zhu Qizhen has never considered this option, my beloved Forbidden City, how can I give up.

Besides, if you are about to succeed, how can you just give up and give up.

Zhu Qizhen gritted his teeth and sternly reprimanded: "Don't disturb the morale of the army, King Yi is just bluffing.

Let Shi Heng divide his troops to resist the new army entering the city, and then storm Wudinghou's mansion, and must capture King Tan.

Capture the thief first and capture the king first, as long as the king of Tan falls into our hands, everything will be settled. "

Cao Jixiang had no choice but to send someone to urge Shi Heng again.

After Shi Heng got the news, his heart was about to break.Forced to do so, he had no choice but to attack Wudinghou's mansion again.

However, Shi Heng still chose the deployment that was most beneficial to him: order the vassal king's guards to be at the front, and his own soldiers to supervise the battle afterwards.Another [-] Beijing battalion soldiers, led by Liu Ju, went to stop the new reinforcements entering the city.

3000 people from the Ten Thousand Divine Machine Battalion, which had just entered the city, entered the imperial city from Bei'anmen, and then went west to Xiyuan to protect the warehouse in Xiyuan.

The remaining 7000 people turned a corner in the north of the Old Qi Palace to occupy Chaoyangmen and Chaoyangmen Street.In this way, the Taicang warehouse on the north side of Chaoyang Street was protected.

In the huge city of Beijing, Zhu Qiyu only cares about three places: one is the area composed of Wudinghou Mansion, Fengtian Dusi, and Hubu Lumi Cang; the other is Hubu's Taikuang; warehouse.

If these three places are lit, the loss will be great.

The rest doesn't matter.As for Mingyufang, where its own industry is concentrated, it is located in Xicheng. Under normal circumstances, no one cares about this place.Moreover, there are Wen Xinhou and Xicheng soldiers and horses on guard, so it is not a big problem.

The [-] soldiers of the Beijing Battalion led by Liu Ju chose to confront the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion guarding Chaoyangmen Street.You don't attack me, and I don't attack you, the scene becomes very harmonious.

Liu Ju chose to wait and see what happened, and wait until the situation became clear before standing in line again.

The guards of the vassal kings were not so lucky. Not far to the south of Marquis Wuding's mansion was the Gong Yuan, and further south of the Gong Yuan was the Armor Factory.

The armor factory has not yet moved to the outer city.At this time, Shi Heng's personal soldiers had already captured the armor factory and brought a large number of armor over.

Shi Heng was very considerate, and asked the guards of the feudal king to put on their armor and helmets before charging.

Most of these vassal guards are extremely loyal to their vassals.Since the vassal king of his family clearly stated that he would listen to the command of Marquis Wuqing and help the Supreme Emperor restore his restoration at all costs, then everyone can only bite the bullet and charge forward.

It's a pity that only street fighting can be carried out in the city, and it can't be used at all.Coupled with the fact that the emperor's personal guards had bed crossbows and cannons to help out, the vassal king's guards suffered heavy casualties, but it was difficult to break through the defense.

However, the stalemate outside the Xuanwu Gate is still going on, and the Three Thousand Shenji Battalion has entered Xiyuan, controlling the warehouses such as Chengyun and Guangying.

Hao Yi originally had 3000 Celestial Guards under his command, but only [-] appeared outside the Xuanwu Gate. Where did the other [-] go?
It turned out that another 3000 people, under the leadership of Wang Jin and Ruan Xi, walked from the Yumajian to Xiyuan, and then from the south side of Taiye Pool to the Yuyongjian.

After passing the Imperial Prison, passing by the Sheji Altar and the Taimiao, he circled around the Forbidden City silently for more than half a circle, and finally reached the west side of the Nangong Palace.

Although doing so was a bit immoral, Tiancewei chose to build the plank road openly and keep Chen Cang in secret.

Tian Cewei's goal is not Xuanwumen, but Nangong.

The north of Nangong is adjacent to Donghua Gate and Dong'an Gate. There are 3000 soldiers led by brothers Cao Xuan and Cao Duo stationed there.

But the west side of Nangong was not fortified.

The defenders on the Meridian Gate tower had spotted Tiance Guard, but it was too late to react.

By the time Jin Yiwei reported to Zhu Qizhen, and Zhu Qizhen urgently dispatched Cao Xuan from Dong'anmen to lead elite servants to support him, Tian Cewei had already entered Nangong and controlled the crown prince, as well as the Qian family, Zhou family, Wan family and others. .

(End of this chapter)