Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

"Your Majesty, it's getting late. It's better to go back to the palace and rest early."

Xu Shou interrupted Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts. Zhu Yuanzhang nodded gently, then turned and walked towards the palace.

At this time, a guard hurriedly came to him and saluted him: "See your Majesty."

"What's the matter?" Zhu Yuanzhang stopped and turned around.

"The guard at Taiping Gate reported that there were two women outside the gate who wanted to enter the city. One of them claimed to be Princess Anqing and requested to see your majesty. The guard did not dare to make the decision without authorization. Please give me your permission."

The guard said respectfully.

Zhu Yuanzhang shouted angrily: "Why did she come here? Let her go back!"

"Yes!"

The guard didn't dare to say anything, so he turned around and left.

"Wait!" Zhu Yuanzhang called him again, frowning and thinking for a while.

The capital is currently at war, but Yangzhou is not at peace either, and it is not safe to go back to Anqing now.

For a moment, he hesitated. After a long time, he sighed and told Xu Shou: "Go and bring her into the palace."

"According to the order!"

Xu Shou bowed and accepted the order.

"Just take her into the palace and place her in the place where she used to live. There is no need to bring her to see me. I will send someone to take her out and hand her over to Li Wei tomorrow."

Zhu Yuanzhang added.

He could also imagine why An Qing came here, but it would be useless to talk about it now, and he didn't want to hear it.

As for using his daughter to blackmail his son-in-law, he is not that mean.

Marry a chicken, follow a chicken, marry a dog, follow a dog. Even if his daughter has already been married, he will not keep her anymore. Even if he kills Li Wei in the future, he will let her remain a widow for him and will not take her back to the palace again.

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished his instructions, he turned around and left. Xu Shougong saw him off before leaving the palace with his guards.

Outside the Taiping Gate, Duan Yu and An Qing were waiting outside the city gate, looking up at the city gate. After a long time, Xu Shou appeared on the city gate with the guard. The guard took a torch, and Xu Shou looked down with the light. go.

When Anqing saw Xu Shou, he was overjoyed and shouted: "Eunuch Xu, it's me, Anqing!"

Xu Shou narrowed his eyes slightly and recognized her immediately: "Your Highness, please wait a moment. I will ask someone to pick you up right now."

After Xu Shou finished speaking, he explained the situation to the guard beside him. The guard immediately arranged for someone to fetch a large hanging basket and put it in.

It's wartime now, and they don't dare to open the city gate easily. It's the safest way to just hang people up.

With Duan Yu's support, Anqing sat on the hanging basket and climbed onto the city wall.

"See Your Highness the Princess."

Xu Shou, the general and others went to worship together.

An Qing was anxious to see Zhu Yuanzhang at this time. He waved his hand casually and asked Xu Shou: "Is your father sleeping? I want to go to the palace to see him now. Please lead the way, Eunuch Xu."

Xu Shou paused slightly when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "Don't worry, Your Highness Princess, please follow the old slave into the palace first. Once you enter the palace, you will follow Your Majesty's arrangements."

An Qing frowned slightly and nodded reluctantly: "Okay, then you have to report to father quickly and say that I want to see you."

"Princess, don't worry, old slave, don't worry." Xu Shou said perfunctorily, and then led her and Duan Yu down the city wall and walked towards the palace.

After they left, by the Xuanwu Lake not far from the Taipingmen, Chen Su put on the telescope and frowned.

During the day, Li Wei led his men to attack Jubao Gate and was blocked, so they made two preparations. If they could successfully capture Jubao Gate tomorrow, they would continue to advance. If not, they would enter the palace from Shence Gate to Taiping Gate and use Seize the capital by attacking from two sides. Chen Su brought people to observe the situation at Taipingmen at night, but he unexpectedly discovered An Qing and Duan Yu.

"Sir, what's wrong?"

A subordinate next to him saw him frowning and asked.

Chen Su hesitated for a moment and shook his head slightly: "It's okay. The situation at the Taiping Gate is probably clear. Let's go back."

"Yes!"

The subordinates said yes without asking any questions, and then turned and left with Chen Sushi.

When An Qing entered the palace, Xu Shou followed Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions and placed her in the palace where she lived before leaving the palace. He also arranged for some maids to take care of her, and then bowed and resigned.

Before leaving, An Qing once again told him that he wanted to see his father, but Xu Shou knew in his heart that Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to see her, so he had to say a few perfunctory words before leaving in a hurry.

Time passed slowly under the dark night. This night was extremely long for everyone in the capital. Whether it was the officials and dignitaries of the court or the ordinary people in the city, they were all worried about the outcome of the war. The soldiers were worried about the outcome of the war. I worry about whether I will be lucky enough to survive tomorrow.

As time passes, the dawn light will wake up the tired soldiers who have finally fallen asleep from their dreams, and a new round of battle begins again.

Lu Tang continued to lead the troops and launched the attack in the same way as yesterday.

Zhang Long and others still maintained a tight defense and refused to retreat. The supervising team urged the pro-army soldiers to shoot under machine gun fire to block the attack, regardless of their lives. People on Lu Tang's side were constantly injured and killed.

Seeing that he could not attack for a long time, Li Wei ordered Jiang Long to lead some soldiers to attack around the city like Mao Xiang did, and assigned them mortars.

Fierce gunfire sounded one after another, and the smoke was so thick that it could be smelled far away in the capital.

In the palace, Anqing stayed up almost all night. He finally fell asleep just before dawn, but he was awakened by the bursts of gunfire not long after, and he was even more anxious now.

"Come on, come on!"

An Qing got up from the bed and shouted anxiously.

"Your Highness, what are your orders?"

The palace maid serving outside hurried in, bowed and asked.

"Find Eunuch Xu, go quickly!" An Qing shouted anxiously.

"Yes!"

The palace maid took the order and left.

Duan Yu was also awakened by the constant sound of gunfire and An Qing. She tidied up hastily and came to An Qing's side: "Your Royal Highness."

When An Qing saw her, he immediately asked anxiously: "Duan Yu, do you know who is fighting the gunfire outside?"

Duan Yu shook her head. She and An Qing had just arrived in Beijing yesterday. They only knew that there were rebels like Lan Yu, Li Wei, and the imperial troops in the capital. She had no way of knowing which two parties were fighting now.

An Qing sighed, turned around anxiously, came to the door and looked out.

"Princess, let me help you wash up first." Duan Yu said softly.

An Qing thought for a while, then nodded in agreement.

After Duan Yu had washed her too much, it took a long time before the palace maid brought Xu Shou to Anqing.

"Meet Her Royal Highness the Princess."

Xu Shou saluted respectfully.

An Qing anxiously raised his hand to excuse him, and then asked directly: "Who is fighting the sound of gunfire outside?"

When Xu Shou heard this, he hesitated.

"Speak quickly!" An Qing urged immediately upon seeing this.

"This, it should be Prince Consort Li and His Majesty's troops fighting for the outer city." Xu Shou had no choice but to answer.

When An Qing heard this, he stood up in panic: "How could this happen? No, I want to see my father immediately, take me there quickly!"

Xu Shou was in a dilemma. Zhu Yuanzhang gave him an order to send Anqing out of the palace today. Of course he couldn't disobey the order.

"Your Royal Highness, Your Majesty has ordered me to send you out of the palace today and hand you over to Prince Consort Li. You'd better not embarrass me and follow me out of the palace later."

An Qing's expression changed and he said loudly: "I won't leave! I want to see my father."

As she said that, she walked around Xu Shou and ran outside.

Xu Shou was startled and quickly chased after him: "Princess! Princess, don't leave!"...

At Jubao Gate, Lu Tang and Jiang Long cooperated up and down, posing a great threat to the defenders led by Zhang Long and Mao Xiang, but they still persisted in retreating and repeatedly urged the pro-army troops to resolutely defend the city.

Li Wei pondered for a moment, then sent someone to deliver a message to Chen Su, asking him to lead his troops through the city wall by Xuanwu Lake and attack Taiping Gate directly.

Now that most of the pro-army forces are contained here at Jubaomen, it is a good opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

Chen Su immediately took action after receiving the order.

Shence Gate was ten miles away from Taiping Gate. Chen Su led his troops to attack Taiping Gate quickly along the city wall. After advancing a short distance, he encountered the garrison of the pro-army troops stationed there, and the two sides soon fought each other.

Chen Su followed the previous method and attacked all the way forward. The pro-army troops could not stop them at all. They quickly captured Taiping Gate, then Chaoyang Gate and Zhengyang Gate.

"Report! The rebels are attacking from Taipingmen!"

Mao Xiang and Zhang Hai, who were trying their best to resist the attack at Jubaomen, suddenly heard the report from their men, and they were all shocked.

"It's broken!" Mao Xiang's face was horrified, "I will bring people to support now, you are here to resist."

"Okay!" Zhang Long agreed directly without saying much.

Mao Xiang hurriedly took some troops and horses away to support.

However, when he drew off his soldiers and horses and arrived, Chen Su had already led his men to capture Chaoyang Gate and was approaching Zhengyang Gate.

Mao Xiang was so shocked that he immediately gave up the idea of ​​going to Chaoyang Gate and led his people to retreat to Zhengyang Gate.

Zhengyangmen is also a large-scale city gate with a three-story urn inside and outside.

But now they were attacked from both front and back, their forces were scattered again, and their situation immediately became dangerous.

On Lu Tang's side, he felt that the opponent was getting tired and immediately ordered a general attack without hesitation. The bullets were poured out at the pro-army troops hiding on the urn city for free, suppressing them so that they did not dare to raise their heads. The charging soldiers tried their best to Casualty crossed the last distance, stormed the city gate, and occupied a wide position to cover the heavy machine gun team that followed.

"It's over!"

Zhang Long turned pale when he saw this scene.

As the heavy machine guns were set up on the city gate, a horrifying scene was staged again. Without the protection of the city wall, no matter how many people there were, they could not resist the machine gun fire. The pro-soldiers who remained on the city fell one by one, and even those who survived were not dead. No longer willing to fight, they all fled towards Zhengyangmen.

Zhang Long's eyes were blank, and he was quickly pulled out of the treasure gathering gate by his own soldiers.

Lu Tang and his men quickly took control of the Treasure Gathering Gate, and Li Wei immediately followed.

"Leave this place to me. You can lead the attack and capture the whole city in one fell swoop!" Li Wei said solemnly.

"Yes!"

Lu Tang accepted the order and had no time to deal with it. He directly led his troops to follow the pro-army and launched an attack on Zhengyang Gate.

Jiang Long, who attacked from below the city, was finally able to board the city. Li Wei selected some soldiers to stay here, and then took him and the remaining troops to Zhengyang Gate.

At Zhengyang Gate, Mao Xiang was trying his best to resist Chen Su's attack, but he suddenly saw soldiers running over from behind in panic, and he was shocked.

"What's going on?" Mao Xiang shouted to the pro-soldiers who had fled back.

"The Jubao Gate is also lost!"

A soldier shouted back.

Mao Xiang's heart sank and his whole body felt cold.

The Jubao Sect has also been lost, so now he is the only one left, the Zhengyang Sect!
But then they will also fall into a situation where they are attacked from both sides. How can they hold on?
When he saw Zhang Long, a little distracted, being escorted here by his own soldiers, Mao Xiang immediately knew that things were not going to turn around anymore, and this city gate might not be able to hold on for long.

"Commander Mao, hey..." Zhang Long stopped, looking a little ashamed.

Mao Xiang didn't blame him. After all, they all knew in their hearts that Li Wei had such terrifying weapons in this battle, and it was quite difficult for them to defend until now.

After pondering for a moment, Mao Xiang said softly: "I will send someone to report to His Majesty right now."

Zhang Long nodded: "Okay."

"The west side will be left to you, and I will be responsible for continuing to resist the rebels on the east side."

Mao Xiang said and was about to turn around and walk away, but seeing that he looked downcast, he couldn't help but frown and wanted to say something encouraging, but he opened his mouth and didn't know what to say, so he could only sigh and said: "Do your best!"

After saying that, he strode away.

In the palace, Anqing ran out quickly, followed closely by Xu Shou, shouting to the surrounding guards as he chased:

"Quickly stop Her Royal Highness!"

The guards reacted and followed him one after another, but they did not dare to offend, and finally stopped Anqing outside Qianqing Palace.

"Get out of the way! I want to see my father!"

An Qing looked at the many guards blocking the door in front and shouted anxiously.

"Princess, please don't embarrass us. Follow me back quickly. I'll clean up my old slave and send you out of the palace."

Xu Shou caught up and said.

"No, I want to see my father!" An Qing refused. Seeing that they refused to let him go, he thought for a moment and shouted in the direction of Qianqing Palace: "Father, I am An Qing! Father..."

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was as dark as water. People kept coming to tell him about the fighting situation in front. Li Wei grabbed the door at a very fast speed. He was about to control the whole city. If the inside and outside were really isolated at that time, it would be really troublesome. .

As the emperor, he was in the city, and the princes and vassals outside would attack the city. If Li Wei falsely conveyed the imperial edict again, or only needed verbal threats, these vassal kings would not dare to act rashly.

"Father, I am An Qing..."

At this time, An Qing's shouts could be faintly heard outside, and Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but frown deeply.

After a moment of silence, he got up and walked out.

At the Yuehua Gate on the west side of the Qianqing Palace, Anqing shouted for a long time, and Zhu Yuanzhang finally came here.

"Father! Father!"

An Qing saw Zhu Yuanzhang coming through the guards, and immediately shouted in surprise.

The guards also noticed His Majesty's arrival and immediately saluted. Zhu Yuanzhang waved them away, then stepped in front of An Qing and scolded: "How unbecoming is it to shout in the palace!"

An Qing couldn't care about this now. He knelt down and said urgently: "Father, Li Wei was confused for a moment and made a big mistake. Please forgive him once more!"

Zhu Yuanzhang had a sullen face and snorted coldly: "That bitch is about to occupy the capital now, why do you need our forgiveness?"

An Qing was stunned when she heard this. She really hadn't thought about this.

At this moment, a guard hurriedly came to Zhu Yuanzhang and said in a panicked voice: "Your Majesty, the treasure gathering gate has also been lost!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his eyes suddenly froze and his face became even more ugly.

An Qing was extremely surprised when he heard the news.

After a moment of silence, Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand to ask him to leave. Then he turned to An Qing and said, "Did you hear that? Your good husband is very capable now. You don't have to beg us at all. Go back!"

After saying that, he waved his sleeves and turned to leave.

"Father!"

An Qing looked at his leaving back and shouted.

But Zhu Yuanzhang did not seem to stop and walked away without looking back.

Xu Shou stepped forward and came to An Qing's side and said, "Your Highness, please get up. I will take you out of the palace right now."

Duan Yu also stepped forward and helped her up.

An Qing stood up in despair, feeling a little at a loss for a moment.

Originally, she wanted to beg her father to forgive her husband, but now looking at the situation, it seems that her husband is going to win. In this case, should she beg her husband to let her father go? (End of chapter)