Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

The second watch has passed, and ordinary families have already slept peacefully in the dead of night. As for those prodigal sons who are used to sleeping in flowers and willows, they have also ended the fierce battle with the people around them and fell asleep at this moment. www However, at this moment of complete silence, the gates of the palace city that had just been simply repaired were opened in all directions, and nearly [-] officers and soldiers from the imperial city's standard-bearer guards and Jinyi guards swarmed out and rushed towards many targets in the city. Among them, the most powerful one went straight to the Xia Palace, which was rebuilt from the Yamen of the former Governor of Liangjiang in the Qing Dynasty.

Speaking of it, it is almost a fool's dream to use more than 2000 people to control the entire Yingtianfu City in Nanjing. However, there are too many useless old children of the former court recruited by the Ming court after the restoration, and half of the two guards and horses were taken up in vain. So much so that the palace party headed by Zhu Cichen and Zhu Da could only rely on the power of the more complex guards of the palaces.

However, most of these palace guards are bandits speculating on the current situation. Although they are sturdy, they are poorly organized and disciplined. Therefore, after seeing the signal, they followed the princes and princes of various families and scattered in the winding streets of Nanjing City shortly after they went out. open.Seeing that the master and the brigade were gone, the fallen guards became outrageous and simply didn't run towards the intended target. They turned around and killed the innocent people's homes, and suddenly a catastrophe came again. In the city of Yingtian.

Seeing the shouts of killing and the cries of the people in distress, the commanders of the guards who were planning to carry out a sneak attack suddenly became distraught, but the matter was irreversible, so they had no choice but to fight openly under the banner of the Qing emperor, and then With the momentum of breaking the boat, he rushed to the established goal.

Apart from Xiawang Mansion, where Zheng Kezang’s wife lived, the main targets of the Suwei Army and clan guards were the Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion, which kept a large number of military armor, as well as the Cabinet, Household Department, Jinyiwei Yamen, Left Behind Division, Yingtian Mansion, and Shangyuan County. Waiting for more than a dozen places, as for the mansion of Zheng Fan's important minister, the palace has no power to control it for the time being, so it is placed behind.

But no matter how comprehensive the plan is, there is no way to implement it smoothly if it has been leaked.

No, the guards of King Zhou, King Yi, and King Lu who attacked the Hubu were shot and killed by the guards with rifles as soon as they broke into the street; The front of the Dudu Mansion was bombarded by field artillery; in addition, after King Shucheng reported the news, the guards of Prince Shucheng's Mansion also changed their positions, pretending to participate in the attack against Tianfu together, but after the attack began, they attacked the undefended The guards of Luxi Prince's Mansion and Badong Prince's Mansion stabbed in the back, killing the eldest son of Luxi King and the eldest grandson of Badong King on the spot, and the guards of the two mansions collapsed. In addition, the mansions were not monolithic. Although they were restricted in freedom before the rebellion and were unable to report the situation, after the start of the rebellion, they spontaneously began to make trouble secretly, so that the actions of the various palaces began to cause suspicion among each other.

What made the palace even more unexpected was that they were the standard-bearer guards of the Great Wall, and there were also Zheng Fan's secret sentries among the Jinyiwei. The small amount of artillery owned by the palace party was unable to play a role in the rebellion, thus speeding up the process of solving the incident.

Of course, the so-called hundred secrets and one sparseness, although Zheng Fan has made preparations to deal with it, due to the short response time and the lack of troops in the city, the four major cities in Shangyuan County, Jiangning County, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate that were set on fire by the rebel army The five government offices fell into the hands of Gong Fang one after another, and the soaring flames made the moonlight of this night even more scarlet.

This night, the fiercest battle in Nanjing City naturally took place at the Palace of Xia, which the palace must take.As the scattered guards from various prefectures were either attracted by the shouts of killing or were forced into the area by the dominant Zheng Jun from all over the place, the strength of the Suwei Army once swelled to more than [-] people at one time, just In terms of number, it is three times that of Zheng Fanyiwei who sticks to the Xia Palace.However, compared with the Suwei army and the guards of various government who have never been on the battlefield, the elite Yiwei selected from each division did not show any weakness. They fought more with less. The enemy is pressing and fighting.

The palace also tried to find weak spots in the Xia palace, but there was no place in the palace. The [-] flying fish robe guards and the [-] sword fish guards who followed Zheng Kezang to the north formed two emergency reserve teams, and they were thrown into danger many times. Lot to the rescue.Relying on the physical strength of these guards and the hundreds of warts and Taixi plate armor stored in the palace, like mech warriors, they repeatedly broke through the intruding palace troops and kept the seemingly precarious important place of the palace.

At about three o'clock, Zheng Fan's important minister's mansion received an order from Princess Xia Chen Xianqiao, and the guards who had already prepared it immediately went to the streets to join the ranks of Zhensu.At this time, led by the left-behind department, with the veterans as the vanguard and the patrolling yamen servants as the tail, the rebels and mobs who took advantage of the fire were cleared from neighborhood to neighborhood, and the guards who guarded the yamen before also left very little defense force After that, fight back.As a result, the fallen yamen were recovered one after another, and the rebellious palace forces either fled to the city wall and tried to escape, or fled back to the various mansions and imperial cities to hold on, or turned to the last main force that was still fighting in the Xia Palace.

"Everything is over." Hearing the shouts of killing gradually subsided, and looking at the obvious expressions of panic on the faces of the various tribesmen rushing to the final battle zone, they commanded the palace together with Yiyang King Zhu Daoming Zhu Chaokui, Fengxin King of the army, murmured with a ashen face. "We are finished, and so is Daming"

"It's not over yet." Zhu Daoming stripped off the thick coat covering his body, and drew out his knife. "Tomorrow morning Liu Zhen's soldiers and horses will arrive at Longjiang Pass, so as long as we can take down the Xia Palace and capture Zheng Kezang's wife and son, we still have a chance." Speaking of this, Zhu Daoming ignored himself It is a person in his 60s, and he raised his arms. "For the public, determine the prosperity and decline of the Ming Dynasty, and for the private, to determine the life and death of personal wealth, this is a fight, sons, follow me if you are not afraid of death!"

The veteran's desperate efforts really worked, as if he had exhausted all his strength before. When facing the Ming clan's last fight, Zheng Fanyiwei, who was guarding the main gate of the Xia Palace, retreated one after another. For a time, it seemed that he would never be able to open it. Under the slash of the frenzied rebels, the gate also collapsed.

Seeing the ray of dawn, Gong Fang cheered and rushed into the door. However, the people behind were still squeezing the people in front, but the few who stood in the front couldn't help but retreat, so there was a crowded scene at the door. Condition.Since everyone was still holding weapons in their hands, there were even cases of accidental injuries. For a while, the scene became more and more chaotic.

"What's the matter?" Zhu Daoming, who was sweating profusely in the crowd, yelled, suddenly his eyes lit up, it turned out that he had already broken through his own wall, but it was only at this moment that he could clearly see why the forward was hesitant to enter. What was placed in front of the palace was a dark gun barrel. "Damn it, this is a trap!"

It was too late for Zhu Daoming's roar. After the sound of a cannon, the lasing shells turned the seemingly vast doorway into a Shura field full of corpses.But this was just the beginning. Afterwards, the rest of the artillery also fired successively. The roaring lead bullets completed the work that the guards wanted to complete but had not finished pushing to the mansion wall. While beating the solid mansion wall to pieces , causing the same terrifying effect on the other side of the wall.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Chaokui opened his mouth wide, and more rebels dispersed in a rush, but they were already frightened, as long as a few government officials with rulers in their hands could easily clean them up, but Zhu Chaokui couldn't see this scene Just when he was about to run away, a guard of Fengxin King squeezed in beside him.

"My lord, come here, I'll carry you back to the palace." Hearing this call, Zhu Chaokui was very happy, and he was still praising the other party's loyalty in his heart, but he didn't expect that just when he approached, a handful of cold and beautiful swords would blow him away. flashed over. "Sure enough, he's a fool." The guard of the Fengxin Palace who grabbed Zhu Chaokui's dead head curled his lips in disdain. "It's about this time, if there is no prince's head, where should my head be?"

Standing on the roof of the palace, Zhu Da watched the fires go out one by one in the distance. His heart had sunk to the bottom of the valley, and he could no longer hear the voices of his followers. He knew that his time was numbered.

"Binchuan, Chungang, you guys, leave the palace immediately before Zheng Bing arrives. The king has a secret house by the lake of Mochou, which was built by the king before moving the capital. You You can hide there temporarily." Zhu Da, who came down from the roof, explained to several confidants with gestures. "If you hear the news that Liu Zhen has successfully entered the city, you will come out again. If Liu Zhen is defeated, you will change your disguise and surname, leave Nanjing, and never come back again."

"Your Majesty!" Several staff members Zhu Da met while running against the Qing Dynasty burst into tears. "My lord, come with us."

"No, I have big goals, Zheng Ni will definitely not let me go." Zhu Da shook his head. "Besides, this king is a descendant of Taizu. Even if the country is destroyed now, the face of our ancestors cannot be lost."

Zhu Da was actually a bit against his will. At the beginning, he was struggling to survive under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but at this moment, everyone's emotions were agitated, and no one would think about this problem.As a result, several staff members, counselors, and purveyors quickly left from the back door of the palace reluctantly, but they never thought that their actions would all fall into the eyes of the Military Law Department.

After sending away a group of old subordinates and old friends, Zhu Da himself also took action. Although he kept saying that he wanted to die for the country, he was able to conspire and raise righteousness under the Qing court. , The reason why I just said these words is also to deceive people.

Zhu Da first dismissed all the slaves and servants, then he put on the clothes of a Taoist priest again, and then took advantage of the chaos in the palace, and walked to a side courtyard.Since the palace was provided by Zheng Fan, Zhu Da couldn't dig a tunnel in a short time, but digging a Tibetan cave that can hide for ten days and a half month is not a problem.The most difficult soil has been thrown into the pond, and the eunuch who dug the hole was also executed in the name of Zheng Fan's spy before the righteousness. No one would have guessed that Zhu Da, who was not martyred for his country, did not actually accompany everyone in the palace. run away

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