The Sun Never Sets Great China

In the court hall, Emperor Hongguang scolded Shi Kefa severely, and said: "Shi Kefa, you will solve the disaster you caused. Tell me why you lost both places and lost a large area of ​​land. Tell me." Shi Kefa, who was silent for a long time, said: "My Majesty, the main reason for our defeat this time is that we fought against the Manchus and the bandits at the same time, which resulted in our failure because we had no superior force. The Manchus were small and fierce. Ten times more troops can defeat it, and the battle on the western front could have been won, but because Liu Liangzuo retreated from the battle when the battle was fierce, and sent troops to occupy the other two towns, the battle failed, and the troops of the two towns were forcibly incorporated. His behavior is outrageous, worse than surrendering to the enemy, I am afraid that Liu Liangzuo has the heart to stand on his own." As soon as he finished speaking, the court was in an uproar, and many ministers of the Donglin Fushe Party retorted. Ma Shiying stepped forward and said: "Report Your Majesty, Mr. Shi Kefa's statement has no basis. Liu Liangzuo sent people there after Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie were killed in battle, fearing that there would be a change in the soldiers and horses in the two towns. Moreover, if Liu Liangzuo hadn't led the army to fight desperately in the battle of Guazhou, the intruders might have arrived in Nanjing. The city is down."

After hearing this, Shi Kefa immediately retorted: "Please ask the emperor to find out what is going on, and he will naturally know. I ask the emperor to let me go and investigate with Zhang Shenyan, who is famous for his integrity. But the emperor, I heard that Ma Shiying, who is in the three towns His trusted generals led 13 people to develop the capital, and the emperor asked the emperor to send them north to resist the enemy, so they should not enter Nanjing."

Emperor Hongguang was not a fool either. After hearing his words, he became suspicious and said, "There is nothing wrong with Liu Liangzuo's dedication to the enemy. There is no need to investigate. Prime Minister Ma, your 13 soldiers don't need to enter the city anymore, just go north."

At night, a plaque hung outside a brightly lit mansion in Nanjing City reads Ma’s mansion. Ma Shiying looked at the stars in the sky, and his heart was surging. Liu Liangzuo’s actions were all forced by him. In fact, he He had already placed many of his cronies in the three towns, especially Liu Liangzuo had the most subordinates. This time, he asked his cronies, clan brothers, and adopted sons whom he secretly recognized to lead the cronies to suddenly kidnap Liu Liangzuo and his cronies. Small, coerced Liu Liangzuo to take advantage of this Northern Expedition to annex the other two towns.In fact, the people who killed Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing were all trusted soldiers arranged by themselves, but during the war, people thought it was the enemy who killed them.

Ma Shiying sighed, he was very nervous, he was going to use the 13 horses to hold the emperor hostage, and imitated Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms to hold the emperor to order the princes.After all, the emperor in name is orthodox, and he is the object of allegiance of people who hold the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor. If he can hold the emperor hostage, it means that he has become half an emperor.The current opponent is the [-] Imperial Forest Army guarding the emperor's safety. Most of the [-] city guards are commanded by his trusted generals. The power can compete with him, and Huang Degong is now leading [-] remnants. It is no longer a concern.He looked at the sky and thought: success or failure depends on one action, Zhu Yousong, Shi Kefa, you are waiting.Seven days later is the day when you bow your heads to me.

Seven days later, 13 troops gathered outside the city of Nanjing, but instead of continuing to go north according to Emperor Hongguang's will, they surrounded the city of Nanjing.

Ma Shiying personally commanded the army to surround the palace, and launched a bloody battle with the 2000 Imperial Forest Army guarding the palace. Shi Kefa summoned more than [-] soldiers who did not rebel to come to support the palace, but was surrounded by dozens of times the rebels. Gun stabbed to death.

Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong asked Li Gonggong, Zhang Huahan, Wu Tieli, Wang Gang, Li Jingang and other best guards to guard him.

The battle lasted until night, and Ma Shiying's rebels did not enter the palace, but the [-] Imperial Forest Army also suffered more than half of the casualties, and they could not last long.

The generals of the imperial forest army all ran to Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong to persuade the emperor to break out of the encirclement, otherwise he would not be able to get out, but Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong asked several trusted eunuchs to collect money and treasures in large and small packages until the rebels had already attacked They are still holding gold bullion treasures in large and small boxes.

Zhang Huahan had already thought about it in his heart. If possible, he would take Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong to escape to Taihu Lake, and use the name of Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong to expand his power.

The soldiers of the Royal Forest Army retreated, surrounded by Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong and a group of guards and eunuchs. The boxes full of gold and silver treasures were all seized by the rebels.Zhang Huahan threw away Zhu Yousong's dragon robe and imperial crown, put on his guard's coat, and shouted: "Everyone, break through!" Everyone immediately rushed to break through.

Zhu Yousong was escorted by Zhang Huahan, Eunuch Li, several master guards and thousands of guards from the Imperial Forest Army and rushed to the outside of the palace. Soon, there were fewer and fewer of them in the chaotic killing. When they were outside the palace, there were only a few hundred people. Yes, they just ran out of the siege.A wave of thousands of rebels rushed over again, and the soldiers on both sides rushed to kill again. After Zhang Huahan carried Zhu Yousong on his back, he immediately went to kill in the direction of the city gate. With swords and guns, more than a dozen rebels were killed and rushed out of a bloody road. More than 80 people including Li Gonggong, Wu Tieli, Wang Gang, and Li Jingang rushed out. Suddenly, there was a gunshot from the right rear, and Zhang Huahan rolled like a lazy donkey like lightning. Zhu Yousong also got out.Eunuch Li, Li Jingang, Wang Gang and others were shot one after another. Eunuch Li was shot in the head several times and died on the spot.

Zhang Huahan, Wu Tieli and more than 20 lucky people who were not hit by the muskets took the emperor and ignored the injured people. They hurried into an alley, turned left and right, and broke into a relatively luxurious house. There is a big family living in this house. There are several servants, a middle-aged couple and their children. Seeing them rushing in with more than 20 people dressed in uniforms of officers and soldiers, armed with weapons and covered in blood, they hid in the house in fright. .

Zhang Huahan immediately said viciously: "Give us clean clothes quickly, and burn the clothes on us when we are done, and don't talk nonsense, otherwise someone will kill your whole family. Give us clean clothes quickly, or we will kill you now .”

The family was frightened and immediately found clean clothes for them. They took off the bloody clothes and washed them clean. After putting on the clean clothes, they immediately went out and ran towards the nearest city gate.

More than 20 people came to the gate of the city in hiding, and saw that the gate of the city was tightly closed, guarded by thousands of rebel soldiers.There are torches everywhere at the gate of the city, illuminating the surroundings brightly.

Looking at this situation, Zhang Huahan frowned, not knowing how to get out of the city, he asked Zhu Yousong, who was already clutching him, to wait for him here, and he wanted to bring a few people with good lightness skills to sneak into nearby houses to steal ropes.

Zhu Yousong, who has no master, has already regarded Zhang Huahan as his savior, grabbed Zhang Huahan's clothes tightly and said: "Zhang, Zhang Aiqing don't go, leave these things to them. If you stay here, Aiqing will definitely take care of you." You have to stay here and protect me!" Zhang Huahan was also afraid that something would happen suddenly, so it was safer to stay by his side.He asked Li Yunfei, a fourth-rank bodyguard with the best Qinggong, to take four people with good Qinggong to look for the rope.

Soon a few people found the rope, and Zhang Huahan immediately walked along the city wall with everyone, and found a place where there were no sentries on the city wall. , Just stepped on the city wall with his feet to borrow strength, and then flew to the top of the city wall. He tied the rope to the city wall. Just as he was about to greet everyone to come up, he saw countless torches coming from the city wall.

Zhang Huahan jumped down the city wall and said to everyone: "The rebels are coming, everyone hurry up." Zhu Yousong was anxious when he heard this, and said: "Zhang Aiqing take me up quickly, I want to be the first one." Zhang Huahan said to everyone : "Okay, I will take the emperor up first, and you follow quickly." After finishing speaking, he immediately picked up Zhu Yousong and flew onto the city wall, quickly pulled the rope and jumped up a section, and then pulled the rope again, two or three times Then he ran up the city wall.

As soon as Zhang Huahan got on the city wall, countless gunshots rang out. Zhang Huahan's shoulder hurt, and he heard Zhu Yousong's screams like killing a pig. Zhang Huahan's shoulder was shot by a bullet, and blood flowed out. It was full of blood, Zhang Huahan thought to himself: What a retribution.He tapped a few acupuncture points near the injured parts of himself and Zhu Yousong to stop the bleeding. Seeing Zhu Yousong who was barking and shaking his body like crazy, he couldn't move normally. He hammered Zhu Yousong with a hammer After being knocked out, I hurried to see if more than 20 people came up. As a result, most of them were shot down by random guns. If the bullets take time, there will be no one left. Wu Tieli's light work is not very good, but he moves quickly. He climbed up before the rebel musketeers loaded the bullets. Others who were not shot down by the first round of muskets had no crawling speed. Faster than the Musketeers could reload, they were all hit by the second round of bullets.

Zhang Huahan tied the remaining ropes to the crenellation of the female wall, carried the unconscious Zhu Yousong on his back and slid down, Wu Tieli followed Zhang Huahan down, and the two of them took Zhu Yousong to the east, specially picking deep mountains and dense forests. However, the rebel cavalry searched everywhere but could not find the three of them.

In the Imperial Palace of Nanjing City, Ma Shiying heard the report from his subordinates that Emperor Hongguang was not caught, and three people escaped from Nanjing City. He anxiously asked the cavalry to find him quickly.

When Ma Shiying was anxiously thinking about how to capture Emperor Hongguang, suddenly the general reported to Mu Tianbo in Yunnan that he led [-] soldiers and horses and went out of Yunnan with King Gui to develop Nanjing.The news was reported by Malai ten days later, and he had already left Yunnan ten days ago. I am afraid that it will not take half a month to get here.Ma Shiying said bitterly: "This old bastard came at this time, it's really a good time, if the emperor has something else, Mu Tianbo will definitely push King Gui to be the emperor, I must find the emperor, otherwise, I will be punished by Mu Tianbo, It was a joint attack by Zuo Menggeng and Huang Degong.

Ma Shiying yelled: "Send all the troops to find the emperor quickly, don't let him get hurt, go find them all, quick, quick, quick."