The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 299 Burning the Palace
Naturally, Sun Pengyun was not given the important task of monitoring King Gui for nothing.He drew his sword to block the hidden weapon, and chased after him, while shouting to his subordinates, "Protect King Gui!"

The person who jumped out of the room turned left and right, but his feet were not as strong as Sun Pengyun, and he saw that the tip of the latter's knife was only one foot away from her back.

When she heard the footsteps behind her getting closer, she suddenly pulled something from her waist and turned around.

At the same time, Sun Pengyun's men were about to rush into the room where Zhu Youlang was. Someone raised his foot and kicked the door open, only to see that a sparking fuse had burned to the end.

Immediately there was a loud noise, and the room was filled with gunpowder smoke, and the nearest people were instantly blown away by three feet.Then the fire oil that had already been poured all over the ground ignited, and thick smoke billowed immediately.

Sun Pengyun was so startled that he turned his head to wait and see, and saw that there were explosions and fires on King Gui's side. He thought "too bad" in his heart, no longer caring about chasing people, and turned back the same way without turning his head.

The trigger of the spring wheel gun in Huiwen's hand was already pulled halfway. Seeing the pursuers leave, she didn't want to fire the gun to attract attention, and immediately disappeared into the night.

Sun Pengyun returned to the gate of King Gui's house, and was about to rush in, but was burned by a gushing tongue of fire, so he had to jump to call for water.

On the other side, in fact, someone had already removed the tiles from Zhu Youlang's house, hoisted him up to the roof with ropes, and dragged him carefully crawling through four or five houses before finding a deserted place.

But the man didn't go outside the palace, instead he dragged him towards the burning stable, halfway he took two wooden basins from others, and mixed with the crowd to put out the fire.

Of course, it is impossible to extinguish the fire, because Gein still has people setting it on fire.

In less than an hour, the entire Prince Gui's Mansion was on fire, and the sky over the Palace was as bright as day.Especially on the west side where the fire started first, the fire was already out of control at this time, and even within ten feet outside the courtyard wall, it was so hot that it was impossible to get close.

The Jinyiwei man who entered the palace with Huiwen saw that the fire was almost on fire, and shouted loudly outside the armory of the palace guards: "Run, there is gunpowder here!"

He only yelled, and immediately the people who were fighting the fire spread the word in a panic.The guards of the nearby palace hurriedly comforted everyone, saying that the gunpowder had been removed when the water was just drained.

But their voices were quickly suppressed. The terrified servants of the palace saw that it was impossible to put out the fire, and they didn't know who took the lead. Hundreds of people roared out from the west gate of the palace.

Zhu Youlang was dragged in a daze, and ran out among the crowd.As soon as he left the palace, there were hundreds of Sun Pengyun's subordinates holding bows and guns and yelling for everyone to gather together and not to wander around.

But the flames licked outwards, and their circle had to expand outwards again and again.

After some time, more and more people escaped from the palace.However, more than a dozen people in night clothes touched the vicinity of the palace from the outside, quickly put down some of Sun Pengyun's men who were alone, and then turned to the next target.

Immediately, someone shouted hello, and took the lead to run out from the gap.The people in the palace had been roasted to death, and they ran out without even thinking about it.

Sun Pengyun and others were burned too much in the palace, so they had to retreat. Seeing three or four hundred people in the palace running around, they hurriedly ordered their men to chase after them.The entire encirclement outside the palace suddenly became chaotic.

At the same time, Zhu Youlang was taken to the southwest corner of the palace, which was not so lively. After running not far away, four soldiers with knives and blunderbusses pointed towards them with torches and ordered them to stop.

These people came closer, but they saw two women with disheveled faces, each holding a wooden basin in their hands.

The leading soldier pointed to the crowd in the distance, and slapped the not-so-ugly woman on the buttocks, "What are you running around, go, stand over there."

It was the first time Zhu Youlang was "frivolous" at such a big age, and suddenly felt goosebumps all over his body falling to the ground.

He suppressed his anger, and was about to lift his feet to the point pointed by the man, when suddenly he saw the wrist of the "aunt" who had been leading him away flicked, and knocked on the neck of the "frivolous" man, who hummed Without making a sound, he fell to the ground on his back.

The soldiers next to them never expected that a servant woman would make trouble. The moment they were stunned, another man was snatched by the "aunt" with a single knife in his hand, and stabbed him in the ribs with his backhand.

Then the "auntie" followed up with a move of "lazy donkey rolling", dodging the muzzle of the musketman, and the blade slashed at the calf of the other person.

The man hurried to block with the side knife, but unexpectedly, "Auntie" rolled halfway, and suddenly jumped up like a spring, and the knife that attacked the leg just now had reached his chest.

With a soft poof, the knife fell over, but the last gunner had adjusted his posture by taking advantage of the gap, aiming at "Auntie" and was about to fire the gun.

Zhu Youlang was shocked, and hurriedly took out the short blunderbuss on his body, the more anxious he became, the more unstable his grip became, and his finger hadn't touched the trigger for a long time.

But at the next moment, the gunman suddenly fell forward, and a figure followed immediately, stabbing him in the neck.

"How did you get here?"

"There are [-]% more secret whistle outside the palace tonight." The visitor pointed behind him, "Don't talk too much, let's go first."

Then three more men in black arrived, one of them was a tall man with Zhu Youlang on his back, and the rest each held their weapons to protect each other.But they didn't run far, they just turned a corner and entered a dilapidated house one street away from Prince Gui's Mansion, then changed Zhu Youlang's clothes, and led him to hide in the cellar behind the firewood house.

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Seeing that Mu Jing's attendants came to see him so late, Lu Jin felt something was wrong.

Sure enough, as soon as the visitor said a few words, he was stunned, "You, what did you say?!"

But Xu Feihu smiled and said: "Lord Lu, you are also considered to have contributed to the court. We have arranged a retreat for you. The car is right outside the door, please hurry up."

"Impossible, you must be lying to me!"

As soon as Lu Jin finished speaking, he heard a roar from the direction of Prince Gui's Mansion. He hurried out of the house, raised his eyes, and saw that the mansion was already on fire.

"Master Lu, our people have already started." Xu Feihu said in a deep voice, "At this time, King Gui may have been blown to pieces. If you don't leave, it will be too late."

"You, you, hi..." Lu Jin stomped her feet vigorously, took out her seal and other things, and ordered her confidants to call her main wife and two sons, but the concubines couldn't control them.

Several people went out and got into Xu Feihu's carriage, and rushed all the way to the east of the city.

The east of the city is the farthest from the palace. At this time, Chengshang guards have not received any news from Guiwang's palace. They heard that Ding Dutang's confidant - the deputy envoy of Chasi Lu - was ordered to leave the city urgently, but he dared not stop him.

After a few officers discussed, they pushed the gate of the city open and let the carriage leave.

After the car had gone six or seven miles, the city guard officers knew that there had been changes in the palace, and hurriedly sent cavalry to chase after it.But Xu Feihu had prepared horses on the way, and let Lu Jin and his family get on the horses and run south, but the carriage continued to go east.

(End of this chapter)