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Chapter 118

There is no need to instigate rebellion, this time against Fengyang Li Chengdong has a large number of followers, specifically more than 8000 troops.

Li Chengdong adopted the strategy of false surrender, not counting the troops guarding Fengyang. Even counting the number of wounded and sick, there were as many as 4000 people who surrendered. more than [-] people.

But these generals don't all know Li Chengdong's plan, only some of them know Li Chengdong's strategy. This is mainly the confidant generals among the Xuzhou soldiers he brought, and the other generals account for the majority. After surrendering to the imperial court, Li Chengdong used these people to cover his false surrender plan very well.

8000 troops are not a small number, but they just surrendered for half a day, and Huang Degong hadn't had time to reorganize them. In addition, Li Chengdong had made careful deployment beforehand, so the order was issued, and the 8000 troops got the news immediately. , That night Li Chengdong, Wang Zhi and Gao Jinku soldiers divided into three groups and carried out the operation according to the prior plan.

Gao Jinku's goal is the Zhongdu Palace. Zhongdu, one of the three major capital cities in the late Ming Dynasty, was the hometown of Longxing. After more than ten generations of Zhu's royal family's renovations, the emperor's silk and palaces are all available, and the scale is not inferior to the northern capital Beijing and Beijing. Accompanying capital Nanjing.

When the third watch was approaching, Gao Jinku led 3000 people quietly to the Central Capital Palace.

It is now mid-August, the night is quiet, the streets of Zhongdu are empty and silent, only the bright moon hanging in the sky silently watches the movements of this group of people.

Gao Jinku knew that his 3000 people should be the role of cannon fodder, or that they were trying to cover up people's eyes and ears, in order to create enough chaos so that Li Chengdong could succeed, and then escaped from the city through the east gate that Wang Zhi was in charge of. Jun Shajia is secondary, and Gao Jinku doesn't have too many extravagant hopes.

The goal of 3000 people is not small. In order to get as close as possible to the emperor's palace before being exposed, he carried out simple silencing of his subordinates in advance, such as taking off the mighty bells of the horses, wrapping the horseshoes in cloth, wearing scorpions on the horse's mouth, and putting on the mouth of the soldiers. Therefore, 3000 troops marched on the quiet street, and there was not much movement.

Turning across two Qipan streets, one street away from Zhu Yousong's palace, suddenly the sound of thousands of troops marching came from the street ahead.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey..."

The people who entered the warehouse were stunned for a moment. At this time, the fire dragon flashed in front of them, and a team of cheering horses flashed out of the cross street and came head-on.The distance between the two sides was dozens of steps, and they both stopped consciously or unconsciously.

In the flames, a general was wearing a bronze helmet and a bronze armor, sitting on a big green horse, holding a machete with a golden back, his face was like a gong, and there was a slight black beard, the coming general swung his big knife horizontally and shouted: "Stop! Who is in front and where does he want to go?"

In the middle of the night, so many troops were brought to the emperor's palace with knives and weapons. There was no imperial decree, no military order, and more importantly, the thieves of these 3000 troops had obviously been silenced.

Gao Jinku knew that it was hard to justify himself, and he had to start the killing ahead of time, but he was a little confused, what was the crowd in front of him doing, like a night patrol team, it was at least one mile away from the palace, so unlucky?Who cares, now you have to play around, rush to kill the Palace, the more lively the better.

Thinking of this, Gao Jinku didn't answer the general's question, but rode his horse and swung his gun to take the general, and shouted: "Brothers, turning this street ahead is the palace of the faint king, rush over!"

Gao Jinku took the lead and led the 3000 people towards them like a flood.

The general who came here was Huang Ming, one of Huang Degong's chief soldiers. He was ordered by Huang Degong. His task tonight was to patrol the city.Not daring to slack off in the slightest, he arranged five city patrols tonight, one patrol every two hours.The focus of the city tour is of course the emperor's palace and the city defenses of the four gates of Fengyang.

On the first watch, he took a thousand elite soldiers from the main streets of the city, through the emperor's palace, to the four gates of east, west, north, south, and the top of the city, and found nothing unusual. On the second watch, he basically turned the same way again. One lap, all the same.

Seeing that it was almost three o'clock, he led his troops and dispatched again, not wanting to run into Gao Jinku's unruly teacher here by chance.

This time Li Chengdong and Wang Zhi surrendered as many as 2 people. Huang Ming, an ordinary soldier, may not know him, but Gao Jinku is Li Chengdong's first-class general. He sent troops from Xuzhou to Fengyang. Along the way, Gao Jinku was Li Chengdong's vanguard officer, so it's impossible not to recognize Huang Ming, a general with such a prominent status.

At this time, Huang Ming's [-] patrols bowed their bows, and their knives were already ready for defense. Huang Ming sneered again and again, pointed at Gao Jinku and cursed: "Sure enough, he is a thief who never changes, thanks to your majesty." With a clever plan, Lord Hou has already prepared for it, and when the fox's tail is finally exposed, kill it for me!"

Huang Ming led troops to block the attack, and at the same time ordered people to report to the emperor and Huang Degong.

Huang Ming's subordinates saw that Gao Jinku was approaching ferociously. Hundreds of crossbowmen fired arrows at random, and Gao Jinku's men fell to the ground one after another.

However, Gao Jinku is not an ordinary person. In history, after he and Li Chengdong surrendered to the Qing Tartars, he and Li Chengdong made repeated military exploits. Ting was so loyal that he defeated Li Chengdong, who was the admiral of Guangdong at the time, beheading more than 1 people, and exhausted his officials to the general army of Leizhou, Guangdong.

As a traitor and surrendered general, without two brushes, it is difficult to stand up to the melon skin hat and flower mausoleum of the second-rank military officer of the Qing Tartars.

At this time, Gao Jinku, like Li Chengdong, also went all out. He swung the big spear in his hand, protected his body and his horse, and the arrows flying towards him turned one after another. With a big gun attack, Huang Ming's crossbowman was killed and dispersed, and Gao Jinku's men rushed over. The two sides fought hand-to-hand on the street.

During the melee, Huang Ming fought against Gao Jinku, but there was no match, Gao Jinku yelled and picked Huang Ming off his horse. Thanks to Huang Ming's guards desperately protecting the lord, a few generals rushed up to fight Gao Jinku, Several other soldiers snatched Huang Ming onto his horse and turned around and ran away. At this time, Huang Ming's intestines came out and his body was covered in blood.

The main general was seriously injured, and their patrol team had only 1000 men and horses, and they couldn't resist the [-] tigers and wolves who entered the warehouse, so they fought and retreated.But this retreat could no longer hold back, and the streets were no better than the field battlefield, Gao Jinku killed Huang Ming's men and horses in a single charge, and they were completely defeated.

After killing Huang Ming's 1000 troops, Gao Jinku continued to charge forward with his pegasus, turned a street, and the emperor's palace appeared in his sight.

Gao Jinku's eyes shone brightly and shouted, "Rush in here, and kill the faint king!"

Before Gao Jinku finished speaking, a group of armored warriors poured out from the palace. The armored warriors flashed to both sides, revealing a general. This general looked like he was in his 20s. The plain helmet is covered with a yellow battle robe, a big sword hangs from the waist, the face is like a silver basin, and the eyes are like bright stars. When you stand at the gate of the palace, your majesty and majesty are no less than Zhao Yun in Changshan, and like Ma Mengqi in Xiliang.

Gao Jinku's soldiers were taken aback for a moment, and the next general snorted and sneered, "Whoever wants to kill me, just let the horse come here!"

(End of this chapter)