Chapter 132 The army enters the capital
Just as Zhu Cixuan and Zhao Peng led the Three Hundred Jinyiwei into the palace and controlled King Fu, Gao Wencai and Gong Xiaoda also attacked Yifeng Sect and Zhong Fu Sect respectively.
In the darkness, the soldiers of the Beijing camp stationed at Yifeng Gate did not notice the Jinyiwei coming to him. When they discovered the Jinyiwei, Gao Wencai was already standing in front of them.
"It's strange, what are the Jinyiwei doing in our outer city?" The soldiers guarding the city felt very strange.
Before these soldiers could figure out what was going on, they heard a sound of "Catch it!" More than 300 Jinyiwei rushed over, and the fifty Beijing soldiers on the top of the city were all pushed to the ground without even having time to react. They were then tied up by five flowers.
"You! What are you going to do?" The soldiers of the Beijing camp who were tied up like rice dumplings shouted in horror.
"What are you doing!" Gao Wencai sneered, "Take in charge of the defense of the capital! Gao Jie is planning a rebellion, and His Majesty is worried that you will not be able to defend the capital. We are ordered to take over the gates of the capital!"
The captured soldiers in the Beijing camp were thrown into a simplicity by the Jinyiwei. Gao Wencai then took out a firework rocket from his arms, aimed at the sky above the river not far away, and lit the fuse with a fuse.
"Swoosh" the rocket rose into the air, and a colorful fireworks exploded with a "boom" in the sky.
At the same time, a firework also rose above Zhongfumen.
"Gong Xiaoda and the others have also succeeded!" Gao Wencai said.
The Jing camp, which was once elite in the early Ming Dynasty, has long been corrupt. Ordinary soldiers in the Jing camp have long become military households similar to peasants. On weekdays, the nobles have been paid for empty wages and blood. It is said that a large camp with 10,000 people is considered to have 3,000 people. What is even more outrageous is that the fields of these military households have been embezzled by commanders at all levels by various means, and the military households have become tenants of officers at all levels. The soldiers who can guard the city gate are all relatives who have nepotism with officers at all levels, such as brother-in-law of a hundred households, brother-in-law of a thousand households, or brother-in-law of a noble family, etc., can only get this job. Being a soldier guarding the city gate does not need to sweat and farm the fields. The income they get from entering and leaving the city gate every month is enough for their family to live in and out of the city gate.
The commercial tax in the Ming Dynasty was outrageously low, as low as 30 and 100 yuan, but in fact, the burden on businessmen who were honest in business was not low, because they entered the city gate, crossed the canal, crossed the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. The officers and soldiers they met along the way would ask them to collect money, and the Jinyiwei of each city would also charge merchants for protection fees. The additional expenses added up to seven or eight, which was much higher than the regular tax.
But the problem is that the money paid by merchants will not enter the treasury, but will fall into the hands of officers at all levels.
In order to save expenses, the merchants had to find ways to get along with officials at all levels. Some well-known merchant families were spared no expenses to train their families to get fame and honor. Once someone in the family became a civil servant, these miscellaneous expenses could be exempted. After all, the Ming Dynasty values civil servants over military officials, and the status of civil servants is high. Some people in the family are civil servants. Who is not open-minded in the martial arts dares to collect cash from those officials and businessmen?
Because of this, the quality of the Beijing soldiers can be imagined. The soldiers can be said to be vulnerable. Moreover, Zhao Peng still kept enough in advance. He used an average of 350 Jinyiwei to deal with less than 100 Beijing soldiers. Needless to say, the result was known. Naturally, the soldiers took down both city gates without bloodshed.
The Zheng family's fleet was mooring on the river. Zheng Sen suddenly saw the fireworks signal flying in the air from Yifeng Gate and Zhong Fu Gate on the shore. He gave an order: "Each ship is docked and send His Highness the Prince's army ashore!"
Ships of all sizes quickly approached the shore, and ten thousand infantrymen who had come down from the Shanhaiguan battlefield jumped ashore, and rushed towards the two city gates that had been controlled with torches.
The lights at the Yifeng Gate were brightly lit. Gao Wencai stood at the top of the city. The lights on the river surface swayed and the lights were dotted on the shore. Then countless lights appeared on the shore. At first, there were clusters of lights, and then the light gradually pulled out. They lined up into two long dragons, flowing towards their Yifeng Gate and Gong Xiaoda's Zhongfu Gate, just like two fire dragons descending from the sky.
One of the fire dragons arrived at Yifeng's Gate and shone the city as bright as daylight. Gao Wencai stood at the top of the city and looked at the city from a bird's eye view. He saw familiar faces coming, so he ordered: "Open the city gate and release the suspension bridge!"
The Yifeng Gate city gate slowly opened, the suspension bridge was put down, and the Prince's infantry outside the city rushed into the city with torches. After a while, all the five thousand infantry entering the city from Yifeng Gate entered Nanjing City. At the same time, the five thousand infantry from Zhongfu Gate also entered the city.
When the infantry entered the city, fierce battles were taking place in the palace.
Although King Fu had issued an edict of abdication and the cabinet ticket was undoubtedly approved, Duke Xu Hongji of Wei shouted and cried and fainted from a coma after hearing that his son had died tragically. The first thing he did after he woke up was to order an army to attack the palace city and avenge his son.
Just when Xu Hongji ordered the troops to be sent, Ma Shiying rushed over and told him: "Your Majesty was held hostage by the thieves. It was the thief who killed your prince, your prince, the prince. The banner you put forward cannot be written to avenge the prince, but you should write about serving the king and saving the emperor!"
On the other hand, Zhao Zhilong, Zhu Guobi and others also started to mobilize.
"Brothers, King Fu ascends the throne, you and I have a share! King Fu is in power, and we are all ministers who follow the dragon. Now the prince and the prince consort are in the throne. If King Fu abdicates and the prince ascends the throne, you may be bound to fall! Now that things have come to this point, the only way is to claim that the prince is fake, kill into the palace, kill the fake prince, and rescue His Majesty!" Zhao Zhilong stood on the stage and shouted loudly.
In the history of the Ming Dynasty, the life and death of the old emperor was uncertain, and supporting the new king and the transformation of the sect gave a profound lesson. When Emperor Yingzong of Ming was captured, Yu Qian and Yu Shaobao did not support the new king? What was the end? After Emperor Yingzong of Ming Dynasty took the lead, Yu Qian was killed.
Therefore, once the Crown Prince Zhu Cilang succeeds in seizing the sect, these achievements in supporting King Fu will inevitably fall to the ground. If they can save King Fu, then they will be the heroes who support the new king. Otherwise, they will be a serious crime of traitor.
When the mob formed by Xu Hongji, Zhu Guobi, Zhao Zhilong and others rushed to Hongwu Gate, the city gate was wide open, and no soldier was stationed at the top of the city. It turned out that although Zhao Peng's Jinyiwei defeated Xu Wenjue's Jingying army guarding the palace city, there were too few Jinyiwei who entered the palace, with only more than 300 people, and they could not control all the gates of the imperial city.
"Please protect your majesty and kill the fake prince!"
"Brothers, kill me! Kill me into the palace and save Your Majesty!"
More than 10,000 mobs from the Beijing army shouted and rushed into the palace from Hongwu Gate. When they rushed to the Meridian Gate, they saw that the city gate was closed, but there was no soldier guarding the city at the top of the city.
Zhu Guobi shouted: "Hurry up, break open the city gate!"
Dozens of Beijing soldiers carried a large piece of wood that they found from somewhere and hit the city gate one after another. After a while, the city gate was knocked open with a loud bang, and then, a black mob rushed into the city.
Hearing the shouts of killing from outside the palace city, Zhao Peng ordered: "Everyone, we can't be here anymore. Take King Fu to the East Six Palace immediately. Eunuch Han, you can take people to the Rouyi Palace to pick up the princess and Miss Fei, and take them to the East Six Palace. There are only narrow courtyard gates in each palace of the East Six Palace, which is conducive to the development of my Mandarin duck formation. As long as we guard a gate, the rebels will not be able to kill for a while. When our army invades the palace, the rebels will naturally become birds and beasts!"
"Go to Jingyang Palace!" Han Zanzhou suggested, "Jingyang Palace is an imperial kitchen, and there are only two gates, so you can guard it there."
There were only two gates of the courtyard, and only four mandarin duck formations and seventy firearm soldiers took turns to guard the gate to defend the rebels' attack. Zhao Peng made a quick decision and ordered the Jinyi Guard to escort Zhu Cixuan and escort King Fu to Jingyang Palace. At the same time, he asked Han Zanzhou to take both Princess Kunxing and Fei Zhen'e to Jingyang Palace.
Chapter completed!