deltrittennovels Chapter 122 A Song of Blood and Fire 1
Chapter 122 A Song of Blood and Fire 1
Chapter 122 A Song of Blood and Fire 1
Night has come to midnight
There are far fewer people celebrating on the streets, and the same goes for the small merchants and vendors. After all, they will continue tomorrow.If you go to bed late, your livelihood will be delayed tomorrow.
But for dignitaries and rich families, the night is still long.
The Flower Boat Poetry Festival on the Qinhuai River.The raindrops blowing the flute on the Yanliu Tower is the real good place.
Amid the hawks and swallows, by the railing on the second floor of Wanqing Building, a disheveled beauty was holding the face of her husband tonight, preparing to hold a "leather cup" on her.
"Huh? What's wrong?" The beloved man saw that Bi Ren in his arms seemed to be stunned and couldn't help but wonder.
Yan Ji came back to her senses, pointed to a courtyard wall across the street downstairs and said: "Nu, I seem to have seen a few men in black enter the courtyard."
"The man in black? A thief?" The beloved turned his head and followed Yan Ji's gaze.
The location of Wanqing Building is a bit strange, it is located at the back of the Huitong Pavilion (the Huitong Pavilion was set up by the imperial court to receive foreign guests, which is equivalent to the current state guesthouse), not far from the Imperial College.
After careful identification, the beloved found that according to what Yan Ji said, the thief should have entered the Huitong hall.
"You read it wrong..." My beloved said, "There is no one in the same hall, what are the culprits doing there?"
The Huitong Pavilion symbolizes the face of the Ming Dynasty in front of the barbarians. It occupies a very large area and is magnificent.But it's not a day yet, and I haven't heard of any country's envoys coming to Beijing to pay tribute recently, so the hall is pitch black at night, and there are no ghosts.The thieves can't steal things even if they go, it's completely unnecessary.
"Perhaps." Yan Ji is not sure, and the light is not good, so it is not impossible for her to be wrong.Cleaning up her mood, she showed a skilled smile again on her face, and Jiao Didi leaned in the arms of the two of them: "Ah~, I'm drunk, son, you and my family should rest early~"
"Hahaha." The young master laughed a few times, got up and struggled, and hugged Yan Ji horizontally in his arms: "Young master, I will..."
"Boom!"
A loud bang sounded from the hall.Bring up a burst of waves, blowing around.
"Ouch..." Yan Ji fell to the ground with a "plop" in a daze!
"Yes...to the same building..." Young Master was already frightened, the whole Wan Qing Building and the people around him also looked the same.
The city of Nanjing seemed to be shaken by this loud noise. After a moment of silence, flames rose into the sky!
"what!!!!"
"Help me!!"
"Come on people!"
"It's water, it's water!"
Crying in panic, running blindly, the remaining passers-by on the street, as well as the wealthy officials and gentry, all turned into a group of headless flies at this moment, running around, but I don't know when, in a panic. The shouts changed.
"Help!!!"
"The White Lotus Sect is here!"
"Buddha mother sent fire from heaven!!!"
"The imperial city has been breached!!!"
In fact, as long as people calm down a little bit, they will find that the fire caused by the explosion only happened in the Huitong Hall and has no effect on them.If they could look at the imperial palace again, they would find that the gates of the imperial city were still closed tightly, as before, and there were no rebels there.
It's a pity that in chaos, chaos is the only truth.
"Come into the city while taking advantage of the chaos, and use an excuse to escort them? It's a good idea." Zhu Yuanzhang looked down at the chaos in Nanjing coldly: "Lan Yu, I'm waiting for you!"
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What happens inside the city has nothing to do with the soldiers guarding the city gates. Their only task is to isolate the inside and outside.
Zhengyangmen, the south gate of Nanjing, the capital city.It is on the same central axis with Hongwu Gate, Chengtian Gate and Fengtian Gate of the Ming Dynasty Imperial City, and it is a dangerous place to guard the Imperial City.
On the wall, Wu Qingsheng gestured with the steel knife in his hand and loudly scolded his brothers: "You are all so panicked. We are just staying on this wall. How can the fire touch our hair?" ?”
"No. Don't you need to put out the fire?" A soldier next to him asked weakly, and his answer was a heavy thump and a heavy kick on the buttocks: "You are so fucking stupid, save the ass, save me in the city It's all messed up like this, with explosions and fires, are we going in there to seek death? With your small body, you won't be trampled out of the egg yolk? You..."
Wu Qingsheng hadn't had enough of cursing yet, a soldier ran up the stone steps to the top of the city: "Boss, there are a group of eunuchs below who want to see you, saying that they have the emperor's order."
"What?!" Wu Qingsheng grinned and asked suspiciously: "At this time, what order does the emperor give to my gatekeeper?"
"Small. Small..." How could Xiaobing have the brains to answer Wu Qingsheng's question.
"Where is Wu Qingsheng, the captain of the gatekeeper of Zhengyang Gate? Come and receive the order!" With a domineering attitude, the clothes of an eunuch in the inner palace, and the bright yellow silk in his hand, an old eunuch led forty or fifty mature eunuchs to the city. He raised his head and looked at Wu Qingsheng intently.
'Why is the voice so rough? A trace of suspicion flashed through his mind, but he still stepped forward in three or two steps, kowtowed and shouted: "The last general, Wu Qingsheng, the captain guarding the Zhengyang Gate, receives the order."
The old eunuch unfolded the imperial edict in his hand and read: "The emperor has been entrusted by heaven to send an edict: The White Lotus Sect is causing trouble in the city. Every officer and soldier from Zhengyang Gate hastily entered the city to help me quell the chaos and disperse the people. I hereby express my gratitude."
After hearing the imperial decree, Wu Qingsheng remained silent.
This kind of vernacular, nondescript imperial decree can be regarded as a feature of the early Hongwu Dynasty. In the early years, Zhu Yuanzhang decreed the anti-Japanese decree of the people all over the coast to write "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, Zhao said, tell the people every (you), Get your knives ready, these guys are here, let’s kill them. This is it.”
Although this kind of imperial edict has been used less over the years, it is not impossible for the emperor to write it again in order to take care of semi-literate people like them.What really confused Wu Qingsheng was the shoes of the old eunuch in front of him!
Only lieutenant generals are eligible to wear iron ruler boots!According to the strict order of the Holy Majesty, intersex people are not qualified to wear boots, so this person in front of him. . .
Wu Qingsheng took a peek at him. Except for the old "eunuch" in front of him who was older, the eunuchs behind him were all tall and round, but they deliberately stooped their bodies, looking very sneaky.Moreover, it's just a decree, so how can there be so many eunuchs?
With the thoughts together, more and more doubts can be seen in the eyes.
"Wu Qingsheng...why haven't you accepted the order yet?"
Wu Qingsheng raised his head suddenly, with cold eyes and faint stubble, these people are definitely not eunuchs!
'what to do! ! ! 'Wu Qingsheng only felt a cool breeze blowing from his back.
"Wu Qingsheng..." There was another urging, a little impatient: "Don't take the order quickly? Are you going to rebel?!"
Wu Qingsheng hurriedly agreed: "The general will accept the order, long live my emperor."
After getting up and taking the imperial edict from the eunuch's hand, Wu Qingsheng pretended to check it, his thoughts changing rapidly.
Although others are rough, they are not stupid.
The purpose of the other party's false preaching of the imperial decree must be to earn money to open the gate of the city, so as to do illegal things.Since he has the guts, he must be prepared for accidental robbery.
Looking around, Wu Qingsheng gritted his teeth suddenly, and looked around: "Brothers have heard it... all take the guys and follow me!"
"Yes!" The soldiers didn't have so many twists and turns, they just listened to what the boss said.
"Boss, are you all leaving?" a fire chief asked in a low voice.
"Everyone, let's go!" Wu Qingsheng took the lead and walked towards the stone steps.
After a while, only a group of "eunuchs" remained on the top of the city.
"Uncle Wang, shall we..." one person asked the leading "eunuch".
"In a quarter of an hour, quickly open the city gates and welcome the father-in-law's soldiers and horses into the city." Wang Fang said in a sonorous and forceful voice, while taking out a thousand-mile fire from his bosom.
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"Quick, quick!" Wu Qingsheng led his brothers to run all the way, with a faint look of ferocity on his face.
"Head... Huh... Head..." A little soldier beside him was panting: "Didn't the emperor let us put down the chaos, we... Where are we going?"
There are rioters everywhere in the city. What they should do is to go directly to the crowd to disperse the people by beating and kicking them.Although it may be useless, you can't run around through the streets and alleys like you are now?
"Jin Yiwei!" Wu Qingsheng yelled, there was no other way, the surroundings were too noisy, and he couldn't hear him at all.
"Boss, why are you going to Jinyiwei?" Another soldier asked.
Wu Qingsheng replied loudly: "I don't bother to say too much. Those eunuchs just now are fake! We are here to call Jinyiwei to rescue the soldiers!"
"Ah?!" There was an uproar.
"Fake? Why?"
"How did you get it?"
"Then why are we still leaving?"
"Only three hundred of us are guarding the gate. If I hadn't been vigilant, none of them would have survived if they had been exposed just now." Wu Qingsheng thought to himself, but didn't bother to explain, he just stepped up his pace.Now in this city, only Jin Yiwei is relatively close.It is right to report immediately.
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The thirteen gates of the Forbidden City are tightly closed, whether it is Hongwu Gate, Dongzhi Gate, or Xi'an Gate, they are all guarded by heavy soldiers, and everyone is on the alert.Don't say [-] enemies, even [-] invading enemies are powerless to break through any gate.
not to mention. . .
Shenji Camp
"Master Bing, Liang Guogong has led the entire [-] battalion and [-] cavalry towards Hongwumen!"
"How long?"
"It's been half an hour!"
"Hmm..." Xin Guogong Tang He thought in his heart: "Half an hour, [-] cavalry, the distance between the two places." . .
It will take about half an hour to arrive. . .
Plus the infantry on my side. . . '
"Everyone will obey!"
"The general will be here at the end." The swords of the armor clanged, and everyone stood in awe.
"Clean up the army formation, and after a quarter of an hour, the whole army will go straight to Hongwumen!"
"Order!"
Looking at the full moon in the sky, Tang He sighed sadly: "Your Majesty, they are all watching, but I, Tang He, stand out, you have to believe me..."
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Running water does not rot.
With the thousand miles of fire in Wang Fang's hands, it exploded in the sky.
On a flower boat on Xuanwu Lake
"It's time, jump!" An order came.
A thousand big men, covered with black gauze.With a single knife on his back and wearing a fish skin rubber suit, Qi Qi jumped into the icy lake, and the lake fell into calm again in an instant.
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The lobby of Fusi government office in Beizhen.
Dressed in a flying fish brocade robe, Jiang Huan stood with his arms closed, his eyes slightly closed, listening to the commotion outside the courtyard wall and the sharp sounds from the sky one after another.
In front of him, the Zhenfu envoy, Qianhu, Baihu, and Zongqi stood on the left and right, with serious expressions.On the school field outside the hall, apart from the [-] Jinyi guards in Nanjing City, except for the [-] secret agents who cannot be seen, the remaining [-] Jinyi school captains and warriors have solemn expressions, and their bravery is beyond words.Jin Yiwei was formerly the Yiluan Division and the pro-army Duwei's Mansion. It was originally the emperor's pro-army and an elite in the army. Now it's just a guy who started to fuck again.
"Report~~~" At the entrance of the lobby, a warrior in brocade clothes rushed to Jiang Huan and knelt in front of Jiang Huan: "Lord Bing, three hundred soldiers have come from outside the Yamen, and the leader claims to be the captain of Zhengyang Gate. He said he has something to see. .”
His eyes still didn't open, and his tone was indifferent with some impatience: "Tell him... I know everything, just let him find a place to hide by himself. I don't have time to see him."
"Yes!"
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Looking at the warrior in brocade clothes in front of him, Wu Qingsheng's eyes almost popped out, and he didn't care about his superiority or inferiority, he grabbed the opponent's collar and said, "Are you kidding me, the city gate is almost gone, he Tell me to find a place to hide?!"
"It's not that it's almost gone, it's already gone." A hand knife slashed Wu Qingsheng's wrist hard. The Jinyi warrior adjusted his collar and said: "What we adults say, I will pass on. My words have been brought to you." , it’s up to you whether you listen or not.”
"I want to see your commander!" Wu Qingsheng lowered his head and was about to rush into the yamen, but was hugged by a group of soldiers behind him: "Boss, you can't go in, something will happen!"
"Heh, it's been so many years, this is the first time I saw someone dare to attack our Jinyiwei Town Fusi." Jinyi's army sneered: "Chong Chong, if you can come out alive, I and your surname!"
"Into your mother!" Wu Qingsheng was in a hurry. His brothers were in charge of guarding the Zhengyang Gate, but now they were "deceived" by someone with an imperial decree. , Looking back, everyone’s heads are unnecessary.Of course he could explain that he "believed" the imperial decree before he issued the order, but what if the higher-ups don't listen? More than 300 lives, is that a lot?
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Zhong led his three hundred brothers back to the Zhengyang Gate, Wu Qingsheng remained silent.When he can live, he wants to live, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is a kind of human nature as an animal.But when the road in front of him is blocked by people, he is also willing to fight with the knife in his hand and try it.
Zhengyang Gate was lost in his own hands, and he had no foundation on it.Originally, I thought that if we had to hold on tighter and let Jin Yiwei send some masters to retake the city gate together, we would be able to pass through smoothly, but I didn't expect that all of them didn't even enter the gate of Zhenfusi's yamen.
For the current plan, the only way to return to the Zhengyang Gate is to return more city gates, and then there will be an explanation to the superiors afterwards.
On the way back, Wu Qingsheng had already told his brothers about these principles, and now he didn't bother to repeat them, because mother-in-law and mother-in-law's long-winded talk easily discouraged morale.
The Zhengyang Gate has been opened, and the city gate hole has become an outlet.Standing in the whistling wind, the three hundred soldiers followed the example of the boss Wu Qingsheng, wrapping the long knife in their hands slowly and tightly around their hands.
"Killing one is enough money, killing two earns one. If you run away, you can't live, if you see blood, save your life." After a roar, Wu Qingsheng was the first to step up the steps: "Follow me!"
"Kill!" This is the roar of 300 people.
"Climb up the steps and beat me. You dare to give me your head, but I dare not chop you off?" On the city wall, at the end of the steps, Wang Fang was still wearing the eunuch uniform, but the imperial edict in his hand had been replaced by a steel knife. .
I have already noticed the movement under the city, and now I am just waiting for a rabbit.
This
The powerful and heavy knife was blocked by Wu Qingsheng, who was the first to show his head.
On top of the city, murderous intent filled the air.
(End of this chapter)