Chapter 69 Critical Situation

Just when the imperial city was surrounded by Yu's army, the news of Yu's army's capture of the capital had spread all over the capital. Cao Huachun was shocked when he learned the news and immediately mobilized troops and horses to the imperial city to rescue him.

However, their reaction speed is still much slower than that of Yu's army. When they reacted and rushed to the imperial city, Yu's army had already arrived at the imperial city and completely surrounded the imperial city. All four doors were controlled by the Yu family army.

In addition, Qiu Qinghui personally sat in the area of the Meridian Gate and arranged the guard here. He sent someone to charge and seize the Jinyiwei warehouse in the south of Donghuamen. Some Jinyi guards waiting here were immediately scattered by them and fled.

After entering the city, the soldiers and generals of the Yu family rushed all the way out of the palace. They were tired and out of breath. Some people almost ran out of breath. Even if it was better, after arriving at the place, they were all tired and out of breath. They just wanted to lie down and have a rest quickly.

However, Qiu Qinghui had an order that he could not rest as long as he was not exhausted. After arriving at the designated place, he immediately turned to defense, directly built a barricade in their garrison area, and went to the room to seize the commanding heights. He must not release a soldier to enter the palace or let the palace. One more person escaped.

This order is quite difficult to implement, because at this time, Qiu Qinghui arrived at the palace with only three infantry battalions and did not carry artillery. He had to be stationed outside the four gates in the southeast and northwest of the palace for assistance. It was really difficult to defend such a wide location.

However, the officers still faithfully carried out Qiu Qinghui's order. After each of them arrived at their designated positions, they immediately turned to on-site defense and directly used everything they could find to build barricades on the streets around the palace.

If you really can't find the right thing, you can directly remove some houses around the palace, pile up bricks and stones on the streets, and build temporary barricades.

Including some tables, doors and bed boards, they have become the materials for building the barricade. At this time, in order to control the palace, Yu Jiajun can't care so much. During this period, it is inevitable to let some unlucky guys suffer, but this is also a helpless move.

Some * hands were sent to the roof. They pulled some tables and chairs on the roof with ropes, built simple fortifications, and then stayed on the roof.

At a time when the family's soldiers had not yet built perfect fortifications, Cao Huachun had already reacted and sent a group of officers and soldiers from Fuchengmen into the imperial city to attack Xuanwumen.

In addition, Cao Huachun also mobilized 10,000 officers and soldiers from Guangning, You'an and Yongdingmen in the outer city, and entered the inner city from Zhengyang Gate of Xuanwumen to help the imperial city.

For a while, there were people shouting horses everywhere in the capital, which resounded throughout the capital. Under the leadership of the generals, the officers and reinforcements rumbled towards the palace.

Soon, the officers and reinforcements who set out from Fuchengmen arrived outside Xuanwumen, where part of the soldiers and horses of the Yujia army who arrived first collided, and then launched a fierce battle.

At this time, because the rebels have entered the city and have arrived in the imperial city. Although the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp officers is very poor, they dare not to work hard. If the palace is conquered by the rebels, their jobs will be lost and the Ming Dynasty will be over, so they attacked quite fiercely this time.

, a Beijing general, led a large number of officers and soldiers, struggled to attack the Yujia army's defense line around Xuanwumen, shouting for a fierce battle, but also worked quite hard.

Wenzhi's reinforcements arrived, and some brocade guards who used to be guarded in Xuanwumen were also restless. At this time, more than 300 brocade guards rushed out of Xuanwumen with knives, trying to respond to the inside and outside and defeat the Yu family's army blocked outside Xuanwumen.

But what they met this time was absolutely unreasonable Yu Jiajun. The * in Yu Jiajun's hand was not vegetarian. There were already two platoons responsible for blocking the Xuanwu Gate. When more than 300 brocade guards rushed out of Xuanwu Gate, they were shot in the face with a row of guns.

As a result, the Jinyi guards rushed to the front and were knocked over in a group in the door hole. They didn't even rush out of the door hole, so they were shot and injured a large group of people. Then the remaining brocade guards fled back to the palace with infinite fear. You scrambled with me and closed the heavy door with a bang, and no longer dared to It's exposed.

As for the officers and soldiers who came from Fuchengmen, although they worked quite hard this time, they seemed to be very bad in front of the family army.

The Yu family military guarding here first controlled several commanding heights and arranged some sharpshooters or snipers. The other two companies blocked on both sides of the Xuanwu Gate. When the officers and soldiers arrived, they immediately began to fire at the officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers who rushed to the front were turned to the ground one after another, and the charge was repelled by the Yu family army several times. The leading general shouted and led the troops to attack in person, but as soon as he appeared, he was shot in the chest by a sniper. He fell off the horse from the back of the horse and landed for a while. In a few short time, he cut off his breath.

When the remaining officers and soldiers saw that the main generals had been killed, they suddenly lost their fighting spirit. At this time, a company of infantry suddenly launched a bayonet charge. More than 200 of the family soldiers, Qi Qi's flat hands were with bayonets*, long guns, roaring with the knife hands as the leader, and the wolves-like towards The officer rushed straight over.

As soon as the general died, they were panicked and were rushed by a bayonet facing them and were scattered. A large number of officers and soldiers rushed around with infinite fear. In less than an hour, the more than 3,000 Beijing battalion officers and soldiers were defeated by less than two companies by the Yu family army. They fled back to Fuchengmen one after another.

As soon as the situation on the Xuanwu Gate was controlled, the Yu family army around the Meridian Gate and Xihua Gate was also fiercely counterattacked by the officers and soldiers.

The general who led the army to launch a counterattack this time was Zhou Yuji, a famous Beijing camp strong general at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Zhou Yuji was born as an ordinary soldier with a straightforward temperament. He was even more loyal to the Ming court. He had participated in the war many times. Because of his extraordinary bravery, he was promoted from ordinary soldiers and has been He was promoted to the position of vice general.

This time, the Yu army attacked the capital. Zhou Yuji was responsible for guarding Yongdingmen and was not attacked by the Yu family army. However, considering that the field ability of the Yu family army was too strong and the fighting power of the officers under his command was insufficient, Zhou Yuji did not dare to easily go out of the city to fight against it. However, now the Yu family army has entered the city and has reached the imperial city. Zhou Yuji took care of it. There were so many, so he quickly led his troops to the imperial city.

When he led the troops to the Meridian Gate, it had been completely blocked by the Yu family army. Zhou Yuji did not expect that the Yu family army would come so quickly. Seeing that the Meridian Gate had not been broken by the Yu family army, the emperor inside should still be safe, so he immediately waved his division to attack the defense line of the family army and tried to The Yu family army here was defeated.

Zhou Yuji still had a group of more capable officers and soldiers. Under Zhou Yuji's death order, his officers and soldiers immediately began to launch a fierce attack on the Yu family army around the Meridian Gate.

The two sides immediately launched a fierce battle outside the Meridian Gate. Yu's army was so strong that they could only defend the Meridian Gate area. Zhou Yuji had thousands of officers and soldiers, and brought several guns to bombard the defense line of the family's army.

But at this time, Yu Jiajun's hands have controlled the commanding heights and kept shooting from the roof or wall. The officers and soldiers were repelled from repeated attacks, and many people were killed and injured.

Several artillery guns were exposed to the scope of vision of the sniper because they were too forward. As a result, the officers and soldiers who operated the guns were named one by one and hit people over.

Zhou Yuji led the army to attack several times, but under the strong firepower of the family army, they all returned to no success and lost a considerable number of soldiers.

Zhou Yuji really had no choice but to change his style of playing, avoid the front of Yujiajun barricade, and also send troops to climb on the roof, trying to shoot down the Yujiajun * hands on the roof, but the officers and arrows were not far from the family army, and they did not take advantage of fighting on the roof. As soon as they appeared, they were After being knocked down, he lost a lot of officers and soldiers, which made the officers and soldiers afraid to climb to the roof.

Zhou Yuji then sent troops to tear down the wall and break down the house, avoid the direct shot of the Yu family army, and directly opened a channel from some courtyard houses. He attacked the defense line of the Yu family army, and then there was a short-term fierce battle between the two sides.

Because the terrain here is complex and belongs to the standard street battle, once the officers and soldiers avoid the frontal attack on the street, the firepower of the Yu family army cannot be fully exerted, and the long-range shooting advantage of * cannot be carried forward.

Zhou Yuji himself was a fierce general at the end of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, he was determined to save the emperor desperately, so the offensive was very fierce. Under his personal supervision of the battle, his officers and soldiers were also quite fierce. After breaking the wall and tearing down the house, he forced the Yu family's defense line, and both of them entered a fierce white-edged battle.

Yu's army's military strength is limited, but it is very fierce. When the officers and soldiers suddenly came to the front, the subordinates of the Yu family's army put on bayonets, raised knives and guns and killed the officers and soldiers in front of them.

The shouting of killing resounded throughout the Meridian Gate. From time to time, the snipers also knocked off some officers and soldiers on high. The collision sound of knives and guns, *, screams and shouting were intertwined, as if they were boiling.

At every moment, soldiers fell under each other's knives and guns, and blood stained a large area of the ground. Many soldiers of the Yu army's long guns were cut off, so they continued to jump up with knives. When their hands were cut off, they rushed up and bit them with their teeth.

The body was worn by the other party's long *, and their hands grabbed the enemy's long gun, so that they could not get out, and let the brothers behind them jump up and stab the other party to death, and die together.

The war has entered such a level, and its tragic degree is outrageous. Under Zhou Yuji's supervision, the officers and soldiers came like a tide, but they were blocked by the thin line of defense of the family army and could never get close to the Meridian Gate.

But the situation is very dangerous for the Yu family army. After all, their troops to the periphery of the imperial city are very limited, and the troops assigned to each intersection are more scattered. There are no rich troops to deploy at all. At several points of the attack, the war is fierce. Extreme, but Qiu Qinghui could not allocate any troops to reinforce these precarious places.

At this time, not to mention ordinary soldiers, such as the firemen and staff officers in the army, they all reached the forefront and fought with the enemy's short soldiers.

Even Qiu Qinghui himself, with a sharp single knife, came to the most dangerous place in person. Like ordinary soldiers, he stood at the forefront and shouted for a fierce battle, leading the Yu family's soldiers under his command to fight with death.

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