Chapter 858 The Great Fight in Beijing 1

Zhang Wei made a decision and said loudly to Yang Tinghe, "Yang Shoufu, we can't beat them. I suggest that we evacuate here immediately and mobilized troops and horses outside the palace to encircle and suppress Song Nan and these rebels."

Liang Chu shouted, "Margrave Zhang, you can't compete with several times their manpower. After arranging so many hours, how can there be no warning even when General Han's camp enters the palace? It's really confusing."

Zhang Wei said angrily, "I don't have the ability. Lord Liang, go up and taste the smell of iron sand. It's light. No one can do anything about facing such a fierce firearm."

Yang Tinhe waved his hand and shouted, "Don't fight, so follow the wishes of Marquis Zhang, quickly evacuate here quickly, and gather superior forces outside the palace and then encircle and suppress it."

As soon as the words fell, Wang Yong and others had rushed to the front. Zhang Wei shouted and urged more than 20 sword officials around him to stop, and he pulled Yang Tinghe to quickly retreat. When he retreated dozens of steps and looked back, the more than 20 sword officials had fallen into a pool of blood. Zhang Wei understood that if Wang Yong and others had not been afraid that the firearms would hurt other officials and the empress dowager next to Luan, they would have been angry long ago. If you shoot him, you won't want to leave even if you wait for others to leave.

As soon as Zhang Wei, Yang Tinghe and others fled, the fork knives could not beat the firearms of the generals of Jinyiwei. At this moment, their fighting spirit suddenly disappeared. They suddenly escaped and surrendered and completely gave up their resistance. The officials on the ground had never been so agile. They got up and spread their hands and fled, with a large group of buttocks The officials with arrows on their back could only watch them escape and scolded them one by one for their courage and righteousness.

A eunuch's trembling voice reminded Empress Dowager Zhang, who was trembling with her head in her knees, and said, "Empress Dowager, Lord Yang, they have run away."

Empress Dowager Zhang poked her head out of the sedan chair in fear. She happened to see Yang Ting and their fast-escaped backs disappearing behind the flower tree. She gritted her teeth and said, "How can they do this? Don't they care about the death of the family?"

Song Nan's voice came from not far away: "The Empress Dowager, don't panic. I will never be rude to the Empress Dowager."

Mrs. Zhang turned pale, stood up and said coldly, "Song Nan, is this how you repay the emperor's favor? As soon as the emperor died, do you want to seek power and seize the throne?

Song Nan slowly stepped down the steps and arched his hand and said, "Empress dowager, if you don't want to kill me, why is the situation here? As for seeking power and seizing the throne, it was the empress dowager's extortion. The minister only knew how to act according to the emperor's edict. Whoever wants to disobey the emperor's edict will not allow anyone. Come, escort the empress dowager to drive back to Cining Palace and send people to protect the safety of the empress dowager. The empress dowager is restless outside. If the empress dowager comes out of Cining Palace without permission, I will not dare to guarantee your safety. After the situation calms down, I will invite the empress dowager to come to the Fengtian Hall to read the emperor's edict, but now I don't have time and must immediately seize Yang Tingyu and others. People, calm down the situation in the capital.

Empress Dowager Zhang sighed and said no. She knew that from now on, she had lost her freedom.

Song Nan watched the Empress Dowager Luan leave and turned around and saw Wanzhi standing behind him. Hundreds of Han generals and colonels were standing in the square bathed in blood and looking at themselves. Song Nan ordered coldly: "Wan Zhi listened to the order and led General Han to control all the palaces of the palaces and disarm all the guards in the palace. If there is any It doesn't matter if you resist and kill, but pay attention to who dares to take advantage of the chaos and act recklessly in the palace? Don't blame Song Nan for being cruel.

Wan Zhi arched his hand and suddenly said, "Your Excellency, what should I do at the palace gate? Do you want to transfer people to guard it?"

Song Nan shook his head and said, "It's good to send 100 brothers to guard the three palace gates of East and West Huamen and Daming Gate. If Yang Ting and Zhang Wei really gather soldiers and horses in the city, we can't guard the palace gate. Although I don't want the capital to be in chaos, I can't take care of it now. Wang Yong, prepare a horse immediately and come out of the palace with me. If I, Song Nan, still have some appeal, I'm afraid my people outside Zhengyang Gate have gathered in place.

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Song Nan and Wang Yong led more than 30 general lieutenants to fly out of the palace from Xihua Gate through Xiyuan Xi'an Gate and took a detour to outside the Daming Gate. Although they met sporadic palace fork knives on the way, it was obvious that they were not organized and did not attack or stop Song Nan and others. Instead, Wang Yong ordered the captains to shoot with fire. More than a dozen people were killed, and the rest of them ran around for fear.

Out of Xi'an Gate and arrived in Fu'an Square, there was a chaotic scene on the street. The news of the chaos in the palace had obviously spread to the city. The people on the street ran around in a panic. Shop merchants were busy closing doors and closing doors. There were also unidentified soldiers and horses running on the street, and a scene of great difficulties would put everyone in danger. Elephant.

Everyone rushed and went straight to the direction of Jinyiwei General Office along West Chang'an Street. When Jinyiwei General Office ran to the intersection of West Chang'an Street and the North and South Main Street of Dashirongfang on the side of Daming Gate, they heard the noise and noise of people and horses in front of them.

Wang Yong quickly said, "Your Excellency, there are unidentified soldiers and horses in front of you. In order to prevent changes, please wait a moment and Rong Bei's position to find out who the soldiers and horses are."

Song Nan nodded and stopped at the corner of the street at the intersection with dozens of lieutenants. Wang Yong waved his whips to urge the horse to rush out and went straight to the place where the horses were hissing. Everyone waited nervously in place. After a moment, he suddenly heard the noise of soldiers and horses getting closer and closer. It seemed that he was coming towards Chang'an Street. A general lieutenant of Dahan He was shocked and said, "Your Excellency, should we avoid it?"

Song Nan was also a little hesitant, but suddenly heard Wang Yong shouting: "Your Excellency, come out and wait to calm them down."

Song Nan was overjoyed and ran out with everyone. However, he saw that the street was full of thousands of brocade and guard flag schools, all of which were fully armed. Hou Dabiao was riding on a horse in front of the team and running towards him. Hou Dabiao was still more than ten steps away from Song Nan. Hou Dabiao rolled down and knelt down to salute.

"Oh, I can see you. We are so anxious. When I learned that the adult returned to Beijing, I rushed to Zhengyang Gate from the government office to greet him, but I didn't expect to be empty. I learned that the adult had taken Wang Qian into the palace. I wanted to enter the palace, but I was stopped by a group of rabbits at the gate of the palace, saying that civil and military officials were discussing major events. During this period, no one was allowed to enter the palace. Damn, what is this? What words? It's a big joke that Fusi Town, Jinyiwei North Town, can't enter the palace.

Wang Yong said, "You are also rare? The adults were blocked outside the gate when they entered the city, and they were ordered not to bring their guards in when they entered the inner city. Seeing that the emperor took hostages in, they all took them.

Hou Dabiao was dumbfounded and said, "What the mother's wrong with this? Is there really something big going on?

Song Nan said, "Why did you appear here with these brothers? Didn't you smell something?"

Hou Dabiao said, "The humble brother said that the gathering and mobilization of soldiers and horses in the city was chaotic, and he heard the chaotic sound of fire in the palace and felt that the situation was a little wrong. Thinking that the adults were in the palace and afraid that something would happen, the adults would call people. So after discussing with Sun Zhenfu, the two of us decided to immediately gather the brothers in the inner city to prevent them from summoning. The humble position came to the west six squares to transfer people, and Sun Zhenfu went to the east eight squares, which happened to take his brothers to the gate of the outer palace of Daming Gate. Wang Yishi appeared from behind our buttocks. What the hell happened?"

Wang Yong rushed to say, "You are also becoming more and more confused. You don't know what happened in the capital? A group of old miscellaneous hairs in the cabinet and the foreign court took advantage of the absence of adults in the capital to set up a new emperor's candidate. Eunuch Zhang learned that he traveled thousands of miles to Anqing to inform the adults that it took us several nights to rush to the capital to stop them. Unexpectedly, those guys actually colluded with Zhang Wei and Tan You of the governor's office of the five armies to control the situation in the city, and the fork knife and knife officers in the palace also fell into their hands. Just now, they took action with the adults.

Hou Dabiao was so shocked that he opened his mouth and said, "Ah? How dare they do this?"

Song Nan said coldly, "This matter is secret. It is also true that Grandpa Zhang did not tell you. After all, Grandpa Zhang also fled the capital without permission. He can't guarantee that the news will not be leaked. Now that the emperor has died, they are unscrupulous. They just intended to kill me in the palace. If it hadn't been for the surprise of General Han to come to relieve the siege, I'm afraid I would have been killed by them. General Han's camp used the power of firearms to drive them out of the palace, but they must have gathered troops to counterattack the palace and control the situation in the capital, and what we have to do is to suppress them.

Hou Dabiao almost fell off his horse and said in a daze, "My God, the emperor has passed away. The situation has actually reached such a point, and the Empress Dowager also realized that it was still in the dark. If adults are killed by them in the palace, they will be stupid enough to die. These bastards dared to make trouble and intend to kill the adults. This is to rebel. They are really tired of living. However, the adults issued an order to arrest them one by one to plead guilty, and finally cut off their heads one by one. They have long hoped to do so.

Song Nan frowned and said, "There are no more than 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers and horses in the governor' office of the five armies in the city. They are all old departments of Tan You and Zhang Wei. This is not just talking about. I'm afraid that these people can rely on our brocade guards alone. I don't know if my brother-in-law can take action. This time, he can't do it."

Wang Yong said, "It doesn't need to be said that the British will sit idly by? Although the British Duke is a little wise and timid, he is still reliable in big matters, otherwise he will not send anyone to escort Eunuch Zhang out of the city to report the news to you. According to his humble position, the British Duke mainly depends on your attitude. If the adult wants to do anything, he will definitely do it.

Song Nan nodded and said, "You see him very well. He pitys the feathers of the British government and is afraid that he will take the lead and take the lead in the future, which is reasonable. Unlike me, he is not afraid of anything. I am not afraid of speaking ill of me in history books in the future. I only do what I should do, and others will comment on it. I hope he won't shrink back this time, otherwise I won't be able to get along with him happily in the future.

While talking, thousands of people rushed to the west of Daming Gate and heard a shout of killing in the distance. The captain who explored the way in front of him turned around and reported, "There was a fight at Zhengyang Gate. It's a mess."

Song Nan shouted and asked, "Whose soldiers? Is it our brother Jinyiwei?"

The lieutenant said, "I can't see clearly on the side of the outer city. It seems to be the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp."

Song Nan frowned and said, "Let's be clear, whose soldiers and horses are in the Beijing camp?"

The captain hurriedly said, "The soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp outside Zhengyang Gate are attacking Zhengyang Gate. At the top of the city are the soldiers and horses of the battalion and state guards under the jurisdiction of the governor of the five armies. Listen, fire cannons are used."

Song Nan patted his horse and said, "Okay, my brother-in-law is not timid this time. We started to do it before we arrived. Hou Dabiao and Wang Yong listened to the order and immediately killed behind Zhengyang Gate, disrupted the soldiers and horses in front of Daming Gate, signaled Sun Xuan's people in the east to enter from the other side and make dumplings for them."

Hou Dabiao and Wang Yong answered the promise loudly and quickly made arrangements. 600 flag schools followed Wang Yong out of the fork in the rear of the general office. 700 people followed Hou Dabiao to attack from the main road, and the remaining 100 people followed Song Nan to command in the rear.

After the assignment, the captains quickly approached the square between Zhengyangmen and Damingmen in two ways. A moment later, they saw more than a dozen fireworks flying into the sky with a shrill sound. Soon after, fireworks were also raised in the direction of Mingshifang in the east of Nanxunfang, which must be echoed by Sun Xuan's gathered brocade guards.

Up and below the Zhengyang Gate, the battle to attack the inner city has begun. When Li Daniel found Zhang Lun, Zhang Lun did hesitate. Zhang Lun had considered this issue countless times. After Zhang Yong told him about the imperial edict, he always made trade-offs. If Zhang Mao were alive, Zhang Mao would have warned him not to participate in this fight and become a detached and independent middle force for all parties. He not only preserved the status of the British government, but also did not offend either side in the struggle for power between the two sides.

However, Zhang Lun knew that he could not sit and watch the play. He knew that the interests between himself and Song Nan were the same. He had stood on Song Nan's side many times before. Even if he was wise this time, he would never have a good end afterwards. If Song Nan is defeated in this battle, he will definitely recognize himself as Song Nan's faction, and he will be marginalized in the future and become famous.

Among other things, if his sister didn't go into the British mansion with a knife and chased her, Zhang Lun's name would be written upside down. The brother and sister turned against each other and became enemies. It is Zhang Lun's most taboo for him not to communicate with each other. In his heart, he valued family affection much more than interests. This is the most fundamental difference between him and Zhang Mao. Otherwise, he would not have known the business between Song Nan and the little princess, but chose to endure and appease him, that is, he did not want his sister to become a sacrifice of interest exchange. Product.

But Zhang Lun also knew that the five battalions of soldiers and horses of Song Nan's cronies in the regimental camp were taken by Song Nan to fight against the rebellion of King Ning. In addition to the Fenwu camp led by himself, the marquis of the rest of the regimental battalions were maintained by interests. Song Nan also told himself that he would purify the regimental camp and even proposed steps and The way, but Zhang Lun can never be cruel; now, the bitter fruit without cruelty is highlighted, and it is a question whether he can mobilize the marquis of other battalions.

With no choice, Zhang Lun made a decision and immediately mobilized the military camp and the Shenshu camp under his control to control the situation in the outer city. As for other regiment camps, Zhang Lun chose the conservative method, which is to let them stay still and not inform them to send troops at all. What Zhang Lun was most afraid of was They refused to obey the order, but were afraid that they would suddenly fall to the Empress Dowager and Yang Ting and one side. At this time, the defection will be fatal.

When Zhang Lun led the soldiers and horses to the outside of Zhengyang Gate, thousands of Jinyiwei Flag School had gathered in the square outside Zhengyangmen. Seeing that the 1,000 Jinyiwei's fire camp that Song Nan had never left was also here, Zhang Lun couldn't help sweating for Song Nan's move to enter the inner city alone. The gate was already tense. At first, the brocade guards could be held back. As soon as they heard the sound of bean-like fire in the palace and knew that there had been a fight in the inner palace, the brocade guard flag schools could no longer hold back. Hou Dabiao sent people to the gate of Zhengyangmen to negotiate. Knowing that the defenders of the gate would not agree, he still tried to let them open the gate and let the Jinyi guards enter the inner city to check the situation. However, the camp guards at the head of the city indiscriminately pulled bows and arrows and killed more than a dozen brocade guards, which immediately ignited the air that had reached the critical point of explosion. .

As the guards immediately began to fight back and swarming to attack the city gate, Zhang Lun did not hesitate at all, so he ordered the Fighting Camp and the Shenji Camp to start attacking the Zhengyang Gate Tower. In terms of siege, the Fighting Battalion and Shenji Battalion are obviously more useful than the lieutenants of Jinyiwei. They are real combat soldiers and horses. They have not only assisted the siege equipment but also trained to attack the siege, so they immediately became the main force of the siege. Thousands of Jinyiwei lieutenants were unwilling to be spectators. Zhao Dapeng approached the city wall with a fire battalion and opened fire on it. The other thousands of households also acted as pawns climbing the ladder, vividly treating Daming Capital as a battlefield to kill the enemy.

On the vast streets and square between Damingmen and Zhengyangmen, nearly 10,000 military governors gathered here. When Zhang Lun and the soldiers and horses of Zhengyangmen Tower and the outside arrived, Yang Tinghe and Zhang Wei had just escaped from the palace in confusion. Hearing the news that Zhang Lun led the regiment to arrive outside Zhengyang Gate, Zhang Wei I couldn't help shivering.

"The British Duke really took action, Mr. Yang, it's not easy to do this. If all the soldiers and horses of the regiment are dispatched and have more than 50,000 troops, we are not enemies."

Yang Tinhe frowned and said, "It's not surprising that Zhang Lun took action. Can you hear it clearly? Are all the soldiers and horses of the seven battalions outside Zhengyangmen dispatched? I have a tacit understanding with them, and several marquises said that they would not participate in it and would never get involved.

Zhang Wei hurried to the tower to observe in person, but found that there were no other regimental battalion soldiers and horses except Zhang Lun's Fenwu camp and Shenji camp and Jinyiwei colonel. With great joy, he quickly told Yang Tinghe and praised: "Yang Gong is deeply far-sighted. The other marquis of the regimentalty did not take action. It seems that the regimental camp is also not iron plate. Block."

Yang Tinghe said indifferently, "Of course, it's not a piece of iron plate. The reason why they are obedient to Song Nan on the surface is that Zhang Lun and Song Nan hold the position of chief and deputy governor of the regiment camp, which is their upper official. Second, the emperor favored Song Nan when he was alive. Song Nan was also tricky, and several marquises who openly opposed him were taken down. After the throne of the admiral of the regiment camp, they died and naturally refused to offend Song Nan easily. But in fact, they are not as loyal to Song Nan as they think.

Zhang Wei arched his hand and said, "What Yang Gong said is that the current situation confirms your judgment, Yang Gong is wise."

Yang Tinghe glanced at Zhang Wei and said, "Do you think they will agree with me in a few words? That's because I promised them benefits. They are all people who can't afford to get up early, and there is no faith. I promised them that the governor of the regiment camp will be theirs in the future, so they are willing to take this risk to move.