Chapter 537 Civil Disturbance

In the two hours after the gate of the palace was destroyed by the fire, more than 600 attacking soldiers and horses and more than 1,000 guards guarding the palace launched a tug-of-war battle. Relying on 50 fires in their hands, Hou Dabiao was also fearless and led the brocade guard flag schools to launch round after rounds of attacks.

The 500 own barracks under Qiu Yu on the periphery also fought with the 900 guards patrolling the city. The two sides fought fiercely and were difficult to distinguish.

As the guards of the royal palace reinforce the battlefield one after another, although the gate and gate tower were burned and collapsed, the guards still rely on the tall buildings of the front hall of the royal palace and rely on sufficient defenses and arrows to defend them. Although Hou Dabiao led people to occupy the front gate courtyard of the palace, it is difficult to survive.

The two sides paid hundreds of casualties. Hou Dabiao finally led people to open a small gap in the west corner of the transportation hall, rushed into the side courtyard of the palace with hundreds of people, and launched a hand-to-hand fight with the guards of the royal palace. The number of casualties on both sides soared, and the bodies and wounded soldiers spread all over the west first courtyard, and fire bows and arrows flew everywhere. The situation is extremely tragic.

Just as Hou Dabiao was shocked by the casualties of his Jinyiwei and wanted to withdraw from the reorganization of the soldiers and horses, he heard the firearms at the rear of the transportation hall and roared endlessly. The guards in the front of the house and courtyard panicked and shouted. Hou Dabiao was overjoyed and shouted, "Lord Song, they surrounded and killed them from the inside."

Less than 400 Jinyi guards left rose up and launched a charge and quickly rushed to the road behind the transportation hall. However, they suddenly found that the 700 or 800 palace guards who had fled in front of them had stopped running away. Hou Dabiao thought that they were going to return to charge and were about to order to prepare for the battle, so he heard someone shouting in the distance: " Zhu Huan, the rebellious king, has been captured, and the guards of the royal palace immediately gave up resistance. The court had a decree to punish the first evil, not to investigate the threat, and put down the blade and not blame the past, otherwise it would kill the nine clans by plotting against the crime.

Hou Dabiao recognized Wang Yong's voice and shouted with joy, "Brother Wang, have you caught the old thief?"

Wang Yong's voice came from behind hundreds of stiff guards: "It should be said that the old thief has been captured."

While talking, the guards of the royal palace in front of him dodged one after another, and more than 30 people came out slowly. Zhu Wei was tied up and walked in the middle of the team, and four royal palace guards were also tied up and escorted aside.

Song Nan slowly glanced at the hundreds of guards of the royal palace in front of him and shouted coldly, "The king has been captured. Why don't you put down your sword? Do you want to work for the rebels and let the court kill your nine clans?"

"Put down the blade and surrender immediately." Hundreds of flag schools shouted in unison.

The guards stared at each other and didn't know what to do.

Beside Song Nan, King Qingding slowly came out and frowned and said, "Aren't you all the guards of my Qingwang Mansion? Why did you make trouble with Uncle Wang? Haven't you listened to the words of the Marquis Song and lost your sword? Lord Song promised not to kill your heads. What are you doing?

The little prince's words seemed to be more useful than Song Nan's. Someone threw down his sword and squatted aside silently. One person took the lead, and the guards lost all their fighting spirit and surrendered one after another. Suddenly, more than a dozen guards ran wildly and wanted to escape in the chaos. Those were the guards of the royal palace and some intelligent figures. They knew that the court could not forgive them and wanted to take the opportunity to escape.

Wang Yong scolded loudly, and more than a dozen brocade guards chased them, and shot them all after a moment.

At the fourth watch, the town of Ningxia, which had been noisy all night, finally returned to calm. Except for the sporadic fights that occurred when Jinyiwei seized officials, the battle in the city was basically over.

In the front courtyard of the royal palace, Song Nan is arranging the defense of the city. In about an hour, the sky will be bright, and the rebels on the west cliff will return at dawn. At this moment, they must race against time, otherwise the rebels will fall back into crisis.

"General Qiu, how many people do you still have?"

Qiu Yu said with a calm face, "A little more than 200."

Song Nan said, "You can only ask the general to guard the city. You are better at this than me."

Qiu Yu said, "How can 200 people defend the city?"

Song Nan said, "I will dispatch 300 brocade guards for you, and I will give you 30 fire guards."

"It's still not enough. Such a little person can't keep it at all." Qiu Yu sighed.

Song Nan pointed to the more than 1,000 royal palace guards who squatted beside them in the yard and said, "Don't forget that there are still them. All of them are for you."

Qiu Yu patted his thigh and said, "Hey, why did you forget these guys? It's enough to have them."

Song Nan said, "I told them to understand the truth. This is to make up for their achievements. As long as they help defend the city, they will not blame the past and restore their freedom after the war."

Qiu Yu said, "The subordinate understands that if they don't seize this opportunity, they will be really stupid."

Song Nan nodded and said, "You are responsible for defending the city. I still have 100 people on hand, but I have to clean up the remnants hidden in the city as soon as possible. In case we defend against the enemy at the top of the city, they will make trouble in the city, won't they suffer from the enemy? In addition, I am also responsible for launching the people in the city. It is better to help defend the city. In short, as long as you persist for a day, the west cliff will be broken, and the big thing will be decided at that time.

Qiu Yu said, "Follow the order of the marquis, and quickly arrange it."

Song Nan nodded and ordered Hou Dabiao to follow Qiu Yue to join the prisoners and arrange the defense of the city. He turned his head and ordered Wang Yong to prepare horses to clean up the remnants of the fleeing officials in the city. A rapid shout came from the direction of Chengyun Hall: "Brother, brother, are you there?"

Qingding Wang, standing beside Song Nan, was surprised and said, "Sister, I'm here."

Princess Ping'an was still wearing the guard's clothes, but without a hat on her head. She rushed over, with her hair flying in the wind. The little prince also rushed over, and the sister and brother cried with their heads in their heads.

Song Nan looked at them with a smile, sighed and walked away. The voice of Princess Ping An behind her came: "Lord Song, thank you very much; are you hurt?"

Song Nan looked at her bandaged left arm and smiled, "It's okay."

Princess Ping'an was moved, but it was not easy to come forward to check the injury in public. She took a deep look at Song Nan and urged King Qingding, "Brother, Lord Song saved us. Can you thank us?"

King Qingding said, "Thank you, Lord Song."

Song Nan waved her hand and said, "You're welcome. Don't walk around in the house. I will send someone to guard the palace. I still have something important to do. Let's go first."

Princess Ping An came over slowly and looked at Song Nan with her eyes and whispered, "You did it. You kept your promise."

Song Nan smiled and said, "Yes, I won't make any promises again next time. It's so difficult."

Princess Ping'an sneered and said, "Go ahead, be more careful. Turn around... I'm going to see our sister and brother. I'll host a banquet for Lord Song in the name of King Qing's Mansion."

Princess Ping'an smiled like a flower and was beautiful. Song Nan actually didn't dare to look directly at it. After nodding and agreeing, she settled down and arched her hand silently, turned around across the horse and led the guards to fly away.

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The situation was very different from what Song Nan expected. When he began to attack the royal palace last night, Zhu Xiao did order people to move rescue troops on the West Cliff. When the messenger arrived at He Jin's tent in the middle of the night, everything in front of him stunned him.

The West Cliff tent is shouting to kill the sky, and it is chaotic into a pot of porridge. At first, the guard thought that he had crossed the river and was fighting fiercely with He Jin's army, but soon he figured out what was going on. It was not the officers crossing the river at all, but the civil strife in his camp.

The reason is very simple. He Jin returned to move the rescue soldiers. Zhu Yuqi smashed the pot and sold the iron before he gathered 8,000 horses to bring him the defense of the West Cliff. 4,000 of them were strong men in the city. The officers and soldiers on the other side of the day did not bomb with artillery, which made the 4,000 strong men escape their lives. When he changed shifts at night, he was afraid of smuggling officers and soldiers at night. Launching the shelling, Zhou Ping, the former battalion commander, refused to take soldiers to replace the 4,000 strong men stationed on the top of the west cliff.

He Jin didn't take it seriously. These 4,000 strong men were already bombed. They didn't even have armor except for a bow and arrow. He Jin didn't treat them as soldiers at all.

Four thousand strong men built fortifications and arrow towers on the top of the cliff during the day. They were tired all day. At night, the cold wind on the top of the cliff was piercing, and they had to stay here. They were forced to come here, and their mood could be imagined.

In this case, an eyeless sentence of a hundred households seemed to *light the gunpowder barrel. The newcomers all had veterans as officers, and the 100 households were originally members of the rear camp. At this time, they had to stay on the top of the cliff with the newcomers to suffer. After drinking a few mouthfuls of alcohol, their emotions were uncontrollable, so they beat and scolded around them. Xinding, blame them for suffering, maybe they lost their lives.

A newcomer listened to his words, so he slowly asked, and finally asked himself that the reason why these 4,000 people were not allowed to tear down the cliff was that the opposite side could bombard the cliff and cover the river with heavy artillery at any time. To put it bluntly, these 4,000 Xinding came to be bombed.

After the news spread, the mood of the new soldiers immediately exploded. The veteran officers angrily scolded the bullet pressure. After the drunken hundred households waved their knives and slashed the two men, the new men who knew they were going to die and began to defect. They killed the officers and veterans around them and rushed down the cliff. Zhou Ping, the commander of the former battalion who arrived at the news, intercepted and slaughtered them under the cliff. It immediately caused a big fight.

When the messenger guards arrived, it was the time when the new Ding and the veterans were in full swing.