Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 287 Daming, who is in control of ups and downs? (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

Third Prince Zhu climbed up with support, and then moved himself to the side of the ship, while Yang Ziyun opened the window on the side of the cabin for him, allowing him to see clearly the situation outside.

At this time, the sky was already a little bright, so the third prince Zhu could have a panoramic view of the situation on the nearby shore.The official ship he was on was indeed on the Qinhuai River, and it was also on the river section of the inner city of Nanjing. Nearby was the original Jiangnan Gongyuan, which is now the headquarters of the Reformation School.

Through the window, the third prince could clearly see a sea of ​​red that had gathered outside the Restoration School at a glance!

I don't know how many people and scholars in red robes, holding long swords, crossbows and muskets have gathered in the open space outside the gate of the Restoration Hall, screaming to "protect Daming and punish the country's thieves"!
Some of them have drawn out their long swords and held them high, reflecting dazzling light in the morning sun.

A high platform had been set up at the entrance of the Restoration Hall, and on the stand stood a "great Confucian in red" wearing a cross-collared red robe. Third Prince Zhu still recognized him.

Lu Liuliang seemed to be mobilizing, holding a trumpet rolled up with cardboard in his hand, and making some speeches at the top of his voice, but the surroundings were too noisy, and the third prince Zhu couldn't hear clearly. He could only vaguely hear words such as "The rise and fall of the world, the people of the country are responsible", "The Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty of the people", "Anqing has been conquered by the heavenly soldiers, and the British king's army is coming" and other words.

Hearing that "the army of the King of England is coming", Zhu Cijiong regained his spirits - as long as Li Datou's army arrives, he, the third prince, will be "Zhu Mochou".

"Quick, quick, get the boat up, I want to be with the people of the kingdom!" Zhu Cijiong said.

"No!" Yang Ziyun who was next to him immediately stopped him, "Your Majesty, let's see how the people of Nanjing, Yingtian Lianjun, and Huaixi Red Scarf can calm down the chaos and kill the thieves. After the Geng bandits are eliminated, the Majesty will be crowned as the Son of Heaven. If the Majesty steps forward now, I'm afraid it will be misunderstood."

While speaking, Yang Ziyun raised his hand and wiped lightly on his long neck!
Zhu Cijiong is a smart person, he immediately understood that Yang Ziyun was spreading a message for others!

That "other" needs a puppet emperor!
After all, the emperor still wants it!

Because the process of reviving Daming is a process of conquering the world, and many heroes will be played in conquering the world.Heroes must be knighted, and once they are knighted, they must be passed on to their descendants. If there is no hereditary emperor, why can nobles still be hereditary?
So it is impossible without the emperor. At least right now, it is impossible to live without the emperor.

Since there is going to be an emperor, then for the Southern King, Northern King, Yingwang, Zhongwang, Yiwang, Lu Zhongtang, Chen Zhongtang, etc., it is more appropriate to support a legal heir to the Ming Dynasty who is of good blood and legal lineage.
For example, now that Geng Jingzhong is the emperor, the other kings and Zhongtang will join forces to deal with him!
Of course, the legal heir of Ming Dynasty must be incompetent and cowardly enough. Only in this way can he be a good puppet emperor.

Otherwise, based on the old Zhu family's previous record of killing heroes, if the third prince Zhu wants to show a little domineering aura, then he will be killed by Geng Jingzhong!
"My dear concubine, I thought about it again, and found that I don't know anything. It seems that if I go, I will cause trouble for the people of the country. What should I do now?" The third prince Zhu is of course willing to lie flat and be the puppet emperor.

The puppet emperor, that is also the emperor!
The benefits and benefits that the emperor deserves are also quite a lot, and he doesn't have to deal with all kinds of affairs, and he doesn't have to fight with the power and traitors below. Where can he find such a good job that he can just open a harem at home every day?
Yang Ziyun has already shown a satisfied smile—the Third Prince Zhu has passed the examination!
"Your Majesty," Yang Ziyun said with a smile, "you don't have to do anything, just sit on the boat and watch the people of Nanjing put down the chaos under the command of King Ying, Lu Zhongtang, and Chen Zhongtang!"

"Kill Zhu San, destroy Remnant Light, and protect King Geng!"

Just when the third prince Zhu was determined to lie down, the sound of gunshots and shouts of killing had already resounded around the Jianguoding Palace on the north side of Xi'anmen Street.

This palace is the original Liangjiang governor's yamen. To the south is Xi'anmenwai Street, to the east is the city wall of the imperial city, to the north is the North Palace and several military camps and warehouses, and to the west is a bustling business district.

After the Third Prince Zhu moved into this palace, the reconstruction and reinforcement works of the palace have never stopped. Apart from the interior decoration and the "Fake Wenhua Gate Project", the focus of the reconstruction of the palace is to strengthen the outer walls and make them eye-catching!

The outer wall of the rebuilt Wangfu is not high, but it is very strong. It is not made of rammed earth and bricks, but made of stones from the Lime Mountain section in the north of Nanjing Outer City and very hard green bricks, which can defend against shelling.

At the same time, many shooting positions and shooting holes were opened on the inner side of the wall, and the gunman could hide in the shooting positions and fire through the shooting holes.

Just after Third Prince Zhu left Dingwangfu and escaped, Luo Dawei slipped in from behind the palace with Li Zhongshan's warrant and two thousand Huaixi red scarf soldiers who sneaked into Nanjing, and then quickly took over the guards of the palace, and then completed the defense.

And not long after their defense was completed, Geng Jingzhong's artillery began to bombard Dingwang's mansion with red cannons.

The shells hit the outer wall of Prince Ding's Mansion, and there was the sound of shells collapsing bricks and stones everywhere, but this solid outer wall still withstood the test. After being subjected to dozens of rounds of [-]-[-]-jin solid bullets, it still remained intact, and no one collapsed.

After firing hundreds of shells, the "Su Song Army" (that is, Yue Le's army) that had come out from the Xi'an Gate had already surrounded Ding Wangfu.Most of these were Eight Banners soldiers and Green Battalion soldiers who were stationed in Jiangning earlier. Tongding Wang Zhu Cijiong had a blood feud - although the soldiers who killed their families were Geng Jingzhong's soldiers, Yue Le did not tell them the truth. They thought it was Prince Zhu, the number one rebel of the Qing Dynasty, who ordered the massacre of the whole city of Jiangning!

Of course, if the third prince Zhu's order is effective, he will definitely issue such an order without hesitation.

So Geng Jingzhong was considered to have carried out the "Decree" of the Third Prince Zhu, and now Yue Le's soldiers are seeking revenge from him, so it is not considered that they have found the wrong person.

Yue Le's soldiers shouting the slogan "Kill Zhu San" launched a charge, approaching from all sides of Prince Ding's Mansion, and opened fire as they advanced.

The defenders of Prince Ding's Mansion did not show weakness, and fought back desperately through the shooting holes opened on the wall.

Around the Ding Palace, gunpowder filled the air for a while!

Geng Jingzhong stood on the gate tower of Xi'an Gate, leaning behind a crenel, staring at the battlefield in front of him, surrounded by his accomplices, all of them looked at the direction of Prince Ding's Mansion with red eyes, wishing to burn this luxurious and spacious mansion to the ground.

But the defense of Prince Ding's Mansion is unexpectedly strong!

Originally thought that the battle could be settled with a single charge, but now the general Yue Le's soldiers who were attacking Dingwang's mansion were suddenly shot at, although not very intensively, but extremely deadly.The soldiers behind were probably frightened by this scene, and did not dare to charge forward, but started firing from a distance.But how could their bullets enter the narrow shooting holes?

So the bullets just hit the wall, and it was almost impossible to cause damage to the defenders inside.

This is not an attack, it is clearly giving away the head!

"My lord, you can't fight like this!"

Shang Zhixin suddenly spoke at this time, "Your servant, take your troops to support Prince An. By the way, pull a few red cannons down and fire at Prince Ding's mansion. As long as the outer wall collapses, there are too many of us. If we rush in, we're not afraid that we won't be able to win."

"Okay!" Geng Jingzhong nodded, "I'm sorry, thank you!"

"My lord," Shang Shuying, Shang Zhixin's sister, saw her brother asking for a fight, and she also felt a little itchy. "I also want to do something. I want to lead my troops to detour from the north of Dingwangfu to take down Beiwangfu, Chengbei Daying, and Shizishan Highland. The Yuejiang Tower on the Lion Mountain has also set up cannons. As long as you can take down the Yuejiang Tower, you can bombard Yifengmen and Longjiangkou from a high position. If you can capture Yifengmen and control Longjiangkou, then the Northern King The army will be able to come from Puzikou."

"Good idea!" Geng Jingzhong laughed, "I didn't expect you, sister Shuying, to be proficient in military affairs!"

Shang Shuying said with a smile: "Look at what you said, I am the female feudal lord who has been in charge of Duke Xushun's mansion for many years. The five assistant leaders of Duke Xushun's mansion are all under my command!"

"Well, let's go!" Geng Jingzhong nodded.

"Whoo!"

As soon as Shang Shuying and Monk Zhixin left the Xi'an Gate Tower, a guard from the East Prince's Mansion rushed to report.

"Report to King Dong, Li Guan's soldiers and horses were blocked by the Yingtian regiment and some Yingtian militiamen on Changfu Street, and they couldn't attack for a while, please help!"

"What?" Geng Jingzhong was taken aback, "Changfu Street"

When he was surprised, there was another long "report" sound.

"To King Dong, Fan Guan's soldiers and horses encountered stubborn resistance from Ying Tianren in Taiping."

Now Geng Jingzhong was a little silly.

How could this be a bad start?
If you don't count Shang Zhixin and Shang Shuying's two groups, he sent Yue Le, Li Zhifang, Fan Chengmo and other three groups before, and now they are all blocked!
How can this be good?

"Your Majesty, send reinforcements!" Yu Renying, Geng Jingzhong's military adviser, immediately suggested, "Now is the time for the brave to win!"

"My lord, now is not the time to preserve our strength!" Daoren Li also suggested, "If you count the troops of the Shang family brothers and sisters, we have already dispatched a five-way army and invested more than 2 people! If we can't win quickly, once the people of Nanjing are mobilized, then Prince Zhu's side will not have 20 to [-] people, but a dozen or [-] people!"

More than a dozen and 20. Geng Jingzhong was taken aback by this figure, and thought to himself: Why was it that when planning major events before, it was all the people in Nanjing who were mobs?Why don't you get along now?
Thinking of this, Geng Jingzhong gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Come here, order eight thousand elites for this king, and this king wants to personally conquer Changfu Street!"

"Whoo!"

Changfu Street, as the name suggests, is the street where Chang Yuchun's house is located.This is an old place name. Originally, there was no Chang family on Changfu Street, but this time when Daming reopened, the Chang family invested and took shares!

Now of course we have to go back to Changfu Street!

So what Li Zhifang's men encountered on Changfu Street were the Jiangdu Red Scarf Army Changwei's men and horses!
Chang Wei's soldiers are not as good at fighting as Huaixi Red Scarf, but they are well equipped!They belong to Chen Yonghua, and Chen Yonghua is a big capitalist!Moreover, they have occupied Yangzhou, a treasure land of geomantic omen, where there are pots of food and water to welcome Master Wang, but the salt merchants in Yangzhou are very simple, and they don't engage in those fake ones, they directly sell silver!Yinshan Yinhai welcomes Master Wang!

So Chang Wei's army has exchanged long guns for flint hair, and they have bought out the inventory in Foshan, Guangfu!

In addition to being equipped with flintlock guns, the regiment warriors of the Chang Family Army also wear armor, and they are all dressed in high-quality cloth armor. The outer cloth and the inner iron are all made of materials, without any reduction.

Therefore, as soon as they rushed out of the two big houses on Changfu Street, they gave Li Zhifang a blow.Hit them with intensive flintlock firepower so that they can't even lift their heads!

If the 8000 people led by Geng Jingzhong hadn't arrived in time, Li Zhifang's men would have been almost defeated by Chang Wei!

But Geng Jingzhong personally led 8000 people out of the imperial city, and when they arrived at the battlefield, Chang Wei's two or three thousand Jiangdu soldiers could not hold back—after all, the opponent had more than 1 people!

Moreover, Changfu Street is not a battlefield where an army of 2 or [-] people can deploy to fight. It is surrounded by streets, and it is also very prosperous. The houses are densely built, which greatly affects the shooting field.

In addition, these streets are all interconnected, and Geng Jingzhong has a lot of people, so he can spread out and march separately to outflank the Chang's army.

This encirclement, Chang Wei had no choice but to take people to hide in several big houses around, relying on the walls and doors to resist.

And Geng Jingzhong's generals were not ambiguous, and directly found something to light the fire, and the surroundings of the mansion guarded by Chang Wei and others were set on fire!

This is a big deal!

There are a lot of old wooden houses these days, and Nanjing is also a textile center. There are also many machine shops near Changfu Street. There are many spinning wheels, silk threads, and silk cloth piled up, all of which were set on fire at once.

The fire spread rapidly, burning more and more prosperous!

Around the Changfu Mansion on Changfu Street, there was a flash of fire for a while. Encouraged by the fire, Geng Jun and Li Jiajun in East Zhejiang (in fact, the original Green Battalion and Zhejiang Banner Army) also became fiercer, and approached Changzhai from all directions.

The walls and doorways of the Chang family's mansion were full of flintlock guns, but these soldiers of the Chang family army were obviously not as well-trained as the Huaixi army. When they saw the fire around them and the approaching enemies, they became flustered and completely ignored the officer's password and just opened fire indiscriminately.Looking from a distance, the walls of the Chang Mansion mansion are filled with smoke, and there are dots of muzzle flames.

In the Changfu mansion, at this time, many people who were avoiding the fire were crowded, and among them were many national scholars and Chinese living in Changfu Street.They have all put on red robes and various armors, holding spears and big knives, some of them are carrying crossbows, and all of them are full of anger.

Geng Jingzhong burned down their home!
Seeing the soldiers on the wall firing in a hurry, many national soldiers and people couldn't help them for a while, so they simply shouted and cheered and became cheerleaders!
"Aim on time, kill a few more Geng thieves!"

"Kill Geng thief!"

"Has Geng Thief approached?"

"General Chang, we want to kill the thief."

Chang Wei couldn't hear their shouts at all. He was lying on a wall at this moment, with a coffee table under his feet, digging the cracks of the bricks with his fingers, just staring at everything in front of him, watching Geng Jun's crowd rushing in the firelight, watching them keep advancing, and people kept falling down.

His big white face was still quite calm, but the sweat inside his vest was already dripping down one after another.

This battle must not be lost, if you lose, it will be over. Not only will the Chang family never recover, even the young and strong members of the clan will be killed and injured.

It can be said that the Chang family has blocked everything!
If you win, the Chang family is Daming's "shareholder", if you lose
It's not just the Chang family who bet on everything, but also Shang Zhixin and Shang Shuying!
At this time, one of the two brothers and sisters was helping Yue Le besiege Dingwangfu with the ashes of the Shang family, and the other was leading [-] Liu family troops marching in the north of Nanjing, on an open street near the Beiwangfu.

The north of Nanjing City is relatively sluggish. There are either military camps or warehouses on both sides of the street. The Beiwang Mansion is the only mansion. I don’t know which mansion it was from before?It's pretty big anyway.

Shang Shuying has been walking along the wall of Beiwang Mansion for quite a while, but she still hasn't seen the end.Suddenly passing a three-way intersection, she saw a familiar figure out of the corner of her eye, it was actually Liu Jinzhong!
Shang Shuying hurriedly reined in her horse, and looked back, it was indeed her husband, Liu Jinzhong, the Northern King of the Ming Dynasty!

(End of this chapter)