"Quick, quick, charge forward!"
With a loud roar, Lu Zhenfei rushed over with more than a hundred people.
Not far behind him, Shi Kefa, Shen Tingyang and others were also running towards this side in a hurry.
When Shi Kefa saw Zhu Yuanzhang appearing on the city wall, he hurriedly ran over and said, "Your Majesty...how could you get here!"
As soon as he opened his mouth, seeing the complicated personnel here, and fearing that Zhu Yuanzhang's identity would be revealed, he changed his words and stood aside.
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him, said nothing, and looked forward again.
At this time, Shen Tingyang also came over and stood on the other side.
Huang Zongxi was stunned when he saw this, and then rushed forward quickly.
I saw that he was extremely fast, and his hands were either fists or knives. He targeted the vulnerable parts of the rebels' bodies, and every hit was sure to hit.
After a while, more than a dozen people fell down.
Then Huang Zongxi picked up a spear, shook it, and went to kill where there were many people.
Seeing how brave he was, the other soldiers immediately followed him and rushed forward.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked down on Huang Zongxi a little at first, but now he saw that although he was thin, his body seemed to contain infinite power, and he said with emotion: "We were wrong before, but we didn't expect Huang Qing to have such good martial arts!"
Hearing this, Shi Kefa echoed: "Taichong has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. Later he met Wang Zhengnan, a descendant of Wudang, and his martial arts skills improved rapidly."
"It's just that he has always considered himself a scholar, and not many people know about it."
Zhu Yuanzhang probed: "We don't think Huang Zongxi has a close relationship with you. How did you learn about this?"
Shi Kefa said with some embarrassment: "I only found out about this when Maozhong (Chen Zilong) accidentally mentioned it!"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, then thought that Chen Zilong had not been seen today, and asked, "Where is Chen Qing?"
Shi Kefa shook his head and said: "Maozhong took the warrant from me this morning. After dispatching two hundred gunmen from each sect, he has not been seen. It may be..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw Chen Zilong rushing up with three teams of soldiers.
The soldiers of the first and second teams were all holding firecrackers, but the soldiers of the third team were holding bamboo tubes.
Chen Ming, who was directing the battle, saw Chen Zilong's arrival and hurriedly ordered the soldiers and people to retreat.
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised, Chen Zilong had already commanded the first team of soldiers to attack.
"put!"
Following Chen Zilong's order, flames shot out from the fire guns, and the rebels who rushed up immediately turned into burning men.
"retreat!"
"Enter!"
"put!"
Under Chen Zilong's orderly command, the first group of soldiers immediately retreated, and the second group of soldiers quickly stepped forward and opened fire again.
"ah!"
"Back off, back off!"
After the two waves of attacks, nearly a hundred of the rebels turned into burning men, screaming in pain.
The uninjured people also panicked, lost all their energy, and retreated in surprise.
"Put it away again!"
Chen Zilong took advantage of the situation and attacked fiercely, forcing the rebels to the city wall.
At the same time, another group of people ran up the city wall carrying steaming oil.
When Chen Ming saw the situation, he immediately ordered a counterattack and forced the rebels in the city to one place.
Then the soldiers were asked to guard the crenel and protect the people from pouring oil down.
For a moment, there were screams under the city wall.
"put!"
At this time, the first team of soldiers, under the command of Chen Zilong, rushed to the crenel and fired downwards.
With the help of hot oil, many of the climbing equipment burned.
At this time, the third team of soldiers who had not taken any action rushed up, pulled out the cork in the bamboo tube, and quickly threw the bamboo tube down.
Zhu Yuanzhang originally thought that what was thrown was gunpowder and other objects. After waiting for a while, he heard no explosion.
He was curious, and just as he was about to step forward to check, Chen Ming stopped him and said, "Your Majesty, your Majesty.
There is divine smoke..."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he remembered that Huang Nilu had once said that there was a kind of smoke-inducing drug. After mixing it according to the proportion, grind it into fine powder, compact it in a bamboo tube and set aside. .
At that time, Huang Nilu said that this method had been lost, but he didn't expect to see it in Linyi today.
When Chen Ming met Zhu Yuanzhang who was silent, he apologized in a low voice: "Your Majesty, although this method is somewhat vicious, for the safety of you and the people in the city, I can't care too much. Please forgive me!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was a little surprised and said: "Did you configure this divine smoke?"
Chen Mingyu hesitated for a while, then said in a deep voice: "Yes, your Majesty, please punish me!"
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he smiled and said, "When did we say that we would punish you?"
As he spoke, seeing Chen Mingyu's confused look, he continued: "You have completed the formula of the divine smoke and have made a contribution to the court. Not only will we not punish you, but we will also reward you heavily!"
Chen Mingyu was stunned for a moment, and then he saw Zhu Yuanzhang was smiling and had no intention of punishing him. He knelt down to plead guilty and said, "Your Majesty, I have been guilty of bullying the emperor before."
"Actually, Shenyan is not completed by Chen, but developed by Mr. Dongjiao (Bi Maokang's account) over several years..."
After listening to his story, Zhu Yuanzhang realized that the person who really completed the formula was Bi Maokang, and then Bi Maokang's related memories popped up in his mind.
It turns out that Bi Maokang was originally from Shanglu, She County, and was good at calligraphy, painting and firearms.
During the Wanli period, he served as a member of Zhongshushe, and later moved to the posts of Guangxi Dao Supervisory Censor, Shaanxi Inspector, and Shandong Salt Inspector.
Just because he was upright by nature and did not like to welcome people, he was ostracized by the eunuch Wei Zhongxian and was impeached and deprived of his status.
After Chongzhen ascended the throne, he appointed him as Nanjing's general envoy, and later he was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of War.
But at that time, Bi Maokang saw the corruption in the court and was no longer willing to be an official. In addition, he was ostracized by his colleagues, so he submitted a letter to resign.
Because Chongzhen loved his talent, he once ordered him to make Wugang chariots, Shenfei cannons and other things, hoping to retain him.
After Bi Maokang was ordered to make the weapons, he took the opportunity to compile "Illustrated Description of Military Weapons" and submitted it to the court.
Chongzhen was overjoyed when he saw him and promoted him to Nanjing's Right Minister of Household Affairs and Governor Liangli.
However, not long after Bi Maokang took office, he had conflicts with the eunuchs and finally resigned.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought of this and recalled that Huang Nilu had great respect for Bi Maokang when talking about firearms.
He also sent someone to invite Bi Maokang, but the person he sent came back to report that Bi Maokang had passed away due to illness.
He sighed for a while at that time, but he did not expect to hear the news about Bi Maokang from Chen Mingyu today.
So he smiled and said: "Okay, I wonder how much of Bi Maokang's true inheritance Chen Qing has obtained?"
Chen Mingyu shook his head and said, "I'm ashamed to say that I just got some advice from Mr. Bi by chance. I can't be considered his disciple."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. When he was about to ask for details, another drum sound came from outside the city.
Chen Mingyu heard the drum sound and immediately said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty, the rebels are afraid that they are going to attack the city again, so please stay away!"
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter, just go about your business, we will leave in a while!"
After he said that, he took a few steps back so as not to hinder Chen Mingyu.
At this time, a soldier stepped forward and said to Chen Mingyu: "Mr. Chen, the explosive powder has been delivered. Do you want to start throwing now?"
Chen Mingyu glanced at the bottom of the city and muttered: "The quantity of explosive powder is limited. We will wait until there are more rebels before using it. You first..."
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Chen Mingyu had arranged everything in an orderly manner, and knew that not only was it meaningless for him to stay here, but it would actually affect the opponent's defense of the city.
Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly discovered that in a dark corner not far away, Huang Zhicheng was staring at the busy Chen Mingyu with a vicious expression.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he felt a murderous intention in his heart.
Because according to Jin Yiwei's report, the mutiny in Wanghuai Gate was caused by Huang Zhicheng's unprovoked punishment of the people guarding the city.
Although there are rebels among them, Huang
Zhicheng is also one of the culprits.
Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a while, thinking that Huang Zhicheng was still useful, he suppressed the murderous intention in his heart, called Shi Kefa over, ordered Huang Zhicheng to be relieved of the duty of guarding the city, and left Wanghuai Gate.
