Seeing that Shang Zhixin was killed, Li Zhongshan also became excited. He was originally squatting behind a row of large shields, but now he suddenly stood up, opened his throat and shouted: "Shang Zhixin is dead, the whole army attacks! Hurry! Bring me the king’s war horse, I will rush into battle and kill the thieves!”
He was actually bluffing. After all, his entire army only had five or six hundred men. Among them, three hundred flying generals and cavalry had already rushed forward to fight the enemy in a melee. Now there were still two hundred musketeers and some staff officers and cavalrymen left, barely. I can still make up three hundred.
But fortunately, the opponent only has about a thousand people, and everyone is about the same. It just depends on whose morale collapses first, and whose reinforcements arrive first?
And when he yelled, Shang Shuying, who had just died of her eldest brother, saw him as an enemy. He killed his father, his brothers, his brothers, his sisters, his stepmother, and his nephews and nieces! The household register of Wang Shang's family in Pingnan was almost cleared by Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan!
Now this enemy is running so happily and is not far away from her. Now is the last chance to attack and kill him!
Thinking of this, Shang Shuying also took out a flag with the same style as the command flag held by Monk Zhixin, pointed forward, and shouted: "That's Wang Datou's entire army charging to kill Wang Datou!"
Shouting words, she also clamped the horse's belly and drove the horse towards Li Zhongshan.
At this time, the battlefield outside the Mochou Lake Palace was very chaotic, but some soldiers of the Shang family still discovered Li Zhongshan, whom Shang Shuying's flag was pointing to - this was also their enemy!
So this group of people didn't care that the head of the family, Shang Zhixin, had just been beaten to death, and they all rushed towards the gate of Mochou Lake Prince's Mansion with full of hatred.
This time it was Li Zhongshan's turn to be dumbfounded!
Most of the enemies he had encountered before were green battalions with a few dead soldiers or weak-minded Eight Banners soldiers. This was the first time he had encountered such a veteran who was looking for him desperately.
These Shang family soldiers are not bad at martial arts and have rich combat experience. However, after serving as soldiers for a long time, they have become soldiers. They are not willing to fight hard on the battlefield, and they especially like paddling. But once they get serious, their combat effectiveness is still considerable, otherwise they would not be able to fight with Li Fuchen's "flying generals" inextricably.
At this moment, at least two to three hundred Shang family soldiers, either on horseback or on foot, got mad and rushed towards Li Zhongshan, shouting "revenge"!
Li Zhongshan also has rich battlefield experience. When he saw the posture in front of him, he knew that he could not withstand it at all. Without saying a word, he turned around and ran towards the palace gate, shouting loudly as he ran: "Close the door, close the door quickly!"
The gate of the Mochou Lake Palace is a five-bay palace gate. It is very impressive, but its defensive capabilities are not strong. There is no gate tower for deploying troops. There are six side by side doors with nine rows and sixty-three door nails. The six gates form the left, middle and right gates to welcome Shang Shuying. The left, middle and right doors of the Mochou Lake Palace were all opened. The soldiers guarding the gates heard Li Zhongshan's order and quickly closed the door. The thick wooden door had just closed. Shang Jiabing rushed to the door and started pushing the door hard together. Because the door lever hadn't been plugged in yet, the door wasn't really closed securely. The person outside pushed it hard and opened it a little further. Li Zhongshan saw that something was wrong and quickly yelled: "Hold it, hold it fast."
While shouting, he rushed up to hold the door in person, and a dozen infantrymen guarding the gate also followed suit, but they still couldn't hold it back!
Li Fuchen, who had already retreated into the door before, also knew that this door must not be pushed open, so he did not care about rescuing Li Jiqing, and quickly jumped off the horse to hold up the other door, almost protecting Li Fuchen. The big soldiers also rushed forward to help Lu Bu, who was now the leader!
However, even if the two living Lu Bu became the pillars of the door, the gate of the Mochou Lake Palace was still a bit unbearable. After all, there were more people pushing the door outside.
Just when the six gates were about to be pushed open, the Shanziying musketeers who had relied on the shooting holes on the wall of the palace to launch cold shots also came to help push the gates back together, and finally pushed the gates back bit by bit. , but it is impossible to completely close the door. Because some ill-intentioned veteran of the Shang family inserted their spears between the six doors and the threshold. How could they be so closed?
So at the gate of Mochou Lake Palace, a group of people pushed the door, a group of people pushed the door, and at the same time there were two groups of people fighting in the square outside the door. It was really inextricable!
Seeing that the door could not be pushed open, Shang Shuying came up with a sudden idea and ordered the people around her: "Quickly shout together: We have caught the big head of Xiao Wang!"
"I caught the big head of Xiao Wang"
Such a shout from outside the door made Li Fuchen inside the door a little anxious. While pushing the door hard, he yelled at his son Li Zhongshan: "Second brother, I blame you for your brother's death!"
Li Zhongshan didn't know that Shang Shuying was so cunning, so he thought Li Jiqing was about to die, so he comforted his father and said: "Dad, don't worry. You still have me, my eldest brother, Ji Yong, and so many bastards and wild men." Don’t worry, we are all good sons and we will take care of you until you die!"
"Bah!" Li Fuchen shouted angrily, "You still can't think of a way to save your brother?"
Li Zhongshan hurriedly comforted his father: "Dad, don't worry. I will definitely report to the Supervisory State and ask the Supervisory State to posthumously create a prince for the third child and give him a grand burial!"
Li Fuchen became even more anxious, "You, you... do you really want to see a white-haired man give a black-haired man to his father?"
Li Zhongshan looked at Li Fuchen's black hair and said, "Dad, don't talk nonsense. How can you have white hair? It's obviously a black-haired person giving a black-haired person a gift!"
Li Fuchen's nose was almost crooked with anger, "You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, we will make your eldest brother the heir apparent!"
Li Zhongshan looked indifferent, "Let's do it right away. Do you still think that there will always be vassal kings in the new Ming Dynasty in the future?"
At this time, Li Fuchen even forgot about the safety of his son "Little Wang Datou", "You, what do you mean?"
Seeing his father's performance, Li Zhongshan had no choice but to smile bitterly and said: "I'll talk to you about this later, but hold on for now. As long as you hold on, reinforcements will come soon!"
"The one with beautiful appearance is Wang Datou!"
"Hurry and catch Wang Datou!"
"Catch the king's head."
Of course Li Jiqing, the big head of Xiaowang, was not caught. The long-legged foreign horse under his crotch was so fast and flexible, how could it be so easy to catch? Moreover, he had already broken out of the siege and ran to the street outside Sanshanmen - he didn't even have a weapon to kill people, he only relied on a bow and twenty or thirty arrows to shoot while running, and he was still unscathed. He rushed out. With this skill, he must be Lu Bu's own son!
But now that he has finished shooting his arrows, he is really unarmed, and there are soldiers chasing him behind him and blocking him in front - the people in red clothes all over the street, who knows where they came from, are all running towards him with spears and swords. come over!
There is really no way to heaven and no way to earth. Is it possible that I am going to die here today?
Just when Li Jiqing reined in his horse and had no way out, the man in red over there started shouting.
"That's the King of England. Protect the King of England!"
"Protect King Ying and kill the traitors!"
"The King of the East is a traitor!"
"kill"
It turns out that these people in red are Chinese and national scholars living in Nanjing’s West Outer City Commercial Port - the West Outer City Commercial Port is a place where industrial and commercial people gather. Among them, outside Sanshan Gate is now a street of banks, restaurants, gold and silver shops, and Dinghuai Gate. Outside is a blacksmith street, outside Qingliang Gate is a porcelain street, outside Shicheng Gate is a silk and cloth street, outside the water gate of Xishui Pass are shipyards, and the west bank of the Qinhuai River is a dock.
The Chinese and scholars living in this area have also been notified by their respective guilds and gathered at Jiangdong Gate, Shicheng Gate, and Dinghuai Gate. Now driving along Sanshanmenwai Street are the people gathered at Jiangdong Gate.
When these people heard the Shang family shouting "The one with beautiful appearance is Wang Datou!" and "Capture Wang Datou", they mistook Li Jiqing for Li Zhongshan, the King of England. Li Zhongshan was the leader of the Reform faction, Mr. Mochou, one of the Four Reformers, the leader of the Jiangwutang Clan, and the hero of the defense of Nanjing and the restoration of Huaixi! We are in the same group as the people like them.
So these Chinese people and warriors immediately came up with swords and spears to fight with the monk's family!
Although Youzi, a veteran of the Shang family, was eager for revenge, he was not dazzled by hatred. He knew that he couldn't defeat the men in red all over the street. Since he couldn't defeat them, he had to run away for his life!
So they did not fight the man in red, but turned around and ran away, running wildly, shouting as they ran back: "The thief in red is coming, the thief in red is coming to kill!"
Their shouts and the shouts of the men in red passed over the houses on the street outside Sanshanmen and reached the square outside Mochou Lake Palace. The Shang soldiers who were fighting and knocking on the door knew that the situation was over. The veteran Youzi's inability to fight to the death soon broke out, and they all began to flee southward - Nanjing's West Outer City was blocked by tall walls on the east, west and north sides. Once the gate was closed, they could not get out. There is no wall on the south side. Because when the Nanjing Outer City Wall was not abandoned, the West Outer City was part of the Outer City, and the east wall of the West Outer City was a section of the Nanjing Outer City. This section of the wall extended all the way south, then turned east and extended again. , and finally built more than 400 miles to the north, enclosing a large area and forming the largest outer city in the world.
After most of Nanjing's outer city was abandoned, the city wall of Nanjing's west outer city broke when it reached a fork of the Qinhuai River. Further south, it was not maintained and much of it collapsed. On the bank of the fork of the Qinhuai River that actually became the boundary of Nanjing's western outer city, wooden fences and sandbags were used for defense during the Battle of Nanjing, but they have now been removed.
Moreover, there are several bridges on this river to facilitate the exchange of merchants. Shang Jiabing can only escape from the Western Outer City through these wooden bridges, and then find a gap in the Nanjing Outer City to escape.
As soon as these veterans ran away, the situation on the battlefield outside Mochou Lake Palace immediately changed!
Shang Shuying, Shang Zhijie, and Shang Zhiying, the three brothers, also knew that the situation was over, so they could only run along with them. The old monk soldiers outside the gate of Mochou Lake Palace fought in a melee for a while, and the "flying generals" finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then they all turned over and dismounted, and silently took out the sacred weapon among their troops to kill the enemy generals-the rifled flintlock! Start reloading! After loading the rifled flintlock muskets, they took out smoothbore pistols, each of them had two or three, and loaded them all with ammunition. Then they mounted their horses again and began to chase down the defeated soldiers of the Shang family.
Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan were both very proud at this time. They were all neatly dressed, riding tall horses and wearing mountain-shaped battalion musketeers. They rushed out of the palace, and then ran into a group of men in red. Li Jiqing.
Seeing Li Jiqing's arrogant look after winning the battle, Li Zhongshan couldn't help but frown: "Lao San, are you okay? Didn't the Shang family get hurt?"
"It's okay!" Li Jiqing said with a smile, "Second brother, the younger brother was unharmed and shot several rebels to death!" Then he asked Li Fuchen, who was already smiling from ear to ear, "Father, look after the child. Is it awesome?"
"Hehehehe, my son is indeed a man among men. He is much more powerful than your second brother when he first went into battle! The second brother has a successor in our family!"
What? Is there any successor?
Li Zhongshan's face suddenly darkened. What does this old guy mean? He was still going to pass the throne to "Big Fatty Li" just now, but now he changed his mind and pointed at Li Jiqing and said "there is a successor"? Is this to abolish the direct line and establish the concubine?
Just when he was about to ask, Li Fuchen spoke again: "That Shang Shuying is extremely hateful. We must not let her escape this time. We, father and son, will go after her separately and we must capture her alive!"
"good!"
"We must catch her!"
This time the Li family, father and son, finally reached a consensus!
Just when the Li family's father and son led their men to pursue the Shang family's defeated troops and capture Shang Shuying, Shang Shuying's lord Geng Jingzhong was already on the road to escape!
He had no choice but to escape. Yue Le fled first, and then the Nanjing Imperial City was broken by Liu Jinzhong. Then countless men in red rushed towards Changfu Street. More than 10,000 people around Geng Jingzhong were about to be attacked on all sides. , instead of running away, let alone the "Emperor's clone", his body, Geng Jingzhong's, was also divided into several parts.
So when he was desperate, he had no choice but to abandon most of his subordinates and fled towards the imperial city with only a few confidants and two to three thousand Geng family vassal soldiers. And when he fled into the imperial city, Liu Jinzhong's soldiers had already invaded and were robbing and killing people in the Forbidden City - Geng Jingzhong's family members were all placed in the Forbidden City! These family members brought a lot of property with them, and they all became the prey of Liu Jinzhong's troops.
Although Liu Jinzhong, the Northern King, was loyal to Prince Zhu San and could fight well, he could not restrain his subordinates - his generals were all brothers who came from the Yongwei camp like him, and they only praised him to give him face. He's the eldest brother, so he can't be too restrictive.
But after they looted like this, they could not stop Geng Jingzhong who was eager to escape. They let him and two to three thousand Geng soldiers pass through the city, protruding from the Zhengyang Gate in the south of the imperial city to the inner city of Nanjing, and then disappeared in In the dusk of this day.
However, Fan Chengmo, Liu Bingzheng, and Li Zhifang were not so lucky. After Geng Jingzhong and Yue Le fled one after another, the three of them fell into the vast sea of Nanjing people. There were enemies everywhere and everyone wanted to kill them. They could not break out. The fight continued until the evening of the same day. Fan Chengmo and Liu Bingzheng , Li Zhifang's heads were all moved, and most of their subordinates were killed. Only a few of them escaped into the imperial city and were captured by Liu Jinzhong.
The third prince Zhu Cijiong, who had been wandering around the Qinhuai River for a day, finally entered before nightfall that day, surrounded by Liu Jinzhong, Lu Sanhao, Chen Yonghua, Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, Lu Liuliang, Luo Dawei, Chang Wei and others. The Imperial City of Nanjing was loyal to him!
At this time, the battle in the imperial city had just ended, and traces of fighting could be seen everywhere. Dead men and horses could be seen everywhere. From time to time, you could still see charred walls and doors full of bullet holes.
In addition to the Huaixi Red Scarf Army, the Huaidong Jiangdu Army, the Huaibei Liu Jiajun, and the Yingtian Regiment, there were tens of thousands of people wearing red robes to greet this "Lord of the Arch" who knew nothing in the Imperial City of Nanjing. Nanjing natives and soldiers who wear clothes and hold sharp weapons.
Each of these Chinese people and scholars held their heads high and held their chests high, looking like the masters of Nanjing City!
Well, they are really the masters of Nanjing City, and even the masters of New Daming. Although they do not hold 100% of the shares of New Daming, they at least hold a considerable number of "public ordinary shares". They will definitely have a share of Daming in the future!
In addition, the soldiers and generals of the Huaixi Red Scarf Army, the Huaidong Jiangdu Army, the Yingtian Tuan Lianjun, and the Guangdong Township Army were actually just like these red-clad citizens, they were also national scholars and citizens of the New Ming Dynasty.
The biggest difference between this emerging Ming Dynasty and the previous Ming Dynasty of the Zhu Dynasty is probably that the royal family has very few shares, while the common people and scholars have many shares.
Therefore, the power base of Ming Dynasty was brand new from the beginning!
This is a real new Ming Dynasty!
It’s quite new even in the world!
(End of chapter)
