When something unexpected happened at Dongzhimen, Prince Gong Chongning at Chaoyang Gate had just finished dealing with Prince Burni of Chahar and was watching Burni and his hundreds of Mongolian cavalry heading towards the Chahar Palace.
Burni's purpose in entering the city was to meet the Empress Dowager Bumubutai, and to visit his biological father Abu Nai.
The day to meet the Queen Mother is scheduled for tomorrow. Burni and his father Abu Nai will go to the Cining Palace in the Forbidden City to kowtow to Bumbutai.
And today, Burni, who has come all the way to Beijing, of course has to go to the Chahar Palace to meet his biological father... He is a true father and a filial son!
So Burni and Chongning exchanged a few words before seeing his father's eagerness and leading his men to the Chahar Palace.
Seeing that Burni and others were gone, Chongning was also relieved. He quickly called Tianjin General Wang Yuxi to his side and wanted to ask him to keep a close eye on the gates in the east and north of Beijing. At the same time, he sent people to keep a close eye on the police. Prince Hal's Mansion.
There were nearly a hundred Mongolian warriors protecting Abu Ding in the Chahar Palace, and now Burni has brought another five hundred, which makes it six hundred Mongolian warriors!
If an uprising suddenly breaks out inside the city, and then the Mongols outside the city cooperate with each other inside and outside the city, the trouble will be big.
Wang Yuxi didn't take the Chahar Mongols seriously. After listening to Chang Ning's instructions, she even patted her chest as a guarantee.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, those Mongols can't enter the city of Beijing... The walls of Beijing are so high and thick. Once the nine inner and seventy-six outer gates are closed, they have to get wings to fly in!"
While he was talking, he suddenly heard a rumble of explosions coming from Dongzhimen!
Chang Ning reacted quickly at a young age and immediately became nervous, "What's going on? Where are you having sex? Is it training?"
Although Wang Yuxi was a martial arts scholar, he had worked on the Tianjin Guard's fort for many years and was very familiar with artillery. When he heard it with his ears, he knew something was wrong.
Wang Yuxi said: "It's Dongzhimen... Something happened in Dongzhimen!"
At this moment, shouts came over.
"No, Wu Sangui is calling! No, Wu Sangui is coming to Beijing..."
Wu Sangui is here?
How can this be!
As soon as Chang Ning heard the call, he was stunned. Wang Yuxi reacted quickly and said to Chang Ning: "Your Majesty... Someone is using Wu Sangui's name to cause trouble!"
"Yes!" Chang Ning also reacted and immediately said loudly, "How could Wu Sangui come to Beijing? His son Wu Yingqi is surrounded by Zhuxian Town, and the whole army is about to be annihilated!"
He said this to the surrounding Tianjin Green Camp soldiers.
Wang Yuxi said to Wu Yingqi: "My lord, please quickly take people to the Forbidden City to protect the Empress Dowager, and I will take people to Chaoyang Gate to quell the chaos."
Chang Ning nodded, "Okay! Mr. Wang, I'll leave it to Chaoyang Gate... After the chaos is over, I will personally give you a letter to ask for your credit!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wang Yuxi quickly saluted.
Chang Ning didn't have time to continue arguing with him, and hurriedly called to his palace guards and yellow mandarin jackets. A group of people got on their horses, and then went straight to the Forbidden City.
Wang Yuxi did not dare to delay, and quickly called several of his assistant leaders and generals to assign tasks to them.
However, he did not immediately mobilize troops to quell the chaos. Instead, he acted cautiously. He first sent people to control more than a dozen gates in the inner and outer cities of Beijing except Dongzhimen. He also sent people to control the Bell and Drum Towers, Jingshan Mountain, etc. , and then personally led a team of troops to occupy six large warehouses storing rice between Dongzhimen and Chaoyangmen... According to his idea, he had to stabilize his position first, then find out the reality, and finally Only then can the chaos be calmed down steadily.
But his request for stability also gave Yang Qilong a chance to stabilize his position. Unlike in the past when Yang Qilong deployed his troublemaking forces inside the city of Beijing, this time his forces were all outside the city and divided into three teams heading towards Dongzhimen.
Yang Qilong personally led mainly a group of remnants of the former Ming Dynasty who had been lurking in Pangezhuang. When he was not in Beijing, he was led by a descendant of the former Ming Dynasty Duke Chengguo, a strong man named Zhu Shangxian. There were four core members. Five hundred people.
Later, Yang Qilong borrowed seven to eight hundred men from the two Cao Gang leaders, Zhang Da and Jiao San, who were the most ferocious outlaws among the Cao Gangs in Tongzhou and Tianjin. He gathered 1,300 to 400 men and went to Huncheng together.
Zhang Da, Jiao San, and Yang Qilong's two cronies Huang Ji and Chen Yi led the second and third teams respectively, with a total of three to four thousand people, following the team led by Yang Qilong. Among the three teams, They are all separated by three to five miles - this way they look more like refugees.
Moreover, most of the two groups of strong men from the Cao Gang did not know that they were going to rebel... Zhang Da and Jiao San only told them that they were going to fight with others outside Dongzhimen. So when they learned that the people they were going to beat up this time were actually the Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, they were really shocked!
If Zhang Da and Jiao San hadn't been well-known in the gang, and had paid a large sum of money in advance, and promised to reward them heavily afterwards, these Cao gang members would have disbanded on the spot!
However, they did not dare to go further to Dongzhimen. They just blocked the official road outside Dongzhimen. Even though Zhang Da and Jiao San screamed and their throats were broken, they refused to move forward.
If Wang Yuxi could lead a counterattack at Dongzhimen at this time, Yang Qilong might have to attack!
But despite his "prudence", something unexpected suddenly happened!
From the northeast of Beijing, a whimpering horn sound suddenly came. The Caobang disciples who were still dawdling on the official road looked along the sound and saw that in the heavy snow, groups of people had already left Beishahe. The direction was coming and appeared in their sight. These men and horses, all dressed as Mongolians, were all cavalry, traveling at extremely fast speeds, rushing towards Dongzhimen, which was already under the control of Yang Qilong!
When Zhang Da and Jiao San saw the Mongolian army arriving, they quickly asked people to raise Wu Zhou's black flag, and then shouted loudly: "The President's reinforcements have arrived. The glory and wealth are today. Do you want to be a coolie for the rest of your life?"
Those who are willing to make great achievements, let us shout long live the president! "
Seeing these Mongolian cavalry, the Cao Gang disciples suddenly became bolder and shouted in unison: "Long live the President!"
Seeing that the people below were finally agitated, Zhang Da and Jiao San did not hesitate, immediately raised the black flag, led the team, and trotted all the way towards Dongzhimen!
Not long after, nearly 3,000 Cao Gang troops led by Zhang Da and Jiao San and the Mongolian cavalry led by Luo Buzang rushed to Dongzhimen one after another!
Inside Dongzhimen, chaos suddenly broke out, and there were shouts and screams. The old, weak, women and children living in Dongzhimen with white flags, the old and weak women and children with yellow flags, and the people who took refuge in the city didn't know what was happening for a while. I really thought it was Wu Sangui’s army that had entered Beijing! Many people were like headless flies, fleeing towards the Forbidden City and other directions in the inner city of Beijing in the heavy snow. As they fled, they shouted: "Oh no, Wu Sangui is here! Wu Sangui has entered Beijing... ..."
Now the whole city of Beijing is in chaos!
When the chaos broke out in Beijing, in the northwest corner of Beijing, on the shore of Shichahai Sea, in a deserted palace, two fallen princes with their heads pinned to their belts were gathering together to drink.
These two princes are Pingnan Wang Shangzhixin, who committed the crime of "exposing rebellion", and Jingnan Wang Geng Jingzhong, who "went crazy under orders".
They are both still alive for now!
But they also knew that Emperor Kangxi was not confused. He was just trying to stabilize people's hearts and not take action against them for the time being.
As long as the situation calms down, they both have to go to Caishikou!
It makes me sad just thinking about it!
The originally good prince has now become a lamb to be slaughtered!
And they are all detained in Beijing now... let alone outside the city, they can't even go to the outer city!
Apart from waiting to die, all they can do is get together to drink and scold Wu Sangui - why didn't this Wu Sangui come to Beijing to save his life?
But after scolding, I still think about it!
I miss Wu Sangui and their sworn brother Wu Yingxiong... The only ones who can save them now are Wu Sangui and Wu Yingxiong!
Today, the two of them were drinking and thinking, when suddenly there was a loud noise outside. They didn't care at first...except for Wu Sangui and Wu Yingxiong calling in, other things had nothing to do with them.
So the two of them continued to drink. While they were drinking, the door of the room was knocked open, and a gust of cold wind rushed in. Both of them became excited and looked up at the door. Then I saw Geng Jingzhong's younger brother Geng Juzhong standing there with a surprised look on his face, breathing heavily and talking: "Coming, coming..."
