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When the sky was bright, except for the sporadic fighting in the direction of the south city gate, the other city gates, the yamen and official warehouses in the city were all captured, and all the civil and military officials were captured by the Tiger Flag.
At present, only Prince Zhou's Mansion is left in the city that has not been captured.
The reason why Prince Zhou's Mansion was not captured was that Xiao Wu deliberately left this Prince's Mansion behind to attack Prince Zhou's Mansion after capturing the entire Kaifeng Mansion.
Of course, the full cooperation of Prince Zhou's Mansion is indispensable.
Just when the Tiger-Character Banner army entered the city and attacked the key points of Feng Mansion, the entire Zhou Palace closed its palace doors tightly. No one inside came out, and no one chose to escape. They were completely isolated from the outside world, like an ostrich. When faced with danger, he will just bury his head underground.
Xiao Wu, Jia Shenwu and others rode to the gate of Prince Zhou's Mansion.
Also coming with them were Commander Xuanwuwei and Cheng Tongzhi.
Facing the towering palace wall and the closed palace door, Xiao Wu raised his head and glanced at the guards walking on the palace wall, turned his head and said to the messenger on the side: "Go and push our cannon up."
The messenger ran to give the order to the artillery team.
"General Xiao, please leave the attack to our Xuanwu Guard." Commander Huang took the initiative to step forward and ask for a fight.
At present, the Prince of Zhou's Mansion is already a fish on the eucalyptus board and can be slaughtered by others. Attacking the Prince of Zhou's Mansion will not be very dangerous, but it can also gain more credit, and it can also make the people of the Tiger Flag have more trust in Xuanwuwei. It was the best of both worlds for him and Xuanwuwei.
Xiao Wu glanced sideways at Commander Huang and said after a while: "That's fine, I'll leave it to you Xuanwu Guards."
"Thank you, General Xiao." Commander Huang thanked him with a grateful face.
Afterwards, he ordered the Xuanwu guards who followed him to immediately carry the temporarily found ladder forward, preparing to launch an attack on the Zhou Palace in front of them.
"Wait a moment." Xiao Wu interrupted Commander Huang who was about to order an attack.
Commander Huang looked over with puzzled eyes.
Xiao Wu said: "First wait for the gunners to blast open the palace gate, and then let your people rush in directly from the palace gate and seize the palace wall."
"Everything follows General Xiao's orders." Commander Huang had no objection.
And this is a good thing for Xuanwuwei. After all, it is much better and less dangerous to enter through the open palace door than to climb the palace wall with a ladder.
The artillery crew pushed up two four-pound cannons, and aimed their bright muzzles at the gate of the Zhou Palace.
The guards on the palace wall naturally saw this scene.
However, these guards had nothing to do against the cannons at a distance. Therefore, these palace guards who had only been arrogant to the people for many years immediately abandoned the palace wall and fled.
"Fire!" The leader of the artillery crew waved the command flag in his hand.
The gunners of the two four-pounders lit the matches on the guns.
The gunners and the gun crew leader covered their ears with their hands to prevent the loud sound of artillery from damaging their ears.
boom! boom!
Two huge cannon shots rang out, and two solid bullets flew out from the barrel, one end of which was mounted on the tall palace gate of Prince Zhou's Mansion.
The solid hardwood palace door can be damaged by arrows, knives, guns and other objects without fear of damage, but under the powerful muzzle, it is as brittle as a piece of white paper and is torn into countless pieces in an instant.
Seeing this scene, Commander Huang's face turned slightly pale, and his Adam's apple squirmed subconsciously.
Although it was not the first time he saw the cannon of the Tiger Flag, seeing the thick palace gate of Prince Zhou's palace being easily torn apart by the cannon at such a close distance made him feel chilled in his heart.
There are many such cannons with tiger-shaped flags, and he saw more than a dozen of them when he brought the tiger-shaped flag into the city. He heard from his subordinate Cheng Tongzhi that there were even more cannons with tiger-shaped flags in the camp outside the city.
If so many artillery bombarded the city of Kaifeng at the same time, he didn't know if he would have the courage to lead the Xuanwu Guards to the city wall to defend the city.
Fortunately, he took Xuanwuwei and chose to surrender. He didn't have to worry about being the target of the tiger-character flag's bombardment. Instead, he could watch the tiger-character flag bombard others with cannons.
"Commander Huang, what are you waiting for? Let your people take action quickly!" Seeing Commander Huang in a daze, Xiao Wu reminded him from the side.
Commander Huang, who came back to his senses, said quickly: "Yes, yes, yes, whoever is coming, rush into Prince Zhou's Mansion immediately!"
Following his order, hundreds of Xuanwu guards who had been waiting outside Prince Zhou's palace rushed towards the open palace gate.
Most of the guards near the palace gate and on the palace wall had fled before the cannon was fired. After the cannon shattered the palace gate, the remaining guards also fled for their lives.
The first palace gate and palace wall are no longer fortified.
As the Xuanwu guards and horses entered, they immediately divided into two groups. One group rushed into the Duanli Gate, the real first palace gate of the Zhou Palace, while the other group of soldiers and horses entered the Ji Gate.
Behind the Jimen is a place where vassal kings of all dynasties are enshrined and sacrifices are made to heaven.
"Come on, let's go in too." Xiao Wu took the lead in riding towards Yumen, which was blasted open by the cannon.
The first generation of Zhou Fan was the son of Ming Taizu Emperor Hongwu and the half-brother of Zhu Di. He was now the twelfth generation. With so many generations of Zhou kings passing down the inheritance, the accumulated wealth was naturally too numerous to count.
Xuanwuwei's troops were not direct descendants of the Tiger Flag. Faced with the overwhelming wealth of the Zhou Palace, there was no guarantee that they would not do anything inappropriate, so he needed to go and watch in person.
Although the Prince of Zhou's Mansion has not been captured yet, all the property inside has been regarded by him as the Tiger Flag. Xuanwuwei's soldiers and horses can handle the attack on the Prince of Zhou's Mansion, but they cannot touch the property in the Prince of Zhou's Mansion.
"General, we caught a few officials."
Soon, soldiers of Xuanwu Guard grabbed several officials wearing official robes and brought them to their commander.
"Isn't this Cui Changshi? Why are you treating Cui Changshi like this? Why don't you bring Cui Changshi here quickly?" Commander Huang asked his soldiers with a proud face to escort Cui Changshi and others closer.
As for the idea of loosening the other party's restraints, he has never thought about it, and he knows his position and must not dare to make decisions for the people in the Tiger Flag.
Cui Changshi, who thought he would be released, looked disappointed.
"General Xiao, this person is the long history of the Zhou Palace and the most trusted foreign minister of the Zhou Dynasty." Commander Huang introduced Xiao Wu.
Cui Changshi, who also heard these words, looked at Xiao Wu.
He knew in his heart that whether he would live or die next was all decided by this person.
"Detain him!" Xiao Wu waved his hand, showing no intention of asking Cui Changshi.
Because in his eyes, the other party is already a dead person.
The Tiger-Character Banner has conquered so many palaces. Basically, the long history of all the palaces relied on the power of the palace to dominate people everywhere, oppress the people, occupy people's fields, and do all kinds of bad things.
Such people will be publicly executed in the subsequent public trial to appease the people.
