From the Chaoyang Gate on the east side of Nanjing, to the ten miles of road under the Purple Mountain, there are three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry are all fully armed imperial camp soldiers.

However, the section of four or five hundred steps that Dong Xueyi was in charge of guarding looked loose, and several officers were probing their brains, looking unconcerned.

After a while, the sound of gongs and drums on the west side could be heard as the royal driver opened the road. Dong Xueyi looked around carefully several times, but never found any traces of the ambush, but in his heart he was impressed by these "people found by Huang Shilang", just look at this hidden kung fu, most of the big things can be done.

Suddenly, two horsemen came galloping from the north, and when they were still far away, the man on the horse shouted, "Urgent alarm! There are assassins who want to be against the saints! "It was the Long Guard soldiers sent by Gao Wenrong to report the news.

Dong Xueyi's pupils shrank suddenly, and without hesitation, he whipped his horse, and shouted to several henchmen officers beside him: "Capture the people who confuse the crowd with evil words!" Then he rushed desperately towards the people who came.

When the two Dragon Guard soldiers saw the people dressed in the imperial camp coming, their hearts were suddenly relieved, and they were about to tell the details, but they were surrounded by the Ming troops who came up, and they surrendered their swords in three or two.

"What are you doing?"

"The Son of Heaven is in the tomb, how can you wait for rumors?! Take it for me! ”

The soldiers of the Dragon Guard Army who reported the news felt that something was wrong, and wanted to break free from the rope that had been put on their shoulders, but there were more than ten people on the other side, where could they walk away?

They also saw the honor guard of the Son of Heaven from afar, and hurriedly shouted: "There is a thorn ......"

It's just that as soon as the words came out, the two of them were knocked on the head with the back of a knife by Dong Xueyi's henchmen, and they fainted.

At this time, the imperial chariot had already walked to the Dong Xueyi defense area, and the captain of the imperial camp at the front saw that someone was tearing on the side of the road, and faintly heard some shouts, so he hurriedly ordered the team to slow down, and sent a few horsemen to check.

Arjuna led her men to ambush on the south side of the official road, and she could only see that something seemed to be wrong, and she saw that the royal chariot was walking slower and slower, and she suddenly felt a little flustered in her heart, could it be that the matter was revealed?

The stakes are high, and if she misses her people even slightly, she will be implicated, and she doesn't dare to gamble. When the person sent by the emperor's honor guard to investigate the situation was still thirty or forty steps away from Dong Xueyi, she finally gritted her teeth and shouted: "Do it!" ”

Immediately, three No. 2 Furlong cannons were dragged out of the bushes by the roadside - the largest weapons they could carry near Yingtianfu.

The gunners had already prepared a large number of guns, and the roar instantly tore through the silence near the Purple Mountain.

The forbidden army guarding Zhu Linyuan never imagined that someone would attack the holy car with cannons at the foot of the world, and chaos arose at the moment. Some officers shouted to form a formation to defend against the enemy, some ordered the imperial chariot to be blocked in the middle, and some wanted to escort them back to the city of Nanjing.

The forbidden army of the Taizheng Dynasty was trained by the strong troops of the former Jiang Zhengxi and Huang Mingjun, and although Zhu Linmiao changed them with excellent armor and weapons, and practiced more, the fighting will of these people has never been qualitatively improved.

The first battalion in the front row was scrambling to form a formation, and a few shells penetrated the crowd with great precision.

In fact, the shells of the No. 2 Franc cannon were less than seven taels, and at most three people could penetrate at close range, and the casualties caused by the three guns were extremely weak. But even so, as a few screams came out, the speed of the formation suddenly plummeted, and some people even began to move towards the back of the group.

The team here was a little chaotic, and Arjuna took the lead, leading nearly 400 people under her command to swing their swords and go straight to Zhu Linyuan's imperial chariot. These people were all meticulous works that Jianyu worked hard to infiltrate the Ming Dynasty, were well-trained, and were extremely loyal to the Qing court, and each of them was a valuable asset of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. And recently, they have all been concentrated near Nanjing, just for today's blow.

In particular, the more than forty "dead soldiers" beside Arjuna were almost all cultivated by Ku Zhe himself for more than ten years, which took him a lot of effort, and at this time, he even drew his bow and arrows and rushed to the front.

In this kind of sudden attack, a light bow and arrow are far more suitable than a firecracker. Hundreds of outlaws spread out into a sharp arrow formation, firing arrows as they ran, extremely fast, and shot Zhu Linyuan's guards into a mess before they could rush close.

Although the Ming Imperial Camp already had a set of cotton armor, and not many of them were really shot, the more than 1,000 forbidden troops around Zhu Linyuan's Imperial Camp were not well prepared, there were artillery bombardments on their sides, and the unknown enemy troops in front of them were extremely fierce, and they failed to organize an effective counterattack for a long time.

It wasn't until Arjuna took the lead in drawing her saber that the Ming army in the front row reluctantly put the big shields together to form a defensive line, and a few guns were sporadically released in the back row.

And these prisoners seemed to be fearless of death, rushing into the Ming army without slowing down at all, and they did not specialize in killing, but all went towards the imperial chariot with a clear goal.

On one side were particularly sophisticated Jianyu "agents", and on the other side were the mediocre old-style Ming army, so although the difference in numbers was more than doubled, Arjuna tore through the imperial defense line with little effort.

The other Jianyu soldiers separated the Ming army on both sides, and she herself led more than 40 dead soldiers to smash Zhu Linyuan's car. Seeing that the situation was not good, Pang Tianshou and Bai Daqi hurriedly called the inner court guards to block the enemy, and asked the Empress Dowager Zeng to move with the emperor to another light carriage - although the imperial chariot was majestic, there were too many decorations, and it was extremely bulky and could not run fast at all - and then ordered the coachman to desperately flee towards the city of Nanjing.

At the same time, on the south side of Nanjing City, hundreds of people waved the Duoduo banner and pushed the "cannons" to the city, and then accompanied by the rumbling cannons, these people began to shout, "Yang Wei's 100,000 troops crossed the river to attack the city!" ”

"Quickly open the city and surrender, otherwise the chickens and dogs will not be left!"

"Jiangnan has been assessed for the army, and you still don't surrender?!"

In fact, there were only more than 40 Zhen Jianjiao among these people, and the rest were all robbers and bandits recruited by Kuzhe at a high price, and only then did they know that they were going to "attack Nanjing". But under the pressure of the swords behind them, they could only shout loudly.

As for those "cannons", they were actually made of thin iron sheets, loaded with gunpowder and ignited, and although they were loud, they could not shoot shells.

The guards at the head of the city only saw the smoke outside the city, and heard the Qing army shouting to kill the heavens, so they did not dare to slack off at the moment, and hurriedly sent people to ask for help from the more than 1,000 broken camps stationed in the city, which was the real combat effectiveness.

On the east side of Nanjing, the people from the imperial camp who asked for help rushed to the city, but when they saw that the city gate was closed, they hurriedly shouted at the city: "Open the city quickly!" The Holy Driver is under attack! ”

The general on the Chaoyang Gate was the confidant of Peng Ligang, the soldiers and horses of the Five Cities, and when he heard this, he said to his subordinate officers: "I just received a military order, and the whole city of Nanjing is under martial law, so you must not open the door easily." He also asked the people under the city to wait in place, and only said that they would go and report to the court......

Here, Pang Tianshou escorted the Empress Dowager Zeng to change the carriage, and as soon as he ran out of the small half mile, he saw Dong Xueyi with more than ten people following closely. He hurriedly waved his hand and shouted: "General Dong is here to escort him!" ”

(End of chapter)

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