The soldiers who had been sent to search everywhere withdrew one after another, gathered together, and drove to Wen Mansion in a large area.

Although the streets were wide and smooth bluestone pavement, they were still too narrow for nearly 20,000 troops, and Guan Ning's army could only slow down the pace of advance and enter the streets in small groups.

The sound of horses' hooves striking the stone slab was like a beating war drum, and the rhythm was not intense, but it was oppressive. Occasionally, a door opened on the side of the street, and the people inside glanced at the endless cavalry passing outside, all of them stained with blood and holding swords in their hands, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly closed the door. In these extraordinary times, who dares to meddle in their own affairs, just hope that their own family is not unlucky.

The Wen Mansion is located at the intersection of a crossroads, which is the most open place in the area, and the gate faces a fork in the road, leading to the Forbidden City on one side and Zhengyangmen on the other. At the beginning, Wen Tiren chose to build a house here, taking a good omen of extending in all directions, but he didn't expect that one day, it would provide convenience for the gathering of large armies.

Wu Sangui personally rode his horse to the gate and said to the Qiong Navy soldiers who were on guard at the gate, "You should know who I am, right?" I am Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Ningyuan who joined hands with the Marquis of Heping Nanhou to attack the capital. Listening to the Malay report, after the defeat of the remnants of the rebellion in Deshengmen, Chaoyangmen, and Fuchengmen, they fled to Xicheng to hide one after another, in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and avenge the emperor, the official vowed to hunt down and kill these remnants to the end. All the mansions in Xicheng have been searched, and only this is the only one. Get out of my way, don't get in my way! "He plans to salute first and then soldiers, enter the Wen Mansion in the name of searching for the defeated soldiers, and take the crown prince away before the other party makes up his mind whether to use force, and it is best not to fight.

A tall officer walked out, squinted at Wu Sangui, and replied without flinching: "This place is taken over by our Qiong Navy, and there is no rebellion, Chief Wu please go to the next house to search." ”

Wu Sangui smiled and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The officer held his head high and replied proudly: "Commander of the first battalion of the third regiment of the second army of Qionghai, Lan Lin!" ”

"Hehe, a battalion commander...... If I'm not mistaken, it's equivalent to a thousand. Wu Sangui had a faint smile on his face, but his hand clenched the saber, "There are more than ten of the thousands of subordinates under this official, and no one has ever dared to talk to me like this!" ”

This is exactly the Lan Lin who enlisted in the army as Tun Ding back then, a troubled young man who was once a troubled young man, and now he has become a battalion commander with his military merits. Before he joined the Qiong Navy, he was the master who was not afraid of heaven and earth, and after having the Qiong Navy, the biggest backer in the world, he was even more fearless. Listening to Wu Sangui's threatening words, he smiled contemptuously and said unceremoniously: "I eat the salary of the Qiong Navy, I should be a soldier of the Qiong Navy, no matter how majestic Wu Commander, he can't scare me." ”

Several generals behind Wu Sangui immediately took a few steps forward when they heard this, and with a "bang", they pulled out half of their knives and scolded: "Dare to be unreasonable to Zhentai, and live impatiently." If you don't get out of the way, tens of thousands of iron horsemen will rush up, and they can trample you into meat in the blink of an eye! ”

Lan Lin glared at these people: "Lao Tzu has beaten rogues and killed Tartars, and he has long put life and death out of the way. The general ordered us to hold here, and Lao Tzu listened to no one except his orders. If you have the ability to let the horse come over and step on Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu blinked, it's your grandson! ”

Wu Sangui saw that the other party did not back down, and his heart gradually became murderous, and he asked in a low voice: "Do you really not let it?" The Qiong Navy and the Guanning Army cooperate sincerely to fight against the Liukou, if there is a conflict, you can't afford it. If you really want to trample you into a pulp, no one will call the shots for you! ”

Lan Lin patted his chest: "Come on, if you want to enter the door here, unless you step on my corpse!" ”

"Okay, if you want to die, this official will fulfill you!" Wu Sangui took a few steps back, raised his saber, and prepared to give the order to charge. Time is pressing, and the crown prince must be snatched before the main force of the Joan navy arrives, otherwise everything will be in vain. Although one or two thousand bird soldiers are not easy to deal with, tens of thousands of cavalry gather all their strength to strike a thunderous blow, and they can't stop it.

Lan Lin naturally didn't sit still, he drew his command knife and raised it above his head, and the soldiers behind him lined up in a well-trained horizontal line and raised their rifles.

The atmosphere became tense at once, the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder, and the battle was about to break out.

At this moment, a shrill voice came from the door.

"Everyone is an officer and soldier of King Qin's suppression, don't hurt the harmony, what's the matter with dancing guns and knives like this? Hurry up and put the guys away. ”

Fang Zhenghua walked out and said to Wu Sangui with a smile: "Chief Wu Bing, our family is the master of ceremonies and the pen of Fang Zhenghua. Now that the two armies have entered the city, they have been defeated, the order of the capital has been restored, and the court has returned to normalcy is just around the corner, you and Pingnanhou are both heroes of the Ming Dynasty, why bother to hurt the peace for a little thing......"

Wu Sangui glanced at him, as if he hadn't heard these words at all, raised his knife and ordered: "Brothers, there are remnants of rebellion inside, as long as you rush in and find out, it will be a great achievement, listen to my orders......"

Fang Zhenghua was stunned for a moment, and then trembled with anger. Since he sat in the position of the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch, whether it was the eunuch or the foreign minister, everyone saw him respectfully, and they had never ignored him like this.

"Wait!"

Someone came out of the door again, but it was Wen Tiren, the head of the court. He walked to the middle of the two sides of the confrontation and said loudly: "General Wu soldiers, it is already a great merit to break through the capital and expel the Liukou, as long as the new emperor ascends the throne, you are one of the best figures among the military attaches of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a sure thing to seal your wife and son, so why bother doing this?" ”

The other party is Zhenghua, Wu Sangui can ignore it, the eunuch Bingbi seems to be in a high position, but he is just the emperor's slave, after supporting the new emperor to ascend the throne, it is easy to change all the celebrant eunuchs, but the first assistant cannot be regarded as air. No matter who is the emperor, these intertwined civil forces are not easy to shake.

Wu Sangui's hand raising the knife slowly put down, and he clasped his fists on the horse and saluted: "It turned out to be the elder of the pavilion." Forgive the end of the armor on the body, can not be full of salutes. He said it respectfully, but in his heart he was thinking quickly: Shousuke personally came forward to stop him, did he rush in desperately, or give up?

When the situation was at a stalemate, a palanquin came from the street at the other end, surrounded by dozens of soldiers accompanying and protecting. Seeing that the front of the Wen Mansion was densely surrounded by people, the officer at the head was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously blurted out: "Princess Daming Kunxing is here, irrelevant people get out of the way, so as not to disturb Luanjia." ”

Xia Nan asked the princess to send the princess to Wen Mansion first, and he walked slowly to meet the rest of the Second Army and the Third Army of Chaoyangmen, which were searching for the rout in the east of the city, but he didn't expect Wu Sangui to guess where the prince was, and made a desperate bet to gather all his troops to Wen Mansion, so there was this scene.