Just when the imperial city was surrounded by the Yu family's army, the news that the Yu family's army had conquered the capital had spread throughout the entire Beijing division, and Cao Huachun was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately mobilized troops and horses to rush to the imperial city to rescue the driver.

But their reaction speed was still much slower than that of the Yu family's army, and when they reacted and rushed to the imperial city, the Yu family's army had already arrived at the imperial city and completely surrounded the imperial city, and all four gates were controlled by the Yu family's army.

In addition, Qiu Qinghui personally sat in the area of the noon gate, arranged the guards here, he sent someone to charge the south of the Donghua Gate to seize the Jinyi guard warehouse, here on the waiting list, immediately by them beat the hall and scattered, fled without a trace.

And the soldiers and generals of the Yu family who arrived here, after entering the city one by one, rushed all the way to the outside of the palace, they were all tired and out of breath, and some of them almost ran out of breath, even if they were better, after arriving at the place, they were all tired and out of breath, just thinking about quickly lying down and resting.

However, Qiu Qinghui had an order, as long as he was not exhausted to death, he could not rest, and after arriving at the designated place, he immediately turned to defense on the spot, directly in their town area, built barricades, and went to the house to seize the commanding heights, blocking the passage for the officials and soldiers to rescue the palace, and never let a single soldier enter the palace, nor let another person escape from the palace.

It was quite difficult to carry out this order, because at this time, Qiu Qinghui arrived at the palace, only brought three infantry battalions, did not carry artillery, and had to be scattered outside the four gates of the palace to wait for reinforcements, and it was really difficult to defend such a wide position.

However, the officers still faithfully carried out Qiu Qinghui's order, and after leading their troops to arrive at the designated position, they immediately switched to local defense, and directly used the qiē thing they could find at hand to start building barricades in the streets around the palace.

Unable to find something suitable, they simply stripped some of the houses around the palace and piled bricks and stones on the streets to build temporary barricades.

Including some tables, door panels, and bed boards, they have become materials for them to build barricades, and at this time, in order to control the palace, Yu Jiajun can't take care of it so much, and it is indispensable to let some unlucky guys suffer during the period, but this is also a helpless move.

Some of the musketeers were sent to the roof, and they pulled some tables and chairs up to the roof with ropes, built improvised fortifications, and then guarded the roof.

Just when the soldiers of the family had not yet built a perfect fortification, Cao Huachun had already reacted and sent a group of officers and soldiers from Fuchengmen into the Imperial City to attack Xuanwu Gate.

In addition, Cao Huachun also mobilized 10,000 officers and troops from Guangning, You'an, and Yongdingmen in the outer city, and entered the inner city from the Zhengyang Gate of Xuanwu Gate to aid the imperial city.

For a time, the sound of people shouting and neighing horses was everywhere in the Beijing Division, which resounded throughout the capital, and the official army reinforcements, under the leadership of the generals, rumbled towards the direction of the palace.

Soon, the official army reinforcements who set off from Fuchengmen arrived outside the Xuanwu Gate, where they collided with some soldiers and horses of the Yujia army who arrived first, and then a fierce battle was launched.

At this time, because the rebels had arrived in the imperial city, although the combat strength of the Jingying officers and soldiers was very poor, but they did not dare not sell their lives, if the imperial palace was conquered by the rebels, then their jobs would be lost, and the Ming Dynasty would be finished, so they attacked quite fiercely this time.

A military general of the Beijing camp, led a large number of officers and soldiers, and struggled to storm the defense line of the Yujia army in the area of Xuanwu Gate, shouting for a fierce battle, but he was also quite hard.

Hearing that the reinforcements arrived, some of the brocade guards who were originally guarding the Xuanwu Gate were also uneasy at this time, and there were about 300 brocade guards who rushed out of the Xuanwu Gate with knives, trying to combine the inside and the outside, and defeated the Yu family army blocking outside the Xuanwu Gate.

But what they encountered this time was the absolutely unreasonable Yu Jiajun, the musket in Yu Jiajun's hand was not vegetarian, and there were already two platoons responsible for blocking the Xuanwu Gate, and when more than 300 brocade guards rushed out of the Xuanwu Gate, they split their faces and hit them with a row of guns.

As a result, the Jinyi guards who rushed to the front were thrown over in a group of doorways on the spot, and they didn't even rush out of the doorway, so they were killed and injured by random shots, and then the remaining Jinyi guards fled back to the palace with infinite fear, and they slammed the heavy door shut, and never dared to show their heads again.

As for the officers and soldiers who came from Fuchengmen, although they worked quite hard this time, they looked very bad in front of the family army.

The Yu family military guarding here first controlled several commanding heights and arranged some sharpshooters or snipers, while the other two companies blocked both sides of the Xuanwu Gate, and when the officers and soldiers arrived, they immediately began to fire at the officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers who rushed in front were thrown to the ground one after another, and several charges were repelled by Yu Jiajun, and the military general who led him shouted and personally led the troops to assault, but as soon as he appeared, he was shot in the chest by a sniper condescendingly, and the war horse was planted from the horse's back.

The remaining officers and soldiers saw that the main general had been killed, and suddenly completely lost their will to fight, and the infantry of a company of the Yu family army at this time suddenly launched a bayonet charge, and more than 200 soldiers and generals of the Yu family army rushed towards the officers and soldiers like wolves with bayonets in their hands at the flat end of the guns, spears, and roared wildly.

A large number of officers and soldiers with infinite fear, scurrying around, just less than an hour, the more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp were defeated by the Yu family army in less than two companies, and fled back to Fuchengmen.

As soon as the situation on the Xuanwu Gate side was charged, the Yu family army in the area of Wumen and Xihuamen was also violently counterattacked by the official army.

This time, the chief general of the official army who led the army to launch a counterattack was the last year of the Ming Dynasty in history, the famous Beijing camp general Zhou Yuji, Zhou Yuji was born as an ordinary soldier, with an upright temperament, and was even more loyal to the Ming court.

This time the Yu family army attacked the capital, Zhou Yuji was responsible for guarding the Yongding Gate, and was not attacked by the Yu family army, but considering that the field combat ability of the Yu family army was too strong, and the combat power of the officers and troops under his command was insufficient, Zhou Yuji did not dare to go out of the city to fight with it, but now that the Yu family army has entered the city and has arrived in the imperial city, Zhou Yuji can't care so much, so he hurriedly led his troops to the imperial city.

When he led the troops to arrive at the noon gate, this place had been completely blocked by the Yu family army, Zhou Yuji did not expect the Yu family army to come so quickly, seeing that the noon gate had not been broken by the Yu family army, and the emperor inside should be safe, so he immediately waved his army to storm the defense line of the Yu family army, trying to defeat the Yu family army here.

Zhou Yuji's subordinates still had a group of officers and soldiers who were more capable of fighting, and under Zhou Yuji's death order, the officers and troops under his command immediately began to launch a fierce attack on the Yujia army in the area of Wumen.

The two sides immediately launched a fierce battle outside the noon gate, the Yu family army was insufficient, and could only defend the area around the noon gate, Zhou Yuji had thousands of officers and troops under his command, and brought a few artillery, and the artillery bombarded the defense line of the home army.

However, at this time, the musketeers of Yu Jiajun had already controlled the commanding heights, and the platoon of guns kept falling from the roof or wall, and the repeated attacks of the officers and soldiers were repulsed, and many people were killed and wounded.

Several artillery pieces were exposed to the sniper's field of vision because they were too far ahead, and as a result, the officers and men who operated the guns were named one by one, and they were beaten on their backs.

Zhou Yuji led the army to attack several times, but under the strong firepower of the Yu family army, they all returned in vain, losing a considerable number of soldiers.

Zhou Yuji really had no choice, so he had to change his way of playing, avoiding the front of the Yu Jiajun barricade, and also sent troops to the roof, trying to knock down the Yu family musketeers on the roof first, but the range of the officers' guns and bows and arrows was far less than that of the Yu family's army, and it was not advantageous to fight on the roof.

Zhou Yuji then sent troops to tear down the walls and break the house, avoiding the direct fire of the Yu family's muskets, directly from some courtyard houses, and made a passage alive, and was stunned to attack the defense line of the Yu family's army, and then the two sides had a fierce battle with short hands.

Because the terrain here is complex and belongs to standard street fighting, once the officers and soldiers avoid the street and attack head-on, the firepower of the Yu family army cannot be fully utilized, and the long-range fire advantage of the musket cannot be carried forward.

And Zhou Yuji himself is a member of the immortal general in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, at this time he was determined to save the emperor desperately, so the offensive was very fierce, he personally supervised the battle, and the officers and soldiers under his command were also quite fierce.

The strength of the Yu family army is limited, but it is very fierce, when the officers and soldiers burst in front of them, the Yu family army and the upper and lower people, etc., are all bayonets, swords and guns at the same time and kill the officers and soldiers in front of them hand-to-hand.

The sound of shouting and killing resounded throughout the noon gate, and from time to time the snipers knocked out some officers and generals at the heights, and the sound of swords and guns colliding, muskets, screams and shouts of killing were intertwined, as if the pot was boiling.

Every moment there are soldiers on both sides who fall under each other's swords and guns, blood stains a large area of the ground, many soldiers of the Yu family's army, the spear was cut off, so they drew their knives and continued to pounce, and when their hands were cut off, they pounced on it and bit it with their teeth.

When his body was pierced by the opponent's spear, he grabbed the enemy's spear with both hands, so that they could not escape, and let the brothers behind him pounce on him and stab him to death.

The war has entered this point, and its tragic process is outrageous, and the official army is like a tide under the supervision of Zhou Yuji, but it is blocked by the thin defense line of the Yu family's army, and it has never been able to approach the noon gate.

But the situation is very dangerous for the Yu family's army, after all, the troops they rushed to the periphery of the imperial city are very limited, and the troops assigned to the various intersections to guard are even more scattered, and there are no rich troops to be deployed.

At this time, not to mention ordinary soldiers, like the fireheads and staff officers in the army, they were all at the forefront at this time, and they fought with the enemy's short-handed soldiers.

Even Qiu Qinghui himself, at this time, carried an extremely sharp single knife, went to the most dangerous place in person, and like ordinary soldiers, he was at the forefront of the battle, leading the Yu family soldiers under his command, and fought to the death.

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