Daming pirates

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

However, their reaction speed was still much slower than that of Yu Jiajun. By the time they reacted and rushed to the Imperial City, Yu Jiajun had already arrived at the Imperial City and completely surrounded it, with four gates

All were controlled by Yu Jiajun.

In addition, Qiu Qinghui personally took charge of the Meridian Gate area and arranged the security here. He sent people to charge and captured the Jinyiwei warehouse south of Donghua Gate. Some of the Jinyiwei who were waiting here were immediately beaten by them.

There was a huge uproar and he ran away without a trace.

The Yu family's generals who arrived here rushed all the way to the outside of the palace after entering the city. They were all so tired that they were panting. Some of them almost died of running. Even the better ones, after arriving at the place,

Everyone was tired and out of breath, and just wanted to get down and take a rest.

However, Qiu Qinghui had an order not to rest as long as he was not exhausted to death. After arriving at the designated place, he immediately turned to defense and built barricades directly in their guard area, and went up to the house to seize the commanding heights to block the government troops from rescuing the palace.

Through the passage, no soldiers can be allowed to enter the palace, and no one can escape from the palace.

It was quite difficult to execute this order because Qiu Qinghui arrived at the palace with only three infantry battalions and no artillery. They had to be stationed outside the four southeast and northwest gates of the palace to await reinforcements. It was really a bit difficult to defend such a wide place.

Difficulty.

However, the officers still faithfully carried out Qiu Qinghui's order. After leading their troops to the designated positions, they immediately switched to on-site defense and directly used everything they could find at hand to build barricades on the streets around the palace.

Since we couldn't find anything suitable, we just tore down some houses around the palace and piled bricks and stones on the streets to build temporary barricades.

Including some desks, doors, and bed boards, they became the materials for them to build barricades. At this time, in order to control the palace, Yu Jiajun could not care so much. In the meantime, some unlucky guys would inevitably suffer, but this was also a helpless move.

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

Before the Yu family soldiers could build complete defense fortifications, Cao Huachun had already responded and sent a group of officers and soldiers from Fucheng Gate into Weihuang City to attack Xuanwu Gate.

In addition, Cao Huachun also mobilized 10,000 officers and soldiers from Guangning, You'an and Yongding gates in the outer city, entered the inner city from Xuanwu gate and Zhengyang gate to rush to the aid of the imperial city.

For a time, the sound of people shouting and neighing echoed throughout the capital. Under the leadership of the generals, the official and military reinforcements roared toward the palace.

Soon the government reinforcements that set out from Fuchengmen arrived outside Xuanwumen, where they collided with some of the Yu's troops who had arrived first, and a fierce battle ensued.

At this time, because the rebels had entered the city and had already arrived at the imperial city, although the officers and soldiers in the Beijing camp were very weak in combat, they did not dare not to work hard. If the imperial palace was captured by the rebels, their jobs would be lost, and the Ming Dynasty would be over, so

This time they attacked quite fiercely.

A military general from the Beijing camp led a large number of officers and soldiers to attack the Yu family's defense line in the Xuanwu Gate area, shouting for a fierce battle, but he worked very hard.

When the reinforcements arrived, some of the Jinyi guards who were guarding Xuanwu Gate became restless at this time. About three hundred Jinyi guards rushed out from Xuanwu Gate with knives, trying to cooperate from inside and outside, and blocked Yu who was blocked outside Xuanwu Gate.

The family army was defeated.

But what they encountered this time was the absolutely unreasonable Yu Jiajun. The muskets Yu Jiajun had on hand were not for nothing. Two platoons had already been responsible for blocking the Xuanwu Gate, and they rushed from the Xuanwu Gate in front of more than three hundred Jinyi guards.

When he came out, he was shot in the face with a volley of guns.

As a result, the Jin Yiwei who rushed at the front were thrown into a group of people in the doorway on the spot. Without even rushing out of the doorway, they were shot to death and injured a large number of people. Then the remaining Jinyiwei were filled with infinite fear.

, you fought for me to snatch it, so you fled back to the palace, closed the heavy door with a bang, and never dared to show your head again.

As for the officers and soldiers who came from Fuchengmen, although they worked very hard this time, they looked very poor in front of Yu Jiajun.

The Yu Jiajun who was guarding here first controlled several commanding heights and deployed some sharpshooters or snipers. The other two companies separated on both sides of the Xuanwu Gate. 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 knocked to the ground row after row. Several charges were repelled by the Yu family army. The leading general shouted and personally led the troops to attack, but as soon as he showed up, he was shot by a sniper.

He hit the chest with a condescending shot and fell off the horse. A short time after landing, he died.

When the remaining officers and soldiers saw that their generals had been killed, they immediately lost their will to fight. At this time, a company of Yu's army infantry suddenly launched a bayonet charge. More than two hundred Yu's soldiers and generals were all flattened.

With the muskets and spears mounted with bayonets in their hands, they roared wildly and with the knife player as the leader, they rushed towards the officers and soldiers like a pack of wolves.

The officers and soldiers had just died of their general and were panicking when they charged with bayonets and were beaten into chaos. A large number of officers and soldiers were running around in panic with infinite fear. It only took an hour.

Before long, the more than three thousand officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp were defeated by less than two companies of Yu's army, and they all fled back to Fuchengmen.

As soon as the situation at Xuanwu Gate was brought under control, the Yu Jiajun in the Meridian Gate and Xihua Gate areas also encountered a fierce counterattack by the government troops.

The commander-in-chief of the army who led the counterattack this time was Zhou Yuji, a well-known Beijing-based warrior in the late Ming Dynasty. Zhou Yuji was an ordinary soldier with an upright temperament. He was even more loyal to the Ming Dynasty. He had done so many times.

He participated in the war, and because of his extraordinary bravery, he was promoted from an ordinary soldier to the position of deputy general.

This time the Yu Jiajun attacked the capital. Zhou Yuji was responsible for guarding Yongding Gate and was not attacked by the Yu Jiajun. However, considering that the Yu Jiajun was too strong in field combat and the officers and soldiers under his command were insufficient, Zhou Yuji did not dare to go out of the city easily to fight with them.

It was a decisive battle, but now that the Yu family's army had entered the city and had already reached the imperial city, Zhou Yuji didn't care so much anymore, so he quickly led his troops to the imperial city.

When he led his troops to arrive at the Meridian Gate, it had been completely blocked by the Yu Jiajun. Zhou Yuji did not expect that the Yu Jiajun came so quickly. Seeing that the Meridian Gate had not been breached by the Yu Jiajun, the emperor inside should be safe, so

He immediately sent out his troops to attack the Yu Jiajun's defense line, trying to defeat the Yu Jiajun here.

Zhou Yuji still had a group of officers and soldiers who were relatively capable of fighting. Under Zhou Yuji's death order, his officers and soldiers immediately began to launch a fierce attack on the Yu family's army in the Meridian Gate area.

The two sides immediately started a fierce battle outside the Meridian Gate. The Yu family's army was short of troops and could only defend the area around the Meridian Gate. Zhou Yuji had thousands of officers and soldiers under his command, and brought several artillery pieces to blast Yu's army.

line of defense.

However, Yu Jiajun's musketeers had already controlled the commanding heights at this time, firing volleys of guns from the roofs or walls. Repeated attacks by the army were repulsed, and many people were killed and injured.

Because several artillery pieces were too far forward, they were exposed to the sniper's field of vision. As a result, the officers and soldiers operating the artillery were called out one by one and were beaten to the point where they were knocked upside down.

Zhou Yuji led his army to attack several times, but due to the strong firepower of Yu's army, they all failed and lost a lot of soldiers.

Zhou Yuji really had no choice, so he had to change his strategy, avoiding the front of the Yu Jiajun barricade, and also sent troops to the roof, trying to knock down the Yu Jiajun musketeers on the roof first, but the official army's muskets and bows and arrows had far less range.

The Yu family's army was far away, so there was no advantage in fighting on the roof. The officers and soldiers who climbed up to the roof were knocked down as soon as their heads were exposed, and many officers and soldiers were lost. The officers and soldiers were so frightened that they did not dare to climb up to the roof.

Zhou Yuji then sent troops to demolish walls and houses, avoiding the direct fire of the Yu's army's gunfire, and directly opened a passage through some courtyard houses, and unexpectedly attacked the Yu's army's defense line, and then a hand-to-hand battle broke out between the two sides.

Fierce fighting.

Because the terrain here is complex and it is a standard street battle. Once the officers and soldiers avoid the streets and attack head-on, the Yu Jiajun's firepower will not be able to fully exert its long-range shooting advantage.

Zhou Yuji himself was a fierce general in the late Ming Dynasty. At this time, he was determined to save the emperor, so the offensive was very fierce. Under his personal supervision, the officers and soldiers under his command were also very fierce. They broke down walls and demolished houses, forcing

After arriving at the Yu Jiajun defense line, the two sides entered into a fierce hand-to-hand battle.

The troops of the Yu Jiajun were limited, but they were very fierce. When the officers and soldiers suddenly arrived in front of them, everyone in the Yu Jiajun mounted their bayonets and started fighting hand-to-hand with the officers and soldiers who were fighting in front of them.

The shouts of killing resounded throughout the Meridian Gate area. From time to time, snipers would knock out some officers and generals from high places. The clash of swords and guns, the sound of muskets, screams and the shouts of killing were intertwined, as if a pot was boiling.

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Every moment, soldiers from both sides fell under each other's swords and spears. Blood stained a large area of ​​the ground. Many soldiers of the Yu family army had their spears cut off, so they continued to attack with their swords, and their hands were cut off.

If it happens, it pounces on it and bites it with its teeth.

When his body was pierced by the opponent's spear, he would tightly hold the enemy's spear with both hands, preventing them from getting away, and let the brothers behind him rush up and stab the opponent to death, and die together.

The war has reached this point, and its brutality is outrageous. Under the supervision of Zhou Yuji, the officers and soldiers came like a tide, but they were blocked by Yu Jiajun's thin defense line and could not get closer.

Meridian Gate.

But the situation is very dangerous for the Yu family army. After all, their troops rushed to the outskirts of the imperial city are very limited, and the troops assigned to garrison at various intersections are even more scattered. There is no abundant troops to dispatch.

At key points, the fighting was extremely intense, but Qiu Qinghui could not allocate any troops to reinforce these precarious places.

At this time, not to mention ordinary soldiers, such as the leading soldiers and staff officers in the army, they all moved to the forefront and started fighting hand-to-hand with the enemy.

Even Qiu Qinghui himself, carrying an extremely sharp single sword, went to the most dangerous place in person at this time. Like ordinary soldiers, he stood at the forefront and shouted for a fierce battle, leading his Yu family soldiers to fight to the death.

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(My daughter suddenly fell ill again. She was in the hospital from yesterday afternoon to evening. I feel so distressed!)