"What's going on?! Shen Yongzhong, are you crazy? How dare you violate the curfew and break into the city without the order of General Xu, the city guard?!"

Yang Zhen and the others, surrounded by Shen Yongzhong, rushed straight into the city from the Wengcheng. As soon as they rushed through the city gate and onto the streets of the city, they met a group of people riding towards the city with torches.

The first person to do so was none other than Hong Qiyuan.

As for the situation inside the Haimen of Zhenhai, Hong Qiyuan knew that Shen Yongzhong must have ignored the curfew. Not only did he not wait in the Wengcheng, but he also led a large group of people to forcefully enter the city. He was annoyed, and while speeding up his horse, he asked loudly.

After rushing to Yang Zhen and others, Hong Qiyuan reined in his horse a few steps away, drew his sword out of its sheath, pointed at Yang Zhen and others and shouted:

"Listen to my order immediately! Duke Xushun and his entourage can stay in the city. The identities of the others are unknown. Please exit the city gate immediately and wait!"

Hong Qiyuan shouted several times, but Yang Zhen and others were indifferent. At the same time, there was still a huge crowd behind them. Zhang Chen, Li Lu and others had already led their troops into the gate hole of the inner city of Zhenhai Gate.

At this juncture, an angry yet majestic voice suddenly sounded from behind Hong Qiyuan: "What's going on? Yongzhong, where is Zhankui?!"

As this question came, the team behind Hong Qiyuan quickly split into two, and a road opened, and a tall general with a powerful appearance came riding his horse.

"Father-in-law! My son-in-law Shen Yongzhong is here!"

When Shen Yongzhong saw the mighty-looking general appearing, he immediately turned over and dismounted, bowed to the visitor and saluted with fists, while speaking to identify himself.

When the general saw Shen Yongzhong, he was about to get off his horse, but he saw Hong Qiyuan, the general on his side, who stopped him and said: "General, wait a minute! Except for your son-in-law, the identities of the others are unknown. If you enter the city at night, there may be chaos!"

General, please give the order quickly. Anyone who dares to rush to the city gate again will be deemed to have violated the prohibition and will be shot without mercy——"

Hong Qiyuan was talking when he suddenly heard a "bang" and everyone around him screamed.

At the same moment, Hong Qiyuan's chest and abdomen felt like he was hit hard, and suddenly a heartbreaking pain came from his chest and abdomen.

He looked down and saw blood pouring from the white cotton armor on his chest and abdomen. When he looked up again, he saw a tall horse beside Shen Yongzhong. The tall man who had previously led the horse for Shen Yongzhong was holding a horse in his hand.

A short-barreled firecracker was pointed at him, and the gunpowder's mouth was still filled with smoke.

What else did Hong Qiyuan want to say? But he felt a sharp pain and his vision immediately went black. He fell down from his horse.

"Jijiwaiwai? You are the only one who talks a lot! I wanted to spare your life, but you insist on seeking death!"

Hong Qiyuan was more responsible than Xu Zhankui, and Yang Zhen, who had already intended to recruit various ministries under Xushun Gong Shen Zhixiang, was actually very willing to have some such people under his command.

But? At this moment, if he is allowed to talk too much, Fuzhou City, which could have been taken without a single blow, is likely to suffer further complications.

Therefore, he had to make a prompt decision and take advantage of the fact that the two were only a few steps apart. He directly used the short blunderbuss in his hand to kill him in one fell swoop.

Yang Zhen suddenly opened fire, causing a commotion and chaos. In the midst of this commotion and chaos, a rider suddenly rushed out of the opponent's crowd.

"Father?! Father?! Shen Yongzhong, how dare you kill my father?!"

The knight was shouting angrily, drawing his bow and arrow, and was about to shoot at Shen Yongzhong and others.

But at this moment? There was another "bang".

Zhang Guogan, who had been holding a musket against Shen Yongzhong, suddenly raised the muzzle of his gun and shot down the young schoolmaster who rushed towards him with his bow and arrow drawn in grief and anger, and the shouts suddenly stopped.

However, after the gunshot, the scene suddenly became chaotic. More and more people gathered behind Yang Zhen, holding muskets and surrounding dozens of people from the other side.

There were dozens of people on the other side, not to be outdone. Those with bows and arrows were holding their bows and arrows, those without bows and arrows were holding swords in their hands, and some were riding horses and holding spears, ready to move.

"Stop! Stop it all!"

The mighty-looking general, Xu Tianchong, the father-in-law of Shen Yongzhong, suddenly shouted loudly, his sound like a bell and a drum, which instantly silenced the entire audience.

"Yongzhong, what is going on, what is the situation?! Who is the person you brought into the city? Why do you have to take action even if you don't agree with me?!"

Since Xu Tianchong followed Shen Zhixiang and surrendered to the Manchu Tatars, his status in the Manchu Tatars was relatively low. He went out to fight with the Eight Banners soldiers. They did all the hard work and dirty work, while the Eight Banners officials bossed them around and ignored others.

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But he had never seen a situation like this, where someone would just kill someone with a shotgun or a firecracker if they disagreed.

At this time, he still thought that the troops who followed Shen Yongzhong into Fuzhou City were the troops of a Manchu dignitary from Zhengbai Banner. He suppressed his anger and asked Shen Yongzhong what was going on.

But he did not wait for a reply from his son-in-law Shen Yongzhong. Instead, he waited for a chuckle from the person next to his son-in-law Shen Yongzhong.

This person was, of course, Yang Zhen, who was holding a short-barreled musket and was calmly loading the musket ammunition.

"Is this in person Xu Tianchong, General Xu, who is under the command of Duke Xushun of Jinzhou?"

"Yes, I am Xu Tianchong!"

Yang Zhen's question successfully attracted the attention of everyone on Haimen Nei North Street in Fuzhou Town to him.

Needless to say, Zhang Chen, Li Lu, Shen Yongzhong, Zhang Guogan and others were all waiting calmly for Yang Zhen to speak.

For them, the matter is over, the troops have entered the city, and the overall situation has been decided. The next step is to go on a killing spree or accept the enemy's surrender, which depends on Yang Zhen's wishes.

Correspondingly, people who had not noticed Yang Zhen originally, or who had originally focused their attention on Shen Yongzhong who had dismounted, including Xu Tianchong himself, immediately locked their eyes on Yang Zhen.

By this time, both Xu Tianchong and the pro-military guards who followed Xu Tianchong realized that the tall man standing next to Shen Yongzhong on horseback and wearing the uniform of an ordinary primary school of the Han Army under the Zhengbai Banner was the man who entered the city at night.

The person in charge of the troops.

"Excuse me, who are you? Which unit of Zhengbai's army are you? It's wrong to enter the city at night. How dare you kill my subordinates without permission?"

Under the light of the lamp, Xu Tianchong, who was over fifty years old, drew out his sword with a clang. With a cold look on his face, he pointed at Yang Zhen and shouted sternly:

"Killing my subordinate Niu Lu, Zhang Jing, and Hong Qiyuan without permission is a violation of our military law. You even kill his son Hong Yongdong. Who are you? How dare you act so boldly?!"

Yang Zhen saw that the first echelon of troops he had brought had basically entered the city, and Xu Tianchong and his party in front of him were surrounded by a group of musketeers led by Zhang Chen. Knowing that tonight's event was decided, he immediately laughed and took off his clothes.

With a heavy arrow helmet on his head, he smiled and said to Xu Tianchong:

"Xu Tian favors General Xu. Yang Zhen has admired your name for a long time. Today he led his troops across the Liaohai Sea and came to Fuzhou to meet you!"

"Yang Zhen?! Are you, which Yang Zhen?! Could it be that you, you are -"

"Haha, that's right, it's me, the right commander of the former military governor's office of the Ming Dynasty, the former general of the Eastern Conquest, Yang Zhen, the chief military officer who was ordered to guard Songshan, Liaohai and other places!"

"ah?!"

After Yang Zhen's words fell, Xu Tianchong was stunned for a moment, but then he came to his senses, and the remaining doubts in his heart were immediately shaken away.

At that moment, he tightened his grip on his mount. He didn't know whether he wanted to turn around and escape, or he was just nervous. The tall horse neighed and then stood up.

However, how can it be so easy to escape among the people who are surrounding you from both sides?

The war horse under Xu Tianchong first stood up, and finally landed on the ground with its front hooves. It seemed to feel the fear of its master, and kept snoring and pawing the ground with its front hooves.

When Xu Tianchong first heard that the person in front of him was actually Yang Zhen, he was extremely shocked and immediately became a little panicked and a little dumbfounded.

And the dozens of soldiers and attendants around him finally understood that the group of people who broke into Zhenhai Gate at night were not friendly forces at all.

Therefore, without Xu Tianchong's order, all of them pointed their bows, arrows, and weapons at Yang Zhen.

However, their actions were doomed to be in vain. The troops Yang Zhen brought into the city, at least those who surrounded them with muskets, were much more than the dozens of them.

And at this moment, there are still a large number of people outside Zhenhai Gate who are pouring into the city.

In fact, when Xu Tianchong and others were surrounded on the inner street of Zhenhaimen, there were guards on the top of Zhenhaimen who kept shouting for orders. Although the voice was far away, it was clearly audible:

"Go and report to the city guard, go and report to Hong Zhangjing, there are a large number of people outside Zhenhai Gate attacking the city gate! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! They are entering the city, go and report to the city garrison, and report to General Xu! Ah——"

Screams came from the city one after another, and what followed the shouts was the "bang", "bang" and "bang" of firecrackers.

Xu Tianchong heard the shouting at the top of the city and looked up, but the shouting soon stopped abruptly. It was obvious that he had been hit by a musket and had suffered an accident.

He then looked at the horse trail leading to the head of Zhenhaimen City, and saw that it was already filled with Yang Zhen's men and horses charging upward with muskets.

Under the city gate of Zhenhai Gate, countless people and horses were rushing into the city like the tide crashing on the shore, and they were heavily surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside the street where the people they led were located.

The muskets used by Yang Zhen's men did not light the matches, but they could fire without warning. This was something he had never seen before.

Seeing so many guns pointed at him and his followers, Xu Tianchong knew that Fuzhou City was doomed. He sighed, shouted "Yongzhong has wronged me", and suddenly slashed his neck with a knife.
Chapter completed!