In the past half a month, all the new troops in Guangzhou City have been transferred to various places. His Majesty the Emperor also found that this was not good and issued an order for the inspection department and local garrison offices in Guangzhou City to take strict vigilance.

As the inspector of the four inspection departments in the city and Zhu Hongsan's old subordinate in Huguang, Zhang San is naturally very concerned about the emperor's orders.

After the Spring Festival, Zhang San lived in the yamen at night and urged his soldiers to patrol carefully every day.

Today, Zhang San was sitting on duty in the yamen, and suddenly heard the noise outside. When Zhang San heard something, he shouted, "Come on! The Tartars have entered the city!" and so on.

"Come on, go outside and see what's going on!"

The soldiers standing guard at the door hurried out to ask what was going on. The soldiers came back to report later.

"Sir, it's in the direction of Beibianmen. Many people shouted that the Tartars had entered the city, and at the same time they found fires in the houses near Beibianmen!"

There was a fire, which meant that something was wrong. Zhang San quickly stood up and shouted: "Come here, take all the soldiers in the inspection office and go with me to see what's going on!"

In fact, there were not many soldiers. It was midnight now, and all the patrol teams had already gone out to patrol, and there were more than 30 people in the yamen.

Zhang San went out of the door and glanced at the Chu Palace in the distance, thinking to himself: "Don't disturb His Majesty the Emperor!" He called a confidant soldier and asked him to go to the Chu Palace to report his anxiety.

After the arrangement, Zhang San led more than 30 people to Beibianmen.

The North City Inspection Office is not far from the North Binmen Gate, and there are no pedestrians at night, so they arrive near the North Binmen Gate within a quarter of an hour.

At this time, we could already see that the Beibianmen was in chaos. The people living in this place were all nobles, and the families were all servants and servants. Now many people are putting out fires.

Zhang San pulled a servant who looked like a servant and asked, "What's going on?"

The man looked at Zhang San wearing the clothes of the inspection department and quickly said, "I don't know. We are sleeping. Suddenly, many torches were thrown in outside and lit the houses in our mansion. Come in and help put out the fire. Our master is a doctor in the Ministry of Finance!"

As Zhu Hongsan's old subordinate in Huguang, Zhang San took a small fifth-rank doctor in his eyes. Now the North City is in chaos, so I'd better go and see what the cause is.

Zhang San led his people to the North Binmen and came to Chaoku Street, a street away from the city gate. Now there were fires on both sides of the road, and it was like daylight. At this moment, a team rushed over from the opposite side. It was clear from the fire that these people were wearing green leather armor, with iron blister nails embedded in the leather armor, holding various weapons, some were swords, and some were maces. These guys were killing people everywhere to prevent anyone from putting out the fire. They saw a few torches throwing in the house that was not in the room.

Zhang San could see clearly in the firelight that these people were bald without hats, and they all had the legendary rat-tail of money.

Zhang San was shocked. He knew that this was the symbol of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, but he didn't expect that the Qing Tartars had entered the city.

At this time, the Tartars on the opposite side also saw more than 30 people from Zhang San, waving their weapons and rushing up with a strange cry.

When Zhang San saw that there were only a dozen of these people, and he had more than 30 of them, twice the other party, he became more courageous and prepared to lead people to destroy these Tartars.

But Zhang San's wish was beautiful and the reality was very skinny. As soon as he fought, these Tartars were like tigers. The soldiers around him were cut down one after another. In a few minutes, there were only more than a dozen soldiers standing here.

Zhang San was not a loss because he was an old subordinate of the King of Chu. He found it difficult to speak out and ran away as soon as possible. When his inspectors saw that they ran away, they dared to fight the Tartars to death, and they all retreated with Zhang San.

The Tartars on the other side should have a mission. When they saw Zhang San running away, they didn't chase him. They stopped and then set fires everywhere.

Zhang San ran for more than 500 meters and looked back at the Tartars not chasing them, before he dared to stop and take a breath.

As a city man, Zhang San knew that something big happened now. The first thing he thought of was to go home to protect his wife and children. But he looked up at the Chu Palace, which was not far from the North City Gate, and gritted his teeth and said in his heart: "I, Zhang San, have been cowardly for the rest of my life. Only by following the Chu King to Guangdong can you be considered a person. If your wife is gone, you can find her again, and if your son is gone, you can have another child. But the Chu King must be fine!"

Zhang San, who made up his mind, rushed to the Chu Prince's Mansion with the remaining seven or eight people.

When I arrived at the Chu Palace, no, I should be called the west gate of the palace. At this time, the confidant soldiers who sent the news to the news were waiting at the door. When I saw Zhang San coming, I quickly greeted him.

"How is it? Do you know in the palace?"

"Sir, these Qiu Bashes didn't let me in, and said that he would beat me to death if he entered the palace wall five meters!"

Zhang San cursed the bastard of the soldiers guarding the city and brought his people outside the palace.

Today, the person guarding the west gate of the palace city was Li Fugui's eldest son Li Fugui. After joining the new army, Li Fu participated in previous battles and was promoted to company commander. Because of his bravery in combat, he was transferred to Zhu Hongsan and served as the platoon commander of the guard company.

Today is Li Fu's day on duty, just guarding the west gate of the palace. Everything went well in the first half of the night, and fire began to appear on the north gate in the second half of the night. Li Fu stood on the palace and saw it very clearly. At this time, a guy wearing a patrol uniform came out and said that he wanted to go to the palace to see the emperor, saying that the Tartars had entered the city in the north city.

Of course, Li Fu did not let him enter the city easily. There were rules in the palace. No one was allowed to enter the city without an imperial edict after the sun set. However, Li Fu dared not not to report what the man said, and quickly ordered one person to enter the palace to report to the superior.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the news reported left, more than a dozen people came outside. Li Fu quickly ordered his soldiers to prepare to prevent these people from siegeing the city in chaos.

Unexpectedly, these people stopped fifteen meters away, and a man came out and shouted loudly: "Brother upstairs, I am Zhang San, the inspector of the North City Gate. Tartars have really entered the north city gate. You must report to the emperor!"

When Li Fu heard that it was Zhang San, he recognized that his father's follower when he was in Wuchang, he hadn't heard of being a inspector in recent years.

"Zhang San? Is it my third uncle? I am Li Fu!" Li Fu shouted loudly.

When he heard that he met an acquaintance, Zhang San was very happy and shouted: "It's Dalang! It's your third uncle. Go and report to Your Majesty. It's really the Tartars who have entered the city. We just fought with them!"

Unexpectedly, it was true. Just as Li Fu was about to speak, a large number of horse teams rushed over from the north of the palace. It was Li Chengdong who came.

Li Chengdong had actually entered the city for a long time, but he was not familiar with the roads in Guangzhou. In addition, there was not many people in the north city, so it took him a long time to catch someone who came out to watch the fun. Under his leadership, he finally arrived in front of the palace.

Zhu Hongsan's temporary palace is different from the Forbidden City in Beijing. The walls of the Forbidden City Palace in Beijing are more than ten meters high, and there is a moat more than fifty meters wide outside. In order to save money, Zhu Hongsan's palace only built two sides of the four palace walls, and the city walls on the north and east are borrowed from the city walls of Guangzhou. The height of the palace is only three meters, and the material is not the bluestone strips of the palace, but rammed earth. Zhu Hongsan did not intend to stay in Guangzhou, but was preparing to capture Nanjing in a few years before going to Nanjing. In addition, he thought that under the protection of his powerful new army, Guangzhou was very safe, so the construction of the palace naturally could save money.

When Li Chengdong saw that the city wall was only three meters, he couldn't help but feel happy and shouted: "Boys, siege the city! Capture Zhu Hong and the other three alive to pick up the treasures of the beautiful women in the Chu Palace!"

Li Chengdong's men were originally desperate people, and they were experienced in robbing the house. When the general said this, they took out the flying claw rope and threw it into the city wall.

When Li Fu saw that the Qing soldiers were really siegeing the city, he couldn't help but feel anxious. Now there are only 400 guards in the entire palace, plus some Jinyiwei's great Han generals, and there are less than 600, and his Ximen is not even 50.

"Come on, shoot! Don't let them come up! Come and report to the palace and say that the Tartars attack the city!"

After all, the soldiers of the Guard Company were all elites who had experienced combat. They immediately stood in line on the city wall and started shooting at the Qing army under the city.

As soon as the gunshot sounded, Li Chengdong's soldiers were knocked down. Li Chengdong's heart was shocked. Isn't this the army I encountered in Nanzhili? It seems that it is the army of the King of Chu. However, it seems that there are not many people on the city wall, so the main force should have not arrived yet. He must capture the city gate before the main force comes, otherwise he might be left here.

Li Chengdong looked at his soldiers and had no siege equipment except the flying claw rope. He felt a move and quickly called Liu San. "Sanzi, go to the city to see if there is any firecracker shop, get some gunpowder, and blow the city gate open!" Liu San took the order.

Li Fu resisted the Qing army on the city wall. The soldiers who reported the news had already arrived at the guard company in the palace. Tonight, the deputy company commander Zhang Sanqiang was on duty. Although he was the deputy company commander, Zhang Sanqiang was Zhu Hongsan's direct line and the first group of non-commissioned officers. If he was released, he was at the level of deputy division commander.

Zhu Hongsan was not in the palace tonight, and the corresponding guard company commander Zhu Hongyi was not in the palace either. Zhang Sanqiang did not dare to slack off and personally took charge of the palace.

At this time, the soldiers outside the door came to report.

"Sir, a large number of Qing troops appeared outside the Ximen, and are now attacking Ximen!" At this time, the Ximen had already started fighting, and the gunshots spread far in the darkness.

Zhang Sanqiang was shocked. Unexpectedly, the Qing army actually entered the city. He quickly asked, "How many people are there?"

"It's dark and I can't see clearly, there are about 3,000 to 4,000 people!"

So many! Zhang Sanqiang dared not delay. Now Zhu Hongsan and Zhu Hongyi are not in the palace, so they can only go to find Ma Xiaofang.

"Come here, transfer a hundred people to Ximen to assist in the defense, and all the others are concentrated in the back to protect the emperor's holy family!"

After saying that, Zhang Sanqiang quickly went out and ran back. At this time, only Ma Xiaofang could calm down the scene in the palace.

The palace was not very big in total. The busy palace where the Ximen fought was heard clearly. Ma Xiaofang had already gotten up and stood in front of her small building waiting for the news.
Chapter completed!