Chapter 16 It's nothing more than fighting for your life!
Li Banghua's expression froze slightly.
Of course he knew the consequences of losing Desheng Gate.
Zhu Cixiang looked at Li Banghua in front of him calmly and said: "If Desheng Gate is lost, how good will my fate be?
Li Zicheng's most elite old camp is at Deshengmen, and Deshengmen has the most siege equipment, including seven or eight red cannons."
As he spoke, Zhu Cixiang looked at Li Banghua beside him with a calm expression.
"Master Li told me, what should I do? It's nothing more than risking my life!"
"well!"
Li Banghua let out a long sigh.
He knew that what Zhu Cixiong said was true, and he also knew why Zhu Cixiang did what he did. It was just to boost morale.
Li Banghua felt a little sad.
Unexpectedly, the Ming Dynasty was so big that it had to rely on His Highness the Crown Prince to personally attend the battle. If he were not careful, the country would be destroyed.
Thinking of this, a hint of sigh flashed in Li Banghua's eyes.
For a moment, he didn't know what to say to His Highness the Crown Prince.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. How is the money and food situation?"
Zhu Cihong rubbed his tired forehead and asked Li Banghua at the side.
"There is no problem with money and food at the moment. There is still a lot of food in the official warehouse. After excluding the more than 200,000 taels of silver distributed to the soldiers, there are still about 610,000 taels of silver and 4,000 taels of gold left from the ransacked houses.
Ten million copper coins."
Hearing Li Banghua's words, Zhu Cixiang nodded.
"Okay! Mr. Li, please continue to arrange the reinforcement of the city's defense! All my five hundred imperial guards are temporarily deployed by you. These are extraordinary times. If anyone is found to have done anything detrimental! Kill them without mercy!"
"Yes! Your Highness the Crown Prince!"
Li Banghua saluted Zhu Cihong in front of him.
"Okay, let's get down!"
After Li Banghua bowed, he respectfully and slowly exited the house.
The impact of the Deshengmen battle spread quickly through the mouths of these people.
His Royal Highness the Prince came to the city in person to supervise the battle.
Moreover, he also played his own big banner on the city gate tower, like the god of war, to boost morale.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince at that time was like a god and had a profound influence on many militiamen.
The fact that none of Li Zicheng's cannons hit the city gate tower cast a veil of mystery on this matter.
There was a lot of public discussion.
The news soon began to spread to the palace.
"Absurd! Absurd! How can he, a crown prince, go to the top of the city to supervise the battle like those big soldiers!"
Emperor Chongzhen was excited when he heard the news that the city had been defended, but then he heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally stood on the gate tower of Deshengmen to supervise the battle, and even made his own big banner.
Suddenly I felt a little angry.
"Wang Chengen! Go and call the prince back to me!"
Chongzhen shouted angrily towards Wang Chengen in front of him.
Wang Chengen hesitated for a moment, then looked at Chongzhen in front of him and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, don't be angry. I heard someone said that Deshengmen was attacked by Li Zicheng himself, and the attack force was the strongest. In order to defend it, so
Your Highness, the Crown Prince, should go to the city in person to supervise the battle! After all..."
As he spoke, Wang Chengen's voice became quieter and quieter. He knew in his heart that if His Highness the Crown Prince did not come to the city in person to supervise the battle, Desheng Gate would really not be able to be defended.
As long as Deshengmen is torn open, how can the temporarily recruited militia on the city wall be the opponent of Li Zicheng's elite old battalion?
After hearing Wang Chengen's words, Chongzhen was silent for a long time.
He opened his mouth.
"Wang Chengen, go and call the prince back!"
Chongzhen sighed slightly, looked at Wang Chengen in front of him and said: "The prince must be tired too! Let him come back and have a meal with me! By the way, tell the imperial kitchen to prepare some dishes for tonight."
"Yes! Your Majesty!"
After hearing Chongzhen's words, Wang Chengen suddenly smiled on his face.
Soon he ordered the two eunuchs to leave the palace.
Zhu Cixiang was resting in a private house at this time. He had just been on the city wall and had consumed too much energy.
He was accompanied by only seven or eight Jinyi guards, responsible for his safety.
Zhu Cixiang sent out almost all the Jin Yiwei rewarded by the system. The order they received was that everything was for city defense!
It can be said that the ability to defend this time has a lot to do with the supervision of these hundreds of royal guards.
Just when Zhu Cixi was taking a rest and preparing to eat.
"who?"
The Jin Yiwei next to them all immediately pulled out their embroidered spring knives from their waists, and all looked at a corner.
From the corner door, a eunuch hurriedly walked out.
"Your Highness, it's me! It's me!"
Zhu Cixiang glanced at the eunuch, and he had some impression that this eunuch seemed to be one of the eunuchs around his father.
He waved his hand, and several Jinyi guards around him took back the Xiuchun knife almost at the same time.
"What's wrong? Is there anything going on with Father?"
Zhu Cixiang looked at the eunuch in front of him calmly and said.
Eunuch Li quickly said to Zhu Cixiang in front of him: "Your Highness, it's Your Majesty. Your Majesty heard that you went to the city wall to supervise the battle! You must be exhausted and hungry now, so let me call you back for dinner!"
"oh?"
Hearing what Eunuch Li said, Zhu Cixiang's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise.
Originally, Zhu Cixi thought that his headstrong father would blame himself, send someone to call him back, and then curse him.
Unexpectedly, he actually sent someone to ask him to go back for dinner?
This actually surprised Zhu Cixi.
"good!"
Zhu Cixi hesitated for a moment, nodded, and agreed.
“The frame is right outside!”
Eunuch Li looked happy and quickly said to Zhu Cixiang in front of him.
With the help of several Jinyi guards beside him, Zhu Cixi went out of the door and soon came to the carriage.
Just when Zhu Cihong was heading to the palace.
At this time, all the generals gathered in the camp of the intruders, but no one spoke, and everyone was silent. It was originally thought that the city of Beijing, which had been wiped out of all its vitality, was just an empty city, and there was no need to attack the city at all.
Unexpectedly, the city of Beijing, which had lost its military power, was actually defended again!
At least the first wave of attacks still made the generals in the camp somewhat silent.
It's not that the intruders have never attacked a city before, but every time they engage in a siege, the casualties are huge, and for a huge city like Beijing, siege warfare is not easy to fight!
Thinking of this, the generals around them looked a little ugly.
It was completely opposite to the scene before coming to Beijing. Everyone was silent.
"What? You're all mute??? We've just fought the first wave of siege! Find a way! There's not an army inside!"
Li Zicheng said angrily to the generals around him.