Li Banghua looked at the family letter in front of him, was silent for a long time, and sighed slightly.
After waiting for the ink on it to dry, Li Banghua folded the letter in front of him and put it into an envelope that had been prepared.
Putting the letter aside, Li Banghua's eyes became sharp again.
With the help of the light next to me, I started to continue to deal with some things that I had not dealt with during the day.
Late at night.
As the night gets darker, most people in Beijing city basically start to turn off the lights and go to sleep.
When the night gets darker.
Zhu Cixiang was woken up by Jin Yiwei.
He opened his eyes suddenly.
"how's it going?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, it is already ten minutes after midnight, and I woke you up according to your instructions!"
Hearing Jin Yiwei's words, Zhu Cixiang breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it wasn't the attack that happened in the middle of the night.
"Let's go! Go to the city wall!"
Zhu Cixiang said with a serious face.
Soon, Zhu Cixiang led the Jin Yiwei to the city wall. Seeing the soldiers next to him being woken up one by one, Zhu Cixiang breathed a sigh of relief.
"Everyone! Please wake up. I'm sorry that I disturbed your sleep, but there is a high probability of a burglar attack in the middle of the night. Everyone, wash your face with water. Rice and stew will be served later.
Come on, you have eaten enough and wake up again!"
Hearing His Highness the Crown Prince say that there is still stewed meat, the surrounding militiamen immediately cheered up, and the unhappy mood they had just been woken up finally improved a lot.
Soon, stewed meat and white rice were served.
The soldiers around him quickly picked up their bowls and began eating stew and rice.
"Let's eat some together! And the whole dog at midnight!"
Zhu Cixiang said to the Jin Yiwei on the side.
As he said that, Zhu Cixi didn't care whether the floor was dirty or not, and directly picked up the dishes and chopsticks from the side.
"Your Highness!"
The eunuch on the side said sharply to Zhu Cixiang in front of him.
"It's unethical for you to do this..."
"roll!"
Zhu Cihong drank towards the eunuch on the side.
Seeing the cold look in Zhu Cixiang's eyes, the eunuch immediately stopped talking. In the surprised eyes of the militiamen nearby, Zhu Cixiang, like all the militiamen, sat cross-legged on the ground and took out a basin from the bucket next to him.
Rice and a bowl of stew.
Feeling the gazes from around him, Zhu Cixiang smiled at the soldiers around him and said, "Don't look at me! Everyone eat! Everyone eat!"
Those around him glanced at Zhu Cixiang in front of him.
Zhu Cixiang talked and laughed as he spoke to the surrounding militiamen. There was no sense of superiority in the eyes of the dignitaries and nobles that they usually had when they looked at them.
The surrounding militiamen were vaguely moved, but they did not speak and only ate faster.
While Zhu Cihong was eating, Li Banghua also came to inspect the city wall.
"Your Highness! Why are you sitting on the ground??"
Li Banghua looked at Zhu Cixiang sitting on the ground in front of him with some surprise.
"Master Yushi is here too, come on, have something to eat! Otherwise, I won't be able to hold on until midnight!"
Zhu Cixiang looked at Li Banghua in front of him with a smile and said.
Li Banghua glanced at Zhu Cihong in front of him, then at the militiamen next to him, and he smiled.
"OK!"
As he said that, he also took a bowl from the side and ate meat with Zhu Cihong next to him.
The scene in front of him made the attendant next to him not sure what to say.
After chatting and laughing with the militiamen nearby for a while.
Zhu Cihong and Li Banghua stood up.
"Everyone, please return to your seats! Don't fall asleep!"
Zhu Cixiang smiled and said to the many militiamen around him.
Everyone smiled kindly.
After patting the dust on his body, Zhu Cixiang's expression suddenly became majestic again, and he followed Li Banghua next to him.
"How's it going? Are everyone else getting up?"
"Well! The junior officials and the Jin Yiwei I sent out have all received news and are all awake!"
Li Banghua nodded.
At this time, he wanted to say something, but Zhu Cixiang saw the bloodshot eyes and exhaustion in Li Banghua's eyes through the light of the torch next to him.
"What? Mr. Li didn't sleep for a while?"
Zhu Cixiang said to Li Banghua in front of him.
Li Banghua shook his head, with a wry smile on his face, looked at Zhu Cixiang in front of him and said, "I can't sleep a little bit."
Zhu Cixiang nodded.
Just when he wanted to say something.
"Enemy attack!!!"
A shrill sound came from the nearby city wall. It turned out that under the city wall, ladders were quickly built one by one.
Countless intruders quickly began to climb up the ladder.
The torch next to it is lit.
"beat!"
Following the order from the small flag next to him, the rolling stones and wood were quickly thrown down.
Obviously, these intruders did not expect that the people on the city wall would react so quickly! Did they not sleep all night?
He was caught off guard by the rolling rocks and trees.
The red cannon next to it was lit, even though it was pitch dark.
"boom!"
But this red cannon fired directly towards the city and the camp.
Boom boom boom!
The intruder who attacked the city at night was instantly beaten and turned upside down.
"Damn it, did these people on the city wall not sleep all night? We clearly saw that there should be only a few patrolling personnel left on the city wall. Why did they react so quickly?"
Li Zicheng's face became a little ugly.
"All-out attack!"
The red cannons also began to bombard the city wall.
The trebuchet also made some holes in the city wall.
The ladders were kept being erected, and the soldiers on the city wall tried their best to destroy some ladders, but there were more and more ladders. Although the kerosene next to them had been used up, several ladders were burned.
More ladders were set up on the city wall.
After all, the guards on the city wall are limited.
After trying their best to defend for an hour or two, intruders finally stormed the city.
"kill!"
Several militiamen were killed on the spot. Several Jinyi guards who had been waiting nearby rushed forward with almost a few steps and instantly killed the intruder soldiers who rushed up the wall.
But there were still some sections of the city wall where some intruders and soldiers rushed up and started fighting hand-to-hand with the militiamen on the city wall.
There was a clash of swords and guns, everyone was squeezing their own strength, and fierce hand-to-hand fighting took place on some sections of the wall.
The battle to defend the city of Beijing reached an extremely tragic point.
Fortunately, there were not many intruders who rushed up the wall. There were some imperial guards and a large number of militiamen who rushed up and repelled the attack of these people.
Zhu Cihong was standing on the top of the city wall. In front of him, a trespassing soldier rushed towards him, screaming wildly and rushing towards Zhu Cixiang.