night.

Slight snow.

Guangdezhan Zimen.

General Chen Yourong frowned and patrolled the city wall.

He was a martial arts master, and at this time he could already be called a veteran, fighting wars in Jizhen, Liaodong and North Korea.

He even followed Li Chengliang to fight.

He also followed Song Yingchang to North Korea before. After Song Yingchang resigned, he also returned to his hometown. Then he encountered this war and was appointed as the general by Xu Yuantai. As for the root of the war, he didn't have much thoughts about the root of the war. He was a native of Xuancheng and his family was also one of the gentry. His position would definitely not exceed this identity.

A green robe official in front was looking at the almost pitch black earth outside the city.

"Governor-General."

Chen Yourong bowed and said.

The latter quickly returned the gift.

This is Duan Youxian, the governor of Guangde, who is from Henan, but he is very active in urban defense. As for his purpose, everyone knows it well...

Henan can still be loyal to Nanjing.

However, according to the arrangements of His Majesty of Nanjing before his departure south, all northern provinces listened to the prince of the capital, but in fact, everyone knew very well what the situation was in the state of governing the country. Any decree issued by him must be passed through the Sili Superintendent. Wei Zhongxian, who had a close relationship with Yang Feng, had now completely controlled the internal official system in the capital. It has to be said that Jiu Qiansui was Jiu Qiansui after all. He held Shuntian Commune and the Beijing Camp and easily advanced to the number one eunuch in the Ming Dynasty in advance.

Sun Xian and others...

They are not fools, so they dare not ignore Eunuch Wei, so they are careful to be drowned in a ditch by militia when they go out.

Therefore, every decree of the state supervisor must be approved by Eunuch Wei. Eunuch Wei does not nod, and the chief supervisor of the Silis will not dare to stamp the seal.

Therefore, the orders from various places in the north towards the capital were only selectively accepted.

Everyone maintains a mutually acceptable limit. After all, Eunuch Wei can mobilize the Beijing camp to send troops, but all regions also have their own military power, but fighting is not good after all, so all regions still have to give the capital a certain amount of taxes and food. However, Eunuch Wei's lions speak out loud, and they cannot agree. In fact, the most painful thing is the Beijing officials. Of course, the cabinet masters are not afraid, but the censors and Hanlins are almost gone, and that is, some people with financial support can still hold on in the capital.

The population of the capital has dropped sharply.

But this is also a good thing. With these idle people missing, Shuntian Prefecture's food has become self-sufficient.

Shanxi, Shaanxi and Northern Zhili jointly formed a group, headed by Li Wen, the governor of Northern Zhili. The gentry from the three places provided him with silver to buy the Northwest generals with Magui as the core.

Then fight against Eunuch Wei’s Beijing Camp.

Henan and Shandong were led by Xing Jie and bribed the generals led by Du Song, and also kept King Fu in the palace of King Lu.

As for King Lu...

The three kings of Lu Deheng have all withdrawn from their vassals.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty can be said to be broken into pieces.

In addition, Guangdong, which also surrendered to the Nanjing Emperor, ignored any court at all. He just kept his door open and lived happily. Even the local sage associations similar to the parliament began to appear, while the three southwestern provinces continued to play the role of surrender. On the one hand, they had close ties with Hongguang, and even Sichuan salt began to be sold in Huguang, while continuing to accept orders from the capital. As for whether to do so or not, it was another matter, but they did maintain their face, and they also sent ships to Nanjing to support His Majesty the Emperor...

Although they transported not many to Nanjing because the rebels controlled the middle section of the Yangtze River, they had this feeling for His Majesty the Emperor.

Of course, I won’t mention the anti-party sniffs when I buy them.

Even the Duke of Qian State Mu Changzuo was in a rebellion.

But he also reported to Wanli that the chieftain of Yunnan was in chaos and was unable to leave Yunnan. When he beat all the bastards up honestly, he immediately served the king.

But in fact, this guy is working as a local emperor in Yunnan.

Originally, Mu Changzuo, the Duke of Qian, was not a good man and a trustworthy man. He suppressed chieftains in Yunnan, beat Burma, and humiliated civil servants. In short, he was quite arrogant and domineering. Now he has no control at all. It is like a naughty child who suddenly meets his parents on a business trip. Under his leadership, the military generals of Yunnan became domineering and dared to put cannons outside the governor's office. In the struggle for minerals such as copper tin, the greed of the chieftains dared not speak out.

However, Yang Yinglong was very quiet.

This is very strange.

This shows that this guy's real purpose is to be his Bozhou King.

Now he is, no matter which court does not care about him, he does whatever he likes in Bozhou. Not to mention harming the little chieftains, he even wears a dragon robe and then wears a twelve crown. No one cares about it.

This makes Bozhou quieter.

Of course, it can also be said that the crying of the little toasts in Bozhou was automatically blocked by the outside world.

Anyway, this is the current Ming Dynasty.

As for those generals, especially Li Rusong, there is no need to say.

They are no different from the vassal states during the Tang Dynasty. Li Rusong is even more like the King of Liaodong. His wild boar skin has been bullied by him recently. It is said that he went to his house many times, and he always showed his past respect, and he looked like a filial son and virtuous grandson in front of Li Chengliang.

In short, as the chaos in Jiangnan continues, the Ming Dynasty will be over sooner or later.

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms are not far away.

"The mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is floating, and the life experience is floating and the rain is blowing. "

Tutor Duan sighed with emotion.

Shen Yourong smiled, and then he turned to look inside the city.

Dozens of patrol soldiers were walking in the distance, but for some reason, he felt something strange. What did these soldiers say? They seemed to be walking too neatly. Really, their steps were neat and their queues were straight. Although they were wearing military uniforms like their subordinates, they looked like they were patrolling in a row, and they looked like they were not like the soldiers under his command...

Well, this is indeed shameful.

But in fact, Shen Yourong really saw at a glance that this team of soldiers was not his subordinate at all!

How happy he is to have such a subordinate!

His subordinates are already the most elite in the city. Wu Yuancui's subordinates are not as good as his subordinates, and they are also less likely to be militias, so this team of soldiers is definitely not from any part of the city.

"Stop them!"

He yelled.

The team of soldiers was stunned. The next moment he had an extra short gun in his hand and ignited the fuse as fast as possible.

The one who rotated to defend here is the guerrillas under Shen Yourong and a Huizhou native who was also a martial artist. In fact, he was the first martial artist in the 29th year of Wanli. Although this title was during the Chongzhen period, he was indeed the first in the martial arts examination in the 29th year of Wanli.

His reaction was also very fast.

Just as the man opposite showed his short gun, he also pulled out his own self-fire short gun. The two of them were less than five meters away like a duel, aiming at each other and pulling the trigger. However, the gun was the opposite one, and his self-fire short gun could not be fired. The bullet hit his left shoulder instantly, and he suddenly retreated backwards. At the same time, the soldiers behind the man fired a short gun, aiming at Shen Yourong on the city wall and the soldiers on both sides to open fire. As the gunshots sounded, the soldiers on the city wall fell one after another.

The first one to fire drew out the slender armor-breaking sword and rushed forward shouting.

Zhao Yingshi also stabilized at the same time, pulling out his sword with his right hand to fight, and the swords intersected, but the opponent's short spear held inverted hit him directly.

He hurriedly stepped back.

But the man's short gun flew out of his hand and hit him in the face.

Before he could wake up from the severe pain, the armor-breaking sword hit his chest. Fortunately, his full iron armor was a steel carburized version purchased for a large amount of money. Although this armor-breaking sword is known as armor-breaking, it is only for the wrought iron full iron armor of ordinary soldiers. It was originally designed for this kind of armor, because the Ming Dynasty plate armor is becoming more and more common, and the soldiers' swords can basically not be cut, so it was created that the thickened sword spine narrowed the sword body like an awl but can also chop.

And there are big handguards.

But this kind of thing cannot penetrate his carburized steel plate.

The tip of the sword was harsh and a scratch was drawn from his entire iron armor, and it passed directly under his ribs.

And the man also hit him and even punched him in the wound.

He screamed in pain and continued to retreat.

"Kill!"

...

The shouts of killing came in a surging wave.

All the soldiers who fired bullets rushed towards the defenders at the city gate with short guns and armor-breaking swords.

The latter is in chaos.

He bravely stepped forward to meet the enemy, and timidly fled.

"Quick, rush down!"

Shen Yourong drew his sword on the city wall and shouted.

But a wall behind the soldiers fell down, and then countless soldiers with the same short gun and the other hand broke out, and the short guns in their hands quickly aimed at the city wall. The defenders who were originally preparing to go down to reinforce the city wall were frightened and all retracted back to the female wall. They squatted there like a group of frightened quails. Only dozens of Shen Yourong's personal soldiers rushed to the horse road, but were knocked down by bullets in an instant.

"Get up quickly, they only have short guns!"

Shen Yourong roared angrily.

"Enemy troops, there are enemy troops outside the city!"

A terrified shout suddenly sounded from the city tower above his head.

Shen Yourong turned around in shock and looked at the sudden light of fire in the black wilderness in the distance, which was approaching quickly like a rapid flow.

cavalry.

"Hurry up, go and transfer the Zhejiang Army's gun team!"

Shen Yourong caught a soldier and shouted.

His subordinates' equipment was far less than that of the Zhejiang Army, and the latter's turtle dove gun team was powerful.

The latter rushed towards the south gate where the Zhejiang Army was stationed, with his head down, rolling and crawling.

At this moment, the soldiers who rushed out of the city had already opened the main city gate, and some even began to rush up the city wall along the horse path. Most of the defenders were running away, and only a few chose to fight. The two sides started a chaotic fierce battle on the city wall. Under the escort of several personal soldiers, Shen Yourong quickly rushed into the gate building and tried to put down the Qianjin gate. But before he could take action, a gunshot suddenly came from behind. He fell on the pillar in the impact of the bullet, and then turned around and looked behind him in shock...

Not far behind, Duan Zhizhou was holding a smoke-producing fire short gun.

"Hurry, brothers from Jingying, catch him quickly, he is the general of the rebel party!"

Tutor Duan shouted.
Chapter completed!