Just as the Huangzhou Prefecture militia abandoned the ship and fled, and the commander who left them was bombarded into pieces by the heavy artillery of the Wuchang workers, the torrent of the uprising also swept across the entire Wuchang Prefecture.

The spark finally began to set off.

The rebel soldiers and the civilians who had their weapons, especially the original military households, fought against the gentry who were fighting stubbornly in the streets.

The incident happened too suddenly, and the governor Wu Daonan was killed, and the commander of the Eighth Brigade Mei Zhihuan was seriously injured and was captured by the rebel soldiers. The other officials in the city were caught off guard and had no command at all. They were just officials and mansions fighting on their own. Thanks to the gentry's abundant martial ethics during this period, although they were stunned by the sudden uprising, the officials and the gentry still moved closer to the Chu Palace during the resistance.

Of course, the losses were heavy.

Don’t consider what property or anything else, it would be great to save your life in this case.

Of course, the King of Chu did not want to be involved.

He was almost gloating now. At this time, the King of Chu was the one who was killed by Zhang Xianzhong later. This guy lived a long life among the vassal kings.

I lived a long life until I waited until Zhang Xianzhong.

However, there are rumors that he was not the son of the old King of Chu, but the son of the eldest brother-in-law of the old King of Chu, including his younger brother, the son of the latter's slave. Because the old King of Chu actually had no son, the princess lied that the King of Chu's son inherited the title. After all, he could be the Lord of the Old Buddha in this way, which was the case of the pseudo-King of Chu during the Wanli period.

This triggered a series of internal struggles between the Chu vassals.

Including the Chu family's royal family hijacked the money he gave to Wanli to help build the three halls, and the governor Zhao Kehuai was beaten to death by the royal family during this period.

But he should not belong to the Zhu family.

It is not because of his longevity, but there is still a chance of this. Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants also have longevity, such as Zhu Cihuan, who was 76 years old and was born after the death of the old King Chu. The latter is a woman who likes diplomacy and is not good at sex. She has been in power for more than 20 years old and has no son. After her death, she actually has a posthumous son and is also twins...

It's indeed a bit exaggerated.

However, Wanli didn't care about this. After all, he gave Wanli silver. It was rare that there was a member of the Ming Dynasty who didn't ask him for money but gave him money. Why did he care about so much?

Of course, this time it didn't happen...

At this time, who is still thinking about being the King of Chu, and even the vassal kings have no good life.

In recent years, even the vassal fields in various places have been basically eroded by gentry. Although Emperor Hongguang is only a few hundred miles away from them, the emperor himself is just a decoration.

The power of local gentry has reached the point where they dare to shoot local officials, so the royal family is nothing!

The vassal fields were occupied by local gentry, stolen and sold by the gentry in the management industry, commercial privileges were abolished, and the business names were taken away by the gentry. The Chu royal family relied on selling their property in recent years. Even the gold foil of the Buddha statues was shaved in the Chu royal palace and sold for money. Some distant royal families had already hidden their names and went out to work secretly.

Always have to eat.

There were even royal families who ran to the street to beg for food...

Really beg for food.

They have done this in the past, but that was because the court owed its salary, so they went out to create public opinion.

But it is useless to create public opinion now, so there are really no royal family who have been out to beg for food.

In this case, the Chu royal family members actually felt quite happy when they watched the melee outside on Xiao Wall.

But when the gentry and officials ran towards them, they could no longer laugh.

"Master, open the door, open the door quickly!"

"Open the door!"

...

The King of Chu at the city gate looked at the officials flocking to the outside in a tangled manner.

The head of this is Xu Rukui, the governor, and Chen Chuchan, the censor. Their yamen is not far behind the General Office, and the chaos is the first to be affected. However, Chen Chuchan is from Macheng and Mei Zhihuan's uncle, so he drank a group of defeated soldiers and then rescued Xu Rukui with these defeated soldiers. A large group of officials and gentry along the way escaped to the Chu Palace.

They were also soldiers behind them, but soldiers of the uprising.

After the Eighth Brigade's engineering battalion exploded, it immediately took the spare weapons taken from the arsenal and attacked them.

During this period, some defeated soldiers also chose to join.

Although infantry is indeed clanized, the problem is that they are also from the bottom.

Do you expect the eldest son of the clan leader to join the army to fight? It is nothing more than the poor people at the bottom of the clan, and most of them are tenants. The exploitation of the clan leader is not exploitation? It is nothing more than the clan land. There is some care in the clan when it is famine, but in the end, it is not as good as the clan leader to beat the local tyrants and divide the land! It is normal that I dare not, but it is time for this, and there is nothing I dare to dare to join the uprising to fight the local tyrants and divide the land!

"Master, don't open the door yet!"

Xu Rukui shouted anxiously.

A large number of unruly people were flocking to them, and many of them even had firearms among them.

"Master, open the door!"

Chen Chuchan, who had arrived outside the city gate, shouted.

The King of Chu woke up instantly, then pulled out his short gun and shot him outside.

Chen Chuchan looked at him in shock...

"Bold, this is the vassal state. Are you going to rebel?"

The King of Chu rebuked angrily.

The royal families beside him were also stunned. By the way, did the king take the wrong medicine?

"What do you think? These thieves have a way to survive!"

The King of Chu shouted.

Those royal families were awake instantly.

Indeed, Xu Rukui and others entered the palace. At that time, the soldiers and unlucky people outside must have attacked the palace. By the way, Chu Fan did not do good deeds here, and the public anger was no worse than those gentry, and it could even be said that it was even better. In this case, either they were determined to live and die with these officials and gentry, or they simply betray these guys for peace.

As for the choice...

This is a choice!

Of course, I betrayed it. If I die, I will not die. Instead of being killed by the unruly people, it would be better to betray them.

"Speed ​​off the gun and repel these counter-party parties!"

Zhu Huayue, a royal family member who had sued the King of Chu in history, roared with a three-eyed gun.

Immediately afterwards, other royal families raised their weapons and opened fire at Xu Rukui and others outside. The latter looked at them in amazement, and then, as the bullets roared, several officials and gentry in front fell down immediately.

"The King of Chu is plotting against the enemy and opens fire!"

Xu Rukui roared angrily.

The officers and gentry beside him raised their guns and shot at the city wall.

The two sides shot at each other under the city wall, and were filled with gunpowder. The good show of the vassal kings leading the royal family to fight officials and gentry was staged like this.

This scene made Liu Feng, who was chasing him with the soldiers, stunned.

"Which is this going on?"

A gang beside him exclaimed.

They and the young and strong all stopped and watched with interest.

"Which side should we help?"

Another co-master said in confusion.

"Not any good thing, what is the difference between jackals and foxes? They are all harmful insects for us, and they should be cleaned up. If the Prime Minister is there, it will be difficult to start. Now that the Prime Minister is not there, why do we still have these dogs and just sweep them cleanly before we can welcome the Prime Minister, cannons, and our cannons!"

Liu Feng turned his head and shouted.

"Here you come!"

He shouted from behind.

Immediately afterwards, two seven-pound cannons were pushed over and flattened the guns at the city gate under Liu Feng's command.

Or it could be said that although the royal family saw it on the back of Xu Rukui and others, they obviously lacked understanding of the power of this weapon. In their opinion, this was helpful, so those royal families became more tenacious in resistance. Liu Feng directly took a seven-pound solid bullet, then put it into the muzzle, and the heavy artillery battalion leader who reinforced him lay behind and raised an observation port for aiming. At the same time, he held the gun and slightly measured the angle between the ground, and then lit the fuse at the city gate after confirming it.

At this time, some gentry saw them.

Accompanied by the terrified screams, Xu Rukui turned around and looked behind in shock.

At the same time, the gun was flamed, and the seven-pound shells, carrying almost supersonic kinetic energy, instantly hit the middle of the officers shooting on the city wall, and continued to move forward with a splash of flesh and blood. As the flying of the broken limbs and arms broke, it happened to hit Xu Rukui. But at this time, the kinetic energy of the shells had severely decreased after killing more than a dozen people, and Xu Buzheng put a breastplate on his body, so it flew backwards against Xu Rukui and landed in front of the city gate.

Almost at the same time, the second shell flew out and along the first blood alley that penetrated, he flew past Xu Rukui's dead body and crashed into the city gate.

The city gate was instantly blasted open.

Even the power of the shell did not decrease much. After all, for it, this thin iron-packed wooden board was too thin. You should know that this was a nine-pound cannon, with a close-range direct shot of less than 200 meters. Even at this time, European warships could penetrate it. So the shells that blasted the city gate continued to move forward, and instantly broke open the main city gate. The Chu Prince's Mansion opened the door...

The King of Chu on the city wall was dumbfounded.

Chen Chuchan outside suddenly woke up. He looked at the palace with murderous eyes just like Zhang Xianzhong, the horse thief who was released by him in history.

"Quick, rush in!"

He yelled.

Immediately afterwards, he led the officers and gentry outside and rushed into the Chu Palace with shouts.

"Hurry up, kill in, take these dogs and things in one go, and kill all the insects that harm people!"

Outside, Liu Feng held up a short gun and shouted at the soldiers around him.

Then they also shouted and rushed towards the palace.

The young and strong people around who had gathered into a crowd rushed towards the royal palace that had squeezed them for more than two hundred years.

The royal families on the city wall scattered in horror. The unlucky King of Chu stood on the city gate and looked at the enemy swarming in tears. But then no one fired a shot and just hit the king's chest. The unlucky King of Chu fell on the female wall screaming. Because of the crowding of the royal families, no one who pushed him from behind, turned out directly from the female wall and fell towards the enemy swarming in at the city gate...

(My grandfather is still insisting on his last breath. The seven children, who are already seventy-four years old, are waiting by the side. The two years ago, my grandmother left for 96 years and was also lying there for several days, not eating or drinking until she finally died of breath.)
Chapter completed!