Chapter 25: The Tartars Are Captured Alive
The powerful gun recoil made Zhu Youxiao fall to the ground accidentally. At the same time, when he saw a bloody head with his eyes wide open landing in front of him, he couldn't help but retching.
Lu Xiangsheng, Wang Chengen and others hurriedly surrounded Zhu Youxiao and asked, "Your Majesty, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, thanks to two beloved ministers who rescued the emperor, otherwise I would have died here today." Zhu Youxiao said with some lingering fear and stood up by himself.
At this time, Wang Chengen and Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly protected Zhu Youxiao one after another, and said in unison: "Your Majesty, let's go back to the palace first."
"No need, there is only one Tartar now. With all your dear friends, I will not be in danger." Zhu Youxiao said this and simply issued an oral order: "If you pass the order, you must capture this Tartar alive."
"Your Majesty's order to capture this Tartar alive!"
The officers and soldiers conveyed the meaning of Zhu Youxiao to each other, and such shouts rang out at the same time in the whole scene.
Oboi, who had been fighting hard, began to feel a little distracted after hearing this sound, and accidentally got an arrow on his shoulder.
"Your Majesty, let's see how I captured this person alive." At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was also very proud. He rolled his sleeves and walked towards Oboi with great strides. He screamed wildly and killed Oboi at Oboi with bare hands.
Zhu Youxiao understood why Lu Xiangsheng in history was able to lead the extremely powerful Tianxiong Army with a civil official. Now, judging from his posture, he could not have the elegance of a Jiangnan literati. He was simply a heroic general.
Wang Chengen, who was unwilling to be lonely, also wanted to join in the fun, but was called back by Zhu Youxiao: "You are a eunuch and don't want to take this credit. I'll ask you, have all the gates in the capital allocated troops?"
"Report to Your Majesty, it was arranged last night. Now the city gates are under heavy control," Wang Chengen replied.
"It's great. I'll pass on my order and immediately block the city gate. In addition, the East Factory immediately arrested Wang Jimo, the Right Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Xu Biqian, the Censor Chen Xianqing, and the Imperial College Priest Li Banghua. These traitors who colluded with the Tartars must be carefully examined."
As Zhu Youxiao said this, he suddenly remembered that Sun Chengzong was also one of the ministers who advised him to sacrifice to heaven. If this sacrifice to heaven was really a long-deliberate conspiracy, then Sun Chengzong would not be able to escape his suspicion.
Even Sun Chengzong, as a Grand Secretary, is now in the second place, and it is not ruled out that he did not want to take the opportunity to get rid of himself and go to the next level.
Zhu Youxiao could not deny that all this might be the instructed by Sun Chengzong.
Therefore, although Zhu Youxiao knew that Sun Chengzong was a famous loyal minister in history, he still issued an order to ask Wang Chengen to arrest Sun Chengzong, but he did not punish Sun Chengzong for the first time. After hearing the following officials, he could also know whether Sun Chengzong was involved.
On this side, Oboi, surrounded by officers and soldiers, no longer had the chance to escape. After seeing countless officers and soldiers shouting and putting away their bows and arrows, he also guessed that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty must have issued an order to capture himself alive.
But Oboi, who knew that once the Ming army captured it alive, would have no good ending, and after repelling a group of officers and soldiers, he directly slashed his neck with one knife.
However, just as he put the knife on his shoulder, a long knife flew over and cut off Obai's arm holding the knife to the ground, causing Aobai to scream in pain.
At this time, the officers and soldiers immediately stabbed Oboi and hugged him directly into the spear.
But who knew that Oboi suddenly became so angry that he was like a tiger. He roared with a roar and held a spear with one hand and twisted his backhand, twisting dozens of spears, and even knocked down countless officers and soldiers.
Lu Xiangsheng, who had just thrown a knife to cut Oboi's left arm, immediately jumped and shouted: "Tartars, don't be rampant!" As he said that, Lu Xiangsheng punched Aoboi in the eyes, and Aoboi immediately leaned back and fell back. At the same time, an iron chain directly wrapped around Aoboi's neck, and two long spears also stabbed into Aoboi's calves. The fierce Aoboi fell to the ground and was captured alive by the Ming army.
Zhu Youxiao also came over at this time. Looking at Lu Xiangsheng, who was injured all over and Oboi, who was shot like a hedgehog by an arrow, he couldn't help but be shocked. He thought that even if this was not a battlefield, the tragic intensity was probably not inferior to that of a war.
When Obai saw Zhu Youxiao coming, he started shouting loudly.
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng, who was speaking Manchu, hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, this man said his name is Obai, and he asked you to kill him."
"Obai, it's interesting. I actually helped Kang Mazi get rid of a disaster. Find an iron cage to lock him up first." Zhu Youxiao said that, then patted Lu Xiangsheng on the shoulder, and at the same time looked at the other officers and soldiers, shouting loudly:
"Thanks to all the soldiers today to fight bloody battles to protect my safety. I thank you here!"
Zhu Youxiao's sudden bow made the group of officers and soldiers stunned for a moment. This was the first time they saw His Majesty the Emperor bowing to him, which scared all officers and soldiers to kneel down: "I dare not!"
"Everyone please come up." Zhu Youxiao said that after Lu Xiangsheng returned, he must count how many casualties were in the heaven sacrifice incident and how many people made meritorious service. Those who have suffered meritorious service must be given pensions, and those who have made meritorious service must also be given rewards.
When the emperor personally promised to reward or give him some kind of compensation, the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp were full of expectations and were very happy.
However, Wang Jimo, who had already taken advantage of the chaos to escape home, was not at all happy at this time. The concubine in his family only knew that his master would hide in the study room for a long time and never come out.
It was not until an hour later that a large group of Dongchang men rushed in and directly broke through Wang Jimo's study and found that Wang Jimo had been hanged on the beam of the room.
At the same time, former censors Chen Xianqing and Xu Biqian, who were drinking flowers at a brothel, were talking about whether to go to the south to welcome Lixin King Zhu Youxiao to return to Beijing to ascend the throne to obtain the reincarnation of the Long Zhifu official, were also directly arrested by Dongchang Aidian one hour after the assassination of Zhu Youxiao. Among them, Chen Biqian was directly broken due to resistance.
Sun Zhixie, a former editor of the Hanlin Academy who had learned that the assassination failed, rushed out of the city. He knew that if such an incident failed, the Jinyiwei and the East Factory would definitely investigate it strictly, and he would definitely be exposed.
Therefore, Sun Zhixie was eager to run out of the capital before he even had time to take away his property, but found that the entire capital had been strictly blocked and no one was allowed to go out. There was even a prince consort in the court who was directly beheaded because he wanted to break through. He said that his Majesty had strict orders and forced the city gate, whether he was a royal relative or a peddler, he was punished for treason and was killed without any hesitation!
Sun Zhixie had to return, but happened to see Chen Xianqing and Xu Biqian being captured, which scared Sun Zhixie to be stunned.
You can't just sit there and wait for death. Sun Zhixie hesitated for a long time and resolutely made a decision.
Chapter completed!