With the order of Zhu Huakui, King Chu, several fireworks broke through the sky, and the entire night sky was illuminated like daytime.

But under this dazzling light, you can see the five thousand Chu Kings who had already gathered on the school ground in the palace gathered towards the front hall with their original guards and family slaves.

At the same time, Zuo Liangyu brought a group of his personal soldiers into the city to quickly rush to the royal city, strengthened the garrison of the royal city, and put away the suspension bridge.

The people from the Dongchang were also blocked from the royal city because of this. However, they did not intend to attack the royal city but stopped outside the royal city. Xue Xianfang, the chief clerk of the Dongchang who was in charge of Huguang affairs, immediately stopped: "I came to announce your majesty's order to investigate the intention of Zhu Huakui, King Zhao of Chu, intending to rebel. He held Wei Miner, deputy director of the Ministry of Revenue of Nanjing, and a large number of civil and military officials, including the Huguang Chengxuan Government Office, the Censorate and the School Government. His intentions are really punishable, but because he belongs to the royal family and avoids the revenge of the relatives, he warns Zhu Huakui, and finally apologizes to Xiaoling. Otherwise, the court will deal with it with national laws!"

After reading the decree, Xue Xianfang beat the horse and retreated, and other Dongchang men also retreated like a tide.

Here, King Zhu Huakui of Chu also heard what Dongchang brought, which made him feel very unhappy. He originally planned to get married before getting up, but now it is because he saw thousands of people from Dongchang suddenly appear in Wuchang City and head straight to the palace, which made King Zhu Huakui of Chu mistakenly think that Dongchang is here to arrest him, but forced him to raise the matter in advance.

Therefore, all the pre-deployments were disrupted.

However, since the order had been sent, the arrow was on the string, and King Zhu Huakui of Chu had to change the dragon robe immediately, put on his own armor, and then began to take out the cauldron and prepare to worship the world.

At the same time, he immediately enfeoffed the civil and military ministers. Ruan Dacheng was directly appointed as the Grand Secretary of Jianji Hall as the cabinet assistant. One of his left and right chief ministers served as the Minister of Personnel and the other became the Minister of War. In addition to the Left General Inspector who refused and was killed, the Right General Inspector became the Minister of Revenue, and the Censor directly became the Minister of Justice, and the Prisoner of Wuchang became the Minister of Works.

The other six ministries and nine ministers were also awarded, and Zuo Liangyu also became the King of Jingjiang and was also given the title of Grand Secretary of Wuying Palace and the title of Minister of War.

In this way, just overnight, the rebellion team of King Zhu Huakui of Chu was established, which was even more hasty than the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising.

However, King Zhu Huakui of Chu himself did not immediately proclaim himself emperor because his current slogan was to follow the instructions of Emperor Gao and punish the treacherous and slandered in the court. King Zhu Huakui of Chu even listed the treacherous ministers in a list.

Qian Qianyi, Lu Xiangsheng, Li Mingrui, Wei Zhongxian and others are naturally on this list, and Zhang Dai, the chief editor of Daming Daily, was lucky to be listed.

But what is strange is that after the rebellion and actual control of Wuchang City, the King of Chu Zhu Huakui did not immediately take down the people from the East Factory, and the people from the East Factory were able to carry out activities in Wuchang City without any trouble.

What King Zhu Huakui of Chu is doing now is to disturb the people, and that's right, it's to disturb the people!

Since he heard this, Ruan Dacheng's arrangement, he would not have taken Wuchang City as the foundation after the uprising. Moreover, his political slogan was to reduce and exempt business taxes and to give freedom to the literati and officials, so going to Jiangnan could undoubtedly better get support from the masses.

Therefore, King Zhu Huakui of Chu ignored his image in Wuchang City.

He now wants to do two things before the arrival of the imperial army. These two things are the foundation for his future march into Jiangnan. For two things, he didn't even care about destroying the Dongchang forces in Huguang.

The first thing that King Zhu Huakui of Chu wanted to do was to recruit soldiers, yes, it was to recruit soldiers, not recruit soldiers.

King Zhu Huakui of Chu wanted to save money and have a larger number of troops, so he could only recruit soldiers and force men to join the army.

In the entire Wuchang City, all males over fifteen years old were forced into the team by King Zhu Huakui of Chu, and even directly robbed them in the city. If they did not follow, they would be killed directly.

The second thing is to plunder the people's wealth, which is indeed blatantly plundering the people's wealth. In order to obtain more war resources, King Zhu Huakui of Chu completely ignored his image among the people of Huguang and allowed his personal soldiers and Zuo Liangyu's soldiers to plunder the city. When he encountered shops and civilian houses, he broke in and robbed them.

Many shops were looted, countless private houses were burned, and even raped incidents were caused.

For a moment, Wu Changcheng fell into chaos. Some officials and gentry could not bear to see each other and wanted to dissuade King Zhu Huakui of Chu. Zhu Huakui did not listen and even killed several people directly.

In just three days, King Zhu Huakui and Zuo Liangyu forcibly expanded 100,000 troops in Wuchang City. Even because the expansion was too fast, many soldiers did not have weapons in their hands and could only use sticks and shoulder poles instead.

I don’t know, but when I saw this team, I thought it was a bandit in a peasant uprising team, which was even worse than the bandits’ combat effectiveness, because the bandits were voluntarily involved in the rebellion, while the peasant army of King Zhu Huakui of King Chu was forced.

However, King Zhu Huakui of Chu did not care. When he saw a huge army of 100,000 people appearing in front of him and being controlled by him, he instantly became very passionate. He couldn't help but say to Ruan Dayue beside him: "Mr. Ruan, you are right. As long as you want to rebel, you can gather 100,000 people in an instant. In this way, it is not difficult to compete for the world in the future."

"Yes, now we just need to go down the Yangtze River and drive straight in. We can drink the Jingjiang River water in the morning and travel to Qixia Mountain in the evening! We occupy Jinling City and get the momentum of dragons and tigers. When the time is right, we will then rush our troops north to force him to abdicate!"

Ruan Dacheng also said confidently.

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At this time, Fu Dahai, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard, had already deployed troops outside Luojia Mountain.

After being ordered to recruit soldiers in Huguang area at the beginning of the year, Fu Dahai recruited more than 20,000 new soldiers from the Imperial Guards in June, and a total of ten battalions were organized.

But these more than 20,000 people were auditions from hundreds of thousands. Except for a few talented people, most of them were not illiterate and were familiar with artillery fire operations. After rigorous three months of training, they were also disciplined, but they were more immature than the Xuzhou Imperial Guards and had never participated in the war. This time, the rebellion of King Zhu Huakui of Chu was the first time that many of them fought.

"Start debugging, the northwest direction is thirty degrees elevation!"

More than ten Ming Dynasty's latest twelve-pound field guns were made of alloy materials, which were newly developed by Song Yingxing's research team of the Royal Academy of Engineering. The gun body was lengthened and more resistant to high temperatures. However, it was still a smooth-bore rear-loading gun, but the range was longer. Now, the experimental stage of the Ordnance Department had just finished the experiment. After manufacturing the twenty gates, most of them arrived at the Fuhaiguan, and were transported to the Fuhaiguan headquarters in Huguang, and were tested and used by the veteran artillery soldiers of the Fuhaigu Guards in Fuhai.

Before this, the Fudahai Imperial Guard had already practiced on-site several times, and now it is the first time to actually fight.

"The debugging of the No. 1 gun position has been completed!"

"The debugging of the No. 2 gun position has been completed!"

...

After all the gun gunners stood up and announced, Fu Dahai still squinted his eyes, measured the distance and angle with his thumb, and then looked at the Western clock to prompt the time, then ordered: "Fire the gun!"

Suddenly, solid iron bombs slashed through the sky. When the resistance was reduced halfway, the combustible material added by the Royal Academy of Engineering was burned and exploded after the air resistance friction, causing the iron bomb to begin to gain an increase and continue to hit the city wall.

The iron bullet shot from the twelve-pound cannon was already extremely heavy and high, and it hit Wuchang City in an instant, and several large holes broke into Wuchang City.

Most of the soldiers stationed at Zuo Liangyu who guarded the north gate of Wuchang City were killed, and three shells were smashed to death by their north gate.

"Signal flares, cavalry and infantry can attack!" Fu Dahai couldn't help but scream, but he still clenched his fists and endured it.

Suddenly, the infantry who had already ambushed outside Wuchang City rushed over immediately. Most of them carried the wooden boards and jumped into the moat and quickly built the wooden bridge. The two cavalrymen rushed over and rushed into the city directly. Before Zuo Liangyu's soldiers could react, they had already controlled the city gate.

When King Zhu Huakui of Chu was about to order his 100,000 troops to gather his own troops to leave Wuchang City, he could really hear the sound of the huge city wall collapse.

But before he could ask Zuo Liangyu what was going on, he saw the general under Zuo Liangyu, Jin Shenghuan, running away with a group of remaining soldiers: "Sir, you're not good, the Imperial Guard is here!"

The Imperial Guard? Zuo Liangyu looked at Jin Shenghuan in a little shocked manner, while the King of Chu Zhu Huakui looked at Zuo Liangyu in a similar surprise, and Ruan Dacheng also stood over in surprise.

The three of them were just immersed in the great cause of taking down the Yangtze River along the Yangtze River like plowing the caves and sweeping the caves, but they didn't expect to know the news that the Imperial Guard was coming in a moment.

King Zhu Huakui of Chu asked first: "What's going on? Didn't you tell me that the Fu Dahai tribe of the Imperial Guard is now far away in Yueyang and is dragged by Hou Xun, the governor of Huguang? Why did the Imperial Guard suddenly appear in Wuchang City again?"

Ruan Dacheng couldn't help but smile bitterly: "This is indeed a bit unexpected. According to the principle, the Imperial Guards will not appear, but even if there are, there must not be too many. Perhaps Zhu Youxiao sent a small team of Imperial Guards to come to shock us. Moreover, Prince, we now have a hundred thousand troops in our hands, so there is no need to be afraid. According to my opinion, it is better to kill them directly. As long as Wuchang City is still in our hands, we will have a chance."

"Yes, now there are 100,000 troops, and I'm afraid that his small imperial guard will not succeed." People always struggle tenaciously when they are dying. This is a very instinctive spiritual victory method, and it is also a good character of human beings. The same is true for the King of Chu Zhu Huakui at this time. He took the initiative to optimistically believe that relying on the 100,000 troops under his command can withstand the attack of the imperial guards.

King Zhu Huakui of Chu immediately ordered: "Transfer the orphan order, guard the city gate strictly, and find an opportunity to break out!"

"Go back to the prince, there is no need to defend it. The imperial guards have entered the city and are coming to the royal city." Jin Shenghuan replied directly, but King Zhu Huakui of Chu was surprised to have an egg stuffed in his mouth. However, Zuo Liangyu was still relatively calm and immediately replaced King Zhu Huakui of Chu and ordered: "Tell all troops to return to defend the royal city immediately, and close the royal city after half an hour!"

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Fu Dahai personally sat on a cannon carriage carried by a four-wheeled carriage and entered Wuchang City. The artillery carried by the carriage followed closely and in an orderly manner.

In front of Fudahai are the Imperial Guards' firearms and soldiers enter in a row of twenty people with firearms in their hands, and in front of the firearms are cavalry.

The cavalry did not pursue again, because the rebels in Wuchang's outer city were completely wiped out in just half an hour.

At the same time, whistles began to sound on the Yangtze River outside the city. No one knew what the sound of the whistle was. King Zhu Huakui of Chu could not help but ask Ruan Dacheng, and Ruan Dacheng also said he didn't know.

It was not until another quarter of an hour passed and several large ships appeared outside Wuchang City that King Zhu Huakui of Chu saw the navy that was originally the Imperial Guards came on the lookout platform of the royal city.

King Zhu Huakui of Chu also began to feel real fear at this time. The river surface was blocked by the imperial guards, which meant that King Zhu Huakui of Chu had no way out, and the only thing he could do now was to defend Wuchang City to the death.

There was another rumbling of artillery fire that was shattering the sky and the earth. A wall in the north of the royal city fell down, and the collapsed brick wall fell into the moat, causing countless splashes of water.

But Fu Dahai's order continued to bombard until the thick royal city wall was riddled with holes, mud and stone filled the moat, and facilitated the advance of cavalry and infantry.

The army of King Zhu Huakui of Chu did not dare to respond. The 100,000 troops he had expanded were all huddled on the bluestone slabs outside the royal palace and did not dare to approach the royal city.

Even King Zhu Huakui of Chu began to ask in panic: "Mr. Ruan, General Zuo, what should we do now?"

Ruan Dacheng couldn't help but look embarrassed. He didn't expect that he was so vulnerable in front of the Imperial Guards. In less than a night, the outer city of Wuchang was broken, and in less than half an hour, the royal city was broken again. What else can he do? Even if he is really Zhuge, he will not have the power to turn the world back.

"There must be a brave man and a prince. For the sake of the current plan, why not give out huge sums of money in the mansion to reward all the soldiers to inspire morale, or to repel the imperial guards, and there is a glimmer of hope."

Zuo Liangyu made a relatively pertinent opinion at this time, but King Zhu Huakui of Chu shook his head and said, "I have now been reduced in my salary and have to recruit soldiers and build weapons. How can I still have any remaining money? I have to worry that General Zuo tells the generals that as long as I keep this king, he will definitely have a heavy reward."

Seeing that King Zhu Huakui of Chu was unwilling to spend money to encourage morale, he only promised a painting cake. Zuo Liangyu also regretted why he followed the incompetent prince's pirate ship.

At this time, the moat of the royal city had been filled, and the imperial guards had already rushed towards the royal city like a torrent. The huge shouts of killing even Zhu Huakui, the King of Chu, could hear clearly.

King Zhu Huakui of Chu couldn't help but shout: "Hurry, stop it by life, block it!"

Zuo Liangyu didn't listen to him, but rode away on a horse and said to his servants: "Go and find a boat and escape from the city overnight!"

And here, Ruan Dacheng also disappeared into the crowd in shame while people were not paying attention.
Chapter completed!