Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 23 Walk gently, just as I came gently
Zhu Jinsong walked gently with more than 100 young and strong, just as he came gently.With a wave of his hand, he took away several boxes of gold and silver, and left a poem by the way.

If nothing else, the poem written by Zhu Jinsong should make the entrance fee of Quanlin Temple two yuan more expensive than other temples.

But it is a pity that Zhu Jinsong had the courage to write such a poem, but Abbot Wuzhi of Quanlin Temple probably did not have the courage to keep it.

Zhu Jinsong didn't care about this either. For Zhu Jinsong, the most important thing now was to go to Quanlin Palace as soon as possible.

It doesn't matter what kind of craftsman's money, the main thing is that I like the beauty of the Spring Forest Palace.

When Zhu Jinsong led a group of young and strong men to the surrounding woods of the Quanlin Palace, he found that the perimeter of the Quanlin Palace was already surrounded by five steps, one post and ten steps and one sentry. shuttle back and forth.

Zhu Laosan said: "Brother, has there been some rumors about this palace?"

But after finishing speaking, Zhu Laosan shook his head again, and said to himself: "That's not right, if there is any rumor about the palace, then we have been killing officials and distributing food in Sishui County for so long now. , Why didn’t the officers and soldiers dispatch to encircle and suppress?”

Zhu Jinsong laughed and said: "It's normal to be on guard when you get wind, it's not normal to be unguarded."

"There is a saying in the officialdom that doing more makes more mistakes, doing less makes less mistakes, and doing nothing is good. The garrison of Quanlin Palace has no responsibility for suppressing bandits and suppressing rebellion. They are just here to take care of Qian Deaf's old dog's home. As for What does it have to do with them even if the world is turned upside down outside the palace?"

Only then did Zhu Laosan understand, and couldn't help but shook his head and said, "If everyone doesn't do things because they are afraid of making mistakes, then there are still people who do things? People in Yuhuangshan will not be like this in the future, brother must have Just make a rule."

Zhu Jinsong smiled and nodded, and said: "Naturally. Do you remember what I told you at the beginning? We want everyone in the world to be able to afford food and clothes. If our Yuhuangshan If people dare not be brave enough to do things, then what is the ideal?”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Jinsong waved his hands, called Liu Erniu and asked, "Erniu, are you ready to prepare everything?"

Liu Erniu leaned down, and replied: "Everything is ready, and the brothers have also ambushed all around, and now we just wait for the order from the head."

Zhu Jinsong hummed, and after some calculations in his heart, he ordered: "Action!"

Liu Erniu looked up, and replied: "Yes!"

After answering, Liu Erniu lowered his body and ran back, and all the young and strong men in Yuhuang Mountain also started to get busy.

It wasn't until a group of young men set up a simple catapult made of poles and ropes that Liu Erniu took out a whistle from his arms, and waited for another young man to put a whistle into the bowl behind the catapult. After picking up a grenade and taking out the fire bag, Liu Erniu blew his whistle vigorously.

If it was a large trebuchet used to attack the city, even if Zhu Jinsong knew the principle, he might not be able to get enough materials in a short while, and even if he could get out, he would not be able to bring it to the mountain.

But it is much easier to make this kind of simple trebuchet that is used to throw grenades and the range does not need to be too far.

The young man who was in charge of ignition lit the powder of the grenade with a torch, and the other young man next to him smashed the engine box hard, and then the grenade flew out in a whirl.

And then, Zhu Jinsong watched helplessly as the grenade missed - it was originally aimed at several defenders outside the palace, but in the end, none of the defenders were hit, and it missed by several meters. distance!

This can no longer be said to have deviated from the target, it simply did not find the target.

Fortunately, although the killing accuracy of this simple trebuchet is not good, the effective killing radius of the fragments is very impressive. In addition, the structure of this thing is simple and the range requirements are not high, so that the loading time is greatly shortened. Bend the board that has just been straightened, and then hang the rope, and then the second loading and launching can be carried out.

Since the killing accuracy cannot be solved, then increase the killing radius, there is no problem at all!
With a bang, the grenade that had just landed exploded, and the explosions of grenades also sounded from several other directions one after another.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The explosions one after another directly stunned the defenders outside the palace. However, when the defenders gathered to find the enemy, they found that they couldn't even find a trace of the enemy. They could only follow the grenade. Shoot arrows in the direction of the flying and return fire.

Then there was a rather funny scene.

For bows and arrows, there must be a range, but the range does not mean that there is a shooting range, because the range of ordinary bows and arrows can reach almost 300 meters, but the effective killing range is only about 70 meters.

To achieve long-range and large-scale effective damage, the only way to cover it with arrow rain is in the form of projectiles. However, the guarding force of the entire Spring Forest Palace is not enough to support this kind of gameplay, because Old Dog Qian Deaf has not left the capital yet.

If Old Dog Qian Deaf is in the Quanlin Palace now, then there will be Qing soldiers guarding here, such as the Vanguard Battalion, the Guard Battalion, the Bodyguard Office, the Infantry Battalion, and the Xiaoqi Battalion. .

The problem is that the old dog Qian Deaf has not yet arrived at the Quanlin Palace, so the guarding force of the entire palace is only a thousand soldiers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs who are responsible for guarding the inside, and more than a thousand soldiers on the outside are responsible for guarding the outside. There are only two thousand soldiers in one place, and after being scattered to more than ten places, there are only two people in each place, and not everyone among the two hundred people has arrows.

What's more terrible is that although the range of the simple trebuchet brought out by Zhu Jinsong's people is not farther than that of a bow and arrow, it does not have the concept of effective killing - what effective killing range does a grenade need?As far as it can be thrown, its killing range is as far as it can go!
But when the Qing army in charge of the guard finally found Zhu Jinsong and others, and wanted to rush over and stab people, the rebels on Yuhuangshan took out hand grenades one after another and threw them out.

Dear, this thing can only blow up one place at a time, but those fragments can fly around - it is true that this kind of fragments can't easily kill people, but the power of this thing to hurt people is very impressive.

Especially the chief eunuch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who originally wanted to rush out to gain some military merit, was even more frightened by the continuous explosions, crying and screaming to get these soldiers to gather together.

Now it is more in line with Zhu Jinsong's wishes!
After more than half of the nearly thousand grenades that Zhu Jinsong brought this time were consumed, the defenders of the entire palace were basically dead, wounded, and there was not even a single one who could stand with a knife.

Killed nearly [-] Tartar soldiers with a force of less than [-], but did not suffer any losses. It almost perfectly reproduced the previous record of ambush of [-] soldiers in the Yamen of the Yanzhou Army, even the most injured one was an unlucky guy. He sprained his ankle because he tripped over a stone while running too fast.

Zhu's second son, who had been acting as a guard by Zhu Jinsong's side, was dumbfounded by this scene, and couldn't help saying: "Let's see if there are any bombs on the ground later, this thing must not fall into the hands of the tartars." .”

Zhu Jinsong nodded in agreement, and then led Zhu Lao Er and other young men out of the woods, and surrounded the palace guards who fell to the ground and howled.

At this time, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had stopped crying—when he saw Zhu Jinsong appearing with a hand grenade and only 200 people behind him, the eunuch who did not know the name of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs suddenly screamed: "You are rebelling! Rebelling!"

Zhu Jinsong stepped on the face of the chief eunuch, and said with a smile: "We know this is a rebellion, why are you talking too much? Tell me, how many craftsmen are there in the palace, and where are they?"

The chief eunuch howled: "You rest and ask a word from our mouth!"

Zhu Jinsong was overjoyed immediately, and first gave a thumbs up to the chief eunuch, and praised: "I'm a man! I, Zhu Jinsong, have killed so many officials, and you really are the toughest!"

After boasting, Zhu Jinsong turned his head and shouted again: "Er Niu! Take this dead eunuch down and wash him!"

Liu Erniu first responded with a grunt, but then frowned and said, "Master, we only brought such a pot, or else don't wash it, just try Lingchi?"

As early as when Zhu Jinsong revealed his identity, the chief eunuch was already frightened to death. Seeing that Liu Erniu was really going to cut himself alive, the chief eunuch was so frightened that he shit and peed, and shouted: "I say! I say!"

Zhu Jinsong laughed and said, "Tell me, where are the craftsmen?"

After getting the location of the craftsman from the mouth of the chief eunuch, Zhu Jinsong assigned some young men to guard the palace guards, and took the rest of the young men to the palace with him.

At this time, there were no guards in the palace, and those eunuchs and maids who did not go out with them, some knelt down and begged for surrender, and some ran around like headless chickens. Zhu Jinsong didn't bother to pay attention to them, but ran directly to the chief eunuch's place. Said to go to the craftsman's academy.

There are dozens of springs in the Spring Forest Palace, infused with each other and combined to form a stream. The whole palace is divided into the palace area and the garden area, and the palace area is divided into three roads on the left, middle and right. , Inner duty room; the right road is the court room, dining room, duty room, vertical flower gate, and photo room; the middle road is Zhaobi, Dagong gate, second palace gate, side hall, vertical flower gate, sleeping hall, Buddhist hall, and between the palaces of the three roads There are also pavilions, platforms, buildings and pavilions, which are connected by corridors. There are groups of elk in the woods of the garden scenic spot, and there are pavilions, platforms, pavilions and pavilions hidden among elms, willows, pines and cypresses.

Compared with the Forbidden City, which is dominated by solemnity, the Quanlin Palace is more elegant and interesting.

Even the well-informed Zhu Jinsong couldn't help but praise: "If you want to say that you can play and lose money, you really have to be a deaf old dog."

Liu Erniu, however, was eager to try and said: "Master, why don't we burn this palace? More than 2000 defenders suffered heavy casualties, but we can't beat us with less than 200 people. If you ask me, that's the same thing with the Tartars." Son."

Zhu Jinsong glared at Liu Erniu, and scolded: "Burn a fart! This palace was built with the blood and sweat of the common people. If you say it is burned, it will be burned? Next time you talk about this kind of nonsense, we will put you first!" Burn it!"

All the way through the halls and pavilions to the craftsman's courtyard, Zhu Jinsong shouted to the craftsmen in the courtyard: "Don't be afraid! We are not good at killing people in our lives, and today we are only here to invite you to go up the mountain."

But the head craftsman fell to his knees with a plop, and begged: "Hero man, please forgive me! If I follow you up the mountain, the government will have to arrest our family members for questioning? I know where there is value in this palace. I beg the hero to spare us!"

But Zhu Jinsong said: "Don't worry, since we said that we want to take you up the mountain, we have to take your wives and children with us, and we won't wrong you."

The craftsman wondered if he could rest assured!We were captured by ourselves, and the government may or may not arrest my family. If our whole family follows you up the mountain, when the imperial army arrives, then the whole family will be unlucky!
Thinking of this, the craftsman pleaded: "Otherwise, if we go up the mountain with the hero, our family will not need it?"

The rest of the craftsmen also knelt down and begged: "We are willing to follow the hero to the mountain, and beg the hero to spare our family!"

Zhu Jinsong said: "That's up to you. Don't worry, as long as you follow our instructions, we will definitely pay you the wages you deserve, and we will never treat you badly."

After comforting these craftsmen, Zhu Jinsong ordered Liu Erniu: "Take them and let's go."

Zhu Jinsong walked lightly, just as he came lightly. With a wave of his hand, he packed away the craftsmen and some valuable gold, silver and jewelry in the palace, and also left behind a lot of palace guards who were killed or injured.

(End of this chapter)