Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 38 The city is broken, dying

Then how did Aimi Zhu escape?
Did Li Laiheng's men tie them up loosely on purpose, or did Aiminus Zhu know some tricks to escape?

Li Yan looked at the ball of hemp rope in puzzlement.

Speaking of which, although he was a scholar from a gentry family, he liked to travel around the rivers and lakes with a sword in his early years, and he got to know some strange people.

Among them are strange people who can untie themselves.

It's just that no matter how he looks at it, Aimee Zhu doesn't look like such a strange person.

So, could it be that Aimee Zhu disappeared out of thin air?
Thinking of this, Li Yan immediately ordered his soldiers to call his wife Hong Niangzi over.

Hong Niangzi was born in the rivers and lakes performing rope skills, and she has more experience in this area than Li Yan.

Not long after, a sassy woman wearing exquisite leather armor, a red cloak, and a long whip came to the tent.

It was Hong Niang who came.

She frowned and said first, "Why didn't you break the city with King Chuang, but here?"

Li Yan said: "Princess Daming is missing, King Chuang ordered me to find out."

"Such a big battle is going to be fought, and he actually sent you to investigate the case?" The red lady thought of something, and said, "Could it be that old cow again?"

Li Yan didn't answer, he pulled the red lady to the hemp rope, changed the subject and said, "Look at this hemp rope, it hasn't been untied or cut, can you see how the princess was rescued? "

The red lady diverted her attention, picked up the hemp rope and looked at it carefully.

"The hemp rope is tied with a dead knot, so the princess must have escaped by herself... Could it be that she tied it loosely on purpose? But even if she broke free from the rope, she couldn't leave the tent and escape from the camp."

After hearing what Hong Niangzi said, Li Yan knew that another situation had been ruled out.

Even for a strange man who can untie himself, the rope must be untieable, and the knot cannot untie itself--in fact, the knot has not been untied.

At this time, the red lady said again: "I once heard that there is a wonderful skill in the world, called 'Bone Shrinking Skill'. People who practice it can shrink the body of an adult to look like a child. Could it be that the princess knows this wonderful skill?"

"Is there such a miracle?"

Li Yan was surprised when he heard this.

But he still didn't feel that Aimee Zhu seemed to be someone who could do such extraordinary feats.

Even if she could, she would need help from others to escape from this camp.

Therefore, there must be traitors in the camp!
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"Kill it!"

Boom boom boom!
The sound of shelling and shouts of killing kept coming, even if Chongzhen was in the Hall of Martial Heroes, he could hear it.

"Report—" Yi Jinyi's army rushed out of the hall with smoke and dust, knelt on one knee and cupped his fists and shouted: "Your Majesty, Xuanwumen is in a hurry!"

Chongzhen stood in the Hall of Martial Arts, with his back to the gate, without saying a word.

"Report--" Another brocade-clothed soldier, with blood on his body and gunpowder smoke on his face, knelt down and cried, "Your Majesty, Deshengmen is about to lose its hold!"

Chongzhen was like a stone statue, motionless.

Wang Chengen brought a group of people over, knelt on the ground and begged, "Long Live Lord, the capital cannot be defended, shall we break through?"

"Breakthrough?" Chongzhen turned around and smiled miserably, "Where are you going to break through?"

"Turn to the south." Wang Chengen said without hesitation, "There is still half of our Daming in the south. If His Majesty goes down, he will be able to reorganize the mountains and rivers and revitalize Daming."

Knowing some things from Hao Guangming, Chongzhen sees the situation more thoroughly now than in history.

He looked up at the roof and said: "The people in the south are not of the same mind as me, let alone the intruders besieging the city, I have no soldiers at hand, so I can't go... I don't want to be caught by the intruders and become Li Zicheng's prisoner. "

Wang Chengen wanted to persuade him again, but another blood-stained and injured family in brocade clothes rushed over, crying, "Your Majesty, the Chongwen Gate has been breached...the intruder got a rare treasure from nowhere, There was a strong light, and it suddenly shone on the top of the city at night. Our soldiers couldn't see anything, panicked and told them to use ladders and Lvgong cars to injure the top of the city..."

Hearing this, Chongzhen, who seemed to have seen through life and death, suddenly walked over quickly, grabbed Qianhu by the collar, and asked anxiously, "Have you ever seen the princess?"

Princess?

Qianhu was stunned.

Immediately recalling the matter of the princess going to negotiate with Li Chuang, he thought that Chongzhen was worried that the intruder would kill the princess.

However, in the current situation, it is impossible for the princess to be in a better situation.

Finally, Qianhu replied honestly: "The last general has never seen the princess."

Chongzhen heaved a sigh of relief.

Immediately he drove the others out of the Hall of Martial Heroes, leaving only Wang Chengen behind, and said, "Go and find Fang Zhenghua, Gao Wencai, and Liu Lishun quickly. I have an order to pass on to them in secret."

Although Wang Chengen still wanted to persuade Chongzhen to break through the siege, he also knew that Chongzhen's order came first, and he was about to do things right away.

But Chongzhen stopped him again, and asked: "I asked you to arrange for the three princes to hide among the people, but have you made arrangements?"

Wang Cheng'en said: "This old slave has already made arrangements, but those few families were selected hastily after all. I can't guarantee whether they will betray the prince after the intruders enter the city."

At the end, Wang Chengen showed guilt.

Chongzhen sighed: "I know you have tried your best. As for what will happen to them in the future, just leave it to fate. Alright, send someone to find those people."

"Yes."

After Wang Chengen left, the shouts of killing quickly approached the palace.

Apparently, the intruders had broken into the inner city.

The Ming army defending the city was originally a mob, and its combat effectiveness was not strong. Without the city wall as a support, it was not an opponent for the intruders.

However, the inner city is very large, and there are high-profile mansions and luxurious mansions everywhere, so many of the intruders who came from bandits came in and were fascinated.

Although Li Zicheng and other high-ranking generals ordered that after entering the city, they should not rob, loot or disturb the people, but in the eyes of most soldiers who invaded the army, the people living in this inner city were not the people, but the officials who used to search their homes, beheaded and even boiled them alive. The gentry, the rich.

As a result, after entering the inner city, although these invading soldiers did not completely lose their restraint, murder and set fire, they were also divided into countless small groups, and the leaders led them around to take advantage of it.

Coupled with the fact that there were still many soldiers of the Ming army and large guards in the inner city resisting, the invading army failed to invade the imperial city and palace immediately.

Some Jinyi soldiers were sent by Wang Chengen, and found Fang Zhenghua, Liu Lishun, and Gao Wencai successively.

At that time, Fang Zhenghua was leading a group of eunuchs and soldiers in brocade clothes to fight against a trespassing army on the street.

He had originally made up his mind to fight and die here, but when he heard the emperor's urgent order, he retreated while killing, left the battle, and went to the palace.

Gao Wencai arrived at home after the city was broken. Seeing that he could not bring his family to break out, and he was unwilling to surrender to Li Chuang and defeat Chongzhen and Daming, he prepared to set himself on fire with his family to die for the country.

The people who waited for the decree felt that although the fire in Gao's house did not burn, they were targeted by a group of thieves, who identified Gao Wencai as a general of the Ming army, and attacked Gao's house before he was willing to surrender.

Gao Wencai learned of the imperial edict of Chongzhen, and saw that the intruders were about to break into the house, so he said to his son Gao Shengqi: "My son, my Gao family has been loyal and good for generations, and now your Majesty's imperial edict, my Gao family cannot refuse.

You go with them to the palace, and continue to be loyal to Daming and His Majesty instead of your father! "

"Father, I won't go!"

Gao Shengqi was seventeen or eighteen years old, he was tall and burly, and he had learned good martial arts. Under such circumstances, no one could take him away forcibly.

"Go!" Gao Wencai shouted angrily.

Gao Wencai's wife looked at Gao Shengqi kindly, and said, "Wencai, let's go and live well."

After speaking, he also raised a knife, and ran towards the courtyard with Gao Wencai - the intruder has already attacked!

"Father! Mother!"

Gao Shengqi's eyes widened, and he was about to rush to fight the intruder.

Several brocade-clothed soldiers hurriedly hugged him, and a small flag at the head said: "Master Gao, don't let your parents die in vain, if you want to avenge them, live well!"

After speaking, he rushed into the courtyard to stop the intruder.

Seeing his parents hacked to death by intruders one after another, Gao Shengqi couldn't help but tear up his eyes, but he finally retreated with several Jinyi soldiers unwillingly.

On the other side, Liu Lishun was about to hang himself with his family, so that the whole family would die for the country.

Knowing the intention of Jinyi's relatives, Liu Lishun said to his son Liu Xiaolian who didn't want to die at all: "Your Majesty must have something important to ask you to send an edict at this time. I'm old, I'm afraid I won't be able to help Your Majesty too much, Xiaolian, you go. "

Liu Xiaolian is in his twenties and still unmarried.

His eyes were red, and he heard that he didn't want to die or live. Instead, he looked at his ten-year-old younger sister, Liu Weitong, and said stubbornly, "I want to take my younger sister with me."

Liu Lishun nodded.

"Father! Father!"

Liu Weitong was carried away by Liu Xiaolian, crying and struggling, but finally disappeared from Liu Lishun's sight.

Liu Lishun sighed, looked at the smoke and fire rising in the night sky, and said to the rest of his family, "Let's go too."

After finishing speaking, throw away the white silk...
[For collection, for follow-up. 】

(End of this chapter)