Chapter 104 Spy
It was about seventy miles from Changping to the capital, and the East Palace Guards marched on horseback. If they didn't pull two carriages of gold and silver, they could arrive in three hours.
According to the fact that the East Palace Guards did not collect intelligence at night, there was no slave army from Changping to the capital, so they should be able to reach the capital safely all the way.
Zhu Cixiang was walking in the middle of the team, with the iron-blooded general Zhou Yuji in front, the sharpshooter Yan Xiongying behind him, and beside him were Hu Bao and Yue Yang, one on the left and one on the right.
Behind Zhu Cixiang and others were two carriages, which were pulling 300,000 taels of silver and 30,000 taels of gold.
The silver was basically divided among the soldiers when they returned, and the gold was prepared to honor the father, the emperor, the queen, and the empress Yi'an.
Everyone was talking and laughing along the way and did not feel that the journey was long. Around noon, they could already see the majestic walls of the capital in the distance. At this time, the soldiers began to get excited.
Yan Xiongying was the first to shout;
"Look, the walls of the capital can already be seen..."
Hu Bao chuckled:
"What are you excited about? Do you think you can receive a reward and become an official immediately..."
Yan Xiongying chuckled and said:
"Don't you think my father-in-law wants to be promoted and make a fortune, so why don't you volunteer to hold a repeating magic weapon?"
"Hahaha……"
Seeing his subordinates talking and laughing, Zhu Cihong felt very happy.
He is a time traveler, not a prince who sticks to the rules. When soldiers are not fighting, there is no need to keep a tight look on their faces. They should relax when it is time to relax.
Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the capital, and could even see soldiers walking back and forth on the city wall, Zhu Cixiang raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.
"Okay, it's fun to win the battle, but you must behave yourself after entering the city and let the people see that the East Palace Guards are also a mighty force!"
"Here"
Zhu Cixiang said a word, and the whole team immediately fell silent. The soldiers all held their muskets in their arms and sat upright, staring intently, and even the war horses walked in a row.
When he was still five hundred steps away from the city gate, Hu Bao volunteered:
"Master, the capital has been under martial law. No one can come in or out at will. Please go and call the door!"
Zhu Cixi nodded:
"Go, don't get too close to the city wall, or the soldiers from the capital will shoot you with bows and arrows!"
"Don't worry, young master, I suspect that those soldiers in the capital camp can't draw their bows..."
Hu Bao said something and urged his horse to call the door.
Yue Yang looked at Hu Bao's back and smiled:
"Young eunuch is good at talking, be careful of Duke Cheng impeaching you for looking down on the capital camp!"
Desheng Gate of the Capital
"Jiannu is here, please report to Duke Cheng immediately..."
On the tower of Deshengmen, the Ming army saw a group of cavalry coming towards Deshengmen. They immediately panicked and immediately reported to Duke Zhu Chunchen.
"Pah...what?"
Upon receiving the report, Zhu Chunchen was shocked. He dropped the teacup in his hand and broke into countless pieces.
The Jiannu slaves looted everywhere in the capital and never attacked the capital. How can we start attacking the capital today? What should we do?
As the top leader of the Beijing camp, Zhu Chunchen, Duke of Chengguo, was useless except for embezzling and deducting military pay and selling arms. I really don’t know why Chongzhen trusted him so much.
The soldiers who followed the news stumbled to Desheng Gate, and it took them a long time to climb up the tower. Sure enough, they saw a cavalry approaching quickly.
Zhu Chunchen trembled with fright and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to hold shields in front of him:
Quick, use your shield to block the king of our country!"
There were already two soldiers standing beside him with shields, but he didn't feel safe enough.
At this moment, a fast horse galloped over and reined in the horse outside the range of the bow and arrow.
The person who came was Hu Bao, the young eunuch next to Zhu Cihong. Even though he said he looked down on the old soldiers of the Beijing camp, he was still a little worried that a sharpshooter would suddenly appear and shoot him an arrow.
"The soldiers on the city are listening. The crown prince has won and returned home in triumph. They immediately opened the city gate and let the East Palace Guards into the city!"
It can be said that the name of the East Palace Guards is known to everyone in the capital now!
When they heard that it was the East Palace Guards of the mysterious division of Changping, the soldiers on the city immediately shouted:
"Look, the invincible East Palace Guards have triumphed..."
"What? Little Killer Star East Palace Guards?"
Hearing the triumphant return of the Crown Prince's East Palace Guards, Zhu Chunchen was overjoyed and felt very complicated.
He was happy that Jiannu did not come to attack the capital, but he was shocked that the little killer star's triumphant victory would definitely make him even more lawless and unstoppable.
The great victory at Changping and the killing of thousands of Jiannu were all just lies about the military situation. Were Jiannu so easy to kill?
How many soldiers and horses of King Qin in the Gyeonggi region dare not fight against Jiannu, but the small number of soldiers and horses of Xiaoshaxing can kill thousands of Jiannu?
Are you kidding me? As long as they are not fools, no one will believe that a young prince with a thousand men can kill thousands of slaves.
Zhu Chunchen believed that this move was done by Chongzhen to appease the people in the capital.
This time I don't know how many people in Changping were killed by the prince and took credit for their good deeds. Poor people, Zhu Chunchen almost shed a few drops of crocodile tears.
Even though Zhu Chunchen was incompetent in fighting, he was very good at dealing with his own people. He suddenly had an idea.
Isn't the little killing star majestic? The prince of my country won't let you enter the city. Martial law in the capital is a good excuse.
So he sternly scolded the defenders on the city:
"Shut up, it's clear that Jiannu pretended to be a spy and wanted to sneak into the capital. The safety of the capital is the most important. No one is allowed to open the city without His Majesty's decree. Anyone who disobeys will be punished on the spot!"
Most of the people at Desheng Gate were soldiers from the Beijing camp, and none of them had ever seen Hu Bao. They all felt chills on their backs when they heard what Duke Cheng said.
I can't imagine the consequences if they really let the slave-building spies into the city. When they looked at Hu Bao again, they looked more and more like slave-building spies!
A hundred households in the capital camp were eager to make meritorious deeds. They drew their bows and arrows, aimed at Hu Bao, and shot out:
"Dog Tartar, watch the arrow!"
"Whoosh..."
An arrow shot quickly towards Hu Bao from the top of Deshengmen City.
The arrow, with a sound of piercing the air, landed a dozen steps in front of Hu Baimao.
Hu Bao was so frightened that his horse took dozens of steps back.
"Damn it, I have a clever plan..."
Fortunately, the crown prince reminded him, otherwise Hu Bao would really be injured by the bow and arrow if he approached the city gate in a pretentious manner.
Looking up at the Deshengmen Gate Tower, Hu Bao's eyes burst out with anger:
"You idiot, you dare to sneak attack on our house. Although our family has no eggs, we are still heroes of the country by killing countless slaves..."
While talking to himself, the little eunuch took off his AK47, aimed at the crenel where he was shot with a bow and arrow, and started shooting:
"Go to hell..."
"Tu tu tu tu..."
Hu Bao was not hit by an arrow from hundreds of households in the capital camp, which caused a burst of laughter from other soldiers in the capital camp, and he suddenly became angry with embarrassment.
He stretched his bow and nocked an arrow again, preparing to shoot an arrow through the throat of the man in the city. Just as Baihu drew his bow, he suddenly saw a ball of flames coming out of the unknown weapon in the hand of the man in the city.
"What the hell..."
Before Baihu finished speaking, he suddenly felt something hit his chest several times.
He looked down and saw two large blood holes in his chest, with blood spurting out. He screamed and fell to the top of the city.
Seeing Baihu suddenly fall down, two soldiers hurriedly tried to help them, but their heads were instantly hit by bullets...
In an instant, three people fell to the ground dead, blood sprayed all over the ground, and there was chaos at the top of the city...
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