Chapter 311: Pursuing an Order to Kill Traitors
The vegetables, meat and a large amount of daily necessities required by any city in the empire were transported from outside the city, and the capital was no exception, and the number was amazing, because the heart of the empire was home to millions of people.
Every day, when it is ugly, that is, late at night, the vendors who are busy with their livelihood get up early, in order to queue for a fewer queues when entering the city so that their goods can be sold earlier. But no matter how early the vendors get up, when they get on the road, there is already a lot of traffic.
However, on the sixth day of September, the vendors who were pushing tricycles or driving their own big trucks and carrying loads were surprised to find that there was no car on the official road where people and cars should have been crowded.
All there is is a long team.
They wore a banner embroidered with the words "Respecting the Emperor to Challenge", wore gray-red military uniforms, dog-skin hats, and a long musket on their shoulders, and tied with white ribbons on their calfs.
There will be two officers with white cloth strips on their foreheads for every 100 people in this team. Under the leadership of these officers, the team advanced towards the capital in a very solemn manner without any sound.
The road was surrounded by vendors who were asked to slow down. Looking at this strange team, some people who were more concerned about the current situation immediately thought of the emperor's personal army that came from outside the pass a few days ago. Looking at the direction of the imperial army, some people guessed that something big was going to happen tonight.
"Is the personal army going to reform?" A vegetable vendor who often reads the "Huangming Daily" asked the people around him in a low voice. Recently, there have been many reports on reform in the newspaper, so the two words "Reform" are familiar to the peddlers and pawns.
"Shh!"
The companion signaled him not to speak, no matter what the personal army was going to do, it would be best for them to ignore nothing and ask about anything.
The Kumamoto Brigade's target is Guangqumen, where the Shenji Camp of Jingying was stationed.
Kumamoto didn't know why the superiors asked them to enter the city from Guangqu Gate, but did not give any artillery support, as long as they boldly marched into the city.
"Watanabe, will the defenders in the city really respond to our actions?"
Kumamoto is still very suspicious about whether the defenders will open the door. If the defenders are not as mentioned above, their troops will definitely be attacked. In this way, the troops will not only suffer casualties, but will also lead to their inability to attack the target as scheduled.
"If the information is wrong, the guys in charge must have septidum." Kumamoto muttered.
"Your Excellency, please enter boldly!"
Watanabe pushed his glasses and looked at the long marching team in front of him and suddenly walked aside and said loudly: "Everyone, please don't suppress your mood? I think? Why don't let us sing a song for the great cause of reform!"
Immediately afterwards, Watanabe's singing rang: "The opportunity for innovation has come now? The storm of night swept away the emperor's light!"
"Famousness and fame are nothing but traces of dreams, only sincerity will never be eliminated"
The loud battle song of the Fifth Division quickly resounded throughout the official road? The moving and passionate song even infected many vendors on the roadside.
"Are you going to go into the city to kill the traitors!"
A hawker selling sesame cakes boldly asked the soldiers who had passed by. Recently, the newspaper kept saying that the Donglin Party in the court was a traitor, and the hawker thought this statement was correct. Because his land was a big turtle in the Donglin Party and Li Sancai, when he was alive, he joined forces with a eunuch to force him to recruit him. If this Donglin Party was not a traitor, could he do such a thing as bullying the people?
"Yes? We are going to kill the traitors? Armed Restoration!" The soldiers of the personal army answered the vendor with affirmative answer.
"Then accept it, fill your stomach, and kill a traitor on my behalf!" The vendor excitedly rushed towards the team with the cake in his hand. At this moment, he only felt that this imperial army was his own team.
"Membersmen? Our Imperial Army cannot take things from the people!"
The officer who led the team thanked the kind vendor, even if the vendor repeatedly wanted to give them the pancakes. Helplessly, the vendor had to put the pancakes back on the bonnet.
"Please, you must succeed!"
The vendor murmured, suddenly he felt that he had to do something, so he rushed to the front again, shouting at the officer who refused to accept his pancakes: "I will lead you the way? I know where the big turbans in Donglin live!"
More and more people have joined the Leadership Party? Although most of them may not know what the reform means, they know that the army in front of them is a great hero who has just pacified Jiannu outside the pass.
Since ancient times, heroes have never been wrong, but the traitors in the court have been wrong!
"It's snowing, it's snowing!"
The crowd was suddenly surprised to find that snowflakes suddenly fell from the sky without any wind.
The snow in September is not surprising to the capital, because it has become colder and colder in recent years.
The snowfall seems to indicate that the capital will go against the will of heaven tonight.
"It's snowing just the sixth day of the September 2019?"
Under a row of lanterns at Guangqu Gate, several officers and soldiers on duty in the Shenji Camp were holding musket regiments in the corner, looking at the snow in the sky strangely.
"It seems that the snow is not heavy, and there is no wind. I will go to the toilet if it's okay." A veteran patted his butt and stood up, took out half of the "Huangming Daily" from his pocket and hurried to the toilet under the city wall.
These days, especially those with characters, but whoever cares about this is the one who is a soldier can do it, as long as you can wipe your butt, what kind of paper you are.
The only drawback is that there will be words on your butt after the newspaper is wiped.
After a while, the veteran tied his belt with his trousers and folded the unused half and put it in his pocket and walked out of the toilet. It was a disaster to guard the city wall in the middle of the night. He wanted to go to the kitchen to get some food to warm his stomach for his brothers, but strange singing came from outside the city.
"Who!"
The officers and soldiers of Shenji Camp on the city wall looked out from the chassis, but they could not see anything in the distance.
After a while, I saw a fire dragon approaching the city gate in the distance. Judging from the length of the fire dragon, there were no less than a thousand people coming.
The fire dragon was getting closer and closer, and gradually the defenders on the city wall saw the big banner embroidered with the words "Respecting the Emperor and Investiting the Evil".
"It's a personal army!"
"What do they want to do!"
"Go and report to the general!"
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There was a commotion in the city, and the defenders pointed their muskets outside the city. In the middle of the night, the personal army approached the capital with open flames, and there was definitely nothing good.
"stop!"
An officer shouted loudly and was still approaching the city wall. The personal army at the city stopped, but did not make an attack formation, but was still in a marching formation.
An officer shouted loudly to the city: "We are the personal army of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. We will enter the city to punish the traitors according to His Majesty's order. Please open the city with the brothers in the capital!"
Chapter completed!