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Chapter 236 Lost Control

"Marty, Ma Bao is responsible for guarding the important town of Taiping. If he evacuated, wouldn't it be cheaper for Beilu?"

Wang Xian was very worried that Ma Cheng would easily cause trouble when he said this. Don’t let King Lu fail to solve the problem. It would be troublesome if he attracted the attack from the Qing army.

"Mr. Wang, don't worry, although there are 30,000 northern captives in Wuhu, most of them are defeated soldiers in the Battle of Nandu. They have been scared and dare not move without clear information!"

After saying that, Ma Cheng thought about it and said, "But we must not be careful. Let Ma Bao closely monitor the Northern Lu. If the Northern Lu occupy Taiping Prefecture and still fail to stop, then hit him for a moment!"

Wang Xian nodded and agreed, and then asked, "Marty, now Luo Bingran is turning to the emperor. What should I do if that adult will do here in Nandu after he goes to war?"

This is a problem. In the past, Ma Cheng's arrangement was to bring 100,000 troops outside the city, and Zhang Guozhu from Zhenjiang to fight, and hand over the battlefield on the Western Front to Ma Bao. In Nanjing, Ma Cheng originally wanted to hand over to Luo Bingran to manage. Although Luo Bingran was not a material for war, he was active and staying here in Nanjing to cooperate with Ma Shiying was also considered to be a good use. However, he did not expect that Luo Bingran would be very active and thought that Ma Cheng had not directly surrendered to Emperor Zhu Lunkui, which made Ma Cheng lack effective personnel.

Ma Cheng thought for a long time and had to say, "If it doesn't work, let Ma Xizheng here."

This is also Ma Cheng's helplessness. Although Ma Xi is greedy for life and fears death, he is Ma Shiying's son after all, and there is no problem with loyalty. He can also cooperate with Ma Shiying at home, at least he cannot pull Ma Cheng's back.

When Wang Xian heard Ma Cheng say this, he nodded and wrote it down. Then Wang Xian and Gu Yong bowed and took a break and went out to prepare.

On August 27, the second year of Shaowu, the Tiannan City Jubao Gate had just opened. Before the ambassadors and soldiers were ready, they saw the dust in the distance, and at first glance, they looked like a large number of people were rushing to the road.

The ambassador guarding the gate didn't know what was going on, but the city guards on the top of the city had problems. A group of cavalrymen two miles away were coming to Jubaomen. It seemed that there were thousands of people.

This is a big deal. The city guards have received news from the Nandu Admiral's Office, asking them to be careful of the new army outside the city. Now that they see the cavalry coming, the general guarding the Jubao Gate quickly asked his subordinates to close the city gate.

But the city gate is not so easy to close. There are already hundreds of ordinary people preparing to enter the city at the city gate, and the soldiers guarding the gate, and for a moment, Jubaomen is in chaos.

The cavalry outside the city was only two miles away, and soon arrived at the gate. An officer led the team called his subordinates to control the Jubao Gate so that the soldiers in the back team could enter the city.

The ambassador and soldiers of Jubao Gate were killed by these gangs and drove aside. The ambassador had no choice but to go forward and asked, "Several soldiers, who are from your part?"

For a thousand households, he stepped forward to slap the ambassador twice, and then scolded: "You are so blind! Didn't you see what is written on your robes? Zhenguo Hou Yiwei Session! I am the guardian of Zhenguo Hou!"

There was only one Marquis of Zhenguo, that was Marquis of Guiyang. The ambassador dared not offend the Marquis of Guiyang. He had no choice but to cover his face and run into the city to find the general guarding the gate to report that Marquis of Guiyang's army had entered the city.

The ambassador didn't go far, and saw General Wang Gan of Jubaomen and a bunch of people in a hurry.

The admiral yamen came and asked him to guard the new army outside the city to strictly guard the new army, but now the new army occupied the city gate and passed it to the admiral Lu Siye of Nandu, who committed a serious crime.

General Wang Shen came to Jubao Gate with more than 200 soldiers. He saw that the thousand households of Yiwei Office were competing and directing his soldiers to occupy Jubao Gate. General Wang Shen quickly stepped forward and asked, "What are you doing? Do you want to rebel? There is no written by the Ministry of War, and no written documents from the Governor's Office in Jiangnan. Who told you to enter the city?"

Seeing that a general came from the Qianhu was a general, he walked up slowly and said, "Since our Yiwei Department has been under the jurisdiction of General Luo, we have not paid any money for three consecutive months. The brothers all have to eat and support their families! There is no way to go to the city to find General Luo!"

Luo Bingran was driven home by the new army soldiers half a month ago, and no one managed the new army outside the city, so naturally the military pay and other things were stopped. However, the court still allocated rice and noodles for the new army, so it was not as good as food.

"I don't care what you are going to do. Our military lord has an order, so you are not allowed to enter the city!" After General Wang and his soldiers were saying that, he wanted to drive out the Yiweisi guards at the door. At this time, the brigade of Yiweisi's troops outside the city arrived, and the two people rode high-headed horses. They were the two generals of Yiweisi, An Zhennan and Tian Boguang.

General Wang Shen did not recognize Tian Boguang, but he could recognize Anzhennan. When Anzhennan was the deputy general at Sanshanmen, General Wang Shen was just a thousand households under his command. Now, when he saw the old commander coming, General Wang Shen was sweating coldly on his head.

An Zhennan came to Jubao Gate and saw his subordinates confronting the city guards. When An Zhennan saw that the old subordinate Wang Shen was opposite him, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Old Wang, now he has become a general. Why do you see the old general pretending to be disagreeing?"

An Zhennan's identity is far higher than that of General Wang Shen. Although An Zhennan is also a general now, An Zhennan still holds the title of general because of his contributions in the Battle of Nanjing. However, Ma Cheng's Yiwei Department does not have so many soldiers, so An Zhennan acts as an official position as General.

When General Wang Shen saw An Zhennan, he didn't dare to pretend to be too big, so he quickly stepped forward and bowed, and then said, "Secretary Wang Jie, pay homage to the Lord of the General Town! Please understand the Lord of the General Town. It is not that he will not let the brothers enter the city, but that he is only responsible. Please do not make things difficult for the Lord of the General Town!"

"Haha, I didn't expect that Wang Jie, you would also be an official voice! You probably know that our General Luo system has run away. Now we have no money to get no food to eat. Can you bear the mutiny? Now you let us go to the city to ask for military pay, and we will naturally leave the city after the matter is finished!"

After An Zhennan said that, he pointed to the back and said, "You have seen it too. I have brought less than a thousand people in total, and I still don't have weapons. You'll feel at ease!"

An Zhennan was indeed not wrong. He was followed by about a thousand people, most of whom were riding horses, but he did not bring swords, guns and armor. However, these thousand people could not enter the city casually, and General Wang Shen had to stop him, but An Zhennan said angrily: "What a fucking thing, the person who came to tie this guy up and let them go when we ask for military pay!"

After An Zhennan finished speaking, a group of people came up, tied up General Wang Shen and his men, and took them to the Tibetan soldiers cave in Jubaomen City to guard the prison.

After solving the defenders of Jubao Gate, the next step was that the Yiweisi personnel began to enter the city. An Zhennan said that he only brought a thousand people, but in fact he followed him.

There were a thousand people behind, but the team was only two miles away. Now that I got the news, I started to enter the city from Jubaomen.

After entering the city, these guys did not go to the Ministry of War, or the Ministry of Revenue, to ask for military pay, but went to the Jinyiwei Town Fushi Office and the Ministry of Justice, and robbed the two places. The small treasury in the two yamen were also robbed by the army, losing thousands of taels of silver.

The next step after the government agency robbed the officials was to rob the officials' homes. The Jinyiwei and the senior officials of the Ministry of Justice were in trouble. The Minister of Justice Jie Xuelong's family had no money, but he was beaten by the chaos army. Feng Kezong, the governor of the Jinyiwei, was in trouble. His home was looted by these chaos army. Not only did the gold, silver and treasures were robbed, but the precious calligraphy and paintings collected by Feng Kezong were destroyed. The last fire of the chaos army even burned Feng Kezong's home.

The behavior of the chaotic army attracted the attention of the soldiers and Ma Si in the city. Soon, under the leadership of the Nandu Admiral Lu Siye, the chaotic army gathered 5,000 people to bring these chaotic army to justice. However, these chaotic army were not easy to mess with. Under the leadership of grassroots officers, they fought with the chaotic army in Nanjing.

At the beginning, the two sides were somewhat restrained to avoid bleeding, but as they fought, they didn't know which party started using the firearm. For a moment, the Nancheng and Xicheng were everywhere, and the City Guards and the Yiwei Guards were completely united.

The two sides fought to the same place, and the security in the city was lost control, and some gangsters began to take advantage of the situation, and the war was everywhere in the south and west cities. Seeing this, Lu Siye had no choice but to increase his troops and increase the city guards to 30,000, and was preparing to use the advantage of the number of troops to eliminate these chaotic troops as soon as possible.

However, the combat effectiveness of the city guards was as powerful as the Yiweisi. For a moment, the two sides were in the South City and the West City. As the commander, Gu Yong saw that he could not control the situation and had no choice but to ask Ma Cheng what to do next.

Ma Cheng originally meant to create chaos and put pressure on Zhu Lunkui, but it was not like this, but what else can we do now? There was no way Ma Cheng had to transfer 20,000 new troops outside the city to quickly eliminate Lu Siye's resistance.

In this way, the battle that should have ended soon was fought until noon the next day. The entire Nancheng and Xicheng were broken into ruins, and more than 100,000 people in Nanjing suffered casualties, causing greater losses than last year's Taiping Gate Battle.

In the end, Lu Siye's side could not hold on and had to retreat to the Beicheng Military Camp to hold on. After receiving the news of his failure, Emperor Zhu Lunkui also knew that the situation was hopeless. It was not the question of how he dealt with Ma Cheng, but whether Ma Cheng wanted him as an emperor.

Zhu Lunkui looked at Qian Qianyi who was panicked and Ruan Dacheng who was silent and silent, and asked: "What should you do now? Lu Siye has been defeated. Will Ma Cheng enter the palace to force me to abdicate?"

Seeing Zhu Lunkui's panicked expression, Ruan Dacheng secretly scolded you in his heart, what have you done? Wouldn't it be fine if you agreed to Ma Cheng's request half a month ago?

Seeing that the two cabinet ministers were not speaking, Zhu Lunkui was afraid and couldn't help crying: "What should we do now? As long as Ma Cheng can agree not to abdicate, I will agree to him with all the conditions!"
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