With a "click" sound, a soldier of the First Army came out of the cave entrance, patted the soil on his body, and said to Chang Jizong, who was standing near the cave entrance: "Sir, I am the last person this time."
"A total of 796 people," Chang Jizong said to Mo Yuan: "Now a total of 796 people have entered the city. There are still four quarters of an hour before Yin Shizheng, enough for 200 people to enter the city."
"With the help of a thousand Ming soldiers, even if we don't pretend to defeat the army, we will definitely be able to defeat the two thousand defenders on the city." Mo Yuan pointed to the city not far from where he was, and said: "
In fact, there is no need to use such a strategy."
Chang Jizong understood what he meant. Although Lin Yurong's strategy was good, it was also risky. He Mo Yuan needed to take certain risks, so he was naturally reluctant.
"Master Mo's words are wrong." Chang Jizong said: "After defeating this place, our army still needs to defeat the defenders on the wall from the west of the city to the north of the city. This will save one soldier from losing. When we finally attack the artillery team
Just be more sure."
"Sir Mo, please rest assured that I will never be greedy for your merits and will report all of them to Zhang Shuai and General Li according to the facts. Your Majesty has made such great achievements, and your Majesty will never treat meritorious ministers badly. Maybe your Majesty will give you a reward."
Where is Lord Mo’s hereditary title?”
After hearing this, Mo Yuan's Adam's apple moved and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Chang, I, Mo Yuan, will definitely complete what Mr. Chang told me."
Chang Jizong smiled, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Master Mo, our Ming Dynasty has always made clear rewards and punishments. Those who have merit must be rewarded and those who have made mistakes must be punished. As long as you are loyal to your Majesty and actively serve the Ming Dynasty, your Majesty will never treat anyone badly."
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Mo Yuan also smiled in agreement. Of course, he didn't know anything about the Ming Dynasty before. He knew that the emperor was indeed clear about rewards and punishments, and he was also generous in his treatment of civil and military officials. Although Chang Jizong's words were meant to reassure him.
Heart, but it’s not a lie.
He then opened his mouth to say a few words to show his loyalty to the Ming Emperor. But just as he opened his mouth, he suddenly heard a voice from behind: "General Mo."
"What's wrong?" He immediately turned around and said to his confidant.
"General," the man said with a look of uncontrollable panic on his face, "Ruan Mingying is here to inspect."
"What?" Mo Yuan's expression suddenly changed and he said, "Why is he here on patrol?"
"It is said that General Ruan Renlie couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so he took his guards, confidants and others out of the house to inspect various places, so he sent Ruan Mingying here. Just now, his subordinates and soldiers were approaching Li Ji's headquarters in the east. Suddenly,
I heard the voice of 'I've seen Mr. Ruan' coming from over there, and my subordinates hurriedly went over to take a peek, and saw Ruan Mingying patrolling over there." The man replied.
"Ruan Mingying will come over in a quarter of an hour at most. Oops." Mo Yuan immediately turned to Chang Jizong and said: "Mr. Chang, please hide as soon as possible. Ruan Mingying is Ruan Renlie's adopted son and a close confidant, and he must not be bribed.
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"Where are we hiding?" Chang Jizong asked.
"Hide in the barracks." Mo Yuan said: "The barracks here can accommodate more than a thousand people, enough for Ming soldiers to hide."
"No!" Just as Chang Jizong was about to speak, Lin Yurong suddenly interrupted: "Master Mo, Master Chang, no."
"Many things to light a fire have been prepared nearby, including dried hay, a lot of gunpowder and oil. It is difficult to hide them all in such a hurry. As Ruan Renlie's confidant, Ruan Mingying is definitely not a person who cheats, how can he not doubt it?
?If he investigates carefully, he will definitely find that Mr. Mo is trying to cause unrest in the city. Instead of taking action in a hurry when the time comes, it is better to strike first, kill Ruan Mingying, and start trouble in advance."
"I'll do it as you say." Chang Jizong immediately agreed: "It's better to change the plan. Now we can only do this."
They immediately got ready. Several people with strong martial arts or excellent archery skills lay in ambush, waiting for Ruan Mingying to come.
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"Dang" and "Dang" sounded twice, and then in the sky of Duobang City, colorful fireworks lit up. But looking at the fireworks, Chang Jizong's face turned livid in an instant, and he shouted loudly:
"Quick, start lighting the fire right away!"
Just now, he asked Mo Yuan to greet Ruan Mingying, and deliberately took him to the warehouse for inspection first; but before that, the most skilled archer in the Xianden army had already made preparations, and was at a certain place that must be passed on the way to the warehouse.
Lie in ambush, ready to shoot Ruan Mingying and the people he brings.
But who knows, whether Ruan Mingying has learned magic or something, she dodged the arrow at the critical moment, then took out a long object from her body, took out a fire stick and lit it.
This object looked like something similar to a kicker. After being ignited, it jumped into the air with a "dang" sound, and then exploded with a "dang" sound, emitting countless fireworks.
Chang Jizong felt something bad when he saw him taking out this item, and immediately asked the martial arts master lurking nearby to get up and rush towards Ruan Mingying.
But they were still a step too slow and allowed Ruan Mingying to fire up his two kicks. Even if they immediately chopped him into pieces with knives, it would be of no use.
Chang Jizong immediately ordered the hay that had been prepared to be lit. More than a thousand people shouted at the same time. Mo Yuan's men rolled on the spot with a lot of mud on their bodies, and then rushed towards the city wall. The soldiers who had already entered the city were waiting for them.
After most of them rushed out of this area, they pretended to be chasing after them.
Soon, Mo Yuan led his men and horses to the place leading up to the city wall from the city, shouting loudly: "The Ming army has entered the city! The Ming army has entered the city!" while rushing towards the entrance.
The team guarding the entrance wanted to block it, but they immediately heard Mo Yuan's words and saw Mo Yuan's face clearly through the light of the fire. They didn't have time to think too much and said, "Master Mo, hurry up and lead your troops to the city. I will light the pile immediately."
The hay here will prevent the Ming army from entering the city." It turns out that Ruan Renlie had already anticipated that a small group of Ming troops would sneak into the city, and ordered hay to be prepared at the entrance to the city. In an emergency, hay could be set on fire to stop the Ming army.
But who would have thought that just as Mo Yuan led a few people into the passage, he suddenly slashed the captain's neck with his backhand and cut off his head; the people who followed him in also immediately started killing other people.
These people were completely unprepared for this turn of events. They were stunned on the spot for a while and were quickly slaughtered.
Mo Yuan didn't stop after killing all these people, and immediately walked up again.
The general guarding the city didn't see the scene just now. After Mo Yuan led his men to the city, he came over and asked: "What happened?"
Mo Yuan hurriedly walked a few steps and shouted: "Old Li, the Ming army has entered the city."
"Why did the Ming army enter the city?" The man known as Lao Li walked up to Mo Yuan and grabbed his shoulders and said.
"Yes, there is a hole in the city wall. I didn't pay attention when I was patrolling, so..." As Mo Yuan said this, a dagger suddenly slipped out of his sleeve. He grabbed the dagger and plunged it into Lao Li's stomach.
"You!" Lao Li's eyes widened. As soon as he said this word, Mo Yuan pulled out the dagger and pierced his heart again. Lao Li fell to the ground and was killed instantly.
Like the soldiers guarding the entrance, the soldiers on the top of the city were also unprepared for this. They were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, and were quickly wiped out by the Ming army that rushed to the top of the city.
Chang Jizong immediately ordered the rope to be lowered and fired a signal bomb at the same time.
Soon, more than 1,200 soldiers of the advance army ran to the city wall, grabbed the ropes and began to climb. Chang Jizong ordered a total of 100 ropes to be lowered, allowing hundreds of people to climb at the same time.
It didn't take long for more than a thousand people to climb to the top of the city, and without any rest, they began to attack north along the city wall.
Mo Yuan asked more than a hundred of his soldiers to pretend to be in retreat and flee in front, while Chang Jizong led the Xianden Army and the rest of the Annan soldiers in pursuit.
Soon, they ran to the next place, and Mo Yuan's subordinates, pretending to be in retreat, shouted: "General Pan, the Ming army has entered the city!" At the same time, they ran towards the temporary defense line set up by General Pan.
But at this moment, suddenly thousands of arrows were fired at them from the opposite side. They were caught off guard and fell to the ground one after another. Most of them were shot to death, but a few were seriously injured and survived, and they wailed loudly.
Chang Jizong immediately stopped when he saw this, turned his head and said to Mo Yuan: "Didn't you say that Pan Ningyuan, the guard here, is an indecisive person, and he will not kill rashly even if he is worried about losing his troops and overwhelming the defense line!"
"Yes, Pan Ningyuan is indeed such a person. How could he act so rashly?" Mo Yuan said in great surprise.
They didn't know that the commander on the opposite side was not Pan Ningyuan, but Ruan Renlie.
When the "two kicks" exploded and they started to light the fire, Ruan Renlie happened to inspect a place at the far north of the city of Panning. When he saw the fireworks flying in the sky, he immediately led his guards to walk south.
When he came to a place far away from Pan Ning, he heard shouts of killing coming from the front. He immediately understood that the Ming army had rushed up in front. From the shouts in Chinese and Annan, he concluded that there was always a Ming army.
With thousands of people, Lao Li's troops are definitely no match.
He stopped far away from Pan Ning and ordered the soldiers to build a simple defense line to guard against the Ming army. At the same time, he ordered that anyone who tried to run over from the south, no matter who they were, would be shot.
He knew very well that it would be impossible for such a thing to happen if there were no troops in the city to rebel and join the Ming army. The broken troops running from the south were probably the rebels pretending to be the rebels. Even if they were not the rebels pretending to be the rebels, let them rush over.
It would also break down the defense line and cause the place to be captured by the Ming army. In order to defend the city, they would rather kill them without missing a beat.
And he sent people to the city to pass the order: "Except for Ruan Minh Miao, Pan Yucheng... and others, the rest of the army will stay in the barracks and not move around in the city. Anyone who violates it will be regarded as a rebel; no broken troops are allowed to cause chaos in the city.
Let’s go, Ruan Minh Miao will lead his troops to contain the defeated soldiers in the city, and if any defeated soldiers who do not obey orders are found, they will be killed on the spot.”
"Pan Yucheng led his troops to the place where the fire broke out and put out the fire;... All soldiers who were allowed to move in the city had their right arms tied with red cloth. Those without red cloth on their arms were regarded as rebels."
After Ruan Renlie passed on these orders, he breathed a sigh of relief for a while, but before he could sit down and take a rest, one of his guards suddenly shouted loudly: "Commander, red, yellow and blue fireworks lit up over the artillery team.
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Ruan Renlie immediately looked sideways and saw another firework rising into the air, exploding with a "bang" and emitting three colors.
"Sure enough, there is a Ming army that wants to attack Duobang City from the north." Ruan Renlie said without surprise. The Ming army sent people to sneak into the city and then retreated after causing some disturbance. They must have wanted to capture Duobang City in one fell swoop. And even because
There were no soldiers to guard some of the small roads under his command. A small group of Ming troops passed through these small roads to the south bank. It was impossible for most of the Ming army to come this way. Their only route was still to land on the beach north of Duobang City and attack the city.
"Immediately order Zhen Weitong to fire on the Ming army!" Ruan Renlie said: "Let him not worry about things here and concentrate on dealing with the Ming army who is about to attack the city!"
A guard bowed and agreed, then let go and ran towards the artillery team. Soon he ran to the place where the artillery team was stationed, and said to Zhen Weitong: "Commander Ruan's order, don't worry about anything else, immediately fire at the Ming army in front of you.
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Zhen Weitong hesitated for a moment. In Duobang City, these cannons were the most valuable thing, even more than the tens of thousands of troops. As the artillery general appointed by the Hu family and his son, in addition to using cannons to defend Duobang City,
The more important duty is to guard these cannons. Even if Dobang City falls, they must not be lost.
At this time, a fire broke out in the city, and shouts of killing could still be heard. He was worried that even if he stopped the Ming army in front of him, he would not be able to prevent the fall of Duobang City. He wanted to immediately order the soldiers to put away the cannons and use a special artillery truck to transport the cannons from
The east gate of the city was evacuated. He had the imperial edict issued by Hu Jiyou in his hand and was able to leave the city.