Remember [Cat Flutter w.mp.] in one second, and read it for free without pop-ups as soon as possible!! If he had sensed the intentions of our army earlier, and launched a night attack while our army was retreating, he would have been able to conquer the outer city in one fell swoop, and annihilate all the defenders of the outer city, at least most of them, and in this way, his attack on the inner city would have become extremely smooth.

The drums sounded, the third watch had arrived, and the officials at all levels immediately organized their men to carry a large number of equipment and began to retreat to the inner city; Shan Bingwen, Kim Jingxin and others also took action in accordance with the agreement on the matter......

All operations were carried out in secret, and in the dim light, groups of soldiers and horses headed towards the inner city, and the mansions of household officials were knocked open......

Although these movements were very small, the rebels outside the city could not detect them, but there was no way to completely hide them from the people in the city, just because in this time of chaos, these movements were normal for the people, and the timid people did not dare to open the door, and they shivered in the nest one by one, and they did not know that they had been "abandoned".

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Yongding Gate became quiet, and at this moment, there were only more than 200 people on the city gate, including Luo Rou and Xue'er, as well as Fang Shan and Wei Dayong.

Looking at the lights in the shadows far away, the rebel camp, I waved my hand: "Light the torches, let's go!" ”

"Yes!" Fang Shan turned around and ordered nearly 100 torches to be lit on the city wall, and countless grass-tied "soldiers" guarded the city wall "conscientiously" under the firelight......

I went down first, and soon the entire city wall was empty of countless straw men.

Outside the Zhengyang Gate, Brother Niu greeted him under the city, the soldiers who arrived in advance had been arranged, and the various materials that had just been removed from the Yongding Gate were moved to the Zhengyang Gate one by one.

My brother Niu said hello, and then climbed to Zhengyang Gate. The heavy gate of Zhengyang Gate was immediately closed, and countless sand, stone and log logs blocked the city gate hole tightly......

"Can the military department send today's gunpowder?"

"If you go back to your lordship, it has been delivered, because we have given up the seven gates of the outer city and increased the defense of the three gates of Zhengyang, Xuanwu and Chongwen, in fact, our army's defense points have been reduced by four city gates, and the gunpowder has been distributed more than in the past, totaling 1,500 catties!"

"Excellent! Move all artillery muzzles to the south, and once you find the rebel artillery moving forward to within a hundred feet of the moat, immediately bombard it and drive it back! ”

"Yes!" As a soldier, Cai Mingbo understands this very well, the range of artillery is within three miles, once it is approached to a hundred feet away from the moat, its artillery will pose a threat to the palace, for the safety of the emperor and the harem, no matter what, the rebel artillery can not be allowed to reach such a close place! Although some people will say that King Cheng is here for the world and intends to enter the palace, he should not bombard his future ruling center, but now it is a war, and the situation is urgent, who can take care of so much, for the status of those tens of thousands of people, a palace for himself, destroy it and build it again! On the contrary, if the bombardment of the palace is effective, and even causes the emperor to die from artillery fire, it may achieve the effect of surrendering the army without a fight, why not?

"How many soldiers and horses are there in Zhengyangmen now?"

"My lord, after withdrawing from the outer city, the remnants of the left and right Anmen of the outer city and the defenders of Yongding Gate have merged into one, and they are jointly stationed at Zhengyang Gate, plus the original defenders of Zhengyang Gate, and now there are 6,756 soldiers and horses in Zhengyang Gate! After the commanders of the left and right Anmen handed over the soldiers and horses, they have gone to assist the commanders of Xuanwu and Chongwenmen! ”

I nodded, this was agreed with the emperor earlier, and after giving up the outer city, the original outer city lords and soldiers and horses were also strengthened to the gates of the inner city.

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