The defense facilities of Dinghuai Gate are complete, and the soldiers defending the city are sufficient, if according to the strength of Zhu Guobi's 800 people, there is absolutely no hope of taking Dinghuai Gate. Not to mention that the defenders of Dinghuaimen were equipped with a large number of firearms, while Zhu Guobi's 800 men only had the most basic swords and guns.

However, Zhu Guobi's goal today is not to take Dinghuai Gate independently, as long as he opens the city gate and lets in the Qing army outside the city, it will be considered a great success, and the future work will naturally be completed by the Qing army.

Zhu Guobi took a hundred soldiers to occupy the first urn city, which was also the closest one to the city. Zhu Guobi looked around, it was already a child at this time, except for the soldiers who were keeping vigil in the city, the surroundings were very quiet.

Zhu Guobi asked his soldiers to go to the side to find the people he had pre-settled, and the seven hundred people who were finally gathered by the nobles. These 700 people have been in the Dinghuaimen Minfu Camp for more than ten days, and they are usually responsible for carrying the work on their backs with the Minfu, but fortunately, Dinghuaimen is not the main battlefield here, and there is not so much work, so these 700 people have no loss.

These seven hundred people came to Zhu Guobi under the command of several hundred household flags, and Zhu Guobi asked in a low voice: "How is it, is there any accident?" ”

The hundreds of households said: "Please rest assured, there is no accident, those soldiers guarding the city are already asleep, the officials have drunk some wine, and they are all sleeping, and the soldiers who are keeping vigil in the city are still there, but there are less than a hundred people!" ”

Zhu Guobi was overjoyed after hearing this, and his plan tonight was very successful. Zhu Guobi pointed to a hundred households and said: "You are familiar with the situation here, you take two hundred people to the city, kill all the guards at the head of the city, be careful not to make too much noise, after killing the guards, you must seize the Broken Dragon Gate, do you know?" ”

The Broken Dragon Gate is the key to seizing the gate, and if the Broken Dragon Gate is lowered when the Qing army enters the city, then everything is over.

The hundred households nodded and said: "Please rest assured, the villain has been familiar with the road in the past few days, and I promise not to delay my grandfather's big event!" ”

"Good!" After Zhu Guobi finished speaking, he said to another hundred households: "You take a hundred people into the urn city, find the firearms storehouse, and burn the firearms when you see the Qing army coming in!" ”

Zhu Guobi assigned tasks and sent his subordinates out to occupy key nodes, leaving only fifty people around him to defend them.

Xu Wenjue saw that Zhu Guobi only had fifty people left, and asked in a low voice: "Uncle, is it too few to have only fifty people around us!" ”

Zhu Guobi sighed and said: "There are too few people, there are 3,000 people guarding this Dinghuai Gate, not counting the large number of soldiers on the surrounding city walls. Although most of these soldiers are not strong in combat, if we are really not prepared, we will fall short! Only in this way can we ensure that those Qing troops are put in, and when they come in, there will be nothing for us! ”

Xu Wenjue had never led soldiers, and he couldn't refute what Zhu Guobi said, so he had to follow him without saying a word.

When all this was done, it was very quiet, and even the soldiers who were keeping vigil at the head of the city no longer moved around, probably running there to sleep. Under the cover of night, Zhu Guobi's personal soldiers were like fish in water, and soon occupied several important nodes of Dinghuai Gate.

Zhu Guobi got good news from all over the city in the first urn city, and then ordered someone to open the first city gate and enter the urn city. Of course, Zhu Guobi didn't dare to open the main city gate, which was the largest in the middle

The city gate is three meters high, weighing thousands of catties, no dozen people can not push it at all, and the noise is too loud when the door is opened at the same time, which is easy for the soldiers guarding the city to find, so Zhu Guobi opened the side door next to the main city gate. Although it is a side door, it is also two meters wide, which is completely suitable for a single war horse to pass.

Zhu Guobi took the remaining fifty people into the urn city, which is divided into two layers, the lower layer is the hidden soldier cave, which is the place where the soldiers defending the city rest, and the second layer is the head of the city. Zhu Guobi stood in the urn and looked around, there were only a dozen torches glowing around, and several Tibetan caves were dim, probably the people inside were asleep.

Zhu Guobi passed through the second city gate without danger, and fifty meters in front of him was the third city gate, and when he opened it, he was outside the city. The third city gate is the first layer of defense line, so the city gate is much taller, but in order to guard the main city gate has been filled to death, Zhu Guobi has only more than 50 people, and it is completely unrealistic to rely on them to pick up the stones that fill the door.

There was no way, Zhu Guobi had to order someone to open the side door on the side, and when he came to the outside of the city, it was dark not far away. Outside the Dinghuai Gate is the Longjiang Shipyard, Ma Cheng has already transported the personnel and materials of the Longjiang Shipyard back to the city in order to defend the city, so there is a ruin outside the Dinghuai Gate.

Zhu Guobi stood at the gate of the city and looked at the dark outside, and ordered someone to bring a torch, which was the joint code agreed between him and the Qing army.

Zhu Guobi lit a torch and stood at the gate of the city and waved it. Soon there was a reaction in the darkness of the night on the other side. A group of black shadows stood up two hundred meters away, and a black shadow cautiously walked over and came to Zhu Guobi.

The black figure wore an iron armor, but it was covered in black mud, probably afraid of the reflection of the iron armor. This person was of medium height and very strong, he came to Zhu Guobi's side and looked at Zhu Guobi and the Xu brothers behind him, and then asked in a low voice, "Are you Chen Hongfan?" ”

This black shadow accent is very peculiar, not enough for Zhu Guobi to stay in Beijing, knowing that this is the official dialect of Liaodong, and the black shadow in front of him is probably a person from the Manchu Han military banner.

"This lord, Chen Hongfan can't come if he has something, the villain is Zhu Guobi, the puppet Ming Baoguo Gong, he is Xu Wenjue, the Duke of Wei, we are here to welcome the Qing Heavenly Army into the city!"

The man looked at Zhu Guobi, then at the person behind Zhu Guobi, and then waved his hand outside the city, and more than a dozen people came from the darkness, led by a well-dressed armor, who should be an official.

The previous Han military banner said a few words to the later general that Zhu Guobi didn't understand, and the general nodded, came to Zhu Guobi and said in a strange Chinese accent: "Okay, this official is Belle Bolo in front of the Ten Kings' Tent, you can lead my Qing army into the city, it is a great achievement, and you will not be less promoted and rich in the future!" ”

Zhu Guobi didn't know how big an official Baylor was, but seeing that this dress should be not small, Zhu Guobi quickly knelt down and said: "The villain greets Lord Baylor, now the city is very quiet, the puppet Ming Emperor is in the palace, the villain can lead the Qing army to the palace to arrest the emperor!" ”

That knew that Bo Luo shook his head and said: "No, we are not going to arrest the emperor, we are going to Sanshanmen, open Sanshanmen and enlarge the army into the city, you are going to lead us to Sanshanmen next, do you know?" ”

Zhu Guobi didn't dare to object when he heard Bolo say this, so he quickly nodded in agreement.

After Bo Luo finished speaking, he waved his hand outside, and at this time, countless black shadows stood up outside the Dinghuai Gate City, and Niu Lu was recorded at the grassroots level

Under the command, he quickly came to the door of Dinghuai.

Bolo took 5,000 Manchu elites from the Jiangpu ferry on the opposite bank three days ago and lurked in the river network outside the Dinghuai Gate. In the past few days, these Qing troops can be regarded as having bad luck, because under the noses of the Ming army, they dare not make a fire and dare not move, and they can only eat some beef jerky when they are hungry. At the same time, because it is located in a dense area of the river network, mosquitoes and leeches are absolutely indispensable in the reeds, so these Qing troops can be harmed a lot in the past few days.

These Qing troops were full of resentment, and as soon as they entered the urn city, they were about to attack the sleeping Ming army on the side, but Bolo stopped them. There are more important things to do when entering the city, where can you kill innocents and scare snakes here in Dinghuaimen?

With Niu Lu's constraints, these Qing troops had no choice but to honestly enter the city through the first city gate, preparing to go to Sanshanmen along the fire path by the city wall under the leadership of Zhu Guobi.

But at this time, I heard the sound of human voices, and the fire on the Dinghuai Gate was flourishing, and at the same time, the second city gate and the first city gate were put down, separating the Qing army into three sections.

Out of the Dinghuai Gate is Ma'anshan, at this time there was a fire in Ma'anshan, a large number of Ming troops with firearms will rush out of the city gate of the Qing army surrounded, at the same time pushed out of a cannon, the dark muzzle has been filled with shotguns, facing the Qing army at a loss.

Bo Luo saw that he had hit the plan, grabbed Zhu Guobi and scolded: "What's going on? ”

Zhu Guobi didn't know that there was something wrong with that place, and he didn't know how to answer at a loss.

At this time, a person appeared on the Dinghuai Gate, wearing a delicate armor, holding a thousand steel swords, and a group of personal soldiers around him, this person was Ma Cheng.

In fact, Ma Cheng knew that Chen Hongfan was unreliable as early as the beginning of the year, and let him stay by his side to monitor at any time. Therefore, Chen Hongfan's side, from servants to soldiers, are all spies of the Military Intelligence Department, and when Xu Wenjue first contacted Chen Hongfan a month ago, Ma Cheng already knew about it.

However, at that time, Ma Cheng did not have a general trend to search for and arrest the nobles who opposed him, the reason was very simple, at that time, he could only catch Xu Wenjue's handle, and at most add one Zhu Guobi. The two of them only have a lot of property, which is not enough for Ma Cheng's new army to eat for a month, and Ma Cheng is interested in the property of more than 20 nobles in the city.

However, these nobles did not all oppose Zhu Lunkui, and Ma Cheng also knew that it was impossible to put the entire city of nobles in the city on the basis of Xu Wenjue's collusion with Chen Hongfan's intention to rebel, so after Ma Cheng learned of Xu Wenjue's plan, he immediately formulated a more vicious plan, that is, to use Xu Wenjue and Zhu Guobi's rebellion to implicate all the nobles in the city.

Since you want to implicate everyone, you have to make things bigger, so that Emperor Zhu Lunkui can't intercede for these nobles. Now that the Qing army is besieging the city, there is something bigger there than the Qing army attacking the city? So Ma Cheng has been sending spies to follow Chen Hongfan, these days Chen Hongfan sent people out to exchange news with Duoduo, Chen Hongfan and Zhu Guobi, Xu Wenjue discussed the details, Xu Wenjue and Dingyuan Marquis and other nobles conspired, Ma Cheng knew very detailed. If it weren't for the heavily guarded Nanjing City, a little Xu Mansion family would be able to get out of the city casually? This is all the result of Ma Cheng's deliberate release of water.

Now Ma Cheng saw that his strategy that had been in operation for more than a month was successful, and said with a smile: "Baoguo Gong, thank you for introducing these northern captives into the city, what a great achievement!" ”