The secret passage into the city has become lower and narrower, just enough for two people to bow their heads and go together.

The smell of earth in the secret passage is heavy, the air is not circulated, and there are torches burning, which is very stuffy and uncomfortable.

Li Tie spear in front, after running in the dim secret passage for more than a hundred zhang, the secret passage suddenly turned, and went up a slope.

According to the previous description, Li Tiegun knew that he had reached the end of the secret passage.

So he took the iron gun and ran cautiously towards the secret passage.

A moment later, before reaching the entrance of the cave, there was a faint light of fire outside.

The soldiers behind him were rushing over, and Li Tiegun couldn't tolerate hesitation, only to see him holding an iron gun, protecting his body with an iron gun, and jumping out of the cave in a few steps.

"General Lee!"

As soon as Li Tiegun came out of the hole, before he could take a closer look, he was called out by a team general five feet away from the hole.

"How's it going in the city?" Li Tiegun's eyes quickly adapted to the light in the courtyard, and he saw the identity of the rebels in the courtyard, who were the ones who were digging tunnels covered in dirt.

"Everything works fine. This courtyard is dozens of feet away from the main street, relatively remote, and no one pays attention. The team will reply.

"Good. Where should it be? Li Tiegun saw that there were not many people in front of him, so he hurriedly asked again.

"They're all fortified in the front yard." The team general replied.

While speaking, more than a dozen people have entered the courtyard from the tunnel, and the follow-up is continuous.

"Lead the way, go to the front yard!"

Li Tiegun ordered, the team will immediately go ahead, take the first step, and lead everyone to run to the front yard in the dim light.

As soon as he arrived at the front yard gate, Li Tiegun immediately sent people out of the hospital to explore the road and guard against anyone.

Half an hour later, a thousand people entered the courtyard through the secret passage, and the small courtyard soon had no place to stand.

Seeing this, Li Tieshu quickly led a thousand volunteers into the city, lurking in the dim alleys near the main street, waiting for more rebels to enter the city and gather.

The sound of running and shouting on the streets of the city was noisy and noisy, causing the soldiers of the rebels lurking in the shadows to boil their blood.

At that time, nearly 4,000 rebels entered the city.

The rebels lurking in the shadows have not yet been exposed.

After Li Tiegun and Wang Dazhui discussed, it was decided that the rebel army would not move for the time being, wait for more people to enter the city, and then attack and kill the defenders in the north of the city in one fell swoop.

Fourth, above and below the city, the defenders and the Shandong rebels are still attacking each other, but the intensity has been greatly reduced, one is tired, and the other is to deplore the arrows.

But at this moment, the rebels outside the north gate suddenly heard the sound of swords and soldiers intersecting in the city.

As the sound of swords and soldiers sounded, the bows and crossbows and arrows in the city instantly weakened.

A moment later, a military order came from the rear: "Attack the city with all your strength and seize the city of Jinan!" ”

As soon as the trumpet sounded, the soldiers of the rebels held their shields and climbed the ladder as fast as they could.

Just now, five or six thousand rebel soldiers came to the north of the city, and the defenders had not yet figured out the situation, thinking that they were here to reinforce or change their defenses, but who knew that the rebels wearing the same clothes and armor as them suddenly attacked them.

The attacked defenders were stunned, not knowing what had happened, and killed and wounded hundreds of people without resisting.

When they tried to resist, it was difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, and they didn't know who to face with their knives and guns.

In a moment, more than half of the nearly 2,000 people in the city were killed and wounded, and where could they still take care of the chaotic people under the city.

The rebels under the city received the order to siege the city, and the first group of dead soldiers quickly ascended the city through the ladder.

When he looked at the city, the city was in chaos, so he immediately put his hand on the city wall, jumped on the city and raised his knife to cut down the defenders on the side of the city wall to the ground, protecting the ladder to the city.

"Quick!"

The first group of rebel dead soldiers who climbed the top of the city greeted the rebels on the ladder and quickly entered the chaos.

The city is even more chaotic.

With the continuous flow of rebel soldiers outside the city, they quickly climbed into the city from the cloud ladder, and soon formed a front and rear joint attack with the rebel soldiers who entered the city from the secret passage, and formed a front and rear attack on the few remaining defenders in the north of the city.

Within a quarter of an hour, the two thousand defenders were all killed before they could figure out what had happened.

"Everybody come with me!"

In the darkness, Li Tiegun shouted.

Then a large number of rebels will be seen running from the north of the city to the south of the city.

But they did not go straight to the south of the city, after reaching the central street, the rebels first blocked the streets leading to the east, west and south of the city, and then thousands of rebels went straight to the state capital Yamen, now the marshal mansion of Jinan City.

"You don't go to defend the city, what are you doing here!"

When the leader of a group of guards on duty in front of the Shuaifu saw the army rushing straight to the Shuaifu, he immediately felt that something big had happened, but unfortunately, as soon as he spoke, he shot and killed.

The rest of the guards were so frightened that they threw themselves into the street and died before they could escape.

"Kill! Not a single one to stay! ”

Li Tiegun raised the iron gun in his hand, gave an order, and rushed towards the Shuai's mansion first.

In the face of the sudden attack, the defenders of the prefecture were not prepared to fight back at all, and they had no power to resist.

Hearing the movement, the defenders who came from all over the palace died under the swords and guns of the righteous army who rushed into the palace to search for people before they could get close and did not know what had happened.

In the middle of the night, a killing began, and there was no crying, only bloodshed.

A few quarters of an hour later, no one could be found in the mansion except for the rebels, and the palace of the marshal of the Jinan garrison was occupied by the Shandong rebels.

The sudden appearance of five or six thousand troops in the central street of the city attracted the attention of some defenders, but the 30,000 troops in the city, who could distinguish who was coming at night, a "superior order" pushed back the doubts of some defenders.

When the Shandong Righteous Army captured the Marshal's Mansion, the transportation hub in the central area of the city was completely cut off, and the eastern, western, southern, and northern cities were completely lost.

Due to the rapid speed of the rebel army to capture the north of the city, and the occupation of the center of the street at the first time, so that the flow of information is not smooth, the defenders in the east, west and south of the city did not know that there was an accident in the city for the time being, and they were still shooting with the rebels outside the city with bows and crossbows.

But a large number of troops rushed into the Shuaifu, and the accompanying killing sound could not be concealed after all, after all, the Shuaifu is not an ordinary place, in addition to the guards, there are other people around staring, and the rebels killed the guards into the Shuaifu, and they knew that there was a rebellion in the city.

Who are the rebel troops? They have no way of knowing.

Half an hour later, the news of a rebellion and seizure of power by troops in Jinan City spread in several military camps.

The city was in chaos, the central streets were forcibly blocked by nearly 10,000 troops, and all kinds of news and rumors were flying around.

None of the supreme commanders who received the news dared to go out of the palace gate at night, for fear that they would be ambushed by others, and not only would their military power be lost, but their lives would also be lost, so they ordered the military camp to be guarded, and ordered the personal guards to strictly guard the palace gate, and no one was allowed to enter the palace until dawn.

The marshal's mansion was occupied by the rebels, and the supreme commander did not know the details of the city, so he did not dare to go out rashly, nor did he dare to transfer troops at night, and was taken advantage of by others.

In addition to the north gate, the other three cities heard that there was a rebellion in the city, and they did not know whether they would be implicated, so they immediately panicked and their morale plummeted.

The central area and the north of Jinan City were controlled by the Shandong Righteous Army, and a steady stream of troops from the head of the city and the secret passage entered Jinan City.

By the fifth watch, the righteous army that entered the city had reached more than 15,000 people, and only two armies were still waiting to enter the city.

The city was taken, and Yao Chang immediately issued an order, asking the east camp and the west camp to send 10,000 people to the north city quickly, so as to enter the city and annihilate the defenders in the city in one fell swoop!

A moment before dawn, more than 10,000 volunteers gathered in the center of the city divided into three routes and went straight to the south, east, and west.

Although the defenders of the three cities already knew that there were rebels in the city, when the rebels appeared in front of them, they did not dare to rashly attack the other party, thinking that they had no grievances with the other party.

The Shandong Righteous Army had no scruples, chatted a few words, and immediately attacked.

In the darkness, the hand-to-hand combat was carried out, and the three melee battles began at the same time.

The rebels knew who their opponent was, and in a panic, the defenders of Jinan had a black eye, they could only fight whoever hit them, they would fight whom, if no one hit them, they could only stand on guard in place, and the mental pressure on them could be imagined.

Outside the city, when the rebels heard the sound of swords and soldiers fighting each other in the city, and saw that the bows and crossbows were weakened, they immediately understood that other rebels had attacked the city, so they moved the ladders to the city and stood on the bank of the moat full of rotting corpses.

When the ladder reached the top of the city, the soldiers of the rebel army scrambled to climb the ladder and climbed towards the city as fast as possible.

One, two, three, four..... Ten, twenty ......

The soldiers of the rebel army climbed to the top of the city with the help of the ladder, joined the chaotic battle, and attacked the defenders with the soldiers of the rebel army in the city, and the situation on the battlefield was even more chaotic.

When the sky was bright, the four city gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest were all in the hands of the Shandong Righteous Army, and all the defenders in the city were wiped out, but the soldiers of the Righteous Army also paid a lot of price.

The defenders of the city were destroyed, and nearly 30,000 soldiers of the righteous army in the eastern, western, and southern camps flocked to the city of Jinan, which was two or three zhang high, through the ladder.

When the first rays of light radiated from the eastern sky, nearly 30,000 rebels in the city were gathered, and the troops were divided to attack the garrison camp in the city.

There was chaos in the city for several hours, and by daybreak, the defenders of the battalions had made some preparations.

Seeing that the rebels were close to the barracks, they did not give a chance to negotiate at all, and attacked directly, and the defenders, who were still confused, immediately counterattacked, and a larger melee began.

The battle lasted from the morning when the sun rose until noon, when the sun was in the sky.

From the barracks to the streets, and from the streets to the alleys, and from the alleys to the city gates.

The four gates of the east, west, north and south had been sealed by the defenders with mounds of earth from the inside, and it was impossible to open the gates in a short period of time.

The city was full of Shandong rebels, and in the end, the defenders of Jinan City finally knew who their opponent was, not the rebels, but the rebels outside the city!

But by the time they finally found out, it was too late, all the defenders had been divided, surrounded and encroached, and they could no longer get together to organize a decent counterattack, and they could not find their superiors, nor their generals, let alone commanders.

The defenders were chaotic in the city, doing the last desperate struggle, some wanted to rush into the houses to hide, some wanted to rush to the head of the city and crossed the city, but in the end they could not escape death.

The sun was in the west, and a fierce battle finally ended, and there was no longer a living defender of Jinan City in the city.

And the exhausted Shandong Righteous Army, who had no time to clean up the battlefield, lay down in the pile of dead people to rest.

Jinan City, take it!