With a "snap", a soldier of the Pioneer Army came out of the hole, patted the dirt on his body, and said to Chang Jizong, who was standing near the entrance of the cave: "My lord, I am the last person this time. ”

"A total of seven hundred and ninety-six people," Chang Jizong said to Mo Yuan, "Now a total of seven hundred and ninety-six people have entered the city. There were still four quarters of an hour to go, enough for 200 people to enter the city. ”

"With the help of a thousand Ming soldiers, even if there is no strategy to pretend to be a rout, they will definitely be able to defeat the 2,000 defenders on the head of the city." Mo Yuan pointed to the head of the city not far from where he was, and said, "Actually, there is no need to use such a strategy. ”

Chang Jizong understood what he meant by this. Although Lin Yurong's strategy is good, it is also risky, and he needs to take a certain risk, so he is naturally reluctant.

"That's not what Lord Mo said." Chang Jizong said: "After breaking through here, our army will also break the defenders on the city wall from the west of the city to the north of the city, so that we can lose one less soldier, and finally attack the artillery team with more certainty." ”

"Lord Mo, please rest assured, I will never be greedy for ink for the merits of my lordship, and I will definitely report all the truth to Zhang Shuai and General Li. Your Majesty has made such a great achievement, and Your Majesty will never treat the meritorious person badly. Perhaps, His Majesty will bestow a hereditary knighthood on Lord Mo. ”

When Mo Yuan heard this, his Adam's apple moved, and he said, "Don't worry, Lord Chang, I, Mo Yuan, will definitely complete what Lord Chang has explained." ”

Chang Jizong smiled, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Master Mo, my Ming Dynasty has always rewarded and punished clearly, meritorious deeds must be rewarded and punished, as long as you are loyal to Your Majesty and actively serve the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty will never treat anyone badly." ”

Mo Yuan also echoed and smiled. Of course, he didn't know anything about Da Ming before, knowing that His Majesty the Emperor was indeed a clear reward and punishment, and he was also lenient in treating civil and military officials, although Chang Jizong's words were to calm his heart, but they were not lies.

He also had to say a few words to show his loyalty to the Ming Emperor. But as soon as he opened his mouth, he suddenly heard a voice from behind him: "General Mo." ”

"What's wrong?" He immediately turned around and said to this cronie of his own.

"General," there was an irrepressible look of panic on this man's face, "Ruan Mingying has come to inspect. ”

"What?" Mo Yuan's face suddenly changed, and he said, "Why did he come to inspect?" ”

"It is said that General Nguyen Nh Nh Lie couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, and took his guards, cronies and others out of the palace to inspect various places, so he sent Nguyen Minh Anh here. Just now, his subordinates and soldiers were approaching Li Ji's headquarters in the east, when they suddenly heard the voice of 'I have seen Lord Ruan' from that side, and his subordinates hurriedly went over to take a sneak peek, and saw Ruan Mingying patrolling over there. The man replied.

"At most, in a quarter of an hour, Nguyen Minh Anh will come over. Ah. Mo Yuan immediately turned his head and said to Chang Jizong: "Lord Chang, please hide quickly." Nguyen Minh Anh is Ruan Renlie's righteous son and cronies, and he can't be bought. ”

"Where are we hiding?" Chang Jizong asked.

"Hide in the barracks." Mo Yuan said: "The barracks here are enough to accommodate more than a thousand people, enough for the Ming soldiers to hide. ”

"No!" Chang Jizong was just about to speak, but Lin Yurong suddenly interjected: "Lord Mo, Lord Chang, no." ”

"There are many things to be lit in the vicinity, including dried hay, gunpowder and oil, and it is difficult to hide them all. Ruan Minh Anh, as Ruan Renlie's cronie, must not be a person who is indiscriminate, how can he not doubt it? He was scrutinizing and would surely find that Master Mo was trying to stir up unrest in the city. Instead of making a move in a hurry when the time comes, it is better to strike first, kill Ruan Mingying, and start an incident in advance. ”

"Just do what you say." Chang Jizong immediately made a decision: "The plan is not as good as the change, and now I can only do this." ”

Then they got ready. Several people with high martial arts skills or archery skills lay in ambush and waited for Nguyen Minh Anh to come.

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The two sounds of "dang" and "dang" immediately lit up five-colored fireworks in the sky of Duobang City, which were gorgeous and colorful. But looking at this firework, Chang Jizong's face instantly turned pale, and he shouted loudly: "Quick, start igniting immediately!" ”

Just now he asked Mo Yuan to greet Ruan Mingying, and deliberately dragged him to the warehouse to inspect first; Before that, the most skilled archers in the Xianden army were ready to lay in ambush at a necessary place leading to the treasury, ready to shoot Nguyen Minh Anh and the men he had brought.

But who knew that Ruan Mingying didn't know if he had learned spells or what, he dodged the arrow at the last moment, and then took out a long strip-shaped item from his body, took out a fire fold and lit it.

This object is something similar to a double kick, and after being ignited, it jumps into the air with a "dang" sound, and explodes with a "dang" sound, emitting countless fireworks.

Chang Jizong felt bad when he saw him take 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 slower, allowing Ruan Mingying to ignite the second kick. Even if they immediately chopped him into pulp, it would not help.

Chang Jizong immediately ordered the prepared hay to be lit, and more than a thousand people shouted at the same time, Mo Yuan's subordinates rolled on the spot and were stained with a lot of mud, and then rushed towards the city wall.

Soon Mo Yuan rushed to the place where he went up to the city wall from the city, and shouted loudly: "The Ming army has entered the city!" The Ming army has entered the city! He rushed towards the entrance.

The team guarding the entrance wanted to stop it, but immediately heard Mo Yuan's words, and saw Mo Yuan's face clearly by the light of the fire, and didn't have time to think about it for a while, and said: "Lord Mo hurry up and lead his troops to the city, I will immediately light the hay piled up here to prevent the Ming army from going to the city." It turned out that Ruan Renlie had long anticipated the infiltration of a small group of Ming troops into the city, and ordered all the entrances to the city to prepare hay, which could be set on fire to block the Ming army at a critical moment.

But who knew that Mo Yuan had just walked into the passage with a few people, and suddenly slashed at the neck of the team with a backhand, cutting off his head; The people who followed him in immediately began to kill the others.

These people were not prepared for this change at all, and for a while they were frozen in place, and they were quickly slaughtered.

After Mo Yuan killed all these people, he didn't stop, and immediately walked upward.

The general guarding the city didn't see the scene just now, and after Mo Yuan led people to rush to the city head, he came over and asked, "What happened?" ”

Mo Yuan hurriedly walked a few steps and shouted, "Lao Li, the Ming army has entered the city." ”

"How could the Ming army enter the city?" The person known as Lao Li walked up to Mo Yuan, grabbed his shoulder and said.

"Yes, there is a hole in the city wall, I didn't pay attention when I was patrolling, so I let ......" Mo Yuan said this, and suddenly a dagger slipped out of his cuff, he grabbed the dagger and pierced it into Lao Li's stomach.

"You!" Lao Li's eyes widened, and as soon as he said this word, Mo Yuan pulled out a dagger and plunged it into his heart, Lao Li fell to the ground and died on the spot.

Like the soldiers guarding the entrance, the soldiers at the head of the city were also unprepared for this, and they were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, and were quickly wiped out by the Ming army that rushed to the head of the city.

Chang Jizong immediately ordered the rope to be lowered, and at the same time fired a signal flare.

Soon, more than 1,200 soldiers of the vanguard army ran to the city wall, grabbed the rope and began to climb. Chang Jizong ordered a total of 100 ropes to be lowered, which could be climbed by hundreds of people 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 the slightest rest, began to attack north along the walls.

Mo Yuan asked more than a hundred of his soldiers to flee in front of him in disguise as a rout, and Chang Jizong led the Xiandeng army and the rest of the Annan soldiers to chase behind.

Soon, they ran to the next place, and Mo Yuan's subordinates, disguised as routs, shouted: "General Pan, the Ming army has entered the city!" At the same time, he ran towards General Pan's makeshift defensive line.

But at this moment, suddenly ten thousand arrows from the opposite side shot at them, and they were caught off guard and fell to the ground one after another. Most of them were shot dead, and a few were seriously wounded and did not die, and they wailed loudly.

Seeing this, Chang Jizong immediately stopped, turned his head and said to Mo Yuan: "Didn't you say that Pan Ningyuan, the defender here, is an indecisive person, even if he is worried about the rout of the army and breaking the defense line, he will not rashly kill him!" ”

"Yes, Pan Ningyuan is indeed such a person, how can he act so rashly?" Mo Yuan said in surprise.

They didn't know that the main general on the opposite side at this time was not Pan Ningyuan, but Ruan Renlie.

When the 'second kick' exploded and they began to ignite, Nguyen Renlie happened to inspect a place at the head of the city far north of Phan Ninh, and when he saw the fireworks flying in the sky, he immediately led his guards to the south.

When he came to the place where Pan Ning was far away, he heard the sound of shouting and killing from the front, and immediately understood that the front had been rushed up by the Ming army, and from the shouts in Chinese and Annam, he concluded that the Ming army always numbered 1,000, and Lao Li's department was definitely not an opponent.

He stopped at a distance from Pan Ning and ordered his soldiers to build a simple defensive line to guard against the Ming army. At the same time, it was ordered that anyone who tried to run from the south should be shot.

He knew very well that such a thing would never be achieved if there were no troops in the city to mutiny and join the Ming army, and it was very likely that the rout troops running from the south were pretending to be rebels. Even if it is not pretended by the rebels, if they are allowed to rush over, they will break the defense line and cause the place to be conquered by the Ming army.

And he sent people to the city to give an order: "Except for Ruan Mingmiao and Pan Yucheng...... Outside the headquarters of others, the rest of the army will remain in the barracks and shall not operate in the city, and those who violate it will be regarded as rebels; No rout soldiers are allowed to walk around in the city, Ruan Minh Miao led the troops to contain the rout soldiers in the city, and if they found that the rout soldiers who did not obey the order, they would be killed on the spot. ”

Pan Yucheng led his subordinates to the place where the fire was ignited to extinguish the fire; ……； All soldiers allowed to move around the city were to have a red cloth tied to their right arm, and those who did not have a red cloth on their arm were considered rebels. ”

After passing on these orders, Nguyen Renlie breathed a sigh of relief for the time being, but before he could sit down and rest, one of his guards suddenly shouted: "Commander, red, yellow and blue fireworks have lit up over the artillery team. ”

Ruan Renlie immediately looked sideways, and saw another firework rising into the air, and the explosion of "bang" emitted three colors.

"Sure enough, a Ming army is going to attack the city of Duobang from the north." Ruan Renlie said without surprise. It is impossible for the Ming army to send people to infiltrate the city and withdraw after a disturbance, and it must be to capture the city of Duobang in one fell swoop. And even if some of the trails were unguarded by soldiers because of his own orders, and a small group of Ming troops came to the south bank through these paths, it would never be possible for most of the Ming army to come over like this. Their only route was still to land on the beach north of the city of Dobang.

"Immediately order Zhen Weitong to open fire on the Ming army!" Ruan Renlie said: "Let him not worry about this side of the matter, and concentrate on dealing with the Ming army that is going to attack the city in person!" ”

One of the guards bowed in agreement, 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: "Ruan Dashuai's order, don't take anything else, immediately fire at the Ming army in front of you?" ”

Zhen Weitong hesitated. In the city of Dobang, these cannons were the most valuable things, even above tens of thousands of troops. As the artillery general personally appointed by the Hu family's father and son, in addition to using cannons to defend Duobang City, his more important duty is to defend these cannons, even if Duobang City falls, he must not lose them.

At this time, the fire in the city broke out, and the sound of killing could be heard, he was very 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, and wanted to immediately order the soldiers to put away the cannons and use special artillery trucks to transport the cannons to withdraw from the east gate of the city. He has the holy decree issued by Hu Jichen in his hand and can go out of the city.