As soon as dawn broke, ten generals who had been ordered to sneak into Datong City hurried back, and soon after they returned to the army, there was a commotion in Datong City.

In front of Li Chengke and Lin Biao was a wooden box, which was the head of the marshal of the Datong garrison. Li Chengke and Lin Biao didn't open it to look at it, but smiled at each other.

When the first rays of sunlight shone on the earth, Li Chengke and Lin Biao walked out of the big tent and ordered someone to put the head of the marshal of the Datong garrison under the city of Datong.

At the same time, the Yejiabao army is under the city, and there is a great posture to launch an attack at any time!

Several war horses carried the heads of the marshals of the Datong garrison, and a wooden table was placed under the city, on which the heads were placed.

Soon the defenders on the upper floor of Datong City found out about the situation, and when the rest of the generals saw the marshal's head, everyone immediately understood how the marshal had died last night.

For a while, the shadow of fear shrouded the sky above Datong City, and the hearts of the 40,000 defenders were cold. The two armies fought, and the marshal, who had not moved his own side, had been beheaded without realizing it.

The morale of the Datong defenders, whether they were generals or soldiers, fell to freezing point at this moment. Li Cheng could sense that the time was ripe, and immediately ordered someone to step forward and shout.

"Those who surrender will not die, accept the incorporation of the Yejiabao army, otherwise your marshal will be an example!" A dozen men with loud voices rode around the city on horseback, shouting in unison.

The defenders of Datong City suddenly had another commotion. This time, even those generals almost couldn't suppress it.

But they had just suppressed the commotion, but they saw that the Yejiabao army actually launched nearly a hundred cannons, and the muzzles of the guns were all aimed at Datong City.

Li Chengke gave Lin Biao a look, and the latter nodded, and personally went to the front of the battle to direct the artillery.

"Boom ......"

Lin Biao didn't say a word as soon as he went up, and directly ordered ten cannons to fire, and in the thunderous sound of cannons, ten cannonballs smashed on the city tower.

In the flying stone chips, a miserable cry suddenly sounded on the upper floor of Datong City. Ten powerful cannons fired a volley, directly destroying half of the city wall in front of them.

As soon as the cannon fire stopped, the shouters began to repeat the previous slogan and continued to gallop around the city on horseback.

Several generals of the Datong garrison, you look at me, I don't think you know what to do. The artillery of the other side was so powerful that even their last hope was extinguished.

If the city tower can't guarantee the safety of the defenders and can't become the biggest barrier for the defenders, then there is nothing left to stop the advance of the Yejiabao army.

The "......boom" cannon sounded again!

The city wall, which had only collapsed half of it just now, was completely destroyed this time, and a huge gap was directly blasted.

With the sound of cannons, all the hearts of all the defenders of Datong jumped inexplicably. Especially a few lieutenants, their faces are dead gray.

There was no doubt that their only barrier had been completely shattered, and the last bit of luck in their hearts had vanished.

Surrender, there is still a way out, it is obviously not cost-effective to fight hard, several defenders no longer have any hesitation, raise the white flag, order the city gate to be opened, everyone lay down their arms, and accept the incorporation of the Yejiabao army.

At this moment, Li Chengke secretly breathed a sigh of relief, not having to fight means not having to suffer unknown losses.

Although the morale of the Yejiabao army is high, it can't stand up to the enemy soldiers. 15,000 people against 40,000 people, and it was still a siege battle, if it started, the Yejiabao army would definitely suffer a lot of casualties.

The moment the gate of Datong opened, the Yejiabao army rushed straight in and collected all the weapons of the defenders first. All the officers were separated and heavily guarded!

Those ordinary soldiers were escorted back to Zhangjiakou City, and the recruited soldiers had to go through a period of training, and then mixed with the original Yejiabao army, and finally could be condensed into the real Yejiabao army.

As soon as Datong City was taken, the happiest people were those merchants, Datong was different from Zhangjiakou, which could only be regarded as a small town at best, and Datong was different.

Datong is not only an important military fortress, but also a prosperous place, with a population of 50,000 people in the city alone.

After Li Chengke entered the city, he appeased the people as soon as possible, and then distributed some food to each family and sent them to the capital.

Now that the rear is being opened up, the population of the people is far from enough, and all the people are transferred to the capital. The vacated land can be handed over to these merchants who accompany the army to cultivate.

The Yejiabao army doesn't need to bear anything, and it will be rewarded in the later stage, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone!

Ye Shaolong received the news of the capture of Datong City on the same day, and he had no surprise about this, but ordered someone to tell Li Cheng to settle down temporarily and not to rush to attack the next target.

When Datong City was breached, a lot of materials were collected at the same time, and the grain and grass of the 40,000 defenders alone was not a small amount. After Li Chengke counted, he intercepted some of them as soldiers, and ordered the rest to be escorted back to Yejiabao.

Compared with the surging passion of the Yejiabao army, the good situation is thriving. Duan Rui's side can't be compared!

After learning that the 40,000 defenders of Datong City actually surrendered without a fight, they almost didn't anger Duan Rui to death. The old guy directly cut down the spies who went to report the news, and then went into a rage in his own mansion.

The 40,000 soldiers and horses who surrendered without a fight were absorbed by the Yejiabao army in this way, which was completely unexpected by Duan Rui. He didn't have many talents available to his subordinates, so he directly lost half of it this time, and he also took a lot of supplies and Datong City.

Now Duan Rui's available troops are less than 40,000, how can he fight with the Yejiabao army. Not to mention winning, it is impossible to protect the rest of the territory by yourself.

The great pressure made Duan Rui almost out of breath, he knew that the Yejiabao army was powerful, and even the foreign army was not an opponent. But that was staying at the boundary of what he had heard, and this time Duan Rui could be regarded as truly realizing the strength of the Yejiabao army.

Once a person becomes rich, he will cherish everything that is hard-won more and more, and Duan Rui will never bury his future like this.

After some careful consideration, Duan Rui immediately sent someone to inform his neighbor, Feng Guozhang!

In front of him, he alone would definitely not be able to stop the advance of the Yejiabao army, so he could only persuade Feng Guozhang, who was from his neighboring forces, to send troops to support.

Only then can there be hope that it can withstand the attack of the Yejiabao army. Duan Rui understood that Feng Guozhang would definitely consider his proposal, after all, if he died, Ye Shaolong's next target would definitely be him.

Duan Rui believed that Feng Guozhang would know, so he decided to send someone to negotiate and strive for Feng Guozhang's help.

The strength of the Yejiabao army really makes people scruples, especially this sudden expansion, which shows the true strength of the Yejiabao army.