Several long ropes, with claw hooks tied to the front, spun in the air for a few weeks, and suddenly left the palm of the control zhì, making a "dang, dang" sound, and hooked firmly on the daughter wall at the head of the city.

Several soldiers, hidden in the darkness, saw that there was no movement at the head of the city, they grabbed the other end of the long rope and pulled it hard, and their claws did not move.

"Up." An order was given in the darkness, low and short.

The soldiers stretched the ropes in their hands and stepped on the city wall, as if they were walking on flat ground, and with a few "whoosh, whoosh" sounds, they soon climbed the parapet wall. Like geckos, they lay motionless on the outer edge of the parapet.

There was still no movement at the head of the city.

The soldiers, like tanuki, rose and fell over the parapet wall one by one, and landed silently at the head of the city. They split into two groups and searched both sides along the parapet wall, but found no soldiers who had built slaves.

It turned out that the two Jiannu soldiers guarding the head of the city went to the south city gate, and the north city gate was not the focus of their defense at all, and they never dreamed that the Ming army would launch a sneak attack from the north city gate.

The soldiers in the back climbed the rope to the top of the city one after another, and they groped, and by the faint moonlight, they found the rope that held the drawbridge together.

The drawbridge descended slowly, barely colliding with the ground.

The north gate was also quietly opened.

The soldiers of the 105th Brigade, lurking outside the North City Gate, stepped on the drawbridge and swaggered into the city through the North City Gate.

"Damn, there is not a single defender, so you don't take us seriously." A soldier cursed in a low voice, he had already entered Jinzhou City, which was half the success, but not a single soldier who had built a slave had met, was it so easy to defend the territory and open up the territory?

"Leave one battalion to guard the north gate, and the rest follow me to the south gate, trying not to make a sound." Ning Xianlong didn't know if there were really only two Niu Lu of Jiannu in the city, no matter how many Jiannu there were, first solve the Jiannu at the south city gate, and then take the 104th Brigade outside the city into the city by the way, the more people, the greater the certainty of quickly occupying Jinzhou.

The soldiers of the 105th Brigade, armed with flintlock pistols, hunched over their waists and stomachs, bent their legs, and pointed their toes on the ground, under the cover of night, they quietly approached the southern city gate.

Up and down the south city gate, the "Han people" are still confronting the soldiers of Jiannu, and the two sides have begun to abuse each other, due to the language barrier, no one knows what the other party is scolding, and can only estimate that the other party is not good at speaking from the other party's angry expression and rough tone.

Niu Lu, who built a slave at the head of the city, was even more uneasy, and the Han people who had just spoken to his soldiers in Jurchen language seemed to have suddenly disappeared out of thin air and never came out again.

Maybe he was faint from hunger, and the soldiers of Jiannu thought so.

The target of all the Jiannu soldiers was under the city, and they also thought that the people outside the city might be pretended to be soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but these Han people were far away from the city gate and showed no signs of attacking the city at all.

One hundred steps, with the help of the moonlight, the Ming army accurately measured the distance of Jiannu in front of it.

Five hundred gunners, squatting on the ground, their flintlock pistols in their hands had long been aimed at Jiannu, who was arguing with the "Han people", and they were waiting for orders.

Behind them, there were also five hundred gunners, also with flintlock pistols in their hands, the muzzles of the black holes hidden by the endless darkness of the night, but these five hundred men were all standing, with their feet crossed in front and back.

Behind them, there were five hundred gunners.

The rest of the more than 1,000 soldiers were far away, and they all turned their backs to the south gate to prevent the soldiers of Jiannu from sneaking up from behind.

"Launch." In the darkness of the night, the long-awaited order was finally given.

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

……

Jian Nu obviously heard the voice coming from behind them, but they didn't have much time to think, let alone figure out what was going on, when the flintlock bullets rained down on them.

The screams under the city just now immediately transferred to the city, the roar of the wolves, the wailing of the white apes, the urging of the evil ghosts, and the wounded soldiers of Jiannu almost copied the scene that just happened under the city, maybe Jiannu didn't know that the Han people under the city had already warned them in advance.

"What's going on? Who is here? Some Jiannu soldiers stepped forward to ask, and those Jiannu who were not injured shot indiscriminately in the direction of the firelight with bows and arrows that were originally going to shoot the Han people under the city.

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

……

The language of Jiannu was not understood by the soldiers of the 105th Brigade at all, and they were answered only by the sound of flintlock guns, this time with 500 gunners in the second platoon.

There were more and more wounded soldiers in Jiannu, and the screams became more and more heartbreaking, and in the darkness, it sounded more and more terrifying.

Fortunately, at night, apart from the sound, the soldiers did not see the bloody scene at all.

The gunfire had not completely died down, the soldiers of the second platoon quickly crouched down, and the five hundred soldiers of the third platoon began to shoot.

They had just finished firing, and the soldiers in the first platoon had already loaded their ammunition, another five hundred rounds.

Ning Xianlong squatted down, and with the help of the moon shadow that emitted red light, he found that there was no longer a standing Jiannu.

"Stop shooting and light the torches."

In the firelight, the soldiers of Jiannu let out all kinds of screams while rolling on the ground with their eyes closed, and more soldiers lay motionless on the wet ground, stacked horizontally and vertically, as if they had fallen asleep after being extremely sleepy.

"Hurry up, cut off all the heads." Ning Xianlong felt that only Jiannu, who was in a different place, would not pose a threat to the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

The torches illuminated the city as if it were day, and even the moonlight seemed to dim, and the soldiers worked in groups of three to quickly harvest the heads of the Jiannu.

The South Gate quickly fell silent, except for the gurgling of blood running from the neck and the smell of blood flying in the air.

"Open the city gates, receive the 104th Brigade into the city, and block all the city gates." Ning Xianlong didn't have time to count the heads of Jiannu, and the top priority was to put the 104th Brigade outside the city into the city.

The south gate was finally opened for them, and the ragged Han people under the city took off their tattered coats one by one, and they entered the city with torches and their heads held high like triumphant generals.

They did not directly participate in the siege of the city, but dragged almost all the Jiannu at the south gate.

"Master's seat." A voice rang out from afar.

Ning Xianlong stood on the back of the firelight, hidden in the darkness: "Have you all entered the city?" You didn't have any casualties, did you? ”

"No, we're all out of range of Jiannu's bow and arrows." The visitor replied proudly.

"That's good." Ning Xianlong felt that Jinzhou was going to be his own world, after so long of gunfire, there was no large-scale mobilization of troops until now, there should only be two Niu Lu of Jiannu in the city, and most of them had been annihilated at the southern city gate. "Each city gate is guarded by a battalion, and the rest of the soldiers, using battalions as units, search for the remnants of the Jiannu soldiers in the city, and pay attention to protecting themselves."

It was not real in the night, and whatever the soldiers suspected was the firing of a flintlock pistol.

At dawn, the gunfire thinned out.

All the Jiannu soldiers were beheaded, and Ning Xianlong learned one of the strengths from Yuan Chonghuan, that is, not to take prisoners, whether they surrendered voluntarily or were wounded and captured.

Jiannu's soldiers, in addition to being injured and unable to escape, rarely took the initiative to surrender, even if they were captured, they would not cooperate with the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, plus they had to consume precious food, therefore, Yuan Chonghuan did not want to be taken prisoner at all, all the Jiannu soldiers were beheaded, and the head was also the basis of the Ming Dynasty's military exploits.

At dawn, the 106th Brigade, which had been stationed on the outskirts of the northern part of the city for a night, was also taken back to the city.

The 2nd Division redeployed in the city.

Jinzhou was originally a fortified city built by the Liaodong Army in order to deal with Jiannu, the city wall is not only very high, but also very thick, and now it does not need to be reinforced at all, Ning Xianlong just transferred soldiers to guard the four city gates.

The matter of relocating the Han people in the city was naturally handed over to the staff officers of the division headquarters, and Ning Xianlong was too lazy to worry about these cumbersome civil affairs, with his character, the people in Jinzhou City, whether they were Han or not, since they surrendered to Jiannu and usually served Jiannu, they were the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and they simply cut off their heads, and they could also increase their military merits.

Yuan Chonghuan once received Zhu Youzhen's guidance in Shaanxi and knew the importance of the Han people to the Ming Dynasty, especially the fact that they could grow food for the Ming Dynasty.

With Yuan Chonghuan's military order, Ning Xianlong did not dare to slaughter the Han people in Jinzhou City at will, he just instructed the staff officer of the division headquarters to severely punish those who were determined to serve Jiannu, or who had killed Han compatriots, and even beheaded them, unless they could use Jiannu's head to atone for their crimes, as Yuan Chonghuan said.

By noon, the arming of the four city gates had been completed, and several secret guards had been deployed at each gate, especially the north gate facing Jiannu. In terms of the distribution of the number of soldiers, the North City Gate is also concentrated with heavy troops, and it is the focus of defense for twelve hours a day.

The original Jiannu soldiers in Jinzhou City were only 1,000 people, and Ning Xianlong's second division had more than 10,000 soldiers, and the barracks for the soldiers to live in were far from enough.

In order to improve the relationship between the military and the people, and by the way, to give the Han people in the city a chance to atone for their sins, the army staff officers specially built a barracks for Ning Xianlong: The people in Jinzhou City will build barracks for the army free of charge.

Ning Xianlong was overjoyed, the construction of the army's barracks did not require soldiers to do it, and it didn't cost a penny, why not, he was secretly glad that he didn't behead all these people.

Ning Xianlong sent soldiers to report the good news to Yuan Chonghuan while inspecting the city, his heart blossomed, this great achievement of recovering Jinzhou is about to be recorded on the head of the second division, he finally did not come to Liaodong in vain.

Calculating the time, from the first army to Liaodong, in less than a month, they have recovered Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and expanded the territory of the Ming Dynasty to the north by 600 miles.

After Yuan Chonghuan received Ning Xianlong's express, he delivered the good news to Sun Chengzong at Shanhaiguan and forwarded it to the military department and the emperor, and immediately set off to catch up with the Third Division, which had already rushed to Jinzhou, and he wanted to sit in Jinzhou himself.

The Ming army conquered the two cities of Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and annihilated nearly 2,000 Jiannu soldiers. In front of the Ming army, the red flag lost ground and was humiliating, this is a huge defeat that Jiannu has never had since Nurhachi announced the "Seven Hatreds" and raised troops against the Ming Dynasty.