After midnight, more than 1,000 people led by Cao Yue quietly sneaked into a small mountain forest about five miles outside Shengjing City.

It was already the second half of the month, the sky was cloudy again, and the whole world was dark. There were more than 1,000 people with horses and horses, and the torches were not lit, and almost no sound came out. Like ghosts, they slowly approached Shengjing City, ready to deal a fatal blow to the capital of Jiannu.

All of this is very conducive to the night attack, "God really help me," this is Cao Yue's emotion.

However, he still did not have the slightest carelessness, and sent a lot of light and dark sentinels, all of whom were the best family personnel.

Maybe the battle has been going too smoothly over the years, Jiannu is really paralyzed, and after midnight, there are no patrols outside Shengjing City, and there is silence everywhere. After the spies sent by Cao Yue did not find the patrolling Jiannu, he immediately ordered his men and horses to continue to move quietly and get closer to Shengjing City.

Several sergeants dressed as Cao Qian and others were already on standby on the official road, ready to act immediately after receiving Cao Yue's order, light torches, and run to Shengjing City as soon as possible, calling to open the city gate on the grounds that there was an urgent military information return.

All the personnel were very nervous, including Cao Yue, the commander of the operation. Whether the next action goes smoothly or not will determine the fate of more than 1,000 of them at best, and may affect the general trend of the world at best.

After confirming that everything was correct, Cao Yue calmly gave the order to start the operation.

At this time, more than 1,000 horsemen and horses led by Cao Yue had already sneaked to a place less than two miles away from Shengjing City.

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The time has passed midnight, although it is the height of summer, people generally sleep late, but after midnight, the city of Shengjing is also quiet, except for a few sergeants who patrol the night, everyone else has fallen asleep. In the era when there was no nightlife, it was common for people to go to bed early and get up early. Inside and outside the city, only the chirping of insects makes people annoyed, more like a lullaby, making people drowsy. The Qing soldiers who were on patrol at the head of the city were also yawning.

In the past few years, Shengjing has been in peace, no matter how fierce the battle in Liaodong is, the war has not involved Shengjing. Although it is said that young and middle-aged people have been drafted into the army, for those who now live in Shengjing City, the war is far away from them.

The sergeants who stayed in Shengjing also felt like this, no one would have thought that the enemy would dare to come and attack the capital of the Qing Dynasty, especially when the battle on the front line of Songshan was very fierce and the Qing army was almost victorious.

Therefore, Shengjing's defense was very lax, and the sergeants patrolling outside the city were more loyal to their duties in the first half of the night, but in the second half of the night, most of the sergeants patrolling withdrew to the city to rest, and the remaining personnel on duty also greatly reduced the density of patrols. On the Songshan front, the Qing army has achieved absolute superiority, and with frequent good news, what other men and horses can threaten the capital of the Qing Dynasty?

Just as the sergeants at the head of the city were patrolling the city wall with drowsiness, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly came from the direction of the official road outside the city. Soon, the sergeants' drowsiness was driven away by the sound of the road.

Under the general order of the leader, the Qing sergeant methodically stretched out his bow and arrows, pounced on the city wall, and aimed the arrows in the direction of several faintly shaking fire points in the night. In the field of vision, the fire lights became brighter and brighter, and then several horsemen and horses appeared in the field of vision.

The sergeants with torches on their horses paid no attention to the shouts of the sergeants at the head of the city and pointed their bows and arrows, and when they ran to the bottom of the city, they stopped their mounts. The sergeant in the lead shouted at the sergeant at the head of the city.

"Songshan urgent report, urgent military situation, open the city gate quickly, Songshan urgent report, urgent military situation, open the city gate quickly."

The commander at the head of the city briefly inquired about the situation, and ordered the sergeant to give the order to open the city gate.

In the past few days, there has been a lot of emergency military information coming back from the Matsuyama front, and there are often at night. There are hundreds of miles from Songshan to Shengjing, if the emergency military report is sent out at noon or in the afternoon, after passing through the fast horse of the post station, it is basically sent to Shengjing at night, or even in the middle of the night.

If it is an urgent military order sent in the evening, it will be late at night, or even early in the morning, when it is sent to Shengjing.

Just two hours ago, an urgent military report came back, and it was a military report that reported victory. According to the military report, the Qing army inflicted heavy losses on the Ming army under Songshan City, and most of the rest of the Ming army was annihilated except for tens of thousands of remnants of the Ming army who cowered in Songshan City and resisted stubbornly. The Qing army besieged Songshan City like an iron bucket, broke through Songshan City, and the total annihilation of the Ming army was just around the corner.

However, Prince Li, the left-behind minister of Shengjing, knew that this war against Songshan had encountered a lot of trouble. From the secret letter sent back a few days ago, Dai Shan learned that when a Ming army fled and the Qing army took advantage of the situation to attack, it was met with stubborn resistance from the Ming army, and the Zhenglan Banner led by Haoge suffered heavy losses, at least one-third of the bannermen were annihilated, and countless people were seriously injured. What's even worse is that the counterattacking Ming army broke into the emperor's imperial tent and wreaked havoc in the two yellow flag camps that were empty in defense, and Huang Taiji almost suffered.

Because the Ming army set fire to the camp during the plunder, both the Zhenglan Banner and the Two Yellow Flags suffered heavy losses.

After receiving this bad news, Dai Shan was worried, for fear that this was a trap of the Ming army. He always pays attention to the situation ahead, and is also ready to follow Huang Taiji's orders at any time and respond. Therefore, he strictly ordered that the military information transmitted from the direction of Songshan must be reported to him at any time, and there must be no mistakes. For the sergeants who passed on the emergency military information, the Qing soldiers guarding the city did not dare to make any difficulties.

Without too much interrogation, the south gate of Shengjing City was slowly opened, and the suspension bridge was lowered.

As soon as the drawbridge was lowered, the five sergeants waiting at the end of the drawbridge to deliver emergency military information had already galloped up the drawbridge and ran quickly in the direction of the city gate. The three sergeants in front of them quickly rushed to the gate hole, and the two sergeants in the back were a little slower.

A surprising circumstance occurred, and the two sergeants, who were a little behind, suddenly drew their sabers and slashed hard at the rope of the drawbridge. By the time the sergeants at the head of the city noticed that something was wrong, the rope of the drawbridge had already been cut by the two sergeants.

Before the yawning Qing soldiers at the head of the city and in the city gate cave had time to react, an earth-shattering explosion came from the direction of the city gate cave. The three sergeants who rushed ahead threw a few black things that had been lit in their hands towards the city gate hole as they had just crossed the drawbridge. Soon there was an explosion in the cave of the city gate. The wooden gate and the Qing soldiers guarding the cave were all blown to pieces.

At the time of the explosion, the five sergeants who quickly dodged to the outside of the city gate and dodged the shock wave of the explosion drew their war knives and quickly rushed into the city gate hole. And just as the explosion occurred, black cavalry appeared on the horizon in the dark night, quickly rushing towards the city gate.

Most of the Qing army sergeants in the city gate cave have been killed, and those who are not dead are either blown up and fall to the ground and will not move, or they are stunned by the bombing and do not react. The huge shock wave generated by the explosion not only stunned many of the soldiers under the city tower, but also frightened the Qing army soldiers at the head of the city. When there was a loud noise, the bows and arrows of many of the frightened hands of the sergeants fell on the walls.

"Someone sneak attacked, the Ming army sneak attack," after a while, the general at the head of the city reacted and yelled like a Stri.

It's just that at this time, most of the people who attacked had already rushed across the drawbridge and rushed into the city gate.

Of course, it was the Ming army led by Cao Yue who rushed into the south gate of Shengjing, and he didn't expect that it would be so easy to open the city gate. When Cao Qian and the others threw out the earthen explosive bag and the explosion sounded, he gave the order to attack without any hesitation.

At this time, the Ming army squad had already sneaked to a place that was only more than a mile away from Shengjing City. The loud explosion and the smoke from the explosion caught the defenders of the city by surprise and had no time to respond. When Cao Yue led more than 1,000 men and horses to rush across the drawbridge and enter the city gate, not a single arrow fell on the city.

It wasn't until most of the centaurs rushed across the drawbridge and rushed into the city gate that a few arrows fell from the city, and several unlucky sergeants who rushed behind were shot, but this had no effect on the attacking men and horses, and the rest of the centaurs continued to wave their swords and rush into the city.

Shengjing City is actually not very large, and the circumference is only about eight miles after the expansion of Huang Taiji. Two vertical and horizontal streets divide Shengjing into a tic-tac-toe shape, and the entire city is divided into nine squares. In the middle of the north of Shengjing City is the imperial palace of the "Great Qing Dynasty", the residence of the Eight Banners Prince Baylor in two squares on the left and right of the palace, and the rest of the blocks are the residential areas of ordinary Manchu nobles.

According to the information obtained from the prior interrogation, there are two military camps on the east and west sides outside Shengjing City, and there are also two military camps in the city, which are the two yellow flags of Huang Taiji. After storming into the city, Cao Yue's primary purpose was to solve the Jiannu stationed in the two military camps in the city, and then capture the palace, and finally the entire city. Cao Yue believed that as long as he destroyed the two military camps in the city and captured the palace, the plan would be a complete success.

The Ming army led by him attacked the city and occupied the palace, and the Qing army defenders in the city and other gates in the city will definitely do their best to rescue the emperor Taiji in Songshan while urgently asking for help. Cao Yue's more than 1,000 men and horses had more than 1,000 muskets, and the ammunition they carried was sufficient, even if they did not rely on the city wall to defend it, the thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled Qing troops in Shengjing City could easily be wiped out.

Ling Cao Qian led 200 Jiading to solve the Jiannu in the area of the South Gate and control the South Gate, Cao Yue and Cao Jie each led more than 500 Jiading to rush over in the direction of the palace along the two longitudinal streets in the north and south. The two barracks set up in the city by the two yellow flags are located on both sides of the Daqing Gate, and the distance from the south gate to the Daqing Gate is only a few meters. However, at this time, the Jiannu guards outside the barracks already knew that there was an emergency and issued an early warning, but before the sleeping Qing soldiers in the barracks could organize resistance, the cavalry led by Cao Yue had already been killed.

"Kill, kill all the slaves ......"