In the middle of June 1630, the crescent moon hung in the night sky was dim, and the whole earth was shrouded in darkness.

Even if it is a border town, Zhangjiakou, a major border trade city, in the middle of the night, only some lanterns on the city wall are lit. As for the city, at least a few high-rise mansions have lanterns hanging at the gates of the courtyards, and they stay all night.

From a distance, at the head of Zhangjiakou City, every quarter of an hour, there were teams of soldiers patrolling with lanterns. But if you look closer, you'll see that they're just perfunctory.

The patrol soldiers, in tattered robes and wrapped around their emaciated bodies, walked listlessly and briskly, occasionally yawning profusely. They don't look in either way, they don't listen carefully, they just want to finish the round quickly so that they can rest.

In fact, they can't be blamed for being so careless, because they know that even if the war in the land of Gyeonggi continues, even if the heavens are broken, even if the Jingshi is broken, Zhangjiakou will be fine.

The territory of the Ming army, if there is an enemy, can only be built. But who lives in the city, they naturally know very well. Those Jin merchants and Jianyu things, this is an open secret. No matter how barbaric Jianyu is, there is no reason to attack his own people.

Of course, if you have to count the enemy carefully, it is the thief. But the thieves in the eastern part of Shanxi are very weak. The largest group is said to have about 100 people.

However, no one believed that the thieves dared to fight Zhangjiakou's idea. Even if the Ming army all stood by and watched, no thief could beat the courtyard of those Great Jin merchants!

It is also because of these consensus that most of the Ming soldiers on duty at the head of Zhangjiakou City are just perfunctory patrols. If it weren't for the thieves, they wouldn't have to patrol like this. Of course, the bigger reason is to take people's money. At least pretend to be a good thing, so that the Jin merchants can feel that the money is not spent in vain.

I don't know when, in a room in the city, more than 20 people in black suddenly walked out. One by one, they wrapped their blades in their hands in black cloth, and walked quickly but orderly, with the help of the faint moonlight.

The man in front. Apparently familiar with the terrain of the city. There is a curfew in the city, and it is clear where there are soldiers and where they can be bypassed.

It didn't take long for them to arrive at the east gate without them noticing. Looking at the dozing soldiers, looking at the resting place of the soldiers with the lights out, the man in front turned his head and nodded to the man behind him.

The man behind him immediately turned around, and after making several gestures in succession, he turned back. The cat bent over and quickly left the hiding place in small steps.

The men behind him were as if they had been divided, four of them went to the gatekeeper, and the others divided into three columns and felt for the lighted room.

The man who led the way just now was still lying there and didn't move, staring at the movements of those men in black, looking a little nervous. Because he knows that the success of his companions is crucial to the follow-up.

Although he has already come to Zhangjiakou. But the abilities of these companions, their names. He already knew it. Seeing them fierce but well-trained in action, he couldn't help but clench his fists, as if he himself was in the attack queue.

The two dozing soldiers at the gates of the city were solved without much effort. In fact, he is not worried about this place, after all, he can see it. But there were a lot of Ming soldiers in that room. Whether it can be solved quietly is the most critical.

Seeing his companion go in, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious after a long while. Suddenly, several people wearing Ming army uniforms walked out with swords. He was immediately startled.

But he immediately saw the other party gesticulating, and his heart was relieved. Got it!

Then, he saw that the corpses were disposed of, the fake Ming soldiers were in place, the city was signaled, and the city gates were quietly opened.

Under the cover of these people before, it was not long before a group of people came in from outside the city, and in an orderly manner, drove up to the city along the roads on both sides of the city gate, and quickly spread along the city wall to the other city gates.

There are more and more people, even if a person's footsteps are slight, the sound of this convergence, especially in the middle of the night, still makes a lot of movement.

Finally, a soldier of the Ming army who was carrying out the curfew in the city heard this movement and looked at the city head with some confusion. One of the veterans felt that something was wrong, and the expression on his face was a little panicked. Because they could hear it, it was the voice of a very large number of people. And well-trained, the footsteps are many but not noisy.

But even if they heard it, they still had doubts. Who is this, that one who came out of nowhere? It is impossible for the captives, the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, and the thieves!

While they were still puzzled, teams of guns began to appear on the streets. Seeing this, some surrendered silently, and some were resolved after a few panicked screams.

By the time the people of the city realized that something was wrong, there were already many horses' hooves ringing in the streets. These war horses, rushing straight to the military camp in the city, are as familiar as their own yards.

As long as the soldiers with a little normal brain saw the murderous intruders who were waiting for the battle, they all chose to surrender as soon as possible. Because there is no point in resisting in this case.

When dawn came, Zhangjiakou had already changed owners. To put it in a slightly more exaggerated way, it is a silent change of owner. There are some people who sleep more deadly, and this is how they feel when they wake up.

Hu Guang stood at the head of the East Gate of Zhangjiakou, with two senior generals of the field army standing beside him, looking at everything in front of him with a little pride.

He has been holding his ground, just waiting for an opportunity. Waiting for the intelligence officers here to spread the news of the situation here, and waiting for the eight major Jin merchants to gather in Zhangjiakou, the inside and outside should work together to set up this logistics base.

This action was very sudden, and no one expected that the Heavenly Army, which was far away in the Naturalization City, would come thousands of miles away to steal a border city of the Ming Army.

The reason why Hu Guang wanted to solve these Jin merchants who ate inside and outside was mainly because they were too helpful to Jianyu. If they are not solved, the Ming army is afraid that it will not be able to withstand the Jianguan who occupies Shanhaiguan and occupies the initiative.

Without the Eight Great Jin Merchants, Jianyu can only be busy dealing with the counterattack of the Ming army in the short term, and the probability of a long-distance attack to call the heavenly army will be greatly reduced.

And the Heavenly Army took advantage of this opportunity to destroy the eight great Jin merchants, and they were able to collect them just enough to prepare the materials that they would send to Jianyu again, etc., and once again laughed at them. This will be of great help to the war that the Heavenly Army will launch in Shaanxi.

In general, whether it is called the Heavenly Army, or the Jianyu, or the Ming Army, fighting a war is actually fighting logistics!

(To be continued.) )