The torch was thrown down, and with two flicks it rolled deep into the ground. Li Xin was afraid that it would not be safe, so he lit two more torches and threw them down, and then spread his legs, running as fast as he could.

The night patrol army on the city wall finally noticed the movement below, but the sky was still dark, and only the shadows could see something moving, but they were not sure what was happening. With a shout, a random arrow was shot down.

Li Xin suddenly heard the shouting from the city, and his heart was so nervous that he almost jumped out of his chest, and he added strength under his feet. Since he had no experience in blasting, the amount of gunpowder under the city wall was very large, and he did not know how powerful it was, so the plan for now was to run as far as possible to avoid the possible explosion range.

After shouting a few words from the Tartars guarding the city, seeing that there was no movement, they thought it was a wild dog, stretched out their arms and gave a big sigh, and then continued to patrol the night with their shoulders in their arms. In the second half of the night, they were still patrolling the city in the second half of the night, and the two Tartars naturally did not do their best, not to mention that the Tartar soldiers were in full swing, who would dare to attack the city at this time, and Suning was just a small city, one without a granary and the other was not a land, what to do?

Previously, Li Xin had already ordered Lu Jiu to retreat a mile away with his people, and at the same time sent a message to Zhang Shi and led a large team of men to make peace with Lu Jiu. After all, three miles away from the city wall is still too far, even if you run quickly, it will take at least a quarter of an hour, in case the city wall is blown up, the great opportunity will not be missed on the way.

While running rapidly, Li Xin silently counted the time in his heart, but the explosion did not sound as expected, and as the time went on, the worry became deeper and deeper. Could it be that there is not enough oxygen in the cave and the torches are extinguished before they hit the ground?

All kinds of thoughts surged out of Li Xin's mind, but the matter had come to this point, and it was absolutely impossible to go back and check. There are not a few examples of this kind of dumb fire and sudden explosion, if there is no successful explosion, there are only two ways in front of him, one is to wait for the opportunity and click again. The second is to give up the idea of attacking Suning and leave here.

The sky is about to shine, and if you want to find an opportunity to light a fire, I am afraid that you will have to wait until it gets dark, and what will happen if you can't keep it all in this whole day. Li Xin was in the wind under his feet, but he was making all kinds of assumptions in his mind, he only felt that the earth suddenly shook, and then a muffled thunderous sound came, the work of the middle of the night was not in vain, and the gunpowder was ignited after all.

Li Xin stopped and looked back, but saw a huge fire rising from the city wall in front of him, and then gradually dimmed again. But the brightness of the moment was enough for him to discern the condition of the walls.

The Suning city wall arched a section in an extremely strange posture, with a few people-wide opening in the middle, but the opposite side of the arched section of the city wall sank.

Succeed with flying colors!

At the same time, Zhang Shi rushed up with the right team of muskets as agreed. Lu Jiu, who was a combat cavalryman, followed behind with his own team and slowly advanced forward. The sound of the huge explosion produced by the explosion of gunpowder was like thunder, and the officers resting in the city thought it was thundering in winter, and rushed out of the house in disheveled clothes.

A hole was cracked in the western section of the wall.

It is impossible for the city wall to crack on its own, the only possibility is that the Ming army is nearby, but how did they do it?

Li Xin didn't give him enough time to think about this problem, a mile away, galloping at full speed could only reach the city in a moment's time, and the musketeers who had been waiting for a long time swarmed into the city, and Zhang Shi took the lead in killing the west gate.

In ancient times, the defense preparations of the city were all aimed at the outside of the city, and once the people in the city took advantage of the loopholes, it was not easy to defend the city gate. Moreover, Zhang Shi attacked suddenly, and there were not many soldiers on duty under the West Gate, and there were a few sleepy guys guarding the door, and before they could react, they had already been slashed by the soldiers of the right team of muskets, and they were cut off, which was miserable.

Outside the city, Lu Jiu did not enter the city along the gap that was blown up, but went straight to the city gate, and just arrived under the city gate, the two heavy wooden doors were slowly opened with a squeak.

Suddenly, the firelight shot out through the hole in the city gate, and the right team of Zhang Shi's muskets held torches in unison, illuminating the entire west city gate as if it were day.

Li Xin was overjoyed to see the west gate opened, and he knew that tonight's operation was half successful.

"Stone, you lead the right team to sweep the Tartars of the remaining three city gates." He looked back at Lu Jiu again. "Lu Jiu, you take the left team into the city, don't let the Tartar master run away."

The next battle made the left and right teams under Li Xin's command feel like they were punching in the air, Zhang Shi and his people swept away the defenders of the other three city gates almost bloodlessly, and the two Tartars almost fell in the wind, without even a decent resistance.

Only at the north gate met with a little resistance, but they were bombarded with muskets at close range, and they beat the ass and urinated.

The situation encountered by Lu Jiu was roughly the same, and there was little resistance wherever he went. Only when attacking the county government encountered resistance to death, but Lu Jiu's left team was outnumbered, and with the power of breaking the city, the gate of the county government was quickly breached.

The riders rushed in only to find that there were only a few dozen Tartar armorers in charge of guarding the county government, and most of these people were hacked to death because of desperate resistance, and the one that survived was the Manchu language.

In the end, to Li Xin's great disappointment, they only captured one assistant leader alive in the city. And this assistant leader is the Tartar with the largest rank in Suning City, and there are only a few hundred Manchu and Han Tartar armor soldiers under his command. Among them, the two Tartars are basically newly surrendered Ming troops, and the real Tartars are only a few dozen people.

The situation in front of him made Li Xin cry and laugh, and the Tartars really took it seriously, and hundreds of people dared to defend the city with swagger, if it wasn't for the coincidental attack tonight, they would really be frightened.

When the day was completely bright, Li Xin had already controlled the entire Suning City, and Li Xin noticed that the people in the city were no longer one out of ten, and many high-gate mansions were in a mess, and people went to empty houses. Needless to say, they were all taken away by the Tartars as goods, and I am afraid that these people will not be able to return home again in their lifetimes.

When the situation in the city was accused, Li Xin immediately summoned Lu Jiu and Zhang Shi to discuss countermeasures. Lu Jiujian hid in the city for a few days, and then did what he thought after resting for a while. Zhang Shi also nodded yes, and it was rare for the two to agree on the same opinion. But Li Xin vetoed all the ideas of these two people.

"This Suning should not stay for a long time, the two teams on your left and right take turns to rest, and you will go on the road after dark."

The two of them tried their best to persuade Li Xin to stay. Li Xin refuted: "Hejian and Zhending gather the two main forces of the Tartars, and Suning is in Jinyao, and there will be a Tartar army crossing at any time every day. ”

After listening to Li Xin's words, the two of them also understood that hundreds of people in this area couldn't keep Suning, but they were unwilling.

It just so happened that Wang Fifteen came to Li Xin with a depressed face, "General, can you see that my family is the governor?" The villain searched all over Suning City and didn't see half a shadow! ”

Li Xin was nervous all night and forgot about this Wang Pu. So he turned his head and asked Zhang Shi: "You can see General Wang?" ”

Zhang Shi shook his head, and Wang 15 was even more depressed when he saw that Li Xin hadn't found Wang Pu.

Li Xin moved and said, "Is it possible that when you don't make up your mind, General Wang has already been transferred?" Just now, I tried the Tartar leader, but I confessed that before nightfall yesterday, the army in the city had all gone north. You won't go to the river, will you? ”

Wang 15 listened to Li Xin's assumption, first shook his head and then nodded again.

"It makes sense, anyway, Suning can't find the governor, the villain will go to the river to have a look, and the general will report on the fifteenth day!"

Lu Jiu and Zhang Shi thought that this Wang Fifteen might have to beg his general to go to the river to save his family governor, but they didn't expect that this person would keep silent.

Li Xin didn't keep it, but ordered someone to prepare cotton clothes and dry food for him to eat on the road, and let him take it for himself. Lu Jiu led the whole team to rest first, and Zhang Shi's right team was responsible for the city defense and patrol in the morning.

Solving the matter here, Li Xin was relieved of the situation in the city, so he took a stone and went straight to the gap in the western section of the city wall, where the city wall still needs to be repaired, just in case. As soon as he gathered dozens of people and was ready to move, he saw a rider galloping towards him.

"Report! Report to the teaching, the south came to the Tartars, people and horses, and the scale is not small! ”

Li Xin jumped a little, he was really afraid of something, and now I'm afraid it's too late to leave, maybe there will be another vicious battle waiting for them.

"How far is it from Suning?"

Li Xin began to regret that, on the one hand, due to the rush of time, and on the other hand, his lack of combat experience, so he did not send scouts to the surrounding area to guard at the first time, otherwise he would have bought them more time.

"The south side is open, and it's only three or five miles away."

Li Xin nodded in contemplation.

"Got it, you go to the left team to inform Lu Jiu, and everyone is ready to withdraw from Suning."

Zhang Shi on the side suddenly asked, "What should I do with the captive Tartar?" ”

"The two Tartars are released, and all the real Tartars are headed! Be quick! ”

Li Xin didn't want to think about it and made a decision, keeping the real Tartars would definitely be a scourge, after all, the two Tartars were the people of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that surrendering to the Qing army was also capricious, so there was nothing to be afraid of. He suddenly summoned Zhang Shishi, who was about to dispose of the captive.

"Wait, let's go and bring Kong Youde and those two second tartars first."

Zhang Shi was puzzled, why did he still look for Kong Youde at this time.

He hated Tartars even more.

"Are those real Tartars still killed?"

"None of them will be left!"

After a while, Kong Youde was brought over, and in just one night, the obedient king seemed to be much older, and the beard on his face was also dreadlocked, and his whole body exuded an extremely decadent atmosphere.

Li Xinxin said, this thing is as cunning as a fox and tough as a jackal, who is this virtue for! Then he sighed again, he who had never gambled was now going to gamble, and blocking it was the net worth of his Li Xin and these 600 soldiers.