The army marched silently in the night, and only the sound of footsteps on the ground could be heard.

Yu Zhiwei opened his mouth, almost choking on the wind, but he still asked: "What do you mean by that?" "Why is this Hu Duanming willing to lend you troops when he hears it?

Yu Jingning did not squint, and replied concisely: "The treatment in Shuzhong is much better than that in the northwest. ”

Shuzhong? Isn't that the fief of Empress Dowager Lin's family?

She suddenly understood.

In the northwest Shoujiayuguan, the wind eats and sleeps in the open and eats sand every day, and it is almost necessary to drink blood, and it has to compete with the Tartars who go south every day. In comparison, Shuzhong is naturally much more peaceful, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that Empress Dowager Lin is of course more partial to her mother's family. Therefore, the soldiers in Shu even have a higher silver money than Jiayuguan, every day is some idle errands, everyone can mix oily and smooth, people have to call "military master" when they see it.

So, why do you want to go to the Northwest voluntarily? Wouldn't it be for the sake of being promoted to the king of Pingshuo in the future? At that time, who would have thought that he would be able to enter Beijing to be an official in the future?

Probably with the enthusiasm of a young man who "admonishes the death of the text, fights to the death with the martial arts", he went to the northwest town with the king of Pingshuo in a dizzy mind, and he still has some feelings.

Yu Zhiwei experienced it for a while, probably the older he gets, the more he will be stumped by the things in the world, but if he can see a young man who is as passionate as himself, he still can't help but feel his heart throb.

From Baiyangdian to the capital under the nine gates, more than 200 miles, originally went to walk for nearly two days, but when I returned, it took less than a day's work.

When the 30,000 troops of the western suburbs arrived in the capital, it was already daylight. Originally, when there was nothing to do, the eunuchs who guarded the gate at the gate of the capital were all eunuchs from Dongchang, and I don't know if there was any ability to defend the city, anyway, the ability to collect money was quite great. The rebels began to make trouble from the inside, and the group of eunuchs were immediately arrested after closing the city gates, and now their lives and deaths are unknown. Now the nine gates of the capital are completely controlled by the rebels, and the nine gates are closed and no entry or exit is allowed.

Attacking a city in broad daylight, especially a big city like Beijing, is not a good plan, but in order to race against time to get back the capital, there is really no way to wait until night.

Yu Zhiwei glanced up at the extremely high gate of the capital, and said to Yu Jingning beside him in a deep voice: "The capital is full of its own people, and the siege of the city is unbearable. Just go to the cannon to bombard the gate, and the city gate can be repaired again if it is broken. ”

Yu Jingning glanced at her, and didn't say whether she agreed or disagreed.

Yu Zhiwei snorted and sneered twice: "I know that the heavy artillery above the city gate is more powerful than the ones we had, but the heavy artillery is not something that everyone can use." Even if you smuggle firearms, it is also a firecracker, and if you dare to smuggle a guy as big as a cannon, you will already be dead for I don't know one hundred and eighty times. They don't have that much skill to raise artillery. ”

Yu Jingning knew.

A good artillery commander is always extremely important to the Shenji Battalion, and if a cannon is not used well, then it may not wait for it to cause any damage to the enemy, but it will first blow up and injure its own people.

Without further ado, Yu Jingning gave an order, and several cannons roared together, striking above the gate of the capital through a moat dozens of zhang wide.

Although the people in the sun were outlaws, they were only engaged in a skirmish with the regular army during smuggling, and the main purpose was to escape. I really didn't guard the city gate, and as soon as the cannon sounded, the people above the city tower panicked and ran around the city gate for a while.

Several branch hall masters couldn't shout anymore, and they were so angry that they scolded their mothers on the city wall.

After a while, the people in the city calmed down, and they were barely able to fight against Yu Jingning and the others under the city.

Money and the like, life does not bring death, and gunpowder and cannonballs are the same, Yu Jingning and Yu Zhiwei have long been determined to die, so this time they really played the "days are over" style of play, and bombarded indiscriminately for a while.

Of course, they also knew that the rebels lacked actual combat experience, and they were probably not as good as those of them who had lived in Liaodong. This is where psychological tactics come into play. The magnitude of their war this time was even greater than when they were in Liaodong - after all, they were going to fight a protracted war at the beginning, and now as long as they are counted in the capital, it will be considered half the success.

Therefore, for this group of people, they can be scared if they can, and they will definitely not be soft.

Yu Jingning's side hadn't used artillery to bombard the last two rounds, and the city was almost unable to hold on. Some people couldn't hold it back and began to make up their minds about the heavy artillery on the city tower.

Sure enough, a group of people who had never used heavy artillery really hurriedly manipulated it, and before it could be turned to the right angle, the cannon exploded, and it affected several people behind the cannon in one breath, all of which became a blur of flesh and blood.

The cannon, which had not yet made a successful attempt, fell into the moat very desolately, and made a big splash, which was completely useless.

Not only that, but if there were really people who did not operate properly, the heavy artillery defending the city at the head of the city exploded on the spot, killing and wounding countless people.

Yu Zhiwei couldn't help but feel it again-this good cannon was all ruined by this group of people.

Just as Yu Jingning and his group were planning to cross the river to attack the city after the third round of shelling, who knew that suddenly somehow, the hanging suspension bridge was suddenly put down.

Above the city of Beijing, a small chamberlain trembled and lowered the drawbridge, his hands trembled in fright, and before he could escape from the city tower, he was caught red-handed - that was one of the eunuchs who surrendered to the Dongchang guarding the city at that time, because he looked obedient, so he left his life to run errands for the group of rebels who were covering the sun.

The branch master who was defending the city was furious, grabbed him by the neck, and lifted the man up.

The little chamberlain, who was still a half-grown child, opened his eyes wide in horror, and could not shout, and his hands clung in vain in the air, but he could not grasp a single straw.

Suddenly, the branch master let go of him, and before he could catch his breath, he was surrounded by greater fear. He found himself falling from a great height—he had been thrown from the walls!

The little chamberlain cried out in despair, and soon he could no longer hear.

You know, it's easy to put down the suspension bridge, but it's hard to lift it up again if you delay it for a while. Yu Jingning and the others seized the opportunity, rode their horses and galloped forward, and the army roared forward.

If the city of Beijing was well guarded, it would be impossible for 30,000 people to open the city gate in such a short period of time, who knew that it would be guarded like this by this group of inexperienced people.

Yu Zhiwei couldn't help but sigh at the emptiness of the guards in the capital, it stands to reason that although there are many masters of the sun covering, the war is definitely not solved by killing one person in five steps by any master, it is about an overall coordination, so it is unlikely to take advantage of the sun on the frontal battlefield.

It's like this!