Xue Lao Er and Zhang Hongbing divided into two ways, the former took ten brocade guards to push away the blocked horses outside the city gate, and the latter took more than a dozen soldiers and ran to the city tower.

Under the command of Zhang Hong, the soldiers who entered the gate tower on the city pushed the winch together, and the drawbridge outside the Zuo'anmen gate was slowly lowered in the dark.

As Xue Lao Er opened the originally closed city gate at the same time, the boundless darkness outside the city was unreservedly revealed in front of Zhou Shixian and his party.

At the same time that several city gates to the west and north were breached, the main forces of the Shun army were already scrambling to enter the city from those places, and the defense forces left in other places were already very weak.

After all, the capital is the capital of the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, bringing together the world's dignitaries and nobles and the huge wealth they have looted for dozens of hundreds of years.

Under the restraint of Li Zicheng, although the military discipline of the Shun army is strict, it does not mean that those soldiers will not be moved, let alone that those generals have no selfishness.

When the city is broken, when there is chaos, the army that enters the city can naturally take the opportunity to plunder. Therefore, those who can enter the city as soon as possible are naturally all descendants of the Shun army, the real elite of the old battalion.

Moreover, the capital has been broken, and Li Zicheng has countless eunuchs in the palace, and countless Beijing generals on the city wall provide information, and they should cooperate with the outside, so they naturally ignore Zhou Shixian, a force that is completely out of the plan.

Even, because there were too many Erwuzai in the capital who were scrambling to join the Shun army, Li Zicheng had the illusion that the situation was completely under his control.

As soon as the city gate opened, Zhou Shixian immediately ordered Jinyiwei to scatter nearly 100,000 taels of silver on more than a dozen wheelbarrows on the avenue of Zuo'anmen, and then ordered the team to leave the city.

Behind them, the sound of horses' hooves approaching from the forward of the Shun army, and even dense torches could be seen moving rapidly.

These silvers may be able to stop this Shun army from pursuing for a while.

Jinyiwei opened the way, Zhou Shixian led the team, and soon passed through the moat outside the city, and the huge city gate behind them was immediately closed from the inside by Xue Laoer, and then the soldiers under Zhang Hong struggled to pull up the suspension bridge.

After Xue Lao Er and Zhang Hong finished the work of breaking off, they quickly came down from the city wall through the rope and returned to the escort team.

After the Shun army chasing in the city finished packing up nearly seven thousand catties of silver, it may not be so easy to catch up. That's a whole hundred thousand taels of silver!

Therefore, the most important thing now is to break through the checkpoint of the Shun army outside the city and leave the capital unconsciously.

After all, Zhou Shixian's escort soldiers and horses are still too few, and the Shun army that solves one or two checkpoints can do it, but if it attracts the attention of most of the Shun troops in the south and is besieged, it is unlikely that he wants to get out again.

You must know that to the southeast of the capital, there is an endless plain, and there are more than 100,000 Shun troops inside and outside the city, even if these are heavenly soldiers and generals under the command of Zhou Shixian, after being discovered, it is impossible to retreat with their whole body.

Zhou Shixian immediately briefly sorted out the team on the edge of the moat outside the city, and finally confirmed the tasks of each team.

Xue Lao Er led the Jinyi Guard and most of the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp as the main force to raid the Shun army checkpoint, and Zhang Hong cooperated with him in the battle, leading more than 30 elite sentry horses from the 3,000 battalion to scatter to both sides to intercept any possible Shun army sentry horses.

Then there was Wang Chaodong, whose task was to assist Zhou Shixian, leading the remaining more than 100 horsemen, guarding the holy car, including more than 80 musketeers.

They had to wait for Xue Lao Er to solve the more than thirty Shunjun soldiers in the previous checkpoint before continuing to march.

At the same time, Zhou Shixian is also ready to rush at any time, and no one knows what kind of accidents may occur in the middle.

Once the situation is out of control, he will not sit still, and the more than 80 muskets are his last reliance on breaking through and charging hard.

The scouts that Zhou Shixian originally sent outside the city had returned to the team at this time, and the situation was as Zhou Shixian expected, after confirming that it was correct, Zhou Shixian immediately ordered Xue Lao Er to act immediately.

"Those thirty or so thieves, don't let them run away, kill them all, let alone alarm the thieves in the surrounding camps, can you do it?" Zhou Shixian asked with a serious face.

"Don't worry, more than eighty fight more than thirty, if one runs, I, Xue Er, will come to see you." Xue Lao Er patted his chest and reassured.

"I don't want your head, I want you to cut off the heads of those thieves." Zhou Shixian said sharply. Then he glanced at him and motioned for the other party to act immediately.

Xue Lao Er was not ambiguous, and after giving a military salute to Zhou Shixian, he immediately set off.

Although hundreds of war horses were moving at the same time, the subtle movements of the war horses with their four hooves covered with cotton cloth were almost negligible in the noise of the city when it was broken.

In fact, the so-called "siege" cannot really trap a city, especially a "giant city" like the capital located on the plain. Not to mention that Li Zicheng only has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, even if he has hundreds of thousands of troops, I am afraid it will be difficult to do it.

Not to mention, the Shun army has only besieged the city for a few days now, and the city gate has already been breached, and even the trench and earthen walls outside the city that have been besieged for a long time have not yet had time to be built.

At this time, the main force of the Shun army had all entered the city, and the defense outside the city was very empty, and the guards in each camp were less than 1,000. As long as Zhou Shixian plans properly, it is not impossible to break through.

You must know that there is a big gap between each camp of the besieging army. At most, the Shun army sent patrols and sentinels to keep it on guard, and it was not possible to completely surround it.

And now the situation is also obvious: as soon as the city gates to the west and north of the capital are broken, these Shun troops who are responsible for defending and intercepting the Ming army in the city to break through the chaos have completely relaxed their vigilance.

After all, most of these Shun troops outside the city are the former Ming court border army that has just surrendered to Li Zicheng, and the military discipline and combat strength are naturally not comparable with the old battalion soldiers of the Shun army, and the lazy atmosphere that was originally cultivated in the Ming army is difficult to change for a while.

In addition, Li Zicheng's mind is now all on Emperor Chongzhen in the Forbidden City, where can he be distracted outside the city?

Xue Lao Er took his soldiers and horses and went straight to the checkpoint of the Shun army, and under the cover of night, he pretended to be the Shun army who came from the city to respond.

After all, no matter how careful you are, the sound of the suspension bridge being lowered outside Zuo'an Gate just now must have attracted the attention of these Shun troops, but their lack of reaction is enough to show that they underestimated the enemy and were negligent.

This is an opportunity for Xue Lao Er.

More than 100 Ming troops soon approached the Shun army checkpoint that blocked their breakthrough, and under the cover of Zhang Hong's flanks, the whole process did not encounter any obstacles, and the only two Shun army sentry horses had been quietly killed by Zhang Hong.

These elite soldiers, when they rode their horses towards the checkpoint, were already on their horses with bows and arrows, ready for battle, and Xue Lao's spear was already clenched.