"Don't miss the opportunity, you won't miss it. Lin Ning's gaze from afar did not retract, and a calm voice clearly entered Xie Yan's ears in the raging wind.

"The only thing to blame is that our intelligence officers are too competent. Lin Ning smiled. "It was also a coincidence that an intelligence officer from the old department of the Su family was temporarily transferred to the personal soldiers of the Tongguan Commander because of his good performance. He sent back a message that he would take the opportunity to assassinate the commander of Tongguan and let Tongguan enter a state of leaderlessness. ”

"Look. ”

Lin Ning pointed to a small point of light that rose from the direction of the granary in Tongguan City, and the point of light flew into the air and exploded, blooming a small golden flower of light in the dark night. This is the signal they agreed on before, which means-

"He got it. ”

Tongguan City was already in a panic at this time. Outside the granary, the ground was covered with charred wood, and white heat was steaming from the water-soaked wooden beams.

The minds of the soldiers surrounding the corpse of the Tongguan Commander were blank, and they didn't even know how all this happened. Everyone held the hilt of their swords tightly and looked nervously at the other soldiers around them, and the air was filled with tension and vigilance.

They only remembered that a moment earlier, when the Captain had accidentally let the fire reach his cloak while fighting the fire, the soldiers had rushed up to extinguish the fire on the Captain with cloth bags and dust. After extinguishing the fire on his clothes, the lieutenant lay motionless on the ground, and his soldiers went to check on him, only to find that he had a grease-soaked dagger stuck in his waist.

The fire had been burned from the cloth belt around the handle of the dagger, and the grease along the handle had burned the wound beyond recognition, and the lieutenant himself had died long before the fire had been extinguished.

The soldiers knew that the murderer was among them, but they didn't know who that person was.

At the same time, the battle at the West City Gate has been carried out to a tragic extent. The guard grabbed the collar of the soldiers who came to herald the order and shouted, "What about Lord Commander, why is there no instruction, why is there no support!"

The soldiers defending on the city wall were not able to lift their heads at all when they were hit by the rain of bows and crossbows and catapults with long range, great strength and fast rate of fire, and as soon as they stood on the city wall, they would be pierced through the throat by an arrow. There are barbs on the ladder, and they are made of extremely hard ironwood, and they can't be pushed down by chopping, so they can only watch the Yanzhou army climb the city wall along the ladder in waves.

The Xicheng guards lost most of them, but at this time they did not see any support, and the guards were angry and attacked, but they heard their own soldiers tremble and say: "Lord Duwei, he was assassinated......

"What? you say it again!" the guard only felt a burst of blackness in front of him, and this kind of thing had happened at such a critical juncture!

"Lord Lieutenant, you're dead. The soldier's voice trembled, but he said the fact that the guard was completely unwilling to accept.

At this moment, one man and one horseman, who were rushing from the south of the city, roared in the earth-shattering sound of stonethrowing: "The south city gate is broken!

"The South City Gate is broken?" the guard couldn't react for a moment, and repeated Na Na.

"My lord, the walls can't be defended! They're in!" the defenders of the West City stumbled in outside the gate, their feathered arrows stuck in their backs stained with their own blood.

After the soldier who reported the news said this sentence with his last breath, he fell to the ground and swallowed his breath.

The guard struck a spirit, turned and rushed under the city wall, shouting as he ran: "Withdraw!

"Your Excellency, do you want to fight in the streets?" asked the soldiers, trembling behind the guards.

"The fact that the south gate was broken so quickly without seeing the flames of war can only show that there is a mole. The firepower of Xicheng is too strong, and we can't withstand it. It is better to drag the Yanzhou army into a street battle, with the familiarity of the terrain may still have a glimmer of life, their number is not large, we have a geographical advantage, and the victory or defeat is still five or five. The guard's eyes gleamed with hatred in the light of the torches, and he said hatefully.

"Your Excellency is wise!" the voice of the soldier brought a hint of a smile, but it made the guard's hairs stand on end in an instant, and a dangerous intuition rushed to his heart. His hand quickly reached for the blade at his waist, only to feel a sharp blade cut through his throat.

"Your strategy is good, and if you can implement it, you can really win or lose. It's a pity that you don't have a chance. The blade of the soldier refracted the blood-colored light, illuminating his ancient eyes.

Tongguan City is broken.

At the beginning of the morning, Lin Ning was dressed in silver armor and led the Yanzhou army all the way up along the rugged mountain road outside the southern city gate to enter the customs clearance city.

At the end of the mountain road, the city gate is open, and it looks very quiet. Two neat columns of Yanzhou troops lined up on both sides of the city gate, shouting military slogans neatly as Lin Ning passed.

Compared to the tragic West Gate, the South City Gate doesn't even look like it's been a city-breaking battle.

"Last night, another spy stationed at the south gate of the city put strong medicine in the drinking water cellar of the south of the city garrison, causing the entire south of the city garrison to fall asleep, and the city gate was easily opened. Last night, we also entered Tongguan City through the South City Gate first. Jiang Fei rode beside Lin Ning and told her about the battle last night.

"What about the battle damage?" Lin Ning held the reins in his hand, drove his horse forward, his eyes swept over the streets of Tongguan City that had been baptized by war, and said calmly.

"No soldiers were killed at the south gate, and two were slightly wounded. More than two people were killed and more than 100 were injured at the West City Gate. In this battle, more than 5,000 enemy soldiers were captured and more than 4,000 were annihilated. Jiang Fei continued to report.

Most of the captured enemy troops were the defenders of the two cities in the southeast, and the defenders of the west city were almost completely wiped out. Most of the enemy forces were annihilated on the walls, while most of our casualties occurred in street battles.

"Mozhi, you are in charge of the post-war pension work and the arrangements for the prisoners. The arrangements for the dead and disabled soldiers will be carried out in accordance with the methods we have drawn up earlier. In addition, none of these captives were allowed to stay in Tongguan, and all of them were scattered and reorganized into the original army, and they went with us to attack Yuzhou. Lin Ning said to Xie Yan.

Xie Yan promised respectfully.

The destruction of Tongguan City marks that the entire territory of Sizhou has been pocketed by Lin Ning. Since then, the Northern Coalition Army has mastered Youzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, Sizhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou, and has almost captured the entire northern territory.

In the next step, Wang Ren will send troops to Xuzhou, and Lin Ning and Jiang Xuanche will join forces to attack Yuzhou together. After taking Xuzhou and Yuzhou, it was the time when the Northern Coalition Army collided head-on with Xiao Zilan's Chinese army.

As for Jingzhou, if the Northern Coalition Army does not move them, the rebel army will not rush to find death on its own. Judging from the information obtained by Lin Ning, the rebel army has lost its original sharpness by this time period. The leaders began to frantically accumulate wealth and bully the rebel army at the bottom, and slowly irreconcilable contradictions would arise among them, triggering a new round of dumping and power change. If they know each other, it's not too late to clean them up after taking Yangzhou.