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Chapter 1297 "Stealing Home"

It is said that Zhu Xieyuan, the left governor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Fengyi, the governor of Xuanda, and Ye Tinggui, the governor of Datong, decided to "borrow the captives to fight the bandits". They wrote a letter early and sent envoys to the Xuanfu.

It turns out that Zhu Xieyuan, Zhang Fengyi, Ye Tinggui and others are all good people, and now they have been fighting the rebels for a long time. The "Shun thief" fought back and forth with the officers and soldiers only with the men and horses in his hands.

But when the reinforcements from Li Zicheng's troops arrive, don't say "suppress the thieves" at that time, I'm afraid it will be lucky not to be "suppressed by the thieves".

Therefore, the three of them coincidentally prepared to introduce a third-party force to completely muddy the water so that they can get chestnuts out of the middle fire.

Of course, how exactly did this soldier borrow it? After borrowing it, will the opponent occupy the magpie's nest?
The three of them have made up their minds about this calculation, and they feel that everything is under control, so let's put it aside for the time being.

Let's say that after the rebel company occupied seven or eight longitudinal trenches of the Ming army, it was blocked by the Ming army barracks and the trenches outside the barracks.

Because the Ming army had suffered from the rebel army's ten-thousand-jin Hongyi cannon before, the fortress was built quite thickly this time, and the rebel army could not break through it for a while.

In this way, the two sides fought fiercely until dark, and they still couldn't decide the outcome.

Unexpectedly, the army changed hands again and fought at night with the lights on.

That Zhu Xie was over [-] years old in the first year of his life, and his energy was low. He tossed and tossed late into the night and couldn't stand it any longer.

This phoenix wing is also a person who is experienced in military affairs. After taking over, it was arranged airtightly. The rebels attacked several times, but they were all repelled.

Seeing that the east was turning pale and the sky was about to brighten, Zhang Fengyi couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the governor of Datong, Ye Tinggui, suddenly rushed in, and immediately asked, "Where is the supervisor?"

Zhang Fengyi was taken aback when he heard the words, and couldn't help but wonder: "It's not that you don't know, the supervisor is old and weak, and his energy is low, so he went to rest first, why did you come to look for him again?"

"The big thing is not good, we should call someone to wake him up quickly!" Ye Tinggui couldn't help but beat his chest and stamped his feet when he heard the words, "Just now the soldiers came to report, Taiyuan City suddenly caught fire, there must be some trouble!"

"What!" Zhang Fengyi couldn't help being horrified when he heard the words, and he didn't dare to believe it, "How is it possible, we have already spread scouts widely, how could the thieves appear outside Taiyuan City?"

It turned out that on the night of the fierce battle between the two sides, Wang Zhongzao, the former general of Shanxi, led a battalion of troops in a small boat, and under the cover of night, they went up the Fen River and reached the north of Taiyuan City.

At that time, Zhu Xieyuan led the main force of the Ming army to fight fiercely with the rebels on the front line, and worried that the director Gao would be hindered, so he sent him back to defend the city on the pretext that the defense of Taiyuan city was empty.

Gao Qiqian did his best, so he dispatched Li Guofu, Xu Jinzhong, Sun Weiwu, and Liu Yuanbin, the eunuchs under his command, to guard the southeast and northwest, in case there was any change.

There are east and west gates in the north of Taiyuan City, which are called "Small North Gate" and "Great North Gate" respectively.

And the gates of the "Great North Gate" and "Small North Gate" are just facing the two forts of "Yongning" and "Yong'an".

These two forts were combined into the "Second Fort of Anning" in the Ming Dynasty. The city is one week away, and there are firecrackers, artillery and other equipment inside.

Anyone who could not pull out the two forts first and planned to attack Taiyuan City from the north gate would surely be attacked by the soldiers of the Ming army stationed in these two fortresses.

Therefore, Sun Weiwu, the eunuch who was stationed on the north gate wall, dispatched soldiers to guard the "Great North Gate", "Small North Gate" and the Second Fort of Yong'an, thinking that it was impenetrable.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Shun sent his general Wang Zhong to attack alone, and he sneaked all the way to the north of Taiyuan City by moonlight alone without lights.

"General, if you want to take the two sects, you must first take the Second Fort of Yong'an. And if you want to take the Second Fort of Yong'an, you must alarm the guards of the two sects, what should you do?" Everyone just sneaked ashore, and a staff officer asked anxiously.

"The big and small gates, and the Yong'an Second Fort, although their system is ingenious, there are still some shortcomings!" Unexpectedly, Wang Zhong sneered.

"Yong'an Second Fort, there are two shifts every night; and the north gate and the north gate are often staggered by half an hour, so as not to be taken advantage of."

"Taiyuan soldiers are lazy by nature and often violate the rules. Therefore, when it is time to change shifts, the second shift does not arrive, and the front shift has already retreated. They are doing their own things and have no vigilance."

"I'll wait but hide for a while, and when the time comes, everything will come to light."

After listening to Wang Zhongzhi's words, the people lurked by the river, and sent scouts to check when it was midnight.

Sure enough, although the lights on Yongning Second Castle were still on, it was empty and there was no one there, so Wang Zhong and others led people to the gate of the city.

From the bank of the Fen River to the east, first pass the Great North Gate, and then the Little North Gate.

Although Wang Zhong's talent is not average, at least he has served as the commander-in-chief of Shanxi for a long time, and he understands the defense and layout of Taiyuan City best.

He couldn't help but ordered: "Listen to the sound of the cannons later, Wang Yi, you lead your troops to storm the Xiaobei Gate."

"Not far from the small north gate is the Guandi Temple, and to the east of the Guandi Temple is the Gunpowder Depot."

"As long as you enter the city, you don't care about anything, just occupy the gunpowder depot. If you can't do anything, you'd rather burn it than leave it to Zhu Xieyuan!"

That Wang Yi is a member of Wang Zhong's clan, he knew the power of it, he couldn't help but nodded and said: "Brother, don't worry, if this happens, my Wang family is still a famous family in Yulin, I know the key to it, brother, just feel free to attack the Yamen. "

The two sides have made a plan, so each of them led a team of men and horses to carry artillery to the north and south gates, while the remaining three divisions hid outside the city and moved with their cameras.

Sure enough, not long after, it was time for the guards at the city gate to change shifts, they collected their weapons and left the city gate one after another, but the guards who took over did not arrive for a long time.

"Okay!" Wang Zhong thought about it, knowing that the gate of Taiyuan City had a lot to do with it, the guards must have more intentions than Yongning Second Fort, and the successor guards will definitely arrive soon.

So he guessed that the previous team was far away, so he gave the order to attack.

"Yes!" Everyone got the order, and hurriedly dragged out something with [-] or [-] people.

It wasn't someone else, it was a Feibiao gun commonly used by rebels.

Dozens of catties of black powder had already been loaded into the flying biao blunderbuss, and a stone bullet weighing fifty catties was also stuffed.

After the gunner adjusted the angle of the muzzle, he pointed obliquely at the latch of the Great North Gate of Taiyuan, and then lit the fuse.

Immediately, there was a loud noise, and a huge hole was blasted out of Taiyuan Dabeimen City Gate.

"Once the latch is broken, quickly follow me into the city!" Wang Zhong didn't care about the smoke, and hurried forward to take a closer look, only to see that the latch of the Great North Gate had been broken in two.

Everyone got the order and quickly pushed hard. With a dull "squeak" sound, the gate of Taiyuan City suddenly opened wide.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" And at this moment, how could such a huge movement be concealed from others?
Three or five soldiers who had just arrived to change shifts suddenly discovered the existence of the rebel army.

"Kill!" Wang Zhong yelled when he saw this, and ordered the soldiers to drag the heavy flying guns to rush into the urn city, while bending their bows and nodding arrows, they shot towards the city.

There was only a scream, and the soldier fell down in response.

The other soldiers immediately followed suit, some shot arrows, some fired guns, and some shot and overturned two people.

The remaining two or three people were heartbroken, they couldn't help throwing away their knives and guns, turned around and fled.

It's too late, it's too soon.

Before the Great North Gate was completely opened, there was another muffled cannon sound not far away, but it was Wang Yi who led the soldiers to blast open the gate of the Little North Gate with Feibiao blunderbuss.

It turned out that this method of blasting the door with the Feibiao gun was Zhang Shun's idea.

In this era, the power of black powder is limited. If it is made into explosive kits or gunpowder barrels, it will not be able to damage the city gate at all.

Therefore, if you want to destroy the city gate, you can only find ways to increase the dose and restrain the gunpowder.

If it is to restrain gunpowder, which utensil in the hands of the rebels is more suitable than Feibiao?
Therefore, this time the rebel army stole the city, and deliberately brought two heavy flying blunderbusses, which were specially used to destroy the city gates at close range.

At this time, the Feibiao is no longer a Feibiao, but a directional blaster.

Not long after, another loud bang was heard, and even the gate of the last urn in Taiyuan City was blasted open by the rebels.

The impenetrable "Dragon City" Taiyuan has already opened its doors!

Poor Zhu Xieyuan, Zhang Fengyi, Ye Tinggui and others fought hard on the front line, but they didn't know that they were about to be "stolen" by the rebels.

(End of this chapter)