Xu Feihu was not polite at the moment, stretched out two fingers and said, "There are two priorities at the moment."

"First of all, the gates of the city must be opened as soon as possible to welcome the army into the city. However, Tan Bai has left a lot of Jianzhou soldiers at each gate, and we have to gather a team of people to come before we can be sure of winning the door.

"Then, we have to guard against the thieves from setting fires. The key to this lies in the two places where the thieves are stockpiling grain and the Forbidden City, which also requires a lot of manpower to succeed. ”

He immediately looked at everyone, "The opportunity to make meritorious service is right in front of you, now everyone can tell us what they are capable of." ”

This is the last chance to live, and dozens of people in the hall immediately scrambled to say: "There are thirty-three strong men in the Xiaguan family, fifteen guns, and more than 30 single knives, and I am willing to dedicate them to adults!" ”

"I have a lifelong friendship with Zhang Hong, the general manager of Qianxi Green Camp, but it can be said that he defected ...... battle"

"Lu Ji chariot and horse shop is the property of the younger brother of the Xiaguan clan, and there are forty good horses for the adults to dispatch......"

"The lower official knew the keeper of the granary in the east of the city, so he went to find him......"

The next day, in the east of Beijing, in a large mansion three blocks away from Chaoyangmen.

More than 700 sturdy men, each armed with a sword and a gun, waited with bated breath under the command of the Jinyi Guard. Most of these people are the guards and guards of the officials in the city, and they are all under the command of Xu Feihu.

After a while, a fat official came out of the back door panting, answered the code, and entered the house and said to Xu Feihu: "Lord Xu, Zhang Hong's side has been prepared, a total of more than 550 elite soldiers, just waiting for the adults to show them." ”

Later, more than a dozen people rushed to "report" their achievements, "My lord, the lower officials have found out the news, if the army enters the city, Tan Bai will escape from Fuchengmen." ”

"My lord, the guards of the granary in the north of the city have received the silver from the lower officials, and the gate of the granary will be locked tonight!"

"Lord Xu, I have managed to make the gunpowder of the thieves on the side of Chaoyangmen to ensure that no cannon can be lit ......."

Xu Feihu made people write down all of them one by one, but he was also secretly surprised in his heart - the energy of these more than 100 Beijing officials was so great! In just one day, they sent the 700 soldiers behind them, and contacted and rebelled against more than 2,000 people in the green battalion of the Qing army! At the same time, many "own people" have been planted in important places such as the Forbidden City and granaries.

As for the intelligence, it is even more impressive, not only can the locations of the dozens of cities set on fire to be built and captured be clearly understood, but even Tan Bai's city defense deployment map has been copied!

At night, the moon is dark and the stars are scarce.

The heavy artillery of the Ming army in the north of the city still roared non-stop, almost covering up all the sounds within a radius of more than ten miles. The Dragon Guard and the Broken Battalion divided their troops, Huang Qishou led 5,000 infantry and 1,000 dragoons to the east of the city to stand by, and Zhao Shichao took the hussar battalion to lurk outside the Fucheng Gate. Several other groups of men and horses rushed to Xianghe, Baodi, and Changping, which were all necessary routes from Beijing to Guanwai.

At the ugly time, the Jianyu military camp guarding the Chaoyang Gate suddenly burst out of thick smoke, and in a moment it burst into flames.

The captive officer in charge of the area, Iletu, hurriedly commanded the soldiers to fetch water to extinguish the fire, but he heard a gong not far away, and hundreds of black-clothed and masked people swarmed up, and the bows and guns were fired in unison, causing the captives near the city gate to retreat one after another.

At this time, almost all the main forces of the Qing army were in the north of the city, and the Ming army rushed into the city after the city wall was bombarded by artillery, so there were only more than 2,000 defenders in the east of the city.

Under Xu Feihu's surprise attack, the green battalion in the east of the city was the first to lose their fighting spirit, shouting "the Ming army has entered the city" and "the city is broken", and began to scatter and flee.

Iletu and the remaining more than 400 Jianzhou soldiers were still gritting their teeth and holding on, and hurriedly sent people to the north of the city to ask Tan Bai for help.

At this moment, I saw a group of people and horses from the south hurrying over, seeing that the clothes and equipment should be the green battalion, and there was a huge "Zhang" character on the flag they were holding.

Is it Zhang Hong's person? Iletu was overjoyed, and hurriedly waved at the team and shouted, "Brother Zhang, come and help me!" ”

Unexpectedly, Zhang Hong's subordinates only responded with a rain of arrows, and Iltu was caught off guard and immediately fell to the ground with several arrows.

After killing and dispersing the captives, Xu Feihu asked Zhang Hong to lead his troops to the head of the city and control the urn city, and he led people to remove the door bar and push open the city gate, and then lit three piles of hay outside the city.

Huang Qishou had been waiting a little anxiously, and when he saw the signal on the side of Chaoyang Gate, he was overjoyed, and immediately gave an order, "Kuang Fu Capital is at this time!" Come with me into the city! ”

Then he took the lead, leading two battalions of dragoons to rush westward in order to secure the gates. Behind him, five thousand infantry formed a straggler's line, running followed.

When the dragoons galloped to the city, they found that the city had changed the banner of the word "Zhang" or "Xu". It turned out that after the Jianzhou soldiers defending the city retreated, the other green battalions all surrendered to the wind, and all within three miles of Chaoyang Gate had fallen under Xu Feihu's control.

It wasn't until all Huang Qishou's troops entered the city, set up iron rope nets and horse rejection along the streets, and erected four No. 1 Franc machine guns, that the 4,000 reinforcements sent by Tan Bai were late.

Suddenly, the main street in Chaoyangmen and the adjacent alleys were blazing with guns and cannons, and the reinforcements who did not know the reality of the Ming army were taken by surprise, and they didn't even have a meal, so they left six or seven hundred corpses scattered and collapsed.

Huang Qishou immediately led the dragoons to cover the killing, and then divided into one army to attack Dongzhimen, and the other road went straight to the Forbidden City to prevent the Jianyu from sabotage.

At the same time, dozens of signal flares were raised in all directions outside Beijing, which were particularly conspicuous in the night.

The people and horses that had already been arranged in the city saw the red light rising, and immediately started together under the leadership of the Jinyi Guard. Some doused the fire prepared by the captives with water, some attacked the captives guarding the granary, and some sounded gongs to warn the people in the city to beware of the thieves setting fires.

Tan Bai's side is like sitting on pins and needles, and the police are constantly alerting.

"Report! The Chaoyang Gate has been lost, and the reinforcements of Lord Jilkunbi have been defeated. ”

"Report! Dongzhimen was attacked by the Southern Army inside and outside, and I am afraid it won't last long......"

"Report! The southerners have killed Renshoufang and are coming this way! ”

"General, the Bei'anmen side can't hold it anymore, please send reinforcements quickly......

Tan Bai scattered a large number of reinforcements here, but he couldn't stop the Ming army's offensive at all - a large number of people in the green battalion in his army had already been rebelled, and they ran away when they saw the Ming army, and even scattered the formation of the Jianzhou soldiers, and almost all of them were defeated in an instant under the powerful firepower of the Dragon Guard Army and the Broken Battalion.

Before the end of the day, Huang Qishou's forward had already exchanged hands with Tan Bai's Chinese army. The latter only heard the shouts in the city to kill the earth, and he didn't know how many Ming troops came, and he was terrified, but there was the main force of the yellow flag that did not dare to turn the direction of Deshengmen to come to the enemy - the artillery that had been eaten for two days over there, who knew when the Ming army would rush up.

Tan Bai commanded only more than 2,000 people to fight and retreat, but more and more Ming troops gathered everywhere, and gradually there was a tendency to surround him to death.

Finally, after the lieutenant who was not far away was pierced through the neck with a bullet, he sighed dejectedly and ordered several Bayalas beside him: "Order, close the city and burn the fire, and summon the main force of the Yellow Flag to go out of the city at Fuchengmen......"