When he returned to the barracks, Zhu Linmiao immediately had three bonfires lit in the south of Jian'an City, and thick black smoke was emitted from wet horse dung.

This was the code he and Shi Lang agreed on in advance, and when the latter saw the smoke on the south side of Jian'an City, he knew that the main force of the Dragon Guard Army was going to attack the city.

He summoned the officers of the Dragon Guard and the Broken Camp to his account, first briefly explained the situation of Bolo's "begging surrender" and his suspicions, and then ordered: "The baggage in the army will start to be sorted out and loaded now, and be ready to drive at any time." ”

"Pull?" Zhen Zhen couldn't help but wonder: "Your Highness, aren't we here to ambush and rescue the thieves in Jian'an?" ”

Zhu Linmiao nodded and said, "In my judgment, Bolo should be delaying time, although I don't know what he wants to do, but it seems that he is planning to give up Jian'an at the moment."

"So we should capture Jian'an City as soon as possible, and then the main force will go to Yanping, no matter what the hell Bolo is doing, we can't let him go too well."

He said to Yu Xin again: "Chuangzhi, you personally led a battalion of infantry to Gutian to intercept the grain and grass sent to Bolo. ”

"Yes!"

Zhu Linmiao looked at Yu Xin, "If the person who delivers the grain claims to be acting on orders, what should you do?" ”

Yu Xin's reaction was also extremely fast, and he immediately saluted and said loudly: "My Ming courtiers are brave and loyal, and the king is wise and sage, and he will not contribute to the enemy's will!" ”

"Good."

Zhu Linmiao nodded with relief, and was about to say something more, when a personal soldier entered the tent, "My lord, Bai Daqi and Bai Gonggong have arrived outside the camp, saying that there is a holy decree for you." ”

Zhu Linmiao thought for a while, and first ordered Yu Xin to hide Lin Xuji and the others, and not let him have any contact with the eunuch Xuanzhi, and then got up and went out of the tent to greet him.

Bai Daqi and he met several times in Changting, and after a little greeting, he took out the holy decree and read it: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says, when Sheji is in danger, only King Chen is ready for military strength, forgets to die and captures, restores Xianxia and passes through the pass, and Kequzhou, encircles Jian'an, establishes great achievements in the country, and is heroic and Yongshao......

"Today, the head of the captives is subdued, the head is begging, the general trend of northern Fujian is initially determined, but Quanzhou is still based on the rebel minister Zheng Zhilong, which is a great disaster for the imperial court, so the Ministry of King Chen is transferred south to Nan'an, and the thieves are suppressed to show the world......

"Jianning Mansion and Xianxia Pass should be transferred to Ruan Qinghao to take over the defense in order to ...... the overall situation Chin this. ”

After Zhu Linmiao took over the holy decree, Bai Daqi came close again and said with a smile on his face: "Your Highness, the Queen Mother told you to hand over as soon as possible, so she set off to the south, just to sweep away Zheng Zhilong, and Fujing will tell the whole territory to be peaceful." ”

Zhu Linmiao also smiled and responded: "Father-in-law Bai, don't worry, I will go to Yanping today, and Xianxiaguan has my own department Huang Qishou who is responsible for the handover." ”

"Very good, then the slave and maid will take their leave."

"I'm busy with military affairs here, so I won't keep my father-in-law."

Zhu Linmiao and the other Bai Daqi disappeared outside the camp, and immediately asked people to get paper and pencils, and wrote a secret letter to order the soldiers to send them to Xianxia Pass. The letter instructed Huang Qishou to find a way to drag that Ruan Qinghao and not let him enter Xianxia Pass.

As soon as the soldier left with the secret letter, he saw Shi Lin rushing over in a hurry, saluted Zhu Linmiao, and said hurriedly: "My lord, my subordinates should be damned, none of them were careless, that Jing Gule actually committed suicide by taking poison!" ”

Zhu Linmiao's eyes froze, "Committed suicide?" ”

The subordinates took him to the back of the camp for interrogation, but this guy flickered and prevaricated repeatedly. The subordinates thought that they must have hidden secrets, so they wanted to be tortured. As a result, before the punishment was served, the Jiannu bit his cuffs and vomited blood and died.

"His subordinates inspected his sleeves, and there were poisonous things sewn into them."

"It seems that this 'envoy' knows some major secrets." Zhu Linmiao patted Shi Lin, "Forget it, you can't be blamed for this." In this way, we should have done the right thing to detain Lin Yuji and others. ”

He looked south, "Everything will be known after Yanping." ”

It's night.

Dahasu was sleeping soundly with Xinna's concubine in his arms.

Thousands of soldiers and horses of the Ming army besieged the city for several days, although artillery bombardment was fired from time to time, but the siege soldiers never dared to approach within 300 steps of the city, and the city was safe for a while.

Suddenly heard the sound of dense artillery in the west of the city, but he didn't care much, when did these Ming troops besieging the city not fire more than 100 cannons that night? However, all they used were small cannons, and they couldn't shake the thick walls of Jian'an.

A moment later, however, there was a strong knock on the door, and Dahasu was about to get angry, when he heard his guards shout: "General, the Ming army is attacking the city from the west gate!" ”

Dahasu was frightened, hurriedly got up, wrapped his clothes casually, went out with a knife, and hurried to the west of the city with his henchmen and soldiers.

At the same time, in the east of Jian'an City, Zhu Linmiao was staring at the city gate with a telescope in his hand, and when he approached, he finally saw someone outside the city holding a torch and drawing several circles.

He immediately ordered the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Battalions, which had been prepared, to run quietly towards the city gate. No one used torches, and it was not until dozens of steps below the city that Li Ying made people light torches, shouted, and led an assault force of more than 1,000 people to rush to the gate.

Seventy percent of the defenders in the city were transferred to the west of the city by Dahasu, and the only remaining nearly 100 prisoners at the head of the city woke up like a dream, and hurriedly took out bows, crossbows, and firearms.

But before they could shoot at the city, they heard the Ming army under the city shouting in unison, "Release!" ”

Immediately, the dense lead bullets flew head-on, and the captives who had just poked their heads out of the pheasant moat were immediately pressed back, and they watched with palpitations as the person next to him who shrank his head slowly was shot to a blur of flesh and blood, and suddenly lost his will to fight - just now I saw the fire from the birds under the city, and I was afraid that there were thousands of Ming troops. Based on this calculation, there must be many sword and axe men, pikemen and the like, which means that there should be at least two or three thousand Ming troops attacking the city at this time!

Li Ying let the attacking infantry release a round of guns, and they rushed to the city. Then the torches lit up, and I saw that the gate had already been pushed open a crack.

On the other side, Shi Lang took more than a dozen families to wrap their heads in black cloth, cut down the Qing soldiers guarding the ladder to climb the city, and quickly touched the city.

The defenders of the city were still curled up beside the city wall to peek at the besieging Ming army, and they were caught off guard and killed a group of people behind them, and they didn't know whether to turn back to meet the enemy or continue to shoot outside the city. After only a moment of stunned work, dozens of people were killed on the spot by Shi Lang.

Dahasu rushed to the west of the city with his men and hurriedly arranged it, but found that the thunder and rain of the besieging Ming army were heavy and small, and no one really attacked the city for a long time.

He was secretly laughing at the cowardice of the Ming army, when he saw someone coming from a wild run, shouting in fear all the way.

"The east gate was attacked by the Southern Barbarians!"

"The Ming army has entered the city!"

Dahasu was frightened and ordered 300 cavalry to rush to the east of the city to rescue, but before he could run out of two streets, he heard a burst of artillery roar in front of him, and everything was immediately lost. This Ming army has even dragged the cannon to the city, this speed is definitely not something that more than a thousand people can do, and the opposite side must be the main force of the Ming army.

Without much thought, he beckoned to his soldiers and turned his horse to the south of the city.

Before the time passed, the head of Jian'an City had already changed the sun and moon and Huihui military flag of the Dragon Guard. Due to the speed of the capture of the city, and the escape of the garrison general Dahasu in battle, even the Qing soldiers guarding the grain depot did not have time to set fire to a small amount, and they were all annihilated by the hussars of the Dragon Guard.

(End of chapter)