The messenger who came said the plan, and at the next hour in three days, Shen Yongxing would lead people to clear the defenders of Yangchun Gate, open the city gate, and put the Ming army into the city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Okay, then you go back and tell Duke Xu Shun, three days later, as soon as the appointed hour comes, a group of 5,000 men and horses of our army will cross the river and stand by! As long as you open the door as agreed, our army will enter the city! After the matter is completed, Xu Shungong is still a grandfather! Wang Xinyu readily agreed.

After that, the Qing army envoy saw Shen Rui again, and the two talked for a moment under the watchful eye of the Ming army.

The Qing envoy rushed back overnight, reached the moat, swam to the opposite bank, and was pulled back to the city by the people who answered there with hanging baskets.

"What's going on, does Minggou have any suspicions?" Seeing the messenger who came back, Shen Yongxing asked excitedly.

"Minggou is convinced!" The messenger replied.

Shen Yongxing asked again: "How is the prince in the Ming Dog camp?" ”

"It's okay, but once the dog is tricked, I'm afraid the life of the son of the world will be in danger." The messenger sighed.

Shen Yongxing was resolute and resolute: "If you want to make a big plan, you can't have the kindness of a woman!" Once the Ming Dog is tricked, he will inevitably take revenge and kill the son! But the son of the world will become the loyal martyr of my Qing Dynasty! ”

After the sky dawned the next day, in order to cooperate with the Qing army to play the plan of deception more realistically, the Ming army did not shell the city gate around the Yangchun Gate as agreed, but violently shelled the Wenchang Gate, the West City Gate and the Zhenhua Gate.

After a whole day of shelling, the arrow towers on the three city gates were beaten into ruins, the city walls were bombarded with holes, the female wall battlements were all bulldozed, and the stone city bricks on many sections of the city walls were blown down, revealing the rammed earth inside. However, because the Qing army already had the ability to resist attacks, when the Ming army shelled, only a few observation posts were left in the city, and the rest of the people hid back in the city to avoid shells, and all kinds of weapons to defend the city were not moved to the city, so the losses were not very large.

After dark, the Qing army repaired the city wall that had been shelled.

When the day came, the Ming army continued to launch fierce artillery bombardments on the Wenchang Gate, the West City Gate and the Zhenhua Gate, breaking through the city gate and collapsing a section of the city wall. However, it was useless to blast open the city gate, the city gate was blocked with stones, and there was an urn city inside, even if the Ming army crossed the moat, it would not be able to enter the city.

As the sky gradually darkened, the Qing army once again drove the people out and repaired the broken city gates and walls.

After three days of shelling, the city gates such as Wenchang Gate, West City Gate and Zhenhua Gate were dilapidated, and many city walls collapsed. The Qing army repaired the collapsed city wall and surrounded an inner city in case the Ming army suddenly crossed the river and attacked the city through the gap.

It was completely dark, time passed slowly, and the appointed time was gradually approaching.

"Prepare to cross the river, we will plan and attack from Yangchun Gate!" Wang Yuyou was arranging the attack plan in advance.

According to the plan of the Ming army, after the Ming army crossed the river, the 500 prisoners used to be used as cannon fodder would enter the city through the open city gate. The Qing army set up a plan to surrender, and the city gate in the urn city may not be opened, but the vanguard of the Ming army did not all enter the city, and the Qing army will not do anything for the time being.

The main force of the Ming army crossing the river would use gunpowder to blast the Yangchun Gate and blow up a slope on the city wall, after which the Ming army suddenly ascended to the top of the city and launched an attack on the city wall above the urn city.

As for the 500 captives who served as cannon fodder, if they were lucky enough to survive, they would also cooperate with the attacking Ming army and launch an attack on the city. The cannon fodder captives were armed with grenades and gunpowder packs, and were able to blast the inner gates and jack gates of the urn city, blasting a passage into the city.

At the moment, the Ming army in charge of the attack arrived at the moat with a raft and bamboo row in the dark.

In the camp of the Ming army, the rest of the Ming army mobilized all the troops for battle overnight, patiently waiting for the fighters to appear. As long as the blasting in the opposite wall is successful, all the Ming troops will cross the river and launch a fierce attack.

Not long after the time, it was already very close to the agreed time, and the vanguard of the Ming army guarding the moat saw that two red lanterns were hung on the opposite city tower.

"I see the promised signal! Crossing! Ma Jiuyu, who was in charge of the siege, gave the order.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty on the riverside discharged the rafts and bamboos into the water, and the officers and men of the vanguard team boarded the rafts and bamboo rafts, rowed their oars vigorously, and rowed the rafts and bamboo rows to the opposite bank.

In the camp of the Ming army, Shen Rui, who was a hostage, waited anxiously. Tonight will be a critical moment, if the Qing army's plan to surrender can succeed and trick an elite unit of the Ming army into the city to close the door and fight dogs, then the Ming army's offensive on Xiangyang will be forced to slow down, and Xiangyang will be able to support for a longer period of time.

"Even if Minggou is lucky enough to attack the city, we don't have to worry! Xiangyang City is ready for street fighting! If Ming Dog enters the city, he will be annihilated by our army in one fell swoop! Shen Rui said to himself secretly in his heart.

At this moment, more than a dozen Ming officers and soldiers appeared outside Shen Rui's barracks, and the first junior officer arched his hand and saluted: "Shen Gongzi, please come to the Chinese army camp with your humble position!" Tonight is the siege time, and the marshal has something important to discuss with his son! ”

Shen Rui stood up and followed the Ming officers and soldiers into Wang Xinyu's Chinese army camp. As soon as he entered the camp, he heard a roar: "Take it!" ”

The two tiger-backed soldiers grabbed Shen Rui at once, pressed his head to the ground, cut his hands behind his back, and a thumb-thick hemp rope was put on his body.

"The younger generation is not guilty!" Shen Rui shouted anxiously.

"Not guilty?" Wang Yuyou sneered, "Xushun referendum for treason, and now he has come to offer a plan to surrender by deception!" Hum! It's a pity that your carving insect skills can only deceive others, and you can't even deceive the old man! ”

It was also at this time that several of Shen Rui's cronies and servants, as well as several Qing army spies who had previously used the opportunity of the caravan to pass through the Ming army camp, were all taken down and escorted to the Chinese army camp.

Wang Xinyu coldly ordered: "Wait until the blasting on the opposite side is successful, and cut off all these fake Tartars!" ”

At the head of Yangchun Gate in Xiangyang, hearing the sound of a splash in the moat, Shen Yongxing was excited in his heart: "Minggou is finally here!" ”

When the sound of water in the moat was near, with the help of the faint light emitted by the red lanterns at the head of the city, the Qing soldiers at the head of the city could see the rafts and bamboo rows rowing towards the moat.

Inside the Yangchun Gate, the big stone blocking the door has already been removed. Seeing that the Ming army was already approaching the city, Shen Yongxing asked his soldiers to give an order: "Prepare to open the city gate!" ”

The first raft came ashore, and the Ming soldiers on board jumped off the raft. At this moment, there was a creaking sound from the gate of Yangchun Gate, and the gate slowly opened a crack, and then the entire city gate was opened.

"Up!" A Ming officer waved his hand.