"I don't need you to file a complaint, I--"

"Cui Xiaoyi, shut up!"

When Han Run threatened to make an accusation, Cui Xiaoyi became furious as soon as he said it, and he almost blurted out that he wanted to rebel.

Fortunately, Liu Lin, who was anxiously planning a countermeasure on the side, spoke up in time to stop him.

"Han Tongshi, Mr. Han, please show me——"

At this point, Liu Lin still didn't want to make things completely out of control. After drinking Cui Xiaoyi, he immediately went back to make amends.

"Master Han, before you came to deliver the order, Jingjin Baylor had already ordered me to wait at Zhenjiang Gate to assist in the battle. I was summoning the generals to make arrangements, and it happened that Master Han came to visit me in person. That's all.

"Furthermore, Cui Xiaoyi is just a warrior and a reckless man. Why should Mr. Han be acquainted with him? Come here, Mr. Han is an honored guest and a rare visitor. This is a rare visit. Go and get what I have prepared for Mr. Han.

superior!"

"What's your intention for me? Haha, let's see if Liu Bingshi's intention is sincere or not first!"

Han Run volunteered to come to deliver the order, of course he had a purpose.

Although he was said to be a director to the Qing Dynasty, he was actually nothing more than a cloaked servant.

On weekdays, he has very little money for food and clothing, but during the holidays, he still has to spend money and things to support his masters. If he could not use his status as a general to blackmail people from the court, his life would be even more miserable.

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Therefore, he was very concerned about any contact between the Qing people and the court, because every time this happened, it was an opportunity for him to ask for bribes.

At this time, he saw that Liu Lin, the military commander of Ping'an Road, wanted to bribe him, which was playing into his hands, so he laughed, stepped back from the steps, and stood in the courtyard waiting for what Liu Lin said. He wanted to see it first.

Say it again.

Liu Lin did prepare generous gifts for Han Run, including those for Zheng Minshou, and Liu Lin also prepared them.

It's just that he was too busy during the day and hadn't had time to send it out yet.

This was also the consistent approach of the monarchs and ministers of the Li Dynasty when dealing with those court officials who were on errands with the Qing Dynasty.

The kings and ministers of Li Chao hated these people deeply in their hearts, but on the surface they could only bribe them in every possible way to please them.

Because these court traitors controlled the Qing Dynasty's handover affairs to the DPRK, any words they said could make the Qing Dynasty miserable.

It is strange to say that the sound of artillery in the direction of Zhenjiang Gate is still roaring, but Han Run, who came to convey the order for Liu Lin to lead his army out of the city to fight, was actually waiting for the bribe Liu Lin gave him.

The urging just now was so urgent, telling Liu Lin and others to set off immediately without any delay, otherwise they would be punished as disobedience. Now he didn't even mention it. It turned out to be his tactics to extort bribes from the court.

However, Liu Lin's side had spoken, and the soldiers on duty in the courtyard immediately took action, and soon carried out two heavy-looking hardwood boxes from the east and west wings of the courtyard, which had only one entrance.

"Master Han, this is what Xianguan and others have prepared for Master Han. Please accept it, Master Han!"

Liu Lin directed the soldiers to place the two finely crafted hardwood boxes in front of Han Run, and motioned to the soldiers to open them for Han Run to inspect.

Upon hearing this, Han Run took the light he was handed, leaned over and looked at it for a moment, then slammed the lid of the hardwood box shut.

"Hahahaha, easy to say, easy to say, Liu Bingshi is really sincere, I accept this intention, I accept it, hahahaha!"

The wooden box was filled with layers of silver ingots. According to a rough estimate, one box contained about three thousand taels.

Now there are two boxes of silver ingots, which must be more than 5,000 taels.

Han Run laughed and personally ordered his servants to drag the two wooden boxes to the entrance of the small courtyard, then turned around and stood on the steps at the entrance of the courtyard and said to Liu Lin and others:

"Just pretend that nothing happened tonight, including the rude remarks you Cui Xiaoyi made to me. I can let you go, but the matter of going out to fight in the city is

Are you going to implement the order issued by Dinghai General Prince Zheng personally?

"However, for the sake of Liu Bingzhi's sincerity, I can remind you that it is necessary to leave the city, but as long as you persist outside the city until dawn, everything will be solved. You

It’s all merit and demerit! Farewell!”

After saying these words, Han Run became more and more proud in front of the generals. He laughed loudly, turned around to greet his servants, picked up the silver box, and was about to leave.

However, at this moment, a bright light suddenly flashed in front of everyone's eyes, like a flame, but it flashed past.

"What is that?!"

"Outside the city wall, over there outside the city wall——"

Everyone was in shock, looking for where the sudden flash of light came from, when they suddenly heard an earth-shattering boom.

Immediately, the mountain shook with a crash, knocking all the court generals standing in the small courtyard to the ground.

As for Han Run, who was about to turn around and go out, he seemed to be hit by something in the violent explosion. He flew back five or six feet and fell heavily to the ground.

The two hardwood boxes fell to the ground all of a sudden. The lids of the boxes were opened, and the white silver ingots were scattered all over the floor.

"Explosion, explosion, someone outside the city must be blowing up the city! It must be blowing up the city, it must be blowing up the city!"

Cui Xiaoyi, who was also thrown to the ground by the sudden explosion and shock, climbed up. When he realized what happened, he shouted loudly and immediately rushed over the people and rubble on the ground.

Outside the small courtyard where Liu Lin stayed.

When he ran outside the courtyard gate and took a look, he saw that a section of the city wall not far away on the left side of the courtyard gate had collapsed, forming a gap.

On the rubble pile formed at the gap, a wave of people was pouring in. Those people held muskets with bayonets and fired bang bang bang bang, knocking down the stragglers who were rushing to the rubble pile of the gap to the ground one by one.

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At the same time, there were also people who climbed onto the top of the city from the rubble piles and threw something into the city from a high position.

What shocked Cui Xiaoyi on the spot was that the objects thrown into the city from the top of the city exploded when they fell to the ground, blowing up the nearby Korean and Japanese soldiers who were running around like headless flies.

"Don't hit me, don't hit me, I am Choi Hyo-il from North Korea, I am Choi Xiao-il from North Korea!"

Seeing the situation at the gap in the city wall more than a hundred steps ahead, Cui Xiaoyi quickly realized that the group of troops who bombed in from outside the city were not Lin Qingye's troops.

Because he and Lin Qingye were old acquaintances, he knew that Lin Qingye's navy did not have such firearms and equipment at all.

So these firearms teams that rushed into the city through the gap with unstoppable momentum were not Lin Qingye's men, so who could they be?

"It must be Lin Qingye who brought the Ming army from Jinhai Town with his fleet!"

Cui Xiaoyi thought of this and ignored the huge danger he might face in the rebel army. While announcing his identity loudly, he pushed away the infantrymen who were running around because there was no one to command them, and rushed towards the gap in the city wall.

past.

Cui Xiaoyi guessed correctly.

The team that succeeded in bombing the city was Zhang Chen's men, and the first ones to rush up the rubble from the gap, rush into the city, and reach the top of the city were also Zhang Chen's musketeers.

After Yang Zhen ordered the artillery to bombard the walls of Zhenjiang Fort, Zhang Chen led a musketeer battalion of more than 800 people under the musketry regiment and landed on the river bank not far south of Zhenjiang Gate to ambush.

The agreement between Yang Zhen and Zhang Chen was very clear, which was to wait for the five heavy artillery ships moored on the river to attract the enemies in the city to Zhenjiang Gate, and at the same time wait for the five heavy artillery ships to make holes in the city wall in front of them.

After that, a small team was immediately dispatched to dig holes in the severely damaged city wall, and then used the large blasting tubes carried by the army to blow up the city.

The safest way to destroy the city is of course to park the gunboats on the river and then continue to bombard the city with heavy artillery.

But this time, Yang Zhen brought only five heavy artillery pieces.

In terms of the number of heavy artillery, it was a bit too few, and in terms of the time of the bombardment, they didn't have that long.

Jierhalang and Ashley in the city are aware of the impact of the ebb tide at the river mouth on the water surface and water level of the river. Yang Zhen and Lin Qingye outside the city are also aware of it.

Therefore, after they launched a fierce bombardment at the predetermined position, Yang Zhen aimed the bombardment at Zhenjiang Gate and assumed a posture of storming Zhenjiang Gate.

Under the dark night and thick fog, Jingjin Beilenikan, who did not know what was going on, could only send people to ask for orders from Jierhalang again and again, and set the destination of reinforcements in the city in the Zhenjiang Gate area.

Including the gratifying artillerymen of the Han military camp who came for emergency reinforcements, after entering the Wengcheng of Zhenjiangmen, they began to hurriedly move the heavy artillery stored in the Wengcheng, trying to follow Nikan's order to transport them to the top of the city to bombard the fleet on the river.

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However, these heavy artillery were extremely heavy. They were easy to disassemble but difficult to assemble. It was easy to bring them down the city but even more difficult to move them up the city.

In addition, it was night again, and the direction of the heavy artillery bombardment outside the city was finally concentrated here at Zhenjiang Gate. From time to time, huge solid shells fell into the crowd in Wengcheng, and the remaining limbs and broken arms were scattered in all directions.

Therefore, although there were many gunners and horses in the Han camp under Shang Kexi, they panicked and hurriedly spent a lot of effort, but to no avail.

As for the north and south city walls along the river, although Nikan also sent elite troops to constantly patrol and prepare for defense, it was difficult to take everything into consideration.

After all, the Tartars' cavalcade soldiers and infantry soldiers have a lot of experience in charging into battles, but they have very little experience in defending a city.

When the incident occurred unexpectedly, they did not prepare anything such as rolling logs, rocks, cannons, or gate-blocking knives on top of the city they were guarding.

In this way, about half an hour after Yang Zhen started shelling, the team led by Li Shouzhong successfully found several holes that had been bombarded by heavy artillery. Then they dug deep into the holes formed by the shelling, buried and connected several holes.

He used a large blasting tube and succeeded in blowing up the city in one fell swoop.

Zhang Chen and others who were lurking in the trees on the river bank saw a huge ball of light flash by, heard a violent explosion, and felt a violent tremor from the ground, and immediately jumped out.
Chapter completed!