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  Chapter 690 687 [All staff are hungry]

  Anba finally understood why the Manchus were always defeated, but the Datong Army always won.

  He was rushing with the army as a guide, and at the moment he was so hungry that his chest was on his back. Not to mention going into battle, I feel a little dizzy when I walk. I just gnawed some grass roots today.

"General," Anba suggested, "should we sweep the outside of the city first and get some food to fill our stomachs. It's too difficult to attack the city directly, and the soldiers are almost fainting from hunger. If they fail to attack the city, the entire army may be wiped out." .”

Yang Zhenqing is a lunatic, and he doesn't want to retreat at all: "Soldiers are expensive, since it's a surprise attack, then hit the vital point directly. After getting food outside the city, how can the defense inside the city attack the city? And..." Yang Zhenqing suddenly laughed , "I believe in the fine brothers in the city."

  Amber's stomach is empty, and his heart is also empty at the moment. He proposed a surprise attack, but it wasn't such a surprise attack method that let a group of hungry soldiers attack the city at night?

  In the darkness, countless torches gradually ignited.

  They would rather not bring so much dry food, but also bring enough weapons and firelighters.

  Hetuala was the early capital of the Later Jin Dynasty, and its area was not as large as the expanded Sarhu City.

  The Aixinjueluo family lives in the inner city, which is also called the royal city and the imperial city.

  In the north of the outer city, all artisans live, and most of them are Han artisans. The remaining three sides of the outer city were inhabited by Manchu nobles, merchants and Han officials.

  Outside the city, ordinary soldiers and their families living in the Eight Banners Army.

  There were originally Han people outside the city, but they have fled one after another in the past two years, and there are not many Han people in sight.

  Countless torches were lit, and the Tartar soldiers guarding the city soon spotted the troops and hurriedly blew their horns to issue a warning.

   The city was in chaos, and they couldn't figure out what was going on, let alone where the enemy came from.

  Yang Zhenqing led the soldiers under his command and rushed to the residential area outside the city holding a torch. The Eight Banners soldiers who lived here were either guarding the city, or followed Suo Hun to the south to stop the attack, and the rest of the settlements were all the Eight Banners families.

   Even, there are not many young and strong people, and everyone who can fight is recruited. More than 90% of them are old, weak, women and children.

   "Don't look for food, light the fire quickly!" Yang Zhenqing reiterated the military order while running.

  The Datong Army, which was full of hungry people, actually only set fire to the house, instead of rushing into the house to find food. In an instant, fires broke out outside the city, and countless Tartars, old and weak, ran away crying and shouting.

  The Tartar defenders on the city wall, there were only a few hundred people left at this time, staring dumbfounded at the fire outside the city.

  Their family members were all outside the city, and it is not known whether they were burned to death. Anyway, their house must have disappeared.

  The city guard will be named Solga, the younger brother of Erke Daiqing.

  Solga shouted: "Shut the city gates tightly, and don't go out to fight the fire!"

  This order made the Tartar soldiers stationed on the outer city wall extremely angry when they heard it.

   What was burned outside was their home, their family.

   As for nobles like Solga, all their family members are in the city, even if the outside of the city is burned, the nobles will not lose anything.

   Even more disgusting is the royal family!

   Those with the surname Aixinjueluo all live in the inner city. After the warning horn sounded, the soldiers in the inner city did not come out at all, but devoted all their energy to defending the inner city wall.

   It's so ridiculous, there are only a thousand defenders left in Hetuala.

  Half of them were the Eight Banners Army whose families were outside the city. They were not allowed to go out or help their families, so they could only stick to the outer city wall.

  Half of them are the Eight Banners Army whose home is in the outer city, and they are not allowed to go out, so they can only guard the Aixinjueluo family in the inner city.

  Fan Wencheng was awakened by the sound of the horn, dressed under the service of his concubine, and called the housekeeper to ask, "But the Southern Barbarian came?"

  The butler replied: "I don't know, it's very chaotic outside, and many people are asking for news."

  Suddenly, noises came from the lower courtyard.

Fan Wencheng felt that something was wrong, so he went to check it himself, only to hear a house slave shouting: "I am sent by Emperor Zhao of Nanjing, the Heavenly Soldiers of Datong have arrived, Han brothers and sisters, please don't be buried with the Tartars. Set it on fire with me." house, everyone can be rewarded for meritorious service, and everyone can share the land and become a landlord!"

  Fan Wencheng was horrified and asked, "Who is this person?"

  The butler said: "I bought it last year."

  Fan Wencheng suddenly remembered the human trade at Guandi Temple. There have been too many escaped slaves in the past two years, so I can only buy back slaves to supplement, I am afraid that countless secret works have been mixed in.

  Perhaps, those merchants who buy and sell people have secretly taken refuge in the Datong court!

   "Get it for me!" Fan Wencheng shouted.

  The Datong spy also shouted: "Burn houses and make meritorious deeds, everyone will be a landlord!"

   Outside the city is the Datong army. As long as they set fire to the house, they can make meritorious service and divide the land as landlords. How to choose, the slaves are very clear.

   Just as the slaves went to light the fire, the secret worker shouted again: "Catch Fan Wencheng alive, and reward him with twenty taels of silver!"

   "Run!"

  Fan Wencheng was scared out of his wits, so he just slipped away, not caring about his wife and children, and wanted to escape to the inner city for refuge.

  The same situation happened in many places in the city, and even the mansions of the Manchu nobles were infiltrated as fine slaves.

  Mr. Huang from Nancheng, this guy is a personal trafficker, and his backer is a head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

At this moment, Huang Sanye didn't even put on his clothes, so he summoned his slaves and subordinates. He said excitedly, "Don't panic, the Datong Heavenly Soldiers have come to kill you outside the city. My master has already voted for Emperor Zhao. You set fires with me, and burn down any houses that are not occupied, and all of you can make meritorious service in the new dynasty... Remember, you are not allowed to burn down the houses and shops of the Huang family!"

  Fan Wencheng led the butler and ran all the way, seeing several houses on fire along the way. Don't ask any more, it must have been done by a secret agent, there are probably dozens of secret agents in this city!

   It's over, the Qing Dynasty is over!

  When he came to the south gate of the inner city, Fan Wencheng shouted: "Open the door quickly, I am Fan Wencheng!"

  The defenders did nothing, fearing that Fan Wencheng would join the enemy as a spy.

  But the defenders in the inner city have already lost their morale. Most of their homes are in the outer city, and now not only the outer city is on fire, but the outer city is also being ignited carefully, and their family members are likely to be burned to death.

   "Fuck your mother!"

   When Fan Wencheng saw that the city gate was not opened, he was so angry that he cursed.

  As for Ning Wan and me, he is still in the casino at the moment, and his money has almost run out.

The people in the casino fled out in a panic, but I was very calm after Ning Wan, and I laughed and said: "Why are you running away? You are dead on the left and right, and you can escape with the life of a dog? I have been a poor scholar in my life. It’s worth it to enjoy it for so many years.”

  Inner City, Imperial Palace.

  Da Yuer got up in a panic, got dressed and went to find her son, then called Sai Le, who was in charge of security in the inner city: "But the Southern Barbarians are calling?"

Sai Le replied: "Queen Mother, fires broke out everywhere outside the city and the outer city. I really don't know what's going on. It is estimated that the two generals Suohun and Erke Daiqing have already wiped out the entire army in the south. Otherwise, how could the enemy kill He He?" Tuara?"

   "Suo Hun's entire army was wiped out? This...what to do." Da Yuer completely lost his sense of proportion.

   Sai Le persuaded: "Queen Mother, please Your Majesty to tour the east. Manda...Prince Li, there is still a shelter, if you don't leave, the enemy will attack!"

   "Okay, let's go, let's go!" Da Yuer said quickly.

   Sailor immediately went to summon the guards of the House of Internal Affairs. Hearing that the emperor and the queen mother were about to run away, they hurriedly opened the gates of the inner city and went separately to the outer city to find their family members. You can't just protect the empress dowager and the emperor to escape, and leave your family here, or the house will burn down anytime soon!

   Facing the scattered guards, Seiler couldn't hold back at all, so he simply went to find his family.

  Da Yuer took her son and waited in the palace for a long time, but no one came back.

   Panicked, she simply left by herself, accompanied only by a group of heartfelt eunuchs and court ladies. Not long after leaving the palace, I met Aixinjueluo's clansmen, who were also fleeing with their families.

   "Your Majesty and the Queen Mother are here, open the city gate!"

  The **** shouted at the north city gate, and the Tartar soldiers guarding the city were in an uproar.

   Their home was burned outside the city, but they were ordered not to go out, and now the queen mother is actually taking the emperor to run away.

   These low-level Eight Banners finally no longer obey military orders, and they don't care about the emperor or empress. They scrambled to leave the city wall, opened the city gate and rushed out, calling the names of their families all the way.

  Seeing this, Da Yuer didn't care about punishing the soldiers, and hurriedly took her son and fled through the North City Gate.

   "Captain, the north gate is open!"

   "Quickly capture the city!"

  Yang Zhenqing led his troops to kill towards the north gate, but he didn't know that Dayuer and Shunzhi had fled. Even if he knew, he wouldn't bother to chase after he fled far away, because the soldiers under his command were already exhausted and hungry to the limit. We must seize the city quickly, and then fill our stomachs.

  Shortly after rushing into the north city gate, a secret agent came forward to greet him: "Liaozi 147th, welcome the general into the city!"

  Yang Zhenqing cupped his hands and said with a smile, "Thanks for your hard work, brothers!"

  Xizuo said: "General, there is a lot of chaos in the city, please suppress it quickly. If you have any orders, please tell the general."

  Yang Zhenqing said: "Get some food and water first, the more the better, we haven't eaten much in the past few days. When the fire was set outside the city, several soldiers had already fainted from hunger."

   "General, the House of Internal Affairs of the Puppet Qing Dynasty must have something to eat... By the way, there are military camps in the city, so there must be a lot of food there!" Said Xisaku.

  Yang Zhenqing ordered: "You lead the way, I will send a few people to follow, first go to the Tartar army camp to get the food ready."

  The starving Datong Army now only thinks about eating, and is not even in a hurry to maintain law and order, let alone whether the Tartar Emperor has already run away.

  No one could have imagined such a crazy rushing method.

  The Tartars couldn't think of it, and neither could the allies of the Datong Army. On the other side of Saerhu, the siege is still facing off. Both sides are waiting for the reinforcements of the Manda kelp soldiers to fight a decisive battle. Who would have expected that the capital of the Tartars would disappear inexplicably?

  The news first reached Suo Hun, who was still leading troops to garrison the castle, blocking Yang Zhenqing's main force.

   "What? Hetuala is gone?" Suo Hun thought he heard it wrong.

   Erke Daiqing asked: "Where did the enemy come from?"

  The Tartar who reported the news had a bitter face: "I don't know where they came from, but they suddenly killed outside the city and set fire to houses everywhere. The outer city also caught fire for no reason, and there was chaos everywhere. I heard that His Majesty has already fled."

  Suohun and Erke Daiqing looked at each other, thinking of running away. If they didn't run away, they would be attacked from the back and the back, and they would be completely blocked in the ravine.

  (end of this chapter)