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As soon as the city gate opened, Chen Yongfu led his soldiers out of the city immediately.
Cao Youji watched Chen Yongfu and others leave the city and disappear into the night.
"General, Chief Chen brought only a few people out of the city. They didn't go out to attack the rebel camp. They simply left the city to escape for their lives." A general nearby complained.
"Shut up!" Cao Youyi turned around and scolded him.
The manager opened his mouth and finally lowered his head.
At this moment, a soldier guarding the city gate ran over quickly, turned around and saluted, and said, "General, do you want to close the city gate?"
Because the commander-in-chief Chen Yongfu led his people out of the city, the soldiers below did not know whether to close the city gate.
"No, just leave it on like this!" Cao Youyi said casually.
The soldiers responded and retreated.
The manager on the side said at this time: "It's not good if the city gate is left open like this! Mr. Chen will definitely not come back."
Although Chen Yongfu didn't say anything about escaping for his life, everyone knew what Chen Yongfu was doing when he left the city, and it was impossible for him to come back.
"Mr. Chen is right. Now that the rebels have entered the city, the rebel camp outside the city must be empty. This is the best opportunity for us." After saying that, Cao Youji left without looking back. .
The one always stayed there and was stunned, not understanding what it meant.
Soon, Cao Youyi and his twenty or thirty personal servants galloped past the city gate and exited the city gate.
At this time, the boss finally came to his senses and immediately summoned his men to leave the city.
Unlike generals like Chen Yongfu and Cao Guoqi, he has his own soldiers and servants to follow him, so when he goes out of the city, he only needs to take his own soldiers and servants with him.
But he is not good at this. He has no personal soldiers. He can only better ensure his own safety by taking his men and horses out of the city together.
With Cao Guerrilla leaving, the city gate seemed to have opened a floodgate.
When the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate and nearby walls saw that the generals had left, and the shouts of killing came from the city, they all chose to abandon the city through the city gate and flee.
Only some soldiers with families living in the city would venture back to the city.
Regardless of returning to the city gate or completely escaping from the city gate, the city gate that was originally heavily guarded became empty in the blink of an eye, with no one left. Even the only burning torches on the city wall were left alone. Without the defenders, Soldiers appeared around the fire.
Once Chen Yongfu and his Cao guerrillas left, the entire camp was filled with middle- and lower-level military attachés and a large number of ordinary soldiers. Moreover, many of these soldiers were young men recruited from the city after Chen Yongfu came to Kaifeng City. They were not Chen Yongfu's original soldiers. soldiers in the army camp.
The snake was helpless without a head, and there were a large number of young and strong men who had not experienced war. Soon the city gate was lost. A thousand-man team of the Tiger Character Banner, with the cooperation of some soldiers and horses of Xuanwu Guard, captured the second city gate.
"Damn it, this commander-in-chief named Chen ran away really fast. I escaped from him several times."
It was Jia Shenwu who led the troops from the Tiger Character Banner side.
Knowing that Chen Yongfu was stationed here, he felt that it was more difficult to deal with than the defenders of the remaining two city gates, so he personally led a team of 1,000 men to seize the city gates.
Who would have expected that this would be the result after arriving, which made him look disappointed.
"General Jia, since we have already captured the city gate, why not go to Nancheng and seize the Nancheng gate together." The speaker was Wu Youkui, the commander of Xuanwu Guard.
On the way here, he was worried.
Feeling that the tiger-shaped flag was too overwhelming, he only sent more than a thousand soldiers and horses to capture the city gate guarded by Chen Yongfu. You must know that Chen Yongfu had thousands of soldiers and horses, even if they were mostly new soldiers, their number was several times that of them.
But after arriving, I realized that Chen Yongfu would only bully the weak and fear the strong. Facing the soldiers and horses with the Tiger Flag, he didn't even have the courage to fight in the previous battle. He opened the city gate early and ran for his life.
Jia Shenwu turned his head to look at Wu Youkui beside him and said, "I heard that Yang He lives nearby and asked someone to lead the way. I also want to meet this Henan governor."
"As long as we capture a few city gates of Kaifeng Mansion, Yang He will become a turtle in the urn. He can't escape and he can be captured at any time." Wu Youkui hoped in his heart that the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag would attack the south gate.
In this way, they Xuanwu Guards would not have to lose troops and generals in order to capture the South City Gate.
Hearing this, Jia Shenwuhu stared and said, "I don't need you to teach me what to do. Let your people lead the way to capture Yang He."
Wu Youkui was startled.
Only then did he remember that he was just a subordinate general. Although the other party was talking and laughing along the way, it did not mean that he, a subordinate general, could instruct a deputy battalion of Tiger Character Banner to do things.
Wu Youkui calmed down and immediately led more than a hundred soldiers and horses from Xuanwu Guard in front to lead the way.
At the city gate, Jia Shenwu left a large group of soldiers to garrison, and he took the remaining soldiers and horses with him to Yang He's residence.
The residence where Yang He lives now is not far from Chen Yongfu's camp, so the shouts of killing coming from the camp cannot be hidden from the people in Yang He's residence.
However, after all, Yang He was not as powerful as before, and there were not many people waiting around him. Even if he heard the shouts of killing in the city, he did not know that the tiger-character banner army had entered the city, and only thought that there was a military rebellion in the city.
Therefore, he just asked his servants to close the door of the mansion tightly, while he hid in the mansion.
After such a delay, he never had the chance to leave Kaifeng Fucheng.
Soon, the entire mansion was surrounded by people from the Tiger Character Banner and Xuanwuwei's soldiers and horses. It could be said that the people inside were unable to escape.
"Blast the door open!" Jia Shenwu looked at the closed door in front of him and asked people to push up the four-pound cannon he had brought.
The cannons brought here were originally used to deal with Chen Yongfu and his troops, but unfortunately they were not used. Now they are used here.
The four-pounder was loaded with solid iron balls, the gunner lit the match, and then covered his ears with his hands.
boom!
With the sound of a cannon, the door of the house in front of him was directly smashed into several pieces by the cannon, and countless small pieces of wood were scattered on the ground.
Several soldiers stepped forward and moved the broken wooden door away.
Immediately, groups of soldiers rushed into Yang He's house.
The courtyard where Yang He lived after losing power was not large. The soldiers who rushed into the courtyard quickly searched all the rooms and took out all the people in the rooms.
"I've seen the governor." Wu Youkui was the first to salute when he saw Yang He.
Yang He glanced at Wu Youkui and felt that he looked familiar. With the armor and stomach on him, he should be a general from the city's defenders.
He immediately asked: "The rebels are outside the city now. If you have any dissatisfaction, you can raise it. Why are you leading the troops to cause trouble in the city?"
Until now, he thought that what happened in the city was something like a pay riot.
Wu Youkui didn't say anything, he just stepped aside and let Jia Shenwu out from behind.
