"General, the horse is here."
Chen Jisheng's soldiers brought all the horses over.
"Opening the city gate, I will need to return to Beicheng to take charge." Chen Jisheng said to Wang Yanrui in front of him.
Wang Yanrui frowned slightly after hearing this, and said: "Vice General Huang has returned to Beicheng. General, you think you should stay in Nancheng for the time being. In case the tiger thieves set up an ambush between Nancheng and Beicheng, if the general can do anything, What's the matter? I can't bear to treat someone with a small word or a light burden."
He didn't want Chen Jisheng to leave at this time.
In other words, if Chen Jisheng is so anxious to leave Nancheng, it may not be as good as he says, and Tongjin Gate may be in danger.
"It's because Huang Long returned to Beicheng that I want to go back and open the city gate!" Chen Jisheng said with anger in his tone.
As the commander-in-chief, his generals repeatedly shied away from his orders, which made him angry.
Wang Yanrui, who was in front of him, saw that he was determined to leave Nancheng, so he had to wave to the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate and said: "Open the city gate."
After hearing this, the guards at Renhe Gate hurriedly opened the city gate.
"The Nancheng will be left to you, General Wang. We must not cause any trouble to the Nancheng." Chen Jisheng, who got on his horse, told Wang Yanrui and then led his soldiers to urge the horse out of the city through Renhe Gate.
Standing in front of Renhe Gate, Wang Yanrui looked at Chen Jisheng's walking back, feeling not only unhappy but also angry.
Annoyed, Chen Jisheng escaped by himself, but left him to die in Nancheng.
He was not stupid. How could he still not see the situation at this time? If Nancheng could really be defended, how could Chen Jisheng, the commander-in-chief, abandon Nancheng's supplies and flee back to Beicheng.
"General, do you want the city gate to be closed now?" A general guarding the city came to Wang Yanrui and asked.
Wang Yanrui hesitated.
I wonder if I should take advantage of the opportunity and return to Beicheng.
But then I thought about what Chen Jisheng said before leaving. If he really returned to Beicheng, it would be fine if Nancheng was fine. Once Nancheng fell, he, a guerrilla general, would be the best scapegoat.
"Close, close, close." Wang Yanrui waved his hand to the other party to close the city gate with a look of displeasure.
He knew very clearly that as long as Nancheng still had a glimmer of hope of holding on, he would stay in Nancheng. Only when the situation was irreversible would he consider escaping from Nancheng.
After receiving the order from the general to close the city gate, he turned around and ran back to ask the guards in front of the city gate to close the city gate.
The door of Renhe was slowly closed.
Wang Tingrui took a breath and turned around to return to the city.
And just when he was about to go back, someone stumbled over not far away.
"General, someone is coming. They are officers and soldiers in the city." The soldiers who were following Wang Tingrui noticed that the people running over were wearing clothes and armor that only officers and soldiers had.
Wang Tingrui, who was about to walk onto the horse path, stopped when he heard this.
The officers and soldiers running from the city shouted loudly before they could get closer: "Tong, Tongjin Gate has been lost, and tiger thieves have entered the city."
I shouted several times in a row.
Many of the guards here at Renhemen heard it, and there was a panic.
"Go over and bring this person over." Wang Tingrui's expression became serious.
Let his men go over and bring back the officers and soldiers who came to Renhe Gate.
"General, General, Tongjin Gate has been captured." The officers and soldiers who were brought to Wang Tingrui said panting.
Wang Tingrui frowned and asked: "Tongjin Gate is not guarded by Shang Dusi, but where are the others?"
"Dead, Du Si was killed by a tiger thief." The officer said.
However, this officer thought that Shang Kexi was beaten to death on the city wall. Shang Kexi, who had been shot at that time, fainted, and many people thought that he was dead.
The officers and soldiers who came to Renhe Gate were one of them.
"Dead!" Wang Tingrui's expression suddenly changed.
Once Tongjin Gate was lost, the enemy could enter the city through Tongjin Gate, and it would be meaningless to hold on to Renhe Gate where he was stationed.
Because once the enemy enters the city, they can go around and come behind Renhe Gate.
The officers and soldiers who escaped continued: "General, run away quickly. The tiger thieves will soon kill at Renhe Gate."
Hearing this, Wang Tingrui showed hesitation.
He couldn't believe that the officers and soldiers who had escaped from Tongjin Gate were lying to him, because scattered gunshots could already be heard in the city.
"General, don't hesitate. When the tiger thieves arrive, it will be too late to leave." A soldier next to Wang Tingrui advised.
Tongjin Gate was lost, and it was only a matter of time before the enemy came to Renhe Gate.
Wang Tingrui struggled for a moment and then said: "Open the city gate and go to Beicheng."
As for what Chen Jisheng told him to guard Lushun Nancheng before leaving, he decided to pretend that he had never heard of it.
Both the commander-in-chief and the deputy commander-in-chief fled to the north city of Lushun. Why should he, a guerrilla, stay and defend the south city of Lushun.
The guard guarding Renhe Gate heard that he was about to open the city gate again and asked more questions.
When he heard that the bandits outside the city had entered the city, he was so frightened that he immediately opened the city gate that he had just closed.
As soon as the city gate opened, Wang Tingrui rode on the horse brought by his own soldiers, took his own soldiers with him, and rode away from Renhe Gate without saying a word to the guards at Renhe Gate.
Although the guards here at Renhe Gate may not have great wisdom, they still have some cleverness.
As soon as Wang Tingrui left, coupled with the rumors that Tongjin Gate had been lost, the guards immediately realized something. Soon the entire Renhe Gate was deserted, leaving only the city gate wide open inside and outside.
Nancheng of Lushun was quickly occupied by the Tiger Character Banner.
The officers and soldiers in the city fled to death, and all those who stayed chose to surrender.
The Ming Dynasty merchants who came here from the pass were completely abandoned, and some merchants were targeted by the defeated officers and soldiers, but the merchants who dared to come to Lushun to do business were not ordinary people.
The family has thugs who have seen blood, and some of the thugs are even soldiers from Liaodong.
He killed several rebel soldiers who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to enter the house, and barely kept the house and the people inside safe.
The door to the merchant's house was tightly closed, and thugs and servants were posted behind the wall to deal with the rebels who wanted to climb over the wall.
As the tiger-character flag soldiers cleared out the defeated troops in alleys and streets in the city, there were fewer and fewer rebels in the city. They either found a place to hide themselves, or took advantage of the chaos and fled Nancheng through Renhe Gate.
No one went through Tongjin Gate, and the rebels in the city knew that the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Character Banner entered the city through Tongjin Gate.
Soon, Renhemen was also taken over by soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag.
The city gate was closed again, leaving only Tongjin Gate open for entry and exit.
"Open the door, open the door!"
Outside the gate of the house of a businessman named Wang, a soldier from the Tiger Flag raised his hand and knocked hard on the gate.
The door was slapped and banged, but there was no answer inside.
"Hurry up and open the door. If you don't open the door, we will bombard you with artillery." The tiger flag soldiers outside the door shouted towards the yard.
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