"No," Ma Chaoxing shook his head. "There are not a single garrison left in the city. Even if we were all in armor, we wouldn't be able to withstand the continuous attack of 5,000 people."

"Just gonna sit there and watch?" Hu Dedi clenched his fists.

"Wait a little longer," Ma Chaoxing explained, "My people saw several burst cannons when they were carrying shells to the front line today. If I'm not mistaken, tomorrow the Jiannu will move the cannons on the city wall to the front line to support the battle, and the artillery will most likely follow them out of the city."

"That means... there will be fewer defenders tomorrow?"

"It's hard to say, we can only wait and see."

"Then wait one more day!"

After a day of observation, all these speculations were confirmed.

On the night of September 8th, Ma Chaoxing once again found Hu Dedi to discuss the uprising plan.

Not only did the two men agree on the time to start the uprising, they also hurriedly made several Ming Dynasty flags out of paper.

September 9th, noon.

Ma Chaoxing took more than 300 people to the front line to transport the wounded back to the city.

They brought the wounded to an empty yard. After carrying all the wounded into the yard, Ma Chaoxing gently closed the gate.

Ma Chaoxing came to a wounded soldier and reached out to pick up his sword: "Sir, is this your sword?"

"Cough cough cough, it's my knife! Be careful when you take it, don't break it, otherwise... cough cough, I won't let you go!" The wounded soldier threatened while coughing.

"Okay," Ma Chaoxing picked up the knife gently and signaled to others with his eyes.

After everyone got their weapons, Ma Chaoxing quickly drew his sword and stabbed the wounded soldier in front of him.

Before the wounded soldier could notice, he died at the hands of Ma Chaoxing.

"Take action!" With Ma Chaoxing's order, more than 200 seriously injured Jiannu soldiers were all killed.

"Put on the armor of the Jiannu and follow me," Ma Chaoxing ordered again.

After changing into the bloody armor, Ma Chaoxing led his men to the place where the wounded soldiers' weapons and armor were stored.

"Who are you?" The more than 30 soldiers guarding the warehouse were facing a powerful enemy.

"The weapons on the front line have all been broken! Prince Zheng has ordered us to transport all the weapons to the front line to replace the army." said someone who was fluent in Manchu.

Before the warehouse defenders could react, Ma Chaoxing and others rushed forward and killed them all.

Then the troops were divided into two groups.

They stayed where they were, killed all the wounded Jiannu soldiers nearby, and set fire to the city to create chaos.

Another group of troops was led by Ma Chaoxing himself. He loaded the armor and weapons in the warehouse onto carts and transported them to Hu Dedi in the south city.

On the way to South City, Ma Chaoxing suddenly met a team of patrolling soldiers.

"Who are you?" The patrolling soldier stopped ten steps away from them and asked loudly.

Although these people were all old, weak, sick and disabled, there were four or five cavalrymen among them.

If we cannot kill them in one blow, the escaping soldiers will inevitably inform the enemy and affect the entire plan.

"We are following the military order of Prince Zheng to transport all idle weapons in the city out of the city to be replaced by the army." Ma Chaoxing used the same trick again and asked the person who was fluent in Manchu to answer in Manchu.

When the patrol team leader saw that Ma Chaoxing and others were wearing bloody armor, he thought they were wounded soldiers withdrawn from the front line and believed them about 70% of the time.

He asked again: "Which commander are you serving under?"

"We are under the command of Lord Kambli."

"Huh?" The patrol commander was startled. "Wasn't Kambuli promoted to lieutenant commander a month ago because of his military merits?"

Ma Chaoxing immediately broke out in a cold sweat on his back.

On weekdays.

They only came into contact with low-level Jiannu soldiers, so they didn't know many of the names of the captains.

I just said it casually, but I didn't expect that the other party was actually acquainted with him.

Seeing that the matter was about to be exposed, the rebel who was responsible for delivering the message quickly said: "Lord Kambuli was demoted back to the rank of captain because of his improper command."

Is this true?

Just as the patrol leader was about to ask again, a fire suddenly broke out in the distance.

There is a war going on outside the city, and there must be no chaos in the city.

The patrol leader was in no mood to ask further questions, and shouted to the back: "There's a fire over there, come with me and see what's going on!"

"yes."

Amid the sounds of horse hooves and footsteps, the patrol team quickly disappeared around the corner.

Ma Chaoxing breathed a sigh of relief and continued to march towards the south city with his men.

When they arrived at the southern part of the city, Hu Dedi was cooking for the Jiannu soldiers.

Several Jiannu soldiers with white hair and beards stood next to him, giving orders and supervising.

"Sir," Emperor Hu De pointed at Ma Chaoxing and his group and said to the Jiannu soldiers, "Are they here to eat?"

As soon as the Jiannu soldier turned his head to check, he was immediately slashed on the neck by Hu Dedi and others with a kitchen knife.

The boiling blood sprayed into the porridge pot. As the red and white porridge swirled, the smell of blood and the aroma of rice hit my face.

"Hurry, let your men put on armor and take weapons!" Ma Chaoxing pushed the carriage loaded with armor and weapons to the ground.

Bloody armor and weapons were scattered all over the ground.

Emperor Hu De waved his hand, and the rebels rushed forward, put on their armor and picked up their weapons.

Ma Chaoxing roughly counted the total number of soldiers and found that there were no more than 800 of them.

If all four gates are captured at the same time, the number of troops attacking each city gate shall not exceed two hundred.

With just these people, let alone taking Jinzhou City, they couldn't even climb up the city wall.

The defenders on the city wall only needed to roll back logs and rocks to drive them back.

"Divide the troops!" Ma Chaoxing gave the order according to the plan.

They were divided into four groups, each with less than two hundred men.

Kill towards the east, south, west and north gates respectively.

As they ran, they shouted: "The Jiannu killed my parents, occupied my land, and raped my wife and children. This is truly a heinous crime! Today, the Ming army has recaptured Jinzhou. If we don't rebel now, when will we rebel?"

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