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At this moment, the defenders in the north of Jiankang City had already opened the city gates.

Nearly 60% of the soldiers currently responsible for guarding the North City are Hu Mingwei's subordinates.

"Why is the city gate open? Close it quickly!"

Other generals noticed the troops and immediately spoke out to stop them.

But these words did not stop the soldiers' actions.

Seeing that the city gate had been completely opened, the generals shouted angrily, "Hu Mingwei, you bastard, what are your men doing? Come on, close the city gate quickly. If a Yan army is allowed to break into Jiankang City, you will all die..."

But before the man could finish his words, a knife cut his throat.

Seeing this scene, almost everyone present was shocked.

The one who killed this man was none other than Hu Mingwei, the highest-ranking general of the North City garrison.

At this moment, Hu Mingwei's face was fierce, and the sword in his hand was still dripping with blood. He said in a cold voice: "We must formally surrender to the Yan army. No one is allowed to resist. Wear a red scarf on your head to save your life. The Yan army has promised us that as long as we lay down our weapons, they will treat everyone well. Please rest assured."

In fact, Hu Mingwei was not sure in his heart. He heard all these words from Zhou Bailin. As for whether the Yan army would treat the soldiers and civilians in Jiankang City well, no one in the city knew.

After hearing what Hu Mingwei said, some soldiers showed some hesitation on their faces.

But more people chose to surrender.

This battle has been going on for a long time and everyone's face is exhausted. If they continue fighting, they will probably lose their lives sooner or later.

After a few clanging sounds, someone dropped his weapon and took the red headscarf handed over by other soldiers.

This battle is over for these defenders.

At this moment, outside Jiankang City, tens of thousands of elite vanguard troops of the Yan Army had already begun to charge towards the city gate.

In less than a moment, tens of thousands of vanguard troops entered Jiankang City.

After so many days of siege, the Yan army finally entered Jiankang City as they wished.

At this moment, Hu Mingwei was standing on the street behind the city gate, blocking the way of the Yan army's vanguard.

Facing the general of the Chen army, the faces of the Yan army soldiers still remained somewhat vigilant.

"I am Hu Mingwei, the general of the Northern City. I now formally surrender to your Yan army. I hope you can treat the people and the surrendered soldiers well."

The leading Yan general said: "Don't worry, as long as you surrender, we will not harm you."

"Please give orders that those wearing red scarves are our people, don't hurt them by mistake."

Hu Mingwei said to the generals of the Yan army.

After hearing this, the general of the Yan army immediately spread the news throughout the entire Yan army.

The discipline of the Yan army has been transformed after many days of training in Jiangzuo.

Hu Mingwei then made way and shouted again, "Everyone, don't resist."

For some of the Chen army defenders, as long as they could save their lives, it didn't matter what they did.

Tens of thousands of Yan army vanguard troops rushed into Jiankang City like a tide.

Any Chen army soldier who did not wear a red scarf would be regarded as an obstacle and killed.

A fierce battle broke out again.

At this moment, the morale of the Yan army was obviously higher than that of the Chen army because they entered Jiankang City without any effort.

Among Chen's army, because of the appearance of a traitor, many people's hearts have begun to waver and they are afraid before fighting.

Half an hour later, the vanguard of the Yan army had almost completely occupied the north city and was still clearing out the Chen army soldiers who were still resisting stubbornly.

Jiang Zuo was still standing outside the city, watching all this silently.

"Report! Our army has taken over the North City Tower, but Chen's army is still resisting in the city."

The soldiers reported the battle situation at the front.

Things developed much more smoothly than Jiang Zuo had imagined.

He had never imagined that the artillery of the Anding Army could not blast open the sturdy Jiankang city gate, but instead there was a rift within the Chen Army, and even the prince was willing to surrender to the Yan Army. Everything was beyond Jiang Zuo's expectations and even added a sense of absurdity and irony.

The subsequent Yan army troops have been slowly advancing towards Jiankang City.

Jiang Zuo ordered: "Send 3,000 soldiers to guard the rear outside the city to prevent Chen's army from attacking our rear from another direction."

Even though the progress was so smooth, Jiang Zuo couldn't feel at ease.

At this time, Xue Yao, the general of the Anding Army, came over and asked, "Sir, can the Anding Army set off?"

These days, the Anding Army was only responsible for providing firepower reinforcements and did not attack the city or fight the enemy. The officers and soldiers of the Anding Army were already ready to fight, waiting for Jiang Zuo's orders.

Jiang Zuo ordered: "After the vanguard troops completely occupy the North City, the Anding Army's musket battalion will move in to reinforce."

After taking the northern city of Jiankang, the Yan army still had to face the inner city of Jiankang and finally the imperial city.

Even with support from within the city, the Yan army was not completely sure of taking Jiankang City. Everything was still unknown.

But as long as there is a gap, the troops led by Jiang Zuo will have the opportunity to completely conquer the capital of Chen State.

The movement in the north city of Jiankang City soon attracted the attention of other defenders. None of them had expected that the north city could be breached so easily by the Yan army, nor had they expected that the defenders in the city would take the initiative to open the city gates and welcome the Yan army into the city.

All previous resistance is now in vain.

At this moment, most of the Chen army’s forces in Jiankang City have begun to move towards the north city.

No matter what, the Chen army did not want to see the Yan army occupy the north city.

But all this was already too late.

More and more Yan army soldiers began to flock to the north city.

Even though Chen's army had the advantage in terms of military strength, the entire defensive line had already been thrown into disarray.

Facing these Chen troops, the Yan army almost exploded with all their fighting power, killing all the way from outside the city to outside the inner city wall.

The fleeing soldiers of Chen's army could only retake the inner city and avoid fighting.

"Report! Our army has occupied the entire North City and is resisting the counterattack of Chen's army and trying to occupy other urban areas."

News of the battle situation at the front came again.

"Probe again and report back! Take over the entire outer city of Jiankang first, then surround the inner city!"

Jiang Zuo ordered.

The progress ahead is indeed too smooth.

Without the solid defense of the city walls, Chen's army became vulnerable.

The Yan army acted like a ragtag force and drove all the resisting Chen army into the inner city.

"Sir, the An Ding Army has been fully assembled."

At this time, Xue Yao also came to Jiang Zuo again.

"The Anding Army will set out immediately, carrying firearms, to cover the flank of the main force."

Jiang Zuo ordered.

"As ordered!"

Xue Yao received the order and immediately went there, leading thousands of Anding troops to attack Jiankang City.

They have been waiting for this moment for a long time.

At this moment, there was constant sound of fighting in Jiankang City.

This fortified capital city that had been defended for several days was now under fierce attack from the Yan army. The seemingly solid defense was already shaky...