On the ninth day of the fifth month of the 24th year of Lin De, the prince of Jin Guoyu sent generals Zhang Tianlu and Yang Chengzu to cross the river by boat at dawn fifteen miles west of Guazhou, and defeated the army of Zheng Hongkui, the Ming defense river commander, at Jinshan, and then landed on the south bank.

On May 11, Hao Qin led 80,000 iron cavalry to cross the river and came to Jinling City, except for Dinghuai Gate, which was full of rivers and inconvenient garrisons, and besieged Jinling City from three sides.

At this time, Jinling City was already ten rooms and nine empty, and almost all the people obeyed the arrangements of His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan, packed their bags and left this dangerous city.

Among the remaining people were old and infirm, who had few days to spare, and would rather die in the homeland where he was born and raised, than flee to another country.

There were also doctors who volunteered to stay and treat the wounds of the soldiers.

In addition, many young women also stayed, saying that they wanted to live and die with their husbands who defended the city.

In addition to these more than 1,000 people, the remaining 40,000 people were all soldiers guarding Jinling City. The original 20,000 defenders of Jinling, plus 20,000 militiamen temporarily recruited from the city, were a total of 40,000 people, relying on their flesh and blood, they simply blocked the army of Hao Duo, which was twice as large as them, outside Jinling for fifteen days.

This was a miracle that almost everyone couldn't believe before. But now, the bloodstained and tired soldiers looked up at the city, the red royal flag was spreading in the wind, and the figure of the king of Linchuan under the royal flag was still standing tall like a pine.

His Highness kept his promise and shared the weal and woe with the soldiers who defended the city, and did not leave the city for fifteen days.

In the hearts of all the soldiers, as long as there is this person, and Master Zhou beside him, they firmly believe that as long as these two people fight with them, they will definitely be able to create one miracle after another, and they can stick to it in Jinling, day after day......

At the same time, in the royal tent of the Jin people under the city, Prince Yu Haoduo was also looking at the big Qin character on the royal flag at the head of Jinling City and gritted his teeth.

Again, he was once again defeated at the hands of this Yan Qin's King of Linchuan. This Han man named Qin Fei once again used his exquisite command to keep his elite soldiers out of the city wall.

He originally thought that with these dozens of red-clothed cannons, it would only take him five days at most to blast through the walls of Jinling. But what he never expected was that less than three days after the siege began, the red-clothed cannon he relied on was damaged by the Qin army in the city with water cannons.

At first, he laughed loudly when he saw the Qin army swinging out the stupid and ugly trebuchet on the top of the city, laughing at them that they didn't even have artillery anymore, and actually took out this old antique weapon that had not been used for many years.

His red-coated cannon could be aimed at the walls of Jinling from a distance of a mile, but the stones thrown by these trebuchets could hit no more than seventy or eighty zhang at most. Now he has more than twice as many red-clothed cannons in hand as in Jinan City, and all Qin Fei can use is the dozen or so old-fashioned trebuchets.

He only had to use the red-clothed cannon to bombard Jinling City, wait until a gap was blasted out of the city wall, and then order the infantry to rush up from the gap.

But what he didn't expect was that the trebuchet of the Qin army at the head of the city could throw things up to a mile away, because it threw not heavy stones at all, but special water bladders.

One by one, the medium-sized water bladders smashed into their artillery arrays with great precision, making a splash. The dozens of cannons that had been roaring a moment ago were suddenly half dumbed.

By the time Hao Duo reacted and urgently ordered the artillery to retreat, more than half of the cannons had already been filled with water, and they would not be needed for a while.

He thought that he would just wipe the water out of the barrel and let it dry for another night, and the next day he would still be able to fill the fire bomb and continue to bombard the city. The next day, when the artillery was ordered to attack the city, seven or eight red-coated cannons suddenly exploded, and many of the nearby artillery were killed.

After a check, I found that the guns that exploded had been hit by the water bombs of the Qin army the day before, and then I realized that the water bombs were not just simple well water and river water, and I didn't know what was added to them, which made the barrel so easy to explode.

Hao Duo's heart ached when he thought of the dozen or so red-clothed cannons that had been damaged by Qin Fei. If it weren't for the fact that half of the artillery was scrapped and half of the firepower was reduced, the walls of Jinling City, it was all made of stone, and no matter how strong it was, he would have blasted a gap in it. And Qin Fei had already become a prisoner of his subordinates, let him whip and torture, instead of sitting high on the head of the city like now, looking down on his army of 70,000.

In the past half a month, in order to capture Jinlingcheng, he has sacrificed 10,000 elite soldiers under his command, as well as two brave and warlike generals. The 80,000-strong army has lost one-eighth of it, but it still can't capture this Jinling City.

This is all because of that person, the Linchuan King of Yan Qin, who was once the least favored - Qin Fei.

Hao Duo didn't know that it was the first time that he swore in his heart that once he invaded Jinling and captured Qin Fei, he would definitely let him suffer all kinds of torture, and then break his body to pieces, crush his bones and scatter ashes.

However, what Hao Duo would never know was that it was not Qin Fei, the king of Linchuan, who defeated him in Jinling City this time, but a woman, and he was defeated at the hands of Qin Fei's wife.

Not only did he not know, but even the Great Qin defenders in the city did not know that they regarded him as a god, and His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan, who was extremely admired, had actually been secretly sent out of Jinling, and at this time it was his wife, Princess Zhou, who was fighting side by side with them in front of them.

In fact, if she could, Zhou Caiwei would prefer to stand at the head of the city as a woman and command the overall situation. But her identity is not Yan Qin's female general, but Yan Qin's princess, and the rules of etiquette bind her from showing her true face in front of so many men, she can only put on her husband's armor, pretend to be him, and lead the whole army as a man.

In order to hide the difference in appearance, she used the excuse of being sick and haggard for a long time, in order not to let the Tartar see it, and in order to make herself look more imposing, she imitated the king of Lanling hundreds of years ago, wearing a hideous mask on her head, blocking her appearance.

Although the soldiers could not see his face, they saw that his walking figure and the tone of his speech were not the slightest similarities and differences from before, except that his voice was a little hoarse, and there was no difference in the slightest, so they did not have any suspicions. What's more, who else in this world can keep the Tartars under the city for so long, except for His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan?

They had great trust in their boss, hoping that he would lead them to keep the Tartars out of the city forever, and never to move forward. When their highness came to inspect the defense of the city at night, and to see the new wounded soldiers, they said:

"Your Highness, my arm is just a little bruised, and it's not an injury at all!"

"yes, I'm not injured, I can fight again tomorrow......"

"Your Highness, I'm just injured, and Ming'er can hack it to death for another seventeen or eighteen Tartars......"

"That is, Your Highness, as long as you are here, we can all use one as ten, and we will not let the Tartars come in until next year."

She looked at the eager eyes of the soldiers, and she only felt extremely bitter in her heart, because she knew very well that Jinling City could not be defended, and after holding on for sixteen days, this ancient capital could only hold on for one more day at most.

Because the Hongyi cannon that Hao Duo transferred separately is estimated to arrive in the next two days, because the defenders in Jinling City are less than 10,000 people, and they are all wounded, even she was hit by an arrow in her left arm. If Gan Tang hadn't blocked an arrow for her, I was afraid that she would have been hit by another arrow in her right chest.

Fortunately, when the girl pushed her away, the arrow hit her shoulder blade, and the injury was not serious, otherwise she didn't know how sad and sorry she should be.

She wanted Gan Tang and Qiu Wu to go together, but this girl insisted on refusing, saying that she had been left behind once before, and this time she would not leave her girl again no matter what, and she would stay by her side to take care of her. She had to give her Master Zhou's black and ugly mask, and let her dress up as Master Zhou and follow her.

On the way back to the council hall, Cai Wei said to Gan Tang tiredly: "You go and find the Red Lady and Liu Zongbing, and say that I have a matter of life and death to discuss with them." "Now that the situation is so bad, it seems that the only way to do this is to use the last resort.

This night, Cai Wei couldn't sleep all night in the pain of having to give up Jinling.

And outside the city, Prince Yu Haoduo woke up laughing in the dream of capturing Qin Fei alive, and he believed that soon this would no longer be just a dream, but a living reality. The fifteen red-clothed cannons he had newly transferred were almost on the edge of the Yangtze River, and as long as he waited one more day, he could be ashamed and trample Qin Fei, the only opponent in his life, under his feet.

On May 28, when Hao Duo ordered his thirty red-clothed cannons to bombard Jinling City for a while, he realized that something was not quite right. With such a fierce offensive, the Yan Qin defenders at the head of the city did not react at all.

The cavalry quickly rushed within the range of the Qin army on the city, but there was still no response from the banners and armor on the city.

Seventeen days after attacking Jinling City, it was the first time that the Jin soldiers had enjoyed this kind of treatment in which no one had fought back against them, but this made them hesitate and uneasy.

They didn't know how many times they had been tricked under Qin Fei's hands, how many times they had been deceived, and they had been tossed enough by his various conspiracies and tricks, but now that there was no movement in the city, they subconsciously felt that this was Qin Fei's trick again.

Even the coach Hao Duo hesitated for a long time, discussed with several generals for a long time, and finally decided to be on the safe side, no matter what tricks Qin Fei wanted to use, just bombard the city with cannons, as long as the city wall is collapsed, see what he can do.

When the thirty Hongyi cannons finally blasted a gap of dozens of zhang in the northwest corner of Jinling City, and the Jurchens rushed up with a ladder and cut down the armored Qin soldiers in the city to the ground without much effort, they realized that what they had cut down was nothing more than an empty armor.

There was not a single Qin soldier guarding the huge city wall, only the unworn armor shining dazzlingly in the sunlight.