Because of his focus on the arms trade, Weeser has been dealing with the arms trade since he met Smith, who was almost extremely sensitive to business and daring. After sending Smith away, Wei Ze realized that Luo Xuan was not in the camp at all, but in Yuhuatai.

Rushing from the camp to Yuhuatai, I saw Luo Xuan urging the troops to carry the artillery.

"Brother Luo, you are so capable!" Weser was immediately a sycophant.

Luo Xuan laughed proudly, "Brother Wei, it's not that my brother is capable, but the Qing Demon is too wasteful." After I got here, I didn't see the Qing Demon, but I saw this thing all over the ground. ”

Wei Ze suddenly killed outside the city of Nanjing, and the Qing army immediately blocked the gates of Nanjing with sandbags. The Qing army defending Yuhuatai only saw that the Taiping army was very numerous, and when they learned that the gates were blocked, they threw away their weapons and ran back to the city overnight. Luo Xuan originally led his troops to attack Yuhuatai, but he got a large amount of artillery and materials without spending a single shot.

After asking about the situation, Weser didn't know what to say. As a person who grew up in New China, Wei Ze had heard too many such things, but after encountering them, he always felt that it was too outrageous.

Looking at Wei Ze's incredulous appearance, Luo Xuan smiled, "Brother Wei, it was your light troops that rushed forward and scared the Qing Demon out of his guts. I also admire my brother. ”

"Brother Luo, you know how to say something nice. Brother, I am a landlubber, and I get dizzy when I get on the boat. If you ask me to command the navy, it is better to let my brother and me commit suicide by throwing myself into the river. This time you can hit Nanjing so quickly, Brother Luo, you are the first skill! Weese replied. Although praising Luo Outline is the first achievement, Wei Ze also took steps to deny Luo Outline's words.

Listening to what Wei Ze said, Luo Xuan suddenly looked a little embarrassed. It was able to travel more than 18oo miles on the water for more than 20 days, and the terrain along the way was like a bamboo, and even Anqing, the capital of Anhui Province, was easily taken. Luo Xuan really thinks that this is the most proud moment of his life. Wei Ze's praise even touched the itch in Luo Outline's heart, which naturally made Luo Outline extremely happy.

Luo Xuanzheng said: "Prime Minister Wei, this time it is you who leads the troops, in our Taiping army, it is our responsibility to destroy the demons, I think that in addition to the king of the east, it is you, the prime minister." If it weren't for the prime minister's army, the only one who dared to fight like this would be the King of the West. ”

Wei Ze was slightly stunned, Luo Xuan's words already had the meaning of showing the status of both sides, and it seemed that he was also vaguely expressing his dissatisfaction with the Taiping Army that was still stranded in Wuchang. Wei Ze smiled: "Brother Luo, if you go south with me this time, brother, I am extremely relieved, if it weren't for Brother Luo, no one else would dare to do this with me." I am waiting for a business trip under the East King, if I can take Jinling this time, and send troops to fight in the future, I still want to be with Brother Luo. ”

Having said that, it is enough, Wei Ze and Luo Xuan are not one of the 4o righteous brothers of the Jintian Uprising, both of them were promoted by military merit in the Taiping Army, and they are also subordinates of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East. Based on such similarities, Weezer and Luo Outline reached an agreement that both sides knew.

Moreover, Wei Ze also mentioned a problem to Luo Outline quite arrogantly, that is, Wei Ze felt that he was stronger than Luo Outline in the overall use of troops. He was able to prove it through this attack on Nanjing. And Wei Ze is not worried that Luo Outline will not be able to hear it, as long as he can capture Nanjing, Luo Outline will inevitably be convinced. It's not much to discuss.

Luo Xuan was far more clear than Wei Ze thought, and he replied briskly: "I think the same way!" However, Prime Minister Wei, when I walked the Yangtze River, it was a matter on the water, and my brother and I could only make my own decisions in many cases, but you are the boss, this time I went to Nanjing, how to fight, brother, I listen to your command, Prime Minister. ”

Both sides can make their positions clear, and then there is nothing else to waste their words on. Wei Ze immediately arranged the preparations for the next attack on Nanjing City. Since the number of troops was only 7,500 men, Wei Ze decided to use the Jubaomen in front as a breakthrough. He left Liang Changtai, the commander of the artillery brigade, to help arrange the artillery. Go down and arrange the attack on Jubaomen by yourself.

At this time, the Qing army followed the madness and began to indiscriminately enlarge artillery at the head of the city. At this time, Wei Ze's troops were only deployed from a distance, and they were completely out of the range of the Qing army's artillery bombardment. Wei Ze didn't care about the Qing army, he actually hoped that the Qing army would do such a thing. The consumption of gunpowder, shells, and energy can only make the Qing army weaker.

In the early morning of February 5, Wei Ze sent two soldiers of Lei Hu of the Fifth Division to explore the road to Jubaomen Mishi. Although Lei Hu won a battle in Wuxue last time, that time it was mainly Luo Xuan's advice, and Lei Hu was only responsible for the implementation of the work. So this time, he still tried his best to ask for orders, hoping to make new contributions. Wei Ze also felt that with Lei Hu taking the lead, he should be able to arouse the courage of the generals. I agreed with Lei Hu's construction.

The troops of the two pawns approached Mishi and were immediately met with resistance from an armed force. This army did not have any sophisticated weapons, but only attacked the Taiping army with wooden sticks. The two pawns killed nearly 100 people with a single musket, and the other nearly 1,000 Qing troops hid in the alleys and streets of the rice market outside the Jubao Gate. But they scattered but did not collapse, which is quite tricky.

After another fight, the armed forces of the Qing army gathered on the street outside the city gate, apparently wanting to have a head-to-head battle. And at this moment, the head of the city suddenly opened fire fiercely at this area. Lei Hu has endured hardships, and his troops are very strict about defensive training in various situations. Hearing the dense sound of artillery, the soldiers of the Taiping army instinctively crawled on the ground, but the group of militants obviously had no relevant training, and the shells from the city bombarded the dense queue, killing and wounding heavily.

As soon as the Taiping army saw that the artillery of the Qing army was fighting endlessly, they could only choose to retreat. The shelling did not stop until it was dark. At noon, the scout reported to Weeser. All the buildings in the rice market outside the Jubao Gate were destroyed by the intensive artillery fire of the Qing army, and there were corpses everywhere on the ground. There are thousands of people, to say the least.

In Lei Hu's report to Wei Ze, the Taiping army suffered less than ten casualties in the Qing artillery bombardment. Thinking about it, Lei Hu didn't dare to tell nonsense, and it seemed that most of the more than 1,000 corpses on the ground were from the Qing army in the early hours of the morning.

Wei Ze knew that the Qing army was fighting strangely, but he couldn't believe that it could really be so strange. At this time, the General Staff came up with the first siege plan. The plan was quite simple, using a large number of captured artillery on the ground to storm the Jubao Gate. Underground tunnels are excavated and blasted.

Although time-consuming, labor-intensive, and gunpowder-intensive, this plan was already the best option for Weeser's troops. Granular gunpowder was extremely effective when applied to artillery, and these days and in the future, Weese's troops have been using captured gunpowder to make zuò granular powder. Beginning on February 6, the artillery of Yuhuatai began to shell Jubaomen under the command of Liang Changtai, the commander of the artillery brigade.

Among the cannons seized in Yuhuatai this time, there were many giant cannons of 2,000 catties or even larger. These shells weighed several pounds and were incredibly destructive. The artillery units abandoned the use of small cannons, focusing on the use of these huge cannons to shell the city walls. Unlike the scum artillery of the Qing army, after the test of firing Zhu Yuan and the adjustment of the shelling, by February 7, the heavy artillery could hit the city wall at least six or seven times ten times of shelling, and by the 8th, the city wall was collapsed in four places, each of which was two or three zhang wide. The artillery of the Qing army at the head of the city was destroyed by the Taiping army. Under such an effective artillery bombardment, the Qing army could not even gain a foothold in the city, let alone counterattack.

With the cover of artillery, the excavation of the tunnels under the city was also greatly improved. Luo Xuan had already participated in the battle of digging tunnels to attack Changsha, and he was familiar with this. He also brought a lot of experienced miner brothers with him. Without the hindrance of the Qing army, the excavation degree is faster.

On February 1o, the tunnel had been successfully excavated, and the walls of Jubaomen had been knocked down in three more places. In the past two days, Wei Ze did not only shell, the troops were divided into several routes, set up false camps outside the other city gates of Nanjing, waved flags and shouted, and constantly harassed the enemy army. Moreover, Wei Ze did business with the merchants in the city at a reasonable price, and even sent people to infiltrate the city of Nanjing pretending to be monks, spreading the propaganda that the Taiping Army would never harm the citizens, but only eliminate the official army.

Wei Ze ordered the Thunder Tiger troops, which were boiling with fighting spirit and vowed to fight a turnaround battle, to be the vanguard, and on the morning of February 11, the fourth watch was prepared, and the fifth watch began to explode.

In the early morning of February 11, Wei Ze stood on the Yuhuatai and looked at the treasure gate intently. In the pre-dawn darkness, the crumbling walls shook violently with violent shaking. Due to the abundance of time, the underground excavation tunnel was supported by wooden beams, so a large space was vacated. The battered walls collapsed violently towards the bottom. The city wall, which had already had several breaches, was sunk into the ground for more than ten meters. Without the need for ladders, the infantry could easily climb through gaps in the rubble to attack.

And Lei Hu's troops were already holding the red flag high and rushing towards the gap.

Fifty meters, thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters, the warriors jumped up the rubble, over the rubble, and climbed the other walls. Gunshots and shouts erupted. When the first glimmer of light appeared in the eastern sky, the Taiping army finally took control of Jubaomen and occupied the nearby city walls. The outer gates of the city of Nanjing opened to Wei Ze.

Without much joy, Weeser sat back on the Maza, who was watching. The city of Nanjing is a very traditional large Chinese city. There is not only one wall in the whole city, but there is a city within the city, and there is a wall within the wall. After breaking the Collectors, Weezer's forces only gained a gap in the outer city. What followed was a tragic street fight. The Taiping army and the Qing army had to fight fierce battles again and again around various points in the outer city.

This is the inevitable problem brought about by the shortage of troops. In the face of a large city like Nanjing, even if it is breached a little, the enemy can still rely on other city walls and gates to form a defensive system and fight the attacking troops for a long time.

However, on the afternoon of the 11th, the brothers guarding the ferry suddenly came with news that two huge monster boats appeared on the river, with two huge wheels on both sides of the boats, and the wheels turned over the river and went upstream.

Hearing this, Wei Ze finally showed a smile on his face.

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