When thousands of Qing troops poured into the northern city wall, at least half of the Ming army in the city had not yet finished draping, let alone lined up.

Fortunately, there were 1,000 people on the city wall to defend it, plus the 2,000 people withdrawn by Xia Wanchun, so it was not directly attacked by the Qing army.

But the panic of the Ming army also started from this.

In this dark night, there was a chaos on the head of the north city, and the Ming soldiers could not find the generals, and they would not be able to find the soldiers.

Xia Wanchun, who was full of remorse and frustration in his heart, had to stand on the castle tower and use himself as a flagpole to command the battle.

Although the command has become efficient.

But at the same time, Xia Wanchun also became the target of the Qing army's crossbowmen.

Not long after, Xia Wanchun was shot in the arm by a stray arrow, and was dragged down the city tower by the guards around him.

In the dark night, the soldiers of the Ming army thought that the main general was killed, and suddenly their morale plummeted and almost collapsed.

By the time dawn, the Qing army had already occupied most of the city walls.

Hundreds of Ming troops were surrounded at the corner of the western city, and it was only a matter of time before they were destroyed.

Xia Wanchun saw that the northern city wall could no longer be defended, so he led the remaining more than 2,000 Ming troops to retreat to the southern city, and decided to rely on the house to start a street battle with the Qing army.

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In this half a day, Wu Zheng continued to ride his horse and gallop quickly, and only then did he arrive at a small town called Gaozi dozens of miles west of Zhenjiang.

In order to grab time, Wu Zheng did not take the official road, but went east along the river and took the small road, and this decision directly cut off Wu Zheng's retreat.

Because of this position, it was Qian Sudian who led the Ming army to cross the Yangtze River and attack the vicinity of Yizhen on that day.

And today, Hong Chengchou, who holds a grudge, wants to govern others in the way of others.

Almost at the same place, Wu Zheng was blocked by a thousand Qing cavalry who had already landed.

At the same time, Zhenjiang City, which was only thirty or forty miles away, was attacked by 20,000 Qing troops.

In just one hour, less than 4,000 defenders collapsed, and Zhenjiang City changed hands again, thus cutting off the Dantu's contact with Ying Tianfu.

Fortunately, when Wu Zheng went outside Gaozi Town, he found the body of a Ming soldier lying on the side of the road.

Judging by the clothes, it should be a herald.

Wu Zheng immediately ordered to stop the advance and inspect the body.

After the personal guard checked, it was reported that this person was undoubtedly a herald of the Ming army, and the body had not completely cooled, and there were no letters or identification items on the body, so it was thought that someone had searched it.

The fatal wound of this person was the arrow penetrating, and the key is that this arrow was not an arrow of the Ming army, but an arrow of the Qing army.

Wu Zheng was shocked in his heart, there was a Qing army around Zhenjiang City?

Then this person is likely to be a messenger who reported to Tianfu and was stopped and killed by the Qing army.

Wu Zheng had already woken up to the fact that there was a loophole in his original plan.

The main direction of attack of the Qing army was not Dantu, but Zhenjiang, to be precise, two simultaneous attacks.

This realization made Wu Zheng creepy.

The imperial court mobilized the Zhenjiang defenders, and he was resolutely opposed, but the cabinet insisted on doing so, and Wu Zheng was powerless to change.

At this time, the Qing army actually attacked Zhenjiang, isn't this a good idea of Zhenjiang's military strength?

And the movement of the defenders has only been two days, even if many officials of the Qingtai Dynasty still don't know about it, why did the Qing army know about it immediately?

This conjecture made Wu Zheng wake up to the fact that there was a spy in the Qing court in the court, and the official position of this spy was still very high.

Wu Zheng was reluctant to doubt Chen Zilong, but the facts were here, which made Wu Zheng suspicious.

"Go back the way you came!" Wu Zheng drank loudly, quickly turned around and got on the horse, wanting to return to Yingtianfu.

Zhenjiang must not be able to go, the Qing army has already infiltrated the periphery, indicating that Zhenjiang City has either been besieged or has fallen.

He only has dozens of personal guards, and going to it is no different from sending him to death.

It is no longer possible to go east, so we can only respond to Tianfu and make plans again.

But obviously, Wu Zheng couldn't go back at this time.

Before all the guards could get on their horses, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the northwest.

A Qing cavalry appeared.

Because Wu Zheng and his party were stagnant, the Qing cavalry who were ambushed had no choice but to appear in a surprise attack.

Wu Zheng's eyes were about to crack when he saw this, but he still guessed wrong, the conspiracy between the DPRK and China was not only leaking the military plane, but more importantly, his own life.

But Wu Zheng was also strange, he acted suddenly, and he was already out of the city while sending people to the city, even if the spy was in a high position, he would not be able to know his whereabouts well.

didn't have time to think about it, Wu Zheng quickly decided to break through to the southeast.

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At this time, although Ying Tianfu had already begun to prepare for war, the imperial court did not receive the news of the fall of Zhenjiang because several messengers from Zhenjiang were intercepted and killed by the Qing cavalry.

And Wu Zheng's twists and turns have been handed to the cabinet, strange to say, many people in the DPRK and China impeached Wu Zheng before, but when they heard that he had rushed to the Dantu, they were all relieved, and no one thought that Wu Zheng would fail if he went.

This blind trust, no, blind dependence to be precise, deprived the imperial court of the best time to fight back.

In fact, if Ying Tianfu sent reinforcements to Dantu at this time, then at least he would quickly get the news of the loss of Zhenjiang.

Therefore, even if you don't send troops to recover, you can deploy troops to the front line of Jurong, and it is likely that you will not fall into huge passivity.

But there are no ifs, and the situation is still developing in an increasingly uncontrollable direction.

At this time, the most sober people were not Chen Zilong and Qian Sule, but Zhang Huangyan.

What he was sober about was that Wu Zheng quietly left Ying Tianfu to command the Dantu, which obviously did not match Wu Zheng's temperament.

Zhang Huangyan knew that Wu Zheng had gone to find the prince of Xingguo, so Zhang Huangyan keenly felt that Wu Zheng must have made some kind of move.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Huangyan chose to be silent, which made the court have no different voices.

The cabinet appointed Zhang Guowei as the governor of Beijing and led the 40,000 troops of the Beijing army.

Zhang Guowei commanded Liao Zhongping with 10,000 men to guard the three gates of Yifeng, Zhongfu and Jinchuan in the north city.

Under the command of the left guard, Xiong Rulin led 10,000 people to guard the Shence and Taiping Gate on the front line of Xuanwu Lake.

He led an army of 20,000 to hoard the school field east of Huaiyuanmen, and he could quickly reinforce the east and north.

At the same time, the imperial court decreed that all men in the city who had reached the age of thirteen but were under fifty must report to the nearest government and wait for the imperial court to recruit them at any time.

The entire Ying Tianfu was quickly mobilized, but no one knew that Ying Tianfu was not the center of this battlefield at all, at least, until the whole situation became clear, Ying Tianfu would not become the main battlefield of this war.

In other words, at this time, all the people in the capital were soldiers, which was just a false alarm.

At noon that day, an accident happened.

Ma Shiying was assassinated after the dispersal of the dynasty!

His official sedan chair went out of Zhengyang Gate and entered Hengjie, and he didn't go far when two crossbow arrows shot out from both sides of the street, directly penetrating Ma Shiying's official sedan chair.

It was also Ma Shiying's life that should not be extinguished, he suddenly coughed at that time, causing his body to lean forward, two crossbow arrows were attached to Ma Shiying's chest and back, and the Ma Shiying hero was embedded in the middle of the two arrows, the official uniform was shot through, the sharp arrows scratched the skin on the chest and back, and a lot of blood was shed, and his life was finally saved.