But now, in the context of the Qing army's loss of twelve prefectures in a row, it is too difficult to keep the army's morale from being discouraged.

In particular, a prince died in Shaoxing Mansion, which made morale even worse.

Dolgon also knew this, so he stayed by the Yellow River and did not cross the river alive or dead, with only one intention, that is, deterrence.

When Zilharan learned of this, he knew that he might have been trapped.

Today's Yixing Dynasty is not like the Hongguang Dynasty.

At least the whole of the monarch and the ministers are resisting in unison.

It was already so difficult to break through the river defenses, let alone attack a fortified city with 30,000 defenders?

Of course, Zilharang is not afraid of war, and if he is given two or three months to calmly deploy, he is still confident that he can succeed.

But now it is different, in a short period of time, with forces that do not have obvious advantages, it is almost impossible to attack a fortified city that has not lost the morale of the army.

Knowing this, Zilharan could not stop fighting.

The troops are all pressed up, so you can't withdraw the troops, right?

This retreat, not to mention the loss of more than 10,000 troops in vain, the face that the Qing court had just picked up was lost by him.

Then, the next thing is very clear, a truce, recall, debriefing, and dismissal.

Leisure is light, and if you don't get caught in the well by Dolgon, your life will be lost.

Zilharang could only fight hard and pressed the 10,000 Eight Banner Soldiers.

At this time, Zilharang still had some certainty in his heart.

The morale and combat power of the Eight Banners at this time were far superior to those of the Ming army, and besides, outside the Tianfu Shence and Taiping Second Gate, there were already 20,000 Qing troops attacking for three days, plus Tan Tai's assistance in Zhongfu and Jinchuan Second Gate.

Zierharang felt that if he was lucky, he might be able to break through the two gates of Shence and Taiping, even if it was one, as long as he attacked it, the matter would be done, at least when he returned to Beijing, he would be able to explain to the imperial court.

The addition of 10,000 new troops of the Eight Banners, plus the personal command of Zierharang who crossed the river to Longtan.

The defenders of Ying Tianfu were under tremendous and unbearable pressure.

Zilharang strictly ordered that anyone who could not climb the battle should be killed on the spot, which made the Qing army, which was still uncertain, make a desperate attack.

On the city walls of Shence, Taiping Ermen and the surrounding ten miles, there are soldiers fighting on both sides.

After a day of fierce fighting, by the time the troops were withdrawn in the evening, Liao Zhongping's Jingwei had suffered more than 5,000 casualties, a number that exceeded the casualties of the previous three days of offensive and defensive battles.

One can imagine the brutality of this day's fierce battle.

Liao Zhongping already felt that he would definitely not be able to control it if it went on like this, so he admonished Zhu Cihong overnight, asking the emperor to issue an order and Zhaozhen Guogong to help.

But Zhu Cihong refused, not because he didn't want to make an order at this time, but because he had already made an agreement with Wu Zheng.

In fact, since that day, after the monarch and ministers played right, Wu Zheng had already received Zhu Cihong's tacit permission to lead the army into Beijing for reinforcements.

But Zhu Cihong couldn't explain this matter to Liao Zhongping and the ministers, and he didn't know that four days had passed, why didn't Wu Zheng send troops to help?

Now he can only rely on himself, Zhu Cihong immediately issued an order and began to recruit strong men in the city overnight to help the Ming army defend the city.

In fact, there has been a conscription before, but that time the conscription was relatively relaxed, only men between the ages of 15 and 35 were recruited, and the widows and orphans were not recruited.

But now, this limit is beginning to be extended to the extreme, and all men between the ages of thirteen and forty-five are included in the conscription.

In one night, 60,000 rebels were recruited and sent to the four gates.

On the side of the Qing army, the casualties of the siege on this day were not smaller than those of the Ming army.

But there were no casualties among the Eight Banners, and although Zilharang transferred these 10,000 Eight Banners, he was still hesitant to send the Eight Banners to the battlefield.

The so-called sword and gun have no eyes, and Zilharang was worried that the casualties of the Eight Banners Army would be too great to report to the imperial court.

But after a fierce battle on this day, the Qing army could not afford to suffer casualties like today.

Therefore, Zilharang decided to make a desperate bet and launch an all-out attack against Tianfu with an absolute superiority of troops.

He sent someone to inform Tan Tai overnight, and at the beginning of tomorrow, the four gates launched a general attack at the same time.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, the Qing army attacked the city.

At the very beginning, Zilharang used the heavy armor of the Eight Banners at the Shence Gate.

One hundred heavily armored soldiers, supported by six red-coated cannons brought by Zilharang, and covered by three thousand Qing crossbowmen.

This batch of heavy armor soldiers really disrupted the defense of the Ming army of Shence Gate.

The Qing artillery and crossbows fired at close range greatly suppressed the resistance of the defenders on the city walls.

Most of the defenses used before were ineffective.

The casualties of the defenders and righteous soldiers of the Shence Gate increased rapidly, and after an hour, at least sixty percent of the heavy armor soldiers of the Qing army climbed the city wall with the assistance of the well and the city car.

Then, the defenders were slaughtered.

The heavy armoured soldiers were almost invincible, they hardly aimed at slashing and killing, but only focused on ramming, and the Ming army was simply unable to organize an ineffective defense.

The city wall was already crowded, and under the heavy armor charge, countless Ming troops were knocked off the city wall.

Fortunately, the Ming army under the city continued to come up to replenish, and the city wall was like a meat grinder, endlessly devouring lives, but when the manpower was finally exhausted, at this time, the general attack of the Eight Banners Army had begun.

Zilharang had already planned it, and the moment he saw the heavily armored soldiers ascending the city wall, he ordered a general attack and bombarded the city gate with red-coated artillery.

In just half an hour, a large hole was opened by artillery at the city gate.

Zilharan immediately ordered the rest of the troops to charge the city gates.

The city gate was immediately captured by the Qing army, and the defenders on the city wall were already caught in a two-sided attack.

The defenders of the city fell into a bitter battle.

However, in this extremely unfavorable situation, the Ming army and the people still fought to the death.

They relied on dwellings and buildings to deal with the Qing army.

The battle lasted until late afternoon, when the defenders on the city wall were first annihilated by the Qing army, and then the Ming army resisting under the city gradually died.

The 6,000 defenders of the Shence Gate and the 10,000 conscripted strong men, most of the day's effort, almost all the troops were wiped out, and less than one percent survived.

When the bad news reached the Taiping Gate, almost all the monarchs and ministers were as white as earth.

Liao Zhongping and his ministers knelt down and asked the emperor to move out of the south of the city.

Zhu Cihong refused and vowed to live and die with the city.

He even had to personally lead 6,000 forbidden troops to launch a counterattack against the Qing army and recapture Shence Gate.

Of course, this proposal was unanimously discouraged by the ministers.

In desperation, Zhu Cihong adopted Liao Zhongping's suggestion and led the forbidden army and his ministers back to the imperial city.

Authorize Liao Zhongping, all military affairs outside the imperial city can be decided on the spot.

Liao Zhongping actually made a mistake.

In his judgment, Zilharang would focus on the Taiping Gate rather than the Shence Gate.

Because the Taiping Gate was closer to the imperial city, it was more convenient for the Qing army to attack the imperial city.

Therefore, Liao Zhongping deployed most of his troops in the direction of Taipingmen.