Cao Yu heard that the river was on fire, and hurriedly turned his head to look, and when he looked at it, there was a lot of cold air.

There was no fire on the river, but there was a large floating fire, and I don't know how many fireboats were coming slowly down the river. Getting closer and closer to the pontoon, Cao Yu could feel the heat wave coming from the fireboat.

"Enemy attack! Fire Attack! Run......" Cao Yu roared loudly, and ran towards the south bank of the Wei River.

He didn't run away either, because the pontoon bridge couldn't move, and it didn't have any weapons on it that could sink the fireship. could only watch the fireboat slowly approach, except for fleeing to report to his superiors, Cao Yu didn't know what to do.

In fact, there was no need for him to report that the garrison sentry posts on the north and south cities of Tianjin, as well as the sailors of the Shen family's sand boats on the river east of the pontoon bridge, had all seen the fireboat attacking.

The trumpet of the alarm sounded, and there was a commotion on the bow of the ship. The sailors of the Shen family who were sleeping in the cabin were all awakened, and they didn't care about getting dressed and washing, so they were driven by the bow of the ship to anchor and rock the oars, and drove the sand boat downstream.

However, on the way downstream, the Dashun army had already piled up a lot of mounds by the river, and some archers had already gone up to the mounds, and when they saw a sand boat approaching, they condescendingly launched rockets.

From a distance, I saw countless arrows glowing like meteors, cutting through perfect parabolas in the sky, and then landing on the first sand boat to approach.

The Shen family's sand ships are all sea vessels, with huge hulls, one ship can carry 4,000 to 6,000 stone of cargo, and there are four or five masts on the deck. Now there is a faint southwesterly wind on the river, so the masts are raised with canopy sails and cloth sails, all of which are flammable materials. It was shot by a rocket and quickly burned. From a distance, it looks like a roaring fireship, which is very scary.

Seeing the rockets set fire to the sailboat, bursts of cheers rang out on the mounds on both sides of the Wei River.

But the sand boat, whose sails had been lit, did not stop moving forward, but continued to sail forward, as if it did not realize that it was on fire overhead......

At the same time, as the fireboats crashed into the Weihe pontoon, the pontoons began to be set on fire.

Wu Xiang and Cao Youyi, who specifically commanded the defense of the city, were both generals, and of course they knew that they had to prevent the enemy from attacking the pontoon bridge. So the pontoon bridge has long been smeared with fireproof mud. In the past few days, it has rained continuously, and the wood of the pontoon bridge has also absorbed enough water and is not easy to ignite. But after being hit by a series of burning fireboats, after a while of roasting in the fire, even the mud-smeared wood finally began to burn.

It didn't take long for the bridge over the Wei River to turn into a flaming dragon.

Outside the east and south walls of Tianjin Weinan City, when the darkness and morning fog were dispelled by the sunlight one after another, the soldiers guarding the city also exclaimed.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

Immediately, the horn of the alarm sounded like a burst.

Outside the city, tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry with the Dashun battle flag have been lined up. Driven by the soldiers, the men pushed shield carts, crashed or simply carried dusty straw bags, and snorted and snorted as the soldiers drove them forward.

Compared with the Dashun army that attacked the northern city in the past three days, the Dashun army that attacked the south of the city was obviously much more neat, and the armor rate was more than one percent higher, as if it was an elite army.

The defense of Nancheng was less than 6,000 people in the left division of the Kenan Army led by Zhu Chunjie and Wang Zhou. This division was transferred from the front line of Weibeicheng in Tianjin to Nancheng only yesterday evening. In the previous three days, the left division was in Beicheng, and fought for three days and three nights. The original 6,500-strong force was replenished with nearly 500 men in the three-day fierce battle. Now there are less than 6,000 people left, and there are 1,000 casualties, of which more than 500 are killed in battle, which is really a heavy casualty!

And the whole division was extremely tired, and they all hated to sleep for a day and a night, and they didn't do anything.

But I didn't expect that it was only one night to change the guard, and I had to face a vicious battle again.

Moreover, during the battle in Beicheng, this left guard was supported by 2,000 ironclad cavalry led by Wu Sanfu himself - this ironclad cavalry was composed of Zhu Cihong's guard battalion and a dragoon battalion adapted from the Han general. Although I don't have much actual combat experience, the training is not very sufficient. But they are all strong men with long and strong bodies, and they also have iron armor and body protection. Under the use of Wu Sanfu, even if you dismount and fight, it is also very powerful!

However, the 2,000 ironclad cavalry did not change their guard to the southern city, but all stayed in the northern city. Now that the pontoon bridge has been burned down, these 2,000 iron horsemen will not be able to support the defense of Nancheng for a while.

And Zhu Cihong stayed in Nancheng to preside over the overall situation was Wu Xiang, the commander of the military and political guards of the Marshal of the Fu Army.

When he learned that a large number of enemy troops had appeared outside the southern city, he was sitting in the original Yamen of the General Army, and now the Generalissimo of the Fu Army.

This is the most important place in the Tianjin Acropolis today, even more important than the palace of Emperor Chongzhen! Because the gold and silver worth more than 4 million taels of silver that Zhu Cihong brought out from Beijing are now all stored here!

Soldiers gather together. As long as the gold and silver looted from Beijing were not lost, Zhu Cihong's new army of overcoming difficulties could be maintained. If the number of troops is not increased, the "deposit" of more than 4 million taels will be enough to support the new army for more than two years.

Now there is money, soldiers and combat power, if this money is lost, what else will Zhu Cihong save the Ming Dynasty? Even the power of self-preservation is gone.

Therefore, the treasury of the Generalissimo Fujun Mansion is now under the joint management of the military and political guards presided over by Wu Xiang, the military affairs office (Zhu Cihong's office) presided over by Bi Fatzi in Bi Jiucheng, and the camp office presided over by Soy Sauce Huang and Su Laomi.

Among them, the pro-military battalion directly under the military, political and health guards is responsible for the protection of the treasury, the military affairs office is in charge of auditing and approving expenditures, and the battalion office is in charge of the cashier and accounts of the treasury.

In order to protect the treasury, Zhu Cihong also left all the more than 300 gold-armored warriors in the guard battalion of the Generalissimo Mansion of the Fu Army to Wu Xiang. Plus the pro-military barracks under the jurisdiction of the military, political and guard.

At this time, there were nearly 700 soldiers in the Generalissimo Fujun's mansion.

And the palace where Emperor Chongzhen lived, that is, in the yamen of the governor of Tianjin, there was also a battalion of more than 300 soldiers sent by Zhu Cihong.

In addition, there are about 1,000 Jinyi guards under the Generalissimo of Fujun's Mansion, all of whom are deployed in Nancheng.

That is to say, at this moment, in the southern city of Tianjin, in addition to the 6,000 officers and soldiers of the Left Division who are deployed on the four walls, there are also three battalions of personal guards and a brocade guard, with a total strength of more than 8,000 people.

There are 8,000 people in hand, as well as the city of Tianjin Wei, so Wu Xiang was quite sure when he heard the news that the pontoon bridge was burned and the Dashun army was about to attack the city.

At that moment, he lit up two flags of gold-armored guards, and he was also neatly clothed, surrounded by more than a dozen old people who were about the same age as him, and rode out of the Generalissimo's Mansion of the Fu Army in a big way. Prepare to go to the city to supervise the battle in person.

But not far from the Generalissimo's Mansion of the Fu Army, he turned a crossroads, and an old man who followed Wu Xiang suddenly screamed.

"Rogue! The thieves are in town! ”

Wu Xiang, who was sitting on horseback calmly, was shocked when he heard this, and then looked forward, and the hairs all over his body stood up, if it wasn't for the foundation of Rong Ma's half life, the old man might have fallen off the horse.

Rogue...... The old camp of thieves has entered the city! How is this possible!?

Hundreds of people, all in blue clothes and white hats, all holding sharp blades, as if they were fierce and vicious, were right in front of Wu Xiang.

This scared Wu Xiang's old heart and liver to tremble! There must be another traitor in the Tianjin Acropolis! Put in the old camp of thieves!

How good is that!