The annihilation of the Yuhuatai Fort surprised Duoduo, who was watching the battle from behind. I didn't expect the small city of Nanjing to have so many artillery? Since the firepower of the Ming army was so strong, why was it not put into use in Yangzhou? Since the Ming army has such strength, why did Yangzhou, an important town in Jiangbei, fall into the hands of the enemy?

Duoduo had a lot of questions, but he didn't even bother to think about it at the moment, and how to fight this battle now was the key.

Duoduo pondered for a while, and said to Li Shutai beside him: "Li Shutai, you take 30,000 people to the front to supervise Liu Liangzuo and Li Benshen to attack the city, and tell them that if you don't take the Jubaomen today, let them not come back alive!" ”

Li Shutai bowed down to receive the order, and then took 10,000 Han troops with blue flags and 20,000 new Ming troops, left the Qing army's main team, and came to the forward Liu Liangzuo.

Liu Liangzuo's Chinese army was on the edge of Yuhuatai, and the covering shooting of the Ming army just now like a raging storm made Liu Liangzuo's team a mess. Although Liu Liangzuo is one of the four towns in Jiangbei, his combat effectiveness is not very good, and he is probably stronger than Liu Zeqing. In addition to the 5,000 Chinese army, most of Liu Liangzuo's army were temporarily captured people and strong men, and the momentum of Zhuang Zhuang was okay, and the artillery fire just now immediately made Liu Liangzuo's army dumbfounded.

A general soldier beside Liu Liangzuo saw that the Ming army's artillery fire was so powerful, and hurriedly said: "Big brother, I didn't expect that these guys in Nandu have so many Hongyi cannons, and this battle can't be fought, let's retreat!" ”

Liu Liangzuo didn't want to fight, he didn't have many elites, and he suffered heavy losses under the city a few days ago, and now he heard his subordinates say this, and he was just about to order the army to retreat, when the sound of horse hooves behind him sounded, and a group of cavalry came to Liu Liangzuo's side.

Liu Liangzuo looked at it as the red man next to Duoduo, Li Shutai of the Han Army Banner. Although Li Shutai is only a deputy commander, and his position is 108,000 miles worse than Liu Liangzuo, Li Shutai has a hard background in the background, and I heard that he has any relatives with Duoduo. Liu Liangzuo didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly urged the horse to come to Li Shutai's side, hugged his fists and asked, "What is the matter with General Li coming here?" ”

Although Li Shutai is a Han, he himself does not feel that he is a Han, so he has no good face for Liu Liangzuo, the generals of the Ming army who surrendered. Now hearing Liu Liangzuo say this, Li Shutai said with a calm face: "On the orders of the Ten Kings, this official will lead a team to supervise General Liu's siege of the city!" ”

Liu Liangzuo had just defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty at this time, and the Qing court only ordered him to be the viscount and the governor of Jiangnan in October in history. However, even the general army is larger than Li Shutai's deputy capital commander, but there is no way, the deputy capital of the people is the deputy capital commander of the Han army banner, and Liu Liangzuo's general army is the general army of the new annexed army.

Liu Liangzuo saw that Li Shutai's attitude was so blunt, and he had no choice but to explain in a low voice: "General Li, please give the Ten Kings, now the Ming army's artillery is powerful, and the general is afraid that our army will lose too much!" ”

What Liu Liangzuo said actually made sense, the Ming army had so many cannons in the Jubaomen section, and if they really wanted to attack him, their troops would definitely suffer heavy losses. But Duoduo was thinking of letting these cannon fodder consume the gunpowder of the Ming army, Li Shutai glared at Liu Liangzuo when he heard Liu Liangzuo say this, and said angrily: "Liu Liangzuo, why do you want to disobey the military orders of the Ten Kings?" ”

The military orders of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were even stricter than those of the Ming army, and the ten Bayala soldiers in white armor brought by Li Shutai were about to behead Liu Liangzuo when they saw that Li Shutai was angry and drew their waist knives. These Bayala are all the elite of the Zhenglan Banner, because Li Shutai's grandfather is Abatai, and now Abatai is not dead, and when he heard that his grandson was in the army, he selected ten from his own soldiers to protect the safety of his grandson.

Don't underestimate these ten people, the meaning of Bayala as a protector in the Qing army sequence is the personal soldier of each general. When the Qing army went to war, each Niu Lu drew 100 strong men, of which 10 were white bayala and 40 were red bayala. These ten people wearing white armor Bayala are also known as white-armored soldiers, and they are the elite of the Qing army.

Bayala is composed of ten people who select the best martial arts of archers and horses from each cow record. There are thousands of people in each Niulu, and each Manchurian soldier is very powerful in his own right, and the selected Bayala is selected from among these powerful Manchurian soldiers. And the cattle records under the jurisdiction of one banner, the less than ten cattle records, and the more than 40 cattle records, so each banner Baya Laqi Zhangjing, the Baya Lama soldiers under its jurisdiction, the less than 200 people, the more than six or seven hundred people.

The Zhenglan Banner is not the largest number of people in the Eight Banners, and Bayala only has more than 300 people, so Abatai can send ten people to his grandson as guards, which is already very face-saving. When these ten people heard that Liu Liangzuo had disobeyed the military orders of the ten kings, they were going to hack this Han man to death, although Liu Liangzuo stood behind more than a hundred soldiers on horseback, but these people were really not the opponents of ten Bayala.

When Liu Liangzuo's personal soldiers saw that these pigtails were about to make a move, they also pulled out their waist knives one by one, and the two sides confronted each other for a while.

Li Shutai brought 10,000 cronies Han military flags, and when he saw that the commander was in danger, he also rushed over from afar. Li Shutai himself was not too nervous, looked at Liu Liangzuo and asked, "Liu Liangzuo, do you really want to disobey the military orders of the Ten Kings?" "Love the Book House

At this time, Liu Liangzuo was covered with sweat, and he listened to Li Shuitai's order to send him to death, and there were only tens of thousands of horses left under his command, but if he didn't listen to Li Shuitai's order, the disaster was in front of him. Liu Liangzuo knows what his strength is, and he can deal with ordinary rogues, but he is not enough to see the elite Manchu Eight Banners, thinking of this, Liu Liangzuo decided to abide by Li Shutai's order, and it is a while to be able to fool for a while.

"General Li, don't get me wrong, the last general just wants to go back and report the battle situation of the Ten Kings, and there is absolutely no disobedience to the military order, since General Li brought the military order of the Ten Kings, then the last general will take his subordinates to attack the city!" Liu Liangzuo is a very sleek person, and he immediately changed his attitude and said small words.

Li Shutai also smiled when he heard Liu Liangzuo say this: "In this case, the capital will take the people of the headquarters to press the battle for General Liu in the back, and I hope that General Liu will succeed!" ”

Liu Liangzuo didn't know what Li Shutai meant, this guy said it nicely, it was called the pressure array, it was really surveillance, it seemed that it would not work if he didn't sell his life today.

Liu Liangzuo sighed, turned his horse's head and came to the front of his army, regrouped and prepared for the siege.

At this time, the Ming army had already aimed its artillery at Liu Liangzuo's department who was besieging the city, and now that the Ming army had exposed the range of artillery, there was no need to hide it, and directly began to bombard Liu Liangzuo's department around Yuhuatai.

The offensive formation of the Qing army was the same as a few days ago, with the siege vehicles in front, and the siege troops hiding behind the shield vehicles to guard against the artillery fire of the Ming army. However, today, in addition to these, the Qing army also prepared 10,000 cloth bags full of soil to fill the moat outside the city.

The Qing army's shield chariots were effective against muskets and bows and arrows, but they were of no use to artillery. But fortunately, the Ming artillery used solid shells, as long as this kind of shell is not directly hit, there is no danger. Therefore, under the close supervision of the supervising team behind them, the Qing army had no choice but to resist the artillery fire and follow the shield cart slowly.

Ma Cheng stood at the head of the city and was very happy to see the Qing army's heavy artillery troops destroyed, the biggest threat to the city wall is these powerful heavy artillery, now they are all destroyed, the Qing army has not been able to get so many heavy artillery for a year and a half, as for the Qing army's large and small Franc machines, there is no substantial impact on the thick Nanjing city wall at all.

At this time, the Qing army outside the city was already close to a distance of 500 meters, and Ma Cheng ordered the artillery to replace it with large shotguns, that is, there were five or six egg-sized submunitions in each shell, which not only ensured the range but also ensured the power, which was a strengthened version of the shotgun.

However, with the Ming army changed the ammunition, the impact on the Qing army's shield car was also weakened, the Qing army's shield car was made of two-inch thick wooden boards, and the wooden board was also attached to the raw cowhide, the Ming army's large shotgun only the angle is right, can penetrate the shield car, if the angle is too large, it is easy to cause ricochet.

Ma Cheng sighed when he saw this, it seems that firearms are not omnipotent, and in the end, there will be siege warfare. Thinking of this, Ma Cheng shouted loudly: "Brothers, behind you is the southern capital, there are your fathers and brothers in the city, everyone knows how to break the city in the north, Yangzhou is an example, for the sake of wife and children, parents and brothers, everyone has to fight hard for a while!" ”

In addition to Ma Cheng's most elite 5,000 soldiers of the left battalion, there are also 23,000 guards here, all of whom are selected from the city, and their families are all in the city. At that time, Ma Cheng moved their families from outside the city to the city in order to hold this group of guards who were not strong in combat right, and now it was time for them to defend their families.

Half a month ago, the news of Yangzhou being slaughtered has spread, and everyone in Nanjing knows that only a few thousand people have survived in Yangzhou with 800,000 people, thinking that their wives and children are behind them, if the city is broken, there is no doubt that they will die, and those guards in the city have clenched the steel knives in their hands, ready to fight to the death with the Qing army.

At this time, the Qing army under the city had already walked to the edge of the moat, which was two hundred meters away from the city head in a straight line, and some of the Qing army's Franc machines had been able to reach the city head, so the Qing army under the city also began to shoot at the city head in order to cover the river reclamation.

Ma Cheng could not stand at the head of the city at this time, but returned to the nest shop on the city wall under the cover of Gu Yong, which was built in the open area of the city wall, and was a temporary building for soldiers to guard, rest, place city defense equipment and defend themselves when guarding the city. In order to protect against heavy enemy artillery attacks, it is made of heavy stones, so there is no problem in hiding here.

The Qing army outside the city began to fill the river under the cover of artillery, but at this time, because it was too close to the city, only 200 meters, the large shotgun shells of the city's artillery could already penetrate the shield car, so the casualties of the Qing army began to increase. At the same time, because the city wall of Nanjing is not a straight line, there is a corner tower every 500 meters, this kind of defense facilities protrude outside the city wall, and it is easy to hit the side of the Qing army besieging the city with firearms on it, so the Qing army outside the city is completely in the situation of being attacked by the enemy on the left and right.