On the night of February 18, the second year of Shaowu, the city of Nanjing fell into the biggest crisis since the siege, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty began to attack the city at Jubaomen and Zhengyangmen in the southern city from noon. At night, it is digging a tunnel to blow up a section of the Taipingmen city wall, and now the whole Nanjing city is full of beacon fires, ghosts crying wolves.

Although the situation was extremely dangerous when the city was broken, after Ma Cheng's on-the-spot command, coupled with the desperate struggle of the Ming army's soldiers, more than 5,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners who entered the city were finally expelled to the area of Taipingmen. But now that the Manchus are firmly in control of the Taiping Gate, the Ming army has the advantage of not firing firearms in this narrow terrain, so the two sides are at a stalemate here for a while.

Duoduo had already entered the city at this time, and was standing at the head of the Taiping Gate to watch the city, and the Zhengyang Gate was blazing in the distance, probably in the middle of the siege. The Treasure Gate in the distance was also brightly lit, and it seemed that there was also a battle. Only here in Taipingmen, the Qing army sent the most elite Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, but it was blocked in Taipingmen and struggled.

Duoduo saw that the Ming army in the city was still launching an offensive, and scolded angrily: "Go and give the order, ask Jin Shenghuan why he hasn't come yet?" ”

Now the battle has been fought into a battle of oil, a large number of elite two white flag warriors were killed by the firearms of the Ming army, Duoduo knew that he only had six or seven thousand taels of white flag elite soldiers on hand, if they all died in this meaningless siege battle, it would have a great impact on the strength of his brother. Therefore, Duoduo hopes that Jin Shenghuan will take over with a new force, and at the same time it is not bad to consume the gunpowder of the Ming army.

Duoduo on the Taiping Gate was anxious, but Ma Cheng in the city was very satisfied, and his side was fighting more and more easily, and the Ming army, which was originally in chaos, began to gradually react, and under the command of middle and low-level officers, it began to gradually turn into a counteroffensive.

At this time, it was obvious that the importance of grassroots officers was evident, and Ma Cheng needed two key points to train grassroots officers, one was that he must know three hundred words, and the other was that he had to cut off the heads of two enemies on the battlefield. With these two points, you can enter Ma Cheng's pro-soldier team, Ma Cheng's pro-soldier team is actually a military academy, Ma Cheng has to lead his pro-soldiers to read and write every day, and at the same time teach them to study various ancient and modern war examples.

After two months of intensive training and brainwashing education, these pro-soldiers can enter the army to serve as middle- and low-level officers such as the General Banner and Baihu, and the most important combat effectiveness of an army is these grass-roots officers. This time, the Ming army was able to panic in such adversity, and it was the grassroots officers who played the role of anchoring the sea.

At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, and the battle had been fought from last night to sunrise today, and as the sun rose, the situation became more and more favorable to the Ming army. At this time, the Ming army in the city had already reacted, and the second-line troops such as the Soldiers and Horses Division, the Inspection Division, and the Jinyi Guard in Beicheng and Xicheng began to assemble here at Taipingmen.

Now Ma Cheng has more than 20,000 people in his hands, plus Xie Guangkun who is in contact with Long Guangshan, and has started a two-way attack on the Qing army guarding Taipingmen. But at this critical moment, Dodor's long-awaited reinforcements finally arrived.

Jin Shenghuan was originally a robber in Yulin, Shaanxi, and later took refuge in Zuo Liangyu and became the chief soldier. When Zuo Liangyu marched east from Wuchang, Zuo Liangyu followed Zuo Liangyu as the closest commander of the fifth battalion.

But he didn't expect Zuo Liangyu to die in Jiujiang, and at this time, he encountered the Qing army led by Azig going south, and Jin Shenghuan followed Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Mengeng to surrender to the Manchu Dynasty.

After Azig incorporated Zuo Liangyu's soldiers, he reduced the original 800,000 miscellaneous army to an army of 180,000, and handed over these guys to Duoduo as the general soldier, and Jin Shenghuan also followed Duoduo's command as the general soldier.

In this siege of Nanjing, the generals of the four towns in Jiangbei have been fighting in the south of the city, and Jin Shenghuan took his subordinates to Longtan Town on the edge of the Yangtze River, and camped here to besiege Nanjing.

Duoduo didn't know much about Jin Shenghuan's subordinates, so he never used them. The task of besieging Tianbao Mountain this time was handed over to Jin Shenghuan by Duoduo, although the battle of Tianbao Mountain was average, but Duoduo still knew something about Jin Shenghuan's subordinates, that is, it was okay.

There is no way to use Jin Shenghuan, when he left Beijing in January last year, he brought a total of 30,000 Manchu, Mongolian and Han allied troops. As the main force to deal with Li Zicheng, Azig had more troops than Duoduo, only 50,000. These armies wanted to occupy the vast northern China, and the key passes in various places had to be garrisoned, so when they first arrived in Jiangnan, Duoduo only had more than 40,000 Manchu, Mongolian and Han allied troops in his hands, plus the climatic losses that were not suitable for Nanzhili, and now Duoduo could call on less than 30,000 Manchu, Mongolian and Han allied troops in his hands.

In order to prepare for this sneak attack, Duoduo transferred all the main forces of his cronies to Taipingmen, but now that the war is deadlocked, Duoduo can only hope for Jin Shenghuan, who is not strong in combat, hoping that he can share his pressure.

Jin Shenghuan received Duoduo's general order last night, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to prepare, but is it so easy to complete the mobilization and assembly of the army? After abolishing Niu Jin, Jin Shenghuan gathered more than 10,000 people. Originally, Jin Shenghuan wanted to gather 50,000 people and then go to support Duoduo, but Duoduo couldn't wait, and the orders for transferring troops were one after another, so Jin Shenghuan had no choice but to take more than 10,000 people to Taipingmen to support first, and ordered the others to follow to Taipingmen to participate in the battle after they were assembled.

When Jin Shenghuan arrived at the Taiping Gate, it was already bright, and the Qing army was fighting outside the city, and the Qing army was holding the city wall and the city gate to prevent the Ming army from driving them out of the city. And the Ming army in the city was like crazy, desperately trying to drive the Qing army out of the city.

Jin Shenghuan came to the city gate, braved the artillery fire of the Ming army to climb the city, and saw Duoduo quickly kowtowed: "Lord, the last general Jin Shenghuan is here!" ”

Seeing that Jin Shenghuan, who had only come at this time, Duoduo was angry, but this was really not the time to get angry, Duoduo suppressed his anger and asked, "Jin Shenghuan, how many people did you bring?" ”

"Back to the prince, the end will bring more than 10,000 people! The rest of the men will follow! ”

10,000 people can also share their own pressure! Duoduo pointed to the breach of the city wall not far away and said, "Jin Shenghuan, you take your people to replace Luckdhun, he has been holding on from last night to the present, replace them and take a rest!" ”

The elites of the two white flags that Luckedhun brought were all the elites of the two white flags, and Duoduo felt sorry for his own soldiers, and now that he had reinforcements, he naturally wanted to replace them to rest. However, Duoduo didn't expect that it was this order that made his preparations for more than half a year come to fruition.

Jin Shenghuan agreed, went down to the city and took his men to change the defense, and Jin Shenghuan moved like this, and Ma Cheng in the city also saw it. Now Ma Cheng is only five or six hundred meters away from the Taiping Gate, and the figures on the city can be seen clearly. Just now Jin Shenghuan went to the city to ask for instructions, but Ma Cheng didn't pay attention, and now Jin Shenghuan moved with his soldiers, and Ma Cheng immediately found out that something was wrong.

Jin Shenghuan's soldiers were all wearing the red and blue uniforms of the Ming army, after all, they had only just joined the Qing army. However, Duoduo's Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners are all dressed according to the Eight Banners, such as wearing all-white cotton armor outside the white flag, and the inlaid white flag is white armor with red edges, which is easy to identify. But Jin Shenghuan's subordinates were dressed like this, and Ma Cheng immediately found out that this was a new annex.

The new annexed army is the general name of all the armed forces that the Qing army surrendered to the south, which is dominated by the Ming army, who is called the four towns of Jiangbei There are more than 400,000 troops, and Zuo Liangyu of Wuchang is known as 800,000.

The combat effectiveness of these new annexes is uneven, and they have always been Ma Cheng's favorite soft persimmons, this time I don't know if Duoduo has water in his head, why did he let this gang of wastes participate in the war at such a critical juncture.

When Ma Cheng saw that the new annexed army was coming, he hurriedly called over a personal soldier and asked him to give an order to Xie Guangkun of Long Guangshan and ask him to suspend the attack, so as to give the new annexed army time to change guards with the Manchu Eight Banners.

"Tell Xie Guangkun that he must wait for these two or five boys to come up and attack, and use all his strength to bombard his mother with cannons!"

The pro-soldier nodded and ran to give the order, and Jin Shenghuan also led the first 5,000 people to the breach, where the adjutant general of the Qing army, Belle Lekdehun, was commanding.

Luckedhun hadn't taken a sip of water since last night, and he had thought that the battle should go well and that he would be able to storm the city at dawn. But it backfired, and after the initial panic, the Ming army began to fight back, and now Luckedhun had been compressed to the breach of the city wall, and if no reinforcements came, they would be driven out of the city in a few hours.

Luck Dehun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Jin Shenghuan coming, although the combat effectiveness of this group of new annexes is not very good, but after all, they can also help, even if they can hold up for half an hour, so that their subordinates can breathe and drink saliva to rest.

Jin Shenghuan stepped forward and clenched his fists and said, "Lord Belle, the end of the Ten Kings Sect will succeed Lord Belle in the future!" ”

Luck Dehun nodded, leaned on his waist knife and said, "General Jin Bing stepped forward with someone so that he could take us down!" ”

At this time, the offensive of the Ming army on the opposite side gradually weakened, and Luck Dehun was overjoyed when he saw it, it seemed that God really helped, and these Ming dogs on the opposite side also knew that they were tired. Jin Shenghuan is also a veteran soldier with actual combat experience, and he knew that this kind of opportunity was rare, so he hurriedly beckoned his army to come forward to change the guard.

After retreating, the Manchu Eight Banners finally breathed a sigh of relief, they were originally few people, from last night to now, there are only more than 3,000 elite 5,000 taels of white flags left, and a full 2,000 people died in the city.

Leke Dehun was very sad to see the two white flags with heavy casualties, this is the battle with the greatest loss since the Eight Banners of Manchuria entered the customs, and the last time such a loss of battle was the Battle of Ningyuan more than ten years ago, I didn't expect to encounter it again this time.

Lucketthun was just about to beckon his subordinates to take a break, but knowing that the guns were not far away, the Ming army actually took advantage of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to sneak attack.

The defense line of the Qing army is a dilapidated house 300 meters away, which was originally a temple, and the Qing army relied on this to confront the Ming army, and the Ming army's artillery was powerful, and the original temple had already become a ruin.

As soon as Jin Shenghuan led his men into the defensive line, he knew that the houses on the other side of the street were full of flames, and the Ming army had actually ambushed dozens of cannons here. Jin Shenghuan's subordinates had seen this kind of battle there, and they stayed for a while, and immediately scattered and fled out of the city.