Zhu Guobi was standing next to Boluo, and when he heard Ma Cheng at the head of the city say this, he was frightened and hurriedly defended: "Lord Baylor, don't... ”

Before Zhu Guobi finished speaking, his head was cut off by Bolo's knife, and his body fell under the city wall. Bo Luo spat at Zhu Guobi's corpse and scolded: "Dead Minggou, it's really a spy!" ”

After Bo Luo finished speaking, he shouted to the more than 2,000 Eight Banner soldiers who rushed out of the Dinghuai Gate behind him: "Sons, now we have entered the city, although we have been ambushed by Ming Dog, but let them see, our two white flags are not eating dry rice!" ”

After Bolo finished speaking, he drew his waist knife and shouted: "Follow me, let's kill to Sanshanmen!" ”

In addition to the three thousand Han military flags that Bo Luo brought in this time, the two thousand Manchurian Eight Banners were all two white flag elites, among which the most elite Bai Bayala personal soldiers had 300 people, most of these people rushed in with Bo Luo, and most of the people who stayed in Dinghuaimen Urn City were men and horses of Han military flags.

These Manchurian Eight Banners were the two yellow banners of Nurhachi's protectors, most of them were born Jurchens captured from the extreme north of Heilongjiang, first followed Nurhachi, and then followed Dolgon and Duoduo brothers, killed from outside the border to the south of the Yangtze River, fought countless battles and killed countless people. The previous Ming army saw that these wolf-like daughters really didn't fight at all, and fled directly. Therefore, these people have established extremely strong self-confidence in the Ming army, thinking that these Ming troops on the opposite side, like other Ming troops, will definitely flee directly at the first battle.

But what Bolo's gang didn't know was that the Ming army on the opposite side was the most elite Shenji battalion in Ma Cheng's hands. If the Qing army had just besieged the city half a year ago, these soldiers of the Shenji Battalion had encountered the Eight Banners of Manchuria like wolves and tigers, they might have really been able to throw away the firearms in their hands and escape.

However, after nearly half a year of bloody battles, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion have become qualified soldiers through bloody battles, and Ma Cheng's army has a moderate reward and punishment, and the military judge who really wants to escape from the rear team is not a vegetarian. Although the main opponents of the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion during this period were the surrendered new annexed troops, in the face of the new gunpowder artillery, the new annexed army was not fundamentally different from the brave and warlike Manchurian Eight Banners.

The artillery of the Shenji Battalion has been loaded, but there are two hills in the Dinghuai Gate, so it is impossible to line up all the sixty-four guns equipped by the Shenji Battalion, but there are also thirty artillery pieces on the opposite side of the Manchu Eight Banners.

Xu Dahu, a guerrilla fighter of the Shenji Battalion, saw that these Qing troops on the opposite side were about to make a move, and immediately ordered the artillery to be fired. Outside the Dinghuai Gate became a battlefield, each artillery used double shotguns in order to ensure lethality, this kind of face lethal weapon against the crowd is the first naked slaughter, after the first cannon sounded, Bolo's more than two thousand taels of white flag elite fell half, after all, no matter how much armor you wear, you can't withstand the close range of artillery.

The city has been fired, Dinghuai Gate city also appeared countless Ming troops, these Ming troops in their hands with a variety of firearms, bows and arrows to the urn city of the Qing army began to greet, for a time rumbling cannons and muskets spread throughout the silent Nanjing City.

The battle in the city ended first, although Bolo had two thousand taels of white flag elite in his hands, but on the opposite side was a full five thousand Shenji battalion, and the Qing army was inferior in terms of weapons and numbers. At the same time, because Bolo had to lurk in the ditch outside the city, he didn't bring firearms at all, so he could only use the cold weapons in his hand to confront the Ming army's firearms and artillery, and this kind of battle naturally couldn't be fought.

Most of them are locked up in the urn city

It is the Han Army Banner, although these guys have good combat effectiveness, but the will to fight is not as good as the Manchu Eight Banners, after half of the dead and wounded, these Han Army Banners have surrendered on their knees.

Ma Cheng stood at the head of the city and looked straight out, this kind of battle was really beyond his imagination, originally Ma Cheng thought that this time he was facing the most elite Manchu Eight Banners, so Ma Cheng has been careful, for fear that something will go wrong. At the same time, in order to maintain the superiority of troops, in addition to transferring all the Shenji battalions under his command to ambush in Ma'anshan, he also transferred 10,000 new troops to ambush in the city, just to prevent the situation that the Qing army could not be defeated.

But the battle process was unexpectedly smooth, those in the city shouted that the Eight Banners of Manchuria were the first to die, and the Qing army in the urn city even surrendered directly when they saw that things were not good, which also made Nurhachi too embarrassed!

In fact, Ma Cheng was misled by later historical records and TV dramas, the Manchu Eight Banners were indeed the most effective armed group in East Asia at that time, but the Ming army was not much worse. In the battle of Salhu in the Wanli period, the combat effectiveness and fighting will of the Ming army can be said to be completely inferior to the Houjin army at that time, but the Houjin army had some fear of the Ming army, and many soldiers fled when they saw the banner of the Ming army.

The defeat of the Ming army in the Battle of Sarhu was not due to the quality of the soldiers, but to the uncoordinated command of the generals and the incompetent command of officers at all levels.

In the battles between the Ming army and the Qing army after the apocalypse, although there were many defeats and few victories, it was not powerless. In the late Yongli period, Li Dingguo, a famous general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, led a group of rabble, and he could also pout the famous kings in Guangxi and Huguang, so the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was really not much worse than that of the Qing army.

The battle ended in half an hour, Ma Cheng stood at the head of the city and watched the soldiers under the city clean up the battlefield, and said to Luo Bingran beside him: "Old Luo, you said that the combat effectiveness of this northern captive is not very good, why is it so miraculous?" ”

Luo Bingran has always been a soldier in Guannei, and he has never been to Liaodong, so naturally he has never fought with the Qing army. However, Luo Bingran is good at drilling camps, so he naturally knows those dirty things in the army, and now Luo Bingran has become Ma Cheng's henchman, so there is no need to hide some words from Ma Cheng.

"The military lord does not know, the generals in the army have always liked to exaggerate, and when they repel the enemy, they will report that they will be beheaded by hundreds, and if they kill a few rangers, they can be blown into a great victory. If you defeat it, you will naturally exaggerate the enemy's combat effectiveness, and in this way, the northern captives will be blown into gods like Zhangba King Kong! ”

Ma Cheng was right when he thought about it, under this bureaucratic system, in order to avoid punishment after defeating the battle, he naturally had to brag about the strength of the enemy.

The battle here at Dinghuai Gate is over, and the next step is on the side of Sanshanmen, where Ma Cheng also prepared an ambush to deal with the Qing army besieging the city.

Ma Cheng left Luo Bingran to clean up the battlefield in Dinghuaimen, and he himself rushed to Sanshanmen with the Shenji Battalion. Just now, the sound of the cannon at Dinghuai Gate spread all over the city of Nanjing, and now when a large number of soldiers were heard in the city, many people who were awakened were frightened to blow out the lights one after another, and waited for the news with trepidation.

Ma Cheng came to Sanshanmen, the guard here is Ma Cheng's confidant An Zhennan, this guy was originally Ma Cheng's personal captain, and later after meritorious service, he was sent to Ma Bao as a general, and now after many battles, the rank has already been promoted to deputy general.

An Zhennan received Ma Cheng's orders last night, and he was already in strict formation, and saw Ma Cheng go to the head of the city to catch up

Clenched his fists and saluted: "Mark down and meet the Lord of the Military Gate!" ”

An Zhennan has been Ma Cheng's guard, so he has always claimed to be under the mark, which is also one of the reasons why he is complacent, Lao Tzu has been a personal soldier for the military gate, and he is the absolute henchman of the military gate!

Ma Cheng didn't care about An Zhennan, came to the city and looked outside the battlement, now the east is white, but there is no movement outside the city, and there is no movement when he looks at the Qing army camp ten miles away.

"Lao An, is there any movement outside the city?"

An Zhennan said in a strange Chinese tone: "Lord Huijunmen, I haven't slept tonight and have been staring, there is nothing abnormal outside the city!" ”

There is no abnormality, this is not scientific! Last night, Chen Hongfan clearly said that the Qing army here in Sanshanmen had prepared 20,000 soldiers, could it be that Chen Hongfan was lying?

Ma Cheng thought about it, it was impossible, under the toss of those veterans of the Jinyi Guard in the Military Intelligence Department, Chen Hongfan even told the scene where he peeked at his sister taking a bath when he was a child, and it was impossible to lie.

Ma Cheng said to An Zhennan behind him: "Let's light the agreed fire first!" ”

An Zhennan was instructed to light the three fires at the head of the city, and the flames burned majestically, how far could they be transmitted in the dark night.

Ma Cheng had to make a full set of plays, and while lighting the fire, he asked people to lower the suspension bridge of Sanshanmen and open the main city gate, which was used to convey false news to the Qing army that the city gate had been captured.

As soon as Ma Cheng finished making preparations, he saw a group of cavalry rushing out of the woods three miles outside the Sanshan Gate in the night. The guys didn't know how long they had been waiting outside the city, covered in dew from the woods, and they were roaring towards the Sanshan Gate on horseback. At the same time as this group of cavalry appeared, more Qing troops appeared five miles away from Sanshanmen, either on horseback or on foot, and rushed to Sanshanmen.

The sudden appearance of the Qing army startled Ma Cheng, but he didn't expect that there were really so many Qing troops hidden outside the city, and when he saw that the Qing cavalry was about to rush to his eyes, the frightened Ma Cheng hurriedly shouted: "Lift the drawbridge and close the city gate!" The city's artillery fired! ”

Fortunately, Ma Cheng was well prepared, or he could really let the Qing army take advantage of the chaos to attack the city. These Qing troops are not unlucky people on the side of Dinghuaimen, they are equipped with a full set of firearms, and it is a melee to let them enter the city.

Although the Qing army was fast, it was not as fast as the Ming army, and when the Qing army was still three hundred meters away from the city gate, the drawbridge had been lifted and the city gate had been closed. At this time, the artillery at the head of the city began to sound, and it bombarded the cavalry of the Qing army fiercely.

Sanshanmen is close to the Yangtze River waterway, and at the same time next to the Jubaomen in the southern city, and the Qing army was attacked by the defenders of Sanshanmen, and at the same time was attacked by the defenders of Jubaomen. In order to avoid being flanked by the Ming army, he had no choice but to command the soldiers to retreat out of the range of artillery, and then retreat to the Qing army camp along the Yangtze River.

In addition to the 5,000 people who died in the city, hundreds of people were also killed by artillery outside the Sanshan Gate. However, this loss is nothing to the Qing army of more than 400,000 yuan, and what makes Duoduo really distressed is the elite of the 2,000 taels of white flags led by Bolo.

There are only more than 24,000 strong men in the two white flags, and the loss of one-tenth in this next battle can make Duoduo comfortable? Therefore, Duoduo pointed to Nanjing City and swore that after conquering Nanjing, he would kill all Ma Cheng's entire clan!