Chapter 183: The Garrison of Nanjing

The sun sets, the sun has a sad taste, outside the treasure gate, the famous Changganli, has become a ruin, which was destroyed by the Qing army when they attacked the city of Nanjing. This piece is the prosperous area outside the city of Nanjing, the rich courtyard, the restaurant and the tea shop, all over this area, although not in the city of Nanjing, but not necessarily better than some remote places in the city of Nanjing, in the past is also full of tourists. But now they only saw ruins and ruins, dilapidated, coupled with the actions of the army, the momentum was so great that even one or two wild dogs were frightened away.

It makes people feel like the afterglow of the west wind and the tomb of the Han family.

Li Chengdong suddenly felt a little unlucky in his heart. But in the future, there will be a brigade of Xia Jun, and no matter what auspicious or unlucky, they hurriedly entered the city of Nanjing.

"The last general will meet King Huai." Shi Tingzhu can also be regarded as a veteran, but he sees that he has gray hair, but he still has a beard like iron.

Li Chengdong said: "Why should the old general be polite. "Immediately dismount and help Shi Tingzhu up. Li Chengdong is still self-aware.

In the Qing court, Li Chengdong was really not as trustworthy as this old general, so he didn't dare to underestimate Shi Tingzhu at all. After the two exchanged pleasantries, Shi Tingzhu said: "Fortunately, Your Majesty arrived in time, otherwise with just this subordinate people, I am afraid that this Nanjing City will not be able to hold it." But it's not worth how many people the prince brought. ”

Li Chengdong said with this bit of bitterness in his tone; "It's probably only about 60,000."

Although the Qing army did not deploy heavy troops to all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, the sum of all departments still had more than 100,000 horses. Most of them are in the hands of Li Chengdong.

Now Li Chengdong has withdrawn, but it can be said that half of this point has been smashed in Jiangnan.

Even if these troops are now just trapped somewhere, if there are no reinforcements, there is no suspense about their fate at all.

Shi Tingzhu didn't hear Li Chengdong's thoughts, and said, "It's enough." ”

Li Chengdong said: "Oh, I don't know what preparations General Shi made in Nanjing City? ”

Shi Tingzhu said: "It's not all my credit, when Zheng thief committed Jinling, the eight kings and the ten kings, they made arrangements in advance, and now they come in handy." I'm just inheriting the old plan of the two princes. ”

"However, this Nanjing city was built by Ming Taizu, the city is high and deep, and there are many artillery, so it is by no means an easy place."

Li Chengdong said: "Now that we have time, let's go and have a look." ”

Hearing is false, seeing is believing. Since Li Chengdong has entered the city of Nanjing, the defense of Nanjing is related to his life, how can he not pay attention to it?

Shi Tingzhu said: "Since the prince has this heart, how dare the last general disobey, but today it is too late, king."

Ye has worked hard from afar, don't you take a night off? ”

"No need." Li Chengdong said: "If I don't watch it again today, I won't be able to sleep even if I sleep." ”

Shi Tingzhu said: "In that case, the prince please." ”

Li Chengdong arranged for his nephew Li Yuanyin to arrange the various departments properly, and he took his own soldiers to escort and Shi Tingzhu to the city wall, Nanjing City is very large, and the city wall is also quite long. Li Chengdong's first feeling was that Shi Tingzhu's manpower was insufficient, but after going up to the city wall, he found that above the city head, there were three steps and one post, and five steps and one sentry, although the quality of these soldiers was a little poor, but it seemed that the number of people was quite large, far exceeding the number of soldiers in Shi Tingzhu's hands in Li Chengdong's impression.

"Where did all these people come from?" Li Chengdong asked.

Shi Tingzhu said: "Don't ask, I also want to say, these people are all people in Nanjing." ”

Li Chengdong was taken aback and said, "The people in Nanjing? In this sentence, Li Chengdong had two surprises, the first surprise was that there were so many people in Nanjing? You must know that the Nanjing Massacre has long been spread to the world, and it is also an incident in which people from all walks of life criticize the Manchus. Li Chengdong can't think clearly, and he can't. In his impression. The people in the city of Nanjing connived at the immortal light, and it was almost the same. Where are so many people. The second surprise is simpler, even if there are still some people in Nanjing City, there must be a blood feud between them and the Qing court, how can they help the Qing army defend the city?

Shi Tingzhu said with a smile: "I know what the prince means, but I don't know that the Ten Kings have already collected the displaced people in Jiangbei, as well as the people in the nearby prefectures and counties, and gave them the title deed of Nanjing, so that they can make a good living and operate, they are the people of Nanjing." ”

"I didn't say anything other than that their inheritance had a lord before. Once Xia Jun comes in, their industries are all someone else's. ”

So they joined the army. I also borrowed it to train a lot of people, but these horses have too little experience. For a while, he could only defend the city, and other things still had to be done by the prince. ”

Li Chengdong said: "This is already quite difficult. ”

Li Chengdong felt a sigh in his heart.

The people have always been like this, and they don't think about other issues at all. A little profit bought them off. Let them defend the city for the Qing army with all their hearts.

Forget who killed the people of this city. Perhaps for these people, they don't care who killed whom before. As long as they can be fed, life can be passed. Nothing else matters.

The people of this era have no idea of their family, country and nation at all. These concepts are still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the people.

Seeing this situation, Li Chengdong had a little more confidence in defending Nanjing. However, the matter of defending the city, the reinforcements outside, and the reserves in the city are also extremely important.

Li Chengdong asked: "How about the storage in the city?" ”

Shi Tingzhu said: "I was about to tell the prince, please move." ”

Li Chengdong said: "Okay. ”

With the stone pillar leading the way, dozens of dead wind lamps illuminate the road, walking in the dark night.

"Here we are." Shi Tingzhu said: "Lord Wang, please." ”

Li Chengdong looked up, but saw a tall building, towering in the dark, and he couldn't see clearly for a while, except for the gate in front of him, and even the iron general on the door, and the seal on the door, but he could see it clearly.

Shi Tingzhu waved his hand, and someone immediately stepped forward, opened the seal and iron lock, and gently pushed open the door, and Li Chengdong went in first.

There was a black hole in it, and when a few people came in with a dead wind lamp, Li Chengdong's eyesight was restored.

"That's a lot of food." Li Chengdong said secretly in his heart. But seeing that this warehouse was densely packed with grain, and he couldn't see the end at a glance, Li Chengdong couldn't estimate how much grain there was. In short, a lot, a lot.

"There are 100,000 stone of grain in the warehouse here." Shi Tingzhu said: "There are dozens of such warehouses in Nanjing City, and there are millions of stones in the entire Nanjing City. It is not a problem to hold out in the army for several years. ”

In Shi Tingzhu's plan, there were no people in the city at all.

"How can there be so many?" Li Chengdong said.

Shi Tingzhu said: "These grains are all accumulated by Luo Yulong for the Northern Expedition, but he has not used it yet, he has been defeated and died, after conquering Nanjing, when Qian Qianyi handed over the account book, even the Ten Kings were surprised, and they wanted to send it to Beijing, but the Ten Kings wanted to use troops in the south, so they were temporarily intercepted." ”

Li Chengdong was overjoyed and said: "There are soldiers and food, are you still afraid that Nanjing City will not be defended?" ”

Shi Tingzhu said: "Lord Wang, there is nothing lacking in Nanjing City. ”

Li Chengdong said; "What's missing?"

"Gunpowder." Shi Tingzhu said: "On the day of the capture of Nanjing, some thieves resisted stubbornly and blew up the manufacturing bureau, and now it has not recovered. ”

"In this manufacturing bureau, there are workshops for the production of gunpowder. There was also a warehouse where gunpowder was stored, which was also blown up, and many of the Eight Banners died. ”

After that, although Hong Chengchou thought about rebuilding, things were in a hurry, and there was no time, and now the gunpowder consumption in the army is very large. It's like eating gunpowder. There wasn't much gunpowder left. ”

Li Chengdong frowned slightly and said: "The matter of gunpowder production must be grasped quickly, and I will find a way to do other things, as long as it is not too bad, I can still hold on to it." ”

Having said that, Li Chengdong also has no bottom in his heart, and at the moment when a large number of firearms are used, no gunpowder is no less serious than no grain and grass.