This time to attack the inner city of Nanjing, the Xingtian army can be said to have no more tricks, but to take a serious way of attacking hard, Ding Qirui suffered a loss in the outer city, so he kept a lot of eyes on the inner city, even if there was a small amount of internal response in the city, it could not play much of a role, so if you want to take a trick, there is no trick, Xiao Tianjian then after observing the terrain, ordered all the heavy artillery to be concentrated in the area of Dinghuai Gate, and the columns were arranged outside the Dinghuai Gate, in order to clear the firing boundary, He also ordered the demolition of almost all the houses and courtyards outside the Dinghuai Gate, and used these bricks and stones to build a cannon array, and put the heavy artillery mounts on them, and the muzzles of the guns were all pointed at the Dinghuai Gate.

At the same time, Xiao Tianjian also arranged the main forces of the generals outside the Dinghuai Gate, and all kinds of siege equipment were concentrated outside the Dinghuai Gate.

More than 100 heavy artillery pieces were concentrated outside the Dinghuai Gate, and they fought for a whole day, almost leveling all the pheasants on the city wall around the Dinghuai Gate, and even destroying all the artillery of the officers and soldiers in this area, making it almost impossible for the officers and troops to gain a foothold on the city wall.

Then Xiao Tianjian ordered all the troops to take turns under the cover of various heavy artillery and light artillery to begin to storm Dinghuaimen, at this time there were only 20,000 officers and soldiers left in Nanjing, Ding Qirui transferred most of the officers and troops to the Dinghuaimen area, and the two sides launched a big battle in the Dinghuaimen area.

At this time, after the Xingtian army concentrated the artillery fire, the firepower completely suppressed the officers and troops on the city wall, and the officers and soldiers often suffered heavy artillery bombardment as soon as they showed their heads, so although the officers and soldiers had the advantage of geographical advantages, but there was no advantage in firepower, the casualties were very heavy, and the first batch of soldiers and generals were often transferred to the city, and they would be disabled in a short time, so that the army's heart collapsed, and they had to be withdrawn to rest, Ding Qirui and the general Sun Yingyuan came to the Dinghuai Gate in person, and mobilized troops to go to the city to defend it. However, the heavy casualties of the defenders made them feel cold.

This situation has been going on for several days, and both sides can be said to have paid a huge price, but compared to the Xingtian army, the casualties of the defenders are greater, and the morale of the officers and soldiers is not high, and the reason why the defenders in the city can hold on for so many days is because they are mostly the defenders of Nanjing, and these generals are also relatively loyal.

But seeing such a guard, going up a group of people to die, the Xingtian Army not only has powerful artillery, but these days, many high platforms higher than the city wall have been built outside the city, and a lot of firecrackers have been dispatched, and they directly condescended on the high platform to continuously fire at the officers and soldiers on the city wall, but the bows and arrows of the officers and soldiers could not reach them, only a small number of bird guns and the muskets of the red-haired people purchased from the south could be confronted, so a large number of officers and soldiers would be knocked over in rows when they landed in the city, even if they held shields, they could not stop the sharp bullets of the Xingtian Army.

When the officers and soldiers were forced to enter the city, they had to rely on carrying heavy door panels, and covered the door panels with water-splashed quilts in order to resist these condescending guns, but this temporary method could not solve the problem, and they could not block the shells, but they could not stop the shells. The Xingtian Army even simply dismantled some light three-pounder cannons and raised them to the top of the high platform, and directly took the three-pounder cannons to bombard the city wall and the city, and the officers and soldiers who fought were even more miserable, and every time they sent troops to the city in rotation, many officers and soldiers were so frightened that they did not dare to go to the city.

Under the advantages of the other, the Xingtian army became more and more courageous, erecting more and more pontoon bridges on the moat outside the city, filling in more and more passages, and transporting the attack equipment directly to the foot of the city wall.

A large number of ladders, crashes, and cave houses were transported to the foot of the city wall or the gate of the urn city, and the sappers tried to make a blast in the city gate of the urn city, and the city gate of the urn city collapsed in some cases, but fortunately, the officers and soldiers in the city of Weng City blocked the city gate of the urn city with heavy objects in time, so that the urn city was not lost.

However, the morale of the officers and soldiers has fallen to the bottom at this time, and the firepower advantage of the Xingtian Army has been completely carried forward at this time, and the officers and soldiers are almost using their bodies to block the attack of the Xingtian Army, and within a few days, most of the officers and soldiers have fallen into despair.

What's even more infuriating is that Xiao Tianjian also found that the height of the Shogunate Mountain in the north of the outer periphery of Nanjing, the Zhongshan Mountain in the southeast corner, and the Yuhuatai outside the West Gate are higher than the city wall of the inner city of Nanjing, which is a very good place to arrange heavy artillery, so he ordered to move some of the heavy artillery to these three commanding heights, and the artillery bombarded the city, and Zhongshan's heavy artillery even directly hit the cannonball into the imperial city in the northeast corner of Nanjing, which made everyone in the city panic.

At this point, many people in the entire city of Nanjing have begun to shake, if the fight continues, can the city of Nanjing still hold on? Not to mention those who are soldiers, no one wants to die, although the reward of white flowers is tempting, although the official position is also very tempting, but going to the city is basically equivalent to missing half a life, what is the use of asking for silver for an official position if a person is gone? Therefore, there are not many people in the official army who still want to continue fighting.

On the morning of September 18, the battle was fought on the morning of September 18, and a loud earth-shattering noise sounded again in the urn city gate, and the engineer battalion carried more than ten coffins filled with gunpowder in the urn city gate at night, and directly stacked them in the urn city gate, and used a large number of manpower overnight to transport sandbags into the urn city gate hole, and the entire city gate hole was tightly blocked, and the gunpowder was ignited after dawn.

After a loud noise, the gate hole of the urn city was suddenly lifted up, and the urn city collapsed immediately, and there were more than a thousand defenders hidden in the poor urn city, and with this loud noise, they all died suddenly, among which there were both killed on the spot, and many things were buried alive by the collapsed city wall, and more could not withstand the huge explosion and were shocked to death on the spot.

Even the city gate tower, which was riddled with holes on the Dinghuai Gate, shook with this huge explosion, and then held on for another hour, and then collapsed, burying a group of officers and soldiers alive.

As soon as the urn city collapsed, the inner city gate was exposed to the artillery fire of the Xingtian army, and the difference between the urn city is that the inner city gate is far less solid than the jack gate of the urn city, the main body of this city gate is a wooden structure, although it is also very strong, but it can not withstand the heavy artillery bombardment.

Several twelve-pounder cannons were pulled to the outside of the collapsed urn city, using a direct aiming method, and directly began to bombard the inner city gate, each cannonball weighed more than ten pounds, and every time it smashed on the city gate, it created a hole the size of a bathtub, and it didn't take long for the city gate gate to be bombarded into a hornet's nest, and even the officers and soldiers in the city gate hole who tried to block the gate were also bombarded and killed, so that the officers and soldiers in the city did not dare to fill the earth and stone into the door hole of the inner city gate, and finally the city gate made a strange sound. It squeaked and collapsed, and the inner city of Nanjing was finally declared broken.

A large number of soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately entered the city gate.

(Last night, the matter was over, and finally the two sides negotiated "amicably" and reached an agreement, all the responsibility will be borne by our side, and after we have paid a huge price, we will no longer be harassed in the future, and they will be discharged from the hospital after obtaining our "compensation"!) I felt a little more relaxed, but I was still very depressed! But when I update on the Internet, I feel warm in my heart, there are so many friends who gave me tips yesterday, let me know that you are caring about me! This made me feel a lot better, no matter what, the past has passed, I am not a person who can't let go, today I began to calm down and code words! But I came back too late last night, and I wrote less, so please forgive me, brothers! Today, I would like to thank zzpiggy, acmuser, Fish Out of the Tank, Doomsday Glory, VancouverBen, gaoxuren77, hyh62, Netherworld Prodigal, Xinli, Fengmu Chunjiang and several good friends for their tips, thank you for your support! ）