Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin glanced at each other, and a smile appeared on their faces, judging from the situation that Jiang Qin said, it was much more ideal than they expected, and it more fully showed that most of the officers and soldiers in the city had already lost much fighting spirit, so it seemed that Nanjing City was heavily guarded, but the real situation was already disheartened, like a broken hornet's nest!

"Your intelligence department has done a really good job, I didn't expect you to secretly contact so many officers and generals, so at least there is no problem in taking down the outer city of Nanjing!

For their worries, you can reply to them, so that they don't have to worry, I can guarantee that they are not to blame for what they have done in the past, for their family and family, as long as they surrender, my Xingtian Army will give the best protection, their surrender to the country and the people is a great achievement, in addition to the above conditions, everyone I Xiao will also give a certain degree of reward, if they are willing to stay in the army, then I can arrange for them, send them to the Xingtian Army Lecture Martial Arts Hall training and then make other arrangements, And keep their original treatment!

As for their families, you also reassure them that as long as they are willing to surrender, we will immediately send people to their homes to transfer and protect their families in advance to ensure that their families will not be harmed by the local government!

But for the soldiers and generals sent by Ding Qirui in the city to monitor them, we can't help, since they want to obtain vested interests, then it is impossible not to take any risks, how to solve the problem and figure out how to go by themselves!

And for those who are still waiting to see where the wind is blowing, we must strengthen contact with them, inform them of our policies, and strive to make them surrender to us, even if they don't want to surrender, we must strive for them to give up resistance immediately after we enter the city!

At present, there are too many dead people in China, and in this Nanjing War, if we can die less, let's die as little as possible! There is not much time left for us on Jiannu's side! After this battle, it's time for us to prepare to go north! ”

Ding Qirui actually knows some of the thoughts of the officers and soldiers under his command, he is actually very aware of the solidity of Nanjing City, if the defenders in the city are united to resist, although the Xingtian Army is sharp, it is not easy to take Nanjing City, not to mention that they only have 60,000 or 70,000 horses now, even if they come with 200,000 horses, if they want to take Nanjing City, it is estimated that they will be broken.

Therefore, in these days, what he is most worried about is not the siege of the city by the Xingtian army, but on the contrary, what he is most worried about is the heart of the defenders in the city, because he also knows that if a giant city and a fortified city like Nanjing want to break through, he must find a way from within them. And these generals also seem to be very loyal, patting their chests one by one to ensure that they will fight to the death to ensure that Nanjing is not lost.

This made Ding Qirui somewhat relieved, but after thinking about it, he still felt that this was not a foolproof solution, so he sent the civil officials of Nanjing to the army as a supervisor, and by mistake, Shi Kefa, who was supposed to worship the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu later than this year, had also worshiped the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu at this time, and cooperated with Ding Qirui in Nanjing City to punish the Heavenly Army. And when he arrived outside the city of Nanjing, he personally sat in the outer city and was responsible for dispatching soldiers and horses to guard the city.

Considering that the Xingtian Army would definitely send the fine work into the city in advance to lobby the generals to surrender, Ding Qirui also sent people to conduct a large-scale search in the city, during which he captured dozens of the fine works of the Xingtian Army.

However, Ding Qirui's efforts did not achieve very good results, and there were still many Xingtian Army meticulous workers who escaped this search in Nanjing, and some of them even hid in the camps of some officers and soldiers, changed into official clothes and left them in the tents of some generals to serve as family members, and many others hid in various identities.

There are also many generals who know who is the fine work of the Xingtian Army, although they did not agree to surrender to the Xingtian Army, but they secretly left a way back for themselves, and did not confess these fine workers sent by the Xingtian Army to contact them, but on the contrary, they also sent people to protect them, so that Ding Qirui's purge of the Xingtian Army in the city could not achieve the goal at all, and only destroyed the intelligence system of a small part of the Xingtian Army.

Even after the intelligence officers of the Xingtian Army declared martial law in the city, they could swagger in and out of the city through some city gates, and send all kinds of intelligence to the camp of the Xingtian Army outside the city, which shows how chaotic the defenders have been at this time.

However, Ding Qirui's purge still had a certain effect, after the torture, several Xingtian Army's meticulous work could not withstand the torture, confessed, and confessed some of the officers and soldiers they contacted, Ding Qirui also immediately sent people to arrest these officers and soldiers, and showed them in public, and also teleported the heads to various city gates for officials and soldiers everywhere to watch, and said that this was the confession of the Xingtian thief, telling the officers and soldiers not to believe the nonsense of the Xingtian Army, but it also played a certain role. As a result, some of the officers and soldiers who had been shaken did not dare to contact the Xingtian Army for a while, which caused some trouble for the Xingtian Army's next attack on the city.

Xiao Tianjian led the troops to arrive outside Nanjing three days later, selected the target of the main attack, after all, it seems that he has a lot of troops, if he attacks each city gate separately, his tens of thousands of troops will be diluted, and each city gate can not allocate many troops, so he can only choose a few of the city gates to attack, and finally he selected the target on several outer city gates in the west of the city, and at the same time sent a part of the troops to clear some of the officers and soldiers left outside the city by the river in the north of the city.

On the fifth day of the ninth month, the preparations for the siege of the Xingtian Army were basically completed, and a large number of equipment began to be transported out of the camp, and under the impetus of a large number of Xingtian army generals and soldiers, they began to advance towards the predetermined goal, and at the same time, a considerable number of Xingtian soldiers and horses began to go around to the north of Nanjing City, and launched an attack along the Yangtze River against some of the strongholds still controlled by the officials and troops outside the city.

On this Nanjing battle is completely opened, the big war together, it was very fierce, part of the defenders at this time still played a considerable combat effectiveness, when they saw the Xingtian army began to approach the city, they immediately began to bombard the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian army, the cannonballs whistling in the air flew quickly, rumbling down in the formation of the Xingtian army, setting off a cloud of blood mist and soil, and constantly the soldiers of the Xingtian army fell on the road forward.

This time, in order to attack Nanjing City, Xiao Tianjian can be said to have taken out all the treasures at the bottom of the box, not only brought the two heavy artillery battalions that have been with the army, but also collected the heavy artillery in the Huguang area, organized into a new heavy artillery battalion and transported it to the outside of Nanjing by ship, and at the same time, together with the artillery battalion of Liu Bao's department in Henan, was also transferred to the outside of Nanjing, and the number of more than six pounds of cannons assembled reached more than 100 pieces. In addition, the three-pounder cannon and a part of the general cannon and the Hongyi cannon captured from the hands of the official army were also activated, and the number was as many as 200 guns, and the number of soldiers and generals in the artillery battalion alone reached three or four thousand people, so not only Huang Shengqiang, the old cannon, was brought to Nanjing, but even the red-haired devil Gao Su, who had been staying in Shanxi, also led a group of gunners to reinforce outside Nanjing a few days ago to cooperate with the attack on Nanjing City.

The artillery of the Xingtian Army is an independent branch of the army, whether it is from equipment and training, it has borrowed some methods from the West and even the artillery of later generations, so the combat effectiveness is naturally stronger than all the armies in the world, all the artillery officers, almost all have been trained under Gao Su, so they belong to the regular army, plus Xiao Tianjian attaches great importance to the construction of artillery, and has given considerable inclination in terms of capital and technology, so the artillery cast by the Xingtian Army is guaranteed in quality. Technically, it is also quite advanced, and the range and power are increasing year by year, but the weight of the cannon is decreasing year by year.

Nowadays, so many sharp cannons are concentrated in the area of Nanjing City, the artillery position alone has been built in more than ten places, a large number of artillery pieces are displayed, although the Ming army is known as the sharp artillery, but that is already in the past, now facing the artillery of the Xingtian Army, it is completely in the class to get the axe, the two armies fight, the official army fires artillery, the artillery of the Xingtian Army is not polite, the heavy artillery and light artillery can be said to fire together, countless shells poured on the city wall in a short period of time, and the outer city wall is gray stone flying, The artillery fire was immediately suppressed.

So after the afternoon, in addition to the three city gates where the officers and soldiers were still resisting, the other city gates guarded by the officers and soldiers who had been contacted by the Heavenly Army, the sound of artillery fire had begun to gradually fall silent.

(It's really unlucky, why is it so difficult to calm down the code?) My son was sick just now, my wife rode an electric car yesterday afternoon and a woman who was walking in the same direction, the two fell at the same time, just because my wife was stronger, stood up, and the other party fell to the ground, the two of them have the same responsibility, but all the responsibility must be borne by us in the end, this hospital casually checked, that is, more than 1,000 yuan is gone, and the other party requires us to pay all! My wife also fell and her legs were injured, why! The doctor in the hospital also took an X-ray, saying that he couldn't see clearly, so he asked him to do CT, and he did CT, but he still couldn't see clearly, and he wanted to continue to use high-definition CT to take a picture for examination, when is this a head! The traffic police also said that we should discuss and deal with it ourselves, which is really unreasonable! In short, there is no time to code words, even if it is code words, all the manuscript fees earned have to be given to others! Unlucky! In the midst of indignation! ）