The rest of the officers and soldiers who were still resisting saw that Sun Yingyuan was dead, and they had no fighting spirit, so they immediately scattered, and a large number of soldiers of the Xingtian Army were able to break through the Dinghuai Gate, poured into the city, and quickly rushed to the city in all directions under the command of Liu Yaoben.

That is, the short battle of the city gate, Sun Yingyuan led the army to the Xingtian army that attacked the city caused hundreds of casualties, almost stopped the Xingtian army in the area of Dinghuai Gate, but unfortunately most of the officers and soldiers lost their fighting spirit, did not follow Sun Yingyuan here to fight to the death, and finally Sun Yingyuan was killed, and Dinghuai Gate was completely lost, otherwise, they even had the possibility to block the Dinghuai Gate again, so that the Xingtian Army exhausted all its strength to attack the city ended in failure.

Seeing that a military flag of the Xingtian Army was erected on the head of the Dinghuai Gate, a large number of Xingtian soldiers and generals outside the city cheered in unison, and their morale was suddenly greatly boosted, and then under Xiao Tianjian's order, they rushed into the Dinghuai Gate.

Originally, the number of officers and soldiers in the city was already small, and as more and more people from the Xingtian Army poured into the Dinghuai Gate, the battle situation in the inner city of Nanjing began to show a one-sided state.

Ding Qirui retreated in the city under the protection of the generals after the Xingtian army broke through the Dinghuai Gate, Ding Qirui was still unwilling to fail, and tried to organize the generals to counterattack and recapture the Dinghuai Gate, but at this time, the generals of the official army had long lost their fighting spirit, and most of Ding Qirui's orders were refused to be implemented, and they were pondering their own retreats, and only a small number of generals led their troops to conduct street battles in the city and the Xingtian Army that attacked the city, and retreated to the city.

On the one hand, the follow-up Xingtian army divided its troops to attack the city, on the other hand, they sent troops to climb the city wall, and quickly attacked along the city wall to both sides, to seize more city gates, and the defenders of each city gate also began to know that the city of Nanjing had been broken at this time, and their morale suddenly declined, and they abandoned the city wall and city gate they were responsible for, and fled in all directions, so that the Xingtian army seized several city gates like a broken bamboo, and then opened the city gate and put in more Xingtian soldiers to enter the city.

Ding Qirui fled to the Qinhuai River in the west of the city under the escort of the generals, listening to more and more places began to sound shouting and killing, and more and more places began to appear thick smoke, so he cried loudly, knelt down to the north and kowtowed to the north again and again, confessing his guilt, betraying the emperor's trust in him, and finally failed to keep the city of Nanjing, now he is desperate, so he turned around and was about to jump into the Qinhuai River to commit suicide, but unfortunately his men still pulled him and continued to flee towards the south of the city.

Once the fortified city of Nanjing City was breached, the resistance of the defenders in the city began to collapse like dominoes, and with the influx of a large number of Xingtian soldiers, the resistance of the officers and soldiers began to appear weaker and weaker, and after a day, the inner city of the huge Nanjing City was basically controlled by the Xingtian army.

The reason why this attack on Nanjing City was able to succeed in such a short period of time is actually several, one is that at this time, the generals in the official army have long lost the fighting spirit to defend Nanjing City, and have surrendered to the Xingtian Army, the second is that the morale of the Xingtian Army is very high, and the combat effectiveness is very strong, the most important thing is Xiao Tianjian's application of artillery, he can be said to have created a precedent for the centralized use of artillery in this era, and the heavy artillery in the generals is intensively used. In the end, the gap in Dinghuai Gate was opened.

In the era of the information explosion in later generations, Xiao Tianjian will inevitably hear and know a lot of things about the application of the army, and naturally know the role of artillery, the god of war.

Although the red-haired devil Gao Su was familiar with the way of operating artillery, and was hailed by later generations as the father of the artillery of the Xingtian Army, in essence, Gao Su's role was limited to cultivating basic soldiers who were familiar with operating artillery for Xiao Tianjian in batches, and it was Xiao Tianjian who really built up the full-time arms and combat methods of artillery.

No matter how strong Nanjing City is, it is a dead thing after all, and it is impossible to stop the Xingtian Army from concentrating a large number of heavy artillery to bombard a place.

In addition, Xiao Tianjian also set up a full-time engineer unit in the Xingtian Army early, in such a siege war, the engineering unit also played a huge role, they took advantage of the opportunity of artillery to suppress the defenders of the city, and sent a large number of engineers to carry out many blasting operations on the urn city of Dinghuai Gate, with a large amount of gunpowder, and finally blew up the urn city, exposing the internal city gate, so that the Xingtian army was able to successfully break through the Dinghuai Gate.

Therefore, in the eyes of others, this city, which is almost impossible to be breached, was finally conquered by his Xingtian army under Xiao Tianjian's soldiers, which also created a new way of attacking the city in this era, making the era of building the city wall as a guard, and since then it has gradually been terminated, creating a new era.

The battle in the inner city of Nanjing was basically over after more than two days, and Xiao Tianjian was in the temporary marshal's mansion in the outer city, and he continued to get news of the invasion of various departments in the city.

In the early morning of the second day of the invasion of the city, someone sent news that the governor Ding Qirui had been captured in the city, and soon Ding Qirui was sent to Xiao Tianjian's temporary marshal mansion in the outer city.

Ding Qirui is only forty-five years old, but when Xiao Tianjian saw him, he found that Ding Qirui was already full of white hair, and his body was also very thin, looking like he was sixty or seventy years old.

For Ding Qirui Xiao Tianjian is aware of the role he played in the original history, this person is not a capable minister, but he is still relatively loyal, although he was reused by the imperial court, but he was not able to turn the tide, and finally after the Southern Ming Dynasty was destroyed, he surrendered to the Qing army, and later because he was involved in the anti-Qing restoration of the Ming Dynasty, he was killed by Jiannu.

But now Ding Qirui is in the area of Nanzhili, which has created a lot of trouble for him, when Ding Qirui was brought to him, Xiao Tianjian didn't know how to deal with him for a while, but after Ding Qirui was brought to him, he didn't have any shelf, although he refused to kneel, but his face was full of shame.

"Xiao has seen Inspector Ding! I wonder what Inspector Ding is thinking now? After Xiao Tianjian stepped out of the handsome case with his hands behind his back, he slowly walked in front of Ding Qirui with a shameful face, and after a slight pause, he asked Ding Qirui.

Ding Qirui sighed, stood up as straight as possible, shook his head and said, "It turns out that you are that Xiao Xingtian!" Please forgive Ding for not being able to give Xiao Dashuai a salute! As for what Xiao Dashuai asked, hum! Ding didn't know how to answer! I can only say that I admire Xiao Dashuai's ability! It's a pity that Xiao Dashuai, as a Ming courtier, can't use his skills for the court, which is a pity! But I wonder what you're going to do with it? ”

Xiao Tianjian saw that Ding Qirui was not very arrogant, so he understood his mood somewhat, slowly circled around him twice, and finally stopped in front of Ding Qirui, stared at Ding Qirui's eyes, and asked him: "Lord Ding is my enemy, I don't blame you, Lord Ding, after all, each is his master, and you are also doing your duty!" Now that Lord Ding has been captured by me, how to deal with it depends on your attitude, Lord Ding!

If Lord Ding wants to achieve a loyal name, Xiao can also satisfy Lord Ding's thoughts, but after all, Lord Ding has learned everything, and it would be a pity to die like this! Xiao is not talented, and thinks that if Lord Ding can stay this usable body and work for Xiao in the future, Xiao will also raise his hands to welcome, and adults can decide for themselves what to do! Xiao's decision to wait for adults is it!

Come on, loosen the ties for Lord Ding, find a quiet and clean place for Lord Ding to settle, don't be embarrassed for Lord Ding! ”

Xiao Tianjian didn't say anything to Ding Qirui, and after indifferently saying his thoughts, he asked Ding Qirui to be taken down and let him think about how to decide his fate.

After Ding Qirui was untied, he hesitated, but in the end he didn't speak, turned his head and followed the guards out of the Shuaifu, and Xiao Tianjian turned around and ordered, for Sun Yingyuan, who died in the Dinghuai Gate, to collect the body, and choose a place outside Nanjing to bury him, Xiao Tianjian has always respected such loyal ministers, although Sun Yingyuan led his troops to kill and wound many of the Xingtian Army's subordinates, but he also won the unanimous respect of the Xingtian Army. sent someone to find a good coffin, collected him, and carried him out of the inner city, and now he was finally buried by Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian also personally picked up the pen for this and inscribed a tombstone for him, which can be regarded as allowing Sun Yingyuan to look at the nine springs.

Then Xiao Tianjian became aware that the war in the city was over, and all the officers and soldiers in the city had no possibility of continuing to resist or escape, so they had to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Xingtian Army, and even the palace in the city was controlled by the Xingtian Army at this time, so Xiao Tianjian led the troops into the inner city of Nanjing.

(Yesterday, I finally settled down and sat down to code words.,But my mind is a little messy.,Re-sorted out my thoughts.,The next step is to consider the problem of going north.,It's necessary to spend some effort on the plot to sort it out first.,So the number of words written is a bit small.,But this is also to prepare for the outbreak in the future!) I hope that the plot written in the follow-up will make everyone look cooler! Today, I would like to thank Hu Lulu, Midwinter Wood, toby1997, and LUDA for their tips! Thank you very much! I'll do my best! ）