The captives entered the city and began to erect ladders to climb, Jin Li did not take these horses to heart, but the main force of the Ming army in the distance, pushing the equipment, had to let him make preparations.

"Gushan, look at the other side!" A pro-soldier walked to the wall and pointed out.

Without his reminder, Jin Li had already discovered that he stepped forward and looked into the distance, only to see that the dense Lu bus, cave houses, rushing cars, and cloud ladders had arrived at the Qinhuai River and were about to pass the pontoon bridge.

Ordinary pontoon bridges may not be able to carry so many heavy equipment, but the captives set up pontoon bridges with three layers, and they were soaked in the water, which was enough for these equipment to pass.

At this time, the Ming army was like a surging flood, congested on the other side of the Qinhuai River, and large equipment stood in the crowd, and some people and horses had already boarded the pontoon bridge.

Jin Li's eyes fell on it, behind a Lu bus, dozens of Ming soldiers, leaning forward, pushing the equipment hard, through the pontoon bridge, and behind the Lu bus, there were cave houses following closely behind.

A Qing general looked a little trembling, everyone knew that once the Lu bus hit the city wall, the Ming soldiers would rush up, and the key Ming army was still followed by a number of cave cars.

The whole thing is like a thousand-legged centipede, the Lu bus is the head, the cave car behind is the body, and the soldier door hides in the cave car and never shows his head.

These caverns are like houses, pointed at the top and wide at the bottom, with logs as frames, and covered with thick blankets and cowhides, which cannot be pierced by bows and arrows, and are not used for fire oil.

Once these things are close to the city walls, they form a safe passage under the city.

The siege methods of the Ming army are really the ancestors of the Qing soldiers.

"Gushan, let the artillery bombard!" One of the generals became anxious.

Jin Li looked at it, but didn't agree, "Wang Yan has no one in his eyes, he was going to teach him a lesson, the artillery is not busy, you go elsewhere to transfer a few red-clothed cannons first." ”

When the general heard this, he hurriedly hugged his fists and left, Jin Li saw this, and instructed the many Qing generals around him: "You all give Ben Jiang a hard fight, if you can't even withstand Wang Yan's attack and let people break the city gate, Ben General can spare you, and the county prince and Governor Hong can't spare you, understand?" ”

"Gushan rest assured!" The generals hurriedly saluted, then dispersed and hurried back to their respective posts.

As the captives began to enter the city, the red-clothed cannons on the artillery array all stopped, so as not to injure their own people by mistake, and as soon as the Ming artillery stopped, the artillery of the Qing army in the city began to sound again, and the iron eggs fell into the river, and the Ming army passed quickly in the splashing water column.

The captives had already begun to ascend the city, but their equipment was very simple, just ordinary siege ladders.

"Up!" A captured officer shook his arms.

More than a dozen soldiers lifted a ladder to the top of the city, the head of which was higher than the city wall, and then pulled down, and the iron hook on it hooked the head of the city, making it impossible for the defenders to knock it down.

As soon as the ladder was fixed, the non-commissioned officers listened to the shouts of the officers and quickly climbed upward.

The rolling wood at the head of the city was smashed, and the Qing army archers on the horse's face shot from the side, and the captives who landed in the city kept screaming and falling.

"Straight sissy thief!" Zhou Fangrong saw that his subordinates could not climb the city wall, and the soldiers fell like jujubes, so he couldn't help but curse angrily, and commanded the archers to throw arrows at the head of the city, suppress the Qing army on the horse, and cover the soldiers to enter the city.

Bows and arrows shot at each other, intertwined like rain, and in front of him were falling swords and shields, and the archers beside him were also constantly hit by arrows, and the screams were endless.

He was in a hurry, and was about to step forward, when suddenly "whoosh", an arrow passed by his face, and he broke out in a cold sweat, stopping his progress.

At this time, in the city, a team of Qing soldiers, holding a log, shouted a trumpet, "One, two, three!" ”

The log slammed into the top of the ladder, and after a few blows, the big iron hook on the ladder was knocked loose, and in a short time, the iron hook was completely detached from the ladder.

Several Qing soldiers immediately shouted, and then held a long pole and stretched the ladder against the wall, and the ladder slowly fell backwards.

The soldiers above immediately jumped down one after another, and if they fell to the ground, they could still pick up a life, and if they were crushed by this heavy ladder, they would not die or be disabled.

The captives set up pontoon bridges and attacked first, gradually losing their morale and physical strength, but they also completed their mission, successfully setting up roads for the main attacking force, and holding back the defenders from fatigue.

At this time, the main attacking troops, braving artillery fire, the vanguard of Lu Gong, cave houses, wells, ladders and other equipment arrived one after another.

For a time, outside the entire Sanshan Gate, under the city walls of Nanjing's West City, the Ming soldiers were all over like ants.

Jin Li was guarded by soldiers, holding shields, looking at the city, only to see that on the side of Weng City, dozens of Ming soldiers were pushing a Lu bus to approach the city wall.

The Qing soldiers in the city showed an anxious look, leaned out from between the walls, and frantically shot arrows, guns, and some even used rockets, trying to stop the Lu bus from approaching.

On the baffle on the roof of the car, the hedgehog was about to be fired, and the soldiers inside clenched their war knives in their hands, without saying a word, staring at the baffle with their eyes, just waiting for the baffle to be put down, put on the city wall, and immediately hugged the city wall to fight.

"Straight sissy thief! It's not there! The soldiers pushing the Lu bus were sweating like rain, their vision was blocked by the vehicle, so they could only push their heads violently, but the vehicle was huge, and it was full of soldiers, so it was really difficult to push.

Suddenly, the whole car was stunned, it seemed to have hit something, and the soldiers below couldn't push it no matter how much they pushed, and they reacted only after listening to the shouts of the soldiers above.

"Pinch the birds, do you still push them when you arrive? Put the baffle! ”

The people below reacted, immediately put the winch, the baffle opened, and suddenly put it on the city wall, but at the moment when the baffle opened, the Qing army, which had already been preparing to meet the attack at the head of the city, immediately shot a rain of arrows, but the Ming army was also prepared and used a rattan card to protect the vital point.

After the rain of arrows, it was followed by fire pots and earth-shattering thunder, and although the soldiers in front of them were protected by shields, they were still blurred by the explosion.

The soldiers who climbed on the roof of Lu Gong's car behind him were not afraid, and with a roar of rage, the knife rushed out of the car, stepped on the burning baffle, and rushed to the city, he slashed one person to death, but was immediately stabbed by four or five spears at the same time.

At this time, the cave house below has been connected to the city in a straight line, and the Ming soldiers crossed the pontoon bridge, passed through the cave house, directly entered the Lu bus, and then boarded the city wall.

During the whole process, the Qing army's archers and gunners had no choice.

For a while, a large number of Ming troops killed on the city wall, and a Qing general found that some of them were stopped, and immediately grabbed a personal soldier, and shouted: "Quick, go and report to Gushan, the Ming army is sharp, and the top is stopped, you can't wait any longer!" ”

As soon as the Qing general finished speaking, a Ming soldier suddenly jumped up from the top of the city, and cut down the unprepared herald from behind with a single sword.

Seeing this, the Qing general hurriedly swung his knife and slashed the Ming army, he saw that there were many Ming soldiers in the city, fighting everywhere, and he was so anxious that he shouted: "Tell the city, quickly use the artillery to smash!" ”

Jin Li wanted to let more Ming troops come over, but he didn't expect the Ming army to be so sharp, as soon as he landed in the city, he couldn't control it, he didn't dare to hold it up at this time, he took a few steps to the female wall, and shouted loudly towards the inner city, "Use artillery!" ”

Inside the walls, a special unit is hidden, and the weapon they use is a stone-throwing machine that is almost obsolete.

One advantage of a catapult over artillery is that it can shoot in a hoist. These stone throwers were hidden inside the city wall by Jin Li, and the artillery outside the city could not hit at all, and he could use the cover of the city wall to keep throwing them outside the city.

This is Jin Li's secret weapon, and it is also one of Hong Chengchou's preparations for defending the city.

There were nearly 100 artillery carts hiding under the city, and they were already ready, and after listening to Jin Li's order, they immediately rang the whistle in unison, and a hundred black bullets rose into the air.

The Ming army that was attacking the city suddenly exploded, and a thousand general manager was slightly stunned, and then his face changed greatly, "****, it's a thunderstorm that is thrown!" ”