At night, everything is silent, and there is the occasional sound of beating the watch, and then the insects in the grass.

The city wall of Qilin Gate, every ten zhang or so, pick up a lantern, the faint light can barely shine on the ditch under the city, and then in the distance is a pitch black.

In order to prevent the enemy from attacking at night, Zhang Guji, the guard of Qilin Gate, arranged special personnel on duty to patrol uninterruptedly. All the soldiers and villagers slept on the city walls, and were not allowed to go down the city.

In May, the weather is quite hot, and it is cool to sleep on the city walls.

Mosquitoes buzzed tirelessly in their ears, but the villagers who had worked all day ignored them one by one, lying on the head of the city, snoring and sleeping.

"Cuckoo, cuckoo ......" The cuckoo's cry suddenly sounded outside the city, listening to the sound was very close to the city wall, Chen Jianghe Huo Ran opened his eyes, gently pushed away Liu Neng's arm on his body, and slowly stood up.

Liu Neng also woke up, sat up carefully, and looked around.

Waiting for a group of patrolling soldiers to go away, Chen Jianghe quietly took off the lantern hanging on the battlement, shook it three times outside the city, and then held his breath, then heard the slight footsteps outside the city, so he took out an item from his arms, raised his hand and threw it outside the city, and saw a white thing cross the battlement, and soon disappeared under the light of the lantern, and made a slight landing sound.

After throwing the thing, Chen Jianghe immediately sat down on the ground and closed his eyes.

Outside the city, in the darkness where the lanterns at the head of the city could not shine, a figure slowly walked over, bent over and groped on the ground, and soon touched something, and then slowly retreated, until it was far enough away before running wildly.

After running for eight or nine miles, a large black camp appeared in front of him, which was the camp of the Pingnan Army.

In the camp tent, Chen Yue stayed awake all night, anxiously waiting for news.

He only had 15,000 men and horses in his hands, including more than 6,000 Zhenjiang soldiers, led by the superintendent Dao Chengxun. There are so many troops, but they are facing the largest city in the world, and Chen Yue has no idea how to attack the city.

More than 10,000 people were thrown into the city of Nanjing, which covers an area of hundreds of square kilometers, and I am afraid that they will not even be able to bubble up!

And as for how to attack the city, Chen Yue didn't even have any experience. Over the past year or so, although there have been countless battles, more of them are field battles, defensive battles, and real offensives, such as thousands of miles to attack the Mongol tribes. But the Mongol tribes didn't have walls at all, and they didn't have any defenses.

Recently, he has been idle, Chen Yue has also read a lot of military books, and knows how to attack the city, such as digging tunnels, ladder ants attacking the city, such as hitting the city gate with a rushing car, and so on.

But no matter what kind of these are, they will fight fiercely, and they will inevitably cause heavy casualties, these are not what Chen Yue wants to see, after all, with this little force, Chen Yue can't afford a slight loss.

But can you storm the city without casualties? Perhaps, I can only hope that the city will collapse without a fight, and open the door and surrender. This is what Chen Yue is waiting for.

After all, Chongzhen is the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, and after being the emperor for seventeen years, Chen Yue did not believe that all the civil and military ministers in Nanjing City were conquered by King Fu and abandoned their former kings!

Although most of the civil and military ministers of the Ming Dynasty lacked integrity, they all rushed to surrender powerful foreign enemies, such as Li Chuang, such as the Manchu Qing. But it was all because the enemy was too strong, and they lost the courage to resist.

But between King Fu and Chongzhen, the difference in strength is not too great, and Chongzhen obviously has an advantage, because the army that supports King Fu has gone to three, and Chongzhen still occupies the name of righteousness, Chen Yue does not believe that they will abandon Chongzhen and are willing to follow King Fu.

Perhaps, without war, someone will open the door and surrender!

"Master Hou, there's news from the city." Chen Yan lifted the curtain at the door of the tent, walked in, and handed Chen Yue a piece of white cloth.

Chen Yue took it and spread it out on the table, and saw a few lines of handwriting written crookedly with charcoal on it, Chen Yue looked at it carefully, it was the handwriting of his father Chen Jianghe.

The ancestors of the Chen family were also rich, and Chen Jianghe also studied in private school for a few years, but in the end, he was a military family and didn't need to know too many words, so he couldn't handle this handwriting.

On the white cloth, Chen Jianghe simply said that he had persuaded the guards of the Qilin Gate to surrender, and he would open the door to surrender tomorrow morning, and then the Pingnan Army could only enter the city through the Qilin Gate.

After reading the information from his father, Chen Yue had a smile on his face. Dad is daddy, Chen Yue is very pleased to have made such an achievement in such a short time.

Early the next morning, when the hour began, the fire-headed soldiers began to cook on the fire, and at the end of the day, all the soldiers began to eat.

At three o'clock, Chen Yue was in the big tent of the Chinese army, Chen Yue was standing in the center, Wang Yin, the head of the household, and Cheng Xun of the supervising army were separated, Li Yi, Jin Xin, Jin Shenghuan, Yu Feng, Wang Xie and other generals were in the tent, and several generals of the Zhenjiang Army were also among them.

When everyone arrived, Chen Yue began to assign siege tasks. There are six city gates from north to south on the east side of the outer outline city wall of Nanjing, namely Guanyin Gate, Yaofang Gate, Xianhe Gate, Qilin Gate, Cangbo Gate and Gaoqiao Gate.

There are only 15,000 men on their side, let alone besieging the city, even attacking these six gates at the same time cannot do it. You can only choose one or two city gates to attack.

Since Chen Jianghe had persuaded the Qilin Gate guards to surrender, the direction of the main attack was of course the Qilin Gate. However, in order to confuse the enemy and distract the enemy, it is necessary to send troops to feint and attack other gates as a diversion.

Chen Yue ordered to send 3,000 Zhenjiang troops to attack Guanyinmen and Yaofangmen in the north, under the command of Dao Chengxun, the superintendent of the army. Chen Yue is not optimistic about the combat power of the Zhenjiang army, and he doesn't think that they can play any role, doesn't this Cheng Xun always want to make meritorious contributions, so he will be responsible for the siege.

Cheng Xun frowned, he didn't understand Chen Yue's tactics very much, but seeing that Chen Yue didn't want to explain, he had to keep his mouth shut, although he was a military supervisor, but Chen Yue was too strong, and he didn't discuss the war with him at all, and he was helpless.

Chen Yue ordered Jin Shenghuan to lead the regimental training camp and Wang Xie's Huai'an standard battalion to attack Xianhemen as a feint. Then Chen Yue himself led the two battalions of infantry Li Yi and Jin Xin, as well as Chen Ping's teaching battalion, to attack the Qilin Gate, and Yu Feng led the cavalry battalion to suppress the formation, responsible for blocking the defenders in the city from attacking from other city gates.

Liu Wang Yin took 3,000 Zhenjiang soldiers to guard the camp.

At the moment, the gate of the camp was opened, and a group of soldiers left the camp, divided into several roads, and forced towards the city wall of Nanjing. Yu Feng Ma Chuang and others, divided into hundreds of cavalry as the vanguard, the first to run to the city of Nanjing, like the thunder of the sound of horses' hooves broke the silence of the early morning, the whole city of Nanjing seemed to be awakened by the sound of horses' hooves, began to make noise, the defenders of the city head rushed around, a chaos.