The war situation of all parties always affected the nerves of the Nanjing court, and the Qing army of the Boluo Division, which was only one river away from Nanjing, made the Nanjing ministers panic.

Emperor Chongzhen has been sleepless for several days, and even the little princess who was just born to Concubine Zhang Xiu'er didn't have time to visit.

Summoned courtiers to consult day and night, dealt with urgent affairs everywhere, and was busy every day.

The critical situation is like a year ago, when the army of thieves crossed the river to the east, and the important towns of Taiyuan Datong Xuanfu and Shanxi surrendered one after another. The situation is even more dire now than it was a year ago.

The Manchu army was a more ferocious enemy than the thieves, and the Ming army was no different now than it had been a year ago.

The situation is so desperate, ordinary people have already collapsed, but Chongzhen has extremely strong nerves, and he has been immune to defeat after countless defeats and losses in the past ten years.

Chongzhen, who experienced the crisis in Beijing a year ago, is even more downsipated about life and death, no matter how critical it is, can it be more dangerous than in Beijing?

This time, Chongzhen has already made up his mind that he will not run away again! Last time, he was unwilling to let the Ming Dynasty's society die in his hands, so he came to Nanjing, and now if Nanjing loses the Ming Dynasty, there will be no chance to turn over.

Therefore, when a minister proposed to move the capital and follow the example of Zhao Gou, the former Song Gaozong, to avoid the Qing army, he was reprimanded by Chongzhen.

Chongzhen claimed that he would live and die with Nanjing, and if Nanjing City was broken, he would be martyred!

The emperor was so tough, and some ministers also put away their careful thoughts, at least they didn't dare to declare it.

With the joint efforts of the ministers, the whole of Nanjing took action, recruited people, repaired the city defenses, transported rolling wood and stones and other defensive equipment to the city, and the ordnance workshop of the military department rotated and began to make ordnance in large quantities.

Under the leadership of the Cabinet, all preparations were carried out in an orderly manner.

I have to say that coming to Nanjing is a very good choice, at least in terms of treasury funds, there is a world of difference between Nanjing and Beijing now.

Although the summer tax has not yet been collected, it has only been collected for one year after coming to Nanjing. However, without the expenditure of the Nine-Sided Army, the burden of the north was discarded, and the finances of the imperial court improved significantly.

Although the Ming Dynasty lost half of its territory, the remaining half was the richest place, and most of the Ming Dynasty's tax revenue was provided by the south. Taxes did not decrease much, but expenditures fell by more than half, and the treasury suddenly became abundant.

Moreover, Chen Yue first raided the nobles in Nanjing, and then used a knife against the salt merchants in Yangzhou, and even got a large amount of silver for the imperial court.

Now in terms of money, it may be the best time in the more than ten years since Chongzhen ascended the throne. The silver money accumulated in his inner treasury alone was millions of taels.

With silver, everything can be done. There are still more than 80,000 soldiers in Nanjing, who have been fed up for a long time, and their morale is not the same as that of the defenders of Beijing.

After Chongzhen arrived in Nanjing, he immediately restored the Jinyi Guard, rebuilt the East Factory, and relied on the factory guard to control the entire Nanjing and control the movements of the ministers.

With his henchman Wu Mengming in control of Beijing and factory guards as his minions, Chongzhen's control now is much greater than when he was in Beijing.

This is also the reason why Chongzhen has the confidence to be in Nanjing and the Qing soldiers.

Therefore, in another time and space, when the Qing soldiers approached the city of Nanjing, Emperor Hongguang abandoned the city in a hurry, and the ministers of civil and military affairs surrendered the city together. It's all because of the changes caused by the arrival of a time-traveler.

However, although the situation was better than another time and space in history, it was only that the city of Nanjing did not collapse immediately. And the general trend is still not good for Daming.

Although the Qing army of the Boluo Department is now unable to break through the city of Nanjing, don't forget that at the Jiujiang River in the southwest, Azig forced Zuo Mengeng's army to surrender, and hundreds of thousands of troops are being overseen to kill Nanjing. Once the Chen River in Wuhu can't be stopped, hundreds of thousands of Qing troops will directly kill the city of Nanjing, can the city of Nanjing still hold up at that time?

It was precisely when this was seen that the entire city of Nanjing was in fear.

"Your Majesty, the Qing army in the north of the city has found out that there are only more than 30,000 people, and you should immediately order the Marquis of Zhenbei to lead the troops out of the city to attack, and defeat this army before the arrival of the Qing army on the west road. Only in this way can the situation in Nanjing be quickly stabilized. ”

Shoufu Shi Kefa solemnly suggested to Chongzhen. In everyone's opinion, the Chen Jianghe in Wuhu could not stop the Azig army at all, and if the two Qing armies met under the city of Nanjing, it would be very troublesome.

"Zhenbei Hou, what do you mean?" Chongzhen looked at Wu Mengming.

Wu Mengming immediately smiled bitterly when he heard this, he had been the governor of the Beijing camp for a while, so he naturally knew the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the Beijing camp. Most of these people are from military families, although they have lived well with sufficient food and pay in the past few months, and their morale has also improved. It can be used to defend the city, but it is really difficult to pull it out to fight.

However, at present, there are only more than 30,000 Qing troops outside the city, 80,000 troops in the city, and the Zheng family's land and water army outside.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to lead the army to battle!" Looking at Chongzhen's earnest gaze, Wu Mengming knew that he couldn't refuse.

The next day, Wu Mengming led 30,000 troops out of the city from the Qilin Gate, and launched an attack on the Qing army with the Zheng Sen Department outside the Guanyin Gate. At the same time, Zheng Hongkui led more than 200 warships of the navy to attack the green camp sailors on the river.

Under the command of Bolo, Ma Degong, Tian Xionggao, Li Benshen and other green battalion generals led more than 20,000 green battalion soldiers to fight with the Ming army.

The battle was anxious and fierce, relying on the superiority of numbers, the Ming army beat the green battalion soldiers back and forced them to the Yangtze River, seeing that they were about to force the Qing army into the Yangtze River.

At the critical moment, Bolo led the elite of the Eight Banners to suddenly kill, like a sharp sword inserted into the Ming army's array, and the Ming army's formation broke one after another.

The Ming army was unable to resist the offensive of the Eight Banners Cavalry, and the Beijing Battalion led by Wu Mengming was the first to be broken by the Eight Banners, and the Beijing Battalion was defeated like a tide. The cavalry of the Eight Banners brandished swords and guns and pursued behind them, and corpses were everywhere outside Nanjing.

Zheng Sen's army performed slightly better, Zheng Sen personally went to the battle array to fight on the front line, the ferocity of the pirates was stimulated, and the Qing army fought endlessly, and then with the support of the city's artillery, the position was not broken by the Qing army, and returned to the camp outside the Guanyin Gate.

At the head of Nanjing, looking at the soldiers of the Beijing camp who fled wildly, and the Eight Banners soldiers who were chasing and killing the fierce gods behind them, the officials at the head of the city changed color in shock.

The Eight Banners are far more powerful than they imagined, who else can defeat them? At this time, everyone invariably remembered a person's name, and only he could save Daming!