Nanjing's Waiguo was going to be broken by the Ming army, which was expected by Hong Chengchou, after all, there were more than 180 miles of Waiguo City, there were no more than 100,000 people, and the city walls were not satisfied, let alone defended.

But Hong Chengchou didn't expect Waiguo to be broken by the Ming army so quickly, and because of the rebellion of the green camp guarding the east gate of Jiangdong, it was easily captured by the Ming army.

This shocked him, but it also showed his judgment that internal hidden dangers would become one of the main threats to his defense.

Hong Chengchou stood outside the prison, with a chill on his back, the current officers of the Green Battalion, he mostly went through it in his mind, and many unreliable ones were taken down by him, but now it seems that even if he has cleaned it up, there must be people in the Green Battalion who are secretly colluding or being rebelled by Heaven and Earth.

He couldn't help but turn his head and glance back at the dark passage in the prison, feeling a little uneasy in his heart, although Wu Bangfu died, there was still an undercurrent surging in the city of Nanjing! Maybe he really can't sleep!

"Lord Wang, if the Jiangdong Bridge and Jiangdong Gate are lost, there is no need to send people to guard the other gates of Waiguo, but Xiaolingwei and Purple Mountain, as well as Lime Mountain, must send troops to defend it." After a long while, Hong Chengchou let out a sigh and said in a deep voice.

Bolo also knew that the situation was grim, and the purpose of Ming Taizu's construction of Waiguo was to enclose all the hidden dangers that posed a threat to the defense of the inner city, such as Purple Mountain and Lime Mountain, these high mountains outside the city, if they fell into the hands of the Ming army, they could set up artillery to bombard Nanjing, so although Waiguo was lost, these places could not be defended.

"This king will arrange it immediately!" Bo Luo nodded, and left directly after speaking, and Hong Chengchou also hurried back to the yamen with many officials.

The defenders of Jiangdong Gate launched a rebellion, which made Wang Yan actually a little surprised, because he had already given an order to the Heaven and Earth Society before, so that they could endure in the city, and then create an incident at a critical moment, and Wang Yan of Waiguo could easily capture it, and there was no need to change the incident in advance and expose his power.

After the infighting of the Qing army at Jiangdong Gate, the Ming army, which was already preparing to attack, took advantage of the situation to easily seize the Jiangdong Bridge and Jiangdong Gate.

Of the more than 2,000 Qing troops guarding here, more than 1,000 participated in the incident, and the rest were either killed or captured.

Wang Yan immediately boarded the Jiangdong Gate, and felt a feeling in his heart, although he had only entered Waiguo, but he was a big step closer to recovering Nanjing.

At this time, he was standing on the city tower with a group of generals, and Lu Shikui stepped forward to report that the generals had arrived at the city gate anyway, and Wang Yan immediately asked the guards to bring people up.

Several people climbed the city wall from the stone steps, and when they saw Wang Yan's back, they immediately clasped their fists and bowed their heads, "See Your Highness!" ”

Wang Yan turned around, glanced at it, and saw that several people were still bowing their heads and not speaking, so he immediately asked: "You first report to your own family, so that the clan can know what to call a few people." ”

After Wang Yan finished speaking, one of them raised his head, glanced at Wang Yan, immediately lowered his head again, and saluted a little nervously: "The lowly Xu Kaicheng was originally a thousand households under the command of the Marquis of Jingnan. I wish to serve in front of the army to atone for the sins of the past. ”

Wang Yan nodded, said "Okay", and continued to listen to the introduction of the remaining few people, all of whom were deployed by Huang Degong back then, but the official positions were all hundred.

In the four towns of Jiangbei, Huang Degong was the only one who resisted the Qing soldiers and was defeated by himself, and it was precisely because of this that in addition to Tian Xiong and Ma Degong, who secretly communicated with the Qing army, such as Huang Degong and Weng Zhiqi, they have not been reused.

They defected to the Qing court for four years, but there was almost no change in their official positions, which shows that they were really average, but this also shows that they did not participate in much war against the Ming.

Wang Yan listened for a while, and finally looked at Xu Kaicheng and asked: "The army of this domain is coming to the city, you can come to vote anyway, which shows that the loyalty in your heart is still there, and this domain is very relieved. Now I want to know, why did you choose to start an incident at this time? ”

Xu Kaicheng hurriedly saluted and replied: "Back to Your Highness, we are in a hurry, and we are forced to start an incident, because the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society, who have been in contact with the lowly position, were locked and imprisoned yesterday, and the lowly duty is afraid that the matter will be leaked and arrested by the Qing army, so he is forced to cause an incident!" ”

Wang Yan frowned when he heard this, in this way, the Hong thief had already taken precautions, and he wanted to rely on the restoration forces in the city to assist in breaking the city, which might not be easy to achieve.

Wang Yan was pondering, but Wang Shixiu, who was holding a clairvoyant mirror on the side, suddenly put down the clairvoyant mirror, turned his head and said, "Your Highness, Zhongwu Town and the Sailor are about to start attacking!" ”

Wang Yan listened, glanced at a few generals, and then waved his hand and said, "You guys should retreat first!" ”

Liu Shun was going to attack the Hekou Fort, located west of the Qinhuai estuary, guarded by 3,000 men led by the Qing general Sun Youguang, and 4,000 Qing army sailors to support at any time.

It is not easy to capture the fort, although the fort is not more than two battles high, it is not a strong fortress, but the sandbar is surrounded by water, which restricts the Ming army from using various equipment, and can only carry a ladder to rush, and the Qing army sailors on the river unintentionally increase the difficulty of the Ming army to capture the sandbar.

At this time, Liu Shun and Man Dazhuang were standing by the river, with 5,000 sabers and guns dazzling behind them, and there were many Ming warships on the river.

"Mandu Governor, the sailor blocked the Qing boat for me, five thousand people on my side flocked across the river, no matter what tactics, as long as I kill the fort, I will definitely beat three thousand green battalion soldiers to death, but the key is not to let the Qing army sailors bombard us!" Liu Shun pressed the sword, quite a little commander-in-chief.

Man Dazhuang looked at it and singled out the Qing ship, he was the same as beating his grandson, the key was the Qing army fort.

"Liu Duzhen, it's no problem to block the Qing boat, but the brothers of my sailor division will definitely face the pincer attack of the Qing army's sailors and artillery batteries, and the losses must be very large. I am ready to sink the ship, but the brothers of Zhongwu Town, we must fight fiercely, it is best to kill the fort within half an hour, so that the fort cannot bombard the naval division, and this battle must be made into a hammer deal, there are not many naval ships, and you can't put the warship under the fort again and again! Man Dazhuang said with his sword.

A ship of the naval division, counting the artillery equipment equipped, is at least thousands of taels, or even more than 10,000 taels, which is more damn expensive than the cavalry.

Liu Shun smiled on his face, "Don't worry, this sandbar is surrounded by water on all sides, and the brothers sent up have no way to retreat except to capture the fort, and they will definitely fight down." ”

Man Dazhuang listened to Liu Shun's words, hugged his fist at him, turned to leave, and after a short time, he boarded a big ship.

Seeing this, Liu Shun stared at the Shazhou Fort in the distance for a while, and suddenly waved his knife and shouted: "Prepare to attack!" ”

Riverside "Knock! Boom! Boom! The war drums sounded, and the five thousand soldiers of Zhongwu Town, carrying ladders, ran like a tide to the river, ready to board the boat.

At this time, among the sailors of the Ming army, the battle flag was also raised on the big and strong boats, and the sailors began to close the anchor, and the fleet rushed down by the current.

In August, the southeast wind was blowing, the sailors did not raise the sails, the fleet was lined up, the gun jackets were lifted, and the side guns were exposed.