162 Battle of Nanking (6)
Bai Yintu and Li Shutai are also defending very hard at the moment, originally Li Chengdong and Zu Dale's soldiers and horses are better than them, and their combat effectiveness is also very strong, they do not occupy much advantage, and they are caught off guard, but the defense is still very tight, but with the mobilization of the red-coated artillery, after facing several rounds of bombardment by the opponent's red-coated artillery, many people began to waver, especially those Han soldiers and horses, when they could not see hope, they were unwilling to hold on any longer.
Li Chengdong and Zu Dale attacked from two directions, compressing their defense line step by step, using the red-coated cannon as the opening machine, and the musket team followed closely to suppress, and the cooperation was very skillful, their soldiers and horses were constantly decreasing, while the opponent's reinforcements were constantly increasing, and they had cut off their back road, occupied the city wall, and began to attack them from the bottom down, and their weaknesses were seen at a glance.
"The Great General to ......"
With the arrival of Cao Bianjiao, everyone became more cautious and cautious, and they all wanted to show their best state in front of Cao Bianjiao, and Cao Bianjiao was favored by Cao Bianjiao.
"General &......" Zhang Shenyan is responsible for the defense on the city wall, Yuan Shu is leading in the south, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Nanjing have joined the battle circle, suppressing the remnants of the Qing army with five or six times the force, and they are stubbornly resisting in the corner, so the Ming army is ruthless.
Although Cao Bianjiao has not yet resumed his official position as a general, everyone still calls him a general to show their respect and support for Cao Bianjiao.
Cao Bianjiao walked up to the city, and Zhang Shenyan also stepped forward and said: "General, General Li and General Zu have suppressed them and can't raise their heads, Yuan Boying has also led the army to block their last retreat, and now they are unable to escape, after a hard battle, the Qing army has only seven or eight thousand people left, and the losses are very great......"
"There is no need to attack again, Duoduo has been captured by me, they have lost their commander, and among these people, there are many people who were originally soldiers of my Ming army, some are Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses, and some are soldiers and horses of Xuanda and two towns, they still have the possibility of persuasion to surrender, the Qing army is known as 100,000 troops going south, in fact, the real Manchu Eight Banners are only 20,000 soldiers, and the rest are my Han family sons, I believe that some people still have a conscience and can be persuaded to surrender."
"The general wants to surrender without a fight, and to fight the heart, emulating the general's method in Suizhou?" Although Zhang Shenyan didn't know much about military affairs, he also heard what Cao Bianjiao meant, when Cao Bianjiao won a great victory in Suizhou with the battle of attacking the heart, he knew it, and he also remembered the old things at the moment.
"Exactly!" Cao Bianjiao said with a smile, saying that he did have this intention.
Cao Bianjiao walked up to the female wall of the city wall, and shouted to the Qing army camp not far away: "The people under the city have listened, I am the general of the Ming Dynasty Cao Bianjiao, your commander Duoduo, has been captured by me, I know that many of you are my Han family sons, the commander surrendered, you have to follow the Manchu people to the south, you used to be my warriors of the Ming Dynasty, I know this, I believe you yourself will not forget, you were the first thing you did to protect the country, the current situation has been irreversible, Nanjing has been controlled by me, Duoduo has been conferred the head, the Manchus are about to fall, are you willing to die here as Manchus, and in the future, what face do you have to go to see the ancestors and ancestors under the Nine Springs, do you want to tell them, tell your ancestors, you died in battle to defend the Manchu Tartars? Now it's too late to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, I, Cao Bianjiao, promise you, as long as you take up arms and destroy the Qing soldiers around you, you are still my Ming soldiers, and you will never pursue the previous surrender to the enemy, brothers, you have to think clearly......"
"Lord Baiyintu, make a decision, what should I do now?" Xu Yong was also worried, he was Zuo Liangyu's old general, but he was originally born in a rogue, and was recruited by Zuo Liangyu, and he had no loyalty to the Ming Dynasty court, and he didn't believe that the Ming Dynasty court would let him go, so he was determined to continue to serve the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
"Ah......" Bai Yintu didn't have time to answer Xu Yong's words, he actually didn't know what to do, but at this moment Xu Yong had already fallen, after Xu Yong fell to the ground, a person behind him pulled out a long knife from Xu Yong's body, this person is Zhang Yingyuan, he is a Ming general, born in Wuju, followed He Renlong earlier, followed Zuo Liangyu after He Renlong's death, although he also surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, but it was forced by the times, he had to follow, now it is different, he does not want his descendants to be poked in the backbone in the future.
"Zhang Yingyuan, what do you want to do?" Bai Yintu was also shocked, looking at Zhang Yingyuan, who was full of murderous anger, and scolded.
Zhang Yingyuan also shouted at the moment: "Brothers, we are all sons of the Han family, the general has a good income, we were forced to follow the Manchu Tartars, they treat us as slaves, how can we forget our ancestors, kill with me, and surrender to the general......"
"Kill, ......" under the leadership of Zhang Yingyuan, a group of soldiers and horses began to attack Baiyintu, and all of a sudden Baiyintu was immediately chaotic, civil strife and infighting, cannibalism, no one knew who was the enemy, no one knew if they were friends around them, anyway, as long as there was no impression of the person, they would be treated as enemies, and it would be a knife to go up, and the scene was very chaotic.
Seeing the chaos under the city, Cao Bianjiao didn't make a move, and watched this scene quietly, at least half of the people here are Han, and the other half of them will be very lively as long as they join the battle circle, and now even if he rushes over, he doesn't know who is the enemy and who is the friend, so he can only wait and see.
The infighting lasted for a full time, and after Cao Bianjiao saw the situation clearly, he immediately shouted: "Whoever surrenders to the Ming army, immediately assemble under the city wall, and form a formation with his back against the city wall to kill the enemy." ”
After hearing Cao Bianjiao's words, many people also began to move, moving under the city wall, with their backs to the city wall for defense, still looking at their companions very vigilantly, for fear that a Qing soldier would mix in and disrupt the formation when the time came.
"Musket team, let go of the gun......" Under Cao Bianjiao's succession, the musket team that had already been prepared began to act, pulled the trigger in his hand, and killed the enemy, perhaps mixed with people who wanted to surrender, but Cao Bianjiao couldn't take care of it so much, he couldn't let everyone die here, and he had to keep such an elite army to replenish his troops, and his losses in this battle were not small, and he needed a northern soldier.
Thunderbolts, Tiger Squat Cannons, Five Thunder God Machines, and Lumi Guns have launched projectiles one after another, firing towards the dense places under the city, booming, crackling sounds one after another, one by one the Qing army fell to the ground, was pierced through the body and died, the rest of the people were surrounded by regiments, left and right were Ming troops, and they were powerless.
Less than half a pillar of incense, the ground is full of corpses of the Qing army, and the blood has dyed the ground under his feet red, Cao Bianjiao saw that the war here has ended, and he is also commanding Li Chengdong to continue to attack, and cooperate with Zu Dale to clear and suppress some of the remaining remnants. It has been two or three hours since he entered the city, and it is time to end everything, Cao Bianjiao has no patience to play monkeys, and plays slowly with them, and directly orders that as long as the person who does not disarm is not disarmed, he will be killed immediately, unceremoniously.