The Qing soldiers in the city, most of them were banner soldiers, and there were small semi-brave soldiers, at this time there was no way to retreat, under the leadership of Jiangning General Xianghou, they resisted stubbornly and fought desperately. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Coupled with Xianghou and Huo Longwu, the deputy commander, the military commanders were strict and defended properly, and the Taiping army couldn't capture the city for a while.

The city was originally an imperial city built in the Ming Dynasty, wide and majestic, the city is high and the wall is thick, easy to defend and difficult to attack. In addition, there are more than 8,000 Qing troops in Mancheng, nearly 4,000 banner soldiers, plus thousands of brave soldiers, and the banner people who live in Mancheng, all of them burst out with great fighting spirit when they survived. Dutong Huo Longwu even forced Manchu women, the elderly, and children to be dragged to the head of the city to defend the city.

Yang Xiuqing saw that there was only one place left in the city that had not been conquered, and at the same time, he was angry and itching, as long as he occupied this city, he would be able to occupy Jiangning City. Moreover, the wealth in the city must be the most! Immediately, he ordered the city to be surrounded and attacked at the same time.

The next day, under the cover of heavy artillery fire, the Taiping army launched a strong attack from all directions at the same time.

Qin Rigang, Hu Yixuan, Zeng Shuiyuan, Zhu Xikun and others led the Taiping army to launch three consecutive attacks, but they were all repelled by the Eight Banners. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, and the intensity of the battle far exceeded that of the offensive and defensive battles in the outer city of Jiangning.

Fierce fighting, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides!

The Eight Banner soldiers on the head of the city were killed by more than 1,000 people, more than one-third of the flag soldiers in the city, and more than 1,000 women and children were killed and wounded.

The Taiping army, due to its strong attack at any cost, also suffered the greatest heavy losses in history, with more than 3,000 killed and nearly 2,000 wounded.

Yang Xiuqing was also shocked by the fierce fighting spirit and combat power of the banner soldiers in the city, but of course he would not admit his mistake in ordering the attack.

Under the pretext of sympathizing with the hard work of the soldiers who fought day after day, Yang Xiuqing ordered the officers and men of the Fourth Army who were mainly attacking to rest and recuperate temporarily.

He transferred the left army of the winged king Shi Dakai and the right army of the northern king Wei Changhui, and let their second army continue to attack Mancheng fiercely.

The left army of the Wing King and the right army of the North King, who were holding back their strength, did not know the details of the flag soldiers, and they went up together, and suddenly there was another tragic killing, and the two sides seemed to exchange their lives, harvesting each other's heads.

The banner soldiers in the city, knowing that the city would inevitably die tragically after the city was broken, were all desperate for themselves, and they actually broke out with huge combat power. In less than two hours, the right army of the king of the north was killed and wounded by thousands of people, and the king of the north was angry and angry, and was forced by the order of the king of the east to send his younger brother Wei Jun, who was the most capable of fighting. And Shi Dakai also secretly held his breath, and put all his cousins on him, and supervised the army to fight, so that the banner soldiers and brave soldiers who defended the city in a series of battles naturally couldn't bear it, and they were defeated and retreated, and they were about to capture the city.

Yang Xiuqing ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops. Shi Dakai and Wei Changhui were secretly angry, knowing that the East King saw that the victory was in hand, and they wanted to make small moves, but the Taiping Army was strictly hierarchical, and it was the North King Yiwang, and they did not dare to disobey the military orders of the East King. They had no choice but to withdraw their troops.

However, this time, Yang Xiuqing can't be blamed for his methods. Instead, he found that the flag soldiers all over the city were all very tired, and they were all holding back in battle. Therefore, he announced the withdrawal of his troops, allowing the Qing troops in the city to relax and rest.

He knows that after a person is highly tired, if he pushes hard, he can still persevere, but once he relaxes and wants to tense, he will not succeed.

Yang Xiuqing ordered people to erect a high platform outside the city and shouted, saying that they were allowed to surrender to the bannermen, and not only did they not kill them when they surrendered, but they also let them leave Jiangning City. Seeing that there was hope for survival, the flag soldiers immediately did not want to continue fighting, and their spirit and fighting spirit suddenly relaxed.

Yang Xiuqing ordered the brave men in the Manchu Qing to open the city gates and surrender, and promised gold, silver and high-ranking officials.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Jiangning General Xianghou and Deputy Commander Huo Longwu ordered the banner soldiers to kill dozens of brave men who were about to move, but in this way, the rest of the brave men scattered and fled.

After Yang Xiuqing outside the city learned of the situation in the city, he immediately reorganized Qin Rigang, Hu Yixuan, Zeng Shuiyuan, Zhu Xikun and others who had been resting to lead the army to continue the onslaught.

Many of the banner soldiers in the city fought continuously, without intermittent rest, and did not eat even for a day, and they were so tired that they fell asleep and did not wake up as soon as they lay down, and they were unable to fight again. The rest of the bannermen, the elderly, women and children were all unbearable to fight and fled in all directions, and the Taiping army took the opportunity to break through the city in one fell swoop.

General Jiangning was auspicious, and when he saw the city broken, he killed himself.

Huo Longwu, the deputy commander, led his five hundred elite cavalry, wanting to open the city gate and break out of the encirclement, but unfortunately, he happened to meet the soldiers of the left army of the wing king who had nowhere to fire, and slashed and killed, and the five hundred cavalry could not rush up on the street, not only did not have the advantage of cavalry, but became a target, and were quickly slaughtered.

Huo Longwu was stabbed in the body by hundreds of spears, and he was riddled with holes, and from the outside, it was already full of spear handles, and no one could be seen.

The banner people and brave people in the city hurriedly opened the city gate to surrender and beg for mercy, but Yang Xiuqing and the soldiers were angry with the thousands of brothers killed by the banner soldiers, and followed the cold and categorical voice of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east: "All of them are slaughtered, and no one is allowed to be let go." ”

Soon, the remaining 2,000 banner soldiers and 3,000 brave soldiers in the city were all killed by the Taiping army. The rest of the ordinary bannermen, including women and children, went into hiding and were searched and killed by more than 50,000 Taiping soldiers from house to house.

In the end, more than 14,000 Manchu bannermen in the entire city were all slaughtered by the Taiping army. For a time, the city was full of blood.

The Taiping army completely occupied the city of Jiangning.

On the 29th day of the first month, early in the morning, Yang Xiuqing led the Northern King, the Yiwang, Qin Rigang, Hu Yixuan and other members of the Taiping Army to the bank of the Yangtze River to welcome the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan into Jiangning City.

Yang Xiuqing, dressed in a big red robe and a mink hat, looked expressionlessly at the huge bright yellow dragon boat that was gradually sailing in the distance. Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai, who were also dressed in red robes, followed closely behind, and the rest of the personnel either wore official hats or yellow armor in accordance with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom system, and knelt down to greet them, waiting for the king to get off the ship.

The dragon boat approached, and dozens of people jumped out of the boat to fix the boat. More than a dozen people came down, holding planks in their hands, supported by their own backs, and leaning the planks against the side of the ship and the shore, apparently for the king to step off the boat.

At this time, more than 100 young guards, surrounded by a man wearing a golden crown of a bright yellow pan dragon and a gorgeous yellow satin embroidered dragon shoes, got off the boat.

I saw that this person was wearing a yellow embroidered dragon robe, very gorgeous, almost hanging to the top of the feet, embroidered yellow satin robe, decorated with floating gold ornaments and gold, silver and red silk coiled into a dragon pattern, very majestic. It's just that the pale cheeks, showing the excited flush, the eyelids are a little swollen, and at first glance it is floating in the color of wine, and it looks like a hollowed-out kidney.

This person is none other than the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan! In front of the hall, the second commander from the right commanded Meng Deen, carefully supported him, and slowly got off the boat.

Hong Xiuquan glanced at everyone, his eyes changed, his face was already full of smiles, and he laughed: "King Dong, they are all his brothers, and they are newly occupied Jiangning, why bother to come to meet me?" ”

Yang Xiuqing's face was also full of smiles at the moment, and he replied respectfully: "Brother Tianwang, you are the foundation of peace, and it is a great thing to welcome you!" ”

Hong Xiuquan nodded with satisfaction, took Yang Xiuqing's hand, and walked forward together.

After walking more than ten steps, there was already a Ming Huang Panlong Yellow Tweed sedan chair carried by sixteen people, waiting there, but it was Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, who arranged it in advance for Hong Xiuquan to ride.

Hong Xiuquan saw the yellow sedan chair of sixteen people, his face was slightly gloomy, and his eyebrows were furrowed. Yang Xiuqing next to him observed his words and looks, and saw that the king didn't like it, and then looked at the sixteen people standing next to the yellow sedan chair, he was suddenly startled, and secretly depressed: "Cough, I have a lot of things, and I actually forgot that the good-faced and etiquette brother next to him has always liked the number of eight or eight, and this sedan chair is only carried by sixteen people, no wonder his face is not good." ”

At that moment, he hurriedly ordered Zeng Shuiyuan, the book of the East Hall who followed behind him, and then turned his head and smiled and chatted with the Heavenly King. Half a moment later, Zeng Shuiyuan led 48 burly men wearing yellow hats and bright yellow horse coats to the Panlong yellow tweed sedan chair. Yang Xiuqing hurriedly invited Hong Xiuquan to get into the sedan chair.

Seeing the 64 powerful sedan chair drivers, Hong Xiuquan was somewhat satisfied and entered the sedan chair.

At this time, the reliance of the king of heaven also got off the boat one after another, hurried to the front of the four yellow sedan chairs, and relied energetically, hundreds of people held high the flag, 64 pairs of gong players, 64 pairs of drummers, all dressed in the uniform of Ming and yellow horse coats in Wuchang City, blowing and blowing, under the guidance of Zeng Shuiyuan and others, marched to Jiangning City.

After Tianwang 64 carried the sedan chair, it was followed by 36 Guangxi big-footed women, although they wore short shirts and trousers in winter, they did not feel the cold at all, all holding sun umbrellas, riding horses.

The three yellow sedan chairs carried by the East King, the North King and the Wing King were carried by sixteen people, followed by the big-footed woman, and then followed by thousands of Heavenly King guards on horseback, as well as hundreds of Wang Niang and other family members who rode horses and sat in sedan chairs.

Then there were thousands of soldiers, and the noise was heard for dozens of miles, which shocked the people in Jiangning City.

Hong Xiuquan chose to enter the city through the West Gate of Shui, because there is a water character, which secretly matches his Hong character.

Arriving outside the Shuixi Gate, Hong Xiuquan asked people to stop the sedan chair, get out of the sedan chair, and look at the towering Jiangning City Tower, with a lot of emotion in his heart!

Ten years ago, he participated in the fourth imperial examination, but he failed to win the examination, and he was still a down-and-out talent; Five years ago, he was still very down, and wanted to find the foreign pastor named Luo Xiaoquan to become a monk, but he was considered insincere and did not know enough and was rejected; More than a year ago, he led a team of more than 10,000 people, was surrounded and suppressed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and hid in the Yao Mountains in Guangxi.

But he didn't expect that today, he would be able to stand in front of the Shuixi Gate where Zhu Yuanzhang once stood, ready to take over the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and regard it as his own national capital!

From now on, this majestic ancient capital of nearly one million people belongs to him alone!

Moreover, as the soldiers under his command attack everywhere, more and more cities will be occupied, and one day, he will return to the city of Guangzhou, which has participated in the imperial examination four times, and let the examiners and candidates who have laughed at him, as well as those innkeepers and juniors, and even, the passers-by who have pitied him, let them know that they are all wrong! They missed a great genius, a Creator of Heaven on earth!

However, he suddenly had in mind the appearance of an elegant scholar. King of the South!

"Yunshan! If you leave me and occupy Guangzhou and don't report to me, are you forced to be helpless, or do you really have other ideas? Either way, you must be starting to regret it now. Now I have this prosperous capital, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and I am the king of heaven. If you had been following me, you would have a fortune now! If you come to me now, come to me, maybe, I will give you a chance, maybe, but I will not give it, because you also have ambitions. ”

"Heavenly King, the auspicious time has come. It's time to enter the city! Just as Hong Xiuquan was thinking about it, Meng Deen's voice interrupted his reverie.

Hong Xiuquan hurriedly packed up his mood and got back into the sedan chair. At the end of the second quarter and the beginning ----of the third quarter of the auspicious time, Hong Xiuquan sat in a yellow sedan chair and officially entered the city of Jiangning through the west gate of Shuixi. (To be continued.) )