Nanjing's full city is not an ordinary full city, this is the imperial city built by Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, it is majestic and strong, it is the master of ancient architecture, the strongest fortress in the south of the Yangtze River.

"This battle is not easy to fight!" Yang Xiaoshan took out the monocular that Charles gave him and carefully observed the situation on the city wall. There are a lot of artillery on the tower, and the caliber of the cannon is not small. The battlements were densely covered with Eight Banner soldiers, and there were women boiling water in the aisles of the city wall. It seems that Manren is going to play with himself.

Yang Xiaoshan observed well, under the organization of General Jiangning Xianghou, almost all of the 30,000 Manchu people in the city were mobilized. They knew that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regarded them as demons, and they would kill them if they broke the city, so they hated the same enemy, and their morale was very high. Adult men are in charge of fighting, women are in charge of carrying goods and caring for the wounded, and the elderly and children are in charge of shouting and cheering in the back, almost all of them are soldiers.

"Shizi, the warrant of the king of the east." A herald of the king of the east rode a fast horse and came to give the order.

Yang Xiaoshan opened the warrant, his brows furrowed even deeper, and there were still three days before the Heavenly King and the Eastern King and other Heavenly People would arrive in Nanjing. King Dong hoped that he would be able to occupy Nanjing, welcome everyone into the city, and come to the legendary long-awaited "little paradise".

"Only three days?" Yang Xiaoshan sighed, time was too tight, and it was too late to dig the tunnel. The city is too small, and there is no internal response in it, and all kinds of strategies are difficult to achieve, "It seems that there is only one way to attack." ”

"Xiucheng, you cooperate with Lu Guojin in the earth camp to see if you can blow up the city wall." Yang Xiaoshan can only hope for the earthen camp now, if he can blow up a hole, maybe the siege will be much easier.

Li Xiucheng led his team to launch a tentative attack on the north gate of the city, and after the explosives in the earthen camp were planted, they withdrew. The bomb detonated, but it didn't look good. Although the explosion was loud, the thick wall only shook and was not blown open, only a few cracks were added.

"Shizi, this explosive is not buried deep under the root of the wall, and the effect is much smaller." Lu Guojin scratched his head and said apologetically.

"Big brother, let me lead the team to attack once." Chen Yucheng was eager to fight for his merits, and he lost his head in the outer city and wanted to get it back here in the city.

"Okay, Xiucheng and Kaifang, the two of you will also go together, and you will be the reserve. Let's leave a south gate to see if they escape. Yang Xiaoshan considered that Lin Fengxiang had suffered a large loss in the outer city, so he asked him to rest first, and did not arrange for him to go into battle.

Yang Xiaoshan wanted to see how determined the Manchus were to resist, and if they couldn't hold on and escaped from the south gate, then the battle would be easy to fight.

A vicious battle began.

First of all, the artillery of both sides began to attack, and the shells came and went for half an hour. The Qing troops occupied favorable terrain and had a height advantage, and the Taiping army had a huge number of artillery and occupied a numerical advantage. After a round of firefighting, it was a dead end.

After Yang Xiaoshan observed, he began to worry, these Manchus did not seem to have the intention of escaping, they planned to defend here and wait for other reinforcements to come to the rescue, but in fact, the reinforcements did not exist.

The trumpet sounded, and the sound of killing and gunfire filled the city walls. The Taiping Army and the Eight Banners are engaged in a fierce battle. Chen Yucheng swooped down on the wall of the North Gate and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Eight Banners. Jiangning General Xianghou personally suppressed the position and commanded the spear-carrying team to shoot in turn to withstand Chen Yucheng's offensive.

On the east and west sides, Li Xiucheng and Li Kaifang were also fiercely attacking the city walls, and Huo Longwu, the deputy commander, and Zengfu, the co-leader, resisted desperately. Both sides suffered very heavy casualties, and the Taiping army suffered even more casualties. Not long after the battle, the foot of the city wall was already filled with thousands of corpses of the Taiping army, and the people behind stepped on the corpses of the people in front of them to continue the attack, and then fell down again, becoming the steps of the next round of attacks.

The ground beneath the walls was already stained red with blood.

The Taiping army went forward one after another, and the Eight Banners soldiers on the city also showed rare courage, for them this was a battle that they could not afford to lose, once the city was broken, the family had to die, relying on the strong city wall to resist several rounds of strong attacks by the Taiping army.

"Shizi, let me go." Seeing that the team had suffered such a big loss, Luo Xuan couldn't sit still anymore and volunteered to step forward.

"I'm going to go too. Shizi, let me go! Lin Fengxiang was not to be left behind, and also took the initiative to ask for battle.

Yang Xiaoshan glanced at them and shook his head, "You two let all the teams retreat, I have something to say to their General Jiang Ning." ”

"Shizi?" Luo and Lin were surprised.

"Little Heaven has arrived, it's not easy for the brothers to fight here, don't say much, it's decided." Yang Xiaoshan made the final decision.

The retreat of the Taiping army made both sides breathe a sigh of relief. Such a siege war is simply a meat grinder for both sides, engulfing the lives of people on both sides, and such consumption cannot be borne by either side.

Yang Xiaoshan asked the guards to hold their own guard of honor, hung up the exemption card, approached the city gate, and shouted to the city: "General Jiang Ning, I am Yang Xiaoshan, the former commander of the Taiping Army. Heaven has the virtue of a good life, and now, Nanjing City has been a dead place. I am willing to accept your surrender and let you live. ”

As soon as Yang Xiaoshan's words fell, the soldiers of the Eight Banners seemed to see the hope of life and felt that it was an opportunity.

But Xianghou thought that this was the Taiping army's ill-intentioned inducement, and the Taiping army wanted to lower the will to resist desperately on his side, and refused: "Don't deceive us, when will you long-haired people let us go?" We will not surrender. ”

"To show our sincerity, you can let the women and children out first, we will not be embarrassed, you can watch them go out of the city." Yang Xiaoshan really wanted to let them go, because if he continued to kill like this, his team's losses would be too great. In such a siege battle, it would cost the lives of three Taiping soldiers to kill a soldier of the Eight Banners, which was really not cost-effective.

"You want us to surrender so much, is it because our reinforcements are coming? Brothers, don't fall for the bandits, you must hold on, our reinforcements will come to our rescue! Xiang Hou guessed wisely, but he did have the confidence to hold on, and there was a large amount of grain, grass and ammunition in the city, enough for them to consume for several months.

Yang Xiaoshan didn't expect that his good intentions would be treated as a donkey's liver and lungs, and now there are no reinforcements, but the army of the Taiping Army will reach it in three days. It seems that these full people don't shed tears when they don't see the coffin, and Yang Xiaoshan made up his mind to eliminate these Eight Banners before the Heavenly King and the East King came.