With the collapse of the Shence Gate, the Ming army guarding the city knew that the general situation had gone, and they scattered in a panic, and half of the 2,000 people fled. The remaining half, too, lost their bows and arrows, and their blades, and just knelt on the city wall and surrendered to the Xuanjia army.

The only ones who still had swords in their hands were only a few or two hundred. Li Cheng couldn't stay on the city wall any longer, and hurriedly took one or two hundred Ming troops down the city wall of Shence Gate, preparing to retreat in the direction of the Nanjing Imperial Palace.

Li Cheng withdrew from the city gate less than two squares, but saw a battalion of men coming in front of him, it was his boss, Han Zanzhou, the garrison eunuch of Nanjing City. Behind Han Zanzhou, there were two hundred eunuch corps that could barely be gathered from the Imperial Palace of Nanjing City.

Li Cheng saw Han Zanzhou, knelt on the ground, and cried loudly, "Godfather, the Xuanjia army is like a tiger, and the Shence Gate has been lost!" Nanjing City is over! ”

This bad news was also expected by Han Zanzhou, who vigorously pulled Li Cheng up, and shouted in his sharp and piercing voice, "Sons! Today is the time for us to be loyal to Your Majesty, martyrdom for Nanjing, and martyrdom for the Ming Dynasty! Are you afraid? ”

Two hundred eunuchs held their rudimentary swords aloft and shouted in unison, "Don't be afraid! ”

"Good!"

Han Zanzhou drew his saber and shouted loudly, "Let's immediately regain the Divine Ce Gate, rush!" ”

He led the charge in front, but none of the two hundred eunuchs behind him flinched, and he followed the original path of retreat and killed the Shence Gate again.

Gan Hui attacked the Shence Gate, and immediately sent 300 soldiers to the city wall to receive the prisoners, confiscated all the bows, arrows, and weapons of the surrendered Ming army, and ordered them all to squat in the urn city and wait for disposal.

In order to prevent the surrendered Ming army from rebelling again, he immediately ordered the sergeants to close the gate of the urn city, and sent a hundred sergeants armed to the teeth to guard the surrendered soldiers.

The remaining 500 men, 300 sergeants in the lead, holding huge shields, marched along the avenue in the city for fifty paces in formation, and 200 men went up to the city wall, occupied the favorable terrain, raised their bows and arrows, raised their firearms, and aimed at the direction of the enemy's attack.

The killing shouts were getting closer and closer, and Gan Hui saw clearly that it was not the Ming army at all who was killed, but a group of eunuchs in the palace.

Gan Hui, who was standing on the city wall, really couldn't understand, these eunuchs who didn't have strong bows and crossbows, no swords, guns and armor just killed them like this, and in the face of the neat Xuanjia army, they were simply hitting stones with eggs, what did they want to do? !

Gan Hui shouted and said, "Governor Fang has an order, we are the army of the king, the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and when we enter the city, we will only arrest the first evil Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, and we will never kill innocents indiscriminately." Wait until you lay down your arms, surrender and avoid death! ”

Han Zanzhou and Li Cheng killed in front of the Xuanjia Army's big shield army, Han Zanzhou pointed at Gan Hui and scolded, "Those who enter Nanjing City without the imperial court's edict are chaotic ministers and thieves. ”

Li Cheng shouted and said, "Regain the Divine Ce Gate!" Defend the city of Nanjing! ’

Without much hesitation, the eunuch legion immediately shouted slogans and began to charge suicidally at the infantry phalanx of the Xuanjia Army.

Not only Gan Hui was shocked by these eunuchs who were basically ineffective, but even the Xuanjia sergeants in the array were silent.

These eunuchs are not normal men, but at the juncture when Nanjing City is about to fall, they burst out with more blood than normal men. The weapons in his hands are not very good, they are some swords and sabers in the palace; The number of people is not too much, only about 200 people are full, which is not enough to stuff the teeth of the Xuanjia army.

But their loyalty and bloodiness completely shocked Gan Hui and the Xuanjia sergeant, and without any counterattack, they were led by Han Zanzhou to rush to the big shield.

The eunuchs began to frantically slam their shields, pushing or slashing. After rushing down, fighting for the casualties of dozens of eunuchs, he actually forced the Xuanjia Army's large shield phalanx back fifty steps and retreated to the front of the Shence Gate.

Gan Hui looked coldly at the eunuch who was charging like a suicide, knowing that if he hesitated like this, if he alarmed the Ming army that had already surrendered in the urn city, the Xuanjia sergeant would inevitably have greater casualties.

Gan Hui raised the megaphone again, and the sound in the megaphone floated out far away, so that everyone on the scene could hear it clearly, "This is an ultimatum, we are the benevolent and righteous teachers of the horse Fangyuan, and if we descend, we will not die!" If you don't surrender, you will be annihilated immediately! ”

Han Zanzhou and Li Cheng had been killed as bloody people, and they turned a blind eye to Gan Hui's ultimatum.

Gan Hui conveyed the military order to strangle in a deep voice.

"Archers, musketeers, get ready to shoot!"

"Infantry phalanx, turn defense to offense, kill!"

The bloody battle in the Shence Gate lasted for an hour before it was over.

It was not so much a bloody battle as a one-sided massacre. Under the volley of firearms and bows and arrows, Han Zanzhou's eunuch army suffered heavy casualties. The infantry phalanx, which turned from defense to attack, killed these eunuchs with no combat experience one by one with their strong combat power.

Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of the Nanjing City garrison, and Li Cheng, the guard of the Shence Gate, were killed on the spot with dozens of shots and arrows. None of the 200 eunuchs he led chose to flee, and all of them were martyred.

Gan Hui immediately ordered the surrendered Ming army to start cleaning the battlefield of Wengcheng, and the corpses of every Xuanjia sergeant who died in battle were neatly placed outside the Shence Gate, ready for a unified burial.

He felt the loyalty of Han Zanzhou and Li Cheng, who died in battle, and also ordered the corpses of the 100 surrendered Ming generals Han Zanzhou and Li Cheng, as well as 200 eunuchs, to be neatly placed on both sides of the street, waiting for Fang Yuan's treatment after entering the city.

In the early morning of the next day, when the first sun rose in Nanjing, the battle of Shence Gate had quietly ended.

The people in the north of the city experienced a night of shelling and shouting of killing, and they had no idea what was happening on this side of the Shence Gate, but most of them did not dare to go out to investigate. Only a few brave people pushed open the door and took a look, and saw the corpses of eunuchs lying neatly on both sides of the street, as well as the streets infected with blood, this scene was too terrifying, and they immediately shrank back in fright and closed the door tightly.

At noon, Fang Yuan and Jing Jie, who were in command, arrived outside the Shence Gate with reinforcements from the 5,000-step battalion.

Gan Hui, the commander of the infantry battalion, came to report to Fang Yuan the military report of the battle of Shence Gate last night.

In the Shence Gate, Gan Hui captured 2,000 Ming troops; Outside the Shence Gate, Feng Ting defeated the ambush soldiers in the mountains and forests, as well as the reason for the Taiping Gate, wounded and killed 2,000 Ming soldiers and captured 3,000 Ming soldiers.

The Xuanjia Army suffered casualties in this battle, and 531 sergeants of the infantry battalion.

Feng Ting, the deputy commander, led 3,000 Xuanjia soldiers into Nanjing City and went to each city gate to recruit the guards of each gate.

Fang Yuan saw the corpses of more than 500 Xuanjia sergeants lying outside the city gate, and sighed deeply, and ordered Jing Jie to bury every sergeant who died in battle, and the family of each sergeant was given five taels of silver, in addition to inheriting the original military land, and then rewarding three acres of fertile land.

Fang Yuan and the two of them rode into Nanjing City from the Shence Gate, the urn city had already been cleaned, and the first thing they saw was the corpses of eunuchs on both sides of the street, and they asked in amazement, "Commander Gan, what are these?" ”

Gan Hui told the truth about the shocking scene of Han Zanzhou and Li Cheng leading these five hundred eunuchs to launch a suicidal charge against the Xuanjia Army last night, and then reported that he left the corpses of these eunuchs and waited for Fang Yuan's order.

Fang Yuan stared at the two neat rows of eunuch corpses, as well as the blood dripping on the street, all of which indicated that these eunuchs were as tragic as moths to a fire last night.

He immediately stopped for a long time, and finally spoke, "Commander Gan, move the corpses of Han Zanzhou, Li Cheng and all the eunuchs to the palace square in the city, and bring all the families of Han Zanzhou and Li Cheng to the palace!" ”