In fact, before Yang Xiaoshan's army arrived in Nanjing, he sent Luo Xuan and others to infiltrate Nanjing and liaise with the party to collect intelligence in the city.

At present, Yang Xiaoshan has mastered the basic situation in Nanjing. Lu Jianying is an incompetent person who is afraid of death, Yang Xiaoshan is not worried, in his plan, the city will be broken sooner or later, and his responsibility is to minimize the death of the soldiers and not let them fall on the eve of victory.

To this end, Yang Xiaoshan has done a lot of work. He asked Luo Xuan, who had infiltrated the city of Nanjing, to launch a psychological offensive against the Qing army, and they painted circles, triangles, or numbers such as one or two on the walls of every house in the city at night.

Taking advantage of the fact that the earthen camp was still digging tunnels, he sent Lin Fengxiang to transport five hundred Arhat statues from Xitian Temple and put them on the Yuhua Platform, planting flags during the day and lighting lamps at night, so that dozens of people shouted and cheered around, and set up a Bodhisattva array to lure the Qing soldiers to attack, and wasted a lot of ammunition on them.

On the eve of the attack, Yang Xiaoshan sent hundreds of red-clothed knights to gallop from the south gate to the west gate of Shuixi, and successfully lured the Qing army defending the city to launch artillery bombardment, in fact, these knights were scarecrows in red.

After Yang Xiaoshan made all kinds of ecstasy formations, he finally planned to launch a general attack at Yifengmen to give the Qing army the final blow.

Theoretically, the city of Nanjing is more difficult to attack than Wuchang, because the circumference of the whole city is ninety-six miles, about three times that of Wuchang, the battlements of defense are seven times that of Wuchang, the mountains outside the city are steep, there are thirteen city gates in the city, and there are Yangtze River natural dangers, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack since ancient times.

But at this time, the leadership of the Qing army was too poor and there were no effective generals; Second, the number of soldiers was too small, the regular army was less than 10,000, plus the temporarily recruited Xiangyong, the total garrison was less than 20,000, and the bigger the city of Nanjing, the more flaws there were. Now in the city of Nanjing, the Yangtze River is in the hands of the Taiping army, and the danger outside the city is in the hands of the Taiping army, and it is almost impossible to prevent the Taiping army with the city wall alone.

This day is over for the Qing army, the story of the wolf is over, the sky has just dawned, and in the tunnel just dug yesterday, the Taiping army put dozens of coffin bombs. With the sound of "boom", almost the thickest city wall in the entire Qing Dynasty was also blown open with a hole more than seven meters long.

Yang Xiaoshan considered that Wuchang used Chen Yucheng, and as a balance, he handed over the first credit to Lin Fengxiang and asked him to serve as the captain of the assault death team.

Lin Fengxiang was also a fierce general, so he couldn't help but say that he rushed forward with three or four hundred daredevils.

At this time, most of the Qing troops defending the city were still asleep, until they heard a huge explosion and learned that the city wall was destroyed, and Cheng Sanguang, the chief soldier guarding Yifengmen, realized that this time the Taiping army was playing for real.

"Hurry, plug the gap." Cheng Zongbing hurriedly put on his clothes, he knew that now was the moment of life and death.

Fortunately, this gap is not big, and Cheng Zongbing used his own soldiers to resist Lin Fengxiang's death squad for the first time.

Lin Fengxiang is not a person who bows his head easily, the more he fights, the more courageous he becomes, wielding a big knife and cutting off the heads of several small leaders of the Qing army one after another.

The people who can fight under Chen Zongbing are so many hundred people, as time goes by, his personal soldiers are exhausted, and when he can't stand it, the political envoy Qi Suzao brought a thousand soldiers to help, so that Cheng Zongbing, who was about to collapse, breathed a sigh of relief.

"What? Longhair has attacked? When Lu Qincha got the news that made him wail, he was like a pins and needles, "What should I do?" What can I do? Lu Jianying panicked so much that the six gods were up.

"My lord, let's go and hide in the city." One of his men suggested.

"Okay, well, hurry up and prepare the sedan car!" Lu Jianying finally remembered that there was still a city full of people to breathe a sigh of relief.

So Lu Qincha sat in a four-person sedan chair, opened the way by dozens of guards, and fled to the city.

But when he arrived, he was faced with General Jiang Ning's auspicious and cold face.

"General, open the door, the long-haired killer is in." Lu Qincha faced the closed gates of the city and shouted anxiously under the city.

"Lord Lu, how can you run to our territory full of people? Your duty is to guard Nanjing, and this is not the place you should be. Xianghou didn't mean to open the door for him at all, he had already seen through Lu Jianying's incompetence, he had no confidence in the defense of the outer city, and he had already started to plan to abandon the outside and protect the inside.

He hoarded a large amount of supplies, ammunition, grain and grass in the city, lined up the cannons densely all over the city tower, and led thousands of Eight Banner soldiers and Manchu soldiers to bravely defend the city.

"General, Long Hair is outside, let me in, for the sake of my colleagues, help." Lu Qincha couldn't care about his face anymore, and almost pleaded.

Xiang Hou didn't want to pay attention to this death-fearing ghost, turned around, and ordered: "Open the cannon and blast them away!" ”

With the sound of several cannons around him, Lu Jianying finally gave up, it seems that this Xianghou really doesn't plan to save himself. can only let the sedan chair man turn around and go to the political envoy Qi Suzao to discuss how to break through.

But before he reached the Taiping Gate, he bumped into the team led by Yang Xiaoshan. It turned out that Qi Suzao, who was responsible for guarding the Taiping Gate, went to rescue Cheng Sanguang, and the city defense of the Taiping Gate was weak. Yang Xiaoshan is still a key point this time, and the policy of more flowering.

Yang Xiaoshan's Taiping Gate was easily breached by the Taiping army, and Yang Xiaoshan was leading his troops to prepare to go to Mancheng under the leadership of the party in the city, and happened to bump into this Lu Qincha on the way.

As soon as the four palanquin men saw the Taiping Army, they immediately threw down the sedan chair and fled in all directions, and the Qing soldiers who were responsible for protecting him also dispersed in a hurry.

"Your Excellency, please." Yang Xiaoshan asked the soldiers to take Lu Jianying out of the sedan chair and captured the biggest official in Nanjing.

Soon, other doors also reported successes, Chen Yucheng was responsible for the Shuixi Gate, Li Xiucheng was responsible for the Chaoyang Gate, and Li Kaifang was responsible for the Zhengyang Gate also broke through one after another. Yifengmen, which was strongly surrounded by the Qing soldiers, Lin Fengxiang also gritted his teeth and rushed in to kill Cheng Sanguang and Qi Suzao.

Yang Xiaoshan's troops began to purge the Qing troops, control the streets, and finally successfully met in Nanjing.

There was a large number of civil and military officials of the Qing army who died in this battle: Zou Heming, former governor of Guangxi and director of the city defense bureau, Fuzhu Hong'a, governor of Jiangnan, Qi Suzao, political envoy of Bu, Tu Wenjun of Jiangnan Salt Patrol Road, Chen Kerang, governor of Jiangnan Grain Road, Cheng Sanguang, general soldier, Shen Ding and Fuer Guochun, Liu Tongying of Shangyuan Zhi County, and Zhang Xingshu of Jiangning Zhi County。。。。。。 There were more than 200 officials, large and small, setting a record for the Taiping Army to capture and kill the largest number of Qing officials.

However, the battle was not over yet, and Jiangning General Xianghou and thousands of Eight Banner soldiers such as Huo Longwu, the deputy commander of the capital, were still resisting stubbornly in the city. The city of Nanjing had not yet been completely occupied by the Taiping army.