"Boom Boom!!"

The loud noise that broke out not far away almost directly shattered Li Xiucheng's eardrums, making Li Xiucheng temporarily deaf in both ears, and he could no longer hear any sound for a period of time, and the tremor on the ground shook Li Xiucheng even more, and he almost fell on the spot. However, Li Xiucheng ignored it, supported the soldiers around him, and tried to keep his eyes open just to see the scene of the explosion, and kept yelling in his heart, "Explode!" Be sure to blow up the gap! The bigger the gap, the better! ”

"It's exploded! The walls exploded! ”

The emperor god that the Taiping army believed in has never abandoned his faithful believers, and in the dust, as the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, Li Xiucheng finally saw in ecstasy that the tall and majestic inner city wall of Nanjing was indeed blown out of a gap, or a huge gap with a width of not less than ten zhang! It not only makes it difficult for the Wu army outside the city to block, but also very conducive to the Taiping army cluster to quickly leave the city!

"Rush! Rush out! Fill in the moat, open the way out of the city, and fight your way out! ”

In ecstasy, Li Xiucheng ignored the fact that his ears could not hear any sound for the time being, and yelled and just urged the Taiping soldiers to step forward and fill the moat with debris. As a result, Li Xiucheng immediately found that he was purely wasting his strength, just saw the gap in the city wall, and before the dust settled, the Taiping soldiers who were responsible for filling the moat had already rushed out with straw bags and sandbags, and because of the insufficient number of straw bags and sandbags in the inner city, the Taiping soldiers who charged with sacks next were full of precious food!

At the same time, Cai Yuanlong and Huang Jinai's second general also led the army to launch a charge in accordance with Li Xiucheng's prior requirements, rushing to the stone bridges across the river between Chaoyang Gate and Hongwu Gate, which were blocked by Wu army's firepower, forcibly containing the combat forces of the Wu army, and also making every effort to open one or two more roads out of the city!

"Hit the mark! The long hair has exploded another gap! ”

The Wu army Feng Sanbao's corps really didn't expect that the Taiping army would come to such a hand, and they would blow up another road out of the city on the city wall, and they were caught off guard, Feng Sanbao didn't have time to mobilize the artillery team to block the gap in the city wall, so he could only yell at Wu Dadao next to him: "Contest, take the pro-barracks of the king of Zhennan up!" Buy me time! It's up to you whether you can block the long hair in the city or not! ”

The situation was urgent, and Wu Dada, who had always been lazy and slippery, did not say superfluous nonsense for the first time, and with a wave of his hand, he led more than 400 Wu Chaoyue's personal soldiers to rush to the gap in the city wall, and on the way, Wu Dadao kept yelling, "Quick!" Fast! Check the bullet grenade! Check the water hyacinth! No one is allowed to drink water until the reinforcements arrive! Keep the water to pour the barrel of the gun! Fast! Fast! ”

The speed competition of the race against time was launched, and the soldiers of the Wu army led by Wu Dadao were all flying, holding Henry's beaded spear and rushing to the gap in the city wall; On the Taiping side, all hands and feet were like electricity, racing against time to carry sandbags and grain bags out of the city, throwing them into the wide and deep moat to fill the road, and many Taiping soldiers took local materials and pushed the wall bricks and soil blocks left behind by the explosion into the moat, and some Taiping soldiers lifted the grain trucks with empty grain bags to the top of the gap, and forced the water to fill the river to build roads. Both sides are racing against time, and both sides dare not have the slightest slackness, shouting that they just run forward as fast as possible to carry out their respective tasks.

Fortunately, thanks to the blessing that the Taiping army had dug the moat wide and deep before, before the Taiping army had time to fill in the moat, Wu Chaoyue's pro-military battalion finally rushed to the other side of the moat first, but even so, even if it was a strictly trained and well-trained pro-military battalion directly under Wu Chaoyue, it was still left behind countless in the mad run, and the formation was completely chaotic, and only less than 300 people followed Wu Dada to the blocking position.

Things came to this point, Wu Dada, of course, didn't have time to pay attention to those subordinates who had fallen behind, roared and took the lead to climb down, and then raised Henry's spear and shot at the enemy on the other side of the moat, and the other Wu soldiers followed suit, all of them shot in the most difficult to be shot, desperately shooting the Taiping soldiers who were filling the moat, nearly 300 Henry serial guns with a maximum load of 16 rounds of fierce fire, immediately intertwined a dense rain of bullets on the position, and beat the enemy on the other side of the moat to the back of the horse, screaming continuously.

A Henry Repeater Gun can usually play a ten-person firepower effect in the field, nearly 300 Henry Repeater Guns is the firepower density of nearly 3,000 people, the Wu Army's offensive is not ferocious, and the gap in the city wall covered by the Wu Army's firepower is also screaming, and I don't know how many people are under the guns of the Wu Army in a moment.

However, even so, the fierce firepower of the Wu army still failed to stop the tenacious determination of the Taiping army, the Taiping soldiers in front fell to the ground, and the soldiers behind immediately followed, the Taiping soldiers who fell to the ground and did not die pushed all kinds of debris to continue to advance, and the Taiping soldiers who were shot and died were directly pushed into the moat by their companions, filling the moat with corpses, and many seriously wounded Taiping soldiers were also pushed into the water by their companions without hesitation, and the accumulation in the moat was still rising. Gradually, the prototype of the bridge across the river was piled up.

At this time, one of the major weaknesses of the Henry Bead Gun was gradually exposed, after the high-frequency continuous speed fire, the barrel of the Henry Bead Gun in the hands of the Wu Army soldiers gradually became hot and red, and it was no longer possible to reload the bullets, fortunately, Wu Da was very aware of the shortcomings of the Henry Bead Gun, and let his subordinates prepare water hyacinth to water and cool down early, and continue to maintain a high rate of fire at the expense of the shooting life of the barrel. It can still effectively seal the gap in the city wall, forcing the Taiping army to continue to come forward to fill the river at the cost of countless lives, and it can still support it in a short time.

At the same time, the battle between the two battlefields of Hongwumen and Chaoyangmen also entered a white heat, although Huang Jinai, who led the army to charge, was shot and died shortly after leaving the city, but the Taiping army was still charging, and relying on the arrogant determination of not counting the dead and wounded, covering many Taiping soldiers to rush across the moat bridge and set foot on the other side of the moat, the situation on Cai Yuanlong's side was not much different, so Feng Sanbao also said that he did not dare to send troops on the two battlefields of Hongwumen and Chaoyangmen to reinforce Wu Dadao, It could only be that the reserves of the last three battalions in their hands were sent to the gap in the city wall, bringing relatively light long-range weapons such as grenadiers and mountain splitting cannons to help Wu Dada.

When Feng Sanbao's last three battalion reserves arrived at the gap battlefield, some people on Wu Dai's side began to use urine to cool down the barrels of their guns, and many soldiers were burned by the hot barrels, while the Taiping army was already able to swim waist-deep and rush to a position less than two feet from the other side of the moat. Seeing this scene, Ding Baozhen, the general of the Wu army who led the team, didn't even have time to sort out the formation, and immediately shouted: "Open the cannon!" Shoot! Suppress the long hair first, and then the whole team! ”

The mountain-splitting cannon full of iron horns and pebbles was slightly adjusted, and immediately fired at the gap in the city wall blown up by the Taiping army, and the few grenadiers in Feng Sanbao's corps were no longer stingy with ammunition, and threw shells at the gap in the city wall with the fastest rate of fire, and more Wu soldiers were against the dense bullets fired by the Taiping army from the top of the city wall, shooting in a standing and squatting position, charging and reloading, and the firepower of the Wu army, which had been significantly thinned, increased again, and finally withstood the Taiping army's desperate charge.

However, the danger has not passed, the strong Taiping army is still pouring out of the gap, howling and stepping on the blood of dead corpses all over the ground to rush to the moat, throwing more and more of the corpses of their companions into the water to fill the river to make roads, Wu Da and Ding Baozhen's pressure is still heavier than Mount Tai, the casualties are also not small, and the consumption of ammunition is even greater, many of Wu Chaoyue's personal soldiers are already shouting, "I'm running out of bullets!" Who has bullets? Give it to me! Give me! ”

At the critical moment, Ding Baozhen's extraordinary wit played a vital role, perceiving the crisis of the army, Ding Baozhen suddenly had an idea, and quickly organized some daredevils, who stepped forward in a group of two people with explosives bags, and threw explosives bags at the enemy at close range to kill the enemy. As a result, after this trick was used, when more than a dozen explosive bags smashed into the shallow water in the moat, not only did the casualties of the Taiping soldiers increase sharply, but the bridges across the river that were seriously not strong enough for the Taiping soldiers also collapsed, making many Taiping soldiers' efforts to ignore the dead and wounded become useless.

The efforts of the Wu army death squad still failed to repel the crazy attack of the Taiping army, in order to be able to fight a bloody way to escape, the Hong Da sect leader, who has always been selfish, finally broke the world with generosity, and in the case of Li Xiucheng's Taiping army suffered heavy casualties, he took the initiative to send Qin Rigang to lead thousands of Nanjing Taiping troops to join the battle, and when this well-equipped Taiping army also launched a breakthrough charge, the Wu army, which had completely run out of grenadier shells, had no way to effectively contain and block, can only risk their lives to take turns to throw grenades to suppress the cluster charge of the Taiping army, and desperately block the charge of the Taiping army with their lives.

Feng Sanbao didn't know when he rushed to the gap in the city wall with his last personal battalion, and finally helped Wu Dadao and Ding Baozhen withstand it for a while, but the Taiping army's attack was still continuing. After another moment, a battalion of Wu cavalry hurriedly arrived from Jubaomen with some weapons and ammunition to reinforce Feng Sanbao, but it was still a drop in the bucket, and it also blocked the repeated tidal offensives of the Taiping army, and the corpses of the Taiping soldiers had been piled up to reach the other side of the moat, and many Taiping soldiers were able to cross the river with their corpses and rush to the front of the Wu army position to fight hand-to-hand combat.

"Is it really unstoppable?"

When Feng Sanbao and Ding Baozhen and others fell into despair completely, a miracle finally appeared, the Xihua Gate, the only one leading to the outer city in the inner city of Nanjing, suddenly came with a loud noise, and the Taiping army crowded near the gap in the city wall was also quickly chaotic, and there were shouts of demon soldiers everywhere who had entered the inner city, it turned out that Cao Yanzhong, the heavy general of the Wu army, found that Feng Sanbao's side was under great pressure, and decisively adjusted the direction of attack to storm Xihua Gate, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Taiping army to use the main forces to break through the siege, the Xihua Gate was directly blown up with Dana explosives, and the soldiers of the Wu army flocked into the city, stabbed the Taiping army in the back.

At this point in the battle, Li Xiucheng, who was ordered to command the breakout battle, had no choice but to force the army to continue to break through to the gap, wanting to let the army rush through the moat as much as possible first, and then break through piecemeal. However, at this time, the unexpected news suddenly reached Li Xiucheng's front - Hong Xiuquan Hong didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, and he fled into the Ming Dynasty palace in the inner city of Nanjing with his more than eighty princesses and hundreds of carriages full of gold and jewelry, and the Nanjing Taiping army led by Meng Shiyong also followed into the Ming Dynasty palace, and the key point of seizing the palace seemed to be ready to hold on.

"When has this been? Do you want to go in and guard Miyagi? How big is that Miyagi? Retreat in, isn't it for the demon soldiers to get a demon fire and bombard, what?! ”

Li Xiucheng roared like a mad lion, and rushed directly into the palace city of the Ming Dynasty to find Hong Xiuquan before he had time to hand over the command of the army, but when he found Hong Xiuquan in the Jinluan Palace of the Hongwu Dynasty in disrepair, Li Xiucheng froze before he could vent his anger - on the old Jinluan Palace, four Hong Xiuquan's guards held Yang Xiuqing's hands and feet tightly, and the two guards held a piece of bright yellow silk together, and were struggling on Yang Xiuqing's neck, rolling Yang Xiuqing's eyes and stretching his tongue!

"What are you doing?!" Li Xiucheng, who was already too tired to be human, shouted, "What did Dongwang Jiu,000 years old do?" Why are you doing this to him?! ”

"Don't care, he deserves it." Hong Xiuquan, who was sitting on a bright yellow futon, had bloodshot eyes, and said viciously: "It's all because this traitor allied with the little demon and raised and fattened Wu Chaoyue that demon thief, so we have today, and I will be forced to this point!" ”

"The alliance between the East King and the Transcendence Little Demon is for the sake of crusading against the Qing Demon and expelling the Han people of the Tartars, and he has done nothing wrong!" Li Xiucheng yelled, stepped forward to wrench the wrist of a silk guard, and shouted, "Let go!" The East King doesn't deserve to die! ”

"Pull Li Xiucheng away from me!" Hong Xiuquan viciously ordered, and shouted at the execution guards: "Go on!" In front of me, strangle Yang Xiuqing, a traitor, to death! ”

Afraid of Li Xiucheng's prestige, none of the guards present dared to step forward to pull Li Xiucheng, but Li Xiucheng's prestige still had a certain gap with Hong Xiuquan's brutality, when Hong Xiuquan opened his mouth again and shouted angrily, several guards still said sorry words, while forcibly pulling Li Xiucheng away from Yang Xiuqing's side, the two guards in charge of the execution stepped up their hands, strangled Yang Xiuqing's eyes protruding, and his whole body twitched, Li Xiucheng struggled and yelled, but still failed to stop Hong Xiuquan's guards from strangling Yang Xiuqing to death. A moment later, Yang Xiuqing, who had made great contributions to the anti-Qing cause, finally tilted his head suddenly, bid farewell to this world forever, and could not close his eyes until he died.

"East King ......."

Although he deeply hated Yang Xiuqing for deliberately making trouble and sowing discord between Hong Xiuquan and his monarch and ministers, after seeing Yang Xiuqing die tragically in front of him, Li Xiucheng, who had served under Yang Xiuqing's account for many years, still shed tears and cried out his voice. Over there, the Sect Master Hong hated and spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm at Yang Xiuqing's corpse, and shouted: "Drag it out, just find a place to bury it!" Put a wooden sign on his grave, and write the words 'Heavenly Sinner' on it! ”

The guards took the order and dragged Yang Xiuqing's gradually cold corpse out, and Hong Xiuquan turned to Li Xiucheng and shouted: "The battle is so fierce, why are you here if you don't take the army to kill the demon soldiers?" ”

With teary eyes and hazy eyes, he glanced at the direction where Yang Xiuqing's body left, and Li Xiucheng replied: "Your Majesty is here to ask for advice, our breakthrough is about to succeed, long live the Heavenly King, why did you suddenly enter this former Ming Palace City?" And brought in Tianjing's army as well? ”

"I don't want to leave, I want to stay in Tianjing City." Hong Xiuquan's answer surprised Li Xiucheng, and then Hong Xiuquan said: "Tianjing is my home, and I will die here." ”

Li Xiucheng, who was stunned for a while, came back to his senses, and said that Hong Xiuquan was desperate for the breakthrough battle, and hurriedly said: "Long live the Heavenly King, don't be discouraged, our soldiers have filled in a section of the moat, and many soldiers have already rushed across the river, now long live the Heavenly King, as long as you let Meng Zhanglu lead the army to break through, with the physical strength advantage of the Tianjing army, you will definitely be able to rush across the river!" ”

"What if you rush through?" Hong Xiuquan looked depressed, and said weakly: "Rushing over, will the little demon and the demon soldier let me go?" Hundreds of miles from Tianjing to Suzhou, have I escaped the pursuit of demon soldiers? ”