Lin Shaozhang of the second army on the left sent Wang Jingyuan to attack the Shuixi Gate, but also sent people to report to Lin Fengxiang outside the Yifeng Gate and Ji Wenyuan outside the Shence Gate. At this time, the tunnel excavated outside the Yifeng Gate has also begun to see the scale, Lin Fengxiang learned that after the assault of the second army on the left, he invited Lai Hanying, who had just been promoted to the fourth inspection point on the right side of the palace, to join forces with 10,000 people. At the same time, Li Kaifang outside the Jubao Gate, Zhu Xikun outside the Chaoyang Gate, and Huang Yiyun outside the Dry West Gate were invited to attack the city. The various units bombarded fiercely, and attacked by land and water. Li Kaifang even occupied the Bao'en Temple, and set up cannons on the big glazed tower to bombard the southern city. He also moved out of the temple and placed 500 Arhats on the mountain, thinking that he was a suspicious soldier and induced the Qing army to shoot artillery to attract attention.

At this time, the Qing army was armed, and Jiangning General Xianghou and Liangjiang Governor Lu Jianying guarded the inner and outer cities. The inner city is also known as the city, it is actually the Ming Imperial City, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, it is used as the garrison of the Eight Banners, both the garrison and the city, there are more than 5,000 Eight Banner soldiers and more than 20,000 family members under the command of Huo Longwu, the deputy capital of Xianghou and the deputy capital. Jiangnan Governor Fuzhu Hong'a sat in Nancheng, the original political envoy Qi Suzao guarded the Jubao Gate, after his illness, Yanyun Dao Tu Wenjun succeeded him, and the grain Dao Chen Kerang guarded the drought west gate. And Lu Jianying personally sat in Yifengmen, with the general Cheng Sanguang, the deputy general Fuer Guochun and Shen Nai, and other three green battalions, Xianghou also sent four assistants to assist in the defense, and the rest of the gates were handed over to the Jiangning prefect Wei Hengkui, Tongzhi Chengen, Tongju Cheng Wenrong, Shangyuan Zhixian Liu Tongying, Jiangning Zhixian Zhang Xingshu and other Xiangyong.

Shuixi Gate was garrisoned by more than 1,000 townships led by Jiangning Tongzhi Chengen, and after the Taiping Army launched a general attack, Lin Shaozhang also led the second army on the left to bombard. After Wang Jingyuan left, the second pawn on the left was temporarily managed by Yuan Hongmo, and Jiang Wan was counted as the tail of the card and followed Lu Yaoling. Lu Yaoling is also very smart, knowing that she is a close confidant of the chief, and always protects her.

Here, Wang Jingyuan took the lead in swimming through the sluice, and when he went ashore, it was estimated that 200 people had folded by a quarter, and it was too late to count. This water west gate is close to the west water pass, there are three inner urn cities, a total of four gates, Wang Jingyuan of course will not be foolish like a fool to break through one by one, his goal is to capture the city tower, and receive the holy soldiers under the city to enter the city. At that moment, Hu Yongxiang and others rushed to Shuixi Gate, and at this moment, Qing Jun Xiangyong was busy carrying boulders and rolling logs, and he was caught off guard and was cut down in an instant. The rest of the people who reacted will come from all sides.

Wang Jingyuan saw that there were many soldiers and spears, and he had a flash of inspiration, and the three hundred warriors of Sparta in later movies used the narrow valley to contain the Persian army. At that time, he ordered to collect the shield spears of the Qing army, and lined up in a column of six, the first column held a shield to charge the city road, the second column held a spear to assassinate, and the tail column held a shield again, and guarded with spears. In such a formation, the townspeople on the horse road kept retreating, and the townspeople on the city wall came like snowflakes, and they blocked the first urn wall.

The shield-wielding warriors of the Taiping Army went all out to hit the human wall, and the spearmen in the back row immediately plugged in, picking on the key points, stabbing the Qing army and screaming, falling into a piece, and the holy soldiers who followed behind cut their throats one by one. In this way, the Qing army on the city wall was even more terrified and cowered. Only the Qing army under the city shot arrows scatteredly, but there were very few Taiping troops who fell to the ground with arrows. After attacking the first urn wall, Wang Jingyuan immediately divided into two teams, with Hu Yongxiang leading the team to advance to the right urn wall, and he advancing from the left.

The Qing army and township couldn't resist and retreated one after another, and the bird team and the spear team on the city tower kept coming. These people didn't know what a three-stage strike was, and after a few shots were randomly fired and blocked by the Taiping army's shield, they became ghosts under the gun.

Wang Jingyuan led his troops to be invincible, breaking many urn walls, and wherever the spears and shields went, blood flowed like rivers, and many villagers were forced to jump off the city walls several zhang high, either dead or injured. The two teams of Taiping troops were like two giant pythons, taking care of both the end and the end, and came straight to the city tower.

At this time, the Taiping army outside the city also observed the commotion on the city tower. Lin Shaozhang made a quick decision, waved his hand, and thousands of holy soldiers rushed to the city, which was undoubtedly worse for the Qing army that was in a mess.

When Wang Jingyuan attacked the tower, the first holy soldier had already ascended the city, and then more and more. The Qing army, which knew that the general trend had gone, collapsed and fled. Jiang Ning, who is responsible for commanding the city, knows Chengen, has a fat head and big ears, and is originally in a small sedan chair on the city, but now in this situation, the sedan chair drivers have already run away, Wang Jingyuan sent people to capture this guy alive, and planted the first flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the head of Jiangning City.

After noon, the Taiping army took full control of Shuiximen, and Lin Shaozhang sent people to inform the officials at all levels while supervising the army to enter the city.

When Jiang Wan saw Wang Jingyuan again, his heart was full of joy. Wang Jingyuan faced the cruel battlefield for the first time, as if he had walked away from the ghost gate, and the world full of blood and corpses was only cordial when he saw the comrades of the second pawn of Zuo.

Lin Shaozhang did not miss the fighter, and after leaving Li Zhenhui to guard the west gate of the water and wait for the army, he personally led Peng Yisong and another division commander to march to the south city.

As the main road in and out of Jiangning City, Shuixi Gate has been prosperous since ancient times, and the oil market street extends to the city, and there are various restaurants such as "Sun Chu Building", "Taibai Building" and "Drunken Immortal Building" along the street. Lin Shaozhang led the army to advance along the street of the oil market, and the Taiping army spies who infiltrated the city had already told the people that every house was closed. The second army on the left marched to Pingshi Street, and met Chengyu, the leader of the Eight Banners, who rushed to reinforce on the road, and it was another big battle. Yuan Hongmo, the second pawn on the left, was complaining because of the credit for the decline in the siege of the city, this time he met the Qing army, and rushed up first, a few rounds, and the leader of the four products of the blade Chengyu.

Lin Fengxiang, who was outside Yifeng Gate, got the news of Lin Shaozhang's destruction of the city, and did not want to fall behind, so he immediately ordered to ignite the gunpowder in the tunnel under Yifeng Gate. With a loud bang, the towering city wall collapsed into a gap, and his subordinates Huang Yifeng and Wang Yizhong led the charge. Lu Jianying, who was originally supervising the army here, had already slipped away when he saw that the situation was not good, and only the general soldier Cheng Sanguang defended it. After hundreds of people from the forest department rushed into the city, Cheng Sanguang sent his deputy general Fuer Guochun to fight with him, and personally led the green battalion soldiers to desperately block the gap, and the forest department in the city did not entangle, and went directly to the city to kill.

Huang Yiyun, the commander-in-chief of Jinyi, learned that the Shuixi Gate had been broken, and immediately gave up attacking the Dry West Gate, led the former First Army to divert the Shuixi Gate, and caught up with the Second Army on the left. The former army was the main force of the Taiping Army's forward, and after the two armies met, they marched together along Sanshan Street to Jubaomen, but they encountered the desperate resistance of the Qing army in front of the Yamen, and fought until dawn, killing Tu Wenjun, the political envoy, in the rear ya.

At this time, news came from Beicheng that Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, was killed by the Taiping army in the small school field of the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion, and Lin Fengxiang's team had broken through Yifengmen and came towards Nancheng. Then, the Qing army in Nancheng scattered birds and beasts, Li Kaifang's army broke through Jubaomen, and Jiangning was already in the pocket of the Taiping army.

The left second army fought for a night, and there were many casualties, so Lin Shaozhang apologized to Huang Yiyun and led the army to return to the west gate of the water to garrison to prevent the Qing army from slipping through the net. The second pawn on the left fought for days, 14 were killed in the battle, 12 were seriously injured and sent to the rear for treatment, and only 78 returned to Shuiximen. After a short rest of two hours, Wang Jingyuan received an order from the general and led his troops to search Lantern Lane.

"Lao Lu, you said that the food in this restaurant should be the top in Jinling City!" When passing by "Sun Chu Tower", Yuan Hongmo stopped and muttered.

"I don't know, but it should be much better than our Dingyuan Cuixiang Building!" Lu Yaoling replied as she walked.

Yuan Hongmo seemed unwilling, caught up with Wang Jingyuan in front of him, and asked, "Captain, have you ever been to this Jinling City?" ”

"Hehe, not only have I been here, but I have also eaten this Sun Chulou's wine and food!"

"Really! What does this taste like! Yuan Hongmo said that his stomach rumbled, and he himself was embarrassed: "Haha, this morning's meal is too thin, and I haven't eaten anything." ”

Wang Jingyuan didn't mind, and said: "I see, don't worry about it, I'm afraid that the people in this restaurant will run out before we come, and when His Majesty the King of Heaven enters the city, I'm afraid it will also be camped." ”

"Captain, isn't this Sun Chulou very famous, is this boss called Sun Chu?" Hu Yongxiang also leaned over and asked.

Wang Jingyuan was also the first time to come to Nanjing, and he was also fooling Yuan Hongmo just now, he really didn't know what the origin of this Sun Chu was, but suddenly thought that Jiang Wan might understand, so he asked: "Changshou should know, you tell everyone!" ”

"Ahem, me?" Jiang Wan has been low-key in the army, although he has not been on the battlefield with a knife and gun in the past few days, he has also followed all the way to the east and west, and he is really tired, but he still knows about this Sun Chulou, and only listened to her: "Sun Chulou has been there for a long time, during the Southern Dynasty, there was a Taishou named Sun Chu, who often came here to drink, and the restaurant changed its name to please him, Li Bai also wrote poems here, sold Jinling wine, and sang Sun Chulou!" ”

"Oh, I know this Li Bai! Long ribbon is really a university question! Yuan Hongmo interjected.

"Changshou has read a lot of books, Chief, where did you get the big baby!" Lu Yaoling quipped.

Wang Jingyuan saw that the two of them asked this and that, so he relieved Jiang Wan and said: "Old man Lu, don't you also say sooner or later that you are a reading heirloom, why don't you even know Li Bai's poems?" ”

"This? Haha, our father did go to school, but he didn't leave us a few books, and he left us twelve acres of land by then."

"Huh? Twelve? As soon as these words came out, everyone was surprised, this hectare is a hundred acres, and twelve hectares is 1,200 acres of land, this is a big tyrant.

"Hehe, don't say it, don't say it, the past is like a floating cloud!" Lu Yaoling diverted the topic and said, "Chief, this Lantern Lane has arrived!" ”

Lantern Lane is a not very spacious alley, but there are scattered facades along the street from both sides, and there are a few carved railings and cornices, which is considered prosperous in peacetime. Wang Jingyuan did not intend to turn the street upside down, but asked the holy soldiers to knock on the door from house to door to announce the proclamation of the kingdom of heaven.

"Captain, come and see, there is also a restaurant here!" Yuan Hongmo pointed to the two closed doorways.

"Fu Shanlou? Could it be that in ancient times, there was a Taishou named Fu Shan who ate here? Lu Yaoling said.

Fu Shanlou? Wang Jingyuan also noticed that he remembered that there was a female champion Fu Shanxiang in the Heavenly Kingdom, and if this building was her house, he asked Yuan Hongmo to knock on the door and preach.