Zhang Huang, who had entered the outer city of Nanjing from the upper gate and walked to the bridge above the Daxiao field, heard that Zhou Shixiang had entered the Zhengyang Gate, and said to Luo Lun with joy: "The national prince enters the inner city, and the southern capital is restored!" ”

On the bridge above, the soldiers of the Taiping Army were hurrying to Zhengyangmen. At the end of the pen "Fun" pavilion www.biquge.info team, there was a veteran leading a donkey across the bridge, and there was a person sitting on the donkey, and it was Yue Le, the naked prince of Manchuria.

Yue Le came all the way, his eyes always closed. He didn't dare to open his eyes, because he was afraid of seeing the Ming army laughing at him, afraid of seeing those ignorant Han people, afraid of seeing the Qing officials in Jiangning City.

The veteran who drove the donkey into the city was aggrieved, and the brothers went to kill the Tartar to be happy, but he had to serve a Tartar. This female donkey is also disobedient, along the way the old envoy refused to go, and I don't know if it is because the Tartar on his body is heavy, so that he has all his strength to spend on this female donkey, and so on which strength will kill the Tartar, and which strength to catch the Tartar mother-in-law.

Seeing that there was another city gate in front of him, with three big characters written on it that he didn't recognize, the veteran couldn't help but shout angrily to the Tartar on the donkey: "Hey, that Tartar, open your eyes and see, we have entered the city of Nanjing, and we will pull you into the Tartar's nest later, and call those Tartar mothers-in-law to come and see your bare-ass prince!" ”

Hearing this, Yue Le was excited, and the veteran's words shattered his last glimmer of hope. He opened his eyes and saw the gate through which he had commanded his army in all his might.

The Zhengyang gate is open, straight to the Daqing Gate of the city. That gate used to be called Hongwu Gate.

Yue Le burst into tears.

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After the Taiping army entered the city, the C Brigade of the First Town was ordered to attack the Qing army's fort position in Yuhuatai, an outer city. The Qing army of Yuhuatai saw that the Taiping army had entered the outer city, and the sound of shouting and killing came from the inner city, and the road leading to the inner city was also cut off by the Taiping army, and the defenders were terrified, knowing that the general trend had gone, and no one dared to stay outside the city to die, so they abandoned their guns, ammunition and baggage, and fled in all directions in the Cangsheng Temple in the south of the city.

The C Brigade of the First Town seized the important land of Yuhuatai without losing a single soldier, and divided its troops to guard the high ground in Dabao'en Temple and other places, and shelled the Qing army at the Great and Small Ande Gate, Fengtai Gate, Shuangqiao Gate, and Taming Elephant Gate with Qing artillery. The sound of artillery came from the Yuhuatai position, and heard that the Ming army had entered the city, and the Qing army in the south of the city was frightened, and the main officials were called to Zhengyangmen by the political envoy Yamen and the governor's yamen, and the soldiers were uncommanded, and they were frightened for a moment, so they opened the city gate and fled outside the city.

According to the pre-war deployment, except for the first town, Brigade C controls the south of the city, and the Second Brigade A and B jointly control the east of the city; The third town is controlled by Brigade A in the west of the city, and Brigade A and B in the north of the city. The soldiers of the sixth and fifteenth towns, and the new first town, mainly attacked the inner city.

Jubao Gate, Yifeng Gate, Hanxi Gate, Chaoyang Gate four gates are the main gates of the inner city of Nanjing, after Zhou Shixiang led the troops to control the Zhengyang Gate, he immediately ordered to rush to the various departments to go deep into the city, attack in the same direction in four directions, attack in the north and south, east and west, and be sure to control the four main gates of the inner city of Nanjing.

All of a sudden, the inner city of Nanjing was in turmoil, and the sound of shouting and killing went from the south of the city to Jimen Jingfuxue, Pingshi Street, Taiping Street to the small school field, and then to Chengxian Street, Beimen Bridge, Chaotian Palace to Qingliang Mountain, Bell and Drum Tower. The Qing army was attacked in all the main strongholds of the inner city, and all the large and small yamen were also flooded in, and all the officers and soldiers were killed.

Under the Great Qing Dynasty of Mancheng, Zhou Shixiang regretted that he could not attack Mancheng in one fell swoop. But this matter can not be blamed on the slow progress of the soldiers, but the city is full of soldiers, after hearing the movement of the inner city, the gates of the city were closed as soon as possible, causing the Taiping army who arrived later to look at the door and sigh.

Because the inner city had not yet been controlled, and there were many Qing troops in the outer city, Zhou Shixiang ordered the fifteenth town to divide troops to strictly guard the city, cut off the connection between the city and the outside of the city, and not let anyone out of the city, nor let anyone outside the city enter, so as to isolate the city before completely controlling the inner and outer cities of Nanjing. As long as the Manchurian soldiers in the city cannot meet with the Qing army outside the city, and the Qing army outside the city cannot retreat into the Manchurian defense, then this lonely city with only Manchurians will eventually fall.

The sudden entry of the Taiping army into the city made the Qing army in the city very frightened, and there were artillery sounds from time to time above the gates, but it was the Qing army defending the city that indiscriminately fired artillery to strengthen their own courage. The Qing army stationed at Jubaomen did not even see a Ming army killed, so they fired all the artillery in the city without stopping for a moment, and when they really saw the Taiping army appear in the city, the thousands of catties of gunpowder piled up on the city had been exhausted.

If the Taiping army attacked the city outside, he would be able to hold on to the end, but the Taiping army had already entered the city and killed from behind the city, he was not a god, how could he move all the artillery from the other side to this side at once. In addition, the mess just now, the medicine in the city was exhausted, and even if the cannon was moved, it was also an empty decoration, and no one could be injured. So this thousand generals immediately led people down the city gate, and before the Taiping army could kill them in the distance, they led their subordinates to kneel on the ground and surrender.

Zhu Guozhi and Lang Tingzuo's big farts not only buried the civil and military officials of Nanjing, but also the command center of Nanjing's 20,000 defenders. When most of the generals above the garrison were killed and the Taiping army had already invaded the inner city, most of the Qing troops in the city chose to surrender. Only a few Han officers wanted to resist to the end, but most of the soldiers under them no longer obeyed orders, the so-called "soldiers can't obey!" ”

King of the Harrier. The subordinate headquarters rushed to Sanshan Street in Sanshan Gate, and collided with a Qing army that was about to leave the city, and the two sides fought together, and the Qing army was killed and wounded. King. The auxiliary ministers took advantage of the situation to seize the Sanshan Gate, and divided the Qinhuai River all the way to the north, intercepting the Qing army fleeing from the city, killing hundreds and forcing more than 1,000 people.

The city defense system of the Qing army in Nanjing had collapsed, and there was panic and chaos everywhere. Lu Dayuan, the prefect of Jiangning, who was lucky enough not to go to Zhengyangmen because of official business, was so frightened that the six gods had no owner, and hurriedly took a four-person green sedan chair, with dozens of brave servants as the lead, wanting to escape into the city to protect himself. Unexpectedly, the full soldiers in the city refused to accept Lu Dayuan and his party, and the full soldiers in the city asked him to recruit men and horses to counterattack the Taiping army.

How could Lu Dayuan have the courage to organize a counterattack, now that the city is in chaos, it is a great luck for him to be able to run under the city. begged to open the door, but the city was full of soldiers. Lu Dayuan had no choice but to flee again, but this time those brave servants did not dare to ask for the prefect's heavy reward, threw the sedan chair, and fled in four clicks. When Lu Dayuan staggered and fled to the small camp, he was caught red-handed by a team of Taiping soldiers.

By evening, the Taiping army had taken control of all the gates of the inner city of Nanjing, and there were still skirmishes in the outer city, but it could no longer affect the overall situation.

Zhou Shixiang ordered the Han people in the inner city to draw a red circle on the wall of their house, and the number of people in the family was marked with a red circle. Ten people draw ten circles, and five people draw five circles. If there are more paintings and fewer paintings, once it is found out, they will be executed for the crime of hiding the Tartars.

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The bones are a little unbearable, so go to sleep first. Wake up and keep trying. (To be continued.) )