On the Nanjing side, the king of Yanping was undoubtedly deceived, and the victories in the two battles of Guazhou and Zhenjiang and the large number of states and counties in the south of the Yangtze River made him make a wrong judgment, and even believed that the Qing army in Nanjing would surrender a month later. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the one hand, Lang Tingzuo, the governor of the Qing Liangjiang River, humbly resigned "please surrender" in the name of the Jiangnan governor's allegiance, so as to delay the army; At the same time, at the expense of abandoning some prefectures and counties, he mobilized all available troops from nearby areas, and at the same time sent 100,000 urgent requests for help to the Qing court. Before the arrival of Zhou Zuo's reinforcements, Lang Tingzuo, Shuo Erhui, Ka Chuha, Guan Xiaozhong and others knew that their troops were invincible and did not dare to go out of the city to fight.

The first reinforcements to arrive in Nanjing were 4,000 soldiers led by Liang Huafeng, the commander-in-chief of the Suzhou Naval Division. Liang Huafeng first met with Jiang Guozhu, the governor of Jiangning, in Suzhou, and then received Yushu from the governor Lang Tingzuo four times in a row when he entered Danyang.

Liang Huafeng knew that Nanjing was in danger, so he marched overnight and arrived in Jurong County on the morning of the 26th. At this time, Jurong had surrendered to the Zheng army, and the place was hilly and manyan, and the grass and trees were thick, so Liang Huafeng suspected that the Zheng army would have an ambush in Jurong, and ordered a strict guard to search and advance, but there was no trace of the Zheng army.

After passing through the danger, Liang Huafeng breathed a sigh of relief, and said to his subordinates with a smile: "The pirates are too careless, Jurong does not put troops in such dangerous places, if they deploy thousands of soldiers here, I can wait for them to pass." ”

Late that night, Liang Huafeng led his troops to Nanjing City, and Lang Tingzuo heard that Liang Huafeng was coming to help, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly opened the Zhengyang Gate to let Liang Jun enter the city. After that, during the large-scale "siege" of Zheng's army, Qing troops stationed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places rushed to Nanjing one after another.

There are: Admiral Su Song commanded 300 infantry led by Xu Dengdi;

Zhang Guojun, a staff general of the Jinshan Battalion, led 1,000 horse infantry;

The right battalion of the naval division garrisoned Wang Dacheng led 150 horse infantry;

500 officers and soldiers stationed in Hangzhou to assist in the garrison;

Zhao Guozuo, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and the garrison of Hangzhou, Angbangzhang, Jingkekui, sent the Yellow Banner Gushan Daya Dali, Jialazhang, and Tong Haonian to lead 500 Manchurian soldiers stationed in Hangzhou;

Tong Guoqi, the governor of Zhejiang, sent Fubiao guerrilla Liu Chengyin to lead 500 elite soldiers;

Lai Tianguang, the deputy general of Hezhou, led 600 troops;

Dangtu guerrilla Jiang Qing led 260 troops;

Wuhu general Zhao Zhen led 480 troops;

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During the siege of the city, the upper and lower reaches of Nanjing Qing troops continued to enter Nanjing through the Zheng army's defense line, and in Anqing, Yue Le, the prince of Qing'an, also sent 1,600 troops to help by boat, and actually entered Nanjing City under the nose of Zheng's naval division. For most of the month, more than 10,000 reinforcements entered Nanjing, and reinforcements from Shandong, Henan, and Jiangnan continued one after another.

After receiving an urgent report from Lang Tingzuo, Emperor Shunzhi, who had already left Beijing on July 16 to go south to the imperial expedition, sent an edict ordering the Minister of the Interior, Dasu, to be the general of Annam, and to go north to reinforce Jiangning with the officers and soldiers of Gushan Ezhen Suohong and the commander of the escort army, Lai Da, and ordered the governor of Caoyun to supervise the troops to help. However, he had already been frightened by Zheng Jun, thinking that if he did not die to the enemy, he would die in the law, so on July 28, he jumped into the water from the boat and committed suicide on the way.

The king of Yanping didn't know anything about the reinforcements of Nanjing Zhouzuo entering the city one after another, and the generals of all the armies thought that when the time came, Nanjing would open the city and surrender, so the army was slack. The vanguard set up Yu Xinbu's camp under the city of Nanjing, and everything in the camp was exposed to the noses of the Qing army in the city, and there was no defense. The soldiers in the army are even in groups of three or five, and they only go to the river to fish for fun every day. Guan Xiaozhong and the others saw that the Yangtze River was densely packed with Zheng soldiers on the top of the city, and there were not many soldiers in the camp at all, so they couldn't help but propose to the governor Lang Tingzuo to go out of the city to attack these Ming troops.

Lang Tingzuo and Aung Bang Zhang Jing Shuo Erhui thought that this was Zheng Jun's deliberate weakness to lure the Qing army to attack, and did not agree to Guan Zhong's request to go to war. In addition, some generals also think that it is not easy to use fraud to win a month for Nanjing, reinforcements from all over the country are also constantly arriving, the situation has become favorable to the Qing army, you might as well continue to drag it out, and if the soldiers and horses in the city are still not enough after the expiration date, you can continue to use the excuse of uncertainty to drag on for a while, at that time, the imperial army is probably not far from Jiangnan, as long as Jiang Ning gritted his teeth and insisted, it may not be able to hold out until the arrival of the emperor's army. If you take the initiative to attack out of the city now, you won't even have a chance to stall for time.

When there was a debate in the city of Nanjing about whether to take the initiative to attack, Yang Ying, a household official of the king of Yanping County outside the city, found that Yu Xin's subordinates of Qianfeng Zhen Yuxin had left the flood land to fish by the river without permission, and he was busy reporting the matter to the king of Yanping County. King Yanping did not take this matter to heart after receiving the report, as long as Yu Xin controlled his subordinates, he could go to the river to fish by the soldiers, and the soldiers still stayed in the camp. Yu Xin did not pay attention to this matter, as time went by, there were more and more voices in Jiangning City asking for the initiative to attack, because the movement of the Ming army outside the city did not look like a plan to lure the enemy.

On the Zheng army, not only the camp of Yu Xin's department was scattered, but the rest of the troops also completely lost the appearance of an army, including the Chinese army of Zheng Chenggong, the king of Yanping, the Zheng army of each department not only expanded the camp like Yu Xin's department, cast nets and fish by the river, but also no longer strictly checked the vendors, allowing the people to enter and exit. Some of the Zheng military camps were even more lively like bazaars, and traders and farmers near Nanjing went to Zheng Jun's camps every day to sell poultry eggs, cloth, rice wine, and other goods to Zheng Jun. This situation was quickly discovered by the Qing army, and at first Lang Tingzuo and they didn't believe it, but later sent someone to disguise themselves as traders to go to Zheng Jun's camp to reconnoitre, and sure enough, they easily passed the checkpoint without being carefully checked by Zheng Jun. Some of the Qing soldiers who disguised themselves as vegetable sellers even went on the boats of the Zheng Army's sailors by the riverside. As soon as they got on board, many women gathered around them to choose and buy their vegetables.

The Zheng army outside the city was so absurd, and the voice of taking the initiative to attack was naturally high, but Jiang Guozhu, the governor of Jiangning, was resolutely opposed to going to war, thinking that the movement of the Zheng army outside the city was too weird, and it was too wrong to do more, so it was better to wait. Some Qing generals who had participated in the battles of Guazhou and Zhenjiang also did not agree to fight, and those Manchurian generals who broke through the siege of Guazhou and fled back to Nanjing were even killed and did not agree to go out of the city to fight to the death with the Zheng army.

Guan Allegiance, who was trying his best to fight the battle, could not get the consent of the majority, and when he was anxious, Liang Huafeng stood up and thought that he would be caught off guard when he went out of the city to counterattack and kill Zheng Jun. Liang Huafeng suggested that the 500 armored Manchurian soldiers stationed in Hangzhou led by the Yellow Banner Gushan Daya Dali and Jialazhangjing Tong Haonian who had just arrived in Nanjing should go out of the city to attack the Zheng army, but Daya Dali and Tong Haonian disagreed, thinking that they only had 500 armored soldiers, and in case of death, there would not be enough Manchurian soldiers in Nanjing to suppress those Han army green battalions.

Guan Allegiance was so angry that he quarreled with Daya Dali, as the commander of the Battle of Zhenjiang, Guan Allegiance buried four thousand Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers in the first battle, resulting in the erosion of the war in the south of the Yangtze River, if he could not make meritorious service and redeem himself, then the Qing court would never spare him after the war, and the family and extermination of the clan could basically be sure, for this reason, Guan Allegiance must not sit idly by and watch the opportunity, he tried his best to lobby the governor Lang Tingzuo with Liang Huafeng, and asked to go out of the city to attack the Zheng army.

"The thieves under the mark are not like soldiers at all, but like homeless people, rabble, without military discipline, as long as they surprise and join the army to strike, the pirates will definitely be defeated!"

Lang Tingzuo hesitated again and again, and finally Guan Allegiance and Liang Huafeng said that he was moved, but he refused to send 500 armored Manchurian soldiers brought by Daya Dali from Hangzhou to go out of the city to assault, and only ordered Guan and Liang to lead their cavalry out of the city. At dawn the next day, Liang Huafeng led more than 500 cavalry under his command to Yifengmen, and more than 1,000 loyal soldiers to Zhongfumen, and suddenly attacked the Zheng army camp.

Yu Xin originally thought that Yifengmen was located in a remote area, and the front of the city wall was covered with reeds, and no one seemed to enter or leave, so he was not fortified, but he did not expect the Qing army to attack from this. Liang Huafeng personally led 500 cavalry to rush straight to the front of Yu Xin's battalion, and the arrows flew together, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and most of the soldiers of Yu Xin's department woke up from their sleep, and they were shot dead before they could engage in battle. The rest of the soldiers were in a panic and fought with the Qing army before they even had time to put on their armor, and many ironclad soldiers were shot to death by the Qing soldiers.

Seeing the soldiers galloping back and forth, hearing the sonorous sound of gold and iron in his ears, his own soldiers retreated step by step, Yu Xin drank back and forth, but he could no longer command effectively, and his headquarters collapsed before even half a pillar of incense was held, and Yu Xin was captured. The Qing army won the first battle and camped outside the city.

Hearing of Yu Xin's defeat, Zheng Chenggong was shocked, and according to the changes in the situation, he redeployed the army, and took the area from Guanyin Mountain to Guanyin Gate as a assembly point to prepare for a decisive battle with the Qing army. He sent Yang Zutong of the left pioneer town to lead the aid to suppress Yao Guotai in the right town, Yang Zheng in Houjin Town, and Lan Yantunzha in Qianchong Town on the mountain as a horn to respond; Gan Hui, the middle commander, and Zhang Ying, the fifth army, were in the mountains; Lin Sheng of the left Wuwei and Chen Kui of the right Huwei lined up at the foot of the mountain to meet the enemy; He himself supervised the right tiger guard Chen Peng and the right Chong town Wanlu to respond to the Guanyin Gate; Later, Admiral Wanli, Xuanyi, Zuozhen Wanyi, etc., blocked the main road of the bridge; Ma Xin, the right commander, Wu Hao, the town of Xuanyi, and Han Ying, the town of Zhengbing, were copied by the waterway; Huang An of Zuochong Town was in charge of the water division to prevent the Qing army from attacking from the water. (To be continued.) )