The first reaction of the Qing army, which found the signal flare in the air, was that the Ming army was about to launch a night attack again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Then a series of explosions were heard from the back of the camp, followed by a shaking of the ground as if the sky had collapsed.

That's right, the Ming army really launched a night attack, but it was just ...........

When did the troops of the Ming army go around to the rear of the Qing army?

If you talk about small troops, or the infantry of the Ming army, this is easy to say, the key is how the artillery is around?

This was the first reaction of all the Qing troops who were standing guard.

And those sleeping Qing soldiers were all awakened by the sound of the explosion, due to the reason of the cotton wool accident, Azig has banned the use of cotton wool plug ears, which can be bitter for those sleeping Qing soldiers.

Especially the camp of the Han Eight Banners closest to the explosion site, thinking that the Ming army had hit from the rear, many people bounced directly from the beds, and they didn't have time to put on their clothes, and they didn't even take their weapons.

The main forces of the Ming army have taken the back road, don't run away at this time, wait to learn from the vanguard army, will they be completely annihilated?

The commander of the Qing army, Azig, had been studying the Ming army's "trapping horse pit" formation in the first half of the night, and as soon as he fell asleep, he was awakened by the sound of the explosion, and he didn't even have time to put on his armor, so he hurried outside the tent and asked the soldiers on duty: "What's the matter, where is the explosion coming from!" ”

"Lord Yu, it's the Zuomeng Gengbu in the northwest direction. The reason for this is unknown, but before the explosion, a Ming army signal flare appeared there. The guard explained.

"Zuomeng Gengbu, northwest direction......... Not good, it's an artillery battalion! The order went down, the whole army was on alert, the whole front battalion was dressed in armor and the whole army was put on armor, and the Ming army was strictly prevented from sneaking attack, and Kong Youde, Zhun Ta, led the officers and soldiers of the headquarters, quickly went to the Zuomengeng camp to suppress the bullets, and rescue the artillery, and those who dared to confuse the army's heart, killed! Azig realized that his artillery unit might have been attacked by the Ming army.

At this time, the only thing he could do was to minimize his own losses, and quickly stabilize the morale of the army to prevent the Ming army from taking advantage of the chaos to attack the camp.

As for the arrest of the attackers.......... The army behind is already in a mess, how can they catch each other?

Kong Youde and Zhun Ta received an order, each led a thousand guards, and it took a lot of effort to break through the front of the rebels and come to the place of the incident.

The entire artillery camp has long been unrecognizable, and several nearby gunpowder storage sites have all been razed to the ground, and within a radius of 100 meters from the explosion site, almost all of them are large and small craters, which were caused by the Qing army's own shells after the gunpowder was detonated.

In contrast, there were not many casualties among the soldiers, after all, no one wanted to sleep next to a pile of explosives, except for the more than 200 people in charge of the guards, the rest fled after hearing the explosion.

The gunpowder was all blown up, which was huge bad news for the Qing army, and the only thing to be thankful for was that the artillery did not lose much.

Because the artillery was too bulky and had to be used again the next day, the Qing army was lazy and only transported the gunpowder away, while the artillery was concentrated together for the convenience of transporting it to the front line quickly tomorrow.

So in this attack, only more than 30 cannons were damaged.

"Come on, move those blown up guns." Kong Youde ordered.

The powder magazine is no longer saved, this artillery can still be saved, those blown up artillery, the gun carriage is on fire, if you don't extinguish it quickly, the fire spreads, burns out other gun mounts, who can move these guns at that time?

Soon a group of soldiers received the order and walked towards the place where the artillery was placed...........

"......."

A soldier felt himself stumble over something, and then a slight sound rang out.

"What sound?" The soldier wondered.

At this time, the explosion had already stopped, and there was no one else around except Kong Youde's personal guards (Kong Youde was responsible for extinguishing the fire, and Zhun Tower was responsible for crushing the army), so the slightest noise could be heard.

"Boom!"

The camp of the Qing army, which had finally quieted down, sounded a series of explosions again.

Because more than one soldier inadvertently pulled a grenade that was pressed under the cannon.

The explosion of the grenade caused even more chaos, and under the chaotic running of a group of Qing soldiers, almost all the grenades arranged in the entire camp were sounded.

Many of the cannons were overturned by the force of the explosion, and then hit the soldiers next to them, or the intact guns.

A grenade can't blow up the barrel, but it can blow up the gun mount, and this kind of thousands of pounds of giant cannons collide with each other, there will always be damage to the gun barrel, even if the gun barrel is fine, but this gun carriage will definitely not be able to keep it.

The artillery was without gun mounts, shells and gunpowder, and for a short time, the Qing army stopped thinking about using their artillery.

Knowing that the artillery team was destroyed, Azig was furious and beheaded the commander of the artillery team, and then hung up the battle exemption card for the next two days, guarded Yuhuatai, and no longer fought.

............

"What does this Azig mean? If you don't fight or retreat, do you plan to spend it with us like this? Guo Sheng scolded and scolded.

He has been in Nanjing for so long, and he only fought a battle with the Qing army when he was covering the flanks, and he only fought for half a day, and he destroyed less than 5,000 enemies, which was not enjoyable at all.

At this time, Guo Sheng's most envious was Zhang Chao, who fought a big battle in Fengtai Mountain and destroyed 40,000 Qing soldiers.

"The Qing army does not withdraw, maybe they are waiting for the supply of gunpowder, after all, their artillery has not lost much, things like gun carriages, there are big trees all around, as long as you are willing to work hard, it will only take four or five days to do a good job, and once the gunpowder is in place, the Qing army will still have the strength to fight." Zhang Chao analyzed.

"But don't forget, in four or five days, Huang Degong and Ma Shiying's reinforcements will arrive in Nanjing, and when the military strength of the two sides is equal, and the Qing army has just suffered a big loss, the army must be unstable, and he Azig has the courage to fight on both sides?" Stilwell reminded.

"It's certain that the Qing army is waiting for supplies, but I think they should be waiting more for Duoduo's army on the Eastern Road." Li Hongfei analyzed.

The Qing army had already counted the number of troops of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and Azig occupied Yuhuatai, which was to compete with the Ming army.

Li Hongfei is now attacking with the whole army, and he only withstood the part of Azig, and due to the terrain, Azig is fully capable of fighting on two fronts.

And there is a Duoduo in the east, once Duoduo marches towards Nanjing, Li Hongfei will definitely lead his division back to defense, and it is really hard to say who will win and who will lose at that time.

So the most important thing now is whether Jiangyin's side can withstand the attack of 100,000 troops.

Li Hongfei is walking on thin ice near Yuhuatai, but in Nanjing, it is very lively.

"This Lord Li, but Zhuge Wuhou is alive! This time, Lord Li personally conscripted, in front of Yuhuatai, set down the Nine Palaces Bagua Array, so that the Azig children 300,000 Qing soldiers, it was difficult to move an inch, and then at night it was to recruit Tuxingsun, with a large army to the depths of the enemy camp, burning the company camp, and destroying the Azig's artillery troops in one fell swoop, there was no shouting outside the city in the past two days, presumably Azig's army must be trapped in the Bagua Array, just waiting for General Huang and General Ma's troops to converge, you can kill all these invading thieves in one fell swoop. A man held a folding fan in his hand and said loudly in the teahouse.

"Isn't this Tuxing Sun a subordinate of the King of Shang? Can Master Li please move? Someone coaxed.

"What do you know? Jiang Ziya's list of gods, but he has been a god for Tuxingsun, why can't Lord Li ask the gods to come down? ”

With the return of many heroes on the front line to the city, the teahouses of all sizes in Nanjing have changed the battles of the previous two days into storytelling, and it is "Fengshen Version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

"This Li Menghui is really amazing, it seems that Nanjing has been saved this time." Princess Changping, who left the palace in micro-service, said to herself while listening to the following commentary.

On the same day, the city of Beijing was broken, and Chongzhen angrily killed the female relatives in the palace, Princess Changping still remembers it vividly.

Now that Nanjing is under siege, if the tragedy of Beijing is repeated, then where will she go?

She is now the only female dependent in the Nanjing Palace, although Zhu Youzhen is now more fond of Changping, but Changping can't help but feel palpitations every time she sees Zhu Youzhen's face, so she doesn't even want to stay in the palace longer, but often finds opportunities to sneak out of the palace.

Every time he comes to the palace, Changping's favorite thing is to listen to storytelling, and now that the war situation in Nanjing is tense, most storytellers will use the current war as the main storytelling material.

Li Menghui, who has only seen him once in the palace, will often appear in the mouth of the storyteller, and over time, the name Li Menghui gradually planted a seed in the heart of Princess Changping, and took root.

...........

The morale in Nanjing is high, but the county seat of Jiangyin is cloudy.

Wang Guoxing led 5,000 heavy cavalry, and in only two days, he arrived near Jiangyin, and by the way, he also requisitioned and transferred the 2,000 Qinwang troops who returned to Changzhou, plus the troops gathered along the way, and finally had a team of 10,000 people under his hands.

After Wang Guoxing and Zheng Chenggong converged, the combined forces of the two sides broke through 20,000 people, but the 20,000 army, in the face of more than 100,000 people, could not do anything at all.

Jiangyin was now surrounded on all sides, and Duoduo continued to storm the north gate guarded by Yan Yingyuan while arranging the defensive line.

The 200,000 soldiers and civilians suffered more than 50,000 casualties after seven days of fighting, and basically tens of thousands of people died or lost their combat effectiveness every day.

The soldiers and civilians of Jiangyin were uncomfortable, and Duoduo was even more uncomfortable, and the 100,000-strong army attacked a small county town guarded by ordinary people, and there were 20,000 casualties, which was simply a great shame.

In the next few days, it was not so much that Duoduo had to take Jiangyin for strategic needs, but that he had to fight Jiangyin for the sake of face.

"The only choice now is to find a weak point, break into Jiangyin City, enter the city and defend Jiangyin with the defenders of Jiangyin." Zheng Chenggong proposed.

The current situation in Jiangyin can't last long, and the 20,000 reinforcements, with 15,000 infantry troops, fighting a positional battle with Duoduo's 100,000 troops on the plain of Jiangyin is tantamount to looking for death.

"But Jiangyin City is surrounded on all sides, how to enter the city?" Wang Guoxing asked rhetorically.