"Shoot! Shoot the arrows! Throw a grenade! Smash the sheep's head stone! Splash the fire oil! Throw torches and powder packets! Cannonball! All the shells will be smashed down for me! ”

In the hoarse roar of Qin Yong, the eldest cousin of Lu Fatzi, hundreds of Fat Army guards on the tower of Jubaomen City hurriedly began to counterattack, holding bows and arrows and muskets in their hands to shoot and fire arrows at the Qing soldiers in the urn city, and those who did not have time to carry weapons picked up all the materials that could be used on the city wall, whether it was stones and tiles or shells and grenades, crackled and smashed into the urn city, but the number was sparse, and the casualties caused to the Qing soldiers were not very large. [Full text reading]

Although the defense of the Fat Army was obviously insufficient, and the counterattack was very unorganized, the 5,000 Qing cavalry was silted in the narrow urn city and it was difficult to dodge the blows from overhead, and there were still many casualties. However, the cavalry of the Qing army was not completely passively beaten, and the soldiers of the Fat Army on the city wall were killed by drawing bows and arrows, and the muskets they carried were confiscated because of gunpowder, so they asked for the surname to build a human ladder to climb up, and attacked the Nanjing city wall with a human ladder.

The war has come to this point, and the weakness of the insufficient strength of the defenders of the fat army has also been completely exposed, although there are perfect fortifications and sufficient materials to defend the city, but they are suffering from not enough manpower to perform, and even can not destroy the Qing army's fragile human ladder siege tactics, and at the same time take into account the long city walls of three urn cities, and the manpower is even more stretched. Two sections of the city wall were seized.

At the critical moment, the first batch of reinforcements led by Cao Guoxing, the general of the Fat Army, finally arrived and rushed to the city wall to help defend the city. Qin Yong breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly organized some men to rush to the Qing soldiers who had climbed the wall, while throwing grenades to prevent the Qing army from continuing to climb the city, and at the same time fighting with the Qing soldiers who had already climbed the wall.

"Boom, boom!" Smaller explosions were heard one after another, and the primordial black powder and grenades that the Qing army had collected and used intensively exploded at the last city gate. However, our prince of Zhangtai County scolded that the explosive power of the original black powder was too small, and the power of the open-air explosion was greatly reduced, and although the explosive power of the grenade containing the three good explosives was large, it was impossible for hundreds of grenades to pull the ring at the same time to ignite and the Qing soldiers were not proficient in blasting technology, so they could only try to bundle together and pull the middle bundle of grenades, as a result, the bundle of grenades in the middle exploded together with the black powder, and the shock wave blew up the remaining grenades all over the sky, scattering and exploding. Not to mention the impact on the city gate, it also killed and injured many Qing soldiers in the urn city.

After wasting all the gunpowder and grenades, the Qing army's blasting only blew out some cracks and a head-sized hole in the last city gate, but the whole was basically unharmed, still blocking the advance of the Qing army.

"Axeman, up! Split the gates! Zhu Man was afraid of being whipped by the prince of Zhangtai County, and quickly ordered the sword and axe hand in the team to step forward and swing the axe to slash the city gate, and the result turned out that this trick was indeed quite effective, and the Nanjing city gate that was blown up by grenades and black powder was constantly broken in front of the Qing army's big axe, and the door hole was gradually expanded. Seeing this scene, the prince of Zhangtai County finally did not have a seizure on the spot, but just hid in the safe city gate and kept yelling, "Hurry! Fast! Be sure to split the gate before the Wu dog reinforcements arrive! ”

So, a scene that is difficult to see even in the era of cold weapons unfolded, the few fat soldiers on the city wall desperately smashed out everything that could be smashed out of hurtful things, whether it was bricks and tiles or grain bags braziers, what to throw into the urn city, the Qing soldiers under the city wall waved axes and slashed the thick city gate, and more Qing soldiers stepped on the ladder and continued to climb up, rushing to the city before the fat army reinforcements could not arrive quickly for a while, and the shouts of killing in the city were like thunder, although the scale of the war was not large, The intensity of tension is far greater than that of any war of its magnitude.

Here I have to thank Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Shen Wansan again (the reason why the treasure gate got its name, the legend is that Shen Wansan buried his cornucopia into the foundation when he built this city gate), the treasure gate they jointly built is not only so strong that even modern firearms are difficult to destroy, but also more than 20 meters high, so no matter how rare the guards of the fat army are, it is very difficult for the soldiers of the Qing army to climb the city, and the number of soldiers who can climb the city wall is always limited, which has won precious time for the reinforcements and counterattacks of the fat army.

When the last gate was cut out of a basin-sized hole by the Qing army sabers and axes, Xie Dong, who had completely worn a pair of pants with Lu Fatzi, led more than 500 people from the government servants to rush up to the city wall and enter the battlefield; The people of nearby Nanjing were also organized, pushing carts and carriages into the city gate corridor, and throwing all the sundries that could be moved into the city gate corridor, blocking the last city gate that was already in danger.

When the last city gate was cut out of a meter square by the Qing army sword and axeman, Lu Yu'er, who had just given birth to a son, led his family and his own soldiers to rush to the city wall, but the experienced Lu Yu'er did not immediately blindly enter the battlefield, but ordered his own soldiers to go over to support Qin Yong, and personally led his family to rush into the city tower to get the rocket hidden in the city tower, aimed at the inside of the urn city and ignited and launched, although the three-good rocket shot diagonally did not explode immediately, but also brought great chaos to the dense Qing soldiers in the city wall, The Qing soldiers were forced to retreat to the two previous urn cities, effectively relieving the pressure on the last gate.

"The gates are open!" At the same time, the Qing saber and axe men had already drilled into the inside of the city gate from the hole cut out by the axe, and cut the latch inside the city gate, and the Qing army sabers and axe men slammed together hard, and finally smashed open the last gate that blocked their advance. However, before the Qing soldiers cheered, they were stunned to see that countless carriages, trolleys and all kinds of sundries had been stuffed into the long corridor of the city gate, sacks, grain bags, vegetable baskets, wooden boxes, wine jars, buckets, quilts and furniture, and even a few coffins that were not carried from there, piled up densely and tightly blocked, and at the same time, black smoke began to rise from the depths of the corridor, flashing flames.

"Fuck your mother's Wu dog, it's too shameless!" Seeing that the tactics of the Fat Army were shameless to this point, our prince of Zhangtai County naturally scolded, and had no choice but to quickly order, "Move quickly!" Move! Open the way! The human ladder continues to climb the city, and you must rush to the city wall! ”

"Hurry up!" The Qing soldiers who had just cut the door became porters again, rushed into the Yongdao and desperately carried the barricade debris, but they moved on the Yongdao side, and the Nanjing soldiers and civilians piled up on the Yongdao side, and at the same time the fire was burning more and more, gradually forming a sea of fire, under the heat wave, the Qing army porters could not approach at all, and there was no way to carry the burning debris, but the Nanjing soldiers and civilians were still throwing flammable materials into the Yongdao, and constantly pushing the fire with bamboo poles and spears, and always kept the fire sealing, The cavalry of the Qing army, which was seriously lacking in tools, was a great skill, and it was impossible to break through this sea of fire immediately.

"Kill!" At this time, a new shout sounded, Lu Fatzi's right-hand man Wang Shaobo organized about a thousand defenders from other city gates to rush over, most of them rushed to the city wall to help the battle, and more than 300 people under the personal command of Wang Shaobo, the three good rockets brought with him were aimed at the city gate Yongdao ignition, in the whistling sound, more than 20 three good rockets rushed into the sea of fire and exploded, and the sea of fire was blown upside down at once, and the flames were more vigorous, and the three good rockets launched behind were drilled into the urn city through the sea of fire and exploded, killing and injuring countless Qing cavalry, The cavalry of the Qing army was forced to continue to retreat to the first two urn cities, and the pressure on the last gate was greatly reduced.

At this point in the battle, the Qing army's surprise attack troops, which had missed the opportunity to break through the city because of the running out of explosives, had actually lost the possibility of breaking through Nanjing. At the same time, the Nanjing People's Brigade, which was afraid that the Qing army would slaughter the city and harm the people after breaking the city, also carried the materials to defend the city to the city under the organization of the city officials to help the fat army eliminate the Qing cavalry in the urn city. When the fat army urgently transported a large number of explosive weapons from Xuanwu Lake to the city, the Qing cavalry basically had no place in the urn city, and the prince of Zhangtai County, who cherished his life, took the lead away from the danger, and the Qing cavalry who had no hope of breaking the city retreated, and was gradually expelled from the urn city of Nanjing, and was forced to withdraw from the city.

"It's dangerous!" It wasn't until the last Qing cavalry withdrew from the urn city that the fat army broke out in a cold sweat, all secretly calling it a fluke - if it wasn't for the Qing army's explosives running out in front of the last city gate, and the last city gate was also blown open by the Qing army, then these Qing cavalry killed in the city of Nanjing, even if the main force of the Fat Army returned to recapture the city, Nanjing, the largest nest of the Fat Army, would have to suffer heavy losses, and it was even likely to become a sea of fire!

The fat army was lucky in Nanjing, but the prince of Zhangtai County blew up outside Nanjing, carrying a horsewhip and just beating Zhu Man and other Qing soldiers who were in charge of blasting before, scolding Zhu Man and other wastes for being incompetent, and not knowing how to use explosives sparingly, which led to the failure of his clever plan copied from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and his success was lost, and he missed the golden opportunity to break through Nanjing. Zhu Man and other Qing army engineers were very aggrieved, and they all said in their hearts, can we be blamed for this, it's not that Lord Bao, your old man is confused, and he didn't tell us that Nanjing has three urn cities and four city gates, otherwise we will make these mistakes?

Grievances are grievances, Zhu Man and other Qing soldiers are actually the same regret as the prince of Zhangtai County, the battle just now has clearly proved that the current defenders of Nanjing City are indeed surprisingly empty, and I never dreamed that the Qing cavalry would choose to raid Nanjing City, and it can even be said that it is completely unprepared, if it is not for the number of gates in Nanjing, the Qing army is basically nine out of ten to break through Nanjing this time, because of the tiniest details and fall short, it is indeed regrettable, nest fire.

"Lord Wang, please go back and punish the slave again, okay?" In order not to be sucked to death by the prince of Zhangtai County, Zhu Man had to quickly remind: "Prince, now is not the time to regret, we have no siege weapons, it is impossible to break through Nanjing City, and the main force of Wu Dog around us is also sure that 100,000 people are rushing to reinforcements, we have to withdraw immediately, otherwise, we will be dumplings made by Wu Dog." ”

"Rush the ball?! Let this prince think about the best way to break the city again! The prince of Zhangtai County roared, jumped off the war horse and sat on the ground, took out the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" he carried with him, and rummaged through the way to break through the fortified city with cavalry. The cavalry of the Qing army also dismounted to rest, and some soldiers searched for parcels, luggage and vehicles abandoned by the people, and found a lot of valuable property and small gains.

On March 18 of the 14th year of Kang Mazi, this day is undoubtedly the most humiliating day for the Fat Army since its establishment, the enemy's soldiers looted and plundered outside the city, and the enemy's commander sat not far from the city to read historical novels, and the Fat Army did not go out of the city, and no one went out of the city, so they could only desperately block the city gate, while watching the enemy behave outside the city, so angry that they were helpless - the number of troops defending the city was too small, and once the field battle out of the city was unfavorable, it would be all over.

Precious time passed minute by minute, but the prince of Zhangtai County never found a clever plan to break through Nanjing in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but the cavalry of the Qing army found a lot of good things on the trucks abandoned by the people of Nanjing, there are good tea just picked this year, there are good raw silk, silk and cloth, and some live pigs and chickens, grain and fine porcelain, at the same time, the Qing army scouts also flew to report to the prince of Zhangtai County, saying that on the river surface of the Nanjing ferry, there has been a fat army ferry. In desperation, the prince of Zhangtai County had no choice but to put away the solemn and careful handling of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and ordered dejectedly: "Withdraw the army." ”

"Retreat, retreat, get on your horse." Zhu Man and other Qing generals quickly ordered the troops to assemble, and the cavalry mounted and prepared to retreat. The prince of Zhangtai County shouted again and roared: "Slow, those Wu dog's vehicles are all brought with you, you can't run in vain!" ”

"Lord Wang, that will slow us down!" Zhu Man screamed, once again stunned by the astonishing decision of the prince of Zhangtai County.

"Less wordy! This king ran back in vain, and the minions of Niyahan and Tuhai still had to laugh off their big teeth? The prince of Zhangtai County shouted viciously.

"There's no way, it's really not okay, wait for Wu Gou to catch up and then throw away these trucks." Zhu Man had no choice but to think in his heart, and he was even more helpless to order the Qing soldiers to collect the vehicles abandoned by the people of Nanjing and retreat with the army, but fortunately, the Qing soldiers who died in the urn city vacated a lot of war horses, and these vehicles were also dragged by war horses.

That's not all, when he was about to retreat, the prince of Zhangtai County seemed to be afraid that he would not be able to further provoke the fat army, and he specially rode his horse to the city gate of Nanjing, pointed at the city wall with a saber and scolded, "Tell Lu Yifeng dog thief!" This time, this prince temporarily spared his dog's life! Wait for the next time, Wang Zhangtai of this county, he must cut off his head as a night pot! The leg bones are removed as a drum hammer! It wasn't until the fat army roaring like thunder on the city wall fired arrows and guns that the prince of Zhangtai County walked away.

At two o'clock, the prince of Zhangtai County withdrew his troops and returned to Anqing, three o'clock was coming, the fat army rescue soldiers led by Lu Fatzi personally rushed into Nanjing City from Jinchuan Gate, when he saw that everything was safe and sound in Nanjing City, Lu Fatty, who had been nervous for most of the day, sat on the ground with his buttocks, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't stand up for half a day, and muttered just a thought, "It's so dangerous!" It's dangerous! It's dangerous! If the city of Nanjing is broken, the Xuanwu Lake Arsenal will be finished, and the millions of stone military rations that Lao Tzu had hoarded with great difficulty will also be ....... ”

"Cousin, I'm sorry for you!" Qin Yong came over to plead guilty, knelt on Lu Fatzi and kowtowed repeatedly, howling and crying: "It's just a little, it's almost Nanjing City lost in my hands, and it has caused countless losses to the people of Nanjing, cousin, you beat me, you just cut me down, and I have no complaints." ”

"Get up, it's not your fault." Lu Fatzi, who has a sparse family, hurriedly picked up his cousin and comforted: "I am the most responsible for this matter today, because I didn't expect that Mangou's real target would be Nanjing, and send the main force to Ma'anshan to ambush and turn Nanjing into an empty city, you can still hold Nanjing in such a critical situation, which is already very remarkable." ”

Speaking of this, Lu Fatzi asked curiously: "By the way, Xiao Yong, is it the dog full of dogs that came to attack Nanjing City today?" This full dog was able to see through my ambush in Taiping Mansion and find out the weakness of my real military emptiness, what a goddamn thing! It's the first time I've encountered such an enemy since I made my debut. ”

"It's Zhangtai's full dog!" Qin Yong replied wiping his tears.

"Zhangtai? How can it be?! Fat Lu exclaimed, "Zhangtai's full dog can have such a big ability?" Why didn't I find out before? Did you admit that you were mistaken? ”

"Nope." Qin Yong hurriedly shook his head and replied: "When Zhangtai Mangou was leaving, he reported his identity under the city of Nanjing, and threatened to kill your cousin next time. ”

Fat Lu's eyes widened, and he couldn't have imagined that Zhangtai, who was played by himself like a monkey, would have such a great ability? !

"The owner is indeed a Zhangtai dog." Wang Shaobo opened his mouth and said: "We caught a few Mangou captives who were stunned by the explosion in Wengcheng, and they confessed that they were indeed soldiers brought by Zhangtai from Anqing, and also confessed that they were preparing to attack Taiping City before, but when it was time to set off, Zhangtai suddenly changed his mind and temporarily decided to come to Nanjing. ”

"Why did Zhangtai change his mind temporarily?" Fat Lu asked.

Wang Shaobo smiled bitterly and shook his head, but Xie Dong interjected and said: "It may be that the captive with a full dog lied to me, and a captive confessed to me, saying that he heard the rumors of the generals who were full of dogs, and that Zhangtai Mangou had flipped "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and imitated Zhuge Liang's clever plan to attack Sima Yi's camp, so he temporarily decided to come to Nanjing. ”

"Emulate Zhuge Liang's clever plan?" Fat Lu's mung bean eyes widened.

"I also don't believe that there can be such a stupid person in the world, who fights according to the strategies of the books?" Xie Dong spread his hands and hurriedly reminded: "Brother Sanhao, Zhangtai Mangou has just walked for a quarter of an hour, and he also took away a large number of civilian goods left by the people outside the city. ”

"There are also General Gao Hongchen, General Li Maozhu and General Han Daren, you can send fast horses to give them orders, and let them send troops to intercept and kill!" Wang Shaobo also suggested.

Fat Lu didn't answer, but he was nervous and calculating, "Copy the strategy in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? It seems that the idiot of Zhangtai defeated Xia Guoxiang in Chizhou last time, and he also used the strategy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? ”

Thinking about this, Lu Fatzi stomped his feet and ordered decisively: "Prepare three messengers for me immediately, and quickly send orders to Gao Hongchen, Li Maozhu and Han Daren to let them ............." ”

…………………… Here is an introduction to the reaction of the surrounding fat army, the reason why Lu Fatzi was able to quickly return to the division from the Chushui River is that the distance is relatively close, except for a Yangtze River blockage, the straight-line distance from Nanjing is actually only about 30 miles, plus the fat army and the Nanjing defenders agreed to have a wolf smoke alarm signal, so when the Jinchuan Gate in the south of Nanjing lit the wolf smoke, the fat army guards at the Jiangpu ferry on the opposite side of the Yangtze River immediately reported to Lu Fatzi with fast horses, and Lu Fatzi was able to lead the army back to Nanjing to reinforce on the same day. And make timely military adjustments to the front.

On the side of Ma'anshan, although Qin Yong also sent a fast horse to Gao Hongchen for help for the first time, but the distance was more than seventy miles, basically when the army of the prince of Zhangtai County was forced to withdraw from Nanjing City, Gao Hongchen received the news of the attack on Nanjing, and then hurriedly raised troops to return to Nanjing for rescue, but it was too late to say anything - but fortunately, it just blocked the return of the prince of Zhangtai County to Anqing!

"Lord Wang, I beg you, I beg you, give up these burdens!" When he arrived at Jiangning Town, he saw that the sky was getting darker and darker, but the team of the self-army was getting slower and slower, and the anxious Zhu Man had to kneel down for the prince of Zhangtai County, and begged repeatedly: "Lord, give up these burdens, these burdens are worth no matter how valuable they are, and it is useless to spend them without life!" After throwing away these burdens and vacating all the war horses, we have hope of getting rid of Wu Gou's encirclement and interception, and returning to Anqing victoriously. ”

"Less!" The prince of Zhangtai County yelled: "If Wu Gou dares to catch up, we will fight!" We are all cavalry, and we are still afraid of Wu dogs? ”

"But our scouts have already discovered that Wu Gou's messenger has rushed to the front......." Zhu Man wanted to persuade again, but suddenly the horse's hooves shook the sky on the official road ahead, and the flames soared into the sky, and a cavalry army came to kill him. Seeing this scene, the prince of Zhangtai County, who was full of confidence just now, suddenly turned pale and exclaimed: "There are so many cavalry from there? Is it ours, or is it Wu Dog's? ”

"Lord Wang, this is Nanjing Mansion, how can our cavalry get here?" Zhu Man and other Qing army generals almost didn't cry.

"Quick, quick, give up the baggage!" The prince of Zhangtai County also panicked, and hurriedly ordered: "Free up the war horses, retreat back and forth, don't take the official road." ”

"Lord Wang, is it too late?" Zhu Man almost didn't cry out.

"It's Prince Zhang's army!" At this time, a miracle appeared, and when the cavalry of the Fat Army who rushed to the vicinity saw the banner of the prince of Zhangtai County, they were all frightened, and they quickly reined in their horses' heads, turned around and shouted: "Brothers, run!" It's the Qing Dynasty God of War Zhangtai Zhang! Run, or we'll die!" ”

"It's Lord Zhang! It's Lord Zhang! Run! ”

"It's the Qing Dynasty God of War! Run, brethren! We're lost——! ”

"Help! It's Lord Zhang——! ”

In the hoarse screams, the oncoming fat army cavalry really turned their horses' heads and fled for their lives towards the south of no one, shouting that it was the army of the Qing Dynasty god of war Zhang Wangye, while quickly escaping cleanly, leaving the Qing cavalry who were already preparing to flee in place, stunned and almost unable to believe their eyes, let alone their ears - when did their own Zhang Wang Ye become so prestigious?

"Haha, Wu Gou is frightened by the prestige of this king!" The prince of Zhangtai County suddenly realized, and said with a smug smile: "This king said, when you see the banner of this king, Wu Gou has a reason to run away without looking at the wind?" Even if this team of Wu dogs is smart, if they really dare to offend this king Huwei, this king will definitely kill them cleanly! ”

"We're not dreaming, are we?" Zhu Man and other Qing army generals and soldiers looked at each other, saying that they didn't expect that they, the prince of Zhangtai Zhang, who fought with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" all day long, would have such a prominent reputation, and it had reached the point of making the fat army frightened!

What made the Qing army soldiers even more shocked was still behind, when the prince of Zhangtai County returned to Tongling with a large amount of baggage and passed through the city of Taipingfu, the fat army in Taiping City did not dare to go out of the city to intercept, and the shouting was only the prince of Zhang, the god of war of the Qing Dynasty came to the prince, and then closed the city gate to death, did not dare to fire a shot and an arrow, and let the prince of Zhangtai County lead the army to swagger through under the Taiping City.

And when he arrived near Wuhu, Han Daren, who had already beaten Leerjin all over the ground in Fanchang, sent troops to intercept it, but probably because Han Daren's army had also suffered a lot of losses before, he was defeated in a battle with the prince of Zhangtai County, and was forced to flee back to Wuhu County to hold on behind closed doors. Moreover, one of Han Daren's baggage teams was inadvertently blocked by the team of the prince of Zhangtai County, and the fat army's baggage soldiers screamed that the prince of Zhangtai had come and fled cleanly, and the five thousand stone grain and grass escorted also fell into the hands of our prince Zhang. That's it, Han Daren still didn't dare to send troops to rescue the grain and grass, so he could only watch as our prince Zhang drove away with the grain cart and returned to the Qing army's controlled Dining Mansion.

After the battle, the name of the Qing Dynasty God of War of the prince of Zhangtai County resounded all over the world again, breaking the courage of the anti-thieves from all walks of life, and also making Yue Le, Tuhai, Jieshu, Le Erjin, Dong Weiguo, Shang Shan and Cheng Ta and other so-called famous generals of the Qing Dynasty lose face, and lamented together, "The sky has no eyes!" ”

"My Zhao Zilong! The pillars of the Qing Dynasty! "Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty is so excited to evaluate Prince Zhang!

(To be continued)