"Got it!" Hearing the loud noise coming from the north of the city, Pang Yue clenched his fist hard, and his heart was settled. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

These days, he has been making two-handed arrangements, while launching a fierce attack on Chaoyang Gate and Taiping Gate in the east of the city with the main force, he sent combat engineers directly under the Central Military Department to secretly dig a tunnel from Lion Mountain in the north of the city to Yifeng Gate, fill gunpowder and carry out tunnel blasting. He remembered that in the original time and space, the Taiping army used this method to break through Nanjing. If it can be done, of course, it will be great. Even if this move can't be done, Chaoyang Gate and Taiping Gate can't stop the heavy artillery of the siege that lasts for many days, it's just the difference between morning and evening.

And it turned out to work.

After the loud bang, the city wall near Yifeng Gate was blown down more than two feet. As early as the 1st Guards Battalion of the Zuofu Army, which was ambushed near the Lion Rock, took the lead in breaking into the city from the gap, quickly defeated the Qing army near the Yifeng Gate, and seized control of the city gate and the surrounding city walls, and then received the 1st Town of the Youfu Army into the city.

As soon as the gates opened, the shouts of the sea poured in in an instant. After the first town of the Youfu Army entered the city from Yifeng Gate, the soldiers were divided into two routes, one along the Dinghuai Gate to the south and directly after Qingliang Mountain, and the other road followed the Jinchuan Gate and Shence Gate to Jilong Mountain and Guozijian to assault.

Because the main forces of the Left Army and the Right Army have been attacking the east and south sides in the past few days, most of the Qing army in the city has been concentrated in the south city. The Qing army left behind in the north of the city was dominated by the green battalion, which was commanded by Liang Huafeng, the governor of Jiangnan. Nikan was also worried that the Ming army would attack the east and west, but the troops at hand were limited after all, so how could they cover everything? If you don't focus on defending the southern city, the east and south sides are likely to lose first.

But now, in the end, it was Yifeng Gate that was broken first, and the tide of Ming troops poured into the city, and the entire northern city seemed to explode.

"The Ming army has entered the city! The Ming army has entered the city! ”

"The city is broken! Defeated! Defeated! ”

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The Qing army, which had been tense for many days, was finally on the verge of collapse, and a wave of panic howls shook the heavens and the earth. Nei Ying, who was placed in the city by the Intelligence Department of the Left Military Governor's Office, also took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, and fled the team in a scream while throwing away his weapon. With this group of people leading the way, the panic and the act of fleeing the ranks spread like a plague.

Some of the clear-headed Qing army generals tried to organize resistance and counterattacks, but the hastily assembled Qing soldiers were panicked and had a lot of morale, and how could they be the opponents of the imposing Ming army, they were basically defeated in one face. The Qing army front in the northern city collapsed piece by piece like a melting iceberg, and then turned into groups of routs fleeing in panic.

"My lord! The city is broken, we can't stop it, let's retreat! If you don't withdraw, it's too late! Several pro-soldiers came to Liang Huafeng's side and persuaded loudly.

Liang Huafeng shook off the pull of his own soldiers, and looked to the north with a gaze full of despair and unwillingness. At this point, of course, he could see that the defenders of the northern city under his command were finished, but where could he retreat? Evacuate to the South City? It's just a little more to catch your breath. The Ming army outside the city is eyeing each other, the northern city has been broken, and the southern city will not be too far away.

As for surrender, it is even more unlikely. Liang Huafeng had heard of Pang Yue's style of acting, and he also knew the blood debt he was carrying. Once it falls into the hands of the Ming army alive, it will definitely be more painful than dying on the battlefield.

After struggling for a moment, Liang Huafeng gritted his teeth and shouted: "If you can't repel the Ming army, you will die wherever you retreat!" Hugh has to say more! Kill the enemy with me! ”

After speaking, Liang Huafeng took the personal soldiers around him and all the Qing troops who could still organize around him, and resolutely greeted the direction from which the Ming army came.

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Less than an hour later, Liang Huafeng, the governor of the south of the Qing River, was killed by the first town of the Youfu Army near Guozijian. The Qing army in Beicheng collapsed on all fronts, and the rout of troops rushed to Nancheng.

When Nikan learned that Yifengmen had been breached and that the Ming army had stormed Beicheng, he organized an army dominated by banner soldiers to counterattack near Chengxian Street and the Pearl River. The banner soldiers in the desperate situation broke out with extraordinary ferocity, and the first town of the Youfu Army was caught off guard because the formation was too fast to close, and temporarily retreated to the north of Chengxian Street after paying some casualties.

But this small victory in the counterattack was just a return to the past for the Qing army. In less than three minutes, the Chaoyang Gate in the east of the city was broken by the second town of the Zuofu Army, and a quarter of an hour later, the Zhengyang Gate in the south of the city was also lost. Following the northern city, the southern city was also flooded in by the Ming army.

After Lu Qiwu commanded the main force of the second town to break into the city from Chaoyangmen, he went straight to the last important stronghold of the Qing army in Nancheng, that is, the former Ming Imperial City, the Yamen of the Jiangnan Governor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Yamen of the Admiralty and a series of important government offices.

Shouts of exuberance, howls of despair and panic, and fierce explosions of firearms...... At this point, they all came together.

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Outside the Zhengyang Gate in the south of the city, where the military headquarters of the Zuofu Army was located, Pang Yue looked at Nanjing City, which had been shrouded in smoke and shouts of killing, and his heart, which had been calm, became excited again. The former capital of the Ming Dynasty, which has been under fall for nine years, is finally being recovered in its own hands today.

"Yang Jinxin!" Pang Yue controlled the excitement in his heart and shouted to the side.

"In!" Yang Jinxin, the commander of the Guards Cavalry Battalion, urged his mount to move a few steps to Pang Yue's side, and answered loudly.

"You take the cavalry battalion of the Guards to advance to the north of the city under the Lion Rock to set up defenses, and strictly prevent the Tartars in the city from breaking through to the north." Pang Yue said, "Especially Hong Chengchou, that old bastard, let him run away in Wuchang a few years ago, don't give him a second chance to escape now." ”

"Yes! Please rest assured, if that old bastard runs away from me, Dashuai will cut off my head as a night pot! Yang Jinxin confidently assured. He was originally from Wenju, but he has been in the army for a long time, but he has also learned a foul language.

"I don't need such a big night pot, let's go!" Pang Yue said with a smile.

Yang Jinxin also smiled, turned the horse's head and went to order.

Now the Guards Cavalry Battalion is the most elite of the cavalry battalions of the Zuofu Army, bringing together many outstanding talents, and Wei Yuan, the former captain of Pang Yue's own army, served as a deputy battalion officer in this battalion. Whenever there was an urgent and critical task, Pang Yue would always hand it over to the Guards Cavalry Battalion to complete.

A drum and trumpet sounded, followed by the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, and more than 4,000 cavalry set off from the vicinity of the central army headquarters and galloped north.

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In the afternoon, when the last organized resistance of the Qing army in the city disappeared, Pang Yue's flag of the Zuodu Governor had been planted in the Yifeng Gate Tower in the north of the city. At this time, the earth-shattering shouts of killing have almost disappeared, replaced by bursts of cheers and shouts of "ten thousand victories", and the mountains and tsunamis are endless.

The reports of the various ministries were also submitted one by one. Prince Jing Kan Nikan was killed by the second town near Sanshan Street, the governor of Jiangnan, Lang Tingzuo, committed suicide in the government office, and the governor of Caoyun, Lin Qilong, was captured in the Gongyuan......

"Dashuai, Hong Chengchou is here!" Lu Qiwu's loud voice sounded on the horse road under the city tower, and then his figure appeared in Pang Yue's sight, followed by a team of soldiers from the second town, escorting a thin old man who was tied up with five flowers and wearing a Manchu first-class civilian official uniform.

When the old man was brought to Pang Yue, he always closed his eyes and bowed his head without saying a word, like an old monk in a trance. His face was full of wrinkles, and the tail of the money rat at the back of his head was also half white, and he looked seventy or eighty.

"You are Hong Chengchou?" Pang Yue asked.

The old man remained silent, as if he were deaf. Lu Qiwu hurriedly replied: "Don't worry, it's true!" I've checked with a number of people. When we attacked the Apocryphal Yamen, he sat in the government office like this mud bodhisattva. On the way to escort him just now, some brothers were worried that he had found a short-term view, and they were afraid that they would not be able to explain it in front of the marshal. I told them not to worry, this old bastard didn't hang himself or hit the wall in Songshan back then, how could he find a short-sighted view now? ”

Pang Yue smiled and stepped forward to personally untie Hong Chengchou. Seeing that Hong Chengchou still had no reaction, he said: "Back then, the slave chief Hong Tai personally clothed Lord Hong with a big hat, and in exchange for Lord Hong's "Ming Lord" and half a lifetime of allegiance to follow. Now that I have loosened the tie for Lord Hong with my own hands, Lord Hong does not shout "Lord Ming", and does not immediately swear allegiance, why is there no half of a word of thanks? ”

The officers and men of the Zuofu Army present laughed together.

Hong Chengchou's originally dead old face suddenly turned red, but he still lowered his head and closed his eyes, not saying a word.

Seeing him like this, Pang Yue had a lot to ask, but he was not interested at this time, and today's occasion was not very suitable, so he waved his hand and asked people to take him down first, and then deal with it in the next day.

Subsequently, Wang Dongri also came to the Yifeng Gate Tower.

Seeing Wang Dongri from afar, Pang Yue smiled and said, "Brother Xu? Did you bite yourself or cut yourself? Is this in a dream? ”

Wang Dongri laughed, and after laughing, he no longer cared about Pang Yue's banter, but just sighed: "The oath made many years ago has finally been fulfilled today. The four famous kings, recovering the old capital, the British name of the Muyuan brothers will surely go down in history. ”

"How can I do all this alone? Let's just say that this recovery of Nanjing, Brother Xu is also indispensable. ”

"I didn't mean to compliment."

"I'm not pretending to be modest. These are all victories won by the blood of thousands of Han people, and they are not the credit of a certain person. Pang Yue smiled slightly, and pointed to the Yangtze River rushing to the east in the distance, "Just like the Yangtze River water rolling eastward, Brother Xu can tell which waves are the first and which are secondary?" For thousands of years, it is precisely because there have been countless waves that have come and gone that the surging Yangtze River has been endless. In the same way, the most indispensable thing in the Yangtze River is the waves, and the most indispensable thing among the Han people is the people with lofty ideals who dare to throw their heads and sprinkle their blood. Even if there is no Pang Yue for me, there will be Wang Yue and Li Yue, and there will always be a person who will take the lead to stand up and wake up the sleeping Han heroes. It's just a difference between morning and night. ”

This is also what Pang Yue said in his heart, what he really thinks in his heart at this moment. Becoming a national hero is certainly what everyone looks forward to in their hearts, but what makes him even more proud is to be a member of this heroic nation.

"Brother Mu Yuan's mind, it is difficult for us and other laypeople to understand." Wang Dongri made a joke, and then remembered another thing, "I heard that Brother Mu Yuan will be prosperous after every victory, and now the old capital has been restored, I don't know if there is a good sentence in my heart?" ”

"Then brother, I will be ugly." Pang Yue smiled and asked someone to bring a pen and paper. At the head of the city where the remnants of the war still remain, a seven-character poem was written in one go:

Zhongshan is pale and yellow, and 100,000 heroes have crossed the river.

The tiger is better than the past, and the world is turned upside down and generous.

It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord.

If there is love in the sky, the sky is also old, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life.

"Good! A good one should chase the poor bravely, and not sell his name to learn the overlord! Wang Dongri applauded again and again and said with emotion, "I have long known that the purpose of Brother Mu Yuan's expedition is far more than just recovering Nanjing. Think about it, now that Jierharang in Jiangbei has become the end of a strong crossbow, what is the way in front of the hundreds of thousands of tigers who have won a great victory over Yu Wei in my Ming Dynasty? ”

The two looked at each other and laughed. The surrounding generals Zhang Yunli, Shi Youliang, and Lu Qiwu also laughed in unison.

"It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to become a famous overlord!" This poem soon spread throughout the army, and the shouts of 100,000 soldiers were like a mountain crying out for a tsunami.

As the sun sets, the afterglow of the setting sun shines down, covering the river with a faint golden light. The rolling Yangtze River rushes eastward, just like the ancient and stoic Han people.