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War is brutal, and siege warfare is the most brutal. Every siege means that a large number of lives are killed inside and outside the city walls, and if both the attacking and defending sides are quite strong, then more soldiers will die in the battle. The upper army is plotting, the second is the enemy, the second is the army, and the next is the siege, which is the situation. No one would want to drive their soldiers to attack a fortified city that was defended by a strong enemy.

Ren Siqi also had no choice, if he wanted to expel the Manchus and seize a territory that really belonged to him, capturing Nanjing was the best choice. And since the troops have come to the city of Nanjing and captured the outer city, the inner city can only be fought no matter how strong it is. The city wall of Nanjing is too strong, it takes too long to rely on artillery bombardment alone, and it will change later, and the inner city must be taken as soon as possible, at this time Ren Siqi has already regretted why he did not quickly launch a strong attack ten days ago. Now that the Qing soldiers in the inner city have been fully prepared, it is not easy to take it easily.

In fact, in addition to storming, there are many ways to attack the city, such as disintegrating the enemy from the inside and prompting the enemy to internal strife. In fact, in the past ten days, there has not been a day when the Chongming army has not shot arrows into the city, and the arrows are tied with documents for surrender. Ren Siqi promised in the document that if there were generals of the Green Battalion who were willing to open the door and surrender, they would be reused without blame for the past, and if there were soldiers who were willing to surrender, they would be rewarded with silver and promoted. Perhaps Hong Chengchou's ability is too strong and charismatic, and to this day, there is no sign of turmoil in the city, and no Qing generals have tried to contact outside the city. Then there is only a strong attack!

The loss of forcibly attacking the city will be large, and Ren Siqi is unwilling to drive his hard-trained soldiers to attack the city, so when Li Yanzhi proposed to attack the city with the newly joined township soldiers, Ren Siqi decisively agreed.

Li Yanzhi was appointed commander of the siege and was responsible for commanding all the township soldiers. The first thing he did was to gather all the new generals of the township soldiers and announce that they would take turns to attack the city, and these new generals immediately opened the pot, and many people shouted, quarreled and complained.

"Everyone, you are all members of my Chongming Army now, and the first iron law of my Chongming Army is to obey orders!" Li Yanzhi said coldly, "Besides, you have just joined the Chongming Army and obtained the position of guerrilla general, so you naturally have to be worthy of the trust of the Metropolitan Governor in you, and now is the time for you to repay the Metropolitan Governor." ”

"Can you resign from this General Rausch?" A village soldier general shouted. Many others also responded in unison, they defected to the Chongming Army to become officials, not to die.

"Of course you can, but you have to be clear that your subordinate village soldiers do not belong to you, they are all members of the Chongming Army now, you can not be this general, but you can't take away your subordinate soldiers!" With Li Yanzhi's words, many people closed their mouths all of a sudden, without the subordinate army, they would be nothing in the future.

"A bunch of bastards, white-eyed wolves, aren't the Metropolitan Governors good to you? Liu Mazi, you are a fucking ruffian, if you don't have the governor, you don't want to be a general in your life, even if you are an errand soldier, you don't have your share! And you, He Laizi, you are the one who kills pigs, what kind of big-tailed wolf, if you don't want to be in the Chongming army, go back to kill pigs. A general of the village soldiers from the Department of Enemy Intelligence stood up and shouted and cursed, and the people whose names he mentioned lowered their heads red-faced.

"Isn't it just a siege? What's the big deal, the head fell off the bowl and the big scar, if you don't die, when you hit Nanjing, maybe we can get a town. Other generals from the Enemy Intelligence Division echoed one after another, which attracted many township generals. For those of them who were originally from the bottom, there is nothing more tempting than high-ranking officials and Houlu!

"Even if you go into battle to kill the enemy, I can assure you that even if only one of your soldiers dies, you will still be a guerrilla general, and the Metropolitan Governor will replenish your men with enough soldiers." Li Yanzhi's words made many township generals put their hearts in their stomachs all of a sudden, and the reason why they were reluctant to attack the city was that they were afraid that their subordinates would lose too much and they would not be able to be the generals.

"However, if anyone dares to flee from the battle, fearing the enemy like a tiger, the ghost head knife of my Chongming Army Suppression Division is not merciful!" Li Yan's murderous words made many people's hearts freak!

In a short period of time, Li Yanzhi unified the thinking of all the township generals, and then assigned the next task, and the generals returned to the camp after receiving the order!

Li Yanzhi was not worried that he would verbally agree, but he regretted it after he went back. Because there are dozens to hundreds of soldiers from the Enemy Intelligence Division and the Zhenfu Division stationed in each township army, and they all hold important positions in the reorganization of the township soldiers, so to speak, even if some generals want to regret it, they cannot take away their subordinate soldiers.

On 5 February, the sound of artillery that had been bombarded for several days stopped, and the Qing soldiers at the head of the city looked down with trembling probes and found countless Ming troops with red hats rushing over with ladders. Due to the short time of forming the army, the township soldiers were not equipped with the standard military uniforms of the Ming army, but each of them was issued a red hat.

Since the city wall of Dongcheng was damaged by artillery bombardment, the main attack this time was also Dongcheng, from Zhongshan to Xuanwu Lake, which was three or four miles long. The other three walls only sent a small number of men to feint.

More than 20 sedan chairs rushed towards the moat, each of which was pushed by a dozen villagers, and a dozen villagers held shields at their sides. Each wagon was 12 zhang long, with a long plank on top and two huge wooden wheels pushed down to cross a moat that was seven or eight zhang wide.

The Qing generals at the head of the city saw the Ming army swarming and hurriedly ordered the Qing soldiers to attack the Ming army who were trying to build a bridge. However, in a few days of artillery bombardment, the long-range attack equipment, artillery beds, crossbows, etc. at the head of the city were swept away, and the Qing soldiers could only use bows and arrows to stop the approach of the Ming army. A rain of arrows poured down the city, but they were stopped by the shieldmen who were guarding them.

Seeing that the bows and arrows of the Qing soldiers at the head of the city could not deal with themselves, the morale of the villagers pushing the cart was greatly boosted, and they pushed harder.

A total of twenty-four crossings were erected on the moat, and the passage to attack the inner city of Nanjing was opened. Thousands of village soldiers shouted, carrying ladders and quickly rushing across the moat and rushing towards the city of Nanjing.

One by one, the ladders were erected and erected at the head of the city, and then there were villagers with weapons and shields in their mouths, pale and trembling, clinging to the ladders and climbing up.

Arrows fell like rain at the head of the city, and many villagers fell from the ladder screaming at every moment.