The current situation is that 10,000 Qing troops occupy the inner city of Nanjing, relying on the inner city of the imperial city of Miyagi to defend, and give up the huge outer city to the Ming army that rushed to attack. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ren Siqi did not rush to attack the city, because the inner city walls were taller and more majestic than the outer city, and the defense facilities were more perfect. In order to march quickly, the Chongming army did not carry many equipment, let alone siege weapons, and it would be very difficult to attack the tall city wall.

Outside the Shence Gate of the inner city, looking at the wide moat and tall city walls, as well as the stacks of arrows on the city wall, Ren Siqi didn't understand why the Hongguang Imperial Court would surrender easily with such a strong city, it was really blind to the Xiongcheng that Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang spent more than 20 years building back then. It seems that Xiongcheng is not enough, and the people's hearts are the concept that determines the victory or defeat. But today, is the human heart on its side?

The unrest in the outer city had been quelled, and Ren Siqi had appointed dozens of battalion commanders, all of whom had given the rank of guerrilla generals, and the generals of these township soldiers were happily restraining their rural soldiers and wholeheartedly assisting the Chongming army in controlling Nanjing. Those who disobey orders and want to fish in troubled waters will be quickly eliminated as soon as they are exposed.

A large number of craftsmen were gathered and began to build siege engines overnight. Trench equipment, Lu buses, ladders, and various siege equipment are in the tense construction. Although it may not be useful, it is better to be prepared than not to be prepared.

Hong Chengchou gave up the outer city, and he also gave up the nearly one million people in the outer city, as well as a large number of material warehouses, and Ren Siqi had already sent elite troops to occupy these warehouses. In order to isolate the foreign aid of the Qing army, the newly surrendered township soldiers were ordered to defend the outer Guo city wall in sections, and the eighteen city gates in the outer city were garrisoned by the Chongming army except for the important Guanyin Gate and Qilin Gate, and the other city gates were garrisoned by a township soldier, and the elite of the Chongming army was stationed in key places in the city, such as Zhongshan Shogunate Mountain and other places. If the Qing soldiers tried to attack the outer city, the Chongming army would be reinforced nearby to destroy the Qing army that dared to attack outside the city.

In the next few days, Ren Siqi did not try to attack the inner city, but worked hard to rectify the village soldiers and appease the people in the outer city, but the Qing soldiers in the inner city went out of the city many times under the command of Hong Chengchou to attack and attack the camp of the Chongming army, but they did not take much advantage at all.

Because Ren Siqi sent a large number of sentinels to monitor the thirteen gates of the inner city, whenever the Qing soldiers left the inner city, a firework representing the direction of the Qing soldiers leaving the city would be set off to report the message, and the nearby Chongming army camp would be ready for it. When the Qing soldiers marched between the streets of the outer city, they would be harassed by the village soldiers from time to time, slowing them down. When the Qing soldiers arrived at the Chongming army's station, before the attack was for a while, the Ming troops from other camps would come to reinforce and flank the attacking Qing troops inside and outside.

The size of each camp is more than 3,000 people, and the walls and ditches are readily available, even if the Qing army comes, it is not easy to break through the camp, so several times out of the city to attack, the Qing soldiers did not take advantage of it at all, but left hundreds of corpses each time. Seeing that there were already thousands of casualties, Hong Chengchou decisively stopped attacking out of the city.

For Hong Chengchou, the troops in the city were already very valuable, and they could no longer afford any losses. The failure of several attacks out of the city made Hong Chengchou realize the strength of the Chongming army outside, not to mention the combat strength of the troops for the time being, at least the sturdy soldiers in the camp have a strong sense of defense and are a strong opponent.

Ren Siqi once again saw the strong combat effectiveness of the Qing soldiers, and the green battalion soldiers in front of him were not under the Chongming Army in terms of equipment and combat skills, and the combat effectiveness of a single soldier was even higher than that of the Chongming Army. After all, one is only two years old, and most of them are recruits who have been in the army for no more than one year, while the other side is carefully selected from hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, many of whom are elite generals of generals. The Chongming Army's attention to array cooperation has made the combat effectiveness of the two sides much closer.

Ren Siqi did not attack the inner city is not for nothing, he sent two armies, one with Yang Ding as the main general, all the way to the south, attacking Moling, Lishui and other counties, and striving to include the counties of Yingtianfu. On the other hand, Liu Zhaoji was the main general, attacking Wuhu to the west, using Wuhu as a stronghold, and then cooperating with the naval army on the Yangtze River to block the Qing army reinforcements in the direction of Wuchang in the west.

Now Yan Yingyuan is in Danyang, Yang Ding is in Lishui, and Liu Zhaoji is in Wuhu, blocking the route of the Qing army to rescue Nanjing from the southeast and west, and the Qing army in Nanjing has been isolated! Just waiting for Mao Eighteen's naval fleet to arrive to blockade the Yangtze River, and that was the time to attack the inner city.

In the inner city, Hong Chengchou sat behind the bookcase with a haggard face, and in the past seven or eight days, he has not been able to sleep well for a day. Every day, he was constantly busy, checking the city defense, asking about the defense, and he was meticulous in his work, so meticulous that he cared about whether every soldier in the green battalion could have enough food and whether the salary was paid in full. The generals of the green battalion in the city were also very nervous by him, and they were cautious one by one, for fear of making a mistake.

The defense has been properly disposed of, there are a lot of ash bottles piled up at the head of the city, crossbows and artillery are all over the city, and each section of the city wall has a special person in charge. A large amount of bounty was distributed, and the morale of the Green Battalion soldiers was quite high. Hong Chengchou had promised them that as long as they repelled the attack of the Ming army, each of them would be promoted to one rank.

Military affairs have been handled to this extent, but Hong Chengchou still feels faintly uneasy. Because he knows that there is no way back for him.

All the officers and soldiers in the city can surrender and return to the Ming Dynasty, but he cannot. Because a couplet has set him into the ranks of traitors, he will never be able to turn over.

"Shi Jianliu fax can be lawful, and Hong En has not revenged." Hong Chengchou sat behind the desk and silently read this couplet, which was made by one of his protégés. The more I read it, the paler my face became. I didn't know whether to hate or regret in my heart, and suddenly he was extremely envious of the dead Shi Kefa.

If he had died in Tashan back then, he must have the same reputation as Shi Kefa in the eyes of the world today! But I, Hong Chengchou, have been reading poetry and books hard, and I am not willing to die ordinarily. Daming Building will fall, how can I support it alone? Good birds choose trees to perch, virtuous ministers choose the lord and do things, Huang Taiji is eloquent and broad-minded, how can he be compared with Chongzhen, who is rigid and self-serving?

What's wrong with me, Hong Chengchou?