From Zhenjiang to Nanjing more than 100 miles, it is a wide official road, if it is a fast horse, it only takes a few hours to arrive. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but Ren Siqi commanded an army of more than 40,000 people, and the army was divided into five parts, front and back, left and right, and it was necessary to coordinate the advance. Although the Chongming army is already very elite, it can only walk more than 70 miles a day if it marches long distances.

Ren Siqi knew the truth of the speed of soldiers, and he must not make the mistake of Zheng Chenggong in another time and space.

In another time and space, Zheng Chenggong also attacked Nanjing, and its troops reached as much as 200,000, which was several times that of Ren Siqi's army, but Zheng Chenggong, who was accustomed to taking a boat, did not realize the reason for the speed of the soldiers, and still rushed to Nanjing by warship after conquering Zhenjiang, and as a result, he walked for nearly half a month on the waterway of more than 100 miles, thus giving the Qing army in Nanjing time to react, and could calmly draw troops from all over the country to adjust the city defense.

Today's situation is very similar to Zheng Chenggong's time, the main force of the Qing army in Nanjing has been brought to Wuchang by Luck Dehun, and there are only 10,000 green battalion soldiers left in the city. How can the city wall of dozens of miles be defended by more than 10,000 green battalion soldiers? There must be loopholes everywhere.

Since the dispatch of the army, the speed of the Chongming army is not fast, and it only took one day to conquer Zhenjiang and Guazhou, and one day is only enough time for the news to reach Nanjing! At this moment, Nanjing is bound to be in chaos!

Ren Siqi ordered Jia Yuanyin to lead the cavalry town to march quickly towards Nanjing, and strive to enter Nanjing by surprise to create chaos, if it can open a city gate, it would be the best.

In previous battles, the Chongming army captured a lot of war horses of the Qing army, and these war horses were all under the command of Jia Yuanyin, forming the only cavalry town of the Chongming army. It is said to be a town, but in fact there are only 1,500 cavalrymen, less than two battalions. But these 1,500 cavalry is the only rapid reaction arm in Chongming!

After receiving Ren Siqi's order, Jia Yuanyin broke away from the brigade with his cavalry and galloped to Nanjing.

The so-called thousands of horsemen rolled Pinggang, the so-called thousands of troops and horses, and 1,500 cavalry galloped on the official road, and its momentum was no less than that of thousands of troops and horses, and the pedestrians and vehicles walking on the official road were all panicked and dodged.

"Bah, damn Tartar, are you in a hurry to be reincarnated?" A common man spat out the dust in his mouth and angrily cursed the back of the distant army.

"Don't scold? This is not a Tartar, it's the army of the imperial court! The companion next to him looked at the cavalry in the distance with confused eyes, and said faintly.

"The army of the imperial court? Don't be kidding, how can there be an army of the imperial court here? "The former people did not believe.

"Ergou, it's all because your father didn't let you go to private school in the first place, and the flag of the other family says it, you can't see such a big clear word!"

The horses galloped, the gale blew in his face, galloping in the wilderness, Jia Yuanyin's heart was relaxed and his blood was boiling. Since he returned to the Chongming army in Wuxi anyway, he has been training every day, and he has never been on the battlefield. Unexpectedly, in the first battle, as the vanguard of the whole army, he went straight to Nanjing for a hundred miles!

The speed of the Chongming army is so fast, presumably the Qing army in Nanjing has not had time to react, if it is lucky, maybe they can rush into the city gate and get the first merit in attacking Nanjing!

Jia Yuanyin was eager to make meritorious contributions, urged his cavalry, and quickly marched towards Nanjing, and when he arrived twenty miles outside Nanjing, it was already dusk, and Jia Yuanyin ordered the soldiers to dismount and rest for the night. The galloping distance is too long, both the soldiers and the war horses are very tired, and they must rest and rest to replenish their strength.

The cavalrymen did not care about eating themselves, but loosened the shackles on the horse's belly, and from their shoulders they took slender cloth bags, fried soybeans everywhere in the palms of their hands, and fed their horses. For these cavalrymen, the war horse is their second life, and only when the war horse is well fed and drunk and has enough strength can they take themselves to gallop and fight!

In order to avoid being discovered by the Qing soldiers, Jia Yuanyin did not choose to camp in the village and town, but chose a low hill. And sent a wide range of sentinels to see the movement in the direction of Nanjing.

The weather of the first month is the coldest season of the year, fortunately, the sky is beautiful, there is no snow, which allows the soldiers to run thousands of miles to Nanjing, if the heavy snow closes the road, it will be very troublesome to march by land.

Each cavalryman carried a thick quilt with him, which hung on the horse's butt during the day and kept warm at night. Each cavalryman curled up beside the belly of the horse, half of the quilt covering himself, and half of it was resting on the belly of the horse. Man and war horse leaned on each other and survived the long cold night. Every soldier has a kettle next to him, which is not filled with water but with spirits, and when he can't stand the cold, he will take a sip to warm up his body.

The winter nights in the south are warmer than those in the north, and most of Jia Yuanyin's cavalry are northerners, and they are all used to camping in the wild, so this cold is nothing.

There was nothing to say all night, perhaps because he didn't expect the Ming army to come so quickly, and the Qing soldiers didn't have time to react at all, and there was no movement all night.

In the early morning, when the sky was just dawning, the cavalry came out from under the belly of the horses and stamped their feet vigorously to drive away the chill from their bodies. A large pile of bonfires was lit, and at night I didn't dare to light them for fear of being discovered by the Qing soldiers.

The soldiers took out the dry food they had brought with them and baked them on the flame, and the dry and hard cookcakes were roasted by the flames, and suddenly became soft, and they ate a large piece of the cookbread with hot water, and suddenly felt full of strength! Put the bag of grass mixed with beans and eggs in the ground, let the war horse swallow it, and the next battle will be very fierce, and the war horse must be fed and drunk.

After eating, there was no need for Jia Yuanyin to give an order, the soldiers silently put on their armor, put the saddle on the back of the war horse, tightened the shackle under the horse's belly, and silently got on the war horse.

Looking at the well-trained movements of his subordinates, Jia Yuanyin nodded with satisfaction, also got on the war horse, and waved his war knife towards Nanjing in the west.

The horses' hooves trampled, walking in the early morning of the south of the Yangtze River, a trot moved their legs and feet, and the knights began to urge the horses to gallop.

Twenty miles away, even if it was only half an hour to run at speed, the soldiers soon saw the majestic and winding city wall not far ahead, which was the outer Guo of Nanjing.

"Kill!" Jia Yuanyin urged the war horse, sped up the speed, and the war horse took the lead towards the Nanjing city wall.

"Kill!" More than 1,000 soldiers shouted in unison, and their momentum resounded through the sky, and the shouts were accompanied by the roar of the galloping horses, which shocked the people at the city gate in front of them, and their faces turned pale.

There were bursts of screams, and the people who entered the city in the early morning threw away the goods on their shoulders and hid to both sides, and the black gate was exposed to the eyes of the Ming knights like a girl who had taken off her clothes.