Knowing that the situation was not good, Li Yanzhi accelerated the offensive the next day, and on this day he sent all the township barracks, and one team after another took turns to launch a frantic attack on the city of Nanjing. Ren Siqi sent him another 500 musketeers www.biquge.info pen, and a total of 2,000 musketeers fired suppressive fire at the city wall.

Hong Chengchou also sent most of the green battalion soldiers to the head of the city to defend, and arrows and bricks rained down from the city.

Just as the shouts of killing, the sound of "boom boom" sounded, and the three behemoths were pushed towards the moat by hundreds of Ming troops.

"What's that?" A green battalion soldier pointed and shouted in shock, the height of the behemoth was higher than the city wall, the whole body was made of giant wood, the outside was covered with thick cowhide, the top was almost several zhang square, and more than a hundred soldiers could stand on it.

The other Green Battalion soldiers also looked at it in shock, they had never seen anything like this before, and in their eyes, the behemoth slowly approached the city wall, slowly stopping at the moat. Fortunately, there is a moat separating it, if it is really close to the city wall, what will the Ming army use to resist from above? The green battalion soldiers on the city wall secretly rejoiced.

However, before they could catch their breath, projectiles rained down from the top of the behemoth, and the city head crackled, and dozens of green battalion soldiers screamed and fell to the ground, but they were shot by the Ming army muskets on the top of the behemoth.

"Fight back!" An officer in charge of the command shouted, and the Qing archers hurriedly turned around and shot towards the behemoth, but the bows and arrows were blocked by the outer leather of the behemoth, and they could not threaten the Ming army inside at all.

Lu Gongche, once a siege weapon, has disappeared from the battlefield for many years since it had artillery. This thing is huge, covered with cowhide, not afraid of bows and arrows on the city, but afraid of artillery or trebuchets, it only takes a few cannons to blow it up, so in the battlefield of the Ming Dynasty, this siege equipment has been eliminated.

But now, the city wall of the east city has been plowed by the red-coated cannons of the Ming army, and almost all the artillery on the city has been destroyed, so the green battalion soldiers at the head of the city watched the Ming army muskets on the Lu bus raging, but there was nothing they could do about it.

Under the suppression of the three Lu chariots, the green battalion soldiers on the city wall could barely raise their heads, and they hid behind the battlements and did not dare to attack the city again.

Without the suppression of the Qing army in the city, the township soldiers on the cloud ladder finally relaxed, so some soldiers crossed the city from the cloud ladder and shouted to fight with the Qing army in the city.

"The walls have been stormed!" The soldiers in the countryside of the city let out bursts of cheers, they didn't expect that they would really be able to attack the city wall!

"Anyone who attacks the city wall will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver per person, and those who kill a Qing soldier will be rewarded with another fifty taels of silver, and the official will be promoted to one level!" Li Yanzhi, who was in command, took the opportunity to give the order, and the cavalry of the Chongming Army galloped back and forth by the moat, conveying the reward loudly to every village soldier.

Hearing such a generous reward, the villagers who were besieging the city screamed, and their morale suddenly rose to the peak, and there was no need for the officers and soldiers of the Zhenfu Division to be urged with knives, and they rushed to climb up the ladder with weapons in their hands.

There were more and more village soldiers on the city, and the green battalion soldiers on the city wall gradually felt struggling. Hong Chengchou hurriedly sent reinforcements to the city, and at the same time ordered the transfer of artillery from other city walls, and the three Lu buses of the Ming army must be broken in order to stop the Ming army's siege.

At this moment, news came from the north and south that the Ming army was trying to attack the southern and northern cities. Hong Chengchou knew that those two places must be feints, because with the strength of the Ming army, there was no strength to attack the city in three ways. But even so, he did not dare to slack off, and had to divide part of his forces to resist the siege of the Ming army in other places.

There were only more than 10,000 Qing soldiers in Nanjing, and after several days of fierce fighting, the total number now did not exceed 9,000. The inner city wall of Nanjing is 70 miles long, and there are more than 13,000 battlements.

As for letting the people of the inner city go to the city to defend like the Ming army in the outer city? Hong Chengchou didn't dare to have such thoughts, who knows how many spies of the Chongming Army are among the people in the inner city, and how many people still have their hearts set on Daming? Not only did he not dare to let the people go to the city to help defend it, but he also had to set aside some troops to suppress possible riots in the city.

"If the order goes down, reinforcements are coming, as long as you can repel the attack of the Ming army and hold on until the arrival of reinforcements, everyone will be promoted, and everyone will be rewarded!" With no choice, Hong Chengchou could only draw cakes to satisfy his hunger, and even he didn't know when the reinforcements would arrive. Because it has been more than ten days, he has not received any more news from the outside.

The green battalion soldiers in the city are fighting hard, most of these people are soldiers from the north, who have been powerful since the surrender of the Manchus, and they don't know how much blood of the southern people have been stained on their hands. Therefore, many people know that if it falls into the hands of the Ming army, it will not be good, so Ren Siqi has ordered people to shoot into the city for several days, and the surrender documents are not very attractive to them.

The combat power of the green battalion soldiers was naturally many times stronger than that of the township soldiers composed of ordinary people, but with the suppression of the Ming army musketeers on the Lu bus, coupled with the increasing number of township soldiers pouring into the city, they were unable to drive the township soldiers out of the city for a long time.

Seeing that the township soldiers really had a foothold in the city, Li Yanzhi was overjoyed and hurriedly dispatched the two battalions of elite soldiers of the Chongming Army assigned to him. At this time, it is not necessary to retain strength, and everything is focused on conquering Nanjing.

The two battalions climbed the city wall along the ladder, and immediately took over the village soldiers, occupying a section of the city wall hundreds of meters long, and raising their spears at the same time, pushing the green battalion soldiers back uncontrollably.

"The city is broken!" Countless green battalion soldiers wept and mourned, looking like they were mourning.

Hong Chengchou was already very desperate, in order to drive out the Ming army, he had to send the last elite in his hands, a group of five hundred Eight Banners elite soldiers, which was the personal soldier that Dolgon assigned to him, and it was also the guarantee he used to suppress the armies. They are all truly composed of Manchurians, all of whom are dressed in triple armor and have unparalleled combat power!

"The Eight Banners are here!" Listening to the heavy footsteps on the city wall, the green battalion soldiers who were forced to retreat step by step were overjoyed, there was the invincible Eight Banners Uncle, and no number of Ming troops were enough to see!

The five hundred and eight banners lined up in more than 20 teams on the city wall, and the swords and guns rolled towards the city wall occupied by the Ming army, which suddenly reversed the situation of the battlefield, and the two battalions of infantry of the Chongming army were killed and retreated step by step. After only a few months of training, their combat effectiveness cannot be compared to that of the Eight Banners!

Just when the Qing army on the city wall was overjoyed, and even Hong Chengchou breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly there was a loud bang in the direction of Xicheng that shook the earth, Hong Chengchou suddenly turned around, and saw that the dust in the direction of Xicheng was flying, filling the sky, as if an earthquake had occurred.