Hong Chengchou sat behind the table with a frown, listening to his subordinates report on the situation in the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It's chaotic, it's all chaotic, the outer city is full of chaotic people, the troops of General Bu and General Li have fought fiercely with several chaotic people, and defeated thousands of chaotic soldiers, but they still failed to reach Guanyin Gate.

The heralds sent to the gates of Waiguo have been out for a long time, and there is no news coming back at all, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that the gates of Waiguo won't be able to defend it! ”

"How is that possible? How many Ming troops entered the city, and how could there be such a big movement? Staff member Zhao Xingfang shouted.

"There are not many Ming troops entering the city, only more than a thousand people, this is certain, as for so many chaotic people in the city, I am afraid it was premeditated." Hong Chengchou calmly analyzed.

Careless, careless! At this moment, Hong Chengchou regretted it very much, regretting that he did not pay attention to the young man who was far away on Chongming Island. Hong Chengchou was the commander of the government in the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty was a scholar in the southeast, and he had been an official for decades, and he had seen too many battles, and he naturally had no eyes left behind. When the anti-Qing wave broke out in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, Ren Siqi did not come out from Chongming to attack the city and seize the land, but retreated on the isolated island, which made Hong Chengchou subconsciously despise. In Hong Chengchou's view, those who can't grasp this opportunity will have little to offer, and they won't be afraid.

In the Ming Dynasty for many years, Hong Chengchou knew the officialdom army of the Ming Dynasty well, in his opinion, the army of the Ming Dynasty had been rotten to the home, and the Ming army of Chongming was composed of Ming troops from all over the country who fled to the island, I am afraid it will be even worse. So when Luck Dehun went to Wuchang with all the main forces of the Eight Banners to attack the loyal battalion, although there were only more than 10,000 green battalions in Nanjing, Hong Chengchou was not panicked at all.

But he never expected that Ren Siqi would be so bold and dare to run thousands of miles to Nanjing, which made him a little at a loss for a while.

But Hong Chengchou is a talent with a gap in his chest, and in this era, he is also the top in terms of talent. After the panic, he immediately calmed down and began to adjust his deployment.

The outer city is already out of control, so shrink the forces and concentrate all the troops in the inner city. The inner city wall of Nanjing is also 70 miles long, and it is slightly insufficient for these 10,000 soldiers to be scattered on the city wall. Hong Chengchou ordered to focus on garrisoning thirteen city gates, and each gate was stationed with three hundred green battalion soldiers. In addition, the remaining green battalion soldiers were divided into eight battalions, each with 1,000 people, as mobile troops, on the one hand, they were used to suppress possible rebellions in the inner city, and on the other hand, they were looking for opportunities to attack the Ming army outside the city.

After deploying the defenses in the city, Hong Chengchou wrote several orders and sent people to immediately send them to the towns of Jiangsu, Changhui and Taizhou, and transferred the green battalions from each province to urgently reinforce Nanjing. The total number of green battalion soldiers stationed in various places near Nanjing is more than 20,000 people, if they can enter Nanjing in time, the defensive forces will be very rich, and they can not only hold Nanjing but also defeat Ren Siqi's Ming army.

With Hong Chengchou's orders one after another, the green battalion soldiers in the city immediately moved, and everything in the inner city became orderly. Thanks to the purge of the city when the Qing army invaded the city last year, most of the people were driven out of the inner city, so there was only a slight disturbance in the inner city, and it was immediately extinguished by the green battalion soldiers who were waiting for it with all their might. Thanks to the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang spent more than 20 years to build this golden soup of Nanjing City, the city is five zhang high, the stack of saucer buttresses, the corner tower arrow tower is readily available, the thirteen gates of the inner city have urn cities, and there are moats outside the city. Although there were only 10,000 soldiers, it could be worth the attack of 100,000 enemy troops. With this Xiongcheng as a basis, Hong Chengchou is confident that he will hold on for at least three months or even half a year, and within a month, the green battalion soldiers from all over the country will be reinforced into the city one after another, and then it will be the death of the Ming army outside the city!

Hong Chengchou has decided to completely abandon the outer city and retreat into the inner city. His decision was not timely, because in the afternoon, Ren Siqi commanded an army of 40,000 and arrived outside Nanjing.

The distance of one hundred and thirty or forty miles, the march took two days, and the speed was not too fast, but it also exceeded the vast majority of armies of this era. And to Ren Siqi's pride, not a single soldier was left behind.

When he arrived in Nanjing, Jia Yuanyin sent someone to report that the city wall outside Nanjing had been in his hands, which surprised Ren Siqi.

He ordered the whole army to enter the outer city, stationed at various city gates and set up camps, a total of eight large camps, and threatened the inner city from the northeast side. Ren Siqi put the camp at Guanyin Gate, because once the naval fleet arrived, Guanyin Gate was the closest city gate to the Yangtze River.

After setting up the camp, Ren Siqi sent a messenger to order the leaders of the righteous people in the city to report to the camp. One hour, more than a dozen leaders of the rebel army came to the Guanyin Gate where Ren Siqi was, and Ren Siqi met them on the city gate tower.

Passing through the rows of armor soldiers holding spears and armor in full uniform, the ones from the Chongming Army's Enemy Intelligence Division were better, and the leaders of the rebel army who had never seen the might of the Chongming Army were all shocked.

The armor is bright, fully armed, one by one with sharp blades on both sides, no one speaks, no one looks left and right, one does not even move, although there is no word, a terrifying evil aura comes to the face, making people not feel frightened.

Where is this like the army of the imperial court, even the evil spirit of the Qing soldiers is not so heavy!

Frightened, they passed through the middle of the queue of armor soldiers, unconsciously cautious in their words and deeds, for fear of making a mistake. Walking up the city wall along the road, I saw a young man in front of the city gate tower wearing a chain chain and a bright silver armor and a python robe looking at them with a smile on his face, and two armor soldiers with a full face stood behind him.

"Meet the Grand Duke!" Seeing Ren Siqi, several leaders of the rebel army from the Enemy Intelligence Division immediately knelt down on one knee and clasped their fists in salute. The other leaders of the rebels also hurriedly fell to their knees.

"Everyone's hard work, please get up quickly." Ren Siqi stretched out his hands flat, and floated a little, "You can understand the righteousness and respond to the royal family, and you are really my loyal and righteous people." I also hope that in the future, we will participate in the righteous deeds to help the Governor take the inner city and make new contributions. ”

After Ren Siqi first praised them, he asked them to send a team of Chongming Army soldiers to each rebel army to assist them in sorting out their ranks and rectifying military discipline. Ren Siqi's purpose is to absorb them as soon as possible for his own use, only by absorbing this group of rebels can he truly control the outer city of Nanjing, and can he continue to attack the inner city.

After a brief thought, all the leaders of the rebel army who came accepted Ren Siqi's request and became the peripheral troops of the Chongming Army, the Nanjing Township Soldiers. Ren Siqi appointed the leaders of the various rebel armies as the head of the battalion, and formed a total of 15 battalions of township soldiers, each with a number ranging from more than 1,000 to 5,600.

For these rebels who were willing to obey orders, Ren Siqi naturally increased his official position and promoted him arrogantly, and issued a warning to those who did not obey orders, and sent troops to suppress them if he did not obey orders.

A day later, the entire outer city returned to calm and order, and Ren Siqi had an additional army of more than 30,000 villagers.