When the western wall of the inner city was breached, Hong Chengchou had every chance to escape from Nanjing City, because at this moment, in addition to the five hundred and eight banners, there were thousands of green battalions under his control, so that the troops could easily break through at any city gate. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But for Hong Chengchou, he has no way out except to stick to the city! He was a vassal, but he was highly used by the Manchu chieftains, in order to appease Jiangnan with his prestige and his familiarity with Ming Dynasty officialdom. After coming to Nanjing, Hong Chengchou successively appeased several remnants of the Ming Dynasty, and exterminated the mighty Jinsheng Righteous Army, seeing that Jiangnan would settle down, who knew that the Chongming Army's thousand-mile attack made all this come to naught.

Hong Chengchou didn't dare to imagine what he would do if he really lost Nanjing. If Nanjing falls into the hands of the Ming army, the whole situation will undergo earth-shaking changes, and the people in the Jiangnan area will inevitably respond one after another, so that the entire Jiangnan will cease to be owned by the Qing Dynasty in an instant. And himself, as the governor of the five southeastern provinces, all the responsibility will fall on his head! Losing office, resigning, and killing the head is light, and I am afraid that the whole family will be implicated because of themselves. Surrender? He has already rebelled against the Ming and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and if he surrenders again, who will believe him? Will Ren Siqi accept his surrender? I surrendered, what should I do with my family in Beijing? I am afraid that the men of the whole family will be beheaded by the Manchurians, and the women will be given to the armoured people as slaves. Thinking about that kind of scene, Hong Chengchou felt a chill in his heart.

It's just that I'm already a tired minister, so I won't repeat it anymore. Let me be a loyal servant of the Qing Dynasty and die in this city, so for the sake of my loyalty to the country, I hope that Prince Rui Dolgon can forgive his family!

After making up his mind to hold on, Hong Chengchou immediately began to arrange the defense of the city. The city is the original Nanjing palace city and the imperial city, covering an area of about one-fifth of the inner city, the city wall battlements, the urn city, the arrow tower, the horse face moat, all have all the possibilities, and the defense is more powerful than the inner city wall. There were less than 4,000 people who followed Hong Chengchou into the city, but there were tens of thousands of family members of the Eight Banners in the city, among which there were three or four thousand servants armed with clothes, and they could also go to the city to assist in the defense.

With six or seven thousand troops in his hands, and a strong city wall to defend, Hong Chengchou was a little calm. The city was full of all kinds of materials, and a large amount of grain was stored, and the length of the city wall was much smaller than that of the inner city, which made the deployment of troops more sufficient, and Hong Chengchou was fully confident that he would hold on for a month or two. It's just, what's going on with that huge thunder? How did the Ming army enter the inner city? Hong Chengchou's heart was full of doubts.

After attacking the inner city, except for less than 4,000 people who followed Hong Chengchou into the city, the other green battalion soldiers all disarmed and surrendered, according to statistics, there were about 4,000 green battalion soldiers who surrendered. It is best to kill all of these surrendered soldiers according to Ren Siqi's heart, but he knows that he can't do this, because there are still tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers all over Jiangnan, and once the reputation of killing and surrendering prisoners spreads, it will inspire other green battalion soldiers to resist desperately, which will multiply the difficulty of occupying Jiangnan. And for most ordinary green battalion soldiers, they are soldiers just to eat food, and they don't have any concept of family and country at all, so they surrender again and again with the generals above. However, after the reorganization of this group of green battalion soldiers by the Qing court, those who remained were accustomed to fighting and killing soldiers, and they were all people with superb combat skills, and if they could be used for their own purposes, it would inevitably greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the Chongming army.

So Ren Siqi ordered this group of soldiers to be taken into custody first, and in order to prevent changes, the officers and soldiers were separated.

The main force of more than 30,000 Chongming troops has entered the inner city one after another, occupying various city gates and city walls, blocking the four city gates of the city, and surrounding the last Qing soldiers in the city.

The Mansion of Wei was not only the original Mansion of King Wu, the residence where Zhu Yuanzhang lived before he became the emperor, but also the residence of the Governor of Wei after Hong Chengchou entered Nanjing. Now it is Ren Siqi's residence.

In the main hall, all the generals gathered to discuss the final siege strategy. Although he had broken through two city walls in a row, facing the imperial city guarded by thousands of people, looking at the tall and majestic city walls and the wide moat, Ren Siqi couldn't help but have a headache.

The atmosphere in the venue was very relaxed, and the generals were talking nonsense, after all, Nanjing City was now in their hands, and only a handful of enemies were left surrounded in the small palace.

"What else to say, how did Xicheng break, it won't be long before it is concocted." Mao Eighteen said with a big grin. Immediately attracted many people to agree, in the face of such a strong city, of course, the best way to blow up the city wall. However, there are also many people who are confused, including the generals Bu Congshan and Liu Zeyong, who were allowed to participate in the meeting. Because these two people knew the details of the Qing soldiers inside the city, Ren Siqi specially ordered them to attend the meeting. Soon after these two men surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, they had little loyalty to the Manchus, and when the inner city was broken through and Hong Chengchou ordered the retreat of the Manchu city, the two of them saw that the situation was not good, and decisively ordered their men to surrender.

"It's not difficult to break the city wall, it's rare that if the Qing army in the imperial city fights to the death, or stands out to try to escape, it will inevitably bring us huge losses." Li Yan shook his head and said.

"How can there be immortals in war?" Mao Eighteen disdainfully said. Li Yanzhi shook his head and stopped arguing with him.

"That is, we have dozens of red-clothed cannons on Zhongshan Mountain, each of which can win the imperial city, as long as the governor of the capital gives an order to bombard the damn, dozens of cannons bombard at the same time, I don't believe that the Tartars inside can withstand it." The new town general Chen Mingyang said loudly.

"It's better not to destroy the palace or not to destroy it," Chen Zilong frowned, "Since we have conquered Nanjing, we must respectfully ask Emperor Longwu to return the capital to Nanjing, if the imperial city is seriously damaged, we will have to use the people to spend a lot of money to repair the palace." Not worth it. ”

"What Emperor Longwu still has to Nanjing? Let's do a good job of Nanjing city management? Mao Shiba's eyes widened, and he said to Chen Zilong dissatisfied.

"That's right, Nanjing City was brought down by us, why should we give it to him!" The other generals were also screaming.

"Nanjing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, if you don't invite the emperor to return the capital, do you want to rebel?" Being questioned by these rude martial artists one after another, Chen Zilong's anger also increased, and he began to speak a little carelessly.

Li Yanzhi clasped his hands, looked at the scene with a smile, and said nothing.

"Alright, shut up!" Ren Siqi shouted angrily, which calmed everyone down, "Look at you, has the city been defeated?" Have all the enemies inside been destroyed? What has become of each of them? ”

"Two generals, I don't know if there is any strategy to break the enemy that can teach me?" After scolding, Ren Siqi turned around and looked at the generals Bu Congshan and Liu Zeyong with a smile.

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