The first rays of dawn have appeared, a large area of fish belly in the east is white, a red sun slowly jumps from the sea of clouds, and the earth is full of light.

At this time, the offensive and defensive battle of Jiankang City finally reached the most critical juncture. After the eighteen gates of the outer city were breached and the outer city was completely lost, the thirteen gates of the inner city that the Wu army was currently defending finally could not hold on. In the midst of the shouts of killing, the thirteen inner city gates took care of one or the other, and countless calls for help sounded. The noble gentry in the city who had no time to escape were also red-eyed at this time, they all knew that Chen Kefu had purged the Hebei clan, and they also understood that they had placed Chen Kefu's father under house arrest over the years and robbed Nan Chen's banner. Now that Chen Kefu's army has been killed, no one has the luxury of expecting that after the city is broken, the Northern Chen army will treat them well, the Jiankang gentry who betrayed the Chen family.

Private soldiers, guards, family members, and even the guards and courtyards, slaves and servants in the palace were all caught up with the city wall to help defend by these fearful aristocratic families. At this time, they can only report the last bit of luck, hoping to hold on until the moment when reinforcements arrive.

Jiankang City originally had only more than 10,000 defenders left, but as the largest city in Jiangdong, there were still hundreds of thousands of people in the city. The nobles hastily recruited most of the young men in the city, and sent out all kinds of swords, guns, bows and arrows stored in their warehouses, but they also formed a huge number of garrisons in the near future. Although facing the sharp and fierce attack of the Chen army under the city, these hastily formed defenders on the city. I always have to change it every two or three hours. But for a while, the city was also kept from falling.

"it, are the mines ready?"

Under Jiankang City, Hu Hai, the commander-in-chief of the siege who was covered with dust and blood, looked anxious, and the outer city was taken without much effort, but the inner city had been attacked for a day but still not down. This made Hu Hai very dissatisfied in his heart, but at this time, Shen Luoyan's reinforcements, which should have appeared a long time ago, were not yet visible. The 20,000 wolf soldiers brought out by Feng Wan's father and daughter have not yet come back, let alone expect them to find Wu Jun's footprints.

At this time, Hu Hai, who had been in battle for a long time, couldn't help but have an intuition in his heart, feeling that the situation in Jiangdong was already beyond his control.

"Governor. The mines and the wooden platoon were ready, and the subordinates immediately went to attack the water gate in person. This time, Bao Zhun won the water gate in one fell swoop. The right commander made Su Lie and Su Dingfang look firm, and the battle has been fought until now. He's already on fire. The Thirteen Gates couldn't be attacked for a long time, and he was also a little anxious.

There are thirteen gates in the inner city of Jiankang, but one is the water gate, which is the water gate of the city river that excavates the moat from the Yangtze River and introduces it into the city through the city. This water gate was heavily defended, but after fighting for so long, the defenders of the water gate also suffered heavy casualties, and those water villages were also damaged a lot. Su Lie has been staring at it for so long, and now he is ready to break through this water gate in one fell swoop and enter the city from now on.

The big scar on Hu Hai's face was purple and purple, and he said with a solemn face: "Okay." The water gate will be handed over to you, and the gunpowder in the army is almost exhausted, so I will hand it all over to you. In this battle, Xu Wei is not allowed to lose. Shen Luoyan hasn't appeared for so long, which makes me feel a little bottomless. The sooner we capture Jiankang, we will be invincible. Go ahead! ”

"The last general obeys!" Su Lie nodded and got up to leave, this Jiangdong raider is the unauthorized use of troops by a few of them, if they can't win a big victory, then there will be military law waiting for them in the future. Whatever it may be, it's come to this point. They can only bite the bullet step by step.

"Bang!"

"Boom!"

One loud bang after another rang out, and Su Lie had already instructed his soldiers to tie gunpowder to the wooden raft and crash it into the iron fence of the Water Gate. A series of explosions rang out, and the broken iron fence that had already been attacked was finally blasted open. Following the river channel that leads into the city, the water gate in the southwest corner has broken a large hole, and it is wide open like a hideous devil's cave.

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"Kill! 1,000 Bounty Coins for the First Striker! Su Dingfang saw that he finally blew up the water gate. With great excitement in his heart, he waved his long sword. Shouted.

The groups of Chen soldiers who had already prepared to attack let out a roar, jumped on the wooden rafts one after another, held their shields, and rushed towards the broken water gate with bamboo poles. Thousands of lightly armed infantry poured in with their shields and swords.

Jiankang City was already exhausted at this time, and the young and strong were all guarded on the thirteen city walls. Although Watergate also received a lot of young soldiers, the offensive and defensive battles were fought all night. By this time, there were basically not many of them left with sufficient combat effectiveness. In front of the indomitable and unstoppable vanguard army of the Chen army, it is basically one-sided.

Chen Jun poured into the inner city along the water gate, and immediately nailed it into the water gate like a nail, and established a strong forward fortress. Shields were raised, spears were raised, bows and arrows were raised, and the Water Gate suddenly became a sweeping death harvesting position.

Countless Wu troops and young men in the city who rushed to reinforce them all fell twenty paces away from this bridgehead fortress, and none of them could finally reach the front of Chen's army.

More and more follow-up troops of Chen's army had poured into the city, and the hedgehog-like vanguard array had also begun to move forward slowly, and they were marching down the street in a neat array to destroy everything.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Jiankang City is the largest city in the world, and the wide streets in the city have always been praised by the people in the city, but at this time, the criss-crossing and extending large streets and arteries in all directions have completely become the nightmare of the Jiankang defenders.

Groups of soldiers of the Chen army, who poured into the city, quickly formed a phalanx of infantry, and then swept in all directions along the streets that extended in all directions. Sweeping everything with an irresistible momentum.

As the infantry array spread, more cavalry had already rushed into the city. With superior mobility, they quickly slaughtered towards the remaining twelve gates, as well as the innermost palace.

In the face of this situation, the nobles and gentry of the Wu Kingdom in the city were all colorless, as if they were mourning.

"Withdraw, we still have a third wall! Retreat into Miyagi, we can still hold on, we are not completely defeated. Her Royal Highness Princess Regent's army will arrive soon, hold on for a few more moments, and the princess's reinforcements will arrive. The unwilling nobleman saw the negative appearance of many of his companions, and hurriedly persuaded loudly.

Since its construction, the palace of Jiankang Castle has been the imperial city of the emperor's palace. Although Nanchen has now become the Kingdom of Wu, there are no people from the Shen family living in this imperial city, and the Chen family still lives. However, Chen Shen was the emperor before, and this palace was his palace. Now that Chen Shen has taken the throne, this palace has become his house arrest.

Jiankang Imperial City has a significant difference compared with Chang'an and Luoyang, and even Beijing Jicheng and Tokyo Liaoyang. That is, although the imperial city of Jiankang is surrounded by the inner city of Jiankang, in fact, the palace city of Jiankang is built on the Xuanwu Lake of Jiankang, which is a city in the lake. In the midst of the heavy walls of Miyagi, inside is a vast lake that is ten miles wide around it. The whole Miyagi is surrounded by lakes and waves, and only there is a ten-mile-long imperial road due south. However, there is still a nine-fold palace gate on this royal road, which can be described as a pass, and it cannot be opened.

With this man-made natural risk, this Jiankang's third palace city is the real fortress city. As long as there are a few soldiers and horses, they can defend the entire palace city well. If you want to capture Miyagi, you must first capture the siege of Miyagi by the lake. Even if you take the palace city, you can only go to the imperial city through the ten-mile imperial road, and there are nine palace gates on the imperial road, but it is not easy to take it. What's more, even if you take the Ninefold Palace Gate one by one, the last Miyagi of Lake Island still has the last wall.

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Hearing the nobleman say this, many nobles who had already raised their swords and were ready to kill themselves and refused to fall into the hands of Chen Jun also lit up. That's right, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent still has hundreds of thousands of troops around him, and he will definitely be able to come if he holds on for another day or two. can not die, who is willing to be prosperous and rich in this red dust.

At that moment, they all burst into tears and smiled, and they all turned around and rushed to their respective mansions, immediately packed up their softness, and took their families to retreat to the palace city in the middle of the lake, ready to make the last resistance.

The nobles retreated to the palace city in the middle of the lake, and the thirteen gates of the outer city quickly fell one by one.

Hu Haice rode his horse and brought his soldiers and horses into the most prosperous treasure gate in the inner city, looking at the prosperous capital comparable to Luoyang finally being captured by him, his heart was full of excitement, and he felt very happy on the horse. Suddenly, there was a kind of spring breeze proud, and one day was the feeling of seeing all the Chang'an flowers.

"Governor, all the thirteen gates of the inner city have been taken. All streets, roads, yamen, warehouses, and barracks in the city have also been controlled. Su Lie's laughing horse rushed to report.

Hu Hai laughed: "Good, good, good." Three good words in a row, Hu Hai couldn't say how happy he was, "General Su, how is the situation in the most important Miyagi?" ”

"General Bao, most of the nobles in the city have retreated into the palace city in the middle of the lake with their families and remnants. There are about 20,000 remnants of soldiers and young men, but they are only stubbornly resisting, the inner city has been taken, and the remaining small Huxin Palace City can be taken before dark today. ”

When Hu Hai heard that there were still so many people retreating into Huxin City, he couldn't help frowning, and muttered: "The life and death of these traitors are small, and I still have to wait to rescue His Majesty the Emperor Taishang and the royal family as soon as possible." I have to think of a way, not only to take the city in the middle of the lake, but also not to hurt His Majesty the Emperor! ”

The two of them are worried about how to take the city in the middle of the lake and rescue the emperor. There was a loud sound of horses' hooves on the street behind him, Hu Hai looked back, but saw that Li Chengyi and Li Chengli, who were originally responsible for guarding the eighteen gates of the outer city, were galloping over, and beside them, there were several officers wearing the armor of the emperor's imperial guards, and his heart suddenly sank.