Chapter 190: Taking Jinling (5)
But seeing these routs lined up, I saw Guo Shenqian's people, dressed in a variety of ways. Either too lenient or too short, the bandit soldiers are all yellow-skinned and sluggish. In addition to firearms, they often carry large knives on their backs, and most of them carry cigarette guns in their arms. I thought it was a refugee, but if I looked closely, the bandit soldiers were even more unsightly: unkempt, with high shoulders, skin and bones, and weak to walk...... And Meng Shentong's people were just the opposite, although they were captured, they were all burly, majestic, marching in formation, with neat steps, and there was a kind of disdain in their eyebrows, and their expressions were like accepting the signatures and drawings of beggars on the battlefield. The two teams stand together, but they are clearly distinguished, sharply contrasted, and give people a strong impression. This is the contrast between the regular army and the miscellaneous cards!
I have to say that Zhao Yun likes Meng Shentong's team very much, and if he uses them as a mold in the future, it is not impossible to build a strong army. Of course, Zhao Yun still doesn't want to be a bird, and this "strong army" is also extraordinary.
Zhao Yun's side is stable, and it is time to find trouble with the Qi Overseers, as the saying goes, one report and one report. Zhao Yun had already ordered Shao Lao Er to launch a surprise attack on Nanjing.
Shao Lao Er, who had already arrived at the city of Nanjing, went in and out of the city gate several times, looking at the towering city wall, and felt very tricky.
Nanjing City is worthy of being the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, did the defense of the capital, on the thickness of the city wall, the grenade hit at most to lay a little bit of crumbs of the city bricks, don't want to shake half a point, each city brick on the city wall is engraved with inscriptions, such as how many years, who who made it, etc., almost all of them are bricks and stones in the Ming Dynasty, after a hundred years of wind and frost, it can be called a cultural relic.
Shao Lao Er started with the idea of Qilin Gate, which was named after the two stone unicorns buried here (now Qilinpu Village) in the tomb of Liu Yu in the Ningling Tomb of the Early Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty. The area around Qilinmen is a hilly area, and Yangshan Mountain in the east is a famous ancient quarry in Jiankang as early as the Six Dynasties. It is close to the mountains and rivers, which is not conducive to the observation line of sight at the head of the city, but it is convenient for a small team to expand.
As for the Zhongshan Gate that Zhao Yun mentioned to Shao Lao Er before he set off, Shao Lao Er didn't find it, but found that the Chaoyang Gate in the east of the palace city in the early Ming Dynasty was in line with the location of the Zhongshan Gate described by Zhao Yun. Because it is located in the east of Nanjing, it is the first to welcome the sun. In 1366, Zhu Yuanzhang built this gate when he expanded Nanjing City to the northeast on both sides, and after hundreds of years of wind and rain, it was as solid as a rock, and it was also an urn city, which was inconvenient to open to traffic. This gate is the passage between the palace city in the city and the Ming filial piety tomb outside the city, and the Hunan army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Zeng Guo Fan has fought fiercely here many times. During the Xinhai Revolution, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army also attacked Nanjing from here. Therefore, the Qi Governor Army attaches great importance to this gate, and the difficulty of attacking there can be imagined, and it was the first to be passed by Shao Laoer.
During the Xinhai Revolution, the strength of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army reached more than 14,000 people, and it was concentrated in Zhenjiang and its southwest region. First expel the Qing army outside Nanjing, seize the fortress batteries, and then capture Nanjing. The troops were divided into three routes, the right flank, to attack the Wulong Mountain and the Shogunate Mountain Fort; In the middle road, enter the Purple Mountain from the Qilin Gate, and attack the Chaoyang Gate and the Taiping Gate; On the left flank, through Chunhua Town, attack Yuhuatai. Shao Lao Er also wanted to use the old method, but after many days of investigation, although the Qi Governor Army had transferred most of its troops out of the city and meddled in Anhui affairs, there were still nearly 7,000 people scattered in Nanjing.
And Shao Lao's second-hand team is only hundreds, that is, a fraction of the other party's team, but Zhao Yun has secretly sent him some camp soldiers and horses, as for the number Shao Lao'er, it is not clear.
Paper can't hold the fire, not to mention that Zhao Yun didn't want to hide it at all, Zhao Yun's big move in Yixing still reached the ears of the Qi Governor, and Nanjing was immediately like a great enemy, and the whole city was under martial law.
But this was just wishful thinking on the part of the Qi Overseer Army, at least from above and below, the troops defending the city did not think that Zhao Yun would kill the city. And spies from all walks of life also reported one after another, Zhao Yun just gathered troops in Yixing slowly, and there was no sign of leaving the city.
However, Qi Dujun thought that this was a mess on Su Changzhen's territory, and he still had to find someone from Su Changzhen to solve it, so he ordered someone to bring his own handwritten letter and quickly catch up with Zhu Xi, the town army of Su Changzhen, who had arrived in Xuzhou, and ordered him to come back quickly to clean up the mess.
As for Zhao Yun, as long as he is still quietly staying in that small county town, then let him continue to stay! Qi Dujun hopes in his heart, as long as the people of Zhejiang do not interfere, and when the chaos in Anhui is cleaned up, he will come to train and train this long-sleeved and good dancing Zhao Yun, Boss Zhao.
However, the defense of Nanjing City was still strengthened, so a group of Minzhuang was repeatedly checked, and after finding that there was no problem, these people were arranged on the city wall to assist in defending the city. These people are all old Nanjing who know the roots, and they know many people in the army, and they can be called "acquaintances". Of course, if Qi Dujun knew that Zhao Yun's subordinates had a "monk" after saving them, they would definitely not use these people so carelessly.
The third day after Meng Shentong and Guo Shenqian made trouble in the county.
These days, Zhao Yun has been sitting in the county office, dispatching in the center, and even resting is in the county government hall. But this night, finally, to be dispatched, the airport was ready early, the planes from Outer Mongolia and other places have been gathered, even the seaplanes that have just been completed are all drawn, all the way carefully arrived at the periphery of Nanjing at 11 o'clock.
The planes parked on the road can't stay for a long time, and after putting down a batch of materials and personnel, they have to take off and return to the planes, and empty the position to the planes flying behind, but the seaplanes are not the problem of not having enough space, and there are many lakes around Nanjing, and there is no problem in parking two or three hundred.
And the time of this attack is 11 o'clock for Zhao Yun, a modern person, is the time to play, but for people in this era, he has already gone to bed.
In order to attack the city, in addition to those people in the city as internal responses, Zhao Yun also let the unarmed peasants have already mixed into the city, and built a barracks in a small courtyard in the city, which is equivalent to opening the floodgates of the barracks at once.
The soldiers outside the city, under the leadership of Shao Laoer, touched the Qilin Gate and advanced towards the Purple Mountain.
"Bang Bang!" The reaction in the city was not slow, as soon as it was discovered that there was a suspicious figure under the city, there was a chaotic sound of bangs on the head of the city, and some people began to shoot indiscriminately, and for a while, Nanjing City woke up from sleep.
As for Zhao Yun, he took people to a section of the city wall, or this place is still a city wall, but it will also be a city gate in the future.
The Biaoying Gate, which is known as the "Biaoying Gate" of fake cultural relics, is still a period of disrepair and dilapidated city wall at this time.
Its proximity to Crescent Lake has never been taken seriously, but behind the walls is the road leading to the Overseer's Palace. In line with the intention of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, Zhao Yun decided to blast by force, taking advantage of Shao Laoer's attraction of the opponent's firepower at the same time, to enter from here.
At this moment, more than a hundred soldiers have appeared in the barracks in the city, and they are scurrying around in the city, not seeking to capture any strategic points, as long as they cause chaos.
Two hundred seaplanes also took off in turn, flew over the city of Nanjing, bombed the airfield, strafed the military camp of the Qi Overseers, and interrupted their assembly.
Sure enough, after such a fuss, it was impossible to figure out how many enemies were coming to attack the city for a while, and for a while, the defenders in the city scurried like headless flies.
When there was a loud "boom" and Zhao Yun's army entered from the standard camp gate, everyone woke up like a dream.
The defenders in the city have long been chaotic at this time, these days, because Zhao Yun has been unstoppable all the way, on the one hand, in order to shirk responsibility, the defenders from all over the country have reported the number of Zhao Yun's troops several times, and the combat power is also infinitely expanded. It's already possible to fight against demons and monsters.
Now I heard Zhao Yun's army enter the city, and listened to the dense gunfire coming from the direction of the Overseer's Mansion in the city. Many middle and low-level officers were cheering in their hearts, listening to the movement, according to the establishment of the defenders, it was at least a battalion. The defenders everywhere either stayed quietly in place or prepared to enter the city and take advantage of the fire. In these years, there are warlords everywhere and governors everywhere, but what warlords need most is soldiers, so as long as they raise their hands to surrender, they can save their lives. Isn't there such a slogan: "Chinese people don't fight Chinese people!" ”
The psychology was loosened, and the resistance was not so resolute, and Zhao Yun entered from the standard camp gate of later generations, and ordered the peasants to build arrow towers along the main road all the way, condescendingly, forming a firepower advantage and forcibly occupying it.
Originally, there were 7,000 men and horses in the city, but this included water troops such as the Jiangfang battalion. And the rest of the people on the road were not all Qi Governors, but also some of the big merchants, big compradors, and personal guards of big bureaucrats who lived in Nanjing. If they are allowed to defend the city, there will be someone to help, this will be equivalent to the city gate being opened, and Zhao Yun's chaotic army will enter the city, and everyone will of course be eager to protect themselves.
So in that "Boom! After the loud bang, Hula, the Qi Overseers organized to garrison Nanjing were sharply reduced to 4,000 people, and the remaining 3,000 went to take care of their "masters". Even so, more than half of this will be attracted by Shao Lao Er, who attacked the city gate, at the city gate, and the rest are scattered all over the city, and the Qi Overseer Army can mobilize less than 1,000 people now.
However, no matter how loud the guns rang out in the Overseer's Mansion, they couldn't hit the Overseer, because he wasn't in the Overseer's Mansion at all. When he got Zhao Yun to make trouble in the county office, he was very suspicious and moved his office to the riverside. If he hadn't had this suspicion, he wouldn't have been a defeated general so many times, but he would still be able to live freely. No, all the antique treasures in his house were packed and transported to the riverside, and the warships of the Jiangfang battalion on the river have been fully deployed to control this section of the Yangtze River.
As soon as they heard the gunshots, the Qi Overseers knew that it was from the Qilin Gate. It was from there that the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army invaded Nanjing, so the Qi Governor Army also did their homework there.