Chapter 418: The rebels are desperate
The Chongzhen 19-style flintlock pistol, as a front-loading impact flintlock pistol, is still a little inconvenient when pursuing.
Especially when facing an enemy who doesn't have the heart to fight you at all, and only wants to run on one more leg.
Before you could reload, he was running a long way.
In addition, the officers and students of the training battalion had no actual combat experience, and their proficiency in the operation of flintlock pistols was not high, so when chasing the rebels at this time, some officers and students could only directly catch up and stab with bayonets in order to kill a few more rebels.
In the end, the bayonet was not as good as a spear, and some simply put the gun on their bodies, picked up the spear dropped by the rebels and chased after it.
Xia Yunyi's battalion, who was ordered to guard the Daming Ordnance Institute, and the instructors who followed to kill the enemy were so angry that they saw the performance of the officers and students.
Even some of them couldn't help but scold, saying that these young people selected from all over the world seemed to be very smart, but they were so stupid that they couldn't go to the battlefield, and they forgot all the things they taught in the clouds, and they chased and killed these rebels without any rules.
The officers and soldiers of Xia Yunyi's battalion were eager to rush up in person at this time to teach these officers and students how to fight.
As the saying goes, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and they know that they are going to kill more enemies on the battlefield, and they are not afraid at all, and they dare to chase dozens of rebels with a spear and a gun.
Seeing this, Chen Zilong didn't bother to give on-site guidance, and simply thought that he would only wait until this battle was over to teach these students how to fight.
At this time, the rebels didn't know how unruly the officers and students of the Guards training camp were fighting, they only knew that the guards chasing after them were too strong, and they would stab and smash people if they caught them, and they would do whatever they held in their hands, and even if they didn't have weapons, they would directly bite people's throat blood vessels with their mouths.
The rebels never expected that there would be such an army that would play with their lives as soon as they came up, and they only began to realize at this moment that the rebellion was not a rebellion, it was not a group fight, and they only felt afraid to see the living people dying on their side.
The officers and cadets became more and more excited.
After all, what they have been instilled since they entered the military academy is how to kill the enemy and how to kill the enemy more.
As the death toll mounted, the Guards training camp and the rebels felt completely differently.
Lai Wenli, the chief soldier of the rebel army, was carried back to the outside of Nanjing by the deputy general Sha Xing.
He was indeed frightened at this time, after all, this Lai Wenli was only a deputy thousand households a few days ago, and he was only a deputy thousand households with a fictitious position, and his more essential identity was a bureaucratic landlord, and he did not have much experience in warfare.
Now the Guards in the Ming Ordnance Institute directly a round of artillery fire frightened his 50,000 troops to collapse, and he himself did not think about what he should do if his 50,000 troops were defeated, watching the officers and soldiers under his command run, he also ran with him, but he ran out of order, did not let his cavalry intercept, and did not organize officers and soldiers to block along the way.
As a result, Sha Xing, who was still relatively experienced, immediately ordered the archers under his command to block it, and then rescued Lai Wenli and returned to Nanjing, accompanied by 30,000 defeated soldiers.
The casualties of the rebels were not large, because there were very few rebels who actually resisted the Guards training battalion, and most of them ran for their lives.
The Guards training camp had limited numbers and little experience, so the most enemy kills were now 810,000.
"His Royal Highness King Lu, the thief army of the Daming Ordnance Institute is too powerful, they still have a large number of artillery, Weichen 50,000 elite soldiers fought to the death for a day, and finally had to withdraw back after the defeat, if it weren't for Weichen's early, I'm afraid that the whole army would have been wiped out, woo!"
Lai Wenli, the chief soldier of the rebel army, told Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, and others with tears in his eyes, how he decisively reorganized his army when he was killed by the general soldier Jiang Yuntai, fought to the death with the defenders of the Ming Ordnance Institute, and finally tried his best to bring back 30,000 infantry because he was defeated by the defenders.
Seeing that he said it so sincerely, and thinking that he was Guo Yong's son-in-law, he naturally didn't blame him, but when he thought that the Ming ordnance couldn't be taken down, he could only continue to ask Zhang Bingzhen and Guo Yong for advice:
"Two Aiqing, let's talk about it, what should we do now, if we can't defeat the Daming Ordnance Institute, we won't be able to take Nanjing City."
"Your Highness, for the sake of today, there is only one way to make a desperate bet and not use artillery to siege the city, but to use ants to attack the city;
Chen guessed that if the thief army of the Ming Ordnance Institute really relied on the general soldier to be so good at fighting, he was afraid that the number would not be large, otherwise he would have come to rescue Nanjing City a long time ago, why should he still stay there, which shows that it is still impossible for any reinforcements to appear in Nanjing City;
We simply took advantage of this situation while the army besieged the city and immediately searched for the giant trees, and rewarded the officers and soldiers who had risen in the uprising to boost their morale, telling them that as long as they breached the city of Nanking, they would be allowed to plunder for three days;
In this case, after all, the soldiers have followed us into trouble, and it is impossible to atone for their sins, and now that we have rewarded us with a lot of money and promised heavy profits, the soldiers will definitely actively attack the city;
At that time, even if there are countless casualties and countless silver dollars, what does it matter, as long as Your Highness can enter Nanjing and become the emperor, everything is worth it. ”
As soon as Zhang Bingzhen said this, Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, also nodded thoughtfully, and hurriedly ordered all the silver dollars stolen from all over the country to be distributed, and immediately ordered his own people to look for the giant wood everywhere.
Fortunately, the tomb of the king of Boni is in Shizigang, south of Nanjing, and the trees around the tomb of the king who died in the Yongle period have long been towering into the sky, and they have a life span of two hundred years, and the trees are strong enough, so they were directly cut down by the rebels to make giant trees for siege.
Soon, under the stimulation of Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, and the temptation of looting Nanjing for three days, coupled with the fact that these officers and soldiers who followed the king of Lu also knew that they had no way out, they all actively pushed the giant tree and carried the ladder towards the outer city of Nanjing.
Nanjing City is not small, in addition to the imperial city there are two city walls, the outermost city wall has more than ten city gates.
From the north to Yanziji, from the south to the south of the Qinhuai River, the left side of the Jiagang Gate.
Even if Zhu Changxiao, the king of Lu, gathered nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, he could not meet the conditions for attacking from every city gate at the same time, not to mention that there was a Yangtze River across the west of Nanjing City.
According to Zhang Bingzhen's opinion, Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, focused the attack on the upper gate and the Gaoqiao gate.
The upper gate is a water gate, which lies on the Qinhuai River, that is to say, as long as the upper gate is broken, you can follow the Qinhuai River to the inner city gate of Nanjing.
The Gaoqiao Gate leads directly to the Zhengyang Gate, the Zhengyang Gate is the main gate of Nanjing City, and the six departments and the five military governors are all in the Zhengyang Gate, and the Zhengyang Gate is also the closest to the Imperial City, that is to say, as long as the Gaoqiao Gate and the Zhengyang Gate are broken, the Imperial City can be broken at the shortest distance.
The Tongji Gate is also not far from the Zhengyang Gate, and it is also the closest city gate to the Governor's Mansion of the Six Ministries and the Five Armies and the Imperial City.
Therefore, it can be seen that, theoretically, the rebels such as Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, attacked the city of Nanjing.
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