As long as Hong Chengchou is killed and Sanshanmen is captured, it means that the entire city of Nanjing will be taken down, and without Hong Chengchou's central command, the thousands of Janissaries and tens of thousands of people in the inner city of Nanjing are just a plate of scattered sand.

In the face of such a temptation, Xu Fuju was naturally very moved.

Unlike other generals, Xu Fuzuo was born in Yuan Chonghuan's Chinese army, was most trusted by Yuan Chonghuan, and was Yuan Chonghuan's real confidant. Other generals may have the desire to retain their strength, and they will cower in the face of a hard battle, afraid of sacrifice. But Xu Fujuan knew that he was already tied to Yuan Chonghuan, and if Yuan Chonghuan was defeated, he would never end well.

Almost instantly, Xu Fuju clearly judged the benefits and losses, and then made a decision to storm the Sanshan Gate!

As long as the Sanshan Gate is captured, it doesn't matter if the 3,000 elite soldiers in his hands are lost!

"Siege!" Pointing to the stairs in front of him, Xu Fu shouted loudly.

"Kill!" Following his order, his soldiers swarmed up and climbed the stairs towards the city walls.

Xu Fuzuo's subordinates are all from Yuan Chonghuan's standard battalion, and their personal combat strength may not be as good as Zhao Zhilong's subordinates, but their cooperation with each other is originally better than Zhao Zhilong's department.

The sword and shield men were in front, blocking the fire from the walls with their heavy shields, the pikemen followed closely behind, and the archers lined up below the city, throwing waves of arrows into the walls.

With the addition of the new force, Zhao Zhilong's subordinates breathed a sigh of relief, and took the initiative to stand sideways on the side of the stairs to make way for the new force to attack the city.

"General Xu, there are not many defenders in these three mountain gates, according to my estimate, there are at most 100 people, and the rest are people who don't know how to fight." Zhao Zhilong came to Xu Fuzhuo's side and introduced his observations.

From the time he led his troops into Sanshanmen Urn City to the present, he has only encountered several rounds of firecrackers, and the firepower looks very sparse. If the number of defenders was large enough, they could attack from the four city walls, and with a condescending advantage, his two hundred families would have been defeated long ago.

Xu Fuzuo nodded, agreeing with Zhao Zhilong's introduction, because until now, the defenders had not shown a strong offensive. And his soldiers had already climbed halfway up the stairs, and in a few moments they would be able to reach the city wall and engage the defenders on the wall directly.

"If you win this battle, you ...... Yicheng Bo"

Xu Fuzuo turned his head and said at Zhao Zhilong, but as soon as he was halfway through the words, a change protruded!

I saw that countless torches suddenly lit up on the walls around the urn city, and then a ball of fireball was suddenly pushed down from the four city walls, and the sparks splashed and fell on the ground in the urn city, and then it was bounced up by the ground, and then rolled on the ground of the urn city. The soldiers who entered the urn city were frightened, and one by one screamed to dodge the flying fireballs. However, the length and width of the urn city are less than twenty zhang, but there are more than 1,000 soldiers crowded, and they are already very crowded, so where do they hide?

Some soldiers happened to be hit by the fireball on the top of their heads, their hair and clothes were suddenly set on fire, screaming to put out the fire, but they were surrounded by companions, and there was no room to roll.

There were more than a dozen fireballs, each the size of a millstone, rolling in the urn city, and the flames that swallowed it illuminated the entire urn city space, and the soldiers in the urn city screamed and cried, trying to dodge the incoming fireballs, but there was nowhere to go.

"Uncle Yicheng, is this what you said about the empty strength of the defenders and unprepared?" Xu Fuxuan said angrily.

"I, I, I ......" Zhao Zhilong couldn't speak anymore, in this situation, the defenders were obviously prepared, and the reason why they let go of the city gate to let them in seemed to be to trap themselves.......

"Withdraw, withdraw!" Seeing this situation, Xu Fuzuo no longer thought that he could capture Sanshan City, and took the lead in running towards the city gate. Since Hong Chengchou has set up an ambush, it is better to take the thirty-six plan as the upper plan.

Zhao Zhilong's face changed, and he also ran away, not caring about greeting his subordinates at all.

"Boom" "Boom"

However, at this moment, several 10,000 enemies were suddenly thrown from the wall on the upper part of the city gate, and they landed and exploded one after another, and the thieves fled so that a large area was blown up. One of the 10,000 enemies landed right between Xu Fuzuo and Zhao Zhilong, and the shock wave of the explosion overturned the two people, Zhao Zhilong's body flew through the air and landed heavily in the urn city, with blood holes everywhere all over his body, and blood kept gushing out from his mouth and nose.

"Save me......" Zhao Zhilong was not dead for a while, and shouted weakly, but even his subordinates didn't care about him at the moment, and they all fled out of the city on their own.

Xu Fuzhuo's situation was better than Zhao Zhilong's, he wore heavy armor in order to siege the city, and the armor blocked most of the shrapnel, only a few shrapnel penetrated the armor and shot into his back, but it didn't shoot deeply. Xu Fu got up from the ground with his hands and feet, trying to escape from the city, but the inside and outside of the city gate was very crowded.

Of his 3,000 subordinates, more than 1,000 followed him into the urn city, and the rest were blocked outside the city and prepared to enter the city. One side wanted to enter the city, and the other side had to retreat when attacked, and the two sides crowded inside and outside the city gate.

"Retreat, retreat!" Xu Fuju shouted, but the shouting was muffled by the sound of an explosion, and not many people could hear it at all.

In fact, by now, the thieves outside the city who were waiting to enter the city had already noticed that something was wrong, but Xu Fuzuo took the lead in attacking the city, and they didn't know what to do without command. The standard camp training that Yuan Chonghuan trained was quite well-trained, and they did not dare to evacuate without the order of the commander.

Fortunately, someone helped them make a choice, looking at the situation inside and outside the urn city, looking at the thousands of thieves crowded inside and outside the urn city, the defenders of the city did not hesitate to attack.

"Bang ......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

On the city wall, the fire was in full swing, with firearms, 10,000 enemies, and the few artillery pieces that were the only ones were all fired, shooting projectiles at the defenseless thief army under the city.

And the people on the city wall were not idle, they carried the rattan balls filled with firewood and grass and poured fire oil on the city wall, lit them with torches, and then pushed down the city wall, and then the burning fireballs fell into the panicked thief army, and the thieves burned the ghosts and howled wolves.

Other people threw the bricks and stones on the city wall and threw them down the city, condescendingly smashing the heads of the thieves under the city wall and bleeding their corpses all over the ground.

Hong Chengchou stood at the head of the city and looked indifferently at the miserable situation of the thieves under the city, with a faint smile on his face.

In this battle, from the time Zhao Zhilong led the troops into the urn city, the result was already doomed.

As long as you enter the urn city, no matter how strong the enemy's combat power is, it will not be good to go under siege from all sides.

Zhao Zhilong is bold, it is not enough to open the east gate of the river to let the thief army enter the city, but he actually thinks of using the same method to help the thief army take the Sanshan Gate, it is really a pipe dream!

The roar of firearms and screams sounded one after another, and there was a fire inside and outside the Sanshan Gate, and in the urn city, countless thieves fled in embarrassment by the fireballs, and they also had to face the attack of the defenders in the city.

By the time the roar and screams had died down, the battle was over, and the sky was dawning. In addition to the fleeing rout, there were already corpses in the urn city, and at a cursory glance, at least a thousand corpses remained inside and outside the urn city.

The people began to go down to the city to clean up the urn city and reclose the gate outside the urn city. The rope of the suspension bridge on the Qinhuai River was cut off by the thief army, and the suspension bridge could not be recovered, and Hong Chengchou didn't pay attention to it.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the corpse of Yicheng Bo Zhao Zhilong has been found in the urn city!" Suddenly, a subordinate came down to report.

"Behead the head and hang it outside the Sanshanmen Tower!" Hong Chengchou ordered. A person like Zhao Zhilong, who is disloyal and unrighteous and eats inside and outside, should hang his head at the city gate and quit for the latecomers!

"Dong Weng, Zhao Zhilong has colluded with the thief, what about the Yicheng Bofu in the city?" Zhao Yin asked.

"Give Chang Wu an order, and order Jinyi Wei to copy the Yicheng Bofu, and copy out the money and grain to reward the soldiers." Hong Chengchou was silent and gave a categorical order. It stands to reason that the raid of an earl's palace has exceeded his authority as a governor, but Zhao Zhilong naturally committed the crime of rebellion by fornicating with thieves, and in order to eliminate hidden dangers when defending the city, he should naturally raid his home and arrest his family first.

"Although Zhao Zhilong is a traitor, he still has vision." Looking at the people who were carrying the corpses in the urn city, Hong Chengchou said secretly.

The number of defenders of Sanshanmen is only more than 100, and even the people add up to no more than 1,000, which is really a weak force, and it is really the best time to take Sanshanmen. Of course, if Hong Chengchou wasn't here, he wouldn't have let Zhao Zhilong go like an urn city at all. And Hong Chengchou dared to let Zhao Zhilong and Xu Fuzhuo's army enter the city with a weak force, so he naturally had something to rely on.

In order to deal with the siege of the thief army, Hong Chengchou has made a lot of preparations in the past few days, the city wall is full of material defense, and the urn city can be condescending to attack the enemy army in the urn city from all sides, although there are only 100 defenders, Hong Chengchou is not afraid at all. Because he knew that he was not facing any elite soldiers, although Yuan Chonghuan had 200,000 people under his command, but in terms of the sophistication of the soldiers' elite weapons, they were far from being comparable to the standard camp Janissaries under his command.

Sure enough, only dozens of firecrackers blocked the stairs to the city, and when the people pushed down the fireballs prepared in advance into the urn city, the thieves who entered the city were suddenly in chaos, and the thieves knew that they had been ambushed and fled in a hurry, everything was as Hong Chengchou expected.

Although this battle only annihilated nearly 1,000 thief troops, which was a small amount compared to 200,000 thief troops, it was the first victory in defending the city, which could greatly improve the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

At this moment, the people of the city were talking about the battle in a whisper while working, and the nervousness of the enemy was no longer visible from their faces.

After rearranging the city defenses, Hong Chengchou left Sanshanmen and returned to the Governor's Palace.

Information kept coming, more than a dozen gates in the entire outer city were attacked by thieves, most of the city gates were attacked from the inside, the ministers and nobles who were responsible for defending the city surrendered one after another, and many city gates in the outer city have fallen one after another.

"Lord Governor, Chief Sailor Li led his troops to Dinghuai Gate and asked for reinforcements in the city!" As soon as I returned to the Governor's Palace, someone suddenly came to report.

"There is no need for reinforcements, please come to the Governor's Palace!" Hong Chengchou commanded.

Li Yanzhi commanded the sailors and stationed them at the Longjiang Shipyard, which was only seven or eight miles away from Sanshanmen. The anti-thief army attacked the outer city from Jiangdong Gate, and then there was a big battle in Sanshanmen, so naturally Li Yanzhi couldn't hide this situation. It's just that because it was night and his subordinates were sailors, Li Yanzhi didn't make the decision to send troops. It was not until after dawn that he personally landed on the shore and prepared to enter the city from Dinghuai Gate for reinforcements.

"Governor Hong!" Li Yanzhi soon came to the Governor's Mansion and saluted Hong Chengchou with his fists.

"Zhao Zhilong colluded with the anti-thieves to open the Jiangdong Gate, and the anti-thief army had already entered the outer city last night, and the outer city gates such as De'an Gate, Fengtai Gate, and Gaoqiao Gate had fallen one after another......" At Hong Chengchou's signal, Zhao Yin, a staff member, briefly introduced the military situation to Li Yanzhi.

"The outer city is very big, it is impossible for the thieves to take the entire outer city overnight, Lord Hong, the last general is willing to lead troops into the inner city to help the adults defend the city!" Li Yan hugged his fists. Hong Chengchou only had 4,000 elite soldiers in the standard battalion, but Yuan Chonghuan had nearly 200,000 troops, and the difference between the two sides was too great.

Hong Chengchou shook his head: "The strength to defend the inner city is enough, general, what you have to do now is not to bring troops into the inner city, but to strike a blow to the thief army in the outer city and contain the strength of the thief army, so that Yuan Chonghuan cannot attack the inner city safely." ”

Li Yanzhi has 7,000 Praetorian Guards under his command, plus more than 10,000 people from the original Caojiang Water Division, the strength is very strong, and if it is placed in the outer city, it can play a greater role.

"The last general knows what to do!" Li Yan nodded straightly.

.......

Jiangdongmen, looking at Xu Fuzhuan, who was kneeling in front of him covered in blood, Yuan Chonghuan frowned.

"Cabinet Department, it's that damn Zhao Zilong, knowing that it's a trap, still stupidly launched an attack on the defenders of Urn City, and the last general thought that he controlled Urn City, so he led the army to kill, and as a result, he fell for Hong Chengchou's tricks......." Xu Fuyu said about the battle, putting the blame on Zhao Zilong.

"What about Zhao Zilong?" Yuan Chonghuan asked lightly.

"The last general sent someone to check, but he didn't find him, Zhao Zilong should be trapped in Weng City..."

"Since Zhao Zhilong has been martyred, thinking that he opened the Jiangdong Gate for the army, the cabinet will still go to the prison country to ask for mourning for him." Yuan Chonghuan said.

Although Sanshanmen suffered a small setback, the battle still achieved a big victory, Jiangdong Gate, Fengtai Gate, Gaoqiao Gate, and the southwest side of the Nanjing Outer City Gate were taken successively, and the noble civil officials who guarded the gate surrendered one after another. At present, the general Song Jin is leading his army to attack the gates of other outer cities, and it will not take much time to take the entire outer city. But Yuan Chonghuan still couldn't see a smile on his face, and he didn't feel much happy because of the capture of the outer city.

Because Yuan Chonghuan knew that the reason why the war went so smoothly was that Hong Chengchou did it on purpose, and it was Hong Chengchou who drove the originally weak defenders of Nanjing to the outer city! Hong Chengchou even eliminated dissidents and drove all the noble civil officials who were hostile to him to the outer city to defend the city.

The war went so smoothly because neither the original defenders nor the civilian officials and nobles had any fighting spirit. In particular, the noble civil officials who were responsible for guarding the outer city, because of their hatred and fear of the emperor, had long wanted to take refuge in Zhu Yousong, the prison state, to rebuild a new imperial court.

However, this also makes it possible for Hong Chengchou to defend the city wholeheartedly in the inner city.

Although Hong Chengchou did not have many troops in his hands, Yuan Chonghuan knew that it would not be easy to capture the inner city.