On the eighth day of March in the tenth year of Chongzhen, the day of the wind and the sun were beautiful.

On the morning of this day, on the Dinghuai Gate by the Yangtze River, Yu Shirui, the guard of the Dinghuai Gate, was inspecting the city defense facilities, when suddenly his soldiers pointed to the Yangtze River and shouted: "Look, general! ”

Yu Shirui looked at it fixedly, and his brows immediately furrowed.

I saw thousands of sails sailing across the Yangtze River, and the entire river was blocked by warships.

In particular, one of the flagships, which was more than ten zhang in size, was equipped with large guns on both sides of the hull.

The banner of the King of Han with black letters on a yellow background was hung on the ship, and seeing this battle, Yu Shirui understood that the biggest anti-thief King Han of the Ming Dynasty had finally arrived.

"Come on, prepare artillery, bomb the damn!"

The Han king's visit to the front line in Nanjing gave the Han army an unprecedented boost in morale.

The soldiers are sharpening their knives, preparing to take the city of Nanjing and make meritorious contributions.

Mo Qian was about to sail across the Yangtze River on a warship, and he wanted to observe the outer city of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty.

Standing on the boat, holding a diorama, Mo Qian saw the majestic high wall and the armored soldiers standing on the city wall.

Looking at the appearance of the city defense, Mo Qian knew that the Nanjing garrison was planning to make a stubborn defense.

As the largest capital city in ancient Chinese history, Nanjing City is the largest capital city in ancient Chinese history.

The population of the city is also large, and the population has exceeded one million in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, making it a world metropolis.

In the face of such a huge city, Mo Qian also had to sigh in his heart the power of the ancients, Zhu Yuanzhang set the capital of Nanjing, and indeed made Nanjing a little too good.

The towering city walls will be the most valuable historical property in 400 years.

Mo Qian asked everyone behind him: "Let's talk about it, what is the way to fight this Nanjing City?" ”

Shi Kefa, who came with the army, was the first to stand up and say: "King, Nanjing City can only be outwitted, not attacked, our army is small, the number of Ming troops is not lower than our army, if it is attacked, it will definitely suffer heavy casualties, if you want to break the city, you can only outwit." ”

"What the constitution says is extreme, what method do you have to outwit?"

Shi Kefa said: "The city wall of Nanjing is towering, ordinary ladders can not climb at all, even if it is at this moment to make a lengthened ladder, can be erected to the mouth of the city wall, but the number of our army is equivalent to the Ming army in the city, since ancient times, the defenders of the city have occupied an innate advantage, if the king sends troops to attack, the timing is in vain."

If you want to break the city, you need to win by surprise, Weichen knows that the king has a trump card army in his hands, called the firearms battalion, and the artillery and explosives in the firearms battalion are the best in the world.

The Yifeng Gate in the north of the city is on the side of the mountain, and the king can transfer all the main forces of our army to the south, and storm the Jubao Gate in the south all day long, which is located on the west side of the Daxiao field, which can accommodate 100,000 troops to gain a foothold.

The king said that the handsome flag was placed outside the Jubao Gate, and he did not stop for a moment at twelve o'clock a day, making a state of attacking the city with all his might, and then secretly sent soldiers of the firearms battalion to dig a tunnel outside the Yifeng Gate in the north of the city, and put a huge amount of gunpowder in the tunnel under the city.

After the king attracted the attention of the defenders in the city outside the Jubao Gate, he suddenly ordered the soldiers of the firearms battalion to ignite the explosives, which will definitely blow up a gap outside the Yifeng Gate, so that our army can go straight into the city, and Nanjing will be at your fingertips! ”

After listening to Shi Kefa's plan, Mo Qian couldn't help but be surprised in his heart, he couldn't imagine that the siege method of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would be actually thought up by him two hundred years later.

I have to say that this method is the best and most practical at present, the city wall of Nanjing is too tall, and the possibility of taking it by force is too low.

If you want to break the city, you must take it by surprise and use a method that the Ming army can't think of.

"Okay, according to the plan of the constitution, I will order all the armies, except for the firearms battalion, to go outside the Jubaomen and pull the three hundred cannons to the south of the city!"

"Yes!"

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were mobilized, and it was impossible to hide the eyes of the defenders in the city.

Soon the Ming army defending the city saw that a large number of Han troops were heading to Nancheng, and Chen Guangyu, who got the news, heard that Mo Qian had pulled the main force outside the Jubao Gate, and he did not dare to be careless at the moment, and immediately mobilized heavy troops to go to the Jubao Gate.

When transferring troops, Deputy Fan Wenjing said to Chen Guangyu: "Master Hou, you can't transfer all the troops to Jubaomen to defend the city, and the rest of the gates must also leave troops and horses to defend the city!" ”

Chen Guangyu nodded, and he said, "Then the rest of the gates, each leave a thousand soldiers and horses to guard the city." ”

There are thirteen city gates in Nanjing, and the thirteen gates alone share as many as tens of thousands of soldiers and horses defending the city.

There is also an imperial city in the city, and at least 10,000 people are needed to defend the city in the imperial city, otherwise once there are thieves in the city to make trouble and disturb the palace, it will be easy for big things to happen.

With such a division of troops, Chen Guangyu had less than 50,000 soldiers and horses available in his hands.

With these 50,000 horses, most of them are provincial soldiers from Zhejiang, Chen Guangyu actually doesn't want to use these guards in his heart.

The year before last, the imperial court ordered the governor of Zhejiang to send 10,000 troops to Jiangxi to quell the rebellion.

As a result, Zhejiang's guards and horses went to Yushan County because there was no grain and grass, and directly robbed the people in Guangxin, and started banditry, this kind of banditry directly inspired the local people to rebel, and Zhang Puwei's demon road took advantage of this time to start an incident.

Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng was still quite powerful, and he quickly pacified the demon rebellion, but this Zhejiang soldier did not listen to orders, and the reputation of liking to rob houses has spread.

If it weren't for the fact that there were no soldiers available in Nanjing, Chen Guangyu really didn't want to transfer Zhejiang soldiers and horses into the city, in case these grandsons made trouble in the city because of a trivial matter, then Nanjing would really be over.

Chen Guangyu left his most trusted 10,000 officers and soldiers in the palace to defend the siege.

All 20,000 Zhejiang soldiers were transferred to the outside of Jubaomen, ready to fight to the death with the Han army, and by the way, let the Han army consume the strength of this group of Zhejiang soldiers.

After some arrangement, the troops and horses from all walks of life were soon assembled.

On the ninth day of the first month of March, Mo Qian personally sat outside the Jubao Gate, and lined up the three hundred artillery pieces he bought from the Portuguese outside the city gate.

Mo Qian glanced at the height of the sun, turned to Peng Jinhong and said, "Don't wait, let's start!" ”

"Yes!"

Three hundred artillery pieces fired at the same time, the sound of cannons resounded in the sky, and the Zhejiang soldiers on the city wall of Jubaomen only felt that the earthquake shook the mountain, and the entire city wall was shaking.

The shells rained down like a deadly fire, and in a short time the soldiers defending the city suffered heavy casualties, and more than 400 people died from the shelling.

Although this kind of cannon is still solid, but it is a real iron lump, this thing hits people either dead or injured, where have the guards and horses in Zhejiang seen this kind of artillery, they have seen the largest caliber artillery is only half the size.

The shelling lasted for half an hour, and the towers on the walls of Jubaomen were all destroyed, and in this way, the Han army did not stop the shelling, but continued to open fire.

Chen Guangyu hid in a safe corner and shouted loudly to the general soldiers from Zhejiang: "Quick, tell your people to shoot back at me immediately!" ”

"Fight back?"

Hearing this order, the chief soldier scolded his mother, this Chen Guangyu really didn't feel sorry for the soldiers and horses under his command.

The more than 20,000 people brought by Gu Collapse are all Zhejiang soldiers, and now the artillery outside the city is so fierce, at this time, to open fire, it is no different from sending them to death.

Li Ze, the chief soldier, wanted to scold people, he had just taken up the position of the chief soldier of Zhejiang, but he didn't expect that his butt was not hot, so he was pulled to Nanjing by an order.

Li Ze was a general who had robbed the people in the Yushan area before, and this time because the Zhejiang general army was too old, he was retired by Chongzhen, and he took over the position of the general army.

Things are sometimes so strange, instead of being condemned and condemned by the imperial court, the generals who set up arson and plundered the people were promoted.

The main reason is that Li Zehui will come to the incident, and he spent money to buy off the officials of the Donglin Party in the imperial court and exonerate him.

The officials of the Donglin Party had a very strong ability to move their mouths, not only helped Li Ze to absolve his crimes, but the matter of robbing the people turned into exterminating the thieves in the Guangxin area.

The people of Guangxin were slandered by the officials of the Donglin Party as Wuwei Christians, and Zhang Puwei just rebelled in Guangxin in the name of Wuwei Religion, and this basin was directly buckled on the collapsed head.

Chongzhen didn't know the details of Guangxin, and really thought that Li Ze was suppressing bandits in the Yushan area, and as soon as he was happy, he made an order to retire the old general soldier, and he, a general, was promoted to the general soldier of Zhejiang.

Li Ze didn't expect to be blessed by misfortune and spend some money, not only was he not guilty, but he was also promoted.

Li Ze was just overjoyed, but he immediately received a holy decree ordering him to lead troops to support Nanjing.

Li Ze did not dare to resist the order, so he could only come to Nanjing with 20,000 soldiers and horses, but he was just used as cannon fodder by Chen Guangyu and stayed on the treasure gate to defend the city.

Li Ze is not a fool, how can he not see that Chen Guangyu wants to use them Zhejiang people as cannon fodder.

Looking at the fierce artillery outside the city, Li Ze began to ponder in his heart.

The current general trend of the world is obviously changing, and the Ming Dynasty doesn't need to look at it to know that it is about to die.

The Han kings of Wuchang occupied three provinces, and once Nanjing was captured, then Zhejiang and Fujian would become the turtle in the urn, and sooner or later it would also be the chassis of the Han king.

As the chief soldier of Zhejiang, all the old and young are in Hangzhou, and his subordinates are a group of Zhejiang people's soldiers, if you fight to the death with the king of Han in Nanjing today, and the king of Han occupies Nanjing and goes to Hangzhou, then his whole family is not dangerous?

At this time, when he heard Chen Guangyu's order to fire back, Li Ze began to think a little cautiously.

Half an hour later, the shelling finally stopped, Chen Guangyu saw this and quickly ordered the soldiers to go to the city, as soon as the shelling stopped, the Han army was about to attack the city.

Sure enough, as soon as the shelling stopped, the Han army rushed towards the city gate like a tsunami.

Mo Qian looked at the fierce battle on the city, although he was not shocked on the surface, but his heart was dripping blood.

These soldiers were all brought by him in Jiangxi and Huguang, and for the sake of his imperial hegemony, these soldiers can be said to have made great efforts.

For the sake of his personal dynasty, the world does not know how many people have to pay with their lives.

What Mo Qian can do at this time is to seize the time to quickly end this troubled era, destroy the Ming Dynasty, destroy Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, and give the Chinese people a time to rest and recuperate.

Give him three years, five years at most, and he is sure that he will be able to unify China again, and when the time comes, he will have the ability to wrestle with the Huangtai extreme version outside the Guan.

For the Tartars outside the Guan, all the children of the Han nationality do not have much good impression of this dynasty.

This dynasty is simply a shame in history, losing power and humiliating the country, betraying sovereignty, and ignoring the people of the world for the benefit of a group of royal families, it is simply a heinous crime.

Although the Ming Dynasty was also very corrupt and dark, at least it did not betray its sovereignty like them, and Chongzhen did not flee from Beijing because of fear until his death, and truly achieved the death of the Son of Heaven for Sheji.

For Chongzhen, Mo Qian was sympathetic in his heart, saying that he was a faint king, but of course Mo Qian did not approve of it.

He just has the ability to put it there, and the pure ability is not enough, so at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there is no other way than to overturn and start over.

Mo Qian redistributed all social resources, received land resources in his hands, and then distributed them to the people, so that although he did not know how many years of peace he could manage, he could at least ensure peaceful development for one or two hundred years.

The next 1200 years will be a great change in the world pattern, and if we can't catch up with this train, China will also be controlled by others in the next 5 or 600 years.

Mo Qian, who already had a goal in his heart, began to harden his bowels again at this time.

He couldn't just look at those dead soldiers and give up this desire to build a new world, relying on the lives that had always been piled up.

For these soldiers who died in battle, what he can do is to give their families a good future and give him enough honor.

While thinking about it, the siege war entered a white-hot stage.

The Han soldiers climbed the ladder to climb the city wall without fear of death, but were soon killed and retreated by the Ming army.

In just a quarter of an hour, the Han army suffered more than 500 casualties, and Mo Qian saw that the strong attack could not be done, so he immediately ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

The besieging Han army retreated like a tide again.

"King, it's not good to attack, if we fight like this, we will die in vain!" Peng Jinhong couldn't bear to say.

"The widow knows, at the moment we still have to pull the soldiers of the guards of the city over, the more lively the fighting here, the safer the north."

Hearing this, Peng Jinhong knew that Mo Qian had made up his mind, so he stopped persuading him.

In the afternoon, the Han army launched another siege, this time leaving another 300 corpses, and the city of Nanjing remained unmoved.

In the evening, Chen Guangyu looked at the smoking Han army camp and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Today, the Han siege is very urgent, if it weren't for General Li's troops fighting hard to kill the enemy, Nanjing would be in danger."

Li Ze thanked him and said: "Master Hou praised it falsely, this is just a matter of humble duty."

Chen Guangyu said: "You have worked hard, this official has ordered someone to prepare meat for the soldiers to eat, please ask General Li to motivate his soldiers more, there will be a hard battle tomorrow!" ”

"Yes!"

Back in the guard's house under the city, Li Ze's face turned black into black charcoal.

"Hmph, Brother Lao Tzu has killed more than a thousand people, and he doesn't have a word of comfort on his face, it's just unkind!"

Hearing Li Ze scolding, Bai Yousong, the deputy general next to him, said: "Dashuai, does the person surnamed Chen want us to do it again?" ”

"That guy didn't say anything, just said that he prepared some meat for our brothers, Vice General Bai, can the brothers eat meat for dinner?"

Bai Yousong said angrily: "What meat?" I didn't see a single piece of flesh. ”

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