As soon as Ao Ye's first division disembarked, the cavalry battalion immediately dispersed the stragglers on the outskirts of Nanjing. The remaining large forces did not delay at all, and went straight to the Purple Mountain according to the predetermined plan. There, he can cut off Wen Tiren, Ma Shiying, and Ruan Dacheng's inescapable pathway. Now these people are the heads of the Yongli Imperial Court, as long as they kill them, the Southern Ming Imperial Court will be leaderless.

It is also expected that the entire Jiangnan will be passed on, and Sun Chengzong and Li Xiao do not plan to fight city by city. It's always good to have fewer deaths!

After the Second Division landed, it directly stuck to the west of Nanjing. The first division and one regiment of Nie Dahu occupied Qixia Mountain, and the two divisions formed a joint encirclement of Jinling City in just one day.

Jinling is the ancient name of Nanjing, and it is also the most elegant nickname of Nanjing. King Xiong Shang of Chuwei built Jinling Yi in Stone City, and the name of Jinling originated from this. Emperor Wu Sun Quan built his capital here, and Jinling rose from then on, making China's political center out of the pattern of the Yellow River cultural plate, leading the development of the Yangtze River basin and the entire southern China, and has long been the political, economic and cultural center of southern China. During the Six Dynasties, Jinling had 280,000 households and a population of more than one million, making it the first city in the world with a population of more than one million, and it was also the economic, cultural, political and military center of China during the Six Dynasties, and the largest city in the world at that time.

Jinling is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, with a history of more than 7,000 years of civilization, nearly 2,000 years of city history and nearly 500 years of history of the founding of the capital, has blessed the Zhengshuo of China several times in history, is the only ancient capital of the four ancient capitals of China that has not been the capital of foreign powers, is regarded as the revival of the Han nationality, has a special status and value in Chinese history, and has a far-reaching impact on the course of Chinese history.

Now this ancient name that has blessed China for thousands of years is filled with a smoke of gunpowder.

The army of the user Wen Tiren and the army of Ma Shiying fought fiercely under the city of Jinling for more than a month, because both sides had a large number of firearms troops. At the same time, there are a large number of cold weapon troops, so this fierce battle has different cruelty of the two wars.

Corpses can be seen everywhere under the city wall, in various trenches, and on the Qinhuai River. Some of the carcasses were in tattered tatters by fish and shrimp bites, and the condition was terrible.

"Click" Li Xiao stepped on a crab, and just saw a corpse with a lot of crabs lying on his stomach, and he was not even afraid of people. Li Xiao felt extremely disgusted by this thing, and his mother would never eat crabs again in the future.

In the distance, there was smoke in Jinling City, and the city was full of fire. Seeing that the beautiful land of Jinling in the south of the Yangtze River was plagued like this, Li Xiao's heart began to be irritable.

Wen Tiren, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng. They are actually politicians in their bones, and there is an essential difference between politicians and politicians. Politicians are selfish people at heart, and they have been acting all their lives. Everything they do is for their own benefit!

Politicians naturally have a sense of family and country in their chests, and they can even sacrifice themselves at critical moments. And politicians can't do it at all, if they are made desperate, there is only one situation, and that is profit.

The huge Jinling City was surrounded by the first and second divisions. The current Liao army division is not the previous Liao army division, and the previous Liao army division was only more than 9,000 people. The current 1st and 2nd Divisions have undergone training in Shandong, and many Jiangnan Forbidden Army and Shandong recruits have been added.

Shandong, a province with a large population, is simply a natural source of soldiers, and it is too easy to select tens of thousands of troops out of tens of millions of people. Sun Chengzong temporarily formed several reserve divisions, all of which were old-fashioned firearms captured from the Nanjing Forbidden Army.

The main task of these reserve divisions is not to fight, but to maintain local law and order.

Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Anhui, and some places in Jiangsu that were taken over from Nanming were very poor because of perennial wars. These reserve divisions have gone and can effectively control local security. The bandits' little equipment is completely incomparable to that of the reserve division.

There can be thirty or fifty guns in hand, and among the bandits, it is called an elite army.

With the first and second divisions, there were three reserve divisions. These three divisions do not have the main combat mission, and their main task is to guard and maintain local law and order.

An army of more than 60,000 people added up to besiege Jinling City alive. Wen Tiren, Ma Shiying, and Ruan Dacheng are all in this encirclement. There are Li Xiu's warships cruising on the Yangtze River, and the Jinling section of the Yangtze River is forbidden to sail on the whole line. Except for the Liao ships, the other ships will be sunk if they appear on the water.

As the first two divisions in the Liao Army, they are the oldest and spicy. Ao Ye's 1st Division and Yuan Chonghuan's 2nd Division were the strongest in the Liao Army, because they had the most officers who had participated in actual combat.

When Ao Ye was just inserted into the Purple Mountain, he often encountered the marksmen of the Nanjing Forbidden Army. But where Ao Ye's first division is like the raw melons and eggs like the third division, he has to rely on the mastiffs in Liaodong to search. These things are all leftovers from playing with Tartars.

The eyes of those battalion commanders were more poisonous than the sun in the sky, and they looked around with telescopes. Wherever someone estimates, eight or nine are not far from ten, and the mortar shells are very accurate. Arms and thighs often fly out of suspicious places, so that all kinds of rumors are circulating in the Nanjing Forbidden Army. It is said that there are people in the Liao army who raise ghosts, and they can scatter ghosts on the battlefield to investigate.

Soon, someone came up with a way to deal with the Liao army, and then went to the battlefield after drenching the child's urine on his body, which was said to be an effective way to avoid the imps released by the Liao army.

As a result, it is conceivable that those guys who were carefully selected to have accurate marksmanship walked into the Purple Mountain with their capable guys after being drenched in children's urine.

And then......! Then there was that, and they were found by Liao soldiers who were experienced in sniping. Ao Ye's first division has always been arrogant, and as long as there is a suspicious place, they will all use shells to search for it.

Even if there is no direct hit, a mortar shell falling next to it can shock a person to vomit blood.

In just three days, Ma Shiying's carefully selected sharpshooters were exhausted. And the casualties they brought to the Liao army were only a dozen people.

Since then, Ma Shiying and Wen Tiren have let go of their prejudices. They are stationed in the east and west of Jinling, and the well water does not interfere with the river water. Get ready to deal with a common enemy, Liao soldiers!

Ao Ye occupied the Purple Mountain as his headquarters, and he also scrapped his old nose to get a few copper cannons. The reserve division quickly established a supply line, and they were almost useless against the forbidden army in Nanjing. It is still enough to deal with Nanming's stragglers with cold weapons.

After a long battle with the Tartars, Ao Ye's first division already knew the importance of occupying the high ground. Whoever occupies the heights of the heights can shell to a greater distance with the help of the height of the heights, and with the help of the parabolic principle. At the same time, the better the view of the artillery observation post.

In the past two days, the strongholds outside Nanjing were named by the artillerymen one by one. The artillery fire of the Nanjing Forbidden Army wanted to return fire, but the range was not comparable to that of others. On the contrary, because of the shelling, the artillery position was exposed, and as a result, it was terminated by the artillery regiment of the 1st Division.

Yuan Chonghuan's side was also frantically compressing the living space of the Jiangnan Forbidden Army. In just four days, there was no stronghold of the Southern Ming army on the outskirts of Jinling.

This is the first time that Li Xiao has concentrated two divisions to attack a city. The opponent was the Nanjing Forbidden Army, which was far inferior in strength to the Liao Army, plus many soldiers who could only defend themselves with swords.

After bombarding the strongholds outside the city, Ao Ye's first division began to bombard the Nanming army on the city wall. Although because of the distance, the accuracy is much worse. But the ferocious shelling still made the Nanjing Forbidden Army dare not go up the city wall again.

"Let Ao Ye continue to feint and attack the city wall in the south, and the regiment of the second division will continue to attack the west gate. One division and one regiment attacked the east gate in the east, and our main attack was in the north. The stick in Li Xiao's hand gestured back and forth on the map. But what he said shocked everyone. The north gate faces the Yangtze River, and it can be said that the shock positions are all covered by enemy artillery fire.

The attacking troops were exposed on the beachhead, and the casualties were ......! Yuan Chonghuan, who had a bad premonition, felt sore when he thought about it.

"Dashuai, North Gate!"

"Yes, it's the North Gate. The attacking force at the North Gate was all the Marines, plus all the 2nd and 3rd Regiments of the 2nd Division. The walls of Jinling are very thick, and our artillery is not easy to blow up. The heavy rocket artillery of the navy continued to bombard, which could effectively suppress the artillery fire on the Jinling city wall.

The feint attack on Ao Ye's side should be fierce, and try to lead the defenders to the south. At the same time, both east and west, do not let the enemy army idle. In this way, the garrison of the north gate will be undermanned, coupled with the bombardment of heavy rocket artillery. We will definitely be able to break through the Jinling City defense in the north and enter Jinling City. You can shoot at anyone who is hostile to you, remember.

You have entered a city with a population of one million, and the people in it have no good opinion of us. Anyone who deliberately attacks you is your enemy, from eighty old women to three-year-old urchins. Whoever has the intention of attacking you is your enemy.

Got it! Li Xiao made a final explanation with a gloomy face.

All the officers present gasped, what is the most in the army? Kill!

In the past, when attacking cities, they were all rigorous and random to shoot and kill. Now that the ban has been lifted, how much murder will this gang create. Hasn't the marshal always paid attention to civilian casualties? What's going on today?

"Didn't understand?" Li Xiao's stern eyes glanced at the officers and officers present.

"No!" was glanced at by Li Xiao's chainsaw-like eyes, and everyone, including Ao Ye and Yuan Chonghuan, bowed their heads and agreed.

A room of large and small killings dispersed, and Li Xiu handed Li Xiao a bowl of water. "Big brother, your last order may increase the casualties of civilians a lot."

"Brother! The army we are now surrounding on the outskirts of Jinling is only 58,000 people, not counting your naval army. Among them, three divisions were newly formed and had very poor combat effectiveness, and they did not even have two mortars.

And this Jinling City has a population of more than one million. Moreover, after Wen Tiren and their instigation for a long time, the people have a deep prejudice against our Liao army. In the event of a situation where the whole people resist our Liao army, it will be too late to give orders at that time.

On weekdays, I pay attention to protecting the common people, but this time I hope that my soldiers can survive as much as possible. There are many of them in public, and they have been following our brothers to fight the world since Liaodong. After this battle, there will not be many battles in the future. The days of peace are coming, and I hope that each of them will be able to marry a wife and have children, and live happily for the rest of their lives.

And not in the last great war, because the bondage of military discipline was taken out by a group of people who were blinded to their minds. In this way, I am so sorry for them. Second brother, I don't want the people of Jinling to shed a river of blood, and at the same time, I don't want my soldiers to be dead on the streets. Can...... It's hard to have it both ways! Li Xiao sighed and patted Li Xiu's shoulder.

Li Xiao clearly remembered in his mind that in a large-scale turmoil in the imperial capital. The army could not defend itself because of the limitations of military discipline, and as a result, many soldiers lost their lives in this way. After an ensign officer was burned to death, brutal gangsters broke open his stomach and pulled out his intestines. In the division in which Li Xiao once served, a soldier was killed and burned, and then his body was transferred to the bridge for public display.

This kind of thing must not happen in one's own army, which is an organ of violence. An army that can't even protect itself, what is it called? Between the death of the enemy or the death of his own soldiers, Li Xiao can only choose to protect his soldiers.

"Not really......!"

"Wen Tiren, Ma Shiying, and Ruan Dacheng have done a lot of homework. They described us as beasts of the flood, which is very likely to happen, and I had to take precautions. ”

"Alright! Everything that listens to the eldest brother, as long as someone attacks us. I will order someone to fight back, whether the other party is an eighty-year-old woman or a three-year-old urchin. ”

"Don't think that the old woman has no combat effectiveness, a few old women kneel in front of you and cry. As a result, the mob took the opportunity to attack the soldiers behind, and there was once such a simple warrior who died in this situation. He died a terrible death! ”

"Big brother, when did that happen? How come I haven't heard of it? Li Xiu thought about it for a long time, but he didn't think of such a thing.

"Forget it! Don't talk about this, prepare more heavy rocket artillery. Be sure to cut the walls of Jinling, and how many fewer people can die on the beachhead depends on whether you can blow up the walls as soon as possible. Li Xiao drank the cold white in the bowl in one gulp.

"That's no problem, the walls of Jinling are very thick. However, if it is hit continuously by heavy rocket artillery, it will also quickly collapse. That's no problem! "Li Xiu is still very confident in his heavy rocket artillery.

"Alright, get your Marines ready. They were the first to attack the northern wall! ”

PS: I know this chapter can be controversial, but the unit I served in was part of the operation to quell the unrest. I've heard a lot of stories from veterans, and I've listened to them. I feel that this is a great army, and it has been, is, and will be a great army. God bless China! We will have such an army!

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