The offensive and defensive battle of the city wall on the bank of the Qinhuai River was fought fiercely and bloody, although there was no hand-to-hand combat, but the two sides had already suffered a lot of casualties just in the frantic shooting of long-range weapons.

The morale of the soldiers of the defending army, under the personal presence of the Shi Cabinet Department to supervise the battle, and the encouragement of the scholars who helped the people in the war and washed away their shame, can be regarded as high.

The reason why this battle was still fought like this is that the hard quality and combat strength of the original Nanjing defenders were really low-

Nanjing is not the territory of Zhu Shuren's descendants, and Zhu Shuren has traveled for five and a half years, and he has not been able to reach out to the defense and military construction of Nanzhili. Although the water protection division controlled by the Shen family is elite and also belongs to Nanzhili, it is the navy, and it plays a greater role in other directions.

At least eighty percent of the garrison troops on the Nanjing side are still the Ming army built under the old system and the old arms support system, and they have not been blessed with new muskets, new armor and other equipment from the Huguang New Army. Relying on this kind of old army with little experience in battle formations will indeed perform poorly at first.

This is also something that can't be helped, because Zhu Shuren has crossed into a real and complex world, not the kind of system world where the loyalty of the protagonist's subordinates is opened. Zhu Shuren's strategy is to steal the Ming and make full use of the inheritance stability bonus brought by the legitimacy of the Ming, not to directly set off the imperial court system and start anew.

In this case, the rough dictatorial moves that the protagonists of the system world who lock loyalty can use, of course, Zhu Shuren can't use them. Even if he knew that a successful dictatorship would be able to build an army and farm more quickly.

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Even if his father-in-law became the emperor, even if Shi Kefa had a good relationship with him, he was only temporarily promoted from the governor of one province to the governor of three provinces, and he did not completely control everything in the Southern Ming Dynasty in one step.

Only when the Nanjing court experienced the crisis again, and then was rescued from the edge of the cliff by Zhu Shuren, there was a comparison, so that the people of the world and the ministers of the infighting were shocked and frightened, and the weak wavers were also purged, and they found that they could not play without Zhu Shuren, they could only choose between "either be killed, or absolutely listen to Zhu Shuren", and then give him the dictatorship of the court completely and obediently.

At that point, Zhu Shucai was able to reform and upgrade the armed forces of Nanzhili in a big way, and enjoyed a relatively high treatment like the Huguang Ming Army.

In fact, in the original history, the authorization scale of generals in the late Ming Dynasty also gradually increased as the situation slowly deteriorated. Originally, before Nanjing was lost, what was Zheng Chenggong? What is Li Dingguo? Can you absolutely say it yourself? It's simply impossible.

During the Hongguang Dynasty, Li Dingguo had no chance even if he wanted to Zhao'an, and it was impossible for Nanming to give him a name.

The imperial court armed forces of Nanzhili will not be willing to directly hand over all the military power to Zhu Shuren if they do not suffer a little.

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Of course, the marine forces around Nanjing are not completely out of the cracks. For example, Zhu Shuren used the border army of Liaodong and Jimen Ming Army, which Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong withdrew from the sea.

In addition to the Gao Jie Department, which had suffered a lot of losses before, there were also the men and horses of Li Fuming, the former Shanxi commander-in-chief, as well as some soldiers of Bai Guangen and Tang Tong (Bai Guangen and Tang Tong themselves surrendered to the enemy in the north, and some of their troops were fished back by Zhu Shuren from Wu Sangui)

They were the original border army of the nine sides, and their combat effectiveness was still okay, but their numbers only accounted for less than half of the troops defending Nanjing.

Early in the morning, at the beginning of the siege battle, Li Fuming's troops were not deployed on the wall section of the main attack of the Qing army, which caused the Ming army's defense to be somewhat chaotic. In the early afternoon, Shi Kefa finally completed all the dispatches, transferred Li Fuming's main force, and let Li Fuming serve as the commander of this defense area, and the situation soon improved.

As the bloody battle continued into the afternoon, more than 40 cannons concentrated by the Qing army repeatedly bombarded a section of the city wall, although the wall has not collapsed, but the large stones and blue bricks on the outer layer have already completely collapsed, and the female wall battlements in this section have also been completely destroyed. The top of the wall was bare and there was no cover, and the soldiers who blocked the gate could only defend themselves in iron armor and huge shields, and there was no place to hide at all.

Because the rammed earth inside the wall is easy to buffer and absorb energy, it is impossible to completely collapse. Even if it has endured the hard smashing of thousands of shells, at most it will only smash the higher parts above to peel off and collapse a little, but no matter how much Duoduo bombards, these wall sections can basically retain at least half of their height-

Don't be surprised by the solidity of the Nanjing city wall, after all, a considerable part of the Nanjing Ming city wall has been preserved until the 21st century, and the Japanese army also used modern artillery to bombard it during the Anti-Japanese War, and it did not completely collapse (but the Japanese mainly used a large number of Type 92 infantry to bombard ancient buildings, which had a very short diameter and could only be destroyed by blasting force.) If you use the siege artillery of the European theater during World War II, it is estimated that it can)

The wall by the Qinhuai River attacked by Duoduo was too high and thick, with a height of about six zhang, that is, 20 meters. The width of the top of the wall is 3 to 4 zhang, and the width of the bottom is 8 to 10 zhang. No matter how indiscriminate the bombardment is, it is impossible to directly flatten the 20-meter-thick earthen embankment, and at most it is to cut it shorter, and then hope that the collapsed soil will form a slope that is convenient for people to rush up.

Seeing that the bombardment was progressing more slowly than expected, Duoduo further used all the trench wagons and wooden donkeys at any cost, a total of hundreds of wooden donkeys, and thousands of soldiers nested in them to dig up the loose and falling earth.

And the Ming army's Franc machine is also crazy output for these siege equipment, every moment there are siege equipment that is blown up and destroyed, and the soldiers inside are wailing and dying, as miserable as ghosts.

In order to disperse the firepower of the Ming army, Duoduo originally did not plan to get on the ladder car and the flying ladder ant before breaking the wall, but now he can't take care of it, because of the rush of time, he only built a total of less than ten large ladder cars, and the rest are simple flying ladders.

Now it's not provincial, and all of them are piled up, just hoping to entangle the defenders on a few horse faces and corner towers of the Ming army, so that the soldiers on the battery can't fire with all their strength.

Seeing thousands of veterans of the Han Army Banner and hundreds of elite soldiers of the Eight Banners who were constantly dying under the city, Duoduo's heart was also constantly dripping blood, but he knew that this was the time to gamble on his life, and he couldn't be stingy.

The killing continued until the end of the day, and the shortest part of the wall that was bombarded by the Qing army was forcibly collapsed by two or three zhang high, but the remaining residue was still more than three zhang high, equivalent to ten meters.

However, Duoduo did not dare to count on more, because the thickness of the Nanjing wall was about five zhang (fifteen meters) when it was three zhang high. He didn't dare to expect that a solid iron ball cannonball could peel off such a thick part even lower.

Fortunately, the bloody battle continued until this time, and the wreckage of the wooden donkey cart left by the Qing army under the base of the city wall, the wreckage of the flying ladder, the excavated and turned pile, and the corpses of the soldiers had also piled up a pile of corpses that was almost two or three zhang high at the peak.

Considering that the thickness of a person's body is about seven or eight inches, more than twenty centimeters. One zhang can stack about fifteen people, and three zhang is almost forty.

If you know a little bit of elementary school math, you can use the ladder volume formula to bring in a little, and you will know that such a pile of corpses that can be flush with the remnant wall can only be piled up by at least more than 2,000 dead people, and then rammed by mud and other mutilation. And there is more than one such pile of corpses under the city walls!

Duoduo inadvertently beat the siege of Nanjing to the same shape as Hong Xiuquan's siege of Nanjing in the original history and more than 100 years later - the Taiping army of Hong Xiuquan in later generations was also weak in attack ability at the beginning, and when it encountered a life-and-death battle that required a desperate gamble, regardless of losses, it would often be a "corpse siege", that is, after the ants were attached to the broken wall, the corpses were piled up as high as the residue of the city wall, and the corpses of their comrades could rush to the wall directly.

In today's battle, when the battle progressed to the point where they could climb the slope by stepping on the corpse, the Manchurian inlaid white flags under the command of Duoduo had already killed a whole whole group of Jiala under the city, and even Jiala Zhangjing himself was killed.

Zhengbai Banner also had a Jia Lama who was disabled, and at least more than half of the soldiers were killed in battle, or seriously wounded and lost their combat effectiveness.

As for the Han Army Banner, the Mongolian Army Banner, and the New Annexed Army, it was even worse, and each side was at least a casualty at the level of the annihilation of the entire army of the full Jiala.

However, the effect of stepping on the corpse to attack the city is also very significant, although the Qing army still has to bear the disadvantage of attacking with low and high back, but it can be directly hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army.

The Nanjing Ming Army did not have as many new muskets as the Huguang New Army, nor did it have sophisticated shotguns, so it only relied on the side-firing fire of the Franc machine to bombard the crowd.

Each cannon harvested at least five or six lives, and at most seven or eight or even a dozen. However, the density of firepower is always a big problem, coupled with the limitation of the firing angle of the corner tower of the city wall, and at the same time, four or five Franc machines can just reach the point where the Qing army is trampling corpses and rushing into the city.

Li Fuming took the Shanxi border army that withdrew from the north with him, and fought to the death with the Qing army on the gap.

Anyone who participated in the blockage, Shen Ge Lao spoke, and before going to the wall, he first paid thirty taels of silver to settle in, whether he was dead or alive, and there was a bereavement pension in the event of casualties.

Those troops of the Shanxi General Army had never seen such good treatment in Liaodong before, so they naturally hated the same enemy and regarded death as home. The heavy armor of the Qing army's death squad was too strong, so the Ming army changed the spear and used heavy long soldiers such as four-edged copper guns to beat and smash (that is, a kind of hand holding part is round and wooden, but the parts of the two ends are four-edged wrapped in metal, which can be understood as a gold hoop stick with a square section)

Whenever the Qing army's double ironclad soldiers were hit, they also vomited blood again and again, and when they hit the helmet, their brains overflowed. It's just that the use of this kind of heavy weapon is more clumsy, and the physical exertion is also large, and the soldiers of the Ming army who are fighting for their lives with wide open and closed are also bloody and fall to the ground in this kind of smashing from time to time.

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The battle reached the level of hand-to-hand combat with corpses, and the scholars, traitors, relatives and friends who were originally ordered by Shi Kefa to come to the wall to prove their innocence were also bold.

Many protégés of Wang Duo and Qian Qianyi were old, and they dared to carry ammunition and throw wooden stones for the soldiers before the Qing army went to the wall. At this moment, it has reached the stage of hand-to-hand combat with flesh and blood, and some scholars were suddenly frightened, and some who tried to retreat were immediately killed on the spot by the soldiers sent by Shi Kefa to supervise the battle, and they were not allowed to take half a step back.

Seeing that these scholars and talents were all forced to fight together, the morale of ordinary soldiers was still high, and they felt that all beings were equal and worth working on.

The hand-to-hand combat gag lasted for half an hour, and I saw that before the end of Shen Chu, some small changes occurred near the temporary commander's tent in the rear - of course, it was a change in favor of the Ming army.

At noon, Shen Tingyang, at the request of Shi Kefa, brought in all the old relatives and friends of the officials who secretly fell into the city and surrendered to the enemy last night, but he only asked the men to go to the wall to help prove their innocence and wash away the shame, and there was no requirement for the female scrolls of those people. It's just that some of the more important ones are temporarily detained, and they can be regarded as hostages, nothing more.

But seeing that the battle ahead was so fierce, suddenly some female rolls found Shen Tingyang and expressed their willingness to do something for defending the city.

When Shen Tingyang looked at it, he was still a little surprised, because he also knew these people, including Liu Ruyi, because she was said to have talked to Qian Qianyi about redemption two years ago, and this time she was also controlled by people as a person who was "suspected of having an old relationship with a traitor".

However, because of Zhu Shuren's butterfly effect of hitting Gong Dingyu, Ruan Dacheng and others, Liu Ru in this life did not come together with Qian Qianyi, and the so-called negotiation of redemption ended in vain, and after another year, Liu Ru saved enough money to redeem himself. This time, it was a shortage of soldiers, just in case, so I controlled them all and didn't treat them harshly.

However, seeing that the soldiers in the city, including some scholars who had been humiliated and discredited, were all on the wall to hate the enemy, Liu Ru was also a little chivalrous, so he wanted to do something and took the initiative to request:

"Elder Shen Ge, although my generation has already drawn a clear line with Qian Qianyi, this time I am also deeply ashamed that I once became friends with this thief. Even if the court doesn't punish us, we want to do what we can.

In ancient times, when Han Shizhong resisted the golden vultures, he beat the drum with Liang Hongyu to resist the gold, and today I and other sisters also asked to go to the city tower, get some drum music to help the battle, and ask for the grace of the old pavilion. ”

Shen Tingyang was still more pragmatic, and touched his beard: "The bloody battle is in full swing, and the drum music in the army is not child's play, if it is chaotic, it will not be beautiful." If you want to beat the drums, you can only follow the drummers and find a few other drums, but you can't give you the snare drum that you are using. Also, do you know how to beat drums? Maybe uniformity? Go to the side first and let the military music officer check it before you are allowed to go up the wall. ”

Fighting is not child's play, how can you just come by temperament. Liang Hongyu has martial arts, but these women don't.

After some inspection, sure enough, the group of sisters brought by Liu Ru had a lot of physical strength that was not good, and the drums were not neat, so they were selflessly brushed by Shen Tingyang's iron face, and only those who could ensure durability were allowed to go into battle.

After a while, Liu Rushi and Gu Mei took the drumsticks, changed their costumes, went up to the city tower, and began to beat the drum and shout, and the other Qinhuai women who were brushed off, those who originally had a relationship with Wang Duo, Qian Qianyi and others, and those who felt ashamed, also retreated, changed into short and capable clothes, and helped carry the wounded.

The soldiers under Li Fuming's command were fighting bloodily, and after a while, someone noticed that even the women began to go up the wall, and Qin Huai's famous drums and ordinary advocates helped carry the wounded, and their morale became higher and higher.

Those scholars who were originally forced to go to the wall also showed the courage to fight for their lives, how could they lose face in front of women.

The Ming army fought back, and the Qing army that rushed to the head of the city in groups of corpses was killed, and the gap was originally smashed to only about three zhang left, and it was beaten, because the new corpses were stacked up, and they slowly grew to four zhang high, and the corpses that were one zhang thick were piled up in the gap.

"What's going on? How dare these dogs have such courage? Even women go up to the wall and beat drums, this is when this king is a golden vulture can't be done! ”

Duoduo saw the repeated see-saws under the city, and the momentum of the Ming army was like a rainbow, and he was also furious, and ordered to divide the idle artillery to bombard the city tower, and the other is to continue to bombard the people at the gap regardless of the enemy! Even if the Qing soldiers and the Ming soldiers are killed together, they will not hesitate!

With the transfer of firepower of the Qing army, the city tower was indeed hit and collapsed in several places, and Liu Ru, Gu Mei and others were also injured or trapped by the collapse, and were gradually carried down or fled. Those women who begged for a living on the Qinhuai River also accumulated dozens of dead and wounded.

However, this kind of blow did not affect the morale of the Ming army at all, and at this point in the battle, there was no distinction between north and south, no distinction between the old and the young, no distinction between civil and military, and even no distinction between men and women, and everyone had the responsibility of defending the territory and killing the enemy.

The Qing army desperately piled up human lives in hand-to-hand combat, but it was like a surging Yellow River hitting the mainstay, the waves were shattered, and the clouds were scattered.

Shen time, unitary time, 戌 time...... Time passed hour by hour, and thousands of lives were thrown into the bottomless pit, but the Ming army always had a steady stream of reserves to replenish the gap, because of the crossfire and condescending superiority, the Ming army could at least play three times the casualty exchange ratio, and was not afraid of exchanging lives with Duoduo at all.

The bloody battle continued until late at night, until Duoduo's eyes were blood-red and his nerves were weak, and he estimated that the troops under his command had killed more than 10,000 people in direct battle, and he was completely numb.

At about the beginning of the day, there was finally a scout in the rear of the Qing army to bring more terrible news.

"Lord Wang, you can't fight anymore! The reinforcements of the Southern Barbarians are really coming, and our army scouts are at Dasheng Pass at the junction of Yingtianfu and Taipingfu, and they have already detected the vanguard warships of the Ming army reinforcements passing through the river! That's when Pegasus came to report!

It has been less than a hundred miles since the Great Victory Pass, and tomorrow morning at the latest, Zhu Shuren's reinforcements will definitely arrive! If our army really throws tens of thousands more lives into the city wall of Nanjing, and loses morale, as soon as Zhu Shuren comes, it will be all over! ”

Dashengguan is near Ma'anshan, Anhui Province in the later generations, which is the place where the Nanjing Metro S2 can be directly reached in the later generations (even only in the middle of the subway S2, not the southernmost section), and it is only seventy or eighty miles away, so the danger faced by Duoduo is, of course, imminent.

If he fights all night without rest, he will be intercepted by Zhu Shuren tomorrow morning, and the whole army will not collapse immediately!

Duoduo almost gritted his teeth, and in the end he could only gamble until midnight, and when he saw that it was almost midnight, he had to give up the strong attack, gather his troops and adjust his deployment, at least transfer all the Hongyi cannons first, so as not to be captured tomorrow.

The Ming army at the head of Nanjing City also rotated several times, after all, Li Fuming's troops were not iron-clad, it was impossible to fight from noon to midnight, and their physical strength had long been exhausted.

Fortunately, everyone's morale has already been completely boosted, seeing that the friendly troops are working so hard, the scholars and women are working hard, and the troops who are replaced in the follow-up are all enthusiastic and like crazy tigers, even if they are not skilled in martial arts. It is completely possible to make up for the gap in technology and tactics.

The two sides fought desperately until midnight, seeing that the Qing army finally broke down and began to loosen and retreat, and the city wall by the Qinhuai River also resounded with a thunderous roar.

"What is so terrible about Tartars! It's also two arms and a head! Chop off your head and die! ”

"Da Ming will win! The world will survive! ”

"The army of King Qin, surnamed Guoye, is here! All the dogs and tartars have to die! ”

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ps: The war scene is not easy to dismantle, and today it will be five or six thousand words piled up together, and it will be a big change. Yesterday's second update was actually more than 5,000 words, but it was just a little bit of nonsense, and it was not dismantled.