Even if the Qing army on the Taipingmen side attacked from both sides, the Ming army still defeated the enemy besieging them under the leadership of Su Ci, and forced the Jinshan battalion and the Guazhou Qing army to flee into the Purple Mountain.

Not to mention that the Qing army on the mountain has withdrawn to the city, and now they may even have a problem returning to Jiangning City by themselves.

Compared with Zhang Guojun's situation, the Qing army outside Chaoyang Gate was obviously much better.

The Xiao cavalry battalion did not dare to step forward under the deterrence of the Hongyi cannon at the head of the city, so that Liang Huafeng and Li Shiyuan's troops could reach the foot of the mountain smoothly and go up the mountain before the Chinese military camp.

However, as soon as they reached the foot of the mountain, they were discovered by the Ming army attacking on the mountain, and the person in charge of this side was Zhang Tianlu, the former governor of Jiangnan, who saw that the Qing army seemed to be intending to outflank him, and hurriedly ordered the deputy general Zhang Zhong to lead the troops to meet the battle.

That Zhang Zhong failed to lead an army alone, but continued to fight with Zhang Tianlu's side, which shows that his ability is not outstanding, and Zhang Tianlu did not expect him to repel the Qing army behind him alone, but just ordered him to drag the enemy and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Although Zhang Zhong understood that he had a few catties and a few taels, he still wanted to rely on military merits to gain a way out, although Su Yan did not treat them differently after recruiting them, and gave them soldiers and horses, but they still felt a little uncomfortable - since they voted for the new master, they had to use military merits to prove their worth to the new master.

Therefore, Zhang Zhong showed great bravery in the following battle, which may also have some convert's fanaticism, he took the lead, led the soldiers to fight on the front line, resisted the offensive of the Qing army's Wuyong battalion and Guazhou soldiers, and personally slashed a few Qing soldiers who fought with him, and successfully dragged the arrival of the Chinese military camp led by Ma Xin.

After a fierce battle, the Qing army was defeated, Liang Huafeng led a small number of remnants to break through in a hurry, Zuo Yunlong was killed on the spot by several arrows in the chaotic battle, and the whole 4,000 Qing troops only lasted less than an hour, except for Liang Huafeng and a small number of remnants of the army broke through, most of them died or became prisoners.

Two consecutive Qing troops were sent out like a sheep in the mouth of a tiger, Bo Luo finally realized the feeling of the Ming army in the past when facing the tactics of encirclement and reinforcements, if it wasn't for the defense of Jiangning City, where would he be so aggrieved, and he would have already transferred a large army to cover up.

However, now that the 7,000 soldiers and horses out of the city had suffered heavy losses, and lost half of Niu Lu and a Baturu, Bolo had to change his strategy, and seeing the Ming army storming the Purple Mountain, he could only hope for Tan Tai and Kachuha, hoping that they would hold out until the evening, and then take advantage of the cover of night to retreat into the city.

However, the advance of the Ming army far exceeded Bolo's expectations, and in only half a day, the Qing army was forced to retreat around the camp, relying on the previously constructed fortifications to resist the Ming army, and it was thanks to these fortifications that the Ming army launched several strong attacks were repulsed, and the land between the Ming army and the fortifications was covered with a large number of corpses of soldiers of the two armies.

Perhaps knowing that the last moment had come, Tan Tai and Ka Chuha and the surviving Qing army generals Zuo were all fighting on the front line, and they were crazy to tilt the barrage of arrows to the Ming army, so that the sky was almost occupied by arrows, and the arrows fired by each side passed in mid-air and flew into each other's military formations, and from time to time someone screamed and fell, but most of them were the crackling sound of arrows and projectiles hitting the bunker or shield.

The stalemate between the two armies began, but the stalemate was finally broken after the Temortu artillery company in the Shenji Battalion approached at the risk of death and threw grenades at the Qing fortifications to forcibly blow up a gap.

The tall grenadiers took the lead in charging the gap, they held a gun in their left hand and a grenade in their right hand, and threw a grenade at the back of the fortification with their right arm in the run, and after an explosion, the grenadier jumped into the fortification, shot a bullet in the chamber of the gun at the Qing army that was blown up, and then pulled out a bayonet and stuck it in the muzzle, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army.

With the grenadiers as the vanguard, the Ming army took advantage of this gap to rush into the fortifications and fell into hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army.

All the Qing troops engaged in the battle with the garrison were so shocked that their faces were bloodless, and the two sides fought fiercely from the morning to the afternoon, and the Qing army's defense line was almost defeated, and they retreated to the camp to resist by relying on the camp.

The Ming army then bombarded the camp with a large number of tiger squatting artillery, and after the Qing army camp was blasted out of many gaps, the Ming army launched an attack on the Qing army camp from many directions.

If Tan Tai hadn't personally assured them that General Bolo would have mobilized reinforcements to come to their aid, they would have fled in all directions, but when they saw that the Ming army had attacked the camp and Jiangning City did not have the slightest movement, most of them couldn't help but despair.

In the case of the defeat was decided, the reinforcements were nowhere to be seen, the desperate Qing army finally chose to surrender, they surrendered to the Ming army in large quantities, and the last defense line of the Qing army finally collapsed.

The fierce battle lasted until the evening, as the last Qing soldier who was still resisting stubbornly chose to disarm and surrender, the battle on the Purple Mountain finally ended, Tan Tai was shot several times, and died in battle, Ka Chuha killed three garrisons in a row after being cut off his left arm by the tomahawk, and then disemboweled, and died tragically on the spot, the rest of the Qing army generals died more than ten people, regardless of the surrender, and the Manchurian soldiers were wiped out.

In Jiangning City, seeing the Qing army battle flag fluttering above the Purple Mountain camp being cut and replaced with the Ming army battle flag, Bo Luo immediately vomited blood and fainted.

As soon as Bolo fell ill, the entire Jiangning City suddenly fell into a chaotic situation without a leader.

From the beginning, the Qing army did not expect that the Ming army would be able to take the Purple Mountain so smoothly, although the Purple Mountain is not a steep mountain, but the Qing army relied on the terrain to resist, and it was still very difficult for the Ming army to attack the mountain.

But who would have thought that Su Yan's Ming army was not an ordinary army, they were extremely strong in combat, so it only took two days to take the Purple Mountain.

Seeing that the Ming army had taken the Purple Mountain, lest the people in the city see that the Ming army was angry and start an incident as an internal response, the governor of Jiangning, Kakamu, was frenzied and prepared to kill in the city to prevent future troubles, but fortunately, Zhou Boda, the governor of Jiangning, stopped him in time, and after dissuasion, Kakamu reluctantly dispelled this idea.

After some discussion, in order to prevent the defenders of the city from being shaken by Bolo's illness, Kaqama and Zhou Boda reached a consensus, blocked the news, and used Kaqam's main military and Zhou Boda's internal affairs to jointly stabilize the situation in the city.

At the same time, they ordered the defenders of the city gates to burn down the houses outside the city near the city walls to clear the field of vision and shooting, but in order to prevent the Ming army spies from infiltrating the city, they did not move the people outside the city in, but let those people fend for themselves and turned them away.

Jiangning City, after the fall of the Purple Mountain to the Ming army, entered the next round of stages.