Chapter 302: Nandu Offensive and Defensive Battle II

Hearing that the idea of surprise soldiers was shattered, another person said: "My lord, why don't you attack from Yuejiangmen?" Yuejiangmen connects the lime mountain, and the city wall gate connecting the gap is only three zhang, the height is appropriate, it is suitable for attacking, and once it enters the lime mountain of Yuejiangmen, it can be attacked and defended, and it can also give the large army time to enter the city. ”

Zhang Gaoping also thought of this, but at the beginning, it was absolutely impossible: "What we can think of, the Northern Army cannot think of it, Nanjing is their life and death defense line, and sticking to every gate of Nanjing is their top priority, and when they do not find the key attack direction, they will never move troops indiscriminately;

Previously, I sent a horse to report that the northern army had deployed heavy troops at the three gates of Yuejiang, Fengyi, and Dinghuai, with at least 10,000 troops at each city gate, and there were also Zhongfu Gate and Jinchuan Gate in the inner city nearby.

Therefore, our army will launch a general attack on Shangyuanmen at the beginning, and fight at all costs, in addition to a feint attack on Foning Gate and Guanyin Gate, and send rangers to Yuejiangmen Fengyi Gate to carry out a tentative attack, disrupt the defense plan of the Northern Army, and make them think that the key attack object of our army is Shangyuanmen;

If we can't take the Shangyuan Gate tomorrow, we will focus our attack on the Guanyin Gate, and our purpose is to exhaust the defensive energy of the defenders and make them exhausted. ”

"My lord, don't we have to go through a lot of trouble in this way?"

Zhang Gaoping sneered a few times: "With the army's auxiliaries to attack, the soldiers respond, the intensity is increased, the reinforcements transferred by the prince from it should come tomorrow, everyone, work together to attack the city, the rich and noble are indispensable to you." ”

"Obey the orders of the Governor..."

Sun Chengzong put down the clairvoyant mirror, and now the Nanjing guards basically have a clairvoyant mirror in their hands, this kind of thing is produced in Songjiang and sold to foreign merchant groups, and foreign merchant groups are sold exclusively to Nanjing.

"Inspector, it seems that the rebels have no intention of attacking the city."

Staff General Liu Guozhu stood on the side, although the rebel army of 100,000 people was outside the Shangyuan Gate, but in the past few days, only the rangers have been exploring everywhere, and there is no sign of a large-scale siege.

Although Ma Shilong, the general soldier of Yongping, was unfavorable in Shanxi and was finally transferred back to his original post, but this time, considering the safety of Nanjing, Sun Chengzong specially invited this Yongping general soldier with a lot of combat experience when he went south, and mobilized many of his original subordinates.

For example, Liu Guozhu, the general next to him, and You Dai, the general who is guarding the Guanyin Gate.

"I heard that there has been a fight on the Andemen side, it is impossible for our side to be so stable, this Gao Ping heard that he is the commander of King Fu's guards, and now he has been promoted to become the governor of Zuodu, Fengyang is the one who laid it down, don't despise him."

Sun Chengzong stroked his beard, turned his head and asked, "The defense line on the side of Beikuo City can be carefully distributed." ”

Liu Guozhu bowed: "From Guanyin Gate to Dinghuai Gate, it has been fully fortified, with 10,000 horses at each gate." ”

"Tell the guards to guard against it, and remember to beware of the rebels attacking the city at night."

"Won't it?" Liu Guozhu was a little incredulous: "Nanjing City has high walls, isn't it self-defeating to attack the city at night?" ”

"The more impossible things are, the more likely they are to come to the end." Sun Chengzong looked into the distance with cold eyebrows: "The old man heard that Fengyang had fallen before he came, although Gao Qiqian opened the city gate, but it was Zhang Gaoping who had already led the army to break through the city through the probation gate. ”

Zhang Guozhu suddenly woke up when he heard this: "The first line of Yuejiangmen is only two zhang up and down, which is the lowest point of Beikuo City, and there is the connection between Lime Mountain and Lion Rock, although the terrain is dangerous, but the defense is the weakest. ”

Sun Chengzong turned to look at Zhang Guozhu: "You personally bring another 5,000 people to garrison Yuejiangmen, don't be careless, the old man dares to conclude that Zhang Gaoping will definitely attack the idea of reading Jiangmen." ”

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"Tonight, if the city is broken, the governor himself will ask the prince to ask you for a reward, but the city will not be broken, and the credit for tonight can also be recorded after the city is broken."

Zhang Gaoping was dressed in military uniform, and according to the plan during the day, tonight would be the time for them to launch an attack on Shangyuanmen: "Everyone, listen, let's kill all the way from Luoyang, even Zhongdu has been broken by us, as long as Nanjing is broken, there will be no city in the world that can rarely live in us;

Remember, it is difficult to follow the will of heaven..."

"It is difficult to follow the will of heaven..."

The movement of the rebel camp Ma Shilong, who was stationed at the head of the city, had already received the news, and went to the city as soon as possible, and after seeing clearly that the torches of the rebel camp began to ignite, he immediately sent someone to inform Sun Chengzong who was in the lime mountain camp.

When Sun Chengzong arrived at Shangyuanmen, the sound of various firearms, the sound of bows and crossbow strings came and went, and the wounded were constantly carried down from the city.

"Overseer..."

Ma Shilong saw that Sun Chengzong was on the city, and hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to take a shield to protect him: "This place is dangerous, please also ask the commander to command the city." ”

"How's it going?"

"The rebels launched an attack from the time of unitary, and the offensive was fierce, filling up the trench in front of the city at any cost, and then the artillery fired in unison, which really caught our army by surprise;

It wasn't until the lower officials arrived that the rebels who had just climbed to the top of the city were driven down. ”

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The tail of a crossbow arrow trembled up and down on the shield of a guard in front of him, so frightened that Ma Shilong hurriedly turned around and pushed Sun Chengzong: "The superintendent will quickly go down to the city to command, and hand it over to the lower officials here." ”

Sun Chengzong's identity and qualifications are second to none in the entire Nanjing, and he is also the main commander of the northern city this time, so naturally he can't make any mistakes, so no matter how Sun Chengzong refuses, Ma Shilong still let his soldiers send Sun Chengzong down the city.

"Kill..."

Outside the Shangyuan Gate, Zhang Gaoping rode his horse and stood less than two miles away from the city head to personally supervise the battle, even if he could not take down the Shangyuan Gate, he would also attack with all his strength under the first blow, so that the defenders would believe that they would be the main attack at the Shangyuan Gate.

At the same time as the attack of Shangyuan Gate, the battle of Guanyin Gate also started at the same time, and thousands of people from the south to Dinghuai Gate and other directions held torches to feint, and the defenders of each gate in the northwest caused miscalculation.

For a time, the shouting and killing of the entire Nanjing Beikuo City was already deafening.

Countless messengers traveled back and forth between the outer city and the inner city, and many people in Nanjing, which had already announced a curfew, poked out their heads to know what the war was like.

The people of Jinling have never been disturbed by the war since the martyrdom of their ancestors, so it has been more than two hundred years, that is, even the Qinlou Chu Pavilion by the Qinhuai River is prosperous business, until the curfew begins, and the rich and noble sons listen to the vague cannon sound with their naked beauties in their arms.

"If this Jinling can't be defended, do you think we will follow to the north?"

"Hey, haven't you heard that this time King Fu raised troops under the banner of Grandpa Cheng? This is a martyrdom..."

"Listening to you say this, it seems that you know how the Battle of Jingjing was fought back then."

"Nonsense, it's been more than 200 years since Grandpa Cheng's Jingnan, who still knows, that is, they all know the princes of the imperial court, and these are all dusty archives..."

"King Fu wants to be the emperor?"

"It doesn't matter who is the emperor, we are still ordinary people, this is a royal matter."

"Shhhh Be quiet, you want to die? It was not a matter of a meal when the old men of the five cities who patrolled the city heard it, and they couldn't hold you in a lawsuit. ”

"Hey, King Fu is the uncle of the current emperor..."

"You said it's a coincidence or not, it's Uncle Jing who wants to take the throne of his nephew, what happened to our Ming Dynasty..."

Discussions in private were staged in various places in the city of Nanjing, and the battles outside the city were also fierce.

"Governor, the defenders are weak, and their artillery has stopped."

Zhang Gaoping had long been far away from the artillery strike distance, and after the two sides stopped attacking and defending, a fierce artillery battle began in the dark of night, and stone bullets and flowering shells smashed into the positions of both sides like a shower, causing heavy casualties.

You Dai, who was guarding Guanyin Gate, had already sent someone to Sun Chengzong to send a letter of help, not only Shangyuan Gate, but also Guanyin Gate's offensive was not inferior to Shangyuan Gate, and the casualties on both sides had reached 10,000 people, and each side had thousands of losses.

You Dai has been fighting for a long time, but now his task is to guard the Guanyin Gate in Nanjing, and there are less than 5,000 soldiers left under his command at the moment, and urgent help is already the top priority.

In the dark night, he couldn't see how many people the rebels had sent to Guanyinmen, and the guerrilla Chen Hua's face didn't know if it was his own or the blood of the rebels, at this moment he touched his face and shouted loudly: "My lord, if the reinforcements don't come, we can't hold it." ”

Guanyin Gate City is eleven meters high, and it is absolutely impossible to break through without tens of thousands of people attacking it.

However, now since the time of the unitary, the rebels have raised fire to attack, without worrying about their own casualties, and the other party is fighting more and more bravely, several times on the Guanyin Gate, if it is not for Chen Hua and others with people to fight to the death to drive down the rebels who rushed up, maybe the Guanyin Gate will be lost.

You Dai looked at this temporary subordinate and comforted: "The person who asked for help is back, and the reinforcements will arrive soon." ”

The Lime Mountain camp was fifteen miles away from Guanyinmen, and the rapid reinforcement of the infantry was also close to an hour.

Chen Hua sighed, replaced it with a new Yanling knife from the ground, and then turned around and led the person to top it again.

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The intelligence of all parties quickly gathered outside the Qilin Gate, and Chen Cao was listening to the military report.

"It's been six hours since the attack started at the time of unitary."

Chen Cao thought silently, a burst of sleepiness hit, and he listened to the news all night, without squinting at all, and now the sky is bright.

"Zhang Gaoping's actions are exactly the same as when he captured Fengyang."

"Grandpa..."

Zhao Xin walked into the big tent quickly: "The latest news, before dawn, the Guanyin Gate was breached, the guerrilla Chen Hua and others were killed, You Dai had to send reinforcements to arrive, and desperately drove out the rebels who attacked the Guanyin Gate;

I heard that Zhang Gaoping sent 30,000 soldiers and 20,000 soldiers in Guanyinmen to let the auxiliary soldiers attack together, and the casualties of Guanyinmen remained high at the beginning, and the reinforcements did not suffer heavy casualties. ”

Chen Cao opened his eyes: "Maybe Beicheng is the first place to lose, I don't know how Inspector Sun will defend it." ”