Chapter 304: Nandu Offensive and Defensive Battle IV

"Got in from Yuejiangmen?"

Chen Cao stood up: "Really? ”

Zhao Xin nodded: "It's true, but it didn't directly attack the inner city from Yuejiangmen, but from the city wall two miles northeast of Yuejiangmen;

That section of the city wall is the remnant vein of the lime mountain, is the north outer city and the inner city Yuejiangmen section of the connection, the height of the city wall is only less than seven meters, there are three city gate hole exits, it is the debris channel of Jiangbei to transport materials into Nanjing, although it was sealed before the war, but Zhang Gaoping personally led the troops to attack the city head and then sent people to clear the blockade, and now Zhang Gaoping has entered the lime mountain with tens of thousands of people. ”

"It seems that the battle of Nanjing has reached a critical moment." Chen Cao looked at Huang Chunyao: "Yunsheng, is our plan feasible?" ”

Huang Chunyao smiled meaningfully: "Tang Gaozu Li Yuan supported Emperor Yang Yu of Sui Gong to ascend the throne and become emperor, and a year later, Yang Yu took the throne and established the Tang Dynasty..."

"Whew... Makes sense..."

Chen Cao nodded, then turned his head to look at Zhao Xin: "Send someone to tell Tang Kainian that the headquarters of the Longwu Army has changed from a feint attack to a formal attack." ”

"Yes..."

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"What..."

Sun Chengzong stumbled back a few steps and almost fell, if it weren't for Cheng Lin's hands and feet to support him, maybe he would have fallen from the horse road to the city gate, such a high distance, coupled with Sun Chengzong's age, I am afraid that there is no way to survive at all.

"Immediately mobilize all reinforcements to enter the lime mountain to block the rebels' footsteps, and send someone to deliver a message to Governor Qi, saying that the Jiangmen is lost and the rebels have entered Beikuo City."

"Yes..."

Cheng Lin supported Sun Chengzong on the chair of the city tower and sat down, with a solemn face: "Supervisor, Beikuo City is not like Nankuo City, there are 200,000 troops that Madam Qin can mobilize, and we only have 100,000 people here, the rebels seem to deliberately induce us to fight a decisive battle in Nankuo City, but in fact, the main direction of attack is in the north;

Now the rebels have entered the city from the direction of Yuejiangmen, and General Zhang has been killed in battle, Nanjing, and the last general is afraid that he will not be able to hold it..."

"Nonsense..."Sun Chengzong scolded Cheng Lin sharply: "Jiangxi Huguang reinforcements should also arrive, and Shandong's reinforcements are also on the way. ”

Cheng Lin smiled bitterly: "Of the 400,000 defenders, 150,000 were transferred from the Shandong Dusi, there are no soldiers and horses in Shandong, and the Beijing battalion troops of the Beijing Division cannot be mobilized, and the last general is from Datong, have you forgotten?" ”

In fact, Chongzhen still has a lot of troops, at least one million more can be mobilized, but now these million mobile troops are 500,000 in all parts of Liaodong, and the depth is extremely wide, and the remaining 500,000 troops and 300,000 troops are in the Beijing division, which belong to the Beijing battalion and the 12th regiment and battalion troops, and the remaining 200,000 are in various parts of the south.

The 70,000 reinforcements from Huguang and Jiangxi were on the way, the 20,000 reinforcements from the Guangdong Metropolitan Division had just entered Zhejiang, and the reinforcements from Sichuan were requisitioned by Yang He to suppress the civil unrest when they entered Shaanxi.

Except for the 70,000 people who went north, in fact, there were no troops that could support the city of Nanjing, unless the Beijing camp set out.

And now that Beijing is leaving, reinforcements of more than 100,000 people will not arrive in Nanjing in half a month, not to mention that there is also a firearms unit Chen Cao on the side.

Sun Chengzong didn't know how to answer Cheng Lin, and a messenger from Jinchuan Gate arrived at Shangyuan Gate after a short time, bringing Qi Boyu's decision.

"The Governor has an order to order the Governor to abandon the defense of the entire Beikuo City, shrink all the forces into the inner city, and place the defense line within the six gates of the inner city, including Shence, Jinchuan, Zhongfu, Yuejiang, Fengyi, and Dinghuai."

Sun Chengzong looked at the torches in the camp opposite with difficulty, and then looked at Cheng Lin: "Withdraw..."

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"The whole army retreated..."

"Ignition..."

Qin Liangyu personally led his troops in Jubaoshan in the evening to drive out the tens of thousands of rebels who rushed into the city, which was really thrilling, and he didn't dare to close his eyes at night, so he took people back to the camp in front of Andemen.

Suddenly, a sound like shaking the mountains woke her up from her bed, and when she walked out of the camp to observe, a huge flame from the southeast wind lit up the entire night sky, and a powerful air wave hit from the southeast, and even her hair and sideburns were also flying under the action of the air wave.

Qi Boyu had not slept in front of the guard hall of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the huge tremor shook the teacup on his table to a tinkling sound: "Quick, send someone to find out what happened." ”

"Where is that?"

Daughter-in-law Zhang Fengyi frowned and looked over: "Mom, it seems to be in the direction of the double bridge gate." ”

"Suffered..."Qin Liangyu shouted, and then asked Zhang Fengyi to bring the war horse: "Immediately send an order, the whole reserve army will move towards Jubao Mountain, and the soldiers and horses of the Shizhu Headquarters will follow me to Shuangqiaomen." ”

Chen Cao was awakened by the huge shock, he had already fallen asleep after the Long Wu Army launched the offensive, and this huge shock made him think that the earthquake had attacked: "Zhao Xin, quickly find out what happened." ”

Nanjing Nankuo City Shuangqiao Gate, at this moment can no longer be called Shuangqiao Gate, in the previous violent explosion, the entire city gate and the city gate connected to the city wall left and right three miles were all destroyed, the city gate was blown up to where I don't know at all.

The amount of explosives used by the engineers this time was five times that of Hangzhou, and the city outside the Twin Bridges has now been razed to the ground.

Su Mao, the deputy commander-in-chief of the town guarding Shuangqiaomen, couldn't even find the body, and the guerrilla general Qin Zuoming was also affected by the explosion in the Shuangqiaomen camp, seriously injured and unconscious, and was carried to the inner city by a group of Shizhu's own soldiers.

Li Wanchang patted the shoulder of the engineer squad leader very excitedly, then drew his long sword and personally led the assembled subordinates to rush into the city from the ruins of Shuangqiaomen.

The southwest direction of Shuangqiaomen is Jubao Mountain, where there are 20,000 troops who have just entered during the day, and the camp is at the foot of Jubao Mountain, and the southeast direction of Shuangqiaomen is the Zhengyangmen of the inner city, which is the geographical symbol of the entire Nanjing City, Li Wanchang took 50,000 people to kill straight towards Zhengyangmen, and handed over to the deputy general and other leading generals.

At that time, the double bridge gate was in chaos...

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Xu Hongji didn't have the courage to go to the city, now the head of the city is commanding Xu Chenqing, and the rain of bullets and bullets on the head of the city is deafening in the camp under the city, and the bullets and artillery do not have long eyes, and the consequences of being shot are unpredictable.

The situation of the adjacent Cangbo and Xianhe two gates is no different from here, under the indiscriminate blows of the three divisions of the Longwu Army, it is simply whimsical to block the attack of the flintlock pistol with only the old three-eyed guns and bird guns and some turtledoves foot guns.

However, although the attacks of the three divisions were strong, there was no battle for the city from the beginning to the end.

Although the artillery and muskets were fought hard, Xu Chengqing, who was defending the city, found that as long as he dodged and did not choose to return fire, the casualties were not large at all.

"This..."

Xu Chengqing looked at Li Shouye beside him: "What do you mean?" ”

"My lord, it seems that the rebels outside the city don't really want to attack the city?" Li Shouye and Xu Chengqing leaned against the thickest part of the horse's face on the city wall together.

Lead bullets and explosions burst out, all hitting the location where the two were hiding.

A herald rushed to the two of them: "Lord General Soldier, Grandpa Guo has an order, please go to the camp for urgent discussion." ”

In the camp, Xu Hongji informed Xu Chengqing of the loss of Beikuo City, and Sun Chengzong was ordered to retreat to the inner city. The big thing was not good, the Shuangqiao Gate of Nankuo City was blown up by the rebels with fire and powder, the Shuangqiao Gate was lost, and tens of thousands of rebels entered the city through the Shuangqiao Gate. ”

Because Nankuo City is facing the main force of King Fu head-on, it is Qin Liangyu to defend Nankuo City, and there are 130,000 troops in Nankuo City alone, plus 100,000 reinforcements in the inner city can be mobile at any time to support, even if the rebels capture Shuangqiaomen for a while, they should have enough time to mobilize their forces to drive them out again.

"Didn't you just drive the rebels out of Jubaoshan before nightfall?"

The herald shook his head anxiously: "I don't know, the little one just came to inform Wei Guogong on the order of Madam Qin, and asked Wei Guogong to make his own decision." ”

Hurry up from Nankuo City to the inner city to inform Qi Boyu that it will take at least an hour, and wait until Qi Boyu discusses how to deal with it, and then send someone to inform Xu Hongji that the sky is estimated to be bright, and the action of more than 100,000 people can not be promoted in one or two hours, that is, Xu Hongji's side according to the plan formulated before the war for the loss of Outer Kuocheng, the whole army withdrew to the inner city, and it was impossible to complete the operation in a day and a half.

Where does Xu Hongji have such a decision, if he really has, he will not pass on the title of Duke of Wei to his son after I enter the customs of the Qing Dynasty.

Xu Chengqing saw Xu Hongji's embarrassment, and also saw Xu Hongji looking at him, so he gave Xu Hongji a silent look.

Xu Hongji understood, and immediately withdrew the others in the tent, leaving only Xu Chengqing and himself.

"Tell me..."

"According to the current development of the situation, the final general thinks that the loss of Nanjing is inevitable."

This sentence came out of Xu Chengqing's mouth and seemed to have no waves, in fact, the listener Xu Hongji was already numb on the soles of his feet, what Nanjing meant to the Wei Guogong family was very obvious, since the day Chengzu moved the capital, the Xu family was relied on as the southern capital to stay;

Although it is not like the tradition of the prince to supervise the country and town Nanjing in the past, as the Xu family, who stayed behind in the south of the Nanzhili and was actually in charge of the military of all the guards south of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in the entire Ming Dynasty, the loss of Nanjing also meant the defeat of the Xu family.

As the top nobles of the Ming Dynasty and the head of the lords of the dynasty, the Xu family has been in the vein of Wei Guogong for more than 200 years, and it has been rich for so long.

Xu Hongji looked up at Xu Chengqing for a long time, the middle-aged man in front of him was the son of the Xu family, and he could be said to be Xu Hongji's closest and new person: "Yaoguang (Xu Chengqing's cousin), you are honest, what benefits did Chen Cao promise you?" ”