Chapter 305: Nandu Offensive and Defensive Battle V

There is no one else in the account, not to mention that Xu Chengqing also called Xu Chengqing's cousin, which is naturally evaluated by the relationship when he was a child.

When Xu Chengqing came back, he originally explained the matter of Chen Cao letting him come back clearly, and it was also Xu Hongji's strong guarantee, so Xu Chengqing was not questioned by Qi Boyu.

After all, the loss of nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses is not a trivial matter.

And now, things seem to have reached the point of no control.

"The last general didn't get any benefits from Chen Cao's promise."

Xu Hongji looked at Xu Chengqing's serious face, knowing that the man in front of him was not lying.

"When the last general left, Chen Cao just said that he would have the opportunity to contact again in the future, and now the situation in Nanjing is developing so badly that the outer city has been lost, and the inner city cannot be held at all;"

Saying that, Xu Chengqing looked at Xu Hongji with a frightened face: "Grandpa, it took less than an hour for Danyang City to be destroyed, their gunpowder is extremely powerful, destroying the city wall is like cutting tofu for Chen Cao's army, the most important thing is to break the defenders' will to fight, and the last general is defeated like this." ”

Xu Hongji listened to Xu Chengqing explain the whole situation of the loss of Danyang: "They are only now using such powerful gunpowder to blow up the Shuangqiao Gate, what is the purpose?" ”

"Tired tactics..."

Xu Chengqing is an old battlefield, this is still clear: "If you do this from the beginning, you will definitely be pounced on by the defenders, just like the battle of Jubaoshan, Li Wanchang was driven out of Fengtai Gate, such a high-intensity offensive and defensive battle was defeated, whether it was the defenders or the besieging side, they were already exhausted at this moment;

Even if there is a rotation of troops, the low morale is also easy to affect the troops, and the morale of the few people can still fight fiercely, but now the composition of the Nanjing garrison is complex, and the Zhongdu Garrison Division is defeated, the Shandong Guards Army, the Guards Army convened by Nanzhili and..."

Saying that, Xu Chengqing glanced at Xu Hongji: "The Nanjing Jingying with weak combat effectiveness, they can't gather combat effectiveness, and only the stone pillar soldiers brought by Qin Liangyu among the defenders are veterans of a hundred battles, and the rest, once affected, the consequences are unimaginable." ”

Xu Chengqing said that the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp troops is not strong, and it is also for Xu Hongji's face, and Xu Hongji naturally understands it very well in his heart.

Qin Liangyu repelled Li Wanchang out of Fengtai Gate, it was already the limit of the defenders, and they urgently needed to rest, but at this time they blew up the Shuangqiao Gate, and the two sides were originally in the same morale situation, and the besieging side was as refreshed as if they had beaten chicken blood, and when they looked at Nanjing City, they were like a naked woman in front of an old widower, and anyone wanted to drool;

Look at Qin Liangyu's side again, Grandpa, and then decay and exhaustion..."

Xu Chengqing's analysis made Xu Hongji completely wake up, and Xu Chengqing seemed to be hinting that Xu Hongji would let him surrender at the right time.

However, his own identity simply did not allow him to do so, and Nanjing was too important to Xu Hongji.

Swish...

The big tent was opened, and the person who came was dressed in a drag dress, but then he was dressed as a brocade guard.

Trolling the clothes, is the emperor wear the regular clothes, this kind of regular clothes according to the pattern on the robe body to distinguish the identity, in addition to the emperor of the given princes and ministers, can be worn, and the flying fish pattern on it is the exclusive of the brocade guard.

Since Chongzhen abolished the Jinyiwei, the Nanzhen Fusi in Nanjing was also banned, and all the Jinyiwei returned home, and the senior officers served as officers in the Beijing camp.

The level of the brocade guards who can wear drag clothes is not low.

"Who are you?"

The person who came walked into the big tent very respectfully and bowed his hand to Xu Hongji: "The lowly Jinyi guard commander is the same as Han Shizhong, and I have seen the grandfather of Wei State..."

"Jinyiwei has been banned by the current saint, isn't it?"

Han Shizhong shook his head and smiled: "Wei Guogong misunderstood, the one in Beijing who did not restore the Jinyi Guard, and the lowly position was the personnel of the Nanzhen Fusi after His Royal Highness King Fu ordered the Duke of Liang Guogong to reorganize the Jinyi Guard. ”

"Chen Cao's people..."Xu Chengqing said in a low voice, "How did you get in?" ”

"Naturally, the guards will come in."

Listening to Han Shizhong's words, Xu Hongji was immediately shocked, the camp garrisoned by tens of thousands of people was actually entered by a brocade guard wearing a flying fish suit, and he was still bought by money.

"Wei Guogong doesn't have to be angry," Han Shizhong said with a smile: "Now the three city gates guarded by Wei Guogong are already in danger, and my humble duty is to come to convey a few words to Wei Guogong on the order of my grandfather;

My father-in-law said that what he said to Wei Guogong in Shanghai back then is still counted, and no matter what the situation is in the future, my father-in-law will never forget the support of Wei Guogong back then;

In addition, my grandfather said that Mr. Xu is a capable person, but he is inevitably a little pedantic when he stands in line, in addition, my father-in-law also said that the foundation of the Xu family for hundreds of years cannot be destroyed now, if there is a chance, you can continue to be forever with the Ming Dynasty..."

Han Shizhong finally said the three words 'Ming Dynasty' when it was very heavy, and after speaking, he gave his hand again: "This dress is just convenient to come in, and you have to take it off when you go out, Wei Guogong, there are three signal flares here, if Wei Guogong figured it out, he would get out of the way at Xianhe Gate or Cangbo Gate, and then shoot this signal into the sky, and everything behind it will naturally be arranged by my family Guogong, and I will leave..."

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On the third day of December in the second year of Chongzhen, except for the east city of Nanjing, which was still under the insistence of Xu Hongji, all the rest were broken by King Fu's army, and all the defending troops retreated into the inner city.

The army of 300,000 Fu Wang surrounded all directions of the inner city, and Nanjing was in an emergency.

At noon on the same day, the cabinet issued an edict to mobilize soldiers and horses from all over the world to rescue Nanjing, and with the title of Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, as the commander of the southbound reinforcements, led 50,000 Beijing battalions and 100,000 soldiers and horses mobilized from Liaodong and Datong Town to the south;

In addition, he recruited troops in Shandong nearby, and ordered the Shandong Metropolitan Division to collect 100,000 horses and horses, and go south to rescue after preparing all the grain and grass.

On the fifth day of the first month of December, the Xianhe Gate of the Eastern Outer City was 'breached' by the Longwu army, and Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, retreated to the Qilinmen camp.

On the tenth day of December, Xu Hongji, who had held the Qilin Gate for five days, could not resist the attack of Chen Cao's army after all, and was captured by Chen Cao's troops in the evening.

In the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, Qi Boyu was in a trance after receiving the news, because according to the news he received, Xu Hongji told the army that the grain and grass in the army were exhausted, and the sergeants were disheartened, and he was afraid of the military report that the Qilin Gate was lost.

Before the inner city could react concretely, they once again received the news that the Qilin Gate was lost, Xu Hongji committed suicide unsuccessfully, and was detained by his own general Li Shouye and surrendered to Chen Cao.

Xu Hongji was captured, Nanjing City was shocked, although he was only a Nanjing stay, but what their Wei Mansion represented was known to the whole world, Xu Hongji was very important to Nanjing.

On December 15, Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, accompanied by a group of civil and military personnel and Chen Cao, personally went to the tomb of Emperor Taizu of Zhongshan to worship his ancestors, under the grand ceremony, the northeast of Chaoyang Gate in the inner city was only less than 15 miles away from the nearest city wall of Xiaoling, and there were only less than 30,000 guards around Zhu Changxun;

There were hundreds of thousands of horses in the inner city, but not a single soldier was dispatched at all, and the main reason was because he was afraid of the army under Chen Cao, who was stationed in the Xiaolingwei camp.

After dozens of salutes rang out, the entire ancestor worship activity came to an end, and then, many civil and military forces under the command of King Fu began to persuade him, asking King Fu to ascend the throne and succeed the Ming Emperor.

Although King Fu already wanted to be the emperor, he couldn't wait, but in the end reason still made him sober up a lot, thinking that Emperor Chengzu Jingnan also ascended the throne after conquering Nanjing.

Although Nanjing is now in the palm of its hand, the inner city is still in the hands of the Northern Army after all.

As the canonization of King Fu, Chen Cao, the governor of the Jingnan camp, was naturally the leader of the Jingnan camp at this moment, and attended the banquet set up by King Fu outside the filial piety tomb.

After three rounds of drinking, King Fu looked at Chen Cao with a smile: "Aiqing, the inner city is already in the palm of our army, I don't know how Aiqing is going to take this last key place?" ”

"Lord Wang, the reinforcements of the Northern Army have arrived in Shandong, and the minister thinks that while encircling Nanjing, he still has to focus on blocking the southern movement of the Northern Army."

This reminded Zhu Changxun, and he also got the news yesterday, more than 200,000 people is not a small number, plus the people in Nanjing City, it should be more than 500,000 people.

"Lone also received the news, now there is a safe arrangement, Li Wanchang led 100,000 people to cross the Yangtze River, first occupy the land of Liuhe, and the northern army to the south, the fastest place should be to take the canal line, now Zhenjiang is in the hands of Aiqing, Lone still thinks that Aiqing can block the mouth of the canal."

Chen Cao stood up and bowed his hand very respectfully: "Don't worry, the first line of Yangzhou has been handed over to the minister." ”

"Haha..."Zhu Changxun thought that Chen Cao would refuse politely, but he didn't expect Chen Cao to agree so readily: "Come, toast with Lone..."

At the end of the banquet, Zhu Changxun continued to ask about how to break the inner city, just because the powerful explosives were only available to Chen Cao.

"Taiping Gate..."Chen Cao looked at Zhu Changxun indifferently: "It is not a good thing to blast into the city, however, the minister has prepared a perfect strategy, after tomorrow, please ask the prince to order Zhang Dudu to attack Zhengyang Gate, and divide troops to attack Chaoyang Gate. ”

Zhang Gaoping's current worth is rising, and his status is already the number one general under King Fu: "Such a small matter, the last general will definitely be able to do it, and maybe he can really break through these two doors in one day." ”

"What should I do about the Taiping Gate that Aiqing said?"

Facing Zhu Changxun's doubts, Chen Cao said with a smile: "After tomorrow, please ask King Fu to lead 30,000 horses and horses to attack Taipingmen with his ministers." ”