After receiving Yan Ling's notice, Yan Yinghui actually sent people to quietly go to various health centers in Nanjing and counted the remaining people there.

Unsurprisingly, there wasn't much left.

The guard post of this important city is generally five points to defend the city and five points to the tuntian. And most of the guards in Nanjing, the part that defended the city, were paid by the chief of the guard, and the part of the tuntian was basically occupied by the landlords.

Nanjing's theoretically strong army of nearly 300,000 was actually less than 100,000, and its training had been abandoned for a long time, and there were many old, weak, sick, and disabled people who could not fight.

When Yan Yinghui saw this situation, his eyes were black on the spot, and he wanted to carry a bucket and run away to Ningbo.

Don't look at it before, it seems that the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Liukou can't capture the two cities, in fact, they want to take advantage of Nanjing's side to make too many pre-war preparations and attack quickly.

However, since the opponent's target is Nanjing, it will definitely not be like before, one touch and go, and it will definitely attack with all its might.

When the time comes...... Really hanging.

However, although he was reminded by Zu, he could only watch all this, and he couldn't prepare too much in advance.

The conditions for the mobilization of the troops in Nanzhili are extremely harsh, and they need the consent of the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu, the Nanjing Garrison, and the Nanjing Town Guard Eunuch.

So even if he wanted to set it up in advance, he couldn't do it.

He could only prepare as much gold, silver, grain, grass and gunpowder as possible, and also transferred hundreds of elite soldiers, hoping to stop the pace of the Liukou siege as much as possible when the time came.

And now, as soon as the news spread, he could finally let go and prepare, but the Liukou had already crossed Luzhou to invade Hezhou, and he was already extremely close to Ying Tianfu.

Time is not abundant, especially in this time and space without Lu Xiangsheng's barrier, their actions are smoother.

Yan Yinghui immediately ordered all the surrounding people to enter Nanjing City or other cities, which increased the burden of food, but could provide young people for the defense of the city, and at the same time prevent them from being coerced by the rogues and become cannon fodder.

Then he ordered all the guards to enter the city, and then ordered all the nobles and gentry to hand over all the families in the palace, a total of more than 5,000 elites, and selected 30,000 young men from the people to help defend the city.

When all the people entered, all the gates of Nanjing were closed, and the people were not allowed to go to the streets without orders.

When all this was done, Gao Yingxiang's sentry cavalry could already be seen outside Nanjing, and they had already begun to cross the river.

Three days later, the Liukou army came to Nanjing, and after building some siege equipment, they officially began to attack the city.

Facing the rising sun, Gao Yingxiang stood in front of the city of Nanjing, facing the majestic capital, he was very confident that he would become its next master.

"Attack!"

He gave the order, and the deafening sound of drums instantly sounded from behind him.

The rogues shouted and rushed out, a tentative assault consisting of 10,000 outcasts and 2,000 rogues.

At the front were emaciated outcasts, who did not even have a decent weapon in their hands, and rushed forward, followed by young and strong rogues with swords in their hands, who were responsible for both supervising the battle and the siege of the city after the cannon fodder had consumed the ammunition of the Ming army. Gao Yingxiang disdained to use cannon fodder, but the other rogue leaders were accustomed to such tactics.

"Put!" The generals of the Ming army were ruthless and gave orders.

The artillery at the head of the city began to roar, because there was no direct contact with the Western navy, the Ming did not get the red-coat cannon at this time, and their main force at this time was still the Franc machine and the general's cannon.

But it's enough to fight against the rogues.

Cannons and stray bullets rained down, crushing the ant-like crowd below, and the wooden siege equipment ignited a raging fire among the artillery, groaning and falling.

In an instant, the city was covered with corpses.

The homeless people had never seen this battle, and when they saw that the people they had been laughing with not long ago had turned into a blur of flesh and blood, they immediately threw away the sticks and stones in their hands, and ran backwards crying.

The rogues mercilessly slashed the returning homeless and forced them to continue the siege.

However, as a large number of displaced people were consumed, it was finally their turn. These men were much better equipped than the outcasts, with shiny weapons in their hands, and some of them were even wearing leather armor, cotton armor, and tattered cloth armor.

Taking advantage of the gap in the artillery, they managed to get close to the city walls.

"Pour!"

There was a shout of cheers from the head of the city, and immediately hot gold juice was poured down, and the hot skin and flesh of the rogue under the city were opened, and the stench was stinking.

This was followed by a large number of rolling logs and boulders.

The rogues have also collapsed, they are actually stronger than those outcasts, how can they fight a tough battle? This kind of loss is simply not something they can afford.

Throwing down their weapons and retreating, they received a wave of artillery fire from behind, and in the last attack of 12,000 men, only more than 4,000 people retreated, and the city was full of groans and cries for help.

Gao Yingxiang couldn't help frowning, and several of the leaders of the rogue beside him couldn't help but curse:

"Damn, this Nanjing is so strong."

"If only we had cannons."

"A bunch of rats ......"

However, they didn't have much pain on their faces. Except for the old battalion, the rest of the troops were consumed without fear.

The left and right can only be restored by capturing a few towns, what are you afraid of him? Not to mention anything else, since entering Nanzhili, the wealth and density of the population here, they have already seen it, and they are not afraid of consumption at this time!

The King of Chaos even sneered and said:

"I don't believe that there are so many reserves in Nanjing City, I want to see if the cannons in the city are exhausted first, or the 500,000 troops we are waiting for are all lost first!"

Caused a chorus of approval.

They even came up with the idea of using human flesh to consume ammunition!

When Gao Yingxiang heard this, he also stretched his brows.

It is true that there has been no war in Nanjing for a long time, and there may be some reserves of gunpowder in the city, but it is definitely not too much, and he knows too well the virtues of those officials. With the current intensity of the battle, they will soon exhaust all their reserves, and when the time comes, how will the Ming army resist in the face of their ant attachment?

So they agreed.

In troubled times, human life is so thin!

However, to the surprise of the leaders of the rogues, they attacked at a high intensity for seven days, and lost tens of thousands of people, but the artillery at the head of the city was still surging.

However, it was Yan Yinghui who transferred gunpowder in advance to make up for part of the shortfall, so that now the artillery is still roaring, causing huge casualties to the Liukou.

However, no matter how many reserves there are, they are not unlimited, and after two more days of fierce fighting, the gunpowder is finally about to run out. Gao Yingxiang was keenly aware of this and commanded the army to pounce!

The army of Liukou attacked for fourteen days, and the city of Nanjing was finally shaken!

(End of chapter)