Be the emperor from the postman

Because of Zuo Liangyu's self-defeating without a fight, and the Hammer Bandits sentry ships constantly approaching Nanjing, these news cannot be concealed.

The city of Nanjing was in chaos.

Some gentry are unwilling to stay in Nanjing anymore, they don't believe in Shi Kefa's ability to command troops.

Judging from the increasing number of cases of the Ming army's fish and meat people, Shi Kefa did not even control the Ming army that could resist the hammer bandits in his own hands.

Otherwise, how could those soldiers be so bold?

Nanjing became more and more chaotic, and various disturbances emerged one after another.

Shi Kefa also got [-] catties of heartbroken grass as he wished, and even went to check it himself.

He also knew that Heartbroken Grass was not a single medicinal material, but a mixture of various poisonous medicinal materials.

This can also be explained, the shapes of the medicinal materials in this cart are different.

Just waiting for the hammer bandits to besiege Nanjing, he sent people to poison the water.

Poison these Daming rebels.

Even if the poison does not kill you, it can cause many symptoms.

You can take the opportunity to spread the word that God punished these rebellious officials and thieves, God bless Daming and so on.

What kind of insight can a group of rebels have?
As for who the supplier is.

And it doesn't matter that Shi Kefa has to spend money to buy a lot of reserve gunpowder from Nanjing City!
Just achieve the goal.

Now the situation in Nanjing is getting more and more serious, but the emperor ordered Shi Kefa, the governor of water transportation, to transport a piece of grain to Tianjin by sea.

Before the start of the Liaodong War, in order to solve the problem of grain transportation in Liaodong, Shen Tingyang, a member of Zhongshushe, published "Please Advocate Small Trials of Sea Transportation First", suggesting the restoration of the maritime water transportation pioneered by Zhu Qing in the Yuan Dynasty.

He presented the "Maritime Map" to Chongzhen, and Chongzhen ordered to build a sea boat to test it.

Shen Tingyang took two boats, carrying hundreds of meters and hundreds of stones, from Huai'an to the sea, and arrived in Tianjin in a few days.

Chongzhen was overjoyed, the doctor of the household department of Jiating Yang, Ningyuan sent the Tianjin ship to Dengzhou with the salary rate, waited for the southeast wind to turn millet to Tianjin, and waited for the southwest wind to turn to Ningyuan.

Moreover, sea transportation is much faster than water transportation, and in his opinion, the chance of loss in the middle is extremely small.

Now He Jinchao took the initiative to help Chongzhen get rid of his thoughts of moving south.

Chongzhen fully supported the war in Liaodong, so he could only mobilize a large amount of money and food supplies from Jiangnan and other places.

Since ancient times, Huai'an has been the place where the South Ship and the North Horse meet, and it is indeed the capital of China's canals.

After Shi Kefa responded to the attack of the foreign hammer bandits and made careful arrangements, he naturally had to do his best to fulfill the emperor's order, and a large amount of grain was installed in the Huaihe River and shipped to Tianjin.

During this period, there were also a large number of people who fled Nanjing, Shi Kefa ignored it, but told the emperor about the difficulties in Nanjing, and read Zuo Liangyu's book again and again.

It is said that he lured wolves into the house, fled without fighting, and followed the river to plunder, in short, he did all kinds of evil.

The current situation in Nanjing City is all caused by Zuo Liangyu alone.

He has an army of 20 under his command, but he refuses to resist the hammer bandits.

For Daming, Nanjing is the political center of the Jiangnan area, and there is also a mature team here.

Although some officials were abolished because Chongzhen wanted to cut expenses, the strategic position is still very important.

The city of Nanjing is easy to defend and difficult to attack. "There is the height of Zhongfu in the east, the danger of the Yangtze River in the west, the Junmen in the south, and the back lake in the north."

In order to defend Nanjing, Shi Kefa and his staff collected more than a hundred cannons and placed them on the city wall.

At the same time, 3000 people were sent to station at Yuhuatai outside the city, and they fought against each other.

But if you want to hold Nanjing, you must control the Yangtze River.

In this way, a defense system combining river defense and city defense is realized.

But in the face of the hammer bandits, the navy of the Ming army has been defeated repeatedly and fled.

The Jiangsai defense lines such as Jiujiang, Hukou, and Wuhu that were carefully purchased and constructed before were useless, which caused the Ming army's defense system along the river to collapse rapidly.

The hammer bandits attacked Nanjing in two ways. The navy took the lead in blocking the water surface of the Yangtze River, and fired artillery along the river to the Ming army's garrison from time to time.

Gao Jie and the others retreated decisively and hid in Zhenjiang.

There were almost no Nanjing barriers previously arranged by Shi Kefa.

Rao Huang Degong, who wanted to fight wholeheartedly, was unable to support himself, and the soldiers under his command could not withstand the bombardment of the hammer bandit navy, so they withdrew to Nanjing.

Because the Ming army fled one after another on the front line of Hubei, it had already seriously affected the morale of the Nanjing defenders.

The hope of the Yangtze River's natural danger that everyone in Nanjing had pinned on was completely shattered.

Huang Degong persuaded Shi Kefa to go upstream to supervise the battle, not to stick to one place.

Nanjing City has never been so guarded.

However, Shi Kefa believed that the troops were insufficient, so he decided to use Nanjing as the final defensive location to ensure that the escort would not be captured by the thieves, and the troops could not be divided again.

Huang Degong had no choice but to follow Shi Kefa to defend Nanjing, hoping that the Liaodong War would end as soon as possible. Hong Chengchou led an army of 13 to the south to support.

When will this distant water quench my near thirst?

Wuchang City is about a thousand miles away from Nanjing, and it took nearly a month before Liu Erhu led people close to Nanjing City.

He Jinchao led the navy to reconcile Liu Erhu smoothly.

At this time, there were not many Hammer bandits besieging Nanjing, only less than 1, and the more than [-] people were stationed at various points from Henan to Huguang.

However, the Ming army gathered in Henan and Huguang numbered more than 5 soldiers, and the number of young and strong recruited temporarily was about [-].

Apart from joining the Hammer Bandits, these people who are trapped in the camp and doing odd jobs just want to make money from the Hammer Bandits.

Of course, there is no lack of ordinary people who were forced to rebel by the government and army. After they want to join the hammer bandits, they still have money to earn.

If it weren't for He Jinchao's strict requirements on the number of conscripts, the people thousands of miles along the river would have to work for Marshal He to support him.

At this time, more than [-] people were entrenched outside the city of Nanjing.

More than half of them belong to the kind of handyman, helping to transport food and sail the boat.

Anyway, the Ming army couldn't tell the difference between the main and auxiliary soldiers of the hammer bandits.

They could only see the frightening sight of warships covering the sky and the sun on the river, with no end in sight.

It will only make people in the city feel that there are a lot of rebels.

The soldiers of the Ming army at Yuhuatai, after Shi Kefa ordered the thirteen city gates to be blocked with earth bags, and the news that they were about to live and die with Nanjing came out.

The defenders outside Nanjing were extremely weak, so they threw away a large amount of luggage and fled back to the city.

So far, the Ming army's positions outside Nanjing City have all been abandoned, just like the turtle in Wengzhong.

The Hammer bandits were stationed in low-grade places, people screaming, warships lined up, banners covering the sun, and the momentum was frightening.

The defenders in the city couldn't tell how many elite soldiers He Jinzhao had.

The nearly "30 Army" claims to have 25 horses, stretching for tens of miles from the outside of Nanjing to Jiangdongmen, and there are [-] camps set up by hammer bandits everywhere.

The defenders in the city were frightened when they saw that the hammer bandits were so numerous and powerful, and their murderous aura was on the rise.

On July [-]st of the first year of Sledgehammer, soldiers surrounded Nanjing.

He Jinzhao carefully observed the situation of the defenders on the city wall with a binoculars.

The city of Nanjing is tall, strong, and huge in scale, with a circumference of nearly a hundred miles and thirteen gates, surpassing Wuchang in every aspect. It is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties.

It is exactly: Three mountains gather treasures near Tongji, Zhengyang faces the sun and decides Taiping, Shence Jinchuan is near Zhongfu, and Yifeng decides Huaihe and Qingshicheng.

Each city gate has a considerable scale of enemy towers, and there are several wooden gates and Qianjin gates, and each gate has an urn.

The three gates of Sanshan, Jubao, and Tongji each have three inner urns, surpassing the rest of the gates, and there are also urn holes for hiding soldiers, turning the weak point of the city gate into a strength.

Each cave can hide about a hundred soldiers, but now Shi Kefa has no soldiers to defend against.

Especially when hammer bandits appeared at the exit, he had to focus his troops there.

Because there is no moat here, it is convenient to attack, so the section is the dragon vein of the Ming Dynasty and cannot be excavated at will, so there is no moat.

The outer city has 6000 crenels, and just defending according to the crenels requires [-] people.

But there are not so many defenders in the city.

Only Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo were transferred by Shi Kefa.

Fengyang General Soldier Mou Wenshou, Gao Jie and others guarded Fengyang and did not dare to rescue them, while the other watched the excitement in Zhenjiang.

These two generals had less than [-] men in total, so they recruited young and strong people in the city.

Shi Kefa also asked Wei Guogong Xu Hongji to organize the squires to be responsible for public security in the city, and to help guard Nanjing.

However, according to the two-capital system after Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, the three people who held real power in Nanjing were the Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of War, the Xunchen who guarded Nanjing, and the eunuchs who guarded Nanjing.

The other ministers and ministers of the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are just in name.

Although Wei Guogong is the descendant of Xu Da, the first hero of the founding of the country, he just ranks first in various ceremonies, just for show.

The one who can really call the shots is Zhao Zhilong, the guarding minister of Nanjing, Xin Chengbo.

Therefore, before the battle, the Ming army put together more than 3 people, and finally a crenel could be defended by two people.

But most of them are Zhuang Yong recruited temporarily.

And Wei Guogong Xu Hongji's soldiers who assisted in defending Nanjing had little combat effectiveness. He himself was seriously ill and resigned due to illness in the first year of Tianqi.

As a result, he was appointed by Chongzhen this year as Nanjing's garrison and added Taifu.

At this time, it is difficult to even go up to the city wall to inspect, so they can only burn incense and worship Buddha at home, praying to defeat the hammer bandits, and everything falls on Zhao Zhilong.

He looked at the hammer bandits outside the city with such a powerful army, his face became tense.

Zhao Zhilong has never been as blindly confident as Shi Kefa.

How many of those soldiers who fled to Nanjing were able to beat the hammer bandits?
If they could fight, it would be impossible for the hammer bandits to get close to Nanjing. Zuo Liangyu, Gao Jie and others had all fought against the hammer bandits.

If they didn't run fast, it would be death.

Zhao Zhilong had the intention of surrendering in his heart, otherwise would the treatment of passive surrender be the same as that of voluntary surrender?

The only thing that worries him is that the hammer gangsters will slaughter their nobles. He heard that He Jinzhao loves to steal from the rich and give to the poor. eight.

Zhao Zhilong also didn't know what kind of person He Jinzhao was, who was capable of fighting against a few mature women!
That's right, when the rumors reached the south, she was no longer the eldest daughter of Huang Hua, and He Jinzhao also leaned on the "Xiao Xiong Cao Cao, a good woman".

In the north and other places, in order to avoid being kidnapped by hammer bandits, there are many families who make marriages early.

In the south, the situation is reversed.

Most of these are the evil deeds done by the Zuo army in Zhili, south of Huguang. After being spread by people with good intentions, they must be placed on the heads of the hammer bandits.

The people on the city wall were observing the hammer bandits outside the city.

He Jinzhao was also observing the Ming army on the city wall.

He found that many Ming soldiers didn't even have armor.

Moreover, He Jinzhao also got the news that most of the generals of the Ming army fled to Zhenjiang, and Zuo Liangyu even fled in the direction of Hangzhou.

"Marshal, taking down Nanjing is just around the corner."

Liu Erhu laughed twice, this time the land march cleared the Ming army along the coast, and took down a lot of Ming troops, and there were ships along the way to replenish food.

Marching thousands of miles, using the old to lead the new, can actually produce some new recruits.

"Well, send someone to feign one or two attacks to test the quality of the artillery in the city."

After He Jinzhao gave an order, he led his men and horses to the camp.

Liu Erhu had some experience in feigning a city attack.

The last attack on Chengdu was also a feint attack, but it immediately turned into a real attack, allowing the soldiers under his command to make unimaginable contributions.

Besides, this was the first time the hammer bandits attacked such a large city.

According to the Marshal, Nanjing is the largest city in history.

And in terms of defense, in addition to the outer city, there are four walls of the capital city, the imperial city, and the palace city.

I have to say that the city of Nanjing is really too big, and the city wall looks higher than that of Xi'an.

As for the city walls of Taiyuan, because of the Song Dynasty, they are not qualified to be compared.

The 10 people who had their faces swollen to pretend to be fat are placed outside the city of Nanjing. In fact, they are really not densely packed.

But at this time, the bigger the city wall, the more excited the Hammer bandits were.

Taking down Nanjing and destroying Ming Dynasty's accompanying capital, isn't this more fulfilling than defeating Fengyang, the central capital without a city wall?
The closer the commander-in-chief's goal of becoming emperor, the longer we will live a good life.

All of a sudden, there were loud shouts of killing outside the city of Nanjing, and a large number of hammer bandits rushed to kill.

"Fire, fire!"

Shi Kefa, who personally supervised the battle, gave the order to repel the rebels.

With the roar of the cannons, more than a hundred cannons on the city wall started to fire at the hammer bandits outside the city.

The tiger crouching cannons on the city walls, and even the cannons cast during the Jiajing period were carried out.

After the hammer bandits heard the cannon, they turned around and ran away.

Shi Kefa seemed extremely excited, he yelled that the hammer bandits retreated.

Cheers erupted from the walls.

Some civil servants were so excited that they cried.

As for the soldiers who were injured by the explosion, they didn't care at all.

But Huang Degong didn't think so. He looked at the hammer bandit soldiers who withdrew outside the city, but he didn't see any of them lying on the ground.

The soldiers operating the cannon didn't even judge whether they were within the firing range, but listened to Shi Kefa's order, and hurriedly loaded and fired.

Can you hit someone from a long distance?
"King Qin, the defenders in the city are not very good at handling gunners." Zhang Fuzhen observed through the binoculars for a while.

He just stared at one cannon, not to mention the long wait after firing one cannon before he could recover to firing another cannon.

Accurate head means not accurate head.

Don't these people know how to play with guns?
For a moment, Zhang Fuzhen recalled that there were less than a hundred Japanese pirates fighting all the way to Nanjing.

"The Ming army is getting worse and worse." He Jinzhao also put down his binoculars, and said to the left and right: "Send an order to Zhou Da to lead an artillery counterattack and see the effect."

"Yes."

The orderlies waved their flags and sent orders to the artillery positions.

Following He Jinzhao's order, more than [-] cannons were pushed out, placed in front of Sanshan Gate, and began to adjust their muzzles to aim at the enemy tower.