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Chapter 379

The offensive and defensive battle of the city wall by the Qinhuai River was fierce and bloody. Although there was no hand-to-hand combat, the two sides had already suffered a lot of casualties just from the crazy shooting of long-range weapons.

The morale of the defenders was also high under the supervision of the Shi Ge Department, as well as the encouragement of the scholars who helped the people in the battle and washed away their shame.

The reason why this battle was still fought like this is that the hard quality and combat strength of the original Nanjing defenders were really relatively low——

Nanjing is not the territory of Zhu Shuren's direct lineage. Zhu Shuren has traveled through five and a half years, but he has not been able to reach out to the defense and military construction of Southern Zhili.Although the water guards controlled by the Shen family were elite and belonged to Nanzhili, they were the navy and played a greater role in other directions.

At least [-]% of the garrison troops in Nanjing are still the Ming army built under the old system and the old arms support system, and they have not received the new muskets, new armors and other equipment of the Huguang New Army.Fighting with this kind of old army with little battle experience, it will indeed perform poorly at the beginning.

This is also impossible, because what Zhu Shuren traveled to was a real and complex world, not the kind of system world where "the loyalty of the protagonist's subordinates is locked".Zhu Shuren's strategy is to steal the Ming, and make full use of the inheritance stability bonus brought about by Ming's orthodoxy, instead of directly setting off the imperial system and starting anew.

That being the case, Zhu Shuren certainly cannot use the rough and authoritarian moves that the protagonists of the system world who lock loyalty can use.Even if he knows that after a successful dictatorship, he can build the army and farm faster.

Even if his father-in-law became emperor, even if Shi Kefa had a good relationship with him, he was only temporarily promoted from the governor of one province to the governor of three provinces, and he did not fully grasp everything in the Nanming court in one step. ".

Only when the Nanjing court experienced another crisis and was rescued from the cliff by Zhu Shuren, with a comparison, the literati and cabinet ministers all over the world were frightened, and the weak shakers were also eliminated. If they can't play it, they can only choose between "either be killed, or absolutely listen to Zhu Shuren", and then hand over the imperial dictatorship to him obediently,
At that point, Zhu Shu was able to drastically reform and upgrade the armed forces in Nanzhili, and enjoy a relatively high treatment like the Huguang Ming army.

In fact, in the original history, the authorization scale of generals in the late Ming Dynasty gradually increased as the situation gradually deteriorated.Before Nanjing was lost, what was Zheng Chenggong?What is Li Dingguo?Can you have the final say?Totally impossible.

During the Hongguang Dynasty, Li Dingguo had no chance even if he wanted to Zhao'an, and Nanming couldn't even give him a title. After Hongguang's death, he was replaced by Yongli, and the situation collapsed completely, so he let go of the scale.

The imperial military forces in Nanzhili would not be willing to hand over all military power to Zhu Shuren without suffering a little bit.

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Of course, the marine troops around Nanjing are not completely incapable of fighting.For example, Zhu Shuren used Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong to withdraw the Liaodong and Jimen Ming army frontiers by sea.

In addition to Gao Jie's troops, which had suffered quite a lot of losses before, this group of people also included the troops of Li Fuming, the former general of Shanxi, and some soldiers of Bai Guangen and Tang Tong (Bai Guangen and Tang Tong themselves defected to the enemy in the north, and some of their tribes were recruited by Zhu Shuren. Wu Sangui fished it back)
At any rate, they were the frontier troops of the original Nine Frontiers, and their combat effectiveness was still acceptable, but their numbers only accounted for less than [-]% of the Nanjing garrison troops.

When the siege battle started early in the morning, Li Fuming's troops did not deploy defenses on the wall section where the Qing army was mainly attacking, which caused the Ming army's defense to be somewhat in a hurry.Before noon, Shi Kefa finally completed all the dispatches, transferred Li Fuming's main force, and made Li Fuming the commander in chief of this defense zone. The situation soon improved.

As the bloody battle lasted until noon, more than 40 cannons concentrated by the Qing army repeatedly bombarded a section of the city wall. Although the wall had not yet collapsed, the large stones and blue bricks on the outer layer had already completely collapsed. The battlements were also completely destroyed.The top of the wall was bare and there was no shelter at all. The soldiers blocking the entrance could only defend with iron armor and huge shields, and there was nowhere to hide.

Because the rammed earth inside the wall is easy to buffer and absorb energy, it is impossible to completely collapse.Even if it has withstood thousands of shells, at most it will only peel off and collapse the relatively tall parts above, but no matter how much Dodo bombards, these wall sections can basically retain at least half of their height——

Don’t be surprised by the strength of the Nanjing City Wall. After all, a considerable part of the Nanjing Ming City Wall has been preserved until the 21st century. The Japanese army also bombarded it with modern artillery during the Anti-Japanese War, but it did not completely collapse (but the Japanese used it extensively. The main reason is that the Type 92 infantry bombarded ancient buildings. The diameter of that thing is very short, and it can only be destroyed by explosive force. If you use the heavy siege artillery in the European battlefield during World War II, it will probably work)

The wall along the Qinhuai River that Duoduo attacked was really too high and too thick. The height was about six feet, or 20 meters.The width of the top of the wall is three to four feet, and the width of the bottom is eight to ten feet.No matter how indiscriminate the bombing, it is impossible to directly flatten the 20-meter-thick earth embankment.

Doduo saw that the progress of the bombardment was slower than expected, and he further used all the trench bridge vehicles and wood donkeys at any cost. There were hundreds of wood donkeys in total, and thousands of soldiers were nestled inside and pushed to dig away. Loose, fallen soil.

And the Ming army's Frang machine was also outputting crazily at these siege equipment. Every moment, the siege equipment was blown up and destroyed, and the soldiers inside wailed and fell to death, screaming like ghosts.

In order to disperse the firepower of the Ming army, Duoduo originally didn't plan to use the ladder trucks and ladder ants in front of the broken wall, but now he can't take care of it. Because of the short time, he only built less than ten large ladder trucks in total. , the rest are simple ladders,
Now I don't save it anymore, I piled it all together, just trying to entangle the defenders on the Ming army's horse faces and turrets, so that the soldiers on the fort could not fire with all their strength.

Seeing thousands of Han Army Banner veterans and hundreds of full Eight Banners double-armored elite soldiers falling down and dying in the city like this, Duduo's heart is also bleeding, but he knows that this is the time to gamble his life , can not be stingy.

The killing continued until the end of the day. The shortest parts of the wall sections that were heavily bombarded by the Qing army were forcibly collapsed to a height of two or three feet, but the remaining residues were still more than three feet high, equivalent to ten meters. .

However, Duoduo did not dare to expect more, because when the Nanjing city wall was at a height of three feet, its thickness was about five feet (15 meters).He didn't dare to expect that such a thick part could be peeled off even lower by solid iron ball shells.

Fortunately, the bloody battle lasted until this time, and the wreckage of the wooden donkey cart, the wreckage of the flying ladder, the excavated soil, and the corpses of the soldiers left by the Qing army at the root of the city wall had also piled up to almost a peak. A pile of corpses two or three feet high.

Considering that the thickness of a person's body is about seven or eight inches, more than twenty centimeters.About fifteen people can be stacked in one foot, and about forty people can be stacked in three feet.

Those who know a little bit of elementary school mathematics can use the volume formula of the terrace to bring it in a little bit, and they will know that such a pile of corpses that can be flush with the remnant wall requires at least 2000 dead people to pile up. Tamp down.And there is more than one pile of corpses like this under the city wall!
Doduo inadvertently fought the siege of Nanjing in a similar form to Hong Xiuquan's siege of Nanjing more than 100 years later in the original history. During the war, regardless of the losses, it was often called "siege by trampling corpses", that is, after the ants broke through the wall, the corpses were piled up as high as the remnants of the city wall, and they could rush up the wall by stepping on the corpses of their comrades.

In today's battle, when the battle progressed to the point where the corpses could be climbed uphill, the Manchu people under Duoduo's direct line had already had a whole reorganized Jiala killed in battle at the foot of the city, and even Jiala Zhangjing himself fought. Dead, these warriors are all wearing double armor and rushing hard.

In Zhengbai Banner, a Jiala was also disabled. At least half of the soldiers were killed or seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness.

As for the Han army flag, the Mongolian army flag, and the newly attached army, it was even worse. Each side suffered at least one casualty at the level of annihilation of the entire army.

However, the effect of stepping on corpses to attack the city is also very significant. Although the Qing army has to bear the disadvantage of attacking low and high, at least they can fight directly with the Ming army.

The Nanjing Ming army did not have sufficient new muskets like the Huguang new army, nor did they have sophisticated shotguns, so they only relied on the side-firing firepower of the Frang machine to bombard the crowd.

Each shot of Frangji harvested at least five or six lives, and as many as seven or eight or even a dozen.But the density of firepower is always a big problem. Coupled with the limitation of the shooting angle of the horse-faced turret on the city wall, at the same time, only four or five Flang machines can just reach the point where the Qing army rushed to the city.

Li Fuming took the Shanxi frontier army who had withdrawn from the north with him, and fought against the Qing army on the gap.

For all those who participated in the blocking, Mr. Shen Ge said that before going to the wall, he would pay 30 taels of silver to settle down, regardless of whether he was dead or alive, and there would be compensation for casualties.

Those troops of the Shanxi General Army had never seen such good treatment in Liaodong before, so naturally they were fighting against each other and regarded death as home.The heavy armor of the death squads of the Qing army was too strong, so the Ming army changed their spears and used heavy long blunt weapons such as square-edged copper scorpions to beat and smash violently (that is, a kind of hand that is round and wooden, but two The part that hits people at the end is covered with metal on four sides, which can be understood as a golden cudgel with a square section)

Whenever the double armored soldiers of the Qing army were hit, they would vomit blood again and again, and their brains would overflow when they hit their helmets.It's just that using this kind of heavy weapon is clumsy, and it consumes a lot of physical strength. Ming soldiers who were fighting for their lives would often fall to the ground in this kind of confrontation.

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The battle has reached the point of stepping on corpses and fighting hand-to-hand. Scholars, relatives and friends of traitors who were originally ordered by Shi Kefa to stand on the wall to prove their innocence are also frightened.

Many old disciples of Wang Duo and Qian Qianyi dared to carry ammunition and throw rolling logs and stones for the soldiers before the Qing army went up to the wall.At this moment, it was the stage of bloody melee combat, and some scholars were frightened out of their wits. Some of them tried to retreat, but they were immediately beheaded by the soldiers sent by Shi Kefa to supervise the battle, and they were not allowed to retreat half a step.

Seeing that these scholars and talents were forced to fight together, the morale of ordinary soldiers was still high, and they felt that all beings were equal and worth working hard.

The hand-to-hand fight lasted for less than half an hour. Seeing Wei Mo Shen Chu, there were some small changes near the temporary command tent in the rear—of course, changes that were beneficial to the Ming army.

At noon, Shen Tingyang, at the request of Shi Kefa, brought all the old relatives and friends of the officials who secretly fell into the city to join the enemy last night, but only let the men stand on the wall to help them prove their innocence and clear their shame, and did not ask for the women of those people.It's just that some of the more important ones can be regarded as hostages in temporary custody, that's all.

But seeing the fierce fighting ahead, some female relatives suddenly came to Shen Tingyang and expressed their willingness to do something for the city defenders.

Shen Tingyang was a little surprised at first glance, because he knew all these people, including Liu Rushi, because she was said to have talked about ransom with Qian Qianyi two years ago. Those who are suspected of having an old relationship" took control.

However, because of Zhu Shuren's butterfly effect against Gong Dingzi, Ruan Dacheng and others, Liu Rushi in this life did not get together with Qian Qianyi. Enough money to redeem himself.This time it was a war, and just in case, they were all controlled, and they were not treated harshly.

However, seeing that all the soldiers in the city, including some scholars who had been implicated and humiliated, went up to the wall to fight against the enemy, Liu Rushi was also a bit chivalrous, so he wanted to do something and asked:

"Mr. Shen Ge, although we have already drawn a clear line with Qian Qianyi, this time we are also deeply ashamed of being friends with this thief. Even if the imperial court does not punish us, we still want to do something within our capabilities.

In ancient times, Han Shizhong used Liang Hongyu to beat the drums against the gold when he fought against the gold. Today, my sisters and I also ask to go to the tower, get some drums and music to help us fight, and ask the old man for permission. "

Shen Tingyang was more pragmatic, and stroked his beard: "The bloody battle is in full swing, and drum music in the army is not a trifling matter. If it is chaotic, it will not be beautiful. If you want to beat the drums, you can only follow those drummers and find a few other drums. Give you the military drums you are using. Also, do you know how to beat the drums? Maybe they are uniform? Go to the side and let the military music officer check them before they are allowed to go on the wall."

Fighting wars is not a child's play, how can you let your temper go casually.Liang Hongyu has martial arts skills, but these women don't.

After some inspection, it turned out that the group of sisters brought by Liu Rushi had poor physical strength and the beating of the drums was uneven, so they were brushed off by Shen Tingyang sternly.

After a while, Liu Rushi and Gu Mei took the drumsticks, changed into strong clothes, went up to the city tower, and started beating the drums and shouting. The other Qinhuai women who were brushed off originally had friendship with Wang Duo, Qian Qianyi and others. Those who felt ashamed also made the next best thing, put on bunt and capable clothes, and helped carry the wounded.

The soldiers under Li Fuming's command were fighting in a bloody battle. After a while, people noticed that even women began to go up the wall, and Qinhuai famous players were beating drums, and ordinary advocates were helping to lift the wounded, and their morale was getting higher and higher.

Those scholars who were forced to go up against the wall also showed the courage to fight for their lives, how could they lose face in front of women.

The Ming army fought back desperately, and killed groups of Qing troops who had trampled on corpses and rushed to the top of the city. It slowly grew to a height of four feet, and the one-foot-thick corpses were piled up in the gap.

"What's going on? These savages have such courage? Even the women go up to the wall to beat the drums. It's impossible for me to be the king!"

Duoduo watched repeatedly from the bottom of the city. The Ming army was so imposing and furious that he ordered the idle artillery to bombard the tower. In addition, he continued to bombard the pile of people in the gap regardless of enemy or friend!Even if the soldiers of the Qing army and the soldiers of the Ming army were bombarded to death together, it would not hesitate!

As the firepower of the Qing army shifted, the city tower was hit and collapsed in several places. Liu Rushi, Gu Mei and others were also injured, or trapped by the collapse, and were gradually carried down or fled.Dozens of those women living on the Qinhuai River were killed or injured.

But this kind of attack does not affect the morale of the Ming army at all. At this point in the battle, there is no distinction between north and south, no distinction between old and young, civil and military, and even male and female. Everyone has the responsibility to guard the land and kill the enemy. .

The Qing army fought desperately to pile up human lives, but it was like a surging Yellow River hitting the mainstay, the waves shattered, and the clouds scattered backwards.

Shenshi, Youshi, Xushi... time is passing by hour by hour, thousands of lives are thrown into the bottomless pit, but the Ming army always has a steady stream of reserves to replenish the gap, because of crossfire and condescending advantages , The Ming army can at least triple the casualty exchange ratio, and is not afraid of exchanging lives with Duoduo at all.

The bloody battle lasted until late at night, until Duoduo's eyes were bloodshot and his nerves were weak. It is estimated that more than [-] troops under his command had died directly in battle, and he was completely numb.

At about the beginning of Haishi, a scout behind the Qing army finally brought a more devastating news.

"My lord, we can't fight any more! The reinforcements from the Southern Barbarians are really coming. Our scouts are at the Dasheng Pass at the junction of Yingtian Mansion and Taiping Mansion. We have detected the vanguard warships of the Ming army passing through the river! This is Pegasus!" Come and pay back!

Dashengguan is less than a hundred miles away, and Zhu Shuren's reinforcements will definitely arrive tomorrow morning at the latest!If our army really threw tens of thousands of lives into the Nanjing City Wall and knocked out morale, once Zhu Shuren came, it would all be over! "

Dashengguan is near Ma'anshan, Anhui in later generations, and it is a place that can be directly reached by Nanjing Metro S2 in later generations (even in the middle section of subway S2, not the southernmost section), and it is only seventy or eighty miles away, so there are many The danger facing Duo was, of course, imminent.

If he continued the bloody battle all night without rest, and was intercepted by Zhu Shuren tomorrow morning, the whole army would collapse immediately!

Doduo almost gritted his teeth, and in the end he could only gamble until midnight. Seeing that the time of Haishi was almost midnight, he had to give up the storm, gather troops and adjust the deployment, at least transfer all the Hongyi cannons first, so as not to Tomorrow was flanked and captured.

The Ming army at the head of the city of Nanjing also rotated several groups. After all, Li Fuming's troops were not made of iron, and it was impossible to fight from noon to midnight, and their physical strength had long been exhausted.

Fortunately, everyone's morale has already been completely boosted. Seeing that the friendly troops are working so hard, the scholars and women are all working hard, and even if the troops replaced later are not skilled in martial arts, they are full of blood and brains, like crazy tigers.It can completely make up for the technical and tactical gap.

The two sides fought desperately until midnight, and when they saw that the Qing army was finally unsupported and began to retreat, the city wall by the Qinhuai River was also resounding with Lei Dong's roar.

"What's so scary about the Tartars! They also have two arms and one head! Cut off the head and die!"

"Ming must win! The world must survive!"

"King Qin's army is coming! All the dog tartars will die!"

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PS: The war scenes are not very easy to disassemble. Today, five or six thousand words are piled together and will not be dismantled. It will be a big change.Yesterday's second update was actually more than 5000 words long, but it was just a little bit of nonsense explanation, and it was not broken.

(End of this chapter)