Nanming Yiming

Chapter 195 Recovering the Southern Capital
Qian Mo was in Hunan when he received Yongli's order to capture Nanjing.Therefore, this attack on Nanjing was under the full command of Huang Yu, and 4 people from the Baipao Battalion and Shenji Battalion attacked Nanjing from the east and west.

Except for the Baipao Battalion who lost more than 1000 people in the battle against Haoge outside Zhenjiang City, other battles were fought relatively easily.Even when the Shenji Battalion besieged the 5000 Zhenghongqi in Lishui, they only lost a few hundred people.

At present, all the prefectures and counties on the outskirts of Nanjing have been captured by the Ming army, and more than 35000 people from the Green Camp of the Qing army surrendered.The reason why the Ming army did not directly attack Nanjing was to see if there was a chance to lure the Qing army out of Nanjing; more importantly, it was to wait for Qian Mo to return to his army. Duke Yue must personally lead the army for this feat of recovering the southern capital.

Looking at the tall and majestic city walls of Nanjing City, Qian Mo couldn't help sighing: "It's such a fortified city, it may be difficult to conquer it if you want to attack it by force."

Huang Yu said: "With our current firepower, no matter whether it is a 12-pound cannon or a mortar, it is difficult to bombard the city walls of Nanjing. We can only suppress the artillery on the city first, and then use the advantage of the range of the rifle rifle to slowly kill the Qing army on the city."

Qian Mo nodded, approving Huang Yu's siege plan, and then asked, "How long does Uncle Xuancheng think it will take to conquer Nanjing?"

Huang Yu said: "According to information, there are still 4 Qing troops in the city, and there is enough food; if our army wants to besiege Nanjing, it will probably take at least a month."

Qian Mo said with a smile: "That is to say, Hauge stupidly deployed most of his troops on the outskirts of Nanjing. If there are 10 troops in Nanjing, it may not be difficult to persist for a year or so."

"The city wall of Nanjing was first built in the 26th year of Yuan Zhizheng and completed in the 26th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. It took 28 years to build. Not only is the city wall tall, but it is also built near mountains and rivers, which can be said to have taken advantage of the location! It's a pity that the country is not in danger. Whether it is Zhu Dijing's difficulty in capturing Nanjing or Duoduo's previous southward movement, the Nanjing city wall has not played the slightest role."

Then he said lightly: "Let's start!" So a large number of corpses of the Eight Banners of Manchuria were dragged by the Ming army outside the city to the Zhengyang Gate!
Soon the Qing army in the city was blown away, and piles of corpses wearing red and blue armor were built into Jingguan by the Ming army. After a while, two huge piles of corpses appeared outside the city of Nanjing.

The Han army flag on the city whispered: "It seems that not only the Xianglan flag has been severely damaged, but also the Zhenghong flag outside the city has been completely wiped out. These two piles of corpses add up to tens of thousands of people!"

Jierhalang even secretly scolded the Ming army for being shameless, and actually transported the body of Xianglanqi from Zhenjiang to Nanjing, so that the soul of my Qing warrior could not rest in peace!
If it were in the past, he would have personally fought outside the city to retrieve the bones of these warriors, but now he can only swallow his anger and let the Ming army insult him.

Jierhalang roared angrily: "Fire me and bombard the Ming army outside the city."

The Qing army's shelling did not have much effect, and soon the Ming army's 12-pound cannon launched a more violent counterattack. For a while, Zhengyang Gate was hit by the Ming army one after another, and several red cannons on the city were destroyed.

Although these artillery shells were not enough to blow down the city walls of Nanjing, the huge power of the explosive shells still caused considerable damage to the Qing army. The huge explosion made the defenders on the city tremble with fear, and the morale of the Qing army plummeted instantly!
Especially after that, the gunmen of the Ming army shot at the Qing army on the city from a hundred steps away, which caused the casualties of the defenders on Zhengyangmen to increase sharply, and more than 300 people were killed in one day.

The next day, the gunners of the Ming army increased their range of attacks. Not only Zhengyangmen, but also places such as Chaoyangmen and Tongjimen were attacked by the gunners of the Ming army.The Qing army was so scared that they didn't dare to show their heads easily, so they could only hide in the tower or squat against the city wall.

After all, it is a small probability event to be killed by artillery. As long as it is not exposed, the probability of death is not high.

Ma Guozhu said: "Prince Zheng, the Ming army seems to know our defenses. They only attack the city gates guarded by the Eight Banners and the Han Army Banners. Shall we send some green battalion soldiers here, so as to reduce the casualties of the warriors?"

Now the morale in Nanjing City has plummeted, and people's minds have changed. The positions of these city gates are too critical. Once the Ming army enters Nanjing City from here, the consequences will be disastrous. Jierhalang dare not take such a risk.

So he said: "In the past few days, our army has also begun to adapt to this kind of sneak attack by the Ming army, and the casualties have dropped significantly. It is better not to take risks."

Although the 200 casualties per day can be tolerated by the Qing army for the time being, the red cannons in the city are gone. After seven or eight days of artillery battle, the Qing army's artillery has been completely destroyed by the Ming army, and now they only have to be beaten.

Moreover, the cunning Ming army not only carried out sneak attacks during the day, shooting and killing the Qing army on the city, but also did not let go at night, and began to attack the Qing army patrolling the city at night.

In desperation, in order to reduce casualties, the Qing army had to give up patrolling the city at night.

There are only 14000 people in the city's Manchu Eight Banners and Han Army Banners. In the past ten days, more than 2000 people have been lost. If this continues, Nanjing City will be finished within three months.

In fact, the isolated city is not so easy to hold on to. In history, the strong belief and the desire for reinforcements are the reason for sticking to the isolated city.With the current situation on the battlefield, how can the Qing Dynasty send reinforcements?
What's more, the Yangtze River has long been blocked by the Ming army. As time goes by, the Ming army has more and more ships in the Yangtze River Navy, and the blockade has become more and more strict.Even if Dorgon could conjure up a support army out of thin air, it would be futile if he couldn't cross the Yangtze River.

That is to say, the food in the city is relatively sufficient at present, and Ma Guozhu has implemented strict curfew management, so there has not been much trouble for the time being.

At this time, the Qing army discovered that there was also movement of digging outside the city at night.Jierhalangdun felt bad. It seemed that the Ming army was going to fill in the moat while it was dark.

So quickly let the Qing army on the city output a firecracker to the city.

However, the Qing army's attack did not seem to have any effect. Instead, it attracted the Ming army's firecrackers to fight back. For a while, the two sides fought very lively.
But after the early morning smoke cleared, the Qing army found that they fought a lonely battle. They didn't even see a Ming army's corpse by the moat, but they themselves were shot and killed more than 300 people. Fortunately, it was night, and the Ming army's firearms also had very low hits.Otherwise, the city would already be a sea of ​​corpses and blood.

Just when the Qing army rejoiced that they prevented the Ming army from filling the river, they discovered that there were many large-caliber artillery behind the moat, and the dark muzzles of each of them were aimed at the city.

These positions are no more than 120 steps away from the city wall, and the Qing army can't reach them at all, but the Ming army's musketeers can shoot and kill the Qing army on the city.

As the mortars started to fire, Zhengyang Gate was instantly covered by the artillery fire of the Ming army and the Ming army. There were explosions one after another, and the huge air wave shook many Qing troops directly off the city wall.

These mortars were actually more powerful than the heavy artillery of the Ming army before. Although the supervising team began to kill the deserters, they were quickly dispersed by the crowd rushing down from the city.

The city is simply hell. Although the city wall cannot be blown up temporarily, the people on the city cannot withstand it. Standing on the city under the cover of this kind of firepower is simply death.That is to say, the firing intervals of these mortars of the Ming army were very long, so they had the opportunity to run down the city.

Although the Man Ba ​​Banners are brave in battle and have a high degree of obedience, they are flesh and blood after all.They are not afraid of death, but it does not mean that they can stay in the city and die in vain.

Seeing that the bullets could no longer be suppressed, Jierharang had no choice but to personally comfort the soldiers who ran down the city, so as not to cause mutiny.Originally thought that relying on Nanjing's tall city walls to defend the city for half a year would not be a problem, but I didn't expect that the firearms of the Ming army were so sharp that it hurt like a slow knife.In less than half a month now, the morale of the army in Nanjing has been greatly shaken.

Moreover, the casualties of the Manchu and Han Eight Banners were too great, and it was impossible to continue like this. Although Jierhalang felt that these green battalions were unreliable, Jierhalang could only dispatch the green battalion to help defend Zhengyangmen, and sent a small number of Manchu and Han Eight Banners to the city to supervise the battle.

However, he was not worried about transferring the entire battalion of green battalion soldiers to Zhengyang Gate, for fear that these green battalions would not be able to withstand the firepower of the Ming army and directly open the city gate to surrender.

Moreover, forcing apportionment is not an option. These green battalion soldiers like to steal and play tricks in the war. Eight Banners can't resist transferring them, and they probably don't want to do it. If they don't do it, they can really push them back.

Since coercion doesn't work, let's fool around, and soon Fan Wencheng came up with a way to draw lots.Every day, 500 "lucky lotteries" are randomly drawn from the green camp, and the lucky ones who win the lottery will have a good meal the night before, and then take 10 taels of silver to guard Zhengyangmen.

In the first few days, the effect was not bad, and there were even a lot of voluntary signups, but the death rate in Zhengyangmen was really high.Soon these green camps realized that this so-called "lucky lottery" was actually a "life-and-death lottery".

Although this money is good, do you have to live to spend it?
As a result, there was a sense of resistance in the green camp, and the lottery was drawn every day to determine life and death. This was a torment for everyone!
Seeing that the time was ripe, Wang Yuanlong and Wu Jie began to secretly contact their confidants, preparing to do whatever they wanted.Raising troops is very risky anyway, although these people are their subordinates, if someone leaks the news in advance, it will be fatal!
However, after the trouble of "life and death lottery", it was equivalent to an ideological mobilization for them. In the past seven or eight days, more than 400 people in their camp signed Zhengyangmen, and in the end, less than 20 people came back.

As soon as they heard that they were going to dedicate the city anyway, the Qing army raised their hands in favor of letting the Ming army into Nanjing City. They wished to open the city gate immediately. After all, one day later anyway, they would have an extra risk of "winning the lottery".

It was winter in Nanjing in November, and the cold wind at night made people shiver. The soldiers on the city had already hid in the towers, and only a small number of troops were still patrolling the city.

Wu Jie asked in a low voice: "Are those Tartars with blue flags in the tower?"

A Green Battalion soldier nodded in affirmation, and then made a gesture with his hand, indicating that there were 10 people in total.

Wu Jie walked in with the wine jar and said: "Tonight is darker and the dew is heavier. Everyone has worked hard at the night watch. Drink some wine to warm up your body."

Then a few soldiers involuntarily went in to pour wine for them. While these Eight Banners soldiers were enjoying their drinks, Wu Jie drew out his saber, and immediately killed the two Tartars around him;
After succeeding, Wu Jie and others waved the torches on the city. For a while, the heads of the people outside the city moved, and soon the Ming army entered Dinghuai Gate.

Originally, Jierhalang had already rested, but when he heard the roar of artillery fire outside the city, he was so frightened that he almost fell off the bed.He quickly picked up his saber and rushed out of the house, only to see Ma Guozhu staggering towards him, saying, "Prince Zheng, something is wrong. The Ming army bombarded Zhengyangmen and Jubaomen, and they might be preparing to attack the city."

Ji Erhalang straightened his armor and said, "Don't panic, I will lead the Xianglan flag to Zhengyang Gate, and Governor Ma will lead the Han army flag to Jubao Gate. The city wall of Nanjing is so high that the Ming army will not be able to get in for a while."

"In addition, organize people and horses to enforce martial law throughout the city, lest someone fish in troubled waters and take advantage of the opportunity to create chaos to support the Ming army!"

Ji Erhalang had just boarded the Zhengyang Gate, and found that the Ming army waving torches was all under the city.But he soon discovered that something was wrong. Although the Ming army's killing sound was loud, the Ming army just kept shooting with firecrackers, and there was no sign of attacking the city at all.

So Jierhalang ran down the city wall and shouted: "This is a false attack by the Ming army's bluff. The Ming army must have other plans. Follow me down the city."

Sure enough, after walking down the city wall, he found that the northwest direction of Nanjing City was full of flames.

The soldiers of the Xianglan Banner just wanted to go to find out what happened, when they encountered the Ming army, and only heard the sound of "bang, bang, bang" firecrackers, and a large number of soldiers fell into a pool of blood!
At this time Ma Guozhu rushed over with someone and said, "Prince Zheng, retreat to the imperial city quickly, these green camps are all reversed, and they are attacking us together with the Ming army."

Originally, Jierhalang wanted to defend the imperial city, but unexpectedly, the surrendered green battalion had already entered the imperial city from the Taiping Gate, and the two sides fought in the imperial city. The Qing army failed to drive the green battalion out of the imperial city in the first place.
The shouts of killing in Nanjing lasted all night. At this time, Molibu, the leader of the Xianglan Banner, said: "My lord, Governor Ma was captured by the Ming army in the imperial city last night; Mr. Fan Wencheng committed suicide by hanging himself in Fengtian Hall, and the servants cremated his body in the square according to his last wish!"

Hearing that Fan Wencheng had been reduced to ashes, Jierhalang couldn't help feeling a little sad in his heart.He asked lightly: "How many people do we have now?"

Morib said: "There are about 800 people in this palace city!"

Jierhalang said: "Ignite all the halls in the palace city, and go out with this king. We will fight to the death with the Ming army!"

The Ming army outside the palace city found black smoke billowing in the city, and immediately launched an attack
On November 1648, the second year of Yongli (11), Prince Zheng Jierhalang of the Manchu Qing Dynasty died in battle, and the Ming army recovered Nanjing!

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