Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 764 Nanjing Attack and Defense Ten

The Qing army on the city was unprepared. The entire city wall and ground in the west section of Tongji Gate suddenly swelled high, and then fell heavily. The process only took a moment, and it was a hundred times more terrifying than an earthquake.

The fortified city of Nanjing collapsed in an instant in the violent explosion. A nearly five-foot-long city wall collapsed. Hundreds of Qing soldiers on it were all killed, and those who survived fell to the ruins, rolling and crying.

The collapsed place was in a mess, and the surviving soldiers had dull eyes in shock.

Tong Tulai was very unlucky. He just walked to the edge of the explosion. Although he was not killed by the shock, his leg was broken by the flying bricks.

He could no longer think about why the city wall exploded, but moved back instinctively.

At this time, the city wall collapsed, causing smoke and dust to rise up, which blocked his sight. He only saw some soldiers around him who were frightened and deranged, walking aimlessly on the city wall, howling in horror, and there were wailing and crying for help everywhere. sound.

Suddenly he saw a red-armored soldier, his personal guard, standing beside him in a daze, staring blankly at the collapsed place, and immediately shouted: "Tong Guozheng, come and help this general!"

Before he could finish his sentence, a cannon hit the bodyguard's head directly, his head was smashed immediately, blood and brains splashed everywhere, and Tong Tulai's face was covered with a paste.

Fortunately, at this time, many Qing soldiers gradually came to their senses, and the two Eight Banners found Tong Tulai, and they hurriedly picked him up and dragged him to the city.

The rubble splashed by the explosion hit him, making Hong Chengchou come to his senses. He was terrified in his heart. Didn't Tong Tulai say that the three tunnels were all blown up?How did the Ming army bomb the city?
He stood up, seeing the gap five feet wide, he was shocked and angry.

This Tong Tulai followed Duoze, Duoduo defeated, followed Boluo, Boluo defeated, and now he is coming to harm him again.

Hong Chengchou doesn't practice any superstitions, and he doesn't speak strangely, but now he really regrets that he didn't drive this broom star to Jiangbei to harm others.

Just when he was frightened and angry, there was a faint sound of war drums outside the city, and countless people shouted and killed from far and near, and the sound shook the whole city.

A Qing general beside him was startled by the explosion just now. He heard the shouts of killing, and said with trembling lips: "Governor, the Ming army has begun to attack the city!"

At this moment, a Qing general ran down from the city, saw Hong Chengchou, rushed over like seeing his mother, and cried from a long distance: "Governor, it's not good! Gushan is injured! "

OK!He will pick the time!
Just now, the two of them seemed to be trusting each other, but now Hong Chengchou was full of anger, but he didn't have time to explode, "Quickly, go to Duke Duanzhong and ask him to quickly dispatch troops to support him."

Now Hong Chengchou finally found a reason for Wang Yan's heavy troops to attack Tongjimen. It turns out that there is still a tunnel that has not been discovered.

After thinking this through, Hong Chengchou's heart calmed down from the explosion.Yesterday he increased troops to Tongji Gate twice, even if Wang Yan blew up the city wall, he wouldn't be able to enter the city easily.

Hong Chengchou couldn't help cheering up, letting himself exude determination and courage, so as to appease the soldiers around him.

"Come here, get a pair of armor for the governor!"

It takes too much time to go back and forth to pick up the armor now. A Qing general is very sensible and immediately starts to untie his armor.His stature was about the same as that of Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou did not refuse, and a group of people quickly put on armor for him, but he continued to order: "Send someone to the prefect of Jiangning, and immediately build a low wall in the city to surround the gap."

At this time, the battle drums of the Ming army outside the city were beating loudly. Thousands of prisoners of war once again acted as the vanguard, carrying the flying bridge and rushed to the forefront. The main force of the Ming army did not wait for the prisoners to be consumed first. The five thousand Zheng troops under the banner of loyalty, Immediately afterwards, a charge was launched.

The moat outside Tongji Gate is narrower than that of the Qinhuai River, and the Qing army only burned down a section of the pontoon bridge built last time near Nanjing. Today, it is easier for the prisoners to build the pontoon bridge.

Taking advantage of the panic in the city, countless captured soldiers jumped into the water and lifted the flying bridge. Gan Hui led the soldiers and flew across without piling to fix the flying bridge with the captured soldiers.

Thousands of Zheng Jun stepped on the flying bridge, and the bodies of the captive soldiers below were heaved and heaved, but each of them persisted, allowing Zheng Jun's elite to pass quickly, crashing headlong into the dust caused by the collapse of the city wall.

Only at this time did the Qing soldiers on both sides of the collapse react, and immediately the guns fired at once, and the archers shot a rain of scattered arrows, all of which were poorly aimed.

At the same time, the artillery carts of the Qing Army hiding behind the city wall finally came to their senses in the chaos. Hundreds of artillery stones rose into the air and fell rapidly.

However, the cannon carts also have a flaw, that is, their shooting range is basically fixed. Once the Ming army rushed past the area where the cannon rocks hit and reached the city, they would no longer be threatened by him.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the Qing army, most of Gan Hui's 5000 men rushed under the gap.Two thousand households of archers and musketeers immediately seized the two sides of the gap and began to line up to throw arrows and guns at the walls on both sides of the gap to suppress the Qing army on both sides of the city.

Gan Hui gave an order, and thousands of shields and spears quickly climbed up the messy bricks and mounds after the collapse.

The smoke and dust rising from the collapse of the city wall did not disperse, and the soldiers seemed to be in a thick fog.

Apart from the sound of guns and screams from both sides of the collapsed place, there were no other human voices, only the rustling of armor and the heavy panting of the soldiers as they climbed.

Gan Hui led the soldiers to grope all the way in the smoke and dust, and climbed up the top of the city along the collapsed city wall. Just as the first few soldiers were about to climb to the top, they were stabbed by several long spears. The soldiers of Zheng Jun were caught off guard and rolled down screaming. .

The sound of killing suddenly shouted, and the soldiers of the Zheng army next to them immediately fought back with their weapons, and stabbed several people to death from the Qing army above, but the Qing army behind them immediately filled up, and the two sides formed a desperate fight at the collapsed place.

At this time, both sides of the collapsed place were densely packed with human heads. On the front was Zheng Jun wearing a dish helmet, swarming upwards, while the Qing army with red hats on the back was also filling the gap like ants.

The two sides fought with long weapons at first, but soon turned into short-handed combat, people crowded people, face to face, without any martial arts, just simple stabbing and slashing, each time took a life.

At this time, fear was useless. The Ming army continued to attack, and the Qing army kept filling people. Can't go back.

Originally, after the city wall collapsed, it was a lot shorter than the two sides, but soon the corpses at the collapsed place piled up higher and higher, and were even with the city wall.

At this time, the Ming army's attack on the other gates also started at the same time, and the people in Nanjing closed their houses one after another. The streets were full of red-topped bamboo hats, and the running Qing army looked very chaotic. The Qing army in the maze can still see some patterns clearly, and most of the green battalion soldiers are gathering in the direction of Nancheng.

In the west of Nanjing City, the weapons workshop and the cannon workshop were guarded by the Qing general Ma Jinbao. He was originally the deputy general of Anqing in the Ming Dynasty and the governor. When the Qing army went south, he surrendered to Azig. Was transferred to Nanjing.

At this moment, he looked at the green battalion soldiers running on the street, and seemed a little uneasy.

Suddenly he was pacing back and forth with his saber in hand, walked to the side of the street, grabbed a member of Chief Qian, and asked, "Brother, where are you going?"

Mr. Qian wanted to break away angrily, but looking at his official robes, his body was a bit bigger than him, and he was actually a general soldier, so he didn't get angry, and Wei Wei clasped his fists and said anxiously: "My lord, Nancheng was bombed by the Ming army." It's collapsed, I can't say much about the humble position, if we don't rush over, I'm afraid the Ming army will enter the city."

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