Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 765
Hearing Mr. Qian's words, Ma Jinbao watched the Qing soldiers from the brigade run past him in a daze, and turned back to the Cannon Workshop after a while.

He had an old relationship with Qian Qianyi, and Qian Qianyi went to Jinhua many times to instigate rebellion against him.

After arriving in Nanjing, the Ming army aggressively attacked the south of the Yangtze River. Knowing that the situation had reversed, he half-pushed and boarded the ship of the Fuming forces. If you make any excuses, you are essentially riding on the wall.

After Boluo was defeated and returned to Nanjing, he knew that the situation in Jiangnan was about to change, so he became enthusiastic about the Fuming Movement, communicated with his confidants, and prepared to turn against him. But at the critical moment, Qian Qianyi who contacted him was imprisoned.

Hearing that the southern city had collapsed, Ma Jinbao felt anxious. If the Ming army invaded the city, he would not be able to help at all.

"General, someone came in through the back door and wants to see the general!"

Ma Jinbao anxiously walked to the door, and an officer came out in a hurry, and after seeing him, he whispered.

oh?Who will meet him at this time, Ma Jinbao's expression changed, and he hurriedly said: "Where is the person? Take me to see him!"

Immediately, he and the officer hurried to the cannon casting workshop, and after a while, they came to a room.

He opened the door and went in, and saw a man in Taoist uniform, a square scarf, and a veil, sitting beside the main seat.

It was Hou Fangyu who came. At the last moment, Hong Chengchou was trapped in Nancheng. He no longer had to hide his identity, so he changed into the clothes of his hometown in advance, and seemed to have regained the demeanor of the fourth son of Jiangnan.

"Mr. Ma!" Seeing someone coming in, Hou Fangyu immediately stood up and cupped his hands slightly.

Ma Jinbao was overjoyed when he saw the visitor in plain clothes, and a smile was already on his face, but when he saw the visitor clearly, his smile was suppressed and turned into surprise, "Hou Shenyi?"

Seeing him tense and embarrassed, Hou Fangyu understood the horror in his heart. In order to clear up his doubts, he went directly to the topic, "Mr. Ma, don't panic."

As he said that, he stood up and stared at Ma Jinbao, "I will declare my family name first." He took out a token and handed it to him and said, "The master of Qingmu Hall of Tiandihui, Fang Langzhong, a member of the military department of the Ming Dynasty, is my humble servant. "

Ma Jinbao looked at the token, he was not from the Tiandihui, so naturally he couldn't see any way of doing it, Hou Fangyu was Hong Chengchou's confidant, how could he easily believe it.

Ma Jinbao glanced at the back room, as if he wanted to see if there was someone ambush inside.

"I don't understand what Hou Shenyi means!" He looked at the token and turned back with a cold face.

As a qualified fence-sitting faction, you must not remember the critical moment, and you must not express your position easily if you are not fully sure.

Hou Fangyu seemed to have expected this. He took the token, handed out a letter and a folding fan, and said seriously: "Mr. As long as they feel that you are a hidden danger, you will be thrown into the government school and placed under house arrest like Duke Mu Zhai, and they will not bother me to come here in person."

This sentence moved Ma Jinbao.

In the current situation, with Hong Chengchou's suspicion, as long as he felt that he was unreliable, he would probably have given up his military power and thrown him directly into prison.

Hearing what he said, Ma Jinbao took the letter and the folding fan in doubt. He opened the fan first. There was a landscape painting on it and a line of poems on it. The party is powerful, and in order to curry favor with Dong Lin, he gave Qian Qianyi something that was said to be Tang Yin's thing.

Seeing this, he looked slightly serious, and hurriedly opened the letter to see that it was Qian Qianyi's handwriting, asking him to help Hou Fangyu fight against the Qing Dynasty and open the city gate for the Ming army.

After Ma Jinbao finished reading, the doubts in his heart were cleared up, he hurriedly returned the things to Hou Fangyu, then took a few steps back, and solemnly saluted, "The guilty general is willing to listen to the adults."

Hou Fangyu stepped forward to help him up, and asked, "How many people can Zongbing Ma mobilize?"

"1000 people!" Ma Jinbao said: "I originally had more than 4000 people, but 3000 people have been transferred away a few days ago."

Hou Fangyu nodded, "1000 people, plus the people from the Tiandihui, is enough! Time is urgent, you go and gather the people immediately."

After hearing this, Ma Jinbao turned around and went out. At this time, several men came out from the back room, all wearing green uniforms, and quickly put on a suit for Hou Fangyu, and then hurried out of the room.

Outside the west city, the shelling continued, and the artillery bombarded the city continuously.Tens of thousands of soldiers stood behind the artillery array, ready to go.

Today, the Ming army will destroy this city!
Half an hour later, it is estimated that the main force of the Qing army has been attracted to the south city, and the shelling outside the west city stopped. Liu Shun, who was immediately in front of the formation, raised his sword high and shouted sharply: "Attack!"

"My sons and daughters! Recover the southern capital and avenge the shame of your father!" The leading officers shouted loudly, and rushed towards the Sanshan Gate of the west city before taking the lead!
Tens of thousands of soldiers surged like a tide, and they were all overwhelmed by the blackness!

On the top of the city, the soldiers of the Qing army stood up when they heard the drums and horns, stringing their bows and arrows, and the artillery carts behind the city were loaded with stone bullets and ready to fire.

This time the attack on the Sanshan Gate was also to cover the Water Gate, but it invested more troops than the Dongcheng Nancheng, because the Water Gate is a Water Gate after all, and the key is to break through the Water Gate to open the Sanshan Gate and enlarge the army to enter the city.

The Ming army went step by step, and the captives built a pontoon bridge. An army of [-] and nearly a hundred siege equipment stormed together.

When the Ming army crossed the pontoon bridge, the soldiers spread out under the city, just like a huge white carpet, advancing up and down on the ground, the morale of the army was high, and the murderous aura was soaring.

General Liu Shun rode on his horse and pointed at the city with his saber, "Forward!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The soul-stirring battle drums resounded throughout the world, and a dozen wooden siege towers were erected in the middle of each thousand-man team.

"Quick! Bring the log up..."

? "What is the cannon cart doing, prepare to release it!"

There was also a loud drum on the top of the city, Jin Li's eyes were red, and there was a lot of roaring.

After Nancheng was bombed and collapsed, Boluo mobilized troops around and transferred his reserve team to Nancheng. He has no support now. Facing the attack of the Ming army, he was under tremendous mental pressure, so he had to lead 5000 troops in person. People defend the three mountain gates.

Hundreds of gun carriages hidden on the back of the city wall creaked open, and a huge boulder weighing a hundred catties was put into the bomb pocket. The soldiers pulled down the throwing pole, fastened it with a fire hook, and waited for the order to fire.

The Ming army had gradually entered the firing range of the artillery vehicles. Jin Li gave the order to shoot, and he shouted in a hoarse voice: "Project!"

As soon as the soldiers on the city waved their flags, the soldiers manipulating the gun carts immediately hammered down and knocked out the live hooks. Nearly a hundred gun carts swung out their long arms, and hundreds of boulders flew into the air, roaring and smashing down towards the city.

In an instant, there was a tumbling rain of boulders in the sky, smashing down on the top of the Ming army.

?The boulder fell, 'Boom! ' There was a loud noise, and the dust flew up. Several soldiers were unable to dodge, and were smashed into meat paste by the boulder.

?A boulder hit the siege tower, and immediately there was a loud 'click', the huge siege tower collapsed immediately, and the soldiers below scattered like a colony of ants.

The attack in front of Sanshan Gate suddenly became violent.

The attack on the west city was divided into two groups, one to attack the Sanshan Gate and the other to attack the Water Gate.

At this time, the battles in Nancheng, Dongcheng and Sanshanmen started one by one, and the strength of the Qing army was completely contained.

"Your Majesty!" A soldier rushed to report, "Gaodu Town is ready."

Wang Yan stood in the middle army, nodded slowly, and ordered resolutely: "Pass on my order, beat the drum, let Gao Yigong attack the water gate."

"dong dong dong"

The war drum sounded, and three thousand soldiers from Zhongzhen Town quickly assembled by the Qinhuai River. They had bright armor, spears like forests, high morale, and murderous looks.

On the top of the city, there are only 1000 soldiers guarding the water gate, and the guard is Liu Wuyuan who defected to the Qing court again a few days ago.

When he saw the Ming army gathering outside the water gate, his expression changed drastically.

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