Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 767
The tall bamboo ladders on the top of the city were built on the city wall. Arrows rained down on the city, and rolling logs and rocks fell like hailstones. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty held up their shields to resist, but they were still rolled and fell.

The Ming army concentrated 2000 people and climbed on both sides of the water gate. Hundreds of musketeers raised their guns to suppress the top of the city.

The flames shot up outside the water gate, and seven or eight warships were successively set on fire by the Qing army with rockets and cupping cans. They did not dare to pour kerosene, because the water flowed into the city, and the kerosene could burn the Ming army, and it could also burn to the station inside the water gate. Qing army firing guns on a wooden board.

At this time, the fire was raging on the river, scattered corpses were floating everywhere on the river, and the defenders at the top of the city also suffered heavy casualties, and the battle between the two sides gradually became fierce.

At this time, in the Shuimen Cave, the Ming army had pushed aside the first fence that had been knocked open, and the battering ram rushed to the second fence and continued to hit.

??Liu Wuyuan led 300 people to shoot densely into the water gate with firecrackers, bows and arrows, making the water gate nowhere to stand. The soldiers of the Ming army could only hold up their shields to defend.

For a while, the screams continued, the river was stained crimson with blood, and there were many dead bodies in the water gate cave, filled with the pungent smell of blood.

At this time Liu Wuyuan was directing the shooting with red eyes, when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps behind him, he looked back, and saw that the soldiers he had sent to Nancheng for help had returned, and more than a thousand troops were behind them.

Why so fast?He was startled, but more than a thousand Qing soldiers came running, and they were in front of him in a blink of an eye.

"General, the governor's reinforcements have arrived." The soldiers galloped over first, but before the horse stopped, they dismounted and knelt down on one knee.

?? "Don't talk nonsense!" Liu Wuyuan's face was not happy. As a capricious villain, what he worried most was that others would repeat like him, especially at such a critical moment.

Liu Wuyuan snorted coldly, "I'm going to ask you, why did people come so fast?"

The soldiers didn't understand his worry, and still said happily: "I was ordered by the general to go to Nancheng to ask for help, but I met him before I arrived~~~"

The words of the soldiers were being said, but Liu Wuyuan didn't listen to a word. His eyes fell behind, and he saw the leader of the Qing Dynasty holding the handle of the knife, with a half-smile in his eyes. The starter was aimed at him.

Liu Wuyuan was so frightened that he turned around and wanted to run, but it was too late, he heard a row of "bang bang bang", dozens of guns spewed out flames, smoke rose, and lead bullets shot out, hitting him like chaff , the body fell backwards.

He could only hear exclamations around him, and countless figures shaking, but his ears gradually lost his voice, his eyes gradually blurred, and finally suddenly went dark, and his whole body fell heavily to the ground.

In another time and space, he can be regarded as a party figure. It was he and Gao Jinku who defended Ganzhou to the death, defeated Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong successively, helped Manqing to turn the tide, and suppressed a wave of anti-Qing upsurge.

He was originally a person who wanted to worship the Qing court minister, but his trajectory changed, and now he died tragically under the water gate, ending his life before he had time to do more evil things.

Liu Wuyuan was killed suddenly, and the Qing soldiers who shot at the water gate were attacked from behind, causing chaos immediately.

Ma Jinbao drew his saber and shouted loudly, "Kill!"

Hou Fangyu grabbed the horse rope and shouted loudly, "Hu has no luck for a hundred years, how can Han'er be a slave? Hengyang Fan's [-] troops besieged the city and restored Shenjing. This is the present day. If you don't turn back now, when will it be?"

More than 1000 anyway troops, plus hundreds of congregations from the Heaven and Earth Congregation, rushed over. Seeing that the general was dead, the Green Battalion soldiers were pinched back and forth, and scattered with a blast.

Anyway, the army immediately climbed up the steps to the tower again, and the killed Qing soldiers ran away with their heads in their arms. Ma Jinbao opened the water gate within a short time of urinating.

Hou Fangyu hurriedly ordered the checkpoints and wooden boards to be dismantled. After a while, Ming army ships and rafts sailed into the city from the water gate, and the follow-up troops of the Ming army also began to come to the water gate on rafts.

As the boat entered the city, a bloody general jumped ashore. Hou Fangyu hurriedly greeted him, unable to hide his joy, "Hou Fangyu is ordered to attack the water gate and welcome the army into the city."

Ma Jinbao also came to see him.

The general is Yang Yanchang. He clasped his fists together and said no nonsense, "You two have worked hard. The town governor will arrive soon. I trouble you to keep an eye on this gate. I was going to lead people to Sanshan gate immediately to welcome the main force into the city."

"Recovering Nanjing is the most important thing, the general can do it himself!"

"Don't worry, General!"

Now is not the time to rejoice and talk about merit, the two of them clasped their fists in earnest when they heard the words.

While speaking, hundreds of soldiers jumped off the raft, the officials of hundreds of households blew their whistles, the soldiers looked for the helmets and flags, and assembled by the water gate.

The soldiers who climbed up the city with ladders also rushed down the city, and a team of thousands of households gathered in a short time.

Seeing this, Yang Yanchang immediately issued an order, "Let's go, kill against the city wall, kill the artillery group first, and then do gold!"

The morale of more than a thousand Ming troops reached its peak. After entering Nanjing, their hearts were already full of passion, and their bodies were full of passion to vent, which could only be extinguished with the blood of the Qing army.

More than a thousand Ming troops, like tigers and wolves, advanced along the city wall towards the Sanshan Gate. There were thousands of household officials at the water gate, and the hundreds of household officials kept blowing their whistles to gather the soldiers.

Each of the hundreds of household officials gathered more than a hundred people, and immediately went to the Sanshan Gate without ordering.

Hou Fangyu commanded the soldiers to lift the raft that had entered the water gate to the shore so as not to block the waterway.

At this time, a long series of rafts came in from the water gate, and dozens of soldiers stood on each raft, their faces full of excitement.

They were full of spears and banners. On the leading raft, a silver-armored general clasped his fists at Hou Fangyu, "Excuse me, Commander Yang, is he going to the Sanshan Gate?"

"Exactly!" Hou Fangyu responded, "It's been a long time since I left."

Hearing the words, there was no nonsense, the general cupped his hands and said, "Thank you!" Then, he turned his head and shouted: "The brothers from Huyiying went to Sanshan Gate, don't stop at Erlang Gate, continue to support the raft, let's go to Shangchun Bridge, Xiachun Bridge Bridge, stop the Qing army!"

"Huhu~" The soldiers raised their spears and roared excitedly, impatient to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds.

Hundreds of rafts followed the current and quickly headed for the city.

Outside the three mountain gates in the west city, the brutal fighting continued. Outside the city, the siege troops of the Ming army, carrying equipment and shields, launched waves of attacks, just like huge waves on the sea, one wave after another. Hitting the city wall.

There are objects smashed by boulders everywhere, such as ladders, burrows, and siege towers, paralyzed on the way to charge.

They charged with incomparable courage, with boulders roaring above their heads, and arrows like locusts facing them, but they were fearless, and the only time they broke the city was now.

On the top of the city, Jin Li ran back and forth, directing the Qing soldiers to shoot and kill the Ming army with full concentration. The artillery group under the city was hurling stone bullets towards the outside of the city.

Suddenly, there was a burst of chaos in the artillery group on the south side of the Sanshan Gate, and shouts spread from the south side.

This caused the defenders of the Sanshan Gate to panic, and a lot of arrows were fired, and the soldiers who fired the guns stopped. They seemed to hear the shout of "the Ming army has entered the city", which made the soldiers' expressions change immediately.

The Qing army firing cannons on the south side first noticed hundreds of comrades rushing towards them, and behind them, the sound of guns was heard. Follow them to kill.

The Ming army has entered the city!The Ming army has entered the city!
The Qing soldiers who found out that something was wrong were instantly shattered, and they all showed fear. Many people immediately let go of the cannon rope and retreated.

The Qing army experienced a big defeat, and it was able to resist the Ming army, relying on the city of Nanjing, which could not be breached. Now that the Ming army entered the city, the morale immediately collapsed.

Soon the Qing army, which was firing cannons, was first rushed into disorder by several defeated troops, and fled engulfed by them.

Yang Yanchang swung his knife and slashed, shouting loudly, "Kill!"

The soldiers of the Ming army, who were like wolves and tigers, rushed in with howls, and among the cannons, they slashed and stabbed their heads!
The gunners of the Qing army had no weapons, and they were cut down on the ground in the blink of an eye, with blood flowing!

The Ming army was very organized, with short soldiers slashing and killing, acting as the front of the battle, and firecrackers shooting from behind, acting as a swaying team. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as destructive.

"The city is broken!" "The Ming army has entered the city!"

The movement behind the city wall soon affected the Qing soldiers on the city, exclamations were heard everywhere, and the city defense was in chaos.

A fortress is very difficult to break from the outside, but it is too easy to attack from the inside!
The Ming army who attacked the city soon noticed the changes. First, the cannon stones that threatened the army the most were gone, and secondly, the arrows and logs shot down from the city were sparse.

This change instantly boosted the morale of the Ming army, and the killing sounds of "Huhu~" all over the sky suddenly became aroused.

The soldiers of the Ming army were not suppressed and successfully climbed to the top of the city. They raised their knives and were about to chop off their heads, and the heads of the Qing soldiers rolled around.

All of a sudden, the brigade of the Ming army rushed to the top of the city from the siege tower.

In the middle army of the Ming army, a large group of officials looked at the top of the city, and many people had tears in their eyes. It has been four years, Nanjing!Nanjing!I'm home!
"Your Highness, the city must be destroyed today!" Chen Bangyan's lips trembled.

Wang Yan looked at the Ming army that kept going to the city, but he said calmly: "Open the city gate as soon as possible, the army occupies the vital points, and the Qing army cannot retreat into the city."

On the Sanshan Gate, the defense deteriorated rapidly. In a short while, the city defense collapsed, and there were only dozens of people around Jin Li in a blink of an eye.

Secretive soldiers rushed up the city wall, surrounded by spears like forests.

Jin Li leaned against the city wall, in front of him was a semicircle made up of spear points, the Qing soldiers around him were stabbed to death with long spears, and the faces of the remaining soldiers were full of panic.

"Jin Li! Don't kneel down yet!" In the forest of spears, a member of the generals yelled loudly.

At this time, Jin Li's face was full of despair, he suddenly let out a miserable smile, and with a swipe of the knife, he cut his throat open, blood gushed out like a spring, and he fell to the ground and died.

Not long after, the stones in the Sanshan Gate were removed by the Ming army, and the city gate was creaked by the soldiers, and the densely packed Ming army rushed into the city like ants.

At the gate of the city, the Ming army in white plain clothes quickly ran past. The gun forest was undulating, and the sound of orderly footsteps was about to shock the entire Nanjing city.

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