The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 501: Nanjing City Breaks Down!

A group of captive soldiers were huddling in the battlements and chatting enthusiastically, when suddenly one of them looked out of the city in a daze.

"Old Wei, why are you in a daze?"

"Have you seen a ghost?"

Old Wei's head tremblingly pointed to the distance, "Yes, it's the Ming army..."

The others immediately cheered and gathered around the crenel, and saw that under the moonlight, a large curtain cart was in the lead, followed by more than a dozen flying bridges and rolling carts, slowly pressing towards the edge of the city.

"The Ming army is attacking the city!"

"Didn't you say that you will stop the army for a month?"

"This is how to do?!"

On the south side of the city, Huang Ding heard the warning gong, hurriedly got out of the army tent, grabbed the lieutenant beside him and asked anxiously, "Which side is the enemy attacking from? How many people are there?"

"Back to the general, there are everywhere. I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of enemy troops..."

Huang Ding's head buzzed, tens of thousands of horses?Does this mean that the army suddenly launched a general offensive? !Didn't Liang Huafeng report that the Ming army had fallen for it?
He forced himself to calm down, "It doesn't matter, the soldiers come to flood the enemy into the earth weir! Since he comes from all directions, I will guard from all sides."

As the commander in charge of the Jiangning city defense, he quickly made deployments, "He ordered Yang Chengzu, Guan Xiaozhong, and Hu Maozhen to lead 8000 troops each to guard the south, north, and north sides. Dong Yi led [-] people to support him."

He thought of the east of the city that was bombed last time, took the reins of the horse, "The rest will follow me to defend the east." Then he yanked his mount vigorously, and galloped away, "There are still fifty thousand troops in my city. See what the Southern Army can do to me?!"

Unlike the last "sneaky" bombing of the city, this time the Ming army came overwhelmingly, with four to five hundred siege vehicles, flying bridges, ladders and other siege equipment.The torches are as dense as stars, at least [-] or more.

Of course, Zhu Linmi's established plan was not to attack by force. The casualties of the siege were too great, and blasting was still the core means of taking Nanjing.

Deng Shan led his troops to slowly follow behind the "main attacking force". Although he had successful experience last time, his palms were sweating nervously this time - the power of the nitrocellulose beside him was shown to him by His Royal Highness However, with a big fist, it can blow up a boulder to pieces!
Moreover, His Highness specially instructed him that this thing is extremely explosive, so he should be very careful.If the 330 kilograms of nitrocellulose were hit by Jianlu guns, he and the soldiers within twenty or thirty feet around him would definitely be smashed to pieces.

He raised his eyes and saw that the flying bridge in front of him had been laid, he patted the car he had prepared hard, and said loudly: "Cross the moat, then hide in the car, follow me to the city!"

"Yes!" Three hundred soldiers of the Polu Battalion rushed forward with their chariots in their arms.

This cart is also very different from the ones used before. The top girder is made of steel bars, covered with a layer of water-soaked cotton armor, and covered with two layers of iron sheets.Small cannons such as tiger squats can withstand a hit or two.

The disadvantage is that it is too heavy.However, the latest rubber wheels made in Ningbo are also used on these cars, so they can be pushed as usual with only four or five more people added.

In front of them, the Dragon Guards used mantle carts to clear the way, and they kept firing guns towards the city to attract firepower, and there were many chariot carts as false targets beside them.But even so, Deng Shan didn't dare to go straight to the gap that was blasted last time. Instead, he ran [-] steps to the south of the gap, and then moved north against the wall.

The shouts of killing and the sound of gunfire were loud in the city, but the Ming army mainly feigned an attack. Most of the people hid behind the siege equipment, but there were not too many casualties.

Under the cover of the crowd, Deng Shan arrived at the bottom of the wall without any danger, and he was also slightly relieved. This place is already a blind spot for the cannons at the top of the city, and the greatest danger has passed.

He immediately led his people along the wall and rushed northward desperately. There was a muffled sound above his head, which seemed to be thrown down by the Qing army with stones and the like.

Soon, these few vehicles of his still attracted the attention of the enemy.The Jianlu officer first adjusted the gunners to concentrate on shooting, but the effect was not good, so he was busy and asked people to bring boiling oil and pour it on his head.

Deng Shan heard the squeak on the top of the car, and knew that the hot oil had touched the soaked cotton armor, so he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Everyone, work harder! Hurry up!"

As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen torches fell down again, and the fire touched the hot oil, and the car suddenly burst into flames.

"General, this is the place!"

Deng Shan followed the torch under his hand to see that it was the breach he blew up last time. Although it had been filled with soil, it shouldn't be difficult to dig it out.He immediately picked up the steel shovel behind his back and took the lead in digging.

Not far behind Deng Shan, Huang Qishou saw that the "explosive team" was already in place, and immediately led the [-] Dragon Guard infantry under his command to abandon the curtain cart and shoot a volley towards the top of the city to cover them. Money flintlock.

Last time Deng Shan reacted, the effect of shooting upwards at the top of the city with a six-money blunderbuss was extremely poor.Zhu Linmi immediately thought of the captured Jianlu heavy-duty guns, so she dispatched craftsmen to restore hundreds of them—in fact, it was just a matter of changing the springs.

The muzzle energy of the [-]-money gun is very large, and the potential energy decay will be much smaller.As Huang Qishou began to suppress the shooting, the pressure on Deng Shan's head suddenly eased.

After a while, Deng Shan dug a shovel into something hard and made a loud noise.His eyes lit up immediately, "It's the cornerstone of the city wall, the hole that was blown up last time has been dug thoroughly." Then he waved behind him, "Quick! Nitrocellulose.

"Hey, take it easy, don't overturn it! It's easy to blow up!"

More than a dozen soldiers brought six square iron boxes and neatly stacked them in the gap below the city.When the last iron box was moved out, the roof of the car was burned through, and a puddle of hot oil crashed down with flames, less than four feet away from the box of nitrocellulose!

Deng Shan was startled, stroked his chest vigorously, dipped a steel shovel into a lump of burning kerosene, and then grabbed a large handful of lead wires from the iron box and pointed them at the flames.

When the sparks splashed out, he immediately took out his whistle and blew a few times, and he and his men got into a nearby car with a smaller flame, turned around and rushed towards the east side.

Huang Qishou also heard the warning, fired a final salvo, and led the team to retreat slowly.

Some soldiers of the Qing army who had experienced the bombing of the city last time saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly reported to Huang Ding, "General, the former Ming army also retreated suddenly like this, they must have come to bury the gunpowder again!"

At this time, there was no firecrackers suppressing the city, Huang Ding looked down the city with his head, and saw several flaming chariots blocking the place that was bombed last time, and the Ming army had retreated [-] paces away.

He frowned, and thought to himself, even if he hanged people down with a bamboo basket immediately, it would be difficult to get over the fire, so he simply waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about it. Jiangning city is strong, even if he blows it up a few times, it won't be easy to destroy it. You continue to stick to it, Mojiao Nanren will take advantage of the chaos and come to the city!"

Old Weitou secretly pulled a few robes, "Brothers, my right eye keeps twitching, there must be something bad."

Several people looked at each other, followed him quietly and slipped towards the south side of the city ladder.When they had just walked a hundred steps, they suddenly heard an earth-shattering loud noise behind them, and when they turned around, they saw a giant hand made of flames protruding from the underworld, violently throwing away the Nanjing City Wall that was pressing on it.The entire east side of Nanjing shook violently like leaves floating in the wind and waves. A large number of city bricks and stones were immediately thrown into the night sky more than ten feet high, and then smashed down again. The furthest one collapsed a mile away. .

After a while, everything returned to calm.Amidst the smoke and dust in the sky, the city wall of Nanjing seemed to have been bitten by a savage giant, leaving a charred black gap more than three feet wide!

(End of this chapter)