The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 686

It's no wonder that Mu Jilun was surprised. Ever since he besieged Nanjing, the Ming army has been shrinking in the high city and deep pools, and only fired a few shots sporadically when they were under fierce attack.

Today they took the initiative to fire the cannon early in the morning. Is this the sun coming out from the west?

He turned to his messenger and said, "But the southerners attacked?"

"Back to the general, none of the ministries encountered any enemies."

Just as he was talking, an officer from his former team hurried over with someone, pointing in the direction of Nanjing and saying, "General, look!"

Mu Jilun looked along his fingers, and he could vaguely see that someone had set up a five or six foot high wooden frame more than one mile east of Nanjing City, and there seemed to be something swinging back and forth on the top.

"what is that?"

"Back to the general, it seems that the southerners quietly built it last night. There are two human heads and a suit of armor on it."

Muzilun frowned and took the binoculars from the guards to look carefully. Sure enough, as his officer said, it was just that the distance was too far to see the face of the head clearly, but the red helmet and cotton armor were very familiar.

"Whose armor is this..."

While he was thinking, he heard hundreds of Ming troops appearing at the head of Nanjing City, and they began to shout in unison.

"What is the barbarian talking about?"

Immediately, a guard galloped away, and returned soon, with a face full of horror, he said: "General, the southerners falsely claim..."

Seeing that he hesitated to speak, Mu Jilun stared irritably and said, "Don't be verbose, speak quickly!"

"Hey... the southerners said that the main force of the general was besieged in Mount Ximing, and 8 or [-] people were killed, wounded or captured, and the rest were all disbanded." The guard glanced back at the wooden frame outside the city, "They also said, On the shelf are the heads of Lord Baylor and Shang Kexi who lead the Zhenghuang Banner, and the red armor is worn by Prince Yu..."

"What nonsense!"

Mu Jilun immediately got on his horse and galloped all the way to the front of the formation. He saw hundreds of soldiers gathered in front of the wooden frame, all pointing and pointing in panic.And the shouts of the Ming army continued to come from the east side, and the content was the same as what the guards reported earlier.

He angrily made people separate to watch the soldiers, pointed at the wooden frame and shouted: "Take it down for me!"

"Whoo!"

More than a dozen people stepped forward quickly, hurriedly took off the things on the wooden shelf, and held them in front of Mu Zilun.

When the latter saw the crimson armor, his heart twitched violently.

He has followed Doduo for many years, and he is very familiar with this armor.He suppressed his bad premonition, and carefully turned the front of the head towards himself. Immediately, he couldn't control it anymore, and took two steps back, his face full of panic.

That head is obviously Nurhachi's own nephew, Baylor, Gong Adai who is leading the Zhenghuang Banner army this time!

Cold sweat oozes from the forehead of Mu Jilun, Prince Yu's armor is here, Gong Adai was killed, it seems that even if the main force of the army is not completely defeated, the situation will not be too good...

Half an hour later, Zhu Mala, Shi Tingzhu, Geng Zhongming and other captives gathered in Mu Jilun's tent.

They had seen the armor and the head just now, now they looked at each other.After a while, Zhu Mala slapped the table, got up and said: "You can't wait! We will gather people and horses and rush to the direction of Ximing Mountain to help. In case... the battle is really unfavorable, we will quickly turn north and go from Dantu Ferry Return to Yangzhou."

Mu Jilun and the others knew that if Duoduo was really defeated and it would be difficult for them to capture Nanjing for a while, it would be like waiting to die here, so they had no choice but to agree to this arrangement.

At the end, Zhu Mara pointed at Geng Zhongming again, "King Huaishun will lead his troops here."

"No, this..." Geng Zhongming's face turned green, you all left but left me dead?
But Zhu Mara and the others didn't give him a chance to refuse at all, they turned around and went out to command their subordinates.What King Huaishun?In their hearts, they are nothing more than a full-fledged dog. Calling you "King" is flattering you, and now is the time to use a dog. If you don't keep your back, who else can you keep?
Mujilun, Zhumara, and Shi Tingzhu's troops didn't bother to clean up, leaving behind a lot of luggage and weapons, and rushed towards the southeast.

However, when their army had just traveled more than a mile, Lu Yousan led a battalion of [-] broken prisoners to rush out from the northeast side of Nanjing, but at dawn they had already left the city and waited here.

The news of "Prince Yu's defeat" and "Gong Adai's killing" had already spread among Geng Zhongming's army, and now he learned that the Jianzhou soldiers had withdrawn, so there was no morale at all.

But the soldiers of the Polu Camp had received strict orders from Zhen Zhen before, so they could only shrink back in the city and resist passively.

The combat power of the two armies was already several grades behind, but at this moment, their momentum was like a rainbow, and their fighting spirit was completely lost. As soon as the two sides came into contact, nearly ten thousand Qing troops collapsed.

Lu Yousan ignored Geng Zhongming, but went straight to Mu Jilun and the others.The latter also had no intention of fighting, and only resisted a little, then continued to run, leaving a large number of dead soldiers along the way, which was miserable.

It wasn't until they ran less than ten miles away that they ran into the Xiaoqi sent by Baiyintu to warn them, and then it was confirmed that Duoduo was really defeated.

The two turned around and headed north, hoping to join forces with Baiyintu as soon as possible.However, after the captive army had traveled for more than ten miles, they were shocked to hear the sound of cannons in all directions, and a group of light cavalry in black uniforms rushed out from both sides. It was Li Dingguo's Swift Battalion.

When Lu Yousan saw that the captives had been stopped, he was overjoyed and commanded the infantry line to cooperate with Li Dingguo to gradually drive Mu Jilun and others to a river north of Jurong.

At the time of Zhiyou, Muzilun, Zhumara and others, who repeatedly broke through the encirclement without success, led [-] Jian captives to beg for surrender.Li Dingguo hurriedly said goodbye to Lu Yousan, and rushed to Gaozi without stopping to attack Kong Youde's troops there.

At the same time, the police in Nanjing fought the most prestigious battle of their lives.

Three thousand policemen each armed with "shabby" weapons such as three-dollar firecrackers and sabers, chasing Geng Zhongming's seven or eight thousand Qing troops all over the world. Just a few people can easily capture ten times as many prisoners with a single finger of a firecracker. soldier.

Within a day, there was no trace of the Qing army outside the city of Nanjing. Ying Tianfu Yin began to organize the people to clean up the battlefield and clean up the corpses.

Only the 1 people in the Xianghuang Banner of Baiyintu survived because of escorting grain and grass.After he learned that Muzilun and others had surrendered, he fled northward in a hurry.

……

"Bumbutai, sure enough, the magpies here are also calling." Dorgon walked into the Qianqing Palace with a big smile, nodded at Shunzhi who was beside him, and continued, "There is great news, haha!"

Shunzhi stepped forward and saluted, and said in a childish voice: "I pay my respects to the emperor's uncle, the regent. I wonder what good news it is?"

In fact, Xiao Zhuang had already heard the news, but he also agreed with a smile, "That's right, why don't you tell me about the happy event?"

Dorgon was able to wave his hand to the eunuch behind him, "Read!"

"Hey." The eunuch rushed forward with his mansion in hand and reported, "In four years, on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, the general Yang Wei fought successively in Wuqi Mountain, Jurong and other places, and captured more than [-] heads of the Southern Army. They all fled in anticipation of the wind. Now that the army has encircled Jiangning, it will be broken by the end of the month at most!"

(End of this chapter)