Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 701 Attack on Jinling

There are a large number of small fishing boats parked on the river near the Yangtze River in Jiangpu. Although there are a large number of these small fishing boats, it may not be an easy task to transport the soldiers and horses in the hands of Zhao Daniu and Song Hu.

Among Zhao Daniu and Song Hu's soldiers and horses, Zhao Wen added them later. These soldiers and horses were withdrawn from Sichuan.

According to the plan of the Military Academy, the two separated the soldiers and horses in their hands.

Although the two stayed a lot in the captured cities along the way, the number was still large, adding up to nearly [-] soldiers and horses.

As the saying goes, if there are more than ten thousand people, there are no boundaries.When these [-] soldiers and horses came to Jiangpu, the small county town of Jiangpu suddenly became overcrowded.

On the day when Zhao Daniu and Song Hu were preparing to send troops, the soldiers and horses in Jiangpu walked out of Jiangpu in neat formations and came to the bank of the Yangtze River.

Because of the large number of people, it was impossible to transport all the soldiers and horses at one time, so under the orders of Zhao Daniu and Song Hu, these soldiers and horses set up a mighty tent on the bank of the Yangtze River.

Today, Zhao Daniu and Song Hu intend to transport [-] soldiers and horses, divided into three batches, one batch in the morning, one batch in the afternoon, and one batch in the afternoon.

Among the first batch of troops, Zhao Daniu and Song Hu each accounted for half of the troops.

Their main purpose after crossing the river is to set up a landing port on the other side of the river to prepare for the soldiers who will go ashore later.

The artillery position is next to the camp, and the artillery on the artillery position is waiting for the battle, making final preparations for the shelling.

Zhao Daniu and Song Hu came to the bank of the Yangtze River and built a two-foot-high platform on the bank of the Yangtze River.

This was used by Zhao Daniu and Song Hu to observe the enemy's situation.

The gap between the two warring parties is ridiculously large, and the Jinling defenders on the opposite side of the Yangtze River on this high platform have nothing to do.

Zhao Daniu stood on the high platform, looked at the rising sun, and took a deep breath.

Song Hu stood beside him, staring fixedly at Jinling City across the river.

Behind the two of them is their big banner, and under the big banner are the messengers and personal guards who are responsible for conveying their military orders.

"Report, the preparations for the first echelon crossing the river have been completed!"

A messenger came under the high platform and shouted loudly at the two people on the high platform.

Zhao Daniu yelled to the people below: "Send the order to go down and cross the river!"

"Yes!"

The messenger who came below shouted and ran down with Zhao Daniu's order.

"Send the order, the artillery position is ready to fire. Once our army starts to cross the river, we will bomb the Jinling City on the opposite side of the river with all our strength. Remember, you must grasp the speed when bombing. Don't fly into Jinling City until the shells can fly into Jinling City !” Zhao Daniu said holding up the binoculars and looking at the Jinling City in front of him.

The messenger standing behind Zhao Daniu hurried down the high platform and passed on the news of Zhao Daniu.

On the bank of the Yangtze River in front of the high platform, the first batch of soldiers began to board the ship.

Under the leadership of their respective officers, these soldiers ran onto the fishing boat.

Fishing boats are very small, and a fishing boat can only accommodate three or five people, and no more than ten people at most.

There are more than 1000 fishing boats along the Yangtze River.

After the first batch of soldiers boarded the fishing boat, the fishing boat headed across the river.

Almost half an hour later, the first batch of fishing boats left the shore and headed for Jinling City opposite.

At this time, the artillery on the artillery position also began to make final preparations for shelling Jinling City.

At the same time, on the north side of Jinling City, Wei Guogong Xu Hongji stood on the gate tower with his personal guards. He looked at the fishing boats coming towards this side on the Yangtze River with a bitter expression on his face.

"Zhao thief is about to start crossing the river." Xu Hongji muttered, turned around, and shouted at the guards behind him: "Order all the defenders on the city wall, let them be ready to fight, and kill all the soldiers on the top of the city. Take out all the defense equipment for me. Also, the artillery on the top of the city must be ready."

The guards hurried down the city wall.

Wei Liangyan, Xu Hongji's adjutant, said solemnly: "Master, should we choose to attack halfway? Wait until the enemy army is halfway across the river, and then attack suddenly? Wipe out the bandits on the river. "

In various battles of crossing or crossing the river, the best effect is to attack halfway.

Wait until the enemy army is halfway to attack before attacking, so the enemy army will be in a dilemma.

Xu Hongji shook his head, "No, there are not many defenders in Jinling City, and there is also a lack of artillery in the city. The Yangtze River is four miles wide, and the only weapons with this range in our hands are the red cannons on the top of the city and some catapults.

However, the city wall is more than four or five miles away from the Yangtze River. Although the red cannon on the city head can hit this distance, whether it can hit the ferry on the river at this distance depends on luck.

Moreover, the artillery on the top of the city has been in disrepair for a long time, and most of them can't fire a few shots.Although there are quite a few catapults on the city wall, they are simply out of reach.

Catapults and artillery are heavy and cannot be sent to the Yangtze River in a short period of time, so we have no way to attack halfway now.

What's more, if the artillery on the top of the city is sent to the edge of the Yangtze River, the firepower on the top of the city will be far from enough, and it will not be able to effectively kill the bandits in the subsequent battle of defending the city.

By the way, you should go to the city now and recruit young adults. "

The city walls of Jinling City are divided into palace walls, imperial city, capital city, and outer city walls.

Among them, the outer city wall is the largest, with a circumference of [-] kilometers.The place surrounded by the outer city wall is all the area of ​​Jinling City.

Because the area is too large and the population is too large, Xu Hongji focused his defense on the walls of the capital.

The city wall of the capital is more than 30 kilometers long, with thirteen gates and two water gates.

In fact, Xu Hongji has been recruiting young and strong for the past few days. Up to now, the total number of defenders in the city is only more than 6.

Although the number of 6 people is a lot, it is still a bit stretched to defend the more than 30 kilometers long city wall.

With 6 people, Xu Hongji was really not sure about defending Jinling City.

In the past few days, Xu Hongji also asked the officials of Jinling City to find a way to move the people from the outer city to the capital or disperse them to other places.

However, there are too many people in the outer city, and there is no way to complete it in a short time.

Xu Hongji had no choice but to give up these common people.

Xu Hongji's place is located in Yifengmen, facing the Yangtze River.

Yifengmen is not far from the Yangtze River, that is, a distance of three or four miles.

The city walls on both sides of Yifeng Gate are built along the mountains, with Lion Mountain on the north and Xiuqiu Mountain on the south (which is the remnant of Lion Mountain). It is the focus of Xu Hongji's defense.

And Xu Hongji also deployed more than 1 defenders on this section of the city wall.

Xu Hongji looked at the ferry boat coming towards this side on the river, feeling uneasy.

"Start the calibration, the western artillery, the target is Huaimen. The central artillery, the target Yijiangmen. The eastern artillery, the target Yifengmen."

On the artillery position, the artillery commander yelled loudly at the orderly standing behind him.

The orderly rushed down with the order of the artillery commander.

After a while, there were several rumbling cannons from the artillery position.

A dozen rounds of shells used to calibrate the gun flew out of the muzzle of the cannon howitzer and flew towards their respective targets.

The shells streaked across the sky, and with the sound of piercing through the air, they accurately landed on the walls of Jinling City.

"Bang bang bang!"

The sound of cannons sounded, the flames splashed, and the smoke and dust shrouded.

These shells all hit their respective targets.

Xu Hongji was watching the ferry boat on the river on the city wall, at this moment, several shrill voices came into his ears.

After a few breaths, the shells landed on the city wall.

There was a thunderous explosion, and the shells fell on the edge of the city wall.

The violent explosion shattered the bricks on the city wall and flew them everywhere.

The 152mm cannon howitzer is extremely powerful, and dozens of kilograms of shells fall on the city wall. How can the city wall be intact?

Flames and dust flashed out all of a sudden, and the defenders on the top of the city stared blankly at what happened in front of them, at a loss.

"Master Guo, it's dangerous here! Master Guo, hurry up and get down the city wall. It's too dangerous up here. Lord Guo is now the commander in chief of Jinling City. If there is any danger, it will be bad." Xu Hongji's guard The commander hurriedly shouted at Xu Hongji.

Xu Hongji calmed down and said, "If I go down, who will be in charge of guarding the city?"

"My lord, anyone can be in charge of guarding the city. If something happens to my lord, the entire Jinling City will be ruined." The guard commander's face was full of panic.

The scene just now really frightened him, he had never seen such a violent explosion before.

While the two were talking, there was another roar from the artillery position on the opposite side of the river.

The number of cannonballs that flew out this time was many times higher than before, and the whistling sound of the cannonballs flying in the air was connected together.

In an instant, the shells fell on the city wall like raindrops.

The moment the shell landed on the city wall, the explosion happened as promised.

Flames blazed, and explosions continued.Gunpowder smoke kept appearing on the city wall, and the fragments from the explosion and the shattered city wall bricks flew around at high speed like bullets.

The soldiers at the center of the explosion disappeared without even screaming.

The soldiers around the explosion were blown up by shells like rag bags.

The blood even dried up under the high temperature, and the soldiers screamed one after another as they watched the tragedy in front of them.

However, the explosion on the top of the city was too loud, covering their screams.

Xu Hongji stared blankly at all this, his body trembling violently.

He grew up so big that he had never seen the scene in front of him.

"What the hell is going on here?" Xu Hongji shouted hysterically. He couldn't imagine that there would be such a powerful weapon in this world. It was so powerful that it was impossible to imagine.

"Master Guo, hurry up!" The commander of the guards pulled Xu Hongji and ran down the city without saying a word.

At this time, the commander of the guards didn't care whether Xu Hongji agreed or not, so he dragged him and ran down the city.

Before Xu Hongji could react, he was dragged out of the city gate by the commander of the guards.

The few people had just left the city gate building when a shell fell from the sky and landed on the city gate building.

"Oh!"

After a loud bang, the city gate building was turned into ruins.

Some soldiers who hadn't had time to escape were directly buried in the collapsed city gate.

Xu Hongji turned his head and took a look, feeling terrified and sweating profusely.

If he had been inside just now, he would have been decapitated by now.

Xu Hongji was dragged by the guard commander to the stairs and ran down.

Before the shelling started, Xu Wenjue was doing some indescribable things in a brothel in the city.

After the bombardment started, something in Xu Wenjue's body was frightened by the sudden explosion and became weak, and it could no longer stand up, and it has been weak ever since.

Xu Wenjue panicked, put on his clothes and ran out in a hurry.

As soon as he ran out, there were continuous explosions.

Along with the sound of the explosion, there was also the vibration caused by the violent explosion.

Xu Wenjue didn't have time to care about the thing on his body, and looked in the direction of Yifengmen with a face of shock.

"What's wrong with this?" Xu Wenjue's forehead was covered with cold sweat, he couldn't imagine what could make such a big movement.

The people in the city were also terrified by the huge explosion. The people in the city fled the streets in a panic and fled back to their houses.

The green-skinned hooligans in the city began to take advantage of the fire and loot.

The shelling is still going on, and the top of the city has been shrouded in smoke and flames.

The people in the city also saw the movement on the top of the city, they couldn't imagine how this kind of movement happened.All blamed it on Mantian gods and Buddhas.

The number of people burning incense and worshiping Buddha in the city increased, and they prayed that this kind of movement would disappear as soon as possible.

Wei Liangyan, who was recruiting in the city, looked towards the city wall, trembling with fear.

Behind him was the young man he recruited with great difficulty.

But after these young men saw the movement on the top of the city, they ran away without saying a word.

"A bunch of cowards, a bunch of cowards, a bunch of cowards."

Wei Liangyan cursed a few words, then gritted his teeth, his eyes were scarlet, and led the soldiers and horses he brought out to run towards Yifeng Gate.

Halfway through the run, he ran into Xu Hongji who was brought back by the guards.

Xu Hongji's face was full of lifelessness and frustration.

"My lord, what's the matter?" Wei Liangyan looked at Xu Hongji who was surrounded by guards and fled back, and shouted loudly.

Xu Hongji raised his head, looked at Wei Liangyan, and suddenly shouted, "Ah!!! Jinling City can't be defended, Jinling City can't be defended!!!

How can Jinling City be able to defend against Zhao's attack of this level?How to keep it?Even the heavenly soldiers and the future will not be able to defend it, nor will they be able to defend it! ! !

Now I finally know why thief Zhao was able to win so many places in a short period of time. The weapon in his hand is really too powerful, really too powerful! ! ! "

Seeing Xu Hongji like this, Wei Liangyan's heart was completely dead.

Before the thieves entered the city, the chief general was already frightened, and there was no way to continue this battle.

(End of this chapter)