I will be the prince at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 66 The Battle of Jiangning ([-])

Zhu Cixuan trembled, worried that these two little girls had some unruly plans for him, so he quickly put on his clothes, his face was as calm as water, but in fact, he was flustered in his heart.

After all, the two little girls are 15 years old and 16 years old, and they understand everything they should know.I am still young, only 12 years old, so I can't be harmed by them.

"咚咚咚" the dull and passionate sound of war drums suddenly sounded, and then the thunderous drums sounded from all the gates of Jiangning City. It is not good to have improved hearing. Around the city, there is the sound of war drums everywhere.

Zhu Cixuan called Mu Zhongliang to see what happened?
Two quarters of an hour later, Mu Zhongliang came in to report: "Your Highness, King Yanping's army has made a big move and is moving towards the gates of the city. According to reports from the scouts, King Yanping is preparing to launch an attack on the gates of Jiangning at this time."

Zhu Cixuan stroked his chin. It seemed that Zheng Chenggong was stimulated by the fact that he broke through seven city gates in succession yesterday.

This is a good thing for him. If Zheng Chenggong does this, the Tartars will definitely increase their troops and strengthen their defenses at each city gate.At the same time, it is necessary to disperse the troops. When I raise my troops to attack Zhengyangmen later, the number of Tartars I will face will inevitably be small, which will be more conducive to the capture of Zhengyangmen.

Zhu Cixuan, who understood Zheng Chenggong's plan, nodded calmly, and said, "Mu Qianhu, let the soldiers eat with peace of mind. After the soldiers are full, we will go to Zhengyang Gate to join Zhang Liao, Zhang Zongbing and Chen Gong and Mr. Chen to attack Zhengyang." Door, now let the bullets fly a little longer."

Let the bullet fly a little longer?Mu Zhongliang was a little puzzled, and didn't understand what His Highness the Crown Prince meant. Obviously, he didn't know the stalk that everyone on this earth knew.But asking him to arrange for the soldiers to eat at ease, he understood very well, so he handed over and left.

Zhu Cixuan ate breakfast in a leisurely manner, and ink for another quarter of an hour before beating the drums and reorganizing the army, leaving a newly promoted Qianhu and a thousand soldiers to guard the Jiagang Gate. He, Gao Shun and Mu Zhongliang led 5000 troops, Go to Zhengyangmen.

Chen Gong and Zhang Liao welcomed Zhu Cixuan into the camp outside the Zhengyang Gate.

At that time, guns were rumbling at the gates of the entire Jiangning City, and Zheng Chenggong began to launch a general attack on Jiangning.

Zheng Chenggong rode on a tall horse, raised his binoculars, and watched from the tower of Yifeng Gate. In front of his horse, more than [-] cannons in red were lined up.

This time Zheng Chenggong spent a lot of money in order to successfully capture Yifengmen. Originally, there were already ten red-clothed (barbarian) cannons in the camp outside Yifengmen. The cannons were transported to the camp to strengthen the firepower during the siege.

He was going to go down in a battle, blasting open the Yifeng Gate, to show the prince who broke through seven gates in a row yesterday, that Zheng Chenggong's army is not just paper, but also has a strong fighting capacity.

So Zheng Chenggong was suffocating in his stomach, and he wanted to vent it out, venting it on the Tartars in the opposite tower.

Thirty red-clothed cannons were lined up one by one, "boom boom boom" a solid shell and a blooming shell flew out of the barrel and hit the head of the city, "dong dong dong" the solid shell hit the city wall, making a loud noise.

The bricks on the wall were smashed by the cannonballs, and the broken bricks flew around. A cannonball directly hit a tartar. Before the tartar could scream, he was hit by the shell and flew back into the air. Down, fall into the city.

More than a dozen explosive bombs exploded near the tower of Yifengmen. A Tartar was blown away by the terrifying blast. Exceptions, all of them were completely unrecognizable, bloody and miserable.

There were even a few unlucky ghosts who broke their legs and arms, hugged a bloody broken leg, and wailed in pain while clutching their bloody broken arms.

Kakamu, the commander of the Manchu Eight Banners, stood beside a cannon in red, angrily roaring, "Fight back, fight back, fire the cannon, hurry up and fire me."

The four red-clothed cannons on the tower of Yifengmen began to fight back. "Boom tom tom" the four red-clothed cannons fired one after another, and solid projectiles flew out of the barrels. Three of them hit the field outside the city, and "boom" smashed a Big pit, and then, these shells rolled forward, forming deep ravines on the ground.

A shell fell into the queue of Zheng Chenggong's army, smashing a soldier into a pulp on the spot. The shell rolled forward quickly, and the soldiers panicked and yelled to avoid everywhere, but there were still a few soldiers who had no time to dodge. , the shells ran over them, rolling out a straight path of blood until the kinetic energy was exhausted.

Chen Peng, the right tiger guard who commanded the red-clothed cannon to fire, yelled again and again, "Fire the red-clothed cannon on the tower."

The soldiers beside the cannons in red rushed up, and hurriedly pushed the cannon carts together, aimed at the cannons in red on the tower, adjusted the general direction of the muzzle, loaded gunpowder, and finally made a small hole in the body of each projectile. The explosive bullet with the fuse inserted rolled into the barrel from the muzzle.

A soldier took a wooden stick with a thick cloth wrapped around the front, passed it into the barrel, rammed the ball, and drew the stick.

Chen Peng saw the soldiers loading all the shells into the barrel, raised a small red flag, and shouted, "Get ready...to light the fire."

A soldier holding a torch next to the cannon in red ran to the cannon and lit the matchlock at the bottom of the cannon in red. There was a burst of gunpowder smoke, and bullets flew out of the gun barrel one after another, smashing towards the tower of Yifengmen.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Thirty shells exploded near the city tower one after another.The two red-clothed cannons on the tower were directly blown away from their positions, and the heavy barrels spun and rolled wildly on the sidewalk of the tower, and the Tartars on the tower immediately jumped to avoid the rolling cannons.

Another bomb hit the gunpowder next to a red-clothed cannon, causing a big explosion, killing more than a dozen nearby Tartars on the spot, and the red-clothed cannon was also damaged on the spot, making it unusable.

A round of artillery bombardment, four cannons in red clothes, three were scrapped, one face was black, one was white, and the face of the disgraced commander of the Eight Banners, Kakamu Qi, turned green, but there was nothing he could do.

As soon as a cannonball hit the city wall, the Tartars on the road between the city wall scrambled one by one, hugging their heads, all under the walls of the city wall, trembling, only afraid that if a cannonball fell in front of their eyes, it would be finished.

Some Tartars even ran down the city wall and hid at the base of the city wall. Kakamu, the commander of the Eight Banners, stared at blood-red eyes, raised his scimitar and killed more than ten Tartar soldiers running down the city before stopping. But the remaining Tartars on the city wall had no intention of defending at this time, and only cared about avoiding the shells that flew at no one knew when.

This time Zheng Chenggong was ruthless, moved all the few flowering bombs on the warship, and blasted them at the top of the city.At the same time, he ordered Chen Kui to lead [-] soldiers to move towards the city wall against the ladder, preparing for a strong attack.

(End of this chapter)