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

Chapter 67 The Battle of Jiangning ([-])

A ladder was erected on the city wall, and the hook on the top of the ladder was firmly hooked to the city wall. The soldiers held steel knives in their mouths and climbed up the ladder quickly with their hands and feet.

Next to each ladder, there are forty or fifty Ming soldiers holding matchlock guns. They are divided into three groups, each with 15 people.

When the besieging soldiers began to climb the ladder, the first group of soldiers with matchlock guns lit the matchlock, raised their guns upwards, and suppressed and shot the Tartars at the top of the city to cover the soldiers on the ladder.

Puffs of thick smoke spewed out from the muzzle of the "bang bang bang", and lead pellets flew out of the barrel of the matchlock gun, hitting the brick wall at the head of the city with a "beep beep".

Occasionally, some Tartar soldiers leaned out of the city wall, bowed their bows and shot arrows at the Ming army climbing on the ladder, and some Tartar soldiers were rushed towards them before they could shoot their arrows. Hit by lead bullets, he screamed and fell to the top of the city wall.

Kakamu, the commander of the Eight Banners, shouted angrily, "Wooooowah!" and ordered the Tartars at the top of the city to fight back. Boom" shot the arrow in his hand, and as soon as the arrow left the string, he immediately retracted his body and lay down, regardless of whether the arrow they shot hit the target.

The Ming army with arquebus guns under the city "bang bang bang" divided into three sections and kept shooting on the city wall. From time to time, Tartars were hit by the lead bullets fired by the matchlock guns, or fell off the city wall, or lay on the wall, Or fell to the sky and fell on the sidewalk of the city wall.

From time to time, soldiers of the Ming army on the ladder were hit by arrows, or were hit by stones thrown by the Tartars, and fell down the ladder.The fighting situation was extremely stalemate and tragic.

Finally, a soldier of the Ming army leaped to the top of the city, took out the steel knife in his mouth, swung the knife and beheaded a tartar who was hiding under the city wall and had just put his arrow on the bowstring.He was stabbed in the chest by a Tartar next to him with a spear and fell on the city wall.

"Ceng Ceng Ceng" the Ming army jumped up to the top of the city one after another, wielding their knives and fought fiercely with the Tartars. The Tartars on the road between the city walls got up one after another when they saw the Ming army climbing up the city wall, and surrounded the Ming army who had climbed the top of the city. Fight in a small space.

Every moment, every moment, soldiers from both sides are killed in battle. You give me a knife, and I stab you with a gun. There are also soldiers from both sides hugging each other and jumping off the top of the wall. Very tragic.

As time went on, more and more soldiers of the Ming army climbed to the top of the city, and the originally spacious lanes suddenly became crowded. Soldiers from both sides squeezed together and fought hand-to-hand.

More than a dozen ladders formed a semicircle centered on the entrance of the ladder to the city. The Ming army was inside and the Tartar soldiers were outside. Their eyes were red, each of them looked ferocious, and desperately swung their knives and guns at each other. After a while, the green brick ground near the city head was stained red with blood.

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At this time, attack Wanlu of Youchong Township, Wanli of Hou Admiral, Wanyi of Zuozhen of Xuanyi, Right Admiral Ma Xin, Wu Hao from Xuanyi Houzhen, and Han Ying from Zhengbingzhen came to these city gates, and suddenly found that there was no one around the city gates.

It turned out that last night, the Tartar generals Angbang Zhangjing Kakamu, Mele Zhangjing Gachuha, Marsai, and Liangjiang Governor Lang Tingzuo were frightened by Zhu Cixuan's fierce offensive. They were shocked by Zhu Cixuan, the false Ming prince. The fighting power is too amazing, and it is meaningless to send troops to defend these outer city gates.

Because the Ming army has already occupied the seven outer city gates, if the Ming army attacks again, they can attack from behind these gates, or attack along the lanes on the city wall. Iron soldiers guarding these city gates that have lost their defensive significance will not achieve anything except increasing casualties.

After the discussion, Angbang Zhangjing Kakamu, Mele Zhangjing Gachuha, Marsai, Liangjiang Governor Lang Tingzuo and others ordered the withdrawal of the Tartar soldiers guarding these gates overnight, retreated to the inner city, and strengthened the inner city gates. of troops.

In this regard, the military strength is still stretched, because Jiangning City, as the capital of Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is too big. There are eighteen gates in the outer city and thirteen gates in the inner city.

Even with the retreated soldiers, the total strength of the Tartars in the inner city of Jiangning is less than 5000, and there are as many as thirteen city gates that need to be defended, each with less than [-] troops. , The severe defensive situation made Aungbang Zhangjing Kakamu, Mele Zhangjing Gachuha, Marsai, Liangjiang Governor Lang Tingzuo and others all feel heavy and frown.

In the end, in desperation, the Yifeng Gate, which needed to be defended, was defended by [-] full Eight Banners Tazi soldiers led by Angbang Zhangjing Kakamu, and [-] soldiers from the right Meilezhangjing Gachuha of the Sanshan Gate. The main attack direction is Zhengyangmen, and Marsai leads the five thousand and eight banners to defend.

The other ten city gates were less important with only [-] green battalion soldiers, and the more important ones were [-] green battalion soldiers. In the end, Governor Lang Tingzuo of Liangjiang only had [-] green battalion soldiers left as a reserve team.

This also caused Zheng Chenggong's heavy troops to attack Yifeng Gate. The battle was so fierce. If the defenders of the city gate were green battalion soldiers, they would have been frightened by the fierce firepower of Zheng Chenggong's army. Waiting for the Ming army to attack the city along the ladder , then scattered and collapsed.

Just like this, the Yifeng Gate defended by Aungbangzhangjing Kakamu is also in jeopardy. Three thousand Tartar soldiers, a few rounds of red-clothed cannons, broke down hundreds of them. When the Ming army began to erect ladders to attack the city, another Two or three hundred Tartars died at the muzzle of the Ming army's matchlock guns under the city.

When the Ming army climbed to the top of the city, there were only a little over 2000 Tartar troops left on the city, but now the Ming army on the top of the city has equaled the number of Tartars defending the city, and the Ming army is still increasing continuously. The reinforcements of Angbang Zhangjing Kakamu have not yet arrived.

It was not that the reinforcements did not arrive, but that there were no reinforcements. At this time, fierce battles were taking place at the gates of the city, and Lang Tingzuo did not dare to easily send reinforcements to support the Yifeng Gate of Aungbang Zhangjing Khamu.

After all, the war has just started, who knows what will happen in a while, if this poor reserve team is sent out at this time, what will happen when other city gates are in crisis the next moment?Therefore, Lang Tingzuo, the governor of Liangjiang, is going to wait a little longer to see the battle situation at each city gate before making a decision.

Attack Yaofang Gate, Xianhe Gate, Qilin Gate, Cangbo Gate, Shangyuan Gate, and Foning Gate, Wanlu in Youchong Township, Wanli in the rear admiral, Wanyi in Zuozhen in Xuanyi, and Ma in the right admiral Xin, Xuanyi, Wu Hao, Zhengbing, and Han Ying, found that there were no Tazi soldiers guarding the city gate.

They unanimously assigned [-] soldiers led by their lieutenants to occupy these gates, and each of them led the remaining [-] soldiers back to Yifeng Gate.

(End of this chapter)