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

Chapter 69 The Battle of Jiangning ([-])

Riding on a bay red horse, Zhu Cixuan raised his head and looked up at the Hongwumen tower, only to see a Tartar general looking at him with a sheathed long sword on the tower, and the two people's eyes intertwined.

He said loudly: "This old man is the Han army inlaid with yellow flags. The governor of Liangjiang, Lang Tingzuo, who is the general of the Ming army under the city? Let the old man know who I was defeated by."

Zhu Cixuan patted his horse forward, and said loudly: "I am Zhu Cixuan, the prince of Ming Dynasty, you are already surrounded by our army, why don't you open the city gate and surrender, when will you wait?"

"Little Huangmao is not ashamed, I want to see how you take down the Hongwumen guarded by the governor." Lang Tingzuo snorted contemptuously.

Damn, the dead duck has a hard mouth, and the Han army has a yellow flag?It seems that this guy has long forgotten who his ancestors are, a dog who has forgotten his ancestors, if this is the case, then I will send you back to the west.

Now that he knew that the other party was a traitor raised by the Tartars since childhood, it would be useless to say more, Zhu Cixuan sneered, and a Mauser 98K rifle suddenly appeared in his hand out of thin air, the bullet was loaded with a "click", and he raised his hand to shoot At the sound of the "bang" gunshot, a flower of blood bloomed on Lang Tinzo's chest.

Lang Tingzuo's body shook suddenly, he looked down and saw the blood hole in his chest, his face was bewildered, what is the fake Mentaiko holding in his hand?Could it be the miraculous and powerful new type of firecracker that has been spread recently?Until this time, he seemed to understand why his army was defeated so quickly.

He vaguely heard the false Ming prince shouting under the city: "Attack."

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Suddenly there were bursts of violent explosions beside him. Lang Tingzuo, whose vision was already a little blurred, saw the soldiers on the tower flying up into the air one after another amidst the sound of explosions, spilling blood into the sky.

'Cannon in red?how come?I clearly did not have red cannons in the Ming army just now, why is that so?In the end what happened? '

He tried hard to open his eyes wide, trying to see clearly, but at this moment, his body shook again, and he fell on his back.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency." He seemed to hear someone calling himself, and he wanted to cheer up, but he felt so sleepy, so sleepy, and wanted to have a good sleep.

yes!Ever since the hypocritical Zheng Chenggong led the army to besiege the city, I haven't had a good night's sleep for a long time. I'm really tired during this time, I need to take a good rest...

Lang Tingzuo thought so, and did so. He tilted his neck and fell into the boundless darkness...

A quarter of an hour later, Zhu Cixuan led an army into Hongwumen, captured nearly [-] soldiers from the Green Battalion, and left [-] soldiers guarding the gate to guard the prisoners. Zhu Cixuan led the remaining [-] soldiers and went straight to the Meridian Gate of Miyagi. , When the army arrived at the Meridian Gate, they suddenly found that the Meridian Gate was wide open, and there was no Tartar.

Zhu Cixuan ordered Mu Zhongliang to lead [-] Eastern Palace guards into the palace city through the Meridian Gate to clear out any Tartars who might be hiding in the palace city.

He ordered Gao Shun to lead [-] soldiers to seize the other six gates of the imperial city and eliminate the Tartars in the imperial city. At the same time, he ordered Gao Shun not to let other people lead the army into the imperial city without his own permission.

He and Chen Gong stood outside the Meridian Gate on horseback, waiting for Gao Shun and Mu Zhongliang's suppression campaign to end.

Half an hour later, Mu Zhongliang returned to the Meridian Gate to give orders, and after the Miyagi campaign was completed, Zhu Cixuan immediately rode into Miyagi.After entering Miyagi, he did not go to the various palaces inside, but began to stroll along the inner city wall of Miyagi on horseback.

Starting from the Meridian Gate, head east, passing Donghua Gate in the east, Xuanwu Gate in the north, Xihua Gate in the west, and then back to the Meridian Gate.

Facing south, the whole palace city is slightly rectangular, about 0.88 kilometers long from north to south, about 0.85 kilometers wide from east to west, with a circumference of about 3.5 kilometers and a total area of ​​1.16 square kilometers.

Back at Meridian Gate, Zhu Cixuan dismounted from his horse and climbed onto the Meridian Gate Tower of Miyagi. The wall of Miyagi was 11 meters high, the foundation was 8 meters wide, and the top was 7 meters wide, which was convenient for soldiers to stand on it for defense.

This is the inner palace where Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang lived, one of the largest mansions in the world, and the other one is now lived by Emperor Shunzhi of the Tartars.

After seeing the palace city, Zhu Cixuan got off the tower, rode out of the Meridian Gate to Hongwu Gate, and then inspected along the city wall of the imperial city. The entire imperial city also faces south and is in an inverted convex shape. The main body is about 3 kilometers long from north to south. , about 2.2 kilometers wide from east to west, 10.23 kilometers in circumference, about 6.53 square kilometers in area, 11 meters high, 8 meters wide at the base, 7 meters wide at the top, and 7 gates, namely:
Hongwu Gate, Chang'an Left Gate, Chang'an Right Gate, Chengtian Gate, Dong'an Gate, Xi'an Gate, Bei'an Gate.

The south gate of the imperial city is Hongwu Gate, which is located in the north of Zhengyang Gate in the capital (inner city).After entering Hongwu Gate, there is a north-south thousand-step corridor, with continuous corridor houses built on both sides, from south to north, and the horizontal street in front of Chengtian Gate turns east and west to form a curved ruler shape.

The two sides behind the thousand-step corridor are the locations of the central government offices of the "five ministries and six mansions".After passing the Waiwulong Bridge is Chengtian Gate.

Between the Meridian Gate in the middle of the south of the palace city and the Chengtian Gate in the middle of the south of the imperial city, Duanmen, five Duanmen and Chengtianmen towers were built, and the east and west sides of the royal road on both sides of the Duanmen were built with north-south palace walls. , separating the Taimiao in the east and the Sheji Altar in the west, making this imperial road more fortified and becoming the only road leading to the palace city. Therefore, although the Chengtian Gate was built in the south of the imperial city, it actually became the entrance to the imperial city. The first gate in the south of Miyagi.

On the north-south imperial wall in front of Chengtian Gate, there are Chang'an Left Gate and Chang'an Right Gate connecting the east and west of Chang'an Avenue; the east of the main city of the imperial city is Dong'an Gate, the west is Xi'an Gate, and the north is North Gate. Anmen.

Under the imperial wall in the southwest corner of the imperial city, it is the seat of eunuchs and prisons.Other departments, bureaus, warehouses, houses, factories and other institutions serving the imperial court are either set up in the palace city or in the imperial city.

On the rivers inside and outside the palace, in addition to the inner and outer Wulong Bridge, there is also a "Qinglong Bridge" near the East Chang'an Gate, and a "Baihu Bridge" near the West Chang'an Gate, which means "Left Green Dragon, Right White Tiger".

So far, Zhu Cixuan has a general understanding of the former capital of the Ming Dynasty. The entire Jiangning City covers an area of ​​more than 230 square kilometers and is divided into four layers of walls: the Palace City, the Imperial City, the Capital City and the Outer City City.

Jiangning City had a population of 120 million at its peak, making it the largest and most populous city in the world.

Wai Guocheng, also known as the outer city, is the fourth city wall from the inside to the outside of Jiangning's four-fold city wall. It was built to strengthen the defense of Jiangning's capital. It was ordered to start construction in the 23rd year of Hongwu (1390) by Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

The circumference of the capital is more than 60 kilometers, with a total area of ​​about 248 square kilometers. The height of the city is 8-10 meters, the width of the city is 6-8 meters, and there are 18 gates: Zhalan Gate, Jiangdong Gate, Elephant Taming Gate, and Little Elephant Taming. Gate, Ande Gate, Small Ande Gate, Fengtai Gate, Jiagang Gate, Shangfang Gate, Gaoqiao Gate, Cangbo Gate, Qilin Gate, Xianhe Gate, Yaofang Gate, Guanyin Gate, Foning Gate, Shangyuan Gate , Outer Jinchuan Gate.

The northernmost is the Guanyin Gate, the easternmost is the Qilin Gate, and the southernmost is the Jiagang Gate. The Waiguo City Wall in the west is not enclosed, and the north and south gaps left extend to the Yangtze River.

The height of the city is about 8-10 meters, the width of the city wall is 6-8 meters, and there is a water culvert under the city.

The gates of Waiguo are the gateways to and from Jiangning. These eighteen gates are usually guarded by soldiers all year round, and relevant officials patrol from time to time.There are 1-2 general guards at the gate of the outer gate, 1-2 interrogators, and 20-80 soldiers, who are responsible for guarding the gate and checking the entry and exit of people and goods.

(End of this chapter)