Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 266 Demon girl, you actually betrayed your master and begged for loyalty! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
The sound of striking metal reverberated piercingly through the rain curtain, announcing the defeat of another day's attack on Yuhuatai Highland outside Nanjing City and Xiaoling Acropolis.

In the southeast of the Yuhuatai Highland, four high mounds (gun fortresses) have been built. Even though the cannons erected on the Yuhuatai are still firing non-stop, the militiamen captured from the four townships outside Nanjing and those from Jiangsu and Zhejiang The regiments who were forcibly recruited from other places are still transporting straw bags to these lands and piling them up higher.In the mounds and the muddy water around Yuhuatai Heights, the bodies of fallen regiments, militiamen, and green battalion soldiers were everywhere.

It is already the early summer of the 13th year of Kangxi or the 47th year of Chongzhen. A typhoon blew over and brought continuous days of heavy rain to the battlefields around Nanjing.This sudden torrential rain brought a lot of trouble to both the offensive and defensive sides.

The land under Yuhuatai became very muddy, and many potholes had accumulated into pools of water. The captured militiamen and forcibly transferred regiment members could only wear single clothes or even shirtless, facing the rainwater poured from the sky. And the shells that fly from Yuhuatai from time to time, bite the bullet or pile up soil to build fortifications.

The amount of work to build the fortress was huge and the time was tight. The Eight Banners soldiers and the Green Battalion soldiers in charge of supervision were very aggressive. If something went wrong, they would beat their heads and face with leather whips. No matter how strong a man was, it was difficult for him to last for ten days and a half moon!

Relying on these few built up lands, the Qing army launched wave after wave of fierce attacks on the southern edge of Yuhuatai Heights a few days ago.

The highest point of Yuhuatai Heights is about [-] feet from the ground, and it is relatively close to the city wall of Nanjing's inner city. Once occupied by the Qing army, they can commandeer and bombard Jinling.

Moreover, after occupying Yuhuatai, the south of Nanjing City was basically locked up—the outer city of Nanjing was already in dilapidated condition at this time, and it was too long. Possibility of controlling the walls.Therefore, if we want to completely blockade the south of Nanjing, we must take down Yuhuatai!
But to block the east of the city, at least control the Xiaoling Acropolis.

As for the blockade of the west of the city, it is easy to handle. Just deploy defenses along a branch of the Qinhuai River into the Yangtze River. There are many branches of the Qinhuai River into the Yangtze River, and it is impossible for the Ming army to deploy defenses.

So the last two rings of Yue Le's plan to encircle Jiangning are Xiaolingwei and Yuhuatai.

Of course, it would be even better if Xiaoling can be captured!If you set up a cannon on the Xiaoling Mausoleum, you can directly bombard the city wall on the east side of Nanjing's inner city!

However, the Qing army's attack on Yuhuatai encountered a bigger problem than building a fortress with soil!
Although the Ming army only dug a deep and wide trench on the southern edge of Yuhuatai, and at the same time erected a wooden fence behind the trench, and built a fence with straw bags filled with soil against the trees on Yuhuatai behind the wooden fence. Sheep and horse wall.

But behind the wall of sheep and horses, there are countless crossbowmen!

This kind of arms, which was rarely seen on the battlefield of the first Ming and Qing battles, has now formed a quite lethal combination with artillery and musketeers.

The artillery erected on the high place of Yuhuatai was accurate to the Qing army marching in formation. If it formed a ricochet, it would be really miserable. Sweep a large area!
At the same time, those shield vehicles that can only move slowly are also excellent targets for them!
After the formation of the Qing army was scattered and the shielded chariots were destroyed one after another, the infantry who lost their cover became the targets of crossbowmen and musketeers.
On the edge of the trench under Yuhuatai, there are discarded straw bags everywhere—these straw bags are filled with soil and are used to fill the trench.But the militiamen and regiments carrying straw bags were shot by crossbow arrows one after another!
Those militiamen and regiments who were not overturned by the arrow clusters saw that the situation was not good, so they had to throw away the straw bags, crying and running around the battlefield.Of course, the green battalion and Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army who were escorting them were not polite. They shot with arrows and hacked with knives, trying to drive them to continue filling the trench.But at this time, they often become the targets of the musketeers hiding under the rainproof shack!
There were not many musketeers, but their shots were quite accurate, and the Eight Banners soldiers and Green Battalion soldiers who were escorting the team were also killed and injured, so they had to retreat dejectedly.

However, the attacking Qing army did not give up so easily, and a group that was shot back will soon come up again.
The bloody battle at Yuhuatai went on like this without interruption!

But the tragedy of fighting under Xiaoling Acropolis was even worse than Yuhuatai.The Acropolis of Xiaoling is not big, it is built along Zijin Mountain, guarding the gate of Xiaoling, and at the same time, it is stuck on the main road to the top of Zijin Mountain.Zijin Mountain is not steep, but there are dense forests on the mountain, and it is easy for infantry to infiltrate, but if you want to move the artillery up to bombard the city of Nanjing, you have to go south.In particular, the area close to Nanjing City happens to be the Xiaoling Mausoleum of Zhu Yuanzhang. In order to make it easier for the filial sons and grandsons of the Ming Dynasty to climb the mountain and sweep the tomb, the Xiaoling Mausoleum has built very good roads here. .

The third prince Zhu is really worthy of being Zhu Yuanzhang's filial son and virtuous grandson. He doesn't care about the peace of the ancestors' mausoleum-Daming is coming to an end again. Why don't you hurry up to bless your ancestors and sleep in peace!

Therefore, after the Qing army approached Xiaoling Acropolis, Zhu Daxiaozi personally led the Fujian artillery under Chen Yonghua to drag eight red cannons capable of firing [-] catties of shells to Zijin Mountain. Both the Dajinmen and the Sifang Xiaobao where the steles of divine achievements and virtues are stored have been transformed into artillery forts.

He also plausibly said that if he mounts this cannon at the gate of Xiaoling Mausoleum to defend Daming, he will definitely be blessed by the Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty, and when the Tatar soldiers come over, he will keep it safe and accurate—the co-author Zhu Hongwu also knows artillery!
But the actual effect is really good!

The solid bullets fired by the eight red-clothed cannons erected on the Dajinmen fortress and the Shengdebei can cover a large area of ​​land in the north, northwest, and northeast of the Xiaoling Acropolis. The artillery on the city formed a crossfire.

The Qing army didn't know how filial the third prince Zhu was at the beginning, and wanted to use filial piety as a cover to intersperse between Zijin Mountain and Xiaoling Acropolis, trying to raid and occupy Xiaoling, so as to cut off the connection between Xiaoling Acropolis and Nanjing City .

As a result, two or three thousand cavalry were suddenly bombarded by sixteen red-clothed cannons when they were performing interspersed tasks, and then they were rushed by the training troops of the Yingtian regiment who were killed from Zijin Mountain and Xiaoling Weicheng. The civil war lost more than a thousand people.In the narrow strip between Xiaolingwei and Zijin Mountain, the dead corpses of the Qing army's green battalion and Eight Banners elites were all rotting and stinking!
While the Qing army was making a detour between Xiaolingwei and Zijin Mountain, they also sent another detour force composed of Green Battalion soldiers and Eight Banners soldiers, trying to make a detour from the south of Xiaolingwei.As a result, this army was bombarded by the red cannons erected on the urn city of Chaoyangmen and the red cannons erected on the south of Xiaoling Acropolis, and the loss was not small!
However, this Qing army was composed of Jiangning Banner battalion soldiers and green battalion soldiers who folded their families in Nanjing City, and they all went to the battlefield with blood and deep hatred in their stomachs.So after being bombarded, they actually withstood the counterattack of the Yingtian Mansion regiment and the Eastern King's army who rushed out from the Xiaolingwei City and the Chaoyangmen Urn City, and occupied a Zhuangzi in the south of Xiaolingwei, and then in The cannons in red were also set up in this place to bombard the cannons on the Acropolis of Xiaoling.

After gaining a foothold in the south of Xiaolingwei City, the Qing army began to storm the southeast corner of Xiaolingwei to attract the attention of the Xiaolingwei defenders, and at the same time, mobilized troops two miles away from the northwest corner of Xiaolingwei. The militiamen and militia groups, with the firepower of the red cannons and the heavy rain for days, built artillery fortifications.

Although a huge price was paid, the artillery fortress, which could be used to cover the right wing of the Qing army attacking the east wall of Xiaolingwei, was finally successfully constructed.It's just that the price is a bit high!Around the fortress, the corpses of militiamen and regiments were piled up one after another.

After the construction of the artillery fortress in the northeast direction of Xiaolingwei was completed, the Qing army's attack on the east wall of Xiaolingwei also began!

After many days of fierce fighting, under the low wall of the Xiaoling Acropolis, all the people walking around were damaged shield carts, rush carts, and ladder carts. There were also many militiamen and regiments pushing these vehicles to approach the Xiaoling Acropolis. Those who "learn bad things and succeed" are no different, they are all consumables.So it seems to be everywhere, soaked white in the rain.These siege vehicles were either destroyed by the red-clothed cannons and small red-clothed cannons (which produced six or three catties of projectiles) on the wall of Xiaoling Acropolis, or were killed by the soldiers of the Yingtianfu regiment who were killed from the Xiaoling Acropolis. Hacked the wheel with a big axe.The soldiers on both sides wearing cotton armor also broke out fierce hand-to-hand combat, and many soldiers died one after another in this way.

The east wall of Xiaolingwei also took a lot of shells, and the upper part of the wall was full of gaps blasted by shells.Below the gap, there are all dead Eight Banners soldiers, Green Battalion soldiers and regiments who were used as cannon fodder by the former two.

With the support of the cannons on the two artillery bases at the rear, they were either covered with one or two layers of cloth armor, or only held a wooden shield (one layer of armor for the Green Battalion, two layers of armor for the Eight Banners, and no armor for the regiments). ) launched wave after wave of fierce attacks against the bullets and crossbow arrows that rained down on the city wall.

In fact, there are not many musketeers on the wall of the Xiaoling Acropolis, at least a thousand or so, and they are all arquebus guns. In this heavy rainy day when the air is full of moisture, they can't do much. Powerful.This is why Mang Yitu, who was in charge of commanding the siege battle, dared to take advantage of these rainy days to attack Yuhuatai and Xiaolingwei.

However, the huge number of crossbow arrows shot from Yuhua Terrace and Xiaoling Acropolis shattered Mang Yitu's wishful thinking!

Attacks on these two important places outside Nanjing were defeated time and time again.Not only the militiamen and regiments who were responsible for filling the trenches and serving as human shields suffered heavy losses, but even the Green Battalion soldiers and Eight Banners soldiers who escorted the team were also killed and injured.

After a day's battle, there was no effect except that there were many more corpses piled up under Yuhuatai and Xiaoling Acropolis.
Hearing Jin Ming withdrawing troops, the Qing army, militiamen, and regiments on the battlefield all retreated covered in mud and water—not all of them will withdraw, there will always be some cunning militiamen and regiments who will take advantage of the opportunity to retreat and flee Go out of the battlefield, go around to the bridgehead of Zhonghe Bridge outside Zhengyangmen to join the Ming army, and then seek revenge from the Qing army!

But at this time, Yue Le didn't care that the defenders of Nanjing City might fight more and more. He was not as "shaft" as Mang Yitu. After all, his wife and children didn't die in Nanjing. According to the emotions of the Jiangning Banner Army and the Green Battalion soldiers, he would give up attacking immediately after he found Xiaolingwei and Yuhuatai difficult to fight.

Today, he didn't even go to Yuhuatai to supervise the battle with the Xiaoling Guards. Instead, he stayed in his Qixia Mountain camp. The deputy battalion manager, Ge Sitai, studied the letter from Xuzhou just received. It was the letter jointly signed by Shang Shuying, Shang Kejiao, and Nian Yaling.

These few famous kings and ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have already read this terrible report!

Yes, it is fatal!

Li Zhongshan may be killed, but it is also possible that a large number of Qing soldiers who went to the Xusu battlefield to infiltrate Li Zhongshan will be killed, and it is more likely that the siege of Nanjing will be broken.

The reason why it was so terrible was because the "plan to kill Li" proposed by Shang Shuying, Shang Kejiao, and Nian Yaling was not a grand banquet, nor was it a sneak attack by elite soldiers.Shang Shuying has revealed the situation of Li Zhongshan's military strength - there are tens of thousands of Huai troops, of which there are no less than [-] elite and fierce soldiers, and no less than [-] soldiers who may be taken to Fuliji by him.

To be the commander-in-chief of this army, it is natural to dispatch the main force of the southeast Qing army.

At least [-] elite soldiers must be drawn from the four battalions of Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Jiangdong, and Jiangxi to do this business. big.

But the problem is that if [-] elite soldiers are taken away from the four battalions in the southeast, north, and west, the four battalions will be useless!

There are a lot of cannon fodder in the four major battalions now, but there are not so many elites!
Among them, the most powerful Jiangdong camp is based on the 1 elite soldiers brought by Yue Le from Jingzhou, plus the more than 5 banner soldiers and green battalion soldiers who ran out from Jiangning and lost their families.Later, some Jiangnan green camps that were still usable were taken in, and [-] people were collected, and they were sorted out by Yue Le, and the five towns of "front, back, left, right, and middle" in Jiangdong Daying were reorganized.

The Jiangbei camp has no elites, even the navy is okay, but the Jiangbei navy has no way to defeat the Yingtian navy on the river near Jiangning—although the size of the Yingtian navy is small, its strength should not be underestimated, the main force of the Yingtian navy The warships are galleys coming in from the sea, and the cannons on the ships are all three-jin bronze cannons produced by the Macau Cannon Factory!
The total strength of Jiangxi Daying is as high as [-]!However, most of them are the original Anhui Green Camp and Jiangxi Green Camp. Only the Qianjun Town, Houjun Town, Zhongjun Town, and Zuojun Town of Jiangxi Daying, which were expanded on the basis of the Green Camp New Army originally stationed in Hunan, are elites.But three towns among these elites had to stick to Jiujiang, Nanchang, and Anqing, and only one town could maneuver.

However, this town was severely damaged and damaged in the battles against Caishiji, Dangtu City, and Dashengguan. Now it can only bluff in the west of Nanjing City, and it cannot be used to death.In addition, Jieshu sent his deputy, Ge Sitai, the old villain who used to be Dorgon's guard, and the deputy director of the Jiangxi Camp to bring more than 1 soldiers from the Jiangxi Camp to participate in the Jiangning Siege. A total of [-] can be collected Bar.

The foundation of the Jiangnan camp was the [-] soldiers Zhang Zhifang insisted on coming from Fuquan (at Kangxi's order) and some green battalions from Zhejiang.

Therefore, it is said that there are [-] veterans in the Qing army camp besieging Nanjing (including the navy), but it seems that there are only [-] veterans who can be transferred for the "Battle of Xusu".

And after the 3 people were taken away, the Jiangning encirclement became less secure.
But it won't work if you don't send troops!

Because Yue Le didn't send troops, then Shang Kejiao and Nian Xialing might really surrender. They have already contacted Wang Nidatou under Shang Shuying's matchmaking, and the conditions have been negotiated.

If Yue Le didn't dare to send troops to fight Wang Datou, it means that Yue Le, who has [-] soldiers (the Qing army besieging Nanjing), is afraid of Wang Datou, so they have a total of [-] soldiers, why are they struggling?Wouldn't it be nice to vote for Daming as Earl?
Once Xuzhou surrendered, the water transportation would be completely interrupted, and the "return route" of the Qing army in the southeast would also be cut off, which was more deadly than the canal being cut off.

So Yue Le had to follow suit!

If you bet now, you might win, maybe you can turn the tables.

If you don't place a bet now, it's hard to say whether you will have a chance to place a bet in the future!

Thinking of this, Yue Le just sighed deeply, and looked at the few people in front of him: "Jiangdong camp sent [-] troops. Another [-] is needed, so you can share it. In addition, this king is going to besiege Jiangning. Can’t go away. Which of you would like to lead troops to Xuzhou and Suzhou?”

"Zhongtang, Shang Kejiao, and Nian Yaling all agreed to surrender, but from the perspective of my concubine, they all seemed unwilling! They promised too readily, and they didn't ask for too much reward, and they didn't hand over the hostages immediately. Although their family members Most of them are in Beijing, but there are still some concubines and relatives around them.

So I feel that they may cheat, you must be on guard against them. "

It is Shang Shuying who is persuading Li Zhongshan to be careful about Shang Ke's education and his age.

She had already returned to Suzhou from Xuzhou City—Suzhou was captured by the Ming army not long ago, and Li Zhongshan's Chinese army also sneaked into Suzhou.

"Defense?" Li Zhongshan looked at Shang Shuying and thought: What do you mean by being a witch?Who are you selling to?

"Yes! We need to prevent them from launching a sneak attack." Shang Shuying said, "We also need to prevent them from recruiting soldiers from Yue Le. Zhongtang, why don't you write a memorial to the supervisor and ask him to pay attention to the changes in the number of Tartars outside the city of Nanjing. If there are fewer Tartars, we must break the siege of Nanjing as soon as possible!"

You demon girl sold me to Yue Le?Li Zhongshan understood a little bit. Shang Shuying made a series of tricks. On the one hand, he sold his movements to the Qing army. On the other hand, he sold Yue Le to the third prince Zhu, the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, so that the third prince Zhu had a way out of the siege. The possibility of Nanjing.

What is she doing, it can probably be called the seller seeking loyalty, right?
The seller should fight for loyalty!

(End of this chapter)