Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 195 Nanjing (V)

At this moment, Ma Guozhu was sitting in front of Jubao Gate, and seeing the gangsters agitating unscrupulously in front, Ma Guozhu ordered to fire.It's just that the distance is quite far, not within the range of the artillery.

Seeing that the Tartars started to fight back, the drums from the security team also started beating.

The sound of the drum was the order to attack. Wu Ahu raised his shield and shouted to the regiment members under his command: "Comrades, go!"

Under the leadership of Wu Ahu, more than 1000 regiments of the first brigade of the first column rushed forward.They either held knives and shields, or bows and arrows, or carried long ladders, and rushed towards the city wall in large strides.On the road to the walls, speed is life.

After repeated attacks by Tartar artillery, muskets, crossbows, and bows, the advance team finally approached the city wall.Behind them are the second and third teams.For the first attack, Qiu Tianxing invested more than 5000 people.

Wu Ahu didn't go directly under the city wall, but was within a stone's throw away from the city wall. He wanted to command the three brigades in the siege battle.

Cloud ladders, rushing carts, siege towers, and wells are not easy to make and are easily damaged, so Qiu Tianxing only built the simplest long ladders.The most important thing to attack Jiangning is time. Before that, the headquarters was located in Lu'an Prefecture, the capital of Luzhou. Although there was a trend of invading Jiangning, after all, there was no real mobilization of troops in Jiangning at that time.At that time, the reinforcements from the Tazi court and various places naturally did not arrive slowly.But now it's different, I have already approached Jiangning City and started to attack the city, so I have stabbed a hornet's nest.

If Jiang Ning fails to conquer for a long time, then reinforcements from the surrounding Tartars will continue to flow.The Tazi court in the north, King Dingnan and Pingnan King in the south, and the governors from all over the country, their coalition forces will drag down the security team.When the time comes, the security regiment will contain most of the Tatars' troops and let others attack the city and plunder the land, which will become a dowry for others.And if Jiang Ning can be captured quickly, the Tatars will stop the reinforcements and take a slow and slow approach, and the security team will be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Therefore, this battle must be fast!

As a result, the siege team paid huge casualties, and they also completed the task.At their sacrifice, a team of ten thousand people left the camp and headed north with a large amount of explosives.

The city walls of Jiangning were towering, and the movement of the camp in the distance was soon known to the Tartars.When Ma Guozhu received this information, he pondered for a moment.

"Are the gangsters going to attack the west?" After pondering, Ma Guozhu ordered his deputy general Yang Jie to lead [-] troops to support the rest of the sects and monitor the bandit troops who left the camp.

At this moment, Zhou Chaozhong hurried north with an army of ten thousand people.The head of the regiment used the main force to hold down a large number of Tartars, just to give himself a chance to hit with one blow.Zhang Liansheng of the third battalion also led troops to attack Jurong Jintan to resist the reinforcements from the east, and Zhang Chengwu of the fifth battalion also went south to Lishui Gaochun to resist the enemy from the south.Now apart from the north, the security regiment has surrounded Jiangning City from the south, east and west.And all this is just so that I can hit it with one hit.Thinking of this, Zhou Chaozhong felt tremendous pressure in his heart.The security group is not only his own business, but also his sister-in-law's family business.The prosperity and wealth of the Zhou family depended on the security team, like a vine wrapped around a tree.Therefore, this battle must be won, even at the expense of one's own life.

All the way to the north, Zhou Chaozhong came to Yifengmen. After looking at the surrounding terrain, Zhou Chaozhong decided to carry out blasting here.

At this time, the water flow of the moat had been cut off from Fangshan by Qiu Tianxing, and sticky silt was exposed at the bottom of the river.In order to quickly break through the moat, Zhou Chaozhong brought a large number of planks.These boards were specially made, with anti-skid indents cut out on one side, and many short wooden sticks nailed to the other side to stick into the mud to prevent slipping.

It's just that the setting is the same, and the result is the same.Such a wooden plank sank into the mud immediately after stepping on it, which did not achieve the result of reducing the pressure by increasing the force-bearing area that Qiu Tianxing envisioned.In the end, Zhou Chaozhong became ruthless, and simply threw all the wooden planks into the moat, and then led the crowd across the river with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

At this moment, Lieutenant General Yang Jie also led three thousand soldiers to Yifeng Gate.When Zhou Chaozhong crossed the river, arrows rained down from the top of the city, and firecrackers thumped.

For this attack, Qiu Tianxing concentrated all the firecrackers in the headquarters and handed them over to Zhou Chaozhong.So some regiments with guns also shot at the Tartars on the top of the city.Taking advantage of the opportunity for the Tartars on the top of the city to hide, the regiment members quickly came to the bottom of the city wall, held up their shields and started digging.At this moment, the rolling logs and stones kept falling from above, and this heroic squad was wiped out in a short while.

At the same time, several small teams were digging soil near the city gate to prepare for blasting, but they were also wiped out by the Tartars on the city wall.

Seeing such a situation, Zhou Chaozhong became anxious.He decided to dig the cave by means of an explosion, using the cave after the explosion to add explosives.

After the explosions sounded one after another, many large and small holes were left on the ground, and the suspension bridge was also destroyed, exposing the city gate.

Seeing this good opportunity, Zhou Chaozhong decided to focus on bombing the city gate.Afterwards, although the Tartars on the city gate frantically attacked the regiments of the Guards Battalion, the regiments still rushed forward with their flesh and blood.Because the city gate is not a sealed environment, and the detonation time of the explosive packs is inconsistent, although the city gate has been bombed many times, it has not been blown up.In addition, there are many buildings on the city gate. Even if the city gate is destroyed by bombing, the gate tower can still be as high as the city wall after the collapse, and it is not easy to climb through.

In desperation, Zhou Chaozhong gave up bombing the city gate and decided to bomb the city wall again.After this mistake, the Guards Battalion suffered a lot of casualties.Countless fresh lives have paid tuition fees to Zhou Chaozhong.

Finally, after changing the length of the lead wire, a section of the city wall next to Yifeng Gate was blasted open as the members of the Guards Battalion generously went to die.Seeing that the city wall exploded, Lieutenant General Yang Jie's eyes turned red, and he rushed over with his troops.But the members of the Guards Battalion cheered endlessly, and rushed in after the smoke and dust cleared.

But to Yang Jie's delight, and to the dismay of the regiment members, although a gap of two feet was blasted in the city wall, the road over the city wall was not blasted open.

In desperation, the regiment members could only continue to carry out the blasting with huge casualties.

"Quick! Go and inform the governor! The bandits are about to enter the city!" Yang Jie said anxiously to the soldiers around him.

As soon as the words fell, an even louder explosion sounded from the depths of the ground, accompanied by an extremely strong shock.After a whirlwind, Yang Jie fell into boundless darkness.

Jiangning City was finally broken.

(End of this chapter)