New Empire at the End of Ming Dynasty

However, the words of Duke Xu did not stabilize morale and people's hearts, because he can be an official and get ahead. They are all official and old-fashioned. Who would be so stupid that he believed them when he listened to the flicker of others?

Officials, powerful and powerful, began to transfer their possessions, hide their valuable gold and silver treasures, and send their important families outside the city.

Because these people also found something. Even if they can hold Xu Guogong's tone, the peripheral cities will be lost, Nanjing will be surrounded, and they will spend a hard time. Therefore, these people quickly sent their families to Suzhou, Changzhou, Wuxi and other directions in order not to be served by Liu Jun.

Fortunately, at this time, Duke Xu didn't send his army to escort his family and soft out of the city in order to express his survival with the city. If he did the same as these ordinary officials, I'm afraid it would lead to more panic.

Although the morale and people's hearts in the city have temporarily stabilized, everyone knows that this momentum cannot last. The security of Nanjing depends on the reinforcement of the periphery.

Since the attack on Zhenjiang, they have been sending out letters for help day and night. The letters for help are like snowflakes floating to Nanjing. Although he attaches great importance to them and organizes reinforcements to go out, they dare not go to war when they are attacked by a small group of troops from the other side, which shocked many people. If they can't provide strong support for Zhenjiang, The fall of Zhenjiang will happen sooner or later.

Fortunately, the terrain of Zhenjiang is very dangerous. The garrison defends according to the city, and situ is the only reliable person among the recognized Nanjing garrison generals. No matter what, it is not a problem to keep for a month and a half, but no one expected that he would fall in a few days.

Nanjing is not ready at all, their urban defense facilities are not ready, and all kinds of troops have not been assembled. To put it bluntly, they are just making a mess and preparing to convene at the beginning, but they have to face the tiger and wolf division of Liu Jiajun.

So when Zhenjiang, which they relied on as a barrier, was lost, the whole city of Nanjing was in a mess. Although the officials and soldiers blocked the thirteen gates and were not allowed to enter or leave, these rich people still tried every means to send their families and property out of the city, because they knew that Nanjing would soon be surrounded, You can't go if you want to.

Sure enough, after Taking Zhenjiang, Liu Jiajun's Navy went up along the river and directly appeared at the two water passes in Nanjing, East water pass and west water pass. They first blocked the waterway and the Qinhuai River.

After hearing that Liu Jun had invaded the south of the Yangtze River, Duke Xu, the garrison of Nanjing, began to order the blockade of the whole city. Except for the soldiers entering the guard and the transferred grain and grass, others are not allowed to enter or leave. The two water gates are the key to transporting materials outside. They have water strongholds and some defense facilities here, We even got some flang cannon stationed on it.

The Flemish machine gun is the standard configuration of the Ming army. The army is equipped with a lot of equipment. It is estimated that there are more Flemish machine guns in their battalion than those of Liu Jiajun, but only they know the quality of the things produced by the official manufacturing workshop of these cannons.

Moreover, they used these Fran machine guns to defend the city. They had no bottom at all, because they had to face Liu Jiajun's red cannon. The other party crushed him in power and range, which made them very embarrassed.

It is imperative for Liu Jiajun to attack Nanjing, but their troops are not enough to encircle Nanjing in an all-round way.

So at present, they are still divided into two ways, one way out of Chuzhou, through Anqing, ready to attack the west gate of Nanjing, while the main force of Liu Jiajun is all the way to the East.

They planned to attack from east to west, break through Nanjing's urban defense and take this place.

After Liu Jiajun entered the south of the Yangtze River, their progress was basically smooth with the wind and water, faster than they expected. It was not so much a war as an armed March. Basically, they opened the way for the main army, and they could take down the place. It was almost too late for the imperial court to resist, Has arrived at the foot of Nanjing.

The main reason is that Liu bu used his troops very hard and fast. As a commander, he highly praised lightning tactics. He sent troops like electricity. When the other party had no time to respond and prepare, he launched an attack on the other party's weak links, destroyed the other party's defense line, made the other party chaotic, unprepared and didn't know how to defend.

The Ming army didn't know how to defend, but could only retreat step by step, and their battle became a rout. Liu Bu now played his tactics to the limit, that is, when they took Zhenjiang, they didn't stop to rest at all, the cavalry didn't dismount, the infantry didn't unload armor, and the pawn knife didn't leave their hands, and then went straight to Nanjing.

Zhenjiang is just that they pried open the east gate of Nanjing, and their main army went all out to promote it.

Along his way alone, there are four divisions, each with tens of thousands of people. With the strength of tens of thousands of people, it is not a problem to win one of the other's provinces. Therefore, after crossing Zhenjiang, his troops are divided into four paths to surround the four city gates of Nanjing. Other city gates can only set aside some troops for alert. At present, he has this strength, To encircle the city of Nanjing, which is more than 60 kilometers away, we still can't catch it.

Even if Liu Zhongyong's army arrived, met him and wanted to encircle the huge city of Nanjing, the troops were still insufficient.

Fortunately, the military strength in the city is even more insufficient, and they are all garbage soldiers and useless soldiers. Their military strength to defend Nanjing also seems extremely empty. After apportioning it among the city gates and ferries, it appears to be seriously insufficient. Even if the military strength is insufficient, these soldiers are still mainly old, weak, sick and disabled.

This makes Duke Xu feel helpless and powerless. Duke Xu and Daming are deeply bound. The wealth of their family comes from the royal family, from Daming, and there is the wealth of his Xu family. This has been passed down for ten generations, and in his son's generation, it is the eleventh generation.

Xu Hongji thought that he could die on his sickbed and be buried in a beautiful funeral like his predecessors in previous dynasties. Then he passed the title on to his son, who passed it on to his grandson and passed it on from generation to generation to rest with the country.

As long as there is Daming, there is the wealth of their Xu family. But now Daming is gone at any time. It can only stand up old and weak, pick up the sword and fight for Daming.

Their Xu family's wealth was won by their ancestors through hundreds of battles, and it was also obtained by their ancestors and Xu family to protect Daming. To keep this wealth and glory, we must continue to protect Daming.

But now in the Ming Dynasty, the most important city of Nanjing was surrounded and besieged by rebels, which was unprecedented in more than 200 years, which shocked and disturbed him.

When our ancestor Xu Da fought in the war, there were many soldiers around him. Every soldier was very brave. What a situation like today? Although there were countless honours and senior officials in Nanjing, there was no enough garrison to defend this great and bright land of Longxing.

Duke Xu is in his 60s this year and has reached the age of Huajia. Although he is not very old, he is not well maintained. If a person has 20 or 30 concubines, it is a little difficult for him to maintain his health. He has resigned from the post of Nanjing Garrison for many times and wants to go home and enjoy his grandchildren for thousands of years, but the situation in the court, Daming's situation collapsed so quickly that he was not allowed to retire and enjoy happiness at all. He could only continue to lead the military defense in Nanjing.

The troika in Nanjing, Zhu Biguo, the Minister of the Ministry of war, and Lu Jiude, the eunuch of Nanjing. They are still the three giants in Nanjing. When they ask for power and money, they are not polite and hesitant, but when the enemy blockades and surrounds the city from all sides, They are like eggplant beaten by frost. They wilt immediately. I don't know what to do?

Zhu Biguo packed up his clothes and sent his family and belongings to other places. Lu Jiude was a northerner. Now the north-south traffic was cut off. He had a home and had no descendants. He was busy enjoying the gold, silver and beautiful women he had searched hard.

When there were difficulties and crises in Nanjing, as one of the three giants, they actually behaved like this, but the people were very disappointed.

Before that, Duke Xu did everything he could, drawing big cakes or fooling, to stabilize the morale of Nanjing taxis, because Liu Jiajun was attacking Anqing and the peripheral cities of Nanjing. Before these cities were taken down, Nanjing was still safe.

But now Zhenjiang, the most important east gate of Nanjing, has been captured, and hundreds of thousands of Liu Jun are sweeping in, which makes all the people panic, fear and worry.

They understand that the fierce offensive and defensive war in Nanjing will begin soon. They live here, grow up here, work here, that is, their home is here. In Nanjing, they have everything, high above the world, rich and glorious. If they leave Nanjing, they will be nothing, especially these officials. They have a responsibility to defend their homeland. If they leave here, If the imperial court catches them, they can be beheaded and pleaded guilty, so they can only choose to live or die with Nanjing city.

With the approaching of tens of thousands of troops of Liu Jiajun, for a moment, the atmosphere of despair and panic shrouded the most prosperous Nanjing City in the Ming Dynasty. The ten li Qinhuai River, which is known as never extinguished and brightly lit, was also in panic. There was no scene of flowers and singing and dancing.