New Empire at the End of Ming Dynasty

Liu Jiajun's attack has always been carried out near the city gate, because only by seizing the city gate can their army continuously drive in and seize the city.

This is basically all the siege methods.

But now they are attacking the world-famous city of Nanjing. This famous city is high and deep, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

In order to build this city, the Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang mobilized millions of people in four provinces to carry out large-scale corvee. It took four years to build this huge city. It was built according to the first standard in the world and to build a huge fortress with both attack and defense.

This huge city, in its 200 years of ups and downs, did not play the role of its military fortress. Until more than 260 years later, it finally used its tall city wall to defend foreign invaders and preserve the world of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Duke Xu, who was in charge of guarding the city, was not happy at all. Although many people in the city praised him and even praised him to the God of war, compared with her ancestor Xu Da, he was not happy. He looked in awe at the huge enemy barracks, neat queues and frightening red cannon outside the city.

Since ancient times, city defenders have been able to attack and then defend. Only when they have both attack and defense can they defend the city, and they can only rely on the tall city walls to resist hard. They simply dare not go out of the city to fight the enemy.

In those days, Zhang Xun guarded Suiyang. He repeatedly went out of the city to attack the rebels of Linghu tide, which caused huge casualties to the other party, but now they just stick to the city and dare not go to war at all.

On the one hand, the soldiers were unwilling to go to war. Even if he made a generous reward to let these soldiers go out, they were unwilling to go out because they all knew that they were as strong as Tianxiong army and were defeated by Liu Jun. there were so many armies in Daming, and even JianNu were defeated by Liu Jun. they would be dead if they went to fight with Liu Jun.

There is also a Duke Xu, who himself thinks that it's OK to keep Nanjing city. If he goes out to fight easily, he will be easily caught by the other party. If he goes out to fight because of greed, he will let the other party kill, which will be a big loss.

That's why they created such a situation. They didn't dare to go to war at all. Their city defense became passive. Duke Xu was worried. It was more difficult than he thought. The main reason was that the siege had been ten days. Now they haven't had an outside reinforcements or an outside food team successfully arrived, If someone here successfully transports food here or reinforcements arrive, it can give them a great incentive.

This shows that the other side's blockade is airtight and there will be no chance.

At present, no grain team and no reinforcements have arrived, which shows that Liu Jun's blockade is extremely powerful. At the same time, the imperial court has not been able to send a strong army to support here.

Duke Xu was born in the Jiangmen family. He is also a man who knows soldiers. He knows one thing, that is, there are hundreds of thousands of Liu Jun in the besieged city. If the imperial court wants to send reinforcements to rescue Nanjing, it must send a heavy army group.

If it is a small-scale army, it can not solve the siege of Nanjing. In short, it is to deliver vegetables.

There are not many heavy army groups in Daming now, and there are not many who can come to rescue Nanjing. There are only two troops in the south, one is the fleet of Zheng family in Fujian. They advance westward along the river and can arrive as soon as possible.

But the worst news came that the Zheng family also had a military coup. Zheng Zhibao, who supported the Liu family, was in power. The Zheng family had fallen to the Liu family in an all-round way, which gave them no hope.

Another heavy military group is the southwest army led by Zhu Xieyuan. The southwest army is also a combat force. They have been encircling and suppressing Shuixi soldiers in the deep mountains and forests of Guizhou. Their long-term combat shows that they are a combat force.

It is estimated that when the imperial court heard that Nanjing was besieged, it would immediately call them, and they would all come soon. However, it is impossible to come to Nanjing from the deep mountains and forests of Guizhou, and it is still a large force. It is estimated that it will not take three or four months. In this way, Duke Xu understood that the guarding of Nanjing is a long-term and arduous task, and must be prepared for long-term combat.

The war was cruel. There was no doubt about it. At the beginning, Liu Jun only used artillery to attack the city wall. After it didn't work, they threw a large number of fireballs and oil bombs into the city with a hastened catapult. The goal was to create panic.

Duke Xu didn't have any good way to deal with this strategy. He just ordered to push down all the houses near the city gate, so as not to cause a fire, endanger the city and make the city full of fire. The battle only started for a few days, resulting in such consequences. Once it continues for a long time, God knows what disastrous consequences it will have.

Duke Xu knew that it would be more difficult in the future, so he would make enough preparations. He had set a food supply quota in the city, that is, all the food in the city would be gathered and managed uniformly. Only those who fought to defend the city could eat enough, and others could only eat one and a half full.

Moreover, a death order was issued. This order is dead and no one is allowed to violate it. This is that grain, as a managed product, is only allowed to be owned by the army. Anyone who dares to hide grain privately will be killed. Whoever you catch it, they will be killed. This allows them to collect a large number of grain in a short time.

These grains are available so that they can support them for several months without any problem.

In order to defend Nanjing City, Duke Xu also thought hard and used all the methods he could. He basically stayed on the wall every day. Since the war began, he never went back to his government house. He ate and lived with the soldiers. That's why he can make the soldiers work willingly for him.

Duke Xu was thinking, I have done everything I should do. Whether I can defend this city depends on Daming's luck.

Liu Zhongyong attached great importance to situ's only strategy. He ordered his elite soldiers to quickly bury thousands of kilograms of explosives under this section of the city wall at night and under the cover of brother troops.

Because this is the reach of the moat, they can only use small boats to load the explosives with coffins, then transport them in small boats, fix them beside the city wall with small boats, and then light the lead to prepare for explosion.

There was only a loud clang, and thousands of kilograms of explosives began to detonate. There was an earth shaking noise. People near the city gate were deafening and almost could not stand stably. In the huge roar, the whole section of the city wall was blown down.

After the collapse of this section of the city wall, Liu Zhongyong did not order the troops to launch an assault immediately, but ordered the ten red cannon to continue to bombard this huge gap, continuously bombard, and strive to make the gap bigger and wider.

In the roar of artillery, they also have some troops to quickly transport the prepared prefabricated parts and quickly assemble them. Their purpose is to make a floating bridge in the moat so that their troops can pass quickly.

After all, there are many garrisons in the city. They patrol the city day and night. Outside the city wall, so many Liu Jun gathered here, which inevitably alerted the other party. However, the reaction of the garrison was somewhat late. When they decided that this might be one of Liu Jun's main attack directions and sent elite troops to intercept, Liu Jun had used explosives to blow up the city wall for a section.

Duke Xu also judged that this was one of Liu Jun's main attack directions, so he led his most elite family soldiers to defend here.

When the city wall was blown down, he was really stunned. His heart was as cold as iron. He said loudly to the soldiers, "make achievements and make achievements today! Let me kill the enemy."

Seeing that the city wall was blown up and collapsed in an instant, they ordered its most elite soldiers to prepare for the possible impact of Liu Jun behind the city wall.

They all believe that when the wall collapsed, Oxford rushed in with all its strength. Sure enough, now after the wall collapsed, they began to build a floating bridge for a quick attack

However, when they lined up here, holding shields and boards, ready to meet the impact of Liu Jun, they did not meet the impact of Liu Jun, but came face-to-face with shells like raindrops.

A large number of shells hit the gap. In this way, the Ming soldiers lined up behind the gap of the city wall were blown up. They formed a military array, which was torn apart and suffered heavy casualties.

These soldiers hold shields and boards. These shields and boards still have a certain effect on the bows, arrows and bullets of the Liu family, but they are useless if they want to deal with the bombardment of the Liu family's artillery.

The Liu family's red cannon smashed hard and plowed out several flesh and blood hutongs in their array. Even the most ferocious soldiers were afraid of such a dangerous environment and such a fierce scene.

This made them close to collapse in an instant. Duke Xu was riding a horse and standing here, ready to lead the soldiers to fight in person. As a result, he saw countless bullets exploding into their positions like raindrops, which made their casualties very heavy and tragic. His waiting army was almost deadly bleeding.

In the blood washing of bullets all over the sky, they screamed everywhere and fell down in pieces.

Just as he ordered the soldiers to reorganize the team, a large number of Liu's soldiers, holding shields, poured in from the gap and shouted and rushed to the positions of the officers and soldiers.

The two sides defended the city and fought for more than ten days. Finally, it was time for the two armies to engage in close combat.