Throughout the night, the city wall of Jinling was under sporadic shelling. Especially at the north gate, the copper-barreled cannons on the warships were so accurate and hard. The people on the wall did not dare to show their heads at all, and they all huddled in the bunkers on the road. Every shot was fired.

The cannonballs made everyone tremble. Thousands of people were hiding behind the city wall and shivering. Fortunately, there were thick city walls built by the kings of the past dynasties, otherwise they would definitely be torn to pieces by the cannonballs flying from the ship.

At the same time, the city walls on the east, south, and west sides were also continuously subjected to sporadic shelling. The shells sent broken bricks flying everywhere. All the Nanjing Forbidden Army soldiers on the city wall were hiding in bunkers, squatting with their heads and guns in their hands.

On the ground.

"Master of the Ministry of War, the Liao army's artillery fire was particularly fierce tonight. Especially at the North City Gate, the cannonballs on the Liao army warships were so big that the brothers could not even stand on the city wall. Now they only dare to hide in the horse road."

"North City Gate, fucking get all our brothers to withdraw. Let Wen Tiren's people hold the position. We shouldn't be cannon fodder." Ma Shiying said fiercely.

He and Wen Tiren fought fiercely for more than a month, and the two of them were half a family in Jinling City. Li Xiao's arrival made the two jealous guys form a very unreliable temporary alliance. The east city belonged to Wen Tiren, and the west city belonged to Ma Shiying. As for Nancheng and

In Beicheng, half of the families on both sides have guarded the Chu-He-Han realm in the past two days!

"No! I'm going to tell the brothers right away. The brothers were so crushed by the shells that they couldn't even lift their heads."

Almost at the same time, Wen Tiren also received the report.

"Uncle, the city of Nanjing is now being bombarded from all sides. Especially the north gate is being bombarded the most, and the cannons on the warships are also big. The brothers now only dare to hide in the horse paths. Look at this...!"

"Let all our people withdraw. We are not cannon fodder. If Ma Shiying's people are willing to bear the burden, let their people bear it." Wen Tiren ordered the retreat without even thinking.

Although a temporary alliance has been formed, a month of fierce fighting has made the two sides deeply enmity. They are more defensive about their opponents than against Li Xiao. After all, if they fall into the hands of Li Xiao, they may still survive. But if they fall into the hands of the other party, they may still survive.

In your hands, this life is sealed.

A strange scene appeared. At the north gate where the artillery fire was the most intense, the defenders on the top of the city scrambled to retreat. Soon there were only a few lookout posts left on the city wall. The remaining people all evacuated to the bottom of the city wall.

It was so empty that not even a cat could be seen.

Li Xiu held up the telescope and looked around for three times but couldn't see anyone. He looked at his watch and saw that there was still more than an hour until the attack was launched.

"Let the engineers go up and transport the explosives to that house." Li Xiu pointed to a house about five or six hundred meters away near the city wall.

The house had obviously been bombed by artillery shells, with shrapnel marks on the walls and black smoke.

"promise!"

Master Ao from Nancheng didn't think so. According to the prior agreement, he would attack half an hour earlier than Beicheng. Looking at his watch, there was only half an hour left.

"The Sharp Knife Company launched an attack, and I put the mortars on it. Knock out all the firepower points on the top of the city!" Master Ao had no intention of feigning an attack. He attacked in advance just to rely on the remaining two regiments of the first division.

Enter Jinling City.

Master Ao understands that no big battle will be fought after Jinling. Basically all the troops that Nanming can fight are here. The honor of being the first to conquer Jinling City must be worn on his head. That boy Yuan Xiucai, with his

Why fight with yourself?

Nie Dahu's first regiment was transferred away, although he only had the second and third regiments in hand. But Ao Ye was confident that with his current strength, he could cut through the Jinling wall and enter the city.

Ao Ye was confident, and under the cover of the dark night, the gunners carried the mortars and ran forward. About a thousand meters away from the city wall, the gunners quickly placed the mortars.

The sharp knife squad of the sharp knife company ran forward with explosive packets in their nests. Their target was the city gate. Each of them had twenty kilograms of explosives in their arms. The eight of them added up to one hundred and sixty kilograms of explosives.

, even if the Nanjing City Gate is strong, it will never be able to withstand the explosion of one hundred and sixty kilograms of explosives.

Muzzle flashes continued to flash on the city wall, and the eight members of the sharp knife squad all fell to the ground while they were still a hundred meters away from the city wall.

"Mortar!" the commander of the assault company shouted anxiously.

The mortar was calculating to shoot Zhu Yuan. The gunners of the First Division were famous for their accuracy. He just gestured with his thumb and immediately calculated the target to shoot Zhu Yuan. He took out a mortar shell, unscrewed the letter and put it directly in.

The gun barrel.

The first hit, two Nanjing Forbidden Army soldiers screamed miserably and were blown off the city wall by the air wave.

"Second echelon, step up!" Seeing that the enemy was suppressed, the commander of the assault company immediately ordered the second echelon to charge forward.

A squad of soldiers then ran forward in a hurry, picking up the explosive packets dropped by their comrades on the way, and ran towards the city gate risking their lives.

"Fight those firepower points on the city wall!" In the distance, Mr. Ao personally stood behind the bronze cannon and directly directed the bronze cannon to greet the city wall!

The copper cannon shells hit the battlements directly with a whistling sound. The violent explosion blew up the battlements and the soldiers hiding behind them at the same time. There was a scream on the city wall immediately, and many soldiers threw their guns and rushed towards the city wall.

Run below.

But as soon as they ran to the steps of the horse path, they were shot through by bullets from below. The fierce faces of the supervising team looked above. As long as anyone dared to go down, they dared to shoot. Anyway, this was the order of Mr. Ge.

They don't care which family's soldiers escape.

"Go back, or you will be beaten to death." The officer supervising the battle team shouted loudly.

Just as the supervising team was marching to drive people back, the mortars on the city wall also fired. Just now, their observers had already discovered from a high position the position where the Liao army's artillery fire was. After intense calculations, their mortars fired.

The artillery fire was also fired, just to take out the Liao army's mortar positions.

The gunners of the Liao Army were fed with artillery shells, and the mortar landing point was quite accurate. But the gunners of the Nanming Army did not have that ability, and the shells landed twenty or thirty meters away from the mortar position. The hot blast blast

It’s so smokey that people can’t even breathe!

"Transfer!" It was obvious that this was a test-fired shell, and the second shell would soon fall after adjustments by the computer soldiers.

The gunners, without any orders from the officers, picked up the barrels and mounts and ran desperately to the reserve position. In the second position not far away, the enemy's mortar position had been observed. The calculations were carried out quickly, and the reserve was not fired.

The artillery group quickly adjusted its firing angle.

The confident artillerymen did not even need to test fire, but fired five rapid fire rounds.

The Nanming Army's mortar position on the city wall was suddenly covered by artillery fire, and the steaming smoke contained countless shrapnel. The Nanming Army's artillery was torn into pieces by the artillery fire. Until their entire army was wiped out, many artillery pieces even fired.

There was no time to fire the second shell.

"Bah!" Ao Ye smiled as he watched the ammunition being hit and exploded at the top of the city. This is the combat effectiveness of the first division. The front-line artillery and reserve artillery cooperated seamlessly.

As long as the opponent's artillery fire dares to counterattack, they will be beaten to death by the reserve artillery immediately.

The sharp knife squad rushed to the city gate, but before they could put down the explosive packs, more than a dozen grenades were dropped on the city. The sharp knife squad was instantly surrounded by the smoke of the explosion, and the soldiers were covered with shrapnel. Every bullet hole was

Blood was spraying out, and the soldiers lay on the ground twitching continuously. The screams could be heard clearly from 200 meters away.

"Fuck!" Hei Niu, commander of the assault battalion, roared in anger.

"Damn artillery, your artillery shells are still alive!" Hei Niu pointed at the artillery position and scolded him while jumping on his feet.

The artillery of the First Division will never let down the trust of the infantry brothers. The grenades here have just been thrown. The city was turned into a sea of ​​flames. Two platoons of the Nanjing Forbidden Army were covered in angry smoke, and no one climbed out.

"The enemy's artillery was killed. The bronze cannon was pushed up and blasted directly at the city gate. Use incendiary bombs! Burn the damn city gate to me!" Ao Canghai gritted his teeth at the Jinling city wall.

Jinling began to be renovated during the Hongwu period. During the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, Nanjing's city wall has not stopped being renovated. Although a lot of money has been spent on the renovation, the city wall still needs to be repaired. After all, face-saving projects still have to be done, otherwise there is nothing we can do.

Crossover.

The thickness of the city wall is enough to allow elephants and dinosaurs to survive.

The mortar shells landed on the solid city bricks and could only make a hole the size of a washbasin. Before that, Ao Canghai blasted the Jinling city wall with a copper tube cannon until it looked like a pockmarked face, but there was no

There were signs of collapse in one place.

The heavy copper cannon was pushed out with no force, and the Nanjing Forbidden Army on the city head kept firing their guns. The entire Jinling City was enveloped in the sound of gunfire, and many Jinling people stood in the yard and could see the light of the South City Gate.

"Mr. Ge, we can't stand it anymore. The south gate can no longer withstand it. The Liao soldiers' artillery fire is too powerful. Our soldiers have suffered heavy casualties."

"Hmph! Push those common people out and let them fight with the Liao army. Our brothers should be reserved for street fighting. I know Li Xiao. If we want to get a good deal for surrender, we must beat him painfully.

Just fine.

From Liaodong to the capital, what Li Xiao fears most is casualties. In this regard, he really loves his soldiers like his own son. We are going to cause him heavy losses in street fighting.

Force him to negotiate peace with us!"

"Uncle, is this possible?" Wen Tao was a little hesitant about this matter. What Wen Tao was thinking about now was how to break out of this encirclement. If he put down his weapons, his future would be handed over to the enemy. Wen Tao

He is always a little worried. Compared to the kindness of the enemy, he trusts the guy in his hands more.

Besides! Now Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, most of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong still respect Emperor Yongli. As long as we break out of the encirclement of the Liao soldiers and go out to organize troops, we may be able to make a comeback.

.

"Son, your idea doesn't work. Although the Jinling City Wall can block the Liao soldiers, it can also block our escape route. If we just try to escape, we might be able to succeed. But boy, we have to escape with the soldiers.

Okay. Without soldiers, your uncle's title as Pavilion Elder means nothing.

Only when you have soldiers in your hands can you have the final say wherever you go. Li Xiao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. Boy, this is a wise saying. We are now a turtle in a urn, and there is no way to escape. We can only follow Li Xiao

Only by negotiating peace with Xiao can we lead our troops out of Jinling City in a dignified manner."

"No! It's my uncle's foresight. My nephew will go and pull down the troops. Let the common people go up. If the Liao soldiers want to kill them, just kill them. Anyway, no one cares whether the common people die or not." Wen Tao is now

What I was thinking was that it didn't matter if anyone died, as long as it wasn't one of my own soldiers.

"The common people are the stupidest people in the world. As long as you fool a few words, you can drive them away like sheep. If there are any with thorns in them, just pick them out and kill them. Remember, killing chickens to scare monkeys is the best way to kill them.

People are always useful."

"Okay! As long as someone makes trouble, we will kill them. This can be considered as killing the chicken to scare the monkeys."

"Also! Since someone is going to die, it must be made grand. They died so heroically. Are they calling on the people to donate some money or materials? Anyway, it is said that they are at the forefront of resisting tyranny and need all kinds of materials. Let the people

Donate whatever you have, we men can be considered as making the last fortune in Jinling City.

When we go out to other provinces, we need money to pay the army, to feed the people, to feed the people, and to recruit soldiers and buy horses. The money in the treasury was stolen by that bastard Ma Shiying, and now we are short of money." Wen Tiren had long thought.

With such a good idea, even if Li Xiao entered the city, he would have to leave an empty Jinling Mountain for him.
To be continued...