The offensive and defensive battle on the city wall along the Qinhuai River was fierce and bloody. Although there was no hand-to-hand combat, both sides had already suffered a lot of casualties just from the crazy exchange of long-range weapons.
The morale of the garrison officers and soldiers was also high due to the personal supervision of the battle by the Ministry of History and the encouragement of the scholars who helped the common people and washed away their shame.
The reason why this battle was fought like this was because the original hard quality and combat strength of the Nanjing defenders were relatively low——
Nanjing is not Zhu Shuren's direct descendant. It has been five and a half years since Zhu Shuren traveled through time, but he has not been able to reach out to the defense and military construction of Southern Zhili. Although the canal protection navy controlled by the Shen family is elite and belongs to Southern Zhili, but that
It's the navy, which can play a greater role in other directions.
At least 80% of the garrison in Nanjing is still under the old system. The Ming army, which was built under the old arms support system, has not received the support of new muskets, new armor and other equipment from the Huguang New Army. Relying on this little battle experience,
When the old army goes to war, it will indeed perform poorly at the beginning.
There is nothing that can be done about this, because Zhu Shuren traveled to a real and complex world, not the kind of system world that "locks the loyalty of the protagonist's subordinates". Zhu Shuren's strategy is to steal the Ming Dynasty and make full use of the Ming Dynasty's orthodoxy
The inheritance stability bonus brought by sex does not directly overthrow the court system and start a new one.
In this case, Zhu Shuren certainly cannot use the crude and dictatorial moves that the protagonists in the loyalty-locked system world can use. Even if he knows that a successful dictatorship can build an army and farm more quickly.
Even if his father-in-law became the emperor, and even if Shi Kefa had a good relationship with him, he was only temporarily promoted from the governor of one province to the governor of three provinces. He did not completely master everything in the Southern Ming court in one step.
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Only when the Nanjing court experienced another crisis and was rescued from the cliff by Zhu Shuren, with the comparison, the world's literati and internal fighting ministers were frightened, and the weak and wavering ones were also eliminated, and it was discovered that Zhu Shuren was really
Unable to play the game, they could only choose between "either being killed or absolutely listening to Zhu Shuren", and then completely surrendering the dictatorial power of the imperial court to him.
At that point, Zhu Shuren could drastically reform and upgrade the armed forces of Southern Zhili and enjoy the same higher treatment as the Huguang Ming Army.
In fact, in the original history, the authorization level of generals in the late Ming Dynasty gradually increased as the situation gradually worsened. Originally, before Nanjing was lost, who was Zheng Chenggong? Who was Li Dingguo? Can he have the absolute final say?
Totally impossible.
During the Hongguang Dynasty, Li Dingguo had no chance even if he wanted to Zhao'an, and it was impossible for Nanming to give him a title. After Hongguang died, Yongli was replaced, and the situation completely collapsed, so he relaxed the rules.
The imperial armed forces in Southern Zhili would not be willing to directly hand over military power to Zhu Shuren without suffering a little hardship.
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Of course, the land forces around Nanjing are not completely invincible. For example, Zhu Shuren used Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong to withdraw the Liaodong and Jimen Ming army border troops from the sea.
.... In addition to Gao Jie's troops who had suffered heavy losses before, this group of people also included Li Fuming's troops, the former Shanxi commander-in-chief, as well as some troops from Bai Guangen and Tang Tong (Bai Guangen and Tang Tong themselves surrendered to the enemy in the north, and some of their troops were
Zhu Shuren got it back from Wu Sangui)
After all, they were the frontier troops of the original nine sides, and their combat effectiveness was still good, but their number only accounted for less than 20% of the Nanjing garrison.
When the siege battle just started in the early morning, Li Fuming's troops did not deploy on the wall section where the Qing army was mainly attacking, which caused the Ming army's defense to be a little hesitant. Before noon, Shi Kefa finally completed all the arrangements, transferred Li Fuming's main force, and also let
Li Fuming served as the commander-in-chief of this defense zone, and the situation quickly improved.
As the bloody battle continued into the afternoon, more than 40 cannons concentrated by the Qing army repeatedly bombarded a section of the city wall. Although the wall had not collapsed, the large stones and green bricks on the outer layer had already completely collapsed. The women in this section had already collapsed.
The battlements on the wall were completely destroyed. There was no cover at the top of the wall. The soldiers blocking the entrance could only defend themselves in iron armor and huge shields, with no place to hide.
The rammed earth inside the wall is easy to buffer and absorb energy, so it is impossible to completely collapse it. Even if it has withstood the hard hits of thousands of artillery shells, at most it will only peel off and collapse the higher parts of the wall, but any
No matter what Duduo did, these wall sections could basically retain at least half of their height——
Don’t be surprised by the strength of the Nanjing City Wall. After all, a considerable part of the Nanjing Ming City Wall has been preserved until the 21st century. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army also used modern artillery to blast it, and it was not completely destroyed (but the Japanese used a lot of
The main purpose is to use Type 92 infantry artillery to bombard ancient buildings. The diameter of that thing is very short and can only be destroyed by explosive force. If you use the heavy siege artillery on the European battlefield in World War II, it may be possible)
The wall along the Qinhuai River that Duduo attacked was too high and too thick. The height was about six feet, which is 20 meters. The top of the wall was three to four feet wide, and the bottom was eight to ten feet wide.
. No matter how indiscriminate the bombing is, it is impossible to directly flatten the earth embankment more than 20 meters thick. The best is to shorten it, and then hope that the collapsed soil will form a slope to facilitate people to rush up.
Duduo saw that the progress of the bombardment was slower than expected, so he further used all the trench bridge vehicles and city-digging donkeys at all costs. There were hundreds of city-digging donkeys in total, and thousands of soldiers were nestled inside to push forward and dig away.
Loose, crumbling soil.
The Ming army's Folangji also fired wildly at these siege equipment. Every moment, the siege equipment was blown up and destroyed, and the soldiers inside fell to death wailing, as shrill as ghosts.
In order to disperse the firepower of the Ming army, Duduo originally did not plan to use ladder trucks and flying ladder ants before breaking through the wall, but he didn't care about it now. Because of the rush of time, he only built less than ten large ladder trucks in total.
, the rest are simple flying ladders,
Now there is no need to spare, they are all piled up, just to entangle the Ming army's horse faces and the defenders on the turrets, so that the soldiers on the fort can't fire with all their strength.
Seeing thousands of veterans of the Han Army and hundreds of elite double-armored soldiers of the Eight Banners falling to death at the gates of the city, Duduo's heart was bleeding, but he knew that this was the time to gamble his life.
, cannot be grudged.
….The killing continued until the end. Among the sections of the wall that were bombarded by the Qing army, the lowest part was forcibly destroyed by two to three feet in height, but the remaining remnants were still more than three feet high, equivalent to
Ten meters.
However, Duduo no longer dared to expect more, because when the Nanjing City Wall was three feet high, its thickness was about five feet (fifteen meters). He simply did not dare to expect that solid iron ball cannonballs could peel off such a thick part.
Got lower.
Fortunately, the bloody battle continued until now. The remains of the wooden donkey carts and flying ladders left by the Qing army under the city wall, the excavated and piled soil, and the corpses of soldiers had already piled up to a peak that was almost as large as
A pile of corpses two to three feet high.
Considering that the thickness of a person's body is about seven or eight inches, more than 20 centimeters. One foot can stack about fifteen people, and three feet is almost forty.
If you know a little bit about primary school mathematics, you will know that it would take at least two thousand dead people to pile up such a pile of corpses that can be as high as the remaining wall by using the formula of the volume of the terrace.
They were cracked and tamped firmly. And there was more than one pile of corpses like this under the city wall!
Duduo inadvertently made the siege of Nanjing look similar to the original siege of Nanjing by Hong Xiuquan more than a hundred years later in history - Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Army in later generations also lacked the ability to attack fortresses at the beginning, and when faced with the need to put their lives on the line,
In life-and-death battles, regardless of losses, they often turn into "corpse siege", that is, after the ants attack the wall, the corpses are piled as high as the remains of the wall, and they can rush up the wall by directly stepping on the corpses of their comrades.
body.
In today's battle, when the battle progressed to the point of climbing up the hill with corpses, Duduo's direct line of Manchus were wearing white flags. An entire reorganized Jia La had already died at the gate of the city. Even Jia La Zhangjing himself had fought.
Dead, these warriors are all wearing double armor and fighting fiercely.
A Jia La in the Zhengbai Banner was also maimed, and at least half of the soldiers were killed or seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness.
As for the Han army flag, the Mongolian army flag and the new annexed army, it was even worse. Each side suffered at least one casualty at the level of annihilation of the entire army.
However, the effect of stepping on corpses to attack the city is also very significant. Although the Qing army still has to bear the disadvantage of attacking low and high, it can at least fight directly with the Ming army in hand-to-hand combat.
The Nanjing Ming Army did not have as many new muskets as the Huguang New Army, nor did they have sophisticated shotguns. They only relied on the side fire of the Folang machine to blast the crowds.
Each shot of the Folan machine killed at least five or six lives, and as many as seven or eight or even a dozen. However, the density of firepower was always a big problem. In addition, the shooting angle limit of the horse-faced turret on the city wall meant that there were only four or five guns at the same time.
Folangji can just reach the point where the Qing army rushed to the city with corpses.
Li Fuming took the Shanxi frontier troops who had withdrawn from the north with him and fought to the death with the Qing army in the gap.
Mr. Shen Ge has spoken out to all those who participated in the gagging. Before going up the wall, they will be given thirty taels of silver as housing allowance, whether dead or alive, and there will be follow-up compensation for casualties.
The troops of the Shanxi General Army had never seen such good treatment in Liaodong before. Naturally they shared the same hatred of the enemy and regarded death as home. The heavy armor of the Qing army's death squads was too strong, so the Ming army replaced their spears with four-sided copper and other heavy armor.
The blunt weapon of the long soldier is used to beat and smash violently (it is a kind of hand holding part that is round and wooden, but the two ends of the hitting parts are four-sided and wrapped with metal, which can be understood as a golden cudgel with a square cross-section)
.... Whenever the double armored soldiers of the Qing army were hit, they would vomit blood again and again, and their brains would overflow when their helmets were hit. However, using such heavy weapons is clumsy and consumes a lot of physical strength. The soldiers of the Ming army fought for their lives with open arms and wide open doors.
From time to time, he would fall to the ground covered in blood during such confrontations.
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The battle reached the point of stomping on corpses and fighting hand-to-hand. The scholars, relatives, friends and old friends of the traitors who were originally ordered by Shi Kefa to climb the wall to prove their innocence also lost their courage.
Many Wang Duo and Qian Qianyi's protégés had dared to carry ammunition for the soldiers and throw down logs and rocks before the Qing troops came to the wall. Now it had reached the stage of hand-to-hand combat with blood and flesh flying everywhere, and some scholars were immediately frightened.
Those who were so frightened that they tried to retreat were immediately killed on the spot by the soldiers sent by Shi Kefa to supervise the battle, and they were not allowed to take a step back.
Seeing these scholars and scholars being forced to fight together, the morale of the ordinary soldiers was still high, and they felt that all living beings were equal and worthy of their efforts.
The hand-to-hand fight lasted for less than half an hour, and at the end of Shenchu, some minor changes occurred near the temporary commander's tent in the rear - of course, changes that were beneficial to the Ming army.
At noon, Shen Tingyang, at Shi Kefa's request, brought in all the old relatives and friends who secretly fell into the city and surrendered to the enemy officials last night. However, he only asked the men to go up the wall to help in the battle to prove their innocence and avenge their shame. He did not do anything to the women of those people.
Requirements. It’s just that some of the more important ones can be temporarily held as hostages, that’s all.
But seeing the fierce fighting ahead, some women suddenly came to Shen Tingyang and expressed their willingness to do something to defend the city.
At first glance, Shen Tingyang was a little surprised, because he knew all these people, including Liu Rushi, because she was said to have talked about ransom with Qian Qianyi two years ago, and this time she was also treated as "
People suspected of being "traitors" took control.
However, due to the butterfly effect of Zhu Shuren's attack on Gong Dingzi, Ruan Dacheng and others, Liu Rushi did not get together with Qian Qianyi in this life. The so-called negotiation for redemption ended in vain. Another year later, Liu Rushi himself also saved
We had enough money to ransom ourselves. This time it was originally a war, but just in case, we controlled them all and did not treat them harshly.
However, when he saw that all the soldiers in the city, including some scholars who had been implicated and disgraced, were going up to the wall to share their hatred with the enemy, Liu Rushi, who was also a bit chivalrous, wanted to do something and asked:
"Mr. Shen Ge, although we have drawn a clear line with Qian Qianyi long ago, we are deeply ashamed of having ever been friends with this thief. Even if the court does not punish us, we still want to do something within our power.
In ancient times, Han Shizhong used Liang Hongyu to beat the drums against the Jin Dynasty when he was fighting against the Jin Wushu. Today, my sisters and I also want to go up to the tower to get some drum music to help with the battle, and ask for your permission."
Shen Tingyang was still more pragmatic and touched his beard: "The bloody battle is in full swing. Drum music in the army is not child's play. If it is messy, it will not be beautiful. If you want to play drums, you can only follow those drummers and find a few more drums.
I can’t give you the military drums that are being used evenly. Also, do you know how to beat the drums? Maybe they are all uniform? Go to the side and let the military music officer check them before going up to the wall."
Fighting is not a child's play, how can you just follow your temper? Liang Hongyu has martial arts, but these women don't.
.... After some inspection, it turned out that many of the sisters brought by Liu Rushi were not in good physical condition and could not beat the drums neatly, so they were beaten by Shen Tingyang selflessly. Only those who could beat the drums together for a long time were allowed.
Go into battle.
After a while, Liu Rushi and Gu Mei took drumsticks, changed into fancy clothes, went up to the tower, and started beating drums and shouting. The other Qinhuai women who were brushed off were originally friends with Wang Duo, Qian Qianyi and others.
Those who felt humiliated had to do the next best thing, put on short and smart clothes, and help carry the wounded.
The soldiers under Li Fuming were fighting in a bloody battle. After a while, someone noticed that even women began to go up to the wall. There were also famous Qinhuai elites beating drums, and ordinary elites helped to carry the wounded, and morale became higher and higher.
Those scholars who were originally forced to go up against the wall also showed the courage to fight for their lives. How could they be embarrassed in front of women?
The Ming army fought back with all their might and drove back groups of Qing troops who had trampled corpses and rushed towards the city. The gap was originally reduced to about three feet, and they were beaten hard because the new corpses were piled up, but it was too slow.
It slowly grew to a height of four feet, and the corpses one foot thick were piled up in the gap.
"What's going on? How dare these barbarians have such courage? Even women go up to the wall to beat drums. This is because I think this king is a golden man!"
Duduo watched repeatedly at the bottom of the city. The Ming army was furious and furious. He ordered the idle artillery to blast at the tower. In addition, he continued to blast at the crowds in the gap without distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy! Even if they cleared out
The soldiers of the army and the soldiers of the Ming army were bombarded to death together!
As the firepower of the Qing army shifted, the city tower was indeed hit and collapsed in several places. Liu Rushi, Gu Mei and others were also injured or trapped by the collapse, and were gradually carried down or escaped. Those women who were struggling to make a living on the Qinhuai River,
There were also dozens of casualties in total.
But this kind of blow did not affect the morale of the Ming army at all. At this stage of the war, there was no distinction between north and south, people were old and young, civil and military, and even men and women. Everyone had the responsibility to defend the territory and kill the enemy.
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The Qing army desperately tried to kill people in hand-to-hand combat, but like the roaring Yellow River hitting the mainstay, the waves broke and the clouds dispersed.
Shen Shi, You Shi, Xu Shi... Time passed hour by hour, and a thousand lives were thrown into the bottomless pit. However, the Ming army always had a steady stream of reserves to replenish the gaps, because of the cross firepower and the advantage of being high up.
, the Ming army could achieve at least three times the casualty exchange ratio, and was not afraid of exchanging lives with Duduo.
The bloody battle continued until late at night, until Duduo's eyes were bloodshot and his nerves were weak. It was estimated that more than 10,000 of his troops had died in the direct battle, and he was completely numb.
At about the beginning of Haishi, a scout from the rear of the Qing army finally brought a piece of even more shocking bad news.
"Your Majesty, we can't fight any more! Nanmanzi's reinforcements are really coming. Our army's scouts are at the Dasheng Pass at the junction of Yingtian Mansion and Taiping Mansion. They have already detected the vanguard warships of the Ming Army's reinforcements passing through the river! Only then did Pegasus
Come report back!
Dasheng Pass is less than a hundred miles away now. Zhu Shuren’s reinforcements will definitely arrive tomorrow morning at the latest! If our army really throws tens of thousands more lives into the Nanjing city wall and destroys morale, Zhu Shuren will
Come, it’s all over!”
Dasheng Pass is located near Ma'anshan, Anhui Province in later generations. It is a place that can be directly accessed by Nanjing Metro S2 in later generations (even it is only in the middle section of Metro S2, not the southernmost section), which is only seventy or eighty miles away, so there are many
The danger Duo faces is of course imminent.
If he continues to fight bloody battles all night without rest, he will be intercepted by Zhu Shuren tomorrow morning, and the whole army will collapse immediately!
Duduo almost broke his teeth, and in the end he could only gamble until midnight. Seeing that it was almost midnight, he had to give up the attack, gather his troops and adjust their deployment, at least transfer all the Hongyi cannons first, so as to avoid
Tomorrow I will be flanked and captured.
The Ming army at the top of Nanjing City also rotated several times. After all, Li Fuming's troops were not made of iron. They could not fight from noon to midnight, and their physical strength had long been exhausted.
Fortunately, everyone's morale has been completely boosted. Seeing how hard the friendly troops, scholars and women are working hard, the troops who will be replaced later, even if they are not good at martial arts, are all full of enthusiasm and strength like crazy tigers. This can completely make up for their skills.
Tactical differences.
The two sides fought tooth and nail until midnight. When they saw that the Qing army was finally exhausted and began to retreat, thunderous roars could be heard on the city walls beside the Qinhuai River.
"What's so scary about Tatars? They have two arms and one head! If you chop off your head, you'll still die!"
"The Ming Dynasty will win! The world will survive!"
"The army of King Qin of the country is coming! All the dog Tatars must die!"
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ps: The war scene is not easy to break down, so today I will not break it down together with a pile of 5,000 or 6,000 words. It is a big update. Yesterday’s second update was actually more than 5,000 words long, and it was just a little bit of explanation nonsense, but I didn’t break it down.
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He took a deep breath of fresh air, his chest trembling.
Confused, confused, and all kinds of emotions came to my mind.
Where is this?
Afterwards, Shi Yu subconsciously looked around and became even more confused.
A single dorm?
Even if he was successfully rescued, he should be in the ward now.
And my body...how could I not have any injuries at all?
With doubts, Shi Yu's eyes quickly swept across the room, and finally his eyes rested on a mirror beside the bed.
The mirror showed his current appearance. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and he looked very handsome.
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My previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.
And now, no matter how you look, this appearance is that of a high school student...
This change left Shi Yu stunned for a long time.
Don't tell him that the operation was successful...
My body and appearance have all changed. This is not a matter of surgery or not, but magic.
He turned into a completely different person!
Could it be...that he traveled through time?
In addition to the mirror placed by the bedside, which was obviously not feng shui-friendly, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.
Shi Yu picked it up and took a look. The title of the book instantly silenced him.
"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Beginner Breeders"
"Postpartum Care of Pet Pets"
"Evaluation Guide for Interracial Beast-Eared Girls"
Shi Yu:???
The names of the first two books are pretty normal, but what happened to the last one?
"cough."
Shi Yu looked solemnly and stretched out his hand, but his arm soon stiffened.
Just when he was about to open the third book and see what it was about, his brain suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a large number of memories came flooding back.
Icefield City.
Pet animal breeding base.
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