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Five 30-pound iron balls crossed the high-throwing curve, smashing a large area of the Jianyu barracks under the corner of Nanjing, and the surrounding area was suddenly in chaos.

Huang Ding only thought that the Ming army was going to attack the city, and hurriedly mobilized heavy troops to defend the south of the city. Even Yang Zhihe, who was ready to attack outside the city, was pulled to the head of the city by him.

After waiting for nearly an hour, only the sound of artillery was heard, and no Ming army was attacked. Yang Zhihe was so angry that he severely damaged Huang Ding, regathered his people, ordered the city gate to be opened, and whipped out first.

After crossing the moat, you can see the fire shining two or three miles away, which is where the siege cannon of the Ming army is located. He immediately turned his horse's head and ordered his men to rush head-on.

Yang Zhihe saw that he was getting closer and closer to the enemy's artillery, but when he raised his eyes, he saw a column of earthen ramparts obliquely blocking in front of him, and there were four arrow towers six or seven zhang high on both sides of the earthen ramparts.

When Huang Ding led his army to Nanjing five days ago, he was startled by the large number of siege buildings outside the city.

Yang Zhihe had already heard Huang Ding say this, and knew that these earthen fortresses only had a thin layer of adobe, and more than a dozen people standing on them could collapse it, and the "artillery" was also bamboo pipes painted with black paint. He immediately said in a loud voice: "Don't pay attention to these earthen fortress arrow towers, go straight to the enemy artillery!" ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as his 7,000 men and horses rushed to a mile away from the earthen fortress thirty or forty zhang wide, he suddenly heard a roar from above, and more than a dozen cannonballs instantly slashed through his army formation. The Qing army, which was attacking in a dense formation, was immediately stoned to death in large numbers without defense, and scattered to both sides screaming.

The soldiers are treacherous, and the truth is real. A few days ago, Chen Yi received Zhu Linmiao's instructions and immediately mobilized 3,000 prisoners to personally direct the construction of the engineer battalion.

Later, more than 300 muskets poked out from the earthen ramparts and opened fire on the approaching captives. The Furlong cannon was also quickly replaced, followed by a salvo.

Yang Zhihe was suddenly shocked, could it be that Huang Ding was deceiving himself? ! With this earthen rampart almost as high as the city wall, where is it possible to destroy the Ming army's artillery?!

He also saw that the four nearby arrow towers were also lit up with torches, and his heart was even colder...... It is inevitable to be ridiculed by Huang Ding, Yang Chengzu and others.

Thinking about this, he was busy with Ming Jin's troops. But as soon as his troops turned around, thousands of Ming troops and horses came from the right flank, blocking his way back to the city in an instant......

Deng Shan took 400 soldiers, and without lighting torches, he pushed several flying bridges to the moat on the east side of Nanjing City in the dark. He listened attentively to the movements in the south of the city, and confirmed that the feint attack had begun, so he turned back to greet hundreds of other people, and quietly drove over the flying bridge over the moat with twenty chariots.

Although it was a crescent moon in the sky, these seven or eight hundred people had just walked one hundred and ten steps from the city wall before they were discovered by the Qing army at the head of the city. Suddenly, the drums of warning sounded loudly, and arrows and firearms were fired from the city one after another.

The chariot resembled a wooden house on wheels, in which the siege soldiers hid to avoid being injured by the city's fire. Originally, these chariots were the equipment of Luckdhun's army, and Deng Shan recently spared no cost to let the craftsman lay two layers of iron sheets on the roof of the car.

Since the defenders in the east of the city were transferred by Huang Ding to defend in the south of the city, the firepower at the head of the city was not too dense. For a moment, the soldiers in the car heard the clanging of their heads, but they still rushed steadily to the base of the city wall.

After that, more than 300 people in the carriage immediately took out steel shovels, chisels, hammers and other objects from their bodies, and began to work under the base of the city wall.

Deng Shan led his troops to rely on the cover of the chariot to return fire and suppress the enemy army at the head of the city, but after the buckshot flew up to the head of the city eight feet high, it was difficult to shoot through the cotton armor. The captives in the city shouted and attracted each other, and the more people gathered, the more and more people gathered.

After holding out for nearly half an hour, three wagons had been destroyed by the Qing army, and another captive soldier was dragging boiling oil.

Deng Shan was sweating profusely when he heard someone whistling not far away.

It's done! He was overjoyed in his heart, and he bent down into the chariot, only to see that the craftsmen had dug a pit more than one zhang wide and six feet deep under the root of Nanjing, and the bluestone slabs of the city foundation were exposed.

He and the soldiers hurriedly took out bamboo tubes thicker than thighs from several large tin boxes and stuffed them into the small pit that had just been dug out. There are a total of seven bamboo tubes, each weighing about 100 catties.

Then someone lit a fuse more than two feet long. To keep it safe, there are ten fuses, and the other end is inserted into seven bamboo tubes.

"Withdraw!" Deng Shan shouted, and everyone gathered in the ten chariots, and rushed away without looking back. At the same time, hundreds of hussars in the distance led their horses to meet them.

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Yang Zhihe saw that he could not enter the Zhonghua Gate in the south of the city, and he ate several rounds of firearms, so he had to lead his troops around the city in order to enter the city from the east gate.

Behind him, the Ming army did not give up, the cavalry continued to rush and kill, and the infantry platoon followed up, and before he could reach the southeast corner of the city, most of the 7,000 men and horses had been lost.

After he hurriedly ordered his lieutenant general to gather 1,000 soldiers, he only brought more than 400 cavalry and desperately urged his horse to flee. After a long time, he dared to look back, and saw that the men and horses after the chasing soldiers were cut off were sluggish, and they were three or four hundred paces away, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Look, Lord Toji!" A guard pointed to the base of the wall in front of him and shouted, "It looks like someone is attacking the city!" ”

Yang Zhihe raised his eyes and saw that there were indeed six or seven chariots rooted under the city, and there were fragments of destroyed chariots next to them.

His heart moved, he went out of the city to attack the enemy this time, but almost all the army was wiped out, and even if he didn't get dealt with by military law when he went back, he was afraid that he would not be able to get better. There should be no more than 200 Ming troops in these chariots, if they can be wiped out and cut off their heads, they can be regarded as having an explanation.

He immediately waved his saber and shouted, "Come with me!" The hundreds of horsemen then turned slightly and rushed straight towards the root of the city.

Soon, Yang Zhihe's men overturned a chariot, only to find it empty.

Where could he be willing, and yelled: "Quick, take a look!" ”

By the time the third chariot was removed, all the captives present gasped - in front of them was a sparkling lead, less than a foot from the cylinder buried under the city!

"Run!"

"It's gunpowder!"

"Mother!"

Hundreds of horsemen suddenly scattered, and Yang Zhihe's reaction was not slow, he pulled the reins violently, turned over and pierced the horse's stock with the tip of the knife.

The war horse neighed, jumped a few feet away, and ran more than ten steps in a row, when he heard a loud sound like the sky cracking behind him.

It was the explosion of 700 catties of gunpowder buried under the city by Deng Shan.

Yang Zhihe found that he was flying, as light as a swallow, and even glanced at each other with his war horse in mid-air.

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