A group of captives were huddled in the battlements and chatting enthusiastically, when one of them suddenly looked out of the city.

"Old Weitou, why are you in a daze?"

"What the hell?"

Old Wei Tou trembled and pointed into the distance, "Yes, it's the Ming army......"

The others immediately hula and gathered around the battlement, and sure enough, they saw that under the moonlight, a large mantle cart took the lead, followed by more than a dozen flying bridges and chariots, and was slowly pressing towards the edge of the city.

"The Ming army is attacking the city!"

"Didn't you say you were going to strike for a month?"

"What can I do?!"

On the south side of the city, Huang Ding heard the sound of the warning gong, hurriedly drilled out of the military tent, grabbed the adjutant general beside him and asked urgently: "Where is the enemy attacking from?" How many people are there? ”

"Back to the general, there are on all sides. I'm afraid that there are tens of thousands of enemy troops......"

Huang Ding's head buzzed, tens of thousands of horses? So this means that the army suddenly launched a general attack?! Didn't Liang Huafeng repay the Ming army for already being tricked?

He forced himself to calm down, "It's okay, the soldiers are coming to bring the enemy water to the earth weir!" Since he came on all sides, I kept it on all sides. ”

As the commander in charge of Jiangning's city defense, he quickly made deployments, "Order, Yang Chengzu, Guan Xiaozhong, and Hu Maozhen each led 10,000 soldiers and horses to guard the south, northwest, and north. Dong Yi led 8,000 people to respond in the middle. ”

He remembered the east of the city that had been bombed last time, and took the reins of the horse, "The rest will follow me to guard the east side." Then he pumped his mount hard and galloped away, "There are still 50,000 troops in my city, but I want to see what the southern army can do to me?!" ”

Different from the last "sneaky" bombing of the city, this time the Ming army can be said to be overwhelming, with four or five hundred siege equipment such as mantle cars, flying bridges, and ladders. The torches are even more overwhelming, at least more than 20,000.

Of course, Zhu Linmiao's established plan was never a strong attack, the casualties of the siege were too large, and the blasting was still the core of taking Nanjing.

Deng Shan led his troops to slowly follow behind the "main attack force", although he had the successful experience of the last time, but this time he was nervously sweating in his palms - the power of the nitrocellulose beside him, His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King had demonstrated to him that a little bigger fist could blow a boulder to pieces!

Moreover, His Highness specifically instructed him that this thing is very easy to explode, so he should be very careful. If these 330 catties of nitrocellulose were hit by the Jianyu cannon, he and the soldiers within 20 zhang around him would definitely be crushed.

He raised his eyes and saw that the flying bridge in front of him had been paved, patted the prepared cart vigorously, and said in a loud voice: "Push the cart over the moat, and then enter the cart and follow me to the city as soon as possible!" ”

"Yes!"

The soldiers of the 300 broken battalion immediately rushed forward with the chariot.

This car is also very different from the previous one, the top girder is made of steel bars, covered with a layer of water-soaked cotton armor, and covered with two layers of iron sheets. Small cannons such as tiger squats can resist one or two hits.

The downside is that it's too heavy. However, the latest rubber wheels made in Ningbo are also used in these wheels, so four or five more people can be pushed as usual.

In front, there were dragon guards who opened the way with mantle carts, and they did not stop pointing at the city to attract firepower, and there were many chariots as false targets next to them. But even so, Deng Shan didn't dare to go straight to the gap that had been blown up last time, but first ran to the south side of the breach, and then moved north against the wall.

The sound of shouting and killing and cannons on the city shook the sky, but the Ming army mainly feinted, and the vast majority of people hid behind the siege equipment, and there were not many casualties. Under the cover of everyone, Deng Shan arrived at the root of the wall without danger, and he was slightly relieved in his heart, this is already the dead end of the cannon at the head of the city, and the biggest danger has passed.

He immediately led his men to run desperately north along the wall, and there was a muffled noise overhead, when the Qing army smashed down with stones and the like.

Soon, his chariots still attracted the attention of the enemy. The Jianyu officers first concentrated their shots, but when they saw that the results were not good, they were busy and asked people to bring oil and pour it head-on.

Deng Shan heard the loud bang above the cart, and knew that the hot oil had touched the soaked cotton armor, so he hurriedly shouted loudly, "Work hard!" Fast! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen torches fell again, and the fire touched the hot oil, and the car suddenly burst into flames.

"General, this is it!"

Deng Shan looked at the torches under his hand, it was the hole that he blew up last time, although it had been filled with soil, it should not be difficult to dig it up. He immediately picked up the steel shovel behind his back and took the lead in digging.

Not far behind Deng Shan, Huang Qishou saw that the "demolition group" was already in place, and immediately led the five hundred dragon guard infantry under his command to abandon the mantle cart and shoot a salvo at the head of the city to cover, but what he held in his hand was all eleven coins and flint haircrackers.

Last time, Deng Shan reacted, and the effect of shooting upwards at the head of the city with a six-coin gun was extremely poor. Zhu Linmiao immediately thought of the captured Jianyu Heavy Firecracker, so he transferred craftsmen to repair hundreds of them—in fact, it was just a matter of replacing the springs.

The energy of the mouth of the eleven coin gun is very large, and the potential energy attenuation will be much smaller. As Huang Qishou's side began to suppress the shooting, the pressure on Deng Shan's head suddenly decreased.

After a while, Deng Shan dug a shovel into something hard and made a popping sound. His eyes lit up suddenly, "It's the cornerstone of the city wall, and the pit that was blown up last time has been dug through." Then he waved behind him, "Quick!" Nitrocellulose.

"Eh, take it easy, don't be upside down! It's easy to fry! ”

A dozen soldiers carried over six square iron boxes and stacked them neatly in the gap under the city. When the last iron box was removed, the roof of the cart was being burned through, and a puff of hot oil and flames were falling with a bang, less than four feet away from the box of nitrocellulose!

Deng Shan was startled, stroked his chest vigorously, reached out and dipped a ball of burning oil with a steel shovel, and took out a large handful of fuses on the iron box and put them on the flames.

As soon as the spark popped out, he immediately took out his whistle and blew a few times, and then he and his men got into a smaller chariot next to him, turned his head and sped away to the east.

Huang Qishou also heard the warning, released the last salvo, and led the team to retreat slowly.

A Qing soldier who had experienced the last bombing of the city saw that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly went to report to Huang Dingyu, "General, the Ming army retreated so suddenly the previous time, it must have come to bury gunpowder again!" ”

At this time, there was no fire under the city to suppress, Huang Ding probed to look at the city, and saw that the last bombed place was blocked by a few burning carts, and the Ming army had withdrawn 200 steps away.

He frowned, and immediately used a bamboo basket to hang people down to extinguish the fire powder lead, but it was difficult to cross the fire, so he simply waved his hand and said, "Don't pay attention to him." Jiangning Chengjian asked him to blow up a few more times, and it would be difficult to destroy. If you continue to hold on, the people of Mojiao Nanren will take advantage of the chaos to come to the city! ”

Old Wei Tou secretly pulled a few robes, "Brothers, my right eye keeps jumping, there must be a disaster." ”

Several people glanced at each other, and they all followed him and quietly slipped towards the city staircase on the south side. As soon as they walked out of the hundred and ten steps, they suddenly heard an earth-shattering loud noise behind them, and when they turned around, they saw a huge hand made of flames that seemed to stretch out from the underworld, pushing away the city wall of Nanjing that was pressing on its head. The entire east side of Nanjing shook violently like leaves in the wind and waves, and a large number of city bricks and stones were immediately thrown into the night sky dozens of feet high, and then smashed down, and the farthest one collapsed a mile away.

After a few moments, everything was calm again. I saw that in the smoke and dust in the sky, the Nanjing city wall seemed to have been gnawed by a wild beast, leaving a scorched black gap more than three zhang wide! I want to talk about "The Rise of the Ming Dynasty 1646" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~