On 7 August, more than 650 million loyal, loyal, and military commanders under the command of Wang Yan on the Western Front, more than 16,000 people under Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, more than 20,000 people from Sun Shoufa's department, a total of 100,000 regular soldiers, more than 30,000 Qing army prisoners, and more than 50,000 Huguang people, who were strong and brave, arrived in Guocheng outside Nanjing, sounding the clarion call for recovering the southern capital and being ashamed.

The army in the western suburbs of Nanjing, set up a company camp, Zhao Shenkuan, Qin Shangxing led the rampant horse army to the south to sweep the periphery, the iron hooves rolled, the south of the Yangtze River boiled, the Qing army forces either retreated into Nanjing early, or retreated into Zhejiang in fear, Lishui, Liyang, Gaochun, Jianping, Guangdezhou in the south of Nanjing, have surrendered anyway.

After Hong Chengchou withdrew Zhenjiang's troops and horses into Nanjing, Zheng Chenggong led 30,000 men and horses up the river and arrived in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing on 9 August.

At this point, in the south of the Yangtze River, except for Zhejiang and half of Fujian, there is only one lonely city left on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Nanjing, which is still in the hands of the Qing soldiers.

For a time, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains changed color, the land south of the Yangtze River washed the filth, thousands of people, all abandoned their clothes and hats, cut braids, wore Taoist clothes, and wore net scarves, scholars and literati cried with joy, embraced each other in the Minglun Hall of the Confucian Temple, Jiangyin, Jiading, Kunshan and other places, the white flags fluttered, and cried bitterly.

These places, slaughtered by the Qing soldiers, just because of the high pressure of the Qing court, people did not dare to pay tribute, nor did they express sadness.

The corpses that were secretly collected by people were buried in the wilderness, and because they did not rush to worship and erect a monument, they are now overgrown with wild grass, and it is believed that there are still survivors alive back then.

Outside Jiangyin City, in a mass grave, an old man led a group of people through the room, and suddenly, the old man sat down in front of a weedy bag and cried loudly, "Yan Gong~ The official army is back~ Woo woo ~"

On the tenth day of August, after the sweep of the periphery of Nanjing was completed, Wang Yanling and Xiao Qihui's Sun Shoufa led 20,000 Jiangxi soldiers to enter Guangdezhou in the south, seize Kuling Pass, and prevent the Qing army in Zhejiang from going north again to support, and he commanded the Wuzhong Army, the Wuwei Army, and the Zheng people to surround Nanjing, place equipment, and prepare for a strong attack.

Although since the Battle of Salhu, the Ming army has fought over the years, mostly passive defense, but in the past two years, Wang Yan has carried out a lot of active attacks, among which the largest siege battle is two years ago when he and He Tengjiao attacked Wuchang City, and last year with Zheng Chenggong attacked Zhangzhou, as well as the Battle of Wanxian.

These battles have accumulated a lot of siege experience for the Ming army, especially the Wuzhong Army, and now Wang Yan is determined to attack Nanjing.

Outside the city of Nanjing, the Ming army set up several large camps as far as the eye can see, flags fluttering, white flags flying, covering the sky and the sun.

Most of the Qing soldiers in the city had never seen such a big battle, and they only heard the neighing of people and horses, and they were not frightened in their hearts.

Four years, four full winters and summers, although the appearance of the Ming army's sailors had shaken the fallen people in Nanjing several times, but at that time, the sailors did not dare to land after all, how could there be more than 100,000 people surrounding Nanjing so intuitively and shocking.

The people who fell this time, after four years, saw the figures of the officials and soldiers outside the city of Nanjing again, and they were all secretly happy, hoping that the city could be broken as soon as possible and the war would end, and the forces in the city to restore the sight also secretly connected and brewed incidents.

In the western camp of the Ming army, Wang Yan led a group of Zheng generals who arrived in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing, in the big tent where the coffin of Longwu was parked, to worship, Zheng Chenggong and others wept bitterly for a while, and the king of Tang ordered someone to take mourning clothes, let the Zheng generals change well, and then moved to Wang Yan's Chinese army tent.

In this, the king of Tang is a prince, with the highest title, and is supported by the minister as a prisoner, theoretically he should hold great power, but with Wang Yan in him, he can only stand aside, and the king of Tang is also very cooperative, in order to avoid making Wang Yan unhappy, he is currently only responsible for the Daxing Emperor's vigilance, and does not participate in the military.

This made Wang Yan quite satisfied with the Tang King, after all, he presided over the war, but the central government sat in the Tang Dynasty to supervise the country, and if he had to ask his opinion, it would undoubtedly affect his authority and affect the implementation of military orders.

At this time, in the tent of the commander of the Chinese army, there were many generals dressed in filial piety, Wang Yan walked to the front of the handsome case, pressed it with both hands, signaled the generals to be quiet, and then said: "Emperor Bintian of Daxing has six days, and it depends on you when the coffin can be buried in Nanjing." ”

After speaking, Wang Yan waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down, and he himself sat on the handsome seat, and then said: "The city of Nanjing is vast and strong, and it is difficult to attack. Yesterday, the flood thief replied to the domain, saying that he had the intention to return to the right, but there were Bolo and others in the city, and let the domain have a grace period of ten days, and he would definitely surrender to Nanjing anyway, what do you think? ”

"Your Highness, how can you believe the words of the old horseman, the last general watched the Qing army's movements these days, obviously wanting to hold on to the attrition, and when I am tired, I will counterattack, this must be the old thief's strategy to delay the army." After Wang Yan finished speaking, a general in the tent immediately opened his mouth and scolded.

Wang Yan regarded it as the general Liu Tichun, he nodded, waved his hand, and said: "General Liu is right, this clan also thinks so, after the Hong thief surrendered, it is really more and more shameless, and there is no bottom line." ”

The generals in the tent inevitably cursed Hong Chengchou.

Thinking back then, Hong Chengchou calmed his internal worries and resisted external troubles, which was simply an example for the world's scholars, Wang Yan also admired Hong Chengchou at that time, and he never imagined that one day he would face off against Hong Chengchou.

"Your Highness, since the Hong thieves want to delay, they must want to wait for Dolgon to send troops to rescue, then the battle of Nanjing, we can't spend a long time, we must make a quick decision!" Chen Bangyan on the side said.

Wang Yan prepared in Huguang for three months, and then went east, counting the time Dolgon in Beijing should also recover from the coup d'état at the end of last year, and it is really possible that the Qing army reinforcements will go south in the near future.

Wang Yan's face sank slightly, and he said to Xia Wanchun, who was in charge of helping him deal with military intelligence and intelligence: "What is the current situation in Nanjing, and how is the defense, can it be investigated?" ”

Xia Wanchun immediately came out of the queue and saluted, "Back to Your Highness, according to the information from the city, Nanjing originally only had more than 40,000 defenders, and most of them were green battalions, but the current strength has reached 55,000 people!" ”

Wang Yan was stunned when he heard this, "How did these fifteen thousand people come out?" ”

The generals in the tent also raised their eyebrows.

Xia Wanchun said: "The information from the Heaven and Earth Society should have been smuggled across the river from the north bank last night, and according to the investigation, all of them were Eight Banner soldiers. ”

This must be that Duoduo was afraid of the rebellion of the green battalion soldiers in the city, so he sent the Eight Banners to cross the river and enter the city to reinforce and help Boluo and Hong Chengchou stabilize the situation.

However, how did Duoduo send troops across the river, and why didn't King Lu contain Duoduo?

When Wang Yan heard this, he set his eyes on Man Dazhuang, his face showed anger, and his head was sweating, which really couldn't blame him, he hurriedly came out and pleaded guilty: "Your Highness, the Qing army has built a fort outside the Dinghuai Gate in Guazhou, and controlled the river outside Nanjing, and the Qing army's naval division is anchored at the mouth of the Qinhuai River, and the last general will not dare to rush into the Nanjing River." ”

Wang Yan frowned, "It seems that if you want to attack Nanjing, you must first cut off the connection between Nanjing and Jiangbei!" ”

Liu Shun did not change his true colors, and took the initiative to ask: "Your Highness, I am willing to lead the people of my headquarters to lay down the fort." ”

At this time, on Zheng Chenggong's side, after the generals Gan Hui and Zheng Chenggong glanced at each other, they also stood up without showing weakness, clasped their fists and said: "General, the last general is willing to take down the Guazhou Fort." ”

Seeing this, Wang Yan's face leaked with joy, "Okay! Since the two of you took the initiative to ask for help, then this domain will give you a day, and this domain doesn't want another Qing soldier to be transported to the south bank by Duoduo! ”

"No! The last general commands! The two of them clasped their fists in unison.

Wang Yan nodded, turned his head and said to Xia Wanchun again: "Xiao Yin has a lot of contact with King Lu, you go to Jiangbei again, and let King Lu be sure to contain Duoduo!" ”

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