Chapter 704: Soldiers Descend on the City

"Cheng Mingjiu, you lost too quickly, the general said, you have to do enough drama, in case the red-haired ghost sees through, you just wait to be scolded!"

Niu Jinsong, who pretended to respond, thought that Cheng Ming was defeated too quickly, and made mocking remarks. Cheng Mingjiu wiped the sweat on his face, "You little erection, you are not afraid to flash your tongue when the wind is strong, and you don't look at the power of the opponent's cannons, the lives of my soldiers are expensive, how can you cheapen the red-haired ghosts and feed them iron bumps?" ”

As he spoke, a lead bullet landed less than ten paces away from the two men, and then bounced forward with a scorching heat, and after a few ups and downs, it plunged headlong into the grass, but fortunately no one was injured. Rao is like this, and the craters smashed in the places he passed are also shocking.

The splashed sand hit his face, and it hurt hotly, Niu Jinsong was stunned for a long time, shook off the soil and grass on his hat and helmet, and scolded: "Damn, the cannon of the red-haired ghost is really powerful, let's hurry up and run for our lives!" ”

So, the two battalions gathered together, spread thousands of legs, and fled south. It was the first time since the formation of the Third Guards Army that there had been such a scene of the whole army breaking and fleeing. Along the way, Niu Jinsongwu scolded himself, "When I turn over, the red-haired ghost I will fight will call grandpa......"

Unexpectedly, under the excitement of scolding, I didn't pay attention to my feet, and I tripped over a stone and chewed on. The soldiers on the left and right hurriedly helped their generals up, and someone complained with a red face: "General, it was you who tripped over this, and General Cheng's first battalion has already run in front of us!" We're going to lose this meal! ”

Niu Jinsong was shocked when he heard this, this meal of wine is not to invite Cheng Mingjiu, who lost the bet at the beginning, he would invite the other party's battalion of people to drink openly. Although Niu Jinsong is a pro-barracks officer, he can't help but toss so much when all the military salaries add up, and in the end, he doesn't have to let his soldiers pay for it? This is absolutely not a no-no.

"Fuck! In the war, our pro-military battalion will not lose to their first battalion, and they can't fall behind when they escape, they will all rush to me, rush, whoever rushes slowly, let him pay more money in the future......"

For a time, the mountains roared and the tsunami was like a rainbow, and the soldiers of each battalion actually took out the strength to rush into battle and fled for their lives.

Li Xin, who was standing on the city wall watching the battle, frowned, and secretly accused Niu Jinsong of making nonsense, and he had to have a look of running for his life to escape, as if he was so majestic and high-spirited, where did he still want to run for his life? Fortunately, the battlefield was full of gunsmoke and the sound of cannonballs, and the red-haired soldiers on the battlefield could not see through it for a while.

"Do you want to kill again? Save the red-haired ghost from being suspicious......"

Ying Tianfu Yin Chen Wenzhi has been following Li Xin's left and right, not leaving an inch, Nanjing is now under his agency, if something goes wrong, it will be a loss. However, out of his unconditional trust in Li Xin, he didn't think that the red-haired ghost would take Nanjing City like that. He glanced at Shao Hualong, the chief soldier who was more than ten steps away from him and the Marquis of Zhenyu, this person's face was full of gloom, but he didn't know what he was thinking about.

"Not necessarily! The last play hasn't finished yet, and it will be Zhang Shi's turn to appear in a while. ”

Chen Wenshan stopped talking, and turned his gaze to the thick gunpowder smoke that filled the city.

Wallace's ship had already sailed into the Qinhuai River waterway at this time, and after the sailors surveyed the center of this wide moat waterway, it was more than 10 feet in the center, and even the three-masted galleon would not be in danger of running aground. He was going to sail the galleon to the treasure gate of the city of Nanjing, and use God's cannon to make these oriental monkeys tremble.

The Ming army's appearance exceeded Colonel Wallace's expectations, and these Eastern monkeys actually launched a third counterattack, but he was not worried, Leobold was the bravest mercenary from Hesse, and he would use his tenacity and courage to defeat these lowly Eastern monkeys.

Sure enough, the third counterattack of the Ming army was also routed by Leobold. Soon, Colonel Wallace discovered with some dismay that it would not be easy for Leobold's phalanx of mercenaries to reach the Nanjing Jubao Gate and echo the fleet. Directly in front of them there were a lot of scattered houses, although there were no resistors among them, but entering the residential area with narrow roads was definitely not good news for Leobard's phalanx!

Maybe the Ming army that had just fled, hidden in these houses with a silver mirror, waiting for a sneak attack with cold arrows! Wallace's horned mustache shook habitually again, and a sly smile appeared on his face.

"Let all the gunboats prepare, and the target is the dwellings ahead!"

As all the ships passed through the residential area in a straight line, all the guns that had already been loaded with ammunition spat out dazzling tongues of fire. As rounds of bullets rained down, the scattered houses soon became a team of broken bricks and tiles......

Shao Hualong, who had been gloomy all the time, came to Li Xin's face, pointed to the gate that had become a ruin, and asked seemingly lightly.

"Will the Marquis take responsibility for them? I'll play it! ”

After that, the chief soldier with an extremely unceremonious tone turned his head and left, he didn't even intend to listen to Li Xin's explanation. And Li Xin really has no words to explain, it was his negligence that the Guanxiang was bombed, but before this battle, the Three Guards had already made sufficient preparations, including several residents in the Guanxiang were also moved out in advance, and the bombing of Hongmaofan was just some empty houses......

As it extended to the south, the Nanjing city wall became closer and closer to the center of the Qinhuai River waterway, close enough to allow solid bullets fired from a three-masted galleon to smash onto the wall.

Colonel Wallace was initially a little worried about the presence of cannons in Nanjing, so the fleet always kept a certain distance from the city walls, and even if the cannons in the city fired, they were out of range. But as the war progressed, what appeared in front of Wallace was more of the incompetence of the Ming army. Although they have a huge population, as well as seemingly well-equipped soldiers. However, the morale of the Ming army was low, the command was chaotic, and it was often almost crushed.

The Ming army's disgrace even made Wallace wonder if the group of men and horses he had encountered in Changzhou half a month earlier was the Ming army. If the Ming army is all this virtue, his deliberate avoidance of the south bank of the Yangtze River these days is actually a bit redundant.

"Tilt all the cannonballs to the walls of Nanjing, let this castle that looks powerful in front of God, tremble, and crawl ......"

With Colonel Wallace's arrogant shouting, solid cannonballs smashed one after another on the brick-covered walls of Nanjing, and with each smash, a large amount of rubble splashed and peeled off. This made the Ming army in the city, including Ying Tianfu Yin Chen Wenshan, a little anxious.

Although he hid behind the safety of the enemy building under the escort of the soldiers, when would he be the head of the red-haired ghost to be so tormented? In case there is a mistake in any of the city gates, let the red haired fan in, it will be a bloody storm!

"General, the red-haired ghost has sent a messenger!"

Chen Wenshan's spirit suddenly came to his senses and asked, "Do you want peace talks?" Bring it on! ”

When the soldiers brought the red-haired ghost messenger with him, Chen Wenshan was disappointed to find that it was a decent Han man.

"I have seen His Excellency the General in Xia He Bin!"

He Bin pretended to be a mediocre and red hairy manner, and only hoped that the Ming Dynasty officials he dealt with would not be like some magistrates, and when they saw the Han people in charge of negotiations, they couldn't help but cut off their heads on the charge of forgetting their ancestors and treason and being thieves.

"Are you Han?"

Li Xin asked!

"My parents are Chinese Shunmin, and I was born in Luzon!"

"Oh! It turned out to be overseas Chinese! ”

Li Xin muttered to himself, He Bin couldn't hear it clearly, but he was uneasy in his heart. He lied, in fact, he was born in Nan'an, Fujian, and the reason why he said that he was born in Luzon was to protect himself.

"Although I was born in Luzon, but after all, the blood of the Chinese people is thicker than water, so who is the red-haired fan on the boat?"

Li Xin's previous sentence seemed to be still greeting, and He Bin felt at ease when he heard it, but he suddenly went straight to the point, and He Bin subconsciously replied almost without thinking about it.

"From the Netherlands!"

As soon as the words came out, He Bin realized that he had lost his words, but it was difficult to recover, and it was impossible to redeem it.

Netherlands? Li Xin quickly searched for the information he was familiar with in his heart, originally thought that this group of pirates might be Spaniards or Portuguese, but after a long time of trouble, it turned out to be Dutch. The Dutch colony was in Indonesia, not close to China, and since these people came to intervene in the civil strife of the Ming Dynasty, they should be colonists very close to China.

Li Xin's eyes suddenly had a flash of inspiration, he thought of Taiwan, the Dutch had established a colony in Taiwan, so these people must be from Taiwan. But this time, no matter how Li Xin said, He Bin was only determined not to tell the truth. So much so that He Bin almost forgot his original intention of venturing into Nanjing City.

"Colonel Wallace, let you either surrender or die!"

He Bin hesitated, but repeated the original words! Chen Wenshan's heart sank, where is this peace talks, it is clearly a provocation!

Who knew that Li Xin did not directly answer He Bin's question, and he was not annoyed by Wallace's disrespectful words, and even had the intention of wooing him in words. In short, it was nonsense, and he didn't say a word about surrender.

In the end, He Bin really lost his patience, and according to what he observed, he was afraid that the officials and people in Nanjing would surrender. But Wallace may not believe these words, the Ming army was defeated like a mountain, how can there be a reason to fall to the ground?

Thinking of this, He Bin couldn't help but secretly scold Wallace for being stupid, the city wall of Nanjing is tall, even if the mercenaries of Leobold can't be defeated in the field, there are always a few brushes to defend the city, and it is also whimsical to rely on thousands of people to break through the Ming Dynasty's remaining capital!

He Bin didn't expect that while Li Xin was idle with him, the political hall in Nanjing City had already been fried.

"Li Xin, this is nonsense! All let the red-haired pirates hit the city, did he want to collude with the pirates to offer the city and invite merit......"