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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 150: The City of Nanjing is Broken

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    After clearing away the obstacles in the south of the city, Lin Fengxiang led ten thousand elite Taiping troops in the West Palace to join Li Kaifang. The Taiping troops concentrated two artillery brigades and relied on the fortifications built by solid residents in the south of the city to storm the city of Nanjing with artillery.  Among these artillery pieces, the three-thousand-jin cannon newly shipped to Wu Sangui was the most powerful. Many buildings in the city were flattened, and even the Jubaomen gate tower where Lu Jianying was in charge was riddled with holes.

    Although Lu Jianying regarded wealth as his life, when he saw such a fierce offensive by the Taiping Army, he panicked and almost wanted to abandon the city and flee.  After Zhang Bingyuan, the leader of Lianyong, fled back to the city, he was a humble man with no integrity as a scholar. Even after his men were bombarded and dispersed by Governor Lu, he still remained loyal to the imperial court.  Seeing that the Taiping Army's artillery fire was fierce, they immediately came up with a plan to soak cowhide in water and wrap it with rattan shields, and then covered it with fishing nets to erect a city wall to resist the artillery fire.  .

    Governor Lu was at his wits' end, so when he saw someone offering advice, he naturally followed the advice. He was also afraid that the Taiping Army's artillery would hit him, so he immediately ordered people to follow Zhang Bingyuan's instructions. Most of the Taiping Army's solid bullets were stopped after one try.  It's quite effective.

    Seeing that Zhang Bingyuan's strategy worked, Lu Jianying started to take chances again, thinking that with Zhang Bingyuan, a living Zhuge, in charge, the city of Nanjing would be impregnable, so he gave up the idea of ????escape and began to calculate the money in the warehouse that was about to bottom out again.

    On the third day, the West Palace Taiping Army brigade led by Xiao Yungui arrived. After Xiao Yungui and Zuo Zongtang discussed it, they immediately divided their forces to seize important strongholds outside the city. With Yuhuatai as the core, they built a large number of fortresses and abandoned Lu Jianying outside the city.  The forts were effectively used to bombard the city of Nanjing day and night.  Xiao Yungui dismissed Zhang Bingyuan's tricks and ordered his people to use the newly developed explosive bombs from the craftsman camp based on the explosives left by Wu Sangui. They blasted the fishing nets and cowhide to pieces at the top of the city.  However, this kind of explosive shell still has flaws. The fuse left is very unstable. It either does not explode when it lands, or it explodes in mid-air. However, half of the shells still explode after landing.

    Xiao Yungui feels sorry for those cannonballs. You must know that the cost of making a cannonball is not small. It is said that once the cannon is fired, there is ten thousand taels of gold, and firing the cannon is like making silver. Such a success rate makes Xiao Yungui heartbroken.  At this time, he regretted a little. Why didn't he study science back then?  She turned around and wanted to ask the four-eyed girl, but Hong Yun'er didn't have a good idea. If she was asked to talk about history, people, and places of interest, she could tell her everything, but if she was asked about mechanical artillery, she would just turn a blind eye.  In the end, Xiao Yungui became impatient with his questioning, and Hong Yun'er said angrily: "I'm not an encyclopedia, and there's no point in forcing me to death. Sister, I just don't know if I don't know! You'd better send someone to find Ding Gongchen as soon as possible, or someone else."  Firearms experts, if that doesn¡¯t work, you can send people to Shanghai to hire some foreign technicians!¡±

    Xiao Yungui just gave up. It seemed that the four-eyed girl really didn't know. No wonder she, like him, studied liberal arts. How could she read books about science?  Although everyone knows some simple principles, in the knowledge of mechanics and chemistry, the slightest error can make a huge difference. Just like gunpowder, the slight difference in the proportion can make a huge difference in the power of the finished gunpowder. The details  If you don¡¯t understand, it means you don¡¯t understand.  Xiao Yungui could only order Bai Zetang to step up the search for firearms experts. At the same time, he asked Baoqing Chamber of Commerce and Guiyun Company to join the search for people. Then he asked the two companies to extend their business tentacles to Shanghai and prepare to start contact with foreigners.

    At night, Xiao Yungui did not set fire to the temples and monuments outside the city like Hong Yang did in history. He ordered the whole army to save as much as possible.  And along the way, the Taiping Army did not persecute monks and Taoist priests as cruelly as in history. If Hong Yang had attacked Nanjing, all the temples and Taoist temples in the prefectures and counties they passed along the way would have been destroyed, and countless monks and Taoist priests would have been killed and driven away.  Xiao Yungui did not do this, but the reputation of the Taiping Army was not damaged.

    However, some of his missionary officers raised questions. Xiao Yungui told the entire army that those pagans who did not believe in our religion would go to hell and suffer in the future after death. The Heavenly Father and Emperor would liquidate everyone when their time came, and there was no need to  The Taiping Army took action.  Hong Yun'er said that the Father and the Emperor sent us in this world to save these lost lambs. Killing them with one knife will not solve the problem. Only by letting such lost people experience the gospel of God can we be blessed everywhere.  How can all the officials defend Hong Yun'er?  Under the brainwashing of Hong Yun'er's words, he was convinced that the officials were more active in preaching the truth. The West Palace Taiping Army changed its previous bloody and oppressive preaching methods, which greatly reduced the resentment of the people.

    However, Xiao Yungui still ordered the Taiping Army to fire continuously at night. At the same time, he ordered all armies to use psychological tactics to intimidate Lu Jianying. He divided the soldiers into countless squads of two commanders and carried out tactical harassment maneuvers to lure the Qing army to consume artillery fire, day and night.  The feint attack on the ground made the defenders unable to eat well during the day and unable to sleep at night.

    At the same time, Bai Zetang has long been in contact with the Tiandi Hui tribe in Nanjing City. Tong Qiangsheng led his people to sneak into the city disguised as refugees before the siege, and together with the Tiandi Hui tribe in the city, they continued to cause trouble in the city.Damn, at night, notices announcing the restoration of Jinling by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom¡¯s Western King were posted everywhere, causing panic among the people in the city, and the soldiers were in disbelief.  Although the Qing army knew that there were spies in the city, they were in a hurry to attack outside the city. The generals in the city had their own selfish motives, and no one bothered to attack the spies in the city.  As Bai Zetang's activities in the city expanded day by day, he even posted notices outside the governor's office of Liangjiang. Lu Jianying became even more panicked and mobilized a large number of troops to defend his mansion. At the same time, the will of the Qing army in Nanjing to defend the city continued to collapse.  Morale was gone.

    In addition, the Taiping Army showed benevolence and righteousness outside the city, and many Nanjing people were looking forward to the Taiping Army entering the city.  Under such eager expectations of the people, even if the Qing army forced the young people to go to the city to help defend, the young people would not work hard. They would run back as soon as the cannons were fired, and the Qing soldiers could not stop them.  Several times, the Qing soldiers could not stop them and were so anxious that they drew their swords and killed people, which further increased the people's resentment towards the Qing army. From time to time, there were incidents in the city where lone Qing soldiers and flag soldiers were assassinated by the people. The Qing army claimed that it was the spies in the city.  But in fact, a large part of it is done by ordinary people.  With the support of the people, the destruction of Nanjing is inevitable.

    Seeing the ashes of morale in the city, Xiao Yungui knew that the time was ripe to break the city, so he ordered the Taiping Army to dig tunnels in Jinghai Temple, Tianxing and other places to prepare for the underground siege.  Although this trick is a bit troublesome, it is extremely effective.  Xiao Yungui believed that after more powerful explosive shells and cannons were developed, this tactic would disappear from the stage of history, and at the same time, the city walls that had stretched across the land of China for thousands of years would completely lose their effectiveness.

    The shameless man Zhang Bingyuan and the magistrate Liu Tongying discovered that the Taiping Army was preparing to attack the city with holes, so they proposed digging internal trenches, building street barracks at the entrance to the city, and building artillery fire on the houses on both sides of the main traffic roads in the city to prevent the Taiping Army from blasting into the city, and prepared to start street fighting.  .  The idea of ??these two people must be said to be extremely clever. They wanted the Taiping Army to fall into the quagmire of street fighting, just like the tactics used to train bravery in the south of the city, and wear down the Taiping Army in street fighting.

    But for some reason, this strategy was rejected by Lu Jianying. Perhaps in his opinion, once the city wall was breached, it would be best for him to pack up his belongings and escape first. Why else would he prepare for street fighting?

    Seeing that his proposed plan was rejected, the shameless lackey Zhang Bingyuan proposed to bombard Jinghai Temple with artillery to remove the stronghold where the Taiping Army dug tunnels. Deputy General Tang Yifen personally lit fire and bombarded Jinghai Temple. The first shot hit Jinghai Temple and the secondary beam of the main hall.  It collapsed, but the artillery fire failed to destroy the tunnel dug by the Taiping Army.

    When Bai Zetang Tong Qiangsheng and others in the city heard that the Qing army was shelling Jinghai Temple, they spread rumors in the city that the Qing army disrespected the Buddha and was about to be defeated.  This move of the Qing army made the Buddhist people and the monks who fled into the city extremely angry. The Qing army always claimed that the Taiping army destroyed Buddhism and exterminated religion, but what everyone saw was that the Taiping army did not destroy the temples, but the Qing army shelled them.  Temples, the distrust of the government has reached an extreme level.

    Two days later, three tunnels in the city wall near Jinghai Temple were blasted at the same time. A two-foot gap was opened in the city wall in the direction of Lion Rock. However, the Nanjing city wall was quite high and thick. Although the city wall collapsed, no passage was formed.

    The Taiping Army spent another day digging and blasting, and the artillery bombarded the gap fiercely. Finally, the tunnels and the artillery fired simultaneously, shaking up and down, and several layers of bricks and stones were demolished from the city wall in front of Lion Rock.

    The forward troops of the Taiping Army, who had been hiding in private houses outside the city for a long time, came out from their hiding places with swords and shields in their hands, and rushed into the gap with all their lives, and the Yifeng Gate was breached.

    Nanjing City is the most important town in the south of the Yangtze River. There are many Eight Banners garrison troops stationed in the city. They know that the Taiping Army will not let go of the Manchus and banner soldiers, so they fight to the death, and actually show unprecedented combat effectiveness. The fighting will is in the God of Death.  Under the pressure, he burst out with rare determination. With the support of the regiment led by Zhang Bingyuan, he fought fiercely with the Taiping Army who broke into the gap.

    On the one hand, they must fight tooth and nail to enter the city, and on the other hand, they must fight tooth and nail to block the gap. The short gap of ten feet is already a mountain of corpses and a sea of ??blood in the time it takes to burn an incense stick.  The Taiping army took turns to attack the gap, while the Qing army stepped forward to block it like a life-threatening attack. There were heads and limbs flying everywhere, blood splattered everywhere, and screams could be heard everywhere. The gap in Yifeng Gate was like  It is like an ancient monster, opening its bloody mouth and constantly devouring human lives.

    Lin Fengxiang, who was commanding at the front, saw that although the Yifengmen blast was successful, the Qing army did not collapse as usual, but instead swarmed in to block the gap. The Taiping army suffered heavy casualties. He became red-eyed and wanted to take the sword with him.  The men and horses stepped forward to fight in person.

    Fortunately, at this moment, the detective horse from Li Kaifang's department came to report. Seeing that the city was broken, Bai Zetang ordered the people in the city and the people of Tiandi Hui to pick up all kinds of weapons and rush to kill the Qing army at Jubaomen.  At this time, most of the Jubaomen garrison had been transferred to Yifengmen for reinforcements. The remaining soldiers were quickly killed and dispersed by the insurgents in the city led by Bai Zetang. Li Kaifang's troops had already led their troops to break into Jubaomen, and they sent people to meet Lin Fengxiang's Taiping Army Brigade.  Gathered at Yifengmen to annihilate the Qing army.
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