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Chapter 376 Qian Qianyi: You said that if I grit my teeth again, wouldn't I survive it!
November fourteenth, morning.

It has only been two nights and one day since Duoduo crossed the river, about sixteen or seventeen hours.In such a short period of time, Duoduo certainly hadn't realized how determined the Jiangnan Ming army's will to resist was.
His expectation of the combat power of those "southern barbarians" in his mind is still at the level of the puppet troops who directly surrendered under the command of the Fu King in Lianghuai, so his immediate goal is very clear - to go straight to Nanjing City, first with all the troops Give it a go, and strive to make a difference.

As for Zhenjiang and Changzhou, he still can't see them at all.If you have the opportunity to take Nanjing directly, why should you distract your attention by going to those worthless small places?It's like playing chess, you can directly eat the opponent's general to end the battle, and only a fool would draw a rook to tease the enemy.

It is human nature for a lion to fight a rabbit with all its strength.Only when he is frustrated in Nanjing City can he think more about it.

This also gave Shi Kefa a few more days of precious time to transfer the money and food of the army and civilians in the town and the town.

Therefore, Doduo almost put all his eggs in one basket and came to Nanjing. On the morning of November [-], he asked the troops to start preparing siege weapons, spend a morning deploying artillery positions, and unloading artillery.

While waiting for the Hongyi cannon to be deployed, the cavalry was idle, so they sent heavy troops to surround Nanjing, besieging all directions of Nanjing, and cutting off all internal and external communication.On the one hand, they also sent scolding soldiers to yell and persuade them to surrender, which hit the morale of the Ming army defending the city.

Fortunately, Shi Kefa sent all the letters that should be sent before, and got all the replies that should be received. Even if he was temporarily surrounded, he didn't panic.

He turned a deaf ear to these persuasion to surrender, and if he dared to get close to the city wall, he would use muskets, Franglers and crossbows to blast back.As for the Hongyi cannon defending the city, there is no rush to use it for the time being. The Hongyi cannon is too clumsy, slow to aim and fire, and it is basically impossible to hit the moving cavalry target.

Of course, it is limited to Shi Kefa, Shen Tingyang, Zhu Changhao and a few major generals who are not panicked.

Some of the other soft-boned civil servants, because of too much brainstorming, Shi Kefa told them that King Huguangqin's division would arrive soon, they thought Shi Kefa was telling lies to stabilize the morale of the army, and they were anxious to leave a way out for themselves.

Fortunately, the army has always been firmly controlled by Shi Kefa and Shen Tingyang, and all guards are Shi Kefa's confidantes who have been tested repeatedly, and they know the basics.

Even if these soft-boned civil servants speculate wildly, at most they will quietly fall out of the city and surrender, and it is impossible to have the opportunity to make a contribution.

And Ming Dynasty has never been short of civil servants, if it insists on having the weak bones of Donglin or eunuchs, doing this kind of short-sighted thing of "45 years of voting for morality" is nothing more than just vacating a few official positions for more loyal and reliable people. People will fill in the future.

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In the afternoon, after the Qing army completed the siege and deployed artillery, Duoduo saw that persuading him to surrender was fruitless, so he ordered to bombard the city.

Because there is no Tongtulai-level artillery expert on Duoduo's road, the siege technical officers in his army are a little weaker, and he didn't expect to use such tricks as building earth dams and deploying artillery to the reverse slope. Instead, the cannon was erected directly on the flat fort and fired.

In fact, even on Azig's road, Tong Tulai didn't bother much at first, and only started to change his tactics when he realized that the loss of the confrontation was too great.Duoduo wants to grab time at the moment, so naturally he doesn't have time to slowly build the earth dam, and the work will be delayed for at least several days.

The Ming army at the top of the city was naturally not to be outdone. Shi Kefa personally patrolled the city to check the defense, boosted morale, and ordered the Hongyi cannons deployed by the Ming army on the towers, horse faces, and turrets to fire back.

The Hongyi cannons of the Nanjing garrison are all in stock of the Ming court, not made by Zhu Shuren Daye Arsenal, so the performance can only be said to be quite satisfactory.

The performance parameters of the Dutch original naval guns of the same weight are a bit worse, and even slightly worse than the Hongyi cannons cast by the Qing army.

Fortunately, the cannons of the Ming army can be installed on the fortress of the city tower to fire, which has a slight advantage in height, and it is easier to reach far. In terms of range, the two sides have a tie. Artillery positions, but the accuracy is relatively low.

The Nanjing city wall in the Ming Dynasty was very strong, much stronger than Yangzhou in the north of the Yangtze River by several grades. Not only did it have a rammed earth core, but the outer foundation was surrounded by large stones, and the top was covered with large, solid green bricks. Bricks are almost as strong as paving stones.

Since the Qing army came to Jiangbei, Shi Kefa learned the fortification reinforcement method taught by Zhu Shuren before, and focused on strengthening some soft soil slopes outside the city wall to absorb and absorb the impact, further increasing the defense against shelling.

Therefore, in history, Duoduo was able to blast a half-collapsed gap after blasting the city wall of Yangzhou city with all his strength for a day, but when facing the city wall of Nanjing, the bombardment for the whole afternoon only smashed the attached soil and bricks. After a while, none of the main body of the city wall collapsed in a large area.

In contrast, under the continuous counterattack firepower of the Ming army, the artillery artillery of the Qing army suffered hundreds of casualties and damaged several cannons.

Seeing that the defense of Nanjing City was so tenacious, Duoduo also became angry from embarrassment. He began to urge the soldiers to prepare for a strong attack. Or carry a shoulder pole filled with soil, and use it as cannon fodder to fill up the moat outside the city wall of Nanjing.

Anyone who disobeyed or resisted the people would die directly under the butcher knife of Duoduo's supervising troops, and thousands of innocent people could only be driven forward to fill the river.

Shi Kefa also saw this scene, and he couldn't bear it, but he knew that he couldn't be soft at this time, and he had to use force to deter these people from following the bandits, so he also ordered the defenders to open fire with all their strength and dare to approach the river filling Just call back.

For a time, hundreds of thousands of innocent people fell on the banks of the Qinhuai River, or their bodies rolled into the river and became part of the mud that filled the moat, or they fell to death on the flat ground and were forced to push their bodies into the river by the people behind them. The soil and the earth bear the same rottenness.

Duduo's cruelty made many people in the city angry with the same enemy, but there were also some soft bones who were frightened by it, always thinking "Whoever is the emperor is not the one, so finish the fight early and stop harming the people."

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The siege battle on the first day lasted until the first half of the night and did not end.

After it got dark, Duduo felt that this would affect the defenders' aiming vision and would not be conducive to them shooting and killing the strong men filling the river, so he urged the people in Jurong County who were arrested and driven to continue filling the river.

It was only because the city defenses of Nanjing were so tight that even the moat could not be fixed on the first day, so the direct combat troops of the Qing army could not engage in direct combat. They could only continue to strengthen the fortifications and siege fortifications.

In the middle of the night, the sound of guns and crossbows stopped. Both sides were exhausted and stopped fighting.

Shi Kefa was always worried about the situation of the war, so he dared not fall asleep for a long time. He personally patrolled the city until the end of the night, and then replaced Shen Tingyang, who went to bed in the first half of the night and got up in the second half of the night, and continued the inspection after handing over shifts.

Shi Kefa only slept for about two hours, and woke up again at the beginning of Maoshi, and hurriedly went to Shen Tingyang to take over the shift again.Shen Tingyang had dark circles under his eyes, seeing him wake up so early, he also had a complicated expression, guilty and worried:
"Xianzhi, you have only slept for two hours. Could it be that something happened here that alarmed you? Sigh, it's all due to the incompetence of this old man..."

Shi Kefa was startled, and thought that something had happened during the two hours he was sleeping in the middle of the night, so he hurriedly asked: "But where did the defense go wrong? I woke up by myself, and I wasn't disturbed by any news. Tell me quickly!" "

Shen Tingyang sighed: "At Choushi and Yinshi just now, I mainly stared at the gates and towers besieged by the Tartars. I was worried that the morale of the army would be shaken and I wanted to open the gates, but I neglected to inspect those wall sections and turrets without gates... "

Shi Kefa didn't think there was a problem: "Uncle Ji Ming is also incapable of splitting up, so there's nothing to apologize for. As long as the city gate is kept safe at night, everything will be fine."

Shen Tingyang shook his head, indicating that the problem is not that simple: "I only focus on the main generals, but I don't know that there are some scumbags among our civil servants! It's really not worthy of being a member of my famous teacher!
Just at Yinshi just now, because he was afraid of the enemy, Wang Duo, Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, bribed a few former officials who were related to the army, and with dozens of relatives and rebels, he secretly fell from the northwest corner of the city with a rope and surrendered!In one night, there were several cases like this, and they all secretly fell by the rope and left the city!
Xianzhi, you and I have already told them the news that the reinforcements are about to arrive, but they still think we are lying to them!This kind of person has too many eyes, no one will believe it, it is really... Sigh. "

Shi Kefa was also stunned when he heard the words. He didn't expect that Wang Duo, who was in such a high position, would actually persist for more than a day when the city was besieged. Traitor to survive!

In fact, in the history of the original time and space, Wang Duo and Qian Qianyi were also the main leaders who led Nanjing civil officials to "open the city without blood" after Duoduo crossed the river.

Although most of the history has been changed by the Butterfly Effect, but because of suspicion and disbelief in Shi Kefa's guarantee, a few soft bones insist on becoming traitors, which can only be said to be God's will.

Who made the chain of suspicion in their hearts more complicated? Shi Kefa told them the truth, and they all thought Shi Kefa was trying to trick them into being loyal and martyred together.

But if there is a little bit less heart and suspicion, it will not be like this.

After dawn, Shi Kefa hurriedly asked the emperor to summon all the ministers in Nanjing to hold a temporary meeting in front of the imperial court to confirm how many people had escaped.

As a result, among the six ministers and twelve ministers, four of them complained of illness and did not come. Among the more than fifty doctors in total, eleven of them did not come.

Those who did not come may not have crossed the city overnight to join the enemy and become traitors in order to survive. Some may have really wanted to run but did not run, claiming to be sick and hiding to wait and see before leaving the city.

But this number is enough to explain the problem.

How many of these civil servants in Nanjing are disloyal and unrighteous!After only being bombarded by the Qing army's intensive heavy artillery for a long time, I was frightened by the sound of the artillery!Shi Kefa told them that there were reinforcements, and they thought Shi Kefa was trying to trick them into dying for the country together!
A small group of literati led by Wang Duo and Qian Qianyi took a wrong step in the last 30 hours before Zhu Shuren's reinforcements arrived and became traitors and national scum one after another.

(End of this chapter)