Zhou Yuji, the general of the Ming Dynasty's capital camp, shouted in his hoarse voice:

"Hold on, you must hold on for me, and you must never let the thieves in yellow climb the Nanjing City Wall."

Five days ago, the city of Nanjing was surrounded by thieves in yellow clothes overnight.

During these five days, the thieves in yellow attacked the city with extremely high intensity.

The thieves in yellow were also very methodical in attacking the city.

They first used artillery to clear away the red cannons on the top of Nanjing City.

The artillerymen of the Yellow Thieves have extremely high accuracy, and they can accurately predict the impact point of the artillery shells.

The cannonballs of the thieves in yellow are very powerful.

Their explosive shells don't need to hit the Hongyi cannon.

It only needs to land next to the Hongyi cannon to destroy the Hongyi cannon through a huge explosion.

After several days of siege by thieves in yellow.

The shrapnel that fell off the city wall was piled three inches thick.

There are still several functional Hongyi cannons on the city wall.

But here on the northern city wall, all the artillerymen were killed.

No one knows how to operate the Hongyi cannon anymore.

All soldiers know that standing next to the Hongyi cannon is the position with the highest death rate.

The artillery and infantry of the thieves in yellow also cooperated very closely.

The artillerymen of the thieves in yellow attacked the Nanjing city wall first, and the shells just exploded, not even for a moment.

The infantrymen in yellow clothes took advantage of the time when the city wall was under shelling, and immediately set up ladders to attack the city.

The Beijing camp commanded by Zhou Yuji had suffered 30% casualties in just five days.

The Beijing Camp is already on the verge of collapse.

Two days ago, Zhou Yuji had to let the young men he recruited to defend the city.

When the soldiers of the yellow-robed thieves rushed up, he sent out soldiers from the Beijing camp to fight bloody battles with the yellow-robed thieves.

Without this method, Jingying would have collapsed long ago.

The consequences of this were that the young men were incompetent in combat, and the thieves in yellow frequently rushed to the city.

The morale of the soldiers in the Beijing camp is now extremely low.

Zhou Yuji saw the soldiers in yellow clothes again, climbing the ladder and rushing towards the city.

There was a lot of gunpowder, and cannonballs were placed in a row, but he could no longer send out artillery, so he operated Hongyi cannon to defend the city.

We can only defend the city with traditional rolling logs and stones, as well as large grenades made by learning from the thieves in yellow.

These three kinds of city defense equipment have achieved limited results and cannot stop the yellow-robed thieves from attacking the city.

The soldiers from the Beijing camp on top of the city showed signs of gradually collapsing.

Zhou Yuji personally supervised the battle, and any soldiers who dared to escape were killed by him with a knife.

"For the sake of Ming Dynasty, follow me and kill."

Zhou Yuji led his soldiers and climbed to the top of the city carrying long swords.

When the Ming army saw their commander ascending to the top of the city, their morale, which was about to collapse, was somewhat restored.

Zhou Yuji immediately swung his sword and slashed at the yellow-clothed thief at the top of the city.

He chopped down three people in a row, and then heard two gunshots.

He saw an officer in yellow clothes holding a revolver and shot him twice.

Zhou Yuji felt severe pain in his chest and then lost consciousness.

"General Zhou was killed in battle."

"General Zhou is killed in battle, everyone, run away!"

The soldiers from the Beijing camp on the city wall saw Zhou Yuji killed in battle.

Already on the verge of collapse, they immediately collapsed and scrambled to run down the city wall.

The Qin army climbed onto the north wall of Nanjing City. They held the wall, and then a steady stream of Qin troops climbed onto the city wall.

They used explosives to blow open the blocked northern gate of Nanjing.

The Second Army of the Qin Army rushed into Nanjing along the city gate.

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"The city is broken!"

"The thieves in yellow have entered the city!"

As the defeated troops shouted loudly, everyone in Nanjing City already knew that Nanjing City had been captured by the Qin Army.

When Li Ruolian, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, heard the news, he immediately rushed into the palace with his confidants.

He was stopped by the little eunuch and kicked aside.

Hongguang Emperor Zhu Cixi saw Li Ruolian, commander of the Jinyiwei, and led his men into the palace.

He concealed his panic expression and said calmly: "Commander Li, are you going to rebel? Are you going to take me to collect the reward from the thief in yellow?"

Li Ruolian first knelt down and kowtowed to Hongguang Emperor Zhu Cihong.

He then picked up Hongguang Emperor Zhu Cihong.

"Your Majesty, there is no time to explain. The thieves in yellow have broken through Nanjing City and will come to the palace soon.

The city of Nanjing can no longer be defended, so we must seize the time to escape.

I, Li Ruolian, am deeply trusted by Emperor Chongzhen and have been sent to protect His Majesty.

I will do my best to protect His Majesty's safety.

Your Majesty must not be caught by the thief in yellow, otherwise he will end up dead."

When Hongguang Emperor Zhu Cixi heard that Nanjing City had been captured, he turned pale with fright.

When he received this news, he stopped struggling.

Li Ruolian escaped from the palace holding Hongguang Emperor Zhu Cixiang.

In the process of escaping, he took off all the imperial robes and crowns on Zhu Cixiang's body and threw them away in the palace.

Li Ruolian changed Zhu Cihong into clothes that ordinary people wear.

Only by wearing such clothes can you not attract attention.

The Jin Yiwei who followed Li Ruolian were all carefully selected by him and loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

They also put on ordinary people's clothes to hide their identities.

Li Ruolian led Zhu Cixiang through a secret passage to a dilapidated house. They zigzagged through the alley.

Nanjing has already been under curfew, and no one noticed their whereabouts.

Li Ruolian went around a big circle and came to the house he had already chosen.

This family was born after Zhongliang of the Ming Dynasty, and they had a child about the same age as Zhu Cixiang.

He was already seriously ill and was frightened to death by the sound of artillery attacking the city five days ago.

When Li Ruolian got the news, he immediately found the family and asked them to hide the news and bury the child secretly.

He did this kind of thing just in case, but he didn't expect it to be used now.

Li Ruolian's plan was to have Zhu Cixiang pretend to be the dead child.

In order to confuse the thief in yellow, Li Ruolian brought a boy about the same age as Zhu Cixiang.

He planned to use the power of Jinyiwei to escape as far away as possible, preferably overseas.

The success rate of this plan is very low, and other Jin Yiwei are not worthy of trust.

Li Ruolian did this mainly to confuse the thieves in yellow, lead their investigation astray, and ensure the safety of the real Hongguang Emperor Zhu Cihong.

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Lu Jiude led his troops to resist at the west gate, and the thieves in yellow had already breached the west gate.

But he still dragged his last breath to resist the attack of the thieves in yellow.

Soon a young eunuch ran to Lu Jiude's side.

"Ancestor, Commander Li Ruolian has taken the emperor away.

We have blown up the secret tunnel and removed all traces."

After Lu Jiude heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief.
To be continued...