On the night of February 18, the second year of Shaowu, Nanjing City fell into the biggest crisis since the siege. From noon, the Qing Dynasty attacked the city at Jubaomen in Nancheng and Zhengyangmen. At midnight, it even dug tunnels and exploded a section of the Taiping Gate wall. Now the entire Nanjing city is full of beacons, and ghosts are crying and howling.

Although the situation was extremely dangerous when the city was broken, after Ma Cheng's command and the desperate battle of the Ming army soldiers, the more than 5,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners entering the city were finally driven to the Taiping Gate area. However, now the Qing Dynasty firmly controlled the Taiping Gate, and the Ming army used the firepower advantage of not firing firearms in this narrow terrain, so the two sides were stalemate here for a while.

Duoduo had already entered the city at this time, standing at the top of the Taiping Gate to watch the city. In the distance, the fires of Zhengyang Gate soared into the sky, and the siege was probably in full swing. The Jubao Gate further away was also brightly lit, and it seemed that it was fighting. Only here in Taiping Gate, the Qing army sent the most elite Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia, but was blocked by Taiping Gate and struggling with difficulty.

When Duoduo saw that the Ming army in the city was still launching an offensive, he cursed angrily: "Go and send an order and ask why Jin Shenghuan is not here yet?"

The battle is now a battle of fuel. A large number of elite white flag warriors were killed by the Ming army's firearms. Duoduo knew that he only had six or seven thousand white flag elite soldiers. If they all died in such meaningless siege battles, it would have a great impact on his brother's strength. So Duoduo hoped that Jin Shenghuan would take the new force to replace him, and at the same time, it would be good to consume the Ming army's gunpowder.

Duoduo at Taiping Gate was anxious, but Ma Cheng in the city was very satisfied. He fought more and more easily. The Ming army, which was originally in chaos, began to react gradually and under the command of middle and low-level officers, began to gradually turn to counterattack.

At this time, we can see the importance of grassroots officers. Ma Cheng needs two key points to train grassroots officers. One must recognize 300 words, and the other must cut the heads of two enemies on the battlefield. Only with these two points can we enter Ma Cheng's personal army. Ma Cheng's personal army is actually a military academy. Ma Cheng has to lead his personal army to read and read every day, and teach them to study various battle examples in ancient and modern times.

After two months of intensified training and brainwashing education, these personal soldiers can enter the army to serve as middle- and low-level officers such as the general flag and the hundred households. The most important thing about a army's combat effectiveness is these grassroots officers. This time, the Ming army was able to panic and not be confused in this adversity, and it was the grassroots officers who played the role of the Dinghai Sword Needle.

At this time, the sky was already light, and the battle started to hit the sunrise today from last night. As the sun rose, the situation became more and more beneficial to the Ming army. At this time, the Ming army in the city had already reacted, and the second-line troops such as the military commanders, the inspection commanders, the Jinyiwei and other troops began to gather at Taiping Gate.

Now Ma Cheng has more than 20,000 people in his hands, and in contact with Xie Guangkun from Long Guangshan, he started a two-way attack on the Qing army guarding the Taiping Gate. But at this critical moment, the reinforcements that Duoduo had been waiting for finally arrived.

Jin Shenghuan, originally a robber from Yulin, Shaanxi, later defected to Zuo Liangyu and became the general. When Zuo Liangyu raised his troops from Wuchang and advanced eastward, Zuo Liangyu, as the closest general of the fifth battalion, followed Zuo Liangyu.

But unexpectedly, Zuo Liangyu died in Jiujiang. At this time, he met the Qing army led by Ajige to move south. Jin Shenghuan followed Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Menggeng to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

After acquiring Zuo Liangyu's soldiers, Ajige reduced the original 800,000 army into an army of 180,000, and handed these guys south to Duoduo. Jin Shenghuan, as the general, also came to Duoduo's command.

During this siege of Nanjing, the generals of the four towns in Jiangbei were always fighting in the south. Jin Shenghuan took his original troops to Longtan Town on the Yangtze River and camped here to siege Nanjing.

Duoduo didn't know much about Jin Shenghuan's subordinates, so he never used them. The mission of besieging Tianbao Mountain was handed over to Jin Shenghuan by Duoduo. Although the battle in Tianbao Mountain was average, Duoduo still had some understanding of Jin Shenghuan's subordinates, that was just a matter of course.

Duoduo had no choice but to use Jin Shenghuan. When he left Beijing in January last year, he brought a total of 30,000 Manchuria, Mongolian and Han coalition forces. As the main force to deal with Li Zicheng, Ajige had more troops than Duoduo, and only 50,000. These troops wanted to occupy the vast northern China, and there were troops stationed in key passes in various places. Therefore, when he first arrived in Jiangnan, Duoduo only had more than 40,000 Manchuria, Mongolian and Han coalition forces, and in addition to the climate losses that were not suitable for Southern Zhili, Duoduo could call less than 30,000 Manchuria, Mongolian and Han coalition forces.

In order to prepare for this sneak attack, Duoduo transferred all his confidants to Taiping Gate, but the war is in a stalemate, and Duoduo can only hope for Jin Shenghuan, who is not strong in combat, hoping that he can share his pressure.

Jin Shenghuan received Duoduo's general order last night and quickly ordered his men to prepare, but it was so easy to mobilize the army to gather there? Niu Jin and Jin Shenghuan had only gathered more than 10,000 people. Originally, Jin Shenghuan wanted to gather 50,000 people before supporting Duoduo, but Duoduo could not wait, and the orders for the dispatch of troops came one by one. There was no way, Jin Shenghuan had to take more than 10,000 people to Taipingmen to support him first, and ordered the others to follow him to Taipingmen to participate in the war after the assembly.

When Jin Shenghuan arrived at Taiping Gate, it was already dawn. Zheng Huan was fighting inside and outside the city. The Qing army guarded the broken walls and the city gates, preventing the Ming army from driving him out of the city. The Ming army in the city was like crazy and tried to drive the Qing army out of the city.

Jin Shenghuan came to the city gate and braved the Ming army's artillery fire to climb to the top of the city. When he saw Duoduo, he quickly kowtowed and said, "Prince, the last general Jin Shenghuan is here!"

Seeing Jin Shenghuan Duoduo who came here at this time, he was angry, but this critical moment was not the time to get angry. Duoduo suppressed his anger and asked, "Jin Shenghuan, how many people have you brought?"

"Go back to the prince, I will bring more than 10,000 people! The other people will arrive later!"

Ten thousand people are fine, you can share your pressure! Duoduo pointed to the broken wall not far away and said, "Jin Shenghuan, take your people to replace Luke Dehun. He has been sticking to this day since last night, and change them to rest!"

Luke Dehun brought all the elite white flags. Duoduo felt sorry for his soldiers. Now that there were reinforcements, he naturally had to replace them and rest. However, Duoduo did not expect that it was this order that made his preparations failed in the past six months.

Jin Shenghuan agreed and got off the city and took his men to change defense. Jin Shenghuan moved like this and Ma Cheng in the city also saw it. Now Ma Cheng is only five or six hundred meters away from Taiping Gate, and everyone on the top of the city could see clearly. Just now Jin Shenghuan went to the city to ask for instructions, but Ma Cheng had not noticed it yet. Now Jin Shenghuan was moving with his soldiers, and Ma Cheng immediately found something was wrong.

The soldiers under Jin Shenghuan were all wearing the red and blue clothes of the Ming army. After all, they had just joined the Qing army. However, Duoduo's Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners were dressed in the Eight Banners. For example, the Zhengbai Banners were wearing all white cotton armor outside, and the white flag was white armor with red edges, which was easy to identify. However, with Jin Shenghuan's men dressed in this way, Ma Cheng immediately discovered that this was the new affiliated army.

The new affiliated army is a general term for all armed forces that the Qing army surrendered south. Among them, the Ming army is the main one. Whoever calls it Jiangbei has more than 400,000 troops, and Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang is even more known as 800,000.

These new affiliated troops have different combat powers and have always been Ma Cheng’s favorite soft persimmons. This time I wonder if Duoduo’s head was in trouble, why did he let these wastes participate in the war at such a critical moment.

When Ma Cheng saw that the new army was coming, he quickly called a personal soldier and asked him to send an order to Xie Guangkun from Long Guangshan to suspend the attack so that the new army could change defenses with the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

"Tell Xie Guangkun that he must wait for these two-five boys to attack after coming up, and use all his strength to bombard his mother with cannons!"

The personal soldier nodded and ran to pass the order, and Jin Shenghuan also led the five thousand people in advance to the break, where the Qing army's deputy general Bellekdehun was commanding.

Lukedehun hadn't taken a sip of water from last night until now. He originally thought that the battle should be very smooth and he could attack the city at dawn. But things went against his wishes. After the initial panic, the Ming army began to fight back. Now Lukedehun has been compressed to the breakout of the city wall. If no reinforcements come, he will be driven out of the city in a few hours.

Luke Dehun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Jin Shenghuan coming. Although these new affiliated troops were not very good in combat, they could help him, even if they could last half an hour, so that they could breathe and drink some water to rest.

Jin Shenghuan stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "Master Beile, the last of the Ten Kings Sect will succeed Master Beile in the future!"

Lukedehun nodded, leaned on his waist and said, "General Jin brought his men forward so that we could take us down!"

At this moment, the offensive of the Ming army on the opposite side gradually weakened. Luke Dehun was overjoyed when he saw it. It seemed that God was really helping, and the Ming dogs on the opposite side knew that they were tired. Jin Shenghuan was also considered an old soldier with practical experience. Knowing that such an opportunity was rare, he quickly called his army to come forward and change defenses.

After retreating, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty finally breathed a sigh of relief. They were originally few, but from last night to the present, only more than 3,000 elite white flags were left, and a total of 2,000 people died in the city.

Luke Dehun was very sad when he saw the two white flags with heavy casualties. This was the biggest battle that the Eight Manchu Banners had suffered when they entered the pass. The last battle that was lost was even more than ten years ago in Ningyuan. Unexpectedly, he encountered it again this time.

Luke Dehun was about to call his subordinates to rest, but he knew that the sound of gunfire was loud not far away, and the Ming army actually attacked while the Qing Dynasty changed its defense.

The Qing army's defense line was a broken house three hundred meters away. It was originally a temple. The Qing army relied on this place to fight against the Ming army. The Ming army's artillery was powerful, and the original temple had already become ruins.
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