Xie Guangkun is the deputy general of Dongcheng and the only senior general under Ma Cheng who has the title of deputy general. During the battle to defend Tianbao Mountain for more than half a month, Xie Guangkun has been stationed in Longguang Mountain to provide firepower support to Tianbao Mountain outside the city.

Longguang Mountain is the Fugui Mountain of later generations. The mountain is more than 80 meters high and is the branch of Zhongshan. It is wrapped in the Nanjing city wall. The terrain is wide, and it is easy to see the movements of the Qing army in Xiaoling standing on Longguang Mountain. Ma Cheng transferred the sixty cannons from the East City to Longguang Mountain, and used the mountain to form support to Tianbao Mountain outside the city.

Xie Guangkun is the commander of Long Guangshan, responsible for these sixty cannons, but Xie Guangkun does not have a new army, only three thousand guards, responsible for defending Long Guangshan's safety.

Xie Guangkun also jumped when the city broke last night, but fortunately the city wall was seven or eight hundred meters away from Longguang Mountain. In addition, the main goal of the Qing army was to enter the city, so he forgot the Longguang Mountain artillery position behind his mind.

At first, Xie Guangkun didn't know what the situation was, so he could only lead more than 3,000 people to guard Long Guangshan. When Ma Cheng's messenger found him, Xie Guangkun realized that the Taiping Gate was broken and his Sima Xi ran away. Xie Guangkun himself was temporarily appointed as the commander of the Eastern Section by Ma Cheng, responsible for commanding the defenders and Long Guangshan artillery on the eastern section walls and attacking the Qing army entering the city.

Xie Guangkun did not have many troops in his hands. Most of the Ming army in Dongcheng ran away with Ma Xi, and only more than 2,000 people left on the city wall. Fortunately, most of them were new troops. In this way, Xie Guangkun led two thousand new troops and three thousand guards to start fighting with the Qing army.

Of course, the war was very hard at the beginning, but now it was a street fighting. The artillery on Longguang Mountain did not play much role. Fortunately, the two thousand new troops were very powerful and the generals could withstand the attack of the Qing army.

As Luo Bingran's reinforcements arrived, Xie Guangkun also received support from 5,000 new troops. At this time, Xie Guangkun could compete with the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. However, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty occupied Xianglin Temple in the East City and began to resist stubbornly with the Ming army.

After receiving Ma Cheng's order, Xie Guangkun immediately asked his subordinates to retreat. He also knew that the New Army was a soft persimmon, so he took advantage of this time to squeeze it out. Xie Guangkun took this opportunity to pull down more than a dozen cannons from Longguang Mountain, lying in a private house next to Xianglin Temple, and waited for the New Army to take the bait.

Soon, the new affiliated army led by Jin Shenghuan entered Xianglin Temple to change defense. After Xie Guangkun and the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty withdrew, they immediately ordered the artillery to aim at the new affiliated army that had not yet been prepared to open fire.

Jin Shenghuan's new army was still a commoner in Wuchang a year ago and was forced to join the army by Zuo Liangyu. Although he could barely become a soldier after more than a year of military career, these new army now face the most elite new army.

These new affiliated troops were okay to fight a battle with the wind, but when they encountered the new army armed with modern synthetic weapons, they had seen such a rain-like formation of shells. After waiting for less than ten seconds, the new affiliated troops scattered and escaped from Xianglin Temple.

Xie Guangkun did not expect that the combat effectiveness of these new affiliated troops was so much worse than that of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. The first round of shotgun made them retreat. Xie Guangkun seized this opportunity and shouted behind him: "Brothers, the Tartars are running away, let's go! Seize this opportunity to drive these Tartars out of the city!"

After saying that, Xie Guangkun stood up and took all the new army soldiers, a total of seven or eight thousand people rushed out of the house and into Xianglin Temple. He saw the new army with braids without asking.

The knife was slashed.

The New Affiliated Army was stunned by a shotgun as soon as it arrived at the battlefield. Now, seeing such a group of people who were not afraid of death came up to fight to the death, they were so scared that they threw away the swords and guns in their hands and ran back without looking back.

The Eight Manchurian Banners, who were replaced by the New Affiliated Army, just arrived at the city wall. Before they could sit down and drink water, they saw the New Affiliated Army who had just stepped forward running down. The two white flags were not sure what was going on, and they were panicked by the panicked New Affiliated Army.

The first batch of the new affiliated troops brought in by Jin Shenghuan were 5,000 people. The remaining five thousand were gathered at the breakout of the city wall waiting to enter the city. The brothers who knew that they had just entered the city suddenly ran back with a scream. The new affiliated troops at the breakout were so scared that they had no idea and were blocked at the breakout for a while.

At this time, more than three thousand Eight Banners of Manchuria and ten thousand Jin Shenghuan's new affiliated troops were concentrated inside and outside the city walls, completely becoming canned sardines. Those who left the city could not get in and those who went out could not get in. Even those Eight Banners of Manchuria could not move again to resist the Ming army. There were too many people and they could not move.

At this moment, the Ming army arrived. They were not far away. When they came close, they saw the Qing army blocking a group. The grassroots officer immediately asked the musketeers holding Thunder guns to open fire. Now, the killing weapon of Thunder guns is a perfect match for the canned Qing army. A large number of Qing army were killed on the spot.

Xie Guangkun, who arrived behind, saw this situation and immediately asked someone to push a few cannons from behind. The cannon's shotgun was hundreds of times more powerful than the Thunder gun. The Qing army near the front line was immediately restored to parts.

The new affiliated troops had seen this kind of hot weapons war. Not to mention them, even the brave and war-hardened Eight Banners of Manchuria had never seen such cannons bombarded directly at the crowd. For a moment, the Qing army was like an ant that was blown up, rushing out of the city, struggling to escape from the city before being beaten to death by the Ming army.

In fact, the number of Qing troops was far greater than that of the Ming troops at this time. Xie Guangkun had only seven or eight thousand people, and it was not possible to all be launched here. The Ming troops on the front line had only more than three thousand people, and the Qing troops crowded at the base of the city wall had more than 10,000 people. If there was a grassroots officer organization at this time, one could have a counterattack. After all, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty was not weaker than that of the New Army.

But people are in the same place. When a person sees everyone around him running for life and wants to escape with his companions from his heart, this is not a question of whether he is brave or not, but human nature. In order to overcome the weakness of human nature, modern armies in later generations must go through strict training and military discipline to ensure that the army does not collapse in adversity. However, the army of the Qing army, which had scientific training in later generations, had the courage and fighting skills, could not be compared with even a group of militias in later generations.

So whether it is the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty or the New Army, as long as the confidence is gone, it will immediately become a pile of loose sand, leaving only the fate of being massacred by the Ming army.

Ma Cheng, who was standing in the distance, was overjoyed when he saw Xie Guangkun's victory. He originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to change defense to fight a small counterattack, but he did not expect that the effect was surprisingly good. The Qing army was in a mess. In order to escape from the city quickly, some Qing army began to attack their comrades around him.

Seeing this, Ma Cheng decided not to leave a backup plan and said to the personal soldiers behind him: "Send the artillery to fire at the enemy generals at the Taiping Gate! At the same time, he sent the orders Gu Changwei and Xu Dahu that their Shenji Camp had rested enough, and the counterattack began!"

Ma Cheng's artillery position is very peaceful

The gate is more than 700 meters long, and it can be completely hit to the top of the city with a solid bullet. However, Ma Cheng didn't want to expose his killer weapon so early, so that Duoduo was in the city for a long time. Now the time for counterattack has come, so Ma Cheng no longer has a backhand. It would be better to beat Duoduo to death on the top of the city to be very satisfying.

Ma Cheng's order was passed, and the remaining ten artillery guns from the Shenji Camp aimed at the head of the Taiping Gate. The first shot broke Duoduo's big cage, and the white sheep-tailed big cage fell under the city.

The big flag is the army's flag, which represents the safety of the commander. In order to boost morale, Duoduo stood his big flag on the city. He knew that Ma Cheng had picked up a bargain and broke the flagpole with one shot. Tens of thousands of Qing troops under the city saw that their commander flag was interrupted and his morale was immediately devastated. At this time, Ma Cheng also joined in the fun and asked his subordinate Ming army to shout: "Duoduo is dead! Duoduo is dead!"

It was fine if the Manchus and Mongols in the Qing army did not understand Chinese, but the Han military flag understood Chinese. When they heard that Duoduo was dead, they saw that the handsome flag fell on the front of the city and knew the authenticity, they immediately turned around and ran out of the city. At this critical moment, the atmosphere was contagious. The escape behavior of the Han military flag was immediately contagious to others. The Mongolians and Manchus looked at each other and left their swords and guns and fled.

The Ming army's shelling just now did not kill Duoduo, but only caused him some injuries. When Duoduo stood up and saw the big flag falling down, he immediately knew something was wrong. He grabbed the city and looked into the city. The city was originally fighting in a colorful way so that the Qing army began to turn around and escape. Duoduo knew that he was defeated.

Duoduo did not expect that he would neglect to ask Jin Shenghuan, a waste to support him. Ma Cheng in the city was very cunning and took advantage of his own defense to change his defense and did such a move. The thousand-mile dike was defeated by the ant hole. Of course, Duoduo, a Manchu, did not know this allusion, but it did not prevent him from cursing Jin Shenghuan in his heart. He was really a waste who was not good enough to make trouble.

Duoduo was the most outstanding battlefield commander of this era and the most outstanding general of the Qing Dynasty, but Duoduo didn't know what kind of army he was facing. Ma Cheng's army had already reached the British army standards of 184o in terms of training and weapons and equipment. Duoduo was still looking at the Ming army with the old eyes of the ancient army. It would be strange if he didn't suffer any losses if he didn't suffer any losses.

If the ordinary Ming army was replaced, he should have fled when the city was broken last night and there would be no fierce resistance. If the ordinary Ming army was replaced, he would not have had outstanding grassroots officers on the spot and could not resist the fierce attack of the Qing army as soon as possible. If the ordinary Ming army was replaced, he would not have been able to seize the short moment of the Qing army's defense change. Therefore, Duoduo's failure was not due to his own bad luck, but to his knowledge of being three hundred years behind Ma Cheng.

Duoduo was helped up by Ge Shiha beside him. Seeing the Qing army in chaos inside and outside the city, he sighed and said, "Send the order and retreat!"

The commander of the Qing army had already sent orders to withdraw, and his subordinates were even more defeated. The Qing army inside and outside the city was crowded together and they had to leave the city to escape sooner, which gave the Ming army in the city an opportunity to take advantage of. Under the leadership of two guerrillas, the Shenji Battalion followed the Qing army and fired a gun without hesitation, slaughtering the unlucky guys who had not escaped. The new army followed behind the Shenji Battalion to clean up the single Qing army.
Chapter completed!