Chapter 214: The Battle of Nanjing (27)
A large part of Ma Cheng's new army is native to Nanjing, which is also one of the main reasons why the new army is so powerful. Their family is in the city and there is no way to fight to the death.
At the same time, Ma Cheng is very good to the family of the New Army. Ordinary residents in the city only have half a kilogram of food every day, but the families of the New Army soldiers have enough food every day, so it is still okay to ensure that every dry and sparse every day, so Ma Cheng has a high prestige in the New Army.
After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he called out several grassroots officers. Ma Cheng fought side by side with them for more than a year and was very familiar with many people. These grassroots officers knew that Ma Cheng was telling the truth, and the whole family was deeply favored by Ma Cheng. These officers left the list and knelt down on one knee and said, "I am willing to die for the military lord!"
It was easy to deal with someone's statement. Many soldiers knelt down and said that they would abide by the military orders of the military gate and were willing to go out of the city to fight the Qing army to death.
Ma Cheng was very satisfied with seeing the morale of the army, and he said to Xie Guangkun beside him: "Xie Guangkun, you are the deputy general of the general this time. Now you can collect artillery in the city and take them out of the city. We should not fight the Tartars to death. We should drive them back to the camp. Do you know that with these Tartars, we should use them to destroy their own military camps?"
Xie Guangkun nodded, went down and began to gather the artillery, preparing to leave the city to fight to the death with the Qing army. At the same time, the logistics team brought the breakfast up to let the new army soldiers have a full meal with Shenji Camp.
After all preparations were completed, Ma Cheng led the five thousand people away from Taiping Gate and rushed towards the Qing army two miles outside the city.
The Qing army was already in chaos at this time. The Qing army in the back team saw that the Ming army had left the city. They were so scared that they rushed forward, hoping to stay away from these murderous demons. However, 50,000 or 60,000 people gathered together, and they could run away in a short while. Soon the Qing army's back team came into contact with the Ming army's front team.
This time, due to Ma Cheng's order, the Ming army did not fight with the Qing army, but directly pushed out several artillery pieces and installed shotguns to bombard them directly. Most of the Qing army's rear troop were the new army. When they saw that the Ming army began to use those amazing firearms again, they were so scared that they fled in all directions. Many people fled into Xuanwu Lake in panic. A large number of soldiers wearing iron armor were drowned in Xuanwu Lake, and many people fled into Zhongshan.
Ma Cheng didn't care about these fleeing Qing troops, because Ma Cheng knew that the source of combat effectiveness of an army was the organization, and these Qing soldiers without the organization were not threatening at all. So Ma Cheng took the Ming army to give up chasing the escaped soldiers, but followed the Qing army brigade to the camp of Longtan Town.
Longtan Town is the Longtan Street in Qixia District, Nanjing in the later generations. Longtan Town was originally an artillery factory in the early Ming Dynasty, which was specifically responsible for the artillery production of Zheng He's Western Fleet. However, as the court stopped voyage to the West, the Longtan artillery Factory declined.
However, Longtan Town is located on the Yangtze River and is not far from Zhenjiang, a major transportation town in north and south. Therefore, the Qing army set up Longtan Camp here, which is regarded as a logistics base for the besieged city.
Most of Jin Shenghuan's subordinates were from Longtan Camp. Now they encountered danger and naturally ran here. In addition, the Ming army was driving away in a planned manner, so the Qing army defeated troops along the official road to Longtan Camp.
Today, the person in charge of the Longtan Camp was a deputy general. He received the news that Taiping Gate was defeated and was about to take the army out of the camp to respond, but he knew that the Qing army was defeated faster than him, and as soon as he left the camp, he encountered the defeated soldiers all over the mountains.
These defeated soldiers suffered losses along the way,
There were more than 30,000 people. When these people saw the reinforcements, they were ecstatic and rushed up quickly. This scared the deputy general. He originally brought 10,000 soldiers, but he didn't expect that he was defeated by the defeated soldiers as soon as he left the camp. His subordinates could stop so many defeated soldiers? There was no way. The deputy general could only sigh and followed the flow with his subordinates, and was swept into the Longtan camp by the defeated soldiers.
There were originally 100,000 Qing troops in Longtan Camp, but after being led by Jin Shenghuan and 50,000 elite troops, there were more than 40,000 people left. These people heard the shouts of killing around them and didn't know what was going on. They left the tent to watch and found that their companions retreated. And these companions also loudly promoted the invincible remarks of the Ming army, which scared everyone to the shock and fled with the defeated soldiers rushing into the camp.
Ma Cheng followed behind and chased after 15,000 Ming troops. The Ming army was like a shepherd driving a flock of sheep. When she saw sheep trying to get out of the crowd, she whipped two whips with a whip and continued to drive the flock forward. Ma Cheng used the Qing army as a pioneer to rush into the Longtan camp.
Longtan Camp was the logistics supply base of the Qing army. It stored a large amount of food and siege tools here. Ma Cheng was not in enough manpower. At the same time, in order to create chaos, he ordered people to start setting fires in Longtan Camp.
February is spring, and it was already dry, and the fire soon burned violently with the wind. The fire increased the chaos. Now the entire Longtan camp has become a sea of fire. Seeing that the Longtan camp was destroyed, Ma Cheng led the Ming army to drive the Qing army to rush towards the next military camp.
In order to siege Nanjing, the Qing army established four camps on the periphery of Nanjing, namely the Longtan camp in the north, the Chunhua camp in the east, the General Mountain camp in the south, and finally the Dashengguan camp on the Yangtze River. Relying on these four camps, the Qing army also established more than 40 small camps, with people ranging from thousands to tens of thousands. These small camps were used to cut off the connection between the Ming army in the city and the outside world.
The Qing army's arrangement was very effective. The contact between inside and outside Nanjing has been lost for nearly a year. However, this kind of joint venture also has one disadvantage, that is, the power is dispersed and the news is not understood.
Now the 50,000 or 60,000 Qing troops driven by the Ming army are coming to attack the military camps. The small military camps have no strength to resist at all. They are just some sober officers who want to lead the team to resist, but in the face of an absolute advantage of numerical numbers, the thousands of people in the hands of those officers have no use at all. In this way, the number of Qing army defeated soldiers is increasing. When they come to Chunhua Camp, the defeated soldiers of the Qing army has become a huge wave of nearly 100,000 people.
In the face of panic, despair and absolute numbers, the Chunhua Camp did not hold on for long. Soon, tens of thousands of Qing troops in the Chunhua Camp also joined the defeated troops and headed for the General Shan Camp five miles away.
General Mountain is twenty-one miles away from Jubaomen, Nanjing. The terrain is very high and the view is very good. It is the location of the Qing army's camp.
Duoduo escaped from Taiping Gate and entered the camp, and he didn't even drink a sip of water. His subordinates came to report that the Ming army was only five miles away from the General Mountain Camp.
Duoduo sighed when he heard this news. He did not have the whole life of fighting. From the icy and snowy Liaodong to Nanzhili, the person who blocked and attacked was defeated. Unexpectedly, he was defeated by a Ma Cheng who was less than 20 outside Nanjing.
Now that the Qing army has been defeated, even if Duoduo’s son Nurhaci is resurrected, he is unable to turn the world back. Duoduo sighed and asked, “How many white flags are left in the camp?”
Duoduo's deputy general Luke Dehun was missing, probably because he died in the army. Now General Shandaying is in trouble.
The blame was Berenican. He heard Duoduo ask and quickly said, "Uncle Fifteen, now there are only 800 people left in the two white flags in the camp, and most of them are sick. There are more than 1,000 people in the Eight Mongolian Banners, and they are also sick. The Han army flags and Uncle Fifteen went to Taiping Gate, but there are more than 30,000 people in the new affiliated army, all of whom are Liu Liangzuo's subordinates!"
Duoduo did not expect that the 30,000 Eight Banners Alliance he brought, plus the 20,000 Eight Banners Alliance left by Ajige, had only less than 2,000 people left. Thinking that the two white banners that his brother relied on the most were left, Duoduo felt sweet in his throat, vomited a few mouthfuls of blood and fainted.
Duoduo was the chief general in the army. His fainting made the generals mess up. Everyone stepped forward and pinched the Renzhong and patted the back. After finally awakening Duoduo. At this time, Duoduo was already angry under the double blow of body and spirit, and his face was as if dead. Duoduo sighed and said, "This failure is the fault of my king. Now I ordered Bernekan to command the army to retreat to Dasheng Pass and cross the river from there to return north!"
After saying that, Duoduo grabbed Nikan's hand and said, "Nikan, you have to remember that you must bring the two white flags back to Beijing, and also say to the 14th brother, I'm sorry for him!" Duoduo closed his eyes and swallowed his last breath after saying that.
Duoduo was originally romantic, with many women in the mansion, and his health was not very good. After arriving in the south, he was even more uncomfortable with the climate here. Historically, Duoduo immediately returned to Beijing after occupying Nanjing, but he was still recuperating at home for many years and never played the battle against the Southern Ming Dynasty again.
Now Duoduo has been in the south for a year and a half. The various unseen diseases in Nanzhili, coupled with the humid and stuffy climate, have already consumed Duoduo's last bit of energy. If it weren't for the belief that he wanted to occupy Nanjing, Duoduo would have fallen ill last year.
Now that the war has failed, the two white flags have suffered heavy losses, these have become the last straw. Duoduo, whose vitality has been exhausted, can no longer support it. Prince Yu, who is the best at fighting against Ma Cheng, died in a camp outside Nanjing.
At this time, Ma Cheng didn't know that Duoduo was known as the "most military achievements of the founding kings". At this time, Ma Cheng was staring with red eyes and directing his soldiers to drive the Qing army to attack the General Mountain Camp.
General Mountain is only twenty miles away from Jubao Gate in Nancheng. Ma Cheng called a personal soldier and asked him to go to Jubao Gate to tell Ma Bao that he had fought hard at General Mountain and asked Ma Bao to lead half of his men to help the battle.
After a day of bloody battle, Ma Cheng brought out only less than 8,000 people, most of whom were either dead or missing. Ma Cheng knew that there were more than 100,000 Qing troops opposite him. Although the Qing army had no organization at all, it was not afraid of Ma Cheng being afraid that Duoduo would react and organize resistance. If his more than 8,000 people could fight, he would not be the opponent of the Qing army.
The battle between Jubao Gate and Zhengyang Gate in Nanjing City had ended this morning. The Qing army outside the city received orders to withdraw from the camp. Both Ma Bao and Zhang Guozhu knew that Ma Cheng had taken the army out of the city, but neither of them believed that Ma Cheng could defeat the Qing army alone.
Ma Bao was shocked after receiving the message from his personal soldiers. Unexpectedly, Ma Cheng was so powerful that he defeated 400,000 Qing troops with 15,000 people. What is this? This is already a god of war! Thinking of this Ma Bao no longer hesitated and sent someone to deliver the letter to Zhang Guozhu. At the same time, he personally led the 5,000 New Army and the 10,000 Guard troops to open the gate of Jubao to the city to help the battle.
Chapter completed!