But the merchant army would not give the Qing army a chance to breathe. After the Qing army withdrew, it immediately launched a counterattack against the Qing army. Although the street outside Xi'an Gate was horizontally blocked, the merchant army is now familiar with the terrain of Nanjing, from other places.
The intersection detour easily crossed the defensive position, and launched an attack on the Qing army on Xihuangchenggen Street from multiple intersections, and also launched an attack on the roof.&&
Although the fall of the imperial war was an accident for the merchant army, and the street outside Xi'an Gate was not the battlefield expected by the merchant army, since the merchant army entered Nanjing, it has been preparing for street fighting, so it also fought at this time.
It is easier to use, on the contrary, the Qing army is not prepared for street fighting, both psychologically and tactically.
Therefore, after the merchant army launched a counterattack, the Qing army was still passive and restrained everywhere. There was no resistance at all. Although the number of Qing army was more than that of the merchant army, in the narrow streets, the force could not be expanded at all, and the advantage of the number of people was completely different.
On the contrary, because the personnel are too dense, it is beneficial to the merchant army's firearms to play. The shooting rate of rifle shooting is almost as high as 80%, and the grenades are even more explosive.
Moreover, the attacks of the merchant army were made from the ground to the sky, which made the Qing army unable to defend themselves. They would never have thought that the enemy would come out from that direction, roofs, windows, rooms, and alleys, as if they felt that they were in a downward position.
They are all merchants, shooting everywhere, and explosions everywhere. Maybe just after turning around, your companions around you will suddenly fall down, and maybe one of the few people standing together will suddenly
He was shot in the head, blood splattered out, and the people around him were all covered. In short, it was not safe there.
In this case, Nushan had no choice but to lead Guan to retreat continuously, and he retreated from Xi'an Gate Outside Street, retreated across Xuanjin Bridge, and retreated to Xihuanggen Street. Only then did he get the account?
At this time, with the stars and the burning fires on the street outside Xi'an Gate, it can be clearly seen that the streets were covered with the bodies of Qing soldiers.
The merchant army also left a company to guard the Xuanjin Bridge. The two sides temporarily held each other across the Xuanjin Bridge. Nushan hurriedly sent someone to repay the imperial city, asking for rescue and support.
However, at this time, the Qing army had basically controlled the entire imperial city. After receiving the report from Nushan, Han Dai felt a little surprised. Unexpectedly, when Nanjing was broken and the imperial city was also lost, the merchant army was still insisting on it.
When resisting, he certainly did not dare to underestimate the merchant army, so he hurriedly dispatched other people to lead the troops to support Nushan from the three aspects of Bei'anmen, Xi'anmen and Chang'an Youmen.
But this also took a lot of time. Not only did the various armies of the merchant army enter their own defense zones and establish positions, but Li Dingguo from the Ninth Division also sent the 20th Regiment to Nanjing to support him.
Then, then
After receiving reports from various troops, although five defense zones had already started fighting, Shang Yi felt much more at ease. This would be able to hold on for at least a while, so let the Qing army take a look.
The street fighting of the merchant army is very powerful.
But at this moment, someone came to report that the Qing army outside the city launched an attack on Jubao Gate and Sanshan Gate in the south city.
The west city of Sanshan Gate belongs to Nanjing was guarded by Li Dingguo. Now there are two regiments of troops. Because Xuanwu Lake is the flank, Shang Yi is not very interested, but Jubao Gate is the main attack direction of the Qing army in the south, by Yang Wucheng
Lead a brigade guard, and Jubao Gate is not a place that Shang Yi must stick to, so Shang Yi was not at ease with the battle here. After receiving the report, he immediately said to Duan Peng: "Duan Peng, you are here to command the battle
, I went to Jubao Gate to take a look, remember that Dazhong Bridge is the main throat connecting Dongcheng and Nancheng, and it must be guarded there."
Duan Peng nodded and said, "Sir, don't worry, go here, just leave it to me."
Shang Yi nodded, and then he led his guard to the treasure gate.
The head general of the Qing army attacking Jubao Gate was Tunqi. This was originally the main place of the Qing army. Ajige received Zhengyang Gate. After Chaoyang Gate was successively captured, he immediately ordered Tunqi and led his army to Jubao Gate.
Launch an attack.
Over the past period of time, the Qing army had built more than 400 large rafts, attacked Zhengyangmen, and brought 100 rafts from each of Chaoyangmen, and concentrated more than 200 rafts on the Jubaomen line.
As well as more than 100 small boats, they began to cross the Qinhuai River. Because there were merchant troops guarding it, the Qing army also attached great importance to it. At the same time, it also sent some troops to attack Shanchuanmen and restrain Li Ding's troops, but in fact they could not come to reinforce Jubao.
Door.
If it were just the Qing army attacking outside Jubao Gate, because there was the Qinhuai River as a barrier, the number of merchant troops was small, but they could still withstand a while. However, after the Qing army broke through Zhengyang Gate and Chaoyang Gate, the Qing army was defeated.
A group of people were sent to cross the Qinhuai River near Tongji Gate, and walked around the north bank of the river to Jubao Gate, forcing the merchant army to divide their troops to defend the flanks on the north bank of the Qinhuai River. In this way, the troops were obviously stretched.
At this moment, Shang Yi also rushed outside Jubao Gate. The battle was going on fiercely. More than a dozen flames were lit on the Qinhuai River, illuminating the water surface, and there were nearly a hundred ships.
The boat was rushing to the north shore with artillery fire. And to the east of the position, there was also the sound of guns and cannons, which kept ringing, and obviously they were fighting very fiercely.
Shang Yi looked at the current form and knew that it was very unfavorable to the merchant army. The Jubao Gate was obviously unable to defend it, so he also told Yang Wucheng that he immediately ordered the horse to retreat into the city.
However, although it was a retreat, it was never a sudden abandonment of the position and retreated back to the city. Instead, it first withdrew two battalions from the position and stationed at the top of Jubaomen. Then the other troops carried their own
Weapons retreated from positions in turn, leaving enough people behind, so that they retreated in an orderly manner, and with the efforts of the army to cross the river, they all retreated smoothly to the side of the Nanjing city wall, and at the same time, there were also connections on the city wall.
The troops cover.
After entering the city, Shang Yi immediately ordered to leave a regiment, led by himself, stayed on the city wall to resist the attack of the Qing army, and Yang Wucheng led another regiment to retreat quickly to the city and establish a defensive front on the north bank of the inner Qinhuai River.
Prepare for street fighting in the city.
After the Qing army crossed the Qinhuai River, it did not stop for a moment. The horses set up a ladder and launched an attack on the Nanjing city wall. Although the merchant army had only one regiment to guard the city wall, it relied on the tall city walls, guns, and cannons of Nanjing.
Grenades, thunder rockets and other weapons were fired together, and the fierce firepower also caused great casualties to the Qing army.
But when the war reached this point, the Qing army could not retreat and still launched fierce attacks on the wall again and again. Moreover, the Qing army had a large number of people and could not attack at one point, so they pulled the front line and dispersed the garrison of the merchant army.
The military force is indeed effective. Although the firepower of the merchant army is strong, the military force is not always an insurmountable disadvantage. The city wall that is hundreds of steps long cannot be fully protected. Therefore, it is fully developed in the Qing army.
During the attack, there were some people who couldn't hold on. At the weak links on both sides of the front line, the Qing army had already stepped on the city wall.
Fortunately, he was defending the city wall, just to delay the support of the Qinhuai River. Now he has been holding on for almost a long time. It is estimated that Yang Wucheng has almost prepared on the north bank of the Qinhuai River, so Shang Yi immediately ordered to give up the city wall.
, retreated to the inner city. So the soldiers packed up their weapons and retreated to the city of Nanjing.
As soon as the merchant army retreated, the Qing army immediately stepped on the city wall, then opened the city gate, and let the army outside the city enter the city. After hearing the news, Tunqi couldn't help but be overjoyed, because he and Nushan had the same idea at the beginning, now the city wall in Nanjing
He had been captured in many places, and the Qing army entered the city. According to the common sense of siege, Nanjing had been occupied by the Qing army. Therefore, he reported the victory to Ajige, while personally leading the army into the city.
At this time, the Qing army, the vanguard who attacked Jubao Gate, did not rush to develop further into the city, because in the siege battle just now, the firepower of the merchant army did cause considerable losses to the Qing army, and now it is also
It needed to be adjusted. When Tunqi entered the city, he also found the bodies of Qing soldiers piled up under the city walls. He felt a little shocked. The firepower of the merchant army was indeed worthy of its reputation.
But no matter what, I finally attacked Nanjing, and even if I suffered some losses, it was worth it. Therefore, after Tunqi rode his horse into Jubao Gate, I was still very happy.
In the Qing army camp beside Jubao Mountain, Ajige was sleepless all night and was always waiting for the news of attacking Nanjing. However, the overall progress of the war this time was quite good, and good news came one after another, first Chaoyang Gate was on the way.
After being captured, the Qing army entered Nanjing city, and then Zhengyang Gate was also attacked. Then the Qing army occupied the palace again, and now the Jubao Gate was also captured. In this way, the Dongcheng and South City of Nanjing were all captured by the Qing army.
It seems that this New Year's Eve attack, internal and external attacks to capture Nanjing's battle, has achieved a comprehensive victory.
Of course, Ajige also received a stubborn obstacle from the merchant army when the Qing army killed the palace and developed into the central region of Nanjing. However, in Ajige's view, that was just the last struggle of the merchant army.
After all, the overall situation is determined. No matter how strong the merchant army is, what can it be? Now the two capitals in the north and south are under the control of the Qing army. The great cause of the Qing Dynasty's unification of the world will be completed, and the Qing army that conquered Nanjing is itself
The main general will definitely make a contribution.
Therefore, despite not sleeping all night, Ajige was still energetic. He immediately set off and entered Nanjing. After he walked out of the tent, he realized that it was already dawn.