The Chinese army's military operations were very rapid. It took only half a month to go from Nanjing City, Chongming Island. The Ming army around Yingtian Prefecture had not had time to assemble. No one expected that the Chinese army would enter the Yangtze River from the sea on such a large scale. And the troops are so sharp. They are taking the city of Nanjing. At present, the officers and soldiers around Nanjing have either been defeated by the Chinese army or have not had time to assemble. Therefore, although there are still 40,000 imperial troops around Nanjing, they are still No one is in charge. They are in a state of fighting each other.
The canal transportation has been cut off and the post road is no longer open. The urgent memorial to the court had to detour Henan to Beijing. The high-ranking officials, nobles and gentlemen in Jinling City were panicked. The eunuch guarding Nandu was the former Fujian tax eunuch. Because he was successful in plundering gold and silver for Emperor Wanli, he was appointed as the eunuch in Nanjing. He was a powerful Chinese company until he was a powerful one. Therefore, he desperately asked the surrounding troops to enter the city to assist in defense. Therefore, the Chinese army's operation to land on Yanziji was only at the beginning. It was blocked by the Ming army's Jinshan Guards and Suzhou troops. After the Ming army launched an attack on the beach and was repelled, it did not take any action. A large group of people retreated into Jinling City.
The Ming army did not send anyone to guard the mountains around Nanjing. They were soon controlled by the Chinese army. The day after Yanziji landed, the Chinese army raised a blue-bottomed Chinese flag on Zijin Mountain. The west and north of Jinling City The Yangtze River is covered with Chinese naval warships. The river surface is completely blocked; the east and southeast. The Zhongshan area is also controlled by the Chinese army; the south is Niushou Mountain has also been occupied by the Yan Siqi Fifth Brigade. All the outside of Jinling City are already in the area. Within the scope of the Chinese Army's activities, the sailors have even moved outside Taiping, Shence and Zhongfumen in the north of the city. The entire Jinling City is only the south of the city that can be connected with the outside world. Of course, such a large Jinling City. The Chinese Army is so popular. I didn't want to completely surround it.
On the third night of the landing of Yanziji, the cannons from the temporary turret on Zijin Mountain opened fire. The rumbling sound of cannons shook the earth. A solid iron bomb weighing 30 kilograms fell under the walls of Jinling Imperial City.
The Beigushan camp on Mufu Mountain has now become a temporary old camp of the Chinese army. Yin Feng did not command the battle here. Before leaving, he declared in advance that he would not participate in the specific combat command. Therefore, he is now on the Xinxing Ball on the shore of Yanziji. . In the old camp, Ye Hua, deputy marching officer of the South Line, Li Xing, commander of the Third Division, Lin Shuisheng, chief of the Sailor Musket Team, Zeng Shan and several others were discussing.
"...The government army has no brains. These important hills outside the city are not guarding them. They all shrink into the city. Isn't this too cheap for us?" Li Xing said with a smile while gnawing on the cob of the corn produced in Taiwan.
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Ye Hua shook his head and looked at the map on the ground and sighed: "This is a problem. The Jinling city wall stretches for seventy miles. It is impossible for us to fully surround the attack. If we want to attract the surrounding Ming army, we must choose a place to focus on attacking. Only by hurting the Ming army can the surrounding Ming army come to reinforce. But where must it be hit to be the most threatening."
Everyone squatted on the ground, holding candles and looking at the map.
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In Jinling City, in the lobby of Yingtianfu Prefecture, a group of important officials of the Ming Dynasty were worried. The leader was the eunuch Gao Cai, the governor of Nanjing. That's right. It was the former Fujian tax supervisor Gao Cai. Because Emperor Wanli made great contributions in plundering silver, he was transferred to Nanjing. The eunuch. Sitting with him was the Nanjing Governor Wu Gongliang, Minister of War of Nanjing.
The six ministries in Nanjing have always been regarded as idle yamen. The status is the same as the six ministries in Beijing. However, there is almost no power. The only one with power is the Secretary of War in Nanjing. This is different from the six ministries in Beijing who regard the Ministry of Personnel as the most respected. In Nanjing, status, power and Nanjing. The likes of the Minister of War are the eunuchs in Nanjing and the eunuchs in Nanjing.
Nanjing coordinated the garrison and the governor as the garrison. It was also called the garrison's minister. The Secretary of War in Nanjing was the representative government. The eunuch of the garrison was the representative emperor. The minister of Nanjing was the representative emperor. The minister of Nanjing was the representative nobles.
Song Zhangling, the man in charge of the Song Dynasty, was inspecting defense in the north of the city. He did not participate in the consultation. The next group of high-ranking officials in the court included officials from the six ministries in Nanjing and the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture. There were also a large group of commanders, generals, deputy generals, etc. The officer, the most popular one, was Xiong Tingbi, the Censor of the Nanzhili Supervisor who was ordered to supervise in Nanzhili.
Xiong Tingbi's name is Feibai, and his nickname is Zhigang. He is from Huguang Jiangxia (Wuchang, Hubei). He was a famous capable minister in the court and the country. During his tenure as an inspector in Liaodong, he worked hard to achieve the strategic policy of "realizing the inside and strengthening the outside" and "using barbarians to control barbarians". He built his own sea Zhouwei, Gaizhouwei, and Sancha River start. Passing Liaoyang, Chenyang to Kaiyuan, Tieling, and Beiguan, it is more than 700 miles away from the border wall; Qinghe, Ruiyang, broad lay, large lay, long lay, grass Seven cities including He and Xiong Yue have built more than 100 piers and platforms. Seventeen granaries have been built, each with thirty or fifty rooms. Within three years, 300,000 stones of grain have been accumulated. The army has been rectified and corruption has been removed. , hidden occupation and other disadvantages changed the atmosphere and enriched the camp. He established good relations with the Yehe tribes of Beiguan and the Mongolian tribes, which made Nurhaci feel deeply unfavorable. He had to adopt a policy of retreating and return the old place to the price of the car. Reconcile.
After he lost the party struggle, he came to Nanjing to supervise the school. In the 41st year of Wanli, Rui Yongjin was impeached for being killed by a murderer. He returned to his hometown. At the beginning of this year, the court banned the sea and caused an uprising of pirates in Taiwan. The sea frontier was in urgent need. The court was urgent. He was recruited to Nanjing to supervise the military affairs as a censor. In fact, no one listened to his ideas.
Among the court ministers present, there was also a senior official who was demoted from Beijing to Nanjing: Zhang Heming, who was already 60 years old, whose courtesy name was Yuanping and his nickname was Fenggao. He was from Yingzhou. He was a juren at the age of 26. During the Wanli period, he was a Chui Department ( In 1586 AD, he was appointed as the governor of Licheng County, Shandong Province. He was promoted to the governor of Guizhou. He was the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War and the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War. Due to the party struggles in the court, he was transferred to the position of Minister of Works of Nanjing.
In addition, the highest-ranking officer among the reinforcements from outside Nanjing was Zhejiang Deputy General Luo Qing. He sat among the lower group of officers and bowed his head without saying a word. Just a month ago, he brought 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers to Nanjing to assist in the defense.
The Ming Dynasty court had no idea about the Chinese army's breaking into the Yangtze River and going upstream. However, senior officials of the court still remembered the situation of the Japanese pirates harassed Jiangbei and Jiangnan during the Jiajing period. Therefore, they ordered some troops to be mobilized to Yingtian and Taiping, Suzhou area assists in defense. Luo Qing's troops are one of them.
In fact, the Chinese Army had just appeared on the Nanjing River. Agents from the Military Intelligence Department of the Chinese Army had secretly found him and asked him to assist ship owner Yin in clarifying the defense situation in Nanjing. Regarding the strength of the Chinese Army, most of the people present in Luo Qingbi Everyone must be clear; he sent his nephew Luo Xiaoming to the Chinese Military Academy secretly and participated in the six-month quick-training training class for officers. Therefore, he knew that the gap between the Ming army was too big for the Chinese army.
Therefore, he secretly stepped on two boats and acted very positively on the surface, running around in Nanjing City.
"...Everyone. The pirates camped in Beigu Mountain, 3 miles away from the city wall. Today, their cannons were already firing at Zhongfumen and Taipingmen. The day before yesterday, the pirates on the third peak of Zijin Mountain were bombarded with cannons. The palace. This shell can fly several miles away... Don't just sit and talk. Take some attention." Nanjing garrison, Wu Gongliang, Secretary of the Ministry of War of Nanjing, stomped his feet and said anxiously: "Everyone. Rebel thieves The city of Nanjing will be destroyed every now and then. By then, all the jades and stones will be burned, and no one will end up well."
Everyone whispered and calmed down again for a moment.
The eunuch Gao Cai was anxious and screamed: "This pirate firearm is sharp. I have seen it in Fujian. And killing people is like a scattered. It is everywhere to promote the equality of the four people, and the merchants can be on par with our gentry. It will corrupt the etiquette of the general principles; They beat us in. We will never let us go."
Everyone knows Gao Cai’s experience. Everyone bows their heads and still says nothing. They think to themselves: “The pirates enter the city. Most of the first one they want to kill is you, Eunuch Gao; you have stumbled on them a lot in Fujian. .”
Luo Qing suddenly said loudly, "Mr. Wu, Eunuch Gao. I should pay the food and salary of my Zhejiang soldiers as soon as possible. The soldiers were hungry and could not fight."
Wu Gongliang, the garrison in Nanjing, was embarrassed when he heard this. He frowned and thought that this martial artist was really ignorant of the current affairs. He asked for food and wages at the moment. Isn’t this a threat? But now that foreign enemies are approaching, a great war is imminent. These military men cannot offend them. At that moment, he coughed a few times and said, "General Luo, the food and salary of your department is just unfavorable for the officials of Yingtian Prefecture. They were delayed for a few days. They will definitely be delivered to your department's barracks tomorrow."
After being defeated by the Chinese army, General Wu Song, who fled to Nanjing with remnants, asked loudly: "When will the reinforcements of the imperial court arrive?"
Wu Gongliang and Gao Cai looked at each other.
Gao Cai said sharply: "I have sent someone to the capital to report to the letter and ask for help. But the canal transportation has been cut off by the pirates. The information from the north and the south is not communicated. Most of the messengers have to detour from Henan to the north. Is this court reinforcement..."
The discussions of the officials all night were fruitless. In the end, they had to be guarded by Nanjing. Wu Gongliang, the Minister of War of Nanjing, ordered martial law to be carried out in the city, recruited the servants of various families and went to the city to defend. At the same time, a large number of envoys were sent to the surrounding areas for help.
On this day, Yan Siqi led the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Brigade of the Chinese Army to seize Niushou Mountain and dig trenches up and down the mountain. It had threatened the external passage south of Jinling City.
Yan Siqi stood at the commanding heights of Niushou Mountain. He held up a telescope and looked around. He smiled and said to the young staff officers beside him: "Our Fifth Brigade is the most vanguard of the entire army. We will nail it here like nails. The imperial army We will all attract them. Then we gather and annihilate them. Our Fifth Brigade will be the first contribution.”
The staff officers were talking about it. An intern officer wearing a black uniform and red epaulette asked suddenly: "Senior Brother Yan. What should we do if the Ming army doesn't come?"
Yan Siqi put down the telescope and looked at the overly young little officer. He smiled and said, "You are the intern staff officer in the command department. What's your name? How old are you?"
The young officer stood attentively and saluted: "Minister Zheng Zhilong, a student in the third phase of the command department. Internship staff officer. He is 15 years old this year."