Chapter 114： Focus on the heart

On the 26th, Wang Baihu, who was responsible for bringing soldiers into Nanjing City, came back and reported that he had successfully sneaked into Nanjing and was ready with Tong Youwei and others.

Therefore, the next day Wu Changqing led an army of 80,000 to Nanjing, and the remaining troops were stationed in Changzhou and Danyang respectively, leaving a back road.

To prevent the Qing army from being attacked by Zhenjiang or Liyang, these places have not been recovered by Wu Changqing, and Danyang and Changzhou are not safe.

Although the possibility of him defeating the battle in Nanjing is very low, anything can happen on the battlefield, and it is correct to leave a retreat after all.

The 80,000 troops on this expedition are all his main forces, including the seven thousand flintlock troops and the 13,000 matchlock troops. Five thousand archers, three thousand cavalry, fifty thousand infantry, more than 900 artillery, and some other miscellaneous personnel.

The civilian husbands who requisition for food transportation are not counted. Danyang is not far from Nanjing, and there are not many civilian husbands who are recruited.

The force of this 80,000 army is no less powerful than the Qing army last time, because they carry a large number of professional siege equipment.

Upstairs cars, rush cars, box cars, wooden ladders...

These heavy siege equipment severely delayed their marching speed, and it took three days for the army to reach Jiangning County, south of Nanjing.

If you want to attack Nanjing, you have to attack Jiangning first.

There are mountain slopes on both sides of Jiangning, there is no way to go around, and there is no need to go around.

After all, the city walls of Jiangning County are not high, and the city is not particularly large. This kind of small city is impossible to defend against an army of 80,000.

Boluo didn't expect Jiangning County to play any role, and symbolically left three thousand eight banner soldiers and five thousand green camps to garrison.

The rest of the main force is all concentrated in the city of Nanjing, ready to stick to Nanjing.

They now have 35,000 Eight Banners soldiers in Nanjing City, plus 15,000 green camps. With fifty thousand, defending an offense of eighty thousand people is actually very easy.

Of course, the prerequisite is that the weapon gap between the two sides cannot be too large.

For example, Wu Changqing now has cannons, flintlocks, and grenades. Boluo and the others will have to go through a bitter battle if they want to defend Nanjing City.

In Jiangning City, Lu Guangzu, who was in charge of defending the city, was scolding his mother in his heart.

For a small county like Jiangning, what do you guard?

The city wall is only less than four meters high. What is even more vomiting is that the city wall was built of rammed earth. This kind of city wall had a good defensive power before the artillery was invented, but when the artillery appeared, this kind of rammed earth city wall became fragile.

With a few more shots, this city wall will collapse.

As soon as the city wall was crossed, the defensive power of this city directly became zero.

After all, Jiangning is only a small county, so it can only afford rammed earth.

Unlike Nanjing, the city walls have long been reinforced with fired bricks.

The city wall reinforced by such bricks is very strong, and it is difficult to destroy it with cannons.

As a survivor, Lu Guangzu naturally couldn't get any good tasks. The task of hitting rocks with pebbles fell on him.

However, the things that worried Lu Guangzu did not happen, and Wu Changqing did not let the artillery fire.

It has only been less than a month since the last decisive battle, and their shells only supplemented a part of it, which was not very abundant, and needed to be kept to fight Nanjing.

In a small county like Jiangning, there is no need to waste precious shells.

The 3,000 flintlock troops stepped forward and came to a place only a few tens of meters away from the city wall. They were suppressed against the city wall, so scared that Lu Guangzu could only shrink under the battlements, not daring to look up and check the enemy’s situation .

"Archer, hit me back."

Lu Guangzu gave the order to fight back, but unfortunately, their archers were too few, and they obviously suffered a loss in the confrontation with Wu Jun.

After some suppression, Lu Guangzu was surprised to find that the Ming army had not sent troops to attack the city.

There was only a scholar who looked like a scholar and stood up with a big cylinder with a small upper part and a big lower part.

"Listen to the guards of the city, our army's artillery is already in place, and thousands of troops are ready. You can't hold Jiangning. You just saw it. You can't even stop our soldiers from approaching.

Surrender, for your own life and future, for the lives of your men, surrender. As long as you are willing to surrender, my general will treat you preferentially.

The generals who have surrendered to our army have been reused. If you don’t believe me, I can call out some of your old friends to speak out now..."

This is a heart attack by Wu Changqing. If he can persuade the enemy to surrender, it will make a lot of money. If you can’t persuade, it’s just a waste of time.

Moreover, even if the chief general of the Qing army cannot be persuaded, this kind of shouting can more or less blow down the enemy's momentum and weaken their will to resist.

Fang Qihe shouted the truth, and those soldiers would inevitably be afraid, worried, and discouraged.

On the city wall, Lu Guangzu was angry and anxious.

Annoyed that he could not surrender, his family was moved to the north and became hostages. If he surrenders, his family will be annihilated.

What is anxious is that Fang Qihe's words are the truth. In the face of the well-equipped Wu Jun, they have no chance of winning, and they are really going to die here.

This shouting directly shook Lu Guangzu's military spirit.

Some soldiers had already heard of Wu Jun's prestige, and were afraid to fight such a tiger and wolf division. What's more, there is a huge disparity in the numbers of the two sides, a huge difference in weapons and equipment, and a huge difference in morale.

The soldiers who had no fighting spirit at first were even less fighting spirit when Fang Qihe shouted these words.

If it weren’t for the chaos in the city, many soldiers would start to flee.

Even if you don’t surrender, it’s okay to flee to Nanjing, where the city walls are at least taller and stronger.

"Mighty men, think of your family, think of your children, think of your old parents. If you die in the resistance war, your old parents will be unsupported, your children will be unsupported, and your wives will be taken over by others. .Why, why do you still work for the Man Qing..."

These are all words of persuasion written by Wu Changqing himself, and they were made by Wu Changqing based on some fragments he saw in film and television dramas.

Such propaganda is useless for a firm-willed army, but it is a good catalyst for an army that is already shaken.

On the city wall, some soldiers could not help but think of their wives and children at home. Thinking that they were facing a life and death situation, and wondering if there would be a chance to see their relatives again in the future, some soldiers could not control the tears.

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