Chapter 117： Soldiers approaching the city

The next day, Wu Jun arrived under the outer wall of Nanjing City.

Through the telescope, Wu Changqing felt the majesty of the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties for the first time.

In later generations, he also visited Nanjing and saw the ruins of the ancient city wall. It's just that the broken ruins and the whole have a completely different visual perception.

The Nanjing City Wall in front of us is still in its most complete stage.

The city wall of Nanjing is divided into four parts, Miyagi, Imperial City, Capital, and Outer City.

Among them, the palace wall is the lowest, just enclosing the emperor's harem, where the emperor and concubines live. This section of the wall is mainly to prevent the emperor from being given a green hat, and there can only be one man in the palace.

The imperial city wall, this section of the city wall encloses the imperial palace, which contains the palace, and also contains the main hall for the upper dynasty, the main hall for the emperor's office, and other functions such as ceremonial sacrifices.

The scale of this section of the city wall is not large, but it is very high, eleven or twelve meters long. After all, this is the last line of defense to protect the emperor. The tall city walls can also show the majesty of the palace.

The third part is the Beijing City Wall, which is roughly the section of the city wall that encloses the entire city. The scale of this section of the city wall can be quite large, with a circumference of nearly forty kilometers.

This is just a simple city wall, excluding the connecting mountain road section and water road section.

This section of the city wall is the most important line of defense in Nanjing. The effective defensive height alone is 14 meters, plus some heights of the towers, which can be found anywhere more than 20 meters high.

Its base is 15 meters at its narrowest point, and the top is four to fourteen meters wide, which can accommodate a large number of soldiers on it for defense.

In addition to height and thickness, these city walls also constitute various defense facilities such as urn cities and Tibetan soldiers' caves, which play a huge role in defending the city.

For example, Wengcheng, it is divided into two gates. The outer gate is easy to be knocked open by a crash, but after knocking it open, it is Wengcheng. Wengcheng is very small and there is no room to accumulate energy for the crash, so the second gate in Wengcheng is difficult to be knocked open.

After all, it is the capital of the country, and its various defense measures have condensed the top wisdom of this era. If you don't have any special means, you will use conventional methods to attack this city, and it is unlikely that your troops will break down.

At a height of more than ten meters, this defensive advantage is too great.

The fourth part is the outer city wall. This part of the city wall is only four or five miles away from the Beijing city wall. Its circumference is longer, more than 60 kilometers, and it also encloses part of the suburbs.

The outer city wall of Nanjing is currently the longest city wall in the world, and it is longer than the city wall of Beijing.

However, the outer city wall is much shorter than the Beijing city wall, about eight meters in size.

The shortness is also relative to the Beijing city wall. The main city wall of Suzhou is only more than six meters long, which is not as good as the outer city wall of Nanjing.

This kind of tall city wall can be daunting at first glance.

The city wall of Nanjing used nearly 300,000 migrant workers, and it took nearly 30 years to complete the construction. Only 350 million bricks were fired, and there are countless other bricks and woods.

Later generations of the Three Gorges Dam used only 30,000 workers and took 12 years.

This kind of city, if there are enough troops and food, it can be said that it can't be attacked without accidents such as the betrayal of the defenders.

Historically, in the mid-nineteenth century, soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had guarded these walls for seven years.

That was the nineteenth century, and artillery technology had been greatly developed. However, there is still no way to use this kind of city wall.

But now it's only the seventeenth century, under normal circumstances it is almost impossible to capture such a city.

Emperor Hongguang of Nanming ran away when he saw the arrival of the Qing army, which was enough to prove what kind of trash he was. As long as Emperor Hongguang had a little bit of military common sense, he couldn't be afraid.

If Emperor Hongguang didn't run away, if Qian Qianyi chose to hold on, the ghost knew how long and how long the Qing army would fight to defeat Nanjing.

Unfortunately, history has so many jokes, and there are always some jaw-dropping things.

With such a strong city and more than 100,000 soldiers, Emperor Hongguang chose to escape. After the emperor fled, Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, opened the gate and surrendered directly.

The Manchu Qing was able to destroy the Ming Dynasty. It was really full of countless accidents and dramas. If only one of them was lost, the Qing army would not be able to destroy the Ming Dynasty.

For example, if Li Zicheng did not occupy Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan, Wu Sangui would not surrender to the Manchu Qing at Shanhaiguan. With the Shanhaiguan pass, the Qing army could only stare at him and could not enter the North China Plain.

Huang Taiji's ability is no worse than Dorgon. After more than ten years of fighting, he can't beat this kind of majesty.

For example, if Li Zicheng had not died accidentally, it would not be easy for the Qing army to destroy the Dashun army.

If Zuo Liangyu's tribe does not surrender, the Qing army will not have that many troops to attack all parts of the south.

If Qian Qianyi did not open Nanjing City and surrender, the Qing army would at least die more than 100,000 people under Nanjing City.

"It would be great if Hong Chengchou opened the door and surrendered like Qian Qianyi."

Wu Changqing said with emotion that before the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty really picked up too many cheap, so much that Wu Changqing was envious of it.

The other generals didn't find this sentence funny after hearing this, and they thought so too.

If Hong Chengchou did not surrender, it would be too difficult to attack this city. Even if they have all kinds of advanced weapons and high morale, their losses will never be small.

"This outer city wall can only rely on us, you must use your heart."

What they and Tong Youwei planned was the gate of the Beijing city wall, and Wu Jun needed to break through the outer city wall himself.

If the outer city wall can't be taken down, there is no need to plan the gate of the capital city wall.

After all, even if a city gate is opened, there are only a few dozen soldiers who can enter at a time. The Qing army can concentrate its forces and use human lives to block the gate.

In order to break through the city of Nanjing, the soldiers' performance on the city wall was the main reason. Only by putting pressure on the city wall and forcing them to divide their forces to rescue the city gate could they break through the city gate.

Moreover, a single gate is actually the icing on the cake. It was fatal and uncomfortable for the Qing army, but it was far from enough for the Ming army.

"Swear to the death."

The generals replied, no matter how majestic the wall is, they have to bite the bullet. The benefits of capturing Nanjing are too great to imagine.

Subsequently, Wu Jun began to make various preparations before the siege.

This is a huge battle plan that will be divided into many parts.

There are ants attached to the army to climb the city wall, some are responsible for crashing into the city gate, and some are specially responsible for digging tunnels and building earth mountains.

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