Chapter 218 The Curtain of the Great War

Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin looked at each other with a smile on their faces. Judging from Jiang Qin's situation, it was much more ideal than they expected at the beginning, which fully showed that most of the officers and soldiers in the city had not had much fighting spirit, so it seemed that Nanjing was heavily guarded, but the real situation had already It's the military's lax heart, like a broken hornet's nest!

"Your intelligence department has done a really good job. I didn't expect that you have secretly contacted so many officers and military generals. In this way, at least there is no problem to take down the outer city of Nanjing!

For their worries, you can reply to them so that they don't have to worry. I can guarantee that what they did in the past will not be blamed. For their family members, as long as they surrender, I, Xing Tianjun, will give the best protection. It is a great achievement for them to surrender to the country and the people, except for the above. In addition, I, Xiao, will also give a certain degree of reward to everyone. If they are willing to stay in the army, then I can arrange for them and send them to the Xingtian Army Lecture Hall for training, and keep their original treatment!

As for their family, you can also let them rest assured that as long as they are willing to surrender, we will immediately send people to their homes to transfer and protect their families in advance to ensure that their families will not be harmed by the local government!

But we can't help the generals sent by Ding Qirui to monitor them in the city. Since they want to obtain vested interests, it is impossible not to take risks at all. How can they solve it by themselves?

And for those who are still watching the wind, we should strengthen contact with them, inform them of our policy, and strive to let them surrender to us. Even if they don't want to surrender, they should strive for them to give up resistance immediately after we enter the city!

At present, there are too many people who have died in China. In this battle of Nanjing, if fewer people can die, it's better to die as little as possible! Jiannu has left us not much time! After this battle, we should prepare for going north!"

Ding Qirui actually knows more or less about the thoughts of some of his officers and soldiers. In fact, he is very well aware of the strength of Nanjing City. If the defenders in the city are dedicated to resist, although Xing Tianjun is sharp, it is not easy to take Nanjing City. Not to mention that they only have 60,000 to 70,000 horses now, even if They came with 200,000 horses. If they want to take Nanjing City, it is estimated that they will also lose their teeth.

So in these days, what he is most worried about is not the Xingtian Army's siege of the city. On the contrary, what he is most worried about is the heart of the defenders in the city, because he also knows that if the thieves want to break through huge cities and strong cities like Nanjing, they must find a way from within them. For this reason, he is in Xingtian Army. Before Da, he attracted all the generals in the city to his commander-in-chief's mansion, which was a good way of comforting both soft and hard, and used promotion as bait to induce these generals to guard Nanjing City, and these generals also seemed to be very loyal, patting their chests one by one to ensure that they would fight to the end and ensure that Nanjing would not lose.

This reassured Ding Qirui a little, but on second thought, he still felt that it was not a perfect solution, so he sent the civil servants in Nanjing to the armies as supervisors, and by mistake, he was supposed to worship the Shi Kefa of the Nanjing Military Department later this year. At this time, he had also worshipped the Nanjing Military Department. Shang Shu cooperated with Ding Qirui to control the Xingtian Army in Nanjing City. For this Shi Kefa, he didn't need to explain anything. Ding Qirui also attached great importance to Shi Kefa, so he handed over the inner city guard to Shi Kefa. When he went outside Nanjing, he personally sat in the outer city and was responsible for dispatching soldiers and horses.

Considering that Xing Tianjun will definitely send detailed works in advance to in the city to lobby the surrender, Ding Qirui also sent people to carry out a big search in the city. During this period, dozens of detailed works of Xing Tianjun were captured. Even if these detailed works of the Xing Tianjun were shown to the lieutenant, the heads were sent to each. The gates were hung high, on the one hand to deter the Xingtian army in the city, and on the other hand, it was also used to deter the officers and soldiers who wanted to surrender to the Xingtian army.

However, Ding Qirui's efforts did not have a very good effect. There are still many criminal soldiers who escaped this search and arrest in Nanjing, and even some of them were simply hidden in the camps of some officers and soldiers. They changed their clothes and left them in the accounts of some military generals as writers. In addition, Many people hide in various identities.

There are also many military generals who know who is the details of the Xing Tianjun. Although they did not agree to surrender to the Xing Tianjun, they secretly left a way for themselves and did not confess the details sent by the Xing Tianjun to contact them. On the contrary, they also sent people to protect them, so that Ding Qirui cleaned up the Xing Tianjun in the city. It can't achieve its goal at all. It only destroys a small part of the Xing Tianjun's intelligence system.

Even after the intelligence personnel of the Xingtian Army announced martial law in the city, they can swagger into and out of the city through some gates and send all kinds of information to the Xingtian Army camp outside the city. It can be seen how chaotic the defenders have reached this time.

However, Ding Qirui's purge still had a certain effect. After severe torture, several Xing Tianjun's details could not withstand torture and confessed and confessed some of the officers and soldiers they contacted. Ding Qirui also immediately sent someone to arrest these officers and soldiers, and showed their heads in public, as well. It was transmitted to the gates of all cities for the officers and soldiers to watch, and said that this was the confession of the Xingtian thief. It also played a certain role in telling the officers and soldiers not to believe the ghost words of the Xing Tianjun, which also played a certain role, so that some of the officers and soldiers who had been shaken did not dare to contact with the Xing Tianjun for a while, which caused the next attack on the next attack of the city by the Xing Tianjun. Some trouble.

Three days after Xiao Tianjian arrived outside Nanjing, he chose the target of the main attack. After all, it seems that he has a lot of troops. If he attacks each gate separately, his tens of thousands of troops will be thinned down, and not many troops can be allocated to each gate, so he can only choose a few of the gates to attack. In the end, he will The target was selected on several outer gates in the south of the river in the west of the city. At the same time, some troops were sent to clean up some officers and soldiers left outside the city by the north river.

On the fifth day of September, the preparations for the Xingtian Army's siege were basically completed. A large number of equipment began to be transported out of the camp. Under the promotion of a large number of Xingtian soldiers and helpers, they began to advance towards the predetermined goal. At the same time, a considerable number of Xingtian Army soldiers and horses began to circle the north of Nanjing, along the Yangtze River to the city. The outer part of the stronghold, which was still under the control of the officers and soldiers, launched an attack.

The war in Nanjing was completely kicked off. Together with the war, the fighting was very fierce. At this time, some defenders still exerted considerable combat effectiveness. When they saw that the Xing Tianjun began to approach the city, they immediately began to bombard the soldiers and horses of the Xing Tianjun. The shells roared and flew through the air. The rumble fell into the array of the Xingtian Army, setting off a regiment of blood fog and soil, and the continuous soldiers of the Xingtian Army fell on the way forward.

But the artillery team on Xing Tianjun's side is not a vegetarian. This time, in order to attack Nanjing City, Xiao Tianjian can be said to have taken out all the treasures at the bottom of the box. He not only brought two heavy artillery battalions that had been with the army, but also searched the heavy artillery in the Huguang area and made them into new heavy artillery. The battalion was shipped outside Nanjing. At the same time, the artillery battalion of Liu Bao in Henan was also transferred outside Nanjing. The number of cannons of more than six pounds gathered reached more than 100. In addition, the three-pound guns and some of the general cannons and Hongyi cannons seized from the officers were also used, and the number was more than 200. The number of soldiers in the artillery battalion alone reached three or 4,000. For this reason, not only Huang Shengqiang, the old cannon, was taken to Nanjing, but also Gao Su, the red-haired devil who had been staying in Shanxi, led a group of gunners to reinforce outside Nanjing the other day to cooperate with the attack on Nanjing city.

The artillery of the Xingtian Army is an independent arm. It borrows some methods of Western and even later artillery in terms of equipment and training, so the combat effectiveness is naturally stronger than all the armies in the world at present. Almost all artillery officers have been trained under Gao Su, so they belong to regular soldiers. In addition, Xiao Tianjian attaches great importance to the construction of artillery, and has given a considerable tilt in terms of capital and technology. Therefore, the quality of the artillery cast by Xing Tianjun is guaranteed, and the technology is also quite advanced. The range and power are increasing year by year, but the weight of the cannon is decreasing year by year.

Nowadays, so many sharp cannons are concentrated in the area of Nanjing City. More than a dozen artillery positions have been built and a large number of artillery are displayed. Although the Ming Army is known as the sharp artillery, it is a thing of the past. Now facing the artillery of the Xing Tianjun, it is completely playing with an axe in Banmen. Once the two armies fight, the official The army fired artillery, and the artillery of the Xingtian Army was not polite. Heavy artillery and light artillery can be said to be fired together. Countless shells poured on the wall in a short time. The outer city wall was gray and stone flew around, and the artillery fire was immediately suppressed.

So after the afternoon, in addition to the three gate officers and soldiers who are still resisting, the sound of gunfire has gradually begun to be silent at the gate guarded by several other officers and soldiers contacted by the Criminal Heavenly Army.

(It's really unlucky. Why is it so difficult to calm down? My son was just ill. My wife rode an electric bike and rubbed with a woman in the same direction yesterday afternoon. The two fell down at the same time. It was only because my wife was stronger and stood up. As a result, the other party fell to the ground. The two had the same responsibility, but all the responsibility had to be borne by us in the end. The hospital had a random examination, which was more than 1,000 yuan. The yuan is gone, and the other party asked us to pay it all! My wife also fell and her leg was injured. Why? The doctor in the hospital also took an X-ray. He said that he couldn't see it clearly. He asked him to do the CT, and he also did the CT, but he still couldn't see it clearly. He had to continue to use high-definition CT for examination. When will this be the end? The traffic police also said that we should discuss and deal with it by ourselves. It's really unreasonable! In a word, there is no time to type. Even if it is type, the manuscript fee earned will be given to others! Unlucky! Indignant!)