Chapter 220 Take the Outer City lightly

The officers on the Jiagang Gate suddenly became in chaos. Soon, a white flag was erected on the gate, and someone held the white flag and waved it vigorously.

Li Shuanzhu was responsible for attacking the guard gate. When the guard pointed to the white flag on the top of the city to remind him, Li Shuanzhu raised his big hand and shouted, "Let the gunner stop firing!" The officers and soldiers in the city surrendered! Pass the order, immediately gather at the gate, and be ready to break into the city and take over the gate at any time!"

With Li Shuanzhu's order, the cannons that had been firing immediately stopped firing, and the generals who were attacking the city quickly began to gather towards the gate.

After a while, Mr. Qian named Wang Feng controlled the gate of Jiagang Gate, sent people to raise the Qianjin Gate outside in the city, and then opened the wooden gate inside.

A large number of Li Shuanzhu's subordinates waiting at the city gate poured into the Jiagang Gate like a flood, rushed into the inner city of Nanjing, and helped the surrendering officers and soldiers at the shortest speed, cleaned up some of the remnants of the surrounding officers and soldiers who continued to resist, took over the Jiagang Gate, and moved the surrendered officers and soldiers. When they go outside the city, they are temporarily sent to settle them.

At the same time, not only Jiagangmen was attacked by the Xingtian army. At this time, Li Shutang, the deputy general of Changde Mansion, who guarded Fengtai Gate, also announced his surrender. In the area of Fengtai Gate, he first cleared some of the soldiers who wanted to resist, and then opened the Fengtai Gate to put the Xingtian army outside the city. In the city.

At this time, Zhang Yunlong, the general of Songjiang Mansion, who guarded Jinchuan Gate, also suddenly ordered to arrest the prison army and some loyal people sent by Ding Qirui to his army. He opened the Jinchuan Gate and put it into the Xing Tian Army. Then Li Xiandong, the general of Huai'an Mansion, who guarded the big and small elephant gate, also ordered to give up resistance and opened the gate to the Xing Tianjun. Fall.

Only a few Mr. Qian guarding the fence gate, but did not surrender as promised. After the incident, Xing Tianjun knew that these Mr. Qian accidentally leaked the news in advance and was learned by Ding Qirui that Ding Qirui then arrested these Mr. Qian in advance and replaced him with his trusted generals to guard the fence gate.

But Ding Qirui's efforts failed in the end. A city is like a balloon. As long as one place is broken, it will lose its tightness and will soon collapse.

The officers and soldiers of several city gates rebelled almost at the same time, which caught Ding Qirui off guard. He didn't expect that he had arranged the Nanjing city defense for such a long time. He didn't persist for a day after the Xing Tianjun launched a general attack, and the outer city declared that it was broken. Listening to the shouts in the south of the city, Ding Qirui's face was like dead ashes and almost wanted to find a place. Fang hit his head and pulled him down.

However, Ding Qirui was still not dead, and was finally pulled by his officials and family. These people also knew that the outer city was over, so they quickly urged Ding Qirui to retreat into the inner city. As long as the inner city was not lost, Nanjing City would not be lost.

Ding Qirui then ordered all the departments to continue to block the Xingtian army in the outer city, while hurriedly fled into the inner city under the protection of the crowd. As for the officers and soldiers in the outer city, he could not take care of it!

Those officers and soldiers who stayed in the outer city are not brave and good at fighting. Not to mention that many of them, many people have secretly left a back road and are ready to surrender at any time. Even the officers and soldiers who do not intend to surrender to the Xingtian Army, as soon as they hear that several gates have been broken, they suddenly collapse. No one wants to fight with Xing Tian. The army fought in the streets in the outer city, and then expelled Xing Tianjun from the outer city.

So some generals immediately ordered to abandon their defense line, collected their soldiers and horses, and quickly fled to the east of the city. They opened the east gate and fled in the direction of Zhenjiang Mansion. Even after many officers and soldiers knew the defeat, they did not forget to take a handful before leaving. Along the way from Nanjing, he broke into the homes of the people living in the outer city, looted it, wrapped it in soft things, and escaped from Nanjing.

For this reason, a considerable number of people in the city were harmed, and many people were killed by the rebels in order to save their wealth. For a moment, the city was completely chaotic. In order to prevent the Xing Tianjun from chasing them, some officers and soldiers lit up their houses in the outer city along the way. In the past few days, the weather was dry, and many houses suddenly burned. The outer city was even more popular. The people ran around in panic one by one, and the cry resounded through the outer city of Nanjing.

It took three days for the Xingtian Army to control the outer city. Since the officers and soldiers were going to run away, they did not bother to chase them. Instead, they controlled the situation in the outer city first. While calming the people, they searched for the defeated soldiers scattered in the outer city and did not escape. In addition, they also received a large number of officers and soldiers to surrender, and moved these officers and soldiers to the outside the city first. Or break up and re-edit.

Nanjing City is really too big, and it is really not easy to control. A large number of people have been organized to put out the fires ignited by the defeated soldiers everywhere. After completely controlling the outer city and extinguishing the fires everywhere, it is already the fourth day.

Looking at the outer city of Nanjing, at this time, many places have become ruins, and a large number of people have been displaced. They can only sit on both sides of the street, or pick up their remaining belongings in the ruins. There are the cries of the people everywhere, and there is a sad scene everywhere.

Moreover, in order to prevent the defenders on the inner city wall from preventing Xing Tianjun from controlling the outer city, they constantly bombarded the outer city, which did not distinguish between the military and the people at all. The outer city was that the houses collapsed, which also caused a lot of trouble and casualties for Xing Tianjun, which made Xiao Tianjian's plan to take the inner city delayed.

However, even so, it is a great miracle to defeat the outer city of Nanjing City so quickly. Nearly 50,000 officers and soldiers lost the outer city without even defending it for a day, while the Xing Tianjun suffered few casualties, and the number of casualties was less than 1,000 according to statistics, which made Xiao Tianjian very satisfied.

After taking the outer city, Xiao Tianjian also entered the outer city and personally entered the largest city in the world. He personally watched the situation of Nanjing City. After looking at the tragic situation of the outer city, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help lamenting that the war was so cruel. The old forces were going to be destroyed, and the new momentum If you want to rise again, such destruction is inevitable.

Seeing that many people in other cities were displaced for this, Xiao Tianjian then ordered the people to settle down first, and moved the displaced people outside the city to lend a batch of prison army's tents for temporary resettlement. At the same time, he ordered the distribution of relief food, so that the displaced people could eat first, so as to avoid a large number of starvation. As for the situation, if the family has not been destroyed, he will try his best to leave the city to hide. If he really doesn't want to leave, Xing Tianjun will try not to harass him.

In order to stabilize the hearts and minds of the people as soon as possible, Xing Tianjun also arrested a large number of defeated soldiers who took advantage of the chaos and beheaded them in various parts of the outer city, which stabilized the situation in the outer city of Nanjing.

Sure enough, with the loss of the outer city, Xing Tianjun immediately faced the problem of hundreds of thousands of people opening their mouths to eat. In order to control the officers and soldiers in the outer city, and to prevent the Xing Tian army from occupying the outer city and obtaining grain, Ding Qirui moved all the grain in the original granary in Nanjing. In the city, after Xing Tianjun seized the outer city, he had to solve the problem of so many people eating. If he hadn't learned the news in advance and made certain preparations, then even if Xing Tianjun captured the outer city this time, it was estimated that it would soon cause a large-scale famine and starve a large number of people to death.

Fortunately, Jiang Qin's group of intelligence personnel found out this in advance. Before Xing Tianjun's siege, a large number of food was transferred from all over the country, which made them not suddenly fall into an embarrassing situation.

After taking it down from the outer city, Xing Tianjun implemented a strict ration system. Each family gives one catty to two catties of food a day according to the number of people. Although this amount of food is not enough, boiling porridge can at least make the people starve to death, ensuring their minimum needs. At this point, Xing Tianjun's practice is still obtained. With the welcome of the people in Nanjing, the panic of the people soon stabilized, and the matter of looting was quickly reduced.

Moreover, Xing Tianjun also told these Nanjing people that if they help Xing Tianjun attack the inner city, they can also get more food to support their families, so many people in Nanjing began to help Xing Tianjun prepare for the attack of the inner city in order to eat enough.

By this time, the previous activities of singing and dancing have already stopped in the inner city. The shops in the streets and alleys have been closed one after another, including the Goulan brothels on both sides of the Qinhuai River. At this time, they have become depressed, and everyone in the city has begun to worry about their own survival.

Xiao Tianjian ordered to notify the defenders in the city to immediately give up resistance and open the gate to surrender, so as to reduce unnecessary casualties. Xing Tianjun can ensure the safety of their lives, including officials in Nanjing. As long as they surrender, they can ensure that they are not disturbed and protect their property.

However, such persuasion basically did not play much role. Most of the Nanjing officials in the city did not believe Xiao Tianjian's words. They thought that Xing Tianjun hated them and would not spare them once they surrendered, so most of the officials refused to surrender.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian had no choice but to continue to take a strong attack to conquer the inner city of Nanjing. After discussing with the generals and actually seeing the strength of the inner city, Xiao Tianjian decided to give up attacking several of the strongest city gates such as the strongest Jubao Gate in Nanjing, and put all his energy on the north of the city. In the direction of Huaimen, after some preparation, the last battle in Nanjing finally began on September 10.

(In the past two days, I really knew the strength of the hospital and the shamelessness of the unruly people. When I entered the hospital, I checked it from head to toe, CT three times, nearly 20 X-rays, and a B-ultrasound. More than 2,000 yuan was easily taken away by the hospital. The result of the examination was nothing, just elbows and knees. Injury! The unruly people lied on me for 2,000 yuan again, otherwise I would swear to collapse the hospital! Angry! Extremely angry! Helpless, extremely helpless! It's a pity that I have worked hard for a month, and I can't earn more than 4,000 yuan! I sigh that many people in China have no moral bottom line for money! I'm in a bad mood! But when I saw a brother reading my book and a friend giving me a reward, I finally felt a trace of warmth! I'm in a much better mood. Thank you very much! Today, I especially thank acmuser and Baiyun Guogao for their rewards! After calming down, calm down and code!)