Chapter 221 Dinghuaimen

In this attack on the inner city of Nanjing, it can be said that Xing Tianjun did not take any more coincidence, but adopted a serious way of strong attack and hard fighting. Ding Qirui suffered losses in the outer city, so he focused much more closely on the inner city. Even if there were a small number of inner responds in the city, he could not play much role, so he wanted to take good luck. There is no coincidence. After observing the terrain, Xiao Tianjian ordered that all the heavy artillery should be concentrated in the area of Dinghuaimen. The scores were listed outside the Dinghuaimen. In order to clear the shooting boundary, he ordered to dismantle almost all the houses and courtyards outside Dinghuaimen, and used these masonry to build a gun array. On the heavy gun rack, the muzzle all pointed to Dinghuaimen.

At the same time, the main force of General Xiao Tianjian is also arranged outside Dinghuaimen, and all kinds of siege instruments are concentrated outside Dinghuaimen. In order to attack Dinghuaimen, it took a day and a night to prepare for artillery fire alone.

More than a hundred heavy artillery were concentrated outside Dinghuaimen. After fighting for a whole day, they almost flattened all the pheasant on the wall around Dinghuaimen, and even all the artillery of the officers and soldiers in this area were dumb and destroyed, making it almost impossible for the officers and soldiers to gain a foothold on the wall.

Then Xiao Tianjian ordered all departments to take turns to attack Dinghuaimen under the cover of various heavy artillery and light artillery. At this time, there were only 20,000 officers left in Nanjing. Ding Qirui transferred most of the officers and soldiers to the area of Dinghuaimen, and the two sides launched a war in the area of Dinghuaimen.

At this time, after the Xingtian Army concentrated the artillery fire, the officers and soldiers on the wall were completely suppressed in terms of firepower. As long as the officers and soldiers appeared, they would often be bombarded by heavy artillery. Therefore, although the officers and soldiers had advantages in land, they did not have the advantage in firepower. The casualties were very heavy. They were often transferred to the first batch of soldiers in the city. Short short video Time will be disabled, so that the army's heart collapses and they have to be withdrawn to rest. Ding Qirui and the general Sun Yingyuan even visited Dinghuai Gate in person and mobilized troops to go to the city to defend, but the heavy casualties of the defenders also made them feel chilled.

This situation has lasted for several days in a row. It can be said that both sides have paid a huge price, but compared with Xing Tianjun, the casualties of the defenders are even greater. Originally, the morale of the officers and soldiers is not high. The reason why the defenders in the city can persist for such a few days is that they are mostly Nanjing defenders, and these soldiers The general is also relatively loyal. What's more, Ding Qirui took a lot of blanks to promote the officers and soldiers at any time. In addition, he also took out a lot of silver to reward the officers and soldiers who dare to fight, which made the garrison persist for so long.

But seeing such a guard, a batch of people died. Xing Tianjun not only had powerful artillery, but also built many high platforms higher than the city wall outside the city these days. A lot of firemen were sent to directly condescending on the high platform and constantly fire on the officers and soldiers on the wall, while the bows and arrows of the officers and soldiers were not enough. With them, only a small number of bird guns and red-haired muskets bought from the south can fight against them, so a large number of officers and soldiers will be knocked to the ground in rows when they go to the city. Even holding a shield can't stop the sharp bullets of the Xingtian Army.

When the officers and soldiers were forced to climb the city, they had to rely on the heavy door panels and covered the quilts splashed with water on the door panels to resist these condescending bullets. However, this temporary method could not solve the problem. It could block the bullets, but it could not stop the shells. The side of Xing Tianjun was constantly Continue to build a high platform outside Dinghuaimen. Anyway, they have endless labor, so the high platform was built outside Dinghuaimen like bamboo shoots. Xing Tianjun simply removed some light three-pound guns and carried them to the high platform, and directly bombarded the three-pound cannons on the city wall and the city. The officers and soldiers were fighting were even more miserable. It can be said that every time they send troops to rotate to the city, many officers and soldiers are so scared that they dare not go to the city.

Under the longitudes of this, the Xingtian Army became more and more brave. More and more pontoon bridges were built on the moat outside the city, more and more and more passages were filled in, and the attack tools were directly transported to the foot of the city wall.

A large number of ladders, crashes and cave cars were transported to the foot of the city wall or at the gate of the Weng City. The engineers even tried to make a blast in the gate of the Weng City, which almost blew up the gate of the Weng City. Fortunately, the officers and soldiers in Weng City blocked the Weng City Gate with heavy objects in time, which did not lose the Weng City.

However, the morale of the officers and soldiers had fallen to the bottom at this time. The firepower advantage of the Xing Tianjun was completely carried forward at this time. The officers and soldiers were almost physically blocking the Xing Tianjun from attacking the city. In a few days, most of the officers and soldiers fell into despair.

What's more annoying is that Xiao Tianjian also found that the heights of the Shogunate Mountain in the north of the inner city of Nanjing, the Zhongshan in the southeast corner, and the Yuhuatai outside the west gate are higher than the walls of the inner city of Nanjing. It is a very good place to arrange heavy artillery, so he ordered some of the heavy guns to be moved to these three commanding heights, and the cannons bombarded the city. Zhongshan The heavy artillery even directly hit the shells into the imperial city in the northeast corner of Nanjing, which made everyone in the city panic.

At this time, many people have begun to waver in the whole Nanjing city. If it goes on like this, can Nanjing City still hold on? Not to mention soldiers, no one wants to die. Although the silver appreciation of white flowers is attractive, and the official position is also very attractive, going to the city is basically equivalent to missing half of his life. What's the use of having no official position and money? Therefore, not many of the officers and soldiers want to continue to fight at this time.

On the morning of September 18, there was another loud noise in the gate of the barn gate. In the gate of the barn, the engineering battalion carried more than a dozen coffins full of gunpowder at night, piled them directly in the gate of the barn, and transported sandbags with a large amount of manpower overnight. Entering the Wengchengmen Cave, the whole Chengmen Cave was tightly blocked, and gunpowder was lit after dawn.

After a loud noise, the gate hole of the urn city was suddenly lifted up, and the urn collapsed. There were more than a thousand defenders hidden in the poor urn city. With this loud noise, all of them were suddenly killed in action. Among them, there were not only those who were killed on the spot, but also many things were buried alive by the collapsed wall, and more of them could not stand it. He was shocked by this huge explosion and was killed alive on the spot.

With the battered gate tower on the Dinghuai Gate, it also shook with this huge explosion. After shaking for another hour, it collapsed, even if a group of officers and soldiers were buried alive.

As soon as the urn city collapsed, the inner gate was exposed to the artillery fire of the Xing Tianjun. Unlike the urn city, the inner gate is far less strong than the thousand-jin gate of the urn city. The main body of this city gate is a wooden structure. Although it is also very strong, it can't withstand the heavy artillery attack.

Several 12-pound heavy guns were pulled outside the collapsed urn city. Using a direct look, they began to bombard the inner city gate directly. Each shell weighed more than ten pounds, and each time it hit the gate created a hole the size of a bathtub. In a short time, the gate of the inner city was bombarded into a hornet's nest. Even the officers and soldiers in the gate cave that tried to block the door were also bombarded a lot, so that the officers and soldiers in the city did not dare to fill the door of the door of the inner city gate at all. Finally, after a strange sound, the gate creaked down and collapsed, and the inner city of Nanjing finally announced that it was broken.

A large number of Xingtian soldiers who had been waiting for a long time immediately entered the gate.

(It's not over today, and I have to go to the hospital! I'm really not in the mood and I don't have time to type. The number of words in this chapter is small. Please forgive me! Tomorrow, calm down tomorrow!)