"Brother, do you think this Jinling can still be defended?" A young man asked softly to another man beside him.

Not far away was the Yifeng Gate, which was fighting fiercely. After two consecutive days of siege, the defenders in the city suffered great casualties. In order to ensure that the city has vitality, Okxun temporarily withdrew the Eight Banners in his hand and topped the green camp in the city. In addition, the soldiers and soldiers of the young and strong organization recruited from the city also joined the defending team. With the sound of cannons, injured or bloody corpses kept lifting from the city from time to time.

"Don't talk nonsense! If the adults hear it, they will have to kill you!" The man shouted softly. Just yesterday, a young man in charge of carrying supplies seemed to be scared by the cannon fire. He jumped up and shouted that Jinling City was about to be broken. But before he could shout the second sentence, Guan Jun next to him slashed his head. The blood on his headless neck was sprayed high. When the headless corpse fell to the ground, his limbs were twitching for a long time. Seeing everyone was frightened.

It seemed as if he was thinking about the man who ended yesterday, the young man's face was pale. Before he could come back to his senses, the man pulled him: "Wait until the president is careful to follow me, I will hide there and you will go there, don't run around, remember! The more you run around, the faster you die, do you understand!"

"I understand, brother, you will take care of your life..." The young man pointed his head like a chicken pecking at rice. As soon as he finished speaking, the leader of the team leader called them to the top of the city. It seemed that the Ming army's battle for another climb to the city was coming, and they were going to fight side by side with the green camp on the city.

The crowd followed the crowd to the top of the city. When they saw the wall bricks on the top of the city were stained with blood, and the broken arms and limbs could be seen everywhere, and the strong smell of blood and smoke were floating in the air, the young man felt that he couldn't help but feel overwhelming and vomited out in one mouthful.

"Follow me, hurry!" The man beside him pulled the young man who was stumbled and leaned against the female wall. Compared to the young man who went to the battlefield for the first time, this man was obviously much more experienced. He had to lean against the female wall immediately when he arrived at the city. The artillery fire outside the city was really fierce. If there was no female wall as a support, he would be bombarded into meat paste before anyone could react.

Run to the female wall, half-squatted, looking out, the Ming army ladder outside the city had already been set up, and teams of Ming army under the city were braved with artillery fire, bows, arrows, bird guns and rocks holding shields to start climbing the city. Further away, the cannon guns on the Ming army's positions roared, and huge cannons flew into the air to the city and the city with sharp roars...

"Be careful! Wait until they climb halfway through and push the ladder down for me! Birdgunner! Archer! Shoot me! Shoot these thugs to death!"

The leader of the team was holding a knife on the city, directing the young people to defend the wall. But who would have thought that the young man could not hear his shout after shouting for a few words. The young man couldn't help but look back and saw that the place where the sound had just arrived was blown to pieces by a cannon from somewhere, and the blood stains on the deep sunken ground were blurred.

"Brother...Brother..." Seeing this terrifying scene, the young man felt that the pants were hot and frightened so much that he couldn't even speak. Although he was still holding a rough spear in his hand, his trembling hands couldn't lift them up at all.

"Bang!" The man gave him a big mouth without saying a word, staring at the young man's ear and shouted: "The more you are afraid of death, the faster you will die! Hurry up and hold my gun tightly. Only by driving the thief down can we live!"

"I...I...I..." The young man was pulled back to his senses by this slap. Although he was still stuttering and unable to explain clearly, he felt that his strength gradually returned to his side.

It is impossible not to say that the combat effectiveness of the Qing army in the city is not bad, and those Yongding who were temporarily organized were also quite brave. When the young man and the man and a few green camp soldiers overthrew a ladder, they watched the Ming army who was about to climb the city fall from the sky in fear and helplessness, the fear in the young man's heart was gradually replaced by numbness. After more than an hour, the Ming army's attack retreated again, as if all his strength was pulled over by the young man sank on the ground, gasping for breath, and finding that he was still alive.

"I survived...I survived..." The young man cried with joy and suddenly stood up and cheered.

"Squat down!" After the fierce battle, the man was exhausted. When the young man suddenly stood up, he was shocked and reached out to pull him. However, because after a long battle, he was slower to remove his strength and he had already stood up before he could pull the young man.

In just a moment, a cannon roared past, and the young man's figure disappeared in front of the man's eyes. When he came to his senses, a blood mist was scattered from the air. He seemed to hear the cheers of the young man's life after the disaster, but his figure was gone...

At the same time, because the outer city was voluntarily abandoned, the Ming army had occupied Zijin Mountain to the east of the inner city. The Taiping Gate was to the west. The Ming army pulled more than ten cannons directly to the mountain. Although the artillery technology cannot reach the range of directly attacking the main targets in the city, there is no problem of directly bombarding Taiping Gate from a high point.

As a result, the defenders in the city, which were not enough to be in defended, were unable to defend. Okxun had no choice but to pull up the Eight Banners, who had just been removed from rest. At the same time, he led hundreds of people to wander around the city, supporting wherever the danger was, and finally endured another day...

"Report to the Jianguo, the cave in Yifengmen has been dug almost." Zhuang Yan came to report quickly, and Zhu Yicheng was immediately overjoyed when he heard this.

"When can it be blasted?"

"The cave can be completed tonight, but it will take some time to bury gunpowder, and the troops need to cover the city during operation."

"Okay!" Zhu Yicheng felt relieved. The Battle of Jinling is now the third day. The news from the Navy was that the Qing army had begun to assemble many teams in Jiangbei to try to break the Yangtze River defense line to support Jinling. In addition, Su Song's Qing army was also uncertain, and the situation in Wenzhou was struggling to support it. If Jinling cannot be taken down as soon as possible, once there is a change, it will not only be wasted, but it will also lead to the collapse of the Ming army chain.

The Battle of Jinling is of great significance to Zhu Yicheng. The faster the Jinling is, the greater the advantage the Ming army has gained. Therefore, the Battle of Jinling cannot last long, so since the war started, Zhu Yicheng and the General Staff have determined the tactics of taking down Jinling in the shortest time, and using gunpowder to explode the city wall is an important means.

Since the war started, the Ming army's strong attack on Jinling has suffered a lot of casualties, and it also put great pressure on the Qing army in the city. At the same time, during the siege, the Ming army's preparation for blasting operations outside Yifeng Gate has been underway. Now the ground hole is about to be dug, and Zhu Yi has also prepared seven coffins full of gunpowder to blast the city wall. Then, when the time comes, they will send these guys to the ground hole and then ignite the fire.

When the sky gradually brightened on the second day, Zhu Yicheng, who was dressed in an neatly dressed place, looked at the towering city wall not far away.

Today, it was time to see the truth. Zhu Yicheng took a deep breath. The lingering smell of blood and the thick smoke in the air made Zhu Yicheng's blood boil involuntarily.

"attack!"

Slowly pulling out the gorgeous sword from his waist, Zhu Yicheng held the sword and waved it hard towards Jinling City. As the direction pointed by his sword, the surrounding Ming troops instantly made a burst of shouts like a sea of ​​shouts, and teams of Ming troops began an attack more violently than in the previous few days.

After about two hours, the battle of the city was repelled by the Qing army on the city. However, Zhu Yicheng was not depressed. On the contrary, he showed a sneer on his lips, because while sieging the city, the seven coffins filled with gunpowder had been sent to the cave under the city wall and the fuse was installed.

He looked at Zhuang Yan on the side. When he saw Zhuang Yan nodding to him that everything was ready, Zhu Yicheng issued an order to ignite without hesitation.

At the top of the city wall, the exhausted Qing army was hurrying to rest and preparing to deal with another attack from the Ming army. However, they waited for a long time and there was no movement. You should know that the Ming army's attacks were almost wave after wave these days, but today it seemed a little strange.

A hundred household couldn't help but hide behind the female wall and look out, but he did not see the Ming army outside the city posing as an attacking posture. On the contrary, the Ming army retreated a little from its original position, and all the Ming army was arranged in an orderly team, as if waiting for something quietly.

"What's going on?" Baihu wondered, did the Ming army see that they can't take Jinling and are ready to retreat? This shouldn't be! The other party has obviously gained the upper hand, although he hopes to defend Jinling, judging by the Ming army's military force, it's only a matter of time before the other party breaks Jinling City. Could it be that something happened to the Ming army?

Just as Baihu was thinking about whether to report to Shangfeng immediately, he suddenly heard a loud noise, and then he felt his whole body suddenly fly up, and vaguely seemed to hear bursts of exclamations everywhere, and then he didn't know anything...

When the fuse burned to the end, it was as stern as death. Just when Zhu Yicheng thought the explosion failed, the whole earth trembled violently like a dragon turning over, and the dull rumbling sound was coming from the horizon, getting closer and louder...

Standing in the distance, I saw the solid city wall as if the building blocks built by a child were instantly removed from the foundation. Several large walls collapsed suddenly without warning, and huge city bricks fell down one by one. At the same time, the overwhelming smoke and dust rose, directly covering the entire Yifeng Gate...

After a while, when the smoke gradually retreated, the towering Yifeng Gate was about to collapse, and the Yifeng Gate had collapsed three feet long after the explosion of the city wall. Not only were the Qing troops who were defending that city wall all killed, but even the nearby Qing troops also suffered heavy casualties under such a violent explosion.

"The whole army attacks! Take down Jinling! Ten thousand victories!"
Chapter completed!