Li Tianyuan was also dizzy by the collision. It took him a long time to come back. After hearing the words of the enemy who was suppressed by him, he was unable to believe it, and then he was ecstatic: "I captured Lang Tingzuo, I captured Lang Tingzuo!"

...

At several city gates in the south of Nanjing, each guard saw the overwhelming defeated soldiers rushing towards the city wall. After the two thousand Zhejiang troops who arrived early launched an attack, the already chaotic Qing army collapsed without any suspense, and they trampled on each other. The green camps from various prefectures and counties did not know each other, and they did not know how many Ming troops were attacking them, nor who was friendly and who was the enemy around them. They only knew to run towards Nanjing, and as long as they could run into the city, it would be safe.

But at this time, all the city gates were closed and the suspension bridges were closed. The soldiers who ran to the city wall begged for a long time. Seeing that the city gate guards were still indifferent, they jumped into the moat and tried to swim to the other side, but the water in the moat would not be filled. The shore was about one person higher than the water surface. Even if they swim to the other side, these soldiers could not climb to the ashore.

The soldiers who fell into the water struggled in vain in the river, using their fingernails to pick the soil on the river bank, desperately trying to get ashore. As the Ming army chased forward, more Qing soldiers jumped into the water in despair. Many soldiers squeezed into groups on the shore, most of them were stepped under the water. Several crawled onto their companions and touched the riverside on the heads of others.

"Shoot, shoot arrows!" Seeing this, the guard at the city gate immediately issued a loud order. No one knew what was going on outside the city, but the city gate could not be misunderstood.

After receiving the order, the defenders poured arrows down without hesitation. Anyone who attempted to approach the city gate was a threat to the city gate and would be killed without hesitation.

In addition to bows and arrows, there were wood and stones. The defeated soldiers who worked hard to escape from the moat pulled their necks in front of the city and shouted, asking the defenders to let them enter the city, but only more bows and arrows and wood and stones were answered. In the end, all of these lucky ones fell around the city.

The subsequent Ming army had arrived, and tens of thousands of Qing troops were driven to a very small range by the Ming army's cavalry, and then forced into the moat by the Ming army's infantry.

After disarming the surrendered enemy, the Ming army retreated and silently watched the enemies who refused to surrender struggle in the moat, and watched Nanjing throw death on the heads of these enemies. The heads in the moat began to become sparse as time went by, and the struggle and cry for help became more and more shrill and more desperate.

"Drop some ropes at the position where the city gate cannot attack," Deng Ming had been watching, but as the passion during the battle gradually faded, the shouts from the moat began to make him feel palpitations: "If you are willing to climb up, please lock them up together."

"Affect the order."

After sending troops to supervise the prisoners to build camp fortifications, Deng Ming once again rode his horse to the Zhejiang Army:

"In just four hours, the 30,000 Tartar soldiers gathered between Dasheng Pass and Nanjing were destroyed, ten times more powerful than ours, and were swept away by the warriors of Zhejiang."

"Warriors, let us roar. From now on, we will be the eternal nightmare in the hearts of the Tartars." Deng Ming raised his sword toward Kong: "Long live the Ming Dynasty!"

"Long live, long live!"

"Long live the Ming Dynasty!"

The Zhejiang soldiers also shouted in unison, and the city opposite them was silent as if dead.

Tens of thousands of enemy soldiers who surrendered were placed in several camps to monitor. Deng Ming returned to the camp, and the guards brought the Governor of Liangjiang over, and the one who escorted him was the proud Li Tianyuan.

Now Li Tianyuan's name has spread throughout the army. Everyone who meets him in person will call him a hero admiration. When talking about him behind his back, he will also give a thumbs up and say: Hero. Even Deng Ming's guards will also praise Li Tianyuan's bravery with envy - in addition to Zhao Tianba who was extremely depressed.

"Governor Lang, I am Deng Ming." Deng Ming did not tie up Lang Tingzuo, but instead gave him a chair to sit on: "I want to ask Governor Lang about the captured soldiers of Yanping sanctuary."

...

Two days later, the city gates of Nanjing were still closed. In the city, 500 Hangzhou garrisons of the Eight Banners and the Thousands of Flagmen who survived the battle in Zhenjiang formed a supervision team. Each city gate was stationed with 100 flag soldiers to supervise the remaining Han army, the yamen runners in Nanjing and the urgently mobilized men to defend the city.

Outside the city, Deng Ming also completed the prisoner identification work and released the first batch of prisoners. Of course, these prisoners would not go to the moat to die, and set out on the way back home that day.

Early this morning, Li Laiheng rushed to Nanjing under the banner of the deputy general of Yuezhou, set up a water camp in the north of the Ming army camp, forming a horn in Nanjing.

At noon, Deng Ming came to Li Laiheng Camp to discuss the next military operation with him.

Before Deng Ming could speak, Li Laiheng first congratulated Deng Ming on his victory.

Deng Ming waved his hand modestly and thanked: "It's not an open match, and it's not a great martial arts. Now that the tiger coach is here, you can consider fighting the Tartars in a dignified manner."

Li Laiheng nodded and said yes, but he didn't believe it. He thought: "If the admiral wanted to fight in a dignified manner, why would he still want me to be the deputy general of Yuezhou?"

"Don't you know if the Tartar navy in Wuhu is back?" Deng Ming asked: "I originally wanted to retreat, but now I'm not in a hurry to leave."

"I'm back, I'll probably arrive tonight." Li Laiheng replied. After Lang Tingzuo was captured, the prefect of Jiangning lit all the beacons and sent countless envoys to send emergency help to all sides. Li Laiheng set off immediately after receiving the news. He estimated that although the other Qing troops in Wuhu were not as quick as they were, they would set off for Nanjing within half a day.

"Well, the Husband might as well arrange the water camp more compactly." Deng Ming immediately made a suggestion, asking Li Laiheng to help the Qing army navy prepare the camp in advance, but the wooden stakes for the ducts should be denser and the tents should not be divided too much.

"I understand. The Tartars in Wuhu rushed over and saw that I already had a ready-made parking lot and a camp where the walls were built. They would definitely come and live together without risking being robbed by the admiral." Li Laiheng nodded and slandered: "You just said you would fight in a dignified manner."

Li Laiheng asked tentatively: "Does the admiral plan to burn the Red Cliff?"

"The tiger coach knows my heart." Deng Ming laughed and said, "In addition to burning the Red Cliff, there are also burning the camps."

Seeing the arrival of various navy troops from Wuhu, the Nanjing defenders suddenly felt like they were clearing the clouds and seeing the sun, but that night, they fell into despair again. The Yangtze River seemed to be burning, and the fire in the camp by the river soared into the sky. Looking at the red-burning river outside the city, the prefect Jiangning felt as if he had seen the underworld.

"Surrender, or not?" The prefect supported the battlements, stared at the firelights everywhere, and repeatedly muttered for a night. If it weren't for seeing the flag soldiers on the city gate, the prefect wouldn't know what actions he would have done.

When the red light shone across the sky, the flag residents in Nanjing were sleepless all night. After the war in Zhenjiang, most of the residents in the city were already orphans and widows, and the surviving men also went to the city to guard and had no time to go home. The women in the city tried their best to comfort the children who cried because of the strange color of the sky. Although they didn't know what was going on outside the city, they also knew that this was mostly a bad omen that was unfavorable to the Qing court.

Overnight, the Qing navy in Jiangxi and Nanjing was gone. The green camp that came from Jiangxi and the few elite troops around Nanjing were gone. The only thing they could expect was Guan Qizhong on the way back to the army, Jiang Guozhu's army, and the two of them were dismissed from their official positions the day after Lang Tingzuo was captured. They were ordered to take their headquarters back to Nanjing to wait for the Governor of Liangjiang to be defeated.

Li Laiheng, whose identity was exposed, also reopened the Kuidong Army flag and joined the army with Deng Ming.

...

Two more days later, Beijing.

Shunzhi threw down the newly arrived Nanjing urgent report and sighed weakly: "Hong Chengchou's strategy is simply a problem. He shouldn't have been eliminated and attacked the southwest before occupying the Three Gorges. Now the elite of the imperial court is in the southwest. Huguang and the southeast are so empty. If I were a gangster and a thief, I would definitely have to fight out."

"Hong Chengchou is indeed stupid and ruined the emperor's major affairs." Sony said hatefully. In the past few months, the culprit was the Changsha Shogunate. Hong Chengchou's planning was full of loopholes and he did not notice the threat from the Three Gorges at all.

"If the King of Pingxi wants to give up Guizhou, what will I have to compensate him?" Shunzhi asked softly.

"I'm afraid... I'm afraid it's inevitable." Oboi said that and then hurriedly added: "Master, but now the distance water cannot quench the near thirst."

"Yes, I understand, I don't know if Guan Xiaozhong and Jiang Guozhu have returned to Nanjing. I send an urgent report to Nanjing. Jiang Guozhu will be restored to his post. Guan Xiaozhong. Let me lead the admiral of Jiangning first and tell them that as long as I keep Nanjing, I will not blame him."

"After the order, the emperor."

"There is also Liang Huafeng, tell him not to rush to rectify the Ma army and bring all the troops from Suzhou back to Nanjing immediately."

...

Hangzhou Bay, on the sea near Wusongkou.

Zheng Chenggong looked at the sea level from afar. Although the Fujian army withdrew from the Yangtze River and drove towards Zhoushan one after another, they would stop there and return to Fujian. He himself stayed in the back team, unremittingly investigating the situation of Yu Xin and Gan Hui, always hoping that a miracle would happen and that the two of them could escape.

At the same time, Zheng Chenggong also tried to persuade Ma Fengzhi to leave with him, but let Zheng Chenggong repeatedly persuade him, Ma Fengzhi always imagined that the Qing court might not hold him accountable.

Six days ago, Ma Fengzhi finally went to Suzhou. Two days ago, Zheng Chenggong learned that Ma Fengzhi was arrested, so he made another attempt, hoping to persuade Ma Fengzhi's confidant to do so, but he also knew that there was little hope for this.

"It's time to leave." Zheng Chenggong watched the messenger's ship sail back. The information he found confirmed many times that Gan Hui and Yu Xin were both captured. Ma Fengzhi's subordinates had no heads and people were in panic. Anyway, the possibility was slim. The Qing army would soon start to clean up Wusong's horse troops, and there was nothing left to do.

"King, Nanjing beacon fire!" After the envoy jumped onto the ship, he excitedly handed over several mansion reports to Zheng Chenggong.

"Why are there any beacons in Nanjing?" Zheng Chenggong opened the information secretly transferred by the horse department in confusion, and after taking a few glances, his fingers trembled slightly due to excitement.

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