Zhang Huangyan, who had already entered the outer city of Nanjing from the upper gate and walked to the upper bridge of the Daxiaochang, heard that Zhou Shixiang had entered the Zhengyang Gate. He was delighted and said to Luo Lun: "The Duke of the Kingdom has entered the inner city and the southern capital will be restored!"

On the bridge above, a large group of Taiping soldiers were rushing to Zhengyangmen. At the end of the team, an old soldier led a donkey across the bridge. There was a person sitting on the donkey, and Yue Le, the prince of Manzhou, was naked.

Yue Le's eyes were always closed all the time. He did not dare to open his eyes because he was afraid of seeing the Ming army ridiculed him, the foolish Han people, and the Qing officials in Jiangning City.

The veterans who drove the donkey to pull Yue Le into the city were full of grievances. The brothers all went to kill the Tartars for fun, but he wanted to serve the Tartars. The female donkey was too disobedient. He always refused to leave along the way. I don’t know if it was because the Tartars were heavy, so he spent all his strength on the female donkey. How could he have the strength to kill the Tartars later, and how could he have the strength to catch the Tartar women?

Seeing another city gate ahead with three big words he didn't recognize, the veteran couldn't help but shouted to the donkey on it: "Hey, that Tartar, open your eyes and see, we're entering Nanjing City. I'll pull you into the old Tartar nest later and ask those Tartar women to come and see you, the bare prince!"

Upon hearing this, Yue Le was shocked, and the veteran's words shattered his last glimmer of hope. He opened his eyes and saw the city gate where he once commanded the army with great enthusiasm.

The gate of Zhengyang is open, facing the city's Qing Gate. That gate was once called Hongwu Gate.

Yue Le cried.

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After the Taiping Army entered the city, the Bundesliga of the First Town was ordered to attack the Qing army's fortress position in the Yuhuatai City. Seeing that the Taiping Army had entered the outer city, there were also shouts of killing in the inner city. The road to the inner city was cut off by the Taiping Army. The defenders were frightened and knew that the situation was hopeless and no one dared to stay outside the city to die. So they abandoned artillery, ammunition and supplies, and fled in the Cangsheng Temple in the south of the city.

The first town B Brigade seized the important land of Yuhuatai without any loss of one soldier. He also divided his troops to guard the high grounds of Dabaoen Temple and other places, and used Qing army artillery to attack the Qing army at large and small Andemen, Fengtaimen, Shuangqiaomen, and Shining Xiangmen. The sound of cannons came from the Yuhuatai position. It was also heard that the Ming army had entered the city, and the Qing army in the south of the city was frightened. In addition, the main officials and ministers were called to Zhengyangmen by the governor's yamen and the governor's yamen. The soldiers were left without command. They were frightened for a moment and opened the city gates and fled outside the city.

According to the deployment before the war, except for the first town, the C-business controls the south of the city, the A-B-2-business controls the east of the city; the A-B-2-business controls the west of the city, the A-B-2-business controls the north of the city. The Sixth and Fifteenth towns, the three soldiers of the New Town mainly attacked the inner city.

The four gates of Jubao Gate, Yifeng Gate, Han Xi Gate, and Chaoyang Gate are the main gates of Nanjing inner city. After Zhou Shixiang led his troops to control Zhengyang Gate, he immediately ordered each unit to go deep into the city, attacking in the four directions together, attacking north and south, and attacking east and west. Be sure to control the four main gates of Nanjing inner city.

For a moment, there was a chaos in the inner city of Nanjing, and shouting of killing came from Jimen Jingfuxue, Pingshi Street, Taiping Street to Xiaoxiaochang, and Chengxian Street, Beimen Bridge, Chaotian Palace to Qingliang Mountain, and the bell and drum tower. The Qing army was attacked at all the main strongholds in the inner city, and all the soldiers were flooded in by soldiers and generals. When they saw the officials, they were killed.

Zhou Shixiang was a little regretful for not being able to attack Mancheng in one fell swoop. But this matter cannot be blamed for the slow progress of the soldiers, but the city was guarded by a large army. After hearing the movements of the inner city, he immediately closed the gates of the city, causing the Taiping Army who arrived later to sigh.

Because the inner city has not been controlled and there are many Qing troops in the outer city, Zhou Shi ordered the 15th town to divide the troops to guard Mancheng strictly, cut off the connection between the city and the outside of the city, and not let one person out of the city go out, so as to isolate the city before completely controlling the inner and outer cities of Nanjing. As long as the soldiers in the city cannot meet with the Qing army outside the city, the Qing army outside the city cannot retreat to the defense of the city, then this lonely city with only Manzhou people will inevitably fall.

The sudden entry of the Taiping Army into the city made the Qing army in the city very frightened. From time to time, the Qing army guarding the city set off artillery to boost their courage. Before the Qing army stationed at Jubao Gate even saw a Ming army coming, they fired all the artillery in the city, and never stopped for a moment. When they really saw the Taiping Army appearing in the city, the thousands of kilograms of gunpowder piled on the city had been consumed.

The Qing army defended the city was decisive. If the Taiping Army had attacked the city outside, he would have been able to hold on to the end. However, the Taiping Army had already attacked the city and came from behind the city. He was not a god, so how could he move all the cannons from the other side to this side at once? In addition, the city was scattered with medicine, and even if the cannons were moved over, it would be empty and could not hurt anyone. So the Qian Zheng immediately brought people down to the city gate. Before the Taiping Army arrived in the distance, he led his subordinates to kneel down and surrender.

Zhu Guozhi and Lang Tingzuo's big flattery not only ruined the civil and military officials in Nanjing, but also destroyed the command center of 20,000 defenders in Nanjing. With most of the generals above the garrison and the Taiping Army had already attacked the inner city, most of the Qing troops in the city chose to surrender. Only a few Han officers wanted to resist to the end, but most of the soldiers under his command no longer obeyed the orders, so-called "the soldiers cannot obey!"

The king of Ma Yaozi, Fuchen, rushed to Sanshan Street within Sanshanmen and collided with a Qing army that was about to leave the city. The two sides fought together, and the Qing army was killed and injured. The king of Fuchen took advantage of the situation to seize Sanshanmen and then divided the Qinhuai River and advanced northward, blocking the Qing army from the city, killing hundreds of people, and forcing more than a thousand people to surrender.

The city defense system of the Qing army in Nanjing had collapsed and panic was everywhere. Lu Dayuan, the prefect of Jiangning who was lucky enough to not go to Zhengyangmen for official business, was so scared that he was so scared that he was in a 4-person green carriage sedan chair. He was led by a brave and brave man, trying to escape into the city to protect himself. Unexpectedly, the soldiers in the city refused to accept Lu Dayuan and his entourage. The soldiers in the city asked him to recruit troops to fight back against the Taiping Army.

Lu Dayuan had no courage to organize his troops to fight back. At the moment, the city was in chaos, and it was a great blessing that he could run to the city. He begged to open the door, but the soldiers on the city refused to respond. Lu Dayuan had no choice but to escape again, but this time the brave servants did not dare to ask for the magistrate's heavy reward. He threw the sedan chair and fled everywhere. When Lu Dayuan fled to the small camp, he was captured on the spot by a team of Taiping soldiers.

By evening, the Taiping Army had already controlled all the gates of Nanjing's inner city, and there were still small-scale battles in the outer city, but they could no longer affect the overall situation.

Zhou Shixiang ordered the Han people in the inner city to draw red circles on the walls of their homes, and the number of people in their homes was marked with red circles. Ten people would draw ten circles, and five people would draw five circles. If there were more paintings and fewer paintings, once it was found out, they would all be executed for the crimes of Tartars and Tibetans.

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The bones couldn't bear it anymore, so I went to bed first. Wake up and continued to work hard.
Chapter completed!