Chapter 341 Block Nanjing!

Zhang Zhun raised the thousand-mile mirror and looked at the southwest. The outer Jinchuan Gate was broken, and the Ming army that went out of the city to fight was also defeated. However, it was impossible to truly attack Nanjing City. Because, in front of him, there was a huge obstacle in the southwest: Lion Mountain.

The Lion Mountain in the north of Nanjing City is the support point for defense in the northern part of Nanjing City, with a large number of artillery guns on it. Now Nanjing City should be fully mobilized and fully armed, right? The artillery guns on the Lion Mountain should be in place. I wonder how fierce the artillery fire in Lion Mountain is? It seems that it is necessary for me to try it myself.

"Let's go, let's look ahead!"

Zhang Zhun waved.

Zhang Youcai and Zhou Yanyu hurriedly followed behind.

Soon, Lion Mountain appeared in front of them. Lion Mountain is actually not high, and its relative height may be less than 30 feet (the actual altitude of Lion Mountain is 78.4 meters), but when it is surrounded by plains, its location is the absolute commanding height.

"Bangbangbangbang!"

"Bangbangbangbang!"

"Bangbangbangbang!"

Before Zhang Zhun could lift up the thousand-mile mirror, there was a fierce sound of cannons in the direction of Lion Mountain.

Sure enough, there were a large number of cannons on the top of Lion Mountain. When Zhang Zhun and the others were found in sight, the cannons on Lion Mountain opened fire without hesitation. A series of solid shells fell in front of Zhang Zhun and others, smashing pits in front of the grassland. Some solid shells even kept rolling along the slope, like bowling balls. Fortunately, Zhang Zhun and the others were still outside the range. If Zhang Zhun and the others continued to get closer, there would be more shells.

Zhang Zhun held up a thousand-mile mirror and carefully observed the shelling situation. Soon, he inferred that there were more than fifty cannons on the top of Lion Mountain alone. Moreover, these were just exposed cannons that opened fire. No one knew how many of those unfired or unexposed cannons were. Nanjing City was once the capital of the Ming Empire, and it must have been very strict when it was deployed. Ma Yi's Maoyans seemed to be necessary to set up a stronghold in Nanjing City to find out the details of Nanjing City's defense.

Zhang Youcai and Zhou Yanyu both frowned quietly. They also saw that even if the Hu Ben Army became stronger in the future, and if they wanted to attack Nanjing City from here, Shi Zi Mountain was still a huge obstacle. If the Hu Ben Army did not have enough artillery and suppressed the Ming army's cannons in the direction of Shi Zi Mountain, the attacking troops would definitely have to suffer huge casualties.

"Let's go!"

Zhang Zhun said silently.

The group quietly retreated.

The sound of cannons in the direction of Lion Mountain gradually stopped.

Zhang Zhun didn't know that when he was observing Lion Mountain, there were also many people gathered above Lion Mountain, waiting for his appearance. Their faces were a little stiff, and their cheeks were red by the cold wind, and some were frozen and even stomped their feet. They were usually big men who were pampered and had their feet blown by such a strong cold wind? However, no matter how cold they were, they would not dare to leave without authorization.

These people include Zhang Yixian, the eunuch of Nanjing governor, Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor, Lu Jiude, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, Ma Shiying, the Minister of War of Nanjing, Xu Yunjue of Wei, Baoguo Duke, Zhang Gongri, Zhang Gongri, Li Zushu, the Marquis of Linhuai, Sun Weicheng, Tang Guozuo, Anyuan Marquis, Liu Zuochang, Yongchang Marquis, Xu Hongjue of Dingyuan Marquis, Deng Wenyou, Xiangcheng Marquis, Chang Yingjun, Daxing Marquis, Zou Cunyi, Ningjin Marquis, Liu Yunji, Nanhe Bo Fang Yiyuan, Dongning Marquis, Jiao Mengxiong, Ancheng Marquis, Zhang Guocai, Luozhong Marquis, Huang Jiuding, Cheng'an Bo Guozuo, Guo Zuoyong, etc.

It can be said that all the powerful figures in the entire Nanjing city are waiting for his arrival here. Such a welcoming ceremony may only have such specifications when the emperor arrives in person. Even if the cabinet chief minister arrives, there is no such specification. Because the cabinet chief minister can only manage the civil service group, and there is no binding force on the eunuch system, as well as the system of honorary ministers and powerful officials.

"Will Zhang Zhun attack now?"

"When will Zhang Zhun launch an attack?"

"Where will Zhang Zhun's main attack direction be?"

This is the main problem that lingers in the minds of all the powerful.

Unfortunately, they never saw Zhang Zhun's shadow. Zhang Zhun's cannons were still bombarding Nanjing City. The sound of cannons seemed to mock their timidity, cowardice and incompetence. However, Zhang Zhun who they were waiting for never appeared. It seemed that Zhang Zhun had quietly disappeared.

Zhang Zhun, where is he?

Zhang Yixian, Ma Shiying, Zhao Zhilong, look at me, and look at you, there was no answer. However, they were sure that Zhang Zhu did not leave the surroundings of Nanjing City. Yes, they could feel the heavy pressure Zhang Zhu brought to them. Zhang Zhu was still nearby.

The question is, where is Zhang Zhun?

...

After evacuating the cannon range of Shizi Mountain, Zhang Zhun and others returned to the riverside.

Except for the soldiers responsible for continuing to fire, all the other troops of the Hu Ben Army retreated. The one who returned the latest was the sniper team led by Liu Jixiang. After Zhang Zhun asked, he learned that they had actually gone to Xuanwu Lake. It turned out that Feng Wei's sniper team accidentally caught Shi Kefa, and Liu Jixiang also wanted to follow his example and also arrested a member of the Ming army to come back. However, unfortunately, when they arrived at Xuanwu Lake, they found that the surroundings were empty and there was no one.

Zhang Zhun shook his head and said with a smile: "Aren't you talking nonsense? There's a war outside, who dares to go out to Xuanwu Lake to play? Are you desperate?"

Of course, Liu Jixiang and the others did not have any gains at all. While retreating from Xuanwu Lake, they caught a Ming cavalry running out of the city near Shence Gate. Liu Jixiang shot him and shot the other party from the horse's back. Behind the cavalry, they found a bamboo tube containing letters. Unfortunately, the five of them knew the words, and felt that the letter might be more important, so they rushed back.

"This is a document of help from Nanjing City to Yangzhou Prefecture."

After reading the letter, Zhang Zhun said slowly.

The content in the document is mainly to request the salt merchants of Yangzhou Prefecture to quickly send salt merchants to Nanjing City to help fight and disperse Zhang Zhun. The salt merchants in Yangzhou City are rich enough to compete with the country. For their own safety and the need to protect official salt, they have a lot of salt cooks under their command and their equipment is quite good. Since these salt cooks are usually paid and have more benefits, their fighting enthusiasm is higher than that of the ordinary Ming army. Therefore, when Ma Shiying and others mobilized reinforcements, they took all these salt cooks into consideration.

There must be more than one letter of help from Nanjing City. In other words, although Liu Jixiang and the others intercepted a messenger from the Ming army, other messengers could safely deliver the letter to Yangzhou. Therefore, if there were no accidents, the salt merchants in Yangzhou would have sent salt dippers to join the war. As for when these salt dippers will set off, how many people will be there, it is still impossible to speculate.

In fact, in addition to the salt merchants in Yangzhou, Nanjing City should have sent documents for help to other areas. There are still many garrisons around Nanjing City. For example, Taiping Prefecture (Dangtu) not far to the west, there is a Jianyang Guard with relatively strong troops. After receiving the documents for help, Jianyang Guard should also send troops. I believe that in a few days, all kinds of troops will gather around Nanjing City. However, when they arrived, Zhang Zhun had already led his troops and flew away.

"Sir... let's... just withdraw like this?"

Zhang Youcai asked with a hint of reluctance.

Zhou Yanyu, Fang He, Liu Dong and others were all listening carefully, waiting for Zhang Zhun's decision. To be honest, they were indeed unwilling to go back like this. The reason is very simple, it seems that they are not very satisfied yet! After all, the Ming army is not a Tartar, and they are not strong enough to fight!

"Are you willing to leave now?"

Zhang Zhun asked with a smile.

Zhang Youcai and others licked their lips hard. Of course, they were reluctant to retreat just like this, but their number was indeed too small to attack Nanjing City. Since they could not attack Nanjing City, they had to withdraw. Otherwise, what would they do if they stay here? Will the Ming army waiting for all directions to surround themselves?

Zhang Zhun smiled unfathomablely and said deeply: "Although we can't fight into Nanjing City, it's still OK to surround Nanjing City!"

Fang He asked curiously: "Sir, how do we surround Nanjing City?"

Zhang Zhun said confidently: "The whole city of Nanjing has been martial law, and all the city gates are closed! I now ask you to go to each city gate, and release guns from time to time to scare them! If the shooting skills are good, it would be even better if you can knock down one or two enemies on the city wall!"

Zhang Youcai's eyes shining and said excitedly: "They must have thought that reinforcements have arrived. I think they will definitely be so nervous that they can't even sleep."

Zhang Zhun nodded and said slowly: "Yes, it's just to create an illusion for the enemy. No matter what they think, it's just not to let them go out of the city. As for whether they can sleep, that's their problem, we don't care."

The officers were very interested.

Only Zhang Zhun could think of such an idea when he attacked Nanjing City. The Hu Ben Army was indeed not strong enough, but blocking several city gates was completely possible. Each city gate was arranged with a dozen people, and it was easy to cooperate with snipers. As long as the defenders in the city could not leave the city, and even spies dared to leave the city, they would definitely make many wrong judgments. Anyway, true, false, false, and true, so that the defenders in the city could not judge the real situation, and the Hu Ben Army had more opportunities.

Zhang Zhun continued: "It's time! It's a limit of three days! After three days, all troops must return to the Outer Jinchuan Gate! No matter what changes occur in Nanjing City during these three days, we must retreat!"

Zhang Youcai and others said in unison: "Okay!"

Zhang Zhun said again: "Working abroad, we should pay more attention to discipline and not ruin the image of our Hu Ben Army. I will not emphasize this, you must strictly enforce it. Otherwise, we will be punished strictly without lending!"

Zhang Youcai and others all said there was no problem.

Zhang Zhun immediately assigned tasks to each unit. Among them, Zhou Yanyu's team was responsible for Chaoyang Gate, Zhengyang Gate, Taiping Gate in the east of the city, Zhang Youcai's team was responsible for Tongji Gate, Jubao Gate, Sanshan Gate in the south of the city, Fang He's team was responsible for Dinghuai Gate, Shicheng Gate, Qingliang Gate in the west of the city, Liu Dong's team was responsible for Tiefeng Gate, Zhongfu Gate, Jinchuan Gate, and Shence Gate in the north of the city. As for the ten sniper teams, they were mobilized and went to reinforce wherever the situation occurred.

"Do you understand?"

Zhang Zhun said slowly.

"I understand everything!"

The officers answered loudly.

"Okay, let's go and prepare separately!"

Zhang Zhun waved his hand and said.

The officers all dispersed and rushed to the battlefield separately.

It was a big challenge to block the entire Nanjing city with 300 people, and everyone felt very exciting. In ancient Chinese history, there was probably no such combat precedent! It was unprecedented to have doubts about the military plan, and it was suspected that there were less than 300 people. However, isn’t it because there was never such a precedent before that everyone felt the novelty?

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Soon, various teams and sniper teams arrived at the designated position. The scattered gunshots continued to sound. The soldiers of the Hu Ben Army were shooting at a distance of about thirty or forty feet. If the Ming army on the top of the city was accidentally hit by the sudden Minnie bomb.

"Bangbangbangbang!"

"Bangbangbangbang!"

"Bangbangbangbang!"

The defenders on the top of the city did not dare to neglect them and rushed to fire and fought back.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

At the same time, they kept firing a clamp gun outside, regardless of whether they could hit the enemy. All the defending officers asked their soldiers to keep firing. On the one hand, they were to prevent the enemy from approaching, and on the other hand, they were purely to give themselves courage.

The people in Nanjing were hiding at home and heard the sound of guns and cannons coming from all directions, and they became even more frightened. In fact, these guns and cannons were all emitted by the defenders themselves, and there were very few guns from the Hu Ben Army. However, for ordinary people, how could they tell whether it was the enemy or the gunshots of the defenders themselves? When they heard such fierce gunshots, they had only one judgment, that is: there were many enemies outside the city!

In the same situation, the same is true for the Qinhuai River next to Nanjing City. Whether it was Ji Yuqing or Gu Hengbo, the news he received was Zhang Zhun's troops, who were launching fierce attacks on Nanjing City from all directions. Ji Yuqing was naturally more surprised and unbelievable, but Gu Hengbo was more and more mixed emotions and more annoyed Zhang Zhun.

"There are enemies in Chaoyang Gate!"

"There are enemies in Zhengyang Sect!"

"There are enemies in Taiping Gate!"

"There are enemies in Jubaomen!"

...

Countless information was summarized to Ma Shiying.

Ma Shiying's face suddenly turned as big as a fight, and his face turned gray.

In order to show their bravery, the defenders of each city gate used words such as 3,000 or 5,000 to measure the number of enemies in the information they sent. Even the city gates reported that there were tens of thousands of enemies in front of them. The total number of enemies reported by more than a dozen city gates was more than 80,000! Although Ma Shiying knew that there was a lot of water inside, he could not help but be frightened. God, even if there was 90% of water here, that was a great thing!

It's finished!
To be continued...