After the attack was frustrated, Feng Zicai quickly led his troops and horses to retreat, and after a while, Chen Bingwen led the front division to rush over, and also brought more than 50 small-caliber field guns.The two divisional headquarters attacked from the flanks of the hillside, covering them with artillery fire from field guns in the middle.With only one charge, the Taiping army quickly abandoned its position and retreated to the city below the mountain.After rushing to the top of the hill, the front and rear divisions quickly settled down in Tianbao City, waiting for the arrival of the new 1st Division and the Right Division.Tianbao City is condescending, and the movement of soldiers and horses in the city is also clearly visible.After a large number of rebel troops in the city spread outside the city, Chen Bingwen decisively ordered the cannon to be fired, and the rebel army immediately retreated into the city.Three days later, Zhang Zongyu's new 1st Division and Gu Yunfei's Right Division also arrived at Tianbao City quickly, and at the same time brought Xu Sanduo's mortar battalion over.Xu Sanduo made great contributions in the first battle of Huzhou City, and after returning to Suzhou, Qiao Zhiqing promoted him to battalion commander and equipped the mortar battalion with nearly 200 mortars.This was the first large-scale coordinated operation of the Qing Army, and several divisions and headquarters also acted in accordance with Qiao Zhiqing's orders.After Xu Sanduo arranged the firing position in the Tianbao City, he launched a dense artillery fire covering the city wall under the mountain as soon as it was dark.Mortars are not field guns that can only fire iron balls, and after a bomb explodes, countless shrapnel will fly with it.Where have the Taiping troops defending the city wall seen this kind of artillery, after a round of intensive shooting, the Taiping troops defending the city wall fled to death, and soon no one was seen.This is also to blame Li Xiucheng, after the news of his army leaving spread, the soldiers in the city were panicked and had no fighting spirit for a long time, even when Feng Zicai and Chen Bingwen attacked Tianbao City, it was also because of this incident.Otherwise, it would not be easy for the defenders of Tianbao City to hold on to it to the death, and it would not be easy to take this natural military fortress.The new first division and the right division took the opportunity to launch an attack on Taipingmen, although the yellow explosives were difficult to make, but the black gunpowder in the armory was piled up, Qiao Zhiqing asked the ordnance institute to make hundreds of gunpowder bags weighing 20 catties for Zhang Zongyu, and Zhang Zongyu made all of them pile up in Taipingmen.With the sound of the sky shaking, the Taiping Gate and the city wall were blown open more than 20 meters wide, and a gap was opened in the inner city of Nanjing.On the same day, Zeng Guoquan and Rong Lu also launched a fierce attack on Nanjing City, they didn't expect the Qing Zi Army to pick up a bargain at this time, thinking that the Qing Zi Army was here to grab credit, and they all wanted to take Nanjing City down quickly.But surprisingly, it was fiercely resisted by the Taiping army, and it had no effect at all until dark.The sacred treasury of Nanjing City is located on Shengzhou Road, which was the palace of Xu Dazhi, the king of Zhongshan in the early Ming Dynasty, and later made the residence of Yao Youmei, a wealthy merchant in Tongcheng.After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom entered Nanjing, it was made the general treasury of the Celestial Empire.From the Taiping Gate to the west is the location of the Holy Treasury, there are no people on the street at this time, scattered corpses rolled to the ground and no one cleaned up, a gust of north wind blew, raising puffs of dust, like hell on earth.After the new 1st Division and the Right Division penetrated all the way to the Shengku, they only encountered resistance from two or three small forces, and basically did not even see a regular army.On the contrary, the soldiers who guarded the gate of the sacred treasury took the initiative to lead the way for the Qing army, and led them all the way to the cellar and treasury where the gold and silver were stored.Zhang Zongyu's new division took the initiative to camp more than 30 miles on this passage and started defense.Gu Yunfei's right division pulled the carriage and transported the treasury silver outside the city one by one.The news of the breach of the Taiping Gate soon spread throughout the city, but the various city gates were entangled by the soldiers and horses of the Hunan army and the Eight Banners and could not get out, so they had to let the Qingzi army enter the city.Hong Renji had even retreated to the Heavenly King's Mansion with more than a thousand people, ready to make the final blow.When everyone felt that the city of Nanjing was about to be breached, the city was still as calm as before, and the Qing army had no intention of attacking other places except for occupying the Holy Treasury.This incident also made Zeng Guoquan and Rong Lu depressed and almost vomited blood, thinking that the Qingzi army had entered the city, and under the combination of the inside and the outside, Nanjing City was taken for a while, but the Qingzi army only knew that they were looting gold and silver in the city, and there was no sign of fighting with the Taiping army at all.Hong Renji also guessed Qiao Zhiqing's thoughts at this time, so he no longer guarded against the Qingzi army in Taipingmen, and transferred all the soldiers to other city gates, specifically to deal with Rong Lu and Zeng Guoquan.The gold and silver of the sacred treasury were transported outside the city day and night for seven days in a hundred taels of wagons, and not a penny was left for the Taiping army.The Taiping army in the city was also broken by the Qing word army, they organized a counterattack several times, each time they were beaten by the strong firepower of the Qing word army, and finally watched the Qing word army transport all the gold and silver of the holy treasury.Seven days later, all the soldiers and horses deployed by the two divisions in the city withdrew from Nanjing, and the Taiping army inexplicably regained the Taiping Gate.But the overhead is the artillery of the Qingzi army deployed in Tianbao City, the soldiers and horses of the two sides have been watching for a long time, and there are brave veterans in the Taiping Army who hold a white flag on Zhongshan Mountain, and the Qingzi army is almost set up on Tianbao City, and by the way, rub some white flour steamed buns to eat.It doesn't matter if you inquire about this, as soon as the two sides talk about the details, most of the Qing troops defending on the mountain were all men and horses of the Taiping Army in the past, and even the commander on the mountain was Chen Bingwen, the king of the Taiping Army.This has further enhanced the relationship between the two families, and the soldiers of the Taiping army defending in the Taiping Gate simply did not make a fire to make a nest, and went to Tianbao City with white flags in waves, and then leisurely went down to the city to defend after eating.Qiao Zhiqing's order was originally to recruit the soldiers and horses in the city, as long as they didn't resist, anything could be discussed.Chen Bingwen and Feng Zicai were also happy and quiet, allowing the Taiping army and their soldiers to mess around.The famine in Nanjing has been raging for several months, and the news that the Qingzi army on Tianbao City is giving white flour steamed buns is spreading more and more, and the victims in the city are also taking advantage of the situation to flock out of the Taiping Gate.The Qingzi army in Tianbao City also did not refuse to come, and set up a special refugee relief camp on the other side of the mountain, as long as the victims who fled out of Nanjing City, all of them were distributed to white-flour steamed buns, and then they were organized in batches and moved to the defense area of the Qingzi army.The Qingzi army was stationed in Tianbao City for a month, and thousands of victims flocked out of the Taiping Gate every day, and the trend increased every day, and the Qingzi army actually received more than 100,000 victims in a month.Two months later, the dying King Hong finally came to the end of his life, even when he was the most sick, King Hong had to leave a harem concubine every night, he seemed to be determined to die in the gentle fragrance of beauty, and finally gathered the ministers before closing his eyes, and taught Hong Renji to take care of the affairs of Nanjing City.On the same day, the Hunan army and the Eight Banners Army, which had fought a "tunnel war" with the Taiping army for a month in the inner city, finally blew up the city gates, of course, this "tunnel war" was not Tibetans, but to dig tunnels outside the city to the city, ready to blow up the city wall with gunpowder.The Taiping army was inside the city, while organizing forces to dig outside the city and sabotage.On the one hand, the Moon City was constructed so that resistance could continue to be organized after the walls collapsed.On the day of King Hong's ascension, the gates of the city were finally breached, and the Hunan army and the Eight Banners army fought like hungry wild dogs into the city of Nanjing.The city of Nanjing once again ushered in the catastrophe since its founding, twelve years ago the Taiping army invaded the city and slaughtered a Manchu people, and the hundreds of thousands of Manchus in the city of Nanjing hardly left a single person.The Hunan Army and the Eight Banners Army were even more crazy this time, sprinkling all the stuffiness on the people in the city.From the beginning of entering the city, while fighting with the Taiping army in the city, he broke into the houses to burn, kill and loot, and burned wherever he went.By the evening of that day, the whole city had become a sea of fire, and smoke rose in dozens of places, and it was still in the air.In the following days, more than a dozen battalions of the Hunan army besieging the city of Nanjing rushed into Tianjing one after another, as if they were starting a crazy killing race.Except for the young woman, everyone who could move was all killed, even the old man and children, so that the long river with Qin Huai was blocked by corpses.Hong Renji had no power to return to heaven, so he took the remaining Taiping army and occupied and retreated, and finally poured out of the city from the Taiping Gate with the victims.Just three days after the city was broken, 300,000 Taiping troops and civilians poured out from the Taiping Gate.After the Qing army settled the people, the 200,000 soldiers and horses under Hong Renji also surrendered to Chen Bingwen and Feng Zicai, who were defending Tianbao City, and were all escorted to Suzhou by Chen Bingwen.After the Hunan army completely controlled the city of Nanjing, it sent more than 1,000 people to defend the Taiping Gate, strictly forbidding the people to leave the city.In broad daylight, they wantonly slashed and killed the defenseless people, and the young women who did not have time to leave the city were driven up to the wall of the Taiping Gate by demonstration, and under the noses of the Qing army, these weak women were indecent to a group, and the crazy killing has completely dehumanized these soldiers."
Bastard, how can these brutes do this" Feng Zicai looked down at the city tower with a telescope, and scolded bitterly at the atrocities of the Hunan army.If he still had a little bit of old affection for Zeng Guofan before, now he doesn't even have a point.He kept chanting in his heart what Qiao Zhiqing told him, "If the Manchu court is not destroyed, the world will never be peaceful." ”"Division Commander Feng, this is the true face of the Hunan Army, you have been leading troops to strangle our Taiping Army back then, but have you ever thought that the Hunan Army is the real group of brutes."
Chen Bingwen stood beside him and sighed faintly, he had experienced this kind of scene countless times before, and he was already used to it."
Senior Chen, at this time, you should find a way to save these people, but it's not the time to say cool things."
Feng Zicai paced down indignantly and glared at Chen Bingwen."
I've been waiting for Senior Commander Feng's words for a long time, the marshal asked us to capture Tianbao City, in order to leave a way for the people to live, since Senior Commander Feng also meant this, then let those beasts on the city wall suffer."
Chen Bingwen smiled, he couldn't help but want to give Xiangjun a little color.But after all, Feng Zicai was Zeng Guofan's subordinate at the beginning, and he also had to take Feng Zicai's feelings into account, and now it seems that even if he does something to the Xiang army, this partner has no opinion
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