At night, everything is quiet, and occasionally there is the sound of banging, followed by the chirping of insects in the grass.
On the Qilin Gate city wall, a lantern was set up every ten feet or so.
The weak light could barely illuminate the trenches under the city.
Beyond that, it was pitch black.
In order to prevent the enemy from attacking at night, Zhang Guoji, the guard of Qilin Gate, arranged for someone to be on duty and patrol continuously.
All soldiers and rural soldiers slept on the city wall and were not allowed to go down to the city.
The weather in May was quite hot, and it was quite cool to sleep on the city wall.
Mosquitoes were buzzing tirelessly in their ears, but the rural soldiers who had worked hard all day paid no attention to them and lay scattered on the top of the city, sleeping soundly.
"Cuckoo, cuckoo" a cuckoo's cry suddenly sounded outside the city.
The sound was very close to the city wall.
Chen Jianghe suddenly opened his eyes, gently pushed away Liu Neng's arm that was on his body, and slowly stood up.
Liu Neng also woke up, sat up carefully, and looked around.
When a group of patrolling soldiers walked away, Chen Jianghe quietly took off the lantern hanging on the crenel and waved it three times outside the city.
Then he held his breath and heard the slight sound of footsteps outside the city.
He took out an item and threw it outside the city.
He saw a white object crossing the crenel and quickly disappearing under the light of the lantern.
It made a slight "clack" sound when it landed.
After throwing the thing, Chen Jianghe immediately sat on the ground and closed his eyes.
Outside the city, in the darkness that could not be illuminated by the lanterns at the top of the city, a figure slowly walked over, bent over and groped on the ground, and soon touched something, and then slowly retreated until he was far enough away.
Just then he ran with all his strength.
After running for eight or nine miles, a large black camp appeared in front of them, which was the camp of Pingnan Army.
In the camp tent, Chen Yue stayed up all night, anxiously waiting for news.
He only had 15,000 troops in his hands, including more than 6,000 Zhenjiang soldiers, led by the supervisor Dao Chengxu.
With so many troops facing the largest city in the world, Chen Yue was not sure how to attack the city.
If more than 10,000 people were thrown into the city of Nanjing, which covers an area of hundreds of square kilometers, they would probably not even be able to bubble out.
Moreover, Chen Yue didn't even have any experience in how to attack a city.
Over the past year, although there have been countless battles, most of them were field battles, defensive battles, and real attacks, such as running thousands of miles to attack the Mongolian tribes.
But the Mongolian tribe had no walls or any defense at all.
With nothing to do recently, Chen Yue also read a lot of military books and knew how to attack the city, such as digging tunnels, attacking the city with ladder ants, using rams to break open the city gates, etc.
However, no matter what kind they are, they will engage in fierce fighting and will inevitably cause heavy casualties.
These are not what Chen Yue wants to see.
After all, with the small number of troops under his command, Chen Yue cannot afford any slight loss.
But can we attack the city without casualties?
Maybe we can.
We can only hope that the city will collapse without a fight and open the door to surrender.
This is what Chen Yue was waiting for.
After all, Chongzhen was the orthodox Ming Dynasty.
He had been the emperor for seventeen years.
Chen Yue did not believe that all the civil and military ministers in Nanjing were conquered by King Fu and abandoned their former king.
Although most civil and military ministers in the Ming Dynasty lacked integrity, they all rushed to surrender to powerful foreign enemies, such as Li Chuang and the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
But that was all because the enemy was too powerful and they lost the courage to resist.
But between King Fu and Chongzhen, the strength gap is not too huge, and Chongzhen clearly has the advantage, because the army supporting King Fu has been reduced to three parts, and Chongzhen still holds the title of righteousness.
Chen Yue does not believe that they will abandon Chongzhen. , willing to follow King Fu.
Maybe, without a war, someone will open the door and surrender "Master Marquis, there is news in the city."
Chen Yan opened the curtain at the door of the tent, walked in, and handed Chen Yue a piece of white cloth.
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Chen Yue took it and spread it out on the table.
He saw a few lines of writing crookedly written in charcoal on it.
Chen Yue looked carefully and saw that it was the handwriting of his father, Chen Jianghe.
The ancestors of the Chen family were once rich, and Chen Jianghe also attended private school for several years.
However, he was from a military family and did not need to know many words, so it was difficult to use this handwriting.
On the white cloth, Chen Jianghe simply said that he had persuaded the garrison of Qilin Gate to surrender and would open the door to surrender tomorrow morning.
At that time, the Pingnan Army would just enter the city through Qilin Gate.
After reading the information from his father, Chen Yue had a smile on his face.
Dad is dad.
Chen Yue was very pleased to have achieved such results in such a short time.
Early the next morning, at Yin o'clock, the Huotou soldiers began to cook.
At Mao o'clock, all the soldiers began to eat.
At three o'clock in the morning, Chen Yue was in the main tent of the Chinese army.
Chen Yue stood in the middle.
Wang Yin, the Minister of Household Affairs, and Daocheng Xun, the supervisor of the army, were on the left and right.
Generals such as Li Yi, Jin Xin, Jin Shenghuan, Yu Feng, and Wang Xie stood solemnly in the tent. , several generals of the Zhenjiang Army were also among them.
When everyone arrived, Chen Yue began to assign siege tasks.
There are six gates on the east side of Nanjing's outer city wall from north to south, namely Guanyin Gate, Yaofang Gate, Xianhe Gate, Qilin Gate, Cangbo Gate and Gaoqiao Gate.
We only have 15,000 men.
Let alone siege the city, we cannot even attack these six city gates at the same time.
You can only choose one or two city gates to attack.
Now that Chen Jianghe has convinced the Qilin Gate guard to surrender, the main attack direction is of course Qilin Gate.
However, in order to confuse the enemy and distract the enemy's attention, troops must be sent to pretend to attack other city gates as a containment.
Chen Yue ordered that three thousand Zhenjiang troops be sent to attack Guanyin Gate and Yaofang Gate in the north, under the command of the supervisor Dao Chengxu.
Chen Yue was not optimistic about the combat power of the Zhenjiang Army, nor did he think they could play any role.
Didn't Cheng Xun always want to make meritorious deeds, so he should be responsible for the siege of the city.
Cheng Xun frowned, not understanding Chen Yue's tactics, but seeing that Chen Yue didn't want to explain, he had to shut up.
Although he was a supervisor of military affairs, Chen Yue was too strong, and the battle was not at all peaceful.
He discussed it, but there was nothing he could do.
Chen Yue ordered that Jin Shenghuan lead his regiment training camp and Wang Xie's Huai'an Biao camp to attack Xianhemen as a feint attack.
Then Chen Yue himself led the infantry battalions of Li Yi and Jin Xin, as well as Chen Ping's teaching battalion, to attack Qilin Gate.
Yu Feng led the cavalry battalion to hold down the formation and was responsible for blocking the defenders in the city from attacking from other gates.
Wang Yin was left to guard the camp with three thousand Zhenjiang soldiers.
At a quarter of the hour, the camp gate opened wide, and groups of soldiers came out of the camp, divided into several groups, and pushed towards the Nanjing city wall.
Yu Feng, Ma Chuang and others, led hundreds of cavalry as the vanguard, and took the lead in running towards Nanjing City.
The thunderous sound of horse hooves broke the tranquility of the morning.
The whole city of Nanjing seemed to be awakened by the sound of horse hooves and began to become noisy.
The defenders at the top of the city were running around in chaos
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