Although the city is full of names, it is not only the Manchurian Eight Banners that are actually garrisoned, but also the Mongolian Eight Banners.
There are eight Mongolian banners in the city of Jiangning, but the number is very small, only more than 400 people, and the Han people in the outer city can't distinguish between Manchu and Mongolia, so they are called Manchurian soldiers, and only the Qing army knows the difference between Manchu and Mongolia.
In the first battle of Zhenjiang, more than 400 Mongolian Eight Banner soldiers also participated in the battle, but more than 100 Manchurian soldiers ran back, but none of the Mongolian soldiers could run back.
As a result, rumors spread throughout the city, saying that those Mongol soldiers were abandoned on the battlefield by the Manchurians and Guan Zhi's loyalty.
When the Mongolian woman with a pungent temperament heard this, she was so angry that she ran to Guan and scolded him around his house.
Guan is loyal to the dignified Jiangnan Governor, but he can only let these Mongolian women scold the street, no way, who made him just a Han army, but he is a member of the Eight Banners, one level higher than him.
The Qing Dynasty divided the people into equal ranks, Manchuria was the highest, followed by Mongolia, the Han army again, and the rest were Han Chinese. was scolded by the Mongols who were higher than him, even if the other party was just an ordinary female dependent, he would not dare to offend them, after all, the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty was a Mongolian, and the emperor was the nephew of the Mongols In addition, after suffering such a big defeat, Guan Zhongzhong, who was terrified in his heart, did not dare to take these Mongolian women who scolded the street, otherwise the matter would be big, and he would definitely die in the hands of the court if he did not die at the hands of thieves.
In the end, Shuo Erhui came forward to greet the people of Mengbaqi, raised the pension a lot, and promised some benefits, so that the turmoil was calmed down.
Last night, there was a movement in the inner city, and the Manmeng ladies in the city listened carefully.
The people in Niu Lu kept knocking on houses and pulling people, as small as eleven or twelve years old, and as old as sixty or more old people, all went to the city.
But that's not enough.
In the end, all the enslaved men were brought to the armory, and they were told to choose one of their own, and then sent them to the city.
Tong Haonian asked people to count, the old and young are not more than 3,000 people, but there are four city gates to guard in the city, and the troops are far from enough.
Just when Tong Haonian was anxious about the lack of strength of the defenders, a group of Mongolian women invited themselves to go to the city to help defend it.
These Mongolian women are all wide-waisted and fat, but they are not as weak as Han women.
Seeing that Tong Haonian seemed to doubt whether they could kill the enemy, a Mongolian woman snorted slightly, picked up her husband's bow and arrow before his death, raised her hand and shot towards the city gate.
I heard that after the women of the Mongolian army went to the city, the female dependents of the Eight Banners were not to be outdone, and the sisters-in-law who got married, the daughter-in-law of Weilun and the daughter of Sharigan at home also flocked to the city gates everywhere, shouting that they would fight like men.
The Manchurian garrison eight banners in Jiangning Mancheng are the positive blue flags, which belong to the lower five flags in the eight banners.
The women married in Qili have all heard and seen since childhood, and they are used to seeing how their husbands and brothers kill Han people, so they have contempt for Han people in their bones.
In addition, most of their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers died at the hands of the Han people, and they knew that once the city was broken, they women would definitely not end well, so at this moment, they had the same thoughts as the women of the Mongolian army, that is, they would rather die in battle like men than be defiled by those lowly Han people.
What is surprising is that many Manchurian women are also skilled in archery and horses, and their archery skills are not weak men.
With so many women going to the city to help defend it, the soldiers in the city were naturally the same enemy, and their morale was high.
Tong Haonian sighed with emotion, the Manmeng woman really responded to the words of the Han people, and the women did not let the eyebrows be shaved.
About 4,000 Qing troops who had surrendered in the inner city were driven to the bottom of the city, and they were divided into several groups and sat on the ground to stand by.
After the order to attack is launched, the first group of troops will be issued weapons and armor to attack the city, and if they can't take it, the second group will go up again, and so on.
Because the number of soldiers in the city was only 1,000, Zhou Shi was relatively determined to capture the city, but he was not careless and formulated a siege plan.
The sixth town was placed in the west and north of Mancheng, and the main direction of attack was placed in Daqingmen.
To the east and south, the fifteenth town and the new town were used as diversionary attacks.
In the early morning of the 11th, dozens of artillery pieces unloaded from the gates of the outer and inner cities were dragged to the Daqing Gate of the city, and under the cover of heavy artillery fire, the Taiping army simultaneously supervised the surrendering army in all directions to launch a strong attack.
However, after the battle began, the Taiping generals who watched the battle found that the city was guarded by many more than the previous estimate of 1,000, and there were many female soldiers with bows and arrows at the head of the city.
The Taiping army forced the surrendered army to launch three attacks in a row, but they were all repulsed by the defenders of the city, and thousands of people were killed.
The last group of surrendered troops who pressed up can be said to have risen from corpses under the city, one after another.
The casualties on both sides were very heavy, and the fierceness of the battle even exceeded that of the Fangshan ambush.
Due to the difficulty of the frontal assault and the heavy losses of the surrendered army, Zhou Shixiang ordered the surrendered army to retreat and recuperate, so that the commandos organized by the Taiping army launched a round attack on the city with a scale of 100 people.
Most of these commandos were heavily armoured, and they did not climb the city, but only lured the city to release arrows in order to consume their arrows.
The city's flag guards and those female soldiers had no break in battle, no rest, no food for a day, and they were a little exhausted, but they were still gritting their teeth.
At this moment, the Manchurian and female soldiers on the Great Qing Gate suddenly saw the Taiping army retreating, and then a person came out of the opposing camp, leading a female donkey behind him, and a naked man was sitting on the donkey.
"The soldiers in the city listen, this is your prince Yue Le" The soldiers in the city didn't know Prince An, and when they saw that the prince was dragged to the city like a monkey by the Taiping army, they were all sad and angry, and they were even more desperate.
Yue Le didn't have any expression on the donkey.
He was numb.
At this time, the man shouted again: "My marshal is specially gracious, and Zhun Er and others will surrender, and you can be released back to Jiangbei after surrendering."
When the soldiers and women in the city heard that the Ming army allowed them to surrender and let them go back to Jiangbei, they suddenly saw the hope of survival, and many of them relaxed and did not want to fight anymore.
The reason why they have persisted until now is only that they are afraid that Jiangning Mancheng will become the second Guangzhou Mancheng.
Now that the other party is willing to give them a way to live, where is he willing to do this dying and stubborn resistance.
Tong Haonian refused to surrender, saying that this was a conspiracy of the Ming army, and if they really wanted to lay down their arms and open the city gate, the Ming army would rush in and slaughter them.
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The soldiers and the elderly also showed that the army could not be trusted, and they must not fall for their tricks.
The flag soldiers and women then woke up and no longer dreamed of surrendering and living.
Seeing that the full army did not surrender, the Taiping army immediately resumed artillery bombardment, but did not organize a new offensive.
Under the city, Zhang Huangyan frowned and asked Zhou Shixiang: "If the Tartars really fall, the prince really wants to let them cross the river."
"The big husband has made a word, and the horses are difficult to chase, if they really come down, I will let them cross the river."
Zhou Shixiang rubbed his hands, "The premise is whether they can swim across the Yangtze River." ”oshow7 t1706231537: