Zhang Bao rushed to the gap with reinforcements and found that the city had been disrupted. The Ming army occupied more than 100 meters away from the gap. In the distance was the large Qing army, mingling with the Ming army and killing each other.

Seeing this chaotic situation, Zhang Bao also stopped looking for Jiang Pengju. Zhang Bao saw several Ming army gunners fiddling with a cannon at the gap, and stepped forward and asked, "How did you get it? Why didn't you fire?"

"Sir, we carried it up with manpower, but only one shell was loaded in the cannon chamber, and the other ammunition was outside the city. The subordinates had already taken it. But you see, you see, it's like this here. I guess the cannons cannot be used even if they are transported to the cannon!"

The gunner was right. Now that the Ming army and the Qing army are fighting together, the artillery that is killed in the face has lost its power.

At this moment, Zhang Bao's armor sounded, and it turned out that he was shot, but it was bounced away. Zhang Bao looked up and saw that the Qing army guards on the city wall began to react, standing on the city wall with bows and arrows, killing the Ming army at the gap with stones.

Zhang Bao cursed you secretly and said to a company commander beside him: "You bring a hundred people out to transport gunpowder in, don't have shells and gunpowder, just expand the gap, otherwise the subsequent large troops will not be able to enter!"

The company commander took the order and left. Zhang Bao looked at it less than 500 meters away from Xu Ningmen. It would be better to take people to open the city gate and let the follow-up troops come in. Thinking of Zhang retaining a thousand people and ordering other soldiers to join the melee in the city, Zhang Bao led a thousand people to the wall and headed for Xu Ningmen.

Zhu Shichang, who was in the Qing army's rear team, saw the Ming army's reinforcements coming in, and a Ming army rushed towards Xu Ningmen. He was shocked. He knew that the troops were preparing to open Xu Ningmen and expand the Ming army into the city. In that case, Yangzhou City would be really out of the ordinary. Xu Ningmen is different from Anjiangmen, the main gate of Anjiangmen, Anjiangmen has three levels of urns, and with complete defense facilities, there is basically no possibility of losing it. However, Xu Ningmen is different. This is just a gate opened on the city wall. In the Song Dynasty, it was even a gap in the city wall for people who do not want to go around the distance to get out of the city. The city gate was built here in the Ming Dynasty. It is conceivable that Xu Ningmen's defense is not much stronger than the city wall.

Zhu Shichang looked behind. Before the reinforcements came, Zhu Shichang could not help but lead the remaining 4,000 people around the main battlefield and intercepted the Ming army's team that stole the city gate.

After Zhu Shichang took away 4,000 people, Jiang Pengju reduced the pressure on his side. Jiang Pengju looked up and found that a large number of Qing troops were heading towards the city gate. Jiang Pengju didn't know why. His main task now was to stand firm and wait for the musketeers of the back team to enter the city. Now the Qing army opposite was half, Jiang Pengju immediately led his people to drive the Qing army out 200 meters.

Just when he was fighting and killed in Nancheng, Hong Chengchou, who was commanding the Yanyi Office of the Lianghuai Pass, also received news from Zhu Shichang asking for help. Hong Chengchou did not expect that in less than half an hour, Zhu Shichang, who had 10,000 soldiers, began to ask for help, but he had no choice but to hand over the 10,000 people from the reserve team to Wang Shixuan and let him lead the team to rescue the South Gate.

Hong Chengchou thought very well. It was not far from Xu Ningmen. It arrived in a quarter of an hour. Zhu Shichang could hold on for a quarter of an hour. However, Hong Chengchou forgot that the water network in Yangzhou was dense and bridges were everywhere. In addition, the fighting in the south city was so fierce that local residents fled to the north city. Several bridges from the north city to the south city were crowded with fleeing residents. Wang Shixuan and his men were blocked on the bridge. In the end, Wang Shixuan had no choice and ordered the soldiers to cut all the residents blocking the bridge, which made the road smooth. However, half an hour had passed when Wang Shixuan arrived at Xu Ningmen.

The Ming army outside the city was just the opposite. Although there were some houses outside the city, Yangzhou had been fighting for a month, and the houses outside the city turned into rubble, and were not as crowded as the city. After the company commander took out gunpowder and exploded the gap in the city wall for nearly 100 meters, the Ming army's follow-up troops finally rushed into the city.

The first group of people entering the city was a regiment of Zhao Guodong's Second Division. After three thousand people entered the city, they immediately formed a formation and opened fire on the Qing army that was fighting with the Ming army. The Qing army was caught off guard and hundreds of people were killed on the spot. But at this time, the Ming army's chief general Zhu Shichang took people to intercept Zhang Bao. The only person who stayed here was to command a general. His team that could manage four or five thousand people. When the Qing soldiers saw the Ming army's weapons coming up, they retreated with a shout.

When Jiang Pengju saw the Qing army retreating, his own people came up and relaxed in one breath and felt sore all over his body. He didn't know how much injuries he had suffered. Jiang Pengju didn't care about the blood flowing on the ground, and sat on the ground and gasped.

The deputy commander of the Second Division came to Jiang Pengju. After finally seeing Jiang Pengju, he found out that he was covered in blood. He asked, "Old Jiang, you can do it! Five thousand people blocked tens of thousands of Qing troops. You have decided to make the first contribution to destroying the city!"

Jiang Peng looked up and cursed, "You are so sarcastic, don't you bring your people to help me defend!"

The deputy division commander nodded and ordered his brothers from the 10th Division to help the injured and defend their positions.

A total of 5,000 people came in with Jiang Pengju. After less than half an hour of melee, more than 2,000 casualties were killed or killed. Now less than half of them are intact. Although the siege was very fierce, the 10th Division's negligence in training was also a major reason. These new affiliated troops had just arrived in Yangzhou for less than a month and a half, and the queues were put on the battlefield without learning. Fortunately, a large number of grassroots officers were veterans of the Imperial Guard Division. If there were no such grassroots officer organizations, they might have been beaten out of the city by the Qing army just now.

At this time, Ma Jiyuan, who was standing outside the command post to watch the siege, breathed a sigh of relief. Now the new army had rushed in, and there were tens of thousands of people. Yangzhou City finally got it, and the rest was to clear the remaining Qing troops in the city.

Ma Jiyuan turned his head and said to Zhao Guodong: "Admiral Zhao, you have done a good job. I won't delay you here. Come on the rest!" After Ma Jiyuan said that, he turned around and left the command post, and returned to his tent to wait for good news.

Seeing Ma Jiyuan leaving the army generals in the battalion finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although Ma Jiyuan no matter how he commanded, he felt invisible pressure here. Now that he left, the pressure was relieved a lot.

Zhao Guodong, as the admiral, said to Zhao Guoliang: "Guoliang, the next step is up to you. You lead two regiments of the Eighth Division, plus all the troops of the Second Division, rush in to clear the remaining troops of the Qing army!"

Zhao Guoliang is the second only to Zhao Guodong outside Yangzhou City. Zhao Guodong said so, he had already handed over the command of the army in the city to Zhao Guoliang. This was a good time to make contributions. Zhao Guoliang was happy and held his fists and ordered the order and went down to prepare.

The Ming army in the city took advantage of the Qing army's retreat and began to form positions 300 meters outside the gap. However, it is not the human-like position just now. As the number of Ming troops entering the city increased, more than a dozen cannons were transported. Zhao Guoliang ordered a circular artillery position outside the gap to prevent the Qing army's counterattack. Just after the Ming army had just built the position, the ten thousand Qing reinforcements led by Wang Shixuan finally arrived. It was better to come by a coincidence. The ten thousand Qing troops just arrived and just met the Ming army's artillery.

As soon as the Qing army rushed out of the street, Zhao Guoliang ordered artillery to start attacking. There were not many Ming troops in the city now. Zhao Guoliang wanted to ensure the safety of the Ming army entering the city. He had no way to kill and injure the Qing army in large quantities, so he could only defeat the Qing army.

The fifteen artillery fired shots, and the first volley shots killed hundreds of Qing troops. In addition, the Ming army musketeers shot, thousands of people fell on the open space in front of the position. The Qing army behind didn't know what was going on, but they heard a shocking cannon sound, and the brothers in front fell down. The speed of this kind of hot weapons killing people was unimaginable to the Qing army. The Qing army in the back team saw that the Ming army's weapons were so sharp that they fled. Wang Shixuan saw that all his subordinates ran away. He had learned about the Ming army's artillery outside Nanjing. At that time, he had the advantage and was beaten to the ground to look for teeth. Now it's better to leave first.

Seeing that things were not done, Wang Shixuan quickly fled with the riots, but he was quite scheming. While running away, he burned several bridges from the south city to the north city to delay the Ming army's attack.

Now that the Ming army has gained a foothold in Nancheng, the fall of Yangzhou City is a foregone conclusion. Zhao Guoliang saw that there were tens of thousands of Ming troops coming in the city and could already wipe out the Qing army. He ordered that according to the street fighting, each company of new troops was equipped with an artillery and began to enter the city to wipe out the Qing army.

As the Ming army brigade entered the city, the 10th Division's hand-to-hand combat mission had ended and they could evacuate from the city. However, these guys were still thinking about the unowned property that Jiang Pengju mentioned. More than a dozen gangs began to follow the Ming army into the city, trying to get some benefits. Zhang Bao, the commander of the 10th Division, was fighting with Zhu Shichang at Xu Ningmen. Jiang Pengju's thigh was injured and was bandaged. For a time, these guys became lonely ghosts and no one was restrained. The officers at all levels received the order to clear the Qing army in the city, so they didn't care much about these guys. Now the people in Yangzhou City were suffering from the saplings.

Although Zhu Jiang came in early, he was escorted to a safe place by Xu Dingbang and a hundred guards as soon as he came in. Although the city was full of dead bodies, Zhu Jiang did not lose any hair.

Zhu Jiang was very upset when he saw his comrades-in-arms beat him to death, and he could only watch from the side. But he had no choice. He knew that if he had anything to do, he would not be able to get these hundred guards, so he did not resent Xu Dingbang.

Now that the Ming army has firmly stood firm at the city wall, some Ming army began to divide into groups to enter the city to clear out the Qing army. Zhu Jiang said to Xu Dingbang: "Sir Xu, now I want to go into the city and take a look!"
Chapter completed!