Ao Ye's first division had just disembarked, and the cavalry battalion immediately dispersed the stragglers outside Nanjing. The remaining large troops did not delay at all, and marched straight into Zijin Mountain according to the planned plan. There he could intercept Wen Tiren or Ma Shiying, and Ruan Dacheng could not escape.

Tongtong. Now these people are the heads of the Yongli court. As long as they are killed, the Nanming court will be leaderless.

It was expected that the whole Jiangnan campaign would be decided. Sun Chengzong and Li Xiao did not plan to fight city by city. It is always good to kill less people!

After the Second Division landed, it directly occupied the west of Nanjing. The First Division and the regiment of Nie Dahu's troops occupied Qixia Mountain. In just one day, the two divisions formed an encirclement on Jinling City.

Jinling is the ancient name of Nanjing, and it is also the most elegant nickname of Nanjing. King Xiong Shang of Chu Wei built Jinling City in Stone City, which is where the name Jinling comes from. Sun Quan, the great emperor of Wu, built his capital here, and Jinling rose from then on, making China the political center of China.

The pattern of the Yellow River cultural plate has led the development of the Yangtze River Basin and the entire southern China. It has long been the political, economic and cultural center of southern China. During the Six Dynasties, Jinling had reached 280,000 households and a population of more than one million, making it the world's largest

A city with a population of over one million, it was also the economic, cultural, political, and military center of China during the Six Dynasties period, and was the largest city in the world at that time.

Jinling is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization. It has a history of more than 7,000 years of civilization, nearly 2,000 years of city building, and nearly 500 years of capital building. It has blessed the Zhengshuo of China several times in history, and is the only unfinished city among the four ancient capitals in China.

The ancient capital that once served as the capital of a foreign regime is regarded as the place of rejuvenation of the Han nationality. It has a special status and value in Chinese history, and has a profound impact on the course of Chinese history. The Han nationality's migration to the south enabled the Han nation to preserve the integrity of Chinese culture in Jinling.

Shuo has been recited throughout the ages.

Now this ancient name, which has protected China for thousands of years, is filled with smoke.

User Wen Tiren's army and Ma Shiying's army have been fighting fiercely for more than a month under Jinling City. Because both sides have a large number of firearms troops. At the same time, they also have a large number of cold weapon troops, so this fierce battle has the different cruelty of the two wars.

Corpses can be seen everywhere under the city wall, in various trenches, and on the Qinhuai River. Some corpses were bitten to pieces by fish and shrimp, and the condition was terrible.

"Click" Li Xiao crushed a crab and just saw a corpse with many crabs lying on it. He was not even afraid of people. Li Xiao was so disgusted with this thing that he would never eat crabs again in the future.

Jinling City in the distance was billowing with thick smoke, and the city was filled with flames. Seeing that the beautiful land of Jinling in the south of the Yangtze River had been destroyed like this, Li Xiao began to feel agitated.

Be it Wen Tiren, Ma Shiying, or Ruan Dacheng. They are all politicians at heart. There is an essential difference between politicians and politicians. Politicians are selfish people at heart. They have been acting all their lives. Everything they do is to gain for themselves.

benefit!

Politicians naturally have feelings for their family and country in their hearts, and they can even sacrifice themselves for the country at critical moments. But politicians cannot do it at all. If they are forced to work hard, there is only one situation, and that is interests.

The huge Jinling City is surrounded by the First and Second Divisions. The current Liao Military Division is not the previous Liao Military Division. The previous Liao Military Division only numbered more than 9,000 people. The current First and Second Divisions have been trained in Shandong and have been supplemented by many.

Jiangnan Forbidden Army and Shandong Recruits.

Shandong, a populous province, is a natural source of troops. It is too easy to select tens of thousands of troops from tens of millions of people. Sun Chengzong temporarily formed several reserve divisions, all of which were old-fashioned muskets seized from the Nanjing Forbidden Army.

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The main task of these reserve divisions is not to fight, but to maintain local security.

In some places in Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu that were taken over from Nanming due to years of war, local security is very poor. These reserve divisions can effectively control local security. The bandits have little equipment.

There is absolutely no comparison with preparatory division.

Having thirty or fifty fireguns in hand is considered an elite force among bandits.

Following the First and Second Divisions were three reserve divisions. These three divisions did not bear the main combat mission. Their main mission was to guard and maintain local security.

A total of more than 60,000 troops surrounded Jinling City. Wen Tiren, Ma Shiying, and Ruan Dacheng were all in this encirclement. Li Xiu's warships were towing on the Yangtze River, and the Jinling section of the Yangtze River was closed to navigation. Except for the Liao army

Ships and other ships will be sunk if they appear on the water.

As the first and most experienced divisions in the Liao Army, Ao Ye's First Division and Yuan Chonghuan's Second Division have the strongest combat effectiveness in the Liao Army because they have the most officers who have participated in actual combat.

When Ao Ye first joined the Purple Mountain, he often encountered the sharpshooters of the Nanjing Forbidden Army. But Ao Ye's First Division was not as good as the Third Division, and had to rely on mastiffs from Liaodong to search. These things are all

It was left over from playing with the Tatars.

The eyes of those battalion and company commanders were more poisonous than the sun in the sky. They could look around with their binoculars and guess where there was someone. The mortar shells were very accurate. Arms and thighs often flew out of suspicious places.

, so that various rumors circulated among the Nanjing Forbidden Army. It was said that there were ghosts in the Liao army, and the ghosts could be released on the battlefield for investigation.

Soon someone came up with a way to deal with the Liao army. They soaked themselves in child urine before going to the battlefield. It was said that this could effectively avoid the imps released by the Liao army.

As you can imagine, those guys who were carefully selected for their extremely accurate shooting skills walked into the Purple Mountain with their capable men after being soaked in child urine.

Then...! Then nothing happened. They were found by Liao soldiers who were experienced in sniping. Ao Ye's first division was always generous, and all suspicious places were searched with artillery shells.

Even if there is no direct hit, a mortar shell falling next to you can cause people to vomit blood.

In just three days, Ma Shiying's carefully selected sharpshooters were exhausted. And the casualties they caused to the Liao army were only a dozen people.

From then on, Ma Shiying and Wen Tiren put aside their prejudices and stationed themselves on the east and west sides of Jinling respectively. They were prepared to deal with the common enemy, the Liao soldiers!

Ao Ye occupied Purple Mountain as his headquarters, and even used his old nose to get a few bronze cannons. The reserve division quickly established a supply line, and they were barely able to deal with the Nanjing Forbidden Army. But they could not deal with those in Nanming who had cold weapons.

The stragglers are still enough.

After experiencing a long-term battle with the Tatars, Ao Ye's first division already knows the importance of occupying high ground. Whoever occupies the high ground can use the height of the high ground and the parabolic principle to bombard farther places. At the same time, the field of view of the artillery observation post

The better.

In the past two days, the strongholds outside Nanjing were called out by artillery one by one. The artillery fire of the Nanjing Forbidden Army tried to fight back, but the range was simply incomparable. Instead, the artillery positions were exposed by the shelling, and they were attacked by the artillery regiment of the First Division.

Served.

Yuan Chonghuan's side also frantically compressed the living space of the Jiangnan Forbidden Army. In just four days, there was no longer any stronghold of the Nanming Army outside Jinling.

This was the first time for Li Xiao to concentrate two divisions to attack a city. The opponent was the Nanjing Forbidden Army, which was far inferior to the Liao Army, and many of them could only defend their troops with swords.

After bombarding the strongholds outside the city, Ao Ye's division began to bombard the Nanming army on the city wall. Although the accuracy was far off due to the long distance, the fierce bombardment still made the Nanjing Forbidden Army dare not go up the city wall again.

"Let Mr. Ao continue to pretend to attack the southern city wall, and a regiment of the second division will continue to attack the west gate. A regiment of the first division will attack the east gate from the east. Our main attack direction is the north." Li Xiao gestured back and forth on the map with the stick in his hand.

But what he said shocked everyone. The North Gate faces the Yangtze River, and it can be said that all the assault positions are covered by enemy artillery fire.

The attacking troops were exposed on the beach, and these casualties...! Yuan Chonghuan, who had a bad premonition, felt sad just thinking about it.

"Commander, North Gate!"

"Yes, it's the North Gate. The attacking force at the North Gate is the entire Marine Corps, plus the 2nd Division, 2nd Regiment, and all 3rd Regiment. The walls of Jinling City are very thick, and it's not easy for our cannons to blow them open. The navy's heavy rocket launchers continue to bombard us.

Effectively suppressed artillery fire on Jinling City Wall.

The feint attack on Ao Ye's side should be fierce, and try to lead the defenders to the south. At the same time, the enemy troops should not be left idle on the east and west sides. In this way, the defense of the north gate will be insufficient, coupled with the bombardment of heavy rocket launchers. We will definitely

You can break through the Jinling City defenses in the north and enter Jinling City. You can shoot at anyone who is hostile to you, remember.

You are entering a Ming capital city with a population of one million, and the people there have no good impressions of us. Anyone who deliberately attacks you is your enemy, from an eighty-year-old woman to a three-year-old naughty boy. Whoever intends to attack

You, whoever is your enemy.

Do you understand?" Li Xiao made the final explanation with a gloomy face.

All the officers present took a breath. What is the most popular thing in the army? Killing talents!

In the past, when we conquered the city, we were strict about shooting and killing people at will. Now that the ban has been relaxed, these gangs of killers will cause such atrocities. Hasn’t the commander-in-chief always paid great attention to civilian casualties? What happened today?

"Don't you understand?" Li Xiao glanced at all the officers present, large and small, with stern eyes.

"Promise!" Li Xiao glanced at him with eyes like a chainsaw. Everyone, including Ao Ye and Yuan Chonghuan, bowed their heads and promised.

After the whole room was slaughtered, Li Xiu handed Li Xiao a bowl of water. "Brother, your last order may cause a lot of civilian casualties."

"Brother! The troops we have surrounding Jinling now are only 58,000 people, not including your navy. There are also three divisions newly formed, and their combat effectiveness is so poor that they don't even have two mortars.

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The population of Jinling City exceeds one million. Moreover, after Wen Tiren and others have been inciting for a long time, the people have a deep prejudice against our Liao army. If the whole people resist our Liao army, it will be too late to issue orders by then.

Normally I pay attention to protecting the civilians, but this time I hope that my soldiers can survive as much as possible. Many of them have been following our brothers to conquer the world since Liaodong. After this battle, the battles in the future will

Not much. The days of peace are coming. I hope that each of them can marry a wife and have children, and live happily for the rest of their lives.

Instead of being killed by a group of people who were blinded by military discipline in the last battle. In this way, I would be very sorry for them. Second brother, I don’t want the people of Jinling to bleed into rivers, and I don’t want my soldiers to shed blood.

Dead bodies are lying on the streets. But...it’s hard to have both ends of the spectrum!" Li Xiao sighed and patted Li Xiu on the shoulder.

Li Xiao clearly remembered that during a large-scale turmoil in the imperial capital, the army was unable to defend itself due to military discipline. As a result, many soldiers lost their lives. After a second lieutenant officer was burned to death, the brutal gangsters broke open his

His stomach took out his intestines. In the division where Li Xiao once served, a soldier was beaten to death and burned, and then his body was put on the bridge for public display.

This kind of thing must not happen in your own army. The army is an institution of violence. What is an army if it can't even protect itself? Between the death of the enemy and the death of his own soldiers, Li Xiao can only choose to protect his soldiers.

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"No way...!"

"Wen Tiren, Ma Shiying, and Ruan Dacheng have done a lot of homework. They described us as a scourge. This kind of thing is very likely to happen, and I have to take precautions in the bud."

"Okay! Everything depends on Big Brother. As long as someone attacks us, I will order people to fight back, no matter if the opponent is an eighty-year-old woman or a three-year-old naughty boy."

"Don't think that old women have no fighting ability. Several old women knelt in front of you and cried. As a result, the mob took the opportunity to attack the soldiers behind. There once was such a simple soldier who died in this situation. He died very quickly.

miserable!"

"Brother, when did that happen? Why haven't I heard of it?" Li Xiu thought about it for a long time, but he didn't think of such a thing.

"Forget it! Let's not talk about this. Prepare more heavy rocket launchers. You must break open the city wall of Jinling. How many people can be saved on the beach depends on whether you can blow up the city wall as soon as possible." Li Xiao drank up the Liang Baikai in the bowl in one gulp.

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"There is no problem with this. The walls of Jinling City are very thick. But if they are hit continuously by heavy rocket launchers, they will collapse quickly. There is no problem with this!" Li Xiu is still very confident in his heavy rocket launchers.

"That's good, let your marines prepare. They are the first group to attack the northern city wall!"

ps: I know this chapter may be controversial, but the army I served in took part in the action to quell the unrest. I heard many stories from veterans about that time, and after listening to those stories, I think this is a

A great army, it has been, will be, and will be a great army in the future. God bless China! Only then will we have such an army!
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