Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Baoding.
Gunshots, explosions, and shouts of death suddenly sounded above the mausoleum where Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma were buried.
Of course Sun Sike knew that the Ming army might climb up the hill where the top of Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum is located from other directions and launch a surprise attack!
And he also knew the importance of Baoding. Once Baoding was captured by the Ming army, and the sun and moon flag, symbolizing the rebirth of the Ming Dynasty, was planted on Baoding in full view of the public, there would be no need to fight this battle.
Therefore, Sun Sike sent his son Sun Chengen to lead a thousand Zhenglan Banner new army soldiers to garrison on Baoding and the square city next to Baoding.
When Zu Da led a battalion of Guangdong Hakka "mountain soldiers" to climb along the hillside to the vicinity of Baoding and Fangcheng, they were discovered by the sentries sent by Sun Chengen. The two sides immediately had a fierce battle on the hillside near Baoding of Ming Taizu!
From this perspective, the raid was not a success.
But Zu Dana had broken out of the mountains of blood and corpses with people like Zu Dashou, Zu Dale, and Zuk Kefa, so he had extremely rich combat experience. He knew that Sun Sike's soldiers must have suffered heavy losses after fighting outside the Golden Gate until now, and they might be on the verge of collapse. And the green signal flare rising from the top of the Ming Taizu Treasure may be the final blow to defeat Sun Sike!
Now... Zu Da doesn't need to really succeed in the raid. He only needs to pretend that the raid is successful and the thousands of people under Sun Sike who are still holding on will collapse immediately.
Therefore, Zu Da, who was always getting stronger and stronger, personally led the Hakka soldiers to pretend to attack the hilltop where Ming Taizu's Baoding was located, and at the same time had people keep sending signal bombs into the sky.
This great ancestor really worked hard. Regardless of his age and age, he took the lead and rushed to the front - this was "rescuing Zhu Yuanzhang"!
The first victory in the battle of Jiangning must belong to the person who placed the sun and moon flag on the top of Ming Taizu's treasure!
With this great achievement, when Zhu Heji ascends the throne, he will be able to make a fool of himself as a marquis.
Sun Sike's son Sun Cheng'en was also unambiguous. He also led his own soldiers to the Ming Taizu Baoding. He was going to fight to the death here!
Under the Hakka barracks led by Zu Da, there were two teams equipped with advanced flintlock rifles. Zu Da also charged forward holding a flintlock gun with a bayonet. As soon as he rushed to the top of the treasure, he saw a bearded Zhenglan Banner warrior waving a simple knife and roaring towards him.
This is to use his physical strength to bully Zu Da, an elderly man!
Thinking of this, Zu Da breathed heavily, raised the flintlock gun in his hand, aimed at the big man who was only seven or eight steps away from him, and shot him cleanly without waiting for him to hide. The lead bullet was pushed out of the muzzle by the heat generated by the explosion of gunpowder. It penetrated the cloth armor of the strong banner man without any ceremony and hit his chest. This strong man of the Banner Man only felt that something was hit hard on his chest, and then he felt severe pain, and all the strength in his body immediately disappeared without a trace... let alone cutting people, he even stood still He could no longer stand still, his feet gave way, and he fell down on his face. When he fell on Zhu Yuanzhang's grave, a terrifying loud sound of "Qiu Qiu Qiu" suddenly came to his ears. He used his little strength left to turn around and saw hundreds of lights appearing in the sky. The flames were roaring towards the new Zhenglan Banner army gathered at Sun Quan's tomb and Shinto.
Zu Da also saw this scene, and immediately got up and shouted: "Da Ming has won! Da Ming has won!"
As soon as he shouted, the Hakka soldiers who rushed up with him immediately became fanatical, and everyone shouted: "Win, win..."
One of the strong men carrying a sun and moon flag ran up to Uncle Zu and shouted, "Master, Master, have you won?"
"Win! Win...Hurry up and plant the flag for me!"
"But we haven't reached the top yet!" The strong man is a real person. He has only just rushed to the waist of Baoding, and the top is still in the hands of the Qing army.
"Insert!" Zu Dadao said, "Insert first...this is called cheating!"
As he spoke, he put his flintlock gun on his back, and then personally worked with the strong man to drive the flag firmly into the mud!
A gust of northwest wind blew from the Yangtze River, blowing the big flag and fluttering in the wind.
...
"Win, win, win..."
I saw green signal bombs soaring into the sky one after another from Zhu Yuanzhang's grave, and I saw an eye-catching sun and moon flag with a red background fluttering in the wind.
The Ming soldiers at Dajinmen, Xiamafang, and waiting at the foot of Purple Mountain, preparing to launch a counterattack, shouted the loudest.
"Dong dong dong dong..."
The drumbeat of the general attack immediately resounded through the sky!
The infantrymen of the Second Town of the Ming Army, who had already moved behind the "trench line", heard the drums of the attack and began to clamber over the earth wall in battalion units. Holding muskets and spears, they launched an attack in the direction of the Golden Gate.
Behind them, dozens of small mortars were lined up in a row, firing super-caliber sugar ammunition towards the Golden Gate at the fastest speed. Large areas of smoke and fire suddenly rose up inside and outside Golden Gate, and the fragments exploded by the artillery shells swept through the entire Qing army's position like a storm. The fragments of the anti-horse gun placed outside the door were blown up in all directions, and the bricks and stones on the walls of the Golden Gate fell straight down. The smoke of gunfire enveloped the entire front in an instant. The Qing army, which was already about to be unable to attack, immediately became a mess, running around trying to avoid the artillery fire, and some people simply ran towards the mountains and forests on both sides of the Golden Gate. Rush away.
At the same time, there were roaring rockets in the sky, one after another, hitting Sifang City, Shinto, and Sun Quan's tomb behind the Golden Gate, falling on the Qing troops gathered there.
In fact, the accuracy of these rockets was limited. If the Ming army was not too familiar with the terrain of Ming Xiaoling, these rockets would not have been able to directly bombard the Qing army's rear assembly area.
The rocket launchers developed by Zhu Heji were actually used to replace cannons and were to be placed in front of the formation for direct aim. And now it's indirect aim... Oh, it's not even indirect aim, it's just a blind shot. But there were still many rockets that accurately landed on Sifang City, Shinto, and Sun Quan's tomb, and exploded!
The Qing troops gathered there couldn't stand it anymore... Who could stand standing there and being bombarded by rockets? If you can't stand it, you have to hide, so the new Eight Banners soldiers who were bombed will all go into the woods nearby. As long as they disperse and go into the woods, those rockets will not be able to kill a few people.
But the problem is that they not only dispersed the team, but also dispersed the people... The team can be reassembled after the team is dispersed, but no one can organize resistance after the people are dispersed.
Now, these new Zhenglan Banner troops under Sun Sike not only believe that "the treasure summit has been lost" and "the battle has been defeated", but they also believe that as long as they surrender, they can avoid death and receive travel expenses home.
In this case, why bother? What’s the point of losing your life in vain? They don't love Kang Mazi that much.
"It's over, it's over, the Qing Dynasty is over!"
As Sun Sike climbed onto the gate of the Golden Gate, a panicked cry suddenly rang in his ears, and when he looked around, he saw nothing but a tragic scene of defeat. The not-wide battlefield was filled with blue flag soldiers fleeing into the woods in groups.
And the Ming army was like a tide attacking towards the top of Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, it was unstoppable!
Sun Sike's own general flag has gone somewhere? There are not many loyal Goshiha around anymore. Moreover, the gate tower of the Golden Gate where he was was surrounded by Ming army generals with high morale.
But those people didn't know that Sun Sike was on the gate tower, so they kept rushing up the mountain.
However, Sun Sike also knew that he could not escape. Purple Mountain was an isolated mountain surrounded by the outer city of Nanjing, and the outer city was already controlled by the Ming army. No one could break through and fight out.
And if he was to fall into Zhu Heji's hands, he would have to be stabbed one after another!
Thinking of this, he looked back to the north again - not at Zhu Yuanzhang's crown, but at the northern sky.
People can't go back, but their souls can still fly back... just fly faster and don't let Zhu Yuanzhang's soul catch him!
Thinking of this, Sun Sike no longer hesitated, took out his waist knife, put it on his neck and pulled hard...
