When thousands of Qing troops rushed to the northern city wall in black, at least half of the Ming troops in the city had not been put into a row, let alone lined up.

Fortunately, there were thousands of people defending the city wall, and the two thousand people withdrawn by Xia Wanchun, so he was not directly attacked by the Qing army.

But the panic of the Ming army also arose.

In this dark night, there was a chaotic situation on the top of the northern city. The Ming army could not find the generals, and the generals could not find the soldiers.

Xia Wanchun, who was full of regret and frustrated, had to stand up on the city tower and use himself as a flagpole to command the battle.

Although command has become more efficient.

But at the same time, Xia Wanchun also became the target of the Qing army's crossbowmen.

Not long after, Xia Wanchun was shot in the arm by a stray arrow and dragged down the city tower by the personal guards beside him.

In the dark night, Ming soldiers thought that the chief general was killed, and their morale suddenly dropped sharply and almost collapsed.

When the sky was bright, the Qing army had occupied most of the city walls.

Hundreds of Ming troops were surrounded at the corner of Xicheng, and it was only a matter of time before they could be destroyed.

Seeing that the northern city wall could no longer be defended, Xia Wanchun led more than 2,000 Ming troops to retreat to the south city, and decided to rely on the house to start street fighting with the Qing army.

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During the past half a day, Wu Zheng rode his horse and rushed to a small town called Gaozi dozens of miles west of Zhenjiang.

In order to seize the time, Wu Zheng did not walk on the official road, but walked east along the river and walked on the small road. This decision directly cut off Wu Zheng's retreat.

Because of this location, Qian Sudian led the Ming army to cross the Yangtze River that day and attacked Yizhen near.

Today, Hong Chengchou, who holds grudges in his heart, wants to use his own way to cure his body.

Almost at the same location, Wu Zheng was blocked by a thousand Qing cavalry who had already landed.

At the same time, Zhenjiang City, which was only 30 or 40 miles away, was attacked by 20,000 Qing troops.

In just one hour, less than 4,000 defenders collapsed, Zhenjiang City changed hands again, and the Dantu’s contact with Yingtian Prefecture was interrupted.

Fortunately, when Wu Zheng arrived outside Gaozi Town, he found a body of a Ming soldier lying on the roadside.

Judging from the clothes, it should be a messenger.

Wu Zheng immediately ordered the cessation of advance and the body was inspected.

After the personal guards checked, they reported that this person was undoubtedly a commander of the Ming army, and the body had not completely cooled down, and there were no letters or objects on the body. I think it had been searched.

This person's fatal injury was caused by arrows running through. The key is that this arrow was not a Ming army arrow, but a Qing army arrow.

Wu Zheng was shocked. The Qing army appeared around Zhenjiang City?

Then this person is likely to be a messenger who was in a hurry to Yingtian Mansion and was blocked and killed by the Qing army.

Wu Zheng had already realized that there was a loophole in his original plan.

The main attack direction of the Qing army was not Dantu, but Zhenjiang. To be precise, two places attacked at the same time.

This understanding made Wu Zheng creepy.

The imperial court mobilized the Zhenjiang defenders, but he firmly opposed it, but the cabinet insisted on doing so, and Wu Zheng was unable to change it.

At this time, the Qing army was in charge of attacking Zhenjiang. Isn’t this very clear about the strength of Zhenjiang?

The defenders were mobilized in just two days, and even many officials from the Qingtai Dynasty were not aware of it. Why did the Qing army know immediately?

This conjecture made Wu Zheng realize that there were spies from the Qing court in the court, and that the spy's official position was very high.

Wu Zheng was unwilling to doubt Chen Zilong, but the facts were put here, which forced Wu Zheng to be suspicious.

"Back the same way!" Wu Zheng shouted loudly, quickly turned around and wanted to return to Yingtian Mansion.

Zhenjiang must not be able to go, as the Qing army has penetrated into the surrounding areas, indicating that Zhenjiang City has either been surrounded or has fallen.

I only have dozens of personal guards, and going to the house is no different from dying.

Going east is impossible, so I can only respond to Tianfu and make plans.

But it is obvious that Wu Zheng could not go back at this time.

Before all the personal guards could get on their horses, the sound of horse hooves came from the northwest direction.

A Qing cavalry appeared.

Because Wu Zheng and his party stopped, the ambushed Qing cavalry had to show up and attack.

Seeing this, Wu Zheng was furious, but he still guessed wrongly. The spies in the court not only leaked military aircraft, but also his own life.

But Wu Zheng was also surprised that when he was acting suddenly, he even sent someone to submit a memorial while leaving the city. Even if the spy has a high position and a high authority, he will not be able to know his whereabouts well.

But without much time to think about it, Wu Zheng quickly decided to break through to the southeast.

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At this time, although Yingtian Prefecture had already begun to prepare for war, the imperial court did not receive any news of the fall of Zhenjiang due to the several messengers from Zhenjiang being intercepted by the Qing cavalry.

Wu Zheng's memorial has been handed over to the cabinet. It is strange that many people in the court impeached Wu Zheng before, but when he heard that he had already rushed to the Dantu, he was relieved. No one thought that Wu Zheng would fail.

This blind trust, to be precise, should be blind dependence, which made the court lose the best time to fight back.

In fact, if Yingtian Prefecture sends reinforcements to Dantu at this time, at least it will quickly get news of Zhenjiang's loss.

Therefore, even if you do not send troops to recover, you can deploy troops to the front line of Jurong, and you may not fall into a huge passive situation.

But there is no if in the world, and the situation still develops in an increasingly uncontrollable direction.

At this time, the person who was most sober was not Chen Zilong and Qian Sule, but Zhang Huangyan.

What he was sober was that Wu Zheng left Yingtian Mansion quietly to command the Danshu, which was obviously not consistent with Wu Zheng's nature.

Zhang Huangyan knew that Wu Zheng had gone to find King Zhiren of Xingguo, so Zhang Huangyan keenly felt that Wu Zheng must have made some moves.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Huangyan chose to remain silent, which made the court even more without different voices.

The cabinet appointed Zhang Guowei as the chief commander of the Beijing Guard and led the 40,000 troops of the Beijing Army.

Zhang Guowei, commander of the Right Guard, led 10,000 people to guard the three gates of Yifeng, Zhongfu and Jinchuan.

The commander of the left guard Xiong Rulin led 10,000 people to guard the Shence, Taiping Gate, which was on the front line of Xuanwu Lake.

He led 20,000 troops to stock up on the large campus east of Huaiyuanmen, and could quickly reinforce the east and north sides.

At the same time, the court ordered that any male person in the city who is over thirteen years old and less than fifty years old must report to the government nearby and wait for the imperial court to summon him at any time.

The entire Yingtian Prefecture was quickly mobilized, but no one knew that Yingtian Prefecture was not the center of this battlefield at all. At least, until the entire situation was clear, Yingtian Prefecture would not become the main battlefield of this war.

In other words, at this time, the whole people in the capital were soldiers, and it was just a false alarm.

At noon that day, an accident happened.

Ma Shiying was assassinated after the dispersion of the country!

His official sedan left Zhengyang Gate and entered Heng Street. He didn't walk far away. Two crossbow arrows shot out from both sides of the street and directly penetrated Ma Shiying's official sedan.
Chapter completed!