The remaining seventy Qing soldiers retreated into the room. They did not carry firearms and suffered a great loss against the Ming army's Shenji Camp. Niu Lu was also a veteran of the battle formation. He knew that he could not beat the Ming army's Shenji Camp at a long distance, so he entered the surrounding houses, intending to rely on the houses to deal with the Ming army. After all, these Qing soldiers were very good at munitions, but their individual combat capabilities were far inferior to theirs.

The Qing army had a very good abacus, but they were facing the most elite Shenji Camp of the Ming army. This time, the Shenji Camp came to Dongcheng to reinforce, in addition to the muskets, and also brought dozens of cannons. Because the cannons designed by Ma Cheng used fine steel and weighed much lighter than the pig iron red-clothed cannons of the Qing army, so seven soldiers could push them on the solid ground in the city.

The Ming army hesitated and said: Junmen, what should you do if the last general leaves? There are all Tartars here, and there are only 200 people around you. What if you encounter a large group of Tartars?

Ma Cheng heard Gu Yong say this and scolded: Farting, it’s time to think it’s useless. If the Tartars have a firm foothold in the city, I’m not far from death, so why don’t you go quickly!

Gu Yong had no choice but to hand over the task of guarding Ma Cheng to his deputy, and then left behind the 200 most capable people. He took 300 people to the city to collect the remaining troops of the Ming army.

Ma Cheng's responses were very effective. Although the Qing army had strong combat effectiveness, the new army of the Ming army was not weak. After the baptism of offensive and defensive wars in recent years, the new army had long been trained to become an elite force no less than the Qing flag. However, the new army was caught off guard by the Qing army, and the commander Ma Xi escaped at the last moment, so the leaderless dragons were suppressed by the Qing army.

When Gu Yong gathered the New Army scattered in the East City to command the command, the pressure of the Qing army immediately increased. As the commander of the Qing army's front line, Luke Dehun found that the Ming army's resistance began to strengthen, and immediately ordered people to send a letter to Duoduo outside the city, allowing the Qing army brigade to quickly enter the city to wipe out the Ming army.

But Lukede was anxious and Dodo was even more anxious than him. The Qing army's gunpowder was limited, and it only took more than 7,000 kilograms to explode a hole of more than 20 meters. Half an hour passed before entering the city less than Wanqing army. After Dudo learned the news in the city, he immediately sent his three hundred Bayala personal soldiers to let them enter the city and quickly open the Taiping Gate. Only when the city gate was opened could the Qing army outside the gate quickly enter the city to support Lukedehun.

These three hundred Bayala's personal soldiers were elite soldiers. Each of them wore three layers of heavy armor and excellent weapons, and soon took down Taiping Gate. At this time, most of the defenders of Taiping Gate ran away, and the remaining guards were opponents of Bayala's personal soldiers, so the two-story inner and outer city gates of Taiping Gate were finally opened.

Duoduo was overjoyed when he learned that the city gate had been opened. He immediately ordered the Qing army gathered at the breakout of the city wall to enter the city through the city gate, and then ordered the 50,000 Qing army brigade stationed in Xiaoling to quickly come and enter the city from Taiping Gate. However, in order to confuse the Ming army in the city, Duoduo ordered the Qing army in Xiaoling to remain unmoved, and even asked them to eat and sleep on time.

Although Duoduo asked them to get up and go to Taipingmen to help the war, the ancient army had the speed of orders prohibited by later troops. In addition, the number of Qing soldiers was large, so it was impossible to assemble the team in just a few hours.

Although the 50,000 Qing troops had not arrived yet, the 20,000 Qing troops entering the city were enough for the Ming army. These Qing troops were not the new affiliated troops who attacked the city outside the southern city. In addition to the 5,000 Manchu flags, these Qing troops were all Mongolian flags and Han flags. These people were the absolute main force of the Qing Dynasty. Although their combat effectiveness was worse than that of the Manchu flag, they were not much worse.

The entry of 20,000 Qing troops into the city suddenly increased the pressure on Ma Cheng. The defense line that was originally steadily advanced suddenly retreated several hundred meters. At the most dangerous time, the Qing army was only twenty meters away from Ma Cheng's command post. If Ma Cheng's personal soldiers had not taken Ma Cheng's emergency transfer with Ma Cheng, it would be very likely that the commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Defense Battle would have become a prisoner of the Qing army.

Just as Ma Cheng fled in a panic, Luo Bingran came with 5,000 reinforcements. In order to be on the safe side, Luo Bingran brought all his subordinates Wan Xinjun. The joining of reinforcements allowed the Ming army to stabilize the defense line immediately and began to advance steadily, slowly squeezing the living space of the Qing army.

Although Dongcheng is different from the downtowns of Nancheng and Xicheng, there are many houses. Ma Cheng's Shenji Camp cannot actually exert 100% of its combat effectiveness in this kind of street fighting. Because the Shenji Camp's musket is two-legged and has a range of up to 200 meters. In street fighting, such as fighting within 30 to 40 meters, the power of the Shenji Camp's musket is very limited.

But the new army is different. Ma Cheng's new army has a half-fire weapon and half-cold weapon configuration. At the same time, Ma Cheng trained them according to Qi Jiguang's Yuanyang Formation. The Yuanyang Formation is a kind of military formation that emphasizes cooperation, with two types of military formations, including ten or five. This kind of military formation is very suitable for melee combat in street battles. At the same time, the new army's large number of Thunder guns are also very suitable for street battles.

The Thunder gun is different from the traditional musket. The Thunder gun is a small-caliber Folang machine. Each Thunder gun has four sub-guns, but it is quickly replaced to maintain the firepower. However, this thing was useless after invention. The gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty was not powerful, and the processing technology at that time was not good. The sub-gun and barrel were not tightly closed and had serious air leakage, so the range and power were not very good.

After discovering this weapon, Ma Cheng lamented that this is a shotgun from later generations! Of course, the shotgun is not good enough to shoot far targets, but it is invincible in close combat. So Ma Cheng improved the Thunder gun, expanded the caliber of the barrel, and improved the manufacturing process, solving the problem of the lax closing of the sub-gun and the barrel. In addition, using new gunpowder as the launching medicine, this new Thunder gun is very powerful at a close distance of twenty meters. Ma Cheng did an experiment and could penetrate a layer of iron armor within twenty meters, and even three layers of iron armor within ten meters could not withstand it.

This magical artifact called trench guns in later generations was put into use, which immediately posed a huge threat to the Qing army. Each sub-gun of the Thunder Gun was loaded with a lead bullet. This kind of thing did not need to be aimed or fired with a fuse. Just open fire directly after seeing the enemy's approximate position. Therefore, after Luo Bingran's new army entered the battle, the threat to the Qing army was much greater than that of the Shenji Camp.

The arrival of the Ming reinforcements made Duoduo feel huge pressure again. Unexpectedly, the Ming army in the city was so capable. Duoduo saw his 20,000 Qing army slowly being compressed near Taiping Gate and scolded angrily: Come and see, why hasn't the Qing army in Xiaoling arrived yet? Send an order to Jin Shenghuan, and if he doesn't arrive within half an hour, he will have his head!
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