In the Nanjing side, the Prince of Yanping was undoubtedly deceived. The victory of the two battles of Guazhou and Zhenjiang and the large number of prefectures and counties in Jiangnan made him make a wrong judgment, and he actually believed that the Qing army in Nanjing would surrender in a month.

Lang Tingzuo, the governor of Liangjiang of Qing Dynasty, humbly said "please surrender" in the name of Jiangnan admiral Guan Qizhong, and used it to slow down the army; while at the same time, he mobilized all available troops from nearby areas at the cost of abandoning some prefectures and counties, and also issued an urgent request for help from the Qing court. Before the arrival of Zhou Zuo reinforcements, Lang Tingzuo, Shuoerhui, Gachuha, Guan Qizhong and others knew that their troops were out of power and did not dare to go out of the city to fight.

The first reinforcements to arrive in Nanjing were the four-ooo soldiers led by Liang Huafeng, the general general of Suzhou Navy. Liang Huafeng first met with Jiangning Governor Jiang Guozhu in Suzhou. Later, when he advanced to Danyang, he received four consecutive letters of Yushu from Governor Lang Tingzuo to aid Nanjing.

Liang Huafeng knew that Nanjing was in danger and advanced overnight. He arrived in Jurong County on the morning of the 26th. At this time, Jurong had already surrendered to the Zheng army, and the place was filled with hills and lush grass, so Liang Huafeng suspected that the Zheng army would be ambushed in Jurong and ordered to be kept on guard and searched for advancement, but there was no trace of Zheng army.

After passing through the dangerous place, Liang Huafeng breathed a sigh of relief and said to his subordinates with a smile: "The pirates are too careless. You will not put any troops in such dangerous places as Jurong. If they deploy thousands of soldiers here, how can we go there?"

Late at night that day, Liang Huafeng led his troops to the city of Nanjing. Lang Tingzuo heard that Liang Huafeng was coming to help, so he was extremely happy and hurriedly ordered Zhengyang Gate to let the Liang army enter the city. After that, during the Zheng army's large-scale "siege" period, Qing troops from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places rushed to Nanjing one after another.

The plan is: the name of the guerrilla Xu Dengdi led the horse infantry under the admiral;

Zhang Guojun, the general of Jinshan Camp, led the name of a horse and infantry;

Wang Dacheng, the garrison of the Right Battalion of the Navy, led 150 horse and infantrymen;

50 soldiers were led by the officers and soldiers in Hangzhou;

Zhao Guozuo, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and the governor of Hangzhou Angbang, Kekui, stationed in Gushan Dayadali, Gushan, and Tong Haonian, led the 5-year-old Manchu soldiers stationed in Hangzhou;

Zhejiang Governor Tong Guoqi sent Fubiao to guerrilla Liu Chengyin to lead 5 elite soldiers;

Hezhou deputy general Lai Tianguang led 60 troops;

Dangtu guerrilla Jiang Qing led 260 troops;

Wuhu ginseng general Zhao Zhen led 480 troops;

During the siege, the Qing army in the upper and lower reaches of Nanjing continued to enter Nanjing through the Zheng army's defense line. In the Anqing side, the Qing'an Prince Yue Le also took 16oo soldiers to help the aid, and even entered Nanjing from the bottom of the Zheng army's navy. For more than half a month, more than 10,000 reinforcements entered Nanjing, while the reinforcements from Shandong, Henan and Jiangnan continued to continue.

Emperor Shunzhi, who had already left Beijing on July 16, went south to the imperial expedition in person, received an urgent report from Lang Tingzuo, and ordered the Minister of the Inner to be General Annan, and to join Gushan Ezhen Suohong, the Guardian Army Commander Laida and other commanders to go north to reinforce Jiangning, and ordered the governor of the grain transportation Kang Deshi to supervise the troops to help. Kang Deshi was forced by the imperial edict and his life was at stake, so he had to leave his troops to help Nanjing. However, he was already scared by the Zheng army and thought that if he did not die, he would die by law. Therefore, on July 28, he jumped into the water on the way and committed suicide.

The Prince of Yanping knew nothing about the six reinforcements in Nanjing, and the generals of the army thought that when the time came, Nanjing would surrender, so the morale of the army was slackened. The vanguard led Yu Xin's camp under the city of Nanjing, and everything in the camp was exposed to the eyes of the Qing army on the city, without any precaution. The soldiers in the army were even more three or five, just fishing on the riverside for fun every day. Guan Xiaozhong and others saw the Yangtze River densely covered the Yangtze River, and there were not many soldiers in the camp alert, so they couldn't help but propose to Governor Lang Tingzuo to go out of the city to attack these Ming troops.

Lang Tingzuo and Angbang and Zhang Jingshuo Hui believed that this was Zheng's intentional weakness, so he wanted to lure the Qing army to attack, and did not agree with Guan Qizhong's request for war. In addition, some generals also believed that they had finally used fraud to surrender to Nanjing for one month, and reinforcements from all over the country continued to arrive. The situation became beneficial to the Qing army. You might as well continue to drag on it. After the expiration, if there were still not enough troops in the city, you could continue to use the excuse of unrest and delaying for a while. At that time, the imperial army in person might be not far from Jiangnan. As long as Jiang Ning gritted his teeth and persevered, it might not be impossible to hold on until the emperor's army arrived. If he took the initiative to attack now, there would be no chance to delay time.

When the city of Nanjing was arguing about whether to take the initiative to attack, Yang Ying, a vassal household officer of the Yanping County King outside the city, appeared when inspecting the battalions, the soldiers of Yu Xin from the Qianfeng Town left the flood land and went to the riverside to catch fish, and hurriedly reported the matter to the Prince of Yanping County. After receiving the report, the King of Yanping did not take this matter seriously. As long as Yu Xin controlled his subordinates, he could go fishing by the riverside, and the soldiers would still stay in the camp. Yu Xin did not pay attention to this matter. As time went by, there were more and more voices in Jiangning City asking for an active attack, because the movements of the Ming army outside the city did not seem like a trick to lure the enemy.

On the Zheng army, not only did Yu Xin's camp disintegrate, but the other troops also completely lost their army. Including the central army of Zheng Chenggong, the Zheng army of Yanping, not only expanded camps like Yu Xin's troops, cast nets to fish and fish on the riverside, but no longer strictly investigated vendors and allowed the people to enter and exit. Some Zheng army camps were even more lively like a market. Vendors and farmers near Nanjing went to Zheng army camps to market every day, selling poultry eggs, cloth, rice wine and other items to Zheng army. This situation was soon discovered by the Qing army. At first, Lang Tingzuo and the others did not believe it, and later sent people to make up vendors to scout the Zheng army camp. Sure enough, they easily passed the checkpoint and did not get carefully investigated by Zheng army. Some Qing army's fine works, which were made up of vegetable dealers, even boarded the Zheng army naval ship by the river. As soon as they got on the boat, many women immediately gathered around to choose and buy their vegetables.

The Zheng army outside the city was so ridiculous, and the voice of taking the initiative was naturally high. Jiang Ning Governor Jiang Guozhu firmly opposed the battle, believing that the movements of the Zheng army outside the city were too strange, and they would do more mistakes, so they might as well wait. Some Qing army generals who participated in the battle between Guazhou and Zhenjiang also disagreed with the battle. Those generals who broke through Guazhou and fled back to Nanjing Manzhou were even beaten to death and did not agree to leave the city to fight to the death with the Zheng army.

Guan Qizhong, who was strongly committed to the war, did not get the consent of most people. When they were anxious, Liang Huafeng stood up and thought that when he went out of the city to fight back and kill the Zheng army, he was caught off guard. Liang Huafeng suggested that the 500-armored Manchu soldiers stationed in Hangzhou, led by Tong Haonian, who had just arrived in Nanjing, and the 500-armored Manchu soldiers stationed in Hangzhou, who were stationed in Hangzhou, went out of the city to assault the Zheng army. Daya Dali and Tong Haonian disagreed, believing that they only had 500-armored soldiers. If they were ruined, there would be not enough Manchu soldiers in Nanjing to suppress the Han army's green camps.

Guan Qizhong was so angry that he quarreled with Daya Dali. As the commander of the Zhenjiang Battle, Guan Qizhong ruined 4,000 Eight Banners soldiers in Manzhou in one battle, resulting in the deterioration of the war in Jiangnan. If he could not make contributions and redeem himself, the Qing court would never spare him after the war, and it was basically confirmed that his family was confiscated and the family was exterminated. For this reason, Guan Qizhong would never sit on the opportunity. He tried his best to lobby the Governor Lang Tingzuo with Liang Huafeng and requested to go out of the city to attack Zheng army.

"The thieves are not like soldiers at all, but rather like refugees. They are gangsters and have no military discipline. Just by surprise, one attack from the army will definitely be defeated!"

Lang Tingzuo hesitated repeatedly, but was finally persuaded by Guan Xiaozhong and Liang Huafeng, but he refused to send the five armored Manzhou soldiers brought from Hangzhou from Hangzhou to attack, and ordered Guan Xiaozhong to lead his cavalry out of the city. At dawn the next day, Liang Huafeng led more than 500 cavalry out of Yifeng Gate, and Guan Xiaozhong led his troops out of Zhongfu Gate and suddenly attacked the Zheng army camp.

Yu Xin originally thought that Yifeng Gate was located in a remote place, with reeds growing in front of the city walls, as if no one was in and out, so there was no defense. Unexpectedly, the Qing army attacked. Liang Huafeng personally led 500 cavalry to rush straight to Yu Xin camp. Arrows flew together, and the sound of killing shocked the sky. Most of the soldiers under Yu Xin woke up from their sleep and were shot to death before they could even take the battle. The other soldiers were panicked and even had time to put on armor and fought with the Qing army. Many of the iron armored soldiers were shot to death by the Qing soldiers.

Seeing the soldiers galloping clearly, they heard the golden iron clang in their ears. The soldiers of their side retreated step by step. Yu Xin stopped drinking back and forth, but they could no longer command effectively. Their troops collapsed before they even had half a stick of incense. Yu Xin was captured. The Qing army won the first battle and withdrew their troops and camped outside the city.
Chapter completed!