The morning is foggy and it’s another cloudy day.

The air is a little damp and cold.

Zhu Changzi, who had just put on his armor and was about to lead his guards to the North City, was stopped by Xu Fuyuan, the assistant officer of the Governor's Mansion.

Xu Fuyuan, with swollen bags under his eyes, lifted his robe and trotted over.

"Xu Fuyuan, the chief minister of the Governor-General's Office, paid a visit to the prison."

"No need to be polite, what's the matter?"

"Report to the Supervisory State, urgent report from Jiangyin County."

As Xu Fuyuan spoke, he took out a wax-sealed letter from his arms and handed it to Zhu Changqi.

The secret message had just been sent into the city from Fengshan Water Gate by the Jinghai Navy's speedboat, and it was immediately delivered to the Zhejiang Governor's Mansion.

But Xu Fuyuan knew that King Lu had always been concerned about the situation in Jiangyin, so he sent it over without stopping.

Zhu Changzi opened the wax seal and hurriedly opened the letter.

Jiangyin County has been surrounded by the Qing army. The Qing army led by Bellebolo has gathered reinforcements from Nanjing City, and its strength has increased to 50,000.

Boluo's former army troops Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's troops have arrived at the foot of Jiangyin City and are cutting down wood and making weapons in preparation for attacking the city.

Jiangyin once again wrote in blood to request reinforcements. Zhu Changzi saw the three names written in blood at the signature: Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, and Feng Houdun.

After reading it, Zhu Changzi handed the letter to Li Bao and said: "Send it to the cabinet for urgent discussion."

Seeing the situation, Xu Fu couldn't help but hold up his hands and said: "Supervisor, please forgive me for speaking frankly, we have no reinforcements to send."

Zhu Changzi got on his horse, looked at Xu Fuyuan and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have my own arrangements."

Xu Fuyuan was puzzled, but Zhu Changzi had already rode away, so he had to give up and turned around to return to the Governor's Mansion.

Li Bao sent his confidant eunuch to rush the letter to the cabinet, and he quickly followed King Lu to Beicheng.

On the way, Zhu Changzi suddenly asked Li Bao: "Li Bao, do you still remember the names of the three candidates recommended by the cabinet to go to Huguang last time besides Zhang Zhengchen?"

Li Bao pondered for a moment and then replied: "Back to Your Highness, the other two are Chen Zilong, the former chief of the military department, and Xia Yunyi, the former chief of the merit examination department of the Ministry of Personnel."

"Have you heard of these two people?" Zhu Changzi always felt that the names seemed familiar.

"My servant heard that Chen Zilong is the leader of several societies. He is talented and well-known throughout the south of the Yangtze River. His lyrics are excellent. As for Xia Yunyi...his son is very famous and is a child prodigy." Li Baojiu was in Hangzhou.

, I still know a little bit about these two people.

"Prodigy?" Zhu Changzi asked curiously.

"Yes, I heard that he knew the Five Classics at the age of five and could write poetry at the age of seven. Later, he was accepted as a student by Chen Zilong." Li Bao also said with emotion.

"Hey! I'll see you if you have the chance." Zhu Changzi couldn't help but said in surprise, it's really rare to see such a smart child.

"Slave, are you going to send someone to deliver the message now?" Li Bao asked carefully.

"Invite them all, I will wait for them at the Genshan Gate." Zhu Changzi ordered while speeding up his horse.

Li Bao turned around, gave instructions to the servant who was following him, and followed Zhu Changzi closely.

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At this time, at the Genshan Gate, due to the foggy weather, the Qing army's artillery had basically no accuracy. They either hit the city wall, or flew directly into the city and landed among the residential areas in the city.

But the Qing army attacking the city today is completely different. They are no longer the screaming ants attacking the city like yesterday.

The thick fog blocked the view, and only a loud rumble could be heard, as if the Qing army was pushing something over.

Yang Tinglin listened quietly for a while, and then shouted: "It's Jing Han, get ready to fight!"

Instantly, everyone became nervous. Today's Qing army seemed a little silent, not as excited and roaring as yesterday.

Zhang Guowei, who was in the tower, also noticed the difference between the Qing army and felt something bad in his heart.

Today, the entire northern city wall plus the remnants of his Biao camp totaled more than 6,000 people. If the main force of the Eight Banners came to attack, it would probably be a disaster.

"Report! The 10,000 direct guards of the Supervisory State are already in the city preparing for war!" The messenger stood outside the door and reported.

Zhang Guowei's expression changed and he looked at Qi Biaojia beside him.

"Today is a tough battle."

"Yes, we must not allow the Supervisor to come to the city to fight in person!"

Soon, Zhang Guowei called Fang Yuanke.

"Taiwan, what's going on?" Fang Yuanke's voice came before he even entered the door.

"Tell the soldiers, if we defeat the Qing army today, each person in the Governor's Mansion will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!" Zhang Guowei waved his hand and said proudly.

Fang Yuanke was overjoyed and hurriedly turned around happily to deliver the order.

Cheers immediately erupted from the top of the city.

"Long live the Ming Dynasty!"

Amid the excited shouts, the tall figure of Jing Han appeared dimly in the heavy fog.

Following the ear-piercing whistling sound, countless sharp arrows were shot towards the face.

The Ming army hurriedly crouched down to avoid.

"Dog Tartars, let them learn all the things invented by our ancestors! Let me teach them a lesson!"

Fang Yuanke dodged the rain of arrows, stood up, and shouted loudly.

Upon hearing this, the Ming army stood up one by one, firing various firearms such as fire blunderbuss, three-eyed blunderbuss, and bowl-mouth blunderbuss. Even the old-fashioned divine fire flying crow was moved out of the arsenal.

The people squatted under the battlements, loading the firecrackers with ammunition.

The corps commander, chief, captain, and sentinel commander were running back and forth, constantly shouting for their subordinates to fight back.

The generals, on the other hand, sit with their servants in their respective areas, ready to provide support at any time.

A general with whip marks on his face looked gloomily into the distance as he slowly approached the Jinghui chariot. The Qing army kept shooting bows and arrows from above to suppress the defenders, so that Jinghuo could move closer to the city.

"Boss, are you still in pain?" A close confidant, the commander, stood behind him and asked with a fawning look.

"I'm going to try to whip you?" Zhang Dabiao's rough face with a red bloodstain looked like a ruthless man.

The captain smiled awkwardly and did not dare to answer any more words.

The servant next to Zhang Dabiao was holding several wooden plates filled with wine bowls.

Whoosh!

A broken cone arrow grazed Zhang Dabiao's face and was nailed to the city brick behind him.

He gently reached out and touched it, and a brand new blood mark appeared, intersecting with the original whip mark to form a cross.

"Damn it, you're already competing with my handsome face, aren't you?"

After saying that, Zhang Dabiao was so confused that he pulled out his sword, spat, turned around, picked up a wine bowl, drank it all in one gulp, and shouted like a loudspeaker: "Brothers, this is our tomb, I will go first

Here’s to you this year’s toast!”

Immediately, Zhang Dabiao's 500 people were excited, and the archers stood up to shoot at each other.

At this moment, the Qing army's Jing Huan pressed against the city wall.

The Qing troops hiding inside began to pour out, and the Qing troops under the city also kept climbing up the stairs inside Jinghuan with shields in hand.

The Qing army's artillery became more fierce, and the trebuchets weaved a sky-wide web of bullets, and it rained stones on the city head.

A tall and thick man in armor from the Qing army leaped onto the city wall, snatched the lancet from a Ming soldier, and started killing all directions. For a moment, no one could stop him.

Subsequent Qing soldiers seized the opportunity and swarmed forward, opening a breach in this section of the city wall.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Zhang Dabiao hurriedly grabbed the bow of an archer next to him, twisted the bow and nocked an arrow, opened and closed, and suddenly the wind and thunder were activated, and with one arrow he shot the Qing soldier who had climbed into the vest first and fell to the ground.
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Then, he swung his sword and killed himself among the Qing soldiers.

At the same time, other sections of the city wall were also struggling to support themselves. Elite soldiers from the Eight Banners took the lead personally, making it difficult for the Ming army to resist.

Fang Yuanke and his servants were fighting fires everywhere. Suddenly they heard that Zhang Dabiao's tribe was in a fierce battle. While sending people to report to Zhang Guowei, he hurried to support with his troops.

"To make the platform, Commander Zhang Dabiao has been broken through and is fighting hard." The soldiers came to report. Zhang Guowei took a breath of air. As soon as the battle started, he was breached at the top of the city. The Eight Banners soldiers were really fierce.

"Quickly tell Yang Tinglin to lead his troops to help!" Zhang Guowei immediately ordered.
Chapter completed!