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preparations to take the city. One tactic of the attackers was to fill the space between the city wall and the mountain ridge at the Dragon's Neck with earth, sand, logs, rocks and grass, so the land surface was raised to the height of the city wall, thus paving the way to attack the city. Another was to dig tunnels just 200 feet away from the city wall so that they could be filled with explosives to blow up the wall. Operations within such close proximity of enemy fire were possible due to sufficient covering fire, thanks to the taking of Dibao Castle. The defenders' attempts to disrupt the preparations were continuously beaten back with heavy losses due to withering fire from the attackers. Two weeks later the preparation was complete.
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wall breaking and flying 2–10 km far down, killing several hundred people and collapsing a large section of the city wall. The defenders put up a fierce fight, but were unable to drive back the attacking force of 60,000. The attackers divided into four fronts after entering
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ordered more than 1000 defenders to disguise themselves as attackers to sneak out of the city to destroy the tunnel, but the attackers were not fooled and beat back the thousand-man formation. The following afternoon at 1:00 the attackers detonated the explosives in the tunnel under
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121:Date
1083:曾国荃
1038:曾国荃
954:萧友和
948:幼西王
942:林绍璋
924:李万材
868:清凉山
828:黄翼升
818:彭毓橘
806:李金洲
794:罗逢源
777:萧孚泗
758:彭毓橘
743:朱南桂
644:萧庆衍
630:彭玉麟
624:三岔镇
617:),
592:中和桥
580:七桥瓮
574:双桥门
568:高桥门
562:上方门
556:江东桥
550:上方桥
526:九洑洲
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1121:.
1079:湘军
1047:^
1034:湘军
1002:,
998:,
930:淳化
852:旱西
846:水西
840:陈湜
834:中关
812:通济
800:聚宝
764:通济
749:仪凤
702:金川
696:朝阳
670:天保
614:龙都
608:解溪
602:淳化
586:秣陵
536:神策
495:,
162:,
158:,
136:,
1131:.
976:遵
936:章
918:列
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320:v
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