Seeing that these Qing troops were desperate, Liu Zhen certainly couldn't let the soldiers of the Restoration Army go directly to death. Immediately shouted: "Everyone back and shoot them with javelins." Suddenly, the Restoration Army used the spears in their hands as javelins and threw them directly at the Qing soldiers. The archers in the back also kept shooting arrows, killing those Qing soldiers who rushed out.

Originally, Wu Xiaoli saw that there was no hope of survival, so he wanted to finally rush into the Ming army formation and kill some more Ming troops. However, under the double coverage of bows and arrows and javelins of the Restoration Army, the Qing soldiers were soon shot and killed. Wu Xiaoli fell unwillingly, and finally shouted: "Rush over, one person can escape back to Nanjing." ”

Wu Xiaoli's last wish, in the end, no one fulfilled it for him. In despair, just as he fell, he saw the outside of the town again. The Restoration Army appeared, and a large number of Qing soldiers were escorted into the town. Looking at the situation, it seems that it is Liu Guoyu and others who ran out before.

Seeing this scene, Wu Xiaoli completely lost hope. also lost his life, and closed his eyes unwillingly.

At that time, he had just been attacked by the Restoration Army, and Liu Guoyu didn't think about resisting at all. Even if they killed all these Ming soldiers, he wouldn't get any credit. The military merits must all belong to the Eight Banners, and their role is to be servants to the Eight Banners and to give a hand to the Eight Banners.

So as soon as he saw the Fuming army attacking, Liu Guoyu decisively ran away with the army. But after Liu Guoyu ran out of the town, before he could turn around and return to Nanjing, he ran into Zhu Youdong and others who got the news. Liu Guoyu and others saw the Restoration Army, and Zhu Youdong was leading the army to Jiangning Town.

The army brought by Zhu Youdong was as many as 5,000 people, followed by tens of thousands of people, and there was no end at a glance. Seeing this situation, Liu Guoyu still dared to fight, and he was about to turn around in fright, but he still ran away. Within a few clicks, they were all surrounded by the Restoration Army, and seeing that they couldn't hide, these green battalion soldiers surrendered one after another.

Zhu Youdong escorted Liu Guoyu and others to Jiangning Town, and just happened to see the scene of the Eight Banners soldiers who were all killed. Seeing this, Zhu Youdong asked someone to bring Liu Guoyu over to ask, only to know that someone had already gone to Nanjing to report the news. It's just that Lang Tingzuo and Kakam didn't pay attention to it, and only thought that the people were in rebellion, or that the local bandits were plundering the place, so they only sent 1,000 8 banner soldiers and 2,000 green battalions to Anqing.

Zhu Youdong said: "Then how many defenders are there in Nanjing now?" Liu Guoyu didn't lie, and said: "There are only 3,000 defenders in the city, and they can organize tens of thousands of people." There are also more than 2,000 people in the city, and they can all go to the city to defend. ”

Liu Zhen said: "What about the Eight Banners in the city? Then he said to Zhu Youdong: "Your Highness, these Eight Banners soldiers are not ordinary, they are very powerful. Just now, we were still in the case of a sneak attack. In order to eliminate these 1,000 banner soldiers, we suffered more than 2,000 casualties. For the Eight Banners soldiers in Nanjing, you can't take it lightly. ”

Zhu Youdong didn't expect that there would be such a big casualty. said to Liu Guoyu: "Yes, tell me how many Eight Banners soldiers there are in the city?" At this time, Liu Guoyu also heard that although these people were powerful, they were still very jealous of the Eight Banners. What's more, the garrison of the Eight Banners in Nanjing City, ordinary people don't know how many there are.

Liu Guoyu didn't lie before, because the strength of the green battalion and the city defense was very clear, and it was not difficult to inquire as long as you paid attention. But now the number of Eight Banners is not known to everyone. Immediately said: "There are a lot of Eight Banners soldiers in the city, about 7,000. At present, it is estimated that there are more than 22,000 Manchurians in the entire city. ”

When Jiang Chao heard this, he immediately shouted, "What? Isn't that close to 30,000 Manchurian Eight Banners? How could there be so many Manchurians in the city of Nanjing? Are you trying to deceive us? As soon as he grabbed Liu Guoyu, he was going to beat him. Liu Guoyu hurriedly said: "No, General of the Ming Dynasty, I don't dare to lie to you, it's true, there weren't so many at the beginning." But last year, Zheng Chenggong came to attack Nanjing, and many of the Manchurian Eight Banners who came to support did not leave. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Then there can't be so many, tell me, how can there be so many?" Liu Guoyu said: "The Manchurian Eight Banners stationed in Jiangning before were only more than 2,000 people, and there were only 10,000 people with their families. But then these people lived for a long time, and some servants were transferred from Beijing, and the number increased to 15,000. At the beginning of this year, the imperial court added another Jinghai general in Jiangning, and sent more than 3,000 people to garrison Jingkou, that is, Zhenjiang, and nearly 27,000 people with their families. ”

Zhu Youdong frowned and said: "This is something we didn't expect, and I don't know if Ma Bao and Li Rubi can take Zhenjiang." When Liu Guoyu heard this, he secretly said in his heart: "Why did these Ming troops send people to attack Zhenjiang, are they more powerful than Zheng Chenggong this time?" But what about being so unheard? I think they're trying to scare me and try to get the words out of my mouth. I must not let them know the truth. ”

Liu Zhen said: "Your Highness, I think it's better to inform Ma Bao of them, if they are suddenly attacked by these Eight Banners during the siege, the siege will definitely be blocked." Maybe it will lead to the failure of the attack on Zhenjiang. Zhu Youdong nodded and said, "You really should go and inform them, otherwise there is a problem in Zhenjiang, and it is estimated that the water master will not feel good." ”

After speaking, he turned his head to Lin Zhuang and said, "You send someone to inform Ma Bao and Li Rubi, and tell them to be careful, there may be three thousand full eight banners in Zhenjiang City." Moreover, the combat power of these three thousand Manchurian Eight Banners is not low, they are all strong troops who have just experienced the war, so let them be careful. ”

Lin Zhuang hurriedly arranged for someone to inform Ma Bao and Li Rubi on the Yangtze River. Zhu Youdong said to Liu Guoyu again: "In other words, there are not many defenders in Nanjing City now, as for about 3,000 people. On the contrary, there were more than 3,000 people stationed in the Eight Banners of Manchuria? But how did I hear that there were only two thousand eight banners in the city? And even if you count the 3,000 people in Zhenjiang, it's not enough. I think you're lying, do you really think that just a few words of answer can scare us away? ”

Liu Guoyu was suddenly shocked, he didn't expect Zhu Youdong to be so familiar with the situation in Jiangning City. I had no choice but to say: "Your Highness, there were only 2,000 people before, and I just said that there were only more than 2,000 people." However, due to the war in Fujian and other places, the imperial court transferred some Eight Banner soldiers to the south, and they went to Fujian for a long time, so they naturally wanted to rest for a while. ”

Seeing that Zhu Youdong and the others didn't understand, Liu Guoyu had no choice but to explain: "Originally, I wanted them to return to Beijing to rest, but the way back to Beijing was too far, and the consumption was too large. I don't know when the pirates will come again, so I'll have to transfer them south again. The imperial court felt that it was troublesome to run back and forth, so they let them come directly to Jiangning City to rest. Therefore, there are these Eight Banner soldiers who returned from Fujian to rest in defense, and they have about 2,000 people, and they are also in Jiangning City. ”

Zhu Youdong saw that what Liu Guoyu said was reasonable and well-founded, so he believed it a little in his heart. To the crowd: "If there are really 5,000 Manchurian Eight Banners, we will be in some trouble." But on the whole, it makes no difference to us, no matter how many soldiers they have, how many Manchurian Eight Banners they have. We still have to attack the city of Nanjing, and we must take it for sure. ”

Feng Shuangli also said: "Yes, what His Highness said is reasonable, we are bound to win Nanjing City." What's more, as long as we capture the two outer city walls, the Manchurian Eight Banners in the city will not be afraid. When we get to the city, their cavalry advantage is gone, and we will have a big advantage. It doesn't matter if the final city wall is attacked or not, we can directly trap the whole city to death, as long as they don't have outside Qing soldiers to respond, they are a dead end. ”

Zhou Chang said: "It's not advisable to trap them, we don't have so many troops. What's more, where the Manchurians live now, that is the imperial city of our Ming Dynasty. The Manchurians must not be allowed to stay in it for too long, and it is easy to talk about the city wall. Now the point is that we are very close to the city of Nanjing. Moreover, it is densely populated, and the army is delayed here, for fear that the news will soon leak out. At that time, it was very unfavorable for us to attack the city of Nanjing, and I think we need to attack the city of Nanjing as soon as possible. ”

Liu Zhen also agreed: "Yes, Your Highness, many of the people here don't believe us. As soon as they heard that we were the army of the Ming Dynasty, many of them had a hostile attitude. I don't know why? Didn't Zhang Shangshu say at that time that as long as he surrendered in these places last year, the local authorities would look at the wind and fall? How did we come, and it became like this. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "As for the attitude of these people, after last year's incident, it is estimated that there will be a great loss to the people's hearts. We don't care about this now, let's organize the army as soon as possible and hurry up. Let Wei Du immediately take the army and go to deceive the big victory. ”

The army led by Weidu, the Eight Banners of Manchuria that surrendered. If you walk directly with the Restoration Army, it will be very conspicuous, and it is likely to expose this good card. So Zhu Youdong let them go another road alone, not far from the main force. When it is necessary to cooperate with each other, as long as you send someone to give orders, you can join forces in less than half an hour.

Weidu, who was leading a large army to be separated from Zhu Youdong's main force, heard Zhu Youdong's order. Immediately led the army, went around to the front of the army, and went to the Great Victory Pass. used their identity as the Eight Banners of Manchuria to easily deceive the Great Victory Pass, and then surrounded all the defenders of the Great Victory Pass and confiscated everyone's weapons.

In the face of the behavior of these Eight Banner Masters, although the Dasheng Guan defenders were very puzzled, they didn't understand why these Eight Banner Masters treated them like this. But after Wei Du ordered the killing of several disobedient defenders, everyone obediently surrendered their weapons and was then put into custody by Wei Du's men.

Facing Zhu Youdong, he suddenly asked people to cheat the official's order. Liu Guoyu was still a little strange in his heart, how could the Ming army still go to the place of the Qing Dynasty to cheat the customs? Is it to deceive? Before Liu Guoyu could think clearly, he was escorted to Dasheng Pass by the soldiers of the Restoration Army. After half an hour of marching, Liu Guoyu had already seen the big victory.

If it weren't for the large number of Restoration troops around him, Liu Guoyu would have gone to Dasheng Pass to warn. But as the army got closer and closer to the Great Victory Pass, Liu Guoyu's heart became more and more strange. Liu Guoyu said secretly: "What's the matter? The defenders of Dasheng Pass, why didn't they see so many Ming troops coming? Did they really believe that the Ming army surrendered by deception, and the victory pass was taken by the Ming army? ”

Then what shocked Liu Guoyu was that there were about 1,000 Manchurian Eight Banners running out of Dasheng Pass. Not only did these people not attack the Restoration Army, but they also enthusiastically welcomed the Restoration Army into the pass. The other Qing soldiers around Liu Guoyu also watched this scene in horror.

A soldier said to Liu Guoyu: "My lord, what's the matter? Why did the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty not attack these Ming troops, but instead gave the Great Victory Pass to the Ming army. Ma Kaicheng, who had talked back to Liu Guoyu before, said: "These Eight Banner Army must be disguised by the Ming Army, and I have absolutely no Eight Banner Soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, and I saw that the Ming Army did not attack." ”