So, the army was divided, all the way to the south, all the way to the north.

Although Wu Zheng decided to rescue Jiangyin at this time, he still had no intention of continuing the Northern Expedition.

Returning to the division is nothing more than saving the people of Jiangyin is in dire straits, and at the same time, Wu Zheng also judged that there will not be many Qing troops going to Jiangyin.

Because the main forces of the Qing army from Yingtianfu were concentrated in the previous battle, the Qing army did not have enough troops to transfer a large army to slaughter a county town that no longer had much population.

Therefore, Wu Zheng thought that with 2,000 cavalry, it was enough to save Jiangyin City.

Two thousand cavalry hurried overnight, and when it was dawn, they rushed to thirty miles outside Jiangyin City.

After a short rest, Wu Zheng gave the order to attack the city!

There is no suspense in this battle, the national treasure Taihu Lake was born as a water thief, was recruited by Hong Chengchou in his early years, and got a general military officer, and since then he has become Hong Chengchou's lackey.

After Hong Chengchou surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the national treasure of Tu became a knife in Hong Chengchou's hand that slaughtered the Ming people.

Slaughtering Jiangyin again was actually from Hong Chengchou's order.

After Hong Chengchou was defeated in Suzhou and woke up on the way to retreat, he thought of the plight of the Qing army.

If Wu Zheng took advantage of the situation to go north, the consequences would be unpredictable, so on the one hand, he sent a message to Ying Tianfu to help, and on the other hand, he urgently ordered Tu Guobao, who was then the governor of Jiangning, to rush into Jiangyin and slaughter the city.

The intention is nothing more than to use this to attract Wu Zheng's idea.

But what Hong Chengchou didn't expect was that Wu Shengzhao's pursuers were easily defeated, and Wu Zhengbu did not follow.

This made Hong Chengchou wake up to the lack of strength of the Ming army, just in time for the arrival of reinforcements from Tianfu, so a counterattack began.

What made Hong Chengchou even more unpredictable was that Wu Zheng was outnumbered, and in less than a day, near Gaoqiao, almost completely annihilated more than 10,000 pursuers.

At this time, Tu Guobao, who was ordered to go to Tucheng, had only arrived in Jiangyin for two days, which was the time when dozens of people rushed from Jiangyin to the official road outside Wuxi City to ask Wu for help.

In the past two days, the bandit-born Tu Guobao did not immediately slaughter the city according to Hong Chengchou's order, but first searched the city.

It wasn't until the oil and water could no longer be squeezed that Tu Guobao asked Jiangyin Zhixian to assist in the massacre.

However, although Liu Zhixian was appointed by the Qing court, after all, he was a scholar and a Han person, and this kind of thing that was indignant to heaven and man naturally understood that he could not do it, so he refused the order of Tu Guobao.

Annoyed and enraged, Tu Guobao ordered Liu Zhixian to be killed, and a massacre began.

Fortunately, the number of people brought by the Tu National Treasure is small, only 3,000 people.

Trying to slaughter more than 10,000 people in a city is not something that can be done in one or two days.

At this time, the bloody smell of more than 100,000 lives more than half a year ago has not disappeared, and the loyal soul of the city makes the people in Jiangyin City have a different blood from other places.

The rebellion broke out in the streets and alleys, and the National Treasure Department was killing people all over the city at the same time, but also being killed by the people.

It was at this time that Wu Zheng led his army to Jiangyin and launched an attack on Jiangyin City.

The Qing army, which was already less than 3,000, could not control a county town at all, and even took care of itself in the tide of resistance of the people in the city.

What's more, Tu Guobao never thought that the Ming army would appear in Jiangyin City at this time.

In his opinion, Hong Chengchou had already joined forces with Ying Tianfu's reinforcements, and the counterattack against the Ming army had begun.

Even if the Ming army was not defeated, it was powerless to get its hands on Jiangyin City.

Wu Zheng, with 2,000 cavalry, did not enter Jiangyin through the city gate, but found another way.

After more than 400,000 fierce battles, the Jiangyin city wall was already in tatters, and the Qing court did not have the time or financial resources to repair and consolidate it.

Under the guidance of those Jiangyin teenagers, Wu Zhengbu entered the city from a collapsed city wall.

The city of Jiangyin City is like a ship, the south is its head, the north is its tail, Wu Zhengxuan entered the city in the middle section, and then the troops were divided into two roads, all the way to the south, all the way to the north, and the Qing army in the city was fighting with the people, and sniped.

The Qing army was caught off guard, they had already divided into dozens of units, fighting on their own.

In the eyes of Tu Guobao, the rebels in the city are nothing more than a rabble, and there is no problem at all in dividing the troops to break each one.

As a result, the Ming cavalry advanced in both directions in the north and south almost without delay.

Everywhere they passed, the Qing army was routed one after another, and was crushed by the swarming rebel army.

At this time, the national treasure of the land that had looted the money in the city, and he did not know that the time of destruction had come, and he was counting the harvest of the past few days at the county office.

While pointing, he also scolded, the poor ghost of this city.

The whole city was looted, and nearly 100,000 taels were obtained, which is indeed a little poor.

But the problem is that this city has become a dead city half a year ago.

The stench of corpses still drifted faintly through the air.

The 27,000 piles of ashes that were burned were enough to form a mountain.

Today's more than 10,000 people, it is not easy to scavenge 100,000 taels.

Just when Tu Guobao was melancholy and did not achieve his goal, Wu Zheng led a group of guards to break through the gate of the county government and rush in.

Tu Guobao didn't even have time to react, and was surrounded by Ming soldiers.

He also tried to draw his knife to resist, but was quickly kicked by a Ming soldier and fell to the ground softly.

Several Ming soldiers rushed up, pressed the earth treasure to the ground, and then tied it up.

At this point, Jiangyin City was recovered, and there was no major battle in the city except for the sporadic Qing troops fleeing.

And those Qing troops who fled could not escape from under the noses of the local people after all.

One by one, they were caught like rats, and then they died without a whole body.

These scenes are too bloody, but for the people of Jiangyin City, no matter how bloody they are, they can't understand the hatred in their hearts.

By the time Wu Zheng walked out of the yamen, a complete corpse of the Qing army could no longer be found in Jiangyin City.

No, one more, to be exact.

No, it shouldn't be said to be a body, but a living person, a national treasure.

Wu Zheng naturally would not be merciful enough to pardon a traitor and butcher who committed a heinous crime.

But Tu Guobao obviously has the ability to protect itself.

His reaction was very fast, after being captured, when he saw Wu Zheng, and learned from Wu Zheng that more than 10,000 Qing pursuers were almost completely wiped out, his first sentence was, "As long as you don't kill me, I have a top secret to tell." ”

Wu Zheng began to believe it.

But Tu Guobao's next words made Wu Zheng's heart move, "I swear, this top secret is enough to change the entire Jiangnan battle situation." ”

Tu Guobao is the governor of Jiangning and Hong Chengchou's henchman, from these two points, Wu Zheng can't help but be unmoved.

"Say it. If what you say is true, the official will not kill you. Wu Zheng said in a deep voice.

Tu Guobao posthumously testified: "You swear." ”

Wu Zhengdao: "This official swears that if what Tu Guobao said is true, this official will never harm him." ”

Tu Guobao believes it, and there is no other way to believe it at this time.

So he opened his mouth and told a secret, "There is no Eight Banners Army in Yingtianfu, and after 10,000 horses were ordered to reinforce Changzhou, only 5,000 Ming troops in Yingtianfu surrendered, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled. ”

Wu Zheng was shocked when he heard this.