Although Chen Zilong felt that Liu Zeqing was killing himself, Liu Zeqing thought that he had made the wisest judgment in his life, and there were many powerful factions in Jiangnan who had the same idea as Liu Zeqing.

In their eyes, Liu Yongxi and the Yue Ming army are out-and-out nouveau riche, Liu Yongxi's strength was not as good as them a year ago, if it weren't for the Suizhou Revolution, Gao Jie died unexpectedly, Liu Yongxi took advantage of the big advantage and inherited almost all of Gao Jie's inheritance, Liu Yongxi still only has a few thousand soldiers and horses at most on an equal footing with them.

If they inherit the 30,000 soldiers and 9,000 horses left by Gao Jie, they will definitely do a better job than Liu Yongxi.

Based on this judgment, now everyone speculates that there will be a second Wu Shengzhao on the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River, but those who surrender to Yue Ming will take refuge in the past with three or five hundred people at most, and there will be no heavyweight uprising in front of the battle for the time being.

But no matter what illusions these people had, the development of the situation would never change radically because of their personal will, and now the Viet Ming army had launched its final offensive on the battlefield of Suzhou.

After the first wave of attacks, nearly 10,000 Qing troops led by Li led Tai were stationed in Suzhou and several peripheral counties, and now the Ming army has annihilated all the Qing troops in several peripheral counties after receiving the support of red-coated artillery, leaving only the last Suzhou Fucheng.

Now Zhang Huangyan's judgment of Liu Yongxi is extremely admired: "It is still wise for His Royal Highness King Yue, let's start from the periphery first, otherwise it will definitely be embarrassing to directly transfer the red-clothed cannon to attack Suzhou City!" ”

More than 10 red-coated cannons of the Yue Ming army are captured trophies of the Battle of Hangzhou, but the Yue Ming army is the first time to use this level of heavy artillery, although a part of the captured gunners are retained, but the whole process of use can still be "embarrassing" to be conspicuous.

Fortunately, Liu Yongxi's order was to choose the soft pinch first, and first start the test fire and attack from the outlying county strongholds, the Qing army in these counties was already in a desperate situation, and now the red-coated cannon bombardment is a complete collapse of the will to fight, no matter how many problems the red-coated artillery of the Vietnamese Ming army has in the actual combat exercise, but as long as the cannon sounds, the county seat can be taken down in half a day at most.

The artillery of the Vietnamese Ming Army, which had been constantly improving itself in actual combat, finally had the opportunity to launch a salvo under the city of Suzhou after being tempered by the fire, and a round of artillery bombardment made the morale of the Qing army extremely depressed.

Although nearly 6,000 Qing troops under the command of Li Shutai held out for nearly a month, in this month's time, the Yue Ming army had captured all the outlying strongholds of Suzhou Prefecture, leaving only the last Suzhou Mansion City.

In the protracted battle for nearly a month, the Qing army lost thousands of people, while the Ming army became stronger and stronger, and dragged more than a dozen red-coated cannons to the gate of Suzhou, which naturally made the morale of the Qing defenders close to collapse, and the Qing army knew very well that they had held out for so long and still did not wait for reinforcements, indicating that Duoduo, Haoge and Hong Chengchou had given up on them.

Among the Qing troops who participated in the war, there were the remnants of the defeated soldiers who escaped in the Battle of Hangzhou and the Battle of Huzhou, and they talked about the old battle of Hangzhou, Jiahang, and believed that the reason why Duoduo, Haoge and Hong Chengchou gave up the plan to rescue Suzhou Mansion was completely because they were afraid of the second battle of Huzhou to rescue friendly troops but put themselves into it.

The judgment of these remnants of the defeated generals is very accurate, Duoduo and Hauge gave up rescuing Suzhou because of such worries, it is really the lesson of the Battle of Huzhou is too painful, if Duoduo sat back and watched Bolo's entire army at that time instead of doing his best to rescue Bolo, there would never be today's passive situation.

But for the Qing Dynasty is the first time such a situation has occurred, even if only one hundred and eighty Eight Banners soldiers were besieged in the past, Nurhar and Huang Taiji will definitely go to the rescue at all costs, but Suzhou Fucheng was besieged for nearly a month, and the Changzhou Qing army almost never organized any large-scale siege relief action except for sending a small number of sentinels, so not only the Suzhou Qing army but also the morale of the Changzhou Qing army were fatally hit.

And now the red-coated artillery of the Ming army launched a salvo almost without scruples, directly collapsing a city wall and the city tower above, and the Qing army generals below did not have the consciousness of co-existence and death with Suzhou City: "Li Shilang, if we don't leave now, I'm afraid we won't have a chance!" ”

Li Shutai was extremely entangled: "There are Jinhua thieves outside, if we rush out, we will at least lose most of the people, it is not the second battle of Hangzhou, if we stick to Suzhou City, there may be a glimmer of hope!" ”

In any case, Li Shutai still has 4,000 people in his hands, and he thinks he can still gamble.

Not long ago, the Battle of Hangzhou Bolobel ordered a breakthrough, but because of poor organization, 20,000 people broke through to the end and only one or two thousand people remained, which made Li Shutai feel that it was better to hold the idea of defending Suzhou City, but the Qing army generals below and even those Eight Banners generals were unwilling to defend meaninglessly: "Li Shilang, we have been guarding Suzhou City for nearly a month, and we are already worthy of Aixin Jueluo's family!" ”

"Yes, Bolobel has an army of 40,000 in Hangzhou, and it is not as good as us in terms of holding on to the time, and if we continue to defend it like this, we will be defending to death!"

"Until now, the money, food, firewood and rice have been exhausted, and there is no way to guard it anymore!"

Everyone's opinion is completely opposite to Li Shutai, although there are indeed 4,000 Qing troops in the city, and the Qing army has an absolute advantage in short-range combat and bow and arrow shooting, but the Vietnamese Ming army has even invited out all the red-coated cannons, what is the point of continuing to hold on?

Can the ironclad cavalry of the Eight Banners fight against the frontal bombardment of the red-coated artillery?

And Li Shutai heard the generals of the Eight Banners say this, and knew that Suzhou City could not be defended, so he just told the trustworthy Eight Banners generals below: "Let Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's soldiers and horses break through from the West Gate......"

These Eight Banner generals couldn't help but be taken aback, there were hundreds of soldiers and horses left by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming in Suzhou City, in the eyes of the Eight Banners Army, these soldiers and horses were not much different from the Eight Banners Han Army, but what Li Tai said now was to prepare to sacrifice these troops of the Three Shun Kings: "Isn't it normal to use the Green Battalion and the New Annexed Army to attract Jinhua thieves?" ”

Li Shutai said categorically: "At this point today, do the green battalion soldiers and the new annex army still dare to break through the city?" Besides, if the child can't trap the wolf, we can only be sorry for King Sanshun first! ”

Although most of the time the troops of King Sanshun were not too different from the Eight Banners Army, at the critical moment, the troops of the Sanshun Army still gave up: "Do as I want!" ”

"Jianyu has broken through from the West Gate!"

"The south gate has been opened!"

"A lot of new annexes rushed out from the south gate to negotiate with us about surrender!"

"The main force of the Qing army fled from the north gate!"

By the time Chen Yuan and Zhang Huangyan finally noticed that Li Shutai and the main force of the Qing army had fled from the north gate, it was too late, but since the Yue Ming army had already controlled the entire Suzhou Mansion, Li Shuotai's breakthrough was still full of losses, but due to the sacrifice of Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's troops at the first time, in the end, Li Shuitai still fled back to Suzhou Mansion with seven or eight hundred Eight Banner cavalry.

As for the rest of the Green Battalion soldiers, the new attached army, and the Sanshun Wang army, almost all of them were wiped out, and the Qing army lost nearly 20,000 people in the entire Suzhou Mansion Campaign, and more importantly, although Li Shutai brought out seven or eight hundred Eight Banner cavalry, but after the Suzhou Mansion changed hands, Chen Yuan, Zhang Huangyan and Yu Huang's tens of thousands of Ming army main forces were officially liberated, and now everyone thinks that Changzhou Mansion is likely to repeat the tragedy of Suzhou Mansion.

For the Qing army, the bad news is not only that the entire territory of Suzhou Prefecture was lost, but that His Royal Highness Azig, the British king, who was preparing to set foot on Tianmen Mountain and join the Qing army in Jiangnan, also officially announced that Jingzhou was forced to return to Huguang because Jingzhou was besieged by thieves, and now the situation has changed from the Qing army in Jiangnan and Azig attacking Xing Shengping on two roads to the point where the main force of the Yue Ming army on three roads is ready to launch a centripetal attack on Jinling at any time.

Although the regent Dolgon has sent a large army to the south to support, and this army is said to be led by the Great Belle Daishan himself, but according to the inside information that everyone has obtained, the Qing army that went south to support is only more than 10,000 people, and the name is "support" but in fact it is to receive Duoduo and Hauge to retreat north.

Now the regent Dolgon and those princes and Baylor of the Jingshi have seen very clearly, Duoduo and Hauge plus Azig are not the opponents of the Jinhua thieves, and after Azig returns to the division, the Jiangnan Qing army is not the opponent of Liu Yongxi and the Jinhua thieves, and the most important thing in this case is to withdraw Duoduo and Haoge's soldiers and horses to the north as much as possible, after all, they still have tens of thousands of field troops in their hands, and there are tens of thousands of true eight banners among these tens of thousands of field troops.

And Hong Chengchou didn't expect that he, the "Admiral Southern Military University Scholar", would flee back to the north before he sat down, but he was not a particularly strong-willed person, and he was discouraged as soon as he was frustrated: "King Yu, King Su, I have to take the first step in retreating north this time, otherwise I'm afraid that the Jinhua thieves will chase me all the way, in order to ensure that I fight with the Jinhua thieves until the last moment, I want to be the first to cross the river!" ”

Duoduo has been hit hard by Liu Yongxi and Yue Mingjun left and right in the past few months, and after being beaten too much, he is naturally used to it and even has experience in dealing with it: "Master Hong, don't be too anxious, although it is a black cloud pressing down on the city, but the actual situation is not so bad, let's still come as planned, King Tang, King Fu and all the vassal kings of the Ming Kingdom We have to make good use of it, I want to make the Jinhua thieves at a loss and mess up!" ”

A day later, a cavalry squad of the Ming Army east of Nanjing discovered an unexpected trophy.

The Qing army on the opposite side sent a middle-aged man in a dragon robe, two civil officials in official robes and a few eunuchs who spoke sharply, and the Qing army said very clearly: "This is the Hongguang Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, our regent is now going to negotiate with the Ming Kingdom, in order to show sincerity, the Hongguang Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is specially returned!" ”