In Jiangyin City, Yan Yingyuan sat paralyzed on the city tower, and he didn't dare to take off his armor.

The Qing troops retreated bizarrely, besieged for so long, but withdrew at the last moment when reinforcements came. This had to make him very vigilant, and in his opinion, it was a lame ploy that was not very clever.

Jiangyin has been besieged for so long that not even a bird can fly in, so they don't know that Suzhou City has been recovered. If it weren't for the fact that the town was rich and had a lot of grain, tens of thousands of people in Jiangyin would have starved to death without beating themselves.

The Qing soldiers have been retreating for two days, and there are refugees fleeing back in the distance, which is even more bizarre. They fled from the south.

Chen Mingyu, the current warden of Jiangyin, climbed up the city tower, looked around, and after seeing Yan Yingyuan squatting on the ground, he said excitedly: "Li Heng! Do you know why the Qing soldiers retreated? ”

Yan Yingyuan glanced at it and wanted to get up, but he couldn't get up. He simply lay down on the tower and asked, "Why?" ”

"Haha, because they lost Suzhou, and Suzhou was recovered by our people!"

Yan Yingyuan's eyes lit up, he jumped up, grabbed Chen Mingyu's shoulder, and asked while shaking, "Is this true?" ”

"You let go first, let go, my old bones are going to be broken up by you."

Yan Yingyuan let go of his hand and asked, "Is it the Northern Expedition of the Wang Division?" ”

"According to the people who fled back, Suzhou opened the city a few days ago to accept the people, and it was Hou Xuanyan of Jiading who captured the city."

Yan Yingyuan frowned, filtered the famous generals of the Ming Dynasty in his mind, and did not expect the name Hou Xuanyan to perform.

Chen Mingyu has been friends with him for many years, but he can guess his thoughts, and said: "Don't think about it, this Hou Xuanyan is the eldest son of Hou Dongzeng in Jiading, and he is a young offspring. ”

At a glance, there were countless dead bodies under Jiangyin City, stacked together to attract countless mosquitoes and flies. As the sun sets, the residual residual heat shines on the bleeding corpses, and the desolation after the war is shocking. Yan Yingyuan looked at the small city he was defending and suddenly laughed.

"Whenever there is a great disaster, it must be a time for heroes to rise up and make contributions. Brother Chen, let's clean up the city and wait for it. Since Hou Xuanyan gave us a chance to breathe, we have to be worthy of him. Jiangyin, I can keep it for another year! ”

Chen Mingyu held his hand and nodded heavily.

Yan Yingyuan's defense of Jiangyin is a miracle. This is a feat worthy of special mention and a feat that will leave a name in history, but it can only be found in the Jiangyin County Chronicles. The reason for this....

Although the scale of this war is not large, the battle situation is tragic, and the main generals fight wits and courage, and you come and go wonderfully.

Liu Liangzuo, the chief general of the Qing army, first set up a death squad and ordered his nine generals to lead the crowd to climb the ladder and break the city. was poked by Yan Yingyuan with a spear, and there was a man who was brave and thought that Liu Liangzuo's subordinates were incompetent, and climbed the wall himself.

This guy is really powerful, wearing three layers of armor, hanging two knives from his waist, two knives on his back, holding two knives in his hands, climbing the ladder, stepping on the battlements, and slashing with knives. The spears of the Jiangyin defenders couldn't penetrate him, and there was a boy named Tang Wei, who was also defending the city at about ten years old at this time, shouting and stabbing him in the face. So everyone aimed at his face and stabbed him in a mess, Tang Wei took an iron hook and sickle, and cut his throat hard, and the bamboo craftsman Yao Er cut off his head, and fell into the city.

The rank of this full general is not low, and Liu Liangzuo was frightened when he died, for fear that the Manchu people would trouble him.

Liu Liangzuo sent people to beg for food and silver, wanting to exchange it for this head. Yan Yingyuan pretended to agree and accepted the silver and grain, but wrapped a dog's head in a cloth and threw it away.

The two sides later sang and scolded each other, and Liu Liangzuo tried his best to find someone to write a song to persuade them to surrender.

Yan Yingyuan confronted each other and led the soldiers to chant at the head of the city: "Yixing people, a gun." Wuxi people, a group of incense. Jingjiang people hurriedly knelt on the beach. The people of Changzhou have dedicated their daughters and mothers. Jiangyin people, who fought for more than 80 days, would rather die than surrender. ”

Most of Liu Liangzuo's subordinates were from these places, and they were ashamed after hearing this.

Speaking of which, this should be regarded as a relatively early regional black...

Besides, under the city of Suzhou, Bolo fought all the way, and countless Ming troops surrendered. Not only did they lose their country, but they also sacrificed their weapons and cannons to the Qing army.

Bolo came this time and brought more than 200 cannons, which were the ones who blasted open the walls of Jiangyin in history.

There was nothing to do all night, and early the next morning, gongs and drums were beaten under the city of Suzhou.

Hou Xuanyan, who was guarding the city, was startled, got up and took a look, only to see that the Qing soldiers were pushing the artillery arrangement.

The gunners wore red and hung colors, Qiluo played drums, put the cannons in bamboo baskets, and several people carried them to the city.

The Suzhou soldiers guarding the city looked curiously, not knowing what they were doing.

Qin He whispered to Hou Xuanyan: "The Qing soldiers are trying to scare us, let us see the cannons, and be afraid of surrendering." ”

Hou Xuanyan nodded, his heart was like this, he admired the imagination of these people a little. It seems that they have recruited and surrendered along the way, and they have all recruited experience.

"Everyone bow their heads, Qinggou is going to fire a cannon, and they will show their heads after they finish shooting." Hou Xuanyan shouted loudly, and some of the soldiers were still sticking their heads out of the city to look. After all, the other side is like singing, these soldiers are originally from wealthy families, and they have always been cunning and oily, and they don't take military orders very seriously.

Xu Yuanbao carried a mace and led Qin He's team of soldiers to patrol around. As he walked, he shouted: "Don't show your head, the enemy is going to shoot." ”

This fat man just knocked out the head of a petty officer yesterday, and Yu Wei was still there, and the soldiers guarding the city obediently lay down.

Hou Xuanyan looked at the black muzzle of the cannon under the city, and sighed in his heart: "It's good to feel good." ”

The people of Suzhou have been at peace for a long time, and several times the city has changed hands either by surrender or by trickery. A real tough battle, not to mention these wealthy slaves, even if they are real officers and soldiers, they have never seen it.

The glory of the Zhejiang soldiers is still in Qi Jiguang's Qi family's army, a top strong army, in a bloody battle in the Hunhe River, and the whole army was annihilated. Since then, there has been no army in Jiangnan that has played an unsatisfactory record.

Jiangnan, it only took two years to fall cleanly.

However, this also shows that the strength of the army has nothing to do with the region.

Zhejiang soldiers have always been criticized, and it is not uncommon for a few people to chase a thousand people to run. But after Qi Jiguang was born, in the same place, with the same source of soldiers, there was an iron-blooded strong army.

In the end, what kind of general, what kind of soldiers are brought out.

The ceremony of the Qing soldiers did not last long, and soon the earth-shattering cannon sound resounded over the city of Suzhou.

Two hundred artillery pieces, sprayed shells poured on the walls of Suzhou.

The defenders of the city no longer needed to be reminded, and one by one they lay on the city and shivered.