The 30,000 defenders of Yangzhou and the 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Shuizi battalion collided together, and the Qing soldiers were mostly cavalry, and the army shouted and roared.

Hou Xuanyan and Zhu Dadian stood on the Chinese army's lookout car, looking high and far away, and commanding as if they were determined. Under his orders one after another, the command flag of the Shuizi battalion changed, and the orders of the generals were transmitted to the armies accurately and in a timely manner, and the attack and defense were orderly, like a rock, and the Northern Expeditionary Army remained immovable.

The muskets met the enemy, and behind the sword and shield hall, the pikemen formed a formation and intercepted the Qing soldiers who came in like a flood. The roaring cannon sounded, and Li Shutai had already arranged for it to plug the horse's ears. But there were still horses frightened, and these cavalry horses captured by coming to Jiangnan had never experienced the battle array at all. At this time, the greater effect of the cannonball was to blast open the city wall during the siege, and the field lethality was not strong, but I didn't expect that the huge sound would become a clever trick to deal with the cavalry, and it was simply a crooked hit.

Hou Xuanyan stared at the Qing soldiers in front of him and praised secretly. Good riding skills, well-trained and uniform, what an elite, but unfortunately reduced to an alien canine.

The two sides fought fiercely for half an hour, but the Qing soldiers still did not break through the impregnable defense of the Shuizi battalion, and Li Shutai was anxious. The offensive and defensive situation has quietly changed, and the cavalry is constantly falling from their horses, and his men are already small, and he has not succeeded in one blow, and if he wants to fight a fierce battle, he is boiled in warm water.

Hou Xuanyan showed a smile on his face, and said to Zhu Dadian with a smug face on the side: "Jiangdong children are talented, old Zhu, after this battle, our Northern Expeditionary Army's water character battalion will be famous all over the world!" ”

Zhu Dadian laughed and said, "Commander, don't stay behind, the time has come." ”

Hou Xuanyan nodded slightly, stretched out his hand, and a signal flare shot up into the sky. Hou Xuanyan looked at the sky, and scolded at the corner of his mouth: "These bells and whistles, I didn't expect them to come in handy." ”

There were countless warships on the river in the distance, and Zhang Mingzhen saw the signal, and his voice trembled with excitement. Under an order, the Songjiang Prefecture sailors landed from Jiangdu and went straight to Yangzhou. The defenders of Yangzhou were exhausted, and the people were as deep as the sea, and under the mobilization of spies in the city, they had long been preparing to open the city.

Hou Xuanyan's army dragged Li Shutai at the west gate, and Zhang Mingzhen took advantage of the situation to attack Yangzhou City from the south gate, and led his troops to cover up. As soon as Li Shutai saw that the general trend had gone, he wanted to flee north under the desperate protection of his own soldiers. Hou Xuanyan sighed, only hating that the Fengzi battalion was not there, and the enemy's cavalry came and went like the wind, and it was difficult to pursue.

Zhu Dadian stomped his feet and scolded: "I think he is really courageous, and he will fight to the death when he goes out of the city, it turns out that the whole army is exhausted, and it is convenient to escape." ”

Hou Xuanyan saw that their remnants were defeated, and there were less than 10,000 people, and they fled like a wind. His face turned pale, and he sighed and said, "Run, run!" Lao Tzu who fled to Guanwai will also chase after him, but I want to see if they give up Shenyang so simply. ”

The people of Yangzhou City slowly walked onto the streets, looking at the Ming army entering the city. In their eyes, there are both fear and expectation, and more of them are wooden. A few months ago, 800,000 people died in the city, and these 800,000 people were relatives and friends, and there was not a single family or friend in the whole Yangzhou.

Later, the Manchu enclosure began, and countless people were forcibly taken to the north as slaves, and this era was not as people in later generations thought. You are a Han Chinese, the Tartars are coming, you can save your life and be a Manchu Shunmin if you don't do anything? Dream!

As early as the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the Tartars entered the customs and captured more than 462,300 Han people, and distributed them to the banner people as slaves. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Tartars took advantage of Li Zicheng's rebellion and entered the area of Jifu, Shandong, capturing more than 369,000 people. After the Jiashen national disaster and Wu Sangui switched off, it was no longer difficult to count the people who were captured and enslaved, there were too many. These people were forced to carry heavy loads, live like cattle and horses, and return to slavery. Even more tragic are their descendants, also known as domestic sons, who are still slaves. In the Kangxi period, thousands of people committed suicide every year due to humiliation.

Our ancestors abolished slavery in the pre-Qin era, and with Huma's southern crossing, it once again appeared on the land of China.

Hou Xuanyan rode into the city, looked at the sparse people on both sides of the road, and remembered the tragic situation in Jiading City when he first arrived. The trauma of the massacre of the city is not something that can be forgotten by a person or even a generation, and it may still be painful to mention it in a hundred years.

Fortunately, Hou Xuanyan has a dose of fierce medicine!

Zhang Mingzhen and others welcomed him into the Yangzhou Mansion, everyone was excited, and everyone had a high-spirited look on their faces. Hou Xuanyan looked left and right, remembered the sorrow of the people in the city, sighed and said: "Immediately send troops to sweep the three prefectures and seven counties of Yangzhou Prefecture, relying on the favorable terrain, and arrange the garrison troops." The more trouble we make here, the less pressure Jing Xiang will have, and that is the battlefield of the battle of national fortunes. Plug Yinxi needs our support. ”

Zhang Mingzhen, Zhu Dadian and other major officials nodded frequently, and Hou Xuanyan looked fierce after speaking, and said: "Escort Duoduo to the city, gather the people tomorrow, and celebrate the military and civilians at the entrance of the vegetable market!" ”

After a night of silence, the soldiers of the Shuizi battalion posted official documents everywhere in the city, and the next morning, the people pointed and discussed.

Duoduo's name is in Yangzhou, like a hellish demon, and as soon as he heard that he was going to correct the Fa, even the people who hid in their homes and didn't dare to show their heads took to the streets.

At the entrance of Yangzhou vegetable market, on a hastily formed high platform, a strange-shaped box is tied to two pillars. If you have a clear understanding, you will see at a glance that this thing is called the iron box of the fire, which is used to melt the iron during the defense of the city, and the molten iron is poured under the city to burn the siege chariots. All the craftsmen in Yangzhou City were gathered here, and everyone was excited.

The people of Yangzhou learned that they wanted to kill Duoduo, one to relieve hatred, and the other to take revenge.

After Hou Xuanyan took the stage, the people looked at him silently, and Hou Xuanyan raised his voice: "The blood is deep, we will avenge you!" The land is lost, we will defend it for you! You just have to remember that we are the Northern Expeditionary Army, and my brothers and I begged for saliva to drink when we were thirsty, and begged for a place to wipe blood when we were wounded, and we had to wrap ourselves in sackcloth when we died. I just ask, Yangzhou, is it our home field, in a bloody battle outside, can we leave our back to Yangzhou? ”

The people, who did not dare to go to the streets to welcome Wang Shi when he entered the city, finally overcame the fear of being slaughtered and roared loudly. The voice was higher and higher, Hou Xuanyan looked at their hideous faces, and nodded secretly in his heart. A flock of numb sheep can only be slaughtered forever, and what he wants is to arouse the martial blood in his blood.

Hou Xuanyan stepped back from the stage, and a few shirtless guards escorted Duoduo to the stage. Duoduo was naked, without a single strand, but his eyes were still shining with cruelty. Facing the people of the whole city who were eager to tear him apart, Duoduo showed the demeanor of a ruthless man, but it was a pity that his bare ass reduced his momentum a lot.

The guards tied him to the platform, and his arms were tightly tied to the two pillars. Suddenly Duoduo felt a heat wave hit his head, and a bad premonition made him struggle all over.

On the high platform, the craftsmen agitated the bellows, and finally slowly tilted the iron box of the fire, and poured the red-hot copper juice on their heads. Duoduo was in extreme pain, his eyes were eager to pop out, and a puff of green smoke rose up, burning his skin and flesh. But those craftsmen poured very slowly, and he still couldn't die for a while. It was only when the screaming body became smaller and smaller that the craftsmen appropriately sped up.

Soon, a bronze man with teeth and claws stood on the high platform at the entrance of the vegetable market. A heroic young general announced in public that the bronze man would stay at the entrance of the vegetable market forever.

The bronze man is not polished, it is purely original, although there is not much artistry, but for Yangzhou people, this bronze man will have enough stories to pass on...