In the battle three days ago, the naval division was defeated, the ships were burned, and more than half of the elite were lost, and they had no ability to stop the Qing army.

In fact, the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops near Zhenjiang had already exhausted their morale and had no combat strength to speak of.

Most of these soldiers and horses came for the official positions promised by the imperial court, and they saw nearly 400,000 horses gathered in Zhenjiang, thinking that the Ming army was very strong, and blindly confident, as a result, after the defeat of the naval division, they blindly inferiority and did not dare to fight with the Qing soldiers again.

The Qing army of more than 200,000 horses crossed the river, and Ruan Dacheng, who lost the elite of the sailors, did not dare to make the fleet fight, and followed the horses to defend the water village, trying to keep more than 2,000 small boats, but it backfired, and the land division that assisted the defense of the village was not strong, and was defeated by the Qing army in a moment.

Ruan Dacheng's soldiers who can fight are all used as sailors, and the rest are those gentry who covet the official position of the imperial court, recruiting a full number of old and weak, plus they have no morale, where is the opponent of the Qing soldiers.

The defeat of the land division guarding the village made the Daming water division in the water village suddenly become a turtle in the urn.

Nearly 2,000 small boats of the Ming army were trapped in a narrow water village by the Qing army, losing the advantage of flexibility and mobility, and were immediately slaughtered by the large ships of the Qing army.

Watching the warships being sunk one after another, listening to the shouts for help from the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division in the water, Zheng Hongkui, the general of Zhenhai, couldn't help but sigh in the sky.

Not long after, Zheng Hongkui's ship was also knocked over by the Qing army's big ship, and the soldiers scooped him up, Zheng Hongkui fought again with the change of ship, but after all, the sailor had suffered heavy losses before, and he no longer had the capital to compete with the Qing army.

At this time, as a part of the Qing army began to land, the Ming army's land division began to rout on a large scale, Zheng Hongkui suddenly felt that he could not do anything, and the Ming army was already weak.

As soon as Zhenjiang is lost, the Qing soldiers can drive directly to Nanjing, and there will be no obstacles! The foundation of the Ming Dynasty for more than 270 years will be destroyed in one fell swoop.

For a while, Zheng Hongkui's heart was full of grief and indignation, but he was helpless, he knew that he would die if he was trapped in the water village, so he led the warship to rush out again, but the Qing army ship did not move.

"Boom" sounded, the sky did not help the Ming Dynasty, a Qing army artillery, right in Zheng Hongkui's ship.

The cannonball exploded next to Zheng Hongkui, and his guards knocked him down.

"Boom!" "Boom!"

A few more shells hit the warship, and Zheng Hongkui pushed away the soldiers who were pressing on him, trying to stand up, but found a pain all over his body.

At this time, Zheng Hongkui's body was covered in blood, I don't know how many wounds there were, and the armor on his body had been blown to shreds, he gritted his teeth, and after some struggle, he barely stood up with his sword to support his body.

Zheng Hongkui looked around blankly, only to see that his own soldiers were dead, and the boat he had just transferred to had also entered the water and began to capsize slowly, he suddenly felt sad in his heart, a sense of powerlessness and despair, instantly filled his heart, making him look up to the sky and sigh: "Your Majesty! The minister was incompetent, missed the river defense, and failed to stop the captives from going south! ”

As soon as the battle was defeated, the Qing army of 200,000 troops crossed the Yangtze River, and Jiangnan had no troops available, and Nanjing had no hope. (In history, Zheng Hongkui followed Zheng Chenggong to resist the Qing Dynasty and died of illness in Kinmen.) ）

Wang Wei joined forces with the remnants of Zuo Maodi and Chen Zilong, and was fighting desperately to the death, when suddenly a soldier reported that Zheng Hongkui, the general of Zhenhai, had been martyred himself, and everyone was shocked.

When Zuo Maodi heard this, he knew that the sailors trapped in the water village had lost their command, and he hung the flag with the ship, and he had taken the post of a squire in the military department, commanding the remaining sailors to fight.

On the shore, hundreds of thousands of Ming troops gathered near Zhenjiang accelerated the rout as the Qing troops landed, and Ruan Dacheng killed several people in a row, but still could not contain the rout.

Zhenjiang City is surrounded by mountains and fields, all of them are the defeated soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they came to the aid from the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and now they are defeated to the provinces.

After the battle, he led his troops to support Shuizhai, but after leaving the city, he was defeated and disrupted the formation, and the army was suddenly chaotic.

Fang Guoan thought that the water village had been lost, and he was afraid that he would be surrounded by the Qing army, so he led 10,000 soldiers and horses and fled south with the defeated soldiers.

Seeing this, Ruan Dacheng, the secretary of the military department, knew that the general trend had gone, and led hundreds of people to Nanjing in a hurry.

In the water village, although Zuo Maodi took over the command, but the situation of the Ming army's water division did not improve, with the defeat of the land division, they only rushed out of the water village, in order to seek a glimmer of life.

The Ming army ships were small, the Qing army ships were large, they blocked the exit of the water village with large ships, and the Ming army could not fight and fight, and they could not win by hitting and colliding, so they could only watch the situation deteriorate step by step.

At the moment of crisis, Chen Zilong suddenly set fire to his boat, and then suddenly crashed into it like a Qing army ship.

Chen Zilong's ship was a medium-sized sea ship, the flames were rising, like a moving volcano, the Qing army was immediately frightened when they saw this, and the big ships avoided one after another, making the originally tight formation appear a little panicked.

At this time, the Ming army and the navy had been forced into a desperate situation, and the army was full of grief and indignation, and many warships were touched by Chen Zilong's determination, so they set fire to the ships one after another, and crashed into the Qing army ships in the same state.

The Lu Division was defeated in the first battle, but the Naval Division did not defeat for a long time, not only because Ruan Dacheng filled all the elites into the Naval Division, but because the Naval Division had more patriotic soldiers than the Lu Division.

For example, Chen Zilong, Wang Yuyong, etc., most of them scattered their wealth and recruited young people to rescue Yangzhou, they are sincere for the country, so they are firm-willed, although they are at a disadvantage, they still have the courage to die.

Under the command of these scholars, although the sailors were defeated, they did not collapse, let alone surrender, and for a time, the Ming warships were ignited, and there were as many as 100 ships.

On the city of Yangzhou, everyone saw the fire on the river, and saw that the Qing army continued to board the boat and go to the south bank, so they knew that the river defense had been defeated and the Qing army had successfully landed.

Three days ago, everyone saw the defeat of the Ming army's naval division here, and today they watched the water battle in the south again, but they want to see the scene of the day again, and experience the taste of failure, how gloomy everyone's hearts are.

The Ming Dynasty is fragmented, devastated, decaying and dilapidated.

Wang Yan has been fighting for the Ming Dynasty since Shandong, hoping to buy some time for the imperial court to reorganize the rivers and mountains.

When he was in Qingzhou, he couldn't wait for Wang Shinan to come.

When Suizhou was in Suizhou, the imperial court took measures to recover Henan and Shandong.

In today's Yangzhou, Wang Yan originally wanted to buy time for the imperial court to rectify the river defense, but with the defeat of the water division, his efforts once again turned into the eastward flow of the river.

Wang Yan has always hoped that the Ming Dynasty can make a comeback, but in the end, it was bad luck and his fate was unlucky, and his patriotic ambition to restore his homeland and reorganize the rivers and mountains failed again and again, and he couldn't help but be deeply disappointed and mourned.

"Infinite mountains and rivers tears, who says that the world is wide!"

Wang Yan stood at the head of the city, infinitely sad in his heart!