The fierce battle of Ishibashi ended with the temporary retreat of the Qing army, and the battlefield was cleaned up to count the casualties, and judging from the corpses lying on the ground, the casualties on both sides were heavy.

The battle lasted less than an hour, and thousands of lives were left on the battlefield, of which six or seven hundred were killed and wounded by the Green Battalion, and nearly three hundred were killed by the defender Guo Hu Battalion, not including the one hundred and ten who died under the rain of arrows from the Eight Banners on the city wall.

The battle is brutal, and the evenly matched battle kills 1,000 enemies and loses 800 of them. The defenders cleaned up the battlefield and rearranged their defenses in preparation for another enemy attack, and the attack soon followed.

After suffering less than a thousand casualties, Duo ordered the attack to be stopped, not because he was afraid of casualties, but because he had too many cards to play in his hand, and after calming down, he found that there was no need to storm the stone bridge.

At this moment, the green battalion soldiers who went out to collect food came back one after another, and tens of thousands of people were arrested.

Dordor ordered that the old and weak children be left in the camp, and that the other men and women were forced to fill in the trenches.

The diversion ditch is less than 100 steps away from the moat, and you only need to fill in the connection between the moat and the canal, and then dig the aqueduct and the moat, you can divert the water in the moat, and then you can attack the city wall everywhere, and there is no need to attack the stone bridge.

The digging and filling of the ditch were carried out by the captured people, and Duoduo would not feel distressed even if there were many casualties. And if you control the old and the weak and the children in the camp, you are not afraid that these people will be disobedient.

Yangzhou's water network extends in all directions, the canal goes around Yangzhou city from south to east and then north for half a circle, becoming a natural moat in the east of Yangzhou, and there is a small Qinhuai from north to south through the city and merging into the canal.

The moat is connected to many rivers, and its water is simply living water, and it is too difficult to cut it off completely. What Dordor had to do was to cut off the moat in this section of the West City from the rest of the river, drain the moat, and fill in the ditch.

Under his strong order, tens of thousands of young men and women were forced to start heading towards Yangzhou City.

First of all, thousands of people were forced to attack the stone bridge at the west gate, and Li Shutai led the green battalion soldiers to mix in it, and attacked the stone bridge again with the people as a shield.

In order to cover up the people, Duoduo believed that the Ming army would no longer dare to use such a large-scale killing weapon as the tiger squat cannon and ten thousand enemies, and could only fight hand-to-hand with guns and knives. As for whether the people would escape into Yangzhou City through the stone bridge, Duoduo was not worried at all.

If this is the case, if the Ming army is stupid enough to accept the people into the city, the Qing army will just take advantage of the situation to attack the city and go to the province. But that Pingnanhou shouldn't be so stupid.

Thousands of people rushed to the stone bridge, and Guo Hu, the general guarding the bridge, changed color in shock, and he hesitated whether to order an attack.

If he was under Gao Jie's command at the beginning, Guo Hu would not hesitate to order the cannon to be fired immediately, but it was just some untouchables who were coerced by the enemy, and they couldn't let them break through their own defenses.

But now, in the Pingnan Army, Guo Hu knows the temperament of the marquis, treating the officials and wealthy businessmen like wolves and tigers, but treating ordinary people very kindly, it can be said that he loves the people like sons.

Chen Yue, the Marquis of Pingnan, was extremely strict with military discipline, and the Pingnan Army strictly forbade anything that disturbed the people. Several of Gao Jie's subordinate officers who were pictured with Guo Hu were beheaded by military discipline or expelled from Yangzhou with heavy punishment for such trivial things as robbing the people of silver taels or not giving money for buying things. Others were so shocked that they no longer dared to do anything wrong, including Guo Hu.

If I order to open fire on the people, will I be punished by the Hou Ye afterwards? At this moment, Guo Hu was hesitating, unable to make up his mind. In desperation, he could only send someone to ask the city for instructions.

Seeing that thousands of people were gradually approaching the moat, followed by the hateful green battalion soldiers, the Pingnan army behind the stone bridge was at a loss, and they all looked at Guo Hu, waiting for his order.

"Yingzheng, if you don't give the order to attack, they will attack the stone bridge!" The subordinate said nervously.

Once the people set foot on the stone bridge, the green battalion soldiers following behind them will take advantage of the situation to launch an attack on their own positions behind the bridge.

"Let go of 10,000 enemies and throw them on the stone bridge!" Guo Hu's mind was spinning at high speed, but he still didn't dare to give the order to slaughter the people, so he could only compromise and use 10,000 enemies to deter the people before they poured onto the stone bridge.

"Boom, boom, boom" Dozens of 10,000 enemies were thrown to the stone bridge one after another, causing earth-shattering explosions, shrapnel flying, fire splashing everywhere, and a wave of air rushed to the face, frightening the people to no longer dare to move forward.

"If you dare to do something, you can't kill it!" Li Shutai ordered coldly.

With his order, the Green Battalion soldiers raised their swords and spears, slashing at the people who were hesitant behind them. After a series of screams, the other people were frightened and rushed towards the stone bridge, even if there was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of them. Compared with the devil in human skin behind him, the sword mountain and the sea of fire are not so terrifying.

And many people have the illusion that as long as they rush across the stone bridge, they can escape to Yangzhou City and survive.

"Give Guo Hu an order that whoever attacks our army's front is the enemy, and he can be routinely attacked and killed."

In the city, Li Yi, the chief soldier in charge of the defense of the West City, ordered in a deep voice.

"Slow down!" Zhang Xun, the pacification officer on the side, hurriedly dissuaded him.

"The people under the city are all my Ming people, and they are all forced by the Qing army to be like this!"

"The lives of those people are lives, isn't the life of my Pingnan Army not my life?

Could it be that the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Yangzhou City are not lives? ”

Li Yi said with a cold face, and waved his hand to let the herald give the order.

"It's too big, it's better to tell Hou Ye." Zhang Xun said again.

"Don't let Hou Ye bear this kind of notoriety, I Li Yi will bear any responsibility for the crime afterwards!"

After listening to Li Yi's words, Zhang Xun could only keep silent, as a pacification officer, he reminded a few words that it was his duty. I naturally know which is light and which is heavier in my heart.

Just as the people poured onto the stone bridge and were about to approach the breastwork, Guo Hu finally got the order to attack the city.

Seeing the city head waving the red flag representing the attack, Guo Hu smiled fiercely and waved the sword in his hand.

"Boom, boom, boom" The ten Tiger Squat cannons that had been loaded long ago opened fire at the same time, and nearly a thousand projectiles shrouded towards the stone bridge.

The two stone throwers moved at the same time, throwing two 10,000 enemies onto the stone bridge again.

Countless fire points flew everywhere, projectiles flew around, and the stone bridge seemed to be like hell on earth.

With a "coax", thousands of people turned around and fled, and the miserable situation on the stone bridge frightened them into a haunt.

When Li Shuotai's green battalion soldiers stepped forward to stop him, he found that he was no longer obedient in the past, and fled as if he was being chased by a ghost, ignoring the swords and guns in front of him.

A Green Battalion soldier was pushed to the ground after a little hesitation, and then countless pairs of feet trampled over him.