As a coach, Hong Chengchou has clearly felt that the garrison of Suzhou City is not as tough as it was at the beginning.

There are more and more soldiers who climb up the cloud ladder to the head of the city, and behind these Qing soldiers is the supervision team composed of Hong Chengchou's descendants, who dares to retreat and directly slash to death, which is more ruthless than the Suzhou soldiers killing people.

While scolding Hong Chengchou's ancestors for eighteen generations, these soldiers of Jinling stubbornly climbed up the ladder to the city.

Suddenly, the Qing soldiers below erupted in cheers, and under their incessant ramming, the city gate was finally slammed open.

The Qing soldiers were extremely excited, they finally carved a path to the ground in hell, and countless Qing soldiers howled and rushed into the urn city.

At this time, the sky had darkened, and the light from the torch shone on Hong Chengchou's tall and thin cheekbones. Since the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou has become thinner and thinner, and his former strong and burly figure has become hunched over.

"The whole army is attacking and entering Suzhou! The armies were not allowed to kill the people, nor to disturb the place, but only to take the first evil marquis. ”

Hong Chengchou gave an order, and the herald galloped in front of the left army and the right army, and all the Qing soldiers were ready to take the city of Suzhou, which had taken the lives of countless companions.

Hou Xuanyan on the city tower watched all this, his face was cold and he didn't say a word, and only when most of the Qing soldiers had crossed the moat did he gently raise his hand and signal Xu Yuanbao beside him.

"Ordered to fire."

Two hundred artillery pieces fired in a salvo, and the shells poured down in the dense Qing army formation like no money, and everywhere the fire started, there were corpses that were blown up into the sky to clear the soldiers, and they did not understand what happened before they died.

Many more were pierced by the debris from the explosion, and were bleeding from the loud bang. Panic began to spread among the Qing soldiers. They have been in Jinling for a long time, and they have seen this kind of battle there. If Wu Sangui's men and horses were to face such an artillery bombardment, they might be able to organize a retreat or resistance. Guan Ning's army has been in the bitter cold place outside the fortress for many years, and is used to hearing the sound of cannons and seeing life and death. These soldiers and horses of Jinling, Duoduo led the Eight Banners to the south, and they chose to surrender without fighting. Let them slaughter the city, and point their swords at their own people, who are good at killing people, but now they are a routed army, and they are scattered and fleeing.

There were countless bodies drowned in the moat, and the Qing soldiers stepped on the corpses of their comrades and fled away from Suzhou.

Hong Chengchou's shoulders collapsed, and all the strength in his body was drained, and he suddenly remembered that he met Wu Zhikui by Taihu Lake that day. A terrible thought rose to his heart, could it be that Hou Xuanyan had really calculated this day, he asked Wu Zhikui to surrender, and then fought to the death for three days without artillery, just for this moment?

Of course, Wu Zhikui didn't know, because of his words, he was already on Hong Chengchou's must-kill list. He surrendered sincerely, and if he knew Hong Chengchou's thoughts, he would definitely call Tianqu on the spot.

The soldiers around Hong Chengchou shouted loudly: "My lord, withdraw!" ”

Although Hong Chengchou's ears were buzzing from the artillery, he couldn't hear what his soldiers were saying, but he knew that he was retreating by looking at his mouth.

Where there is life, there is hope. In Songshan back then, he was not loyal to Emperor Chongzhen, who appreciated him and reused him, and now of course he will not be righteous for the Manchu master.

The Qing soldiers who rushed into the urn city had no way to go to the sky and no door to the ground, and as soon as the inner city was opened, they saw the Suzhou soldiers who were ready to go and wait for a long time, so they directly threw down their weapons and chose to surrender.

Yan Yingyuan shouted loudly: "Get out of the way!" ”

These Qing soldiers hurriedly squeezed aside, squeezing out a way, and the soldiers and horses in Suzhou City rushed out.

Wu Yi, who was dormant in Taihu Lake, also jumped the moment he heard the sound of cannons. Although he had long known that Suzhou City was going to bombard the Qing soldiers today, he still didn't expect Hou Xuanyan to make such a big move.

"Brothers, the commander has made a move, let me cover up and kill the dog. Recapture Jinling and recover half of the rivers and mountains today! ”

More than 10,000 rebels came out of the reeds of Taihu Lake, they were dressed in armor, drew their knives in the night, and as Wu Yi began to harvest, the Qing soldiers who escaped from the vicinity of Suzhou.

The rebel army in Taihu Lake is not weak in combat, and they are familiar with the nearby terrain, so there is no obstacle to fighting at night. It was easy for them to cover up the rout in the night.

Hong Chengchou gathered the remnants of the army while fleeing, and resisted sporadically, and they didn't even dare to enter small cities like Wuxi and Changshu. All the Qing soldiers and Hong Chengchou had the same idea, and fled back to Jinling to have a chance to turn defeat into victory. Jinling has the Eight Banners of Luck Dehun, as well as the thick walls of the high city, and these Suzhou soldiers cannot be attacked.

Hou Xuan's equestrian skills were not perfect, and he struggled to follow behind the army, and Yan Yingyuan's men and horses had long disappeared.

Zhang Mingzhen, who is also not good at riding, was full of smiles, and said on the horse: "Congratulations to the commander, it is difficult for the Jiashen country to come, it is difficult for the Ming army to win, and the whole country is ashamed of being masked." Today's battle is enough to make us famous all over the world, and the world will know that the commander is my Ming Dynasty's optimus white jade pillar and sea purple gold beam. ”

Hou Xuanyan's face was solemn, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and said: "Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, the Ming Dynasty has many ills and is difficult to return, and today's small victory is not happy." What's more, what we fought today was all surrendered troops near Jinling. Hard bones like Man Baqi, Wu Sangui, and Kong Youde, we haven't encountered them yet. We have only taken one step now, and we must not be arrogant and complacent. ”

Zhang Mingzhen's face was solemn, and he arched his hand on the horse and said: "What the commander said is extremely true, I am too Meng Lang." ”

At this time, there was a noise in front, and the whole team was stagnant, Hou Xuanyan said angrily: "The Qing soldiers broke and fled, if you don't hurry up and pursue, what are you rubbing here?" ”

Qin He tugged on the reins beside him. said: "Go and have a look." After that, he stepped forward immediately, and turned back to Hou Xuanyan in a while.

"Commander, there are many people in front of you who heard the sound of cannons and were frightened by the rout of the Qinggou army and wanted to flee. They all shaved their tails, and the soldiers of Lord Zhang killed them when they saw them, and they clashed with the Suzhou soldiers. ”

Hou Xuanyan understood as soon as he heard it, at this time, the Ming army in some places killed those who saw their hair shaved. And the people who remained in the occupied areas would be killed by the Qing soldiers if they did not shave their hair. This is a small town around Suzhou Mansion, there must be many relatives of Suzhou soldiers here, Zhang Mingzhen's people want to kill them, Suzhou soldiers are definitely unwilling.

"The order went down, and I saw that the people were full of people, regardless of women and children, and they were killed. When you see a Han person shaving their hair, they only need to cut off the rat's tail and not hurt people's lives. The fall of Jiangbei and the Central Plains was the fault of the officials and the generals, not the fault of the people. We can't protect their hair, and we can't cut off their heads. ”