Qian Yong looked at his team, at this time, there were already ten artillery pieces that could not be used, either exploding or discovering cracks. The musketeers also had more than 500 wounded, and it was time to put them in reserve.

Due to the breach in the north gate, the attention of the Qing army is in the breach, and the pressure on the other city walls is not too great. After Qian Yong found out about this, he left 10,000 young men as a reserve, just in case.

Qian Yong said to Zhao Tongxun, the Jiangyin garrison behind him: "Lord Zhao, now is a critical moment, I want to use you." ”

"General Qian, don't worry, you have shed your blood for our Jiangyin fathers, look at us below!"

After speaking, Zhao Tongxun led 10,000 fresh troops to rush forward.

Qian Yong's plan was to use these 10,000 people to plug the breach first and give his firearms troops time to repair and cool down.

Zhao Tongxun's 10,000 men were equipped with weapons produced in Dongguan, and the advantages over the weapons made of pig iron of the Shangqing army were obvious. As soon as these 10,000 people joined, they immediately pressed the Qing army that had rushed into the city out of the city. Qian Yong also sighed when he saw that his strategy worked, and turned around and ordered his team to rest quickly and seize the time to overhaul the weapons.

The north gate insisted on it until dawn, Qian Yong looked at the white in the east, and the sun would come out in half an hour, Yan Qingshan's side should also solve the battle, his side really couldn't hold on, if there was another hour of reinforcements not coming, the north gate would not be able to hold.

The Qing army outside the city has also reached the end of the crossbow, and more than 30,000 people have been filled in this hole of more than ten meters. Liu Liangzuo was about to go back to discuss with Kong Youde what to do, but he didn't expect Kong Youde to bring people to the front line.

Liu Liangzuo was just about to step forward to say hello, when he saw Bellenikan behind Kong Youde at a glance. Liu Liangzuo hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, shouting, "The slave greets the master of Baylor." ”

"Dog, how many times have you said that you are not worthy to be a minion of Ben Baylor."

"Yes, yes, the villain knows. I don't know what Lord Belle is doing at the front? ”

"Humph! Why haven't you rushed in all night? ”

Liu Liangzuo was so frightened that he immediately kowtowed: "Back to Lord Belle, it's not that the villain doesn't work hard, it's really that the enemy's firepower is too fierce!" ”

"Shut up, General Zhengnan is very dissatisfied with your progress, and ordered me to come here to supervise the army, if you haven't attacked by noon, then I will cut off your dog's head."

Liu Liangzuo looked up at the sky, it was already dawn, and there was still half a day before noon, but his 50,000 horses had lost nearly 30,000, and the rest of the people were sleepy and lacking, which was really difficult for a strong man.

Liu Liangzuo gritted his teeth and said, "Lord Belle, my men and horses have suffered heavy losses, please send me some more people." ”

"Say, how many more do you need?"

"Please send me 30,000 horses from King Gongshun, and one more, please push the red-coated cannon to a distance of 500 meters from the city wall and give us fire support."

Kong Youde, who was on the side, saw that Liu Liangzuo, a bastard, had brought himself up, and was about to open his mouth to scold him, but Nikan on the side said first: "I meet you these two conditions, can you guarantee to capture Jiangyin City before noon?" ”

Liu Liangzuo has now forced Liangshan, if he doesn't agree, Kong Youde's counterattack will not be able to take it by himself, and now he can only die and survive, maybe there is still a glimmer of life.

Thinking of this, Liu Liangzuo stood up and said, "Lord Belle, I am willing to make a military order, and I can't take it down before noon to see me!" ”

"Hahaha, good! Lord Liu seems to be a strong man, I will meet your conditions, you go! ”

Liu Liangzuo, who was guaranteed by Nikan, returned to his team, found a few henchmen, and told them everything. These guys are clamoring.

"Big brother, Tartar, this is for us to die!"

"Big brother, no, let's take the team anyway!"

Liu Liangzuo looked at several of his brothers, these people were all his henchmen, they were all old men in his left guard in Datong, Shanxi, and now they were all generals and deputy generals of various battalions. Liu Liangzuo said with red eyes: "Under this Jiangyin City, our strength loss is very serious, where else can we go anyway?" Looking at the form, the world is all Tartar, and we now have to fight to the death, defeat Jiangyin, and maybe there is a way to live. Just now I told the Tartars that they should also send 30,000 people out of the Han Army Banner, and if we can't die ourselves, Kong Youde should also fill in some human lives inside. Now everyone go back, and in a while our artillery will shoot at close range, and after the artillery stops, you will immediately start attacking with your men, and success or failure will be a matter of success. ”

When these generals saw that Liu Liangzuo had made up his mind, they had no choice but to go back and prepare according to his arrangement.

After Kong Youde saw Liu Liangzuo leaving, he came to Nikan's side and asked, "Baylor, why do you use our own people?" "Kong Youde's Han Army Banner has lost 30,000 people in the city, and this time there are less than 50,000 people left, and if you have to fill in another 30,000 people, the Han Army Banner will basically be disbanded.

Nikan can't help it, Jiangyin has been delayed here for more than two months, you must know that there are countless counties like Jiangyin in Nanzhili, and if they all continue to fight like this, they will all be unified in the Central Plains, so it is better to clean up and clean up the hometown in the northeast.

"King Gongshun, King Yu of Nanjing has sent news that there is a Ming Dynasty prince in Zhejiang, we have delayed too much time here, if we give the Ming Dynasty clan time to relax, it will be difficult to clean up. This time, if you bring the Han army flag, if it still doesn't work, the general will send the Mongolian Eight Banners. ”

Kong Youde sighed secretly, it seems that although he has followed the Manchu Qing since Liaodong, he is still a cannon fodder army in their eyes, and this time it will be his turn after consuming Liu Liangzuo's new annexed army.

Thinking of this, Kong Youde didn't say anything, bowed his hand and retreated, and rushed to the battlefield with the artillery team and the last 30,000 Han army flags.

Liu Liangzuo was a little embarrassed when he saw Kong Youde personally leading the team, and was just about to step forward to speak. Kong Youde said: "General Liu, now we are grasshoppers on a rope, if you apologize, let's talk about it later, let's discuss how to fight for a while!" ”

Liu Liangzuo thought about it too, let's get through the difficulties together first.

"Then I won't be pretentious, and after a while, please ask the prince to command the artillery to bombard the city wall and expand the area of the breach, and then we will rush in and kill these damn Ming troops."

Kong Youde nodded, and went down to instruct the gunners to set up the cannons. This time, Kong Youde also knew that it would not work hard to do it, and the artillery was erected very quickly, and after a while, it was erected 500 meters outside the city wall, and began to bombard the city wall.

Because the distance is now shortened, the accuracy of the Qing army has been greatly enhanced, and seven or eight out of ten artillery pieces can hit the target. In less than half an hour, the walls at the breach collapsed one after another, and the breach continued to grow.

Seeing that the breach had expanded to a hundred meters, Liu Liangzuo was overjoyed, he ignored the pain in his buttocks, pulled out his war knife, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, rush me!" ”

At this time, Qian Yong in the city saw that the breach in the city wall was widening, and knew that the decisive battle was here, so he ordered to transfer 10,000 young men from the city wall to snipe the Qing army entering the city.

Only five or six artillery pieces on Qian Yong's side are still usable, and the others have been damaged. There were still seven or eight rounds of ammunition left for each musket, Qian Yong sighed and said, "Lord Wang, it seems that Sibao is going to die in Jiangyin." After Qian Yong finished speaking, he pulled out his bayonet and shouted: "Put on the bayonet and let these Tartars see, our new army is not vegetarian!" ”

Qian Yong took the remaining musket team of less than 2,000 people, lined up in a neat line, and rushed to the Qing army that entered the city.

After Zhu Hongsan's harsh training, the new army was much more elite than the Qing army on the opposite side, and as soon as the battle began, the Qing army was stabbed to death by bayonets. The bayonets of the new army are specially customized by the black-eyed Zhu Hongsan, and they are the same as the stabs of the three-edged army in later generations. The Qing army that was stabbed to the point would drain a quarter of the blood in its body within three minutes, and die of blood in five minutes.

The more than 10,000 young men led by Zhao Tongxun also knew that at the critical moment, they were all children of Jiangyin, and behind them were their parents and brothers, so they could not fight to the death. The Qing army didn't expect that they had already rushed to the city, and they were almost beaten out by a charge.

Liu Liangzuo watched from behind and scolded these wastes, and he couldn't personally lead the team to rush to the base of the city wall and get close to the command.

In this way, the men and horses of the two sides fought at the city wall, although the Ming army was very strong, but the number was too small. Qian Yong's 2,000 people plus Zhao Tongxun's more than 10,000 talents were less than 20,000, while the Qing army Liu Liangzuo on the opposite side had 60,000 people.

The battle in Beicheng did not only take place at the breach, but also on the city wall, but the attention of the Qing army was at the breach, and the pressure on the city wall was not so great.

However, after Qian Yong transferred 10,000 people, the defenses on the city wall began to break, and the Qing army had already attacked the city wall in several places. Kong Youde, who was in the back, was also an old fritter on the battlefield, and when he saw an opportunity, he immediately threw himself into the last 5,000 reserves.

With the input of the Qing army reserves, the city walls began to be unable to resist. After all, these young men who defended the city were not professional soldiers, and it was okay to fight a good battle, but they began to flee one after another when the war was unfavorable.

Qian Yong saw that the city wall was broken through, and scolded these young men for looking for death, and now in this situation, running away is a death, and there may be a way to live if they stay desperate.

The young men on the city wall began to flee, and the young men in the breach under the city were also infected, and some people began to flee. Zhao Tongxun killed a few who escaped, but more and more escaped, and Zhao Tongxun couldn't kill them. Qian Yong let out a long sigh when he saw this, and it seemed that the general trend was gone. What Qian Yong didn't know was that he was not bad here, the east gate and the south gate had been breached, and now the Qing army brigade had entered the city. The whole city was in flames, and the Qing army began to burn and plunder.

Just when Qian Yong was about to give up, there was finally a cannon sound from the North Gate Wharf, and Yan Qingshan's navy finally arrived.

Qian Yong heard the dull sound of naval artillery, and his heart was overjoyed, and he finally waited for these pirates.

Yan Qingshan cleaned up the Manqing Water Division before dark yesterday, and immediately led five warships upriver to Jiangyin. Who knew that because it was dark and the Yangtze River channel was unfamiliar, a warship ran aground on a sandbar in the middle of the river. Yan Qingshan couldn't leave the unlucky warship, and cautiously came upstream with the remaining four.