Out of a savage desire for revenge, Li Chengdong ordered the slaughter of the city, and the Qing army "went from house to house, in small streets and alleys, all of them searched endlessly, and the grass and thorns were messed up with thorns, and they would use spears to stir up", and they were bent on killing a chicken and dog. The tragic scene at that time was testified by Zhu Zisu's "Jiading Massacre of the City": "Among the citizens, those who hang beams, those who throw into wells, those who throw themselves into rivers, those who have bloody faces, those who have severed limbs, those who have been cut off and whose hands and feet are still moving, and those who are flesh and blood", it is simply a living hell on earth.

But the catastrophe in Jiading City is still not over. Three or four days after the massacre of Li Chengdong, the survivors of Jiading, who had escaped by chance, began to slip back into the city. When they returned to the city and saw such a tragic situation, they immediately regrouped under the leadership of a righteous man named Zhu Ying, totaling more than 2,000 people. Zhu Ying led the survivors in an anti-massacre campaign in the ruined city, executing traitors who had surrendered to the Qing army and officials appointed by the Qing army.

At the same time, outside the city of Jiading, a scattered contingent of village soldiers gathered at Gelong and Waigang, and as soon as they found those with shaved hair, they put them to death on the spot. A small detachment of Li Chengdong was also annihilated by this group of village soldiers. In a fit of rage, Li Chengdong sent a large army into Gelong and Waigang and slaughtered all the inhabitants. The two towns were also razed to the ground.

The Qing army rose up, and Jiading was tragically slaughtered again. It is said that after the "Second Massacre", there was no difference between the rich and the poor in Jiading.

Half a month later, it turned out that a general named Wu Zhifan of Nanming led the rest of the troops to storm Jiading City, and the surrounding people also responded, and suddenly killed the Qing soldiers in the city and fled. Soon, Li Chengdong counterattacked with his whole army, and most of the soldiers and civilians led by Wu Zhifan did not have combat training, and soon collapsed, and Wu Zhifan also went to the battle with a gun and died.

At this time, Zhao Guodong came to the outside of Jiading City with his team of 3,500 people. At this time, there was a corpse outside the city of Jiading, and 100,000 township soldiers had been defeated by Li Chengdong, and they scattered and fled, and the Qing army began to divide into small groups and slash and kill the township soldiers everywhere. Li Chengdong led a large group of Qing troops into the city and began the third Jiading massacre.

Zhao Guodong saw that there were shouts of killing, fire, and dead people everywhere outside the city. Ordered the team to form a square defensive formation and slowly advance in the direction of Jiading County.

The surrounding Qing soldiers found that there was still a Ming army and formation in this place, and they all approached and prepared to disperse them with cavalry.

At this time, the surrounding township soldiers also found Zhao Guodong and their soldiers wearing strange clothes, but they found that they were playing the Golden Dragon Banner of the Great Ming Sun and Moon, and knew that this was an ally, so they hurriedly approached over.

Zhao Guodong was afraid that these township soldiers would break up his formation, so he hurriedly called over his deputy, Zhao Guoliang, and asked him to bring a few people to organize the township soldiers to gather at the back of the team.

At this time, the Qing army on the opposite side had gathered about 2,000 men and horses, and was preparing to charge two miles away. Li Chengdong's subordinates were all subordinates of Gao Jie in the four towns of Jiangbei, and they were all rogues back then, and their combat effectiveness was far above that of the ordinary Ming army, and after Gao Jie's death, these cavalry were all returned to Li Chengdong.

Seeing the urgency of the situation, Zhao Guodong ordered to form a dense formation and prepare for the first charge of the cavalry.

Zhao Guodong is very experienced in dealing with this kind of cavalry charge, and he should have carried spearmen in Henan before, not to mention that now he has a sharp weapon of cannon.

The Qing army began to jog two miles away, and Zhao Guodong also began to order the artillery to start firing with solid bullets. The Qing soldiers on the opposite side began to panic, they didn't expect this Ming army to carry artillery, and the firing range should be a thousand catties of cannons.

However, these Qing troops used to gallop to the Central Plains, and they all fought for more than ten years, and they had extremely rich battlefield experience. After a brief panic, the acceleration began in advance under the organization of the officers.

After Zhao Guodong fired a few shots here, he saw that the power was limited, so he ordered to stop shooting, load all the shotguns, and wait for orders.

The two-mile journey is in front of you in one minute at the speed of a war horse. After Zhao Guodong saw that the Qing cavalry had entered the effective range of 500 meters of shotguns, he ordered the artillery to open fire.

The rate of fire of the artillery was three rounds per minute, and in the second round the Qing cavalry entered the range of the guns in a row of 300 meters. This primitive machine gun Zhao Liangdong also brought ten, this weapon is simply the natural enemy of the light armored cavalry, and it is the emergence of automatic weapons in later generations that completely eliminated the cavalry, which has been crisscrossing the Eurasian continent for thousands of years.

The cavalry of more than 2,000 people of the Qing army lost one-third of the first wave of shotguns, and immediately fell apart when it encountered the primitive automatic weapon of the platoon gun. At a distance of 200 meters from the ranks, the Qing army could not bear such casualties, so they turned their horses around and fled, and at this time there were less than 500 of the 2,000 men and horses.

Zhao Liangdong pursed his lips and said: "It is said that the Eight Banners of the Tartars are invincible, do I think it is average!" ”

Wu Yong, the commander of the third regiment who was patting on the side, said: "Of course, our second division is invincible under the leadership of the third brother, and it must be stronger than Qian Sibao and their first division." ”

Zhao Liangdong laughed and said, "Second Wu, I found that you are good at sycophants, but what you say is the truth, our second division is stronger than their first division." ”

Several regiment commanders on the side immediately slapped their horses and received rave reviews.

At this time, Zhao Guoliang came back from behind. Zhao Guoliang and Zhao Guodong have nothing to do with each other, and their names were all taken by Zhu Hongsan casually at that time. That Wu Yong was originally called Wu Lao Er, Zhu Hongsan felt that this name was too distinctive, so he changed the name of Wu Yong, but this guy is a little smart, and he looks like a bit of a smart star Wu Yong.

Zhao Guoliang is Zhao Guodong's deputy, the deputy commander of the Second Division, and a military judge. At this time, seeing the flattery of the gang leaders, he frowned and said, "What are you guys doing?" Why don't you take your subordinates down to clean up the battlefield? ”

The big guys are afraid of this black-faced Zhao Guoliang, you must know that the military judge has a lot of power, and he can directly execute soldiers who do not obey orders on the battlefield. These sycophants shrank their necks and hurried down to lead people to clean up the battlefield.

Zhao Guoliang saw a few of them going down, and arched his hand and said: "Division commander, I brought a thousand households from the Ming army, please ask the division commander to ask." After speaking, he led out a Ming army officer in his thirties behind him.

Zhao Guodong looked at the Qianhu, very embarrassed, his hat was gone, and he lost a shoe. Zhao Guodong asked: "This Qianhu, are you officers and soldiers there?" ”

The thousand households knelt down on one knee and slapped a thousand, and said: "Lord Hui, I am a thousand households in Liuhe Fort, and we are under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Wei." Five days ago, we came down to rescue the fathers and villagers of Jiading under the leadership of Wu Zhifan, the general of the Suzhou Guard, but I didn't expect the Qing army to be too cruel, but unfortunately our Lord Wu died on the battlefield. ”

Zhao Guodong didn't have time to listen to his chatter, so he interrupted his memories with a wave of his hand, and said: "I'll give you a task, now lead your subordinates to gather the four rural soldiers, attack Jiading County with me, and avenge your Wu generals." ”