The dripping rain, lapping against the roofs, trickled down the eaves in fits and starts, merging into a small stream of water on the muddy streets, and then blending with the blood flowing from the corpses, like a flowing red silk.

On the messy streets, there are corpses, there are officials and soldiers, and more people are indeed ordinary people.

In the courtyards on both sides, there are ruins and broken walls everywhere, and thick black smoke rises from the drizzle of houses, dyeing the already gloomy sky into pitch black, like a scorching hell.

Three Qing soldiers, carrying war knives, chased the fleeing people in the street, and in another place, several Qing soldiers carried large and small burdens, came out of one courtyard, and then ran to the next house laughing.

The city was filled with frightened wails, unwilling roars, and women's screams, and these voices corresponded with unbridled laughter, kicking, and loud scolding.

These voices are gathered together and intertwined into the most tragic scene of the Chinese nation, which is the civilization being trampled on barbarically, the order being defeated by chaos, and the disaster of the Mengyuan Dynasty, another catastrophe staged in the land of China.

The evil in the city continued in the drizzle, which was unbearable to hear and unbearable to see.

In a small courtyard on the side of the street, the courtyard door is wide open, and the things in the courtyard are turned into a mess, on the surface, it seems that it has been plagued by the Qing soldiers, but if you walk into the courtyard, you will still find a difference.

At this time, in a house in the courtyard, there were three corpses of Qing soldiers still bleeding on one side, and the small room was crowded with more than fifty big men, all of whom were wearing cotton armor, but they were already broken, and there were still black blood stains on them.

Listening to the screams coming from outside, these people couldn't help but grasp the war knives in their hands, so angry that they seemed to grit their teeth.

The swords in their hands had lost their bright luster, and they were stained with blood, some had been cut and curled, and some had been broken in half, apparently after a vicious battle.

The room was not large, crowded with more than fifty big men, but no matter how crowded it was, no one approached a middle-aged man sitting upright on the bed inside.

This man is a subordinate of Shi Dushi, He Gang, a staff member of the military department, and one of the few court officials left in the city.

At this time, He Gang was covered with an unsuitable armor, his eyes were no longer bright, the Qing army shelled Yangzhou Xicheng on the night of the 24th, and on the 25th, he invaded Yangzhou and began to massacre the people, which he could not accept.

Not only did he not expect such a result, but Wang Yan did not expect it, the defeat was so fast, and Yangzhou seemed to be completely like a paper paste.

In another period of history, a small city in Jiangyin, Yan Yingyuan has a classic history, facing 240,000 Qing army iron cavalry and more than 200 heavy artillery, trapped in the lonely city for 83 days, causing the Qing army to break three kings and eighteen generals in a row, and 75,000 people died.

Last year, Gao Jie coveted the wealth of Yangzhou and wanted to enter Yangzhou, but the Yangzhou gentry did not allow it, Gao Jie was furious and sent tens of thousands of troops to attack Yangzhou, and the Yangzhou gentry only relied on the local village courage to hold Yangzhou and force Gao Jie to reconcile.

Is it because Gao Jiebing's combat power is not strong? Apparently not!

In another period of history, Li Chengdong, who was only under Gao Jie, helped the Qing court to conquer Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and finally Li Chengdong opposed the Qing Dynasty and was also regarded as the great enemy of the Qing court.

Yangzhou was able to resist Gao Jie's army, and the attack was undefeated for nearly a month, which shows the solidity of Yangzhou's city defense and the good fighting of the countryside.

Yangzhou is a Xiongcheng in Jiangbei, there are nearly one million people in the city, nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers, and sufficient equipment, grain and grass.

He Gang obviously couldn't accept this defeat, and he couldn't help but recall that since the Qing army arrived in Yangzhou on the 17th, what had happened had been Yangzhou's countermeasures.

On April 19, after the town of Xuzhou was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Liu Liangzuo, who returned to the east to support Yangzhou, also surrendered to the Qing court on the way.

On April 21, Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu, the commanders of the Ming Dynasty, led their subordinates to surrender to Yangzhou and led the army to Yangzhou.

On the same day, Li Qifeng, the chief soldier of Gansu, and Gao Qifeng, the supervisor of the army, led 4,000 soldiers and horses into Yangzhou, but the two did not want to rescue Yangzhou, but wanted to kidnap Shi Kefa and surrender Yangzhou to the Qing court.

Shi Kefa resolutely said: "This is where I died, what is the public, if you want to be rich, please go your own way." ”

Seeing that Shi Kefa was resolute and knew that there was no opportunity to take advantage of it, the two of them led their subordinates and colluded with the generals in the city, Hu Shangyou and Han Shangliang, to go out to surrender to the Qing Dynasty on the 22nd.

If he wanted to defend Yangzhou, Shi Kefa should have killed Li Qifeng and Gao Qifeng, collected all the soldiers and horses, and strengthened the defenders, but he only regarded Yangzhou as a place of martyrdom, and had no defensive strategy at all, but allowed the two to coerce the generals in the city to surrender out of the city, and let it be left unforbidden.

When the Qing soldiers first arrived in the city, the general soldier Liu Zhaoji suggested taking advantage of the fact that the Qing army had not yet arrived and had not yet gained a stable foothold, and went out of the city to fight to strengthen the morale of the army.

Shi Kefa didn't listen, and only said: "Don't try your sharpness lightly, and raise the whole peak to wait for the enemy to be killed." But at this time, the Jiangbei Ming army did not have a battle, and they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty one after another, and the morale of the Qing army was flourishing, but the defenders in the city were alone and trapped, and their morale was low. How to wait for the enemy to be killed?

In terms of defense in the city, the generals suggested that under the terrain of the West Gate, the high earth mountains outside the city are condescending, and they can look down on the city, and want to cut down the trees on the mountain and build a camp to guard it, but Shi Kefa can't bear to cut it down because this mountain is the ancestral tomb of Li Eun in Xinghua, so he refuses the generals' suggestions, and says that the generals don't have to worry, and he personally guards the West City.

As a result, as soon as the Qing soldiers attacked on the 24th, the Qing soldiers relied on the terrain to collapse a corner of the West City, and the West City, which Shi Kefa personally defended, was also broken the next day.

In the face of the siege of the Qing army, Shi Kefa had no heart to resist at all, and before the Qing army attacked the city, he had already written a suicide note on the 21st, "It has not yet been attacked, but the people's hearts have gone, and they can't be cleaned up." ”

Before Duoduo attacked the city, Shi Kefa, as a supervisor, had already felt worried, and his insight and ability could only make people sigh, which was far from the history of Jiangyin.

On the 25th, Yangzhou was broken one day, the general soldier Liu Zhaoji died in battle, Yangzhou Zhizhou Ren Minyu wore the official robe of the Ming Dynasty, sat on the top of the government, the Qing soldiers killed, persuaded him to surrender, Ren Minyu did not obey, was killed, and his daughter hanged herself.

In February, Wang Yan persuaded Shi Kefa to accept Gao Jie's son Gao Yuanzhao as his righteous son, in order to accept the military heart of a town in Xuzhou, Shi Kefa did not agree, but let him worship a eunuch as his father-in-law, which caused the generals of Xuzhou Town to be cold, and Li Chengdong and others felt deeply bedding.

When the city of Yangzhou was broken, Shi Kefa closed the army's righteous son Shi Dewei, and wanted him to help him cut himself when the city was broken, but in the end he was captured by the Qing army, and he did not surrender to the Qing court and was killed by the Qing court.

Shi Kefa is loyal, but his ability can only make people sigh.