Qian Yong brought 3,500 men from Guangdong, and nearly 300 people had been lost in the bloody battle a few days earlier. The Manchu bows and arrows were still very lethal at close range, and more than 140 people lost their lives.

Today, except for the artillery companies left at the various city gates, there are now less than 3,000 soldiers in Qian Yong's hands. Fortunately, the North Gate was the focus of the attack, and Yan Yingyuan sent more than 30,000 young men to the North Gate, and these people were already qualified soldiers after more than two months of siege warfare.

At this time, Zhu Hongsan's hidden weapons in Jiangyin City came in handy, in order to deal with the Manchu bow and arrow shooting at close range, Qian Yong equipped each of his soldiers with half-body armor, so that the probability of death was greatly reduced. However, the number of half-body armor is too small, only enough to equip his subordinates, but there are many weapons, and more than 10,000 of the 30,000 young men are equipped with horizontal swords.

Qian Yong also found five bed crossbows in the armory, which was a sharp weapon for defending the city. At this time, Zhuang Gui, the general banner of Jiangyin Jinyi Wei next to Qian Yong, said: "Master Qian, these are all weapons. I have been lurking in Jiangyin for more than half a year, just for today. ”

Zhuang Gui used to be Zhu Hongsan's personal soldier, and left Nanjing with Qian Lide half a year ago. Zhuang Gui was sent to this place in Jiangyin.

"Zhuang Gui, I thought you had been there for most of the year, it turned out that you were here in Jiangyin, let's go back to Guangdong with me after this time, and a group of guys with you are now battalion commanders, why are you still a general banner?"

Qian Yong didn't have a good impression of Jinyiwei, and when he saw that his old subordinates were now mixed into Jinyiwei, he couldn't help but persuade him.

Zhuang Gui smiled, "Sir, the King of Chu let us choose voluntarily at that time. A hundred of our brothers have chosen Jinyiwei, I have been used to this kind of life for more than half a year, and I am afraid that I will not be suitable for returning to the barracks. Zhuang Gui said simply, in fact, he has a lot of power in his hands. He is in charge of the underground forces of the entire Suzhou Prefecture, which is much stronger than the more than 300 people in the army.

Qian Yong saw that his old subordinates had already chosen their own paths, and it was inconvenient to say anything. "In that case, I won't force it, we will have a chance to drink in the future!"

Zhuang Gui was also very moved to see the old chief's feelings, but the long-term underground work has made him learn to control his feelings, not to mention that in addition to cooperating with the battle, there is also an order on the side of the Jinyi Guard's command envoy, which is to monitor this group of generals who are leading the troops.

Now that he has handed over the weapons to Qian Yong, Zhuang Gui felt that it was better to stay away from these generals, and left under the pretext that he still had something to do.

Qian Yong couldn't help but sigh secretly when he saw Zhuang Gui in the distance. This Zhuang Gui used to be a platoon commander under him, and he was very optimistic about him, but he didn't expect to choose to go to Jinyiwei by himself. Qian Yong also knew that Zhuang Gui was avoiding him, Qian Yong sighed, it seems that with the change of their respective identities, it is impossible to be as close as before.

Qian Yong just sighed for a while, and then put this matter down, after all, the current battle situation is the most critical, and the rest will be talked about later.

At this time, the Qing army outside the city had stopped firing artillery, Qian Yong knew that the next step was to attack the city, and immediately ordered all the soldiers to organize a defensive circle at the city break, and 30,000 young men also climbed the city wall to prepare for resistance.

The Qing army outside the city was encouraged by Liu Liangzuo and screamed, and was rushing towards the breach of the city wall.

Qian Yong in the city saw the crowd outside the city and shouted: "Get ready, don't empty your gun!" ”

When the Qing army came to the edge of the city wall, the dust had fallen from the collapse, and several rows of soldiers in red clothes stood three hundred meters from the city wall, aiming at themselves with muskets. The hundred and thousand generals behind the Qing army shouted, don't be afraid, rush up, their muskets can only fire one shot, rush up and hack them to death!

At this moment, the Ming troops on the opposite side did not shoot, and the artillery on the side fired the first shot. Han Shirong was ruthless, and when he saw that the Qing army was dense, he actually ordered the artillery to use solid bullets.

The breach of the city wall is only more than ten meters, and the Qing army of more than 30,000 people has been stuck in this place, and the front is basically people-to-people. The Ming army arranged 30 artillery pieces in the city, and the 30 solid shells basically gave the Qing army no chance to hide at all.

The power of solid bullets has been maximized, and each shell can kill more than 100 people, but this is because the crowd is too dense, and the kinetic energy of the solid bullet is completely leaked by the human body. Han Shirong saw that the solid bullet was effective, and shouted two more shots.

After the two batches of solid catapults were ejected, there were basically no living people on the opposite side, and the more than 5,000 people who were blocked at the city wall just now were all dead, and hundreds of lucky ones retreated, and the other luckiest ones were also broken hands and feet, and countless intestines were rotten.

Liu Liangzuo, who was supervising the army in the rear, saw how he retreated when he saw that he had already rushed in, and led his pro-army team to slash and kill the rout, and shouted, rush for me, just rush in, don't block the door.

This group of unlucky Qing troops was tricked, and the pro-soldiers rushed to the city wall like cattle.

At this time, the Qing army learned to be obedient, and did not rush in as a target in a swarm, but divided into small teams, each team of 200 people, divided into a loose formation and rushed in.

In this way, the use of solid bullets had little effect, so Han Shirong had to order the use of shotguns.

Qian Yong's tactics were very successful, and the Qing army was killed and wounded in large numbers at the breach, and they were never able to attack. But this tactic was based on the sharp power of the artillery, and an hour later, when the first exploding artillery began to appear, Qian Yong ushered in the biggest crisis of defending the city.

Han Shirong ran to find Qian Yong, "Division commander, the cannon is too hot, and it has begun to explode, we lost two gunners just now, what should we do?" ”

"Han Shirong, divide the artillery into three waves, and take turns to cool down. First use the platoon gun on top. ”

The power of the platoon gun is good, but the barrel is more prone to redness, but now there is no choice but to use the platoon gun to push it.

About 10,000 Qing soldiers had died on the side of the city wall, and now this place was really bleeding, and the blood in the low-lying places was no longer up to the surface of the feet.

With the cease-fire of the Ming artillery in the city, Liu Liangzuo outside the city obviously felt that the pressure in the city had been reduced.

"Haha, the Ming army inside can't hold on, come here, pass the order, allocate 10,000 people, press me up!"

Another 10,000 Qing troops were separated from the Qing army brigade and continued to fill the meat grinder at the north gate.

It rained all night and the muskets began to explode, and more than a dozen soldiers were injured because of the exploding, so Qian Yong could not order to change the three queues into six queues to give the muskets enough time to cool down.

It was already the middle of the night, but there was no one resting outside the city at all. The Qing army outside the city knew that if they didn't take Jiangyin while it was dark, if the Ming army's big ship came back tomorrow at dawn, all their efforts would be in vain. The Ming army in the city also knew that there was no way to retreat now, and there were more than 200,000 Qing troops outside the city. So inside and outside the city, they are trying their best to eat.