The Qing army stabilized its position at the north gate of Jiangyin and began to assemble a large army, preparing to enter the city to clear the remnants of the enemy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Seeing this, Zheng Chenggong decided to retreat to the surrounding houses and engage in street battles with the enemy.

"I didn't expect that I led the reinforcements to arrive, and after only holding on for three days, the city was broken by the Qing army, which is really ashamed!" Zheng Chenggong said embarrassedly.

A group of peasant troops were stunned to withstand the 100,000 Qing army in Jiangyin for nearly ten days, but the reinforcements entered the city, and in less than three days, they lost the north gate, and Zheng Chenggong was indeed a little ashamed.

"General Zheng is high-righteousness, saving the lives of more than 100,000 Jiangyin people, I admire Yan!" Yan Yingyuan responded.

Jiangyin is the end of the strong crossbow, if Zheng Chenggong did not send people to resist the north gate and contain the main force of the Qing army, how could more than 100,000 people be able to withdraw?

"Hey! I don't know if they can get to Wuxi safely. Zheng Chenggong looked at the south and sighed.

"We only need to delay the main force of the Qing army as much as possible, although the 10,000 cavalry is strong, there are still 20,000 young men under Wang Sheng, which is enough to resist for a while." Yan Yingyuan said.

He is also not sure whether the people who broke through can escape the clutches of the Qing army, but at this time, he can only continue to hold on to Jiangyin City, drag the main force of the Qing army, and buy time for the people who break through.

"Pass the order, give up the east and west gates, and the whole army retreat near the south gate, relying on the nearby houses, hold on for at least a whole day, and after dark, each of them will break through from the south gate!" Zheng Chenggong said.

One day is enough for the people who broke through to get rid of the entanglement of the Qing army, and then choose to break through, after all, Zheng Chenggong didn't want a group of good men to die in vain.

Just when Zheng Chenggong and Yan Yingyuan led the team to continue to hold on to the city, the more than 100,000 people who broke through the siege were surrounded by the Qing cavalry.

In the plain area, the cavalry did not even need to form a group charge against a group of ordinary people, and directly formed a small team of more than a dozen people, forming a straggler line, quickly slaughtering the common people on a land of several kilometers.

That's right, it was a massacre, and the Qing army didn't pay attention to the 20,000 young men organized by Wang Sheng at all, but took advantage of the cavalry's mobility to go around from several directions and massacre the old and young in the civilian ranks.

Wang Shengkong had a large army, but he couldn't catch up with the cavalry of the Qing army at all.

Seeing the villagers being slaughtered one by one, Wang Sheng scolded with tears in his eyes: "! You have the ability to come at me! ”

"My lord, it can't go on like this, or we divide our troops and surround the old and young women and children in the middle, and we can save as much as we can." Someone suggested.

When leaving Jiangyin, Zheng Chenggong had told him that to deal with the cavalry charge, he must not divide the troops, so the 20,000 young men have been covering at the front of the team, and when they encountered the Qing cavalry, they also maintained the battle formation.

The cavalry of the Qing army knew that they would lose something if they fought hard, so they chose to divide their troops to harass the rear team in an attempt to disrupt Wang Sheng's arrangement.

"Pass the order, divide into four battle formations, and block the Tartar cavalry separately, folks, don't stay here, continue to flee south!" Wang Sheng thought about it for a while, and finally gave an order.

Wang Sheng knew that this was a ploy, but he couldn't care so much, he couldn't see death without help, but he didn't agree with the idea of protecting the old and the young in the middle, because in this way, when the Qing army dealt with all the young and strong, those old and young would be powerless to resist.

The young men scattered the formation, and the cavalry of the Qing army was not chasing the ordinary people, but quickly gathered together, ready to attack the battle formation of the villagers one by one.

As for those ordinary people, even if they are let run for half a day, it is estimated that they will not be able to escape the pursuit of the Qing army.

The advantages and disadvantages of cavalry and infantry were well reflected at this time, and Wang Sheng and others were already slow to change their formations, and nearly 20,000 ordinary people were slaughtered before the formation change was completed.

As a result, the cavalry of the Qing army gathered together in only a quarter of an hour.

The cavalry of 10,000 people, the infantry of 5,000 people, was simply overwhelming, and the first battle formation, which lasted less than an hour, was completely annihilated.

If it weren't for the fact that the villagers all had the heart of death, it caused a lot of trouble to the Qing army, and in the face of 10,000 cavalry, it is estimated that they would not even be able to hold out for half an hour.

These 5,000 villagers who died in battle all fell to the ground and died facing the Qing army, and almost none of them exposed their backs to the Qing cavalry.

After the Qing army cleaned up the second battle formation, only an hour and a half had passed at this time, and at this rate, it is estimated that it will not take more than three hours, and all the 20,000 township warriors will be reimbursed.

Although the villagers were not afraid of death, it was a pity that there was a huge disparity in strength, and until now, the Qing army has not suffered more than 1,000 casualties.

After two rounds of slaughter, the remaining 10,000 villagers finally gathered together again.

At this time, the convergence is no longer meaningful, and 10,000 cavalry to attack 10,000 infantry is just a little more time.

"Is it really heaven that is going to kill my people in Jiangyin?" Lin Zhiji in the battle formation looked up to the sky and sighed.

The idea of breaking through was he came up with, but he left Jiangyin for less than half a day, and was caught up by the Qing cavalry, leaving the protection of the city wall, Lin Zhiji understood the horror of the Qing army.

In Jiangyin, he chose to escape, but now that he is blocked here, he no longer has the face, and fled with those women, children, old and children.

Just when the last 10,000 villagers were about to be killed by the Qing army, there was a sudden shouting in the distance, followed by a great earthquake, and a team of red silk elite armored cavalry rushed from a distance.

It was none other than the five thousand elite armored cavalry led by Wang Guoxing.

During this time, Wang Guoxing has been stationed near Changzhou and sent many rangers to spy on news near Jiangyin.

When he learned that the people of Jiangyin had broken through, Wang Guoxing immediately sent troops to respond.

However, the people of Jiangyin were worried that Changzhou would not be able to keep it, so they chose to go south to Wuxi, so that Wang Guoxing's troops wanted to respond, and it would take several hours longer than the Qing cavalry.

Knowing that the people who broke through the siege were surrounded by Qing soldiers, Wang Guoxing, who led the way, asked the accompanying soldiers loudly: "Brothers! You are the Praetorian Guard, the important weapon of the country, ahead, my Ming people were bullied and killed by the Tartars, as the Praetorian Guard, we must not only protect the saint, but also protect the saint's people, although the number of Tartars is numerous, but in this land of the Ming Dynasty, can they gallop at will? ”

"Kill, kill, kill ......!"

The soldiers replied loudly in unison.

"So....... Rush with me! Wang Guoxing took out the embroidered spring knife and pointed at the Qing cavalry in front.

Soon, the shouting and killing sound resounded in the sky, coming from this cavalry team, since the Guanning Iron Cavalry surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, this is still the first Ming Dynasty Iron Cavalry to charge towards the Manchu Qing Dynasty........