In the eighteenth year of Chongzhen (1645), on May 27, Duoduo, the prince of Yu of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, led an army of 100,000 to cross the Yangtze River south from the Jingjiang area of Taizhou and entered the territory of Jiangyin, trying to seize Jiangyin with thunder. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the people of Jiangyin would rather die than surrender, under the leadership of Lin Zhiji, the magistrate Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu and others, they actively organized the city defense on the one hand, and sent a message to Nanjing on the other hand, asking for reinforcements.

"This Lin Zhiji, I don't know whether he is alive or dead, and he really dares to be the enemy of my Qing Dynasty, and he ordered Liu Liangzuo to be the vanguard, order 10,000 infantry troops, and set foot on Jiangyin for this king!" Dodor said angrily.

I thought that Lin Zhiji was just talking, and when the Qing army really landed, he would surrender obediently, so Duoduo hurriedly sent a thousand infantry to Jiangyin as soon as he landed.

It's called attacking, but it's actually receiving.

But who knew that the other party's resistance was so stubborn, and more than 1,000 Qing troops could reach the foot of Qinwang Mountain, and they were ambushed by the righteous army led by Yan Yingyuan, killing and wounding more than 500 people, and finally retreated to the riverside in embarrassment.

This made Duoduo, who had just crossed the river and disembarked, angry, if it weren't for the artillery at this moment, the war horse had not yet crossed the river, Duoduo even planned to personally lead the troops to attack Jiangyin County.

Liu Liangzuo is a general in Yangzhou, and he raised troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty just to protect himself.

On the day of the destruction of Yangzhou City, Liu Liangzuo saw Duoduo's ruthlessness with his own eyes, he felt ashamed, and he was unwilling to kill the Han people with a knife, but he did not dare to disobey Duoduo's military orders, and finally had to lead 10,000 troops to march slowly to Jiangyin County.

When Liu Liangzuo led the team to Jiangyin, it was too late to attack the city, so he had to make a letter of surrender and shoot it from outside the east city.

After the Jiangyin military and civilian discussions, the reply refused, and Liu Liangzuo saw that the persuasion was ineffective, so he took advantage of the night to send troops to arrest volunteers outside the city, trying to cut off the foreign aid of the military and civilians in the city and force the other party to surrender.

In Jiangyin City, Lin Zhiji deeply felt that he lacked military organization skills, so after some discussion with everyone, he recommended Yan Yingyuan to lead the righteous army to defend the city instead of him.

Yan Yingyuan understood that the situation was urgent, and he did not shirk it, and immediately investigated the household registration of the whole city, Ding Zhuang, the old and the young, and selected young and strong men to form a militia, and joined more than 200,000 village soldiers to go to the city in shifts, with ten people in each battlement, and changed shifts on time.

At the same time, Wang Gong, a Wuju person, was appointed to guard the east gate, Wang was the general guard of the south gate, Chen Mingyu was the west gate, and Yan Yingyuan was appointed to guard the north gate.

And Lin Zhiji, the county magistrate, continued to sit in the county government and coordinate the rear.

In order to solve the supply of ordnance and food, Yan Yingyuan, after consulting with the gentry and the people, appointed a person who is good at financial management to be responsible for the classification and collection of public and private materials in the city, and the unified distribution and use.

After experiencing the 10-day incident in Yangzhou, the people of Nanming really expressed their determination to resist the Qing Dynasty for the first time with their own actions.

After Yan Yingyuan arranged all this, he soon thought of one more thing, so he sent people to Suzhou overnight and asked Suzhou to send troops to rescue.

Yan Yingyuan had also heard of the achievements of the Suzhou New Army before, and when he passed through Suzhou last year, he had the honor to witness the style of the Suzhou New Army entering the city, and knew that if he wanted to hold Jiangyin now, he must have a strong regular army to help.

Nanjing is a long way away, and it is deep in the war, how can there be more troops to help, only the new army in Suzhou can arrive in the shortest possible time..........

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Liangzuo sent troops to attack the north gate guarded by Yan Yingyuan, and the arrows and stones on the city were like rain, and the Qing soldiers did not dare to approach.

Liu Liangzuo did not slow down, not only did not blame his subordinates, but continued to use the previous tactics, and said in the name of "When the enemy's defense equipment is exhausted, Jiangyin City will not be attacked."

So this kind of anticlimactic offensive tactics lasted for half a day, until Duoduo led the rest of the army to arrive, and the Qing army was never able to get close to the city wall half a step.

Since landing early yesterday morning, until now he has not taken a small Jiangyin County, Duoduo's lungs have almost exploded.

Soon, Liu Liangzuo was removed from his post and transferred to the rear to help escort the artillery.

Duoduo personally commanded the siege of the city, and ordered the ten battalions to select a few fierce generals, 30,000 infantry troops, ten cloud ladders, and ten places to go to the city, and if there was a retreat, he would be beheaded immediately.

In the afternoon, the Qing soldiers still attacked the north gate, the cannon shouted outside the city, and the 30,000 Qing troops built ten pontoon bridges, crossed the outer city river together, and climbed the cloud ladder to the city in ten places.

Yan Yingyuan commanded the city to be thrown with bricks and stones, and used spears to resist the enemy, and for a time there were scattered rocks, artillery fire, and countless deaths on both sides.

A certain Manchurian general was brave and brave, wearing three layers of armor, hanging two knives from his waist, carrying two knives on his back, holding two knives in his hands, climbing the ladder in person, stepping on the battlements, and slashing indiscriminately with knives.

The defenders of the city resisted with coffins and stabbed him with spears, but he could not enter.

Then someone shouted, "Stab him in the face." So all the people stabbed him in the face, a boy surnamed Tang, holding an iron hook and sickle, and cutting his throat with force, and the bamboo craftsman Yao Er cut off his head, and his body fell into the city.

The Qing soldiers came to rob the corpses, the drums on the city sounded in unison, the bricks and stones were like raindrops, and the Qing soldiers suffered more than 1,000 casualties.

Previously, because of the onslaught on Yangzhou, Duoduo's artillery was seriously damaged, only more than 100 remained, and it has long been lost the prestige of the beginning, Jiangyin County is newly built not long ago, the city defense is strong, and there is a moat to block, plus the military and people in the city are united, and its attack difficulty is not inferior to Yangzhou City.

Duoduo led the army to storm for two days, and more than a dozen artillery pieces were blown up, although the soldiers and civilians in the city suffered heavy casualties, they never let the Qing army climb the city wall.

At this time, another scout came to report that the Suzhou New Army sent more than 2,000 people, united with the defenders of Wuxi County, Changzhou Prefecture, and a part of the Qinwang army, a total of more than 5,000 people, and they would be able to rush to Jiangyin in a few days.

The Qing army was not good for attacking the city, the reinforcements of the Southern Ming Dynasty were coming, Duoduo had the idea of persuading him to surrender, he ordered Liu Liangzuo to make a persuasion folk song, and promised to be a high-ranking official, hoping that Jiangyin would surrender, but Yan Yingyuan did not obey.

Since it was impossible to capture Jiangyin in a short period of time, let alone attack the west to take Nanjing, Duoduo could only implement the second set of plans, set up cowhide tents under the city, set up a defensive line, and prepare for long-term battles to attract the army of Qinwang from all walks of life...........

At this time, the Azig army, which landed from the west, also encountered countless troubles.

From the day the Qing troops landed in Dangtu, the mines laid on the roadside and the elusive attacks and killings of the "Jiangnan Guerrilla Force" composed of the Shenji Battalion became a lingering shadow in the hearts of the Qing troops.

The point is that Azig did not dare to send troops into the mountains to chase and suppress, not to mention the waste of time when the army was pulled, there were jungles everywhere, even if hundreds of thousands of people entered the mountains, and the other party was bent on escaping, who could catch a few?

And sending a small force, or scouts to pursue, it is basically a return point, all kinds of traps, mines, and ambushes in the jungle, so that Azig has not figured out until now, how many troops the other side has, gathered in the surrounding mountains and forests.

However, this is only daylight........