There is a saying called "The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change", and there is an even more vulgar saying called "The dog can't change and eat". Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info escape, run away again, keep escaping, this kind of escape has penetrated into the bone marrow of Liu Liangzuo and other former Ming troops, and it has not changed in essence because of the change of master.

Whether it was the original battle against the Houjin soldiers in Liaoxi, or the transfer to the Guannai to exterminate the Liumin Army, or finally as one of the four towns in Jiangbei, whenever he encountered a strong enemy and a slight setback, Liu Liangzuo would flee without a fight with his own soldiers. In the turmoil of the past 20 years, countless fierce generals in the imperial court have fallen one after another, or died with Jiannu, or died from thieves, but there are also Zuo Liangyu, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and the like, not only did not fall, but lived an extremely nourishing life, and the officials were getting bigger and bigger. After eating for many years, he was a major general of the imperial court, but when the Qing soldiers went south, they changed their positions one by one, and raised their butcher knives against their former comrades and people. But no matter how much such a person changes, he can't change his cowardly nature in his heart.

When encountering the chain bullet attack of Liu Zhaoji's artillery, nearly 100 cavalry died under the chain bullet in a short period of time, and this level of casualties frightened the courage of Liu Liangzuo's cavalry, and also made them lose confidence in victory. When they returned defeated, they didn't care to watch the situation on the battlefield under Jiangyin City, and instinctively continued to flee one by one.

Although Liu Liangzuo had the heart to tidy up the queue, his subordinate cavalry only cared about the deserters, and his words could not even be heard clearly by the soldiers around him in the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, so he was wrapped up and fled south from outside Jiangyin City, ignoring the thousands of infantry under the city. Maybe in Liu Liangzuo's heart, since he has escaped, his subordinates will naturally follow in his footsteps, and there is no need to issue an order to retreat at all.

Yes, at this time, there was no longer any need for him to give the order to retreat, seeing that the main cavalry was ignoring it, whether it was the Green Battalion infantry besieging Sha Qianlibu, or the Qing soldiers who were chasing the township soldiers who were about to break the city, they all stopped the pace of attack, turned around, and fled as dashing as their commander, leaving a cloud of dust behind them with a wave of their hand.

Seeing the attacking green battalion soldiers retreating like this, whether it was the Sha Qianlibu who was in prostration, or the rural soldiers under Chen Mingyu who were in the rout, they all let out a sigh of relief, or sat on the ground or leaned on the city wall, with expressions on their faces for the rest of their lives.

It is said that this is the best moment to pursue, but the remnants of the Sha Qianli Division are less than 500 soldiers, almost all of them are wounded, and they have no strength to pursue at all, and Chen Mingyu is a subordinate village soldier? Forget it, it will take a lot of effort to reunite the scattered them, and it is better to pin your hopes on the main force of Liu Zhaoji's troops who are about to arrive.

Liu Zhaoji's troops came quickly, and because he was worried about the safety of Sha Qianli's troops, Liu Zhaoji kept urging the soldiers to speed up the march. When he came to Jiangyin City and saw Sha Qianlibu sitting by the moat resting, Liu Zhaoji couldn't help but let out a sigh.

In fact, the relationship between Liu Zhaoji and Sha Qianli is not harmonious, mainly because Sha Qianli is young and vigorous, and he simply looks down on Liu Zhaoji, who joined halfway but is above him, and often contradicts Liu Zhaoji during military discussions. But no matter how much he didn't like Sha Qianli, Liu Zhaoji didn't dare to let Sha Qianli be wiped out by the Green Battalion soldiers, after all, Sha Qianli was the old man next to Ren Siqi, the governor of the capital, and was deeply loved by Ren Siqi. Seeing that Sha Qianli was unharmed, Liu Zhaoji's heart was relieved.

Seeing the main force of the Chongming Army coming, Chen Mingyu ordered Zhou Ruilong, Shao Kanggong and other generals to reorganize the township soldiers, and hurriedly went out of the city to meet Liu Zhaoji. The two met, and after greetings, Chen Mingyu strongly invited Liu Zhaoji to lead troops into Jiangyin, and was willing to give up the command to Liu Zhaoji, and Liu Zhaoji was the supreme commander of Jiangyin from then on.

Liu Zhaoji smiled slightly, rejected Chen Mingyu's proposal, and said that he would pursue and escape Liu Liangzuo's troops and attack Changzhou. Liu Zhaoji did not enter the city, and led his subordinates to pursue the main force to the south, leaving the dilapidated Sha Qianli camp to rest.

After the defeat just now, Chen Mingyu knew that he had no talent to lead troops at all, so he re-remembered Yan Yingyuan, the former canon of wisdom and bravery. So taking advantage of the withdrawal of the Qing army, Chen Mingyu personally went to Zhutang, where Yan Yingyuan lived, to visit Yan Yingyuan. Yan Yingyuan agreed to Chen Mingyu's invitation, gathered more than 600 young people in the township, and brought the whole family to Jiangyin City.

After arriving in Jiangyin, Chen Ming met the power of the public and elected Yan Yingyuan as the commander of Jiangyin. After Yan Yingyuan took over power, he immediately began to arrange the city defense, first sending people to carefully check the number of young and strong people in the city, and selecting young and strong people to form township soldiers, and obtained more than 30,000 township soldiers. Then the manpower was assigned, and 30,000 village soldiers were divided into shifts to defend the city, and ten soldiers were fixed at each battlement, and the shifts were changed on time. The Wuju prince guarded the east gate, the Chongming military camp was guarding the north gate, Chen Mingyu was guarding the west gate, Ying Yuan was responsible for guarding the south gate, and the other generals Zhou Ruilong and Shao Kanggong were each responsible for a section of the city wall. Feng Houdun was appointed as the chief manager, and with the assistance of Xu Yong and other students, he was responsible for the logistics of food, salary, ordnance and ordnance in the city.

Strictly inspected the people in the city, and found out dozens of people led by Gu Yuanmi, and killed them all.

Under the command of Yan Yingyuan, everything in Jiangyin City became orderly, and the soldiers and civilians erupted with great enthusiasm to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Sha Qianlibu was left in Jiangyin to rest because of heavy losses. The situation of the hard battle between the Chongming army and the Qing soldiers was seen in the eyes of all the people of Jiangyin, and the soldiers and people of Jiangyin admired this heroic army, and countless young people in the city flocked to the north gate to ask to join the Chongming army.

The heavy casualties among his subordinates naturally need to be re-expanded, and Sha Qianli selected more than 500 powerful people from among the young people who signed up to be included in the army, and the 1,000-person establishment of the first battalion was re-completed. For these new teenagers, Sha Qianli put forward a request, that is, he must move his family to Chongming Island.

For these people's questions, Sha Qianli explained that after joining the Chongming army, he would definitely fight with the Qing soldiers continuously, and casualties were inevitable, if the family moved to Chongming, whether they were injured or killed in battle, the family would be bereavement, and they would be supported by the Chongming government.

This reason is very far-fetched, and many people are very hesitant in their hearts, after all, Chongming is a desert island, and it is naturally not as prosperous as Jiangyin. But there are also people who feel the war in Jiangyin, and moving their families to Chongming can naturally avoid their worries.

Sha Qianli was only willing to accept the practice of moving his family to Chongming, and in the eyes of those who cared, he had other ideas.

"Maybe that Yue Guogong in Chongming doesn't think Jiangyin can hold it at all!" Yan Yingyuan said to Chen Mingyu, "Or he didn't plan to send troops to defend Jiangyin at all, or why didn't General Liu Zhaoji refuse to enter Jiangyin City, and only left a few hundred people to assist in the defense." ”

"What then? If the Chongming army refuses to do its best to help us defend the city, with the strength of our city, we will not be able to resist the Qing soldiers no matter what! Chen Mingyu said worriedly. At this time, it was already July, and the news of the suppression of uprisings in various places came one after another, and it is said that Ren Siqi, the Duke of Yueguo, had also led troops from Jiading to Chongming. Songjiang, Jiading, Suzhou, uprisings in various places have been suppressed, maybe soon the Qing soldiers will come to attack Jiangyin with all their might, can only rely on the thousands of soldiers under Liu Zhaoji and this Jiangyin city to block the attack of hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers?