The Green Battalion cavalry was unexpectedly repelled by the arrows on the Jiangyin city wall, giving the Chongming army of the Sha Qianli Department a rare respite. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The trampling of the two hundred cavalry made the Chongming army suffer heavy casualties, more than 200 people died under the iron hooves of the green battalion, and Sha Qianli roughly estimated that there were now less than 500 soldiers who could stand up straight and enter the battle. In an hour's battle, more than half of the 1,000 soldiers were lost, which shows the fierceness of the Green Battalion's offensive.

If it was any Ming army in this era, such a large casualty would have caused the morale of the army to plummet and even collapse. However, the Chongming army is different from other Ming armies, and the successive victories in the past two years have forged an indomitable military spirit, they can be defeated, they can be completely annihilated, but they will never flee without a fight. Of course, another reason why the army did not collapse was that the Chongming army was strictly disciplined, and the families of the soldiers who died in the war would have bereavement pensions and would be supported by the Chongming government, and if they fled without a fight, not only would they be executed, but their families would also be expelled from Chongming. In such a troubled world, it is so easy to find a place to stay, and if the family members are expelled, what awaits them will be extremely miserable.

Therefore, although the remnants of the Chongming Army were demoralized, they were still under Sha Qianli's order, and they reorganized without saying a word, preparing to meet the green battalion soldiers to attack again.

At the head of Jiangyin City, Chen Mingyu looked at the back of the Green Battalion cavalry fleeing in embarrassment under the arrows at the head of the city, and he didn't feel happy at all, because he knew that this little victory would not help. Although he didn't know much about military affairs, he could still see that the Chongming army under the city had reached the most dangerous situation.

You have to bring troops out of the city to help! Although the village soldiers in the city are all composed of nearby villagers, they have no ability to fight in the field, and they must suffer heavy casualties in the battle with the elite green battalion soldiers, so they can only be used to defend the city. But Chen Mingyu couldn't watch the Sha Qianli tribe under the city being eaten by the Qing soldiers little by little, if he allowed the Sha Qianli tribe outside the city to be wiped out and ignored, it would definitely hurt the heart of the Chongming army in Jingjiang, and it would be very difficult to get Chongming's assistance in the future. Without Chongming's assistance, the isolated city of Jiangyin would have been captured by the Qing soldiers sooner or later.

Chen Mingyu was the commander of Jiangyin and was in charge of the affairs of the whole city, he made up his mind to go out of the city for reinforcements, and the generals such as Zhou Ruilong and Shao Kanggong in the city also had to follow. With an order, the city gate was opened, and Chen Mingyu commanded more than 10,000 villagers in Xicheng to go out of the city, and along the drawbridge to the battlefield where the battle was being fought.

Seeing that the gate of Jiangyin was wide open, Liu Qing, the temporary commander of the green battalion outside the city and Liu Liangzuo's nephew guerrilla general, was overjoyed, the opportunity to break the city finally appeared, and the township soldiers in Jiangyin City were finally lured out, as long as they defeated the township soldiers out of the city, they could take advantage of the situation to enter the city, and the city was broken in front of them!

Liu Qing immediately ordered Jiang Ye's 200 cavalry to stop continuing to attack Sha Qianlibu and instead attack the rural soldiers who went out of the city. Order the remaining half of the Green Battalion infantry to continue to besiege the remnants of the Chongming Army, and the other Green Battalion soldiers gather to defeat the township soldiers who paid the city, and then take advantage of the situation to kill the city!

The villagers rushed out of the city gate and crossed the drawbridge, and stood up under the leadership of Zhou Ruilong, the capital secretary, and the follow-up troops gathered outside the moat one after another. However, the Green Battalion refused to give them time to calmly line up, and Jiang Ye led two hundred cavalry to pounce viciously.

The horse's hooves were like thunder, the vicious wind was blowing, and the sound was terrifying, which made these farmers who were still digging in the fields some time ago all tremble with fear and trembling. Zhou Ruilong, the capital secretary, endured the fear in his heart, and ordered his subordinate villagers to pick up the weapons in their hands, wanting to follow the Chongming military phalanx to block the impact of the cavalry.

But how can the township soldiers compare with the Chongming army? Seeing the strong war horses crashing at high speed, their faces turned pale one by one, and before the war horses rushed to them, they threw down the blades in their hands and turned around and fled.

Without any effort, the cavalry of the Green Battalion kicked into the array of the villagers, brandishing swords and guns, slashing and killing the fleeing villagers from behind.

The number of village soldiers who crossed the moat was four or five thousand, dozens of times that of the green battalion cavalry, but in the face of the impact of the cavalry, no one had the courage to hold a weapon and use flesh and blood to block the terrible war horse, and the result was that thousands of township soldiers were easily defeated by the two hundred green battalion cavalry, and one by one they turned around and fled.

There were Qing soldiers everywhere outside the city, and the only way to flee was to flee back to the city, but the narrow drawbridge allowed so many people to flee, so many people screamed and were squeezed into the moat. Fortunately, the moat was not too deep, and most of the villagers were familiar with the nature of the water, so they would not drown, and could always climb from the river to the inner side of the moat.

Chen Mingyu had just left the city gate, and before he got on the suspension bridge, he saw that the thousands of villagers who had left the city had been defeated, and countless people fled to the city screaming. The villagers in the city wanted to go out, and the villagers outside the city wanted to flee back to the city, but the two sides collided together, and the narrow area from the city gate to the moat was crowded with hundreds of villagers, so that Chen Mingyu was sad to find that he couldn't move at all.

At this moment, Liu Qing led two thousand green battalion infantry to rush over, overjoyed to see this situation, the Ming army in the city itself was in chaos, wouldn't it be easy to capture Jiangyin.

Liu Qing ordered his archers to start shooting immediately. Hundreds of archers of the Green Battalion bent their bows and arrows, and shot a rain of arrows into the chaotic group of village soldiers.

"Puff puff" was the sound of arrows hitting the flesh, followed by terrible screams, and the villagers were so crowded that few arrows missed.

"Ahh

An emaciated villager on the drawbridge happened to be shot into the eye by a feathered arrow, and the arrow had pierced into his mind, and he was killed without saying a word, but the corpse was tightly squeezed by the villagers in front and behind and still maintained a standing posture.

Seeing that some of his companions were killed by arrows from time to time, many of the village soldiers suddenly collapsed, screaming and throwing down their weapons and running around, and the city gate was crowded and could not enter, so they fled along the city wall to the north and south.

Seeing that the township soldiers had completely collapsed, Liu Qing ordered the archers to continue shooting arrows, and at the same time led his men to force the drawbridge, he wanted to follow the villagers into the city and achieve the first merit in suppressing the Jiangyin rebellion.

The two thousand green battalion infantry slowly approached the drawbridge with their weapons held high, the city gate of Jiangyin had been opened, and the defenders in the city were in chaos, as long as they rushed into the city, endless wealth was waiting for them, and countless women were waiting for them to be lucky.

At this moment, all the Green Battalion soldiers had an evil smile on their faces.