After Liu Zhaoji received the news from Sha Qianli, he led 3,000 infantry to get on the warship, quietly crossed the Yangtze River waterway at dawn the next day, and landed on the river bank on the north side of Jiangyin City, and then ambushed in the jungle under Jun Mountain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Due to the severity of night blindness in ancient armies, in order to avoid chaos, night battles were rarely fought in ancient times.

The Qing army, which had attacked the city for a day, also withdrew to camp. Although Jiangyin City was not captured on this day, it also caused great pressure and casualties to the township soldiers at the head of the city. The Qing army attacked the city head many times and killed the defenders together, if it was not for the last moment of an elite pikemen appeared on the city wall, maybe the Qing army would have captured the southern city wall.

By asking the soldiers who had withdrawn from the battlefield, Li Shutai, the commander of the Qing army, knew that it was the Chongming Army that suddenly rushed into the battlefield. In fact, during the siege, Li Shutai had already avoided attacking the northern city where Sha Qianli was stationed. He didn't expect that the morale of the rural soldiers in the city was so high, and the desire to fight was so strong, and he didn't want the Ming soldiers in other places to be defeated with one blow. In Li Shutai's opinion, the township soldiers in Jiangyin are completely stronger than the regular armies of the Ming army in other places, and with the assistance of the Chongming army, it may be difficult to capture it.

The hot and dry weather in the south, even at night, is still extremely hot, and there is no need to set up tents in this kind of weather, but in the summer, there is a lot of rain in the south, and in order to avoid the rain, the green battalion soldiers built thatched huts with roofs.

Li Shuotai's Chinese military tent was set up in a thatched hut, and several thick candles swayed in the breeze, illuminating the map on the desk, and the smoke of wormwood lit to repel mosquitoes filled the shed.

Li Shutai stripped naked, revealing two thick hairy legs, looking at the map and thinking hard about the siege strategy.

Now it seems that it is no longer possible to storm only one wall, and in order to avoid the rescue of the Ming army from other directions, it is necessary to put pressure on each wall.

However, if you storm the four city walls, the troops are not very sufficient, and only one side is attacked, and the other three sides are attacked.

Just as Li Shutai was thinking, suddenly there was a faint noise outside, Li Shutai frowned, and was about to send his guards out to check, when the noise suddenly became louder.

Night Raid! Li Shutai stood up at once, put on the armor heaped on the side with the assistance of two personal guards, took off the steel knife and walked out.

Li Shutai's Chinese army tent was set up on a three-to-four-zhang earthen slope, the terrain was much higher than other places, standing in front of the tent and looking out, he saw the edge of the camp in the north flashing with fire, and the figures of people were pupils.

There are 10,000 people without borders, not to mention that Li Shuotai has an army of more than 40,000 people, and the camp is extremely wide, three or four miles long.

The attack on the northern camp soon spread to other places, and countless torches were lit to mingle with the stars in the sky.

The footsteps sounded quickly, and the well-trained Qing soldiers gathered, it was the three thousand Eight Banner soldiers, the real elite of the battalion, and they quickly lined up behind Li Shutai. Although the hot weather made the Eight Banners soldiers unbearable at all, and they didn't have time to put on their armor one by one, even if they were wearing single clothes and pants, their movements were still fast and agile. In the time of a quarter of a pillar of incense, three thousand eight banner soldiers were completely arrayed, although most of them did not have time to put on armor, but the murderous aura was still pressing.

Looking at the elite of his subordinates, Li Shutai nodded with satisfaction, with such elite subordinates, he was not afraid of any enemy. If the three thousand eight banners fought head-on, it would be enough to sweep the entire Jiangnan!

One sentry after another ran over and reported to Li Shutai about the military situation ahead. The attack on the camp was the Jiangyin city village soldiers, there were hundreds of people, took advantage of the night to hang down from the city head along the city wall, secretly touched the camp of the green battalion soldiers, and when the fence of the camp was overturned, it was discovered by the green battalion soldiers who were on vigil.

Now Zhang Tianlu, the chief soldier of the green battalion, is commanding his subordinates to fight fiercely with the township soldiers who attacked the camp, and they will soon be able to defeat them.

Li Shutai nodded, and ordered Zhang Tianlu to eliminate this bold Ming army as soon as possible, and then sent people to each battalion to give orders to pacify each battalion and avoid riots.

The camp was suddenly attacked at night, and the worst fear was a riot and cannibalism.

The shouts of battle gradually became quieter, and Li Shutai knew that the Ming army attacking the camp had been defeated. Soon the news came, Zhang Tianlu sent someone to report that the Ming army that had stolen the camp had been defeated and annihilated by three hundred, and the rest had fled back to Jiangyin.

Li Shutai nodded, ordered that there was no need to pursue, and ordered each battalion to set aside a small part of the troops to be on duty at night, and the others to seize the time to rest.

It's already the fourth watch, and tomorrow we will continue to attack the city.

Three miles away from the Qing soldiers' camp, Liu Zhaoji stood quietly in the night sky looking at the Qing army's camp, thousands of black shadows sat on the ground behind him, and the Chongming soldiers were resting at that time.

When he was about to arrive at the Qing army camp, Liu Zhaoji was stunned to find that there was a riot in the Qing army camp, and out of caution he sent someone to investigate, only to know that it was the township soldiers from Jiangyin City who went to steal the camp.

Several battalions under his command were suggesting that Liu Zhaoji immediately march to the Qing army camp and cooperate with the villagers to attack. Liu Zhaoji thought about it carefully, rejected the proposal of his subordinates, and ordered everyone to rest in place and stand by.

After walking five or six miles from the riverbank here, the soldiers were a little tired, but now was a good time to attack the camp, so how could they watch it. However, the strict military discipline of the Chongming army made them dare not disobey Liu Zhaoji's order, and they could only watch the township soldiers attack the Qing camp alone.

Soon, the sound of fighting in the Qing army's camp became less and less, and a large number of figures fled in the direction of Jiangyin, so the soldiers of the Chongming Army knew that the attack on the camp of the Jiangyin township soldiers failed.

Time passed minute by minute, and gradually it was the fifth watch, and the night was getting darker and darker.

Finally, Liu Zhaoji ordered the whole army to continue to march towards the Qing army camp. After resting for more than half an hour, the soldiers recovered their strength and began to touch the black Qing army camp opposite.

The successive victories made the Qing soldiers extremely arrogant, and the vulnerability of the Ming army made them even less vigilant. The Qing army did not dig a trench outside the camp at all, but fenced off the camp.

Several Chongming soldiers quietly touched the camp of the Qing army, but there was no Qing army consciousness. Maybe the attack on the camp by the villagers just now made them very tired.

Tie a section of rope to the fence, more than 20 soldiers a rope, four or five ropes in more than 100 soldiers pulled together, the wooden fence made a tooth-sour crunch, and after a while, it was pulled down as a whole with a pop, and there was a gap of about 20 zhang long.

"Kill!" Liu Zhaoji brandished a spear and took the lead in rushing towards the camp of the Qing army.