Chapter 466: The End
An explosion occurred in the camp of Dordor, which immediately caused great chaos. The explosion of the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info was earth-shattering, the sound vibrated the universe, and it could be heard clearly dozens of miles away, this was definitely not the movement made by the sound of cannons.
More than a dozen carriages, dozens of boxes, in addition to the silver taels piled up on the top of the boxes, there is gunpowder below, Yan Yingyuan mobilized all the gunpowder in Jiangyin City, which is as much as 10,000 catties, and it is here.
It can be imagined how earth-shattering the movement produced by the explosion of 10,000 catties of gunpowder.
The thousands of Eight Banner soldiers who approached the carriage and came to surrender were torn to pieces by the silver taels that flew everywhere without saying a word, and the shock wave spread, shaking down and collapsing dozens of camp tents, and countless Eight Banner soldiers were shocked and vomited blood and suffered extremely serious internal injuries.
Of course, the more than 100 Jiangyin old men who came to surrender also died with the enemy, and their bodies were gone!
Thankfully, out of caution, Dodor did not go to inspect it himself, but stood in front of the tent, more than two hundred steps from the site of the explosion, only to be knocked to the ground by the blast wave of the explosion. But just like that, he felt that his ears were buzzing like countless heavy bells and drums ringing in his ears, and he could no longer hear any sound, and there was red blood constantly oozing from his mouth, nose and ears.
A violent explosion occurred in the Chinese army's battalion, which immediately caused the other battalions to be extremely suspicious, and they sent people to inquire about the movement in spite of the imminent attack on Jiangyin.
When they learned of the tragic situation of the Chinese army camp and learned that Duoduo was seriously wounded, the battalion commanders could no longer care about anything else, and Pegasus came to the Chinese army camp. If Duoduo is seriously injured and dies, no amount of credit can be made up, and everyone will be frustrated.
At this moment, hundreds of ships sailed from Jingjiang Island in the center of the river to the south bank of the Yangtze River, sending the infantry of the brigade to the shore.
10,000 soldiers of the Chongming Army, under the leadership of Liu Zhaoji, began to attack Junshan in the north of Jiangyin City, and hundreds of small cannons took the lead in launching covering fire at the Qing army on the mountain.
The cannonballs came all over the world and landed on Junshan, although they were only solid shells and non-flowering shells, but the consequences were extremely serious.
One after another, the shells fell from the sky and smashed into the positions of the Qing soldiers, and the people who smashed straight up on their backs turned over and cried to the ground.
As soon as a round of shells fell, the soldiers of the Chongming Army rushed to the Qing position with spears in their hands. Just as the Qing soldiers lined up to meet the attack, the Chongming musketeers in front fired another volley, and hundreds of Qing soldiers died tragically under the bullets, and the array immediately became uneven.
Junshan is an artillery position of the Qing soldiers, and there are about 3,000 Qing soldiers on the mountain, mainly protecting more than 20 artillery pieces on the mountain. Under normal circumstances, if the Chongming army attacked from the river, the 3,000 green battalion Qing soldiers would be enough to resist for at least an hour, and then the main force of the Eight Banners would come to support and surround and eliminate the attacking Ming army. So in fact, Junshan is a trap for the Ming army.
But today, there was an explosion in the camp of the Qing army, and Prince Yu Duoduo was seriously injured, which caused chaos in the Qing army in other battalions, and he could no longer care about coming to the rescue of Junshan.
The artillery and muskets of the Chongming army were too strong, causing the 3,000 Qing soldiers on Junshan to lose more than 1,000 people before they could fight, and their morale dropped to the extreme at that time. Rushed by the elite pikemen again, it immediately collapsed.
The north gate of Jiangyin opened, and Yan Yingyuan organized the women and children of Jiangyin City to start going out of the city.
Crowds of Jiangyin people left the city gate in silence and headed for the river at the foot of Jun Mountain, where boats took them to Jingjiang Island, and then from Jingjiang to Chongming.
After more than two months of siege by the Qing troops, especially in the last 20 days of fierce fighting, the people in Jiangyin City suffered great casualties, and only about 50,000 of the 70,000 or 80,000 people remained. Most of them died when the Qing soldiers desperately attacked the city, and the old and weak women and children went to the city to fight fiercely, and died under the Qing soldiers' swords, Qing soldiers' arrows, or Qing soldiers' artillery.
persisted for 80 days, but in the end Jiangyin City could not be saved, and the people frequently looked back at their distant hometowns, all of them shed tears.
Yan Yingyuan took the remaining more than 10,000 township soldiers, watching his father leave, dozens of days of exhaustion, in exchange for such a result, how can people not be sad. But so what? If you continue to fight, it will only be the end of the city, and you are not afraid of death, but you can't let the people of the whole city die.
Now that the villagers are gone, and their wives and daughters are gone, I will no longer have anything to worry about, so let me fight with the Qing people, and die here vigorously!
"Erlang, follow me into the city!" Yan Yingyuan shouted, and he was about to return to Jiangyin.
"Do you want to kill them?" A rough voice sounded in the distance, Yan Yingyuan turned his head, and saw Liu Zhaoji walking in front of him.
"You people are the last men in Jiangyin, if they all die, how will those women and children who have left live! Jiangyin is just a city, if you lose it today, you will grab it tomorrow. There is a saying in the old man of the governor, which is called, 'If the land is lost, the land is lost; If you save people and lose land, you will gain all people'! ”
"If you lose your land, you will lose your land; If you save people and lose land, you will gain all people," Yan Yingyuan muttered as he read this sentence, his eyes getting brighter and brighter.
"Do we have the day we call back?" Yan Yingyuan looked at Liu Zhaoji eagerly.
"Of course! I believe in the governor, and I believe that one day the old man will take us back and recapture the Ming Dynasty! Liu Zhaoji's words are full of admiration and trust for Ren Siqi!
On August 21 of the first year of Hongguang, the battle that lasted more than 80 days in Jiangyin, a small city by the river, came to an end. The Manchu commander Duoduo was seriously injured in the attack, and the people of Jiangyin took the opportunity to withdraw from the city.
After exhausting all his efforts, he only got an empty city, and Duoduo was furious and ordered to mobilize a naval army to prepare for an attack on Jingjiang Island. However, before he could mobilize enough ships, the Ming army in Jingjiang was already empty, and the soldiers and civilians on the entire island withdrew to Chongming, so that Duoduo, who smashed his fist on the cotton, was so angry that he almost vomited blood again.
Although Duoduo was shocked in the explosion last time, the injury was not serious, but the inner abdomen was shocked, and it only took some time to heal.
With the retreat of the people of Jiangyin, the rebellion in the entire Jiangnan region completely disappeared, and only the remnants of Ren Siqi retreated on the isolated island of Chongming.
After returning to Jiangning, Duoduo and Hong Chengchou of the southeast Jingluo handed over military affairs, and immediately led the army to withdraw to Beijing. Since then, the area south of the Yangtze River has been guarded by the southeast Jinglu Hong Chengchou and the Ping'an general Luck Dehun.
Hong Chengchou has been a Ming minister for many years, and was entrusted with the high position of governor by Chongzhen, and led troops to fight with the peasant army and the Manchu Qing all the year round, so he is naturally extremely familiar with military affairs. Jiangnan has been decided, only Chongming Island still has tens of thousands of Ming army remnants, Hong Chengchou immediately launched a deployment against Chongming Island. First of all, the Jiangbei camp was established in Yangzhou, with Gushan Ezhen Zhun Tower as the general, responsible for preventing the possible northward invasion of Chongming Island. Secondly, he rebuilt the city fortress of Wusong, appointed Wu Shengzhao as the governor of Susong, stationed in Wusong, and suppressed Chongming Island from the south. In the end, Hong Chengchou ordered the reopening of the Nanjing Longjiang Shipyard to build warships and train sailors.