In the thick poisonous mist, which still had a small amount of chlorine gas remaining, countless shadowy figures appeared opposite the Qing army's position. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The 30,000 Qing soldiers who were struggling to wait for death looked at this scene with frightened eyes, watching the figure that seemed to come from the void gradually become clear, silver breastplate, silver helmet, scarlet battle robe, with a rifle with a bayonet in his hand, and a white handkerchief on his face.

But they were powerless to resist.

They couldn't even pick up their guns.

All 30,000 Qing troops were smoked by chlorine gas, although not all of them died, more than half of them were still alive, but the living people were completely incapacitated, they could not hold muskets, they could not draw their bows, they could not lift their spears, and their weak hands could not even light the cannons that had been loaded, they could only lie there and wait for death.

The first Ming soldier to step on the Qing defense line looked at the Qing officer who was twitching at his feet with a cold gaze, and looked at the blue cotton armor on his body inlaid with copper nails, the latter was looking at him with a begging gaze, but the soldier ignored it and did not hesitate to plunge the bayonet into his chest.

At the same time, more and more Ming troops stepped on the Qing defense line, and their work was without exception......

Kill! Kill! Kill!

All the Qing troops, all those Qing soldiers who were struggling in the trenches, officers and soldiers, whether they were not dead or seemed to be dead, did not hesitate to take a bayonet in their chest, no matter how they resisted, struggled, and begged for mercy, just as their ancestors did in Yangzhou back then. 10,000 Ming soldiers turned into 10,000 vengeful demon gods, killing all the time, stepping on the bodies of the Qing army, waving the rifles in their hands again and again, and the three-edged bayonets kept repeating the same work as if they were mechanical, piercing their chests, piercing their hearts, and piercing their lives.

At the wound where the bayonet was pulled out, the blood was pumped into the air, forming a dense blood mist in the cold air, and a slightly yellowish-green poisonous mist, and the golden sunlight that penetrated through the mist, together formed a strange picture.

Footage of bloody killings.

Stretching for more than ten miles from Pengbu to Mid-Levels, 10,000 Ming troops walked side by side through the Qing army's defense line, leaving a full 30,000 corpses behind them.

He Jinduan sat on the Arab horse he had just bought with his money, looked indifferently at the layers of Qing army corpses piled up under his feet, and reached out to take the map from the staff officer's hand, although he didn't need to look at the map at all, he grew up in Yuhang, how could he still look at the map, he took a symbolic look, handed the map back to the staff officer, suddenly pulled out his saber and said: "Order all armies to go north, target Yuhang!" ”

After a pause, he said, "Go home!" ”

More than 20 miles away, there was no knowledge of this in the base camp of the Yuhang Qing army.

Sabusu had just received the news that the Ming army had captured Shanghai, and was killing Suzhou along the Wusong River, and he almost instinctively stared at the two points of Suzhou and Huzhou, which were diagonally opposite each other across the Taihu Lake, one stuck in the only plain corridor between Tianmu Mountain and Taihu Lake, and the other stuck in the most important water transport hub of the canal.

What's more, both are his most important logistics bases.

The grain scavenged from all over the country was hoarded in these two cities, and then transported to his front line through the canal and Tiaoxi respectively, especially Suzhou with its developed handicraft industry is still his main military base, where craftsmen can even produce a small amount of short-barreled rifled guns for him, and the smoothbore flintlock pistol produced there is the most important weapon of the Qing army at present, without this city, he can not only hold the Hangzhou line, but also the second Jiahu line.

And these two places have a waterway to figure out, once the Ming army captures Suzhou, you can go south through the Taihu Lake to Huzhou, and then completely close the door to his retreat to Nanjing, it is obvious that the goal of the Ming army is to swallow his 100,000 army in one fell swoop, at that time the entire south of the Yangtze River, no longer able to compete with the Ming army, Yang Feng's army can directly hit the city of Nanjing.

And the city of Nanjing, where the defenders were almost evacuated, could not stop the Ming army.

Once Nanjing was captured, the entire Jiangnan would no longer be owned by the imperial court.

"Please tell the prince that Suzhou must be defended no matter what, otherwise not only eastern Zhejiang, but also the entire south of the Yangtze River will not be protected."

He said directly to Zhou Peigong.

"Sa Shuai, can we hold this eastern Zhejiang?"

Zhou Peigong said bitterly.

He came to see the situation on the battlefield, but obviously the situation here is not optimistic, there is no need to look at anything else, just look at the blank and gray eyes of those soldiers, he knows that the continuous defeats have completely destroyed the morale of the Qing army, whether it is the Eight Banners or the Green Battalion, the current appearance is no different from the defeated and captured Wu Sangui army back then, such an army is unable to fight.

"If you can't hold it, you have to defend it, if there is no containment of the battlefield in eastern Zhejiang, will the thief army only have three brigades to commit Beijing? What if the demon adds three more brigades to the northern battlefield? Can Beijing keep it? Without Beijing, can the Qing Dynasty still hold on? Now there is no other way, only a bloody battle to the end, the old man is seventy years old, and he was not ready to go back alive! ”

Sabsu said.

However, he is not ready to go back alive, and others have not lived enough!

Well, Yabu is already running away.

Suzhou.

"Please allow the prince!"

Nian Qianyao knelt in front of Yabu and said with a resolute face.

"Lianggong, although the new army is well-trained, but after all, there is less than a battalion, the thief army is coming from the Wansai River, your going here is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, or temporarily avoid its edge, so as to talk about it later."

Yabu looked at him with some emotion.

He didn't expect the Ming army to play this trick, and he didn't expect that the Wusong Fort actually didn't block the Ming army for two hours, and when he got the news that the Ming army had entered Wusongkou, Feng Zhen's army had already entered the Wusong River to kill it, and the perennial dredging of this special flood channel for Taihu Lake can be said to be unimpeded, and those inland river flat-bottomed boats can easily reach Suzhou. At this time, the main force of the Qing army was all on the periphery of Hangzhou, the counteroffensive of the Ming army had begun, and it was still stretched to the limit, and it was impossible to withdraw at all, even if it could be withdrawn, it was impossible to rush in front of the Ming army, and Suzhou only had 5,000 defenders, and the vast majority of them were logistics troops, plus the brave battalion organized by the local gentry was only more than 10,000 people, how to resist the tiger and wolf division of the two brigades of the Ming army?

Of course, the key is that Yabu doesn't want to be a Chang Ning, and when he thinks of Prince Gong who was tied to the back of a horse and dragged into a skeleton, he feels his heart tugging now.

It's not just that he's running, now the whole of Suzhou, the army, the government, the local gentry, everyone is scrambling to run, the canal is crowded with boats, the carriages on the road are lined up, and even the pampered gentry are gritting their teeth and riding horses or even walking, it can be said that the whole Suzhou is like the end of the world, after all, Shanghai to Suzhou is only so far away, the Ming army by boat does not stop day and night, coupled with the side of the north wind blowing, there are two days of work absolutely arrived, as for the consciousness of sticking to the lonely city......

That's really not, and besides, the army and the people have to work together to defend the lonely city, and now the people in Suzhou are almost beating gongs and drums and cheering, expecting them to work together with the officials and gentry, which is too unrealistic.

At this time, Nian Qianyao came to ask for the new army he trained to go out to meet the Ming army to cover the escape of all walks of life in Suzhou, which made Yabu really moved.

"Lord Wang, do you think that our Qing army can exterminate the thieves and restore the prosperity of Kangxi now?"

Nian Qianyao knelt there and said.

"This, the traitor is perverse, I am in the Qing Dynasty to be obedient and rebellious, there is the emperor Shengming, and there are soldiers with their lives, although it does take some time, but this victory must belong to my Qing Dynasty."

Yabu said.

"If I don't follow the example of the thieves to train a new army and vigorously develop new guns, I will be destroyed by the thieves early in the morning and sooner or later, and at that time, I am afraid that it will be impossible to return to the Guanwai, not to mention that there are Rakshasas and Goryeo people watching outside the Guan. If you go to die for the country, please play the Ming Sheng, and now the plan is to ask for peace, with land, wealth, and everything that the demon wants, in exchange for his temporary truce, don't fight it uselessly.

That demon is leading us to fight, leading us to death in front of him, in order to kill all the young adults of our Eight Banners and let the blood of our Eight Banners dry, and then he can easily take the world, without the Eight Banners, let alone him, even those green camps can turn against us, so what we need now is to endure, if it is really not possible, we can give him all Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, as long as he can agree to a truce, Emperor Taizu can still endure humiliation and humiliation to Li Chengliang, why can't we endure it for a while?

Then check the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, train my Eight Banners New Army with new firearms and new training methods, make good red-haired people, buy new warships, cannons and firearms, and wait for the training of the New Army to be completed, and then fight to the death with the demons, calm the demon atmosphere in one fell swoop, and return me to a clear and bright future! ”

Nian Qianyao said righteously.

"Okay, it's a good man in my Eight Banners, there is a strong man like you in the Qing Dynasty, and my Daqing will never die, come, drink this cup full, and count it as the king's heroism for you!"

Yabu said, holding a glass of wine.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!"

After Nian Qianyao finished speaking, he took the wine glass and drank it all heroically, then smashed the wine glass on the ground, turned around and went out with his three hundred new troops, got on the horse and went straight to the east, to meet the Ming army that had passed Kunshan, and behind him Yabu led all the officials in Suzhou to get on the boat as quickly as possible, and retreated directly to Wuxi along the canal......

That's only hehe. (To be continued.) )