With the addition of the two battalions of Chen Mingyang and Yang Bin, Ren Siqi had more than 4,000 soldiers under his control, which made his heart feel a little calmer. www.biquge.info In the next few days, Ren Siqi and his soldiers hid seven or eight miles south of Jiading City, but they sent sentinels to investigate the movements of Jiading City.

On the 23rd day of the leap month, Governor Li Chengdong led an army of 10,000 to the north of Jiading City and fought a great battle with the Jiading army at the brick bridge.

On one side were 10,000 elite green battalion soldiers who had been in battle for a long time, and although the number of people on the other side reached 50,000, they were all untrained rabble, and the outcome of the battle could be imagined.

Li Chengdong divided his subordinates into two parts, left and right, and repeatedly attacked the array of the rebels with horsemen as the leader. Although the number of rebels was large, they could not withstand the repeated impact of the Green Battalion soldiers, and soon the flank was broken by the Green Battalion cavalry, and the whole army was defeated, and tens of thousands of wolves rushed to the pig and retreated.

Li Chengdong urged the army to pursue and kill, killing more than 10,000 rebels, and the rebels were killed all over the field, mutilated corpses filled the ditches, and blood stained the earth.

On the 26th of the leap month, the Qing soldiers approached the city of Jiading, surrounded the Jiading regiments on all sides, and launched a fierce attack.

Jiading City has long been ready to defend the city, Huang Chunyao, Hou Tong had gathered the public opinion, decided to divide the land and defend, the city hung high the banner of "Jiading Restore Righteous Division", self-made all kinds of weapons, ready for battle. Hou Tong once took his two sons to defend the east gate, Huang Chunyao and his younger brother guarded the west gate, the gentry Zhang Ximei defended the south gate, and the Jiading squire Gong Yongyuan and Gong Yongguang brothers guarded the north gate.

On the 28th day of leap June, Zhang Tianfu, a soldier of the Taicang Green Battalion, sent 1,000 Green Battalion soldiers to transport ten Hongyi cannons to the city of Jiading to reinforce Li Chengdong.

The Qing army set up an artillery array in the north of Jiading and began to bombard Jiading day and night.

Jiading's battle reports were continuously sent to Ren Siqi, but Ren Siqi kept ordering the troops to stay still.

"Governor, if you don't send troops, you won't be able to defend Jiading!" Chen Mingyang walked around the room like an ant in a hot pot.

"Yes, Governor. It's time to send troops. Li Xingjiu was also eager to try.

"What's the hurry! It's not time yet. Ren Siqi leisurely tasted the fragrant tea, and said slowly.

In the face of Li Chengdong's department, which is the most powerful in combat, even if he leads these more than 4,000 soldiers into the battlefield now, at most he can ensure that Jiading will not be lost, but he can't annihilate Li Chengdong's department at all.

As for the moment of the best fighter, it was naturally when the green battalion broke through Jiading and entered the city to burn and loot, the green battalion at that time was in a completely disorganized state, and it was at the coolest moment, and it was impossible to imagine that there would be a Ming army attacking at this time. With mental calculations and unintentional, with a neatly organized army attacking the green battalion soldiers who have no fighting spirit at all, the victory or defeat can be imagined.

Of course, in this process, a large number of Jiading people will die at the hands of the green battalion soldiers, but Ci does not lead the troops, and the first thing Ren Siqi has to do now is to be responsible for the thousands of people under his command.

On 1 July, under the bombardment of several days in a row, the northern wall of Jiading was collapsed by artillery, and the Green Battalion soldiers entered the city along the gap.

Gong Yongyuan and Gong Yongguang, the generals of the Beicheng garrison, heard that the city was broken, hugged and cried: "My grandfather is innocent and has been in the past three generations. Today, if you want to survive, how can you see your ancestors underground? After saying that, they both jumped into the river and drowned themselves.

The defenders in Jiading City were originally composed of untrained villagers, and if the city was not broken, they could still reluctantly go to the city to defend, but since they were blasted out of the gap, these people would no longer have the fighting spirit. The difference between the elite and the rabble is here, an elite army must have strong resilience, even if the city is broken, it will not retreat. The rabble, on the other hand, can only fight with the wind, and if you win, you will move forward, and if you lose, you will be defeated.

The north gate was broken, and the people of the righteous army fled to the south gate, who knew that the Qing army had already sent troops to block the south gate, and took advantage of the situation to rush into the south gate and enter the city.

Hou Tong once sat in the Dongcheng Tower, and when he heard that the north gate was breached, he looked up to the sky and sighed, "I really shouldn't have refused the Chongming Army's entry into the city that day." At this time, he realized that fighting a war is completely different from writing an article, even if he is only eight years old, has the fame of a jinshi, and is familiar with Sun Tzu's Art of War, he can only talk about it on paper.

"Father, what now?" The two sons looked at Hou Dongzeng with blank eyes.

"Flee quickly, for your father is dead, and those you hate will send the ears of the people of the city in vain."

The brothers Hou Xuanyan and Hou Xuanjie escaped a few steps, and fell down in front of Hou Dongzeng crying.

Hou Tong was angry with the sun; "I am an official of the Ming Dynasty, I died in the affairs of the state, your grandmother is still here, you two want to do filial piety on my behalf, why do you love me?" The second son Fang wept and left.

"Governor, the city is broken!" The sentry informed Ren Siqi of the news of the destruction of Jiading City, and Ren Siqi immediately ordered the whole army to march to Jiading.

At a distance of seven or eight miles, it took half an hour to arrive, and the whole army stopped two miles outside the city. Ren Siqi ordered Chen Mingyang to take charge of the north gate of Jiading, and set aside some soldiers to occupy the artillery position of the Qing army, and then the north gate killed the generals. Ordered Yang Bin to be in charge of the West Gate, Li Xingjiu to be in charge of the East Gate, and Ren Siqi himself to take Xiong Er in charge of the South Gate. Agree on a time to attack together at noon.

As soon as the order was issued, Chen Mingyang, Yang Bin, and Li Xingjiu each took their headquarters and quietly went around the city gates, and Ren Siqi took Xiong Er and a thousand soldiers to hide quietly outside the south gate of Jiading.

"It's time!" The soldier observing the shadow of the stick stuck in the ground reported.

"Kill into the city!" Ren Siqi jumped up and led his men to Jiading City to kill.

The soldiers sent by Li Chengdong to the south gate had already chased after the people and killed into the city, the drawbridge at the south gate was lowered, the city gate was opened, and the huge city gate was unguarded, and their eyes were no longer outside the city, but looked into the city with envy.

When the city was just breached, Li Chengdong categorically ordered the city to be slaughtered, and the sword was not sealed for three days! All the green battalion soldiers happily rushed into the city and plundered, who would have thought that a Ming army would suddenly enter from outside the city.

"Take the team as a unit and clear along the street!" Ren Siqi gave an order, and the whole army was divided into four parts and went to the city along the South Gate Street. The sight of passing along the way made all the soldiers furious.

The streets were littered with corpses, stumps and severed arms scattered along the side of the road and ditches, and everywhere there were weepings and pleadings and the smug laughter of the Green Battalion soldiers.

As soon as he entered the city, Ren Siqi saw a man's corpse at the gate of the courtyard in an open courtyard next to him, and several corpses of ordinary people were scattered in the courtyard, and there were women's sobs and men's wheezing voices coming from the courtyard.

"Leave two teams of soldiers to clear the streets, and the others will rush to the city with me and attack the Jiading County Ya!" Holding back the anger in his heart, Ren Siqi ordered that Li Chengdong's Chinese army must be located in the county government, as long as Li Chengdong is killed, the green battalion soldiers in Jiading City will be defeated without a fight! (To be continued.) )