For this battle, although Li Yanzhi carried out meticulous planning, from the arrangement of the dispatch trap of the sentinel detectives, he personally took care of it every day, but it was inevitable that many loopholes appeared. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The biggest loophole is that the combat effectiveness of the Daishan infantry is overestimated, perhaps in the defense of Yangzhou, several victories made many Daishan army officers, including Li Yanzhi, swelled up, and killed thousands of Eight Banner soldiers to continuously thwart the siege of the Qing army, making many people naturally think that the current combat effectiveness of the Daishan Army does not belong to any army in the world!

What about the Eight Banners? When they first entered Yangzhou, under the leadership of Hou Ye, the big guys didn't attack their camp and cut off thousands of heads! When Yangzhou defended the city, even if the city wall was breached, it was not that they were driven out again, and thousands were killed. After calculating before and after, the Eight Banners lost seven or eight thousand people under Yangzhou City! Doesn't this show the combat effectiveness of the Daishan Army?

Of course, this kind of blind optimism also helps to increase the morale of the army, so that everyone has another instinctive psychological advantage in the face of the Qing army's Eight Banners, unlike other Ming troops, who are afraid to see the arrival of the Qing soldiers without a fight.

However, many people did not think carefully about it, although the Daishan Army had killed thousands of Eight Banner soldiers, but those battles were either achieved by sneak attacks or by strong city defenses. But the field battle was not fought. Therefore, including Li Yanzhi, everyone overestimated their own combat effectiveness and underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners.

Therefore, when Li Yanzhi designed the trap, he only sent only 2,000 infantry and more than 1,000 archers around the camp, and he thought that when the Qing soldiers found out that they had fallen into the trap, they would definitely be very panicked, and these more than 3,000 people should be enough......

Of course, the strength that Li Yanzhi now has under his control is more than 3,000 people, and there are more than 10,000 young people among the tens of thousands of people who accompany the army, most of whom have recruited township soldiers in Yangzhou. These more than 10,000 young men were also assembled, but Li Yanzhi considered that they basically had not trained much, and if they participated in the battle, they would only be delayed, and even if they were ambushed, they might be discovered by the Qing army, so he did not let them get close to the battlefield, but was responsible for protecting the people on the north side of the Salt River.

However, when the battle started, Turai only sent his subordinate Green Battalion soldiers into the camp, but the 3,000 Eight Banners cavalry stood outside the camp, which made Li Yanzhi's trap almost fail. However, the 2,000 infantry around him were no match for the 3,000 Eight Banner cavalry, and if the battle continued, it might not be long before Li Yanzhi and the 2,000 infantry would be slaughtered. At the critical moment, Mao Liu led more than 1,000 archers and Cao Changjiang led more than 10,000 young men into the battlefield one after another, and they actually scared off the Qing soldiers.

Thinking about the battle, Li Yanzhi couldn't help but be secretly afraid.

"Fortunately, Brother Cao came in time, otherwise I am afraid that I would have to explain here." Li Yan thanked Cao Changjiang directly.

"Hey, what do you say as a family?" Cao Changjiang waved his hand.

"Why did the folks cross the river too?" Li Yan looked straight to the north, and more and more people shouted and followed the recruits into the battlefield.

"Seeing the fight with the Qing soldiers here, the villagers were also very anxious, so they all followed." Cao Changjiang smiled honestly.

It turned out that when he learned of the crisis of the battlefield situation, Cao Changjiang quickly led more than 10,000 recruits to the battlefield along the pontoon bridge, and Li Shuzi and others of the propaganda team were not to be outdone, shouting to kill the Tartars and follow behind.

After these days of hard propaganda by the propaganda team, almost every common person knew the cruelty of the Qing soldiers, and the villagers who insisted on staying in Yangzhou were brutally slaughtered, and if the Daishan army on the south bank was defeated, perhaps the butcher's knife of the Qing army would fall on their heads. In addition, the man in his own family had just been killed with Cao Changjiang, out of concern for his family, under the leadership of Li Shuzi and others, almost all the people were agitated, and they casually picked up a stone and used a wooden stick as a weapon, and then killed the general.

"Brother Cao, hurry up and take your men to clean up the camp, who knows when the Qing soldiers will turn back again." Li Yanzhi commanded.

The 2,000 Daishan Army infantry could still walk, less than 800 people, and one by one they were out of breath and could not enter the battle again. Li Yanzhi knew that he had to hurry up, once the retreating Qing cavalry eased up and came back, it would inevitably cause more losses to his side.

Cao Changjiang agreed to take people with him, and together with Mao Liu's bow battalion, he launched a search for the camp.

The fire was still burning inside the camp, and the smoke mixed with poisonous gas filled the air. It was impossible for the searching Ming army to enter the camp at all, and they were only searching around to chase and kill the green battalion soldiers who escaped from the camp.

The trap laid by Li Yanzhi was too vicious, and tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder were buried, not to mention, the key was the herbs that emitted poisonous gas when burned. Many of the Green Battalion soldiers were not killed and burned by the bombing, but died of suffocation. There were also many green battalion soldiers who escaped from the camp, but they were dizzy one by one after inhaling too much poisonous gas, and they surrendered one by one without the Ming army coming forward to fight.

Not long after, Mao Liu and Cao Changjiang returned to the river bank with a large number of prisoners, and with the help of many people, the battlefield was also cleaned. The wounded soldiers were bandaged and treated, and the bodies of the fallen soldiers were moved to the river bank to be cleaned up.

Thousands of recruits are digging pits on the riverbank to bury their dead brothers.

Each soldier of the Daishan Army had a wooden nameplate on which their name was recorded on the battalion to which they belonged. The soldiers of the Suppression Division endured their grief and removed the nameplates from them one by one, and recorded them in a register, according to the list of the dead, their families in Daishan would be bereaved.

Time was of the essence, there was no time to grieve, the bodies of the fallen were hastily buried, and more than a thousand new graves were erected on the banks of the river, each with only a simple wooden plank on which their names were written......

Thousands of green battalion soldiers were forced to dig a large pit next to the still burning camp on the south bank of the Salt River, and the soil of one shovel and one shovel was thrown out of the pit, and the pit became bigger and deeper.

This pit is not to bury themselves alive, many digging green battalion soldiers are digging while beating drums in their hearts, but those Ming troops with muskets and bows and arrows are not far behind, and no one dares to question laziness.

"Kneel, kneel!" The sharp spears pressed over, and the trembling green battalion soldiers were forced to kneel on the ground with tears and weeping, and fell to their knees.

"Traitor Xu Dingguo, when you designed to kill Xingping Bo Gaojie, did you think that you also have today?" Li Yanzhi looked coldly at the middle-aged man with a gray beard and an ugly rattail on his head, and asked disdainfully.

Xu Dingguo, the former commander of Daming Henan, designed to trap Gao Jie in Suizhou during Gao Jie's Northern Expedition, making Shi Kefa's only Northern Expedition die abruptly. Among the four towns in Jiangbei, Gao Jie was the only one who respected Shi Kefa and obeyed his dispatch, and Gao Jie's death also made his subordinates Li Benshen, Li Chengdong and others uncontrollable, and surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty one after another. All this, Xu Dingguo in front of him is the culprit!

After attacking the camp of the Ming army, Xu Dingguo was lucky to avoid the explosion and fire, and successfully escaped from the camp. But he inhaled too much poisonous gas, and he couldn't go far under the dizziness, and his soldiers had already been frightened by the traps of the Ming army, and they couldn't take care of him at all. After the surrender of the Green Battalion soldiers, Li Yanzhi knew that he had caught a big fish.

"Hmph, it's just a matter of becoming a king and defeating a king," Xu Dingguo knew that he was going to die, and it was rare that he had a little backbone, "The Qing Dynasty has swept the world, and I just follow the general trend. ”

"Bastard, what nonsense!" Sha Qianli kicked Xu Dingguo in the lower abdomen fiercely, kicked him and rolled a few times on the spot, and when he looked up again, his mouth was full of blood.

"Hahaha, just take a few steps first, I'll wait for you under the Yellow Spring." Xu Dingguo laughed wildly.

"Cut it!" Li Yanzhi frowned and waved his hand, there was nothing to say about this kind of hardcore traitor, the two Daishan Army soldiers immediately picked up Xu Dingguo and walked to the edge of the pit, the cold light flashed, and the head of Dou Da fell into the pit.

"The general spared his life, we were all forced by the thief Xu Dingguo to surrender to the Tartars." The captured green battalion soldiers were horrified one by one, crying bitterly and begging for mercy.

"When you betrayed the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, you should think of today.

When you are killing the people, burning, killing and looting, you should think of today. ”

Li Yanzhi angrily denounced that the most hateful thing was not the Manchu Tartars, but these traitors. Originally, they were all soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but when the alien race came to kill, they didn't want to kill the enemy to serve the country and defend the people, and one by one, they were greedy for life and afraid of death and surrendered directly to the enemy, turned around and raised the butcher's knife to their own people, and their cruelty to the people was not under the Manchu Qing. If there were no these damned traitors as the vanguard of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, how could the Manchus with a total population of hundreds of thousands be able to defeat the Ming Dynasty?

"Kill them all!" Li Yanzhi ordered fiercely. Although it is ominous to say that the killing of prisoners is ominous, there is no need to be polite to these traitors who brutalize the people!

With Li Yanzhi's order, muskets like popping beans rang out, and arrows rained out like flying locusts, and the green battalion soldiers who had already been confiscated fell to a pool of blood one by one.

Knowing that they would die, there were also some brave people who tried to resist, but one was unarmed, and the other was smoked by poisonous gas, where did they have the ability to resist in front of the soldiers of the Daishan Army who were armed with sharp weapons!

Rows of Daishan soldiers armed with sharp spears forced over and replenished the guns of the Green Battalion soldiers who were dodging the rain of bullets and arrows.

Fifteen hundred captured Green Battalion soldiers, from the general soldier Xu Dingguo to the ordinary soldiers, were all killed on the south bank of the Salt River, and their bodies were thrown into a large pit, covered with earth, and buried into a huge mound.

Killing the prisoners and avenging the soldiers killed in the battle, Li Yanzhi immediately ordered the whole army to move on. For the sake of safety, most of the people walked along the north bank of the river, so that if the Eight Banners cavalry wanted to attack again, they would have to think of crossing the Yunyan River. And there are boats of the Daishan Army scattered in the river for dozens of miles, and it is not so easy for them to cross the river.

The news that the forward Li Yanzhi was attacked by the Qing troops soon spread to Ren Siqi in the rear, and Ren Siqi immediately ordered the army to be vigilant at all times. and sent sentinels to probe the traces of the Qing cavalry.

But there were too many people who retreated with them, because after many people left Yangzhou, they didn't know where to go, and the only choice was to retreat with the Daishan army, after all, in a month of defending the city, they established a kind of trust in the Daishan army.

Therefore, the people who retreated with them far exceeded Ren Siqi's expectations, and according to rough statistics, more than 300,000 people followed the march......

After a month of defending the city, more than 5,000 soldiers of the Daishan Army were killed and wounded, and now there are only more than 10,000 people in the whole army, including the navy, and they are simply unable to protect so many people. Although Ren Siqi urgently ordered to regroup the original township soldiers among the people, the total number of people was only more than 30,000, and there was not much combat effectiveness at all.

With such an army, it is too difficult to protect so many people, more than 300,000 people, along the Yunyan River, a queue of more than 30 miles long, the entire river bank on both sides, densely packed with people.

With such a long queue, who knows where the Qing soldiers will come from?

Sure enough, in the following march, Tulai led the remaining 2,000 Eight Banner cavalry to sneak attack many times, and each sneak attack caused chaos in the entire ranks, and countless civilians were killed by the cruel Qing soldiers. The infantry led by Ren Siqi and others did not have time to go to the rescue, and often when they arrived at the place of the sneak attack by boat, the Qing cavalry had already retreated triumphantly, leaving only corpses and weeping people all over the ground.

A large number of people did not want to follow the brigade any longer, and one family fled on their own. More people gritted their teeth and continued to follow the brigade. In order to escape the Qing army, the people did not dare to walk on the south bank of the Yunyan River.

When Turai and more than 2,000 cavalry tried to sneak attack again, he found that the people of the brigade had taken refuge on the north bank of the river, and he was angry that he could only order arrows to be fired at the people on the north bank.

"Bang bang bang" muskets rang out, it was the Ming musketeers on the boat in the river who were returning fire at them, so the Qing cavalry turned their bows and arrows and began to shoot at the Ming troops in the canal.

The Ming army on the ship spread out their large shields and protected the ships and soldiers behind the shields. There was a loud "boom", and five or six war horses suddenly fell, but it was the artillery of the boat in the river that fired.

This kind of shooting at the Qing cavalry could not take advantage of it at all, so they could only leave dozens of corpses and retreat in a hurry.

Turai also wanted to cross the Salt River to attack the people on the north bank. However, the river is more than 30 zhang wide, and it is not so easy for these landlubbers born in the north.

Looking for a boat to cross the river? After more than 300,000 people passed by, it was not so easy to find a plank.

In the midst of the Qing army's continuous attempts to sneak attack, the vanguard led by Li Yanzhi arrived at Tongzhou on the Yangtze River, and not far away was the destination of this trip - Chongming Island! (To be continued.) )