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The fleet heading south was completely wiped out, and Ren Siqi knew that there was no point in staying in Yangzhou any longer, and he had to retreat as soon as possible. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Now Liu Zeqing in Huai'an in the north is still under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, and once Liu Zeqing's troops are cleared, it is impossible to retreat safely from the Yunyan River to the east.

So Ren Siqi immediately ordered to open the water gate of the east city gate and organize the people to cross the river.

At this moment, the news of the annihilation of the entire army of the superintendent Shi Kefa has spread in the city, Nanjing was broken by the Qing army, and now Yangzhou is attacked on several sides, and it is really impossible to hold it. Most of the people began to respond to the government's call and began to withdraw from Yangzhou. The propaganda team organized by the shogunate of the Hou of Su preached the brutality of the Qing army every day, and heard that when the Qing army on the west road broke through Wuhu, because of the resistance of the Jingguo Gonghuang Degong, the Manchu chief Azig ordered the slaughter of Wuhu City, and tens of thousands of people were killed by the Qing army. Now that Yangzhou has resisted for so long, the Qing soldiers will definitely not let go of the people in the city! A home is important, but what is the use of a house if your life is gone?

Despite the reluctance to give up on their hometown, most of the people began to evacuate Yangzhou under the organization of Shen Tingyang, Li Yanzhi and others. But how can you say that you can withdraw it, what should you do with so many things at home? For ordinary people, breaking their homes is worth a lot, and they are reluctant to throw away anything, which makes the speed of retreat extremely slow, and only thousands of people are evacuated from Yangzhou to cross the canal in half a day.

Shen Tingyang led the members of the propaganda team to personally come to the door to persuade the people to leave with only gold, silver, fine and soft food, and leave other unnecessary things, so that the speed of retreat became faster.

However, the future of leaving their hometown is slim, and many people don't even know where to retreat, because there are so many people in the Daishan Army, there is no way to arrange it, and there is no place to arrange it. Shen Tingyang and the others told the people that they should withdraw from Yangzhou first, find a random place to settle down, and avoid the massacre of the Qing army first, and then they could choose their own place in the future, even if they returned to Yangzhou, they would let them go.

So these people have relatives to join relatives, friends to friends, after crossing the canal, they dispersed, there is really nowhere to go to find a secluded place at the fork of the river to settle down, fortunately, in the summer, the wilderness is full of rivers, just catch some fish and shrimp will not starve to death, what to do in the future will be talked about later.

There are also people who would rather die than leave their homes, their houses, their shops, their everything is here, what is the difference between losing all this and dying? What if the Qing soldiers came, didn't they need someone to help them grow grain and pay taxes? As long as you don't resist at all and surrender on your knees, the Qing soldiers should let themselves live! There are not a few people who have this kind of thought, no matter how Shen Tingyang and others persuade them, they just don't listen, and they even scold when they persuade more, claiming that if it weren't for Su Hou's subordinates who killed so many Qing soldiers, if the government didn't resist when the Qing soldiers arrived, and opened the door to surrender, the Qing soldiers would definitely let everyone go. There are many cities that surrender to the Qing soldiers, and I haven't heard how many Qing soldiers have slaughtered? Since your Daishan army has no ability to hold Yangzhou, don't come to Yangzhou in the first place!

These people's words made the accompanying Daishan soldiers furious, and they drew their weapons to teach these people a lesson, but they were stopped by Shen Tingyang with a wry smile.

Now that they have chosen to retreat, and since the Daishan Army has no way to settle these 800,000 people, the township soldiers that were originally established as family units can only be disbanded. More than 60,000 township soldiers were disbanded violently, except for some who followed the Daishan army desperately, the other township soldiers evacuated Yangzhou with their families.

In this regard, Ren Siqi and the people of the Suyu Hou Shogunate had no way at all, each village soldier had his own family, and it was impossible for them to abandon their family and choose to follow the Daishan army. And the Daishan army couldn't accommodate so many people, so they could only watch them leave.

The newly recruited bow battalion was not disbanded, the soldiers in the bow battalion were all coolies from the Yangzhou docks, and the physical fitness of these people was great, and Ren Siqi promised that they would properly settle their families, so that they would stay in the army safely.

In this retreat, there were about 100,000 people who followed the Daishan army to Chongming Island, which was already the limit of what Chongming Island could resettle. Most of these 100,000 people are the families of soldiers who joined the Daishan Army, as well as thousands of craftsmen and their families in Yangzhou. In addition, there are seven or eight hundred officials and their families who belong to Yangzhou Prefecture and County, and there are also one or two hundred people along with their families. Whether it was an official or an errand officer, they were all some people, and naturally saw that Yangzhou could not stay after the Daishan army withdrew, so they begged Shen Tingyang and Li Yanzhi one by one. In this month's defense of the city, thanks to the assistance of these people, the people can be effectively organized to assist in the defense of the city, and now they are naturally embarrassed to ignore their requests. Moreover, most of these people are literate, and many of them are proficient in criminal law, law, and taxation, and they are the talents urgently needed to manage the people. Of course, there are a large number of greedy, shameless and cunning people, but no one is perfect, as long as people can make the best use of it and control it, it will be a powerful help for the Daishan Army to manage the people!

The retreat in Yangzhou City soon attracted the attention of the Qing army camp, and knowing that the Ming army in the city was going to retreat, Duoduo immediately ordered the siege of the city. The naval army in the north had just been annihilated by the Daishan water army, and the number of ships in the south was too small to interfere with the retreat of the people in the city through the canal, and there was only one way to attack the city. It is hoped that the people will be flustered when the Ming army retreats, so as to take advantage of the chaos to take Yangzhou.

Thirty red-coated cannons began to bombard Yangzhou, and this time their target was not the city wall, but to attack as much as possible inside the city.

In the one-month defense of the city, the artillery of both sides bombarded each other day after day, the number of red-coated cannons of the Qing army was large, and the red-coated cannons of the Ming army at the head of the city had a condescending advantage, and the gunners suffered heavy casualties in the attack of both sides. Later, Ren Siqi organized soldiers to attack the artillery positions of the Qing army many times, forcing the Qing army to move the artillery positions back and move them to a distance of five miles from the city wall, which is almost the farthest distance that the red-coated artillery can attack, and the two sides stopped.

Under the cover of artillery, tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers carried the ladder to the city wall, but they were greeted by the stormy fire of muskets and bows and arrows of the Ming army at the head of the city, leaving hundreds of corpses and retreating in a hurry.

Is the main force of the Ming army still guarding the city to cover the retreat of the people? Interesting! Duoduo immediately ordered to send the escort army to lead Tulai, Gushan Ezhen Ashan and the green battalion Xu Dingguo Liu Zhongbu to march south, join up with Geng Zhongming's navy who attacked Shi Kefa's fleet, cross the canal in the south, and attack the retreating Ming army and people! (To be continued.) )