Now it is only a few thousand green battalions that have defeated Liu Liangzuo, but there are still hundreds of thousands of green battalions of the Eight Banners in Nanjing and Hangzhou! If the Qing soldiers came with all their might, would these Chongming troops outside the city alone be able to stop the Qing soldiers from attacking?

It must be unstoppable, as long as you think about it a little, you will know that only a few thousand people under Liu Zhaoji will not be able to cope with the attack of the Manchu army, unless the Duke of Yue Guo comes to the rescue with the strength of Chongming. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoBut did the Yue Guo Guild come with all its might? Judging from the current situation, Yan Yingyuan thinks that no, it is impossible for Ren Siqi, the Duke of Yueguo, to devote all his strength to the small city of Jiangyin. For Ren Siqi, it is good to be able to send a few thousand people to allocate a large amount of money and food to support.

At this time, the news of Ren Siqi's withdrawal from Jiading to Chongming has already spread, since Ren Siqi can give up Jiading, can give up Songjiang, and can also give up Jiangyin. Yan Yingyuan could see from Liu Zhaoji's actions that the Chongming Army had no determination to hold Jiangyin at all.

In fact, before Yan Yingyuan came to Jiangyin, he knew that a small Jiangyin city could not withstand the attack of the Qing soldiers at all, and in the end, it would definitely end up being ruined. But what about death? If you listen to the orders of the Qing court and shave your head, you can survive, but in that case, it is better to live than to die! Can a parent shave off the hair of the body? Therefore, knowing that coming to Jiangyin was a death, Yan Yingyuan still came with anger, and he did not regret it even though he died!

Since you have come to Jiangyin, since the external force is not enough, you can only save yourself! Gather the manpower and force of the whole city, try your best to defend the city, strive to defend it for a longer time, strive to cause the greatest damage to the Qing soldiers, and shout to the entire Ming Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River: When the whole country surrenders, there are still people resisting!

After understanding the current grim situation, Yan Yingyuan immediately began to arrange the city guards. Assign generals to train soldiers and practice defensive strategies. In view of the possible siege methods of the Qing soldiers, a large number of wood and stone inside and outside the city were transported to the city, and the lime of the whole city was requisitioned to make ash bottles, and the craftsmen in the city were ordered to make gunpowder, fire bricks and wooden hammers, fireball rockets, bows and crossbows and arrows.

Under Yan Yingyuan's order, the soldiers and civilians of the whole city were busy nervously, actively preparing for the big war that would definitely happen in the future.

The unity of the hearts of the people in Jiangyin City, and the many means of defending the city, made Sha Qianli, who had participated in the battle of Yangzhou, breathtaking, and in the secret letter to Ren Siqi, he strongly praised Yan Yingyuan's talent. And Yan Yingyuan also attaches great importance to Sha Qianli, because although there are tens of thousands of rural soldiers in Jiangyin City, only the Chongming Army under Sha Qianli is really combative. Yan Yingyuan visited Sha Qianli many times and asked Sha Qianli to send his subordinates to help train the villagers. In response to Yan Yingyuan's request, Sha Qianli readily agreed, sent capable subordinates to serve as instructors, and began to train village soldiers. The training method of the Chongming Army is naturally extraordinary, just ten days of hard work, and the lineup of the township soldiers, which was originally a rabble, has taken on a new look, and it faintly has the appearance of an army.

Just when Yan Yingyuan led the army and people in the city to actively prepare for war, Liu Zhaoji led 4,000 troops to chase Liu Liangzuo's ass to Changzhou.

It is said that Liu Liangzuo's main cavalry still exists, and there are more than 3,000 infantry evacuated from Jiangyin, and the strength is no longer below Liu Zhaoji, so he can stop and fight with Liu Zhaoji, and the outcome is still unknown. But the problem is that when the army was defeated, the armies only knew how to flee, Liu Liangzuo did not have the ability to reorganize the army in the flight, and Liu Zhaoji chased after him so tightly that he did not give him a respite at all.

When Liu Liangzuo fled into Changzhou City, there were only more than 800 cavalry left under his command, and the rest of the infantry were nowhere to be found in the flight.

Changzhou prefect Zong Li was shocked when he saw Liu Liangzuo's embarrassed appearance, and hurriedly sent a messenger to Nanjing to ask for help, and secretly sorted out his luggage in private.

Liu Zhaoji chased the dead all the way to the north, and there were not a few hard battles, because there were no Green Battalion soldiers who dared to stop and resist, but a lot of prisoners were captured, and hundreds of Green Battalion infantry who could not escape were captured along the way from Jiangyin to Changzhou. Liu Zhaoji was unwilling to bring these burdens, and ordered them to be killed despite the dissuasion of the prison army Chen Sheng.

Changzhou is a capital city, the city is far taller than Jiangyin, Liu Zhaoji has only more than 4,000 people, there is no ability to attack the city, and Liu Zhaoji has no intention of attacking the city at all.

Liu Zhaoji led the garrison outside the city of Changzhou to deter the Qing soldiers in the city, divided a battalion of soldiers, and under the leadership of the supervising army Chen Sheng, they attacked all the way to the south, and successively attacked Wujin and Yixing counties.

Wujin Yixing is a subordinate county of Changzhou, and there are only more than 100 soldiers in the county, plus the people in the city are all interested in the Ming Dynasty, how is it the opponent of a battalion of Chongming Army. Before the Chongming army attacked the city, a young man in the city killed the soldiers defending the city and opened the city gate to welcome the Chongming army into the city.

After Chen Sheng entered the city, he killed the gentry who had descended to the Qing Dynasty, confiscated their family property, and shipped the money, grain, and property from the treasury onto the ship, and transported them back in the direction of Jiangyin in a steady stream.

Liu Zhaoji, who was outside Changzhou, was not idle, he led his army to garrison the canal outside Changzhou, intercepted all the ships on the canal, and seized countless materials in just a few days. The Grand Canal is the artery of the south of the Yangtze River, connecting the most prosperous Hangzhou and Suzhou, and the supplies of hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River, the money, grain, and taxes of the government are all transported by the canal, and hundreds of ships come and go on the canal every day. As soon as the canal was cut off, there was a great earthquake in the south of the Yangtze River immediately, and the news reached Nanjing, and Duoduo, the prince of Yu in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was so angry that he smashed his beloved blue and white tea cup.

Liu Zhaoji's Ming army was stationed on the canal outside the city, like a fish in the throat, and Liu Liangzuo in Changzhou City gasped for breath, only then did he realize that something was wrong. Now that he is no longer a Ming army, but has surrendered to the Manchus, it is no longer possible to flee without a fight as before. As far as this defeat is concerned, Prince Yu will definitely not spare himself.

No, you have to think of ways to save yourself!

But there are less than 1,000 men who fled into Changzhou with him, and although there are still some green battalion soldiers in the city, their combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning, what should they do? In the battle a few days ago, the chain attack of the Chongming army had frightened Liu Liangzuo's courage, he had never seen such a sharp and powerful artillery, and now let him go out of the city to fight with the Chongming army, even if he dared, these subordinates of his would definitely not obey the order.

But if you can't make meritorious contributions, Prince Yu Duoduo will definitely not spare himself, Liu Liangzuo thought about it, and really couldn't think of a way to deal with it. Advance, can't defeat the Chongming army, retreat, can't save my life, what should I do? As for the surrender of the Chongming army outside the city, Liu Liangzuo didn't even think about it, according to the soldiers who fled back to the city, all the soldiers who surrendered were killed.