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"Archer!"

Li Chengdong raised his arms and shouted, this is not the first time he has fought a war, nor is it the first time he has been in danger. In the middle of the year, when the rogue fought with the officers and soldiers, and then followed Gao Jie to the officers and soldiers to fight with Li Zicheng, it seemed that he chose the wrong direction every time, and he was always in a weak position. After taking refuge in the Qing captivity, I originally thought that the salted fish had turned over, but I didn't expect it to be so unsatisfactory.

He danced on his horse and shouted, "Archers!" "Showing great impatience and dissatisfaction.

No matter how he behaved, as long as he was here, the chaotic military array on the north shore would have a backbone. The army moved according to his order, letting go of the road directly opposite the stone bridge, and the soldiers were separated on both sides, and the tips of their guns were pointed in the direction of the stone bridge, waiting for the formation. Three or four hundred bows and arrows lined up behind the spearmen, and the bows and arrows were pointed diagonally at the sky, ready to block the Ming army crossing the river.

South.

The rout perfectly illustrates the meaning of the phrase defeated like a mountain.

No one dared to turn back to meet the enemy, and the rout let the long knife slash at the back, with only one thought in his heart, "Flee to the other side." ”

The soldiers on the stone bridge are piled together, like wrapped zongzi, the stone railings on both sides are shaky, and under the bridge is the rushing Suzhou River. This is exactly the situation that Li Chengdong is most afraid of, he is reluctant to let these soldiers die, he inherited Gao Jie's army of 40,000, and most of the elite are here.

The stone bridge was too narrow, and the routs who were a little farther away had already reached the front of the pursuers, and there was no hope of escaping from the stone bridge, so they jumped into the Suzhou Creek in a panic.

"In the water, in the water, don't let them run away!" Chen Huwei pointed behind him.

Half of the water spirits turned over and went down the river, their dexterous bodies disappearing in the rolling waves, no one saw them killing, but none of the routs managed to swim to the other side.

Now that the battle situation is now, there is no need to command finely, and all that remains is to let the mountain people harvest their lives freely.

Someone is shouting: "Surrender or kill!" ”

Many of Zuo Ruo's personal soldiers are from Shaanxi, and the accent they shouted out is very familiar to many of the defeated soldiers.

The pursuers fought into the enemy line, trying to cut through the crowded rout. When the blade was only two or three feet away from the back, someone finally chose to lie on the ground, but the vast majority of people were still rushing to the stone bridge.

Everywhere were the angry and frightened cries of the soldiers: "Go! ”

The bridge seemed to be blocked, and more and more people chose to jump into the water, after all, the Suzhou Creek does not look as wide and turbulent as the Huangpu River.

Seeing that the people in the river were getting more and more crossed, Chen Huwei led the pirates to retreat from the shore and enter the battlefield they were familiar with.

On the stone bridge, the railing of the white jade stone made a "creaking" and breaking sound, only a "click" sound was heard, and the railings on both sides of the stone bridge broke almost at the same time. The sluggish road has finally been opened. The people in the back pushed the people in front of them, but the degree of going straight was not so fast, and the river surface on both sides of the stone bridge "plopped, plopped" and rang non-stop, some of them could still rise up after falling into the water, and some people were like stones, and there was no sound when they fell.

Li Chengdong clenched his teeth, he admitted it tonight.

The war horse under his crotch moved his iron hooves back and forth with his exaggerated posture, "Hurry up and cross the river!" He waved his right arm, shouting that only the soldiers around him could hear.

Chen Huwei in the river was too busy, there were not many troops in the river at the beginning, and the pirates swam over to chase after them aiming at one target after another. Now, all sides were in ruins, and the captives on the stone bridge were falling in droves, and the pirates were stabbing in the cold, and they had to be careful not to be held by the dying soldiers.

After the stone railing was crushed, the south bank rout fled much faster, because half of the men were squeezed into the river.

Every moment of the battlefield is hard.

After midnight, the boiling scene on the south bank slowly cooled, the rout disappeared, and a few fast-paced mountain people chased and killed, rushed to the stone bridge with swords, and were shot by the archers who had been waiting for them on the opposite bank, and fell into the pile of corpses.

Zuo Ruo stepped forward to take a closer look, and saw the position on the opposite bank pressed by a strong bow and crossbow, and gave up the plan to cross the river to pursue.

Tonight, Li Chengdong's appearance made him reassess the strength of the Qing Dynasty and his own strength. His original plan was to summon Zhang Mingzhen from Chongming Island, and the two armies would attack together to wipe out Li Chengdong's army north of Suzhou Creek, but now he decided to abandon this plan.

From the beginning of tonight's battle, even if their combined army can defeat Li Chengdong, it will not be possible to do it in a day or two, and he will not dare to take this risk.

The herald excitedly shouted: "Clear the battlefield!" ”

A group of foot soldiers escorted more than 300 prisoners lying on the ground away, pikemen and bird-gunners waited three or four hundred paces from the bridgehead, and the rest were busy cleaning up the battlefield and seizing armor, food and grass.

Chen Huwei led the pirates to work in the river for another quarter of an hour, and when he saw that the battlefield on the south bank was almost cleaned, he led a group of water ghosts ashore.

Li Chengdong was busy cleaning up the defeated soldiers and rescuing the rout soldiers who had managed to swim across the river on the north bank. The light on the opposite bank was dim, and the mountain people of Zuo Ruo did not bring many torches, only the figures were moving, and it was not clear how many people there were. No matter how many people there were, he didn't have the courage to cross the river and continue the pursuit.

Tonight's battle woke him up, from Zhang Mingzhen's sudden appearance in Jiading, to the sudden attack of Zuo Ruobu in front of him to Songjiang City, Songjiang Mansion, which was originally thought to be a stable rear, suddenly became a battlefield full of holes. In addition to this army and horses, whether there are other people, Li Chengdong does not know, and he does not dare to guess. The top priority at the moment was not to defeat the soldiers and horses in front of him, but to immediately report to the Duoduo of the Hangzhou battalion and lead the army back to Songjiang Mansion to encircle and suppress.

In the second half of the night, Zuo Ruo's army retreated to the dark south bank, leaving only the wandering Li Chengdong by the Suzhou River. The most important thing in this battle was not that he lost more than 3,000 elite soldiers, but that he temporarily lost the courage to fight against the Ming army.

Zuo Ruo didn't stop by the Suzhou Creek for more, his next target was Jiading.

In the dark, he summoned the herald cavalry, "Immediately send my order to the barracks outside the city of Songjiang Mansion, let the remaining men and horses immediately march in the direction of Jiading County, abandon Huating County, and let those locally recruited strong men hurry by themselves to Jiading County to gather with our army." ”

"Yes!"

The three horses stepped on the grass wet with morning dew.

"We have to be fast now, every step of the way." Zuo Ruo muttered to himself.

The news from here reached Hangzhou, and Bolo's army could come in three or four days. Li Chengdong was only temporarily confused, as long as he led his troops back to gather with the defenders, his situation would be very dangerous, even if Zhang Mingzhen was brought in, he could only balance the generals.

There are more than 50 miles from the ambush site on the bank of the Suzhou Creek to Jiading, and the bloody battle in the middle of the night cannot be concealed there, and the 3,000 defenders under the city of Jiading will either retreat in the direction of Songjiang or come to the riverside to check the movement.

The scouts asked around for news, and with a local guide as his guide, Zuo Ruo was as familiar with this place as his own back garden.

The sky slowly brightened, and the corpse on the south bank was revealed in Li Chengdong's eyes. There was no movement on the other side, but he was still very careful, and sent scouts to inquire into the distance, until he was sure that there was no trace of the Ming army within a radius of dozens of miles, and then led the army across the river.

As soon as the defeated army of less than 7,000 men crossed the river, it was too late to collect the bones of their comrades on the riverside, and marched to Songjiang Castle in a hurry.

When we arrived at Matsue Castle in the afternoon, the town was empty, some people ran away with Zuo Ruobu, and some fled to relatives' houses elsewhere for refuge. Dozens of "Ming" and "Lu" flags were still planted and fluttering outside the four-sided doors.

Li Chengdong's face was black, and he ordered: "Cut down these flags, immediately explore the movements of the Ming army, and arrest all the people within a radius of ten miles!" ”

He had anger to vent. You can't bully hard stubble, you can only find soft persimmons to pinch.

At nightfall, the 3,000 soldiers besieging the county seat of Jiading crooked their helmets and slanted their armor and fled back in a hurry like rats crossing the street.

These people saw the opportunity quickly, heard the movement on the bank of the Suzhou River, and heard that Songjiang Mansion was surrounded by the Ming army, and immediately withdrew from the encirclement of Jiading County. When the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty pursued them, they immediately fled to the direction of Suzhou Mansion, and did not slowly return to Songjiang Mansion until after noon to determine that the pursuers had gone away.

The messenger ran around.

Zuo Ruo contacted Zhang Mingzhen and asked him to lead the army from the Wusong Club to Jiading County to meet.

Li Chengdong wrote three letters to Duoduo, claiming that 50,000 troops in eastern Zhejiang had crossed the sea and headed north. Without exaggerating the military situation here, he could not shirk the responsibility for this defeat.

Zuo Ruo only received three or four thousand soldiers who surrendered to the army under Songjiang City, and he could only be amazed when he arrived at Jiading County.

Hou Tong and other squires scattered their wealth, and they actually gathered forty or fifty thousand village soldiers here. But there were less than 2,000 people with weapons and armor, and the rest of the common people mostly carried hoes, poles, and other things for ploughing. A small half of these people are also paid by the army.

In the face of Li Chengdong's army, Zuo Ruo could deal with it easily, this situation made his brain swell, and Chao Hou Dong dissuaded: "These people are useless, staying here can only get in the way, please let the old gentleman dismiss them all, so as not to be poisoned by the Qing captives." ”

If it was seven or eight days ago, Hou Yu must have blown his beard and glared at him. In the past few days, he has fought several battles with the Qing Dynasty, and tens of thousands of people have been chased by one or two thousand people running around the mountains and fields many times, so that he understands that this war cannot be solved by a large number of people.

Hou Yu was silent for a moment, and asked hesitantly: "You said that Chen Wozi is supervising in Hangzhou, can you invite King Lu's army to go north?" He was not familiar with Zuo Ruo, let alone seen famous supervisors and generals, and he had no bottom in his heart.

Zuo Ruo nodded and said, "I have already sent documents to Zhedong, and I have not been able to return for ten days and half a month." ”

Hou Tong bowed and begged: "Please help me defend Jiading City!" ”

Zuo Ruo's head shook like a rattle, "I can't stay in Jiading City!" ”

"Aren't you the righteous teacher of King Lu? How can you abandon the people! Hou Yu was angry. He also had no choice, Li Chengdong's 3,000 soldiers and horses attacked the city day and night, he gathered 30,000 or 40,000 people in the city and was still full of loopholes, and finally came to a general who could fight, and put all his hopes on Zuo Ruo.

"Please ask the old gentleman to gather his cronies and go to Chongming Island with my army for refuge, Yue Guocheng is busy guarding Hangzhou City, and has no time to draw troops north."

Zuo Ruo patiently explained that his temper today was really good, that is, Hou Yu's action of raising the flag of righteousness with his head made him secretly admire.