"Attack!"

The time came to the tenth day of the fourth month of April, the fourth day of the siege of Suzhou Mansion by the Ming army.

In the roar of officers at all levels, the foot soldiers pushed the shield carts, battering rams, ladder carts and other siege equipment, and slowly advanced towards the city wall of Suzhou Prefecture, and the bows and crossbows and projectiles shot by the Qing soldiers on the city head flew down like raindrops, crackling on the siege equipment and shields, and from time to time someone screamed and fell, and blood bloomed on the earth like flowers.

Su Yan looked at the stubborn Suzhou defenders, his brows couldn't help but lock, he thought that with the Suzhou general soldier Yang Chengzu and his soldiers to participate in the battle, the defenders in the city would take into account the feelings of the former robes, and would collapse without a fight and surrender the city.

Unexpectedly, on the first day of the siege of Suzhou, Chen Tai cut off several local officers who intended to surrender, and hung those dead heads on the city to deter all the defenders who intended to surrender.

That's why they didn't attack for days in a row – which was also the reason why Suzhou had a tall city wall and a wide moat.

Seeing that the army was blocked in Suzhou City for four days and did not advance, Su Yan was inevitably a little anxious.

In these four days, the Qing army, which learned that Ma Guozhu's entire army was annihilated, also took action, and the Qing army stationed in Huzhou City did not hesitate to choose to retreat, they abandoned Huzhou Fucheng and chose to hold Nanjing City with heavy troops.

Therefore, after Tan Tai led the army to evacuate, Wang Yi found out that there were indeed no Qing soldiers in the city, so he used the power of improvisation given to him by Su Yan to conquer Huzhou Mansion and stationed in Huzhou.

Huang An, the commander of Zheng's navy, led his army to take Shanghai County and Taicang Prefecture (Chongming County), and built a naval camp on Chongming Island as a stronghold for the navy division to attack the Yangtze River.

The people of Chongming had suffered the slaughter of the Qing army before, so they hated the Qing army very much, and after the Ming army landed, they not only surrendered directly anyway, but also took the initiative to assist the Ming army to build the water division camp.

Huang An even took the opportunity to recruit some Chongming locals to join the army, adding a little diversity to the geographical composition of the Zheng group.

In addition, Su Yan also accidentally got a news about the deceased - this news came from the Fuzhou Mansion, that is, Lai Xun, who was ordered to join forces and attack Fuzhou.

After talking with the leader of the latter, they learned that the other party was the Pingding Bolinzhong who had left Yongchun County more than half a year ago and went to the northern Fujian area.

Lin Zhong was originally active in northern Fujian, but after receiving the invitation of the anti-Qing rebel army in Jiangxi, he saw that Su Yan was gradually gaining momentum, so he led the army into Jiangxi and was active at the junction of Fujian and Jiangxi, but now he joined Su Yan's subordinates.

Subsequently, Lai Xun took the initiative to invite Lin Zhong to join their team and attack Fuzhou together, Lin Zhong did not refuse Lai Xun's request, gladly accepted, and used their familiarity with the nearby terrain to become the vanguard of the Ming army, leading the army to besiege Fuzhou.

Suddenly got Lin Zhong's whereabouts, Su Yan was also a little stunned for a while, he had not gotten Lin Zhong's whereabouts after the unification of Fujian, and thought that he was unfortunately killed in northern Fujian, but he didn't expect that he actually ran to Jiangxi.

After receiving Lai Xun's letter, Su Yan immediately sent the letter to Fuzhou and sent it to Lin Xingzhu's hand, and also asked him to see the new news of his third brother, so as to let go of his worries about Lin Zhong.

Retracting his thoughts, Su Yan continued to sit in the army, watching the besieging men and horses advance towards the city wall one after another, and a solid long pedal had already been erected on the wide moat, so that the soldiers could step on the long pedal to come to the bottom of the city wall, put the ladder on the city wall, bite the steel knife, and raise the shield to climb up.

However, the Qing army did not give them the opportunity to climb to the top of the city, and in the shouts of the Qing army's generals, the Qing soldiers pinched their noses and pushed the stinking cauldron behind the wall battlement, and then tilted the cauldron, and the boiling gold juice in it suddenly poured down like a waterfall, drowning the Ming army below.

For a time, the city wall was filled with a strong stench, the soldiers of both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties couldn't help but turn over the river and the sea in their stomachs when they smelled this smell, and they almost wanted to vomit, and the Ming army who was dumped was even more miserable, they were directly scalded by the boiling gold juice, which was soaked into their skin by boiling feces, and seriously infected their injuries

The mouth, even a little splash, can cause severe pain.

Golden juice.

The most notorious city defense weapon in ancient Chinese siege warfare was to collect the dung that could be seen everywhere by the defenders and civilians in the city, boil it in a cauldron, and dump the hot dung water once the enemy tried to climb the ladder to the city, which was the earliest biological and chemical weapon.

Seeing that the Qing army was still about to dump, the soldiers holding mortar cannons at the bottom of the city hurriedly raised their cannons and fired grenades at the city head, trying to stop the Qing army from dumping in this way, and their intention was achieved.

After the grenade crossed the wall and fell into the city, no one in the busy city noticed the inconspicuous round balls, and when someone finally found it, it was too late, and the grenades exploded, flying shrapnel killed and injured the surrounding Qing soldiers.

Some of the shrapnel scratched the Qing soldiers who were carrying the gold juice, and when they felt the pain, they subconsciously let go of their hands, and the heavy and hot dung water suddenly poured down, not only drowning them, but also splashing the unsuspecting Qing soldiers around them, and a heart-rending scream suddenly sounded on the top of the city.

"Ascend to the city! Kill!"

Finally, under the cover of the mortar cannons, some of the soldiers finally climbed to the top of the city, and they jumped down with a shout, jumped behind the battlements, and fought with the Qing soldiers, some of whom had only barely reached out of their bodies, were either shot by the Qing soldiers waiting behind the battlements, or simply poked a transparent hole in them with spears.

In short, the Ming army paid a lot of casualties to finally climb the city wall and fight with the Qing army, but this time it was different, this time Su Yan sent all the original Suzhou green battalions, and after they climbed the city wall, they hurriedly used the Suzhou dialect to persuade those defenders who were still resisting to surrender.

Hearing the familiar dialect, many Qing soldiers immediately put down their weapons, seeing that it was their former robes, after some persuasion, they still revolted, joined the ranks of the Ming army, and waved their butcher knives at other Qing soldiers who were still resisting.

Under the persuasion of the original Suzhou Green Battalion, more and more defenders joined the team anyway, and they besieged the Zhejiang soldiers brought by Chen Tai with their new comrades, the Zhejiang soldiers were not numerous, and after being besieged by many parties, they could only retreat and retreat to the city.

Chen Tai saw that the general situation was gone, and knew that his life was short, but out of loyalty to the Qing court, he still led the few remaining Manchurian soldiers under his command to kill left and right, killing and wounding many Ming troops, and finally Ma Xin, who was killed in the city, set up a clear bow and died through his throat.