Qian Yong brought 3,500 people from Guangdong, and the bloody battle a few days ago lost nearly 300 people. The Qing Dynasty's bows and arrows were still very lethal at close range, and more than 140 people lost their lives.

Today, in addition to the artillery companies left at various city gates, Qian Yong now has less than 3,000 soldiers. Fortunately, the North Gate is the focus of the attack. Yan Yingyuan sent more than 30,000 young and strong people to the North Gate. These people have become qualified soldiers after more than two months of siege.

At this time, the weapons hidden in Jiangyin City were very useful. In order to deal with the close shooting of Qing Dynasty bows and arrows, Qian Yong equipped each soldier with half-body armor, which greatly reduced the probability of death. However, the number of half-body armor was too small, which was only enough to equip his own subordinates. However, there were many weapons, and more than 10,000 young and strong people were equipped with horizontal swords.

Qian Yong also found five bed crossbows in the arsenal, which was a powerful weapon to defend the city. At this time, Zhuang Gui, the chief flag of the Jiangyin Jinyiwei, beside Qian Yong, said: "Teacher Qian, these are all weapons. I have been lurking in Jiangyin for more than half a year, just for today."

Zhuang Gui was once Zhu Hongsan's personal soldier and left Nanjing with Qian Lide half a year ago. Zhuang Gui was sent to Jiangyin.

"Zhuang Gui, I thought you were going there for more than half a year. It turned out that I was in Jiangyin. I will go back to Guangdong with me this time. The guys with you are now battalion commanders. Why are you still the chief flag?"

Qian Yong had no good feelings for the Jinyiwei. Seeing that his old subordinates were now mixed with Jinyiwei, he couldn't help but persuade him.

Zhuang Gui smiled, "Sir, the King of Chu asked us to choose voluntarily at that time. The Jinyiwei whom we all chose was chosen by one hundred of our brothers. I have become accustomed to this kind of life for more than half a year, so I am afraid I will not be able to adapt to returning to the military camp." Zhuang Gui said simply, in fact, he has a lot of power in his hands. He is responsible for the underground forces of the entire Suzhou Prefecture, which is much better than the more than 300 people in the army.

Qian Yong saw that his old subordinates had already chosen his own path, so he was not inconvenient to say anything. "Since that's the case, I won't force it. We will drink when we have the chance in the future!"

Zhuang Gui was also moved to see the feelings of the elders, but his long-term underground work allowed him to learn to control his feelings. What's more, in addition to cooperating with the cooperation, the commander of the Jinyiwei also had an order to monitor these generals who were leading the troops.

Now that the weapons have been handed over to Qian Yong, Zhuang Gui felt that it would be better to stay away from these generals, and left on the excuse that he still had something to do.

Qian Yong couldn't help but sigh inward when he saw Zhuang Gui leaving. Zhuang Gui was a platoon leader under his command before. He was very optimistic about him, but he didn't expect to choose to go to the Jinyiwei himself. Qian Yong also knew that Zhuang Gui was avoiding him. Qian Yong sighed. It seemed that with the change of their respective identities, it was impossible to be as close as before.

Qian Yong just sighed for a while and put it aside. After all, the current situation is the most critical, so I will talk about the others later.

At this time, the Qing army outside the city had stopped firing cannons. Qian Yong knew that the next step was to attack the city, so he immediately ordered all soldiers to organize a defense circle at the city break, and 30,000 young and strong men also climbed the city wall and prepared to resist.

The Qing army outside the city was inspired by Liu Liangzuo and screamed, and was running towards the breaking corner of the city wall.

Qian Yong from the city saw the crowd outside the city and shouted: "Be prepared, don't fire your gun!"

When the Qing army came to the city wall, the dust had fallen when the collapsed. Several rows of soldiers in red clothes stood in the city three hundred meters away from the city wall, aiming at themselves with muskets. The hundreds of generals and the thousands of generals behind the Qing army shouted, don’t be afraid, rush up, their muskets can only fire one shot, rush up and kill them!

At this moment, the Ming army on the opposite side did not fire, but the cannon next to fired its first shot. Han Shirong, the guy, was vicious. Seeing that the Qing army was dense, he actually ordered the cannon to use solid bullets.

The city wall was only more than ten meters away, and the Qing army with more than 30,000 people were all stuck in this place, and there were basically people at the front. The Ming army arranged thirty artillery pieces in the city, and thirty solid bullets basically gave the Qing army no chance to hide.

The power of the solid bomb was the greatest manifestation. Each shell could kill more than 100 people. This was because the crowd was too dense and the kinetic energy of the solid bomb was completely leaked by the human body. Han Shirong saw that the solid bomb was effective and shouted to shoot two more shots.

After two batches of solid ejected out, there were basically no living people on the other side. The more than 5,000 people who were blocked by the city wall just now died. Hundreds of lucky retreated. The other luckiest ones were also broken with their hands and feet, and countless people were rotten with their intestines.

Liu Liangzuo, who was supervising the army behind, saw that he had already rushed in, and he led his personal soldiers to kill the defeated soldiers while shouting, "Run for me, just rush in, don't block the door."

These unlucky Qing soldiers were defeated and rushed towards the city wall like livestock.

At this time, the Qing army learned their lessons and did not rush in to be a target, but divided into small teams, each team of 200 people, divided into loose formations and rushed in.

This way, the effect of using solid bullets is not great, so Han Shirong had to order the use of shotguns.

Qian Yong's tactics were very good. The Qing army was killed and injured in the breach and could not attack. However, this tactic was based on the sharp power of artillery fire. An hour later, when the first bomb-explosive artillery began to appear, Qian Yong ushered in the biggest crisis in defending the city.

Han Shirong ran to find Qian Yong, "Teacher Commander, the cannon is too hot, and the explosion has begun. We lost two gunners just now. What should we do?"

"Han Shirong, divide the cannon into three waves, and take turns to cool down and cool down. First, use the ferry gun to top it."

The power of the ferry gun is good, but the barrel is more likely to turn red, but now there is no way to use the ferry gun to hit it.

About 10,000 Qing soldiers died by the city wall. Now this place is really bloody, and the blood in the low-lying places has already disappeared from the feet.

With the ceasefire of the Ming army artillery in the city, Liu Liangzuo outside the city clearly felt that the pressure in the city was reduced.

"Haha, the Ming army inside couldn't hold on anymore. People came, and they were sending orders to distribute ten thousand people to press on me!"

Another 10,000 Qing troops were distributed from the Qing army brigade and continued to fill in the meat grinder in the North Gate.

As the roof was leaking, the musket began to explode. More than a dozen soldiers were injured due to the explosion. Qian Yong could not order the three queues to six queues, giving the muskets sufficient cooling time.
Chapter completed!