The two Niu Lu's Eight Banners soldiers who entered the gap were almost completely wiped out.
Meile Erzhen and Li Shutai, who directed the attack, had quicklime in their eyes and could not open them at all.
He was protected by several personal guards and fled outside.
The Eight Banners soldiers retreated really fast.
Before the second batch of Eight Banners soldiers sent by Duduo to enter the city approached the gap, the Qing army in front retreated with a crash, mixed with the previously defeated Green Camp soldiers, and behind them Then he chased the Ming army like wolves and tigers.
Seeing this situation, the second group of Eight Banners soldiers who were confused had to protect Li Shutai and retreat, and the attack could only be given up.
Two Niu Lu's Eight Banners soldiers attacked the city, but less than a hundred people came back alive, and everyone was injured, which made Duduo furious.
But seeing Li Shutai's swollen eyes like two peaches, he could no longer punish him.
He could only order Li Shutai to heal his eyes, and then vent his full anger on Sizhou City opposite.
Dozens of red cannons fired at the Sizhou city wall again.
The "rumbling" sound of the cannons spread for dozens of miles and echoed on both sides of the Huaihe River.
From Sizhou to the east, the Huaihe River becomes wider and wider, and merges into Hongze Lake at Guishan.
As the Yellow River diverts the Huai River to the sea, the silt deposition makes the Huai River no longer have an entrance to the sea and can only merge into Hongze Lake.
Hongze Lake, which was a small lake 80 or 90 years ago, has now become a turbulent place.
A large lake with a radius of hundreds of miles.
The area of Hongze Lake at this time was much larger than that of later generations, and it was one of the largest lakes in the entire Ming Dynasty.
At this moment, there are more than a hundred flat-bottomed sand boats moored on the lake east of Guishan.
The flags on the boats are fluttering and the decks are full of soldiers.
They are clearly the water camp of the Pingnan Army.
On one of the larger sand ships, Wu Ping stood on the deck, listening to the faint sound of cannons coming from Sizhou more than ten miles away.
The little slave that Chen Yue once bought in the human market has now become the deputy general of Shuiying, in charge of hundreds of ships.
At this moment, Wu Ping brought the fleet to Hongze Lake.
He was ordered by Chen Yue to lead Jin Shenghuan's troops to retreat from Sizhou.
Each sand ship only had water camp soldiers operating the ship and fighting, and they were basically empty ships.
Sizhou is located in a plain and has no danger to defend.
The city is small and basically cannot be defended.
Chen Yue naturally knows this truth.
When he sent Jin Shenghuan to defend the city, he had already prepared the retreating troops.
Retreating by land is definitely not feasible.
There are plains to the south of Sizhou, and there is no way to avoid the Qing cavalry.
Fortunately, Sizhou is on the north side of the Huaihe River.
The Bianhe River flows through the city and enters the Huaihe River.
There is a water gate at the east gate of Sizhou.
The people and horses in the city were led out of the city from Shuimen and followed the Huaihe River into Hongze Lake.
No matter how powerful the Qing army was, there was nothing they could do.
Hongze Lake has a river lock built at Qingqingkou, which is the same as the canal.
Through Qingkou, the fleet can move between Hongze Lake canals.
The defenders of Sizhou can retreat to Huai'an or Yangzhou.
At present, the fleet has arrived at Guishan, and will enter the Huaihe River further west.
It is very likely to be discovered by the Qing army.
In order to retreat concealed and safe, Wu Ping ordered the fleet to temporarily stop in the lake, and sent small boats into the Huaihe River to fight with Si.
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In Sizhou City, the situation has become increasingly dangerous.
After trapping two Niulu Eight Banners soldiers with gap traps, the Qing army went crazy and attacked Sizhou City endlessly.
The red cannons fired tirelessly into the city day and night.
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The green battalion soldiers and captured civilians launched a frantic attack on the city wall from three sides, causing more and more casualties to the defenders.
Now the 3,000-person battalion of the Southern Army of Jin Shenghuan's direct line has lost more than 1,000 people, because they were the ones who fought the tough battles with the Qing army.
Other Ming troops also suffered heavy casualties.
After some counting, the army's losses in a few days had exceeded 3,000.
Xuyi's Zhang brothers surrendered to the Qing army.
The original 20,000 troops now only had a little over 10,000 left.
In addition, the city wall had been riddled with holes due to bombardment, with several gaps of more than ten feet or even dozens of feet appearing.
It was only thanks to the blockade of dozens of squatting tiger cannons from the Pingnan Army and the deadly battle of the troops in the city that the city wall could be blocked.
The Qing army was not allowed to break through the city, but in the eyes of discerning people, Sizhou's fall was a foregone conclusion, just sooner or later.
Under this situation, the hearts of the troops in the city were unstable, especially those that did not belong to the Pingnan Army system.
The huge casualties had destroyed their morale.
If the Governor-General's Office had not announced the punishment methods for surrenderers early in the morning, all those who surrendered would have lost their morale.
The family members will be severely punished, and maybe some of them have already left the city and surrendered.
However, there were not only soldiers under the Ming Dynasty whose families were in Huaiyang, Fengyang, etc. in the city, but also guest soldiers such as Li Qifeng, Hu Shangyou, and Han Shangliang.
Their homes were as far away as Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the court was beyond the reach of them.
Jin Shenghuan ordered these troops to be closely monitored to prevent them from having liaisons with the Qing troops outside the city.
But with the war going like this, it was only a matter of time before they surrendered to the enemy.
These days, no country or court was as important as their own lives, glory, and wealth.
Just when Sizhou was in danger, people sent by Wu Ping entered Sizhou and told Jin Shenghuan that the supporting fleet had arrived, and asked him to prepare to retreat.
When Jin Shenghuan summoned the generals in the city and told them the news, the generals immediately burst into cheers, and all the doubts in their hearts were swept away.
It turned out that they were not used as cannon fodder, and Ping Nanhou was still thinking about everyone.
There are more than 10,000 troops in the city and more than 30,000 civilians.
It is not easy to retreat hastily.
If the whole army rushed forward and rushed to retreat, it would definitely give the Qing army an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Jin Shenghuan ordered the people to withdraw first, then the local troops, and finally the Pingnan Army.
Then according to the actual situation, the order of priority was formulated, and Liu Zhaoji was asked to be the governor to supervise the entire evacuation.
For soldiers and civilians who disobeyed the management, the governor soldiers could directly kill them.
Sizhou inflicted heavy casualties on the Qing army.
According to the brutal nature of the Eight Banners Army, if the Ming army withdraws, the Qing army will definitely massacre the people.
Therefore, Chen Yue has a life and must ensure the safety of the people.
The heart of the people is the heart of the army.
Most of the soldiers in the Pingnan Army are descendants of Huaihe and Lianghuai.
Only by caring for the people can they gain the support and loyalty of the soldiers.
Although Jin Shenghuan was a little puzzled by Chen Yue's "women's kindness", he could only obey his orders.
Although the other generals had some complaints about the people retreating before them, since the Pingnan Army stayed until the end, they had nothing to say.
In this case, the one who stays at the end will inevitably suffer the most casualties.
In view of the fact that it was impossible for the responding ships to evacuate everyone at once, Jin Shenghuan also ordered that all the wooden door panels in the city be gathered together to make a simple raft.
The current of the Huaihe River was not fast, and Sizhou could be evacuated by relying on the raft.
In the early morning, when the Qing army was routinely bombarding the city, they suddenly discovered that a long fleet of ships suddenly sailed over from the east and docked in the canal outside Sizhou City
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