So the army divided its troops, heading south and north.

Although Wu Zheng decided to rescue Jiangyin at this time, he still had no intention of continuing the Northern Expedition.

When returning to the army, it was nothing more than saving the people of Jiangyin. At the same time, Wu Zheng also judged that there would not be many Qing troops going to Jiangyin.

Because the main forces of the Qing army from Yingtian Prefecture were concentrated in the previous battle, the Qing army did not have enough troops to mobilize a large army to massacre a county town with less population.

Therefore, Wu Zheng believed that two thousand cavalry were enough to rescue the danger of Jiangyin City.

Two thousand cavalrymen rushed to the road overnight, and at dawn, they arrived thirty miles outside Jiangyin City.

After a little rest, Wu Zheng ordered the siege!

There is no suspense about this battle. The national treasure Taihu Water was stolen. In his early years, he was surrendered by Hong Chengchou and obtained a general position. Since then, he has become Hong Chengchou's lackey.

After Hong Chengchou surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the national treasure became a knife in Hong Chengchou's hand that slaughtered the Ming people.

The slaughter of Jiangyin was actually an order from Hong Chengchou.

After Hong Chengchou was defeated in Suzhou and woke up on the way to retreat, he thought of the predicament of the Qing army.

If Wu Zheng took advantage of the situation to go north, the consequences would be unpredictable. So he sent someone to send a message to Yingtian Prefecture to help, and while urgently ordered the then governor of Jiangning to enter Jiangyin and massacre the city.

The intention is nothing more than to use this to attract Wu Zheng's intention.

But what Hong Chengchou did not expect was that Wu Shengzhao's pursuers were easily defeated, and Wu Zheng's troops did not follow closely.

This made Hong Chengchou realize that the Ming army was short of troops, and reinforcements from Yingtian Prefecture arrived, so a counterattack began.

What Hong Chengchou even more unpredictable was that Wu Zheng attacked the crowd with few people, and in less than a day near Gaoqiao, he almost wiped out more than 10,000 pursuers.

At this time, the national treasures ordered to go to the city to massacre arrived in Jiangyin for two days. In the past two days, dozens of people rushed from Jiangyin to the official road outside Wuxi City and fought for help from Wu.

During these two days, Tu Guobao, who was born as a bandit, did not immediately slaughter the city according to Hong Chengchou's order, but instead plundered the city first.

It was not until the oil and water could be squeezed out again that the Tu Guobao ordered the magistrate of Jiangyin to assist in the massacre.

However, although Liu Magistrate Liu was appointed by the Qing court, he was a scholar and a Han Chinese. Naturally, he knew that such a thing that both heaven and man and man were angry, so he refused the order of the Tu Guobao.

The angry Tu Guobao ordered the killing of Liu Magistrate, and a massacre began.

Fortunately, Tu Guobao brought not many people, only 3,000.

It is not something that can be done in one or two days if you want to massacre more than 10,000 people in the city.

At this time, the bloody smell of more than 100,000 lives had not yet disappeared half a year ago. The loyal souls of the city gave the people in Jiangyin City a different blood and energy than elsewhere.

Resistance broke out in the streets and alleys, and while Tu Guo Treasures were killing people all over the city, it was also being killed by the people.

It was at this time that Wu Zheng led his army to Jiangyin and launched an attack on Jiangyin City.

The Qing army, which was less than three thousand, could not control a county town at all, and even couldn't take care of themselves in the wave of resistance from the people all over the city.

What's more, Tu Guobao never expected that the Ming army would appear in Jiangyin City at this time.

In his opinion, Hong Chengchou had already joined forces with the reinforcements of Yingtian Prefecture and his counterattack against the Ming army had already begun.

Even if the Ming army was not defeated, it would not be able to get involved in Jiangyin City.

Wu Zheng led two thousand cavalrymen and did not enter Jiangyin through the city gate, but instead took a different approach.

The Jiangyin city wall, which had been fought by more than 400,000 people, was already in ruins, and the Qing court had no time and no financial resources to repair and consolidate.

Under the leadership of those Jiangyin teenagers, Wu Zheng's troops entered the city from a collapsed city wall.

Jiangyin City was like a ship, with its head on the south and its tail on the north. Wu Zhengxuan entered the city in the middle section, and then divided his troops into two groups, one to the south and the other to the north, and sniped the Qing army in the city, which was fighting with the people.

The Qing army was caught off guard and they had already divided into dozens of squads and fought each other.

In the eyes of Tu Guobao, the rebels in the city were just mobs, and there was no problem in separating their troops and defeating them one by one.

This caused the Ming cavalry to advance in both north and south directions almost without any delay.

Wherever they passed, the Qing army was defeated one after another, and was crushed by the rushing rebels.

At this time, the national treasures that had plundered the city's money, and he didn't know that the time of destruction had arrived. He was counting the harvests he had gained in the county government for the past few days.

While he was slacking off, he cursed the poor people in this city.

The whole city was plundered and got nearly 100,000 taels, which was indeed a little poor.

But the problem is that this city has become a dead city half a year ago.

The stinking corpse still drifted in the air.

The 27,000 piles of ashes burned are enough to pile into a mountain.

Nowadays, it is not easy to find more than 10,000 taels of people.

Just when the Tu Guobao was sad that he had not achieved his goal, Wu Zheng led a group of personal guards to break through the county government gate and rush in.

Tu Guobao was surrounded by Ming soldiers before he even had time to react.

He also wanted to draw a knife to resist, but was kicked quickly by a Ming army and fell to the ground.

Several Ming troops rushed up and pressed the national treasures tightly to the ground, and tied them up in large numbers.

At this point, Jiangyin City was restored, and there was no major battle in the city except for the sporadic Qing army fleeing.

And the fleeing Qing troops could not escape from the noses of the local people.

They were caught like mice, and then they died without any corpses.

These scenes are too bloody, but for the people of Jiangyin City, no matter how bloody they are, they cannot understand their hatred.

When Wu Zheng walked out of the yamen, no complete Qing army body could be found in Jiangyin City.

No, to be precise, there is one more.

No, it should not be said to be a living person and a national treasure.

Wu Zheng naturally would not be so kind to pardon a traitor or a butcher who was extremely guilty.

But Tu Guotou obviously has the ability to protect itself.

He reacted very quickly. After being captured, when he saw Wu Zheng and learned from Wu Zheng that more than 10,000 Qing army pursuers were almost wiped out, his first sentence was, "As long as I don't kill me, I will tell you the top secretly."

Wu Zheng began to disbelief.

But the Tu Guobao's next words moved Wu Zheng, "I swear, this top secret is enough to change the entire Jiangnan battle situation."

Tu Guobao was the governor of Jiangning and Hong Chengchou's confidant. From these two points, Wu Zheng had to be moved.

"Tell me. If what you said is true, I will not kill you." Wu Zheng said in a deep voice.

Tu Guobao Zhuizheng said: "You swear."

Wu Zheng said: "I swear that if what the national treasure says is true, I will never harm you."

I believe the treasure of the Tu Guoguo, and there is no other way to believe it or not at this time.

So he spoke out a secret, "There are no Eight Banners Army in Yingtian Mansion. After 10,000 troops were ordered to reinforce Changzhou, there were only 5,000 Ming troops surrendered in Yingtian Mansion, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled."
Chapter completed!