As the commander-in-chief of the rebel army in Jiangyin, Yan Yingyuan lived up to expectations and showed his outstanding leadership and military strategy. Yan Yingyuan selected young and strong scholars and the original civilian army and reorganized them. He ordered the Wu Juren Wang to guard the east gate and guard the south gate. Chen Ming was guarding the west gate and he himself guarded the north gate. In addition, he and Chen Ming were guarding the four gates and patrolled day and night. The village soldiers outside the city and the civilian army inside the city were as many as 200,000. Yan Yingyuan ordered the defense to be protected. The city gate was blocked with a large wooden block, and each person guarded a battlement. If a battle was fought, two people guarded and took regular rests. Each ten people were a group, giving a small flag; a hundred people were a group, giving a big flag and a red barbarian cannon. On the streets close to the city tower, there were logistics points for supplying food and drinking water for the defending troops.

Due to the hasty incident, the number of arrows in Jiangyin City was small, and it was necessary to be manufactured in large quantities for a while, and it was difficult to dig a well when thirsty. Yan Yingyuan then ordered the civilian army to be tied up and dressed in military uniforms. Each straw man held a bamboo pole in his hand and picked a dim lantern on it. After the production was made, on a dark and windy night, he ordered the straw man to stand upright on the battlements one by one. The soldiers lie under the battlements and clamored loudly, making a stance to attack the camp at night. The Qing army besieged the city and shot arrows, and these arrows became the spoils of the civilian army in the city.

On July 11, the Qing army's general attack began, and the North Gate was the first to be affected. At the beginning, the Qing army did not take the small city of Jiangyin seriously. These Eight Banners soldiers who swept through most of China like wind sweeping fallen leaves from outside the pass. Even Li Zicheng, who had been through the battlefield for a long time, and the regular army of the Ming government were far from their opponents, let alone the civilians in Jiangyin City who had almost never received any military training? But the Qing army quickly paid a heavy price for their underestimation of the enemy. The next day, the Qing army continued to attack the North Gate, with "infinite casualties."

Seeing that the attack was not possible, the Qing army sent people to persuade the surrender. Yan Yingyuan decided to implement a fraudulent surrender plan and sent several old white-haired men with a hand in their hands, and out of the city to report to the Qing general Xue Wang's camp, saying that the city was willing to offer silver to buy his life to avoid killing. King Xue was overjoyed and ordered the camp to open the gate and carry the wooden box into the tent. When he and his generals opened the wooden box to check, the fire suddenly broke out. King Xue, his two generals, and more than 2,000 soldiers, all returned to heaven.

The Qing army general Liu Liangzuo and Yan Yingyuan had an old age in their early years. The Qing army attempted to convince Liu Liangzuo to convince Yan Yingyuan to surrender. In response, Yan Yingyuan replied: "The scholars and people in Jiangyi all said that they had eaten Mao and slaughtered the land for three hundred years, and were deeply grateful to the country, and could not bear to see the wind surrender. Yingyuan was the Dianshi of the Ming Dynasty and was righteous and could not serve the two kings. The general was a marquis and lord. He had a heavy army and could not restore the Central Plains. Retreat could not protect Jiangzuo. How could he see me loyal and righteous men and people in Jiangyin?" Liu Liangzuo was ashamed and speechless, and he retreated silently. The next day, Liu Liangzuo persuaded surrender again, and Yan Yingyuan only said one sentence: "There is a surrender general, but no surrender history." As soon as he finished speaking, rockets in Jiangyin City were launched at once, and Liu Liangzuo fled in a panic.

It is certain that since the day when they decided to fight against the Qing Dynasty, the scholars and people in Jiangyin City knew that their final outcome was a shattered one. In order to adhere to their consistent tradition, they could only choose a tragic death.

On July 21st, the doomsday of the fall of the lonely city finally arrived irresistible.

The day before, the Qing army transported twenty-four giant cannons from Nanjing. At night, the Jiangyin area was stormy and lightning, and the Qing army set up giant cannons in the rain and bombarded Jiangyin City for one night. The extremely sleepy Jiangyin civilian army no longer had the power to repair the city walls that had been destroyed. The next morning, the Qing army flocked into the city along these gaps.

When the bad news of the city breaking was reported to Yan Yingyuan, he was commanding the enemy on the Dongcheng Tower. Yan Yingyuan knew that the last moment had come, and ordered his left and right to take ink and hurriedly wrote on the gate of the Dongcheng Tower: "Take loyalty on 80 days, expressing the loyalty of Taizu, and expressing the 17th dynasty figures of the Ming Dynasty; 100,000 people were united in the same heart and left the Ming Dynasty for three hundred miles." After writing, he threw the pen on the ground and led the crowd to kill the west gate. However, due to the disparity between the crowd, they quickly fell into the encirclement of the Qing army. In the melee, Yan Yingyuan got three arrows on his back and said to his subordinates: "Thank you for me, I have finished serving the country!" After that, he was about to swing his sword and commit suicide. At this time, Yan Qing, a family member next to Yan Yingyuan grabbed Yan Yingyuan's hand and shouted: "Look at the Yangtze River, what a big ship!"

When Yan Yingyuan heard his family say this, he looked up on the Yangtze River through the smoke of gunpowder. Because Jiangyin County is on the edge of the Yangtze River, he saw very real. He saw five huge Western warships across the Yangtze River.

Yan Yingyuan was by the Yangtze River for a long time, and he had also seen Western warships like Folang Jiren. However, in recent years, because Zheng Zhilong from Fujian and the Red-haired Chinese have had a good relationship, Folang Jiren's warships rarely appeared on the Yangtze River. I wonder what to do today, was it a reinforcement? This idea flashed in Yan Yingyuan's mind, but that was impossible.

A few days ago, Yan Yingyuan also sent a messenger and various rebel troops around him to ask for help, but the teams that came were defeated by the Qing Dynasty. I wonder what the five big ships in front of him were coming?

These large ships are the Guangdong Navy main ship formation led by Yan Qingshan.

Zhu Hongsan, who was far away in Guangdong, was ready for a long time. He originally wanted to come to Jiangyin at the end of June, but he didn't expect that Zhu Hongsan would also encounter big trouble.

It's very simple, but the same sentence, Zhu Hongsan's bloodline problem. When the surrounding prefectures and counties heard that King Zhu Hongsan of Chu was appointed as the sect. Chaozhou Prefecture was originally the sect of influence of Zheng Zhilong, Fujian. This time, with the Tang King Zhu Youjian in Fuzhou proclaimed himself emperor, he immediately killed the messenger sent by Zhu Hongsan and replied to Zhu Hongsan, asking him to immediately remove the sect title of the sect.

Nanxiong Mansion next to Chaozhou Prefecture saw this and was both rat-like, and it was not yin and yang for Zhu Hongsan. The other mansions had no problems and sent supporting documents. They were too close to Guangdong and knew Zhu Hongsan's strength, so there was no surprise.

There was a big trouble in Guangxi, and Guangxi Governor Qu Shisi even used Zhu Hongsan's bloodline to talk about it and sent Feng Ruoshu a long letter to tell Feng Hongsan about the illegality of Zhu Hongsan's proclaiming emperor.

Zhu Hongsan is now worried and wants to strangle him to death when he sees Ma Mingyuan. The strategy of "responsible king" that he had agreed in Huguang will not be implemented. He insists on being the first to be the first, right now, right?

Ma Mingyuan didn't expect that the surrounding forces could react so much, and was also full of anxiety. He asked Zhu Hongsan what to do now?

Zhu Hongsan sighed, what can I do now? It’s already like this, I can only fight.

Zhu Hongsan ordered the nine prefectures and one state in Guangdong to drive a regiment in each place. If the local officials did not cooperate, they would let them get out. At this moment, Zhu Hongsan's army was immediately stretched, so the matter of going north was put on hold indefinitely.
Chapter completed!