Duoduo did not send the Eight Banners to attack the city first, but first sent the surrendered Green Battalion soldiers as cannon fodder. More than 10,000 green battalion soldiers attacked Sizhou City under the threat of the Eight Banners, and attacked along the gap opened by the red-clothed cannons, and met with the continuous rain of arrows from the Ming army at the city gate.

In order to block the Qing soldiers, Jin Shenghuan mobilized all the archers and firecrackers in the city and deployed them behind the gap.

The green battalion soldiers have just been adapted from the Ming army, and they have not increased much because of the surrender of the Qing army, and the equipment is not much different from the Ming army in the city, and they are all lacking clothes and less armor, and the thin military clothes on their bodies are not enough to resist the accumulation of bows and arrows.

The first wave of the Green Battalion's attack was quickly defeated. In the face of the fierce rain of arrows from the Ming army in the city, they chose to turn around and flee as usual.

However, they forgot that it was no longer the same as in the past, no one could manage to flee in the past, and the civilian officials and even the imperial court who led the troops were helpless, but now behind them were the fierce Eight Banners.

Before they could flee back to the queue, a ferocious rain of arrows came at their faces, and hundreds of routers who were running at the forefront were shot and killed on the spot. The rest of the rout stopped in shock, and saw the fierce Eight Banners cavalry in front of them.

After killing the shock who was the first to flee back, Duoduo ordered the Green Battalion to continue the attack, led by Xu Dingguo's nephew Xu Biao, in order to prevent the bow and arrow shooting in the city, this time Duoduo allocated a large number of shields.

With their shields on their heads, the green battalion soldiers attacked the city again, this time everyone knew that there was no way to retreat, if they couldn't defeat Sizhou, the Eight Banners behind them would definitely not let them go.

Lives were threatened, and these green battalion soldiers burst out with great combat power, holding their shields and ignoring the rain of arrows in the city, and bravely launched an attack on the city.

Under Jin Shenghuan's order, the chief soldier Ma Yingkui led the headquarters to meet the past and fought with the green battalion soldiers.

Ma Yingkui held a horse chopping knife, the big knife waved the cold light, and killed six or seven green battalion soldiers one after another, and his two hundred family members were distributed around him, resisting the attacks of the Qing army on both sides for him.

The main general and his family stood at the front, and his soldiers also plucked up their courage and started a fierce battle with the green battalion soldiers who entered the city. The two sides started a fierce battle at the gap in the city wall.

At the same time as sending Xu Biao to attack along the gap with the green battalion soldiers, Duoduo also assigned Liu Zhong and other green battalion soldiers to attack other city walls, and used rams and ladders one after another to launch a fierce attack on the two city walls in the northwest. The attached green battalion soldiers were all dispatched, and even the brothers Zhang Tianfu and Zhang Tianlu, who had just surrendered, were also sent out.

The war of attrition of the siege naturally has to be lined up as cannon fodder like the green battalion, and Duoduo doesn't want the Eight Banners warriors to lose here.

At the head of the city, Jin Shenghuan commanded the soldiers of all units to resist the attack of the green battalion, and Liu Zhaoji, Shi Dewei and other generals fought on the city wall. Listening to his subordinates reporting on the battlefields everywhere, Jin Shenghuan nodded, not everyone is like Zhang Tianfu's brothers, and there are not a few who are willing to fight for the country.

With a knife split, the green battalion soldiers who emerged on the ladder flew out, Liu Zhaoji beckoned, and one of his soldiers ran over with a wooden fork, forked the ladder with a wooden fork to expose the upper part of the city wall, and pushed it out. Liu Zhaoji took matters into his own hands, led a few soldiers to lift the ladder away from the city wall, and then put it diagonally, and the ladder slid down the city wall, and then heard a series of screams.

Letting go of the wooden fork in his hand, Liu Zhaoji gasped heavily, looking back, after this round of fighting, there were less than three hundred brothers who could still stand, and many of them were still injured.

"General, when will the reinforcements arrive, when can we withdraw and rest." A housekeeper asked softly.

"Reinforcements? Maybe soon. Liu Zhaoji knew in his heart that he couldn't count on reinforcements at all, and through his conversation with Jin Shenghuan, he knew that Pingnanhou had not sent reinforcements at all. However, it is also understandable that Sizhou is a small city after all, and even if reinforcements are sent, it will not be able to resist the attack of the Qing army. The Pingnan army is only 60,000 or 70,000 people, and it is not bad to be able to send a battalion of 3,000 people here, after all, Yangzhou is far more important than Sizhou.

But he knew what he knew, but he couldn't speak. Because morale is important, if the soldiers know that there are no reinforcements, I am afraid that they will no longer have the courage to resist.

"Brothers, my generation is paid as a soldier, now is the time to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, whether there are reinforcements or not, my Liu family army will not retreat!" Liu Zhaoji shouted loudly, cheering for his subordinates.

"Die and never retreat!"

"Die and never retreat!"

His soldiers hesitated for a moment, and shouted in unison, louder and louder! The remaining more than 300 people are Liu Zhaoji's confidants and the most loyal to him. On weekdays, they receive more than twice as much as ordinary soldiers, and now it's time to serve their masters.

The army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was like this, the soldiers were the generals, and the family was the general's private soldier, and the army was the most loyal to the general. As long as the generals can muster up the courage to fight the enemy, the combat effectiveness of this army is generally not bad. However, too many generals cared too much about their subordinates, and did not want to lose them at all, and immediately fled with their own soldiers when they encountered a slight setback in the battle, and the imperial court's control over the local army was not as strong as before, and they were afraid that they would defect to the enemy, so they did not dare to impose heavy punishments, which also made the control over the army and generals weaker and weaker.

Of course, Chen Yue knew about this situation, but he couldn't spare the energy and time to reorganize these miscellaneous armies, and after arriving in Yangzhou, things happened one after another, dealing with salt merchants to control Huaiyan, recruiting soldiers to train the army, urging the Ordnance Department to build firearms and armor, and so on.

Chen Yue also knew that when the Qing soldiers went south, many generals would choose to surrender, but he didn't know much about this history, only that the armies of the warlords of the four towns such as Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and others had surrendered, but he had never heard of the generals who did not belong to the four towns, such as Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu's brothers. And now the situation has changed, the prestige of the imperial court is much higher than that of another time and space, the situation has changed, and people's choices will of course also change. So even Chen Yue, a traverser, couldn't know that the general would choose to surrender, so he could only tell Jin Shenghuan to be more careful.

Chen Yue also didn't know that in another time and space, Liu Zhaoji was one of the few generals loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and he was martyred in Yangzhou and Mantar.

At present, less than 400 of the 5,000 troops are dead, and Liu Zhaoji still chooses to fight a bloody battle with the Qing soldiers. His courage inspired a large group of Ming troops on the city wall, and the soldiers waved their weapons and fought with the green battalion soldiers who attacked the city, and soon defeated the green battalion soldiers who attacked the city.