But is it possible?

Let's not talk about whether Fang Xiang will react to this matter upwards, even if he really reacts, can the Qing court or Duoduo buy an account of a mere county order?

What's more, Fang Xiang has already descended to the Qing Dynasty, how can he still regard himself as a Ming person?

As soon as the people dispersed, he wrote a secret letter and sent someone to Changzhou Mansion, wanting to hand it over to Zong Hao, the then governor of Changzhou.

But what Fang Xiang didn't expect was that there were not all ministers like him in the county government, and someone had already spread his actions.

Overnight, the news spread throughout Jiangyin City, and in the early morning of the next day, tens of thousands of people who heard the news rushed to the county government with the messenger sent by the captured Fang Xiang, and arrested Fang Heng, who was still in the nest, and Mo Shiying, the head of the county office.

At this time, it was already difficult to collect the arrows, Xiucai Xu and Ji Shimei and others proposed to defend the city, the two climbed the heights and shouted, and the crowd immediately responded, and the people unanimously elected Chen Mingyu to lead the defense of the city.

Chen Mingyu already had the will of King Qin, so he naturally agreed, and then he gathered righteous people from all walks of life, set up the tablet of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in the Minglun Hall of the Confucian Temple, held a pledge meeting to resist the Qing Dynasty and defend the city, and raised the banner of opposing the shaving order!

Since then, Jiangyin has officially separated from the Qing court and rebelled.

Chen Mingyu did three things at that time, one was to let the people who were unwilling to obey the anti-Qing Dynasty go out of the city, the second was to open the arsenal and distribute weapons to the rebels, and the third was to call on the people to donate money and materials.

At that time, there was a Hui businessman Cheng Bi who lived in Jiangyin, and he donated 35,000 taels of silver at once!

On the fifth day of the sixth month, Chen Mingyu led his army to set up an ambush at the foot of Qinwang Mountain, eighteen miles southwest of Jiangyin City, and repelled the Qing soldiers of Changzhou Prefecture who came to attack Jiangyin.

In the mouth of the captive, he learned that there were small works in the city to communicate with the outside world, so he ordered that anyone in the city who reported the spy would be rewarded with fifty taels of silver!

As a result, Chen Mingyu was rewarded, and a hand-drawn map of Jiangyin marked the deployment of troops was found from a detailed worker, as well as a distress letter written by Fang Heng, who was imprisoned in prison, to Duoduo, the prince of Yu.

The letter also brought out Shen Yuejing, a talented person in Jiangyin City, Wu Dacheng, Ren Cuiran, and others, and Chen Mingyu quickly ordered their arrest.

Shen Yuejing escaped by chance, and Wu Dacheng and others were beheaded.

Ren Cuiran and Chen Mingyu are old acquaintances, and before the execution, he said to Chen Mingyu, the Qing army is well-armed, you should do it yourself!

Chen Mingyu sneered in return, I don't need you to worry about my business, you can go on your way!

After that, Chen Mingyu ordered the execution of the county magistrate Fang Heng, the chief bookkeeper Mo Shiying, and the former garrison Chen Ruizhi, and only Chen Ruizhi's eldest son was pardoned because he was good at making ordnance.

At this time, Zong Hao, the prefect of Changzhou Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty, urgently asked for help from Duoduo, the prince of Yu in Nanjing, and on the other hand, he sent thousands of men and horses to advance by land and water, in an attempt to nip the Jiangyin rebels in the bud.

When Chen Ming heard the news, he sent Ji Shimei, the leader of the North Gate Rebel Army, to lead his troops to meet him.

It was in this battle that the Jiangyin Rebels suffered their first defeat, and the rebels who fought were all wiped out, and the leader of the rebels, Ji Shimei, was killed.

From this, Chen Mingyu recognized a fact, he realized that although there were a large number of hot-blooded men in the righteous army, these people had no military experience after all, and they did not know how to use troops, and it was okay to charge into battle, but it was difficult to command the whole army.

After thinking about it, he thought of a person, Yan Yingyuan.

Yan Yingyuan, the word Liheng, a native of Tongzhou, this person was born in Wu Xiucai, not only good at riding and shooting, but also proficient in the art of war, is a rare general, is the history of Jiangyin's predecessor.

Yan Yingyuan has a record in Jiangyin, Jiangyin is near the sea, a few years ago, there were pirates in a big way, just when the county was not there, Yan Yingyuan was ordered to shout loudly on the street, gathered thousands of people, each issued a bamboo pole, and led a group of rabble to repel the menacing pirates, and became famous in a battle.

Chen Mingyu went to ask Yan Yingyuan to come out of the mountain.

As soon as Yan Yingyuan heard Chen Ming's intentions, he readily agreed.

took dozens of families, said goodbye to the old mother at home, and went to Jiangyin City with Chen Mingyu.

A strong man is worth a thousand gold.

Chen Mingyu, who asked Yan Yingyuan, did not love the authority and ceded the power to command the whole city to Yan Yingyuan.

Yan Yingyuan was not polite, took over the power, and immediately did four things: First, he ordered to collect all the gunpowder and firearms stored by the former soldiers Xu Shiyin and Zeng Hualong.

Secondly, the wealthy households and squires in the city were summoned and asked to donate money and materials, and before one person donated 35,000 taels of Hui merchant Cheng Bi, this time it was even more difficult to destroy the family, and donated as much as 150,000 taels of silver.

Then Yan Yingyuan ordered to count the households in the city, gather all the young and strong, and assign each lord to be responsible for which direction, and at the same time ordered the city gate to be blocked, and someone must be on duty at twelve o'clock a day.

In the end, with Ji Congxiao, He Chang, He Tai and others as the main generals, an army called the Assault Battalion was formed.

Since then, the combat effectiveness of the Jiangyin City Righteous Army has risen by more than one level.

But because of this, the tragic scene of Jiangyin City was officially staged, just as the old man said before, the people in the city, after the city was broken, there were only fifty-three survivors, and no one descended.

On August 21, the Qing army mobilized dozens of red-coated cannons and bombarded the northeast corner of Jiangyin City.

After the walls were blown down, the Qing army rushed into the city.

Yan Yingyuan, who was commanding the battle in the East Gate Tower, understood that he was powerless to return to the sky, so he calmly picked up his pen and wrote a couplet on the wooden gate of the city tower that was recited to future generations and made people feel reverberating.

"Eighty days with allegiance, the seventeenth dynasty of Taizu;

100,000 people died with one heart and left 300 miles of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty. ”

After writing and throwing the pen, I originally wanted to lead hundreds of people around me to break through, but after all, it was too late, and I was surrounded by the Qing army with three layers inside and three layers outside.

At this time, Yan Yingyuan had already been hit by three arrows, and he knew that it was impossible to break through, so he calmly said to the soldiers around him, God's will is like this, it is not a crime of war.

After saying that, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the pond next to him.

But the pond is shallow, and no one can drown.

He is not like Xia Wanchun's father, who has enough time to suffocate himself to death.

The Qing army that came from all sides hooked Yan Yingyuan from the pond with a tow hook, and Yan Yingyuan was captured, and later died the next day due to his injuries.

The Qing army broke through Jiangyin City, but the fighting in the streets and alleys continued.

The bloody Jiangyin rebels are still fighting on their own.

Chen Mingyu died in battle on the street, his body leaning against the wall facing the street, still holding a steel knife in his hand, his family was in the city when the city was broken, and no one stole his life.

Feng Houdun hanged himself in the Minglun Hall of the Confucian Temple, and his family all threw themselves into the well.

Qi Xun, Xiucai Xu Yong, etc.

Ji died from the battle of filial piety .......

It's not just these that are shocking, the people in the city, women and children, the old and weak, all choose to die.

Or throw a beam, or dive, or go to the fire, or kill yourself.

This night, the ponds and wells in Jiangyin City were no longer enough.

In just one four-eye well, there were hundreds of people who threw themselves into the well.