Zhu Hongsan eased his breath and said: "Since you are fighting for merit, then you will separate, one division will go to one place, Qian Yong will go to Jiangyin, and Zhao Guodong will go to Jiading." ”

These two places have long been picked out by Zhu Hongsan, and his strength is not good now, but he knows that these two places are going to be slaughtered by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and as a Han person, he really can't help but reach out. So pick out these two places where the resistance to the shaving order is fiercest, hoping to avoid a tragedy in history.

Jiangyin County is located on the bank of the Yangtze River, and the big ships of the navy can dock to support, so this place is relatively easy to defend. So I sent Qian Yong to go. Jiading County is still more than 20 miles away from the Yangtze River, and there is only one small river connecting the Yangtze River. This place must send a steady and calm general to go, so Zhao Guodong, who was selected by Zhu Hong.

After the selection arrangement was completed, Zhu Hongsan said: "Each of you two brings a group of people, we don't have many sailors, and there are too many people to transport them." You go and remember that the main task is to protect yourself. Local officials could not listen to their orders, and they had to kill and injure the Manchu Eight Banners while protecting themselves. This is the first time that we have formed an army to face the Manchu Eight Banners. It is said that the Eight Banners are less than 10,000 and 10,000 are invincible, so I'll see if we are powerful or they are powerful? ”

Qian Zhao and the others were both extremely self-confident figures, bowed down and said: "Please rest assured, our three thousand people will definitely be able to break the myth of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, let them see which is the strongest army in the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded, and said to Tong Yangjia, the new soldier standing on the side: "Tong Shilang, Li Zhi didn't come today, you go and arrange for his sailor to escort the army north." The newly built ships are all sent out, and I will see how the Manchu Eight Banners are invincible? ”

Here, Zhu Hongsan organized the north to resist the Qing Dynasty, but first talk about what has happened in Nanzhili for more than a month.

When Duoduo occupied Nanjing on 15 May, Duoduo listened to Qian Qianyi's advice, and the elder Qian said, "Nanwen is weak, but it can be decided." Therefore, because the entire Nanzhili had a decree of the central government, there was no large-scale resistance, and only Hangzhou resisted for a few days in order to protect King Lu. When the army of Duoduo arrived in Hangzhou, the city also surrendered.

This is normal in the minds of local scholars, you have the capital of a country captured twice, and the emperor died and was arrested. De jure this dynasty has perished, why don't you relax and see how about a new dynasty? Maybe it's better than the mean and unkind Ming Dynasty.

Putting aside the righteousness of the famous people, these later emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were indeed much stronger than those wonderful emperors of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, if the Manchu Qing sacrificed the Huairou policy, there was really nothing to do forever. But after all, the Manchus belonged to a minority group, and when they were about to rule over a hundred times more Han people than them, the mentality of being oppressed by the Han people for hundreds of years leaked out.

Aren't you Han people cattle? What did you bully our ancestors back then? Nurhachi had to rely on Li Chengliang as his godson to survive. Now that I have the opportunity, I must kill the arrogance of your Han people.

At this time, the shaving order became a political method, and the Manchu nobles thought that they could emasculate the self-esteem of the Han people, but they did not expect that the Han people might be the most bizarre people in the world. Cowardice and incompetence may be Han people, greed for life and fear of death may also be Han people, and betrayal of friends for glory is more likely to be Han people, but in addition to these Han people, there are also Wen Tianxiang who generously went to death, as well as Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang who resisted foreign invasion, and General Zhang Zizhong who died on the battlefield in later generations.

So when the shaving order was issued in early June, Dordor was caught off guard. Unexpectedly, the weak Jiangnan was on fire everywhere, and the first to burn was Jiangyin.

On May 17, the people of Jiangyin County knew that Nanjing had been breached, and Qing messengers went around conveying the order of the Ming Dynasty to surrender and let the surrounding prefectures and counties surrender. At this time, the Jiangyin county commander was Lin Zhiji, this guy was from the north, and when he first came to Jiangyin, he couldn't understand Jiangnan dialect and made a lot of jokes. Some officials in the county government privately nicknamed him "Lin Papaya".

Although the papaya classmates are not good, they still have a sense of shame, and when they heard that Nanjing was broken and the Ming Dynasty was completely dead, they hung up their seals and left.

As soon as Lin Papaya left, the people of Jiangyin elected Chen Mingyu to preside over government affairs. Although Chen Mingyu is a non-mainstream historian, he is very capable, and he has done something in the more than half a month that he has been in charge of government affairs, and he has also accumulated popularity for the future.

On the fifth day of the first month of June, Fang Heng of Ren County, Man Xinxin, came to Jiangyin. When this Fang Heng came, he brought five Manchurian soldiers, and everyone wore that kind of money rat tail, and they squeaked and screamed everywhere, which was very capable of bluffing.

Chen Mingyu saw that Xinzhi County was coming, and he didn't want to be an official in the Manchu Dynasty, so he resigned and went home after handing over to Fang Heng. So far, the entire Jiangyin County is still a peaceful handover, because everyone feels that it is just a new emperor, and it is not the same as before? When the new officials come, they have to collect taxes and grain, the peasants have to pay taxes, and the scholars can still be officials, which is the same as the previous Ming Dynasty.

However, on June 27, when the magistrate Fang Heng saw that the people of the city had accepted the rule of the new dynasty, he took out the notice of the shaving order that had been prepared for a long time.

Fang Heng asked the scribe in the county government to draft a notice for shaving his head, but at first the scribe didn't know what the notice was. When he saw the sentence "keep your head without hair, keep your hair without your head", the scribe angrily threw his pen into the ground and scolded Fang Heng, "If you die, you will die, this kind of bastard tells Lao Tzu not to write." ”

In the end, Fang Heng had no choice but to let the scribe take down the scribe, and only write this notice himself.

As soon as Fang Heng posted the notice, several gentry in the city came to Fang Heng, and when they first came, these people were very polite to Fang Heng. You see that they are all Han Chinese, how can they learn to shave their heads like those barbarians?

But at this time, Fang Heng's temper came up, he felt that the entire Jiangnan had been calmed down, and Jiangyin couldn't make trouble if he wanted to. It was precisely because of this fearlessness that Fang Heng scolded these squires. "Now it's a new dynasty, and the new dynasty is going to have a new atmosphere, you old bastards don't obey the orders of the court, aren't you afraid of killing your head?"

These squires have also been officials, where can they bear this kind of evil anger, and they also scolded: "You Fang Heng received a Confucian education, but now you have come to be the governor of the Tatars, don't you feel ashamed yourself?" Fang Heng saw that they were outnumbered, and he was also afraid of suffering immediate losses, so he hurriedly said good things and postponed shaving his head.

In the early morning of the first day of the sixth month of the leap month, Fang Heng summoned more than 100 local people, squires and people to meet in the Temple of Literature in the name of incense. Everyone asked, "Now that Jiangyin has been completely submissive, there should be nothing wrong, right?" Fang Heng said: "Only shave your hair is left." The four soldiers sent just now shaved their hair for the detainees. The crowd said, "Can I shave my hair?" Fang Heng said: "This is the law of the Qing Dynasty and cannot be violated." "Then I'll go back to the government.

All the beings Xu Yong and the others couldn't gather, and swore together in Minglun Hall: "The head can be broken, and the hair must not be shaved!" Seeing that the people did not obey, Fang Heng secretly reported to the Changzhou Mansion and asked his superiors to send troops to "kill Shuwei more". This secret letter was found by the righteous people, so on the second day of the first month, Fang Heng was captured, killed the Qing cha, and the history of the book Chen Mingyu was the head, with the banner of "Ming Zhongxing", claiming that the righteous people of Jiangyin officially opposed the Qing Dynasty.

After the news of the Jiangyin people's resistance to the Qing Dynasty spread, Zong Hao, the prefect of Changzhou Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty, sent 300 soldiers to suppress it, and was annihilated by the righteous people of Jiangyin at the foot of Qinwang Mountain on the fifth day of the sixth month of the leap month. Subsequently, the Jiangyin army and civilians, under the leadership of Chen Mingyu, repeatedly repelled the attacks of small Qing troops. At the same time, the spies in the city were strictly investigated, and it was announced that there were people who could report and catch the spies, and a reward of fifty taels of silver would be awarded. executed Fang Heng, the former county commander who fornicated with the Qing Dynasty, and many spies who betrayed intelligence and had the intention of defecting to the enemy, effectively curbing the internal collapse of Jiangyin.

On the 21st of leap June, the Qing Beile and the general Boluo unified the heavy troops to surround the Jiangyin City, and on the 24th, the Qing army made a surrender letter and shot in from outside the east city. After the Jiangyin military and civilian discussions, the reply refused. Seeing that the persuasion to surrender was ineffective, the Qing army hunted and killed volunteers outside the city in an attempt to cut off foreign aid from the military and civilians in the city. On the first day of the seventh month, the siege began. The city was heavily defended, and the Qing soldiers were like a rain of arrows.

Chen Mingyu has been a classic history for half his life, and when the people of Jiangyin entrusted him with the leadership of refusing to shave and resist the Qing Dynasty, he presided over several aspects of work: rewarding loyal and brave people; Execute Fang Heng and his family to prevent internal response; In response to the persuasion of Liu Liangzuo, the general of the Qing army, he replied to a heroic letter - if the Qing government insists on shaving its hair, "even if millions of people are in the city, Jiangyin's will to defend it has been decided, and it is impossible to survive without reluctance."

Chen Mingyu is a self-aware man, his strengths are kindness, kindness, and a trustworthy and loyal person, but his weaknesses are his lack of leadership skills, especially military leadership skills. At the moment of the great enemy, he remembered another person—Yan Yingyuan.

Like Chen Mingyu, Yan Yingyuan has also served as a Jiangyin canon for many years. But unlike Chen Mingyu's generosity, Yan Yingyuan shows the ability of a general. When he was in the history of Jiangyin, he led his troops to resist the attack of hundreds of warships of the pirate Gu Sanmazi, so that he did not dare to invade Jiangyin again. Jiangyin people felt the grace of his reinvention and enshrined his portrait in social science. It stands to reason that a small official like Yan Yingyuan, who has made great contributions, should be praised by the imperial court, but he should only be promoted to the chief secretary of Yingde County, Guangdong. It is not surprising that such an excellent general is immersed in the unpopular subordinates of the canonical history, and the military affairs are in the hands of a group of incompetent meat eaters. After Yan left office, Chen Mingyu succeeded him as the historian of Jiangyin.

When Chen Mingyu sent someone to find Yan Yingyuan, Yan Yingyuan said briskly: "If you listen to my arrangement, I will agree." "Everyone said they would obey. So, Yan Yingyuan led his family of forty people, and with the help of thousands of township soldiers who rushed to help him after hearing the news, they entered the lonely city of Jiangyin. Since then, he has never left this lonely city that will fall into a pool of blood and despair in dozens of days.