Chen Alin and Zhou Lichun, who fled to Jiading, reintegrated the rebel army. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chen Alin was extremely brave, led the remaining 2,000 headquarters rebels, and asked Zhou Lichun to lead the troops to ambush the Qing army on the road from Taicang to Jiading.

But Zhou Lichun felt that his subordinates were too dead and wounded, and secondly, why should he listen to your command from Fu Jian? directly rejected Chen Alin's suggestion. Instead, he asked his daughter Zhou Xiuying and the general Xu Yao to lead 2,000 troops, and hurriedly strengthened the county seat of Jiading and prepared to defend the city.

Chen Alin was angry that Zhou Lichun did not listen to his command, and in a fit of anger, he led the 2,000 righteous troops of his headquarters to return directly to Shanghai City.

The Qing army immediately counterattacked Jiading. When encountering this kind of regular green battalion soldiers, especially the 4,004 soldiers led by Hu Songlin and the Mubei soldiers, the righteous army led by Zhou Lichun were all a group of peasants who resisted grain, and their weapons were much worse, so they were not opponents at all.

On the evening of April 12, Jiading was broken by the Qing army after most of the day.

Zhou Lichun saw that the general trend had gone, and led 2,000 righteous troops to start a street battle with the Qing army that rushed into the city, attracting the main force of the Qing army, which dragged on until dark. And let the general Xu Yao forcibly drag his daughter Zhou Xiuqing, led hundreds of people, and took advantage of the scuffle to rush out of Jiading City from the side gate in the dark and fled to Shanghi City.

At this time, Chen Zhibo, the deputy marshal of the nurse who was sent by Liu Lichuan to support Jiading City, led 2,000 righteous troops to watch from afar outside Jiading City, and saw that the Qing army was large, so he did not dare to come to the rescue, nor did he return to Shanghai City, and went directly to Qingpu County. Chen Zhibo was just a sailor leader, and his actions were very unreliable. What makes people laugh and cry is that he was afraid that Liu Lichuan would blame him, so he found a reason: he got lost on the march and inadvertently ran to Qingpu County.

That night, Zhou Lichun and more than 1,000 volunteers died in the Ya of Jiading County, and the remaining 2,000 volunteers were either captured or scattered and fled.

After the loss of Jiading, the leaders of the Knife Society realized that the Qing army was far stronger than they imagined. After discussion, Liu Lichuan ordered all the departments of the Xiaodaohui to quickly withdraw their troops from Qingpu, Baoshan, Nanhui, Chuansha and other counties, abandon the county seat occupied by the periphery and Songjiang Fucheng, and make every effort to defend Shanghai County.

On the morning of April 16, the Qing army's Xu Naizhao and Hu Songlin troops crossed Nanxiang and Jiangwan, arrived at the outskirts of Shanghai, and began to lay siege to Shanghai City.

The situation of the Knife Society rebels has taken a turn for the worse.

At this time, after receiving the news that the imperial court had sent a large army to recover Shanghi, Wu Jianzhang was ecstatic. He wrote a handwritten letter, sent someone to infiltrate Shanghai City, and handed it over to Li Shaoxi, the leader of the rebel army, who was also a fellow villager in Guangdong.

That night, in the U.S. Consulate, he secretly met with Li Shaoxi, the leader of the Little Knife Society's rebel army, who had secretly come out of Shanghi City. The two sped until midnight, and finally Li Shaoxi was successfully persuaded by Wu Jianzhang to lead hundreds of his brothers to surrender to the imperial court on the condition of accepting Zhao'an, and in return, Wu Jianzhang would promote him to the imperial court as the magistrate.

Li Shaoxi was really scared. In his opinion, Zhou Lichun's thousands of people, plus Chen Alin's 3,000 men who were brave and good at fighting, were all defeated by officers and soldiers, how could this righteous army beat the officers and soldiers? And Zhou Lichun couldn't even escape, and died in Jiading City, which made him even more frightened.

At this time, Master Wu Jianzhang, who was once his owner, came to recruit him, and he had to seize this opportunity no matter what. So, he defected from the rebels.

The next day, Li Shaoxi found Li Xianchi, the governor of Pinghu who had a good relationship with him, and persuaded him to surrender to the government together.

At this time, Li Xianchi also felt that something was wrong, and the righteous army would be destroyed by the official army sooner or later.

However, Li Xianchi did not agree to Li Shaoxi, not because he was unwilling to be enemies with Liu Lichuan, Chen Alin, Pan Qiliang, etc., but because he was even more timid than Li Shaoxi.

He was completely scared, and he didn't want to live the days of fighting and killing again, he had other plans.

He was the number two in the Knife Congregation, and he was in charge of finance, etc., so he put his mind on the belongings in the general warehouse of the rebel army.

On the same day, after he broke up with Li Shaoxi, he found an American missionary he knew, Yan Matai, and resold a batch of foreign guns and ammunition seized from the Jianghai Customs to the US Consulate in Shanghai at a low price.

The U.S. Consulate in Shanghi is only a nominal intermediary, and the actual buyer is Wu Jianzhang, Shanghi Daotai. He took out all the 500,000 silver dollars from the Liru Bank opened by the British in the concession and bought all the weapons at a high price.

Speaking of Li Xianchi, he didn't count selling the weapons in the warehouse, but also quietly moved all the property under his jurisdiction, that is, the 440,000 taels of silver that Liu Lichuan had found from the yamen of the Provincial Bureau.

Most of Li Xianchi's brothers were dock porters, and these "goods" were quickly loaded onto the cargo ships located on the docks.

The next morning.

Pan Qiliang was called by the big leader Liu Lichuan early in the morning.

When I arrived at the headquarters of the Little Knife Society set up in the Yamen of the Provincial Department, there were screams from inside. Entering the door, Pan Qiliang was shocked to find that staff officer Xu Weiren was tied in the lobby, and there were several brothers from the Little Knife Society next to him, all tied behind their backs, with more than ten whip marks on them.

Chen Alin and Li Xianyun were angrily holding horsewhips and beating them hard.

"Why is that?" Pan Qiliang recognized that the brothers who were whipped were all people who assisted staff officer Xu Weiren in managing the storehouse's belongings, and he hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade him.

"Right Marshal, don't persuade. Fifty lashes from them are considered light, and it is already cheap for them not to cut off their heads! Shen Guohua, the counselor, stepped forward to persuade. Then, he whispered to Pan Qiliang: "Don't you know yet? Last night, the treasury of our Daming Kingdom, which they guarded, was almost emptied! ”

"What's going on? Who did this to you! Pan Qiliang was taken aback!

Something is wrong! The treasury, the warehouse in the yamen of the Provincial Administration, which was heavily guarded by the rebels, was emptied. This person must be an internal ghost, and he has a lot of background!

Pan Qiliang raised his head and looked around, among the major leaders, he found that there were two missing leaders: Li Xianchi, the governor of Pinghu, and Li Shaoxi, the military affairs manager in charge of military affairs.

"The right marshal found out? It was Li Xianchi's dog thief. Shen Guohua, the counselor, gritted his teeth and said hatefully.

At this time, Liu Lichuan hurriedly came in, and his originally pale face was iron-blue.

Chen Alin and Li Xianyun stopped whipping and looked at Liu Lichuan coldly to see how he explained.

After all, the two people who were originally arranged to be in charge of the warehouse, Chen Zhibo, the deputy marshal of nursing, and Xu Weiren, a staff officer, were all Liu Lichuan's cronies, although the 440,000 taels of silver were also seized by Liu Lichuan, but after all, it was the salary of the Ming State treasury, and everyone had a share.

Chen Zhibo was sent to lead troops to support Jiading, but he actually said that he ran the wrong way and stayed in Qingpu. Now he was ordered to turn around, but he didn't arrive yet, and he didn't know where he had arrived.

And the staff officer Xu Weiren studied what to write all day long, and what calligraphy, paintings, gold and stone antiques were written. arranged such two people to manage the warehouse, and now that the warehouse has been emptied, no matter how you say it, Liu Lichuan is responsible.

"Brothers, Ben Shuai is very sorry for everyone! It's all my fault. Stay for a while, let Brother Qiliang be executed, and Ben Shuai will be punished with fifty whips! Liu Lichuan's voice was a little low, and he said bitterly: "Everyone must know. The brother who guarded the city gate as soon as possible came to report, saying that last night, the damned Li Xianchi, greedy for life and afraid of death, led his gang of men to run away, and removed all the 440,000 taels of silver seized in the treasury. In addition, we also loaded and removed all the foreign guns and ammunition in the arsenal that we had not had time to distribute. ”

"What!?" Pan Qiliang shouted: "This dog's Li Xianchi is too lacking in morality!" If Lao Tzu meets him, he will have to kill him alive! ”

However, Xu Yao, the victorious general, said: "With so much silver, why don't you pay your brothers?" If you have foreign guns, why don't you equip your brothers? In a word, Liu Lichuan couldn't answer.

Marshal Chen Alin on the side also glared at Liu Lichuan fiercely, and said indignantly: "It really shouldn't be!" Generalissimo, what do you think! Now that there is no salary, and there is a shortage of weapons and ammunition, what are the brothers going to war with? ”

The corners of Liu Lichuan's mouth twitched, but he didn't say a word, just took off his shirt, exposed his back, nodded at Pan Qiliang, and motioned for him to whip and punish.

At this time, a knife brother outside the door ran in and shouted, "Generalissimo, it's not good, it's not good." Chiefs, no! Li Shaoxi, the head of the military affairs department, led more than 300 brothers of the Little Knife Society, all of whom were fellow villagers of Jiaying, opened the city gate early this morning and went out of the city and entered the American concession, which should have surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. ”

"Ah?!h These, including Liu Lichuan, the leaders of the knife club present all gasped!

Damn brutes! Such a thought sounded in everyone's heads!

Li Xianchi just swept away some property, and this Li Shaoxi directly threw himself into the official mansion and turned the spearhead to target the Ming Kingdom and the brothers of the Little Knife Society.

Liu Lichuan was even more flustered: If this continues, the Qing soldiers have not yet begun to attack Shanghi City, and the Ming Kingdom and the Little Knife Club will be finished by themselves.

Who knows, these leaders of all walks of life, who are still called brothers today, will also defect to the enemy tomorrow!

No, you have to find a way.

For today's plan, I can't help myself! You have to contact the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom quickly, show your desire to take refuge, and let them send troops to save you!

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