It is said that because of Yang Xiuqing's distrust of him, Luo Xuan was disheartened and left the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with his old subordinates and went south to Hong Kong for refuge.

But he is not a person who is content with stability, Luo Xuan joined the Heaven and Earth Society in his teens, and raised the banner of anti-Qing, this has been a horse for more than 20 years, and it is impossible for you to let him learn to live as an ordinary person in Hong Kong.

At first, he stayed in his house with nothing to do, and almost fell ill. Later, I was bored and went out to find a job. But he is such a resolute person, he can stand the command of the boss who picks the door, and he picks on the son after a few days. How could he be willing to be called around for a little money when he was dominating the battlefield and was drunk?

His subordinate Jiao Er and other old brothers are in a similar situation to him, and they can't stay in Hong Kong.

"It's all fucking cheap, and I can't live a stable life." Luo Xuan laughed at himself, and when he was fighting, he said that he would retire to the rivers and lakes and live a good life in the future. really retreated, it was even more uncomfortable, the sword and blood on the battlefield had become a part of his life, and he really wouldn't do anything else in this life except fighting, and he didn't want to do it.

At this time, the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society sent him a letter from Liu Lichuan in Shanghai, calling on the colleagues of the Guangdong Heaven and Earth Society to go to Shanghai to help in the war.

This Liu Lichuan is a veteran of the Guangdong Tiandi Association, and he is also very famous in the association. He is a native of Xiangshan, knows foreign languages, and is a sugar donor. He has a lot of money in his hand, he is kind and charitable, and he often helps his brothers in the association, very much like Song Jiang in the Water Margin, who is righteous and squanders money, has strong activity and organizational skills, and has a good reputation in the association.

Luo Xuan received Liu Lichuan's letter, and that lively mind started again, so he contacted his old buddy. Everyone wants to go to Shanghai, continue to fight with the Qing court, and break out of the world again.

So Luo Outline took Luo Meiying, Jiao Er and more than 100 other old subordinates to Shanghai after several rounds, ready to fight with the Qing army again.

But after entering the county seat of Shanghai, like Yang Xiaoshan's feelings, Luo Xuan did not expect that the military discipline of the rebel army was so poor, the fighting quality was also very weak, there was almost no combat experience, and there were even many opium smokers in the team.

Sure enough, within a few days, the rebel armies in response to the uprising in the surrounding counties were defeated and retreated, and the uprisings in Qingpu, Jiading, Baoshan, Nanhui and other counties failed. Jiangsu Governor Gil Hang'a led more than 10,000 Qing troops to counterattack from the direction of Suzhou, and even several counties, and the situation of the Little Knife Society suddenly became critical.

To add insult to injury, in the face of failure, the confidence of many people in the Little Knife Club was shaken, and the original uprising of more than 10,000 people suffered a serious loss of personnel after several failures.

The defeated troops retreating from all over the country, together with the defenders of the county seat of Shanghai, now add up to just over 4,000 people. Seeing that the situation is not good, many people deserted. On the day when the Luo brothers entered the city, Li Zhaoxi, the leader of the Meizhou Gang, took more than 200 fellow villagers out of the city to surrender to the Qing army, and got a hat for the alternate magistrate.

"Brother Luo, you're finally here." Seeing Luo Outline and others coming to defect, Liu Lichuan was overjoyed, although he himself was praised as the generalissimo, but fighting a war is not a gang, and his military ability is really not good. Seeing the Qing army's counterattack, he was helpless, but Luo Xuan was recognized as a master of combat in the meeting, and his arrival gave Liu Lichuan hope.

"Marshal Liu, we're late, and we've been delayed a lot of time on the way." Luo Xuan apologized, at this time, Liu Lichuan had already proclaimed himself the generalissimo of the Ming Kingdom.

"It's not easy for you to come so far from Hong Kong. Not too late, not too late, now the Qing army is pressing the border, and it is the right time to come, I will not tell you, brother, I am anxious, and the nearby counties have been lost one after another, and now it has reached the most critical moment. Liu Lichuan didn't expect it to be so difficult after the uprising, how many people slapped their chests in front of him, but at the critical moment, they left without saying hello. The team without cohesion is like this, they can only fight with the wind, and when they encounter difficulties, they will fall and scatter, and each will go back to his own house to find his own mother.

Liu Lichuan saw that Luo Jian didn't answer, afraid that he would also leave him, so he hurriedly said: "Brother knows that it is a little dangerous to ask you to stay at this time, and here I have prepared two thousand taels of silver for everyone, which is a little thought." Liu Lichuan knew that Luo Xuan and the others were worth the price, and wanted to spend money to trap him.

Luo Xuan waved his hand and said: "We are here to resist the Qing court, so with this bit of silver, we should hurry up and buy some food and firearms, and prepare for war urgently." ”

Seeing that Luo Xuan didn't want silver, Liu Lichuan couldn't help but give him a thumbs up in his heart, there are too few people who don't want money these days, and for a little money, there are many brothers who are opposite. "So far, do you want to ask Brother Luo how to defend this Shanghai county?"

"First of all, we must strictly enforce military discipline, after we entered the city, we also saw some brothers harassing the people in the city, such a thing must not happen again, we must send people to supervise military discipline and enforce military discipline. We must do great things, and we must not act like bandits, otherwise it will be too unpopular. Luo Xuan's words were generous and powerful.

"Military discipline must be strict, and there must be good policies for the people, such as exempting them from taxes for three years, and winning their support, so that we can better gain a foothold in Shanghai." Luo Xuan continued.

"We still have to prepare for war urgently, the Qing army is pressing the border, we have to be fully prepared, we must dig traps outside the city to delay their siege, and we must dig deep trenches inside the city to prevent them from blowing up the city wall. The foreign guns, cannons, and warships we have captured must be uniformly dispatched, so that we can better defend the city. "Luo Xuan's combat experience is still very rich.

After listening to this, Liu Lichuan knew that Luo Xuan was definitely a good fighter in war, and if he wanted to be entrapped, he had to give real power, so he followed closely: "Brother, I am just a businessman, although everyone elected me as the generalissimo, but I also know that I can't carry this banner." In this way, now I will appoint Brother Luo as the governor of Pinghu and the commander-in-chief of the county's defense, what does Brother Luo think? ”

Luo Xuan didn't shirk it, but his brows were still tightly locked: "Even if we do the following points, I'm afraid we can only delay for a while, there is only this lonely city within a radius of a hundred miles, and it is too difficult to defend it." I suggest that we should change our ways, put away the signboard of the Ming Kingdom, play the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and strive for their support, which is the only way to keep the county seat of Shanghai. ”

This is the preciousness of Luo Xuan, although he has a grudge against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but he seeks truth from facts, for the survival of so many rebel troops, he still said that the last retreat of the Little Knife Society, and that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom must be united in order to have the strength to compete with the Qing court.

"This 。。。。。。" Liu Lichuan was a little embarrassed, he understood the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but the Little Knife Society was the majority, and it was the largest number of people in the Heaven and Earth Society, and the Heaven and Earth Society had always been aimed at opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. At this time, if you want to join the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, you are afraid that your subordinates will not agree.