The thousands of households were scared when they heard Zhao Guodong say this, the Qing army slaughtered them like wolves and tigers just now, but now Zhao Guodong still asked them to die, how dare he go.

Zhao Liangdong saw that the thousand households were afraid of death, so he pulled him to the front of the battle, pointed to the corpses of the Qing army all over the ground and said, "See, these are all just killed by us, aren't you still at ease?" ”

Chito looked at the corpses all over the ground and stammered, "This... This.. This is also too powerful, dare to ask the lord who is the garrison of that place? ”

"We are the garrison of Nanhaiwei in Guangdong, and we are here to save you by the king of Chu, the king of Chu."

This Qianhu has never been out of Nanzhili in his life, where has he been to Guangdong? But when I heard that it was a system, I immediately felt a lot more cordial.

I didn't expect the gap between the same guards to be so big at first glance? That Qianhu looked at Zhao Guodong's men one by one in high spirits, which was different from their military households, no wonder they had such strong combat effectiveness.

The Qianhu arched his hand and said, "My lord, I can gather the villagers, but they have no leader, and they are afraid that they will be enough to attack the city." ”

"Don't worry, you don't need to attack the city, you just clean up the battlefield behind."

Hearing that there was no need to send him to death, the Qianhu relieved himself and began to find his subordinates to collect the rout.

Zhao Guodong said to Zhao Guoliang: "Guoliang, you inform me to hand over the work of cleaning the battlefield to the township soldiers, and we are ready to attack Jiading County." ”

After receiving the order, Zhao Guoliang went down to prepare for the arrangement.

At this time, Li Chengdong was sulking in Jiading City, he had robbed this place twice, the first time was not bad, and he grabbed more than 80 boats of gold, silver and jewelry. can be a few times in the back of the hair did not grab a stick, the local people are poor to death, can't eat, how can there be anything for him to rob?

At this time, a young man in his twenties came in outside, it was Li Chengdong's godson Li Yuanyin. Li Yuanyin is not Li Chengdong's own son, he was snatched by Li Chengdong from a family of scholars in Shaanxi when he was a rogue. Later, he found that Li Yuanyin was brave and resolute and very resourceful, so he adopted him as his adopted son. In the past few years, I don't know if Li Chengdong did a lot of moral things when he was young, and he has never had children, so Li Chengdong cultivated Li Yuanyin as his successor and valued him very much.

After Li Yuanyin entered the house, he saw Li Chengdong sulking, and stepped forward and said, "Dad, what's wrong?" ”

"Boy, I'm thinking there's really nothing to rob in this place. And why can't those villagers kill their mud legs? Isn't it just shaving their heads, aren't they afraid of death? ”

Li Yuanyin has always opposed Li Chengdong's surrender, seeing that this is an opportunity, plus there is no one in the house, he whispered: "Dad, these villagers know that their parents are affected by the body, don't they respect their ancestors?" ”

Li Chengdong saw that there was no one in the house, and he also put his mind at ease to say a few words to his son. "Child, how do you know that the situation in Yangzhou is urgent. Brother Gao handed over his orphans and widows to me, and I can't take them to death. In addition, these Qing troops are like wolves and tigers, we are not opponents. ”

Li Yuanyin was about to continue to persuade his father to go on to persuade him to come in anyway, when a personal soldier came in outside. "General Bao, a group of troops dressed in red outside the city, waving the banner of the Ming army, have already defeated our two thousand brothers outside the city."

Li Chengdong was still a little confident in the combat effectiveness of his army, so he only brought 20,000 troops to counter the rebellion this time. In this way, outside the city, 100,000 Ming troops were beaten and their armor was dismounted. I didn't expect to meet such a strong Ming army in Nanzhili?

Li Chengdong was very interested, and took his son Li Yuanyin to the city wall to watch.

At this time, Zhao Guodong on the opposite side had already lined up the army and was preparing artillery.

Li Chengdong looked outside and asked, "Are they just so people?" ”

"Yes General!"

"You bunch of waste, let three or four thousand infantry defeat?"

"General, their artillery is very powerful, and most of us were killed and wounded before we even rushed to the front of the formation."

Li Chengdong was just about to speak, when the Ming army in strange costumes on the opposite side began to attack the city.

Zhao Guodong is a representative of typical artillery doctrine, don't talk about anything else before the war, let's talk about shelling first. Zhao Guodong ordered the artillery to aim solid shells at the city wall and start bombardment.

You must know that Jiading City has changed hands three times in the past two months, and it has been slaughtered twice. Li Chengdong had just entered the city, and he didn't have time to strengthen the city defense, the city gate was basically no different from no defense, and the city wall was also damaged in many places.

Before Zhao Guodong could fire a few shots, a city wall collapsed. Li Chengdong didn't see it well, so he hurriedly ran down the city wall with his son.

Li Chengdong said to his son Li Yuanyin: "Child, you quickly organize the team, and you must not let this group of Ming troops enter the city." ”

Li Yuanyin surrendered his hands to prepare for defense.

Now that the Qing army has just entered the city and is robbing everywhere, how can they bother to prepare for defense, Li Yuanyin and his personal army can easily organize seven or eight thousand people to block the city gate and wait for the Ming army to enter the city.

When Zhao Guodong saw the collapse of a city wall, he did not order the shelling to stop, but ordered the artillery to continue to bombard other places. This time the artillery was too enjoyable, and each artillery shot a full ammunition base before Zhao Guodong stopped the shelling.

At this time, there was no good place for the Jiading city wall opposite, and there were as many as four holes as long as 100 meters.

Seeing that it was time to attack, Zhao Guodong called his four regiment commanders and said: "Each of you takes a battalion and an artillery company, and enters the city separately. ”

The four regimental commanders led their respective teams from the breach.

Zhao Guodong led the rest of the people out of the city gate and went in.

As soon as he entered the city gate, he encountered Li Yuanyin's powerful sniper, and Zhao Guodong did the same as Qian Yong, ordering the artillery to shoot at close range. Most of the houses in Jiangnan are wooden structures, and the walls are mainly made of plates, which can withstand artillery fire. Li Yuanyin's troops were beaten and retreated.

Li Chengdong, who was behind, received news that the Ming army outside the city had been divided into five ways to enter the city, and the firearms were sharp, and they couldn't resist it at all. At this time, Li Chengdong's temper came up, and he ran away if he couldn't beat it. The first few times when Jiading City was broken, he was also very undisciplined, leaving the soldiers and running away.

Li Chengdong asked his soldiers to find his son Li Yuanyin: "Son, the enemy is too powerful, we have been fighting for a day, so we can't run away quickly." When he returned to Suzhou Mansion, he was leading his men back to take revenge. ”

Li Yuanyin knew his father-in-law's temper very well, and he had no choice but to lead his own soldiers to escort Li Chengdong out of the city.

The run of the official left a group of Qing troops without a leader, and they were quickly divided and wiped out by Zhao Guodong and them, leaving more than 1,000 people as prisoners. However, the local people of Jiading were killed one after another to take revenge.

Now there are more than 10,000 people around Jiading City, plus a total of 70,000 or 80,000 township soldiers outside the city. Zhao Guodong asked them to elect a leader, and they had something to say.

These ordinary people elected a squire Lou Fuwen to meet Zhao Guodong.

Lou Fuwen asked, "Dare to ask the general who is the rebel army in that place?" ”

"We are from Guangdong, and we have been ordered by His Royal Highness the King of Chu to rescue the people of Jiangnan."

Hearing Zhao Guodong say this, Lou Fuwen breathed a sigh of relief, because he was not familiar with the clothes, he was afraid that these people were the defeated soldiers who temporarily crossed the border, and those people were not much stronger than the Qing soldiers. Now that I heard Zhao Guodong personally say that it was an official army, I couldn't help but feel relieved.

Lou Fuwen said: "The general is here, and he can lead us to resist the Tartars. ”

Zhao Guodong shook his head and said, "You also saw our numbers, and now we just beat the Tartars away." But they will still send other people, and sooner or later they will not be able to keep that day, what will they do then? ”

Lou Fuwen was also stunned, yes, the entire Nanzhili was the world of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, where could he go?

Zhao Guodong threw out the immigration plan at this time and said: "Or you can go to Guangdong with us, that place is the world of our Han people, and the king of Chu protects us." ”

"But it's a long way south to Guangdong, but how can I go?"

"Don't worry about this, our King of Chu has already prepared the ship, as long as you organize the people."

As a serious Han Chinese, Lou Fuwen has a deep plot of being difficult to leave his homeland, and he really doesn't want to leave his hometown and go to Guangdong, thousands of miles away, until the last moment.

But the difficulties in front of him are in front of him, if he doesn't leave, the Manchu army will come again in a few days, and he himself has avoided the slaughter of the city twice, and it is difficult to say whether he can avoid it next time.

Lou Fuwen gritted his teeth and thought: "Okay, the left and right are dead, go and fight, maybe you can survive the death." Thinking of this, Lou Fuwen arched his hand and said, "Then please general, I will go and organize the villagers, where are we going to withdraw and wait for the ships?" ”

This King of Chu didn't say anything, Zhao Guodong thought for a while and said: "You guys first withdraw to the mouth of the Liuhe River, there are five of our big ships waiting there, and the rest of the ships will come later." ”

In the next few days, the whole city began to be busy, and everyone knew that there would be no way to survive next time the Qing army came again, so there was no complaint about going south to Guangdong. After the organization of the local gentry, all the peasants in all the towns and villages around Jiading rushed to the county seat, and a total of nearly 150,000 people gathered. Three days later, he began to slowly go out of the north gate and rushed to the mouth of the Liuhe River.

Zhao Guodong saw that so many people had gathered, and he was also very worried, now that the team was huge, it was easy for the Qing soldiers to come and cause chaos.

But fortunately, Li Chengdong escaped alone this time, so he took more than a dozen personal soldiers with him. If you want to gather the army, you have to return to Suzhou Mansion, which is a hundred miles away, and you can't catch up in ten days and eight days.

In the past three days, Zhao Guodong has not forgotten the orders of Qian Yuting, the concubine of the king of Chu. Qian Yuting knew that Zhu Hongsan was sending troops to Nanzhili, and privately found Zhao Guodong who went to Jiading, and asked him to take someone to Changshu Qian's house when he was free and take his mother to Dongguan. Qian Yuting said very politely, but Zhao Guodong dared to listen politely. Qian Yuting is a partial concubine canonized by Emperor Hongguang, and she is only a little lower than the concubine Ma Xiaofang in terms of legal system, so Zhao Guodong hurriedly agreed to win a row, and promised to take the princess's family to Dongguan safely.