June 22, before the shaving order.

Wu Song's general soldier Li Chengdong's forward has arrived at Wu Song's city.

Along the way, Li Chengdong tried his best to restrain military discipline, and the people in Jiangnan were very cooperative, and the march was as comfortable as a tourist.

The whole army had more than 300 ships, loaded with gold and silver treasures and beautiful women, and assembled at Dongguan in Jiading. The fleet was commanded by General Liang Desheng, and Li Chengdong left him 300 men to guard the spoils of the whole army.

As usual, Liang Desheng got up from among the bare women and walked into Jiading Dongguan with a smile. In the past few days, Liang Desheng's soldiers and the residents of Jiading got along very well, talked and laughed, and did business happily. Since I had braids, I have lived such a beautiful life, I want money, I want women, I want women.

Walking and walking, Liang Desheng felt that the atmosphere was not quite right, and his face became more and more solemn. In Rong Ma's life, Liang Desheng had a keen sense of smell and turned around and returned to the fleet to make preparations.

When thousands of villagers exploded around, Liang Desheng had already occupied a small hill nearby. Arrows and arrows were fired frequently, and after fighting for a long time, Liang Desheng paid the price of 84 dead in battle, killed the leader of the rebel army, and routed them.

When Liang Desheng returned to the fleet, he wanted to cry without tears. The rebels robbed them of their gold, silver, treasures, and beauties, and the gains they had made for months of fighting were all over.

The pro-soldier asked tremblingly, "Sanrong, what should we do?" ”

Liang Desheng slapped the bare head of the pro-soldier, and made a crisp sound, "What else can I do, go and inform the general town." ”

……

Because the speed of advancement is too fast, Li Chengdong has gone deep into Suzhou Mansion. Liang Desheng reported that Jiading was controlled by the Ming army, which meant that Li Chengdong's connection with Suzhou in the rear was cut off.

After a good trip like this, Li Chengdong was inexplicable at first, and then very nervous. He sent cavalry out in all directions, contacted the Ming army, and did fire reconnaissance around, and it took more than ten days for Li Chengdong to finally understand that it was originally made by hair. With a shaving order, the Yangtze River was full of rebels, and Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui joined forces to attack Suzhou. Li Chengdong was between Jiading, Songjiang and Chongming, and he was surrounded.

Du Yonghe, deputy commander-in-chief, asked Li Chengdong: "General Town, the food and salary have been lost, what should we do?" ”

Li Chengdong held his braid in his hand and looked at it for a long time, looking very strange.

"The ...... of the town" Du Yonghe raised his voice.

"Huh?" Li Chengdong came back to his senses, "Jitai, what do you think?" “

"Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui have tens of thousands, and the cavalry report shows that the main force of the army has gone to Suzhou, should we take the opportunity to retreat first?"

Li Chengdong snorted coldly, "Huang Fei looks down on me, I am so close to Wusongkou, and the first target of the Ming army is Suzhou." “

Du Yonghe speculated, "Suzhou has money, and it is estimated that Huang Fei urgently needs Suzhou to supplement his food." “

Li Chengdong: "Jitai, these two people are both sailors, although there are many people, many of them are weak sailors. Abandoning the sea and driving the boat into Taihu Lake and the Huangpu River, Huang Fei is to promote the shortcomings and avoid the strengths. “

Li Chengdong opened the map, pondered for a long time in the many rivers in the two prefectures of Songjiang, Jiangsu, and made up his mind to fight, "Jitai, the time has come to make great contributions." Huang Fei sent it to the door, how can we not laugh at it. “

Du Yonghe crossed the map with the palm of his hand, "We will seize the Wusong Pass and cut off the Huangpu River." “

"That's right! But until then, I'm going to take Jiading back. You hold the rear team and go to Shanghai to collect grain. I led the troops to open up the connection with Suzhou. ”

Du Yonghe should be.

"And. Immediately sent cavalry to Suzhou to ask Li Shutai for help. ”

Li Chengdong narrowed his eyes, "It's okay if you lose the silver." And they will not be able to run away from my money. Perhaps, we can get more silver and women. ”

……

Compared with the Ming army, Li Chengdong had very few troops. As early as May, Duoduo began to dismantle the four towns, disbanded 100,000 people, and released them home.

Li Chengdong now has 700 cavalry and less than 3,000 infantry left. After leaving Du Yonghe behind, Li Chengdong took 2,000 people back to attack Jiading.

June 27.

The forward cavalry reported to Li Chengdong, "Zongzhen, last night's fifth watch, our army rushed into Jiading Dongguan, annihilated 300 people of Wu Zhikui's department, and pierced the pseudo-guerrilla Cai Qiao like a stinging fish and shrimp. ”

"Well done. How is the defense of Jiading City? ”

"There are cannons, but it's not easy to fight."

Li Chengdong scolded, the Jiangnan Ming army disintegrated too quickly, Jianzhou did not have time to fully collect weapons, and many guns and artillery were scattered among the people.

"Go to Yuepu and Yangjiaxing to collect strong men, and we will attack!"

Three days later.

In Loutang, north of Jiading City, tens of thousands of rebels camped outside Jiading City.

Li Chengdong and Yang Yue walked side by side. Yang Yue is the Hanlin girl that Li Chengdong got in Yangzhou, and she is deeply loved, and Li Chengdong takes it with her wherever she goes.

Pulling the woman's reins with his right hand, Li Chengdong said softly: "You wait, I'll come back after beating those people." ”

After speaking, Li Chengdong was about to ride his horse.

"General...... They have dozens of times more people than you......"

The corners of Li Chengdong's mouth smiled, Yang Yue rarely spoke, was this concerned about him?

"It's okay, no matter how many people there are, it's not enough for me to fight."

Li Chengdong's words were full of confidence.

Li Chengdong put on a crab claw array that made the rebels laugh loudly. Li Chengdong's basic tactics are very simple, he has always led himself to form a formation among the infantry, and the cavalry is spread out on both wings. His army's cavalry and foot coordination are excellent, and all kinds of routines and combinations are in Li Chengdong's heart. The people of Jiangnan had never seen this kind of fighting at all, and the laughter was still echoing in the air, and tens of thousands of people were crushed by Li Chengdong's cavalry, and the cavalry trampled on their horses, and the corpses were ambushed for more than ten miles.

Li Chengdong Tu Jiading four passes, besieged the city.

……

Tongzhou City, State Ya.

Li Shilian dragged the braid of the governor of Tongzhou with one hand and threw it in front of Tian Yang.

Tian Yang looked at Zhizhou on the ground with tears in disgust, and waved his hand, "Drag it down and kill it, and hang the city gate." ”

"Zhongcheng, there are still many traitors in the city......"

"All are rewarded to you."

Li Shilian achieved his goal, and Meizizi went on.

Zhang Pengyi on the side and Li Shilian's back disappeared, and said to Tian Yang: "Zhongcheng, Li Shilian and Zhang Guozhu's soldiers and horses torture is really too much, and the soldiers will kill the residents with pigtails when they see them, which is called 'killing and shaving their heads', and the officers and soldiers are almost the same as thieves, and they also ask Zhongcheng to restrain one or two." ”

Zhang Pengyi said it very tactfully, and now the people of Nanzhili are fighting. The shaving order caused a split between the ethnic groups, and the back-and-forth scuffle between the shaved people and the bound people was very bloody. Both sides relied on their own armies, and the slaughter of villages and villages abounded.

Tian Yang was silent. Tian Yang is also a native of Guizhou, because of the rebellion in the southwest more than ten years ago, Guizhou was the worst. The local Han gentry rose up to resist, and several Guizhou civil officials with troops emerged during the war, and Tian Yang was one of them. After the shaving order, Tian Yang led Li Shilian, Zhang Guozhu, and Zhang Pengyi generals with a total of 6,000 troops to recover Rugao, Tongzhou, Haimen, one state and two counties in Jiangbei.

Tian Yang has experienced a national melee in Guizhou that is ten times more tragic than it is now, and the tragedy in front of him is difficult to touch his heart. After taking a sip of tea, Tian Yang said slowly: "Bo Jiu, you know, there is no source of food and salary in the army. If we can't get supplements in Jiangbei Prefecture and County, why can our army insist? ”

Zhang Pengyi arched his hand and said: "Zhongcheng, in the north of Tongzhou, the people who have shaved their hair are counterattacking our army, and they are killing people who have not shaved their hair everywhere. I am worried that if this continues, it will be difficult for our army to gain a foothold in Jiangbei. ”

"You don't need to say it anymore," Tian Yang said in a tough tone, "Food and salary are the foundation of the army, and the headquarters has its own measure. ”

Zhang Pengyi had no choice but to withdraw from the state government.

There was no one around, Tian Yang sighed and stroked his forehead with both hands. In fact, he respects Zhang Pengyi very much. Tian Yang didn't know that the soldiers he led were changing from official soldiers to thieves who burned, killed and looted, but as a civilian official, Tian Yang had no choice.

Li Shilian and Zhang Guozhu are not people he can restrain them, and many times, Tian Yang can only coax them to obey orders. Tian Yang can trust, and he has 500 Guizhou soldiers under his command. But even these Guizhou soldiers, Tian Yang's pro-army, military discipline is also very bad, and those bad things outside are indispensable for the participation of Guizhou soldiers. In this regard, Tian Yang could only let it go.

Zhang Pengyi walked out of the state office, and the third brother Zhang Jixiong was waiting outside. Zhang Jixiong is extremely capable of fighting, and he is Zhang Pengyi's land warfare dependence. Zhang Pengyi suffered heavy losses at sea when he retreated south, and now he has less than 2,000 soldiers, all of whom are supported by the three brothers.

"Big brother, what did Tanaka Cheng say?"

Zhang Pengyi shook his head, "He doesn't care." ”

"Big brother, what should we do then? Some soldiers were very envious when they saw Li Shilian and Zhang Guozhu looting everywhere, and I was worried about ......"

Zhang Pengyi's eyes widened angrily, "Third brother, listen well." I can't control anyone else, but my army is never allowed to fight for food. Whoever dares to trespass into a people's house will not be spared. ”

Zhang Jixiong didn't dare to speak, the Shanhaiguan Sailor was strict, Zhang Pengyi said that if he kills, he will definitely kill people.

In the Chongming Army, the discipline of the Navy Division is generally better than that of the Army. Huang Fei was friendly with the gentry and would not go to fetch grain, so he was jointly promoted as the leader of the alliance. Wu Zhikui is native to his hometown, and he will not harm the villagers. Zhang Pengyi is one of the best.

Shou Xuan had seen with his own eyes that a high tide flooded Zhang Pengyi's barracks, and the water had risen to the height of his calf, and no one in the whole army dared to leave the barracks before Zhang Pengyi gave the order.

Zhang Pengyi resolutely refused to fight for food, and the people did not commit any crime in the autumn, and they did not enter the houses at night, and the soldiers did not dare to disobey. The maintenance of this unit until now depends on Zhang Pengyi's personal charm.

The worst military discipline in Chongming was Zhang Guozhu, Li Shilian and Jing Benche, the former pirate who went upstream, and Gu Rongjun, a former pirate who went upstream, had better discipline than them. Before the establishment of the state, it was determined that it could be spread in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Ming army's corrupt behavior of military discipline led to the centrifugation of the soldiers and the people, which was inseparable. Many times, the people had no time and did not dare to tell whose subordinates the Ming army was coming.

The military discipline is too good, and it is not appropriate to hand over the matter of forcibly relocating Chongming immigrants to Zhang Pengyi. Shen Tingyang asked Zhang Pengfei to come over to garrison Daishan Island to prevent pirates from attacking immigrants. The huge Daishan Islands, Zhang Pengfei alone is definitely not enough, and Yang Qianqing was also invited to move over to defend the order, and the 300 Guizhou soldiers in his hands were useless in Chongming.

There are more good harbors on Daishan Island than on Sijiao Mountain, there is Gaoting Port on Daishan Island, and there is Changtu Port between the big and small Changtu Islands, all of which are excellent havens surrounded by island peaks.

After the shaving order, it became easy to recruit immigrants. Since there was no suitable Ming army, Shou Xian invested his own army and Jin Shiying's soldiers to help "persuade" the immigrants.

Shen Tingyang was temporarily unable to develop the large and small Changtu Islands, and all the immigrants were settled on Daishan Island. The voyage from Chongming to Daishan is more than 70 nautical miles, and the whole journey takes more than a week. Because of the influence of the current wind direction, in June and June, there was only time to run twice in the past two months, transporting nearly 20,000 people.

The Orderly is also stepping up its own migration shipments, including the Melville, and all ships that can go to sea have been put into operation. The division of labor between him and Shen Tingyang was that Jiangnan and Chongming were recruited by Shen Tingyang, and Jiangbei was recruited by Shou Order. Li Shilian and Zhang Guozhu plundered in Tongzhou, and the refugees were displaced and brought to Chongming, which also cost money.

There were not enough places in Sijiao Mountain, and the new occupation of Qushan Island was carried out, and the original Chongming garrison was reorganized and moved to the past. There were not as many orderly ships as Shen Tingyang, and less than 10,000 immigrants were transported, plus the first two waves of immigrants to Sijiao Mountain, a total of 25,000 people.

At the beginning of July, the Order received long-awaited reinforcements.

Allemand led the Taipei Detachment to a debut of the nest. The flagships Rafael, Keelung, Tamsui, Storm, Luofu, and Xijiao, as well as two notification ships, Jianjiang and Qinjiang, anchored at Maji Mountain.

The Jianjiang notification ship sailed into the Yangtze River and picked up the order.

When the Jianjiang with the Admiral's flag flew around the bay behind Maji Mountain, the entire detachment and the three forts on Sijiao Mountain fired an earth-shattering salute.

All the Ming troops and immigrants in Sijiao Mountain were alarmed by the sound of artillery and watched the sea parade in silence.

The Ming army raised its head, and Sijiao Mountain set off a wave of cheers. The continent is rapidly falling, and at this moment, there is nothing more inspiring than such a sound of artillery.

On Dahuanglong Island, Gao Jie's widow Mrs. Xing put down her binoculars and said to her nephew, "Maybe we have found a reliable ally for ourselves." “

On the bow deck of the Jianjiang, Hui Xiang clenched his right hand in order, "Is this your fleet?" ”

"Yes," said Order, waving to the sailors at the stations of the ships, "I will make it the strongest fleet in the Pacific." ”

……

Orderly walked into the Raphael's officers' boardroom, and the entire captain stood up.

The Taipei Squadron was to go north to the Li Dynasty during the monsoon transition period, as is customary. According to the plan, this year will be Taiwan's last large-scale expedition to the north. Starting next year, the Taiwan Strait will become a battlefield, and it will be difficult for the main force of the Taipei Detachment to get out for a long time.

After three consecutive years of attack, Jeju Island has not had much of a population. On Alemand's trip, in addition to the warships, there were nearly 80 junk ships of various kinds, including more than 20 purchased from the Shen family at the beginning of this year. Mining is under pressure, and the Taipei Administrative Region hopes to get more animal power. Maiden has made some recent progress with the Jeju horse and Jinjiang horse crossbred horse breed.

The transport ship brought 500 tons of grain to Shou Xiang along the way, all of which were bought from the Dutch and Ryukyuan people at high prices recently, and the potential for grain purchase near Taipei was squeezed out.

"Tempest, Luofu, West Reef, and Jianjiang are left to me." The order was announced, and two brigs and one sloop were dispatched.

The Luofu and the West Reef had just taken on the task of transporting copper ingots and sulfur to Jincheng, and had returned to Taipei with tin, saltpeter and canvas.

In this way, the Yangtze River detachment will have 10 warships, which is barely enough.

This is expected by Allemand, if it is only north to Jeju Island, the Taipei detachment does not have to pour out.

Allemand asked Shou Order's next step, "Is it necessary for us to pass through Sijiao Mountain on the way back?" ”

"If the ship is full, you don't have to waste time, you go straight back to Taipei."