When Fang Juntai's master heard this, he went limp over, and only after a long time did he tremble and persuade him: "County master, otherwise, let's get rid of the Yue thief!" According to the people who came from Changzhou, after the Cantonese thieves occupied Changzhou City, they did not embarrass the local squires too much. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Wu Qitai, the Jiangsu envoy who surrendered to Suzhou, Pinghan, the prefect of Suzhou, and others did not all surrender to the Cantonese thieves, but I heard that they were only demoted by half a level, and they still governed Suzhou. County master, you see? ”

Fang Juntai looked at his master and looked at him, and shook his head resolutely: "The disciple of the saint in this county, reading the poems and books of the Confucian and Mencian saints, and eating the king's court and Lu, how can you stoop to be a thief?" Deal... Big deal......"

Fang Juntai didn't continue. The master who was lying on the ground hurriedly got up and whispered: "County master, it's better to sneak out of the city tonight and go to the villain's hometown Dingzhuang Shop to hide for a while." When the imperial army recovers Danyang, then return to the city? ”

Fang Juntai still shook his head, when the master saw this, he secretly wondered how the county master had changed his personality? couldn't help but say secretly: "County master, you are bent on being buried in Danyang City, but you can't complain about me." Originally, I wanted to pull you out of the city conveniently, but now, I can only get out of the city by my own means. Fortunately, I have some savings in the past few years. ”

The master had just made up his mind, but he heard Fang Juntai cough and said, "Master, what you said about leaving the city tonight is too late." This Deng Junmen was defeated, and Danyang City couldn't last at night. We must get out of town at once! ”

The master is overjoyed, well, this is the county master he knows! He hurriedly answered, helped Fang Juntai down the city tower, and went straight to the county office: There are still so many money and jewels to be packed.

Before noon, the southwest gate of Danyang City opened, and Fang Juntai and the master of Danyang Governor County had already pretended to be ordinary people, mixed in the middle of hundreds of people, everyone held their burdens and ran out of the city.

Outside the city, He Zhigou, the commander of the 6th Division of the Second Division, who was ambushing three miles away from the city wall, received a report that the gate of Danyang suddenly opened, and he was overjoyed. At this time, he had already found out that there were not many troops in Danyang City, and it was impossible for the Qing Demon in the city to set up an ambush to lure him to attack the city, but it should be true that the people in the city opened the city gate and escaped.

Therefore, He Zhigou ordered his subordinates, Zhou Guoyu, the commander of the third regiment, to lead a regiment of captive troops to meet in the same place, and he personally led the 6,000 soldiers of the 6th Division B besieged in the southwest of the city to seize the southwest city gate. rushed all the way to the city gate, and hedged against the people who hurried out of the city, and the people saw the murderous begging army, and hurriedly dodged to the side.

Even He Zhigou knew that it was impossible for the Qing Demon to set up an ambush, but he didn't expect this: the entire city gate was completely open, and there was not a single soldier guarding it. Next to the city gate, there were also hundreds of clothes of fleeing Qing soldiers, obviously, these city gate guards, all pretending to be ordinary people, either sneaked into the city, or just mixed among the people and fled.

However, He Zhigou didn't think about it, he only knew that the city gate was opened, and the soldiers of his sixth division occupied the city gate. Then, on the one hand, he sent people to inform other friendly troops outside the city to hurry into the city for reinforcements, and ordered two regiments of troops to guard the city gate, and on the other hand, he personally led 4,000 soldiers to capture the army, crossed the streets and alleys, and attacked the south gate of the city.

At the same time, at the east gate and north gate of Danyang City, Ji Shun, the chief soldier of Hezhou Town, and Qin Dingsan, the chief soldier of Guizhou Town, each led more than a thousand Qing soldiers, and each drove thousands of regiments of brave and people-strong, and also opened the city gate and rushed out of the city.

As soon as these old foxes received the news that the main general Deng Shaoliang's 3,000 Miao soldiers had been defeated, they immediately organized their men to prepare to open the city gate and escape, and they all thought of forcing some regimental warriors and Minzhuang to open the way in front, ordering them to run wildly in two directions, and then they themselves led their own soldiers to flee in the other direction. Naturally, the final direction is to the north, Zhenjiang City.

Not to mention, the soldiers of the capture army who originally surrounded Danyang City were attracted by some Tuan Yong and Minzhuang, and while hurrying into the city, they pursued those eye-catching Tuan Yong and Minzhuang, so that Ji Shun and Qin Dingsan really escaped from Danyang City.

However, Ji Shun did not escape far, so he turned directly to the north of the city, and was blocked by the other 4,000 soldiers of the 3rd Division of the B 3rd Division who were guarding there, killing more than 200 people, and the remaining 700 people, all kneeling and surrendering, Ji Shun forcibly tried to escape on horseback, was shot indiscriminately, and died on the spot.

Qin Dingsan is a lot more cunning, he first went to the northeast, then turned to the east, when he was about to reach the canal, and then to the north, plus he was also very lucky, he didn't meet the soldiers of the capture army along the way, and the capture army in this area was in a hurry to attack the city gate, and no one surrounded him, so he really escaped from Danyang.

And here, Fang Juntai looked proud, he had followed a group of people to rush out of Danyang City.

Several bands of thieves rushed past them, but they all thought they were a group of fleeing people, and did not bother them much. Since he escaped from the city this time, he brought a lot of gold and silver jewelry, nearly ten packages, so in addition to Fang Juntai himself carrying the most important package of fine soft jewelry, he also asked four domestic servants and five cronies to bring a package each.

Another group of thieves passed, and it was obvious that these thieves on horseback, who were only a few on horseback, must be the outermost spies, so they finally escaped? Fang Juntai laughed haha: "Master, we finally escaped!" ”

"Yes, county master! Or you were wise enough to try to disguise yourself as a group of outcasts before you escaped. The master flattered him.

Before Fang Juntai could reply, he suddenly heard a gust of wind behind his ears, and when he looked back, it was a servant who picked up a wooden stick on the side of the road and attacked him fiercely.

As he hid behind the servants, he shouted, "Stop? What are you doing? ”

The master was also frightened, and shouted again and again to let him stop.

Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened. The four servants also grinned and grabbed Fang Juntai, and joined forces with the five servants to beat Fang Juntai to death with a messy stick, and the master was also stuck in the throat of the master, and he was killed soon after.

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After easily capturing Danyang City, the Northern Expedition did not stop, but left more than 500 soldiers to guard Danyang City and prisoners, rested for a while, and continued to go north along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal the next day, easily capturing Xinfeng and Dantu two important towns on the canal along the way, and in the evening of the same day, the second regiment of the forward B 6th Division and the 10th Water Division arrived in the east of Zhenjiang City.

In Zhenjiang City, there was a panic.

Lei Yixuan, the squire of the Criminal Department, the assistant in charge of Jiangbei military affairs, and the commander Chen Jinshou, both of them were panicked when they learned that the chief general guarding Danyang, Admiral Deng Shaoliang, had been wiped out. Believing that he could not resist the thieves, he fled without a fight, and led his 6,000 Qing troops out of the city overnight and crossed the Yangtze River.

But in order to cover up that they fled in fear of war and were not impeached by the imperial history, Admiral Chen Jinshou led his troops to attack Guazhou, which was occupied by the Taiping army in Jiangbei, at the suggestion of Lei Yixuan.

In Zhenjiang City, only Xu Naizhao, the governor of Jiangsu, who was demoted to assistant for military affairs, was left.

This person was loyal to the Manchu court, and together with Feng Jingni, a general who stayed in the city, he led the remaining more than 4,000 Qing troops, and organized more than 3,000 Zhenjiang regiments to prepare to hold the Zhenjiang Mansion City.

Unexpectedly, the remaining 4,000 Qing troops, of which nearly 2,000 people, were the Taiping soldiers under Luo Jilong, the deputy general of Yang Fuqing, and Zhenjiang was conquered and surrendered to the Qing army.

At this moment, seeing that the captive army was attacking, these 2,000 people secretly plotted again, preparing to surrender the city, rebel against the Manchu Qing again, and fall to the captive army.

And Feng Jingni, the general in the city, has been squeezed out by the banner people, and at this moment, he saw that the commander Chen Jinshou and the criminal department waiter Lei attacked Guazhou and fled under the pretext of attacking Guazhou, how could there be a reason in his heart to defend Zhenjiang City and bury the foolish and loyal Xu Naizhao?

He quietly hooked up with the 2,000 original Taiping soldiers in the city and plotted to sacrifice the city.

On the night when the main forces of the Northern Expedition of the captive army, the 3rd Division and the 1st Division of the Yiyi Army, arrived outside Zhenjiang City, Feng Jingni led his own soldiers to surround the Yamen of the Zhenjiang Prefect, captured Xu Naizhao who was still asleep, and imprisoned all the Manqi soldiers who were unwilling to surrender in the city, and then opened the city gate and sent people to escort Xu Naizhao to the camp of the 3rd Division B outside the city to surrender as prisoners.

When Lin Qirong heard the report, he thought it was a conspiracy of the Qing army at first! Sent a lookout post to take a closer look, and only then did it confirm that the gates of Zhenjiang Mansion were wide open, and the Qing army in the city had really surrendered.

He was overjoyed at this time, led his troops into Zhenjiang City overnight, and ordered the 6th Division, the 1st Division of the Righteous and the Naval Division to take over various strategic places outside Zhenjiang City, and completely occupy Zhenjiang.