Chapter 231 Enthusiastic People of Suzhou

The thought seemed to travel through the ages, and it seemed to be fleeting, Weng Tongyi turned his back to Yang Dongfang who walked over: "Thank you for the grace of Yang Dashuai not to kill, Shuping is willing to correct his mistakes, serve the country and the people, and be willing to contribute to the Zhongxing Han, please ask the marshal to please." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Weng Tongyi's choice is undoubtedly correct, and it is also very timely, and it has contributed to the preservation of the urn family, you must know that his two elder brothers are still big officials in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Even if Yang Dongfang has a grudge against him, he can't help but accept it, when he first arrived in Jiangnan, there was no official who was serious, and he was a precedent.

Yang Dongfang not only can't kill him, but also has to be a big official for him to show his mind.

Turning around, I couldn't understand Weng Tongyi anymore, didn't this guy have the attributes of the emperor of the two dynasties? To be honest, Yang Dongfang doesn't have a very good impression of him.

It's not that he made trouble with the county government a few days ago and stabbed him in the back, but this Weng Tongyi is the champion of Xianfeng for six years, the backbone of the Qing school, and the later defeat in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle is directly related to them.

Because of their short-sightedness, they withheld the money for Beiyang's purchase of clippers and shells, which led to the defeat of the Beiyang Fleet in the First Sino-Japanese War. Of course, it is undeniable that Li Hongzhang himself has problems and wants to preserve his strength.

In short, the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese Sea is a very complicated issue.

"Good! If you really want to have a heart, you must first learn and understand the rules of our New People's Army, and I can appoint you as the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture first, oh, no, it's the mayor of Shanghai. Yang Dongfang didn't leave behind Weng Tonggong, who knew a lot, Yang Dongfang ignored him, and when he came to this world, he had seen a lot of celebrities, and he didn't have a cold anymore.

Especially the queen mother of the two palaces has been there, not to mention that Yang Dongfang still misses Cixi Ci'an and the two **** slightly.

Of course, he just thought about it, there were so many things that he didn't have the heart to think about anything else, and then directly took 2,000 people to Taicang, first reoccupied the county seat, and then blocked the back road of more than 1,000 French troops who rescued Li Weili.

This group of French reinforcements, hearing that Li Weili had surrendered, was so frightened that they hurriedly fled, but they were still entangled by cavalry, and it was not easy to leave, and finally saw that Taicang was captured by the New People's Army, and also surrendered.

After all, the chief officer Li Weili has been demoted, and there is nothing unacceptable to them.

Major Green in Pudong couldn't be calm, so he rushed to Baoshan with his people, and the battleship with only half of the naval strength left on the 2,000 French troops drove directly out of the outer port of Baoshan and ran to Yangzhou, where Li Hongzhang licked his wounds on his territory.

Shanghai is an ominous place, it is better to run away, otherwise it will not be good if the whole army is annihilated, after all, Taiwan has not yet been occupied, and this is what the Qing Dynasty promised to France.

Seeing this, Guo Songlin did not dare to storm Shanghai County, and directly retreated to Songjiang Mansion, and even the soldiers and horses of Jiading County retreated to Kunshan.

Yang Dongfang immediately set out to counterattack him, ordering Song Jingshi to lead 4,000 men from Changshu to attack Suzhou. He himself led 2,000 men from Taicang to attack Kunshan.

After receiving nearly 7,000 equipment from the French army, plus the 2,000 rifles that were transferred, and the guns of the original cavalry and guard regiments, Shanghai now has more than 10,000 firepower in his hands, and the total number of troops is 12,000.

Anyway, he can always get it there.

Therefore, the troops in Shanghai were armed with a musket, and the firepower was extremely fierce, with 400 cannons and 100 guns in each department, he needless to say that he quickly broke through Kunshan along the way, and Guangyi's army had to retreat to Suzhou.

Guo Songlin was worried that Yang Dongfang would attack Wuxi from Changshu and cut off the North Suzhou Road, so he had no choice but to stop even the entire Songjiang Mansion, and took more than 10,000 people from Songjiang and Qingpu to Suzhou City and Wuxi.

In this way, the New People's Army completely occupied the entire territory of Songjiang, that is, the entire Shanghai City in later generations, so that the New People's Army faced the Huai Army in the north and the Hunan Army in Jiaxing in the west.

Yang Dongfang took advantage of the great victory to continue to attack Suzhou, two days later to the city of Suzhou, originally Guo Songlin wanted to use the water network to block the new people's army, but Yang Dongfang had a boat, directly transferred over, and the river was very easy to set up a pontoon bridge to cross the river.

In the Jiangnan battlefield, it is generally necessary to rely on the sailors to open the way and block the attack, but when it comes to Yang Dongfang, these are not needed. He can push straight through like a tank.

There is no such thing as a moat.

More importantly, the people of Suzhou were disgusted with Li Hongzhang and hated him, and even the Huai army was also hated.

"What are you the New People's Army, come! The young man got on the boat, the uncle showed you the way, you fought for your ancestors, and the red hair played well. ”

"The New People's Army wants to fight Li Hongzhang. I don't have to say anything, come brother, I'll build a bridge for you. ”

"Big brother! For our prematurely dead man, he killed the Huai Army with a thousand knives. ”

In short, the sequelae of Li Hongzhang's killing and robbery of prisoners in Suzhou broke out because the New People's Army defeated Hongmao and marched into Suzhou City.

There were voices of condemnation everywhere, and the vicinity of Suzhou City was full of support for Yang Dongfang.

"The people's hearts have changed, and Suzhou is in danger!" The tense atmosphere in Suzhou gave Guo Songlin a big headache, and the defensive pressure increased sharply. The contradiction between the government and the people is unprecedentedly acute, and if you dare to walk on the street in the middle of the night, you may be secretly thrown bricks by the common people.

It was the night when the new people's army launched an attack, flew to the city, attacked from the east gate, 20,000 Huai troops in the city (10,000 of which were the eight kings of the Taiping Army, and had been guarding in Suzhou, as the second-line guard of the Huai army) was in chaos, and there was no fighting spirit, and the people in the city heard that the city was broken, and they all carried hoes to catch and beat the scattered Guangyi army, and they behaved extremely strongly, and they reversed the gentle Suzhou character.

Guo Songlin had no choice but to lead his headquarters to break through to the north, but was blocked by Song Jingshi in the north of the city, killed more than 1,000 people, captured 3,000, Guo Songlin took 1,000 elites to escape to Wuxi with the help of the sailors.

Taking Suzhou lightly, Yang Dongfang encountered the situation of the people cooperating with the city for the first time, and ordered under great joy: "Come on, go and greet the people of Suzhou, and give 5 taels of silver to each person, it is not for each person and not every household, it is not easy for the people of Suzhou, they have made great contributions to the revolutionary cause of the anti-Qing Dynasty." ”

Suzhou Mansion, which was supposed to be prosperous, was seen by Yang Dongfang all the way to the dilapidated, densely populated water town in the south of the Yangtze River, full of barren reeds and dilapidated thatched houses standing in the wilderness.

The same is true of the city of Suzhou, where the common people are dressed in tatters, many of them skinny, sick, and lack of nutrition, and more than ten years of war have turned this place into a desert and drained their vitality.

Hearing that the New People's Army issued silver, the people of Suzhou did not believe it at first, but when someone really received the silver, the whole city was boiling, and it was the first time they encountered this kind of army, so they didn't say anything, and came five taels of silver first.

Many people were moved to cry, it would be good if the soldiers didn't rob money, as long as they didn't attack and rob like the Huai Army, I didn't expect the New People's Army to really be benevolent and righteous to give money.

Compared with the two, the image of the New People's Army is higher and higher, and it has become extremely glorious and sacred, of course, this is Yang Dongfang to further buy people's hearts in the south of the Yangtze River, Suzhou City plus the surrounding countryside, the total number is only 100,000 people, and it will cost hundreds of thousands of taels, anyway, Yang is so poor that he has money left.

The people spontaneously ran to the county government or military camp to ask to see Yang Dashuai and bow down to him.

"Folks, please get up, the marshal took people to pursue Wuxi, everyone please go back, live a good life in the future, with our new people's army, everyone's life will get better and better."

did not see Yang Dongfang, many people were unwilling, and many people stayed at the north gate day and night looking forward to Yang Dongfang's victory from Wuxi.

Yang Dongfang kept Song Jingshi in Suzhou City, and personally led people to chase Guo Songlin, Guo Songlin was like a frightened bird, and retreated from Wuxi to Jiangyin, so far Yang Dongfang is not chasing.

"Yang Dashuai, you really let the old man go!" Feng Zicai couldn't see through Yang Dongfang's intentions, and dared to let himself go, puzzled.

Yang Dongfang said: "Why do you want to continue to rely on me to eat and drink for nothing, old man Feng?" You're not a beauty, I can't let go of anything, let's go, don't run into me in the future, maybe I'll kill you next time. ”

has been following Yang Dongfang's new army for half a month, Feng Zicai knows that Yang Dongfang seems to be notorious, sometimes rude, and has a lot of swearing, but in fact, he is a good person, distinguishes right from wrong, and is very sympathetic to his subordinates.

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Feng Zicai was entangled in his heart, hugged his fists and said: "Xie Dashuai's grace of not killing, Nangan is very pleased to be able to kill dozens of red-haired people together under the New People's Army." ”

After speaking, Feng Zicai rode away on horseback.

"Damn! This guy is really gone, and he doesn't look back. Yang Dongfang has a sense of regret, how can I say that Feng Zicai is also a good general, and his ability is very outstanding, will it be a bit of a tiger to return to the mountain if he is released like this.

Soon Yang Dongfang didn't have the heart to think about this problem, because of the enthusiasm of the people of Suzhou, he had to go back to Suzhou, and he couldn't always let people wait for you at the north gate. (To be continued.) )