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"I don't know why General Longjiang came to find this official?" Li Hongfei asked.

He is now a veritable general soldier, and of course he can call himself "this officer" in front of Stilwell.

"My lord, I want to join the army!" Stilwell suddenly knelt down on one knee and saluted Li Hongfei.

"Oh? You are the righteous son of Shi Inspector, why don't you follow Shi Inspector, but come to my little Suzhou New Army? Li Hongfei said curiously.

At the same time, there was also a burst of vigilance in my heart: "This guy shouldn't be here, he's here to pull the team!" ”

After all, there are only more than 1,000 people left in Shi Kefa's army, and now that he is recruiting new soldiers, it will definitely be too late to participate in the next battle.

Li Hongfei is not worried about others prying the corner, because he has confidence in his army, even if Zhu Youzhen sends a message and promises a big official, he can only transfer one-third of the army during Li Hongfei's coma, which shows the cohesion of the new army in Suzhou.

As for Guo Sheng privately bringing troops to the front line, Li Hongfei can also understand that this guy is the master of the brain, and he only thinks about killing the enemy and serving the country.

Moreover, before Li Hongfei fell into a coma, he did not give an order to let him defend Zhenjiang, so Guo Sheng did not disobey the order.

It's just that Shi Dewei is also an important member of the imperial court, once he speaks, Li Hongfei is really not how to refuse, after all, the defense of Nanjing is about to start, and Li Hongfei's own strength is limited, so he can't wait to find Qi Hongying to secondment the Qi family's army, how can there be extra soldiers to give to Shi Kefa?

"After this war, my father-in-law was a little disheartened and decided to stay in the court and no longer take charge of the army." Stilwell explained.

Shi Kefa is no longer in charge of the army?

Li Hongfei was stunned for a while, and then after thinking about it, he was relieved.

In Li Hongfei's view, Shi Kefa is a person who understands righteousness, has a literati arrogance, and treats soldiers very kindly.

However, the words of mercy is not in charge of the soldiers, it is not just talking, Shi Kefa is kind to his soldiers, and he is the same for the people in the city.

However, in order to protect the property of the common people and give them a place to shelter from the wind and rain, Shi Kefa directly rejected these proposals.

If the house is really demolished, the Yangzhou defenders have enough rolling wood thunder stones, not to mention repelling the Manchu Qing Dynasty, when the south gate is broken, Shi Dewei does not have to lead the team, take human lives to fill the city gate, after all, the role of the rolling wood thunder stone can not only be used to resist the enemy, but also to quickly block the city gate.

Shi Kefa's kindness is even to the level of pedantic, if Li Hongfei is allowed to defend the city, he will definitely do everything he can, as for demolishing the house and the like, his life is almost gone, what is the use of asking for that house?

It's a big deal to let the court spend money to rebuild after the war.

Thinking that Shi Kefa would no longer be in charge of the army in the future, Li Hongfei looked at Shi Dewei on the side again, this may be an opportunity..........

"You were originally the deputy commander-in-chief appointed by the imperial court, and your position should be higher than Guo Sheng and others, but the Suzhou New Army has a set of systems for the new army, so for the time being, I will appoint you as the deputy commander of the third division of the new army, are you willing?" Li Hongfei asked.

"Don't worry, the deputy division commander is only temporary, the division commander is acting by the officer, and after you are familiar with the generals below the third division, the third division will be under your command." Li Hongfei then added.

Suzhou New Army was established until now, has been because of the lack of leading generals, so are the regiment as a combat unit, although there is also the title of division, but only the first division Guo Sheng this division commander, after Zhang Chao meritorious service, promoted to the second division commander, the third division has not yet had a suitable commander, now because of the combat mission, can only be concurrently served by Li Hongfei as the commander of the third division, and so Stilwell is familiar with the new army military system, and after making meritorious service, he can smoothly take over the third division.

Li Hongfei took in Shi Weiwei, mainly to use his appeal in Yangzhou to resist the Qing Dynasty, and he is Shi Kefa's righteous son, so he will have a great advantage in recruiting soldiers in the future.

In Suzhou, there are more than 30,000 soldiers, which are already saturated, and if they continue to be recruited, it will seriously affect the productivity of agriculture and handicrafts, and what Li Hongfei did in Suzhou is not popular with the outside world, and in terms of recruitment, national heroes are still needed to win popularity.

"The last general is willing to serve the dead!" Stilwell exclaimed.

At this point, Stilwell officially became a general under Li Hongfei............

Li Hongfei of Zhenjiang was urgently assembling his team and preparing to leave for Nanjing, and as the Yangzhou massacre incident continued to ferment, the people in all parts of the south gradually realized the seriousness of the situation.

The massacre "ends in seven days", but the massacre in Yangzhou lasted for ten days, which is unprecedented.

When the literati in the south heard the news, they condemned the atrocities of the Qing army.

The upsurge of civil resistance to the Qing Dynasty was once again unprecedentedly high, and many people with lofty ideals spontaneously organized militia groups and rushed to Nanjing in order to resist the invasion of the Tartars again.

They were reluctant to join the local government, because there were rumors from many literati in the south: when the city of Yangzhou was broken, the general soldiers of various towns did not rescue because of internal fighting, and even forced Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier of Wuchang.

Even Li Menghui in Suzhou wanted to lead the new army to rescue, but because of the upstream interception of the river, there were not enough boats to cross the river, so he could only look at the river and sigh.

Of course, all this is the public opinion spread by Jinyiwei and Dongchang, the purpose is to show that the saint has the heart to resist the Qing Dynasty, but the traitorous ministers are in charge.

The power of public opinion is very strong, so that all righteous soldiers who want to resist the Qing Dynasty will definitely not join the local government, and even with the spread of public opinion, the general soldiers who stay in various towns must also face the choice of standing in line.

You said that you resolutely resisted the Qing Dynasty, then you sent troops to reinforce Jinling City! Even the saints have sworn to live and die with Jinling, what kind of door are you hiding behind to resist the Qing Dynasty?

Among them, the most affected is Fujian Zheng Zhilong.

The people even shouted the slogan of a national thief, after all, if Zheng Zhilong's sailors did not withdraw, Yangzhou would definitely not be easily broken............

"His grandmother's, Zhu Youzhen, the emperor's old man, is very powerful, this is forcing us to make a statement!" Zheng Zhihu directly spoke rudely.

Listening to the people scolding the national thieves one by one, even the Zheng Jiajun who was preparing to rebel, everyone felt uncomfortable at this time.

After all, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he still planned to continue to operate Fujian and other places, and now that this massacre is carried out, who will support you in surrendering the Qing Dynasty?

"In my opinion, it's better to go straight to it, this Nanming sees that the number of qi has been exhausted, if my sailors come out with the elite and cooperate with the Daqing Iron Cavalry, within half a year, the entire Nanming will be gone, who will dare to say anything at that time?" Zheng Zhibao is the most straightforward.

The Qing army's slaughter of Yangzhou, has made the people everywhere panic, at this time if you surrender, but you can also protect the peace of the party as an excuse, don't look at everyone is so fierce now, that is because everyone is afraid of death, landlords and old wealth, but also worried about their property being encroached upon, so they will work together.

As long as the Qing army can guarantee that the initiative to surrender will not only avoid death, but also retain part of the property, these ordinary people will definitely not make such a fuss again.