In January of the third year of Xianfeng, not long after the Taiping army captured Jiujiang, it enveloped 500,000 refugees, known as a million army, and marched east along the Yangtze River to Anqing, and Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, gathered 100,000 troops to defend the fortified city of Anqing, in a vain attempt to block the Taiping army.

At the same time, the Little Knife Society, a branch of the Tiandi Society operating in the surrounding areas of Shanghai, launched an armed riot under the leadership of Liu Lichuan.

The Little Knife Society first attacked the landlords, merchants, and large families in the surrounding areas of Shanghai with huge profits, and then used their property as military expenses, built weapons, and distributed the looted grain to the common people, so as to win the support of the common people, and obtain military resources from them.

Due to the prestige of the Little Knife Society in the surrounding area of Shanghai, the poor people who were oppressed by the Qing court responded to the call and joined the rebellion.

Of course, in terms of purpose, the core members of the Little Knife Society wanted to overthrow the Qing court and rebuild the Ming Kingdom. And the peripheral members of the Little Knife Society and the new common people, they have only one purpose, that is, they can rob homes and houses openly, grab money, grab land, and rob women, this is the essence, any peasant uprising from ancient times to the present is such a group of people, short-sighted, so their final results all failed, only the Red Army that did not rob the common people won in the end.

Regarding the actions of the Little Knife Society, Li Weiguo, who is sitting in Chongming County, has already received a report, but Li Weiguo did not take action immediately, but is planning and planning for the future.

This is Wu Yong's strategy to Li Weiguo, he proposed that Li Weiguo postpone the dispatch of troops to pacify the Little Knife Society, so that the Little Knife Society can wreak havoc in Shanghai first, and it is best to eliminate all the potential hostile forces that will control Shanghai in the future of Li Weiguo, so that after Li Weiguo takes over Shanghai, the resistance to the implementation of various policies will be reduced, and it will be easier to control Shanghai.

Wu Yong knew that Li Weiguo had encountered resistance in purchasing land in Shanghai, and he suggested that Li Weiguo borrow the hand of the knife club to clear these resistances. In this regard, Li Weiguo agreed, he also knew that those banner men were not easy to serve, and it was also a great annoyance for him to take over Shanghai in the future, if he could get rid of them or drive them away with the help of the knife club, then it would be a good thing for Li Weiguo, at least he could get the good land occupied by Haoqiang.

In addition, there is the most important point, that is, Li Weiguo has not yet received the order of the Shanghai County Order, and according to the laws and regulations of the Qing Dynasty, Li Weiguo has no right to mobilize the soldiers of Chongming County into Shanghai County, and Peng Wenyuan, the commander of the Qing army guarding Shanghai County, will not allow Li Weiguo to lead troops into the country, which is a matter of principle.

Therefore, these factors are added together, Li Weiguo is sitting in Chongming County, watching the knife make trouble in Shanghai.

Of course, Li Weiguo didn't know whether to watch it, and he also sent troops to enter the AIIB and Jiangwan Industrial Zone in the name of the security team to protect these two places, because this was Li Weiguo's private property, and he sent troops to enter Shanghai as a security team.

Li Weiguo sent 2,000 soldiers of the Li family army into the county seat of Shanghai and stationed around the AIIB, and Peng Wenyuan, the commander of the Qing army in Shanghai, chose to acquiesce, after all, he also knew that Li Weiguo would become the county commander of Shanghai, and he didn't want to make an unpleasant scene.

In addition, in the Jiangwan Industrial Zone, Li Weiguo deployed 2,000 soldiers of the Li Family Army and built fortifications around it to ensure that the industrial zone would not be affected by the Xiaodaohui rebellion.

Li Weiguo's army at this time had a total of 14,000 people, divided into 14 thousand teams, of which the 1,000 troops had been to Guilin to fight with the Taiping army, belonging to the most elite 1,000 people, although the original second, third, and fourth thousand people had not gone through actual combat, but they were also well-trained elites, and the remaining 10,000 troops were newly recruited recruits, and the training was only a little more than a month.

However, after more than a month of training, these 10,000 people have basically taken shape, and the soldiers can understand the commander's orders, and can use muskets, which is enough to maintain law and order and defend the city.

Li Weiguo has already drawn up a plan, the 1,000-man team has not moved in Chongming County, this is the sharp knife force of the Li family's army, which will be used to fight against the main force of the Little Knife Society. The second, third, and fourth, the three thousand-strong units were broken up and mixed with the remaining 10,000 recruits, with the old leading the new, and the veterans serving as officers, greatly improving their combat effectiveness, and at the same time cooperating with Li Weiguo to strengthen his control over the army.

After the reorganization, the second and third two thousand-strong teams were stationed in Shanghai County to guard the AIIB, and it was necessary to cooperate with Peng Wenyuan to guard Shanghai County. The fourth and fifth two thousand-man teams defended Jiangwan and supported the county seat of Shanghai if necessary.

Li Weiguo personally led the 1,000-man team and the remaining 9,000-man team to sit in Chongming County, and will cross the river into Shanghai at a critical moment to fight a decisive battle with the Xiaodaohui.

Half a month later, under the leadership of Liu Lichuan, the knife club gathered 20,000 people to capture Jiading, played the banner of the Ming Dynasty, and supported Zhu Jie, the nineteenth grandson of the Ming Zhu family, as the emperor, and changed the Yuan Xingming.

This is also the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society, since the establishment of the Heaven and Earth Society, the internal has continued the next year to the present, and there are nine emperors in the middle, Zhu Jie is the nineteenth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, and he is also the tenth emperor supported by the Heaven and Earth Society.

This move immediately stimulated the Qing government, and after Xianfeng learned that there was news of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in Jiading, he immediately ordered Prince Gong to Yi? sent troops to suppress it, and the fear of the Jiading Ming Kingdom even exceeded that of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

And at this time, Yi? The situation is worrying, as the military aircraft foreman, he is responsible for suppressing the rebellion, but most of his orders have not been carried out, and almost all the Qing army commanders and generals on the front line are from the imperial party, obeying the orders of the Sushun three-man party and passively resisting the war.

Zeng Guofan and Zhang Liangji lost Changsha, in fact, it was deliberate, it was all arranged by Su Shun, as long as the battle was lost, Su Shun slandered Yi Xin for incompetence in front of Xianfeng, and asked Xianfeng to remove Yi Xin.

Therefore, this time Xianfeng was really anxious, and gave Yixin a holy decree that he must exterminate the Jiading Ming Kingdom and eradicate the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise Yixin's crime will be cured.

Yi Xin had no choice, and suddenly thought of Li Weiguo, so he immediately sent an 800-mile urgency and ordered Li Weiguo to lead the Chongming County Regiment to train troops to Shanghai to exterminate the Jiading rebels.

Li Weiguo was also helpless after receiving Yixin's order, and discussed with Wu Yong, Wu Yong also felt that he had to go to the army, otherwise Yixin would not be able to explain it, and if Yixin fell, it would not be good for Li Weiguo.

Three days later, after the capture of Jiading, Xiaodaohui successively occupied Nanhui, Chuansha and Qingpu, and then attacked Baoshan, and fought with the Qing army stationed in Baoshan for less than an hour, and then defeated the Qing army, and immediately occupied Baoshan County.

Subsequently, the Xiaodao army was divided into three routes, with a total of more than 50,000 people, preparing to attack the county seat of Shanghai.

When the news reached the county seat of Shanghai, the people were immediately panicked, the Shanghai county order was vacant, and Liu Jianzhang of Su Song Taidao was not there, only Jin Wu of Shanghai Dao and Peng Wenyuan, the general manager of Qian, guarded Shanghai.

However, although Peng Wenyuan nominally had 1,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, in fact, he had only 300 people after many years of empty salary, and there were not enough weapons and ammunition, so he could only barely rely on the city wall of Shanghai County to defend.

Although the Little Knife Club claims to be 50,000 horses, in fact, like the Taiping Army, they are all refugees, and there are only more than 2,000 members of the Little Knife Club who are really combative.

In order to be able to encircle these refugees to participate in the battle, the Little Knife Society could only use money and land as bait, so that the landlords, merchants and wealthy families in the place where they passed were miserable, and they were either wiped out or their homes were raided, and the property and land were distributed to the refugees by the Little Knife Society.

As a result, as soon as they heard that the knife would be killed, the landlords, merchants, and wealthy families from all over the country fled with their families, or fled to the county seat of Shanghai, or fled to foreign concessions, or crossed the river to take refuge in Chongming County.

Of course, not only the rich flee for their lives, but all the ordinary people with some intelligence will choose to flee, they will not be attracted by the money and land of the Little Knife Society, let alone think that the Little Knife Society can fight the Qing government, knowing that rebellion is a capital crime, and fighting will kill people, so they will flee to other places with their families.

After Li Weiguo learned that Baoshan County was occupied by the Little Knife Society, he scolded the Baoshan defenders for their rice buckets, worried that the Jiangwan Industrial Zone would not be able to hold it, so he immediately left 3,000 men and horses to guard Chongming County, and personally led 7,000 soldiers and horses to cross the river.

Li Weiguo has been standing still before, in addition to Wu Yong's strategy for him, Li Weiguo himself also wants to see how the combat effectiveness of the knife will be, after all, it is the first opponent of the Li family, if the knife will be too strong, if the Li family army is not defeated in the first battle, it is easy to frustrate the morale of the Li family, which is not conducive to the growth of the Li family. On the other hand, if the strength of the knife club is not as strong as that of Li Jiajun, then the knife club will become a stepping stone for Li Jiajun to become famous and build confidence for the soldiers of Li Jiajun.

After more than a month of observation, Li Weiguo finally had a comprehensive understanding of the Xiaodao Society through various channels, and found that although the Xiaodao Society gathered 50,000 or 60,000 people, there were more than 12,000 core members.

Li Weiguo knew that as long as he didn't engage with the main force of the Little Knife Society, relied on the fortifications, and used muskets to attack from a distance, he could fight with the Little Knife Society.

When Li Weiguo learned that the main force of the Xiaodao Society was going to Shanghai County, he immediately led his troops across the river and launched an attack on the Xiaodao Society from the rear, preparing to attack the defenders of Shanghai County before and after, and annihilate all the main forces of the Xiaodao Society under the county town of Shanghai.