Wusongkou, the rolling Yangtze River has since entered the sea in the east. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Huangpu River and the Wusong River merge and flow into the Yangtze River. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it has been an important place for coastal defense, and it is the first gateway for the sea to enter the Yangtze River.

In the nineteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Wusong River was set up to guard the thousand households, and Wusong City Fortress was built, and Wusong General Army was set up during the Jiajing period, specializing in anti-Japanese affairs. The famous general Yu Dayou repeatedly broke the attacks of the Japanese in Wusong.

After more than 200 years of construction and development, the circumference of Wusong City is four miles, the city is two zhang and five feet high, and the moat is five zhang wide and one zhang deep, which is connected with Wusong River. The city is three miles away from the Yangtze River, with four city gates, 1190 pheasants, nine enemy platforms, and there are water gates leading directly to the Wusong River.

The fortified city and the hundreds of warships that stayed on the Wusong River were the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's ability to control the Yangtze River and prevent the internal invasion of the Japanese invaders.

However, after the fall of Nanjing and the capture of Hongguang, Wu Zhikui, the general soldier who defended Wusong, was unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but he was also unwilling to resist Li Chengdong, the general soldier of Wusong appointed by the Qing Dynasty, but left Wusong with some of his men and all the warships, and retreated into the Liuhu area in the west of Songjiang Prefecture.

Li Chengdong easily took over Wusong City, but because most of the Ming army's naval warships subordinate to Wusong were taken away by Wu Zhikui, and now Li Chengdong only has more than 100 small river boats in his hands, which makes his mission of attacking Chongming impossible to carry out. Before being sent to Wusong, in order to be able to conquer Chongming Island, Duoduo strengthened Li Chengdong's military equipment, and allocated several green battalions to him on the basis of more than 3,000 elites in his direct lineage, so that now Li Chengdong's subordinate troops have reached more than 10,000.

But only soldiers can't do it, and they can't attack Chongming Island without warships, so after arriving at Wusong City for more than ten days, Li Chengdong sent people to contact Wu Zhikui while repairing the city defense, trying to recruit him to surrender. Who knew that Wu Zhikui did not react to Li Chengdong's surrender, and it is said that he went to Suzhou with the navy.

On June 10, a rebellion broke out in Songjiang Prefecture, and the people of Songjiang expelled the Manchu prefect under the leadership of Shen Youlong, Chen Zilong and others, and occupied the city of Songjiang Prefecture.

After the news reached Wusong, Li Chengdong was unable to send troops to quell the rebellion, because without a naval division, his army could not cross the Huangpu River. Moreover, the rebellion in Jiading was before Songjiang, and the hundred warships that Li Chengdong had left in the east of Jiading (because the water level was too shallow to sail into the Wusong River) were burned by the rebels in Jiading, and three hundred of his subordinates who remained in Jiading were killed.

Jiading is only more than 70 miles away from Wusong, and the riots of the rebellious people directly affect Wusong's supplies. Li Chengdong knew that he had to send troops. He left the deputy general Li Renzhi to defend the city, and took his younger brother Li Chengliang's son Li Yuanyin and 8,000 elite soldiers out of the city and went to Jiading. However, halfway through, he received a messenger from Zhang Tianfu asking for help, and learned that Chongming had sent troops to attack Taicang Prefecture.

For Li Chengdong, the riots of the rebellious people in Songjiang Jiading were not to be feared, and they could be easily extinguished as soon as the soldiers arrived. Only the Chongming army is a big trouble, and when he was in Yangzhou, he knew a lot about the tenacity of the Chongming army. However, Li Chengdong also knew that after the Battle of Yangzhou, Ren Siqi's army also lost more than half, and now there are thousands of elite soldiers in Chongming.

In fact, in Li Chengdong's heart, he was not convinced by Ren Siqi, the reason why Ren Siqi was able to hold Yangzhou in the first place was because the city was high and deep, and there was a naval army controlling the canal. If the two armies face each other, Li Chengdong is confident that he can defeat the Chongming army with only one army.

Li Chengdong's subordinates are the old base of Xingping Bo Gaojie, with 1,500 elite cavalry, and they have been fighting with Gao Jie for many years. In addition to not daring to fight against the Manchurian Eight Banners, Li Chengdong did not pay attention to the other green battalion soldiers and the remnants of the Ming army.

Therefore, when he learned the news that the Chongming army was attacking Taicang, Li Chengdong immediately changed his march to Taicang, passed through Luodian Town, defeated more than 1,000 righteous people gathered in Luodian, entered the town and ransacked it, killed more than 2,000 people in the town, and continued to go west.

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Chongming Island, Chongming New Town, Ren Siqi has already received the news of Li Chengdong's troops.

"Send troops, capture Wusong City, and cut off Li Chengdong's retreat!"

With Ren Siqi's order, the soldiers of the first town and the entire army of Mao Eighteen's sailors were dispatched to the south bank of the Yangtze River.

More than 20 three-masted sailing ships took the lead and sailed into the Wusong River, firing a hundred cannons, and more than 100 small boats of the Qing army were beaten to the ground after a little resistance.

With the support of artillery, the infantry of the first town easily stepped on the west bank of the Wusong River and attacked Wusong City.

Wusong City is more than three miles away from the Yangtze River, and there are more than ten artillery pieces at the head of the city, but compared with the artillery of the Chongming army, it is inevitably too weak. The distance of more than three miles is within the range of the Daishan army's artillery. There were a large number of Hongyi cannons on the three-masted galleons, among which there were dozens of cannons captured from the Dutch on the "Princess" and "Flying Fish", with a range of about four or five miles.

The Ming warships lined up in the Yangtze River and launched an artillery bombardment on Wusong City. At this time, Wusong did not set up forts along the river, mainly when Wusong City was set up, mainly to prevent the Japanese, and the artillery fire of the Japanese ships was far inferior to that of the Ming army, so I did not expect that Wusong would one day encounter artillery bombardment from the river. At this time, the Qing army did not have a naval division, although the Wusong city fortress was strong, but for the Ming army, it was almost undefended.

Dozens of cannons took turns firing, and the shells smashed into the city of Wusong continuously.

The pheasant moat was shattered, the battlement mouth was cracked, and the Qing army in the city was overturned on their backs and screamed again and again.

In fact, the artillery at that time were all solid shells, and Ren Siqi had the intention to develop hollow shells, but they never developed them.

Although the artillery fire of the Ming army was fierce, it was not a great threat to the Qing army in the city. But the feeling of being beaten and not being able to fight back is really uncomfortable, and most of the Qing troops in the city were taken away by Li Chengdong, and now the remaining 2,000 people in Wusong City are all soldiers with average combat strength.

Therefore, under the artillery attack of the Chongming army, the Qing army in the city soon could not withstand it. Half a day later, the Qing army in the city, under the leadership of the deputy general Li Renzhi, withdrew from Wusong City and pursued Li Chengdong to the west.

Ren Siqi personally led the army into Wusong City, the warships of the Chongming Army were distributed in the Wusong River and the Yangtze River, with Wusong City in hand, there was a foothold in the mainland, and in the future, the materials from all over Songjiang and Jiangsu Prefecture would be able to enter Chongming in a steady stream.

It's not over after taking Wu Song, Ren Siqi's next plan is to exterminate Li Chengdong's traitor army.

After suppressing Jiading, Li Chengdong returned to Songjiang, destroyed the Shen Youlong Righteous Army in Songjiang Fucheng, defeated Wu Zhikui's water division, and finally broke through the Jinshan Acropolis. It can be said that nearly half of Jiangnan's rebellion against the Manchu Qing Dynasty was extinguished by Li Chengdong, of which no less than 100,000 people died under Li Chengdong's hands. Although Li Chengdong later led the troops anyway, he was only dissatisfied with the treatment given to him by the Qing Dynasty, and he was not really interested in the Ming Dynasty.

In this life, the three massacres in Jiading have not yet happened, and Ren Siqi will never tolerate an executioner like Li Chengdong, long before Chongming sent troops, he made up his mind to exterminate Li Chengdong.

After occupying Wusong, Ren Siqi made a slight arrangement and ordered Jin Yufei to lead 3,000 people to defend Wusong City, while he himself personally led two battalions of veterans out of the city and headed for Jiading. (To be continued.) )