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Ren Xingfan's second flotilla arrived at the mouth of the Liuhe River in the early morning of 11 June and headed west along the Liuhe River, passing through Taicang, Kunshan, and Suzhou to Taihu Lake, which would be a terminus for the guerrilla army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoHaohao Taihu Lake, with a radius of hundreds of miles, is the best place for guerrillas.

After the fleet entered the Liuhe River from the Yangtze River, the first stop was Liujiagang, which was once the first wharf in the world. At that time, Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, led his invincible fleet with Liujiagang as his home port, traveling between the Ming Dynasty and the Western Ocean.

In the past, Liujiagang "was the first official in the southeast, the tax collectors, the merchants, and the merchants, gathered together; Grain ships and merchant ships, high walls and large masts, set like forests; Lin Palace Fanyu, Zhumen Mansion, can not be remembered, the Quartet is called the first pier in the world. ”

Since the rebellion of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has implemented a strict ban on the sea, and there is no official organization of sailing trips, and Liujiagang, the world's first wharf, has gradually declined.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the ban on the sea by the imperial court, Liujia Port gradually shrank. "The world's first wharf" shipping thousands of ships, the prosperity of the scene is gone, and the current Liujiagang is just an ordinary village and town.

There is a thousand-household office in Liujiagang, but with the decline of the port, the thousand-household office is not taken seriously, and the military households are no different from ordinary farmers. When the huge fleet of more than 200 boats in the second town passed by, no one came to inquire except for the village women who were washing clothes by the river in the morning and fled in panic with a basin.

The Liuhe River in the Yongle period, the water surface is as wide as two or three miles, and it can drive more than 5,000 large sea ships, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the width of the water surface is still only about two miles, although there are more than a dozen three-masted sea ships in the fleet, but they can still drive in the river.

The fleet sailed in the Liuhe River, more than 200 ships pulled out a length of more than three miles, and the boats traveling back and forth on the Liuhe River leaned to the shore to take refuge. The boatmen on the ship and the people on both sides of the strait looked at the fleet under the banner of the Ming army in alarm.

All the ships went west under Ren Xingfan's order, so as not to stop.

According to the arrangement of Siqi before departure, the first purpose of the second town's trip is to attack Taicang Prefecture!

In the officialdom of Suzhou in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was known as "Jin Taicang, Yin Jiading, Tong Changshu, Tie Chongming, Tofu Wujiang, Zhaohua Kunshan, Paper Changzhou, and Hollow Wu County", which is the evaluation of the seven counties of Suzhou in one state. It is said that Taicang is rich, as an official in Taicang, not to mention that the grade of Zhizhou is higher than that of Zhixian, and because of the abundance of oil and water obtained from Taicang's storage.

In the 26th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the construction of a transportation warehouse at the south wharf of Taicang, and 919 warehouses were built to store national grain. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, millions of Shicao grains departed from Taicang every year and were shipped to the north by sea. Later, with the ban on the sea, Taicang's status declined, but the warehouses here are still there, and the tax grain in Qingpu and Jiading is concentrated in Taicang, and then enters the Yangtze River through the Liuhe River, and then transported to Beijing along the canal.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were two guards near Taicang, Taicang Wei and Zhenhaiwei, which were responsible for protecting the "first wharf in the world" and the granary. Later, with the abandonment of shipping, the status of Liujiagang ceased to exist, but the two guards remained. During the Jiajing period, in order to prevent the Japanese, Su Song was set up to prepare for the army, stationed in Taicang Prefecture, and controlled the grain reserves of the four prefectures of Su, Song, Chang and Zhen. The granary of Taicang Prefecture has been stockpiled with military rations from the four prefectures all year round, and the reserves are said to be as many as one million stones!

Therefore, the first goal of the second town was to capture Cangcheng, which was located on the bank of the Liuhe River, seize the grain there, and send ships back to Chongming Island.

For more than 200 years, the guards of the two guards in Taicang Prefecture have long lost their combat power and blood in the early Ming Dynasty, and the military households have become farmers like other guards. When the envoys sent by Duoduo arrived in Taicang Prefecture, the Taicang government and the guards immediately surrendered to the Manchus.

According to a detailed report made by the Department of Enemy Intelligence, the current garrison in Taicang Prefecture is the Green Battalion Zhang Tianfu Division, with more than 5,000 soldiers, in order to protect Taicang's warehouse. For the second town, it was not easy to seize the grain. The number of soldiers on both sides is about the same, but one attack and one defense, plus there are only more than 1,000 veterans in the second town, it is not so easy to defeat Zhang Tianfu.

The warehouse in Taicang Prefecture is located at the wharf on the north bank of the Liuhe River, for the convenience of transporting grain. Of course, in order to protect the safety of the grain, a wall was built around the warehouse and a warehouse city was built.

The arrival of the Chongming Army in the second town has long attracted the attention of Taicang Prefecture. More than 200 boats are sailing on the surface of the Liuhe River, and it is difficult for people not to know.

When the fleet just approached Cangcheng, Taicang Prefecture, thousands of Qing troops rushed to the shore to try to prevent the Ming army from landing, led by Zhang Tianfu, the chief soldier of the Green Battalion.

When he heard the report from his subordinates that a large number of Ming army ships had entered the Liuhe River from the Yangtze River and came straight to Taicang, Zhang Tianfu, who was in the city of Taicang Prefecture, was shocked.

Zhang Tianfu, an important person in Taicang, knew very well, otherwise this small state city would not have sent heavy troops to guard it. Because this is where the military preparation road of Susong Changzhen is located, hundreds of thousands of stone rice are stored in the warehouse city by the wharf!

Since leap June, with the promulgation of the shaving order, all parts of the south of the Yangtze River have raised their righteousness, setting off a wave of resistance to the Qing Dynasty, Jiangyin, Suzhou, Jiading, Kunshan, and the prefectures and counties near Taicang have riots, so that Zhang Tianfu is always on guard.

However, for more than ten days, there was no sign of turmoil in Taicang, which made Zhang Tianlu happy and very annoyed, there was no rebellion, there was no war exploits, and there was no excuse to take the opportunity to plunder, not only lamenting that the people of Taicang were too docile.

After hearing that the Ming army fleet entered the Liuhe River from the Yangtze River, Zhang Tianfu did not dare to slack off, because the only Ming army with a large number of ships was the Chongming army. As for the Chongming Army, Zhang Tianfu was deeply impressed, and when he was in Yangzhou a month ago, Zhang Tianfu fought with them. When more than 10,000 of his subordinates attacked Yangzhou, 2,000 died outside the moat of Nancheng. Therefore, Zhang Tianfu did not dare to underestimate the combat power of the Chongming Army.

Among the more than 5,000 people under Zhang Tianlu, there are 800 horse soldiers, 1,000 archers, and the others are ordinary infantry.

Although Zhang Tianlu's subordinates also have hundreds of ships, compared with Chongming's sea ships, Zhang Tianlu's ships are like toys, and they can't have the courage to send ships to meet the battle. Even the sailors stationed at the pier fled ashore and abandoned all the boats.

The water battle will definitely not be fought, so we can only try to prevent the Ming army from going ashore! Or put the Ming army directly on the shore to fight. Looking at the Ming army boats in the river, Zhang Tianfu secretly made up his mind.

The archers were in front, and the sword and shield soldiers were in the back, neatly arranged on the riverbank, used to block the Ming army's landing, while the eight hundred horsemen were hidden by Zhang Tianlu, waiting to give a secret blow to the Ming army on the shore.

It is best that this group of Ming troops is passing, Zhang Tianfu secretly prayed in his heart. u