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Ma Yingkui's fourth town had 400 musketeers, and he sent 300 of them to the moat, and under the protection of the shield bearers, they crossed to the inner side of the moat, and divided into three groups to take turns shooting at the head of the city to suppress the attack of the defenders at the head of the city. Another hundred musketeers, along with a battalion of soldiers, were sent to the east gate of the castle to cut off the escape of the defenders of the castle to the east.

Three hundred musketeers took turns firing, and the rain of bullets flew up the city, and a dozen defenders screamed and were hit by the projectiles, and the others were too frightened to show their heads again. A few agile soldiers climbed the diagonal drawbridge, wielding sharp axes to chop and pull the ropes of the drawbridge.

With a "click", the suspension bridge where the rope had been cut fell heavily, smashing to the ground and splashing the sky with dust.

Two 500-pound guns were unloaded from the ship and pushed to the side of the drawbridge, and the muzzles of the black holes pointed directly at the city gates.

"Boom" two loud bangs, and then look at the city gate was smashed by cannonballs out of two large holes.

After several rounds of shooting, the gates were smashed to pieces.

"Kill!" Two hundred pikemen in full armor rushed into the city, led by the bald head of the camp Zhenglin.

Before the guerrilla army came out, in order to improve the combat strength of the guerrilla army, Ren Siqi divided the armor captured from Yangzhou, and now there are more than 4,000 pairs of armor of various types in Chongming, with an average of 1,000 armor per town, which is assigned to experienced Daishan veterans.

In the weather of leap June, the climate was very hot, and the armor was naturally not suitable for wearing, and when the artillery bombarded the city gate, Lin Guangtou, who was in charge of the attack, put on the armor only after two hundred veterans such as Lin Guangtou.

When the Ming army arrived outside the city by boat, Hong Enbing, the main general of Hujiagang Castle, was sulking in the garrison. At the end of last month, when the Songjiang prefect sent by the Qing court arrived at Songjiang Prefecture, Hong Enbing, who had received the news, hurried to Songjiang Prefecture, surrendered to the newly arrived Qing prefect, and was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Jinshan Guard. However, when Hong Enbing led his troops to the Acropolis to take over power, most of the generals of the Acropolis were very dissatisfied with his surrender, and Baihu Puyin scolded him as a traitor who betrayed the country and defected to the enemy. Opposition to the surrender of the Qing Dynasty prevailed, and Hong Enbing had no choice but to leave the Acropolis and return to Hujiagang Castle.

Hujiagang was his territory, and all the soldiers in it surrendered with him and shaved their heads.

"Report to the chief soldier, the Ming army is coming!" Just when Hong Enbing was depressed, a subordinate ran to report in a panic!

"The surname Hou is shameless!" Subconsciously thought that Hou Chengzu of the Acropolis sent troops to attack, Hong Enbing picked up his weapon and rushed out.

"It doesn't seem to be the soldiers of the Acropolis." The messenger hesitated.

"Where the hell is the Ming army!" Hong Eun Bing looked over viciously.

"I, I didn't see the flag clearly." The illiterate subordinate bowed his head timidly.

Unwilling to deal with this waste anymore, Hong Enbing picked up the long-handled Guan knife and ran quickly towards the city wall, shouting to his soldiers to gather as he ran.

The arrival of an army outside the city had already shocked the whole city, but most of the soldiers in the city went to work in the fields outside the city, and only about 200 soldiers were still in the city at this moment. However, most of them are Hong Enbing's personal soldiers, and their combat power is not bad. However, the soldiers also hurried out of the house, one by one disheveled. In June, when it was just past noon, the scorching sun was in the sky, except for the peasant households who worked hard to cultivate, who wanted to wander outside with nothing to do, of course, stayed in the house to enjoy the coolness.

Looking at the more than 100 pro-soldiers gathered around him, Hong Enbing's heart relaxed slightly. The city was not large, and more than 200 people guarded it along with the defenders on the city wall.

When he ran to the city, Hong Enbing was surprised that the Ming army outside the city had already crossed the moat along the pontoon bridge made of boats, and as soon as he stretched out his head to look out, a projectile screamed past his ears, and he hurriedly retracted his head.

"Lord Commander, the Ming army seems to be cutting the ropes of the suspension bridge." A pro-soldier reported to him. Hong Enbing turned his head and looked around, there were more than 200 soldiers gathered at the head of the city, including only more than ten archers, and they could not suppress the Ming musketeers under the city at all.

Although the defending side has a great advantage in a siege battle, it is also necessary for the strength of the two sides to be not too different. And now there are more than 5,000 Ming troops outside the city, and there are only more than 200 defenders in the city, how can this city be defended?

If only the soldiers who went out to work were in the city, more than a thousand people were enough to defend this castle, and now I am afraid that the only way to escape is to flee as soon as possible!

In just an instant, Hong Enbing judged the dangerous situation, and immediately rushed towards the east gate with more than 100 of his own soldiers. He wanted to take advantage of the Ming army's attack on the west gate and escape from the east gate.

Since the lord was about to flee, the other defenders at the head of the city suddenly scattered, and a small number of people followed Hong Enbing to rush out, but most of them fled back to their homes. The soldiers were supported by Hong Enbing and should serve him, and what did his ordinary military family follow, and his ancestors lived in this fort, where could they flee to?

hurriedly returned to the garrison mansion, took out the war horse in the stable, turned a deaf ear to the cries of his wife and concubine, and rushed out with his two sons on the war horse. There were more than 20 war horses in the city, and some of the personal soldiers stepped on the war horses and followed behind Hong Enbing.

Just when Hong Enbing had not yet fled to the east gate, the "boom" cannon sounded, and the west gate was shattered.

Ordered the defenders of Dongcheng to put down the drawbridge, open the city gate, and urge the war horses to rush out, but before Hong Enbing urged the horses to cross the drawbridge, he was shocked to see more than a thousand Ming soldiers suddenly appear outside the moat on the opposite side, and one hundred and ten musketeers were in the front, and the fire rope on the gun had been ignited.

"Bang bang bang...", the continuous sound came, Hong Enbing felt a pain in his chest, and he planted his war horse.

A round of musket fire shot the leading traitor Hong Enbing, and frightened his own soldiers to retreat to the city. The Ming army outside the east gate took advantage of the situation to rush into the city, the main general was dead, and all the relatives and soldiers were unwilling to resist anymore, and surrendered one after another.

Without much effort, Ma Yingkui captured the castle without any casualties, except for a soldier who climbed the drawbridge to cut ropes.

After entering the city, Ma Yingkui ordered that all the defenders with shaved heads and braids should be executed. Since they chose to shave their heads, they planned to surrender to the alien race and become traitors, and not killing them was not enough to deter those who came after.

Hong Enbing's personal soldiers all shaved their heads, even ordinary military soldiers also shaved most of them, Ma Liang felt that there was too much killing, and persuaded Ma Yingkui to only kill Hong Enbing's two sons and more than 100 personal soldiers. The remaining hundred or so ordinary soldiers narrowly escaped with their lives.

Ma Yingkui drove Hong Enbing's family members out of the garrison, and there was no need to kill these women and children. Then the garrison will be the town general, which is the office of the fourth town after that.

There were more than 500 families living in the city, and the total population was more than 3,000 people, all of whom were military families and their families, and a large number of military families lived outside the castle.

After deliberation, Ma Yingkui ordered that all the military households and their families in the city be expelled from the city, and that a batch of silver seized from the garrison should be used as their settling-in expenses, and each household should be given a settling-in fee of ten taels of silver, with which they could rebuild their houses outside the city. More than 10,000 taels of silver were seized from Hong Enbing's home, which was enough to pay for the military families' settlement expenses.

For these military households, the lives of themselves and their families were preserved, their property was not lost, and there were ten taels of settling-in expenses, but they moved from the city to live outside the city, and there was no dissatisfaction.

Hujiagang Castle covers an area of one mile square, with a school field, a warehouse and stables, and all kinds of facilities, which can accommodate more than 500 military households, and if you squeeze it, it can naturally accommodate 5,000 soldiers from the fourth town. However, not all the soldiers of the Fourth Town will be stationed in the castle, and half of them will be led by Ma Liang to Dianshan Lake.

Jinshanwei, Dianshanhu, and Wusongcheng are the three fulcrums of Chongming's control of Songjiang Mansion, as for the prosperous county town, Chongming's troops are now unable to capture it, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty will never allow Songjiang Mansion to be occupied by Chongming, even if it occupies the city, it will definitely not be able to hold it, and it will be the second Yangzhou.

On the second day after capturing Hujiagang Castle, Hou Chengzu, a general of Jinshanwei, came to congratulate him, and invited the Chongming army to reinforce Songjiang Mansion by the way. When he learned that half of the Chongming army would stay in Hujiagang Castle, Hou Chengzu grew up and couldn't close his mouth for a long time.

Ma Yingkui patiently explained to Hou Chengzu that the reason why the Chongming army stayed in Hujiagang temporarily was to leave a back road for the army heading to Fucheng, so that Chongming could support from the sea.

Seeing that the Chongming army was unwilling to return the castle to Jinshanwei, Hou Chengzu had no choice but to return to Jinshanwei. The reason why he came to ask for this small castle was because there were more than 1,000 military households belonging to the castle, as well as tens of thousands of acres of land belonging to them, which was a huge wealth. Seeing the prestige of the Chongming army, Hou Chengzu knew that this wealth might never come back.

For the military households belonging to Hujiagang Castle, Ma Yingkui and Ma Liang discussed and decided that all military households would be converted into civilian households, and they would no longer need to serve in the military, and the fields they cultivated would be distributed to them, and they would only need to pay taxes to the castle every year in the future.

The status of military households in the Ming Dynasty was very low, and they were able to change from military households to civilian households, which made these people ecstatic.

After two days of correction in the castle, Ma Liang took the two battalions of Ren Baoquan He Bin and more than 2,500 naval soldiers, and took more than 100 warships along the Caojing River to the direction of Songjiang Mansion, and invited Hou Chengzu, the general of Jinshan Guard, to reinforce Songjiang together. Since he said to Hou Chengzu at the beginning that he was here to support Songjiang's uprising, he naturally had to make a show, but in the eyes of Ma Liang and Ma Yingkui, the gentry in Songjiang City would definitely not welcome the entry of the Chongming army, and with the gentry's disposition to fight for power, they must be afraid that once the Chongming army entered the city, it would mean that the tentacles of Yue Guogong would extend to Songjiang. Let them obey Ren Siqi's command, which the conceited gentry cannot tolerate.

Hou Chengzu came to converge with more than 1,000 people, and the two armies converged in Caojing Town and went north together. The Caojing River is a canal dug in the early years to transport grain, and it leads directly to the Huangpu River in the north.

On the 18th day of the sixth month of the leap month, the two armies arrived at the city of Songjiang, and the army was stationed outside the city, and Ma Liang and Hou Chengzu entered the city to meet the highest official of Songjiang, Shen Youlong, the former governor of Liangguang.

Sure enough, there was no surprise in advance, Shen Youlong, Li Zhiwen and others welcomed the arrival of the Chongming Army and the Jinshanwei soldiers, but did not allow the two armies to enter the city, but used Jinshanwei as the reason for the southeast heavy fortress, and asked Hou Chengzu to lead the troops back to defend Jinshanwei. For Ma Liang's Chongming army, in the name of the righteous people of Suzhou asking for support, let Ma Liang lead the team to Suzhou to support the righteous people in the war to seize Suzhou.

According to Ma Liang's understanding, the army in Songjiang Mansion also included Wu Zhikui, the deputy commander-in-chief of Wusong, and Huang Fei, the subordinate, but both of them were beaten out by the Wenchen in Songjiang City in the name of reinforcing Suzhou.

Perhaps in the eyes of these ministers, the local soldiers in Songjiang were more credible, while the domineering generals could not give them a sense of security.

Ma Liang and Hou Chengzu separated outside Songjiang City, and took their subordinates to take a boat along the Mao River to Dianshan Lake. Two days later, they arrived at Dianshan Lake and stationed in Zhujiajiao, by the lake.

Dianshan Lake is located at the junction of Songjiang Mansion, Jiading Mansion and Suzhou Mansion, occupying a radius of dozens of miles, and the nearby lakes and rivers are connected, and the water network is dense, which is the best place for guerrilla warfare.

The maliangsuo guerrilla army was stationed in the Yuanjin Monastery, a temple with more than 5,000 houses, which was most suitable for the army to be stationed.

Hearing of the arrival of an army, the gentry near Dianshan Lake were extremely alarmed, and sent representatives to the army, sending hundreds of stones of rice and a large amount of wine, fish and sheep to inquire about the intention of the Chongming army.

"We are the army of the Yue Guogong, and we have come to protect the people of Qingpu County from the brutal Qing army." Maleonn spoke in the words of the League, and the representatives of the gentry departed in doubt.

In the following time, this Chongming army was stationed in Dianshan Lake, unlike other Ming troops, this Chongming army was disciplined, basically did not harass the people, and the soldiers were also willing to help the nearby villagers, and soon won the favor of the nearby people, when the army drilled, there were many curious children to watch the training.

In addition to training the army, Maleonn sent propagandists from the League to visit the gentry in various places to learn more about the local area. Dianshan Lake is located in the west of Songjiang Fuxi, the land is rich, is the real land of fish and rice, Ma Liang came with more than 30,000 taels of silver, he took out the silver to buy rice and other specialties in large quantities, and then transported back to Chongming by boat. Chongming Island's grain reserves are only enough for a few months, and Chongming's land is not enough to feed 200,000 people, so it needs a steady stream of procurement.

According to Ren Siqi's order, as long as the Qing army did not attack, Ma Liang's troops would take root in Dianshan Lake, set up a guerrilla area, and attack the inferior gentry who surrendered to the Manchus while training their troops, confiscating their family property for military use, and then using it to expand their own power.

After the 2,500 men have been trained, the army will be expanded and the strength will be strengthened.

And in Hujiagang Castle, Ma Yingkui did the same thing as Ma Liang. (To be continued.) )