In the morning, more than 3,000 strong men were recruited, most of whom were coolies who carried work on the dock. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info this group of people bear hardships and stand hard work, and listen to greetings, and are the best candidates to expand the army. Like those second-rate ruffians and scoundrels, even if they want to enter the strong team, they will be turned away.

There are special Daishan sergeants to check whether there are calluses on the palms of the hands and whether they are from the coolie background of work, and then ask if they are willing to join the Daishan army, willing to join the army in a separate formation, part of which is used to supplement the soldiers who were lost in the previous battle, and the other part is incorporated into the newly established bow battalion.

Those who do not want to join the army and are only willing to be strong men to defend the city will also be grouped, according to the order of A, B, C and D, they will be organized into teams of every 500 people, and each team will be led by a low-level officer of the Daishan Army, and then a team of 100 people will be set up under each team, led by the veterans of the Daishan Army.

At this rate, more than 5,000 people should be recruited in one day, but less than 10% of them are willing to join the army as soldiers. The status of military households in the Ming Dynasty was extremely low, and the saying that a good man should not be a soldier and that he would not be a soldier was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Yangzhou is also a rich place, as long as you are willing to work hard, you will stutter, and not many people are willing to fight. It is the limit of many people to be able to recruit strong men to go to the city and defend the city, not for the sake of stuttering, who is willing to fight for their lives.

After Yan Ermei returned, he reported to Shi Kefa about the Daishan Army's recruitment of strong men, and suggested that the people should be recruited immediately like the Daishan Army. As for the salary, you can put pressure on those rich merchants in the name of the overseer, and they will not dare to disobey the orders of Shi Kefa.

After listening to Yan Ermei's suggestion, Shi Kefa hesitated for a long time, but in the afternoon, an army suddenly came from the south, bringing the news that Liu Liangzuo, the Bo of Guangchang, had surrendered to the Manchus.

Shi Kefa was shocked when he heard this, and hurried to Nancheng to see what was going on. This army, which consisted of three or four thousand men from the south, was led by Li Qifeng, the general soldier of Gan and Shaanxi, and Gao Qifeng, the superintendent of the army, and had already fled to Zhenyi with Liu Liangzuo, the general soldier of Guangchang.

Afraid that the city gate would be lost, Shi Kefa did not order the city gate to be opened, but sent someone to hang Li Qifeng and Gao Qifeng to the city with hanging baskets.

"Master Inspector, Uncle Guangchang, Uncle Guangchang has been cleared!" Li Qifeng knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Shi Kefa, crying bitterly.

"Why don't you descend with Guangchangbo?" Before Shi Kefa could speak, Ren Siqi, who rushed to hear the inquiry, asked coldly.

Although Ren Siqi had never heard of Li Qifeng, it was too coincidental that he came back this time. The Qing army pressed the border, Liu Liangzuo surrendered tens of thousands of people without a fight, and Li Qifeng was able to escape into Yangzhou smoothly with thousands of people, which is a bit strange no matter how you look at it.

Besides, if Li Qifeng was really loyal, why didn't he go to Yangzhou earlier, but returned to Yangzhou when the Qing troops were encircled? Out of prudence, Ren Siqi instinctively suspected Li Qifeng's motives.

"Who is this?" Li Qifeng stopped his grief and looked at Ren Siqi.

"In Xiasu Bo, Ningbo General Soldier Ren Siqi." Ren Siqi said lightly.

"It turned out to be Uncle Su, who has been looking up for a long time." Li Qifeng saluted Ren Siqi with a solemn and respectful look.

"Uncle, you led three thousand warriors to attack the Manchurian camp at night, and returned from thousands of victories, you are really the first warrior of my Ming Dynasty!" Gao Qifeng, the deputy envoy of the supervising army, also complimented on the side.

Ren Siqi sneered and did not answer.

"Inspector, I am loyal to the imperial court, I am the chief soldier of Ganshan, and that Guangchang Bo, bah, and he Liu Thief are not all the way. After learning the news of Liu Thief's surrender, I immediately led my army north, and if I had been a little late, I would have been intercepted by Liu Thief. Now the thief is ten miles behind me, and I beg the overseer to order the city gate to be opened immediately and let my subordinate soldiers enter the city! ”

Li Qifeng looked sad, and immediately won Shi Kefa's favor, when the Ming Dynasty was in danger, could there be such a loyal and brave person willing to serve the country. When the armies of the Quartet surrendered one after another, there was such an army that was willing to follow him, which showed that what he did as a superintendent was not a very failure!

As for Ren Siqi's thoughts, Shi Kefa didn't think so at all. If Li Qifeng was a traitor, he could directly surrender to the Qing army, and there was no need to enter the dangerous city of Yangzhou! And Shi Kefa was faintly jealous of Ren Siqi in his heart, Ren Siqi's army currently occupies the general strength of Yangzhou, and he also privately recruited strong men to help defend the city. If one day Ren Siqi has different ambitions, who can cure him?

From Ren Siqi's killing of Li Yuchun, who persuaded him to surrender, to sending troops to attack the Qing army without asking for orders from himself, it can be seen that Ren Siqi probably didn't take himself as a supervisor in his eyes at all. Now that such a loyal army has entered the city, it can at least balance the strength of the city.

At this moment, billowing smoke and dust suddenly appeared in the distance in the south, and the generals leading the troops knew that it was a large army on the march.

At this moment, who else will rush to Yangzhou, I am afraid that there is nothing else except to flee to Liu Liangzuo's army, which Zhenyi has surrendered to the Qing army.

"Liu Liangzuo's army has caught up!" Looking at the smoke and dust in the distance, Li Qifeng exclaimed.

"Governor, quickly order the opening of the city, and let the soldiers enter the city as soon as possible." Gao Qifeng also urged on the side.

Seeing this situation, Shi Kefa no longer hesitated, and hurriedly ordered to open the city gate and let Li Qifeng's army in.

With Shi Kefa's order, the city gate slowly opened, and the drawbridge was lowered. The Ganshan soldiers gathered outside the moat scrambled to squeeze into the city, thousands of people rushed to the road, and countless people were squeezed into the moat for a while.

"These bunnies!" Li Qifeng was furious when he saw this, and he told Shi Kefa that he was guilty, and he was going to go down to the city to sort out the queue.

"Mr. Li walks slowly!" Ren Siqi made a look, and Xiong Er stepped forward and grabbed Li Qifeng's arm.

"What do you mean?" Li Qifeng changed color in shock.

"The enemy army is still far away from the city, why do you have to do it yourself, isn't this the senior deputy envoy here, just let him go." You'd better tell the Overseer about the form of the south. Ren Siqi smiled.

Shi Kefa glanced at Ren Siqi in surprise, nodded, and signaled to do as Ren Siqi said. So Li Qifeng could only stay in the city, and Gao Qifeng went down to the city to reorganize the army.

When Li Qifeng told Shi Kefa about the situation along the way, Ren Siqi quietly ordered a guard to follow the city wall and fly to the east city.

Looking at the dust that was getting closer and closer in the distance, Hu Shangyou, the general of the Sichuan army who was responsible for defending Nancheng, hurriedly ordered, and his subordinates bent their bows and arrows to prepare.

After Gao Qifeng left the city, the discipline of the Ganshan army was really much better, and the speed at which the soldiers entered the city accelerated. Finally, before Liu Liangzuo's army, which had rushed to the distance, reached the city, more than 3,000 soldiers of the Ganshan army entered Yangzhou City.

Seeing that there was no opportunity to take advantage of it, Liu Liangzuo's army did not approach the city wall, but slowly retreated and set up camp ten miles away from the city. At this time, except for the east side of the canal, Yangzhou was surrounded by the Qing army on three sides. (To be continued.) )