The Daishan army fleet continued up the Shuojiang River, and after passing Chongming, the river gradually narrowed. The width of the river gradually decreases from the mouth www.biquge.info of the sea for dozens of miles, and when it reaches Jiangyin, the width is less than three miles.

Ren Siqi stood on the bow of the "Princess" and looked at the south bank, and could vaguely see the Jiangyin city wall.

In the original history, not long after, Jiangyin, a small county town, resolutely raised troops against the Qing Dynasty in order to resist the Manchu Qing Dynasty and retain the Han family and Miao descendants.

Under the tide of hundreds of thousands of imperial troops surrendering without firing a shot, tens of thousands of people in Jiangyin County raised the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and fought to the death against more than 200,000 Qing soldiers under the leadership of Yan Yingyuan. Hold on to Jiangyin City for 81 days, and no one surrendered when the city was broken.

When the Qing soldiers went south, how many civil officials and military generals surrendered to the Manchus, and Yan Yingyuan was a small history, a micro-official who did not enter the stream, but resolutely raised the banner of resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and would rather die than surrender after being captured.

At this moment, Ren Siqi really wanted to order the fleet to dock and go to visit Yan Yingyuan in person. However, at this time, Yan Yingyuan was still just a petty official, I'm afraid he didn't expect such a feat in the future!

The fleet continued to move forward, and within a day the ship arrived at Zhenjiang, Ren Siqi ordered to stop on the south bank of the Yangtze River and set up camp.

"Before you arrived in Nanjing, why did General Ren order the ship to be stopped?" Eunuch Lu Fang asked in amazement.

"Stupid!" Before Ren Siqi could speak, Shen Tingyang snorted and scolded.

"If the Manchu soldiers attack Jiangnan, they will definitely go south through Yangzhou, and stop at Zhenjiang to stop the Qing soldiers from crossing the river, what are they going to do in Nanjing?"

For Lu Fang, Shen Tingyang has never had a good face, and in his opinion, eunuchs and martial artists are not good things.

However, Lu Fang's temper was very good, and he was not angry after being scolded, and after thinking for a while, he actually agreed with Ren Siqi's order.

"Let's go back to Nanjing to pay the decree, and by the way, report your intentions to the imperial court, general." Lu Fang said that he was about to get off the boat.

"Father-in-law Lu is not in a hurry," Ren Siqi hurriedly grabbed him.

"Father-in-law Lu, you also know that once the army is launched, there is a lot of loss every day, and there is not much food left for our army, so please ask Father-in-law Lu to go back and report to the court and allocate food and salary for our army!" As he spoke, he asked someone to hand over a plate of silver, which amounted to as much as a thousand taels.

"This is our family's duty, you don't have to be polite, general." Lu Fang excused himself, accepted it, and turned around and got off the boat.

After Lu Fang got off the boat, Ren Siqi immediately ordered to set up a water camp by the river on the south bank.

Under the command of Li Yanzhi, director of the General Staff Department, the officers and men of the whole army worked together and set up camp in more than an hour.

Because the ten three-masted galleons such as the Princess were pointed bottom sea vessels, with a deep draft, they were placed on the periphery of the river center, and with them as the backbone, a strong camp was set up.

There is plenty of passage for boats inside the water camp, with large boats outside and small boats inside. The whole camp is like a forest of masts, flags and flags, and the bearing is solemn. The small boat that gave the order shuttled freely in the camp, and the soldiers of the various departments ordered it to be forbidden, showing a strong army, and Shen Tingyang on the side was amazed.

At the beginning, Shen Tingyang looked down on Ren Siqi very much, because Ren Siqi's youth was really excessive.

What battles has a young man in his twenties experienced? What qualifications do you have to command an army, and how can the imperial court pin its hopes on such a person?

However, in the past few days of contact, Shen Tingyang's impression of Ren Siqi and Daishan Jun has changed greatly.

The weather of the Daishan Army was completely different from the Ming Army that Shen Tingyang had seen. Unlike the half-dead and numb appearance of other Ming soldiers, every Daishan Army soldier he saw was so vigorous and radiant!

Although he still doesn't know what the combat effectiveness of this army is, from the equipment of the army, Shen Tingyang knows that the combat effectiveness should not be bad.

Take this big ship "Princess" as an example, needless to say, the huge size of the ship is naturally needless to say, Shen Tingyang once presided over the transportation of the Ming Dynasty, and he has also seen a lot of big ships.

But the twenty-four red-clothed cannons on the second deck of this ship, Shen Tingyang was terrified when he saw it. There are also a lot of red-coated cannons in Daming, but they are all placed at the head of the city and used to defend the city, when can they be loaded on the ship? Isn't this kid surnamed Ren afraid that the ship will break apart when the cannon is fired?

In addition to the Princess, there are also a lot of guns on other ships, of course, because of the structure of the ship, ordinary Ming ships cannot be equipped with red-coated cannons, but they are equipped with a lot of firearms. According to Shen Tingyang's understanding, in the entire fleet, there are as many as 500 large and small firearms!

This is not counting the muskets in the hands of the Daishan soldiers, according to chatting with Ren Siqi, there are 3,000 musketeers in the entire Daishan army. This is not surprising, because the use of firearms in the Ming army has been very common, and the Ming army in Jiangnan is also equipped with a large number of firearms.

But firearms and firearms are also different. At least in Shen Tingyang's eyes, the musketeers of the Daishan Army were different from the musketeers of the other Ming Army.

The shape of the muskets was not much different, but the musketeers of the Daishan Army were very fond of the muskets in their hands.

Shen Tingyang noticed that each musketeer had a cotton cloth around his waist, and when he was free, he would hold the musket in his arms and wipe the musket carefully, whether it was outside the gun or the chamber of the gun.

Looking at their attentive expressions, the muskets waiting for them were more careful than the mothers who were waiting for them.

Such an army made Shen Tingyang feel frightened and very excited. With such an army here, maybe there is still hope for the imperial court!

When the army was encamped, someone had already reported the news to Zhenjiang. A large army was stationed on the banks of the Zhenjiang River, and it was impossible for the Zhenjiang government to ignore it.

The prefect of Zhenjiang personally brought people to the riverside to inquire about the intention of the Daishan army.

Li Tao, the prefect of Zhenjiang, is a person from Zhongmu in Henan. During the Apocalypse, he was born as a third-class jinshi, and in the past 20 years, he has been promoted from the seven-pin prefect to the five-pin prefect.

When he learned that a fleet had come to Zhenjiang, Li Zhifu was shocked. Of course, it's not that I'm afraid that the enemy is coming, and now the whole Jiangnan is still the world of the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible for an army to come to Zhenjiang silently.

What shocked Governor Li was that the arrival of troops meant trouble.

The army at the end of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the army with the worst military discipline, burning, killing, looting, ** women, they have done a lot of such things. Just a few months ago, across the river, the warlord Gao Jie of Jiangbei envied the prosperity of Yangzhou and came to Yangzhou with his army.

Later, Shi Kefa, a member of the cabinet university, went to appease him in person, and Gao Jie agreed not to enter Yangzhou City.

Now that an army has come to Zhenjiang, how can Governor Li not be frightened! (To be continued.) )