Ma Yingkui took more than 5,000 officers and soldiers of the Fourth Town and took more than 200 flat-bottomed sand boats, took advantage of the darkness to bypass the mouth of the Yangtze River, went south along the coastline, and arrived at the sea of Jinshanwei at noon. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

According to the joint discussion of the staff officers of the General Staff Department, the base camp of the Songjiang Guerrilla Army was set up in Jinshanwei, and a guerrilla detachment was sent to the area around Dianshan Lake, so that after the first town captured Wusong City from Chongming, the entire Songjiang Prefecture could be controlled by the three fulcrums of Jinshanwei, Wusongcheng, and Dianshan Lake.

Songjiang Prefecture is a wealthy place in the southeast, under the jurisdiction of Qingpu, Huating, Shanghai three counties, the whole province has more than 5 million acres of cultivated land, rich in rice and cotton cloth. The whole Songjiang Mansion is low-lying, the land is fertile, the rice yield per mu is as high as 2.5 stones, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the whole province produces more than 900 thousand stones of rice throughout the year, and the taxes paid to the imperial court amount to more than 80 million stones. If you can fully control Songjiang Mansion, you can raise an army of 100,000 people in just one prefecture.

In addition, Songjiang also grows a large number of cotton, the cotton spinning industry is very developed, the annual output of all kinds of cotton cloth more than 30 million, the cloth produced is sold in the provinces of Jiangbei and even sold to all parts of the South Seas in Luzon, Japan.

Such a rich place, it is not so easy to occupy, not to mention that the Qing court will definitely not give up Songjiang, they have sent the most powerful Li Chengdong in the green battalion to occupy Wusong, the purpose is to wait for an opportunity to attack the remaining Ming army in Chongming, and deter Songjiang Mansion, and then sent a surrender envoy to surrender Hong Enbing, the general of Jinshan Guard. After the fall of Nanjing and Hangzhou and the capture of Emperor Hongguang, the entire Songjiang official surrendered to the Manchus.

On the day of the army on Chongming Island, on the 10th day of the leap month of the first year of Hongguang, Shen Youlong, the former governor of Liangguang, and Li Zhiwen, the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, and Xu Fuyuan, the grandson of Xu Jie, the ancestor of the Songjiang family, rose up against the Qing Dynasty and occupied the city of Songjiang. The officers and men of the Jinshan Guard in the southeast of Songjiang were also ready to move, and there were many who wanted to oppose the Qing Dynasty.

In this situation, Ma Yingkui took the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Town of Chongming to the sea on the south side of Jinshanwei.

An army of hundreds of ships came to the nearby sea, which immediately attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers of Jinshanwei, and the beacon fire was lit in the seaside fort, and Hou Chengzu, the commander of Jinshanwei and the general of staff, led more than ten cavalry soldiers to the seashore to watch the fleet that appeared in the distance.

Jinshanwei is an important town in Songjiang, responsible for defending against the attack of the Japanese from the sea, the whole guard includes four thousand households, three attached forts, more than 10 dungeons, and more than 20,000 officers and soldiers and their families. However, for more than 200 years, the country's guard system was corrupt, and Jinshanwei, like other guards in the Ming Dynasty, basically degenerated into peasants and had no combat effectiveness at all.

Hou Chengzu is a general of Jinshanwei, a hereditary commander and a fellow governor handed down from his ancestors, and is now the highest commander of Jinshanwei. Just today, thousands of households gathered at the Wei Yamen to discuss whether to surrender the Qing Dynasty or re-raise the banner of the Ming Dynasty in response to the uprising in Songjiang Mansion.

After the Qing troops captured Nanjing, they sent the surrender general Du Wenhuan to persuade them to surrender. Hong Enbing, the general of the garrison of Hujiagang Fort City, surrendered early to the Manchu Qing and was appointed as the chief soldier of Jinshanwei.

However, as soon as the shaving order was given, the crowd was immediately indignant, and those who wanted to reduce the situation and seek wealth immediately changed their position. Hong Enbing could not stand in the Acropolis and fled back to Hujiagang Fort City.

Hou Chengzu was discussing with everyone whether to send troops to Songjiang to respond to Songjiang Shen Youlong and others, and at this moment, news suddenly came that a fleet came to the Jinshan Sea.

Hou Chengzu sat on the horse, looked at the fleet in the sea, saw that the flag was vaguely the Ming flag, and secretly wondered which way this was the Ming army, why did he come to the boundary of Jinshanwei?

A small boat sailed out of the fleet and headed for the coast, and Ma Liang, the supervisor of the fourth town, personally took the small boat ashore and was responsible for communicating with the officers and soldiers of Jin Shanwei.

Ma Liang was 30 years old, originally a child in Ningbo, when the Daishan Inspection Department was first established, he was recruited to work in the Inspection Department, and among the more than 20 people who were recruited in the same batch, Ma Liang was one of the few people who were willing to join the army. After joining the Daishan Army, he has been a staff officer of the General Staff Department, and is one of Li Yanzhi's deputies, with good ability. Now that Chongming has expanded the army, it is only natural that he should be appointed as the supervisor of a town with his old qualifications.

Seeing that it was an officer wearing a Ming military uniform who got off the boat, Hou Chengzu relieved himself, turned over and dismounted, and greeted him.

"Excuse me, but are you a soldier of Jinshanwei? Under the Chongming Yue Guogong Department, he supervised the army Ma Liang. Ma Liang smiled and saluted Hou Chengzu.

"Yue Guogong's army!" Hou Chengzu was taken aback, for Chongming Island's Yue Guo Gong Ren Siqi, he has long heard of the great name, with a small coastal defense guerrilla rapid rise, Tongling resisted Zuo Liangyu's Chu army, defeated the left army of 30,000 vanguard army, killed the general soldier Li Guoying, and later thousands of miles to reinforce Yangzhou, killed 3,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, after the supervisor Shi Kefa was seriously injured, he held Yangzhou alone for a month, forcing the 200,000 troops of the Manchu chief Duoduo not to cross Yangzhou one step.

At the age of more than 20 years old, how many people can there be in Daming?

Hou Chengzu had long heard that Ren Siqi, the Duke of Yueguo, had occupied Chongming, but in the past month, the Chongming army had been very low-key, except for sending a large number of ships to purchase food and various materials, there was no other action, and he didn't expect to send troops to Jinshanwei today.

"In Xia Jin Shanwei commanded Tongzhi Hou Chengzu, I have seen Ma Jianjun, I don't know what the old man of Yue Guogong has to say?" Hou Chengzu bowed and saluted, asking about the intention of the Chongming Army, while secretly thinking in his heart.

"Since the Manchu Qing Dynasty issued a shaving order, the gentry and people in all parts of the country who are committed to the Ming Dynasty have raised their righteousness, but the Qing army is large, and it will inevitably carry out a large-scale counterattack.

"I see," Hou Chengzu nodded, looking at the huge bow in the sea and frowning slightly, such a large fleet, I am afraid that there are thousands of soldiers on it, and so many people Jin Shanwei can't be placed! "Since the Duke of Yue has the heart to resist the Qing Dynasty, why didn't he attack the Qing army in Wusong, but went around to Jinshan?"

"Wu Song's Qing army naturally has the old man Yue Guogong to deal with it personally, and the purpose of our army coming here is to support Songjiang Fucheng!" Ma Liang said with a smile that if he wanted to carry out guerrilla warfare as he wished, he could not do without the consent of the officers and men of the Jinshan Guard. Although the goal of the Fourth Town is to control the southern part of Songjiang with Jinshanwei as the foundation, how to control it is debatable, and it is necessary to take its time. You can't just go over and fight in the same room and attack the Ming army in the same camp!

Looking at the fleet in the sea in the distance, Hou Chengzu knew that he could not prevent the landing of the Chongming army, from the official title, he was one by one from the command of the three products and knew that he could not resist the Duke of Chaopin, and in terms of strength, his subordinate guards were not the opponents of the Chongming army that was capable of resisting the Eight Banners. (To be continued.) )