Loutang Town, 20 miles away from Jiading in the south, is a famous market town in Jiading, there are more than 200 shops in the town, engaged in cotton gauze food trade. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoLoutang's cotton textile industry is famous far and wide, with an annual trade volume of more than 100,000 taels of silver, and merchants from the north and south are resident here.

But now, this bustling market town has ushered in a catastrophe. At the beginning of the shaving order, the villagers of Loutang also responded to Jiading's move and gathered more than 1,000 strong men.

Li Chengdong rescued Taicang and passed through Loutang Town, and easily defeated the resistance of Loutang Yimin with his army, and entered the town. The bustling market towns and wealthy villagers aroused the endless **** burning, killing, and plundering of the green battalion soldiers under Li Chengdong, *** women, and the green battalion soldiers rushed into the people's homes and did whatever they wanted.

"Yuanyin, my son, why are you still staying here?" Li Chengdong looked at his righteous son Li Yuanyin beside him and his five hundred horsemen, and asked puzzledly.

"Slaughtering the people, burning ***, is it my generation?" Li Yuanyin replied expressionlessly.

"Compassion does not raise soldiers, and righteousness does not raise wealth. You have also been in the army for many years, how can you say such words. If we don't let the brethren vent to their heart's content, how can they be willing to serve us! Li Chengdong glared at Li Yuanyin dissatisfied, and Li Yuanyin led people away without saying a word.

Li Chengdong sighed and ignored him anymore, this righteous son is skilled in martial arts, brave in battle, and good at everything, but he is too soft-hearted. These southern pariahs, robbed and robbed, what is there to be merciful!

As night fell, Loutang Town, which had been noisy for a day, quieted down, and the Green Battalion soldiers, who had finished their addiction to murder and robbery, lay down on the bed of their original owner and fell asleep. At the end of the village, in the ancestral hall, Li Yuanyin was quietly in a daze under the light.

"Major General, it's time to rest." The old servant Jia Fu called for foot-washing water and waited for Li Yuanyin to wash his feet.

"Fauber, do you say that my parents and relatives also died in the massacre of that man like they do today?" Li Yuanyin asked suddenly.

"Shhhh The major general said cautiously. Jia Fu was so frightened that he turned his head and looked around a lot, for fear of being heard.

"Don't be afraid, these five hundred brothers are my confidants, and even if they hear it, they won't betray me. You've got to be honest with me. Li Yuanyin said lightly.

"Young General, you guessed right, not only your parents back then, but the entire village was killed by thieves like this." Jia Fu rubbed his eyes, and his tone was extremely heavy, "It was twelve years ago, the thief Li Zicheng passed through Nanyang, the soldiers crossed the border, and the villages within a radius of dozens of miles were tragically ravaged. Major General, your family is a large local family and a scholar. At that time, Xingping Bo Gaojie also followed the thief Li Zicheng, and it was he who led the troops to rush into our village, and burned and killed *** just like today. ”

Listening to Jia Fu's words, Li Yuanyin gritted his teeth, grabbed the armrests of the chair with both hands, and the green tendons on his hands and faces burst out.

"Young General, do you remember your original surname, your original surname is Jia, and I am the long-term worker of your family. Gao Jie led the troops into your house, and the old man and his wife died at the hands of the thieves. At that time, young master, you were only eight or nine years old, and you were carried into the army along with the rest of the rest of the village, and later accepted by General Li as a righteous son. After more than ten years of fighting, hundreds of people in the entire village were carried into the army, and now there are only the two of us left! Jafo's eyes turned red as he spoke.

"The hatred of the country, the hatred of killing the father. In vain, I Li Yuanyin is a good man, but I have been a thief as my father for more than ten years! Li Yuanyin slapped his palm on the table!

The next day, the army marched and continued to Taicang, Li Chengdong noticed that Li Yuanyin's expression was wrong, but he didn't care too much.

Before the army reached the Liuhe River, Zhang Tianfu sent someone to report that the Chongming army had retreated, and the soldiers were divided into two ways to escort the grain to Chongming, and the other road went up along the Liuhe River to the direction of Suzhou.

Since Taicang was unharmed, Li Chengdong ordered the army to stop, turned back to Jiading, and walked halfway to meet Li Renzhi, the deputy general who retreated from Wusong, and then knew that Wusong was captured by the Chongming army!

"General, I am willing to be the vanguard, defeat the Chongming army, and recapture Wusong!" Adjutant General Zhang Yuan took the initiative to ask.

"No, let's go to Jiading!" Li Chengdong thought carefully for a moment and said categorically. Since Wu Song was lost, it was not so easy to regain it. made Li Chengdong suddenly think of the Battle of Yangzhou, the 200,000 army still has no way to take the lonely city of Yangzhou, and now he has only 10,000 people under his command, how can he break through the Wusong City guarded by Ren Siqi? Nowadays, only if you can break through Jiading and suppress the rebellion of the Jiading mob, you can make up for your mistakes.

Eager to make meritorious service and atone for his crimes, Li Chengdong ordered the whole army to rush to Jiading and no longer harass the villages and towns passing by.

At this time, Ren Siqi was depressed, because the rebels in Jiading City did not allow his army to enter the city.

Ren Siqi arrived outside Jiading City with two battalions of infantry in the evening, and immediately sent people into the city to contact the defenders of Jiading. However, the commander of the Jiajian army, the former Zhejiang political officer Hou Tongzeng, refused the Chongming army to enter the city, sent his son Hou Xuanyan to bring grain, meat and wine to the army, and asked Chongming to come to the brick bridge where the reinforcements were stationed in the north of the city, ready to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army with the Jiajie army, according to Hou Xuanyan, the brick bridge has gathered tens of thousands of righteous troops.

"You don't know what to do, we are kind enough to come to help, and we don't even let my family enter the city!" Xiong Er shouted dissatisfiedly, while Li Xingjiu raised his eyebrows and glared at Hou Xuanyan with his sword. Ren Siqi is now the dignified Governor of Zuo and the Duke of Yueguo, and Hou Dong didn't come to see him in person, but he didn't even let him enter the city gate, which is really unbearable for uncles and aunts!

"Please also forgive the Duke of Yue, my father did not intend to treat your army slowly, it is really a narrow city in Jiading, and there is no place for your army to camp." Hou Xuanyan apologized again and again.

"It's okay, it's the same wherever you are stationed, say hello to Lord Lingzun for me." Ren Siqi said lightly, with his current status, he doesn't want to be angry with someone like Hou Xuanyan.

After Hou Xuanyan apologized again and again, he took people back to Jiading.

"It's so arrogant, it's going to fight with the Qing army in the field, are the scholars and doctors of the Ming Dynasty so arrogant?" Ren Siqi sneered. Ren Siqi could understand that he would not let his army enter the city, because the military discipline of the army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was too poor, and Hou Dong was afraid that the people of Jiading would be harassed. But what puzzled Ren Siqi was, why did Hou Tong and others think that only tens of thousands of ordinary people who had a cantonment army could be hostile to the Manchu army? There are cities that do not defend, but have to fight with the Qing soldiers, and their heads are all funny?

"Governor, what should I do?" Li Xingjiu asked.

"They're going crazy, we can't accompany them." There are only 2,000 soldiers under his command, although they are all veterans of the battle of Yangzhou, but the number is too small, if it is to defend the city, Ren Siqi is fully sure to keep Li Chengdong's army out of the city, but in the field, even if tens of thousands of righteous people are added, Ren Siqi is not sure to defeat the Qing army. These two thousand people are the most elite veterans of the Chongming Army, and Ren Siqi naturally does not want to fold them under Jiading City.

After a hasty dinner outside Jiading City, Ren Siqi led his subordinates to quietly leave Jiading City at night, stationed in a small town southwest of Jiading, and then sent people to contact Ren Xingfan's Second Town Army. Early the next morning, two battalions of soldiers from Yang Bin and Chen Mingyang arrived in the town and joined Ren Siqi. According to Chen Mingyang's report, after emptying the grain in the Taicang warehouse, he sent a part of the army to escort the grain back to Chongming. Then, according to the plan, Ren Xingfan and Chen Sheng took two battalions of soldiers to Taihu Lake by boat to carry out guerrilla warfare. The two battalions of Chen Mingyang and Yang Bin rushed to Jiading and cooperated with Ren Siqi to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Li Chengdong's green battalion. (To be continued.) )