Hong Chengchou has been guarding against possible attacks on Chongming Island, he has carefully studied Ren Siqi, and feels that this is not a person who is willing to be lonely, and there will definitely be some movement. www.biquge.info But from August to winter, the Ming army on Chongming Island was like a cat winter, and there was no movement at all. During this period, the Pingnan general Le Kedehun went to Hangzhou and thwarted a northward march of the army of King Lu in eastern Zhejiang, killing Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren's army to lose their armor.

Hong Chengchou sent countless fine works to Chongming Island, trying to find out the movements of Chongming Island, but Chongming Island was very well defended, and most of the fine works were caught and beheaded by the internal guards to show the public, and the fine works who escaped the search were also trembling, and they did not dare to come out to move.

In Layue, Hong Chengchou got the news that Ren Siqi, the Duke of Yueguo, was about to get married, and just as he was planning whether to use this opportunity to strike at Chongming, bad news suddenly came from Wuchang.

The loyal battalion led by Li Guo, a tiger in the remnants of Li Zicheng, suddenly launched an attack on Jingzhou, and the conflict was between Jing, Xiang, Chen, and Chang, and the Qing troops could not stop it. Zheng Siwei, the general of the Qing army in Jingzhou, tried his best to defend, but he couldn't support it, and repeatedly wanted to ask for help from Tong Yanghe, the governor of Qinghuguang. Tong Yanghe had no troops to send, and he was worried that He Tengjiao's troops in Hunan would go north from Yuezhou to attack Wuchang, so he and He Mingluan, the governor of Hunan, jointly asked for help from the Pingnan general Le Kedehun sent to Nanjing by the Qing court.

After discussing with Hong Chengchou, Luck Dehun decided to lead the main force of the Eight Banners in Nanjing to rescue Jingzhou. Because Jiangnan has been pacified at this moment, although there are Chongming remnants, Ren Siqi is about to get married, and he is not expected to have the energy to toss.

On December 18, Luckedhun led his troops and horses to the west, leaving only more than 10,000 green battalions in Nanjing. Hong Chengchou was very worried about the movement of Chongming Island, and ordered to block the news of the westward movement of the army, and sent a large number of ships on the river to strictly check the ships heading east.

The Chongming Enemy Intelligence Department sent a large number of detailed works in Nanjing as early as possible, and bribed countless people to serve the Chongming army, of course, such news could not be blocked, and soon spread to Chongming.

Ren Siqi was overjoyed when he heard the letter, knowing that the time he had been waiting for for a long time had finally come, and he secretly ordered all the battalions under him to make urgent preparations. After a winter of training and integration, Chongming Island has eight infantry towns, more than 40,000 people, another cavalry battalion, an ironclad battalion, and two towns of naval forces stationed in Chongming, with a total strength of 65,000 people. This is only the strength of the main island, and there are also Ma Yingkui Ma Liang's Songjiang guerrilla army and Ren Xingfan's Taihu guerrilla army, each with more than 10,000 people. It can be said that Chongming's strength is already extremely huge, and such a huge army will inevitably bring a heavy burden, and the silver taels spent every month are like flowing water, plus more than 200,000 people on the island, which has brought a heavy burden to Chongming.

Ren Siqi had already decided to counterattack Jiangnan and seize this important grain land in front of him, and gave up Jiangnan in a few months because of the lack of strength and the Qing army was too strong. And now the main force of the Qing army has returned to the north for the winter, and the garrison of Nanjing's Eight Banners has gone to Wuchang to suppress the loyal battalion, which is a godsend opportunity to seize the south of the Yangtze River!

On the 28th of the lunar month, the Yue Guo Gong Ren Siqi and Zhang Pujia got married, and the entire Chongming Island was jubilant.

Emperor Longwu of Fujian and Lu Jianguo of eastern Zhejiang sent people to congratulate, Emperor Longwu was promoted to Siqi as the crown prince and the governor of the capital, Yin Yizi was the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and Zhang Pujia was crowned as the wife of Yipin. Lu Jianguo even sent Zhang Pujia's cousin Zhang Huangyan as an envoy to congratulate him, and tried his best to persuade Chongming to obey Lu Jianguo's dispatch.

Three days after the wedding, it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the envoys from all parties still stayed on the island, which was supposed to be the day when Ren Siqi feasted on the New Year, but the atmosphere on the island was extremely tense.

The envoys of Emperor Longwu and Zhang Huangyan were invited to the dock to watch the departure ceremony of the Chongming army, and it was only then that they knew that the Chongming army was going to send troops on the first day of the Lunar New Year to attack Nanjing!

Ren Siqi has a hairpin on his head, wearing black armor, and a scarlet cloak fluttering behind him, standing on the dock heroically, he wants to personally lead the army to the battle!

Chen Zilong and Li Yanzhi stood silently behind Ren Siqi, each full of emotion.

The dispatch of troops along the Yangtze River to Nanjing was completely decided by Ren Siqi alone, and Li Yanzhi was in charge of the details of the staff, and there was no discussion among the people at all.

Although Chen Zilong strongly asked Ren Siqi to send troops, he didn't expect Ren Siqi to be so bold and attack Nanjing alone. The strength of the Chongming army is better than one day by one, and he sees it in his eyes, compared with the decay of other Ming armies, the Chongming army can be said to be thriving. Therefore, Chen Zilong had already pinned his hopes for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty on Ren Siqi, he was worried that if he failed this time, he would lose everything, so he suggested to Ren Siqi that it would be more prudent.

Unlike literati such as Chen Zilong, the generals at all levels of the Chongming Army have great trust in Ren Siqi, and this trust is forged by victories one after another. They were also confident this time that their Grand Governor would lead them to another victory!

"I wish the Metropolitan Governor a victory and recover Nanjing!" Headed by Shen Tingyang, the prefect of Chongming, all the officials presented wine to Ren Siqi under the gaze of the imperial court envoys.

Ren Siqi drank the wine bowl with a "snap", smashed the bowl to the ground, and took the lead in boarding the warship.

Thousands of sails set out in unison, hundreds of boats competed for the current, and 50,000 troops rode more than 1,000 large and small warships against the river to the west.

On Chongming Island, hundreds of thousands of people silently watched the army go west.

"The Metropolitan Governor is victorious!" A voice suddenly shouted, triggering more shouts.

"The Metropolitan Governor is victorious!"

"The Metropolitan Governor is victorious!" The sound was transmitted, triggering hundreds of thousands of people to shout together, and the sound reverberated throughout the world and resounded on both sides of the Yangtze River.

Wu Shengzhao, the commander of Wusong, stood at the head of the city, looking at the huge Chongming army fleet in the river, and did not say a word. Because a Ming army of 10,000 people was stationed outside Wusong City, which was the guerrilla army under Ma Yingkui.

At the same time, in Dianshan Lake, Ma Liang led more than 10,000 soldiers to set off by boat and headed towards Qingpu County.

At the same time, in the Taihu Lake, on Xishan Island, more than 20,000 soldiers gathered on Xishan Island, this is the alliance of Ren Xingfan and Taihu Wu Risheng, they will jointly send troops today to attack Suzhou City!

The news of Chongming's large-scale deployment of troops quickly spread, causing a great earthquake in the entire Jiangnan and shocking forces from all sides. More people cheered and told each other, cut off the braids on their heads, and gathered together to respond to the offensive of the Chongming army.

The whole Jiangnan earthquake!