"Why didn't Mr. Liu go with them?" Standing at the head of the city, looking at the shadow of the ship in the distance, Ren Siqi asked lightly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The last general thinks that it will be safer to follow Hou Ye!" Liu Zhaoji grinned.

Although Liu Zhaoji looks rude, he is actually very delicate in his heart, and the reason why he chose to stay is that he has a sense of trust in Ren Siqi's Ningbo Army, and the other is that the way south is much more dangerous than imagined. Duoduo has no way to take Yangzhou City, he will definitely not let go of the fleet that fled south, and since Nanjing was broken by the Qing army, then Zheng Hongkui's fleet in Zhenjiang will definitely not stay anywhere anymore, and the current Yangtze River may be full of Qing fleets. If you want to safely travel from the canal to the Yangtze River and then along the sea to Hangzhou, this escape route is too dangerous. And staying in Yangzhou seems to be a dangerous dead end, but it is impossible to survive, Liu Zhaoji does not believe that Ren Siqi will fall into death without leaving a way back!

"Since General Liu chose to stay with my Ningbo army, we will have to be in the same boat through thick and thin in the future!" Ren Siqi looked at Liu Zhaoji with a smile.

The reason why Ren Siqi agreed to defend Yangzhou alone and let other civilian and military generals escape was to clear the unstable factors in the city, and the road in the future would be more difficult, and a large number of people in the army who had different intentions and refused to obey orders completely were not allowed!

Liu Zhaoji knew that now was the time to show his loyalty, hesitated slightly, and decisively knelt on the ground, "The last general is willing to lead his three thousand brothers to join the Ningbo Army, and from now on he will be driven by the Hou Ye!" He had already figured out that the remaining 3,000 people under his command had no roots and no foundation, and there was no future at all. Nanjing has been breached, the whereabouts of Emperor Hongguang are unknown, and Liu Zhaoji is unwilling to surrender to the Manchus, there is only one way at present, that is, to follow Ren Siqi with all his heart, hoping to follow this young marquis to fight a bloody road and establish a vigorous career!

And through this month's contact, Liu Zhaoji also realized that the Ningbo Army is different, the combat power is a cut higher than the ordinary Ming army, not to mention, the key is that the clothing and equipment of ordinary soldiers are much higher than other Ming troops, through side knocks, Liu Zhaoji knows that the Ningbo Army has Daishan several islands as the foundation, and there is a huge ocean-going fleet, relying on sea trade to earn a lot of silver, in order to raise such an elite army.

Rather than holding the military power of these 3,000 people, it is better to use it as a contribution to gain Ren Siqi's complete trust, Liu Zhaoji believes that Ren Siqi will definitely not treat himself badly, and the number of troops he will lead in the future will be much higher than these 3,000 people! Hu Shangyou, Shi Dewei, Ma Yingkui, and those people were afraid that their soldiers would be annexed by the Ningbo army, and they were afraid that Yangzhou would lose sooner or later and did not want to fall into death, so they fled to the south!

"General Liu has thought about it?" Ren Siqi's expression became solemn, the Ningbo Army is not short of soldiers now, but there is a shortage of fierce generals who can stand alone. Among the two town generals, Ren Xingfan has the ability to block one side alone, Jin Yufei is too conservative in his use of troops and can only be used for defense, while Chen Mingyang, Sha Qianli and others are even more unsuccessful, and they do not have the ability to fight alone at all. Liu Zhaoji has been fighting for many years, has rich experience in leading troops, and he himself is brave and daring to fight.

"I am willing to die for the Hou Ye!" Liu Zhaoji kowtowed deeply.

"Good, good!" Ren Siqi was overjoyed, and hurriedly helped Liu Zhaoji up, "With General Liu's help, why worry about big things." ”

Chen Yujie, the commander of the artillery team, looked at the two of them with a complicated expression, although he was willing to stay, but he was born as a scholar and couldn't be as faceless as Liu Zhaoji.

In fact, for Chen Yujie's willingness to stay, Ren Siqi was more pleased than Liu Zhaoji's allegiance. Chen Yujie is loyal and kind, but also knowledgeable, proficient in astronomy, familiar with the secrets of the use and casting of Western guns, Shi Kefa used dozens of cannons for the Jiangbei defense line are Chen Yujie led people to cast, and Chen Yujie knows how to use artillery, good at city defense, is a rare talent.

Although there is Liang Jiu in Daishan now, there are also many craftsmen, but Liang Jiu is only good at engineering construction, and he is not very proficient in the casting of firearms. Now the Ningbo army is still equipped with ordinary front-loading smoothbore guns, although the quality is much higher than the general Ming army firearms, but because of the rate of fire, accuracy, range and other reasons, its power is not very large, at least in the confrontation with the Qing army archers, the Daishan army's musketeers did not take much advantage because of the slow rate of fire.

Think about it, although the musket is more powerful than the bow and arrow in range, how can you beat the other party when you shoot five or six arrows in the time you shoot it?

Ren Siqi didn't know if the current rear-loading rifled gun had been invented, but he was sure that the front-loading rifled gun had appeared. However, the spiral rifling was engraved in the middle of the barrel, which could not be done for a long time with the technology of the Daishan craftsman battalion. As a result, although the muskets produced by Daishan were superior to the muskets in the general Ming army, they could not be compared with the muskets of the Westerners.

Now, Chen Yujie, a firearms expert, is willing to stay, and Ren Siqi is naturally overjoyed, and Ren Siqi believes that with Chen Yujie's ingenuity, there will definitely be a way to solve the problem of rifling into the chamber of the gun.

"I didn't expect Mr. to stay, Siqi is really happy!" Ren Siqi grabbed Chen Yujie's hand with a smile on his face, and Liu Zhaoji on the side was dumbfounded, he was all fucking on his knees and was loyal, and I didn't see you so happy!

"If this official is gone, what will happen to the cannons at the head of the city? The official can't rest assured. Chen Yujie's untraceable handle broke free from Ren Siqi's hand and said lightly.

In fact, Chen Yujie couldn't let go of the people of the city, all the civil and military generals fled Yangzhou, leaving only this young Sulu Marquis to protect 800,000 people, and the disgruntled Chen Yujie did not want to choose to flee with them.

The officials in Yangzhou City all chose to evacuate, and very few stayed like Liu Zhaoji and Chen Yujie, but Yan Ermei, a staff member under Shi Kefa's curtain, chose to stay. Unlike the officials, none of the officials in Yangzhou County chose to flee, and they were born and raised differently from the officials, and Yangzhou is their home.

After the shadows of the officials disappeared, Ren Siqi's first order was to immediately convene a meeting to discuss the next move of the Ningbo army.

The two town generals of the Ningbo Army, Li Yanzhi and other four division chiefs in the shogunate, Xue Yulai, Shen Tingyang, the commanders of the naval army, and Liu Zhaoji Chen Yujie, who had just joined the Daishan Army, and Yan Ermei, Shi Kefa's former staff, were also specially approved to attend the meeting. (To be continued.) )