After the prisoners of the Green Battalion were executed in public, watching the animals that mutilated their families and friends being executed was a great joy for all the people of Jiading. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info makes them extremely supportive of the Chongming army who saved Jiading from danger and helped him and his family to take revenge.

Taking advantage of this momentum, Ren Siqi issued a conscription order, calling on the people of Jiayi to join the Chongming Army. In three days, more than 20,000 people were recruited, all of whom were young and strong in Jiading and nearby villages and towns. In the Jiangnan region, the people of Jiading and Jiangyin and other places are the most courageous, Jiading has experienced three massacres in history, but there are still people who rose up to resist the Qing Dynasty, the reason why Jiangyin did not achieve the same results in history is because there is no Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu such an outstanding leader.

Huang Chunyao and other gentry who had already decided to join the Chongming Army also cooperated to help raise food and other materials.

The Chongming Army was completely different from other Ming Dynasty armies, such as the former Wu Song deputy general Wu Zhikui, because the Chongming Army was not short of money at all, and the soldiers were well treated and disciplined in the army. This made Huang Chunyao and others more optimistic about the future of the Chongming Army.

With Huang Chunyao's assistance, the Chongming army procured tens of thousands of stone of rice, as well as a large number of other materials. A large amount of material was continuously transported to Chongming through Wusongkou.

At the same time, Ren Siqi sent sentinels to investigate the military situation in various parts of the Jiangnan and the movements of the Qing army.

After Li Chengdong's troops were eliminated, the closest Qing army to Jiading was Zhang Tianfu of Taicang, but the destruction of Li Chengdong's troops frightened Zhang Tianfu's courage, making him cower in Taicang City and not dare to move at all.

The shipping warehouse outside Taicang City had just been robbed by Ren Xingfan, and Ren Siqi didn't want to pay attention to Taicang City anymore, but focused on the direction of Suzhou.

Ren Xingfan and Chen Sheng had already taken two battalions of soldiers and more than 3,000 people to Taihu Lake by boat, but they never sent back the news.

The Manchus would soon receive news of the destruction of Li Chengdong's troops, and perhaps soon after a Qing army would come to suppress them. Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu and others were defending Jiangyin, and according to history, they could hold out for more than a month, while the Qing troops in Nanjing were pinned down in Jiangyin, and only the Eight Banners stationed in Hangzhou were sent to Jiading. According to the time, the Eight Banners should be on their way.

If the Lu Wang's department in eastern Zhejiang can contain the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, and then send troops to defeat Suzhou, maybe the situation in the south of the Yangtze River can be reversed, Ren Siqi suddenly had such an idea. Then he smiled bitterly, expecting that King Lu's Fang Guoan Wang Zhiren Department could contain the Eight Banners soldiers in Hangzhou, it was definitely wishful thinking. What is the combat effectiveness of Wang Zhiren and other Ming troops, Ren Siqi has long understood. Maybe Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren have a total of 20,000 or 30,000 troops now, but as long as 1,000 Eight Banner soldiers can kill them to the ground.

Many people felt that when they saw the shaving order and the wave of resistance to the Qing Dynasty broke out in various parts of Jiangnan, they felt that if the rebel armies from all over the country cooperated, they might be able to drive the Qing army out of Jiangnan. Ren Siqi knew that this was a pure idiot's dream! The strongest combat effectiveness of the Ming army in various places should belong to the regular Ming military Guoan Wang Zhiren's department, but the combat effectiveness of these two Ming armies is not as good as that of ordinary green battalion soldiers, let alone the Eight Banners Army. And now that the Qing army has just destroyed the Hongguang Imperial Court, and the combat effectiveness and morale are at their peak, the Ming army, which relies on the scum of combat effectiveness, is fighting with a group of peasants and Eight Banners soldiers who have just put down their hoes, isn't that a joke.

Therefore, Jiangnan's resistance to the Qing Dynasty was short-lived, and it was not an overnight achievement to drive away the Manchus. Ren Siqi summoned Yan Yingyuan, Huang Chunyao and others, and repeatedly instilled his ideas into them, asking them to help persuade the people of Jiading to evacuate as soon as possible.

After killing so many green battalion soldiers in Jiading, when the Qing army comes, it will definitely retaliate, and it is certain that there will be another massacre. And knowing that he couldn't hold Jiading, Ren Siqi didn't want to defend it, and the only thing he hoped for now was that the Qing soldiers would come later, so that he could transfer more materials and people to Chongming Island.

Of course, for most people, no one wants to leave their hometowns, many people choose to temporarily leave Jiading to the countryside to avoid the limelight, only the young people who joined the Chongming Army and their families are willing to go to Chongming, according to Huang Chunyao's estimates, this group of people does not exceed 50,000. After all, most of the young Zhuang who joined the Chongming Army were not from the city of Jiading, their homes were in the countryside, and the Qing army should not have gone to Sixiang to massacre. After all, Jiading is one of the richest places in the south of the Yangtze River, and after killing all the people in the countryside, who will the Manchus collect taxes from, and the hundreds of thousands of Manchurians in Beijing will still rely on the people in the south of the Yangtze River to provide for them.

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At this moment, Ren Xingfan had entered Taihu Lake with two battalions from the second town, and although he passed through Suzhou, he did not choose to enter Suzhou City.

Ren Xingfan was in Suzhou on the 15th day of the leap month, when the righteous people of Suzhou were fighting in Suzhou with Tu Guobao and Li Shutai.

Ren Xingfan did not choose to enter Suzhou City, because he knew that with his two battalions of recruits, he would not have the strength to occupy Suzhou City at all.

After entering Taihu Lake, Ren Xingfan sent a large number of sentinels to inquire about intelligence. As far as he knows, it was only on the 11th day of the leap month that a hair shaving order was posted near Suzhou. On the twelfth, the people of Fengqiao gathered and refused to shave their heads under the call of Lu Shikey, a student. It happened that Wu Song's deputy commander-in-chief Wu Zhikui and Zhennan Bo Huang Fei took 3,000 sailors to attack Suzhou under the order of Shen Youlong of Songjiang Prefecture, Wu Zhikui's deputy general Lu Zhiyu led 300 people to break into Suzhou and join Lu Shijian and others, and tens of thousands of people in the city responded, rushed into the county government and killed Xue Yingqi, the magistrate of Wu County, and set fire to the governor, prefect, county magistrate and other yamen to ashes.

The commander of the green battalion in the city, Tu Guobao and the commander of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, Li Shuitai, had five or six hundred soldiers in his hands, because most of the soldiers followed Bolo to attack Hangzhou. They led their troops to hide near Suzhou Fuxue and Ruiguang Temple, and did not dare to face the battle. However, the villagers who entered the city were only a rabble, and most of them just cut down the wood, and did not have decent weapons at all, and could not attack the camp garrisoned by hundreds of Qing soldiers at all, so they withdrew from the city and dispersed in a hurry that night. In the next few days, there were village soldiers outside the city gate, and there were "smoke and flames" all the time. It was not until the 18th that thousands of Qing troops came from Nanjing to reinforce the city, which basically stabilized the situation in Suzhou City.

Two days before Ren Xingfan came to Taihu Lake, Wu Risheng, a Jinshi who had been a member of Shi Kefa's staff, raised troops in Taihu Lake, led more than 1,000 troops to attack Wujiang County, and killed the Manchu Qing Zhi County On the 22nd, Li Shutai of Suzhou City attacked Wujiang with reinforcements transferred from Nanjing. The urban and rural soldiers could not fight at all, and they all scattered and fled for their lives, and Wujiangcheng changed hands again. Zhi Xi, Wu Yi and others had to retreat into Taihu Lake and continue to deal with the Qing army in the vast Hehan Lake.

Ren Xingfan led two battalions of soldiers and more than 100 warships to station on Xishan Island in Taihu Lake, and sent people around to inquire about the news, while training the army and recruiting volunteers from all walks of life. Taihu thieves and Mao Er, Shen Pan, Bai Xiangfu, and Paping Dawang fishermen came to vote one after another, gathering under the banner of the Chongming Army of Yue Guogong.

While training the team, Ren Xingfan sent troops to attack the strategy, coercing the gentry who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty to donate food and silver, and the team became more and more prosperous. Later, he united with Wu Risheng's ministry and defeated thousands of Qing troops who entered Taihu Lake to encircle and suppress, and shocked the entire Taihu Lake region.

On July 5 of the first year of Hongguang, Ren Xingfan found out that more than 10,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners stationed in Hangzhou were marching down the canal under the leadership of the Manchu Qing Dynasty Belle Bolo, and would soon arrive in Suzhou, followed by more than 30,000 soldiers from the Green Battalion Tian Xiong, Zhang Jie and other units.

It must have come to suppress the actions of the people in various places, Ren Xingfan did not dare to slack off, and quickly sent someone to fly to report Ren Siqi, who was still staying in Jiading. (To be continued.) )