At this moment, there are two major forces in Taihu Lake, one is Ren Xingfan's guerrilla army, and the other is Wu Risheng's righteous army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as Liu Liangzuo's fleet entered Taihu Lake, it immediately attracted the attention of the people in Taihu Lake, and the news was quickly sent to Ren Xingfan. Ren Xingfan made a plan and sent several water thieves who belonged to him to defect to Liu Liangzuo.

Taihu Lake has a radius of 800 miles, with undulating waves and vastness, which is far from being comparable to the canal. If you want to cross Taihu Lake safely, you can't do it without the guidance of someone who is familiar with the water nature of Taihu Lake. Therefore, the water thieves came to vote for Liu Liangzuo overjoyed, deliberately appeased them, rewarded them with silver taels, and promised the leader of the water thieves the official position of general and deputy general, and then marched to Taihu Lake under the guidance of the water thieves.

Fearing the Qing soldiers in Suzhou, Liu Liangzuo ordered the fleet to sail south along the western shore of Taihu Lake with looted materials. Li Jin, a hundred households, was given a meritorious service by Liu Liangzuo, who was responsible for commanding 800 cavalry to march along the shore of the lake, and Liu Liangzuo was not so stupid as to load war horses with ships. However, after all, he was a little old, and he was very tired from the long march, so he marched in a comfortable boat under the persuasion of Li Jin.

More than 20,000 people advanced by land and water, and a few days later, they arrived at Changxing Lake in Huzhou, which was already the ground of Zhejiang, and suddenly rowed out hundreds of small boats from the reeds, each boat was full of Ming troops, shouting to kill the generals. Liu Liangzuo was frightened and hurriedly ordered the boat to dock, who knew that the boat under his feet suddenly leaked, and a large amount of lake water poured into the cabin, and the boat sank into the lake at a speed visible to the naked eye. At this time, Liu Liangzuo realized that the group of people who defected to him were not water thieves, but fine works sent by the enemy.

Most of Liu Liangzuo's subordinates are northerners, and they are not familiar with water at all, and although the 20,000 people he newly carried are all familiar with water nature, they are all ordinary people who are honest and honest, and they are all frightened when they see a large number of enemies attacking, and they only jump into the lake one by one to escape, and how dare they resist.

Liu Liangzuo himself knows how to swim to the water, he flutters in the water and swims to the shore, as long as he can swim ashore and return to join his cavalry, it will be a dragon returning to the sea and a tired bird entering the forest.

What's going on? Liu Liangzuo swam and looked to the shore, and was shocked to find that the cavalry on the shore was galloping into the distance.

"Come back, I'm still here!" Liu Liangzuo shouted loudly, but his henchmen and his team abandoned him like that and left regardless of it.

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Ren Xingfan sat on a big ship and commanded the encirclement and suppression of Liu Liangzuo's army. With the assistance of the dispatched meticulous work, he easily sank the big boat on which Liu Liangzuo's main force was riding, and Liu Liangzuo connected with a thousand of his men to sink into the lake and make dumplings, and the hundreds of thousands of silver taels of materials looted were all returned to the guerrilla army.

"General, Liu Liangzuo has been arrested." A drenched subordinate climbed onto the deck and reported the good news to Ren Siqi. With his words, Liu Liangzuo, who had fainted, was put on deck by several soldiers.

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Liu Liangzuo was defeated and fled to Changzhou in embarrassment, and the news was soon sent to Nanjing by the Changzhou prefect Zong Li, who had been changed to Jiangning by the Qing court.

Hearing the news, Prince Yu Duoduo was so angry that he smashed the blue and white teacup in his hand. It's not that Duoduo can't hold his breath, but at this moment he is like an arrow. As early as the end of June, the imperial court's order to withdraw troops had reached Jiangning, and Hong Chengchou, a scholar of the Inner Academy, was awarded the title of "recruiting the local governors of Jiangnan provinces to manage military affairs and food and wages", commonly known as the governor of Jiangnan, and Pingnan General Luck Dehun was on his way to Jiangning.

In the summer in the south of the Yangtze River, the weather is hot and humid, and the warriors of the Eight Banners can't adapt to such a climate at all, and they are looking forward to returning to the north as soon as possible to escape the heat. Azig of the Western Route Army had been ordered to return to the north last month, much to the disappointment of Dordor in a hurry.

However, the rebellions caused by shaving hair in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River have not been completely quelled, and even if Duoduo is in a hurry, he will not be able to lead his troops back to the north. This is the reason why Duoduo was so angry when he heard about Liu Liangzuo's defeat. However, at this time, the news of Liu Liangzuo's defection has not yet come, and if he hears that Liu Liangzuo has betrayed the Qing Dynasty again, it is estimated that Duoduo will be even more angry.

In fact, the situation in July was much better than last month. Under the encirclement and suppression of Bellebolo, Gushan Ezhen, Li Shutai and others, the rebellion in Songjiang, Jiangsu, Jiading and other places has been quelled, and now Jiangyin is left in all parts of the south of the Yangtze River.

Li Shutai had already led his army to Jiangyin, and Belebolo was also rushing from Songjiang to Jiangyin to quell the rebellion.

The combined armies of Li Shutai and Boluo were more than 80,000 people, of which nearly 20,000 were soldiers of the Eight Banners. But this is not enough, Duoduo decided to personally lead the troops from Jiangning, rushed to Jiangyin to quell the rebellion, he wanted to suppress the rebellion in Jiangyin with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, and kill all the people in Jiangyin, thinking that the latecomers would quit!

On July 10, Duoduo left only a small number of troops to defend the city, and left Jiangning with 10,000 banners and 30,000 green battalions, and marched along the Yangtze River waterway to Jiangyin. On 12 July, he marched through Zhenjiang and ordered the Jingkou General Soldier and Ma De to accompany his troops, whose strength reached more than 50,000 men, and the fleet traveled dozens of miles in the river.

When he was in Zhenjiang, Duoduo heard that Liu Liangzuo had defected to Changzhou and lost it, and he couldn't help but be shocked, knowing that Changzhou was the capital city, and it was stuck on the main road of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and its status was far from being comparable to Jiangyin, a small riverside city. Duoduo no longer cared about Jiangyin, and ordered the whole army to enter the canal in Zhenjiang and march along the canal to Changzhou.

Liu Zhaoji sat in the city of Changzhou, and the detailed work of the Enemy Intelligence Department continued to send news to Changzhou. On 10 July, he had already received the news that Li led Tai's tens of thousands of troops to Wuxi soon, and that Wuxi was only more than 100 miles from Changzhou, and Liu Zhaoji did not dare to slack off any longer, so he ordered the material collection to be stopped and the whole army to withdraw from Changzhou.

In the past 10 days or so, Liu Zhaoji has collected a large amount of materials in Changzhou, and the convoy of ships transporting silver and grain has covered the river from Changzhou to Jiangyin, and then from Jiangyin to the Yangtze River to Jingjiang, from which it has been transported back to Chongming.

Before setting out from Chongming, Ren Siqi had repeatedly warned that the purpose of his third town army was not to conquer the city, but to use Jingjiang Island as the foundation to aid the Jiangyin rebels, and at the same time, rely on the intricate rivers to raid all parties and collect food and materials for Chongming. Chongming is an isolated island in the middle of the river, and without external blood transfusion, Chongming's more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians would not be able to survive at all. Therefore, in a sense, collecting money, food and materials is far more important than aiding Jiangyin.

And Liu Zhaoji did not live up to Ren Siqi's expectations, in various parts of Changzhou, he sent troops to capture Yixing Wujin County, and seized 250,000 taels of silver and 100,000 quintals of grain from the county treasury. In the past ten days, the homes of the gentry who had surrendered to the Manchus were raided, and the total amount of silver taels seized was as much as 200,000 yuan, and countless food materials were seized.