The meeting ended unhappily, and after Hou Yu left angrily, the other gentry also left. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Huang Chunyao apologized to Ren Siqi, and also walked out of the official hall and quickly caught up with Hou Dongzeng.

"Brother Yu Zhan go slowly," Huang Chunyao grabbed Hou Dongzeng's arm and complained, "Brother Yu Zhan, after all, the Duke of Yue Guo also led the army to solve the people of the city, and we were able to survive because of this, why do you have such a prejudice against him?" ”

"Brother Yunsheng, I know that it was Yue Guogong who saved you and me. But have you thought about it? Why did Yue Guogong come in such a timely manner, which shows that he led the army to leave at all, but watched on the side, waiting for the Qing soldiers to enter the city and plunder, and then suddenly struck. If he is willing to obey our orders, how can the 100,000 righteous people of Brick Bridge be defeated by the Qing army, and how can Jiading City be breached, pity so many people who died in vain! Hou Yu once sighed.

Huang Chunyao pondered for a moment, and looked up at Hou Tongzeng's eyes: "Brother Yu Zhan, your analysis is very correct, but I think you are too harsh on Yue Guogong." After all, he only has more than 4,000 troops in his hands, and if he fights head-on, how can he guarantee the defeat of the Qing army. Besides, as the governor of Yueguo, the officials are all above us, we refused to allow him to enter the city before, and only sent a junior to pass the order, it was our rudeness first, and it was good that he didn't leave Jiading directly. And I think what he just said is very right, the major affairs of the country of soldiers are not just sitting and talking about the Tao. If it is about the ability to fight, the two of us together are not as good as Yue Guogong. ”

"Brother Yunsheng, what do you mean by that? Is it all my fault? Hou Tong once said dissatisfiedly: "Is it wrong for me to break my family and lead my family to Jiading?" Am I wrong to lead 100,000 righteous people to resist the cleanup? Since you respect Ren Siqi so much, stay and clean up the mess with him, I'll take someone back to my hometown. ”

After finishing speaking, Hou Tong turned around and left.

"Brother Yu Zhan, Brother Yu Zhan!" Huang Chunyao shouted a few times, and when he saw that Hou Dong had ignored it, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. After thinking about it, he reflexively went back to the official hall.

"Why did Senior Huang go and come back?" Ren Siqi looked at Huang Chunyao in surprise.

"Lord Hou, he has an upright temperament and is used to being outspoken, don't be surprised by Yue Guogong." After Huang Chunyao apologized for Hou Tongzeng, he continued: "The lower officials are here to ask you about the true meaning of withdrawing your troops, do you really let this land south of the Yangtze River be occupied by the Manchus?" ”

"What? Senior Huang also thought that the governor of Pontus was a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death? Ren Siqi smiled faintly and took a sip of the teacup.

"Where, the lower officer just wants to know the true meaning of your withdrawal of troops!"

"The reason why I withdrew my troops was very simple, because I couldn't defeat the Qing troops. As far as I know, the Eight Banners of Hangzhou have already moved south along the canal and are about to arrive in Suzhou. The Manchu Qing Dynasty had more than 200,000 troops in Jiangnan, and even if all my Chongming troops were brought to Jiading, they would definitely not be able to hold it. If you can't hold it, why bother to defend it, causing the troops to lose and the people die? It's better to retreat first, accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity, and when the Qing soldiers are weak, they can strike a blow and sweep the entire Jiangnan! ”

"Then when did you say Yue Guogong?" Listening to Ren Siqi's words, Huang Chunyao breathed eagerly.

"Manchurians were born in the bitter cold land of Liaodong, and they can't adapt to the hot and humid climate of Jiangnan, so I estimate that the Eight Banners will retreat from Jiangnan in two months at most, and I Chongming just took advantage of these two months to accumulate strength to train soldiers. When the Eight Banners retreat, it will be the time for me to forge ahead. However, if you want to complete the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty, it is not my Chongming family's business, and I need the help of many loyal ministers and righteous people.

Fighting a war is not only about the strength of the troops, but also about food, salary, ordnance, and logistics. My Chongming is an isolated island in the middle of the river, and the output on the island is not self-sufficient, so I need more gentry and people to help together. ”

Listening to Ren Siqi's analysis of the situation, Huang Chunyao's eyes became brighter and brighter, and Ren Siqi was also willing to make friends with more gentry for his own use. The more he talks, the more speculative it becomes, Ren Siqi was originally a scholar, and his words and demeanor are very much in line with Huang Chunyao's appetite, Huang Chunyao is not a pedantic person like Hou Tongzeng, and many of the points put forward make Ren Siqi's ears and eyes refreshed. Subsequently, Ren Siqi appointed Huang Chunyao as a member of the army on the spot, responsible for assisting in the handling of Jiading civil affairs.

In the next few days, Huang Chunyao recruited a number of gentry and scholars in the city on behalf of Ren Siqi, and Ren Siqi hired them as the chief of staff of the Duke of Yue as the governor of the left capital of Yue Guo.

Yan Ermei, the head of the League of Staff, also came from Chongming to make friends with these gentry on behalf of Ren Siqi and promote Chongming's anti-Qing strategy.

And with the approval of the gentry, it was much easier to do anything. Ren Siqi first ordered the recruitment of Jiayi civilians into the army, and in a few days, he recruited 20,000 new recruits, armed them with captured weapons from Li Chengdong's troops, and sent veterans of the Chongming army to serve as officers.

On July 5, on the brick bridge in the north of Jiading City, on the battlefield where tens of thousands of righteous people fought against Li Chengdong, Ren Siqi ordered the execution of the traitor Li Chengdong and more than 1,000 captured green battalion soldiers.

The entire brick bridge was crowded with people, and tens of thousands of people rushed to watch the beheading when they heard the news.

Li Chengdong was tied to a low stake, and the more than 1,000 captured green battalion soldiers were also tied and kneeling nearby.

In groups of 100 people, batch after batch of green battalion soldiers were pulled out and ordered to kneel on the edge of the dug pit, steel knives were waved, and the heads of the big people were rolling down.

Every time the green battalion soldiers were beheaded, countless people cheered. Some of the people whose family members died in the massacre of the Green Battalion were kneeling on the ground and crying, and some struggled forward to pick up stones and smash them at the corpses of the Green Battalion soldiers.

"Li Chengdong is your father-killing enemy, is General Jia willing to give him a ride in person?" Ren Siqi said to Jia Yuanyin, who was standing beside him, that Li Yuanyin had restored his original surname and changed his name to Jia Yuanyin since he was anyway. With the surrender of Jia Yuanyin, the Chongming Army now has the first cavalry, 500 elite cavalry soldiers, and more than 1,000 war horses, which is the biggest harvest of Ren Siqi's trip to Jiading.

Based on this cavalry, Ren Siqi was ready to start building a cavalry army. As for Jia Yuanyin's character, Ren Siqi has no doubt that after Jia Yuanyin returned to the Ming Dynasty with Li Chengdong in history, he was loyal to Emperor Yongli, and would rather commit suicide than surrender.

"Xie Dudu!" Jia Yuanyin glanced at Ren Siqi gratefully, but shook his head, "It's good that he used to be my father-in-law, father and son, and the last general doesn't want to see him suffer, so I beg the governor to give him a good time!" ”

"Okay, for your sake, I'll reward him with a whole corpse!"

Ren Siqi nodded and ordered. More than a dozen musketeers raised their muskets in their hands, aimed at Li Chengdong and opened fire.

"Long live the Chongming Army! Long live Yue Guogong! Watching the last captive fall, the people let out an earth-shattering cry. (To be continued.) )