ps: I rushed out of a chapter in a hurry, and almost passed twelve o'clock. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info For full attendance, I really worked hard.

When Ren Siqi got the news of the arrival of the Qing army, it was already July 7. The retreat of the people of Jiading is nearing its end. Under the vigorous propaganda of Yan Ermei, Huang Chunyao and others, the people in Jiading City have accepted the fact that they can't hold it. In fact, the massacre carried out by Li Chengdong in the capture of Jiading has frightened many people, and now there are even more murderous Eight Banner soldiers, thinking about the future after the fall, many people shudder, and they don't need to be persuaded by the Chongming army, and the family takes the initiative to evacuate.

Most of the people of Jiading chose to take refuge in the countryside, after all, their homeland is difficult to leave, and many people do not want to live on the remote island of Chongming. Maybe some people still have the idea of waiting for the limelight to pass and return to the city, after all, the Qing army can't kill everyone, and they also need someone to pay them food and taxes. Although he said that he would definitely be forced to shave his head in the future, shaving his head was nothing compared to his life.

The people who were resolutely unwilling to shave their heads chose to follow the Chongming army back to Chongming Island, and according to Yan Ermei's estimates, more than 50,000 people eventually followed Chongming, most of whom were family members of newly recruited soldiers.

A lot of information kept coming. On July 7, the Qing army broke through the city of Kunshan, and Wang Zuocai, the general who led the anti-Qing army in Kunshan, was killed, and the Qing army slaughtered the city, killing and wounding more than 20,000 people. Wang Yongzuo of Xunyang Fuyuan, Zhu Tianlin, editor of Hanlin Academy, Gu Yanwu, Guizhuang and others who participated in the uprising fled.

After conquering Kunshan, Bo Luotong led a large army along the Loujiang River by land and water, and came to Taicang Prefecture. reprimanded Zhang Tianfu, who was robbed of hundreds of thousands of stones of grain due to the unfavorable defense, and whipped Zhang Tianfu with 20 lashes, and instructed him to make meritorious contributions. Then with Zhang Tianfu as the vanguard, the army came directly to Jiading.

However, when Zhang Tianfujun arrived in Jiading, he found that Jiading was already an empty city.

Bolo assigned 3,000 8 banners and 10,000 green battalions to the casual Li Shutai, and asked him to lead troops to suppress Changshu's uprising, and then go to Jiangyin to meet with Duoduo, Prince Yu. He commanded a large army to attack Songjiang Mansion.

Tens of thousands of Qing troops crossed the border, like locusts, and the people in Songjiang in Jiading were considered to have suffered seedlings. On the march in the wealthy Jiangnan army, the Qing soldiers had no concept of nourishment at all, and the march of the army was all local supplies. The so-called local supply is to grab food directly from the hands of the people, and the countless people who were forced to flee into the lake and river with their families and mouths, which made Ma Liang's strength soar in Dianshan Lake, and the troops under his control are more than one day by day. However, Ma Liang remembered Ren Siqi's order, and only buried himself in developing power, and did not make any attempt to stop the Manchu army.

On July 13, the Qing army captured Qingpu County and slaughtered more than 20,000 people. Hearing that Qingpu was lost, Shen Youlong, Chen Zilong, the leaders of the defenders in Songjiang City, panicked, and issued an order to all directions, ordering Wu Zhikui, the deputy commander of Wusong, to lead troops back to Songjiang to aid Songjiang.

Wu Zhikui and Huang Fei originally led the army to attack Suzhou, and the vanguard deputy general Lu Zhiyu was easily killed by Li Shutai and his troops. The two did not dare to attack Suzhou again, but chose to retreat to Songjiang and stationed at Liuhu Lake, dozens of miles west of Songjiang City. However, in the face of tens of thousands of aggressive Qing soldiers, Wu Zhikui and Huang Fei did not dare to lead troops into Songjiang City at all, but chose to try to harass them outside the city.

At the same time, Shen Youlong and others in Songjiang City also issued an order to Jinshanwei, ordering Hou Chengzu, a general of Jinshanwei, to lead troops to reinforce Songjiang. However, when Hou Chengzu and Ma Liang went to Songjiang, they were rejected by Shen Youlong and others, and now how can they be willing to go for reinforcements.

Hou Chengzu refused to go to Songjiang, and Ma Yingkui, who was stationed in Hujiagang Fort City, was even more refusing. In the more than one month since he arrived at Hujiagang Castle, Ma Yingkui has developed rapidly from this base. With the assistance of the clerical officials of the League, many gentry chose to cooperate with Chongming. A large amount of grain, cotton cloth and other commodities were transported to Chongming through Hujiagang Castle, which has become an important stronghold of Chongming's control.

At the same time, Ma Yingkui did not forget the development of the army, after a month of training, his more than 2,000 soldiers have been quite elite, and recruited more than 1,000 people from the military households near Hujiagang, and now he has nearly 5,000 troops under his command, and it is a complete town again.

Because of the money in their hands, the soldiers of the Chongming Army in Hujiagang were well-equipped and well-paid, and the lowest-ranking soldiers also had a salary of one or two or a half yuan a month, and no officers had deducted it. The good treatment attracted a large number of Jinshanwei soldiers to come to meet each other, and Hou Chengzu and others couldn't stop it. This also makes the relationship between the two sides worse and worse. One of the reasons why Hou Chengzu was reluctant to send troops to rescue Songjiang City was that he was afraid that Ma Yingkui would take the opportunity to seize Jinshanwei.

Of course, Ma Yingkui is not without this idea, but Ren Siqi has already given him a strict order to bury his head in the development of power, as long as Jin Shanwei does not surrender, he will not pay attention to Jin Shanwei.

I asked for reinforcements everywhere, but no one would listen. This shows the popularity of this group of gentry.

When the incident first started in June, Shen Youlong and others took control of the three counties of Songjiang Prefecture in a short period of time. But because the victory came so quickly, they swelled. Not only did they send the more powerful Wu Zhikui and Huang Fei to Suzhou, but even the two departments of Jinshan Wei Hou Chengzu and Chongming Army Ma Liang were not allowed to enter Songjiang City. Perhaps in the eyes of these gentry, the generals could not be trusted. Completely regarded Songjiang Mansion as their confinement.

In the month since they occupied Songjiang, Shen Youlong and others did do some things, recruited a lot of soldiers, and requisitioned a large amount of food and salary. But it is strange that literati lead soldiers, and they can lead them well.

However, despite the many shortcomings of Shen Youlong and others, their integrity has nothing to say. When he learned that the Qing army was attacking in a big way, Shen Youlong immediately assigned military affairs. The sub-committee of the task of defending the city was given to Li Zhiwen, the former magistrate of Macheng County, Shan Sui, the former magistrate of Luoyuan County, Zhang Jian, and Zhang Shousun, the former magistrate of Luoyuan County, and ordered them to lead the righteous army and guard the four gates. At this time, there were still more than 5,000 soldiers in the city.

After Bolo led the army to capture Qingpu County, he did not attack Songjiang directly, but chose to eliminate Wu Zhikui and Huang Fei stationed in Liuhu first.

At this time, Wu Zhikui and Huang Fei also owned more than 500 warships, including thousands of large ships and more than 20,000 soldiers, but the soldiers' equipment was extremely poor, most of the soldiers had no armor at all, and many of them were only holding weapons such as knives and guns in their hands. Songjiang Mansion is one of the richest places in the world, but the soldiers of the Ming army are very poor, like Hanako, which cannot but be said to be a great irony.

Nearly 40,000 Qing troops reached the vicinity of Liuhu, and in the face of the powerful Eight Banners, Wu Zhikui and Huang Fei dared to take the initiative to face the battle, but they just set up camp in Liuhu and waited for the Qing army to attack.

And Bolo did not rush to attack, but collected thousands of small boats in all directions, and then blocked the waterways at both ends of Liuhu Lake with small boats, so that the Ming army entrenched in the lake could not advance or retreat.

Bolo ordered the Green Battalion soldiers Tian Xiong, Zhang Jie and others to take small boats and land and water to launch a frantic attack on the Ming army in Liuhu.

Tian Xiong and Zhang Jieju were both subordinates of Huang Degong, the former Gonggong of Yasukuni, who had been stationed on the Yangtze River for a long time, and were no strangers to water warfare. After surrendering to the Manchu Dynasty, after the Manchu training, the Green Battalion showed far better combat effectiveness than in the Ming Dynasty, because as long as the war flinched, the butcher's knife of the Eight Banners who supervised the war would fall on their heads!

Under the frantic attack of the Green Battalion, the Ming army in Liuhu was defeated and was quickly defeated, and the waterways at both ends were blocked by the Qing army, making them have nowhere to escape.

After a day of fighting, the Ming army's water village was quickly broken by the Qing soldiers, Wu Zhikui and Huang Fei led the troops to retreat, but they were surrounded by the green battalion soldiers of the brigade, and the two were captured one after another.

Of the more than 20,000 Ming troops, less than 3,000 people were able to escape in the end, and these Ming troops later fled to Dianshan Lake and belonged to Ma Liang's subordinates.

After defeating the Ming army in Liuhu, Bolo ordered to kill the Ming captives who dared to resist, and tens of thousands of captured Ming troops were killed in Liuhu, blood stained the entire lake, and the leaders of the Ming army, Wu Zhikui and Huang Fei, were also killed at the same time. Xia Yunyi, a famous soldier in Songjiang, was the supervisor of Wu Zhikui's army, and escaped by luck after the defeat of Liuhu, and later learned that Songjiang City was also breached, and committed suicide by throwing himself into Songjiangtang in despair.

After defeating the Ming army in Liuhu, Bolo ordered some of the Green Battalion soldiers to disguise themselves as Wu Zhikui's subordinates and flee to the direction of Songjiang, claiming that Wu Zhikui was defeated and fled back. Shen Youlong and others in Songjiang City might as well be deceitful, and ordered to open the city gate to receive the Ming army outside into the city. So, the Qing army took advantage of the situation and entered the city.

The spies of the Qing army in the city were disguised as Huang Fei sergeants, and they shouted to go to the city, pulled out the flag of the Ming army, and replaced it with the flag of the Qing army, and the defenders were in chaos. As soon as the Qing army swarmed in, they seized the city of Songjiang Prefecture, and the rebels and Qing soldiers in the city engaged in fierce street battles. Shen Youlong rushed out in a panic and was killed by an arrow.

Most of the gentry in the city were beheaded by the Qing army, and some committed suicide.

Chen Zilong, a famous scholar of several societies and the former military department, escaped from the West Gate by luck, and Xia Yunyi's son Xia Wanchun fled to Wusong City, which was still under the rule of the Ming army.

After conquering Songjiang City, Bolo divided his troops and conquered Shanghai County. Hearing that Songjiang City was broken, the Ming army in Shanghai County had already abandoned the city and fled to Chongming.

After occupying the three prefectures of Songjiang Prefecture. Wu Shengzhao, the governor of Belle Bolo Liususong, led troops to garrison Songjiang Mansion and exterminated the Ming army that was still entrenched in Jinshanwei. He led the army to attack the Chongming army at Wusongkou. However, after arriving at Wusongkou, it was found that the Ming army in Wusong City had already retreated, everything in the city was gone, and even the walls of Wusong Castle were demolished. Because there was no naval army and did not have the strength to attack Chongming Island, Bolo had to lead the army to leave Wusongkou and go to Jiangyin. Because at this time, the anti-Qing rebels in the entire four counties of Jiangdong were basically extinguished, but the small Jiangyin City was still not taken. And the Qing army has already lost tens of thousands of people under the city of Jiangyin.

The reason why Ren Siqi chose to retreat in an all-round way naturally had his considerations. Because he felt that the current Chongming Army did not have the strength to fight hard with the Qing army. If it was to forcibly defend Wusong City, although it could also consume part of the Qing army's troops, it would not make much sense. Killing one thousand enemies and self-inflicting eight hundred, such a thing is not of much benefit to Chongming.

For Chongming now, the most important thing is time. In a few more months, another batch of recruits will be trained. As long as Chongming can train 50,000 elite soldiers and equip them with sophisticated weapons, he will have the strength to compete with the Qing army. If you can have an army of 100,000, you can plot the entire Jiangnan. And with the current development momentum of Chongming, this day will not be too far away!

But not everyone understands Ren Siqi's thoughts, such as Chen Zilong and Xia Wanchun, who have just entered Chongming Island, and they force Ren Siqi to send troops every day.

To get celebrities like Chen Zilong and Xia Wanchun, Ren Siqi was very excited at first. More and more literati and celebrities have joined Chongming, symbolizing the prosperity of Chongming. According to Shen Tingyang, Chen Zilong is a talented person.

Chen Zilong Chongzhen has been a scholar for ten years, and he has been a genius since he was a child, and he is famous for his literature. His poetic achievements are high, and his poetic style is tragic and desolate, full of national integrity; or Wei Li Yan, chasing Qi Liang in the early Tang Dynasty; Or combine the two styles in one, forming a unique style of Shen Xiong's magnificence, and is the chief of the Yunjian poetry school, and is recognized as the last great poet of the Ming Dynasty. What's more, this person is not great at literature, and he is also remarkable in other aspects. Under his auspices, he compiled the book "Huangming Jingshiwen Compilation", which has five hundred and four volumes, and four volumes of supplements. The selected essays are based on the principles of the Meiji Rebellion, the preservation of similarities and differences, the detailed military affairs, and the emphasis on the economy, and the content is very rich, including politics, military, enlistment, finance and economics, farmland, water conservancy, school culture, and the code system. Moreover, Chen Zilong sorted out Xu Guangqi's agricultural masterpiece "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", which shows that this person is an all-rounder.

More important is Chen Zilong's integrity, in history, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Zilong has been unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and has refused the Qing army's solicitation several times. Then when the shaving order was raised, Chen Zilong immediately made preparations with Shen Youlong and others to resist the Qing Dynasty, and called on the Songjiang gentry and ordinary people to rise up against the Qing Dynasty, occupying Songjiang one prefecture and three counties in a short time. In history, when Songjiang was captured, Chen Zilong first lived in seclusion for a period of time, and later was invited by Lu Jianguo to serve as the secretary of the military department of Lu Jianguo. Later, Wu Shengzhao, the commander of the Qing Susong, was dissatisfied with the exclusion of the Qing soldiers, and raised the troops anyway, Chen Zilong ran for Wu Shengzhao to contact, and after Wu Shengzhao's defeat, Chen Zilong fled under a pseudonym and continued to engage in the cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty. After being captured by the Qing army, he would rather die than surrender, and committed suicide by jumping into the river.

For such a national hero, Ren Siqi has always had great respect. But these people are also very proud and stubborn, thinking that they are knowledgeable, and they are often rigid and self-serving, and there is no one in their eyes, which makes Ren Siqi quite a headache.

Therefore, when Chen Zilong first arrived in Chongming, after Ren Siqi warmly welcomed him, he appointed him as Shen Tingyang's deputy to preside over Chongming's agricultural affairs. How do you know that Chen Zilong is really talented, but he became familiar with the situation in Chongming after two days of hard work, and then spent a few days arranging Chongming's work of clearing wasteland and tuntian in an orderly manner. Then he heard the news that Ren Siqi ordered a retreat from Wusong City, and immediately came to ask him. (To be continued.) )