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Ordinary people are not afraid of any change of dynasty, and no one can say that they are ignorant and inferior. After all, more people living at the bottom of the society, no culture, work, subsistence, has always been their duty, no matter which dynasty you have, always let the people survive, no matter what kind of court you are, you always have to rely on the people to support, they clearly understand this. However, the people are afraid of war, and in their minds, soldiers have always been a disaster, but fire is a disaster.

When the news of the army coming from the canal did not go away, and the big families were panicked and at a loss, the ordinary people were also worried, the real soldiers, and the rumors that were true and false were difficult to argue, which confused everyone, and it was so chaotic that the army guarding Tieling Pass was retreating, and everyone seemed to have forgotten to pay attention.

Closely connected to Fengqiao, there is a Tieling Pass backed by Hanshan Temple and surrounded by water on three sides. Tieling Pass, also known as Fengqiao Enemy Tower, Ming Jiajing 36 years (1557), the governor of the imperial history is still maintained to defend against the Japanese and built. In the thirty-third year of Jiajing (1554), the Japanese invaders burned the area from Changmen to Fengqiao, "burning and plundering", and "the savings were exhausted". A year later, the Japanese invaded Fengqiao from Hushu Pass. After the heroic struggle of the soldiers and civilians of Suzhou, the thieves were finally annihilated. Tieling Xiongguan, "Fang Guangzhou thirteen zhang has strange, three zhang six feet high has strange, the base stone is the base, the tile on all sides, the middle is three layers, the top is covered with tiles, the side is porous, and the arrow stone cannon." In peacetime, you can climb high and look out, patrol and guard, and in wartime, you can raise a cigarette to give an alarm, and the Tibetan army will hold on, and form an important military barrier to guard the west of Suzhou with the river and bridge in front of the pass.

But to the Qing Dynasty, the wind of Tieling Pass is no longer there, when the Tieling Pass is rebuilt in the Daoguang period, even the pavilion on the pass has already been named "Wenchang Pavilion", the beautiful name is said, "to Chang Wenyun".

The garrison stationed at Tieling Pass had less than 100 regimental training, and the main task of daily life was to assist the tax customs yamen of Shuiguan Wharf, collect all kinds of taxes and fees, and suppress the localities. When they received the order to burn down the Hanshan Temple and their houses and return to the city of Suzhou, no one was willing to do so, whether they were officials or soldiers. They are all from the local people, and no one dares to do this kind of behavior of losing their conscience and cutting off their children and grandchildren. So, they "faithfully" carried out the second command, which was to abandon the pass and flee.

In fact, the most panicked people in Fengqiao now are the people in the tax customs yamen located at Shuiguan Wharf. Today, it seems that they have suddenly become the stepmother's support, running around every year, desperately trying to collect a tax of one hundred hundred thousand taels of silver for the governor's yamen, and now they are about to burn this place, but no one has informed them. It was only when they found that the troops originally stationed at Tieling Pass were quietly retreating that they felt the seriousness of the matter.

The officials and servants of the tax customs and yamen have become a swarm of headless flies at this moment. They also want to run, but there are still tens of thousands of taels of cash in the warehouse, as well as the "furniture" that they have accumulated over a long period of time in this place. is a mess, bag of bag, wrap of bag, when you call me to scold, "The Red Army has entered the customs!" This series of shouts suddenly startled everyone to ignore anything else, you fight for me to rush out of the door. What is the Red Army? They don't care, they don't want to care, it's nothing more than the "military masters" who float down the canal, don't think about it, they also know that it must not be their own people, right now, except for the city of Suzhou, I'm afraid it's difficult to find their own soldiers.

A battalion and a directly subordinate team of the Guard Brigade of the 1st Red Army passed through the Guò Fengqiao and crossed the Tieling Pass without firing a single shot.

Xu Fengyu rubbed shoulders with the retreating Tieling Pass defenders, he glanced at the retreating soldiers viciously, what a fucking bastard, he didn't do it, he ran quite neatly. I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but the other party hid the situation of the enemy in front of him.

In fact, even if you say it, it can't change the ending.

Before entering Fengqiao, Lin Fengxiang already had a specific report on the enemy situation in Fengqiao. In accordance with King An's overall plan, he sent Wu Dinggui's guard brigade and Chen Yucheng's teaching brigade down the Shuo Canal. The two soldiers and horses first took Hushu Pass.

According to the intelligence, Chen Yucheng's teaching brigade temporarily stopped, while Wu Dinggui personally led a battalion and a brigade directly under the brigade to continue to move south along the canal to Tieling Pass. At the same time, his other two battalions went straight to the line of Pu'an Bridge outside the gate of Suzhou, entered the city of Suzhou, and cut off Xu Fengyu's retreat. It's just that what Wu Dinggui didn't expect was that the enemy guarding Tieling Pass would run so cleanly.

On the ancient street of Fengqiao, about ten miles from east to west, people saw different armies in different sections, some to the west and some to the east, and careful people will find a problem, that is, in the ranks of officers and soldiers who are running in a hurry to the east, there are more fire-starting utensils in their hands. It's not like going to war, "The official army wants to destroy the Miè Fengqiao!" "Could it be that the rumors are true?

Before the two armies running on the east side of the east and west had not met, Xu Fengyu first bumped into a swarm of swarms, frightened rabbits running fast tax collectors and others, "Don't move forward, the Red Army is coming!" ”

Xu Fengyu seemed to hit the wall head-on and stopped. Red army? He was blinded, what Red Army? "Smack!" With a crisp and familiar voice in front of him, Xu Fengyu trembled, and he immediately understood that the Red Army was not those people who were like wolves and tigers outside Wuxi! He didn't even think about it, he turned around and pulled away the entourage that was blocking the way, "Withdraw, retreat!" ”

Most of the streets and alleys of Fengqiao are densely packed with private houses and small stone roads that twist and turn, and Xu Fengyu and his soldiers who fled against each other are like dense maggots, filling the streets and alleys. Escaped not far away, listening to the sound of gunfire behind him, Xu Fengyu suddenly sobered up a lot, he couldn't just run away, he wanted to set fire, as long as the fire was together, the pursuers couldn't care about anything else.

"Disperse, disperse and retreat, and those behind hurry up to set fire to interfere with the pursuers." Xu Fengyu shouted while running. Then, regardless of the rout that was crowded up behind him and blocked the streets, he ordered his relatives around him to light the torches and throw them into the courtyard on the side. Maybe it happened to run into the haystack of the owner's house, and in an instant the flames rushed and the smoke billowed out.

As the fleeing Qing army ran more and more, the fires burned one by one.

In the south-central part of Maple Bridge, gunshots, wails, cries and curses mingled with the crackling sound of burning fire......

Before the large group of men and horses led by Xu Fengyu had run more than a mile, they were intercepted by the sound of gunfire heading out. The retreat has been copied again! He had no choice but to turn his head and run south, the more he ran, the fewer his followers became, running and running, he was shocked, how did he run into the circle of fire?

There were gunshots on all sides, and on all sides there were fires that they had lit themselves. The crowd of people who were busy fighting fires on the streets one after another, looking at these officers and soldiers running around, their eyes were full of fire......

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