I can't help Shen Chiyun to be so suspicious, although he has fought with the Qing army many times and defeated the stubborn resistance of the Qing army many times, but whether it is Yangzhou or Huai'an, the large-scale retreat of the Qing army only happened after his own city was broken and the Qing army faced the annihilation of the whole army.

This shot was taken without firing a city, which was the first time for the Chinese army!

And at this moment, Muyang City was also in a panic, after Zhang Guoliang fled north with his five thousand green battalions, the officials and gentry in the city were even more panicked!

Muyang is located in the northern region of Jiangsu, although there was the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Army a few years ago, but the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Army did not pass through here at that time, so it can be said that in a hundred years, this Muyang is the first time to experience a large-scale war.

Previously, Muyang stationed tens of thousands of Qing troops, these Qing troops did not have a large number of baggage troops like the Chinese army to transport supplies, the Qing army and the Taiping army in these years are more 'self-raised' these words, generally speaking, in addition to guns and a large number of military salaries will be supplied by the imperial court, although the grain and grass court will also try its best to collect, but most of them still have to rely on self-raising in the war zone.

The Taiping army fought like this, the Qing army fought like this, and in fact, the same was true of the early Yu Shengjun!

In order to supply the grain and grass needed by tens of thousands of Qing troops, the officials of Muyang County and several surrounding counties were miserable, and the local gentry and wealthy merchants were forcibly apportioned a lot of military expenses and food.

Originally, I thought that so much money was spent, although it was very heart-wrenching, but if it could ensure the peace of one side, then it would be worth it, but I didn't expect that it would not take long for the Qing army stationed in Muyang to go south to Suqian, and yesterday there was a more ruthless Zhang Guoliang division than the original Qing army.

Although Zhang Guoliang only stayed in Muyang for no more than twenty-four hours. However, the soldiers under Zhang Guoliang's department were veterans who had fought for several years in time, and they were all ruthless people who shed blood on their knives, and they did not do these things of plundering the people on weekdays. The so-called humanity has long since been extinguished.

A few days ago, they fled from Huai'an in disarray, and the soldiers were lost in the chaos of the army for many years, except for a little gold and silver that everyone carried.

In addition, they were also frightened along the way, which made these green battalion soldiers hold back a fire in their hearts, so after arriving in Muyang County, these green battalion soldiers just couldn't bear it, and those senior generals said that they would say something like Zeng Guofan or Shi Dakai openly saying "no knife for three days". However, there was no large-scale bomb pressure, which can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence to the looting behavior of the soldiers.

Maybe the thought in their hearts is: they are afraid of being beaten by the Chinese army along the way, so they will grab it first and suppress it!

The damage caused by Zhang Guoliang's subordinates to the people in the city is no less than the war!

Just last night and this morning. In the city, hundreds of women from good families were defiled, hundreds of people's houses were plundered by rebels, and even the home of a Zhishi official was attacked by rebels, and more than 20 members of a family were killed. The young ladies were all defiled.

In the face of Zhang Guoliang's arson, he rebelled. The local magistrate, Tongzhi and other county officials and gentry and wealthy businessmen were intentionally blocking but could not do anything, and they could only shrink their scrolls at home and hear the crying and howling outside!

Ying Yangxian, the local magistrate, was even afraid that the rebels would directly plunder the county office, while more than 200 people from the Muyang County Yali and the county's township warriors stayed in the county office.

When these frightened people suddenly heard that Zhang Guoliang's soldiers and horses were roaring out this afternoon, they thought at first that they were going to fight with the Chinese army outside the city, but they didn't expect that these soldiers of the green battalion put on their pants one by one, grabbed the gold and silver property in their hands and fled, and the speed of this escape was even faster than yesterday. It was only half an hour, and more than 5,000 people left cleanly. Not a single one left.

Leave a Muyang County that has been torn by the army and the people are wailing for the Chinese army!

Zhang Guoliang left, and the Chinese army outside the city had already entered the city, and the county magistrate Ying Yangxian took people up to the city to take a look, no need to look closely, and he couldn't understand the equipment or formation of these Chinese troops, just a little count of the number of Chinese troops to know that this city could not be defended at all.

There are nearly 10,000 Chinese troops outside the city, not to mention whether these Chinese troops are strong or weak in combat effectiveness, the key is that there is not even a single regular soldier in Muyang County now, only two or three hundred people from the government and the county warriors, even if they mobilize the gentry and rich businessmen in the city to gather young and strong, but at most they can only get together a few hundred people, and they can't resist the army outside the city at all.

Looking at the army outside the city, Ying Yangxian didn't show too much fear, but showed unwillingness!

He is just a man from a high background, and the real shortage of this county is still bought after sending tens of thousands of taels of silver to the head, and he has not been the county master for a year, and he has not even recovered the capital to buy the shortage, so he is naturally unwilling to lose the official hat so much.

Once the Chinese army outside the city comes to attack, their own block is definitely unstoppable, and at that time they can escape to save their lives temporarily, but no one can say whether the imperial court will correct him and ban him.

Even if the court doesn't kill him, but after this escape, the official hat will naturally be gone, and if he doesn't continue to be an official, how can he take back the tens of thousands of taels of silver that he bought an official?

If you can't get it back, won't you lose a lot!

After just thinking about it slightly, Ying Yangxian made a decision very simply, that is, to surrender anyway!

As long as he can continue to be an official, he doesn't mind being loyal to a foreigner, nor does he mind being loyal to a thief, even if he is loyal to a foreigner, he doesn't care, as long as he can continue to be an official, let his old mother in the family sell it!

In fact, tens of thousands of Manchu officials in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Anhui provinces surrendered to Cheng anyway, and in the blink of an eye, they became officials of the Chinese Empire.

Although their direct starting points may be different, such as some people are for the people's livelihood, some are for the glory of their ancestors, and some people are for a better future, they all have one thing in common, that is, they all want to keep their official positions, and even want to go further.

It can be seen from this that in China, where the official position is in the official position, how attractive is it to people, and ordinary people cannot refuse the temptation to be an official.

Now Ying Yangxian is one of them!

After confirming that he wanted to surrender, Ying Yangxian also heard that there were not a few local officials in southern Jiangsu and other places who surrendered to the Chinese army, and most of them were able to live in their original positions after surrendering, and some people were deeply appreciated by the ministers and bigwigs in Nanjing, so there were not a few people who were promoted.

Therefore, Ying Yangxian not only wanted to surrender, but also wanted to win the favor of the Chinese army, so he immediately sent a letter to the Chinese army outside the city. (To be continued......)