When Lin Zhe led the army eastward, like most of the previous marches, the prefectures and counties along the way were still afraid of the troops crossing the border, and they were not able to enter the city when they passed through Jiaxing, but the officials and gentry in these cities were also relatively up-to-date, and basically did not need Yu Shengjun to speak, and would take the initiative to send out a different amount of rice and meat to the army.

Seeing that the officials in the city took the initiative to send a large number of military supplies, Lin Zhe didn't bother to care about these officials not letting him enter the city, and he couldn't fire a few cannons every time he went to a city to intimidate them.

It's nothing to do this kind of thing once or twice, people think you're arrogant at most, but if you do this every day, people have to wonder if you Lin Zhe is really going to rebel.

And in any case, Lin Zhe's Yu Shengjun is still fundamentally in northern Zhejiang, and under the current circumstances, the relationship with the local government cannot be too stiff, which is not beneficial to future development.

After accepting a large amount of military supplies from Jiaxing, Yu Shengjun rested for a day outside Jiaxing City, and then continued to march eastward!

At the same time, Lin Zhe also sent part of the cavalry company to Wujiang, Suzhou, to receive more than 100 war horses sent by Xu Naizhao.

After accepting this batch of war horses, the horses of the cavalry company were finally abundant, and the original ordinary war horses were returned to ordinary officers, and the officers finally did not have to ride only one meter and two tall or simply mules to command the battle.

After leaving Jiaxing Mansion, the main force of Yu Shengjun led by Lin Zhe can be regarded as the second time to leave Zhejiang!

A few months ago, Yu Shengjun rushed to the aid of Guangde and left Zhejiang to enter Anhui Province, which was the first time to leave Zhejiang to fight outside the province, and this time to Jiangsu to counterattack Shanghai, it was the second time that Yu Shengjun went out of the province to fight.

When he first entered the territory of Songjiang Prefecture in Jiangsu, Lin Zhe did not feel that there was too much war atmosphere in Jiangsu Province, the people here were still living and working in peace and contentment, like most of the people in the prefectures and counties in northern Zhejiang, and the gentry were still intoxicated by the opera of the restaurant, as if the war between the Qing army and the Taiping army hundreds of miles away had no effect on them.

However, the more he advanced eastward, the more Lin Zhe felt the atmosphere of war!

When he arrived in Huating County, that is, the capital city of Songjiang Prefecture, the city gate was closed, and the Qing army flags were standing on the city, and when Yu Shengjun arrived at the city, the city looked like a great enemy.

This time, Lin Zhe's Yu Shengjun was not denied entry into the city, why?

Because Yu Shengjun was a reinforcement personally invited by Xu Naizhao, he also expected Yu Shengjun to be able to annihilate the knife clubs in the surrounding prefectures and counties of Shanghai and recapture Shanghai.

In Songjiang Mansion, Lin Zhe saw Huang Yidian again, he was the same as Lin Zhe last time he saw him, wearing a horse coat and robe, and he could know from a distance that this was a staff scholar and a scholar.

"Lord Lin, you came fast enough, I thought you would arrive tomorrow!" As the direct liaison between Xu Naizhao and Lin Zhe, Huang Yidian played a lot of roles, in addition to being responsible for giving Lin Zhe money and horses, he also needed to act as Xu Naizhao's personal representative as a fusion agent between Yu Shengjun and the local government.

After all, Lin Zhe's reputation for Yu Shengjun is not very good, although many people don't know about the bombardment of Huzhou City, but people with a heart always know, Xu Naizhao is also afraid of finding Lin Zhe, a group of arrogant soldiers, one of them didn't fight the thief army, but shelled his own city.

Therefore, after discovering that Lin Zhe led the army to Songjiang Mansion, Huang Yidian was the first to go out of the city to greet him, so as not to do anything to bombard Songjiang Mansion.

Looking at this Huang Yidian, Lin Zhe was also relieved, Huang Yidian appeared here today, so the follow-up military expenses of 40,000 taels of silver promised by the Jiangnan camp can also be regarded as settled.

No matter what era, it is common for officials to procrastinate, Lin Zhe is really afraid that Xu Naizhao will withhold the 40,000 taels of silver after he arrives in Jiangsu, in that case, although Lin Zhe will retaliate by delaying military action, but it is not a good thing after all.

After receiving the remaining 40,000 taels of silver from Huang Yidian, Lin Zhe was in a good mood, and rarely participated in the reception banquet held by many officials and gentry in Songjiang Mansion that night.

You must know that when he first entered Huzhou City, he didn't care about what reception banquet those officials and gentry went to, but today, he can be regarded as a guest soldier, and Huang Yidian and the official gentry here in Songjiang Mansion are still relatively good.

As soon as he entered the city, not only did Huang Yidian present 40,000 taels of silver on behalf of Xu Naizhao, but many large gentry on the side of Songjiang Mansion jointly raised 10,000 taels of silver and a large amount of rice, grain, fruits and vegetables and meat to send, and the official government of Songjiang Mansion also took the initiative to vacate a large number of official houses in the city for Yu Sheng's army to be stationed.

These people are so good, Lin Zhe naturally will not put on a face that others owe him eighteen thousand, but often smile, at the reception banquet, he and several senior officers of Yu Shengjun and the vast number of official gentry in Songjiang Mansion can be said to eat happily and drink refreshingly.

One was happy that he had just arrived in Songjiang and had received 50,000 taels of silver and a large amount of military supplies, while the officials and gentry of Songjiang Prefecture saw the hope of saving their lives.

You must know that since the uprising of the Little Knife Society in Shanghai, troops have been sent everywhere, and many counties around Shanghai have been conquered, and the soldiers have spread all over the counties of Songjiang, and small troops of the Little Knife Society have also appeared in the neighboring Taicang Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture.

With the capture of Qingpu County in the north of Songjiang Huating, it is rumored that the Little Knife Society has sharpened its fists and prepared to attack Huating, the capital county of Songjiang Prefecture, and completely take Songjiang Prefecture.

For most of the past half month, the officials and gentry of Songjiang Mansion have been living in panic, and some of the frightened people have fled to the British Concession, while others have fled to the nearby Jiaxing Mansion in Zhejiang.

However, the Qing army in the Jiangnan camp has not come for a long time, and according to some well-informed people, Xu Naizhao's troops from the Jiangnan camp to the east are only a few thousand, and they are all remnants of the army.

In this case, Yu Shengjun entered Songjiang Mansion in a big way, which made countless Songjiang officials and gentry as if they had caught life-saving grass, and this Yu Shengjun had fought many times with the Taiping Army in northern Zhejiang in the past few months, and they all returned with great victories, which the ordinary people did not know, but it was widely spread among the officials and gentry in the Jiangnan region.

Especially after Emperor Xianfeng awarded Lin Zhe as the assistant minister of the Zhejiang Provincial League Training, it let many people know that there was a Lin Zhe and a Yu Shengjun in Zhejiang.

In the countless contemporary domestic team exercises, Yu Shengjun has made a name for himself by relying on his military exploits!

In fact, the regimental training in contemporary China is still in its infancy, and the famous Zeng Guofan only began to establish Xiangyong at the beginning of this year, and then has been training troops in Xiangtan, until June when Nanchang, Jiangxi was in danger, he sent a part of his troops to aid Nanchang, which was also the first battle of the Hunan army.

Therefore, the time of Yu Shengjun and the Hunan army to form the army, the time to participate in the war is actually about the same, but the leader of the Hunan army is Zeng Guofan, although he is only a Hunan regimental training assistant minister, and Lin Zhe, the Zhejiang regimental training assistant minister, but he was a dignified jinshi before, the right attendant of the official residence military department, and a senior official of the second grade, and the support obtained by the regimental training in Hunan is incomparable to Lin Zhe.

Therefore, although the two formed an army and participated in the war at about the same time, the development of the Hunan army was much faster, and now the strength of the army is about to exceed 10,000, and in history, Zeng Guofan officially led the army to the east next year, and the strength of the Hunan army has swelled to as many as 17,000 people.

Whether it is the Hunan army with a large number of troops or the Yu Sheng army with a slightly smaller number of troops, these two armies are also the only two local regiments that can go into battle to fight the Taiping army in contemporary China.

At present, in the war between the Qing army and the Taiping army, in fact, the main force still relies on those rotten green battalion soldiers and the Eight Banners, relying on these forces can also establish Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps to besiege Tianjing, and kill the Taiping army's two successive Northern Expeditionary armies, which is a very unbelievable thing.

Yu Shengjun, one of the only two local regiments in contemporary China that can go into battle and fight, arrived in Songjiang, and referring to Yu Shengjun's past achievements, it naturally gave hope to the officials and gentry of Songjiang Mansion.

The hope of saving their lives, otherwise they would not have paid so much and directly offered 10,000 taels of silver and a large amount of grain and grass.

If this is placed on weekdays, if they want to come up with so much money, unless Lin Zhe asks the soldiers to grab it directly with guns!

After the reception banquet, Huang Yidian accompanied Lin Zhe back to the temporary station of the military headquarters of Yu Shengjun!

"Lord Lin, according to the agreement between you and me, my family Futai has led 3,000 troops to Kunshan a few days ago, and divided 1,000 troops to Jiading to try to recapture the city. In the next step, my family will continue to ask for reinforcements from the Jiangnan camp, and at the same time, we will strictly guard against it and never let the thief army invade Suzhou! ”

After Huang Yidian said that, Lin Zhe was a little speechless, Xu Naizhao led 3,000 troops to the east and couldn't get back a mere Jiading, and what made him even more speechless was that it seemed that this Xu Naizhao had 3,000 troops, and he even planned to be a turtle with a shrunken head in the future.

Lin Zhe had no jurisdiction over the army led by Xu Naizhao or other Qing troops, and at the same time, Lin Zhe came to Jiangsu to fight, and he never planned that these so-called friendly troops could help him, as long as he didn't add chaos to the side.

To recapture Shanghai this time, Lin Zhe knew very well that he only relied on the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Yu Sheng Army under his command, and the other chaotic Qing troops were unreliable.

So he said: "Since the thief army is powerful, in order to prevent the thief army from rushing to Suzhou, Xu Futai's side is under great pressure, and it is natural to strictly guard Suzhou." ”

"And our army is expected to rest in Fucheng for two days, and the day after tomorrow will go north to Qingpu and take Qingpu back first, so as to solve the worries of the subsequent eastward march to Shanghai! At that time, I hope that Xu Futai can work hard and guard against the enemy of Jiading! ”

Lin Zhe didn't ask Xu Naizhao to cooperate with him in the battle, he also knew that this request was useless, if the Qing army had the courage to take the initiative, they would have recaptured Shanghai long ago in history, and it would have to wait until two years later.

"Naturally, although there are a lot of thieves in Jiading, we are bound to stop them, and we will definitely not let a single Jiading thief army go south to Qingpu!" Huang Yidian swore that he would guarantee it.

Yu Shengjun rested in Songjiang Mansion City for two days and then started again, this time they did not go directly to the east, but turned north, and the goal was directly aimed at Qingpu County!