At the beginning of December, the land of China caused a stir because of Lin Zhe's official rebellion and self-reliance, and the situation continued to be further turbulent.

In the face of Lin Zhe's rebellion, many Manchu Qing officials in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang were also quickly divided into several types, one was the officials who were loyal to the Qing court and resolutely opposed, such as Huang Zonghan, the governor of Liangjiang, Li Hongzhang, the governor of Jiangsu, and He Guiqing, the governor of Zhejiang.

One is the people who dare not jump out against Lin Zhe, but they also dare not openly lean towards Lin Zhe, and these people are mainly middle-level, such as Lan Weiwen, the prefect of Songjiang, the prefect of Suzhou, etc.

There are also some people who simply declare their allegiance to Lin Zhe after swaying, and these people are mainly officials in Su Songtai, Huzhou and other places, and Lin Zhe's former direct officials, such as Su Songtai's military preparation Dao Xue Huan, Songjiang Haiphong Tongzhi Wu Xu, Shanghai Zhixian Sun Feng, Jiading Zhixian Liu Xunjiao, etc., mainly middle and lower-level officials.

In addition, the officials in many yamen institutions in the trade zone, such as the Jianghaiguan Dao, the yamen of the trade zone, the yamen of the Jiangsu political envoy, and some officials and employees in the yamen of Su Songtaibing Dao can be regarded as people in Yu Shengjun's system, except for a small number of people who are desperately disobedient, most of the others announced their allegiance to Lin Zhe at the first time.

Under the strong suppression of Yu Shengjun, those who were unwilling to oppose or resolutely oppose were purged without exception, perhaps the whole process was extremely bloody, and many innocent people would be killed in vain, but in the very beginning of the uprising, what was needed was this kind of ruthless means, and it was absolutely impossible for others, especially those who followed Lin Zhe to rebel, to feel Lin Zhe's hesitation or weakness.

After the initial rectification of the Shanghai area, Lin Zhe set his sights on other areas in southern Jiangsu and sent troops to various prefectures and counties to completely control these areas.

At the same time, Lin Zhe also promulgated the "Appeal to the Capture and Blessing the People", in which he criticized the Qing court, saying that the land of China had fallen into thieves and rebellion for several years, and tens of millions of people had been displaced, and the Qing court did not want to destroy the thieves and quell the chaos, but went to the world to protect a small number of people and nobles to live in fire and water.

Yu Shengjun has been fighting thieves for several years, but the Qing court did not think about rewarding them, but framed Yu Shengjun's generals because of the Manchu and Han defenses.

He also said that the Manchu people did not think about production since they entered the customs, and were willing to suck the blood of the Han people for hundreds of years, so that the Han people worked hard in summer and autumn, but the harvest was not enough to satisfy their stomachs, and they were forced to sell their sons and daughters.

He also said that the Qing court was arrogant and arrogant to the outside world, but grovelled to Xiyi, tearing the land and losing silver.

All kinds of messy crimes, regardless of whether there are or not, almost everything that can be pulled up is involved in it

Then he said that Lin Zhe was saved by the mandate of heaven from tens of thousands of Li people, and would lead an army of 100,000 to conquer the Qing court, and return the world to a bright future.

Yu Shengjun's soldiers pointed out that they would kill the officials who harsh the people.

Everywhere Yu Shengjun went, he was exempt from harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

For the people of the world to have their houses, and the cultivators to have their fields, I, Lin Zhe, am willing to go to the soup for it.

In short, it is all kinds of promises, Yu Shengjun is all kinds of good, you hurry up and support me Lin Zhe!

The first used various excuses to say that the Qing court was wrong, the second used various reasons to say that Lin Zhe's rebellion was reasonable and necessary, and the third was to promise various benefits.

The fourth is clearly worded to indicate that Yu Shengjun's army did not take refuge in or unite with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, on the contrary, the name of this inscription is very clear, begging Hu to destroy the thief, the Hu in it refers to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the thief refers to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The reason why it distanced itself from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in black and white, and even indicated that it would continue to conquer the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was mainly to win over the gentry and ordinary people in the control area.

Sue them, our Yu Shengjun is not those homeless people, and will not kill everywhere like the Taiping thief army, and there is not a dime left, our Yu Shengjun is still a civilized army that protects the family and defends the country, destroys thieves and kills the enemy.

After announcing the document drafted by Bi Yutong in Shanghai, Lin Zhe personally led nearly 10,000 troops north to Suzhou and sent many partial divisions to nearby prefectures and counties.

The counties of Songjiang Prefecture were successively announced on the same day and the next day, and then the prefectures and counties of Taicang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, and Changzhou Prefecture were also successively attached to the Prefecture under the deterrence of the local Yu Sheng Army garrison.

In this process, more than a dozen rebellions of Qing court officials were suppressed, and more than 2,000 Qing troops in the Green Battalion were annihilated and defeated.

On the third day of the uprising, Shi Qingxuan led about 5,000 garrisons in Changzhou and Suzhou to attack the Jiangnan Qing army in Jiangyin.

In just four days, Yu Shengjun completely controlled the existing control area in southern Jiangsu.

The reason why he completely controlled the prefectures and counties in southern Jiangsu so quickly is inseparable from the fact that Yu Shengjun has many garrisons in the prefectures and counties in southern Jiangsu, and most of the more than 20,000 regular troops of Yu Shengjun and nearly 20,000 people in the auxiliary defense regiment are stationed in southern Jiangsu, and basically important cities have garrisons of Yu Shengjun.

When Lin Zhe officially announced the uprising, first of all, Yu Shengjun began to purge internally, and the internal purge of Yu Shengjun of the garrisons in the external states and counties was more severe than that of the garrisons in Shanghai, just in Changzhou, Shi Qingxuan killed three major battalion commanders, the commander of an auxiliary defense regiment, more than 30 lieutenants, and almost all those officers who resisted or were just unwilling to cut their braids would be shot on the spot without hesitation.

The officers killed accounted for almost a quarter of the officers in the Changzhou garrison.

When Yu Shengjun's internal cleansing was complete, they would directly occupy the local yamen, and local officials would either surrender directly, flee for their lives, resist and be killed, or commit suicide, but no matter what they chose, they could not prevent Yu Shengjun from quickly occupying and controlling these areas.

For the southern Jiangsu region, which has a large number of garrisons, it is not difficult to control these places, but it is more troublesome for northern Zhejiang and southern Anhui and the western part of southern Jiangsu, that is, Jiangning and Zhenjiang.

Let's talk about Jiangning Mansion first, this side is still a war zone, the Taiping Army relies on Jiangning, Zhenjiang, and Danyang as the core, while Yu Shengjun is based on Lishui, Jintan, and Changzhou as the core, and the two sides have carried out an intensive and extensive tug-of-war in the middle zone.

In these southwestern Jiangsu regions, including the nearby southern Anhui region, Yu Shengjun did not actually control it in the first place, but only maintained garrisons in a few important places.

In northern Zhejiang, Yu Shengjun's control is also limited to Huzhou Mansion, Huzhou Mansion City is stationed in the Ninth Mixed Regiment, and Yu Shengjun has been stationed in Huzhou Mansion for many years, and the infiltration of Huzhou has been very strict, especially after Qu Shengchao left, this Huzhou Mansion has become Yu Shengjun's own place, after the uprising, it is basically a rumor, and Guangdezhou, which is close to Huzhou, is also Yu Shengjun's military control area for the past two years, and there is no big problem is to control it.

However, for other places, it is much more troublesome, such as Jiaxing Mansion and Hangzhou Mansion.

Although Jiaxing Mansion is at the junction with Huzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, and Suzhou Prefecture at the same time, in fact, Yu Shengjun's influence has not been able to enter this area.

As the capital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou has always been the key defense area of the successive governors of Zhejiang, when Huang Zonghan served as the governor of Zhejiang, thousands of green battalions were stationed here, and later after He Guiqing served as the governor of Zhejiang, it was to strengthen the strength of Hangzhou and the surrounding areas.

As of Lin Zhe's uprising, there were about 2,000 Qing army banner soldiers, green battalions, and regimental training in Jiaxing Fucheng. There are a total of 7,000 or 8,000 Qing troops in Hangzhou Fucheng and the surrounding areas, including all kinds of Qing troops, with more than 1,000 Eight Banner soldiers, more than 3,000 Zhejiang Fubiao Green Battalions, and 2,000 local regiments from all over Zhejiang Province to train 2,000 people, and two battalions of about 1,000 people He Guixin trained the new army.

The above-mentioned garrisons only refer to the official strength of troops, and do not include Xiang Yong, Ding Zhuang, etc., who were temporarily summoned by local officials in various prefectures and counties.

In the above two prefectures, Yu Shengjun did not have a single soldier.

In the entire northern Zhejiang region, Yu Shengjun only deployed the Ninth Mixed Regiment in Huzhou Prefecture, and the three infantry battalions of this Ninth Mixed Regiment were also scattered, one battalion in Guangde, one battalion in Changxing, and one in Huzhou Fucheng. In addition, in Yu Shengjun's hometown of Shaoxing Mansion, there is also the 10th Mixed Regiment that has not yet been organized into an army.

Although the 10th Mixed Regiment had begun its training several months ago, it had not even been able to replenish its troops, and there were only two infantry battalions, an artillery company, and a baggage company, and there was still a shortage of an infantry battalion, an artillery company, two baggage companies, and a cavalry platoon.

Before the incident, Lin Zhe had issued an urgent order through the Guò Supervision and Training Office, asking the Supervision and Training Office to set up a recruit training camp in Yuyao, Shaoxing, and urgently transfer 1,000 recruits to supplement the 10th Mixed Regiment, but to be honest, the combat effectiveness of these recruits who had not even completed the March recruit training period was quite limited.

The lack of troops has become a difficulty for Yu Shengjun to control the northern Zhejiang region in the early days, not to mention anything else, it is not easy to do Hangzhou City alone.

In Yuyao County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, the former Yuyao County Government has been in tatters, and many of the buildings of the county government have been burned, bullet holes can be vaguely seen on the broken wall, and occasionally you can see corpses that have not had time to clean up.

In the main hall of the county ya, several officers wearing the regular uniform of Yu Shengjun sat together, although the clothes of these people were the same as usual, but the heads were all smooth, all bald, in addition to the six officers of Yu Shengjun, there was also a person wearing a horse coat robe, this person was slightly shorter, but the body was extremely fat, this person was none other than Huang Peizhi, the former Yuyao County Commander who let Lin Zhe run the Yuyao County Yong Camp.

I only heard him say: "Commander Chen, the Qing army in Shaoxing County is really hateful, I have practiced more than 300 control of Shaoxing Mansion City yesterday, but the pseudo-Qing Admiral Huang Linhan superficially surrendered to my Great China, but in the evening, I will send troops to attack the government and various city gates, such a big rebel, we must be exterminated as soon as possible, otherwise I am afraid that it will threaten my Great China Longxing Land!" ”

Chen Yuntao looked at this Huang Peizhi and shook his head secretly in his heart, this Huang Peizhi was the same as a few years ago, all kinds of demeanor and actions when he spoke revealed a thick obscenity, even if he was wearing a robe and cloth, he couldn't hide his corrupt official appearance. (To be continued.) )