Zhong Dianxuan's whole expression stiffened, the corners of his forehead sweated like rain, and a clear picture appeared in front of his eyes, that is, he was tied to a pillar, Zhou Xiuying gritted her teeth and took a small knife to cut her body, and it didn't take long for him to be covered in blood, and pieces of minced meat were piled up on the ground!

"Lord Zhong, Lord Zhong, what's wrong with you?" Shen Mingshao discovered Zhong Dianxuan's abnormality and couldn't help but ask.

"Huh? It's okay, it's okay! Zhong Dian came back to his senses, and even prevaricated, but his face was as white as a piece of paper.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" At this time, another person rushed into the hall and shouted: "The banner people in the city have packed up and left, and left out of the south gate, it seems that they are going to Hangzhou." ”

Boom! The hall exploded again! The total number of flag people in Suzhou is about four or five thousand, including more than 1,000 combatants, although it is nothing, but at this very moment, this is obviously an escape, with a bad head, and the negative impact is immeasurable!

Sure enough, the officials of the Weaving Bureau glanced at each other, and one of them said, "Could it be that something happened in Hangzhou?" Ladies and gentlemen, let's go ahead and ask clearly! Leave! ”

As the words fell, everyone hurriedly arched their hands and walked away quickly.

These officials of the Weaving Bureau are all banner people, and after they left, all the remaining officials in the hall were Han officials.

"Bang!" Shen Mingshao slammed the table at this time, and said angrily: "Is the world the world of our Han people or the world of their banner people?" This is good, the bandits came to the door, and the first one to slip away turned out to be the flag man! Even the master has run away, how can Suzhou still guard? ”

"Brother Shen, don't say a word!" A household official smiled bitterly: "If we Han officials abandon the city and leave, we will be punished, but the banner people are different, the Qing Dynasty is theirs, they are the masters, who will punish them?" ”

Another official of the Ministry of Industry took it and said: "Wang Feng caught the Han official, and asked the people if there were any evil deeds, but if he caught the banner man, it would definitely be killed, two months ago, Jiangning City was broken, and all the banner people in the city, including the old and weak, women and children, were all slaughtered, aren't the banner people afraid?" Hey~~ Two hundred years have passed, a full ten generations, the banner people have long since lost the courage of the year, the years are like a shuttle, the Qing Dynasty has been more than 200 years! ”

Although this is not explicitly stated, the implication is very clear, that is, the Qing Dynasty is coming to an end, the current Qing Dynasty, land annexation is becoming more and more concentrated, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening day by day, buying and selling officials is blatant, the upper class is corrupt, the bottom life is poor, and bandits are swarming from all over the country, which is clearly a vivid picture of the end of the dynasty!

But it's one thing to understand, it's another thing to do it, as a person who has immediate benefits, they are powerless and don't want to change this qiē, they only hope that the Qing Dynasty will hold on more, and it will perish after their own death, and at the same time, out of fear of the unknown, they will frantically use power to reap the benefits and enjoy the last feast of the Qing Dynasty!

The so-called wine today is drunk today, tomorrow is sorrowful tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing more!

Maybe there are a few people among the officials who understand, but the bureaucracy is rotten as a whole, and the individual is very little powered, so what can be done? What's more, except for the years of Yongzheng, the officials of the Qing Dynasty have never been honest from beginning to end, just like Li Hongzhang sighed in his later years, the Qing Dynasty is a broken window, he is just a pastemaker.

"Alas~~" one after another, there began to be officials sighing with him, a pessimistic and desperate atmosphere gradually rose, He Jun immediately sank his face, and reprimanded: "Enough, don't mention this kind of thing again, but the bandits will besiege Suzhou at any time, the banner people can retreat, we really can't retreat, only sincerity and unity, or there is hope to defeat the bandits!"

The official immediately repaired the book to Lord Xiang and asked for reinforcements, Lord Zhong, Brother Shen, you two also have to contribute more, if you hold Suzhou, the court will not treat you well! ”

In fact, Zhong Dianxuan and Shen Mingshao's confidence in defending the city is almost none, on the one hand, the green battalion soldiers bravely degenerate and strictly zhòng, bullying peasants and local gangs such as Zhou Lichun and Liu Lichuan who carry hoes and big knives can still cope with it, but against a well-organized army like bandits, just look at how many people in the green battalion surrender without a fight.

On the other hand, it is also because the regiment has been trained for too short a time to give full play to its combat effectiveness, as for Xiang Rong's Jiangnan battalion, it has not many troops, and it was defeated by Xu Naizhao with 8,000 elites, even if he sends more reinforcements, how many more can he send?

The two of them glanced at each other, but they could only stubbornly say, "Please rest assured, I will do our best." ”

This is reluctant, but He Jun has no other way, Xu Naizhao's annihilation of the whole army is indeed a heavy blow, which makes the mobile forces of the court in southern Jiangsu completely lost, and the foreigners also suffered heavy losses, and they can't spare their hands to rescue Suzhou in a short time.

"It's all gone!" He Jun waved his hand weakly.

Everyone took their leave

A large number of Zhejiang, Hui and Jin merchants, as well as a small number of wealthy local families in Suzhou, also fled, and the market quickly declined, and the prosperity of the past was no longer restored.

Unconsciously, two days passed, in these two days, the escape intensified, the boats in the Suzhou Creek were next to the boats, and the city gates in the southeast direction of Suzhou were full of cars and horses, but Wang Feng was not in a hurry to attack Suzhou, he needed to stabilize the Taicang shape shì, Taicang has a population of 300,000, and the intricacies are far more complicated than Baoshan and Jiading, which are only tens of thousands of people, and the volume of Suzhou is too large, the population of Suzhou at that time was four million, before the Taiping army captured Nanjing, Nanjing's population was only 600,000, which was more than six times the gap!

According to Wang Feng's plan, it is to first encroach on the periphery of Suzhou, take down Changzhou and Songjiang prefectures and counties, and complete the encirclement of Suzhou while strengthening its strength, and finally conquer it!

Although Wang Feng did not move for the time being, but the immobility of the troops can bring more psychological oppression to people, and more than 8,000 officials at all levels in Taicang were shot to death, and the patriarch of Zhujiaqiao Town, Zhu Yaoguang, because of the organization of the township to help defend the city, fell to the end of the family and exterminated the clan, and the most direct consequence of this is that some officials began to flee.

The first to run was the Qingpu officials headed by Li Chuqi, Qingpu County is about 100 miles away from Jiading, when Zhou Lichun was besieged, Li Chuqi participated in it, if he was caught, he would definitely cut 500 knives alive!

The city of Suzhou is strong, there are many generals, Zhong Dianxuan can still sit in Suzhou, but Qingpu is only a county seat, the number of troops is only a few hundred, once surrounded by Wang Feng, there is no second way except suicide, driven by Li Chuqi, the escape is like an avalanche out of control, Huating County is empty, Jinshan County is empty, Fengxian County is empty, Songjiang Mansion is empty, and the following counties in Suzhou are also empty, and even affected Changzhou and the counties under its jurisdiction!

Unlike the official running away, the Green Battalion soldiers basically didn't run, and the officials who ran away were punished and dismissed at most, and they ran away in the nature of deserters, and they wanted to kill their heads, not to mention that they were not richer and more food than the officials, and they could live anywhere, and the Green Battalion soldiers were also poor, even if they were not wanted by the court, their livelihood would definitely be gone!

All this, but the most important thing that prompted them to stay was that Wang Feng's preferential treatment of the green battalion soldiers was spread, and some of them were active, but they organized people and took the initiative to maintain local law and order, putting on a posture waiting to be absorbed!

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