Historically, the Qing army did not show its fangs until Jiangnan was basically pacified, and took the opportunity to set off a new round of massacres and looting under the pretext of shaving their hair and obeying the order.

To put it bluntly, shaving hair and making it easy to obey is not only for cultural brainwashing and national identity, but also for robbery and reshuffle land annexation to ease the financial pressure of the Qing Dynasty.

If you directly rob and kill your own people, you will lose the hearts and minds of the people. And if there is no guiding program, if you kill indiscriminately, you will not be able to stop killing in the future, and it will eventually lead to the dynasty blowing itself up and dying.

And draw a line with whether to shave your head or not, distinguish the most tolerant obedient people from those who have a little idea, realize a united front, unite the majority at every moment, and strike at a small handful.

After killing a handful of people, and then drawing a new line in the name of a new one, completing a new united front, pointing out new enemies, and ensuring that only a very small number are dealt with at any moment, the chances of success will be greatly increased.

Whether or not to shave one's head just happens to have become the nominal program of this temporary united front, and the specific content is not important.

After thinking about this logic, it is not difficult to understand that when Duoduo has the urgent need to raise military supplies and catch strong men, it is normal to take out the shaving order in advance and use it.

In any case, "killing and robbing without shaving your head" is better than directly robbing without a name, and the lesser of two evils.

The military situation was like fire, and it only took one night for Duoduo to figure out the reasoning, and the cadres made up their minds. Early the next morning, he ordered Zhang Cunren and Wanyan Yechen to carry it out immediately.

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At least in the first few days when Duoduo's army first began to shave their hair in the five counties of Changzhen, and the Ming army in Jiangyin, Jinshan Temple and the surrounding areas of Nanjing did not know about this situation.

The first to notice that something was a little wrong was Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong's uncle and nephew of Jinshan Temple, who made them the target of Duoduo's attack.

The number of strong men captured by Duoduo suddenly increased, and the organizational strength became more and more heavy, and Zheng Chenggong's soldiers could immediately understand it.

Not to mention, Duoduo's trick to quench his thirst was really good in the first few days. The Zheng family's army held the Jinshan Temple and quickly suffered many casualties in the high-intensity beachhead shooting.

Although there were also a large number of casualties on the side of the Duoduo army, the people who filled in the dam were all captured, and the group of black pressure from a distance was very attractive to the firepower.

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Zheng Chenggong's soldiers shot at each other across the river and the position bunkers, and they couldn't see the opposite target clearly, and a large amount of firepower was tilted and wasted on these strong men, so they diluted the firepower of the Qing archers, resulting in the Qing army being able to output flexibly and effectively.

At the critical juncture, Zheng Chenggong also had to ask his eldest brother Zhu Shuren for permission to abandon the beachhead and defend the mountain temple.

Zhu Shuren actually had a little bit of a light at the beginning, and felt that the landing battle should be rejected by the enemy on the beachhead. In the past two days, he personally took the sailors to inspect the Yangtze River, and also observed the offensive and defensive forms of the Zheng Jiajun and the Qing army at close range, and he realized that this style of play is indeed easy to suffer losses-

Mainly firearms of this era, the general range is still too close. If it is a modern war, where guns often have a range of hundreds or thousands of kilometers, then the defending soldiers of the anti-landing operation can hide in the strong fortifications far from the mud of the beach and the river beach, just like the Normandy beachhead.

In other words, if Zheng Chenggong's soldiers had guns with such a long range today, then they wouldn't have to risk going to the beachhead to block them, they could just hide on the mountain of Jinshan Temple and shoot at the river beach, and they would be able to block the beachhead.

It is a pity that the firearms of this era do not have this range, and there is no danger to defend on the river beach, so if you want to block the enemy, you have to stand on the river beach, and you will not take advantage of the fire.

The biggest advantage of the defending side has changed from shooting to counter-charge. They could first retreat in the dangerous place of the mountain temple and let the enemy land first, but only let a small part of the enemy's vanguard force come up, and immediately launch a counter-charge, taking advantage of the local numerical advantage pressed by the defender's entire army, and pushing the attacker who had just landed on the shore and had not gained a firm foothold and was not in large numbers down the Yangtze River again.

After thinking about it, Zhu Shuren sent someone to give Zheng Chenggong new instructions: in view of the increasingly strong offensive of the enemy army, part of the beachhead can be abandoned as appropriate, and the flexible defense can be changed, that is, the enemy's front army can be allowed to rush to the beachhead by chance, but it must not let them gain a firm foothold, and it is necessary to counterattack in time while halfway through!

As for the scale of elastic defense, Zhu Shuren also drew a red line: where the beachhead fortifications have not been destroyed by enemy artillery fire, no retreat is allowed!

It must be that the pointed piles, wooden fences, and rammed earth walls used as fortifications have been completely destroyed and flattened by Duoduo's Hongyi cannons before they can retreat! Otherwise, even if only the three-foot-tall rammed earth remnants were still standing, the soldiers would have to crouch down and hide behind these damaged bunkers! This was to prevent any section of the river beach bunker from falling into the hands of the enemy and becoming an obstacle to the Ming army's counter-charge in the future.

After all, they are all going to attack halfway, and they can't let the landing enemy find a low wall as cover as soon as they come ashore!

Zheng Chenggong thought about it and admitted that his eldest brother was right, plus Zhu Shuren sent him an additional 35,000 people from the former Nanzhili official army as reinforcements, and the weapons and ammunition were enough, so Zheng Chenggong continued to grit his teeth and insist.

While Zhu Shuren gave the order at the end, he also gave a letter in a serious manner, explaining the reason for his arrangement:

The soldiers under the command of Duoduo, this time he is determined to kill them completely! So every enemy, try to consume as much as possible. If you don't take advantage of these defensive battles now and consume Duoduo a little more, the Ming army will have to kill them again in offensive battles and field battles in the future, and the price that the Ming army will have to pay will be much higher.

Now Zheng Chenggong is in Jinshan Temple, although he has also paid thousands of casualties, and it is increasing every day, but the exchange ratio is quite beautiful, even if there is no one-to-three exchange ratio like the Nanjing Siege Battle, but it is definitely more than one to two, and this number is not counting the strong men of the Qing army.

If it was in a field battle, the current Ming army might not be able to fight such a good casualty exchange ratio.

And Zhu Shuren mentioned one point at the end of the letter: he firmly believes that it would be best to consume some of Duoduo's remaining ammunition in Jinshan Temple as much as possible. In the future, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army will soon weaken as the supplies are exhausted, and the Ming army should be able to play a good exchange ratio even if it is in the field.

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After the Ming army of Jinshan Temple was promised by their superiors that they could change the rigid position into a flexible defense, the Qing army under Duoduo finally saw obvious progress.

After the Ming army's beachhead positions were destroyed by artillery fire everywhere, the Ming army did not fill in the lives for repairs, but directly gathered and withdrew the troops behind the destroyed fortifications and moved to positions that had not been destroyed by artillery bombardment.

After fighting for so many days, the artillery of the Duoduo army finally saw hope, and saw that after their own side had destroyed the enemy's position fortifications, the enemy army would no longer rush to repair them, and for a while, the morale of the Qing army's artillery had risen, and the artillery was fired more hard, and the planning for ammunition consumption was gradually extensive.

After all, the previous shelling was too unfulfilling, especially when it hit Nanjing, one side was bombing indiscriminately, and that side was desperately carrying earth and stones for repair.

As the Ming army's river beach fortifications gradually collapsed, in the first two days of late November, the Qing army attacked the beachhead several times, and at one point thousands of people gained a firm foothold.

However, according to Zhu Shuren's latest instructions, Zheng Chenggong immediately organized a counterattack, and led tens of thousands of Ming troops to kill from Jinshan Temple, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Qing army, frantically rushing to kill, and forcibly dispersed the Qing army with a numerical advantage of four to one or five to one.

The Qing army only had more than 2,000 people on the beachhead each time, and due to the limited traffic conditions, it was impossible to land more at the same time, and the Ming army had tens of thousands of people to fight hand-to-hand, and the Qing army could not fight in a roundabout way, and was blocked together, and even the artillery lost its effect, and the indiscriminate opening of the artillery would only lead to casualties among the two armies.

In the repeated battles of the Qing army, another Manchu Eight Banner Jiala and a Mengbaqi Jiala were killed in battle, and one of them even Wanyan Yechen, who personally supervised the battle, was shot and slightly wounded.

And ordinary soldiers are naturally even more miserable, every time they are counterattacked, at least hundreds of elite soldiers are directly killed, and the rest also jump into the river and flee back, and they will be shot in a wave in the river. If it weren't for the desperate suppression of the Qing army's crossbowmen on the south bank, so that the Ming army would have an unstable foothold on the north bank and it would be difficult to expand the results, the Qing army's losses would probably be even more.

In the past few days, in the tug-of-war of Jinshan Temple, the Qing army has accumulated thousands of losses. Although the Ming army was also lost, the rear road was always open, and reinforcements and supplies could be transported in through the Yangtze River, and morale was always stable.

After fighting a few tough battles of elastic defense, Zheng Chenggong's military talent was once again unearthed. He became more and more handy and sharp in commanding front-line battles, and he became more and more sophisticated than when he blocked the Qing army in Bijia Mountain, Tashan and other places more than two years ago.

Considering that Zheng Chenggong is only twenty-one years old this year, and he was only nineteen years old at the time of the last war, it is normal for him to grow up like this at this age, and he will become a generation of famous generals in time.

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As the first wave of cardiotonic effects brought about by the Qing army's shaving order was dragged over, around November 25, the adverse reactions of the shaving order finally began to break out, and gradually became known to the Ming army camp -

To be precise, in fact, in the five counties controlled by the Qing army, as early as November 23 and 24, there were small-scale rebellions, and there were also local scholars who did not want their hair shaved, and organized families to flee, and clashed with the occupation army.

It's just that it takes time for the news to be transmitted, and the Qing army will also intercept and blockade it, and the commotion in Jurong, Wujin and other counties will not be known until the 25th in Nanjing and Jiangyin respectively.

It is also ironic that the people in these places originally had no expectations and loyalty to the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and they also criticized the corruption of the imperial court and corrupt officials every day after tea and dinner, and looted the people's fat and ointment. It's similar to the Internet spray in later generations, and if you don't live happily every day, you say you want to moisten.

As a result, they were ruled by the Qing army for less than ten days, because the Qing army hastily issued a hair shaving order, killing and plundering, they couldn't bear it, and they found that it seemed that it was still a good mix of Ming.

Although the original rule of the Ming Dynasty was indeed rubbish, almost treating the people as dogs, it was even more difficult to be a dog in the Qing Dynasty.