History has been stirred up beyond recognition by the butterfly effect of Zhu Shuren. Therefore, when the people of the five counties of Changzhen faced the shaving order, the specific anti-Qing methods were naturally very different from the same period in history.

Historically, the main means of resisting the shaved people was to revolt on the spot, directly attacking and killing officials and guards to recover their hometown.

But that kind of tragic approach is really a last resort. Because of that time and space, that environment, Jiangnan has been completely stolen by the Tartars, and there is nowhere to escape if you want to.

Now the situation is completely different, Duoduo has always occupied only five counties, among these five counties, especially Jurong, Wujin and Jintan are very close to the adjacent Ming court control area, that is, the distance of neighboring counties.

Therefore, the common people naturally no longer choose to rely on their own strength to forcibly fight the occupation army, but first try to secretly set up a banquet to assassinate a few military officers and pseudo-civilian officials, and see if they can accept the recovery of the imperial court officials and soldiers.

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If you can't catch the officers and soldiers, or because there is no danger to defend, the officers and troops can't hold for a long time, then choose to break through and escape from the occupied area.

Specific to the above-mentioned counties, the people of Jurong County chose to respond to the official army and cooperate with the outside world.

Zhu Shuren originally didn't plan to recover Jurong County so quickly, but in the early morning of the 25th, he suddenly got an urgent military information sent by Cao Bianjiao, a subordinate general, saying that there was a sneak attack on Ding Xiangyong, a wealthy gentry organizer in Jurong County, and he found an opportunity to kill the puppet official and a few guards yesterday evening, and then Pegasus sent people to ask for reinforcements from the official army, and now it is estimated that there is still a scuffle.

Zhu Shuren was sleeping at the time, and he was tossed like this, and quickly weighed it, considering that his side of the army was still relatively strong, even if he pulled Duoduo over and ran back, gave up attacking Jinshan Temple and wanted to reoccupy Jurong, he could withstand it, and he could consume another wave of Duoduo, so Zhu Shuren agreed, and immediately decided to let Cao Bianjiao send troops.

Cao Bianjiao's troops were mainly cavalry, with 10,000 or 20,000 horsemen. When Zhu Wenzhen was left in Nanyang, the cavalry generals under Zhu Shuren were Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong, and Huang Degong was left in Jiangbei by him to deal with the rear army of Duoduo, and Jiangnan relied on Cao Bianjiao.

Previously, Zhu Shuren felt that he still had to fight a defensive battle, and Cao Bianjiao's cavalry was useless for the time being, and he would only act as the main force in the final decisive battle during the offensive battle.

Now that he was troubled by the changes in Jurong County, Cao Bianjiao also got a chance to perform in advance. Because the Jurong rebels have already created chaos, they may be able to hold out until reinforcements arrive and still control some of the city gates.

In the case of someone seizing the door, the cavalry can directly play a role. The weakness of the cavalry was limited to attacking the wall, and street fighting was more than enough.

Of course, Zhu Shuren also reminded Cao Bianjiao: If you can't do something, don't force it. For example, if the Qing army reinforcements arrived first when they arrived in Jurong County, or the Qing defenders recaptured all the city gates, or found that there were other things that were wrong, then Cao Bianjiao could only collect his troops, and don't use cavalry to climb the city wall.

Especially when the news came too suddenly, to be honest, Zhu Shuren didn't even know that Duoduo had issued a shaving order before, who knows if there was a fraud.

Be careful, keeping the army as the first priority, even if you can't rescue the rebels, there is no way, it's too sudden and chaotic.

Cao Bianjiao said that he would obey the military order, and then quickly gathered a part of the cavalry to attack. In order to rush for time, Cao Bianjiao didn't even have time to assemble the whole army, but gathered the thousands of cavalry in front of him and immediately rushed away.

From Nanjing to Jurong County is only sixty miles, that place originally belonged to Yingtianfu in the Ming Dynasty, but it was assigned to Zhenjiang City in later generations, and the cavalry arrived in less than two hours.

It was also Cao Bianjiao's good luck, when he arrived, the Jurong Yijun really still controlled the last city gate, and he directly entered the city without saying a word, and fought with the Qing defenders.

There are only a few thousand defenders in this county town in peacetime, and the establishment of the two Jiala is mainly second-line troops. Some of them were newly surrendered to the puppet army in Jiangbei, and some of the soldiers themselves were also resistant to the shaving order, and they were uneasy, so they didn't do much to defend this time, and they were almost crushed by Cao Bianjiao.

One can imagine how badly the will to fight will be when there are many wavering soldiers infiltrating an army.

After finding that they could not withstand the reinforcements of the Ming army, the remnants of the Qing army defending the city were also dry, and they decisively chose to retreat, abandoning the city and shrinking their troops to the east.

Cao Bianjiao was so sudden in the battle, for fear of deception, he did not dare to pursue, for fear of falling into the trap of luring the enemy. After searching the county seat of Jurong and clearing out a small number of trapped and remnant enemies, he sent a good report to Zhu Shuren, saying that "the whole territory of Yingtianfu should be restored".

It is said that it is a bit exaggerated to say that the entire territory of Yingtianfu has been restored, because the strongholds of Longtanwei and Qixia Mountain along the river in the northwest of Jurong County are still in the hands of the Qing army.

This battle can only be said to have taken back control of the last county seat that had fallen in Yingtianfu, as for those towns in the countryside, there are still large areas of land under the control of the Qing army, and the Qing army's ranger scouts will often haunt.

But the sedan chair carries people, and after the arrival of Zhu Shuren's Qinwang division, the Ming army has not yet fought a decent battle to recover the city, and it needs a counteroffensive victory to boost the morale of the people.

Zhu Shuren will not be polite to others, and directly add oil and vinegar to Cao Bianjiao's good news, and on the premise of not telling factual lies, he will try his best to fill the Forbidden City with good words, and send it to Shi Kefa and other new ministers for discussion on the same day, and soon the news of this "great victory" will spread all over the streets and alleys of Nanjing.

The people were excited for a while, and the people talked about the legend that "General Cao, under the wise command of the country's surname, forged ahead with martial arts, and recaptured Jurong County in two hours."

Even the sisters on the Qinhuai River sang the lyrics of the new song for the victory on the same day, and they had to sigh that the Ming Dynasty had reached this step, and the entertainment industry in the prosperous area of the south of the Yangtze River was still so developed.

After Zhu Shuren learned about it, he was also very satisfied with this result. He thought to himself that he was already very restrained, compared to the degree of praise of the "Ezhou Great Victory" of the previous dynasty Jia Nidao who forced Kublai Khan to retreat, every sentence he said was the truth, and there was no factual fabrication.

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At the same time that the people of Jurong County rebelled against the Qing army's shaving order, Wujin County, the capital of Changzhou in the east, also caused some twists and turns.

But the way the people of Wujin County dealt with it was quite different from that of Jurong, they typically chose another path, that is, they designed to kill a few puppet officials of the defenders, and immediately chose to break through after making a big fuss in Wujin County.

In other words, these Wujin people who were unwilling to shave their heads did not intend to directly occupy their hometown, they just did not want to live under the control of the Tartars anymore and wanted to flee out of the city. It was the control of the Qing army that prevented them from fleeing, so they had to attack with killers.

Thousands of righteous people, after seizing one or two city gates, directly dragged their families and mouths with a small amount of soft and food rations that had not been robbed, and moved to Jiangyin County further east.

Yan Yingyuan, the new governor of Changzhou, is now organizing resistance in his hometown of Jiangyin County, which has been a fortress between Danyang and Gusu since ancient times, and the terrain is relatively dangerous, much easier to defend than Wujin, the land of fish and rice in the plains.

Yan Yingyuan didn't have many troops on this road, unlike the main forces of the imperial court in the west, which were all there, which could be attacked and defended. The strength on Yan Yingyuan's side can only support a defensive battle and play a blocking role.

After the Qing army found out that there was an accident in Wujin County, of course, they immediately sent troops to pursue and block, and when they encountered fleeing people who resisted and shaved their hair along the way, they directly wielded butcher knives without scruples, and killed people when they saw them.

So much so that in the chaos, a small number of ordinary people who were old and infirm, unable to migrate, and had to stay in the eastern towns of Wujin County, were also killed as "fleeing thieves who resisted shaving their hair".

All of a sudden, the countryside in the heart of Changzhou Prefecture was almost left alive, and the Qing army slaughtered villages and towns, and even tried to create a no-man's land between Wujin and Jiangyin.

Yan Yingyuan received the rebellious people who fled to Jiangyin in Wujin County, and on the other hand, he also strictly screened to prevent the Qing army from infiltrating in.

Fortunately, Yan Yingyuan has a high prestige in the local area, although he was taken out by the country surnamed Ye in the past few years to experience meritorious service, and has been repeatedly promoted in the past few years, and now that he has returned to his hometown, the local military and people still trust him very much, like an arm. The Qing army did take advantage of the chaos to make a detailed work, but most of them were screened and searched by the Ming army, and after some armed resistance, most of the Qing army was killed.

The news here reached Duoduo's ears a few days later, which naturally attracted Duoduo's anger, and a seed was planted subconsciously:

If it is fruitless to storm Jinshan Temple on the Zhenjiang side and recapture the Yangtze River smuggling route, the next step may be to take Jiangyin as the breakthrough direction, and strive to open the opening from here and enter the rich wealth of Wuxi and Suzhou.

Of course, that's all for later.

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Jurong recovered a county, Wujin rescued some righteous people, and at the same time, the people of the five counties had to choose sides completely.

It took two or three days before and after the Nanjing Imperial Court to thoroughly understand the situation, and the information on the current situation that should be collected was also sorted out clearly - don't feel that this work efficiency is too low, it is too sudden, all kinds of rumors are flying all over the sky, and it must be precipitated and carefully studied and judged, so that the imperial court can give long-term disposal opinions, think about how to use this to carry out better propaganda work, so that the people of Jiangnan can further hate the same enemy, and stimulate everyone's national and cultural hatred.

In the city of Nanjing, with Qian Qianyi's defection to the enemy as a traitor, the Shangshu and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites either defected to the enemy or were implicated and purged. Therefore, the education and cultural departments were completely washed by Zhu Shuren, and they were replaced by his cronies a few days ago.

In fact, Zhu Shuren does not have few respected cronies in the literary world, so the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites can only be his original secretary in Guozijian, Mr. Wu Weiye and Mr. Wu Meicun.

Relatively speaking, Wu Meicun is the most resistant to Shiqing among the "Jiang Zuo Three Families" in history, at least much better than Qian Qianyi and Gong Dingyu, and other cultural officials known to Zhu Shuren are still too low in rank to suddenly ascend to a high position.

After Wu Meicun was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, some newly vacant first-class civil officials in the Ministry of Rites could be nominated by Wu Meicun, the white glove, and there was no need for Zhu Shuren to come forward in person, so that he could better avoid suspicion and prevent people from privately saying that he was forming a party for personal gain.

Wu Meicun was also very good, and immediately reciprocated the favor, and arranged some of Zhu Shuren's staff members who were originally of a very low level, even Gu Yanwu, Guizhuang and others, who were not born on the right path of the imperial examination, and Huang Zongxi and other thinkers recommended by Zhu Shuren with the memory of the traverser, were all arranged to enter the Ministry of Rites, either as Lang Zhong or as a member of the Wai Lang, to master the ideological work.

Now, the first opportunity for the newly appointed scholars and servants of the Ministry of Rites to make meritorious contributions is to help the imperial court write documents and slogans for united front propaganda, collect all kinds of atrocities of Tartar shaving and easy to wear, and publicize them as much as possible in the world.

All the acts of the Qing army in the five counties should also be collected as much as possible to make the ordinary people believe it when they hear it, vividly describe it, and publish it in a book, so that the people of the prefectures and counties in the rear who have not yet been affected by the war can also share the same hatred for the enemy.

And it was in the Nanjing Imperial Court that the military and propaganda were grasped with both hands. Jinshan Temple and Jiangyin strengthened defense on both sides, and the war was tight at the same time. A series of new troubles caused by the shaving order also began to gradually appear, so that Zhu Shuren had to take some gestures as soon as possible so as not to accidentally injure innocent people.