On October 17, all the righteous troops completed their training and gathered outside the county town of Yongchun to take the oath.

The day before the seventeenth, Su Yan readjusted the establishment of the battalions under his command, in addition to expanding the existing Zhongwu Battalion, Yiwu Battalion and Tengpai Battalion to 1,000 people, he also set up another mighty battalion, which was under the command of Chen Shitai.

The basic unit of each battalion is still in accordance with the establishment of the Ming army, but it has been slightly adapted to adapt to the total number of each battalion, that is, five people and one team, two teams and one team, two teams and one outpost, two posts and one general, five general for one battalion, one battalion of 1,000 people, one general of bird gunners and one total of archers, and the other three general are a mixture of spearmen and sword and shield hands.

Only the three battalions of the Zhongwu Battalion, the Yiwu Battalion, and the Weiwu Battalion were established, and all members of the rattan battalion were only equipped with rattan cards and waist knives, and their positioning was equal to that of an assault battalion, carrying out more difficult tasks such as attacking fortified positions.

After replenishing the various battalions, there were still 870 Qing soldiers left of more than 3,000 surrenderers, and Su Yan wanted to integrate them into a battalion independently, but there was no suitable commander at hand, so he could only temporarily integrate them into the Chinese military camp, and take spears and system soldiers as a resistance line of arms.

On the morning of October 17, the military flag hunt was already outside the city of Yongchun, and 6,891 soldiers were lined up in several phalanxes outside the city, facing Su Yan who was standing on the temporary point platform.

Beneath the platform, a man in prison clothes was brought to his knees by the guards, his head hung so low that it was impossible to see his appearance, but his identity could be guessed from the dry pigtail of money curled up at the back of his head.

Eyes on the point of view on the stage.

Su Yan did not wear the scale armor, but changed into his general's uniform, he pressed one hand on the hilt of the sword, glanced at the soldiers who were loyal to him below, and said in a loud voice:

"October 17, Yixing soldiers are guilty, I Su Yan rebelled today, went south to attack the Qing, recovered Quanzhou Mansion, and rescued my father and fellow villagers from fire and water, all the soldiers should fight bravely to kill the enemy, with the blood of the Tartars, blood sacrifice in the past in Yangzhou 10 days, Jiading 3 massacres, Jiangyin 81 days and countless Han family souls who died in the hands of the Tartars in the massacre!"

"Bring it on!"

With a wave of Su Yan's hand, the guards in the audience pushed and shoved the man in prison uniform to the point platform, and kicked the knee joint, causing him to kneel heavily on the ground.

At this time, the soldiers standing at the front finally recognized who this man was, and someone shouted in surprise: "It's actually Sun Guanghan, the deputy chief soldier." ”

That's right, he is Sun Guanghan, the deputy commander-in-chief of Quanzhou, after interrogating him, Su Yan did not order him to be executed, but was imprisoned in the prison of Yongchun County Ya, and Tong Guoqi was a neighbor for a period of time.

There is another purpose for bringing him out today.

"Sun Guanghan, the deputy chief soldier of Quanzhou, was deeply favored by my Ming court, but when the Qing soldiers came to attack, he rebelled with the army and became the dog slave of the Tartars.

Su Yan's voice fell, and a standard-bearer walked behind Sun Guanghan with the military flag of the word "Su" and lowered the flag, and at the same time, a shirtless burly man walked up with a ghost-headed broadsword, he first walked to the front of the stage, muttering something to the sky, and then walked behind Sun Guanghan and stood still.

"Let's get started."

With permission, the burly man grabbed the mouth of the wine jar with one hand, poured a full mouthful into his mouth, then raised the big knife in front of him, took a deep breath, and sprayed all the spirits in his mouth to the big knife, and when the spirits were stained on the side of the big knife, he picked up the big knife and shouted: "Go all the way!" ”

In the next second, the big knife fell, and a good human head flew forward for several meters, almost falling under the point general's platform, and the blood spurting from the cross-section of the neck instantly stained the military flag red, and the headless corpse only lasted a few seconds before collapsing.

There was silence for a second or two, and then the whole army let out a cheering shout, although most of them were the original Qing army surrenderers, but after seeing a stubborn traitor beheaded, they couldn't help but feel pleasure and applauded loudly.

After sacrificing the flag, Su Yan ordered the whole army to be drawn.

Lai Xun, the commander of the Yiwu battalion, and Chen Shitai, the commander of the mighty battalion, both drove first, and the troops were divided into two roads to Anxi County and Fengzhou City, and the main force led by Su Yan was to escort grain, grass and artillery, and followed Chen Shitai far behind, and after Fengzhou City was taken, he could go straight to Quanzhou City.

It is worth mentioning that the grain, grass and artillery for the army have been sent to Xianjia Village first, and there is also a team of militia left there for protection, which also saves the time consumed by the army to escort the cart on the way from Yongchun County to Xianjia Village.

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As the so-called soldiers are fast, Lai Xun and Chen Shitai both understand this, so the next day, they led their troops out of the mountains and directly killed the two county seats.

Anxi County.

Since Wu Jian, the general manager of Anxi Qian, and the Anxi soldiers were all trapped in Yongchun, Anxi County and outside the county fell into a panic, worried about when the rebels would fight, this year's newly appointed county magistrate Lu Tan in order to defend the county, took advantage of the righteous army to recruit some township warriors before the uprising, let the remaining green battalion train the township warriors, hoping that when the rebels came, these township warriors could go to the city wall to help defend the city.

However, the rebels were menacing and did not give them a little time to react, and by the time Anxi County learned that the rebels had called, the rebels had already arrived at Fengshan in the north of the county.

Outside the city gate, the rebels first persuaded the city to surrender, and when they saw that it had no effect, they cut down the surrounding trees, built siege equipment on the spot, and soon built a rudimentary battering ram.

Then, after a short rest for an hour, Lai Xun, who was in charge of attacking the county seat of Anxi, ordered the siege of the city, and a general sword and shield soldier immediately pushed the heavy battering ram towards the city gate, and the archers and bird gunners looked at the city wall vigilantly, and once they found that there were defenders who were intent on attacking the battering ram, they immediately shot in that direction.

The defenders of Anxi were basically taken away by Wu Jian and sent out, how were the few crooked melons and cracked dates left behind the opponents of the wolf-like rebels outside, and those townsmen were also about to collapse at the touch of a button, and in less than an hour after the city gate was knocked open, the entire Anxi county fell into the hands of the rebels.

The newly appointed county magistrate Lu Tan was a native of the Ming Dynasty for the first half of his life, and his feelings for the Qing court were not so heavy, and when he saw that the righteous army had come in, he led a group of depressed people in the yamen to surrender, expressing his willingness to assist Lai Xun in managing the county.

Before coming, Su Yan had told Lai Xun that if the magistrate of Anxi County was willing to surrender, let him stay in this position temporarily, assist in the management of the county, and wait for the Quanzhou Mansion to take it, and then slowly liquidate the officials and squires who surrendered.

Therefore, Lai Xun only left a sentry of troops to garrison, let Lu Tan continue to govern the county, and after resting for a night, he led the army to leave Anxi and drive towards the south bank.