Songjiang garrison commander Li Yuchun received a military order to appease Hong Chengchou from the south, and ordered him to immediately lead Songjiang Town Biao and send the green battalions of the Shanghai and Jinshan Associations southward to reinforce Hangzhou. Songjiang defense was handed over to Jiading deputy garrison commander Li Chengdong.
After receiving this order, Li Yuchun looked at it left and right for a while, and finally threw it aside and ignored it.
The next day, a new military order came from Jiangning. Tu Guobao, the governor of Jiangning, would also lead a total of 8,000 people including Suzhou Fubiao to go south. Li Yuchun was asked to lead his troops to Tu Guobao for unified command.
After reading it, Li Yuchun threw it aside again.
His cousin, Lieutenant General Li Yuanshan, picked it up and frowned after looking at it, "Jiang Ning is urging you very urgently. It seems that Hangzhou is indeed quite dangerous. Do we really not want to go?"
Li Yuchun snorted coldly, "Hong Chengchou is a bird, Tu Guobao is a ball?"
If this national treasure hadn't been helped by us, how could he still be sitting in the position of governor of Jiangning now?"
"But it's hard to disobey military orders."
"I only listen to Duke Yan. The latest news is that Duke Yan has been appointed as the governor of the five provinces south of the Yangtze River by the regent. Jiangxi, Henan and Zhejiang and Fujian are all under his governor. This formal order should be issued soon."
"Where's Bachelor Hong?"
"Change the route to the six provinces of Sichuan, Lake, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and Guangxi."
The two brothers were sitting there smoking cigarettes, "What's going on in Hangzhou?"
"What else could it be? It must be that Nine Kings again." Li Yuchun has long been used to Zhu Wu. During this period, Zhu Wu didn't bother him, but he felt a little uncomfortable. He always felt empty.
Although the subordinates of Nine Kings Zhu Wu still maintained underground contact with him, and the two parties had transactions from time to time.
Even because Li Yuchun is now in charge of Songjiang Mansion, his business has become even bigger.
But I haven’t seen Zhu Wu for a long time, and I really miss him.
He loves and hates Zhu Wu. Ever since he met Zhu Wu, he has also met his nemesis in fortune telling, and nothing can escape his control. But on the other hand, since meeting this Zhu Wu, he, Li Yuchun,
The future is also very good. Not only has he been promoted to the commander-in-chief of a town, but he is also in Songjiang, a good territory.
Not to mention that since secretly cooperating with Zhu Wu, the source of money has become even more extensive. It is not an exaggeration to make a lot of money every day. Not only is he making a lot of money, but everyone under him is also getting rich.
Now he has 5,000 Zhenbiao under his command, plus several old brothers from Xie Zhen and guerrilla battalions, and more than 10,000 troops under his command. He actually has no empty quota. Because he has too much extra money, he has no interest in drinking the blood of soldiers now.
Now, my brothers have a lot of money and food. They can often do some extra work to earn extra money, and the morale of the army has greatly increased.
The brothers also have great support for him, the leader of the army.
"Our families are still in Hangzhou." Li Yuanshan had to remind his cousin that these officers had left their families in Hangzhou before. Although they had made a lot of money in the past few months, they all took wives and concubines outside.
But all the main generals in the army have their families in Hangzhou.
Li Yuchun touched his head, feeling a little helpless.
"Put it off for a while, find a reason, and deal with it."
So Li Yuchun kept reporting to Jiang Ning at Songjiang Huating. Today, he said that the Green Camp in Songjiang Prefecture had been in arrears with wages for a long time, and the brothers were very dissatisfied. Now they have to go on an expedition again. They can't go to war hungry.
Two days later, it was reported that the military equipment and armor were seriously damaged and had not been replenished. They had been encircling and suppressing the party rebels in Sujiang. The soldiers fought hard and suffered high casualties. Not only were the equipment and armor seriously damaged, but also the brothers
A large number of people died in war and became disabled, but the imperial court never provided them with pensions and benefits.
It is said that many soldiers' wives hold their children and old people in their arms and kneel in front of the camp gate to beg for money and food. Because there is a shortage in the army, there is no way to provide care and compensation. Now many family members of brothers who died in battle, as well as some soldiers who left the camp after being disabled, are
They could only build a shack outside the military camp and beg every day, which was very pitiful.
Today you need pay, tomorrow you need pensions, and the day after tomorrow you need replenishment of ordnance.
The day after tomorrow, please pull out the food again.
Li Chengdong, the deputy general of Jiading, was very active and wanted to go to Songjiang to take over the defense. He was originally the commander-in-chief of Songjiang. He was promoted to deputy general last time and was stationed in Jiading. He has been very unhappy. This time he had the opportunity to return to Songjiang, although he did not resume the post of commander-in-chief.
But who knows if this land is rich?
It's just that Li Chengdong was very unlucky. He came to Songjiang to take over the defense under the orders of the imperial court.
But as soon as he crossed the Wusong River and entered the Songjiang Mansion, he was attacked by the Ming army. The 500 men in the vanguard were immediately wiped out, leaving Li Chengdong stunned.
Then he was about to send troops to pursue him, but soon a large number of Ming troops appeared in his hometown Jiading Mansion, attacked his hometown, and captured his three cities of Baoshan, Wusongjiang and Liuhe, forcing Li Chengdong to turn back halfway.
After finally returning home, I found that the Ming army had already withdrawn and looted the three cities.
Li Chengdong was about to cry, but he then carefully conducted reconnaissance and found that something was not right. Liuhe Fort was indeed captured by the Ming Navy in Chongming in a sneak attack, but there were many doubts about Baoshan near Songjiang and his forward force.
.
He boldly speculated that someone might have ambushed his vanguard in the name of the Ming army, and then went around and captured the two cities of Baoshan and Wusong.
And there is no doubt that the only person with such strength in Songjiang Mansion is Li Yuchun.
But Li Chengdong only speculated and had no actual evidence.
When he stabilized the rear, he sent troops to Songjiang for the second time. He was careful and deliberately sent a group of newly recruited water thieves under his banner as the vanguard, but secretly sent an elite force to keep an eye on them at night.
Sure enough, as soon as they crossed the Wusong River, they met the Ming army again.
It was indeed under the banner of the Ming Army.
However, the careful Ye Bushou still discovered that this Ming army was very elite, but its equipment was obviously somewhat Green Camp style, especially the route range of their operations. This would not have been possible without the cover of the Shanghai Green Camp stationed nearby.
And they also discovered that these Ming soldiers wore hats and tied their heads, but they still could not completely hide the fact that they shaved their hair and kept braids. Even if they wrapped their braids and hid them under their hats, they still could not escape careful observation.
Li Chengdong was furious. It was obvious that Li Yuchun sent troops pretending to be Ming troops to attack his vanguard, but refused to let him enter the Songjiang Prefecture.
"mean!"
Cursing the despicable Li Chengdong, he had no choice but to station troops in Wusong in the north of the Yangtze River, and then complained to Tu Guobao, the governor of Jiangning, and to the Southern University scholar Hong Chengchou.
However, Li Chengdong had no conclusive evidence that it was Li Yuchun who sent troops pretending to be Ming troops to attack.
Both Tu Guobao and Hong Chengchou sent people to question Li Yuchun. Of course, Li Yuchun would never admit it. He even bit Li Chengdong back, saying that Li Chengdong was stationed in Jiading, was incompetent in running the army, sent troops to plunder the people, and even often crossed the border to Songjiang Prefecture.
The looting caused public resentment to boil over.
Now that he has led his troops to move the defense, the local Mingyu rebels have attacked the troops and even looted the rear. This is all his own problem.
Why didn't this happen in Songjiang where he was stationed?
Even when Li Chengdong was stationed in Songjiang, he triggered a major local rebellion. It was Li Chengdong who took the trouble to come from Jiaxing to quell the rebellion. After that, he moved to Songjiang according to the order and kept the place in order. The people lived in peace and industry and commerce were happy.
There were no large groups of rebels.
Only Li Chengdong's Jiading is always uneasy.
It is said that he sent troops to pretend to be the Ming army to attack his forwards and even loot his rear. Isn't this nonsense? I was in Songjiang, how could I go around to his rear and loot Liuhe Baoshan and other places?
Anyway, it’s just a war of words.
Li Yuchun scolded Li Chengdong for being insane and blaming him for being incompetent.
Li Chengdong insisted that it was Li Yuchun who refused to give up Songjiang Mansion, so he deliberately sent troops to pretend to be the Ming army to cause trouble. Both sides insisted on their own opinions.
It was so lively that the Ming army would not miss the opportunity, so the Ming army from Chongming and Taihu, as well as the township groups from Suzhou and Song Dynasty, also joined in and fished in troubled waters.
They even deliberately pretended to be the subordinates of Li Chengdong and Li Yuchun and acted under their banner. Li Chengdong, who pretended to be Li Yuchun's troops to attack Jiading, Suzhou, and even Yang Chengzu and the Tuguobao Division, pretended to be Li Chengdong to attack the towns in Songjiang, and even borrowed their banners.
, they forcibly demolished the compounds and stockades of some rural landlords who supported the Qing Dynasty and rebelled against the Ming Dynasty.
For a time, Su Song was in chaos.
Tu Guobao did not dare to go south, so he had to stay in Suzhou City and kept writing reports to Hong Chengchou in Jiangning. These messy reports were handed to Hong Chengchou's desk, but he had no intention of reading them.
Beijing has already issued an edict, saying that he had made great achievements in pacifying the south, and was granted the title of Palace Protector. He also moved the town to Huguang and visited six provinces.
But of the so-called six provinces, only half of Huguang is now in the hands of the Qing Dynasty. The rest, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangdong and Guangxi, are still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
The name of this manager was in name only, and he was said to be rewarded and reused for his meritorious service, but he knew very well that the regent was very dissatisfied with him in Jiangnan, especially when he saw that the person who took over was Yan Igong, he felt even more powerless.
Can Mr. Yan be compared with him?
During the Ming Dynasty, he was already the Minister of War and Supervisor of Liaodong. Yan Wogong was just a civil servant. In just six months, he emerged and quickly rose to prominence. He admitted that Yan Wogong did have some abilities, but he just recruited some people.
The troops put down Su Song's rebellion.
But those are nothing at all, just a bunch of mobs that anyone can put down. It can only be said that Mr. Yan got a huge advantage at the right time.
Hong Chengchou felt that the so-called Yan Wo Gong was actually a tool deliberately promoted by the regent to suppress him.
It's not that Duke Yan is too powerful, it's that he has lost the appreciation of the regent.
But Hong Chengchou felt that the unrest in Jiangnan was not his responsibility.
It was all mishandled by the imperial court in Beijing. When Nanjing was captured, he had already informed the imperial court that he should continue to move south in one go, at least to capture and destroy Lu Jianguo who dared to raise the flag, and to capture Changsha.
But the imperial court was so anxious to return the army to the court that it did not even take away Yunyang and Changsha, and even allowed a Lu king to appear in eastern Zhejiang to supervise Shaoxing and Chen Bing on the banks of the Qiantang River.
The orthodox banner of the Ming Dynasty is still there, but rebels are rising everywhere, which is normal.
Now it's ridiculous to put all the blame on him.
However, after Hong Chengchou sighed, he decided to accept the court's arrangement and go to Wuchang as soon as possible.
Although it had made a big mistake before, the imperial court responded promptly this time. It sent 20,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners southward and divided the troops into two groups, one targeting Wuchang and the other targeting Shaoxing.
Under a strong attack, the flag that the Ming Dynasty is now barely maintaining will soon break and fall, followed by an avalanche of defeat and destruction.
Li Chengdong Li Yuchun Tu National Treasure, looking at these nonsense reports, Hong Chengchou didn't want to pay attention to it anymore, leaving it to Yan Wogong to have a headache and see how he dealt with it.