Censor Zhang Weixi stood arrogantly in front of Li Chengdong and asked sternly, "Li Chengdong, do you know your guilt?"
Li Chengdong knelt helplessly in front of the seventh-rank censor, "The last general has neglected his duty and is guilty."
"Huh, quite honest. His Majesty the Emperor of Beijing and His Royal Highness the Imperial Uncle the Regent are very dissatisfied with the serious dereliction of duty of the generals of the Green Camp in the south of the Yangtze River. They have ordered Yan Jinglue to severely punish you. Yan Jinglue thinks that when he employs people now, he will give it to you.
This opportunity to redeem your sins through meritorious deeds will enable you to make meritorious deeds."
"Effective immediately, Li Chengdong, deputy commander-in-chief of Jiading, will be demoted to the rank of staff general, but will still lead the headquarters. All officers in his department will be demoted one level and fined three months' salary."
Li Chengdong gritted his teeth and accepted the order.
"Report!"
One of Li Chengdong's soldiers rushed over in panic, "General, what's wrong, Jiading City was captured by the Ming thieves from Chongming Island, who colluded with the squires in Jiading City. Huang Chunyao, who was watching the government in the Imperial Procuratorate, and Hou Dongzeng, who was in charge of the former Zuo Tongzheng, etc., stayed behind.
All the brothers were taken prisoner."
Li Chengdong was shocked, "How could Jiading be defeated? There are Liuhe Fort, Wusong City and Baoshan City along the coast?"
"They have all been defeated by Chongming's navy."
"After the thieves broke through Jiading, they went to Taicang, and then they probably went to Kunshan."
Jiading was the garrison of Li Chengdong, who had just been demoted to a general because of his poor performance. If Jiading was lost again, the general might not be able to defend it.
Generals Zhang Guozhu and Gao Jinzhong looked at Li Chengdong with different expressions. They were originally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty by the Ming army on Chongming Island. Who knew that now the Ming army was so fierce and the offensive and defensive positions were completely changed? These two guys started to move there again.
Thoughts.
Li Chengdong looked at their appearance and knew what they were doing.
"Leave camp immediately and go to Suzhou."
"Going to Suzhou?"
"Well, join forces with General Yang Chengzu and Tufantai."
The governor Tu Guobao lost Suzhou and was demoted to the position of chief envoy. This was after he regained Suzhou. Now he has lost Jiading, but he thinks he has no ability to regain Jiading, so he plans to surrender to Tu Guobao to at least stay together for warmth.
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As long as we still have soldiers in hand, it shouldn't be the worst.
Li Chengdong immediately broke camp, regardless of Kunshan, and headed straight for Suzhou City.
Rushing to the gate of Suzhou City, Tu Guobao has just returned and is organizing the Suzhou soldiers and civilians to build the Suzhou City Wall. After Wu Shengzhao captured Suzhou, the Ming Governor Shen Youlong waited over and gave instructions to demolish the city wall, fill in the moat, and even fill in many canals.
section, and many bridges were demolished.
As a result, Suzhou's current roads and canals are impassable. In particular, the city of Suzhou has been emptied out again, and a large number of craftsmen have been forcibly relocated. Many people have fled the city and have not returned until now.
Suzhou has lost at least 30% of its population.
Seeing Li Chengdong and Yang Chengzu arriving with troops, Tu Guobao gave the order rudely, "Stop them and don't allow them to enter the city. Anyone who dares to force their way in will be killed without mercy."
Although he was changed from governor to right chief envoy, Tu Guobao still regards Suzhou as his territory. The new governor has not yet been appointed, so the original governor is still led by Cao Hu, Zou Xixiang, Yang Guohai and others. Naturally, he still has the final say.
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He didn't want Li Chengdong and the others to enter Suzhou City.
When these soldiers came in, they were not allowed to provide food or drink. Even when they robbed the people, they had to wipe their own butts. Now the city of Suzhou is in chaos.
Li Chengdong waited outside the city for a long time, only to receive a thank you message behind closed doors. His face turned red and white with anger.
"Why?"
Li Chengdong was furious. He had lost Jiading and could not enter Suzhou. He was now like a lost wild dog.
But no matter what he said, Tu Guobao's subordinates would not let them enter the city.
Zhang Guozhu approached Li Chengdong and said, "General, there are gaps everywhere in Suzhou City, and there is no way to defend us. Let me tell you, let's stop being so polite. What do you really think of us soldiers? You want to beat us up?"
Just beat and kick whenever you want?"
"We have thousands of brothers who have knives, guns, and even cannons. Since they don't regard us as human beings, there is no need for us to listen to them anymore. We might as well follow Wu Shengzhao's example and force us to a dead end.
Then we will rebel against him."
Gao Jinzhong also said, "Let's just break into Suzhou City and grab a lot of it. Then we can follow Wu Shengzhao's example and use Suzhou City to surrender to the Ming army."
"Yes, I heard that after Wu Shengzhao came to the Ming Dynasty, he was made a count and still an admiral. So we are not much worse than him. We should at least be made a deputy general, right?"
"General, fuck him, that country treasure is a bitch, he's already unhappy with it."
A group of Qiu Ba became ruthless and ignored them. Yan Wo Gong repeatedly forced them, demoted them one after another, and gave them a time limit to capture Chongming. Now not only did they not capture Chongming, they even lost all the defense areas under their jurisdiction.
This matter can no longer be explained.
Since there is no way to retreat, it's time to do the opposite.
Wu Shengzhao has already shown the same behavior in front of him, so they can just follow suit.
Li Chengdong was a little hesitant.
The Ming army originally surrendered to the Qing army, and now it wants to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. This repeated process can't help but make people hesitate. But when I think about it, there is no way out. The news of Jiading's fall has been reported to Jiangning. I don't know how Yan Wogong will deal with him.
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"General, think about Zhang Cunren and Xiao Qiyuan in Hangzhou. They are both under the banner of the Han army, and their status is much higher than ours. My father-in-law Yan killed them all, and it is useless for anyone to plead for mercy."
"If he kills us, he probably won't hesitate."
"Yeah, damn it, I don't want to stay here, I have my own place to stay. We have thousands of people, so what are we afraid of?"
Zhang Guozhu had previously followed Chen Wu to defeat Lu Jianguo in eastern Zhejiang, captured his Zhoushan, and defeated Ningbo City, but now he doesn't care about these and is still willing to surrender to Lu Jianguo, just because he feels that in his hands
If you have a few thousand dollars, you won’t be afraid of going anywhere.
Just like Huang Binqing didn't attack Lu Jianguo before, isn't Su Lupo still the naval admiral now?
"Then wait until dark!"
Li Chengdong thought about it over and over, and finally made up his mind, since this national treasure is unique, then don't blame him for being unjust.
He sent someone to see Tu Guobao, saying that he wanted to borrow some food and grass, and then he was going to recapture Jiading.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Tu Guobao was able to accept this request, but he did not have much food and grass, so he could only squeeze out a thousand stones of food to give him. Li Chengdong was grateful. , not too little, and said to rest for one night and leave early tomorrow morning.
In the middle of the night, Li Chengdong, fully armored, led a group of generals such as Zhang Guozhu, Gao Jinzhong, and his own Chinese Army Du Yonghe, and launched a surprise attack on Suzhou City under the cover of darkness.
Suzhou City was full of gaps. Although Tu Guobao was very wary of Li Chengdong outside the city, when they really came to kill them, they could only fight with their swords.
The two sides fought fiercely for most of the night, and finally Li Chengdong and others managed to break into the city through many openings in the Suzhou city wall. After fighting in the streets for most of the night, Tu Guobao was defeated and could only flee in panic, leading more than a hundred servants to flee in embarrassment at dawn.
Li Chengdong finally captured Suzhou City, killed several Biaoying officers of Tu Guobao, and then incorporated all the other captives into his own army.
"Go to Taihu Lake quickly to find Governor Shen. I, Li Chengdong, have resisted the Qing Dynasty anyway and have taken back Suzhou City again. Please come and take over Governor Shen quickly!"
Taihu Lake, Xishan Island.
It was not far from Suzhou City. Shen Youlong, Wu Shengzhao and others had just returned from Suzhou City. They were carrying supplies and busy demolishing the city to fill the river. They were also very busy.
"Report, Ministry of Defense, there was a fierce battle in Suzhou City last night. Li Chengdong invaded Suzhou City. Tu Guobao was defeated and fled. Li Chengdong sent someone to report that he had surrendered anyway and asked the governor to send someone to take over Suzhou City."
Shen Youlong was stunned,
"Suzhou City was captured again?"
"Li Chengdong is done anyway?"
Sighing, "I just came back from Suzhou."
Inspector Gu Yanwu smiled and said, "Why don't you let me go to Suzhou City again to find out what's going on?"
"It would be a good thing if Li Chengdong really changed his mind."
Shen Youlong nodded, "I just feel a little sorry for Mr. Tu. He just gave us a bunch of IOUs and redeemed Suzhou City again. This has been taken away again. He won't think that we don't talk about it." Integrity, right?”
"It was Li Chengdong who robbed it this time, it has nothing to do with us."
