History has been changed beyond recognition by Zhu Shuren's butterfly effect. Therefore, when people in the five counties of Changzhen faced the order to shave their heads, the specific methods of resisting the Qing Dynasty were naturally very different from the same period in history.
Historically, the main method for people who resisted shaving their hair was to revolt on the spot, directly attacking and killing officials and generals in order to regain their hometown.
But that kind of tragic approach was really a last resort. Because at that time, space, and environment, Jiangnan had been completely occupied by the Tatars, and there was no place to escape if they wanted to. Once the troops were launched, a crazy counterattack would soon follow.
The situation is completely different now. Duduo has only occupied five counties. Among these five counties, especially Jurong, Wujin and Jintan are very close to the areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty, which is the distance between neighboring counties.
Therefore, the common people would naturally no longer choose to fight against the occupying forces by their own strength. Instead, they would first try to try, such as secretly hosting a banquet and assassinating a few military officers and pretending to be civilian officials, to see if they could cooperate with the imperial army to recover.
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If you can't reach the army, or if you can't defend it for a long time because there is no danger to defend it, you can choose to break out and escape from the occupied area.
Specific to the above-mentioned counties, when the uprising occurred in Jurong County, the people chose to cooperate with the government and the army, and cooperated with the inside and outside.
Zhu Shuren originally did not plan to recapture Jurong County so quickly, but in the early morning of the 25th, he suddenly received urgent military information from his subordinate Cao Bianjiao. He said that there was a tycoon in Jurong County who organized a sneak attack by Ding Xiangyong, and he found an opportunity to kill him yesterday evening.
Puppet officials and several garrison generals, and then Pegasus sent people to ask for reinforcements from the official army. They are probably still fighting in a melee.
Zhu Shuren was sleeping at the time. After being so tossed, he quickly weighed the situation and considered that his troops were relatively strong. Even if he pulled Duduo over and turned back, giving up attacking Jinshan Temple and trying to retake Jurong, he could still defeat it.
If he stayed, he could consume another wave of Duduo, so Zhu Shuren agreed and immediately asked Cao Bianjiao to send troops.
Cao Bianjiao's troops were mainly cavalry, with a total of 10,000 to 20,000 cavalry. When Zhu Wenzhen was left in Nanyang, Zhu Shuren's cavalry generals were Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong. Huang Degong was left by him in Jiangbei to deal with Duduo's rear army.
Jiangnan depends entirely on Cao Bianjiao.
Previously, Zhu Shuren thought that there would be a defensive battle, and that Cao Bianjiao's cavalry would have no use for the time being, and would only serve as the main force in the final offensive battle.
Now being disturbed by the incident in Jurong County, Cao Bianjiao also got an opportunity to perform in advance. Because the Jurong rebels had already created chaos, they might be able to hold on to some city gates until reinforcements arrived.
When someone seizes the door, the cavalry can directly come into play. The weakness of the cavalry is limited to attacking walls, but it is more than enough for street fighting.
Of course, Zhu Shuren also reminded Cao Bianjiao: If something cannot be done, don't force it. For example, if when arriving in Jurong County, Qing army reinforcements arrive first, or the Qing army defenders recapture all the city gates, or other changes are discovered that are not right.
, then Cao Bianjiao can only withdraw his troops, and don't use the cavalry to smash the city wall and climb the city.
Especially the news came so suddenly. To be honest, Zhu Shuren didn't even know that Duduo had issued the order to shave his hair before. Who knew if it was a fraud.
Be careful and make preserving the army your first priority. Even if you cannot rescue the revolting people, there is nothing you can do. It is too sudden and too chaotic.
Cao Bianjiao said that he would abide by the military order, and then quickly gathered some cavalry to attack. In order to gain time, Cao Bianjiao did not even have time to assemble the entire army. He just gathered the thousands of cavalry in front of him and charged immediately.
It is only sixty miles from Nanjing to Jurong County. That place originally belonged to Yingtian Mansion in the Ming Dynasty, but was assigned to Zhenjiang City in later generations. The cavalry arrived in less than two hours.
It was Cao Bianjiao's good luck. When he arrived, the Jurong rebels still controlled the last city gate. He rushed into the city without saying a word and had a melee with the Qing defenders.
This county usually only has a few thousand garrison troops, and the establishment of the two Jia La is still dominated by second-line troops. Some of them are puppet troops newly surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Jiangbei, and some soldiers themselves are resistant to the order to shave their heads.
, was so uneasy that he did not put much effort into defending this time, and was almost defeated by Cao Bianjiao.
It is conceivable that when an army has many wavering soldiers infiltrated into it, the will to fight will be severely damaged.
After discovering that they could not withstand the reinforcements of the Ming army, the remaining Qing army defenders did not hesitate to retreat. They abandoned the city and retreated to the east to shrink their troops.
Because of the unexpected war, Cao Bianjiao did not dare to pursue for fear of being deceived, for fear of falling into the enemy's trap. After searching Jurong County and clearing out a few trapped and remnant enemies, he sent a victory report to Zhu Shuren, saying "Recovery"
The whole territory of Yingtian Mansion".
It is actually a bit exaggerated to say that the entire territory of Yingtianfu was recovered, 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 regained control of the last county town in Yingtian Prefecture that had fallen. As for the villages and towns in the countryside, there was still a large area of land under the control of the Qing army, and Qing army ranger scouts would often appear.
But as for the sedan chair bearers, the Ming army had not fought a decent battle to regain the city after the arrival of Zhu Shuren's King Qin's division, and they needed a counter-offensive victory to boost the morale of the people.
Zhu Shuren would not be polite to others, and directly embellished Cao Bianjiao's good news. Without lying about facts, he tried his best to fill the words with false words and put them in good words. He sent them to the Forbidden City on the same day and sent them to Shi Kefa and other new cabinet ministers for discussion.
Soon the news of this "great victory" spread throughout the streets and alleys of Nanjing.
The soldiers and the people were excited for a while, and the legends in the streets were that "General Cao, under the wise command of Guo Xingye, advanced with great force, and took back Jurong County in a surprise attack in two hours."
Even the girls on the Qinhuai River sang a new song and lyrics for the victory that day. They had to lament that the Ming Dynasty had reached this stage, but the entertainment industry in the prosperous area south of the Yangtze River was still so developed.
After Zhu Shuren learned about it, he was also very satisfied with the result. He thought to himself that he had been very restrained. Compared with the previous dynasty when Jia Sidao forced Kublai Khan to retreat, everything he said was true.
, no factual fabrication.
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While the people in Jurong County revolted against the Qing army's order to shave their heads, there were also some troubles in Wujin County in Changzhou Prefecture to the east.
However, the way the people in Wujin County dealt with it was quite different from that in Jurong. They typically chose another path, which was to design and kill several puppet garrison officials. After causing a big commotion in Wujin County, they immediately chose
Breakout.
In other words, these Wujin people who were unwilling to shave their heads had no intention of directly occupying their hometown. They just did not want to live under the control of the Tatars anymore and wanted to flee out of the city. It was the control of the Qing army that prevented them from escaping.
The killer had to make a sneak attack.
Thousands of volunteers, after seizing one or two city gates, directly dragged their families and their families to move to Jiangyin County further east, taking with them only a small amount of soft goods and food rations that had not been robbed.
Yan Yingyuan, the newly appointed prefect of Changzhou on the front line, is now organizing resistance in his hometown of Jiangyin County. Jiangyin has been a river defense fortress between Danyang and Suzhou since ancient times. The terrain is relatively dangerous and is much easier to defend than Wujin, a land of plenty in the plains.
Yan Yingyuan doesn't have many troops on his side, unlike the main force of the imperial court in the west, which can be attacked or defended. The strength on Yan Yingyuan's side can only support defensive battles and play a blocking role.
After the Qing army discovered that something had happened in Wujin County, of course they immediately sent troops to pursue and block the situation. Along the way, they encountered rebellious people who were fleeing and had their heads shaved. They swung the butcher's knife without any scruples and killed everyone they saw.
So much so that in the chaos, no screening was done, and a small number of ordinary people who were old and weak, unable to move and had to stay in the villages and towns in the east of Wujin County were treated as "fugitive rebels who resisted shaving their hair" and were killed.
For a time, there were almost no survivors left in the countryside in the heart of Changzhou Prefecture. The Qing army passed through villages and slaughtered villages and towns, and even tried to create a no-man's land between Wujin and Jiangyin.
Cowardly people who care about politics and just want to survive in their hometown are forced to choose sides, otherwise they will be killed directly.
While Yan Yingyuan responded to the rebellious people in Wujin County who fled to Jiangyin, he also strictly screened them to prevent Qing troops from infiltrating.
Fortunately, Yan Yingyuan has a high prestige in the local area. Although he was taken out by Guo Xingye to practice military exploits in the past few years, and he was promoted many times in the past few years. Now that he has returned to his hometown, the local soldiers and civilians still trust him very much, and he is like a master. The Qing army does have
Taking advantage of the chaos, most of the agents were picked out by the Ming army. After some forceful resistance, most of the agents were killed.
The news here reached Dodo's ears a few days later, which naturally aroused Dodo's anger, and a seed was planted in his subconscious:
If the attack on Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang and the retaking of the Yangtze River smuggling route are fruitless, the next step may be to use Jiangyin as the breakthrough direction, and try to open an opening from here to enter the rich and wealthy places such as Wuxi and Suzhou.
Of course, these are all things for later.
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Jurong liberated a county, and Wujin rescued some volunteers. At the same time, the people of the five counties were forced to choose sides.
It took the Nanjing court another two or three days to completely understand the situation and sort out the current information that should be collected - don't think that this work is too inefficient, it is really too sudden, and all kinds of rumors are flying everywhere.
It is necessary to settle down and study carefully before the court can give long-term opinions on how to deal with it. Think about how to use this to carry out better propaganda work, so that the people in Jiangnan can further share the same hatred of the enemy and stimulate everyone's national and cultural hatred.
In the city of Nanjing, as Qian Qianyi defected to the enemy and became a traitor, the Minister of Rites and the Minister of Rites either defected to the enemy or were implicated in purges. Therefore, the education and culture departments were completely cleaned up by Zhu Shuren, who had been replaced by his cronies Gujiu a few days ago.
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In fact, Zhu Shuren did not have many respected close friends in the literary world, so the new Minister of Rites could only be his former secretary in the Imperial College, Mr. Wu Weiye and Wu Meicun.
Relatively speaking, Wumeicun is the most resistant to officialdom among the "Three Jiangzuo Masters" in history. At least it is much better than Qian Qianyi and Gong Dingzi. The other cultural officials Zhu Shuren knows are, to put it bluntly, too low-level.
Fa suddenly ascended to a high position.
After Wu Meicun was promoted to the position of Minister of Rites, some new vacancies in the Ministry of Rites for first-level civil servants such as doctors could be nominated by Wu Meicun, a white glove, without the need for Zhu Shuren to come forward in person. In this way, he could better avoid suspicion and prevent people from being secretly
It was said that he formed a clique for personal gain.
Wumeicun was also very wise, and immediately reciprocated the favor, including some of Zhu Shuren's originally low-level staff, including Gu Yanwu, Guizhuang and others who were not even from the imperial examination, as well as Huang Zongxi and others recommended by Zhu Shuren based on his memory as a time traveler.
Ideologists were all assigned to the Ministry of Rites, either as doctors or as outsiders, mastering ideological work.
Nowadays, the first opportunity for the newly appointed ministers and ministers of the Ministry of Rites to make meritorious deeds is to help the court write documents and slogans for united front propaganda, collect all kinds of atrocities committed by the Tatars by shaving their hair and changing clothes, and publicize them to the world as much as possible.
For all the actions of the Qing army in the five occupied counties, we should try our best to collect evidence that ordinary people can believe after hearing it, vividly describe it, and publish it in books, so that the people in the counties in the rear who have not been affected by the war can also share the same hatred of the enemy.
While the Nanjing court was focusing on military affairs and propaganda, Jinshan Temple and Jiangyin were strengthening their defenses, and the war was intensifying. At the same time, a series of new troubles caused by the hair-cutting order began to emerge gradually, and Zhu Shuren had to make some gestures as soon as possible.