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Chapter 384
History has been disturbed beyond recognition by Zhu Shuren's butterfly effect.Therefore, when the people in the five counties of Changzhen faced the hair-shaving order, the specific anti-Qing methods were naturally very different from those in the same period in history.

Historically, the main method of rebelling against the people who shaved their hair was an on-the-spot uprising, directly attacking and killing officials and guards to restore their hometown.

But that kind of tragic approach is really a last resort.Because of that time, space, and environment, Jiangnan has been completely stolen by the Tartars, and there is nowhere to escape if they want to escape. Once they raise troops, they will soon provoke a crazy counterattack.

The situation is completely different now. Duoduo has only occupied five counties. Among these five counties, especially Jurong, Wujin and Jintan are very close to the control area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, that is, the distance from neighboring counties.

Therefore, the common people will naturally no longer choose to rely on their own strength to forcibly fight the occupying army, but first try to try, such as secretly hosting a banquet to assassinate several military officers and pseudo-civilian officials, to see if they can cope with the recovery of the imperial court.

If you can't meet the official army, or you can't defend for a long time because there is no danger to defend the official army, then choose to break out and escape from the occupied area.

Specific to the above-mentioned counties, the people in Jurong County chose to respond to the army and cooperate with the inside and outside.

Zhu Shuren originally didn't intend to recover Jurong County so quickly, but in the early morning of the 25th, he suddenly received an urgent military report from his subordinate Cao Bianjiao, saying that a wealthy gentry in Jurong County organized a sneak attack by Jia Ding Xiangyong, and he found an opportunity to kill the false official yesterday evening. With a few guards, Pegasus sent people to ask for reinforcements from the army, and it is estimated that they are still fighting.

Zhu Shuren was sleeping at the time, and after being tossed about like this, he quickly weighed it up. Considering that his army is still relatively strong, even if he pulls Duoduo over and runs back, gives up attacking Jinshan Temple and wants to regain Jurong, he can still stand up He could still consume another wave of Duoduo, so Zhu Shuren agreed, and immediately asked Cao Bianjiao to send troops.

Cao Bianjiao's troops are mainly cavalry, with a total of [-] to [-] cavalry.When Zhu Wenzhen was left in Nanyang, the cavalry generals under Zhu Shuren's command were Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong, and Huang Degong was left in Jiangbei by him to deal with the Doduo rear army, and Jiangnan relied entirely on Cao Bianjiao.

Before that, Zhu Shuren felt that there was still a defensive battle to be fought, and Cao Bianjiao's cavalry was useless for the time being, and they would serve as the main force in the final decisive offensive battle.

Now being disturbed by the accident in Jurong County, Cao Bianjiao also got the opportunity to perform in advance.Because the Jurong Rebels had already created chaos, they might be able to hold on to some city gates when the reinforcements arrived.

When someone seizes the door, the cavalry can be used directly.The weakness of cavalry is limited to attacking walls, but street fighting is more than sufficient.

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, the reinforcements of the Qing army arrived first, or the defenders of the Qing army recaptured all the city gates, or found that something was wrong, then Cao Bianjiao would have to withdraw his troops instead of smashing the city wall with cavalry. Climb the city.

Especially the news came too suddenly. To be honest, Zhu Shuren didn't even know that Duoduo had issued an order to shave his hair. Who knows if it was a fraud.

Be careful, keep the army as the first priority, even if the rebels cannot be rescued, there is no way, it is too sudden and chaotic.

Cao Bianjiao said that he must abide by the military order, and then quickly assembled a part of the cavalry to attack.In order to fight for time, Cao Bianjiao didn't even have time to gather the whole 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, which originally belonged to Yingtian Mansion in the Ming Dynasty, but it was assigned to Zhenjiang City in later generations, and the cavalry arrived in two hours.

It was also Cao Bianjiao's luck. When he arrived, the Jurong Yijun was still in control of the last city gate. He went straight into the city without saying a word, and fought with the Qing army's defenders.

This county usually only has a few thousand defenders, and the establishment of the two Jiala is still dominated by second-line troops.Some of them were puppet troops who were newly surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Jiangbei. Some soldiers themselves resisted the order to shave their hair and were anxious.

It is conceivable that when many wavering soldiers infiltrate an army, the will to fight will be severely damaged.

After discovering that they could not withstand the Ming army's reinforcements, the remnants of the Qing army defending the city were straightforward. They decisively chose to retreat, abandoning the city and shrinking their troops eastward.

Because of this, Cao Bianjiao's battle was sudden, and he was afraid of being cheated, so he didn't dare to pursue him, for fear of falling into the trap of luring the enemy.After searching through Jurong County and clearing out the few trapped and remnant enemies, he sent a good news to Zhu Shuren, saying that "recover the whole territory of Yingtianfu".

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 taken back the control of the last county town that had been occupied by 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 come and go.

But people carrying people on sedan chairs, the Ming army had not fought a decent battle to recover the city after Zhu Shuren's King Qin's division arrived, and just needed a counter-offensive victory to boost the morale of the people.

Zhu Shuren would not be polite to others, and directly added fuel and vinegar to Cao Bianjiao's success report, and on the premise of not telling factual lies, he tried his best to fill in the water with good words, and sent it to the Forbidden City on the same day, and sent it 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 City,

The scholars and people were excited for a while, and the rumors in the streets were all about "General Cao, under the wise command of Guo Xingye, forged ahead with great prowess, and took back Jurong County by surprise attack in two hours."

Even the sisters on the Qinhuai River sang the new tune for the great victory that day, and they had to feel that the Ming Dynasty has reached this stage, and the entertainment industry in the prosperous south of the Yangtze River is still so developed.

After Zhu Shuren learned about it, he was also very satisfied with the result.He thought to himself that he was already very restrained. Compared to the level of praise of the "Ezhou Great Victory" that Jia Sidao forced Kublai Khan to retreat in the previous dynasty, everything he said was the truth, no factual fabrications.

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While the people in Jurong County revolted against the Qing army's hair-shaving order, there were also some twists and turns in Wujin County, Changzhou Prefecture in the east.

However, the way the people in Wujin County deal with it is quite different from that of Jurong. They typically chose another way, that is, designed to kill a few defenders and puppet officials. After the riot 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 didn't want to live under the control of the Tartars and wanted to escape from the city.It was the control of the Qing army that prevented them from escaping, so they had to use killers to attack them.

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

Yan Yingyuan, the newly appointed prefect of Changzhou, is now organizing resistance in his hometown of Jiangyin County. Jiangyin has been a river defense fortress between Danyang and Gusu since ancient times. The terrain is relatively dangerous, and it is much easier to defend than Wujin, a land of plenty.

Yan Yingyuan didn't have many troops on this route, unlike the main force of the imperial court in the west, where they could attack and defend.Yan Yingyuan's strength here can only support the 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 chase and block it. When encountering fleeing and rebellious people with shaved hair along the way, they immediately brandished butcher knives without any scruples and killed everyone they saw.

So much so that there was no discrimination in the chaos, and a small number of ordinary people who were old, infirm, unable to migrate and had to stay in the townships in the east of Wujin County were also killed as "fleeing rebels who resisted shaving their hair."

All of a sudden, there were almost no survivors in the rural areas in the heart of Changzhou Prefecture. The Qing army slaughtered villages and towns, and even tried to create a no-man's land between Wujin and Jiangyin. Honest people who care about politics and just want to live in their hometown are also forced to choose sides, or they will be killed directly.

Yan Yingyuan took care of the uprising civilians who had fled to Jiangyin from Wujin County, and at the same time strictly screened them to prevent the infiltration of Qing army spies.

Fortunately, Yan Yingyuan has a high prestige in the local area. Although he was taken by Guo Xing Ye to go out to experience meritorious service and 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.The Qing army did take advantage of the chaos to work carefully, but most of them were screened out by the Ming army. After some force resistance, most of the Qing army's secret workers were killed.

The news here came back to Dodo's ears a few days later, which naturally aroused Dodo's anger again, and a seed was planted in his subconscious:
If there is no result in attacking Jinshan Temple and regaining the Yangtze River smuggling route in Zhenjiang, the next step may be to use Jiangyin as the breakthrough direction, and try to open the door from here to enter the rich and wealthy places like Wuxi and Suzhou.

Of course these are all for later.

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

It took another two or three days for the Nanjing court to fully understand the situation, and to sort out the current situation information that should be collected—don’t think that this work is too inefficient, it’s really sudden, and various rumors are flying everywhere. It is always necessary to settle down and carefully study and judge before the court can give a long-term disposal opinion. Think about how to use this to carry out better propaganda work, so that the people in the south of the Yangtze River can further unite with the enemy and arouse everyone's ethnic and cultural hatred.

In the city of Nanjing, following Qian Qianyi's defection to the enemy as a traitor, the Minister of Rites and the Minister of Rites either defected to the enemy or were implicated and purged.So the education and cultural department was completely cleaned up by Zhu Shuren, and his cronies and old friends were replaced a few days ago.

In fact, Zhu Shuren didn't have many respected literary cronies, so the new Minister of Rites could only be Mr. Wu Weiye, Mr. Wu Meicun, who was his former Siye and Wu Weiye when he was in the Imperial College.

Relatively speaking, Wumei Village is the most resistant to officialdom among the "Three Great Masters of Jiangzuo" in history. At least it is much better than Qian Qianyi and Gong Dingzi. Fa suddenly ascended to a high position.

After Wu Meicun was promoted to be Minister of the Ministry of Rites, some new vacancies in the Ministry of Rites, the first-level civil servants in the Langzhong, can be nominated by Wu Meicun, a white glove, and Zhu Shuren does not need to come forward in person. This can also better avoid suspicion and prevent being privately Li said that he formed a party for personal gain.

Wumei Village is also very good, and immediately reciprocated. Some of Zhu Shuren's staff who were originally low-ranking were not even Gu Yanwu, Guizhuang, etc. who were not born in the imperial examination, and Huang Zongxi, who was recommended by Zhu Shuren based on the memory of the traveler. Thinkers are all assigned to the Ministry of Rites, or as doctors, or Yuanwailang, to master ideological work.

Now, the first opportunity for the newly-appointed ministers of rites and ministers to make contributions is to help the imperial court write documents and slogans for the United Front propaganda, collect all kinds of atrocities of the Tartars who shave their hair and make clothes easier, and spread them as much as possible in the world.

All the actions of the Qing army in the five counties occupied by the Qing army should also be collected as much evidence as possible that ordinary people can believe after hearing it, describe it vividly, and publish it in a book, so that the people in the prefectures and counties that have not been affected by the war in the rear can also share the same hatred.

And it was in the Nanjing imperial court that the military and propaganda were both in charge.While Jinshan Temple and Jiangyin are strengthening their defenses, the battle is tense.A series of new troubles caused by the hair-shaving order also began to appear gradually, so Zhu Shuren had to take some gestures as soon as possible to avoid accidentally injuring innocent people.

(End of this chapter)