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Chapter 56: Divide the troops for reinforcements
"Oh!"

Two Ming soldiers opened the door and saw Nan'an County Magistrate Liu Bingqing hanging in the room. His face was pale and his eyes were protruding. He had obviously been out of breath for a long time.

"Unlucky, another one committed suicide. Are these dog-clearing officers mentally ill?" The platoon leader who led the team had a look of pity on his face. He managed to get to the front of the wave and charged in with almost no resistance. The county government thought that it would be possible to capture a clean dog alive and make a great contribution.

But forget it, it's normal that he couldn't be captured alive. Didn't the previous Anxi County magistrate also jump to the city and commit suicide when the city was destroyed.

If you can't catch any alive, the dead ones are not useless. Let's put them down first and report them to the people above. No matter what, we can't lose money.

The county magistrate here, Liu Bingqing, hanged himself. The chaos in Nan'an County outside was quickly calmed down by the Ming army's deployment of troops to suppress it.Many villains who took advantage of the situation to rob, commit adultery and plunder were beheaded on the spot by the Ming army.

Seeing how ruthless the Ming army was, the remaining people did not dare to make any mistakes and had no choice but to surrender.

As for the people in Nan'an County, the doors and windows of every house were closed, and the whole family huddled in the corner of the house with their heads in their hands, hoping that the rebels would not rush into the house.

Another hour passed, and the chaos in Nan'an County was basically eliminated.At this time, Zhu Yijiong had also moved into a wealthy gentry's mansion in the city. The owner of this mansion was a wealthy gentry who had fled Nan'an County before. The caretaker slave inside had long since disappeared.

As for why he doesn't live in the county government office, compared to this big house, firstly, it is too shabby, and secondly, a county magistrate has died, which is really unlucky.

Zhu Yijiong didn't pay much attention to the county magistrate who hanged himself, and just ordered to find a place to bury him.

The so-called admiration for integrity is impossible. He is a hero and I am an enemy.Of course, there is no way to humiliate him. Zhu Yijiong is not that ruthless, and someone who can vent his anger on other people's bones is really useless.

After Zhu Yijiong entered the residence, the residence also became the temporary palace of the Ming Dynasty and also served as a wartime command post.

In the next few days, the Nan'an County Magistrate, the Chief Secretary, and others were all searched out of the city by the Ming army.

Although these county government officials fled the county government and took refuge in the city when the city was destroyed, the Ming army had already guarded all the city gates, and they were not allowed to enter or leave. They couldn't escape even if they wanted to.

In addition, when the Ming army raided the county government and the county, they captured many government servants who could not escape, and forced them to identify the county chief registrar and other major county government officials. If they could find them, they could save their lives.

Faced with the threat of death, these people naturally rushed to lead the way. Not only the two high-ranking county chief registrars were sold, but Dian Shi and the six unranked houses below were also picked out.

What happened next was simple. One by one, these officials and subordinates were all "invited" by the Ming army to the temporary palace to pay homage to King Zhu.

King Zhu also did not embarrass these people. Instead, he comforted them for a while and promoted them to one level according to the example of Anxi County.

After they were promoted, as usual, they were all dragged out on the spot to have their braids and heads shaved.

I have been promoted here, and I didn't even have time to change into official uniforms. Immediately, there were special Ming troops with razors ready to cut off my braids.

Match the front and back in one go.

After these officials and subordinates have finished shaving, the Ming army will send people to escort them and provide door-to-door services to their families and relatives.

Oh, by the way, this door-to-door service is free. I, the Ming Dynasty, love the people like a son, how can I charge extravagantly for such a trivial matter?

Of course, if their heads are shaved, these righteous gentry will cry out to send money and food to thank the Ming Dynasty King.

Naturally, the Ming Dynasty King Master would not refuse their good intentions, and he would be happy with the people.After shaving the heads of these officials, the next step is the common people below.With the official taking the lead, the people below naturally did not resist much and all shaved their heads obediently.

It took almost two days for the entire Nan'an County to change from Braid County to Cuntou County.

After solving the problem of haircuts in Nan'an County and having no worries, Zhu Yijiong followed suit and began to recruit troops in Nan'an County.

As soon as the recruitment order was issued, countless people joined the army. In just one morning, hundreds of people signed up.

Who knew that the conditions offered by the Ming Army were so generous? As long as they passed the physical fitness test, they would be given ten taels of silver as housing allowance, and then there would also be a monthly salary of one tael of silver for recruits, enough rice, and meat from time to time.

If you perform meritorious service on the battlefield, you can change from a new soldier to a regular soldier, and your monthly silver will be directly increased to three taels. The higher your military rank, the higher your monthly salary, and you will be granted land, and you will also receive pensions if you die in battle.

Not to mention other things, just the settlement allowance of ten taels of silver, which was paid on the spot after approval, already made the people flock to it.

If not for the tight schedule, given the population base of Nan'an County, which is adjacent to the capital city of Quanzhou, the Ming army estimated that they could expand their army to at least one town here.

But it didn't matter. They only recruited more than a thousand new soldiers. The Ming army also transferred one battalion from the fifth town, the sixth town, and the seventh town to supplement the defense.

The Seventh Town of the Ming Army was reorganized from the original Zhangzhou Town. Not only did everyone have their pigtails cut, but they also made a special trip to pull out the Qing Army Chief Qian who was still alive, and gave the soldiers below them a knife in turn. A certificate of surrender was made.

Anyway, in the end, these unlucky Qing soldiers Qian Zong basically turned into a puddle of flesh, nothing more than being cut into pieces with a thousand cuts.

The Ming army has no choice. It has insufficient troops and not enough time, so it can only convert those surrendered troops into combat effectiveness first.

In the eyes of the Ming army, these surrendered troops, although their combat effectiveness was ridiculously poor, were still regular troops after all.At least they are better than the untrained recruits recruited from various counties.

At least fighting with the Ming army, or leading a team to defend the city for a few days, shouldn't be a big problem.

Moreover, this time it was just a matter of sacrificing the lives of a few Qing soldiers.If we were to replace the former Third Town, it would be [-] out of [-]. Not only would more people die, but they would all be low-level soldiers like them.

On the Jinxia side, the recruits recruited from Tong'an County were also directly used as left-behind troops and handed over to Xu Jin's third town for assisting defense.

After completing the work of staying behind in Nan'an County, the Ming army did not stay much. Zhu Yijiong once again personally led an army of [-] to the capital of Quanzhou south.

As for why it is [-] and not [-].That's because Zheng Dingrui and Zhang Yue had already followed King Zhu's military order and led the first town headquarters and [-] troops under Zhang Yue's command to go north to Honglai Town first.

Honglai Town is a small town located in the northeast of Nan'an County. It is located in a river valley and plain. Its only advantage is that it is close to Xinghua Prefecture and Hui'an County (in terms of marching).

The Ming army had less than [-] troops and went into a decisive battle with the Fujian Qing army, which had [-] troops or even more.Zhu Yijiong cannot say that he has no bottom line, but he still needs to be cautious.

Zhu Yijiong now wants to use the "main force" of [-] troops, plus his own Taiwanese Zhu Ni himself as bait, to assume a posture of storming the capital of Quanzhou.

Lure the main force of the Qing army in Fujian to quickly go south for reinforcements. At that time, his elite Ming army ambushing in Honglai Town will wait for the opportunity to move eastward and directly cut off their logistics and food routes.

Attack from two sides and encircle the point for reinforcements.

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