Zhu Hongsan calmed down and said, "Since you are competing for merit, then let's separate, one division will go to the next place, Qian Yong will go to Jiangyin, and Zhao Guodong will go to Jiading."

These two places have been picked out by Zhu Hongsan long ago. He is not strong now, but even though he knows that these two places will be massacred by the Qing Dynasty, he really has to help as a Han man. So he picked out these two places with the most intense resistance to shaving, hoping to avoid the tragedy in history.

Jiangyin County is located on the bank of the Yangtze River, and the navy's large ships can be docked and supported, so this place is quite easy to defend. So Qian Yong was sent. Jiading County is more than 20 miles away from the Yangtze River, and only a small river connects the Yangtze River. This place must be sent to a steady and calm general, so Zhao Guodong, who was chosen by Zhu Hongsan.

After the appointment was completed, Zhu Hongsan said: "Each of you two brought a group of people. There are not many ships in our Navy, and there are too many people to transport them. Remember to protect yourself as the main task. Local officials can ignore the orders of local officials, and they must also kill and injure the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty while protecting themselves. This is the first time we have been in the army to fight against the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. It is said that the Eight Banners are not worth tens of thousands, and they are invincible. Let me see if we are powerful or are they powerful?"

Qian and Zhao were both people with extremely inflamed self-confidence and bowed and said, "Please rest assured that the 3,000 of us will definitely be able to break the myth of the Qing Dynasty and let them see which is the most powerful army in the Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said to Tong Yangjia, the new Minister of War, standing next to him, "Shilarious Minister Tong, Li Zhi did not come today. You can arrange for him to escort the army north. All the newly built large ships were sent out. Let me see how the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty are invincible?"

Zhu Hongsan will not mention the organization going north to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Let’s first talk about what happened in southern Zhili in the past month.

Duoduo occupied Nanjing on May 15th. Duoduo followed Qian Qian's advice. Old Qian said, "The people in the south are weak, and can be decided by one edict." Therefore, because of the central government's orders in the entire Nanzhili, there was no large-scale resistance. Only Hangzhou resisted for a few days in order to protect Lu Wang. When Duoduo's army arrived in Hangzhou, it opened the city and surrendered.

This is normal in the hearts of local scholars and officials. The capital of your country was captured twice, and the emperor was arrested one after another. In terms of law, this dynasty has perished. Why not let go and see how the new dynasty is like? Maybe it is worse than the mean and polite Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention the righteousness of famous families, the later emperors of the Qing Dynasty were indeed much better than the strange emperors of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, if the Qing Dynasty implemented the policy of Huairou, there would be nothing in Yongli. But the Qing Dynasty belonged to a minority group after all. When they were about to enter the pass to rule hundreds of times more Han people than them, the mentality of being bullied by the Han people for hundreds of years was leaked out.

Aren’t you Han people awesome? What did you bully our ancestors back then? Nurhaci had to be the godson of Li Chengliang to survive. Now that we have the chance, we must kill you Han people’s arrogance.

At this time, the head shaving order became a political method. The Qing nobles believed that using this method could castrate the self-esteem of the Han people, but they did not expect that the Han people might be the most bizarre nation in the world. Cowardly and incompetent may be Han people, fearing death may be Han people, and selling friends for honor may be Han people. However, among these Han people, there were Wen Tianxiang who was generous to die, Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang who resisted the invasion of foreign races, and General Zhang Zizhong who died in battle in later generations.

So when the headshaving order was released in early June, Duoduo was caught off guard. Unexpectedly, the weak Jiangnan was beheaded everywhere, and the first thing that caught the war was Jiangyin.

On May 17, the people of Jiangyin County knew that Nanjing had been captured. The messengers of the Qing Dynasty conveyed the orders of the Ming Dynasty to surrender, causing the surrounding prefectures and counties to surrender. At this time, the magistrate of Jiangyin County was Lin Zhiji. This guy was from the north. When he first came to Jiangyin, he couldn't understand Jiangnan dialect and made a lot of jokes. Some minor officials from the county government privately gave him a nickname called "Lin Mupaa".

Although Papaya was not capable, she still felt ashamed. When she heard that Nanjing was defeated and the Ming Dynasty was completely destroyed, she hanged her seal and left.

As soon as Lin Mugao left, the people of Jiangyin recommended Dianshi Chen Mingyu to take charge of government affairs. Although Chen Mingyu is a poor Dianshi, he is very capable. He did some things in the more than half a month he was in charge of government affairs and also gained popularity for the future.

On the fifth day of the sixth month, Fang Heng, the magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, came to Jiangyin. When Fang Heng came, he brought five Manchu soldiers, and each of them was holding the rat-tail of money, screaming everywhere, which was very terrifying.

When Chen Mingyu saw the new magistrate coming, he didn't want to be the official of the Qing Dynasty, so he resigned after handing over to Fang Heng. So far, the entire Jiangyin County was still in peace because everyone felt that it was just a new emperor, and it was not the same as before. When the new magistrate came, he had to collect taxes and grains, farmers had to pay taxes, and scholars could also become officials, but there was no change from the previous Ming Dynasty.

But on June 27, the magistrate Fang Heng saw that the people in the city had accepted the rule of the new dynasty, so he took out the notice of the shaving order that had been prepared.

Fang Heng asked the clerks in the county government to draft a notice for the headshaving order. At first, the clerks didn't know what the notice was. When they saw the sentence "Leave your head but not your hair, leave your hair but not your head", the clerk angrily threw his pen on the ground and scolded Fang Heng, "If you die, just die. I won't write such a bastard's notice."

Fang Heng had no choice but to take down the clerk, and he had to write this notice himself.

As soon as Fang Heng posted the notice, several gentry in the city came to find Fang Heng. When they first came, these people were very polite to Fang Heng. You see, they are all Han people, how could they learn from those barbarians to shave their heads?

But at this time, Fang Heng had a little temper and felt that the whole Jiangnan had been pacified, and Jiangyin could not cause trouble. Because of this fearlessness, Fang Heng cursed at these gentry. "Now it is a new dynasty, and the new dynasty must have a new look. You bastards don't obey the imperial orders, aren't you afraid of beheading?"

These gentry have also been officials, so how could they bear this kind of anger? They also cursed: "You Fang Heng received Confucian education, but now you are a magistrate of the Tatars. Don't you feel ashamed?" Seeing that they were numerous and powerful, Fang Heng was afraid of suffering losses in front of him, so he quickly said good things and shave his head for a while.

These were Fang Heng's delayed military strategy. In the early morning of the first day of the leap month of June, Fang Heng summoned more than a hundred local students and gentry as the name of incense, and the people gathered at the Confucian Temple. Everyone asked, "Now that Jiangyin has surrendered, there should be nothing wrong, right?" Fang Heng said, "Only shaved hair is left. The four soldiers I just sent just now were for the purpose of shaving the hair." Everyone said, "Can the hair be shaved?" Fang Heng said, "This is the law of the Qing Dynasty and cannot be violated." After that, he returned to the yamen.

The students Xu Yong and others gathered but failed to go, so they swore together in Minglun Hall: "The head can be broken, and the hair must not be shave!" Fang Heng saw that the scholars and people refused to obey, so he secretly reported to Changzhou Prefecture to ask his superiors to send troops to "kill more Shuwei". The secret letter was found by the Yimin, so he captured Fang Heng on the second day of the lunar month and killed the Qing Dynasty. The prosecutor Chen Mingyu was the leader, and under the banner of "The Revival of the Ming Dynasty", he claimed that the righteous people in Jiangyin were officially anti-Qing.

After the news of the people of Jiangyin's resistance to the Qing Dynasty spread, Zong Hao, the governor of Changzhou in Qing Dynasty, sent 300 soldiers to suppress it. On the fifth day of the leap month, the righteous people of Jiangyin were annihilated at the foot of Qinwang Mountain. Later, under the leadership of Chen Mingyu, the soldiers and civilians of Jiangyin repeatedly repelled the attacks of small Qing troops. At the same time, they strictly investigated the spies in the city, announced that there were people who could report and arrest the spies, and rewarded fifty taels of silver. The former county magistrate Fang Heng, who had an affair with the Qing Dynasty, and many spies who had betrayed the intelligence and attempted to surrender to the enemy, effectively curbing the collapse within Jiangyin.

On the 21st of the leap June, the Qing Beile and General Boluo commanded the heavy troops to surround Jiangyin City. On the 24th, the Qing army made a letter of surrender and shot from outside the East City. After the public agreement of the army and civilians in Jiangyin, they replied to the letter. Seeing that the persuasion of surrender was ineffective, the Qing army captured and killed the Yi soldiers outside the city, trying to cut off the foreign aid of the military and civilians in the city. On the first day of July, they began to attack the city. The city was tightly defended, and the Qing soldiers were like rain.

Chen Mingyu was a classic history that had been in a state of nowhere for half his life. When the Jiangyin people handed him over the important task of resisting the Qing Dynasty, he presided over several aspects of work: rewarding loyal and brave men; executing Fang Heng and his family to avoid internal response; in response to the persuasion of the Qing army general Liu Liangzuo, he replied to a bold letter: If the Qing government insisted on shaving his hair, "even if a million people are in the city, Jiangyin will have a determination to defend his life, and he will never survive meticulously."

Chen Mingyu is a self-aware person. His strengths are kindness and kindness to others. He is a trustworthy and loyal person. His weaknesses are his lack of leadership skills, especially military leadership skills. When the enemy is in front of him, he remembered another person - Yan Yingyuan.

Like Chen Mingyu, Yan Yingyuan also served as the Jiangyin Dianshi for many years. However, unlike Chen Mingyu's kindness, Yan Yingyuan showed a general ability. When he was in charge of Jiangyin Dianshi, he led his troops to resist the attack of hundreds of warships of pirate Gu Sanmazi, so that he did not dare to invade Jiangyin again. The people of Jiangyin were grateful for his re-creation and worshipped his portrait in the society. Logically, the court should praise the minor officials like Yan Yingyuan who made great contributions, but only promoted him to the chief clerk of Yingde County, Guangdong. Such an excellent general was immersed in the inferior subordinates of Dianshi, and the military and national affairs were in charge of a group of incompetent meat eaters. The demise of the Ming Dynasty was not surprising at all. After Yan left office, Chen Mingyu succeeded to the position of Jiangyin Dianshi.

When Chen Minghui sent someone to find Yan Yingyuan, Yan Yingyuan said readily: "If you follow my arrangements, I will agree." Everyone said that they would obey orders. So, Yan Yingyuan led 40 family members and, with the help of thousands of village soldiers who came to help, rushed into Jiangyin, the lonely city. From then on, he never left this lonely city that would fall into a pool of blood and despair for dozens of days.
Chapter completed!