The Qianhu was so scared when he heard Zhao Guodong say this. The Qing army slaughtered them like wolves and tigers just now. Now Zhao Guodong still asked them to die, so how dare he go.

Zhao Liangdong saw that the Qianhu was afraid of death, so he pulled him to the front of the formation, pointed to the Qing army corpses all over the ground and said, "See, these are all the ones we just killed. Are you worried?"

Qianhu looked at the corpses all over the ground and stammered: "This...this...this is so amazing. How dare you ask where the garrison is?"

"We are the garrison of Nanhaiwei in Guangdong, and the King of Chu of Fengjian State has come to save you."

This Qianhu has never left Nanzhili in his life, and has been to Guangdong there? But I heard that it is a system and it is immediately more intimate.

Unexpectedly, the gap between the soldiers of the same garrison was so big? The Qianhu saw Zhao Guodong's men all in high spirits, which was different from the military households of their garrison. No wonder he had such strong combat power.

The Qianhu bowed and said, "Sir, I can gather the soldiers in the village, but they have no heads, so it is probably difficult to use them to attack the city."

"Don't worry, you don't need to attack the city, just clean the battlefield behind you."

Hearing that there was no need to die, the Qianhu was relieved and began to find his subordinates to gather the defeated troops.

Zhao Guodong said to Zhao Guoliang: "Guoliang, please inform us and hand over the work of cleaning the battlefield to the township soldiers. We are preparing to attack Jiading County."

After receiving the order, Zhao Guoliang went down to prepare for arrangements.

At this time, Li Chengdong was sulking in Jiading City. He had already robbed this place twice. The first time was pretty good. He grabbed more than 80 ships of gold, silver and jewelry. But he didn't grab a single hair in the next few times. The local people were so poor that they couldn't even eat. How could he grab the food?

At this time, a young man in his twenties came in outside. It was Li Chengdong's godson Li Yuanyin. Li Yuanyin was not Li Chengdong's biological son, but was stolen from a scholar in Shaanxi when Li Chengdong was a bandit. Later, he found out that Li Yuanyin was brave and decisive, and very wise, so he adopted him as his adopted son. In recent years, I don't know if Li Chengdong did too many things when he was young and had no children, so Li Chengdong treated Li Yuanyin as his successor and valued him very much.

After Li Yuanyin entered the house, he saw Li Chengdong sulking, and stepped forward and said, "Dad, what's wrong?"

"Child, I'm thinking that there's really nothing to grab in this place. Why can't those villagers kill the mud legs? Isn't it just shaving their heads? Are they not afraid of death?"

Li Yuanyin has always opposed Li Chengdong's visit to Qingqing. Seeing this was an opportunity, and there was no one in the house, he whispered: "Dad, these villagers all know that their bodies and hair are affected by their parents. Doesn't their father respect their ancestors?"

Seeing that there was no one in the house, Li Chengdong also felt relieved and said a few intimate words to his son. "Child, how could you know that the situation in Yangzhou is urgent. Brother Gao Yaozi and Gao handed over his orphans and widows to me. I can't take them to die. In addition, these Qing troops are like wolves and tigers, so we are no match for us."

Li Yuanyin was about to continue persuading his father anyway, a personal soldier came in outside. "Report to the general, a group of troops in red clothes came outside the city, holding the Ming army's flag, and had defeated our two thousand brothers outside the city."

Li Chengdong was still a little confident in the combat effectiveness of his army, so he only brought 20,000 troops to suppress the rebellion this time. He even beat 100,000 Ming troops outside the city to remove his armor. I didn’t expect that he could still encounter such a strong Ming army in Nanzhili?

Li Chengdong was very interested and took his son Li Yuanyin to the city wall to watch.

At this time, Zhao Guodong on the opposite side had already lined up his troops and was preparing artillery.

Li Chengdong looked outside and asked, "They are just so many people?"

"Yes General!"

"You trash, let three or four thousand infantry defeat you?"

"General, their artillery is very powerful. Most of us were killed or injured before we even rushed to the front of the formation."

Just as Li Chengdong was about to speak, the group of Ming troops in strange clothes on the opposite side began to attack the city.

Zhao Guodong is a representative of typical artillery. Before the war, let alone other things, let’s talk about it first. Zhao Guodong ordered the artillery to aim the solid bullet at the city wall and start bombarding.

You should know that Jiading City has changed hands three times in the past two months, and it was slaughtered twice. Li Chengdong had just entered the city and had not had time to strengthen the city defense. The city gate was basically no different from being unprotected, and the city walls were also damaged in many places.

Before Zhao Guodong could fire a few shots, a city wall collapsed. When Li Chengdong saw that it was not good, he quickly took his son down the city wall.

Li Chengdong said to his son Li Yuanyin: "Child, get up quickly and organize the team. You must not let these Ming troops enter the city."

Li Yuanyin bowed down to prepare for defense.

Now that the Qing army has just entered the city, it is robbing everywhere, so there is no way to prepare for defense. Li Yuanyin and his personal soldiers finally organized seven or eight thousand people to block the city gate and wait for the Ming army to enter the city.

When Zhao Guodong saw a city wall collapse, he did not order the artillery to stop the shelling and ordered the artillery to continue bombarding other places. The artillery was so excited that each cannon fired a total of ammunition, so Zhao Guodong stopped the shelling.

At this time, there was no good place for the Jiading City Wall opposite, and there were many broken holes that were 100 meters long.

Seeing that it was time to attack, Zhao Guodong called four regiment commanders under his command and said, "Each of you brings a battalion and an artillery company to enter the city separately. Remember to fight steadily. If you see those who have shaved hair and braids, they will kill them."

The four team leaders led their respective teams into the brink.

Zhao Guodong led everyone else out of the city gate and rushed in.

As soon as he entered the city gate, he encountered Li Yuanyin's powerful sniper. Zhao Guodong did the same thing as Qian Yong, and ordered the cannons to be shot close to the fire. Most of the houses in Jiangnan were made of wooden structures, and the walls were mainly plates, so how could they resist the shooting of the cannons? Li Yuanyin's troops were beaten step by step.

Li Chengdong, who was behind, received news that the Ming army outside the city had already entered the city in five groups, and the firearms were sharp and could not resist them at all. At this time, Li Chengdong's bandits' temper came up, and he ran away if he couldn't beat them. The previous few times when Jiading City was broken, he was very unconventional and left the soldiers and ran away.

Li Chengdong asked his personal soldiers to find his son Li Yuanyin: "Son, the enemy is too powerful. We have been fighting for a day. If we can't, run away quickly. When we return to Suzhou Prefecture, we will lead our troops back to take revenge."

Li Yuanyin knew his adopted father's temper very well, and had no choice but to lead his personal soldiers to escort Li Chengdong out of the city.

The officials ran away and left a group of Qing troops without a leader, and were soon divided and eliminated by Zhao Guodong and others, leaving more than a thousand people as prisoners. However, they were killed and revenge by the local people in Jiading.

There are more than 10,000 people around Jiading City now, and there are a total of 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers outside the city. Zhao Guodong asked them to choose a leader and have something to say.

These ordinary people selected a gentry, Lou Fuwen, to meet Zhao Guodong.

Lou Fuwen asked, "Do you dare to ask where the general is the rebel army?"

"We are from Guangdong and have been ordered by His Highness the Superintendent of the State of Chu to rescue the people of Jiangnan."

After hearing Zhao Guodong say this, Lou Fuwen breathed a sigh of relief. Because he was not familiar with the clothes, he was afraid that these people would be defeated soldiers who were temporarily transiting the border, and that group of people were not much stronger than the Qing soldiers. Now, when Zhao Guodong said that it was an official army in person, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

Lou Fuwen said: "It's just right that the general is here, and he can lead us to resist the Tartars."

Zhao Guodong shook his head and said, "You have also seen our number, and now we have just driven the Tartars away. But they will still send other people here. Sooner or later, what should we do if we can't hold on to that day?"

Lou Fuwen was also stunned. Yes, the entire Nanzhili was the Qing Dynasty. Where can I run to?

At this time, Zhao Guodong threw out the immigration plan and said, "Or you can go to Guangdong with us. That place is the world of our Han people, and the King of Chu will protect us."

"But we are thousands of miles south to Guangdong, but how can we go?"

"Don't worry, our King of Chu has prepared the ships, as long as you organize the people well."

As a serious Han Chinese, Lou Fuwen is very deeply involved in the plot of being unable to leave his hometown. He really doesn't want to leave his hometown and go to Guangdong thousands of miles away until the last moment.

But the difficulties in front of him are in front of him. If he doesn't leave, the Qing army will come again in a few days. He has avoided the city twice. It is hard to say whether he can escape the next time.

Lou Fuwen gritted his teeth and thought: "Well, the left and right are dead. If you go here to fight, you may be able to die." Thinking of this, Lou Fuwen bowed and said, "Then please, general, I will organize the villagers now. Where are we going to retreat to wait for the ship?"

The King of Chu didn't say anything. Zhao Guodong thought for a while and said, "You can retreat to the mouth of Liuhe River first. There are five of our big ships waiting there, and the rest of the ships will come later."

The whole city began to be busy in the next few days. Everyone knew that the Qing army would not have a way to survive next time, so there was no complaints about going south to Guangdong. After the local gentry organization, all the farmers in the village rushed to the county towns and gathered nearly 150,000 people. Three days later, they began to slowly leave the north gate and head to the mouth of Liuhe River.

When Zhao Guodong saw so many people gathering, he was also very worried. The team is now large and it is easy for Qing soldiers to come over to cause chaos.

Fortunately, Li Chengdong ran away alone this time, and brought more than a dozen personal soldiers. If he wanted to gather the army, he had to return to Suzhou Prefecture, a hundred miles away, and he could not get there for less than ten or eight days.
Chapter completed!