When the Taiping battalion soldiers executed the prisoners, the results of the Chongming battle were also quickly counted.At this time, Li Zhongming and Ruan Mei led a team of soldiers and carried grain bags out of the city.Ruan Mei said regretfully: "General, half of the grain was burned, and only 5,000 stone was snatched out." ”Li Zhongming said: "Allah collected 30,000 taels of silver from the residence of the Eight Banner Soldiers, the county government treasury, and Liang Huafeng's mansion, as well as three boxes of jewelry and antiques. ”Zhao Ming bowed slightly, won the battle, captured the city, the money was indeed fast enough, 30,000 taels plus three boxes of jewelry and antiques, enough for a battalion of soldiers to pay for a year.The Ming Dynasty became poorer and poorer, and the Qing army became stronger and stronger, which has a lot to do with this.Compared with money and food, Zhao Ming also cared about other things, so he asked, "How about the seizure of the equipment?"
”Now the soldiers of the Taiping Battalion, many of them have been issued with a spear and a bamboo hat, and they have gone to the battlefield, and the equipment is so poor that even the strong landlord is not able to compare.Ruan Mei said: "The soldiers are still counting, and many weapons have been robbed by the rebels!"
These people have no rules, they can't fight, they shouldn't have brought them!
”Ruan Mei pointed to the rebels who were picking up the corpses of the Qing army and picking up weapons in the distance, and was a little indignant.This Chongming is basically the Taiping camp down, the rebels saw that the city was broken, only rushed ashore, if it was not for the Taiping battalion soldiers to enter the city, maybe the treasury was occupied by the rebels.Zhao Ming looked at the rebels walking through the corpses, smiled and waved his hand, "Forget it, let them go, I picked up the corpses of the Qing army today, and I will dare to fight with the Qing soldiers in the future."
Hey, what's wrong with you?
”Ruan Mei followed Zhao Ming's gaze, looked at her shoulder socket, and suddenly screamed, "it, I was beaten by a bird!"
”A lead bullet tore through the cotton armor on Ruan Mei's shoulder, Ruan Mei didn't notice it, Zhao Ming reminded him, he felt a huge pain coming, and his forehead began to sweat.Zhao Ming hurriedly ordered, "Please ask Doctor Li to come over." ”On this expedition, Zhao Ming brought Li Langzhong and Li Zhizhi out and asked them to help treat the wounded.Not long after, Li Langzhong came over with a medicine box, tore open Ruan Mei's armor, and helped Ruan Mei take the bullet and bandage it.Soon, the results of the first battle of Chongming were counted, and 2,100 enemies were killed in this battle, including 2,000 green battalion soldiers, 100 Mongolian white flags, 10 pairs of iron armor, 400 sets of cotton armor, more than 1,600 battle jackets, 100 scimitars, 400 Miao knives, 1,600 spears, 60 horse lances, 300 bows and arrows, 2,000 arrows, 15 bird guns, 120 horses, and gunpowder, short axes, shields and other instruments.In this battle, Zhao Ming won a lot, which directly made up for the embarrassing situation of the lack of armament in the Taiping Battalion.However, the casualties of the Ming army were also very large, with 301 soldiers sacrificed, almost all of the soldiers were wounded, and the Japanese warriors were also hacked to death by the Mongolian cavalry.Zhao Ming asked the corpses of the soldiers to be cleaned up, cremated in the river beach, and then took some ashes, and ordered the soldiers to hold them with a cloth and tie them around their waists to bring them back.Chongming Island is the entrance to the Yangtze River, and the sandbar can be used for tuntian, and Zhao Ming is ready to control this place, so the corpses of the Qing army are cleaned up to avoid epidemics.The battle of Chongming greatly boosted the morale of the righteous army that followed, and the confidence of the army doubled, and they no longer worried that the Qing army would be difficult to defeat, and they fished out a long number of righteous troops, but hoped to fight a few more cities.Of course, the city does not dare to touch, but the small county town can fight a dozen.In view of the fact that the rebels had no rules, Zhao Ming convened many rebel leaders on the Zhenyuan to discuss the three chapters of the law, so that they could obey the orders, not to loot materials, not to kill and rob the people at will, and to ruin the reputation of the rebels, as for the captured booty, they were distributed uniformly after the war.This battle made Zhao Ming's prestige higher, and the rebels all obeyed Zhao Ming, saying yes again and again, expressing their willingness to obey orders, but Zhao Ming was the first to look forward.At that moment, Zhao Ming did not hesitate, leaving Haikou Gu San Mazi to guard Chongming Island, so he led the army, marched with gongs and drums, and sent troops to Nanjing.The first battle was victorious, the morale of the army was high, Zhao Ming left more than 600 people to guard the island, led 5,000 people, marched along the river, to the mouth of the Wusong River, and attacked the Qing army's water village, captured more than 20 ships, burned the water village, and continued to advance westward.The fleet is on the river, the mighty and mighty, the boat is full of torches at night, the river is brightly lit, the people on both sides of the strait have onlookers, for a time the south of the Yangtze River is shaken, many gentry secretly send food to reward the army, and are willing to act as an internal response.Everything is afraid of comparison, the Jiangnan gentry enjoyed many preferential treatment in the Ming Dynasty, and they were still dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty, and when the Manchu Qing Dynasty came, they were nostalgic for the Ming Dynasty in turn.In terms of policy, the Qing court co-opted the gentry of Liaodong and the north, and used the stolen land to give some benefits to some of the subservient people in the north, cancel the three salaries, distribute the land of the Ming Dynasty, and sell the hearts of the people, but suppressed the Jiangnan gentry, so that the interests of the southeast gentry were damaged, so after the shaving order, Jiangnan counterattacked so fiercely.In order to cross the Qiantang River, Duoduo mobilized many ships into Zhejiang, making the already weak Qing army's naval division even weaker.Zhao Ming led the fleet and entered the Yangtze River, along the way there were gentry ventilating messages, and the sailors swept all the way across the Yangtze River along the Qing army's water villages and forts.When the army saw the ferry, they attacked, and when they hit it, they burned it, and if they couldn't hit it, they bombarded it with huge cannons, and the tall body of the Zhenyuan and the roaring artillery on the side made the Qing army feel the power of the strong ships and guns in advance.Along the way, the army marched noisily, as if it was afraid that the Qing army would not know that the army had entered the river, and Zhao Ming's bluff also made the Qing army along the coast dare not fight easily.After the county seat of Jiangyin was captured by the Qing army, because the Qing army slaughtered the city, there were no people in the city, leaving only a Qing army to garrison.At this time, along the Yangtze River, the Qing army garrisons in various cities received the news that Zhao Ming had entered the Yangtze River, but the Qing army did not take the initiative to suppress it, but held the city one after another.Zhao Ming's army is on the river, and the Qing army on the shore has no way to take him, and Zhao Ming fell into Chongming one day, showing that the Ming army's combat strength is not bad, and the Qing army in the state capitals has the responsibility to guard the city, and all they want is to hold their own defense area, as long as the Ming army does not attack themselves, everything will be fine, and the initiative to exterminate Zhao Ming is risky, the benefits are small, and the Qing army cannot go into the water, so the enthusiasm is not high.At this time, at the head of Jiangyin City, the Qing soldiers climbed the city wall in a panic, only to see that on the river, the boats came from the river, and they couldn't help but gasp, and the green battalion soldiers exclaimed one after another, it was Zhao Tie Stick who was killed!
Zhao Ming had already released the news that the soldiers were coming to the city, and those who dared to fight with weapons would be destroyed and killed.The Qing army summed up the total and the county, but they couldn't hold it at all, and they were dead to resist, and they abandoned the city and fled to the Manchu Qing Dynasty to kill people, so they simply put up a white flag and surrendered, and ordered people to open the city gate.The fleet docked in the north of Jiangyin City, and the soldiers of the Taiping Camp raised their eyes to look at Jiangyin City, looking at the city tower engraved with the word "Jiangyin", the triangular yellow dragon flag was thrown down, and a bright flag was erected, and they couldn't help but burst into tears.More than 100 Qing troops defending the city surrendered without a fight, Zhao Ming took a group of soldiers and re-entered Jiangyin City, and in the corners of the streets, there are still unfinished white bones, which reminds everyone of the days of defending Jiangyin.The Taiping camp drove into the city, and the soldiers looked at the place where they had fought, and they had mixed feelings in their hearts: "It's been almost half a year, and I've finally come back to kill." ”At that moment, Zhao Ming led people to worship, the souls of the dead in Jiangyin, and the soldiers of the Taiping Battalion wept bitterly, and at this moment, Wang Deshun suddenly came to report, "General, a large number of people have come to the south, it seems to be the Taihu Righteous Army." ”(Thank you for your support, ask for a monthly pass, recommend, subscribe.) ）()