In Chongming County, the fleet's attack just now really shocked the entire county.

Each of the opponent's large plywood boats had more than a dozen artillery pieces. With so many artillery pieces, it only took one round of fire to carve out pits on the city wall.

"General Chen, this... this, how come they have so many cannons?" Hou Yuanmou couldn't speak clearly. Just now Chen Ding had firmly said that the other party only had some foreign merchant ships to support their appearance.

"Sir, I don't know even though I'm a low-ranking official. Isn't it supported by foreigners?" All Chen Ding could think of was that these pirates were a force supported by foreigners.

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On the river, Zhuo Yiqing made a gesture to the flag bearer standing at the top of the mast, and soon the bombardment stopped.

The shelling finally stopped, and the people on the city wall breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, a rocket flew toward Chongming County at a very high angle.

"Bang..." Like a big firework, the rocket exploded over the county town.

"What does this mean?" Chen Ding looked confused.

But not long after, a messenger came over in a hurry.

"Master Hou, General Chen, look, this just fell from the sky."

Hou Yuanmou quickly took the note. It was white and black, the paper was not large, and it was written in small regular script.

"My elders have been suffering from harsh laws for a long time. Corrupt officials have become as harsh as tigers in government, draining the marrow and fat of men. The people lament the wealth of husbands and rats, causing mountains to collapse and seas to overflow. Years are bad and hungry, thieves have sprung up, and common people are fleeing.

. Our Red Flag Army rose from the East China Sea, marched for Heaven, regained Chongming, and obeyed Heaven and its people. The officials were local, and the Yang people had no sense of the past, while the drummers and officials had to join the army. With their armor and ice, the army had no fighting spirit. To cover up its true nature first

The origin of the dial is old. Who knew that the Qing Dynasty was so disgusted that it could not be restored, so it abandoned its armor and dragged its soldiers, and the fingers in the boat could be carried! I didn't even think about the rise of our army, but the rain came, and the Qing Dynasty was destroyed as if burned.

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How come your people don't recognize the auspicious response, so why do they have two minds? What good is the fruit of your mind? If this bee stings you and lets it spread its poison, and the tiger shows off my great power, it is almost the so-called gift from heaven, not human power. Special reminder."

What this rocket brought in was the Red Flag Army's document to persuade them to surrender, which was a classical Chinese version. The Red Flag Army was very considerate and even specially made some vernacular versions for inclusion.

The vernacular version of the notice was even more naked. It told the people that the Taiping Army had occupied Nanjing City and Yangzhou City.

The escort army in the south also captured Fujian. Now our Red Flag Army has come to capture Chongming. The Qing Dynasty is about to end. If you follow us, every household will be able to receive land. Ordinary people will be exempted from paying taxes and will no longer be exploited and oppressed.

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The reason why the people still listen to the government is because there is no news and newspapers in this era. If they knew that the Qing Dynasty was so riddled with holes, they would have revolted long ago.

With so many people in China, there are always some trendsetters of the era who can see the general trend and lead the blind followers around them to follow the trend.

"This...General Chen quickly sent people to collect these leaflets. They are misleading the public with their evil words... They are misleading the people with their evil words. These thieves deserve to die."

Chen Ding knew that such things could not be collected, and it would be better not to collect them. If they were collected, it would appear that the government was really guilty. However, he still had people go to the streets to collect all the scattered leaflets.

As for those who were secretly taken away, he didn't have time to search from house to house now.

"Sir, don't worry. The general will definitely guard the county. If these thieves want to enter the county, they must step on my body."

Hou Yuanmou looked at people with a bit of suspicion at this time, especially when he looked at those Minzhuang who were helping on the city wall.

This group of thieves said they wanted to divide the land. These mud-legged people are jealous when they see the land.

"General Chen, you stay here while I go talk to some big households in the city." Hou Yuanmou said, there is also a problem with this leaflet, that is, it offends those big households in the city.

If these large households want to protect their property, they will naturally have to step forward.

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"It would be nice if there was someone from ANBU here." Zhuo Yiqing thought in his heart.

Siege warfare is not that easy to fight, and it seems that more pressure will be put on the city.

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At the same time, in the north of Xianyou County, an offensive and defensive battle had begun.

Gu Feixiong placed his base camp in Xinghua Prefecture, which was also the last prefecture in the south of Fuzhou.

Wang Yide's order was to keep the rebels out of Fuzhou and buy him time to recruit and train troops in Fuzhou.

Of course, it would be better if the rebels could be defeated.

Gu Feixiong had 20,000 soldiers and horses in his hands. At this time, his confidence was greatly increased. He divided his troops into three groups, one of which was along the Mulan River waterway, and the other two groups were on the right bank of Mulan River and Hugong Mountain.

At this time, the scouts of the Qing army had collided with the scouts of the escort army. Gu Feixiong knew that there were enemies on the line between Fenghuang Mountain and Hugong Mountain, but until now, the scouts still had not sent back accurate orders, which made him very anxious.

Maybe the enemy was stalling for time. Gu Feixiong thought in his mind, so he decided to advance steadily with the three armies and directly seek a decisive battle with the rebels.

In his opinion, the rebels are just a mob and are not good at frontal combat.

At the foot of the north mountain of Fenghuang Mountain, in Huangtou Village, a twenty-man scout team was groping towards Xinghua Fucheng.

The Fenghuang Mountain position set up by the escort army is actually not too far from Xinghua Fucheng. The escort army must move the blocking position as much as possible to protect the newly occupied areas in the rear and give the rear working group time to digest these places.

Once this place has been transformed by the Chinese, the grassroots political power of the Chinese has been established, the land has been divided, and the militia has been established.

Only then can these places be transformed into the fighting power of the Chinese people.

It's not possible now. Once the Manchus come to kill them, both the common people and the gentry in these places will abandon the Chinese.

As the commander of the blockade, Zhao Liewen was the most nervous one. After all, this was the first time he led troops alone in combat. Before that, most of his understanding of the war came from books or following Dong Liang's footsteps to fill in the gaps.

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Although Eastern Fujian is not full of high mountains and deep ravines like Western Fujian, it is also full of hills. There are rarely endless plains.

This terrain is very friendly to scouts, both sides.

Kou Weifeng was wearing an armed belt, a revolver and a bayonet on his waist. There was also a musket on his back.

With the production line of copper flash caps, the proportion of pistols assembled in the Guards has been much higher.

This kind of melee firearm has a much higher firepower output than a rifle, and can produce higher bursts of firepower in encounters.

Two lines of scouts followed closely behind him.

Suddenly... Kou Weifeng raised his left hand.

The soldiers behind him stopped one after another, and each of them slowly squatted down.

Kou Weifeng actually didn't see anything, but he smelled a faint smell of horse odor coming from the front.

Now that the war is in chaos, ordinary people will definitely not take the big animals out of their homes and wander around.

Because there were woods in front of him, Kou Weifeng couldn't see anything, but his intuition made him cautious.

He tapped the left and right sides a few times with his right hand.
Chapter completed!