On the sixth day of the first lunar month, more than 4,000 people from Hu Maozhen's sixth town of the Huai Army brought more than 5,000 war horses and animals. From Wucheng County, Linqing Prefecture to the Northern Zhizhen Ding Prefecture, they defeated Xu Fazu, deputy general of the Qing Green Camp, in the ancient city, and captured and killed the supervisor appointed by the Qing Governor Hong Chengchou, the deputy director of the Beizhi Grain and Reservation Department, Lu Mingzhang, and then drove straight into Jizhou.

Jia, the county magistrate who escaped from Gucheng County by chance, reported to the Governor General's Headquarters: "After the Huai bandits entered the city, they ordered the people in the city to stand on one side, the officials stood on one side, and the gentry stood on one side, and the servants and slaves stood on one side. The thieves and generals, officials and gentry were killed in the fire, and they asked the people to go to Nantou, and then the servants and slaves followed the army. Those who dared not follow would be killed."

Hu Maozhen's troops only stayed in the ancient city for two days. During this period, they killed more than 500 officials, gentry, civil servants, burned down the yamen warehouse, collected all the livestock in the city, and forced more than a thousand slaves to accompany the army on their horses.

Whenever he arrived at a place, Hu ordered his servants to go out everywhere, demolished the post station, destroyed the roads, and ransacked the wealthy households. He also incited the people to oppose the Qing Dynasty, saying that the Great Huai Tian soldiers were 100,000 Northern Expeditions, and drove out the Jurchen Jin soldiers who lived in China. He wanted everyone in the northern part to be Yue Wumu, even if they could not kill the Jurchen Tartars, they would also kill the traitor who helped the evil.

It also caused people to spread threatening words everywhere, saying that if the people dared to help the Qing Dynasty, one person would kill one household and one household would kill one village.

For a moment, the place where the Huai Army passed by was besieged, and all the surrendered officials and gentry were in danger. They fled with their homes in a hurry to hide in the city.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, more than 9,000 main forces in the Sixth Town were led by Gao Jie himself and set out in the Jiama Camp of Wucheng, with the troops heading straight to Jingzhou.

Gao Jie planned to use Hu Maozhen's troops to attract the Qing army in the north and mobilize them on the western front, and the main force advanced north along Cangzhou to Tianjin to find an opportunity to break Beijing.

The Qing army in Jingzhou was all the original Ming army and local local gangs who were surrendered by the Qing court for several months. There was no real Manchu and Han army stationed. The combat effectiveness was extremely low and could not stop the Huai army at all. So they shrank in Jingzhou City and did not dare to fight.

Hong Chengchou, who was forced to move the Governor's headquarters back to Cangzhou due to the defeat of Haoge, was shocked when he heard the news of Jingzhou police and urgently ordered Zuzerun to lead thousands of green camp troops to reinforce Jingzhou.

When Zu Zerun arrived at Jingzhou City, he did not find any trace of the Huai Army. The defenders in the city said that the Huai thieves had only circled around the city. Perhaps because they found that the city was quite dense and lacked siege equipment, they abandoned Jingzhou and headed north.

Zu Zerun asked how many troops the invading Huai army were.

The defenders have different opinions. Some say that there are 100,000 infantry and cavalry, some say that there are tens of thousands of people, and some say that dust covers the sky, I don’t know how many.

But one thing is clear, that is, the Huai Army that invaded Jingzhou had a large number of war horses and livestock. Among them, the elite armored ones were even one and more horses.

Zu Zerun was secretly frightened and judged that the invading Huai Army was probably the main force of the Shandong bandits. He hurriedly reported to Cangzhou and supervised the troops to chase the Huai Army heading north.

However, there were very few soldiers and mounts of the Green Camp in the ancestral army, and most of the generals of the Green Camp had just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. They had only taken the prestige of Yu Zhen's Manchu soldiers before they surrendered. Now they saw that the Manchu soldiers asked the Huai Army to kill two princes in Shandong, and the headless bodies were sent in a carriage. The loyalty to the Qing court in his heart was naturally shaken.

So the soldiers complained and refused to pursue them.

Zu Zerun was furious and ordered the Han army to follow him to kill more than a dozen soldiers who caused trouble, which caused a stir in the Green Camp soldiers and attacked each other with the Han army.

There were few soldiers in the Han Dynasty and it was difficult to suppress them, so Zu Zerun had to lead people back to Jingzhou. Due to the riots, Songmen Town, located in the northwest of Jingzhou, the Tang newspaper also called the "Songmen Mutiny".

Most of the people involved in the mutiny were model soldiers of Governor Hong Chengchou. After the mutiny, these people neither turned against Jingzhou City nor changed their flags to surrender to the Huai Army. They robbed Fucheng, Jiaohe and other places. During this period, they once gathered people to attack Dongguang City, a major transportation area of ​​Jingzhou and Cangzhou City, and captured tens of thousands of people.

When Hong Chengchou of Cangzhou heard the news, he was shocked and angry. While reporting to the capital after the Songmen mutiny, he asked for troops and dispatched troops to suppress the riots.

But how many soldiers can be adjusted in the land of Beizhi several palaces, and there is no real Manchu and Han army in the capital. Hong Chengchou could only send people to surrender the riots and plan to kill the heads, and then suppress the chaos. However, when the Qing court's grandson of the Southern Court returned to Cangzhou from Dongguang, he was assassinated by the assassin Cao Lieyun.

Cao Lieyun was from Tianjin and was originally the general banner of the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty. After the Dashun Army captured Beijing, Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei, gave 30,000 taels of silver to the Shun Army and was spared from torture, but he was still imprisoned by the Shun Army. Later, the Qing army entered Beijing, and Luo Yangxing immediately surrendered to the Qing Dynasty as the commander of the Jinyiwei, and was appointed as the governor of Tianjin by Dorgon.

However, Luo Yang's actions of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty were not recognized by the middle and lower-level officers of the Jinyiwei. Some of these people fled south, some abandoned their officials and returned to their hometowns, and some organized the people to resist the Qing Dynasty's order to shave their heads.

Cao Lieyun was one of the officers of the Jinyiwei who organized the people to fight against the Qing Dynasty. After the incident was defeated, he hid in a friend's house. In September last year, he pretended to be someone else's identity and joined the Qing army's green camp. He originally wanted to incite the green camp rebellion, but unfortunately he had no chance. When he heard about the mutiny of the Song Party, Cao Lieyun immediately conspired with the anti-Qing people in the green camp whom he contacted to uprising in Cangzhou.

He did not want to make a mistake and was reported. Dozens of Cangzhou Green Camp soldiers were ordered to be killed by Hong Chengchou, and Cao Lieyun escaped from danger again.

Cao Lieyun, who learned from his mistakes, decided to assassinate Hong Chengchou, a big traitor, so he disguised himself as he checked Hong's itinerary and waited for an opportunity to assassinate him.

Because Hong Chengchou knew that his actions of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty were easily assassinated, he was so strict that Cao Lieyun had no chance and did not dare to follow him all the time, so he disguised himself as a helper at the station in Banbidian, southwest of Cangzhou.

God pays off on those who are determined.

After suppressing the Songmen mutiny, Hong Chengchou set off on the 14th day of the first lunar month to return to Cangzhou, and stayed at Banbidian Station for one night on the way.

After Cao Lieyun learned from the Yicheng that a big man had lived in the station, he guessed that this man was probably Hong Chengchou, and even if he was not an important figure in the Qing court, he decided to assassinate him.

But Hong Chengchou was alert. Whether eating or resting, there was always a group of guards following him. Cao Lieyun never got off his phone. Just when he was about to give up, the Yicheng said that the governor would stay in Banbi Shop for two more days.

So Cao patiently waited for the opportunity. On the evening of the 15th, the official secretary said that the Governor might have had a stomachache and the Gongbu in the room needed to be replaced. He asked him to send a new Gongbu over immediately and then wash the used ones.

Cao Lieyun held his excitement, he knew that this was his only chance.

Under Hong's escort surveillance, Cao picked Gong Tong outside Hong's house, and the escort searched behind him and signaled him to go in.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw Hong Chengchou sitting by the bed with a look of pain. When he saw Cao Lieyun of the bucket, Hong Chengchou didn't care, so he asked him to put the bucket down.

"Yes, sir."

Cao Lieyun carefully stepped forward and put down Gonggong, lifted the Gonggong that had been used by Hong and turned around. But at the moment he turned around, he rushed towards Hong Chengchou who was sitting by the bed, and then held Gonggonggong on Hong's head in Hong's shocked gaze.
Chapter completed!