Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 174 Loyalty Zhao Si
The first day of July.

In Jiangyin City, Zhao Zhongjun is no longer the bachelor Zhao Si who was a tenant in Huangtian Port. He is now a member of the Jiangyin regiment practicing righteousness and bravery. Vow to defend the hair and fight against the Tartars.

Holding a Qi knife in his hand, Zhao Zhongjun stood at the east gate, carrying out the interrogation task very seriously.

"Have you heard that Suzhou has fallen?"

Deputy Deputy Zhao Erhe held a long gun, leaned over to him and whispered.

Zhao Zhongjun was expressionless, "So what?"

Since he asked Mr. Zhao for the word "loyalty", asked his neighbor's aunt to embroider it as a banner, and left the village with Mr. Zhao, and came to Jiangyin, after this period of time, he has almost been completely reborn.Mr. Zhao accepted him as a student, and everyone came to Jiangyin City to join the army. He successfully joined the regiment training, and Mr. Zhao became a clerk in the regiment training because he was a scholar.

Countless righteous people poured into Jiangyin City. Under the leadership of Wang Zhengzhong, the deputy envoy of military preparations, young and brave men were recruited to form battalions, set up flags, practice horns, and practice day and night.

The entire city of Jiangyin was busy preparing for the war, and even the township militias outside the city were organized to destroy roads and bridges, block traffic, and patrol and guard everywhere.

With Xu Guanhai and other former court guerrilla generals in charge of training, the Jiangyin regiment is also somewhat impressive in practicing volunteerism.

"Keep an eye on them all," Zhao Zhongjun said.

During this period of time, he was training during the day, and at night he was still learning and reading with Mr. Zhao. Although Lao Zhao was a poor scholar who failed many times, it was also because he liked to read miscellaneous books and wandered around, so the military books and war strategies were still imitated. In this way, it is more than enough to teach Zhao Si.

The news of Suzhou's fall has reached Changzhou, but Mr. Zhao is a scribe after all, so the news is better than Zhao Silin's. He said that Wang Bingbei is very calm, which means that although Suzhou fell, the rebels should not have many casualties.

Moreover, Wang Zhengzhong told everyone that Zhu Wu, the admiral of the south of the Yangtze River, had already sent his elite north to Changzhou, so there was no need to worry.

Zhao Si is convinced.

At this time, he turned his head to look at the top of the city behind him, where the banner with the four characters of "Recovering ZTE" was still flying high. Looking at this flag, he felt full of strength. He patted his chest, and his clothes were storing his Facing the flag of loyalty.

"Where?"

Deputy Deputy Zhao Erhe stopped a man in Tsing Yi for routine interrogation.

"Go to Xiangshan Temple to offer incense."

"Is there a road opened in the county?"

"Have."

The man in Tsing Yi took out the road sign, which indeed had the seal of the county government on it.

Zhao Erhe nodded, ready to let him go.

Zhao Zhongjun, who had been watching from the side, came over to stop the man in Tsing Yi, "Which official wrote this road?"

"Wu official book."

"Wu Dacheng?"

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After a round of cross-examination, Zhao Zhongjun still did not let him go, but put his hand on the handle of Qi's knife, "I need a body search, please cooperate."

The man in Tsing Yi changed his face slightly, and said with a smile, "Brother, why are you so serious, I'm just from Jiangyin City, and I'm in a hurry," he said, and took out a silver bean.

Now Zhao Zhongjun drew his saber out of its sheath, "Come here, take him down."

"What are you doing?" the man in Tsing Yi asked repeatedly.

"Fourth brother, forget it, he doesn't understand the rules, and we don't know that we can't collect money according to the rules, so forget it."

"I suspect that this person is a secret agent, search carefully."

Zhao Erhe was stunned for a moment, obviously very angry, he didn't dare to say more, so he immediately called some of his subordinates to come over.The man in Tsing Yi was still complaining, but Zhao Zhongjun had already approached with a knife.

The man saw that the situation was not good, and wanted to run out of the city, Zhao Zhongjun was prepared, he rushed over and threw him down, Zhao Erhe and others rushed forward to help and subdue the man together.

Zhao Zhongjun searched by himself.

"what is this?"

He found a wax pill from the man in Tsing Yi, crushed it and found a map inside, Zhao Zhongjun and others recognized the city of Jiangyin on it at a glance.

The movement here quickly alarmed the officer in charge of this door, and they were quickly reported to each other.

Soon, Zhao Zhongjun and Zhao Erhe personally escorted the man in Tsing Yi to the county government office, and received Wang Zhengzhong, deputy envoy of military preparations, Yan Yingyuan, deputy guard, Chen Mingyu, counselor and prefect, Cheng Bi, chief soldier of Changzhen, Xu Guanhai, chief soldier of Changzhen, Deputy General Shao Kanggong, County Magistrate Xu Yong and other Jiangyin officials.

Several people have seen the map found out. This is not only a map of Jiangyin, but it also details the defenses, military strength, guards, and township groups outside the city, etc. in detail.

"I'll go to the trial."

Chen Mingyu said with a gloomy face that he would go back and forth soon. As the previous official historian, he was in charge of the prison, and he had plenty of means to interrogate prisoners.

"If it is a secret work, I have already confessed it. He is Ma Kuang, Ma San's nephew. The scholar Shen Rijing, the official secretary Wu Dacheng, Ren Cuiran and others colluded with Ma San secretly to conspire to surrender. They collected our true and false information and sent Ma Kuang to send him away. Go to Changzhou Fucheng to lead the way for the bandits of the false magistrate, and lead the way to attack, saying that Jiangyin will be bloodbathed."

The crowd was silent.

The Qing army bloodbathed Yangzhou, as well as Datong and Jinan.

So the bloodbath of Jiangyin was nothing to them.

"Damn traitor."

Wang Zhengzhong gritted his teeth and said, "Since the flag was raised, we have arrested more than 70 traitors. Unexpectedly, there are endless arrests. Do they really think that my knife for killing traitors is not fast?"

"Arrest all these traitors, ransack their homes, and chop them up in public!"

There was no objection to this disposition.

Everyone raised the flag to revolt, and now they all put their heads on their belts, but these people betrayed everyone. Is it polite not to kill them?
"Your name is Zhao Zhongjun, right? I remember you. An old man and a young man came to Jiangyin carrying the banner of loyalty. If you make great contributions today, you will be rewarded."

Wang Zhengzhong had a deep impression on Zhao Si. Many people voted for Jiang Yijuyi later, but one old and one young held the loyalty flag made of bed sheets, which was still very eye-catching, and he remembered it deeply.

After some questioning and knowing what he is now, Wang Zhengzhong promoted him to his Daobiao Battalion and promoted him to be the deputy of the team. "

"If you spot the traitor and catch him on the spot, I will reward you with a hundred taels of silver."

Zhao Zhongjun and his subordinates were directly transferred to Wang Zhengzhong's Daobiao camp. Zhao Zhongjun shared 100 taels of silver with everyone, ten taels per person, and did not accept the brothers' suggestion that he take half of it.

The first errand after entering Dao Biao was to follow and copy the houses of these traitors, Ma San and others.

Shen Rijing is a scholar, and he has recruited more than 30 scholars before. He has always disapproved of raising the flag for an uprising, thinking that the general trend is over, and restoring the Ming Dynasty is just a dream.

Unexpectedly, he dared to secretly collect the defense map of Jiangyin City, and then gave it to the Tartars to lead the way.

Zhao Zhongjun rushed into Shen's house, and slapped Shen Rijing with two big ears, which made him dizzy, "You guys are so bold, you dare to break into my house and make trouble..."

Zhao Zhongjun hated this kind of traitor the most, he went up and kicked him down a few times, punched and kicked him half to death, the beating made him no longer arrogant, he kept curling up on the ground with his head in his arms begging for mercy.

Zhao Zhongjun stopped his hands and said, "Tie him up." Zhao Erhe and others hurried forward to tie him up. The other people in the Daobiao camp saw how fierce this guy was, and couldn't help but look at him with admiration.

The arrest operation went smoothly, and after the interrogation, more than 30 people were involved in surrendering, so they were all arrested again.

For these people, all their homes were confiscated and sent to prison, and their property was confiscated for payment.

On the same day, these more than 30 traitors were dragged to the street and executed in public, which won applause from all over the city.

"Newspaper, Wuxi, Wuxi..."

"What happened to Wuxi?"

Just after the execution was over, a Yebushou rushed back from outside the city to report, out of breath.

"Wuxi, Wuxi has been recovered."

"Wang Shi went north and captured Wuxi."

Wang Shi went up the canal, broke through Wuxi, and then went down to Changzhou Fucheng. Three days later, a fleet arrived along the river to Huangtian Port outside Jiangyin City.

Wang Zhengzhong and others came to meet him.

The fleet stopped at the port, and a young man got off the ship, "I'm Zhu Chenggong, the overseas deputy commander of the Royal Navy's pro-military division, and I've seen you all!"

(End of this chapter)