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In January of the third year of Xianfeng, not long after the Taiping Army captured Jiujiang, it took 500,000 refugees, known as a million troops, and advanced eastward along the Yangtze River to Anqing. The Governor Lu Jianying of Liangjiang gathered 100,000 troops to defend the city of Anqing, trying to block the Taiping Army's troops.

At the same time, the Xiaodao Society, a branch of the Tiandihui Association, which was active in the surrounding areas of Shanghai, launched an armed riot under the leadership of Liu Lichuan.

Xiaodao will first attack landlords, merchants and wealthy families in the surrounding areas of Shanghai for huge profits, then use the property as military expenses, build weapons, and distribute the stolen grain to the people, so as to win over the people, gain the support of the people, and obtain the source of troops from it.

Because Xiaodaohui is quite famous in the surrounding areas of Shanghai, poor people who were deeply oppressed by the Qing court responded to the call and joined the rebellion ranks.

Of course, in terms of purpose, the core members of the Xiaodao Society wanted to overthrow the Qing court and rebuild the Ming Dynasty. The peripheral members of the Xiaodao Society and the newly joined people had only one purpose, that is, they could openly rob families, rob money, land and women. This is the essence. Any peasant uprising from ancient times to the present has been such a group of people with short-sighted eyes, so their final result was all failed, and the only Red Army that did not rob the common people was finally won.

Regarding the Xiaodao Society's actions, Li Weiguo, who was in Chongming County, had received a report long ago, but Li Weiguo did not take action immediately, but was planning and planning for the future.

This is the strategy Wu Yong gave to Li Weiguo. He suggested that Li Weiguo temporarily postpone the dispatch of troops to pacify the Xiaodao Club and let the Xiaodao Club rage in Shanghai first. It is best to eliminate all potential hostile forces that Li Weiguo controls Shanghai in the future, so as to facilitate the reduction of resistance to implementing various policies after Li Weiguo takes over Shanghai, and it is easier to control Shanghai.

Wu Yong knew that Li Weiguo had encountered resistance to purchasing land in Shanghai, so he suggested that Li Weiguo use the Xiaodaohui to clear these resistances. In this regard, Li Weiguo agreed. He also knew that those bannermen and men were not easy to serve, and it would be annoying for him to take over Shanghai in the future. If he could use the Xiaodaohui to get rid of or drive them away, it would be a good thing for Li Weiguo, at least he could successfully obtain the good land occupied by the powerful.

In addition, the most important point is that Li Weiguo has not yet obtained the transfer order from the Shanghai County Magistrate. According to the Qing Dynasty laws and regulations, Li Weiguo has no right to mobilize Chongming County soldiers to enter Shanghai County, and Peng Wenyuan, the leader of the Qing army guarding Shanghai County, would not allow Li Weiguo to lead troops into the country. This is a matter of principle.

So, together, Li Weiguo took charge of Chongming County and watched Xiaodao make trouble in Shanghai.

Of course, Li Weiguo didn't know whether to watch it. In case of precautions, he sent troops to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Jiangwan Industrial Zone respectively in the name of a security team to protect these two places, because this was Li Weiguo's private property. He sent troops to enter Shanghai as a security team. Peng Wenyuan, the Thousand General of the Qing army who guarded Shanghai, knew that it was Li Weiguo's plan to replace the pillars, but he had no choice.

Li Weiguo sent two thousand Li family soldiers into Shanghai's county town and stationed around the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Peng Wenyuan, the Thousand General of the Qing army in Shanghai, chose to default. After all, he also knew that Li Weiguo would become the magistrate of Shanghai and did not want to have an unpleasant situation.

In addition, in the Jiangwan Industrial Zone, Li Weiguo deployed two thousand Li family soldiers and built fortifications around to ensure that the industrial zone is not affected by the rebellion of Xiaodao.

At this time, Li Weiguo had a total of 14,000 troops, divided into fourteen thousand-person teams. Among them, the 1,000-person team was the one who had been to Guilin to fight against the Taiping Army. It belonged to the most elite thousand-person team. Although the original second, third and fourth-person teams had not undergone actual combat, they were also well-trained elites. The remaining ten thousand-person teams were recruiting new recruits, and the training was only a little insufficient for more than a month.

However, after more than a month of training, these 10,000 people have basically taken shape. The soldiers can understand the commander's orders and use muskets to maintain public order and defend the city.

Li Weiguo has already formulated a good plan. The 1,000-man team has not been moved in Chongming County. This is the Li family's sharp knife unit, which will be used to fight against the main force of the Xiaodao Society. Second, third, and fourth, these three 10,000 teams were broken up and mixed with the remaining 10,000 new recruits, leading the new, and veterans served as officers, greatly improving combat effectiveness, and also cooperating with Li Weiguo to strengthen control of the army.

After the reorganization, the second and third 1,000-man teams entered Shanghai county town to guard the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and they were necessary to cooperate with Peng Wenyuan to guard the Shanghai county town. The fourth and fifth 1,000-man teams defended Jiangwan and supported the Shanghai county town if necessary.

Li Weiguo personally led the 1,000-man team and the remaining nine 1,000-man teams to sit in Chongming County. He will cross the river and enter Shanghai at a critical moment to fight the decisive battle with Xiaodaohui.

Half a month later, under the leadership of Liu Lichuan, Xiaodaohui gathered 20,000 people to capture Jiading, posed the flag of the Ming Dynasty, supported Zhu Jie, the 19th generation grandson of the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty, and changed the reign to Xingming.

This is also the rule of the Tiandihui Society. Since the founding of the Tiandihui Society, it has been the name of the Great Ming Dynasty to this day, and nine emperors have been established in the middle. Zhu Jie is the 19th generation grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang and the tenth emperor supported by the Tiandihui Society.

This move immediately stimulated the Qing government. After Xianfeng learned that there was another remnant of the Ming Dynasty in Jiading, he immediately ordered Prince Gong Yi to send troops to suppress it, and his fear of the Ming Dynasty in Jiading was even greater than that of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

At this time, Yi's situation was worrying. As the chief minister of military aircraft, he was responsible for extermination of the rebellion, but most of his orders were not implemented. Almost all the Qing army chiefs and generals on the front line were in the imperial party, obeying the orders of the Sushun party and resisting the war of resistance.

Zeng Guofan and Zhang Liangji lost Changsha in the former reversal, but in fact they were intentional. They were all Sushun's arrangements. As soon as the battle was defeated, Sushun would slander Yixin in front of Xianfeng and demand that Xianfeng remove Yixin.

Therefore, Xianfeng was really anxious this time and issued an imperial edict to Yixin, which must destroy the Ming Dynasty of Jiading and eradicate the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise Yixin's crime would be punished.

Yi Xin had no choice but to think of Li Weiguo, so she immediately sent an emergency of 800 miles and ordered Li Weiguo to lead the Chongming County regiment to train troops to Shanghai to wipe out the Jiading rebels.

After receiving Yi Xin's order, Li Weiguo was helpless and consulted with Wu Yong. Wu Yong also felt that he had to send troops, otherwise Yi Xin would not be able to explain. If Yi Xin fell, it would be of no benefit to Li Weiguo.

Three days later, after conquering Jiading, Xiaodaohui successively occupied Nanhui, Chuansha and Qingpu. When attacking Baoshan, he fought with the Qing army stationed in Baoshan for less than an hour and defeated the Qing army and immediately occupied Baoshan County.

Subsequently, Xiaodao joined forces to divide into three groups, with a total of more than 50,000 people, preparing to jointly attack Shanghai County.

When the news reached the Shanghai county town, people were in panic. The Shanghai county magistrate was vacant. Su Song Taidao Liu Jianzhang was not there either. Only Shanghai Dao Jinwu and Qianzhu Peng Wenyuan guarded Shanghai.

However, although Peng Wenyuan had a thousand green camp soldiers in his name, he actually had only three hundred people after many years of empty salary. He was not equipped with enough weapons and ammunition, so he could only rely on the city walls of Shanghai County to defend. Seeing that the villages and towns outside the city were occupied by Xiaodao, there was no way.

Although Xiaodao Club is known as 50,000 troops, it is actually like the Taiping Army, which is used to harbor refugees. There are only more than 2,000 Xiaodao Club members who are truly capable of combat.

In order to win over these refugees to participate in the battle together, Xiaodao will only use money and land as bait. In this way, the landlords, merchants and wealthy families will be miserable. They will either be wiped out or their homes are confiscated. The property and land will be distributed to the refugees by Xiaodao.

So, when he heard that Xiaodao would come, landlords, merchants and wealthy families from all over the country fled together, either fled to Shanghai county town, fled to foreign concessions, or crossed the river to escape to Chongming County.

Of course, it is not only rich people who run for life. Any civilian with some IQs will choose to flee. They will not be attracted by Xiaodaohui's money and land, nor will they think that Xiaodao can beat the Qing government. They know that rebellion is a death sentence and that people will die in war, so they will flee elsewhere.

After Li Weiguo learned that Baoshan County was occupied by Xiaodaohui, he scolded Baoshan Guardians. He was worried that Jiangwan Industrial Zone would not be able to defend it, so he immediately left 3,000 troops to guard Chongming County and personally led 7,000 troops across the river.

Li Weiguo has been holding his troops back before. In addition to the strategies Wu Yong gave him, Li Weiguo himself also wanted to see how powerful Xiaodaohui is. After all, he is the first opponent of the Li family army. If Xiaodaohui is too strong, the Li family army will not win the first battle and will easily defeat the morale of the Li family army and will not be conducive to the growth of the Li family army. Conversely, if Xiaodaohui is not as strong as the Li family army, then Xiaodaohui will become a stepping stone for the Li family army to become famous and build confidence for the Li family army soldiers.

After more than a month of observation, Li Weiguo finally had a comprehensive understanding of Xiaodaohui through various channels. He found that although Xiaodaohui gathered 50,000 or 60,000 people, more than 2,000 core members. Although his personal force (practice of Kung Fu) was very high, he used cold weapons, and he relied on an invincible aura to defeat the Qing army defending the city in various places.

Li Weiguo knew that as long as he did not fight with Xiaodaohui's main force, relying on fortifications and using muskets to attack from a long distance, he could fight with Xiaodaohui.

When Li Weiguo learned that Xiaodaohui's main force was heading to Shanghai County, he immediately led his troops across the river and launched an attack on Xiaodaohui from the rear, preparing to attack the Shanghai County defenders forward and backward, and annihilate the main force of Xiaodaohui's main force under the Shanghai County City.
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