The reason why Ao Bai had only brought 8000 elite cavalrymen south was because Chen Jinnan of the Tiandi Society did not have many men.
There were less than 10,000 people in all the halls of the Heaven and Earth Society, and there were even fewer people in Yangzhou. Most of them were a motley crew!
Therefore, Ao Bai thought that he would be able to capture them easily!
In the end, he did not expect to suddenly encounter a top-notch sniper like Li Haoran!
He had ended his own life in advance!
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Now that he thought about it, if Li Haoran didn't leave quickly with his men, Kang Xi would send 100,000 troops over and Li Haoran would suffer a crushing defeat!
After all, he only had one sniper rifle!
When the new recruits were incorporated into the army, they would have the mountain bandits and boatmen who had participated in the battle as their squad leaders, while the Revival Army soldiers from the first batch would become platoon leaders!
This was how the old guided the new and passed down Li Haoran's will!
Li Haoran's original 800 Renaissance Army veterans had undergone more than a month of devilish training. They were not only trained in physical strength and killing techniques, but also in thinking!
The strict military discipline and ideology had been deeply engraved in their souls!
They strictly demanded their subordinates to follow the military discipline issued by Li Haoran!
Anyone who tried to take advantage of the chaos to snatch food or insult women would be quickly executed!
The current chaotic situation required strict military discipline!
They didn't even need to be beaten with a stick. As long as they violated military discipline, they would be killed!
Anyway, there were many people now, so there was no need to worry about no one joining!
Other than the food distributed to the disaster victims, all the other food was transported to the ship!
Apart from the 100 ships led by Li Haoran, there were also thousands of ships at Yangzhou's docks. All of them had been requisitioned by Li Haoran's men!
In the future, he would still want to travel to southern Jiangxi by water!
Water transportation was currently the fastest, and they could also shake off the main force of the Mie Qing!
Of course, it was just that the food was not enough. A large amount of silver was needed to build the base and forge weapons in the future!
There was no need to worry about money. This place was famous for being rich. There were many rich merchants. It would be fine if they went from house to house!
In this era, the rich in this place could almost be described with four words: rich but heartless, colluding with officials and businessmen!
Among these wealthy merchants, the salt merchants accounted for the most.
There were the most salt merchants in the Huaiyang area, and they were also the richest and most heartless!
During the Ming Dynasty, they got in touch with the officials of the imperial court to raise the price of salt and harm the people. However, their salt tax was only tens of thousands of taels a year.
In fact, every salt merchant had at least a few million taels of silver in their family. The total amount of silver that all the salt merchants in Huaiyang had added up to more than a hundred million taels of silver!
It was because they refused to pay taxes, and the Donglin Party in Jiangnan did not pay taxes either. All the taxes fell on the owner-farmers.
After encountering natural and man-made disasters, the farmers could not survive and raised their flags to rebel. All of this eventually led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty and the Miqing Dynasty moving south!
And those salt merchants had changed their minds and joined the Miqing Empire, colluding with the Miqing Empire and continuing to exploit the Han people!
Therefore, Li Haoran decided to execute all the salt merchants in Huaiyang and take away their tens of millions of taels of silver and food!
Some people said that if Li Haoran did this, wouldn't he become the second Li Zicheng?
Of course not. Li Zicheng's failure was that he did not have a base of his own. He still did not know how to mobilize the masses!
Li Haoran would eventually find that sacred base and mobilize the masses there. He would arm the masses with his thoughts, carry out land reform, and carry out a large-scale literacy campaign…
Because Li Haoran came from the 21st century, he had an unprecedented glorious example to refer to. Such a successful example could be replicated!
He could completely avoid the limitations of a peasant uprising like Li Zicheng!
Yang Liangjun asked Li Haoran,"Why don't we defend Yangzhou, this rich land, as our base?"”
Li Haoran said to Yang Liangjun and the other officers,""Pay attention to the intersection of the Yangtze River waterway and the canal waterway in Yangzhou. This is the lifeline of Miqing's finance, tax, and grain.
"If we occupy this place, even if Wu Sangui raises an army, Emperor Miqing will prioritize sending his army to encircle and suppress us. He will definitely do everything he can to take back Yangzhou!
Yangzhou was a place with dense river networks and developed water transport. This also meant that the army of Mien Qing could be transported over very quickly.
They would arrive in less than half a month, and it would be easy for them to surround the city!
At that time, even if we can unite all the disaster victims, there will only be tens of thousands of them. Only a few hundred of them have truly received training. How can they be a match for Miqing Gouda?
We can only leave this place now and go to a place where the Mie Qing's ruling power is weak!”
Li Haoran had also discussed with Zuo Zongtang before. The location chosen was still Jiangxi. It was high in mountains and forests, and it was very suitable for the development of the strategy of encircling the city from the countryside. It was also very suitable for counter-encirclement!
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