Chapter 368: Infighting
There is another war in the South! The thieves from the south are coming!
As the news of the outbreak of war spread from south to north in the Ming Dynasty, the gentry and merchants panicked one by one.
In particular, the wealthy gentry and merchants whose hometown was in the area ruled by the People's Army, they had fled from there, and they knew that most of the wealthy gentry and merchants who stayed behind had their homes raided, and they were not directly executed, but were directly demoted to coolies.
Now that the war is going on again, will the Ming Dynasty be able to stop the People's Army? Once the KPA fights, what will they do?
"Let's go, go north."
The People's Army has not yet landed on the north bank of the Yangtze River, but some wealthy gentry and businessmen who are relatively close to the north bank of the Yangtze River have already made a decision, and perhaps the Yangtze River cannot stop the People's Army, and only by going north can it be safer, and the wealth that cannot be taken away should be buried in a hurry to find a place to bury it.
The low-level people in some places far away from the people's army's ruling areas do not know much about the people's army, and they are also panicked in the face of war, and they can still drag their families and flee into the mountains, but many men in the family have been conscripted into the army, they can't run, and they don't know if there is any hope of coming back alive when they go to the battlefield.
Due to the surrender of many forces to the People's Army, the Ming Court in the capital did not learn the news of the outbreak of the war at the first time, but when the news of the People's Army's attack on the Ming Dynasty's ruling area reached the capital, the important ministers of the Ming Dynasty turned pale one by one, they tried every means to block the war, after all, it was not successful, can the current strength of the Ming Dynasty stop the People's Army?
Hearing the news, Zhu Yijun's face did not change much, but his hands were clenched into fists, and Zhu Yijun no longer knew what to do in the face of the powerful People's Army.
Zhejiang fell, Guizhou fell, and most of the area south of the Yangtze River fell, and war reports were sent to the capital, which made many people's hearts cold.
Zhu Yijun's eyes were full of anger, one by one, the Ming army forces and the landlord armed forces surrendered directly in the face of the people's army, why did they surrender so easily, everyone worked together to block the people's army, and if they joined the people's army, I don't know when the people's army's knife will be on their necks.
Why is this happening, they are all the people of the Ming Dynasty and should be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, why did they fall to the People's Army, is the Ming Dynasty not good to them?
When the news of the People's Army landing on the north bank of the Yangtze River reached the capital, Zhu Yijun understood that the People's Army was too strong, and fighting with the People's Army would be death, and it was better to surrender to the People's Army and still have a good chance of survival.
Understand, but their act of surrendering to the People's Army is unforgivable, how can they surrender to the enemy as the people of the Ming Dynasty, they should fight, fight to the last man for the Ming Dynasty.
Drove away the eunuchs and palace maids, Zhu Yijun roared loudly in the palace alone, angry, remorseful, frightened, all kinds of emotions mixed appeared, the Ming Dynasty was established for a hundred years, and he was about to die in the hands of him Zhu Yijun, he was unwilling.
But what is the use of being unwilling, in the face of the people's army that is constantly advancing northward, the Ming Dynasty is simply powerless to resist, every time the people's army arrives, the local landlord armed forces or the Ming army forces directly surrender, and there are too few people who dare to fight with the people's army.
In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the People's Navy fleet led by Zhou Yi sailed upstream along the Yangtze River after escorting a part of the People's Army to land on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Most of the Ming Dynasty's sailors have entered the Yangtze River, some of them have surrendered to the People's Army, some may be hesitating, and some are loyal to the Ming Court, and the task of the People's Navy is to destroy all the sailors who are loyal to the Ming Court.
In the section of the Yangtze River in Dantu County, between Jiangyin and Jinling, the first battle between the People's Navy and the Daming Naval Division broke out, and the number of ships of the Daming Naval Division participating in the battle was only half of the number of ships of the People's Navy, but they bravely rushed to the People's Navy.
When the distance between the two sides is less than 1,000 meters, the people's navy howitzer takes the lead, and at a distance of 1,000 meters, the probability of hitting the howitzer is relatively low, but every grenade that hits the Ming warship brings a large number of casualties to the Ming army, and as the distance between the two ships closes, more grenades hit the Ming warship.
This is the first time that the Ming Navy Division has encountered such a terrifying firearm, because this grenade that can explode directly caused chaos among the Ming troops on many ships.
The morale of the Daming Naval Division, which was originally low because of the fall of the South, was greatly reduced under the attack of the People's Navy's howitzers, but this Daming Naval Division did not have a portrait or fled, but continued to approach the People's Navy, and then shelled each other with the People's Navy, and one solid shell after another smashed into the ships of the People's Navy.
The war always has to kill people, but fortunately, there are no howitzers in the Daming Water Division, and the solid shells that are smashed over bring very few casualties to the People's Navy, and they do not cause much chaos.
When the distance was less than 600 meters, the musketeers also entered the battle, and rows of lead bullets were fired at the Ming ships, so that the Ming soldiers on the ships could not raise their heads, so they could only find a place to hide, and even the frequency of shelling was greatly reduced.
According to the intelligence collected by the Military Intelligence Department, the commander of the Ming Army Naval Division in front of him should be Guo Wei, a person who is loyal to the Ming Court.
Zhou Yi knew that not all of the people in this Great Ming Naval Division were loyal to the Ming Court, but there were more people loyal to Guo Wei than to the Ming Court.
If Guo Wei dies, I am afraid that many people, especially the guards, will die, which is a very common thing in history.
In this era, it was difficult for the artillery to sink the ships directly, and in the end, I am afraid that the battle would be decided by the battle, but when the distance between the ships of the two sides was less than 200 meters, this Daming naval division finally seemed to be unable to hold on, and many ships chose to turn south or north.
When the number of dead and wounded overwhelms the courage to fight, no matter how loyal the officer commander is to the Ming court and wants to fight to the death, the inferior soldiers will not be willing to continue fighting, and there will even be cases where the soldiers wave their swords at the officers.
The increasing number of casualties made some Ming soldiers reluctant to continue fighting, and in an explosion on the "flagship", Guo Wei and several guards fell in a pool of blood.
Guo Wei is dead, a small number of people on the flagship want to continue fighting to avenge Guo Wei, more people feel that this battle will be lost, and they don't want to continue fighting, if they continue to fight, they will die, and if they surrender, they may be able to continue to live.
So there was an infighting, and in the end it was the more numerous capitulators who emerged victorious.