Xu Yixian's worries were superfluous, Zhang Yize really didn't break his word, Li Dingguo and Sun Dahai's men and horses had not yet driven to Hanyang City, Zhang Yize took Hanyang, Li Dingguo and Sun Dahai entered the city and took over Hanyang.

Gao Junshan was very relieved to hear the news, and he ordered Sun Dahai to return to the military camp first, leaving only Li Dingguo in Hanyang, because Zhang Yize did not use all his strength, but only dispatched five or six thousand water thieves in the area of Xingchen Lake, and attacked Hanyang under the condition that the inside and the outside should be combined. And Zhang Yize still has tens of thousands of horses scattered around Wuchang City, waiting to attack Wuchang.

He also transferred Zhang Yize back to the barracks, the purpose was very clear, it was to let him continue to shine for the attack on Wuchang. Because Li Shirong also had military exploits and was a scholar, Gao Junshan left him in Hanyang to serve as the magistrate of Hanyang.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Gao Junshan summoned Zhang Yize again, and this time Gao Junshan's attitude towards Zhang Yize was much more polite.

"General Zhang, please take a seat! Hanyang succeeds, our army will move to Wuchang next, I don't know if General Zhang has a good strategy? ”

Zhang Yize said: "King Qin, there will be a plan in the end, I don't know if to talk about it?" ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"Make a big splash. At that time, Cao Cao went south to Jingzhou, and there were more than 100,000 people, but he claimed to be 830,000. We don't need 830,000, we just say 500,000 or 600,000, and Zhang Qi, the general soldier of Wuchang, will be scared. ”

Gao Junshan asked curiously: "Do you still know a lot about this Zhang Qi?" ”

Zhang Yize said: "The last general is a fellow villager with him, and he has been dealing with him for decades, and he knows his temperament very well. ”

"I see." Gao Junshan asked again, "How do you make a big noise?" ”

Zhang Yize said in a big way: "This matter will be handed over to the last general, there are tens of thousands of people near Wuchang, and it is easy to enter the city to spread rumors." ”

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you, and there will be a big reward after the thing is done."

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On September 25, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642 AD), the rebel army of Gao Junshan began to attack the city.

Gao Junshan ordered "Xiangyang No. 1" to participate in the task of shelling Wuchang, and Zhou Wenjiang commanded this big ship to assist the troops attacking the city on the riverside, and bombarded Wuchang for a morning.

Zhang Qi, the guard general of the Ming court, knew that Wuchang City was difficult to hold, and in order to save his life, he opened the two gates of Baoan and Wenchang and surrendered to the righteous army. After only one day of fierce siege battles, the rebels captured the entire city.

The next day, Gao Junshan led the Chinese army into the city and stationed in the palace of the king of Chu.

The palace of the king of Chu is located at the southern foot of Gaoguan Mountain, sits in the north and faces south, the back is attached to Gaoguan Mountain, it is two miles wide from east to west, four miles long from north to south, and occupies half of Wuchang City. In the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1370), Zhu Yuanzhang named his sixth son Zhu Zhen as the king of Chu. In the following year, the palace was built on the south side of Gaoguan Mountain in Wuchang, which took nine years to complete. The palace of the king of Chu is full of palaces, pavilions and water pavilion courtyards, and there are more than 800 palaces, palace rooms, halls, and temples. The surrounding stone is the city, two zhang and nine feet high, known as "the royal city"; Open four gates, the main gate is called the town Chu Gate, commonly known as the public yamen.

The base of the main hall is six feet nine inches high, the main entrance, the front and rear halls, and the four gates of the city wall are decorated with green, and the corridor is decorated with blue. The main gate of the four cities, with Dan lacquer, gold coated with copper nails, luxurious and magnificent, like a palace.

Gao Junshan confiscated one million taels of gold and silver in the palace of the king of Chu, and carried hundreds of carts of treasures. The palace of the king of Chu is rich and rivals the country, but the inventory of the government in Wuchang City is empty. This phenomenon of the empty treasury and the wealth of the vassal king was a characteristic of the Chongzhen period.

For the royal family, Gao Junshan did not show mercy this time, in addition to confiscating all property, he resolutely killed the family of the king of Chu.

After killing the king of Chu, the next thing is to fumin. Gao Junshan has already established a complete system for how to soothe the people, so he doesn't have to worry too much, everything is left to the Chongwen disciples.

After pacifying Wuchang, Li Shirong recommended Xie Fengzhou, Xiao Yan, Chen Yuliu, Zhou Zongwen, Shen Huilin, Huang Yuankai and many other officials of the Ming court for Gao Junshan, and Gao Junshan was hired one by one after screening the character and intelligence of these people.

Because the pacification policy adopted in Wuchang won the hearts of the people, until the end of October, Qizhou, Huangzhou, and other more than 20 prefectures and counties all expressed their attachment to Gao Junshan, originally Gao Junshan wanted to transfer troops and horses from Xiangyang to conquer Qizhou and Huangzhou, but now they surrendered without a fight, so that they were connected with Runing in Henan and became an unbreakable whole, which made Gao Junshan really excited for a while.

Since they took the initiative to surrender, Gao Junshan would not indulge, he transferred Cao Wenzhao, who had already occupied the entire territory of Weiyang, to station in Qizhou and Huangzhou, and at the same time, of course, his Chongwen disciples were indispensable.

After Cao Wenzhao and Gao Junshan divided their troops, they went to Chuyang very smoothly, because there was a team of more than 10,000 water thieves who were absorbed by Cao Wenzhao, and with their cooperation, they also took Weiyang very smoothly, and Cao Wenzhao formed an escort team of these people to be responsible for the safety of the Hanjiang waterway.

As a result, the entire northern part of Huguang is controlled by the high mountains.

Before the army went south, Gao Junshan needed to stabilize the overall situation of Wuchang, so he lived in the Chu Wangfu for three months.

It would be a fool to get such a large piece of territory all of a sudden, and it would be a fool not to quickly recruit troops and expand the army, and Gao Junshan would certainly not miss the opportunity. He opened three recruitment agencies in Wuchang.

The first is the conscription office, the purpose of this institution is to recruit soldiers, and as soon as the brand is measured, 100,000 new troops will be recruited;

The second is to recruit new students for the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Engineering, and in order to enter these two colleges, you must have a certain cultural foundation, and the first condition to be recruited must be a scholar;

This third institution is for children between the ages of 12 and 15, it is not important whether they are literate or not, but it is important that they have good physical fitness, and this institution is recruiting students for military academies.

Although it is in Wuchang to recruit Chongwen students, its influence is quite powerful, even many towns in the south of the Yangtze River know that Wuchang is recruiting Chongwen students, and the Jiangnan children who come together all the way are endless! There are those who come to apply to the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Engineering, and those who come to the Military Academy, and there is also an attractive point: Chongwen College is all-inclusive, and the students don't have to pay a single tael of silver, and they don't have to worry about food and housing.

There was also good news from Xiangyang, Gao Junshan's wife Han Yuyan and Ji Ya gave birth to a son and a daughter, both of which were born in September, Ji Ya gave birth to a boy and was born on September 8, and Han Yuyan gave birth to a girl and was born on September 10.

Gao Junshan finally had a daughter, and he couldn't close his mouth happily, and mentioned his daughter when he saw people.

The youngest son's nickname is Qibao, Gao Junshan named him Gao Zixuan, his daughter is the youngest, Gao Junshan named him Eighth Sister, which is both a nickname and an official name.

Then there was good news coming, Tian Fang went to Huangzhou, and brought two people there, one named Ke Tianzhu, the other called Chen Jinmu, these two people with a team of 20,000 people, have been insisting on confronting the Ming court, this team is the old department of Chen Youliang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, three hundred years, generation after generation insisted on confronting the Ming court, and now knows that Gao Junshan occupies Wuchang, and takes the initiative to take refuge.

When Gao Junshan heard that they had persisted in confronting the Ming court for three hundred years, he was very impressed and decided to summon these two generals and give them reuse.