Siege the city for the bottom, attack the heart for the top---- "The Art of War"

As if it was a send-off, the Liaozhen army drove forward slowly, watching the literati who crossed the river one by one to participate in the literary meeting, came to watch the singing and dancing, and the poetry fighting society, the Qinhuai picking women, the salt merchants, and even the soldiers and officials stationed in Yangzhou crowded the ferry in a panic and fled back to the south of the Yangtze River.

Even the cavalry slowed down, and casually let Shi Kefa's car safely withdraw to Yangzhou City.

After waiting for the people outside the city to escape, the Liaozhen army, which had swelled to 260,000, slowly surrounded Yangzhou City from three sides, surrounded by three missing one, and left a side close to the Yangtze River for the people in Yangzhou City to escape.

Of course, this reason is not that Mao Jue suddenly became a gentleman!

This time, the Liaozhen army went down to the south of the Yangtze River, and he actually didn't pay attention to the three towns in Jiangbei at all, even if Zuo Liangyu, who the court relied on, was nothing more than Erer in the eyes of Mao Jue, and the biggest enemy was not military at all!

Until now, Mao Jue still remembers that when he went to Jiangnan in the seventh year of Chongzhen, the local clan's rampant and arrogant image and unscrupulous power, a few scholars could easily get the standard weapons in the army, and even had the confidence that after assassinating himself, the general of the DPRK and the central government, he would suppress the matter and even turn it into a party in his favor.

Such a big clan is all over the coast of Suhu and Changzhejiang Fujian, and the influence of such a family is too huge, starting from the late middle of the Ming Dynasty, it has been close to emptying the rights of the local government, and it is about to become a small independent kingdom, the court has an order, and the county officials must discuss with them first, and the taxes are also embezzled by them in large quantities, and the foundation of the country is gnawed away financially and administratively.

What's even more terrifying is that they also control the right to speak in society! The literary style in Jiangnan is too prevalent, every household is an official in order to study, even if they make money in business, they are not expanding production, but continue to invest in the education of the children of the family to become officials.

These local factional conflicts and contradictions were also brought to the imperial court, and party disputes dominated the political situation of the Ming Dynasty for nearly a century.

These big families can be said to be a national cancer, even more useless than those Western aristocratic families, at least people are united in front of national events, the cohesion is very high, and they also have their own set of rules for civilian serfs internally, and they never exceed them, but look at these scholars and doctors who are vying for the first!

To tell the truth, how to take back the national rights seized by these big clans, and make them the cornerstone of the new regime instead of parasites, Mao Jue really didn't think about it, but one thing is certain, like the Qing army, let go of his hands to kill, kill all those who disobey, and kill the population of Jiangnan from 80 million to more than 100 million to only 10 million, these are really not what he can do, even if he really does, it will be disadvantageous and useless, which is equivalent to delaying the development of China for more than 100 years.

Then first deter these southern Tu people by force, and then slowly find a way to solve the three towns of Jiangbei easily and neatly, and then Yangzhou will become the best place for Mao Jue to show off his martial arts.

On this day, they spent peace in looking at each other, and the Liao army set up a stage to show off.

Early in the morning, there was a big change outside the city of Yangzhou, yesterday the salt merchants also brought the Guanyin Mountain of singing and dancing, today it has become Mao Jue's main artillery base, one after another more than three meters long, one or two tons of red-clothed cannons, two horses and three cattle plus ten prisoners of war people pushing, back and forth, usually see one is very rare, this precious thing, actually for the first time let the Jiangnan people have the feeling of the artillery forest, but also make those Yangzhou salt merchants oil money guys tremble is that these things are staring at their heads.

More than a thousand red-coated cannons, one salvo is enough to raze half of Yangzhou City to the ground, right?

And not only the cannons, the captives also made these Yangzhou old men palpitate, in front of the defenders, the Liaozhen army brought bundles of flags, neatly inserted on the four sides of Yangzhou City, are the flags of the three towns in Jiangbei, such as Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong, the small below the general Tian Xiong, Li Shan, He Man, Wang Dayong and so on more than 20, as for the following generals and deputy generals are more, one by one empty flags are lined up into a ghost army array, with the river wind blowing the miserable wind, but also let the big businessmen and gentry in Yangzhou City have relatives, All the military formations in their north were pulled out by Mao Jue! Is there still hope for Nanming?

Compared with the fears of the rich people in Yangzhou, the camp in Liaozhen is much more stable, it is too fast, and after fighting for more than ten days, it can rest again, and Mao Jue knows, don't drag the army reward at any time, only real money can boost morale, this head Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo's army to the side, the middle army one corps after another corps assembled on the school field.

At the end of the platform, the commanders of all the armies are there, Mao Jue's Wang Qi stands in the middle, the front is a heavy big box, hundreds of staff officers take the roster one by one, and the meritorious sergeants come up one by one to receive the reward and kowtow to thank him.

Originally, in fact, Dongjiang rewarded the silver ticket, intercepted 30 million taels of silver in Beijing, Shanxi intercepted 40 million taels of silver plates, the first time, Mao Jue put up the ticket number of Shanxi businessmen who made a lot of money, pulled the big silver board and beat the gong and drum in the Beijing City to go around, let people know that the imperial court bank has silver and reputation, different from the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang issued those Ming treasure banknotes without reserves, Mao Jue, the Liaodong Bank's silver ticket social recognition is not low, and it is convenient to send it to the sergeant.

However, for the sake of effect, Mao Jue ordered the distribution of heavy silver, at least ten taels of silver for a collective battle, and the most was the infantry who resisted the first row in the two major battles, and one person fought fifty taels a battle, and many people who had just left the Beijing division and were poor became rich all of a sudden.

But more importantly, the credibility of the Liao Zhen soldiers has also been established in the hearts of these newly recruited soldiers, and if you fight in my Liao Town, you will be rewarded if you win! Even if you die in battle, there will be a national cemetery public sacrifice, and you are not afraid to be a lonely ghost, you can rest assured!

Carrying a heavy amount of silver, each soldier kowtowed heavily with excitement.

"Thank you, Regent!"

Just like watching people eat and broadcast in later generations, in fact, the soldiers are almost the same mentality, this group watched others take silver, and the Huang Degong Department and Liu Liangzuobu suddenly had a lot of good feelings and expectations for the Liaozhen Army, looking forward to joining the ranks of Liaozhen, and the hearts of the captives also stabilized.

However, these rewarded silver is actually not Mao Jue's, he broke through Xuzhou City, and copied out more than 3.6 million taels of silver in Liu Liangzuo and his cronies' homes. Take the road you built to beat you, and when I come back, I have to pay back the money I built for you!

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The Liaozhen army broke through the two Huai defense lines, and the shock to the entire Jiangnan was like a big earthquake, yesterday in the streets and alleys, the taverns hooked the columns, and the most popular topic of the scholars was to scold Mao Jue, scold the rebellious ministers and thieves in the north, and talk about the fake prince, but today, one by one, the talented Youyou scholars are like the cold cicadas in late autumn, and they instantly become silent, and they all cover their heads on the street and hurry away, and the shops that were originally lively on the streets are also closed.

As the salt merchants who fled from Yangzhou brought the news back to their respective cities, the Great Depression began throughout Jiangnan, and the flow of wealthy merchants who packed up their bags and fled to the countryside was like a carp crossing the river.

Yingtian, Xianghefang, Qianfu.

Finally turned into a big member of the Ministry of Rites, but this official has not yet done the heat, the work unit is going to be yellow, the whole morning, a drinking in the harem and playing with women Emperor Hongguang is rare in the court, but the Nanjing officials discussed for a whole morning, did not discuss any river defense strategy.

"It just doesn't make sense!"

When he returned home, Qian Qianyi was shouting angrily while taking off his official uniform.

"Master, are those people who are the remnants of the eunuch party bewitching the crowd?"

While gently helping him untie his court clothes, Liu Ru also asked thoughtfully, this question also happened to ask Qian Qianyi's slot, and he snorted dullly.

"Today, Ruan Dacheng's guy actually advocates surrender! What is the prince after the first emperor, the name is justified, and the resistance is in the name of rebellion!"

"Don't say whether the prince is true or not, just Mao Jue, a rough martial artist, a barbarian murderer like Dong Zhuo, and a disaster star of Sheji, once it falls, Daming Sheji will be picked up by this chaotic minister and thief sooner or later, and when the time comes, will we be shameless second ministers, or will we be slaughtered helplessly like the difficulty of the white horse? That's nonsense!"

"That's what the master said!"

can get Qian Qianyi's favor, respect each other like a guest, Liu Ru is also has its own uniqueness, neatly hung the official uniform on the hanging, Liu Ru is sure to focus on her sharp and lovely chin.

"The civil and military forces of the dynasty are all Chen Yizhong's Qin Hui's generation, only the master is Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu's loyal minister! In the era of the Qian family, he was a minister, deeply favored by the country, and he was brave enough to serve the country! The concubine is willing to go to the national disaster with the master!"

This is heartwarming, in his own woman's heart is so tall, Qian Qianyi can't help but the corners of his mouth are slightly hooked, but after hesitating, Liu Ruyi's face became solemn again.

"Master, the concubine has a word, I don't know if to say it?"

"Oh, you and I are one, what can't you say?"

Biting his ruddy lips slightly, Liu Ru said solemnly.

"Yesterday, Sister Kou, the sister of the concubine, came to find the concubine, Lou Dong and the two gentlemen have donated the assets of the loser, recruited the township soldiers in the countryside, and purchased weapons.

"This ......"

In an instant, the impassioned Qian Qianyi was stuck!

(End of chapter)