Chapter 630: The edifice will fall

Nanjing's imperial city and imperial palace are a little thicker on the outside, and the buildings inside were destroyed a lot in the Jingyan Battle more than a hundred years ago. As a result, there is a wide area in the imperial city of Nanjing.

The most suitable for cavalry shock combat is this kind of wide area, and after the private soldiers of the noble clan stuffed all the more than 300 horses in their hands, the victory or defeat was almost decided.

With these hastily assembled caravans as the pinnacles, followed by the whole group of private foot soldiers, they crushed almost every organized resistance in the hands of the town guards, and the sky echoed not the sporadic cannon fire of the afternoon as if it were a joke, but a deafening roar.

Nanjing City is one of the largest cities built in human history, his city walls and various fortifications can be described as miracles, fifty cannons can open openings in the city wall, but to open a gap in the city wall, it is almost a fantasy, but the Huazhou army is still regardless of the shooting.

The roar of fifty cannons shook the heavens and the earth, and the soldiers on the tower had already run to the city, and no one cared what they were going to do when they fell to the ground outside the city.

Every loud sound, the people in the city felt that the ground was trembling, the civilians were praying at home for the blessings of the gods, but the rich merchants who built the fortifications could not sit still, they still wanted to see the wind, but the sound of cannons outside seemed to be constantly urging.

The resistance of the Nanjing Imperial Palace completely collapsed after the families of the wealthy families joined in, and the 4,000 eunuchs guarding the town had a slight numerical advantage over the noble private soldiers gathered by the Xu family of the Duke of Wei, but they were caught off guard by the other party and were completely inferior.

The wealthy families joined in, and the defenders of the palace even lost their numerical advantage, and finally the Nanjing town guard eunuch led his own soldiers to retreat into the Wuying Palace, which was the only well-preserved palace in the Nanjing Palace, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were unwilling to surrender and the guards set themselves on fire.

Seeing the fire burning in the imperial city, the resistance of the troops controlling the city gate also collapsed, the city gates were opened everywhere, and the people who had been prepared for a long time organized the people to start cleaning the blocked city gates.

Fifty guns fired more than 20 cannons intermittently, and many of the guns were already unbearable, and they had to be watered and stopped for a while before they could be fired.

However, the garrison in the city could no longer bear the pressure of shaking the mountains like hell, and when they saw the fire in the palace in the city, they knew that the general trend was gone, and they no longer wanted to resist......

The war in the city took place in the palace, and the city gate was everywhere, the soldiers and horses, Ying Tianfu, and the six yamen of Nanjing were ignored, Huazhou really had a plan, and the Nanjing military department returned to the yamen, ready to gather the ministers to guard, but found that the military department had several of their own cronies Lang officials on duty there, and the rest of the yamen were empty and very deserted. The returns of the family members sent out to convene were surprisingly unanimous, and the ministers of each family closed their doors and never saw guests.

The fire in the palace, and the news that the city gates were opened in various places kept coming, and the military department Shangshu knew that with hundreds of soldiers and horses in his hands, he could not affect the overall situation at all, and now he could not fall, and he could not run, and the scholar had no idea, so he had to sigh in the end.

dismissed the soldiers and horses in his hands and the family members around him, tied a rope to the beam of the house, and hung the beam to martyrdom.

The garrison camp near the Huazhou fleet suddenly became brightly lit, and the Huazhou light infantry in full gear began to advance towards the city of Nanjing under the leadership of the guide, and the guide led the way, and there were people with torches along the way to guide the way, and there was no one to resist, all the way unimpeded, straight into Nanjing.

The people ignored the fire in the Wuying Palace, and left him to burn there, and the officers of the private army instructed their men to demolish the buildings and houses around the Wuying Hall to prevent the fire from spreading. Regardless of the private soldiers of the noble clans, or the guards and private soldiers of the army, there were people running out of the crowd in twos and threes, and some merchants and private soldiers broke away from the palace in whole groups and began to maintain law and order in the streets and alleys of Nanjing.

The huge cannon outside the city roared, and the dead silence in the city began to be chaotic again, and the scoundrel bandits who had escaped with their lives just now were a little ready to move, ready to take this chaotic opportunity to the streets to catch a hand.

It's just that as soon as they showed up, the soldiers who seemed to be killing gods just now turned back again, this time they were concentrating on chasing these bandits, the difference in combat effectiveness was really heaven and earth, and the process of fighting was just killing and fleeing.

While the private soldiers were dispersing the bandits, they shouted loudly, demanding that unrelated people and others must stay at home, have a curfew tonight, and only go out to the streets tomorrow morning when the light appears, otherwise they will be killed.

The whole city of Nanjing began to be quiet again, but there are many people who don't want to sleep tonight, 10,000 light infantry from Huazhou entered the city of Nanjing, with the cooperation of those private soldiers, under the guidance of the guide, quickly controlled all the key points of Nanjing City, and drove the troops to the imperial city, which was handed over to the private soldiers of the noble clan to guard, but the light infantry began to close the city gate, ready to guard.

In four days, if the surrounding provinces send reinforcements, it should have arrived by now, and although 10,000 light infantry, with the support of the fleet, may not win, there is no problem in holding a fortified city like Nanjing.

The situation in Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Fujian is almost the same, the destruction of the war itself, the destruction brought by the war itself is on the one hand, there is also the chaos and epidemic after the war, and sometimes, the next ones are the real disasters, especially in this era.

Thieves swarmed, law and order collapsed, almost a common phenomenon, but this time Zhejiang and Nanzhili are different, after the officials fled, the local wealthy families quickly took over the power, the thirteen chambers of commerce in Jiangnan issued orders one after another, bandits are killed, each must not take the civilians captive.

Because Huazhou explained its own requirements, only by maintaining normal order in various places can it be regarded as surrendering, if it is said that when the Huazhou army arrived, it encountered a chaotic place, and the local wealthy families regarded it as an accomplice and wiped it out.

In recent years, the local clans and chambers of commerce have become more and more powerful, raising thugs and families, without the government and those dozens of officials, they can also maintain order by relying on thugs and families, and there are very few local scoundrels and bandits who dare to take advantage of the fire to rob.

There is no other reason, all those who have made a little mistake in these years, as long as they are not wealthy businessmen, have been severely sentenced by the government and sold to Nanyang as slaves, people are honest, and there are very few people who dare to take advantage of the fire to rob.

And whether it is a shop or a factory, it is a great power to gather one's men and workers, which is much more powerful than those who are not organized.

This is the case in the towns, and when you go to the countryside, don't think about it, many of the big landlords and big families in the south of the Yangtze River have existed since the Song Dynasty, and they have always been deep-rooted. Isn't that thinking you've lived a long life?

According to the pre-planned plan, Yizhou began to levy military service, and all men over the age of 16 and under 45 who had experience in regimental training were conscripted into the army, issued weapons and landed in Fujian and Zhejiang by ship, and began to take over power from prefecture to county to maintain law and order.

After Fujian's defense was taken over by the new army in Huazhou, Yang Shishi led the regular army to take a boat all the way north, in late November, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian were all in the hands of the Huazhou army, and the land in the south of the Yangtze River was in the hands of Huazhou, and the Huazhou fleet was stationed in Zhenjiang.

In addition to Yangzhou, the area around Suzhou was occupied by the Huazhou army, and the Cao Yun of the Ming Dynasty was already controlled.

The Huazhou army has such a situation, the entire Jiangnan has a situation of collapse in an instant, Jiangxi has no danger and no soldiers, and it is impossible to defend it at all, and the officials of the prefecture and county either flee or surrender one after another, Huguang and Sichuan, and Yungui are panicked, for fear that the other party will attack.

As for Guangdong, Guangdong's wealthy merchants and officials have long been secretly communicating with Huazhou, and Huazhou's fleet can go straight to Guangzhou along the Pearl River, so there is no need to defend.

The news south of the Yangtze River was already cut off for the capital at this time, and the last thing Emperor Jiajing knew was that the whole of Fujian had fallen to the enemy.

It's just that the situation in front of him is even more critical, after the Huazhou army broke through the Luanzhou army, it was still in that kind of slow and leisurely situation, first firmly occupying Luanzhou, and then dividing the troops in all directions, clearing out the remnants of the troops and small units everywhere, and determining their firm control over this area.

Doesn't an army of this size need provisions? The people who know a little about military affairs in the various yamen of the Beijing division are all puzzled, but in the face of such a situation, some people understand that the Huazhou army wants the Ming Dynasty to transfer all the soldiers and horses from all over the Beijing division to guard the king of Qin, and then annihilate them all in one go.

On the one hand, people who think clearly about this section are amazed that the Huazhou army is so confident in itself that it is not afraid of being defeated by the soldiers, but on the other hand, they secretly lament, knowing that it is a trap, but they can only keep gathering soldiers and horses to jump off this trap......