Chapter 627: Chaos Before Fighting

At present, the section of the Yangtze River from the mouth of the sea to Nanjing, it is still possible to travel ships of 5,000 tons or even more tonnage, and in the Jiajing period, the largest tonnage ships in the world at that time were only about 1,500 tons, and of course there was no problem in going upstream.

The maximum tonnage of Huazhou's fleet is only about 1,200 tons, and these large ships are all guarding the main island of Huazhou and Yizhou, and there are 10 600-ton and 300-ton warships on the Yangtze River.

However, the shipyards of Nanzhili have been burned down when the sea ban was banned, and the big ships have not been seen for many years, and the sea ban that began in the fifth year of Jiajing is clear that the sea is full of private ships of maritime merchants and Japanese robbers, but the Ming Dynasty looks like there is no defense on the sea.

The naval division asked the military department to ask for the construction of coastal defense and the refurbishment of warships, but the military department made it clear that there were no ships on the sea now, and they were all forbidden, so what was the use of coastal defense and warships.

While doing so, the family members of the officials of the DPRK and China made a big deal of business on the sea, and all the officials with heads and faces had one kind of relationship with the sea and the sea, and everyone took the opportunity of the sea ban to evade taxes and make a fortune, and gradually had contradictions with the court of the sea ban, and became closer and closer to Huazhou, which controlled the sea trade routes.

Then things were much simpler, when the Huazhou fleet appeared at the mouth of the Yangtze River, it did not see the Ming Dynasty's sailors and shore defense, and the Ming troops stationed on the shore shouted loudly there, but there was nothing to do, and the Nanzhili guards on the shore were really helpless, so they could only set up artillery on the shore to prepare for bombardment. Or they used small boats to load firewood and grass, lit them, and put them into the river, hoping to hinder the Huazhou fleet.

The efforts made by the Ming army, after the Huazhou fleet opened the gun doors on both sides, everything disappeared, and all the artillery and fortifications on the shore were swept away, and those small boats that were on fire could not control the direction in the turbulent river water.

Many people in Nanjing have not seen such a big ship for a long time, and the squire of the Nanjing Military Department who went up to the city wall to observe the enemy situation looked at the big ship on the river in a daze, unable to lift a little strength up and down, and the state of those soldiers and officers on the city wall was not much better, they all stood stiffly on the city wall.

Nanjing City is the center of the Ming Dynasty's rule over the south of the Yangtze River, and all specifications are built according to the Jingshi, or to put it more accurately, the sample of the Jingshi is actually Nanjing, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, set the capital in Nanjing, and moved the capital to the Jingshi after the martyrdom of Zhu Di.

Time successively, the Beijing division was built according to the city of Nanjing, which was the economic center of the Ming Dynasty and the core of the Ming Dynasty's rule over half of the south of the Yangtze River.

About 100,000 soldiers and horses can also be mobilized inside and outside Nanjing, and they are all the strongest soldiers in the world, of course, this strong army is only relative to the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty.

Forty ships, that is, the scale of about 8,000 people, it stands to reason that there is still room for resistance in the city of Nanjing, and Nanzhili can also mobilize troops and horses from Shandong, Henan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang.

At this time, there were less than 20,000 soldiers and horses that could be mobilized in Nanjing City, even if the surrounding Qinwang soldiers and horses were mobilized, that is, about 30,000 soldiers and horses could be mobilized, but unfortunately the people who could be mobilized were all old and weak soldiers, and they were all used for farming on weekdays. Because the essence of the Jiangnan army was almost scattered in Fujian.

The ship stopped on the Yangtze River, and no soldiers and horses on both sides of the strait dared to provoke the opponent's edge, but this ship did not attack the city of Nanjing, and waited there.

The officials of the six departments in Nanjing, the garrison yamen and the town guard eunuchs were anxious there like ants on a hot pot, but they couldn't come up with any regulations, and sent batches of messengers to transfer troops to various places, but this transfer was a rush to the hospital, and most of the soldiers and horses in the north were transferred to Tianjin Wei and Jixian to deploy defenses.

In the south, the soldiers and horses in the south are all in Fujian, and the soldiers and horses in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangdong will not be able to pass for a while, and the other soldiers and horses are gone.

The news of the defeat in Fujian did not spread so quickly to Nanjing, because the distance between Taizhou and Hangzhou had been blocked, and the maritime merchants of Liuheng Island and Shuangyu, who had always been at ease to do business, suddenly made a disturbance and led the crowd to land in Ningbo Wei, and the Ming soldiers and horses of Ningbo Wei did not even resist, and even took the initiative to provide convenience.

Zhejiang and Fujian maritime merchants and clans, one after another, Jiangnan heavy business, these years of merchants in the local power is getting bigger and bigger, in the past are said that a certain gentry has a thousand acres of good land, now it is how many shops, how many people are employed, in the past, the family family that used to cultivate and read heirlooms are secretly doing business, for fear that others will say that they are not doing business,

Now it's a fair deal, and everyone thinks this is the right way.

The speed at which commerce accumulates wealth is not comparable to that of agriculture, and the power of these families has swelled rapidly, but in order to do business and commerce, it is impossible to avoid the existence of Huazhou in this era, and if you want to produce things, if you want to sell them, you must pass through the sea routes controlled by Huazhou, as well as those shipowners who are inextricably related to Huazhou.

When there was no incident in Huazhou, everyone was muffled to get rich, and when Huazhou started, these big clans all knew that they were already tied to a rope with Huazhou.

When the guys sent by Sanjiang Commercial Bank and Huazhou Qianzhuang came to the door one by one, even if there were lucky people in their hearts, they knew that they could not escape, originally these people were still afraid of the soldiers and horses of the Ming army, and the Huazhou army was naturally not afraid, but these folk clans were afraid.

It was not until the Huazhou army annihilated a large number of Ming troops in Fujian that these people became emboldened, and in the battle between Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, most of the officials in Zhejiang abandoned the yamen and fled in all directions, and the remaining troops guarding the places were also panicked.

After these local clans gathered their private soldiers to rise up, these remnants of soldiers and horses had no strength to resist and dispersed, and Zhejiang Province was soon out of the control of the Ming army.

The time of the uprising in Zhejiang and the battle in Fujian was extremely well controlled, almost one step at a time, and the Ming army that could run out of Fujian wanted to report the news of the defeat to Nanjing, but it could not rush smoothly at all, because there were big families everywhere.

At this time, Zhejiang was even more chaotic than the Ming Dynasty after the defeat, and after the uprising of the big clans and families in many places, the local situation could not be restrained.

All the people in the uniforms of the government and soldiers were attacked, perhaps intentionally, or unintentionally, and the Huazhou fleet appeared in and around Nanjing in a few days before and after the messenger who reported the news of the defeat of the Fujian army.

The Ming army in Jiangnan was defeated and scattered in Fujian, Zhejiang could not be controlled, and a large fleet appeared on the river near Nanjing, which made the city suddenly chaotic.

Although the eunuchs and the military department wanted to resist, don't say anything about the military spirit, at present, there is no army, Zhejiang and Fujian still need time to stabilize for Huazhou, but when the news reached Nanzhili, it became the fall of Zhejiang and Fujian.

The entire Nanzhili was in an uproar, and the Huazhou fleet, which had been stationed on the river for three days, finally moved, and forty ships docked one by one, and the sailors disembarked one after another, and camped on the shore.

However, the military camp of the Ming army really did not dare to move, and tried to put the boat close to hand-to-hand combat, but was bombarded by the opponent's artillery.

Now the soldiers in Huazhou are leaning on the battleship, and the dense cannon doors on the hull are the best fortifications.

There are 4,000 personal soldiers in the hands of the Nanjing town guard eunuchs, stationed in the city of Nanjing in the name of Nanjing Wei, which is the most elite army in the entire south of the Yangtze River, because every town guard eunuch regards this as the capital of his own life, and is willing to spend money to go in, and the daily training has always been known as the crown of the Southern Army, but the strong is strong, but unfortunately since it is the capital of the life, the eunuchs are all by their side, and they are easily unwilling to let go out to fight.

Soldiers don't see blood, don't fight, no matter how good the training is, it's not worth mentioning in the well-equipped, the same is true of this army, when the matter comes, the town guard eunuch wants to take these troops out of the city to fight, but there is no certainty, not to mention the number of people, the various forces in the city, except for the military department directly in the hands of more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, the rest of the noble forces have no one who agrees to fight, how can you let him rest assured.

The cronies of the eunuchs gave him a note, as long as he killed a few leaders who were unwilling to fight, controlled the army in their hands, and then looted strong men in Nanjing City, opened the arsenal and sent equipment, he could also make up 100,000 soldiers, and rely on these forces to go out of the city to fight against the 10,000 soldiers in Huazhou, and the grasp was much greater.

Many of the nobles in Nanjing City were people from the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and they did this on weekdays, which was like a conspiracy, but now they are in a hurry to do anything and don't care about anything. The eunuchs of the town guard agreed to come down and prepared to go to the various mansions at night to issue orders, and all those who were unwilling to hand over the soldiers and horses were taken in the name of fornication and anti-thieves.

This plan was formulated from the beginning of the warships of Huazhou, and it was decided and implemented within a day, because the Huazhou troops on the shore were fed by the local granges and boat dealers, and most of these industries belonged to the noble ministers in the city.

The eunuch guarding Nanjing and the secretary of the military department knew in their hearts that if they didn't make the first move, they were afraid that the other party would do it, and the Huazhou fleet drove to the river outside Nanjing, and there was no big move, but there was chaos in Nanjing first......