Fengyang was originally an ordinary state and county, called Haozhou during the Yuan Dynasty, although it was not barren, but it was not related to prosperity.

Because there was a founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty here, earth-shaking changes have taken place. In the seventh year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang changed Haozhou to Fengyang Mansion and set it as the central capital of the Ming Dynasty, standing side by side with Beijing and Nanjing.

However, the north/Beijing during the Zhu Yuanzhang period was not the current Beijing, but the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, Bianliang, and the current Kaifeng Mansion. It was only later that Zhu Di launched the "Battle of Jingyan" to rob his nephew of the throne, so he canceled the status of Bianliang and changed Beiping to Beijing.

When Fengyang first set up the government, the population was only two or three hundred thousand, which was far from worthy of the status of the central capital of the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the migration of 150,000 households from the Jianghuai region to settle in the central capital, so that the population of Fengyang City soon exceeded one million and gradually became rich.

Although these people who were forcibly relocated and uprooted from their hometowns were homesick and secretly ran back to their hometowns like mushrooms after a rain, there were also many people who stayed and settled.

After 270 years of development, the people of the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Fengyang Prefecture exceeded 4 million, and the population of Fengyang City exceeded 1 million, making it one of the most prosperous cities in the Ming Dynasty, and its political status was only below Beijing and Nanjing.

Hearing that there was an urgent military situation in Fengyang, it was not only Ma Shiying, who had a stake, who showed a worried look, but also the civil and military officers in the hall frowned.

A moment later, a burly military attache covered in dust and with soot on his face limped to the Fengtian Temple, and as soon as he entered the door, he fell to his knees and cried: "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, it's not a good thing......"

Zhu Youxiang forced himself to calm down, raised his hand and said, "What's the matter, get up and speak?" ”

But the military attache knelt on the ground as if he hadn't heard it, and whimpered: "The Manchu Yu Prince Duoduo conquered Sizhou the evening before yesterday and ...... And ordered...... Slaughtering the city, 200,000 people in Sizhou were slaughtered, blood flowed like a river, and corpses piled up like a mountain...... Woo, it's so miserable, there is no one alive in the whole city! ”

Zhu Youxiang was almost shocked and dropped his jaw: "Ah...... Jiannu is so cruel? Where are the people, and where is the reason? ”

The whole hall was full of exclamations, some people wept bitterly, some people scolded, and some people were filled with righteous indignation.

Lin Yu's heart was at a loss, and soon a sadness filled his heart, and a deep sense of powerlessness spread throughout his body.

Even if you are a crosser with a plug-in, even if you have a tank to help, you still can't change the overall situation.

Although he saved the lives of 800,000 Yangzhou people, but the 200,000 people in Sizhou were slaughtered, in this respect, can he be considered successful?

The Manchu iron cavalry was like a wolf and a tiger, Duoduo was ruthless, millions of Qing troops swept in, traitors took the lead in slaughtering compatriots, and the land of China was a catastrophe.

The court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was intrigued, even though he had an external body, but he was also caught and restrained by the ministers, and he was trapped in the tiger's den in Longtan, and the hero was useless.

"This Ming Dynasty is hopeless, but pity the innocent souls who died under the sword of Jiannu!" Lin Yu looked up to the sky and sighed, tears streaming down his face.

The military attache continued to cry and play: "After Duoduo slaughtered Sizhou, he waved his army to kill Ben Fengyang, and the Manchu Ying Prince Azig also sent his general Abatai and the traitor Wu Sangui to raise 150,000 troops from Henan to kill Ben Fengyang, attack from two sides, and threaten to ......."

"Threaten what?" Zhu Youxiang subconsciously asked.

"Jiannu threatened to break the central capital, slaughter Fengyang, and dig Zhu's grave...... Avenged Nikambel and the Manchurians who died in Yangzhou. The military attache choked up.

The muscles on Ma Shiying's face kept twitching, because she was so angry that her voice became a little weird, "What about Liu Liangzuo?" What about Liu Liangzuo's army? ”

The military attache raised his dirty sleeves and wiped the tears on his face: "This son of a bitch saw that the Qing army was killed and retreated without a fight, and retreated to Shouzhou, and now there are only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses left behind in Fengyang Mansion in our capital." ”

Ma Shiying's body trembled slightly, a sense of powerlessness struck, and he looked up to the sky and sighed: "Gao Jie died, Liu Zeqing surrendered, Liu Liangzuo fled, the 200,000 army was useless, I, Ma Shiying, am incompetent!" ”

Ma Shiying united the four towns to build the Jiangbei defense line of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and Liu Zeqing, the eastern Pingbo, led 50,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Huai'an and Xuzhou; Xingping Bo Gaojie led 70,000 soldiers and horses to defend Yangzhou and Sizhou; Guangchangbo Liu Liangzuo led 80,000 people to guard Fengyang and Shouzhou; 100,000 horses from the power headquarters of Hou Huangde in Jingnan were stationed in Luzhou and Hefei.

However, the four towns supported their own troops and were not convinced by each other, and often fought and killed each other because of the struggle for territory.

Shi Kefa, who served as the governor of Yangzhou, has been worried a lot in the past year, and he has been busy mediating the conflict between the four towns all day long, and he is exhausted for this.

Today, either Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing are grabbing territory, or tomorrow Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo are grabbing grain, and disputes are continuous. Shi Kefa tried his best to finally pacify the four towns a little.

It's just that before Shi Kefa could take a breath, Gao Jie, who was brave and good at fighting, was killed by the traitor Xu Dingguo in Suizhou, and took the head to defect to the big traitor Wu Sangui.

After Gao Jie's death, Gao Jiajun was leaderless, and Gao Jie's widow Mrs. Xing ordered her son Gao Yuanjue to worship Shi Kefa as his father-in-law, but was rejected by the short-sighted Shi Kefa, and even proposed to let Gao Yuanjue worship the great eunuch Gao Qiqian who was in Jiangbei as his father-in-law.

Whenever he thought of this, Lin Yu was so angry that he couldn't wait to slap his wife-in-law, saying that you were stupid was polite, and you deserved to be stupid!

In terms of loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, no one can find fault with your Shi Kefa, but in terms of emotional intelligence, you Shi Ge Lao is simply a primary school student.

This is 70,000 elite troops, who followed Gao Jie from the days of licking blood from the knife, fought the Tartars, fought the peasant army, and the combat power was not under Huang Degong, so he was rejected by you like this, otherwise Yangzhou City would not even be able to take out 10,000 defenders.

In Shi Kefa's heart, he has always been obsessed with Gao Jie's identity as a traitor, thinking that he accepted Gao Yuanjue as his righteous son, and he would have a relationship with the traitor, so he avoided Gao Yuanjue.

Mrs. Xing's mother and son saw that the Gao family army was so unpopular, and when the Qing army came, they simply led their troops to surrender Duoduo. Didn't you Ming Dynasty dislike our Gao family army and rebel background, then we surrendered to the Manchurians!

Liu Zeqing, who was in the north of Yangzhou, saw that more than 100,000 Qing troops were swept in, and he was so frightened that he surrendered without a fight.

In just half a month, the four towns of Jiangbei went to two towns, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses turned into enemies of the Ming Dynasty.

Among the remaining two towns, Huang Degong was ordered to march into Wuhu to resist the attack of the traitor Zuo Liangyu; Liu Liangzuo guarded Fengyang and defended Zhongdu, but fled without a fight when he was most needed.

"Now is not the time to blame yourself and complain, you must immediately send troops to rescue Fengyang!"

A loud voice sounded in the Fengtian Palace, and the person who spoke was none other than Lin Yu, who had just caused an uproar.

Zhu Youxiang can not save Yangzhou, but he can't help but save Fengyang, because where is his ancestral grave; Even if it is for example, Zhu Youxiang has to send troops to rescue Fengyang.

Ma Shiying can not save Yangzhou, but he can't help but save Fengyang, because where does Fengyang have half of his life's hard work, a large piece of land that belongs to him, and a half-city shop that belongs to him.

"Fengyang must be saved!"

Ma Shiying raised his head, his eyes were red, and he stared at Lin Yudao, "Only you can save Fengyang!" ”

Lin Yu nodded: "Give me the title of second-grade military attaché, return the ironclad car to me, and allocate me another army and horse, and I will go to rescue Fengyang now." ”

Lin Yu knew that he was not for Ma Shiying, nor for Zhu Youxiang, nor for the Ming court, but to protect his compatriots and prevent them from dying under the butcher's knife of the Manchu Dynasty.

Duoduo suffered a big loss in Yangzhou, this murderous demon must be full of hatred seeds in his heart, if he broke through Fengyang, wouldn't this prosperous capital city become a purgatory on earth?

Ma Shiying nodded: "Duoduo is menacing, only the ironclad car can relieve the siege of Fengyang, the old man can promise His Majesty to canonize you, or he can hand over the military power to you...... But after relieving the siege of Yangzhou, you must send the ironclad car back to Nanjing, after all, this is an artifact given by Taizu, and you must sit in the national capital. ”

"This is naturally subject to His Majesty's dictation." Lin Yu didn't refuse, who can say exactly what will happen in the future?

Everything is constantly changing, just like Lin Yu never dreamed before he came to Yangzhou that after he drove the tank around Nanjing, the ironclad car was still firmly in his hands.

Because Ma Shiying understands that only Lin Yu can control this iron-armored beast in the whole world!