After plugging Yinxi's resignation, he didn't dare to delay, worked overtime to pack up and prepare, and after ordering the troops and vests, he didn't stop, hurried out, crossed the Yangtze River, and entered Pukou. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Three battalions of more than 10,000 pro-army soldiers rode up the river by boat, following closely behind. Among them, there are nearly 4,000 veterans of the A Battalion led by Ma Xiong of Zhongwu Town, who have participated in the counterinsurgency, and more than 6,000 new soldiers who just formed an army a month ago, and these more than 6,000 new soldiers were drawn from the 20,000 new troops of the imperial battalion that originally guarded Nanjing.

As for the 6,000 men and horses of the two superintendent battalions of Plugging Yinxi, they are still in Jiujiang for the time being, because they have joined more than 5,000 soldiers from the left, and the army's heart is undecided, so it is inconvenient to use it for the time being.

After entering Jiangbei, on the way to Yangzhou, Du Yinxi sent a letter to the magistrates of Jiangbei prefectures and counties, telling the imperial court the virtue of saving the people, and encouraging everyone to serve loyally. At the same time, he also sent 100,000 urgent documents to the general army generals stationed in various places, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Xu Dingguo, and others, all rushed to Yangzhou before 20 December to hold a military meeting and listen to his face-to-face lectures.

These urgent documents were handed over to the local Tang Horse, and the Pegasus was transmitted day and night by relay method. It is better to run a dead horse than to be stranded on the road. Although these summoned generals were a little reluctant after receiving the notice, they did not dare to disobey the order after all, so they packed up and rushed to Yangzhou with a cadre of pro-soldiers.

After communicating with the emperor, Du Yinxi already had a bottom in his heart before leaving, and initially targeted Xu Dingguo, Liu Liangzuo, and Liu Zeqing.

In the original history, in the first year of Ming Hongguang, the Qing soldiers went to Henan Mansion, and Gao Jie asked Xu Dingguo, the general soldier of Henan, to contact each other. However, Xu Dingguo had secretly surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and sent his son to cross the Yellow River as a hostage of Houjin, and lured Gao Jie to the Suizhou camp, cut off his head, and asked the Qing army for merit with his head.

It's a heavyweight ticking time bomb! As a traverser, Zhu Youhua, who foresaw the future of his past life, would definitely clean it up before the Qing army marched south, so as to get rid of future troubles.

Du Yinxi deeply understands that to kill the three feudal towns at once, and to prevent other feudal towns from taking the opportunity to rebel and join the Tartars, it is not such a simple task, it is not enough to just kill the leader, but also to control his subordinates, stabilize the situation in Jiangbei as quickly as possible, and also have to take into account the serious consequences of the failure of the plan, so before the action requires a very careful plan and program, and the confidentiality work is the top priority, once the secret is leaked, the consequences are unimaginable. Therefore, only a few people such as the emperor, Zhu Dadian, Ma Xiong, Zhang Tanggong and himself knew about this action to cut the feudal domain, and the others acted according to orders, just to prevent those who were interested in reporting the news and startling the snakes, which would lead to the collapse of the overall situation.

In order to prevent the soldiers and horses under the command of the three towns from making chaos and eroding Jiangbei, in addition to bringing 10,000 elite cavalry, Du Yinxi also sent a letter to the governor Zhu Dadian, conveying the emperor's secret order to him, so that Zhu Dadian could lead the elite of the 4,000 Zhongwu Town B Battalion of Yan Yingyuan's department, and 20,000 left battalions to deploy troops in Anqing, Jiangxi in advance, with the goal of pointing directly at Jiangbei and supporting the counterinsurgency at any time.

Zhu Youhua led the elite cavalry of Han Cheng of the Gongsheng Camp of more than 3,000 infantry and the new army of the Imperial Battalion of 14,000 who had just become an army to sit in Nanjing to stabilize the situation in the southern capital, and at the same time choose whether to reinforce according to the situation in Jiangbei.

After everything was arranged, Du Yinxi marched all the way, set off at dawn every day, and only stopped after sunset, and arrived in Yangzhou in less than three days.

Yangzhou, known as Guangling, Jiangdu, Weiyang in ancient times, the history of the city can be traced back to 486 B.C., located in the central part of Jiangsu, the Yangtze River and the confluence of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, has the name of "Huaizuo Famous Capital, Zhuxi Best Place", and has the reputation of "the first city of China's canals"; It is known as the first state of Yangyi and Huainan.

In the first year of Ming Hongwu, the road was changed to set up a house, there were five gates, there was a city gate tower on the city gate, there was an urn city outside the five gates, and there was a corner tower at each of the five corners of the city wall. The city is sixteen miles on the second day, covered with bricks, and the female wall is two feet and eight feet high, and there are two thousand and seventy-five battlements, and eight hundred and sixty-nine rooms are built.

There is Shugang in the west of Yangzhou City, the Grand Canal in the east, and the Yangtze River in the south. To the northeast is Ailing Lake, and due north is Shauber Lake. It is a natural defensive barrier.

Outside the city, there is Wanshou Town in the east, Shangguanqiao in the northwest, and Guazhou Town in the south, which are collectively called the Three Inspection Divisions. In the sixth year of Wanli, Yangzhou Prefecture had 141,216 households and a population of 817,800. Today, there are more than a million. ”

There are heavy troops stationed everywhere around the city, and there are three major barracks, so Yangzhou is well-deserved as the first military town in Jiangbei.

Outside the city of Yangzhou, the flag is displayed, and the honor guard is excellent.

Zheng Yuanxun, the prefect of Yangzhou, the general soldiers of the towns, the patrol press, the military preparation road and other civil and military officials stood in front of the city gate to greet Yinxi and his party.

The neatly marched imperial battalion soldiers were marching into the city in an orderly manner, blocking Yinxi to hold the reins of his horse, standing under the city gate, and asked, "Which of the general soldiers and deputy generals of Zhuzhen have not arrived?" ”

The cronies nodded and replied: "Xu Dingguo, the chief soldier of Henan Town, Gao Jie, the chief soldier of Xuzhou Town, Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Huai'an Town, etc., have not yet arrived. ”

Du Yinxi nodded, and under the greeting of everyone, he rode his horse into the city, and the road was light and simple, and there was no honor guard of the clear road.

Wait until the front of the yamen, a new photo wall in front of the department, the stone lion is majestic, the left and right gate are in the column, the three arches are said to be "Fusui Jiangbei" from east to west, said "the three passes of the Admiral", said "the civil and military danger constitution", the gate, the second gate, the west corner of the Emperor Temple, the Hou Temple, one side of the east and west column of the scribe's room. Due north is the hanging mountain lobby five rooms, and then there are through the hall, the second hall and the internal office. Du Yinxi solemnly settled in the Inspector's Yamen.

After entering the city, the imperial camp pro-army rested for a day, and Du Yinxi discussed the action plan with Zhang Tanggong, Ma Xiong and other imperial camp generals overnight, and on the third day, everything was arranged.

Outside the superintendent's yamen, the spears and spears were like a forest, the helmets were bright, and the swords, guns, swords and halberds were shining with dazzling light in the sunlight.

There was a cannon shot, and the door was wide open. From the gate to the lobby, there are two deep courtyards, a second gate in the middle, and eight guards stand outside the two gates.

Wearing a first-class civil official crane supplement uniform, wearing a jade belt around his waist and a black gauze hat on his head, he walked into the main hall and sat down behind the public case, and the two deacons stood on both sides with Shang Fang's sword and the "Supervisor" Dayin, and the staff and the chief soldier of the imperial camp pro-army Zhang Tanggong, the deputy general Ma Xiong and others also stood solemnly on both sides.

Looking at the empty main hall, Plug Yintin's face was like frost, and he didn't speak for a long time.