??? At this moment, Yang Suzheng commanded his generals to constantly lead his troops to patrol around, publicize the policy of the righteous army to the people, appease them, let them leave with confidence, and attack the rich and noble families who drove a large number of carriages.

Some cavalrymen were not only heavily armoured, but also their horses were also armoured, relying on their martial arts without scruples, and even within the range of bows and arrows in the city, they directly captured the gentry who did not have time to enter the city and hide under the city walls!

But there were no bows and arrows to fight back on the city, let alone crossbow arrows and cannons, and all the soldiers defending the city were cowering under the city wall, not daring to show their heads at all, but just looked at the cavalry under the city from the female wall in fear, and let them plunder!

Yang Su shook his head again and again at the performance of the defenders of Nanjing, although now he is attacking Nanjing as a rogue, it can be seen that the defenders of Nanjing are like this, if he really wants to attack the city, these defenders have no ability to resist at all! It's a pity that this is the strongest city in the world!

Half a day later, at noon, there was no more gentry, and they all got the news that the ferocious cavalry under the Red Lady had arrived in Nanjing and was frantically plundering them, but anyone who was met by the cavalry and the gentry could not escape, if they did not resist, they could temporarily save their lives, and all the men who dared to resist at all would be killed without scruples.

It is true that he is rich and unkind, but Yang Su knows that there must be innocent people among them, but unfortunately he has no time to distinguish now, the Ming Dynasty has too many ills, if there are no internal and external troubles, he can also slowly reform, and shift the gentry's attention from the land to the industry, and now he can only cut through the chaos with a quick knife.

However, through the word of mouth of the people who returned from Nanjing, it proved that the rumor that the Red Lady was really a righteous army, and would never kill the people, and even some people did not carry enough rations, and they also got the food given by the righteous army for them to eat on the way back.

At this moment, in an arrow platform at the north gate of Nanjing, Xu Hongji and others were hiding inside, observing the movements under the city.

Seeing that at this time, all the rogues gathered outside the north gate to prepare to set up camp, looking at the cavalry covered in armor, Xu Hongji only felt bitter in his mouth, and asked the general behind him, "Xu Qianyi, what do you think of this cavalry?" ”

"All of them are elite, if there is no city wall, we are afraid that we will not be able to withstand a charge from this group of cavalry!" Xu Qian replied in a sullen voice.

"What, there are tens of thousands of us!" Qin Shangshu exclaimed.

"Lord Qin, the war does not depend on the number of people, you look at the three-eyed deep gun they are holding in their hands, these should be the Guanning Iron Cavalry under Cao Wenzhao, I think Cao Wenzhao must also come, it should be under the city at this moment, Lord Qin, look at the appearance of these soldiers in our city, I am so scared that I can't even hold the gun steadily, let alone kill the thief!" How to defeat the Guanning Iron Cavalry! Xu Qian knew that Qin Shangshu of the military department did not know about military affairs, so he shook his head and explained.

The prestige of Guan Ning Tieqi and Cao Wenzhao naturally went without saying, Xu Hongji hurriedly comforted himself; "It's good that we have the city wall to rely on! I sent to summon the guards from all over the country a few days ago, and they should be there soon! At that time, there will be 100,000 people under the city of Nanjing, and they should be able to hold out until Gao Gonggong and the forbidden army arrive! ”

"The city wall of Nanjing is dozens of miles long, during which the facilities are complete, but because of this, the number of people required is more, and the hundreds of families in the hands of the last general alone can not defend the city wall, fortunately, the cavalry who came at this time is not good at attacking the city, Cao Wenzhao is a strong general in the army, and he must be reluctant to use the Guanning iron cavalry to attack the city, but if you wait until the Red Lady's rogue army is in person, Nanjing is afraid of being in danger!"

"What now?" Xu Hongji still understands things, he doesn't know anything about military affairs himself, so he naturally trusts Xu Qian, a general.

"There are few rogue soldiers, so they are gathered at the north gate at this moment, they are all cavalry, if they want a large group of people and horses to go out of the city, they will definitely not be able to escape their pursuit, so the last general suggested that he should immediately send people out from other gates to urgently summon the guards from all over the country, and then the prince should recruit the families of the big clans in the city to garrison on the city wall, and then use money and food to gather people to help defend the city as discussed before, and there will be brave men under the heavy reward, they are more effective than these military households, at least they have the courage to defend the city!" Xu Qian spoke clearly.

In troubled times, the big clans are all raising families, these families are more elite than the military households in the guards, the military attache Wei commands are all hereditary, thousands of households, hundreds of households and other hereditary military families have long become landlords, the military households under their hands as long-term workers, with free labor and a large amount of land, one by one full of brains to settle accounts, collect rent, open restaurants, do business all proficient but lead the troops to fight is completely incompetent.

??? Military attachés are still like this, not to mention ordinary military households, they can't get rid of the military status, they can't take the imperial examination, the land doesn't belong to personal ownership, and the income is also a health office, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are a group of slaves who are completely tied to the land, and their status is probably equivalent to that of Russian serfs.

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???? And Wei Guogong is the largest landlord in the south, of course Xu Qian knows that the military households under his command are useless, and the situation of other guards is similar, even if he rushes to most of them, he can't help, so he strongly recommends that Xu Hongji forcibly recruit the family members of the big clan to go to the city.

Xu Hongji was a little undecided, forcibly expropriating all the families of the big clans in the city at this juncture, undoubtedly offending them thoroughly, not to mention that this is for their good, if anyone is so rational in the face of great rights and wrongs, then he and Governor Li personally called on rich households to donate money and grain to gather the people to defend the city!

"Guogong, at this time, the Liukou has already come to the city, and the last general will really not be able to defend Nanjing City with our family alone! Please also ask the prince to decide! Xu Qian persuaded repeatedly.

Xu Hongji and the three of them glanced at each other, and made a decision in their hearts, Xu Hongji mustered up the courage to "place an invitation in the name of the old man, and summon all the rich businessmen of the big clan to my house, this is the autumn of critical survival, if anyone is unwilling to contribute, it is a spy of the rogue gangster, and Hugh blames the old man for being ruthless!" ”

Seeing that Xu Hongji had finally made a decision, Xu Qian was overjoyed, and Li Zhifu and the others were also relieved.

Things went more smoothly than Xu Hongji and others expected, and the rogues under the city didn't seem to have the slightest interest in Nanjing, except for the first robbery, except for sending people and horses to investigate everywhere every day, they stayed in the camp under the city without moving.

"Yang Gong, according to the report of the front-line probe, the army of the Changzhou Guard Station is only thirty miles away from Nanjing at the moment, and it should be able to arrive tonight!" Cao Wenzhao walked into the big tent and told Yang Su, who was looking at the map.

"How many centaurs?" Yang Sutou asked without replying.

"There are only more than 2,000 people, except for dozens of family members on horseback, most of the rest of the soldiers have never worn armor, only wearing a shabby mandarin duck battle robe, and most of them are old and weak, not worth mentioning!" Cao Wenzhao was very annoyed.

"It seems that Jiangnan Wubei is more than a step worse than the Central Plains!" Yang Su shook his head.