Qin Shangshu said this with confidence, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang no matter how later generations evaluated him, but he has one thing that no one can refute, he is a qualified emperor, he absorbed the reasons for the demise of various dynasties, and made the Ming Dynasty forever, in order to leave a legacy for future generations, it is painstaking.

For example, the heavy agriculture and suppression of business that made future generations suffer a lot, such as the criticized household registration system, and the cabinet system implemented in order to overthrow the prime minister and restrict the monarchy's power, etc. These policies seemed to him to be the best choice at the time, but unfortunately later generations were even more incompetent than he imagined, and the wisdom of the time became a scourge.

However, some measures are still useful, such as Zhu Yuanzhang in order to ensure the safety of the imperial city, personally presided over the construction of the Nanjing city wall, which lasted for 27 years, which is longer than the time he spent building the mausoleum, and the defense of Nanjing City can be said to be the first in the world, which is also the confidence of Qin Shangshu to say this.

It stands to reason that this wall alone is infallible. However, Nanjing was directly opened through the city gate during the Battle of Jingjing, and this time the Red Lady broke through thirteen cities in a short period of time, so powerful enough to make them frightened. Even if there is the first city wall in the world, it is not enough for them to feel at ease, otherwise they would not be so anxious and sigh here.

"I'm afraid it's not enough to rely on the city wall alone, besides, Nanjing has been peaceful for a long time, and the armament is relaxed, and Nanjing is the capital of my Ming Dynasty, which is very important, and we must not make the mistake of the capital again!" Otherwise, you and I will be sinners of the Ming Dynasty! Xu Hongji entered the room and sat on a chair and shook his head and sighed.

The other three people did not show their faces but secretly cursed, this Xu Hongji is responsible for guarding Nanjing, and the guards of the southern provinces are nominally controlled by him, if it were not for him Xu Hongji to set up a name to eat empty salaries, and turn tens of thousands of defenders into long-term workers under him, how could Nanjing face this kind of problem.

"What do you mean?"

"Nanjing must not be lost, we should take precautions, we can't just pin our hopes on the forbidden army, I intend to call all the guards to come and guard Nanjing!" Xu Hongji preached with a straight face.

"But if we transfer all the soldiers and horses from all over the country, if the rogues don't attack Nanjing, but take advantage of the emptiness of the garrisons everywhere to plunder the Quartet, how can it be good?" Qin Shangshu said worriedly.

"That's the duty of the officials everywhere, they can't defend the land against the rogue and cause the city to be lost, what do we have to do! Our family is a Nanjing garrison eunuch, we must protect the safety of Nanjing, otherwise the emperor will never let our family go! Haven't you forgotten the lessons of Wu Zhenying, the imperial historian, Yang Ze, the eunuch Yang Ze and others after the loss of the central capital? ”

"What Gonggong Deng said is very true, now we can no longer think about others, but how can we live, our family members are in this Nanjing city, the red lady is crazy, every time a city is broken, all the local gentry will be robbed and killed, if Nanjing City is broken, my whole family will die and have no place to be buried!" Xu Hongji said loudly.

"Good! Then, according to Wei Guogong's words, gather all the guards to guard Nanjing! The other three thought of the consequences and all seconded it.

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Under the guidance of Yang Su, Xiao Xuan's march was extremely fast, running hundreds of miles and breaking through thirteen cities in a row. This is not only because there are a large number of spies of the Jinyi Guard in the city as internal responses, directly helping to open the city gates.

What's more, because of the rogues after the reorganization, the morale is extremely high and quite elite! Originally, Xu Hongji and others expected that the Red Lady would have a few days to reach the city of Nanjing, but they never thought that Yang Su would take Cao Wenzhao and Liu Guoneng with thousands of cavalry to leave the army first. In just two days, he traveled more than 100 miles a day, and in the early morning of the third day, Yang Su led his cavalry to a place less than 20 miles outside Nanjing.

There were no spies sent in the city at all, and there was no way to know that the cavalry had reached Nanjing, and the city gate of Nanjing had not been closed at this moment, because the news that the red lady had no offense against the people and had no mercy on the gentry and landlords had already spread all over the country.

"Yang Gong, according to the report of the spies, the city gate of Nanjing has not been closed yet, should we take advantage of the current situation to send a team of elite camouflage into the city, so as to wait for the opportunity to seize the city gate!" Cao Wenzhao suggested.

Yang Su looked worried and hesitated, at this time the defenders of Nanjing were defenseless, if a sneak attack at this moment was undoubtedly the best time to break through Nanjing, and Jinyiwei had already reported the situation in Nanjing to Yang Su.

Knowing that the defense in Nanjing City is lax, although there are tens of thousands of defenders, they can't fight, the only thing worth mentioning is the hundreds of families in the Wei Mansion, Yang Su is enough to control the entire Nanjing even if he only relies on the thousands of cavalry under his command once they enter the city.

It's just that Fengyang Zhongdu has been broken by the Liukou a few years ago, and now Yang Sushang is still pretending to be in the name of the Liukou, if he breaks through Nanjing again. I'm afraid that it will be lost, and the people of the world will lose confidence in the court. Just to sweep away the gentry in this city of Nanjing, I am afraid that the gains outweigh the losses.

After all, the majority is in Suzhou and Hangzhou and the coastal areas, and just one Nanjing City is not enough for Yang Su to take such a huge risk.

"No need, no need to attack the city, according to the original plan, the city of Nanjing will be surrounded and forced to be rescued by the surrounding guard army, and I can wait for the encirclement to send reinforcements." Yang Su shook his head and refused, but decided to knock out the surrounding guards first, although it is very easy to have Jinyi guards attacking the city, but this trick can't be used much!

"The last will obey." Cao Wenzhao is a pure soldier, and his character can be seen from his obedience to Yang Su's very absurd order to surrender to the Liukou!

Yang Su does not interfere with how Cao Wenzhao fights, and Cao Wenzhao never has any doubts about where Yang Su commands him to fight, and he is absolutely obedient!

Thousands of iron horsemen came straight to Nanjing. The roaring iron riders directly let go of the people who were rushing to Nanjing for refuge on the road! Singled out the rich and noble, not only robbed the property, but also imprisoned people, and killed all those who dared to resist.

The dust brought up by the thousands of iron horsemen rolled and covered the sky and the sun, until it was less than five miles away from the gate of Nanjing, and the soldiers who were standing on the city tower and were yawning and leaning on the city wall and dozing off the gate guards, were awakened by the roaring horses' hooves and the screams of the people under the city.

Seeing the surging cavalry in the distance, they frantically rang the alarm bell, and shouted loudly in horror, "Liukou is here, it's the Red Lady!" Close the gates, close the gates! ”

After a long time of tossing and turning, ignoring the people at the city gate who were still desperately trying to squeeze into the city, the city gate was finally slowly closed.

Yang Su didn't care when he saw this, the good robbery just now let him take advantage of it, this group of gentry who had the ability to pack up their family property and leave the local area, and wanted to escape to Nanjing for refuge, all of them had a lot of net worth, and ordinary people Yang Su was let go, specializing in robbing those local tyrants who transported property in more than two carriages.

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