Chapter 29: The Aftermath (I)

In May of the third year of China, in the fourteenth year of the old calendar Mengyuan to Zheng, the Huai'an army escorted the army upstream, bypassed Jiqing, and captured Taiping Road. Duo Chanai, the governor of Yuan Taiping Road, was caught off guard, so he could only lead his soldiers and horses to line up along the river and prevent the Huai'an army from landing with strong crossbows and arrows. Zhu Qiang, the commander of the Huai'an Naval Division, ordered it to be destroyed with heavy artillery, and the corpses on the shore were pillowed, and Duo Cha Nai died on the spot. In the province, the barbarian son The Hague led the volunteers Qianhu Fang Rong, and the Mongolian army Qianhu Beiye and others retreated to Dangtu.

Hu Dahai, the pioneer of the Huai'an army's expedition to the south, led his troops to land and rest for a day. The next day, when the soldiers were under the city, the barbarian Hague did not dare to go out of the city to meet the battle, and closed the four gates. Hu Dahai also blew up the west wall with siege vehicles, siege chisels, gunpowder bags and other materials made by the Huaiyang Hundred Workshops, and the army poured in. Mongolian thousand households were not killed by Hu Dahai on the spot, and the volunteer Qianhu Fang Rong protected the barbarian Hague from the east gate of the city, and was thirsty halfway through, causing the village to beg for water. When the people saw that he and the two were wearing Mengyuan robes, they attacked with wooden sticks. In an instant, Fang Rong was smashed to the ground. The barbarian Hague knew that there was no reason to be spared, so he drew his sword and killed himself.

At this point, there were no Mengyuan defenders on the east side of the Majiang River. Hu Dahai divided his troops to inspect various places and brought them under the Huai'an army one by one. By the time Xu Da led the main force, most of the Taiping Mansion had been pacified. The two discussed it and continued to divide into two ways. With the Huai'an Second and Third Army Corps, they went east and attacked Jiangning. The Fifth Army, led by Wu Liangmou, crossed the Majiang River to the west and attacked Wuhu and Fanchang. Li Xing, the defender of Wuhu in Mengyuan, knew that the general situation had gone, and did not wait for Wu Liang to plan for his troops, so he took the initiative to tie his hands and ask for surrender. Chen Yexian, the general of Fanchang, was inspired by Zhu Chongba, and took the lead in dedicating the city and all parts of the west of the Daqing River to Hezhou.

At this point, the entire Taiping Road was divided into two by the Huai'an Army and the Hezhou Army, and was no longer owned by Mengyuan. Jiqing Road was attacked by the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Huai'an Corps and was in danger.

When the news broke, the world shook. In the streets and alleys, teahouses and wine shops, almost every place where people gathered, there was a lot of talk about this big picture, but the scene was far less than the fierce war last year. However, to the surprise of all the parties involved, people's focus is not on when Xu Da, Hu Dahai, and Liu Ziyun will be able to defeat Kang Maocai and win Jiqing. It is when the Fifth Army led by Wu Liangmou will be able to expel Chen Yexian, a slave with three surnames, from Fanchang.

In other words, people have become accustomed to the invincibility of the Huai'an army, and think that there is no suspense at all about the ongoing battle on Jiqing Road. But there are doubts about how long the alliance between the Huai'an army and the Hezhou army can last...

"Uncle Wang, have you heard? As early as when the Huai'an army attacked Quarry Rock, it fought with us and the state army? "Tongcheng Mansion on Luzhou Road, someone is in the tavern, and he said mysteriously.

"Why didn't you hear that the Huai'an Army was too bullying... Our head Zhu was angry and vomited blood that day. It was only for the sake of the overall situation that he did not give the order to fire back with artillery..."The man called Uncle Wang was a gray-haired little official. The clothes on his body were neatly ironed, but the wrinkles on his face were criss-crossed.

Thanks to the newspapers that started the Huai'an Army, these years, the teahouse and wine shop have become a distribution center for all kinds of official and unofficial news. Anyone who has a few copper plates in his pocket will sit in these two places for a while from time to time. First expel a few big children to ask for a bowl of wine or tea, then prick up their ears, pile up smiling faces, and start to communicate more deeply with the people around them.

There are also many kinds of newspapers, among which the most authoritative and timely ones are published by the local governors' offices. You can buy a thick stack for five pennies, and in terms of the number of words, it is far more cost-effective than going to the bookstore to buy books. The tabloids run by private merchants to make money are much thinner and of much worse quality. But the non-governmental tabloids have the advantage of revealing secrets that the official newspapers will not cover from time to time. Of course, these "secrets" are often proven to be false. Believe it or not, how to get rid of the chaff, you need to test the reader's IQ...

Let's take the fact that when the Huai'an Army attacked Quarry Rock, it once opened fire on the Hezhou Army who rushed to help the war... The official newspapers of both parties did not mention anything about it. However, the tabloid privately run by the owner of a shipping company on the Wujiang River swore to find out about the matter. What is even more puzzling is that the newspaper only showed its head in the market, and before it could spread to other places, it was bought by another wealthy and wealthy person. Immediately after, the ship and newspaper also changed owners. The boss ran away with a large amount of money, and it is said that he went to Yangzhou, but no one knows when he got on the boat and where he went after arriving in Yangzhou? …

As a result, the more mysterious and unreliable this matter became. From the Huai'an Army's accidental attack on the warships of the Hezhou Army, to the Huai'an Army's deliberate attempt to seize the Quarry Rock before the Hezhou Army, and to the Tartar defenders of the Quarry Rock. Then the Huai'an Army invited the Hezhou Army to participate in the war, but sent people to bombard Zhu Chongba's ship, and so on.

What's more, he simply swore that the person who fired the cannon from the Hezhou army that day was a descendant of the Mongolian ethnic group, surnamed Yuli Boyawu, and was a traitor who had infiltrated the Huai'an army. He deeply hated the expulsion of the Tartars by the governor of Hezhou, so he deliberately set fire on him to murder him. If you don't believe it, you can ask Liao Yongzhong, the commander of the water division, when he was a water warrior in his early years, he knew the foundation of the surname Yu.

No matter how the rumors spread, there is only one direction of the overall wind. That is, the Huai'an army was bullying, and they didn't want to give the Hezhou army and Zhu Chongba a way to live. And the Huaiyang people are domineering, and everyone is obvious to all. The huge cargo ships that came from the river always went straight to the wharf, ignoring the officials on duty and the state. The goods that need to be loaded and unloaded are always in the first place, no matter how many ships are waiting in front of the dock before, as long as the cargo ship under the name of Huaiyang arrives, they all have to give up their positions. When the goods of the Huaiyang firm are completed and put on and off, the order can be restored.

Therefore, the vast majority of idle people in Hezhou and Luzhou feel that the rumors may not be true. Even if the Huai'an army did not bully the lords of Hezhou, at least there were some lawbreakers in its ranks, who deceived their superiors and subordinates. However, these people like to join in the fun the most, and after guessing the "truth" of the facts, they like to inquire and verify them to show that they have extraordinary knowledge.

The best verification channel, of course, is still through guò official. Therefore, as soon as the previous words of the little official surnamed Wang fell, it aroused a voice of righteous indignation, "The surname Zhu, why is Huaiyang Zhu so arrogant?" It's a shame that he is still the deputy marshal of the world's red turban soldiers and horses, and he can't tolerate anyone at all? …”

"Isn't that simple, let's work with Zhou Zhu to shake the master... Think about it, it's only been a few days since our General Manager Zhu started the army? How long has it been since Zhu Chongjiu raised troops? In the past two years, we have seen that we and the governor of Zhou Zhu have attacked the city and plundered the land, beating the Tartars to the ground and fleeing. He has always been pressed and beaten by the Tartars, can this mood be comfortable? Without waiting for the little official surnamed Wang to interface, a down-and-out scholar shook a folding fan and interjected with a sneer.

At this moment, everyone's eyes suddenly opened up. When Huai'an Zhu gathered several large armies to go south to Yangzhou, Hezhou Zhu was just a small colonel in the coalition army. Now, both sides have become managers, and there is a tendency to go hand in hand. That Huai'an Zhu, how could he swallow this breath? It is estimated that someone would have murdered the governor of Hezhou Zhu for him to relieve the trouble of his henchmen.

"Consider, you maybe, that since ancient times, heaven has ruled over the earth, and the earth has carried all things. And among all things, it is the yang that governs the yin, the male governs the female, the parents manage the children, and the virtuous teach the unscrupulous, so that the red sun can rise in the east and fall in the west, and the rivers can rise from high to low. Seeing that everyone was stunned by his own insight, the down-and-out scholar picked up a fan and fanned the cold wind a few times, and continued to spit out a dark black tongue and said, "So between heaven and earth, order is great. The Mongols ignored the order, and only led the monarchs and ministers to kill each other, father and son, and the world was in chaos. And after we and the governor of Zhou Zhu raised their righteousness, they took science as the foundation of governing the country, recruited talents, cracked down on traitors, and restored normalcy, so that everyone's life could become more and more peaceful. However, the head of Huaiyang Zhu only believes in force, and has no thoughts of superiority and inferiority. There are also a group of tigers and wolves under his command, and wherever they pass, the big families will be ruined at best, and the family will be wiped out. The policies of the two families are like different furnaces. Then Zhu Butcher saw that we and the state were so united, could he sleep peacefully? ”

"yes, that's all..."

"But isn't it, I've heard people say that any rogue over there can drag a scholar to a lawsuit..."

"I knew that the Huaiyang people were not good birds..."

"Dare to bully our Luzhou people, you guys fought with them..."

"A set of vermilion lacquer dinner plates only sells for fifty or sixty wen on Yangzhou Street, but when they arrive in our Tongcheng, they cost two or three hundred wen. Why are we in Luzhou not as rich as Yangzhou, and the money has been robbed by them..."

"Isn't it, we do business here with 30 taxes and 1, but Yangzhou is 10 taxes and 1. The things sold are so expensive, who can do them better? ”

"Robbers..."

"Thieves..."

"It's incompatible...""It's incompatible..."

In the tavern, there was a lot of people. Many coolies who were standing in the distance drinking did not even hear what the scholar was saying, and waved their arms, and their blood surged.

"Anyway, everyone has a number in mind, it's not that they don't report it, the time has not come. Seeing that Zhu Butcher is so arrogant and domineering at the moment, sooner or later he will be angry. At that time, what awaits him is a dead end..."The down-and-out scholar secretly glanced at the eyes of the little official surnamed Wang, and suddenly raised his voice to the highest. "Uncle Wang, do you always say that this is the truth?"

"Hmm!" The little official surnamed Wang nodded at him very approvingly, first slowly lined up the five cents on the table, and then slowly stood up and threw his hands around, "Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, listen to me." Whether it is war or peace, there is naturally a plan from above. We, the ordinary people, should do our own things well, don't make trouble for Mr. Zhu, and don't believe any fallacies and heresies in Yangzhou. In short, the mountains are high and the water is long, and it is not certain who will die in the end..."

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