I can't help but Yang Chao doesn't hate, in just three days, these people slaughtered three or four hundred thousand people, Yangzhou City was killed by them a small half, and the most people killed are these soldiers, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty has better discipline, robbery is very organized, no interest in killing people, no wonder the common people hate traitors more than they hate the enemy, do evil, these traitors are indeed more ruthless than the enemy.

What made Yang Chao hate even more was that in half a day today, he had lost thousands of troops.

After a night of fighting last night, Yang Chao's losses did not exceed 300 people, but today's capture of these surrendered soldiers was unexpectedly attacked by them, killing and wounding more than 1,000 people, and the same number of wounded and sick.

Of course, Yang Chao's results were also extremely brilliant, and after the corpses of the Qing soldiers killed in the city were counted, there were more than 80,000 corpses.

But Yang Chao still has to temporarily appease them at this time, more than 150,000 surrendered troops, if they break out, they can't be cleaned up at all, at least they have to wait until their reinforcements arrive, Yang Chao can rest assured.

And most of these surrendered soldiers are still very honest, they surrendered more than once anyway, just one more surrender, according to what Yang Chao said, they will be sent to Nanjing, and the little emperor can still kill them when they arrive in Nanjing?

Among them, the smart ones are already thinking that with so many people, the little emperor can definitely only pardon them, and then let them continue to be soldiers.

In fact, it is to distribute and fill the army, anyway, they are soldiers, and they continue to serve as soldiers, what kind of punishment is this.

Then they soon ate the hot meal sent by the people organized by Yang Chao, and they had no doubt about Yang Chao's promise.

Wait steadfastly to go to Nanjing.

As a group of soldiers who are not strong enough to resist the motherland, they will not hesitate to betray the new master, and in this group of people who do not have much spirit of resistance, they have a little spirit of resistance, and those who tried to resist were killed in the resistance at the first time, when they looted all night, exhausted, and met the Yang Chao army that rushed over into the formation. Resistance is a dead end.

But even so, they all caused huge casualties to Yang Chao, after all, more than 200,000 people, and a small part resisted. It's also a big hassle.

Three thousand men were assigned to guard the prisoners, two thousand to guard the gates, and five thousand to serve as reserves.

Of course, more than 100,000 prisoners had to be guarded, and 3,000 people were not enough anyway, so Yang Chao planned to recruit 10,000 militiamen.

The whole city at this time. Only Yang Chao's army is a complete organization, and he can manage the city as he pleases according to his own ideas, but it is a pity that he has no experienced management talents in his hands, and they are not here in Huangfeng Mansion.

As soon as possible, a notice was posted, telling the officials to report to Yang Chao, and at the same time recruiting scholars.

What made Yang Chao strange was that Shi Kefa was never found, and he didn't see anyone alive or dead, so he disappeared like this. It's been a mystery ever since!

It is very troublesome to manage a city, with Yang Chao alone, plus a group of rough soldiers, it is definitely not possible, and Shi Kefa is nowhere to be seen, so Yang Chao can only come hard.

Most of these civil officials fled before the city was broken, and most of the others who were martyred surrendered, and Yang Chao did not intend to use them for these surrenders. If found, he will be directly imprisoned, and then let the emperor dispose of it.

Although there were no officials, there were still those officials in the yamen in the past, although many of them were killed in the massacre. But it is impossible for all of them to be dead, at least half of them are alive, and after these people saw the notice, they quickly reported to Yang Chao.

Unlike officials, most of them are locals, so they are more familiar with Yangzhou. It is more convenient to manage, not to mention the ability, even when the officials are there, the actual work is these officials, the official system of the Ming Dynasty is a bit similar to the relationship between regular workers and temporary workers in the government in later generations, you will find that the regular workers are in the office, and the street bullying hawkers are all temporary workers, and the Ming Dynasty is the pampering of officials, and the officials are fake tigers and dogs.

Directly appointed a household in Jiangdu County to sort out the county government, and asked him to organize the officials of other parties, and the young officials in green shirts, who were already half a hundred years old, were immediately grateful and inexplicable, and they didn't know what to use to thank Yang Chao for his promotion.

As for the Yangzhou Mansion at the top, Yang Chao didn't plan to manage it for the time being, just a city, basically the place under the jurisdiction of Jiangdu County, what kind of officials from Yangzhou Mansion were used, of course, there were indeed a few civil officials who surrendered, but under the operation of the officials in Jiangdu County, the stalls in Jiangdu County were quickly set up, and order in the city was quickly restored.

Jiangdu County is the attached Guo County of Yangzhou Prefecture, the so-called attached Guo County, which means that there is no separate county of its own, and the Fucheng is in the same place, or the Fucheng occupies the county seat, this situation is very common, for example, Nanjing City is divided into Jiangning and Shangyuan two counties, both counties are in the city of Nanjing.

Therefore, the officials of Jiangdu County are actually usually managing Yangzhou City.

The Yangzhou Mansion is the big yamen that governs the three nearby states and three counties, but does not directly manage the city.

Under the management of the officials, Yangzhou began to restore tranquility, and the common people gathered the bodies of relatives and friends with grief and buried them.

Then Yang Chao sent troops to occupy all the granaries, and then found the local grain merchants or the treasurers of the grain stores, and negotiated with these people to sell grain at a fair price through their grain stores to stabilize the market.

Recruiting people is not a problem at all, Yangzhou City suffered this catastrophe, and the production order of the city will not be restored for a while and a half, and it may not even be able to recover for many years, so those people who relied on salt merchants to live in the past have lost their source of livelihood for a while, and Yang Chao can recruit as many people as he wants.

In less than the evening, he recruited enough 10,000 young men as militiamen, and hundreds of thousands of captives' weapons, making it possible for Yang Chao to form as many militias as he wanted.

The reason why only 10,000 people were formed, and their own 3,000 troops were left to take care of the prisoners, in fact, it was not because they were afraid that the militia would not be able to take care of them, but because they were worried that these militiamen would kill people if they were irrational.

These militias have already been selected, and no family members have died at the hands of the Qing army, but who dares to guarantee that no friends or relatives will be killed, and it is not excluded that some people will lie, if the purpose is simply to make ends meet, if it is ill-intentioned, it will be bad if they want to take revenge.

These captives do not deserve sympathy, but if they are turned against them, it will be very troublesome.

So while leaving 3,000 people and taking the militia to guard the prisoners, they were actually protecting the safety of the prisoners.

In addition to the militia, a large number of people were recruited to help repair the city, help clean up the corpses, etc. As long as they are active, those who used to work, regardless of the old and the young, have something to eat. These people must be given a chance to make ends meet. Wait for order to be restored in the city before it can accommodate these laborers again.

Anyway, there is a lot of grain in the city, and it is all the food of the imperial court, which is enough to support three months.

Yangzhou City is stable for the time being, but it is not out of danger. Duoduo may fight back at any time, Yang Chao knows that in addition to Duoduo, there is also a Qing army going south, if Duoduo transfers that Qing army, Yangzhou may soon face another attack.

But the reinforcements still haven't arrived, Yang Chao has already sent spies to Guazhou and asked them to wait in Guazhou, once the reinforcements arrive, no matter what the situation, they are not allowed to rest. We must rush to Yangzhou immediately regardless of the cost.

But he didn't wait for reinforcements for a day, but the Qing army appeared, although it was only a small group of cavalry, wandering around Yangzhou, it was likely to be just a sentry of the Qing army, but this proved that the other party had begun to target Yangzhou, Duoduo was defeated by this, and he would definitely not give up, and he would definitely gather troops again. Kill back to Yangzhou.

If his own reinforcements are less than a day, Yangzhou City will not be safe at all.

On the third day, reinforcements finally arrived, and there were less than ten ships. All of them were pulling soldiers, and a boat was full of more than a hundred people, a total of more than 1,500 people, but Yang Chao already felt too relieved, at least the reinforcements had finally arrived.

His own reinforcements were indeed unlucky, and strong winds blew on the river for five days. This group of reinforcements was supposed to be on thirty ships, but twenty of them capsized, and they were originally 2,000 people, but only 1,000 and a half were left, and all military supplies were lost.

In terms of proportion, this batch of reinforcements lost more than Yang Chao, and it turned out that Tianwei was more terrible than the enemy.

But this is war, and you have to pay far more than you die in battle for fighting.

This batch of reinforcements is also in an extremely bad state, after the devastation of the wind and waves, all the soldiers' spiritual will is close to collapse, and at the same time very tired, they bring not substantial combat effectiveness, but spiritual encouragement.

At the same time, these reinforcements brought some very grim news, because Yangzhou was besieged, Duoduo's hundreds of thousands of troops would go south overnight, and the wind and trees in the south of the Yangtze River were all soldiers, and the slightest wind and grass could cause a huge reaction, and the price of food in Nanjing rose to five taels of silver a load, and there was a risk of continuing to rise.

The people along the river have taken refuge in the city, and the people in the north of the river are trying to escape across the river in various ways, there are not enough boats and there are those who grab the boats, there is really no way, and those who still want to swim across the Yangtze River with a wooden body may be no problem in normal times, but the wind and waves are strong, and the people who are swallowed by the Yangtze River must be much more than their own soldiers.

Hearing these news, Yang Chao knew that he didn't seem to care about sending news to Nanjing, although he got the news from Guazhou, he would definitely win to Nanjing, but the news sent by Guazhou, without Yang Chao's signature, was sandwiched between various gossips, and the court might not dare to believe it, because the news they received from formal channels was very different. Immediately counterattack to recapture the matter.

The most important thing is the attitude of the common people, if the people's hearts are unstable, order will not be restored, prices will continue to rise, and a series of other variables will occur along with the rise in prices.

Good news, write good news, not only let the court know for the first time, but also let the people know that compared with the worries of civil and military officials and the little emperor, the worries of the people are the most realistic, and if the people are worried, it will cause social instability.

Yang Chao summoned the scholars who could be found in Yangzhou City, and the officers and soldiers in the army who could write, and wrote on a variety of paper, the content was very simple: Yang Chao, the loyal and righteous Bo, led his troops to counterattack, recaptured Yangzhou, beheaded 80,000 enemies, and captured 160,000 enemies.

However, there are too few scholars, and the conditions of families who can read are generally good, so when they looted, they were the first wave of impacts, and as a result, a large number of scholars were killed, and the proportion was much higher than that of the poor people.

Therefore, not only the scholars wrote, but Yang Chao himself also wrote, and wrote for an hour, dozens of scholars and Yang Chao wrote a total of more than 10,000 simple good news, and used up all the red paper that could be found temporarily before giving up, and then all of them were stamped with Yang Chao's official seal, and sent troops to Guazhou on horseback to find a ship to send back to Nanjing.

When the soldiers who rode horses and brought Yang Chao's good news to Guazhou, the weather turned out to be better, and when they met calmly, they crossed the river very calmly, and then rode straight to Nanjing City.

When he arrived at the outskirts of Nanjing, he waved the good news and kept shouting on the horse: "Great catastrophe, great catastrophe, Yangzhou catastrophe!" Zhongyibo captured Yangzhou, killed 80,000 in battle, and captured 160,000 enemies! The catastrophe, the catastrophe, the Yangzhou catastrophe! Zhongyibo captured Yangzhou, killed 80,000 in battle, and captured 160,000 enemies! ……”

It wasn't until they rushed to the foot of Nanjing, and after showing the guards the guards, they immediately entered the city, also riding horses, shouting along the way, so that the people and the court knew the battle situation at the same time. (To be continued.) )