Chapter 0502 Take Yangzhou City
Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen may not have enough talent in governance, but in fact, his talent in military affairs is still very high, plus he has seen the rise and fall of dynasties for so many years, and he has seen the evolution of modern warfare so many times!
Although, the history that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen knows has little effect on the present, but he has the overall situation.
After arranging the specific dispatch of the Yangzhou battalion, he took 300 Zheng Zhihu to his sailors and 18 teams of armed eunuchs from the West Factory, as well as Gao Dewei and Yang Qicong, and went to the direction of Yangzhou City.
Yangzhou is an ancient city, and the status of Yangzhou prefect in Daming is similar to that of the municipal secretary of the municipality in later generations! It can be seen the importance of Yangzhou, which is also the reason why Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen did not go to Nanjing, Nanjing's political status is of course the highest except for the capital, but the economic core of Nanzhili and even the entire Jiangnan is in Yangzhou, the first thing Zhu Yuanzhang did after the founding of the Ming Dynasty was to rebuild Yangzhou, and almost put the annual Ming taxes on Yangzhou's head, which can also be seen that Yangzhou has a prominent position in the Ming economy!
The prefect of Yangzhou City is the fourth grade, which is equivalent to the big man of many provinces!
Economy, politics, and military, these three points must be based on the economy in the heart of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen.
It is easier to take Yangzhou than to take Yangzhou Daying, this economic town is not a military town in the traditional sense, and few wars are fought in Yangzhou! It also makes the city defense like a fictitious thing! The armed eunuchs of Xichang and Zheng Zhihu's three hundred sailors were all outside the city, squatting under the cover of night and waiting for the order of the inspection of Xunlou.
Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen glanced at the city with contempt, and there were only flagpoles at the head of the city, and there were no even sentry posts! "Up!"
In less than a minute, the two teams of armed eunuchs from the West Factory climbed to the top of the city with iron hooks! A group of Zheng Zhihu's personal soldiers were amazed! If not to see it with your own eyes. They would not have thought that there would be such a fighting force of men and horses!
The gates opened. Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen waved his hand! The brigade swarmed in. When Gao Dewei followed the inspector in, he found that more than a dozen defenders on the city wall and in the tower were already dead!
The armed eunuchs of the West Factory are only trained to kill, unless there is a special order, otherwise they will not leave a living mouth!
In order to be as concealed as possible, Emperor Zhu Youzhen did not give an order to stay alive! The night is coming to an end, and when the morning dawns and there are many people, it is not as convenient as this time to do anything!
Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen said to Yang Qicong, "You have nine squads and two hundred sailors. Kill all the officers and soldiers of the city government, and leave no one behind! When the day comes, guard the gates on all sides, and no one is allowed to enter or leave! The rest of the people followed me into town! ”
Yang Qicong nodded, waved his hand, and his subordinates were automatically divided into two groups! One group was left behind by the emperor, and the other group moved along the city walls with two hundred sailors! Ancient city walls had pros and cons, and were generally easy to defend and difficult to attack! But if you get inside, there is no way for the people inside to prevent the enemy from raiding!
Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen personally commanded a city break, and sighed if he was a slave today. The time to break the city should be about the same, and Daming may be in addition to Jingshi. Every city is like tofu dregs!
Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen took Gao Dewei and nine groups of armed eunuchs from Xichang, plus a hundred sailors and quickly rushed to the city!
The streets of this era are extremely simple, even in a big city like Yangzhou, his city is actually not very big! The streets are the same as in other cities! Although it was the first time to come, after arresting a watchman, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen and his men found the Yangzhou Prefect's Yamen in less than an hour!
Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen asked a hundred sailors to surround the prefect's yamen, and the nine groups of armed eunuchs in the West Factory killed a group of gatekeepers in a few clicks!
"Feel the people inside the courtyard, don't kill!" Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen issued an order not to kill for the first time, he felt that there were big fish in it, and not everyone could kill them! His troops are not enough, and he can control Yangzhou, but it is really because of the effect of the raid! If it's a hard fight today, it's not enough at all! What's more, the purpose of his visit this time is mainly to control and stabilize the economy of Jiangnan, and to deter these people who don't take imperial power in their eyes, they are not here to kill indiscriminately! Indiscriminate killing can only destroy one qiē, and this qiē belongs to him! He can't just paralyze the entire Jiangnan economy!
No matter what the social structure is, no matter what the political structure, there is a set of economic system of its own, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen has no ability to change this system now, he must follow a strategy!
There were quite a few people in the palace, a total of more than 1,000 men, women, and children who were driven to kneel in the courtyard!
A burly naked man shouted, "Lao Tzu is Ruan Yongkang, the commander of Yangzhou Daying, who are you, are you impatient?" ”
Gao Dewei was furious, and without saying a word, it was just a few big mouths in the past! Although the internal force is damaged, Gao Dewei's foundation is good! The original strength was very strong, these few slaps with a big fan fan, Ruan Yongkang's mouth was full of blood, and it was useless to burst out of the name, he was not a fool, of course he knew that something was wrong! So he kept silent.
Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen pulled up Ruan Yongkang, who was lying on the ground, locked his neck and asked, "You are Ruan Dacheng's cousin?" Where is Ruan Dacheng? Who is the prefect of Yangzhou? ”
Ruan Yongkang looked at this man wearing a mask and serving in a brocade guard, and knew that something was wrong! When he came to his senses completely, he trembled and said, "My lord, my lord, don't be like this, I have something to say." ”
Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen broke the four fingers of Ruan Yongkang's left hand at once!
Nguyen Vinh Kang Ao's scream! All those present listened to it with a tingling of their scalps!
In fact, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen had already accused him of his love, but a night of fighting made him feel like he couldn't stop!
"He, he is the prefect of Yangzhou, I am too intimate with his third aunt, so I rested in the yamen of the prefect of Yangzhou, as for Ruan Dacheng, I haven't seen him for a long time, a group of people can't find him, his whereabouts are very cautious, not in Nanjing or Yangzhou." Ruan Yongkang's whole body convulsed in pain! The fat body trembled, bending over the ground and not daring to move.
Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen followed Ruan Yongkang's eyes and looked at a thin and short man, "You are Gan Weile, the prefect of Yangzhou?" (To be continued......)