Chapter 132: Hangzhou Bloodless Kaicheng (II)

This large-scale escape wave that appeared in the north of Hangzhou did not hide from the eyes of the "thief leaders" outside the city from the beginning.

In fact, as early as when several city gates in the north and east of Hangzhou City were broken open one after another, the headquarters of Phoenix Mountain Villa obtained this information through satellite reconnaissance. However, after a brief discussion, the final attitude of the two top leaders, Wang Qiu and Zhao Yinggong, was ...... Doesn't matter!

Belch? Why doesn't it matter?

Because the purpose of the Global Chinese Traveler Alliance to wage war is completely different from the soldiers and horses on the map of the Ming Empire in this era: they sit on tens of millions of square kilometers of vast rivers and mountains in the New World and Australia, and they actually don't look down on this small land in China itself; Their land is full of gold, silver, mines, gems, veins, and precious timber, and they are only allowed to sleep because of a lack of labor, and they do not care about the materials in the city; Behind them is the enormous productive forces of the modern world, which simply scoffs at the meagre wealth created by traditional agrarian societies......

Therefore, in addition to forcing the Ming Dynasty to maintain open markets and free trade, the only strategic resource that the Global Chinese Traveler Alliance must obtain from the Ming Dynasty is actually population. However, because too many people had been collected from North China, Shandong, Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang during this period, which exceeded the ability of the various union republics to absorb the new population, even the task of collecting the population was temporarily suspended.

In this way, the Hangzhou in front of you has become very chicken. Even if you take the city with bloodshed and sacrifice, what will you gain?

Grain and rice forage? The expeditionary force always had plenty of food, and even if they wanted to collect fresh fruits and vegetables, they couldn't find it in such snowy days!

Treasure? The famous South African gold mines and diamond mines are currently under the name of the traverser, so if you want gold and diamonds, won't you dig them yourself?

Silk tea? There are so many of these things in the modern world that it's enough to just get some embroidered handicrafts as a souvenir, and you really don't need too much.

Gangnam beauties? Well, there is some market demand for this, but can modern people really tolerate that horseshoe-shaped "three-inch golden lotus"? Or do you have the ability to talk to those ancient courtesans about moral articles, paintings, music, poetry, and songs? It's probably not even possible to understand Hangzhou dialect!

Instead of making such a trouble, it is better to wait until the dust settles, wholesale some handsome young girls at a high price and go back, and find a way to cultivate and educate them slowly! Anyway, in these troubled times, you can find places to sell children everywhere!

What's more, due to the long-standing tradition of worshipping foreign countries, most gay travelers prefer to get the blonde-haired and white-skinned "Great Yanma" - due to the huge physiological needs that come with the influx of modern Chinese travelers into the world (in general, there are more men than women). The three major groups of Huamei East Coast and Lingao are all showing their talents, desperately trying to contact various slave traders through their own connections. As a result, the slave markets in Algiers, Tripoli, Basra, Istanbul and Kaffa have become extremely hot for more than a year. The price of young white female slaves has more than doubled, and even the white girls who were originally relatively unsalable have been snapped up (considering that there are many lolitcons and those who like to play development games among the traversers).

And in the face of such a popular market, the Tatar cavalry of the Crimean Khanate became more and more interested in going to northern Russia to "hunt" slaves.

Ahem, to get back to business, of course, even if the traversers ask very little for the city of Hangzhou, they still have to pay the 7,000 miscellaneous troops under their command, as well as the reward for winning the battle, these expenses have to be scavenged from this part of Hangzhou according to the convention - of course, it is okay to ask for funding from the superiors, but it is bound to leave a bad impression on the boss that he is lazy and incompetent: he can't even do such a thing as looting the occupied area, what is it if it is not waste?

However, it is really easy to achieve this goal, after all, there are only such a small number of people in the whole army. Even if all the gentry and wealthy households in the city run away, after occupying Hangzhou, it is enough to satisfy the appetite of these miscellaneous armies by casually cleaning the floors of various mansions and collecting the remaining belongings - not to mention, in the previous sweeping operations of plundering the towns and villages on the outskirts of Hangzhou, these guys who have always been "thieves do not go empty" have made a lot of good things. Unless the battle against Hangzhou was fought very hard, as long as you give them some souvenirs, the meaning is pretty much the same.

Since even if they conquered this Hangzhou at the end of the Ming Dynasty, they couldn't get much of what they wanted, so the traversers naturally dragged out this battle and didn't care about it. Their biggest goal was to capture Hangzhou while keeping casualties to a minimum.

Moreover, if it is said that Major General Sun Yang, who is the supreme military commander of the Hangzhou Theater, still has the desire to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield in Hangzhou. Then Wang Qiu, who does not rely on his military exploits to eat, and Zhao Yinggong, who is a civil official, are not even rare to break the city.

In the case of Major General Sun Yang with four thousand main forces on the expedition to Fuyang. Wang Qiu and Zhao Yinggong, who stayed on the side of Hangzhou, did not have the idea of occupying Hangzhou alone and tearing their faces with Sun Yang to grab credit. Instead, he only planned to maintain the current situation, not to let his troops be wiped out or defeated by the enemy, and just wait for Major General Sun Yang to come back and reap the fruits of victory - however, on the current earth, there is no indigenous force in this time and space that can pose any threat to Wang Qiu, a guy with many magic weapons.

Well, Li Meng, who is on the front line of the Wulinmen battlefield, has some ideas of making contributions. Unfortunately, he only had a few hundred men at his disposal, and it was really impossible to capture a large city with hundreds of thousands of people - it is estimated that many of the gangs in the city numbered more than his troops. Moreover, Li Meng also knew a little about officialdom taboos, and he didn't dare to snatch the glory that belonged to his boss, Major General Sun Yang, without authorization, so he had to play with rockets outside the city with peace of mind......

In short, in the eyes of the traversers, although Hangzhou City must be taken, the citizens and materials in Hangzhou City are not too valuable. Now that the collection of people has been halted, the people of the city have become a burden to them. Rather than having to bear their food supply in the future and suppress the various riots they have caused, it is better to let them run away more now - therefore, the more wealthy families in Hangzhou escape, the happier the traversers will be, and naturally they will not interfere with their doomsday escape, let alone take the opportunity to attack the city.

On the contrary, in the city of Hangzhou, which has fallen into anarchy on the other side, seeing that the thieves are unwilling to enter the city to take over, some people are so anxious that they can't stand it!

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With the hasty escape of the prefect of Hangzhou, the whole city of Hangzhou officially entered a state of anarchy, and all social order completely collapsed.

Obviously, the collapse of order is not a good thing for human society in any era. As a result, in the city of Hangzhou, thousands of citizens flocked out of the city to flee, crowding several streets near the city gate. On the other side, many heroes who tried to take advantage of the chaos to make a fortune and robbed houses everywhere suddenly appeared, and launched a fierce raid on the shops on the street and the rich people who had fled.

Among these eager heroes, many of them are still former officials, and because they are familiar with the families of the gentry, they are particularly professional in robbery. Several wealthy businessmen in Hangzhou, who were preparing to flee, were intercepted and killed on the streets of the city before they could leave the city with their children and their daughters......

Under normal circumstances, even if the city changes hands in the middle of a war, the local gentry will quickly step up and organize a maintenance meeting to deal with the aftermath to prevent the destruction of the whole city in chaos and violence. And if the victors did not intend to slaughter the city or plunder, they would also issue street cleaning orders and curfews at the first time to prevent themselves from taking the city through their hard work, but the benefits fell into the hands of those scoundrels and idlers who took advantage of the fire to loot.

But at this time, the gentry in Hangzhou were busy running away, or hesitating whether to leave their hometown and run away with their families, and no one cared about this stubble for a while. And the enemies outside the city also showed little interest in taking advantage of the situation to invade Hangzhou, so that the city turned into a paradise of lawlessness for all kinds of heroes......

As a result, as time went by, the chaos in Hangzhou intensified. At the beginning, when they killed people and sold goods, those heroes were still a little apprehensive and uneasy in their hearts. But the burning, killing and looting are too much, and it slowly becomes natural. At first, they only dared to rob unprotected shops and sedan cars and horses stuck in congested streets. But every now and then, these scoundrels have formed a robbery group with a division of labor, setting up barricades on the streets to block the fleeing convoys, and at the same time brazenly attacking the mansions of the rich families in the high-walled compounds!

So, with a burst of noisy shouts, the carved mansions were rudely broken into; The carved cabinets were violently kicked over and searched...... The Hale rockets, which were still coming in sporadically from outside the city, were no longer bothered to extinguish, but many neighborhoods were lit by various mobs themselves. Hordes of thugs join forces to besiege the mansions and engage in fierce battles with their owners. But after breaching the gates, the thugs did not mind greeting each other warmly with sticks, stones, and fists for something that looked very valuable, or for a beautiful woman, or even just a fragrant pastry......

In the midst of the catastrophe, those delicate and helpless rich ladies are obviously the most miserable victims. Even if they seized the last moment, took off their bright and gorgeous satin costumes, blackened their faces with the soot from the stove, messed up their hair, and put on dirty tattered clothes, they still couldn't stop the vicious eyes of those who coveted them—and soon, most of the women who were hiding in a secrecy were dragged out of the corners one by one by some energetic thugs, and pressed down on the cold floor, their skirts lifted to the top of their heads, and there was a long queue behind them, and from time to time people fisted and kicked each other in order to cut the line...... According to the social atmosphere of the popular male style in the late Ming Dynasty, many slender and handsome little guys were also viciously attacked by the strange Shu millets!

- Orange firelight, terrible screams, black smoke soaring into the sky, scorching heat waves......

For a time, there were many unlucky rich gentry in Hangzhou, whose mansions were broken by crazy mobs, pushed down in the mud and tortured in every way, and even watched their wives and daughters and concubines being brutally abused; I don't know how many antique paintings and calligraphy with a long history are being torn and smashed by unreadable thugs, and even thrown into the fire and burned into wisps of smoke...... All kinds of groans, cries, and scoldings are heard in the sky above the city of Hangzhou, and the sound of burning flames is contrasted, forming a symphony of hell with death and destruction as the main theme.

In short, at dusk, the entire city of Hangzhou is already full of smoke, and those deep streets and alleys that are like a maze are slowly engulfed by the flames, and under the light of the fire, there are still crowds of people who are fighting each other or crying wildly...... In several neighborhoods where the fighting was fiercest, there were even more corpses, densely packed, flowing with blood and water all over the streets, and under the reflection of the fire, it was particularly terrifying......

Fortunately, after nightfall, another sudden heavy snowfall once again saved the city from the brink of self-destruction.

- The snowflakes that fell from the sky quickly extinguished the flames in the neighborhoods, and the cold and biting wind and snow drove most of the poor thugs in ragged clothes back to their houses...... Although after the heavy snow this night, there must have been a lot of bruised and stiff "road corpses" in the city, and the refugees who were dragging their children and daughters to flee north with their families are estimated to freeze to death because of this, but the city is barely preserved.

But if it goes on like this, it's obviously not a problem...... So, the remnants of the leaders in Hangzhou City carried out a secret series that night, and finally decided to take the initiative to open the door to welcome the thieves into the city - anyway, Hangzhou is already in such a miserable state now, no matter how bad it is, how bad can it be? Of course, as for how to contact and negotiate with the thief, I had to let a certain talented man who claimed to be proficient in "stumbling affairs" once again work harder......

Therefore, on the morning of the next day, when the snow stopped, Comrade Li Meng, who was still guarding outside the Wulin Gate and launching Hale rockets without a ride, once again ushered in Gao Xuan, a talented man with a haggard face and a handful of tears: "...... I hope that the military master will have mercy on the people of this city, and quickly enter the city and station! If your army does not enter Hangzhou and suppress the market, I am afraid that this heavenly city on earth that shocks Sanwu will turn into a hell! ”

At the same time, Li Meng was stunned with the gift list sent by Gao Xuan: "...... What are you sending here? Tea in one stone? Twenty pounds of rhubarb? The former one can be regarded as a local specialty, and the latter one, I remember that rhubarb is not a thing produced in Hangzhou, right? ”

“…… Uh, I heard that your army's diet is never inseparable from these two things, so ......" Gao Xuan replied with some hesitation.

“…… Who are you listening to? Li Meng rolled his eyes, "...... Forget it, tea is a good thing anyway, and rhubarb can be given to the military doctor or used to make wine...... Well, I'll see what else, what? Three pairs of cunning boys, who are you treating as a rabbit? There's no such thing as a beautiful girl? ”

“…… Well, I heard that your army is highly disciplined, and the army is the place of the sun, so I am afraid that I will not be able to enter the woman, so I chose the cunning boy to offer ......"

“…… What the hell is this logic? Discipline should be based on discipline? Ay...... What's going on in your heads? ”

After another moment, the Fengshan Gate of Hangzhou, which is facing the Phoenix Villa, was also squeaked open from the inside after being closed for nearly a month, and then there were countless people kneeling on both sides of the avenue into the city with incense cases in their hands, and some people proudly put up banners: "Welcome the Great Song Dynasty King Shi to enter the city and settle the people......

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Another day later, Major General Sun Yang returned from Fuyang to Hangzhou with 4,000 soldiers and horses who had been tested in siege warfare.

In the just-concluded Battle of Fuyang, he fully exercised the ability of these miscellaneous armies under him to attack fortifications and street battles, and had a more intuitive understanding of the pathetic combat effectiveness of the Ming army in Jiangnan. In addition, he has also accumulated certain experience and lessons as to what problems will be encountered after the breakthrough of the city, and what kind of pacification or suppression measures should be taken, and he is confident that he will do better in the next battle of Hangzhou......

However, when his fleet appeared outside the Hangzhou Tide Gate, Rear Admiral Sun Yang's smile turned into surprise.

Not only was the city gate open, but the red star ring flag of the Huameng was also fluttering on the city's head?!!

After being stunned for a moment, he went crazy and rushed straight to the military radio, grabbed the intercom and answered the signal and shouted.

“…… No way! What are you guys up to? Didn't you say that you would attack the city when I came back? Why do you have to take this credit from me?! ”

“…… Alas, the plan can't keep up with the change! Brother Sun. Wang Qiu, who was on the other end of the radio, sighed and explained angrily, "...... Those guys in the city have already taken the initiative to open the city gates, crying and shouting and begging us to occupy it quickly, and we can't refute the sincerity of others, right? ”

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In short, no matter how twists and turns the process is, this embarrassing battle of Hangzhou has finally come to an end.

Two days later, General Huangshi, who personally led 30,000 troops to land in Ningbo, also destroyed all the way from the direction of Shangyu Shaoxing, and finally succeeded in killing Xiaoshan County, which is across the water from Hangzhou, and joined Sun Yang's 7,000 partial divisions victoriously.

At this point, this round of Jiangnan Raiders, which is like a storm, has come to an end for the time being. In Zhejiang Province, the Allies succeeded in occupying most of the coastal elite areas from Hangzhou to Wenzhou, forcing the governor of Zhejiang to take the remnants of his troops and horses over the mountains and mountains, and huddle in Quzhou inland, completely without the strength to counterattack. And the small court of Emperor Yonghe, who was entrenched in Nanzhili, was even more shocked to find that he was suffering from the enemy on his back, and he had reached a life-and-death juncture!

In the farther Lingnan and Guangzhou, with a more obvious all-round absolute superiority, the Allied forces there have already finished their work......

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ps: Although I have been out of the group again, on the occasion of the torch festival, let's put a big fire at the right time!