Just as Hua Rong's cronies guessed, their Governor Hu was furious when he heard the news, after all, he was slapped in the face just after boasting about eating pot pulp, how could such disobedient people not be severely punished.

Stop it.

Swing out the artillery attack.

In the end, they tossed and turned on the Gorge River until late in the evening to complete the landing and assemble for an attack.

But that night, Yu Zhixian in the city simply abandoned the city and fled, and took nearly a thousand young men with him and then disappeared into the mountains west of the city.

They never thought about sticking to it, they just delayed time to get Nanchang ready.

But their efforts were in vain in the end, although Nanchang had indeed received the news when Governor Hu returned down the river the next day, but what Governor Hu was in Nanchang was the pot pulp he wanted.

As the core city of the Jiangyou family, the Nanchang gentry raised troops before he arrived, and together with several generals who defected, they quickly took control of Nanchang City, and those officials from the north and the new science and technology in the city, after a small resistance, determined that the situation could not be recovered, and immediately fled with thousands of soldiers who refused to obey, and ran all the way to Nankang and then held Nankang.

The gentry of Nanchang welcomed the king.

Wang Shi, who learned of the situation, didn't care about staying, and went straight forward with the arms put together by the Nanchang gentry.

Soon Governor Hu came to Nankang with a large army of 50,000, although the people who withdrew to Nankang also made defensive arrangements, but several families in Nankang City secretly opened the city gate that night.

Nankang also fell.

In the end, those soldiers and civilians who refused to rebel, under the leadership of several officials who graduated from Wutai Mountain, a total of more than 5,000 people escaped from Nankang and entered Lushan.

It can be said that the ecstatic Governor Hu, amid the cheers of the equally ecstatic gentry, marched forward like a bamboo, and almost did not fight before the mouth of the lake.

At this time, the imperial court was still slow to react.

Of course, this doesn't matter anymore, Jianwen's Wang Shi finally entered the Yangtze River.

Moreover, on the same day that Governor Hu sent Jishui, Wang Bi's army also went north, while the Changsha gentry and the generals of the guard defected, in fact, they did not resist any of them, the gentry and the generals of the guard defected, the northern officials and the officials of the new imperial examination fled, and the few who could not escape went directly into the mountains to fight guerrillas. This army, which totaled 150,000 but claimed to be 500,000, entered the Yangtze River almost bloodlessly like Governor Hu, but the king of Chu did not welcome his father-in-law in the end, and he, like last time, gathered troops in Wuchang to hold on, and relied on his identity to quickly suppress the rebellion of the Wuchang gentry, but mainly because of his guards in Wuchang City.

This guard is different from the past, it used to be a military household guard, but he wants to develop in the south, and it is difficult for a military household to be willing to follow.

Even if there are various means to fool away, there are not many people.

After all, he is not as appealing as his fourth brother after all.

So the king of Chu gritted his teeth and paid for the recruitment of 5,000 mercenaries, because he could not return to Annan, he could only stay in Wuchang temporarily, and even his palace was used as a military camp, and finally these 5,000 mercenaries and the old guards quickly controlled the situation in Wuchang for him.

Then he blocked his father-in-law upstream.

However, it was only to block his father-in-law, and it did not help the battle downstream.

And Governor Hu went straight down the river after entering the Yangtze River, but to his surprise, the capital was still slow to react, or maybe he was too fast, after all, it didn't take long to go straight downstream......

From the time he sent troops to the time he entered the Yangtze River, it was only six days in total.

In short, when he came to Anqing, An Qingwei did not have any combat preparations, and even An Qingwei commanded the envoy to lead troops to reinforce Hukou, but the reinforcement Hukou did not take the Yangtze River, but crossed the river and took the land route on the south bank. In the end, it took only an hour for Governor Hu to easily conquer Anqing, or to enter Anqing in the welcome of the Anqing gentry, and then move forward with great momentum, and three days later his army was already in Wuhu, but still did not encounter real resistance, but when he arrived at Tu, he finally knew the real reason for this strange situation......

Nanking.

Big win.

"Retreat to the city to hold on, did Zhao Sili drink too much again? What kind of messy orders has he given these days? While the princess is away, he will die if he thinks about it, and we are not interested in messing around with him! If he hadn't commanded indiscriminately and let the defenders of Anqing go to the south bank to reinforce the mouth of the lake, he would not have let the enemy pass through Anqing, and Ma Di actually came up with this strategy of letting a group of infantry abandon the fortress and intercept the enemy fleet by land. Even I know that Xie Jin is clearly an internal ghost, and he still obeys these guys, can the enemy still let him go and continue to make him prosperous and rich when he enters the capital? ”

Tang Sheng, commander of the First Army of Beijing, said angrily.

Well, the capital was slow to respond because the princess was not in the capital at all.

Five days before Governor Hu sent troops, she had already gone to Zhejiang to inspect, Zhejiang had just been hit by a typhoon, Zhoushan's canned food industry was damaged a lot, and the princess went to inspect this important fishing base in the Ming Dynasty.

She is not in the capital, but the Queen Mother is personally presiding, but the Queen Mother is personally presiding over her father.

At present, the court is very different from before, because there was a meeting of princesses to make decisions, and the cabinet acted as their secretaries, so all the ministries were obedient.

The army system is not the same either.

In all places, it is now those general soldiers who have the final say, and the governor's mansion of the five armies has gradually become an ornament, that is, Cao Guogong is just a decoration in the governor's mansion of the five armies.

Including other governors, the titles of governors, governors, and governors are also on the heads of the general soldiers in various places.

Any orders are decided by the princess's meeting, the cabinet drafts, the military department is directly issued to the general soldiers, theoretically it is issued to the governors of the five armies, but the general soldiers everywhere are the governors, just send them directly, this system is nothing more than easy to form a feudal town, but with Yang Feng suppressing who dares to be a feudal town? And this model is undoubtedly the most efficient and the lowest cost, so it is like this now, but the problem is that the princess is not in trouble, and she is replaced by the queen mother, the queen mother listens to the prince, and the emperor listens to a few ministers around him who praise him, especially Xie Jin and others.

So the strange reaction of the imperial court so far has been made by them.

At the beginning, Zhang Xianzong asked Jingying to immediately reinforce Anqing.

But he was rejected by the national abbot.

Because Xie Jin and others said that Nanchang was loyal and righteous, and there were two elites of the guard, which was enough to hold on and then transfer troops from Jiangbei to the south.

Jingying should not be moved lightly.

But when he said this, the Nanchang gentry were already welcoming the king.

Then learning that Nanchang had fallen, Zhang Xianzong said that Nankang was also difficult to keep, and it was necessary to immediately transfer troops to reinforce Anqing to defend this last key point.

But again rejected by the national abbot.

Because Xie Jin told Guozhang that guarding Anqing is better than guarding the mouth of the lake, let An Qingwei reinforce the mouth of the lake, and the speed of the Yangtze River going up the river is too slow, let them cross the river and go to the south bank to speed up the horse, Tang Sheng, who learned the news, almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, saying that they are preparing to let a group of soldiers who are fast horses and whips by the river, how to intercept the fleet that goes downstream? Is it possible to bombard hundreds of battleships with those dozens of field guns that are not as big as fists?

But he didn't count, in fact, when he learned the news, the order had already been given.

And now let them withdraw to the city defenses?

"I have a fort here, a warship, everything I need, and I don't defend here, but I want to retreat into the city and hold on?

Tell the national abbot that Emperor Taizu Gao defeated Chen Youliang here, and now he has abandoned it, and Xiaoling is uneasy. ”

Tang Sheng said very simply.

The officer who delivered the decree immediately turned back.

Jingying is actually not four armies at present, because the third army follows the princess to patrol, and of course the princess must have an escort army when she goes out on patrol.

So at present, there are three armies in the capital, he guards the big victory pass, and the other two armies guard the north of the city and the south of the city, that is, the line from Yuhuatai to Zhongshan, but this does not mean that the capital is insufficient, in fact, the entire capital is basically a soldier, and the reserve can be conscripted at any time to expand more than ten times, as for the weapons and armor are piled up, and even the Beijing camp is not a single army, and the capital does not have to worry about being attacked by foreign enemies.

"There is something wrong with this matter, Xie Jin and others are undoubtedly ghosts, they obviously deliberately let the enemy army to the capital, but the enemy army will definitely not be able to open the capital, they should know very well, if we withdraw to the capital to hold on, it is indeed inevitable that the city will suffer some losses, after all, the shells will inevitably fall in the city, but just the tens of thousands of people who spend Rong, if they really want to storm the capital, they will have to be all pasted on the city wall in less than half a month, Xie Jin and others will not know.

Why did they let Hua Rong go to the city?

Do you think they're dying slowly? ”

His lieutenant general, Geng Bingwen's son, said the horse Geng Rui.

He is Zhu Biao's son-in-law.

The generals of the six armies of the Beijing camp are all nobles, and this is inevitable, after all, they were when Zhu Yunxi was born, and it can be said that the Beijing camp was commanded by the descendants of these nobles from its establishment.

Yang Feng didn't bother to change it after he took power, after all, he had a good relationship with Xungui.

Tang Sheng can be the ruler, but it depends on the special relationship between his aunt and Yang Feng.

"Leave him alone, let's hold the big victory pass left and right, they can't do anything they want."

Tang Sheng said.

He was a military defense victory pass.

Here is a complete defense system, there are small fortress batteries in Sanshanji, heavy artillery locks the Yangtze River, there are many military camps such as Niushou Mountain behind, and even cavalry counterattacking, which is enough to lock off the entire upstream to attack the enemy, and ensure the safety of the outer city wall of the capital behind. Therefore, no matter what conspiracy Xie Jin and others had, they would first let Governor Hu and Hua Rong's army pass through their pass, otherwise they would not even be able to rely on the outer city wall, and as for the land attack from Dangtu to bypass Dasheng Pass, it was simply unrealistic, and when they pushed the heavy artillery and moved slowly, the cavalry had already stepped on them.

However......

Solve the house.

"Tang Sheng refused to retreat to the city."

Xie Jin said with a solemn face.

"Then what to do, if they don't withdraw, Hu Zhongchang can't go outside the city at all, these thousands of people in our city are no different from committing suicide, we have to let them cross the outer wall, we can do it in the city, give them control of a city gate, and then hold on until they arrive, this gate can only be Yifeng Gate or Dinghuai Gate."

Jin Youzi in front of him said.

Of course, Jin Youzi is actually the Hanlin of the Jianwen Dynasty, but the people who secretly came to the capital, in addition to him, there were also 3,000 elites who secretly entered the capital as a business traveler, and in order to ensure loyalty, they were all some special military households collected in Guangzhou and other places. Originally, there were a lot of them in Guangzhou, and there were still a few thousand households in Guangzhou, and there was no need to worry about the language problem, they were just military households stationed in Guangzhou, and many of them were originally from the north, and the language had not completely changed, at least there were still a lot of people who could speak northern, and the rest was to enter Beijing by business travel. At present, industry and commerce are prosperous, and all places, especially road guides, are basically useless, even if there is no road guide, as long as you register when you enter the capital.

After all, industry needs people.

There are so many factories in the capital that need to be filled by displaced people.

In fact, the population of the capital has long skyrocketed, not only the surrounding people are idle, but also many young people from other places come for high salaries, basically they can be regarded as full-time workers, and even the houses in the city are not enough, and they have overflowed to the outer city in large quantities. Especially for those factories that need hydraulic machinery, and because of the serious pollution, they have to rush to the outside, and each factory has formed residential areas around it, and the south of the city along the river has become a dense chimney and water wheels everywhere.

In this case, it is easy to hide a few thousand people, and it will not attract the attention of the government at all.

"You can't rely on them all, Zhao Sili can't command the Beijing camp at all, the Beijing camp only listens to the princess, and the queen mother has to see if they are willing to listen, since Tang Sheng refuses to withdraw to the city, it is impossible to withdraw, and it is useless to give them an order."

Xie Jin said.

"What about Li Jinglong?"

Jin Youzi said.

"He's just an ornament, who listens to him.

Now that the big thing is done, it can not be delayed any longer, since Tang Sheng does not retreat, then I am afraid that Hu Zhongchang will attack the victory pass and it will be difficult to open, there are fortresses along the river, so Hu Zhongchang can only go north from Dangtu, let them storm Shangfang and other gates, the outer wall is some earthen city walls, which are easy to blast open with heavy artillery, and then fight to die some soldiers to rush hard, as long as they can hit the inner city wall, we will do it. Tell Hu Zhongchang that success or failure is in one move, don't think that you can open it little by little by relying on his little people, the capital can't be opened, you can only open it for them from the inside, don't be afraid of the dead, we are worth dying for the sake of righteousness.

This is also our only chance, it just so happens that the princess is not in the capital, as long as she enters the capital and arrests the queen mother, let her make an order to invite Her Majesty to enter Beijing.

The princess is in Zhejiang, and she can't escape our grasp.

At that time, the army trapped her in the past, forced her to admit the Empress Dowager's edict, and then took her hostage to negotiate with Yang Feng.

Talking for a year and a half, as long as His Majesty is gracious and wins over those general soldiers, the gentry from all over the country, including King Yan and others, can almost force Yang Feng to leave the Ming Dynasty, since he likes to go to other places so much, then he will give him wherever he wants outside the Ming Dynasty in this world, he will give him the Americas if he wants the Americas, he will give him the Americas if he wants the South Seas, he will give him the Western Regions if he wants the South Seas, he will give the Western Regions to the Western Regions, he does not call himself the Great Xia Kingdom, he can build his Great Xia Kingdom in these places. ”

Xie Jin said.

Jin Youzi nodded, now it can only be like this.

Then he left the mansion, and then, like an ordinary merchant, he took a man and walked in the direction of the city gate.