The rebels of the Jiangnan clan come and go quickly.

Hearing that King Nengqin supported King Xinwang Zhu Youzhen as a hero, they contributed their efforts and money to donate people, and many radicals followed Hong Chengchou to respond to King Xin's army.

But when Wang Hongyu's army arrived, they were the first to surrender.

Hong Chengchou's descendants are also soldiers in the Ming army, and everyone is really jealous of Wang Hongyu's strength, and they are also looking forward to following Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, to become the father.

But when everything comes to fruition, those with a little common sense will know that if Wang Hongyu's army continues to advance, the soldiers and horses and the scholars around Hong Chengchou are just mantis arms as cars.

"Descend!"

"Surrender!"

With King Xin being surrounded in Yangzhou, Nan Zhili's fleet blockading the Yangtze River and preventing Zhu Youzhen from joining Hong Chengchou, the coup d'état of King Xin was a complete failure.

There are also people in the six divisions in Nanjing who are loyal to the Apocalypse and have always been on guard against the rebels. At this time, Zhu Xieyuan, the former governor of Sichuan, who had been promoted to the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, led a limited number of soldiers and horses to attack.

They easily took Wuxi and Suzhou, and disarmed all the scholars involved in the rebellion.

In the end, Hong Chengchou and a few other remnants of the army were surrounded in Huzhou City.

In the north, Wang Hongyu also rushed to Yangzhou from the capital.

By the way, he sent troops to take over all the important towns along the Grand Canal, and the salt merchants' property was seized and controlled, and they were ready to take it over to the collective in the next step.

The people of Yangzhou City admired Wang Hongyu's aura very much during the previous Yangzhou Conference, his soldiers and horses were strictly disciplined, he bought and sold fairly in the market, and even did some voluntary manual labor for the people.

However, now King Xin, who is hiding in Yangzhou City, sent troops and horses, because it was difficult to escape all the way, and the grain was directly supplied by various prefectures and counties, and if the supply was insufficient, he had to buy it from the market.

This is in stark contrast to Wang Hongyu before.

Zhu Youzhen stayed at Meihualing, where the previous meeting took place, which is also the commanding height of Yangzhou City.

From here, although there is still some distance from the city wall, you can faintly hear the battle song outside the city.

"All of us are united, and the mountains can be shaken! Only loyalty and righteousness, anger and bullfighting...... The order is clear, and the reward and punishment letter is written. Go to the water and fire, dare to stay late......"

Zhu Youzhen's eyes sank, and he touched and said: "Qi Jiajun, this is the descendant of Qi's army, and the Hunhe army, including the Zhejiang soldiers, has arrived......

After the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, in the word of mouth of the veterans, this battle song of the Qi family army became popular again.

At first, some scholars deliberately did not publicize the deeds of the soldiers, and deliberately reduced Wang Hongyu's influence.

Later, under the Emperor of the Apocalypse Zhu Youxiao, the construction of military tuns in various places, and Wang Hongyu's newspapers, magazines, dramas, storytellers, and a series of cultural propaganda offensives, the doctors really couldn't stop it.

The bloody battle of the Hunhe River and the war song are all the rage and are household names.

Even Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, had to admit that he was very envious of such a strong army and such a huge cultural influence.

"That's!"

The soldiers and horses of King Xin on the city wall of Yangzhou looked at the sky to the north with their mouths wide open and their eyes straight.

There are flying objects in the air.

In appearance, it looks like a sky lantern that has been enlarged many times, and in some places it is also called "Kong Ming lantern".

These days the lanterns are very large, and there is a basket hanging from it, and there are people on it.

"Hot air balloons."

Wang Hongyu provided the principle and sketch, and Zhu Youxiao implemented it and drew more than a dozen detailed design schemes.

After screening, the design office under the Military War Bureau and the Construction Juntun Workshop manufactured the prototype hot air balloon of type and model, and after repeated competitions and experiments, the practical version of the reconnaissance hot air balloon was finally mass-produced.

Originally, these hot air balloons were also specially used to deal with Jiannu, detect enemy movements and ambushes, and restrain the opponent's outstanding ability to force marches and ambush in the mountains.

Now it's going to be used to deal with Zhu Youzhen first.

The north wind in autumn has been mild to Yangzhou, which is just convenient for the control of hot air balloons.

Use a telescope on the hot air balloon to see the arrangement of King Shin's soldiers and horses clearly, and then use the carrier pigeon on it to pass on the survey

The information was given to the commander-in-chief's battalion.

There is no radio yet, so I use carrier pigeons~

Zhang Wanzhong, a famous pigeon breeding and training master in the Ming Dynasty, is now the secretary of the processing department, and the governor of the large-scale animal husbandry industry in Beizhili and Shandong.

Just like the governor of the Grand Canal, there are also agricultural and pastoral governors in the large-scale livestock and agricultural industries owned by the collectives in various places.

Among them, the agricultural and animal husbandry governors of the northeastern part of Shanxi Province are the richest, and have become large-scale industrial bases for vegetables, animal husbandry and breeding.

The governor of agriculture and animal husbandry in Shaanxi Province has the strongest military strength, and his subordinates raise a large number of cattle, horses, donkeys and mules, as well as a large number of herdsmen who raise sheep.

Huaxia can also organize a huge livestock force to bring the original grassland area into its own scope.

In addition, most of the agriculture and animal husbandry in the central and southern regions did not exceed the large-scale collectivization of one province, so there was no special agricultural and animal husbandry governor. However, a political envoy in charge of agriculture and forestry was added, so that the development of American crops, aquaculture, forestry breeding, pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks in the south was impressive.

At present, where the construction of the military cantonment is located, the number of carrier pigeons is sufficient, and the training is also very good.

Before the advent of radio, Wang Hongyu already had the fastest means of communication in ancient times.

Zhu Youzhen also saw the hot air balloon in the air.

"This battle can't be fought...... If you don't take the capital, control the Grand Canal, Jizhen and Xuanfu, and keep Wang Hongyu out of the pass, you will not be an opponent at all."

At that time, the strategic idea was to take the capital in an instant, and issue an edict to inform the world that Wei Zhongxian was plotting rebellion, and Wang Hongyu was also one of the masterminds.

Although Wang Hongyu's power is not small, under the authority of the Zhu family and the overall situation of the capital has been decided, he is confident that he will win the support of most of the soldiers and horses on the nine sides.

Wang Hongyu is strong? The nine sides should not be underestimated!

In addition, he secretly reached a secret agreement with the Later Jin Emperor Taiji on armistice cooperation, and Wang Hongyu would be attacked if he did not surrender at that time.

This wishful thinking was completely shattered.

"Open the gates!"

"Don't fight a civil war!"

Suddenly there were various voices in Yangzhou City.

Zhu Youzhen sent people to investigate in a panic, but before the investigators returned, they heard a loud shout from Yangzhou City.

"Welcome to the Marquis!"

"Support the Emperor of the Apocalypse!"

"Don't fight the King of Faith in the Civil War!"

The people of Yangzhou stood up, and tens of thousands of workers led by dock workers and textile craftsmen stood up again, and they directly armed themselves with tools, took down several armories, and confronted Zhu Youzhen's soldiers and horses.

Residents, merchants, and students in Yangzhou, as well as refugees who had previously entered the city, all ran and shouted together, demanding that the city gate be opened to welcome the Marquis Yuan.

Even Qinglou contributed money and efforts, mobilized all connections to support the opening of the city gate, and welcomed the Marquis of Dingyuan into the city.

Zhu Youzhen was surrounded by some armed men of martial arts and powerful people in the capital, as well as some salt merchants from the Grand Canal and Yangzhou.

Actually, it's not very loyal.

As the workers and the people of the market stood up, some of these families simply went out of the city to surrender, and some simply joined in.

Several gates of Yangzhou were quickly taken by rising workers.

Zhu Youzhen saw that he was unable to return to the sky, so he had to order the soldiers and horses to surrender.

For a moment, he wondered if he would kill himself.

This time it failed.

The emperor's brother Zhu Youxiao died, and he was finished, Wang Hongyu's strength and prestige have reached this point, and it is very likely that he will be the emperor himself.

He didn't want to be a dead country like Liu Chan.

found his henchman eunuch Wang Chengen, and hanged himself in this plum blossom ridge.

"What are you doing?"

"Don't move! You are now captives!"

The renegade family actually took them down directly.

The family members are not stupid, they have worked under the hands of dignitaries and magnates for so many years, and they know what the weight of Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, is.

Take him down and dedicate it to Wang Hongyu, this is a great achievement~

In order not to be severely punished afterwards, these family members looked at Zhu Youzhen to death, and their mouths were stuffed with cotton. Even Wang Chengen tied it up and didn't give them a chance to commit suicide at all.

The counterinsurgency army immediately took control of the gates and walls of Yangzhou, and when Wang Hongyu entered the city, he was welcomed by the workers and citizens of Yangzhou. Under the maintenance of order by the Hunhe Army, even if there is a possibility of assassination, the success rate must be minimized.

Wang Hongyu first appeased the people, especially thanked the workers and citizens of Yangzhou.

"I'm here again in Yangzhou, this time in addition to quelling the rebellion, I want to bring you good news!"

He said aloud: "From today on, the wharves and salt administration in Yangzhou will be collectively owned, and the imperial court will only have ownership of ships and tools, collect taxes on a daily basis, participate in overall planning, and other ordinary operations and most of the income will be owned by the workers!"

"Good! Okay!"

"Really! Great!"

"Thank you, Marquis Dingyuan!"

The citizens and workers of Yangzhou City made great contributions, and Wang Hongyu took Yangzhou without a single shot.

Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, was captured alive by the scholars who protected him, but Yuan Chonghuan, who had been protecting Zhu Youzhen's escape south, did not know where to go.

Even Zhu Youzhen didn't know where Yuan Chonghuan went. Originally, he was in charge of the defense of the city, but after the situation became chaotic.

These family members who captured Zhu Youzhen alive said that Yuan Chonghuan had arranged the city defenses and had not seen him for several hours, so Wang Hongyu hurriedly ordered the city gate to be closed and the whole city to search for Yuan Chonghuan's whereabouts.

However, since Wang Hongyu put down the rebellion and entered the city, there has always been a Hunhe army handle at the city gate, and no one with a Cantonese accent was found to go out of the city, and Yuan Chonghuan's Cantonese accent was very strong, and it was easy to be found during interrogation.

Finally, when I asked the prisoners who guarded the gate, I learned that as soon as Wang Hongyu's cavalry arrived in the city, Yuan Chonghuan took a few guards to row a small boat out of the water gate, saying that he was going to move the rescue soldiers and not let them go out.

There are battleship handles on the Yangtze River in the south, Yuan Chonghuan won't go to the Yangtze River, so he must go to the Qinhuai River, and I don't know where he went? Maybe they ran ashore, or they went into hiding.

Yangzhou citizens and workers organized many teams to search for Yuan Chonghuan's whereabouts along the Huai River, as well as many rivers. Including the Grand Canal was also the place of the search.

This time, tens of thousands of people were mobilized, and hundreds of miles on both sides of each river were searched, and finally Yuan Chonghuan, who had been disguised as a businessman, was captured from a remote village.

He had a close relationship with the salt merchants, although he was not the kind of powerful and rich, but he still had a lot of connections among the salt merchants, so after going out of the city by water, he took advantage of the chaos to change ships and run away.

Finally caught him.