Hearing Lu Sanhao say this, a group of soldiers from Jiangning garrisoning the Eight Banners who followed Echu all looked at their generals with expectant eyes.

The garrison of the Eight Banners is all dragged by the family, and where the soldiers are stationed, the family will follow.

If the city is broken and slaughtered, it will be the death of the whole family!

In addition to Beijing, Jiangning Mancheng is the largest of all the Mancheng (Flag City) garrisoned by the Eight Banners, its area accounts for about 20% of Jiangning City, the location is in the area of the original Nanjing Imperial City, and the outermost city wall is as long as 22 miles!

Its east and south sides use the city walls of Nanjing City in the Ming Dynasty, and the west and north sides use the city walls of the Ming Dynasty Imperial City to expand. Therefore, Zhengyangmen and Chaoyangmen, which originally belonged to the Nanjing City Wall, are part of the city of Jiangning!

Now that Chaoyangmen Urn City has been occupied by Lu Sanhao and others, it means that the first layer of the gateway to Jiangning Mancheng has actually been opened!

But after all, the foundation of Jiangning Mancheng is the Nanjing City Wall and the Nanjing Imperial City, which are layers of protection, there is an imperial city inside the city wall, and there is the Nanjing Forbidden City inside the imperial city. Layer by layer, like a nesting doll.

And there is not only the city of Chengtao, but also the Hetao River.

Therefore, the families of the banner families in Jiangning Mancheng can completely abandon the outermost city wall and retreat to the original imperial city and the Forbidden City to defend it.

After Duolong took away most of the Jiangning Banner Army and the Governor's pacesetter, Echu, who felt that the troops were insufficient, had already let the family members of the banner family who originally lived outside the imperial city move into the original imperial city of the Ming Dynasty.

There are quite a few dependents of these flag families, a total of 20,000 or 30,000 people! If they stubbornly defend the inner Imperial City and the Forbidden City, it will not be easy for the new Ming Dynasty's regimental training army to break it.

After all, there are not many people in Jiangning's regimental training army, and there are more than 5,000 troops at the moment, among which there are only 1,000 new Jiangning people who can really fight tough battles and speak Cantonese and Hakka. Relying on this amount of troops, it is simply unrealistic to gnaw down the city of Jiangning.

And Jiangning Mancheng couldn't gnaw down for a while, or attacked Mancheng and caused heavy losses in Jiangning's regimental training, which was not conducive to the development of the new Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the best policy is to let the family members of the banner family in Jiangning Mancheng leave with Echu. You can chase and kill for a round, or you can not chase and kill, it depends on Wang Zhongxiao's mood!

After owning Jiangning, a city with extremely important geographical location and political symbolism, the name of the new Ming court can be erected! And if the third prince Zhu and Lu No. 3 can take the whole city of Jiangning before Geng Jingzhong, it will be equivalent to picking a big peach, and they can even close the city gate and prevent Geng Jingzhong's army from entering the city.

In this case, the third prince of Zhu is not Emperor Ming Xian, and it will be difficult for Geng Jingzhong to be Geng Taishi and Geng Prime Minister.

But this set of wishful thinking is also counted!

He also knew that once the Third Prince Zhu and Lu Sanhao completely controlled Jiangning City and dominated the new Ming Dynasty in the future, then they would soon control the entire Jiangning Mansion - Jiangning was a big mansion! Jiangning City alone has a population of hundreds of thousands, and if you add several counties outside the city, there may be a million people. And if the million population is in place, 50,000 to 100,000 regiments can also be pulled out!

With so many troops, will the rich state capitals in Jiangnan still be the territory of the Qing Dynasty?

In addition, if Jiang Ning loses Geng Jingzhong and Shang Zhixin's share, what will they do? Back to Fujian? Or march to Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Changzhou and other places?

If the army led by Duolong ended up suffering heavy losses in Wuhu, and the imperial court could not draw reinforcements to Jiangnan for a while. Then the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River really have no strength to resist the 20,000 troops of Geng Jingzhong and Shang Zhixin.

If Zheng Jing on Dayuan Island intervenes again, then the rich land in the southeast of the Qing Dynasty may not be able to protect an inch!

After pondering for a while, Er Chu already had an idea, for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, and for the sake of him, the sin of the Great Qing Dynasty, he could not take care of the family members in Jiangning's city!

They had to be allowed to stay in Jiangning Mancheng to die, and only when they died, could the Qing Dynasty gain time to rectify the defense of Jiangnan

Er Chu gritted his teeth and shouted: "The surname is Lu, do you think the old man is a fool?" Will the old man believe you? Jiangning is indestructible, you can't take it at all, if our family members abandon the strong city, they will definitely be hunted down and killed by you, and even if they can run to Zhenjiang at that time, there will be no one in ten! Now the old man will go to Zhenjiang to mobilize troops to come back and counterattack! The old man doesn't believe it, you can break the city of Jiangning before the old man rushes back! ”

After speaking, he didn't give Lu Sanhao a chance to theorize, waved his horsewhip, turned around while beating the horse, and shouted loudly: "Let's go to Zhenjiang to transfer troops, and then fight back!" ”

Although the soldiers of the Eight Banners stationed with him all wanted to take their families away, they seemed to make sense after listening to Echu's analysis, so they followed Echu and left.

This time it was the turn of Wang Zhongxiao, Chen Yonghua, and Lu Sanhao on the upper floor of the urn city of Chaoyangmen, they were dumbfounded!

This time, they met a ruthless slave who didn't want a family for the country!

Lu Sanhao and Chen Yonghua are not siege experts, but they also know that Jiangning is particularly difficult to fight! So they all turned their heads to look at Wang Zhongxiao, who had commanded the army to defeat the two fortified cities of Macao and Guangzhou.

"Zhongshan. How long does it take to get around the city? Chen Yonghua asked.

"Five days?" Lu Sanhao also frowned and said, "If you can't beat it in five days, Geng Jingzhong should arrive!" ”

"Five days?" Wang Zhongxiao turned around and asked Liu Shuochuan, "Liu Baihu, how do you think this city should be fought?" ”

Liu Shuochuan has now been promoted!

From the foreign commission, the total number has been promoted to 100 households, which is really a prosperous official luck!

However, it is not easy for him to be promoted, not only to change jobs to become a second minister, but also to participate in the Jiangning Uprising - this is to pin his head to the waistband of his trousers to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore his sight!

And I haven't chosen yet!

The day before yesterday, he had just taken the third prince Zhu, Chen Yonghua, and Wang Zhongxiao to the place, and they were immediately detained. Then there was a multiple-choice question in front of them - either follow the third prince of Zhu and become the minister of the dragon.

Die or die!

This kind of multiple-choice question, Liu Shuochuan will definitely not choose the wrong one.

is still a foreign commissioner, and he is not qualified to be a loyal martyr of the Qing Dynasty!

It's better to fight, if it becomes, won't it be sent?

So he immediately knelt down for the third prince of Zhu, and immediately sealed a hundred households of the Jinyi pro-army, and he is also the most senior officer in the Jinyi pro-army at present!

Oh, or maybe he's all there is to the brocade army!

After becoming a pro-army in Jinyi, this Liu Baihu immediately showed the strength that Jinyiwei should have. Today, he is responsible for leading the way to lead Wang Zhongxiao, Chen Yonghua, Wang Leiyong and more than 100 elites, pretending to be Jiangning Tuanding, first taking the waterway to sneak into the Dongshui Pass of Jiangning City, and seize it in one fell swoop!

Then he escorted a Qing army to defend the city camp on the Shuiguan city wall, along the passage on the city wall all the way to Zhengyangmen Urn City, a wave of raids, and took Zhengyangmen Urn City. Later, he went straight to Chaoyangmen Urn City along the city wall, and together with Lu No. 3, who was seriously injured and led dozens of regiments to stay in Chaoyangmen Urn City to rest, raided and seized this critical place.

In addition to the two urn cities of Zhengyangmen and Chaoyangmen and the Jiangning Dongshui Pass, now the new Ming side also controls the three strongholds of the Jiangning Prefect's Yamen, Jiangning County Yamen, and Shangyuan County Yamen in Jiangning City, and I am afraid that if you want to control the entire Jiangning Hancheng, you will have to work for several days!

As for the city, I'm afraid it's not easy to fight!

"This. It's not easy to fight! Liu Shuochuan shook his head, "Li Zhongtang, we have already made a lot of movements in Chaoyangmen, Zhengyangmen, and Dongshuiguan, and it is impossible for the Eight Banners soldiers and their families in the imperial city not to know, and it is impossible to sneak attack." ”

The "Li Zhongtang" in his mouth is, of course, Wang Zhongxiao!

Wang Zhongxiao is now known as Li Zhongshan, and his surname is Li Li Chuang, and Wang can't do it for the time being, so let's be Li Zhongtang first!

So Wang Zhongxiao gave himself a "university scholar", which is in the middle hall.

Li Zhongtang nodded slightly.

Liu Shuochuan continued: "And there are moats on all sides of the Nanjing Imperial City, as long as the bridge on the moat is blocked, it is impossible to sneak into the imperial city. And our manpower is a little small, or take Jiangning Hancheng first, and then firmly control the Taiping Gate, Tongji Gate, Zhengyang Gate, Chaoyang Gate, Xihua Gate, Xiaomen, Bei'an Gate and other gates of the city and the city wall between the gates, trap the family members and some flag soldiers in the imperial city, and then wait for King Geng's army to arrive, and then try to attack the imperial city. ”

"It's okay," Li Zhongtang thought about it, and there was no better way for a while, so he nodded and said, "Let's follow Liu Baihu's method first, wait for the regimental training brigade to come over, let's first control the original gates and city walls of the city, and then take down the gates of Hancheng, and control the commercial ports on both sides of the Qinhuai River at the mouth of the Longjiang River and west of the city, to appease the people's hearts, and then make plans." ”

Lu No. 3 reminded: "Shikai, if you deploy it like this, then the thousands of regiments in our hands will not be able to do anything else, and in a few days, Geng Jingzhong and they will arrive, and it is difficult to say who Nanjing is by then!" ”

Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile: "Although Nanjing is important, it is just a lonely city. Even if we firmly control Nanjing, we may not be able to open up the situation. It's not good, the third prince will still make people trapped in Nanjing, just like that wife"

"Too? Too what? Lu Sanhao saw that Wang Zhongxiao didn't say anything, so he asked.

"No, nothing." Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "In short, we can't have only one Nanjing City, we have to find a way to quickly expand the team, and then firmly control the counties around Nanjing City. If you have spare energy, you will develop along the Yangtze River to Taipingfu, Zhenjiang and other places. ”

Wang Zhongxiao's words sound good, but what should be done?

Seeing Lu Sanhao's suspicious face, Wang Zhongxiao said: "Sanhao, let's not think so much about it first, hurry up and control the city walls and Jiangning Hancheng!" ”

"Good!" Lu Sanhao nodded, "I'll send someone to the Xiaoling Acropolis to transfer troops immediately!" ”

"After the situation in Nanjing is a little calmer, I will call the county orders of each county to the prefect's yamen, I have a plan to expand the Jiangnan regiment training and discuss it with the big guys!"

"Expand the group training?" Lu No. 3 was a little worried, "Are you going to engage in Juntian?" ”

"No, it's not Juntian" Wang Zhongxiao shook his head and said with a wry smile, "We don't have the capital to engage in Juntian in Jiangnan, so we can only win over the local gentry!" ”

Juntian, you have to move!

If you want to move evenly, you must be strong enough! Second, the resistance should be small enough!

On the Guangdong side, the strength of the Wang Jiajun was large enough, and there were 10,000 troops at the beginning, and the place where Juntian started was the three counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui and Xinning. In these three counties, there is a large amount of coastal "wasteland" – almost half of which was abolished by the Qing court's welcome relocation and sea ban.

In other words, the royal regime has a large amount of unclaimed land in its hands that can be allocated.

In this case, Wang Zhongxiao can first use the allocation of coastal land to pull a wave of die-hard loyalists, and he can also be lenient for Juntian in other areas - many "Yimen clans" who do not divide their families can not participate in Juntian, and at the same time, only large landowners who hold too much land will bear the loss.

In addition, in the "hinterland" of Guangfu, there are a large number of Pingnan Wangfu Clans, and those lands can be used to give generous to others.

Therefore, the difficulty of Guangdong Juntian is actually not high, there are many people who support it, and there are few people who oppose it.

But in the Jiangnan area, where there are many people and few fields, and the gentry are strong, it is not easy to want Juntian! Moreover, the strength that Wang Zhongxiao brought to Jiangning was limited, and there were only about a thousand elites.

If he insisted on ignoring the actual situation, if he didn't do well in Jiangning Junyitian, he would make the third prince of Zhu the head of the Hong sect and the city of Nanjing into the capital of Tianjing.

Wang Zhongxiao is not so dogmatic, he has already thought about it!

It is to learn from the enemies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who have shaved their heads, and to run a regimental training army like a Hunan army in Jiangnan!

On the third day after Jiangning became Nanjing, except for the imperial city, which was still controlled by 230,000 Eight Banner families and a small number of banner soldiers, the entire Nanjing City was already under the leadership of Zhu Cijiong, the third prince of Zhu!

Because the third prince Zhu, Lu Sanhao and Wang Zhongxiao took a trick and "half bought and half stolen" to get most of Nanjing City, Nanjing's market is still generally maintained, and the order in the market is also orderly.

However, because there are still stubborn Eight Banners in the imperial city, and the Jiangnan region outside the Tianfu is basically still in the hands of the supporters of the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, under the calm and orderly execution of Nanjing City, it is also full of crises and undercurrents.

In Nanjing, a key meeting that decided the survival of the new Ming court was being held in a rare atmosphere of equality, harmony and unity.

There is no wise tyrant like Zhu Hongwu here, and there is no heavenly father and brother who come down to earth, some are just the original monarch and the former ministers to discuss the country.

"Now that Nanjing City has not been completely recovered, His Royal Highness King Ding is anxious to invite you to come to Yingtianfu, or for the sake of expanding the armament war, our territory in Nanjing is not large, and in a few days, Geng Jingzhong and Shang Zhixin will come to rely on our thousands of people, it is not easy to gain a firm foothold here in Nanjing! If we can't stand on our feet, then isn't our trip in vain? Everyone's hardships over the years have been in vain! ”

Speaking in the Yingtianfu Hall, which was set up as a venue, was Wang Zhongxiao, who had now taken off his official uniform of the Qing Dynasty and once again cut off the braids of half-truths and half-truths (partly true, but not long enough, so there was a little connection) to restore the Ming Dynasty's clothes. However, he didn't wear the clothes of a university scholar, and he was still dressed in civilian clothes.

As he spoke, he looked at the grass platform team of the Nanjing Imperial Court. There are the third prince Zhu, Chen Yonghua, Chang Mingyue, He Tianran, Yu Haitao, Wang Leiyong, Zhang 21, Zheng Desheng, Zuo Yuanyang, Wang Huaxing, Liu Shuochuan, and the five county orders of the counties under Tianfu, which are those "officials and white labor".

They all looked very excited, and they were all tired.

In less than three days, they pacified and controlled most of Jiangning City, and I am afraid they didn't close their eyes much. And you've been in a state of euphoria, right?

Of course, there is a certain amount of nervousness and uneasiness.

Because this time they did the work of going deep behind enemy lines and blossoming in the center.

If you can gain a foothold in Nanjing, you will make a lot of money. Otherwise, it is inevitable that you will fall short, or make a wedding dress for others, and you may even lose your life.

"Zhongtang, do you want Juntian to run a township army?" It was Ling Jingchuan of Jiangning County who asked, his tone was a little low, and he felt that it was not easy to be in Juntian in Nanjing.

"It's not." Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "Now that the Jiangning regiment training is doing well, why bother with any more complications?" I mean, let's make Jiangning's group training bigger! ”

"How do you want to make it big?" Lu Sanhao asked.

This is easier said than done!

"Three ways," Wang Zhongxiao said, "one is to give a high military salary!" If you want people to work hard, you can't do it without giving money!

The second is to rely on the gentry who are willing to use the former Ming relics to train the regimental exercises. These gentry had connections and connections, and they were intertwined with each other, and they were certainly not satisfied with the Manchu Qing and could be used by us.

The third is that Jiangning's regimental training should engage soldiers as generals, and soldiers will go with the generals! ”

(End of chapter)