Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 289 Demolition Brigade
"Suzhou City was demolished, Yangzhou City was demolished, and Wuxi City was also demolished."

"Changshu was demolished, Jiangyin was demolished, Taicang was demolished,"

"I want to ask, which city is there in the south of the Yangtze River?"

In Jiangning City, Yan Jinglue was furious, yelling at a group of governors and soldiers, and sprayed their faces with saliva.

"Gebu, Changzhou City is still there, and Zhenjiang City is still there." Jiangning Garrison Meile Zhangba Shanjing said with a smile, with a mocking tone in his tone.

The situation in Jiangnan has deteriorated to this point, and now everyone is used to it, and even feels that it is worse.It's all rotten anyway, as long as someone else is worse than me.

In comparison, the Eight Banners generals from Beijing have a great sense of superiority in their hearts. Anyway, they did not create the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhuma La said, "Hangzhou City and Songjiang City are still intact."

Tu Guobao, who was recalled to Jiangning, has been formally relegated to Jiangnan Right Chief Envoy. He hastened to say, "Haining Marquis Admiral Zheng and former Songjiang Governor Li are really amazing. We cannot compare. Just like the iron bucket, they have repeatedly defeated the Ming thieves, and harvested the important city of Hangzhou in one fell swoop, without even having a chance for them to destroy the city, and harvested a complete Hangzhou."

"In addition, Songjiang Mansion can still be kept intact despite the rampant invasion of Ming thieves. In addition to the credit of Governor Li Yuchun, it has to be returned to the government of Yan Zhifu. The tiger father has no dogs. I think Songjiang was stationed by Li Chengdong at the beginning. Thieves seized it, and later Boluo Belle entrusted Mr. Yan to know the Songjiang Mansion, and with Li Yuchun's civil and military assistance, not only quickly restored Songjiang's business and people's livelihood, but also insisted on making Songjiang like an iron barrel. This time, all parts of the south of the Yangtze River fell. Songjiang is still standing tall, I have to say, I admire it very much."

Yan Wogong immediately said, "You don't need to praise that kid too much. It was all done when Governor Li was there. He is a talent and doesn't understand anything, but he is more able to listen to and give excellent advice. He won't shoot randomly. It's just a brain."

He Tuo sighed, "I heard that things were not going well in Huguang. Xiangyang was captured by Ming thieves, and then they demolished the two cities of Xiangfan and retreated to Yunyang. After Jingzhou was captured, they were also destroyed. Zhongxiang, Anlu, etc. They were captured and demolished one after another, and now the three towns of Wuchang are also in critical condition."

"Those Ming thieves are very rascals now. They attack cities and lands everywhere but don't defend them. Every time they break a city, they move away the craftsmen and people to transport away the money and food. filled it out,"

"Did you say there was such a war?"

"Xiangyang, Jingzhou, they actually seized it and abandoned it."

Although Ma Guozhu said that these people were guilty of bandit thinking and did not dare to confront the Qing Dynasty head-on.

Just like Luo Xiujin, the former governor of Henan, who was originally transferred to the governor of Chuanhu, he brought thousands of troops to reinforce Huguang, and planned to fight a good battle with the Ming army in Xiangyang, and wiped out the Ming army in Yunxiang in the first battle.But in the end, they robbed and ran away, and even tried to fortify the wall and clear the country.

As a result, when Luo Xiujin arrived at the Han River, he could only look at the river and sigh. In the end, he could only abandon the dilapidated city of Xiangfan, return to Dengzhou to eat, and then collect food from Nanyang and other places to supply military supplies, and even reinforce Huguang. It is necessary to recruit more money, food and people from Dengzhou and other places in Nanyang, and go all the way to Xiangfan to restore the defense of the city and the water transportation of the Han River.

But these things can't be done in a day or two. Luo Xiujin is still in Dengzhou, so she can't go south at all.

The same goes for Huaixi, where the Ming army is on both sides of the Dabie Mountains. There are hundreds of cottages, large and small, and they are haunted by the mountains.The Qing army advanced and suppressed, but the mountains were high and the roads were dangerous. They did not take advantage of those mountainous areas, but they were accidentally ambushed and beaten.

Now that Wuchang is under siege, there is no way for Huguang to spare any troops to enter the mountain to encircle and suppress. Xu Yong and other general soldiers who entered the mountain before were also forced to retreat to Qihuang and were also besieged.

So now the situation in Huguang is very strange. Adjacent Guanzhong, Henan, Huaiyang and other places were unable to come to reinforce. They had to pass through a long area controlled by the Ming army.

Now Huguang relies entirely on the reinforcement of troops from the lower reaches of the south of the Yangtze River, but Luck Dehun and others don't have many soldiers and horses, and they have traveled westward for thousands of miles without growing wings.

We can only watch the situation decay to this point, and watch the Ming army capture one prefecture and county city after another, and then move people, move food, and demolish the city every time they conquer a city.

The Hubei area is almost becoming a ghost town now.

In comparison, Jiangnan feels pretty good. At least Hangzhou has just been recovered, Songjiang and Jiaxing have been quite stable, Jiangning and Zhenjiang are also like rocks, but Changsu and Taihu Lake are not peaceful, and they are repeatedly competing for see-saw.

"Duke Yan has always been resourceful. May I ask how we should deal with the rogue demolition tactics of the Ming army?" Zhu Mala asked. He used to be the Minister of the Ministry of War in Beijing, and he considered the problem quite comprehensively.

But under the current situation, he should have been stationed in Hangzhou, but the canal was blocked, money and food could not be supplied along the way, and the Ming army appeared and disappeared, making it difficult for him to move forward.

Originally, three days ago, he should have led troops south to rescue Changzhou with Ba Shan and others, but the food and grass that Yan Wogong promised to give them failed to be fulfilled.

As for Mr. Yan, he failed to pull out the grain, because spies had spies in Jiangning City, set fire to the granary, and burned the grain and grass that should have been supplied to the army.

Mr. Yan also couldn't get any food for a while, so he had to postpone the plan to send troops.

Zhumala heard that after investigation, Yan Wogong discovered that the fire in the granary was not necessarily caused by Ming army spies, but more likely that the granary officials set the fire in private. Then go to the government offices in various places, and even the granaries are also being checked.

The granary has always been the hardest-hit area for corruption. It is difficult to match the grain on the books with the grain in the warehouse. Once the check is tight, the granary will naturally catch fire.

This kind of thing often happens.

Now they push it directly to the spies of the Ming army, which is even more perfect.

Yan Wogong suspected that an insider set the fire, but there was not enough evidence for a while.

But for Zhu Mala and others, the burning of the granary affected their expedition to the south to rescue Changzhou and Shaoxing.

Originally, Yangzhou, an important water transport town on the other side, could be counted on to provide assistance, but Yangzhou was captured by the Ming army's Huang Binqing and Ruan Jin's navy not long ago. Liu Liangzuo ran faster than a rabbit, and all the grain and salt in Yangzhou fell into the hands of the Ming army. inside.

Then the Ming army did not stick to it, and transported away the food, salt, and silver in the city by boat, and another major demolition came. Therefore, Yangzhou City, which was fully restored after the Qing government slaughtered Yangzhou, became a ghost city again.

"It's hard for a smart woman to cook without rice. When Hong Jinglue and Luck Dehun Baylor went to Huguang, they had already taken away most of Jiangning's money, food and supplies. Now Susong, Anhui and other places have no money and food to hand over. It is even more impossible for the court to have food. For transfer, the current plan is to wait until after the autumn harvest, when the new rice is expropriated and stored in the warehouse.”

(End of this chapter)