Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 89 Abandoned City
Zhu Yihai only stayed for one day after taking down Ganpu, and then decided to lead his army to leave.

He didn't plan to send troops to stay behind, not even a few soldiers for a symbolic stay. Before leaving, he also held a public trial meeting in Ganpu.

It was also at this meeting that Zhu Yihai officially took the title of Admiral of the local military affairs of the Jiangnan provinces and the commander-in-chief of the banner battalion. He called himself Zhu Wu, the general of the town, and did not publicly play the banner of supervising the country.

After surrendering to captives, he was appointed as a pseudo-general guarding Ganpu, as well as several leaders of the Oolong Society, as well as the slave change society that rebelled against and killed the master, and those secret societies that took the opportunity to spread and develop, and other salt dealers in the city. The leaders and key members of the gang were escorted by Zhu Yihai to the stage in front of the Town God's Temple.

Many people were mobilized to watch the excitement.

The public trial was very simple and quick. All the guys who used to be famous in Ganpu were brought up one by one at this time, and their charges were read out in public. Everyone had a long list of charges.

To them, Zhu Yihai showed no mercy and beheaded them all in public.

In troubled times, heavy scriptures should be used. Although some people suggested recruiting these people, even if they acted as eagles and dogs, it would be good, but in the end Zhu Yihai believed that although the situation was difficult, he had to unite all parties to fight against the enemy, but at least he had to be an individual.

These are no longer human.

Besides, in the current chaotic situation, it is useless to just show favor and tweet, some blood needs to be seen, and some real prestige must be shown first.

Even if you want to use those people, you have to kill a group first and disintegrate their old organization before you can talk about cooperation, otherwise it will only be a disaster and a hidden danger.

What's more, Zhu Yihai is very short of money now, he needs the large amount of illegally accumulated money in the hands of these people.

Don't look at a small Gangpu, but there are dozens of powerful families, dozens of large and small salt lords, various salt gangs, and many secret societies, with a lot of secret wealth.

Zhu Yihai led 1 horses and horses across the river, and even if the soldiers under his command were paid half the salary, the monthly salary would be tens of thousands of taels of silver, not to mention that people had to eat horse chews, weapons and equipment, etc., all of which cost nothing.

Even if we start to establish the Lijin Bureau now, we won't be able to collect much in a short time. After all, we haven't laid down much land, and we haven't even controlled a Haiyan County. How much Lijin can we have.

At this stage, it is impossible to levy money from the common people, and it will not be much. Such levy will make it difficult for them to gain a foothold in the local area, so the best way out is to take action against these guys first.

Not only is the teacher famous, but he can also cut a wave of leeks, and most importantly, he can also reap a wave of popular praise.

For the sake of profit, the capitalists even sell the rope used to hang them. Now Zhu Yihai is similar. He first uses these dregs to practice his hands, and then he can lose gold and equipment, so why let him go.

The documents that read out the crimes were all read out dry.

As for the soldiers who executed the execution, they changed several times, and the blade was missing when they slashed people with their knives.

Murder, copy confiscated.

The leader and backbone were killed, and the rest were punished lightly. Those gangs and clubs were banned, their houses, properties, boats, horses and mules were confiscated, and prohibited weapons were confiscated, and then Zhu Yihai gave them a chance to start a new life.

As long as they are not vicious villains with blood on their hands, Zhu Yihai is still willing to give them a chance. He even recruited a group of capable soldiers from among them. Each has its own strengths, and after being recruited and added to each battalion, it can still be used through the ideological transformation of the army. After all, these people are all good at it, and this is also to strengthen the strength of the army.

There are also some local people, Zhu Yihai sold them the salt in the salt warehouse after punishing them with military clubs or whips, and asked them to sell them.

In the past, many of them were smuggling and smuggling salt, but now Zhu Yihai sells the salt directly to them, pays the salt tax, and then gets white salt from the salt warehouse to sell.

There is no need for salt merchant qualifications or salt introductions, and they can be sold openly.

For those local powerful families, Zhu Yihai reprimanded and fined the rest after destroying a few bullies who were resented by the people.

In the end, Zhu Yihai reaped a large sum of money from Ganpu.

Before leaving, he appointed Su Jiaxuan, the patriarch of the well-known Su family in Ganpu City, as the governor of Ganpu Township, and left them some knives and guns, and asked Ganpu to set up a Ganpu security camp. A military officer's son is on guard.

Then let them maintain their autonomy.

Zhu Yihai left with his men and horses, loaded with money, grain and silver goods, and went straight to Zhujiazhuang.

"Why didn't His Highness send troops to stay behind, but formed a private battalion from the local people? And also appointed the township officials and guards from the local people of Ganpu?"

Zhu Yihai rode on the horse, looked at the winding team behind him, and answered Shen Chenquan's question happily, "Because our current main task is to eliminate the Tartars and puppet troops, so we have to go to the newly recovered land in western Zhejiang. Guarded and maintained by local militias, we cannot spread our forces and stay behind."

Although there are many 1 troops, they will definitely recover more and more places in the future, such as a county, a government, or even a province. At that time, they will divide their troops and stay behind. These 1 people will be too scattered and weak. It is very unfavorable for Zi to send troops to attack.

For Zhu Yihai's Northern Expedition, although he had previously dispersed his soldiers into the countryside, he could recruit them back at any time if he had a plan and purpose. At this stage, he would not defend any city.

It is necessary to maintain high mobility and not fight hard with the enemy.

Even if they fight, they have to look for opportunities to gather and annihilate them.

Just like he went to Zhujiazhuang now.

Of course, there is another reason that Zhu Yihai did not mention. He is actually very clear that at this stage, even after he suppresses these scumbags in the localities, these places are not safe and reliable. Not all of them are credible.

When faced with the raids of the Qing army, they may betray the Ming army at any time.

It is not safe to defend the city with these people.

Maybe after he wins more victories in the future, he can really win the support of the gentry and common people here, otherwise, it would be too dangerous to hand over his back to them now.

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One day later, Zhu Yihai led his troops to the shore of Majia Lake near Zhujiazhuang, where he gathered Zhang Mingzhen, Ruan Jin and other generals, and even saw the dynasty who was beside Zhang Mingzhen.

This guy who was appointed by the King of Yiyang as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was plotted against by Huang Binqing. In the end, he lost his wife and lost his army. He fled to Wang Zhiren with only a dozen family members. Wang Zhiren sent someone to send him to Zhu Yihai.

Zhu Yihai was not very interested in this guy, but since he was also the chief soldier of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and he was once a general who supported Yiyang King, and now he is going to vote for him, there will be some political benefits in taking him in.

But Zhu Yihai rejected Wang Zhiren's suggestion, not only didn't give him the title of earl or governor, but he didn't even give him a commander in chief. In the end, he was given the title of deputy general by Zhang Mingzhen, the commander in chief of the admiral of Zhejiang. A senior staff officer did not even bring him a battalion of troops.

The Dynasty had to fully prove his loyalty and ability to Zhu Yihai before Zhu Yihai could really let him lead the troops. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to lead the troops based on his original title.

These men and horses under his hands are very important. This is a new army that he wants to train and build with his own hands. How can he hand it over to an old army leader like Chao Xian at will?

"Your Highness, Thief Li has already broken through Zhujiazhuang. They slaughtered all the old and young people in Zhujiazhuang, and all the women were taken into the camp for adultery. They are simply a group of beasts!"

Zhu Yihai had expected this possibility a long time ago, it is impossible for Zhujiazhuang to last for too long.

In fact, they had already reminded Zhujiazhuang before, and even wanted to unite with them to fight Li Yuchun, but Zhujiazhuang was quite big, and the owner of Zhujiazhuang didn't trust them very much, so he didn't want to pay any attention to them.Even if Zhu Yihai wrote a personal letter to the proprietor, using the banner of his Jiangnan admiral, but the other party only sent someone to send 100 taels of silver, and the two pigs returned the favor.

It is obvious that Zhu Yihai is regarded as the one who beats the autumn wind.

Although Zhujiazhuang rejected his kindness, Zhu Yihai was still very angry because of their miserable situation, "It's not as good as a beast."

in the village.

Zhu Yihai quickly held a simple pre-war meeting.

At this time, all ten battalion heads gathered here and scattered around Zhujiazhuang.

In addition to the 1 horses gathered, they also brought a lot of township militiamen. When the numbers gathered in front of Zhu Yihai, he couldn't believe it, "5 township braves?"

"If you pull them all over, it might be more than that."

Zhu Yihai shook his head and said, "It's not all a good thing to have a lot of people."

The ten battalion heads, when they were scattered around with sentry teams, basically set up many township militia groups in various places, but Zhu Yihai knew very well that these so-called township militia groups were actually a group of ordinary people holding sharpened wooden sticks As a spear, the lid of a pot as a shield.

If it is about defending the village, guarding the wife and children, I guess they can still do it, and guarding against rebellion and thieves is fine, but joining the battle now is too demanding for them.

"Immediately issue an order to withdraw these township militiamen, let them retreat further, and coordinate assistance on the periphery."

In a real fight, Zhu Yihai was afraid that these large numbers of Xiangyong would become a breakthrough point instead.

"Your Highness, there are still 4000 Li thieves guarding Zhujiazhuang, and there are also 500 captive cavalry. We found out that those Tartar cavalry are basically horse-riding infantry. Although they are not good cavalry vests, they are also very They are tough, they are all real Tartars. If these 4000 people really fight, it is estimated that they are stronger than Thief Li's [-] people."

"In addition, Thief Li has [-] light cavalry under his command, which are his old capital, and [-] armored infantry, all of whom are veterans."

"If we attack head-on, I'm afraid it will not be easy."

Zhu Yihai's tenth battalion had 1 horses, facing [-] enemy troops, they seemed to have an advantage in numbers, but Zhu Yihai's ten battalions accounted for more than half of the recruits, including [-] auxiliary soldiers.

The number of soldiers who have been on the battlefield is less than [-], which is actually not as many as the Tartars.

What's more, the most feared are the five hundred cavalry of the Tartars. These are the soldiers who have fought a hundred battles from Liaodong to the south of the Yangtze River. Even if they are not elite cavalry like Ba Yala, the heavy infantry fighting on horseback is not easy to mess with. .

Zhu Yihai said, "No matter how difficult the enemy is, we must find a way to win this time. Everyone, think of a way, how to wipe them out as soon as possible!"

Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Chaoxian waited for a while but couldn't think of a good way.

(End of this chapter)