Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 222 We should not be the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, we must learn from Zeng Guofan! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
Hearing what Lu Sanhao said, a group of Jiangning soldiers stationed in the Eight Banners who followed Echu all looked at their general Echu expectantly.

The troops stationed in the Eight Banners are all led by their families. Wherever the soldiers are stationed, the families will follow.

If the city is destroyed and slaughtered, the whole family will die!

Jiangning Mancheng is the largest Mancheng (Banner City) garrisoned by Eight Banners soldiers except Beijing. Its area accounts for about 20.00% of Jiangning City. It is located in the area of ​​the original Nanjing Imperial City, the outermost circle. The city wall of the city is as long as 22 miles!
Among them, the east and south sides use the city wall of Nanjing City in Ming Dynasty, and the west and north sides use the city wall of Ming Dynasty City to expand.Therefore, Zhengyangmen and Chaoyangmen, which originally belonged to the Nanjing city wall, are both part of Yujiangning Mancheng!

Now that Chaoyangmen Urn City has been seized by Lu Sanhao and others, it means that the first floor gate of Jiangning Mancheng has actually been opened!
But the foundation of the Jiangning Mancheng is the Nanjing City Wall and the Nanjing Imperial City after all, which are layers of protection. Inside the city wall is the Imperial City, and inside the Imperial City is the Nanjing Forbidden City. Layers are like nesting dolls.

And there are not only Chengtao City, but also Hetao River.

Therefore, the family members of the Bannermen in Jiangning Mancheng can completely abandon the outermost city wall and retreat to the original imperial city and the Forbidden City to defend to the death.

After Duolong took away most of the Jiangning Banner Army and the governor's pacesetters, Echu, who felt that the troops were insufficient, had moved all the bannermen's families who originally lived outside the imperial city to the original Ming Dynasty imperial city.

There are quite a few family members of these bannermen, with a total of [-] to [-]!If they stick to the inner imperial city and the Forbidden City, it will not be easy for the regiment training army of the new Ming Dynasty to break through.

After all, there are not many people in Jiangning's regiment training army. At present, there are only more than 5000 troops. Among them, there are only [-] Xinjiangning people who can speak Cantonese and Hakka. Jiangning is full of cities, which is not realistic at all.

However, the Jiangning Mancheng could not be chewed for a while, or the attack on the Mancheng caused heavy losses to the Jiangning regiment training, which was not conducive to the future development of the new court of Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the best policy is to let the family members of the Bannermen in Mancheng, Jiangning, leave with Echu.You can chase and kill for a round, or you can not chase and kill, depending on Wang Zhongxiao's mood!
After owning Jiangning, a city with extremely important geographical location and political symbolic significance, the name of the new Ming court can be established!And if the third prince Zhu and Lu Sanhao can take down the whole city of Jiangning before Geng Jingzhong, it will be like picking a big peach. They can even close the gates of the city and prevent Geng Jingzhong's army from entering the city.

In this case, the third prince Zhu is no longer Ming Xiandi, and it will be very difficult for Geng Jingzhong to become Grand Master Geng and Prime Minister Geng.

But this set of wishful thinking is also counted!
He also knew that once Third Prince Zhu and Lu Sanhao completely controlled Jiangning City and dominated the future Ming court, they would soon control the entire Jiangning Mansion—Jiangning is a great mansion!A city of Jiangning has a population of tens of thousands. If several counties outside the city are added, there may be a population of one million.And if the population of one million is in place, 10 to [-] regiments can be drawn out for training!
With so many troops, will those rich and oily state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River still belong to the Qing Dynasty?
In addition, if Jiang Ning lost Geng Jingzhong and Shang Zhixin's share, what would they do?Back to Fujian?Or march to Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Changzhou and other places?
If the army led by Duolong suffered heavy losses in Wuhu in the end, and the imperial court was unable to spare reinforcements to come to the south of the Yangtze River for a while, then the southern provinces would really have no strength to resist the [-] troops of Geng Jingzhong and Shang Zhixin.

If Zheng Jing from Dayuan Island gets involved again, I'm afraid the southeast rich land of the Qing Dynasty will not be able to keep even an inch of it!

After thinking about it for a while, Er Chu had already made up his mind. For the sake of the Qing Dynasty, and also for the sake of him, a sinner of the Qing Dynasty, the crime can be lightened. He can't take care of his family members in the whole city of Jiangning!

Let them stay in the city of Jiangning to die. Only when they are dead can the Qing Dynasty gain time to rectify the defense of Jiangnan
Er Chu gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "My surname is Lu, do you think this old man is a fool? Will this old man believe you? Jiangning is indestructible, you can't take it down at all. If our family and children leave the strong city, they will definitely be chased by you." Kill, even if you can run to Zhenjiang by then, there will be no survivors! Now I will go to Zhenjiang to mobilize soldiers and come back to counterattack! I don’t believe that you can break Jiangning’s entire city before the old man rushes back!”

After he finished speaking, he didn't give Lu Sanhao a chance to argue. He waved his whip, turned the horse around, and shouted loudly: "Let's go to Zhenjiang to transfer troops, and then fight back!"

Although the Eight Banners soldiers who followed him wanted to take away their family members, but after hearing E Chu's analysis, it seemed reasonable, so they followed E Chu.

Now it was the turn of Wang Zhongxiao, Chen Yonghua, and Lu Sanhao on the upper floor of the Urn City at Chaoyangmen, they were dumbfounded!
This time they met a ruthless slave who did not want a home for the country!
Lu Sanhao and Chen Yonghua are not siege experts, but they also know that Jiangning Mancheng is particularly difficult to fight!So they all turned their heads to look at Wang Zhongxiao who once commanded the army to take down the two strong cities of Macau and Guangzhou.

"Zhongshan. How long does it take to cover the entire city?" Chen Yonghua asked.

"Is it enough in five days?" Lu Sanhao also frowned, "If you can't beat it in five days, it's time for Geng Jingzhong to arrive!"

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

Liu Shuochuan has now been promoted!

From the foreign committee, the general manager was promoted to a hundred households, what a prosperous official career!

However, his promotion was not easy. Not only did he have to change jobs to become a second official, but he also had to participate in the Jiangning uprising—this is to put his head on his trouser belt to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!
And there is no choice yet!
The day before yesterday, he brought 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 Zhu and become a servant of the dragon.

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

The general manager is still a member of the foreign committee, and he is not qualified to be a loyal soldier of the Qing Dynasty!

It's better to give it a try, if it succeeds, will it be released?

So he immediately knelt down to the third prince Zhu, and immediately sealed a hundred households of the Jinyi pro-army, and he is currently the most senior officer in the Jinyi pro-army!
Oh, or he alone is all of Jinyi's army!

After becoming Jinyi's pro-army, this Liu Baihu immediately showed the strength that Jinyiwei should have.Today he is responsible for leading Wang Zhongxiao, Chen Yonghua, Wang Leiyong and more than a hundred elites, pretending to be Jiangning regiments, sneaking into Jiangning City's Dongshuiguan by water first, and capturing it in one fell swoop!
Then he escorted Mr. Qian, who was guarding the city camp of the Qing army, to the city wall of Shuiguan, and along the passage on the city wall all the way to the Zhengyangmen urn city. After a wave of raids, he took down the Zhengyangmen urn city.Then they went straight to the Chaoyangmen urn along the city wall, together with Lu No. [-], who led dozens of regiments to rest in the Chaoyangmen urn under the pretext of being seriously injured, raided and seized this important place.

In addition to Zhengyangmen, Chaoyangmen, the two urn cities and Jiangning Dongshuiguan, Xin Daming now controls three strongholds in Jiangning city, Jiangning magistrate's yamen, Jiangning county yamen, and Shangyuan county yamen. I am afraid that the entire Jiangning Seoul city will have to work for several days!
As for the whole city, I'm afraid it's not easy to fight!
"This is not easy to fight!" Liu Shuochuan shook his head, "Li Zhongtang, we have made a lot of noise at Chaoyangmen, Zhengyangmen, and Dongshuiguan. It is impossible for the Eight Banners soldiers and their families in the imperial city not to know about it. A sneak attack is out of the question."

The "Li Zhongtang" in his mouth is of course Wang Zhongxiao!
Wang Zhongxiao is now named Li Zhongshan, and his surname is Li Li Chuang. Wang can't do it for the time being, so let's be Li Zhongtang first!
So Wang Zhongxiao named himself a "Great Bachelor", which is the middle hall.

Li Zhongtang nodded slightly.

Liu Shuochuan went on to say: "The imperial city of Nanjing has moats on all sides. As long as the bridges on the moat are blocked, it is impossible to sneak into the imperial city. From my humble opinion, if you want to attack the imperial city, you can only use force or force." It is a siege. And our manpower is a bit small, so we should first take Jiangning and Hancheng, and then firmly control the Taipingmen, Tongjimen, Zhengyangmen, Chaoyangmen, Xihuamen, Xiaomen, Bei'anmen and other gates all over the city. The walls between the various gates trap the family members of the Bannermen and some Bannermen in the imperial city, and then try to attack the Imperial City after King Geng's army arrives."

"Alright," Li Zhongtang thought for a while, and there was no better way, so he nodded and said, "Let's follow Liu Baihu's method first. When the regiment training brigade arrives, let's control the original Then take down all the gates in Seoul, and control the Longjiang Estuary and the commercial ports on both sides of the Qinhuai River in the west of the city, so as to appease people's hearts, and then make plans."

Lu Sanhao reminded: "Shikai, if we want to deploy in this way, the thousands of regiments in our hands will not be able to do other things. In a few days, Geng Jingzhong and the others will arrive. By then, whoever belongs to Nanjing Hard to say!"

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

"Too? Too what?" Seeing that Wang Zhongxiao didn't continue, Lu Sanhao asked.

"No, it's nothing." Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "In short, we can't just have one Nanjing City, we have to find a way to quickly expand the team, and then firmly control all the counties around Nanjing City. The Yangtze River develops towards Taiping Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture and other places.”

What Wang Zhongxiao said sounds good, but how to do it?
Seeing Lu Sanhao's suspicious face, Wang Zhongxiao said: "Sanhao, let's not think so much and hurry up to control the city walls and Jiangning Seoul!"

"Okay!" Lu Sanhao nodded, "I'll send someone to Xiaoling Acropolis immediately!"

"After the situation in Nanjing calms down, call the magistrates of all counties to the magistrate's yamen. I have a plan to expand the Jiangnan regiment training and I need to discuss it with you guys!"

"Expand the team training?" Lu No. [-] was a little worried, "Do you want to equalize the land?"

"No, not equalizing the land." Wang Zhongxiao shook his head and smiled wryly, "We don't have the capital to equalize the land in the south of the Yangtze River. We can only win over the local gentry!"

Juntian, you have to move!
If you want to move evenly, you must have enough strength!Second, the resistance must be small enough!

In Guangdong, the Wang family's army is strong enough, with an army of tens of thousands at the beginning, and the three counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Xinning where Juntian started.And there are a lot of coastal "wasteland" in these three counties-almost half of the land was abolished because of the Qing government monk's gratifying ban on border transfers.

In other words, the royal regime has a large amount of unclaimed land that can be distributed.

In this case, Wang Zhongxiao can first use the allocation of coastal land to attract a wave of diehard loyalists, and he can also relax a little bit about the equalization of land in other areas-many "Yimen clans" who are not separated can not participate in the equalization. At the same time, only the landowners who hold too much land will bear the loss.

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

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

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

If he insisted on disregarding the actual situation, he might turn the Third Prince Zhu into the leader of Hong and the city of Nanjing into the city of Tianjing in Jiangning.

Wang Zhongxiao is not so dogmatic, he has already made up his mind!
It is to learn from the enemy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who shaved his head and set up a regiment training army like the Hunan Army in the south of the Yangtze River!
On the third day after Jiangning changed to Nanjing, except for the imperial city which was still controlled by [-] Eight Banners family members and a small number of banner soldiers, the entire Nanjing city was already under the leadership of the Third Prince Zhu Cijiong!
Because the Third Prince Zhu, Lu Sanhao, and Wang Zhongxiao got a good deal of "half buying, half stealing" most of the city of Nanjing, so Nanjing's market is generally maintained, and the order in the market is considered to be orderly.

However, due to the fact that there are still Eight Banners in the imperial city, the Jiangnan area outside Yingtianfu is basically still in the hands of the supporters of the Qing court.

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

And in Yingtianfu Yamen in Nanjing, a key meeting that determines the survival of the new Ming court is taking place in a rare atmosphere of equality, harmony and unity.

There is no wise tyrant like Zhu Hongwu here, nor is there any heavenly father and brother descending to earth. There are only Yuanjun and Yuanchen discussing the state affairs together.

"Now that Nanjing City has not been fully recovered, His Royal Highness Ding Wang is eager to invite you to come to Yingtian Mansion. It is for the purpose of expanding the army and preparing for war. Our territory in Nanjing is not large, and in a few days, Geng Jingzhong and Shang Zhixin will return. It’s not easy to gain a firm foothold here in Nanjing if we rely on thousands of people to come here! If we can’t gain a firm foothold, then our trip will not be in vain? Everyone’s hardships these years will be in vain!”

It was Wang Zhongxiao who spoke in the hall of Yingtianfu, which was arranged as a meeting place. He has now taken off his official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, and cut off half-truths and half-false again (parts are true, but the length is not enough, so there are some One point) braids, restored the clothes of the Ming Dynasty.However, he didn't wear the suit of a bachelor, he was still dressed in casual clothes.

As he spoke, he looked at the grassroots team of the Nanjing court. There were three princes Zhu, Chen Yonghua, Chang Mingyue, He Tianran, Yu Haitao, Wang Leiyong, Zhang 21, Zheng Desheng, Zuo Yuanyang, Wang Huaxing, Liu Shuochuan, and five counties belonging to Yingtianfu. The county magistrates are those "official Bailao".

Everyone looked very excited, but also very tired.

In less than three days, they had calmed and controlled most of Jiangning City. I'm afraid they haven't closed their eyes much. Besides, their spirits have been in a state of excitement, right?
Of course, nervousness and anxiety are also certain.

Because this time they did the work of going deep into the enemy's rear and blooming in the center.

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

"Zhongtang, do you want Juntian to run the township army?" Jing Chuan, the magistrate of Jiangning County, asked the question. His tone was a bit low, and he seemed to think that Juntian in Nanjing was not easy.

"No." Wang Zhongxiao said with a smile, "Now that the Jiangning regiment is running well, why bother to make troubles? What I mean is, let's make the Jiangning regiment bigger!"

"How to make it bigger?" Lu Sanhao asked.

This is easy to say, but a little difficult to do!

"Three ways," Wang Zhongxiao said, "one is to pay a high amount of military pay! If you want people to work hard, you can't do without money!

The second is to rely on the gentry of the former Ming dynasty who are willing to be used by us to organize and practice regiments. These gentry have connections and connections, and they are intertwined with each other. They must be dissatisfied with the Manchu Qing Dynasty and can be used by us.

The third is that the Jiangning Regiment training should engage in soldiers as generals, and the soldiers will leave with the generals! "

(End of this chapter)