Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Page 565

The personal guards standing outside the big tent surrounded him.

"Order the whole army to assemble!" Gao Pingliang looked at a messenger.

The messenger hurriedly ran down with Gao Pingliang's order.

A few quarters of an hour later, the soldiers and horses had assembled.

Gao Pingliang came to the back of the artillery position with the assembled soldiers and horses.

At this time, the defenders on the city wall also saw the movement of soldiers and horses outside the city.

For a while, the sound of the gong on the top of the city resounded non-stop.

Qin Liangyu was wearing cotton armor and standing on the gate tower of the north city wall, looking solemnly at the soldiers and horses that had assembled outside the city.

"The thieves are about to attack the city, let everyone get ready." Qin Liangyu shouted.

The orderly behind her hastily passed on her order.

The defenders on the top of the city began to move the equipment used to defend the city to the crenels of the city wall, and the archers also put the leather bags with arrows under their feet.

The sun rose slowly, and when the news that all the horses were ready reached Gao Pingliang's ears, Gao Pingliang gave the order to fire.

All of a sudden, thousands of cannons were fired, and the sound of the rumbling cannons was like the firecrackers set off during the New Year, non-stop.

After a short flight, the shell landed on the city wall.

Although the power of mortars is not as powerful as that of cannons, the walls of Chongqing Fufu City are also not as powerful as those of the northern cities.

After all, Chongqing Mansion is located in Sichuan, and Sichuan's geographical location is not so important in this era compared to the Central Plains and the North. Except for Chengdu, the remaining city walls are almost impossible to compare with the northern city walls.

The shells fell on the city wall, and the huge explosion shattered the bricks on the city wall. After the explosion, the fragments and brick fragments swept towards the surroundings at high speed. I saw the surrounding defenders hitting and harvesting their life.

The defenders on the top of the city were ruthlessly harvested. At this time, they had no power to fight back, and their defense equipment was useless at all.

Under the continuous bombardment of mortars, the defenders on the prefectural city of Chongqing began to be defeated.

Although Qin Liangyu gave the order to cut those who retreated, this order still couldn't resist the determination of the defenders to escape.

When the first deserters began to appear, the defenders on the city wall were in a mess, and all the defenders began to run for their lives.

Ma Xianglin rushed to Qin Liangyu's side with a dozen guards, "Mother, retreat, retreat, and prepare for street fighting in the city."

At this point in the battle, Ma Xianglin also saw clearly that the defense of the city had become a joke.

Qin Liangyu looked at the defenders scurrying across the wall with their heads in their hands, his face was full of sorrow.

Qin Liangyu understood that the battle to defend the city was over, and it was only a matter of time before the city wall was conquered.

"Okay, retreat, gather troops and horses, and prepare for street fighting." Qin Liangyu gritted his teeth and said with a distorted expression.

Under Qin Liangyu's order, the defenders on the top of the city quickly withdrew to the bottom of the city.

After Qin Liangyu withdrew, he ordered his subordinates to gather the defeated soldiers and prepare for street fighting.

Gao Pingliang looked at the prefectural city of Chongqing in front of him with a telescope, and when he saw that the defenders on the city wall were running for their lives, he said to the messenger beside him: "Let the artillery bomb the city gate and blow it open in the shortest possible time. .”

After receiving Gao Pingliang's order, the artillery began to bomb the city gate.

Although there were earth and rocks behind the city gate to block the gate, under the bombardment of the mortar, it didn't take long for the city gate to be blasted open.

After the city gate was blown open, Gao Pingliang led the infantry and rushed into Chongqing Fucheng.

Street fighting broke out, but the street fighting did not cause much burden to Gao Pingliang's men.

After all, the weapon in Gao Pingliang's hands has spanned nearly 300 years, and it is simply not something that Xue Yong can make up for.

The white-armed soldiers in Qin Liangyu's hands were one of the few elite soldiers with a hundred battles in the late Ming Dynasty. In the bloody battle of Hunhe, the white-armed soldiers relied on their blood and bravery to block the Eight Banners soldiers' attacks several times, killing more than [-] Eight Banners soldiers.

However, under the weapon in Gao Pingliang's hands, no matter how bloody and courageous he was, he was nothing.

The white soldiers hidden in the streets and alleys attacked Gao Pingliang's team again and again, but before they got close, they were hit by 56 and a half and 56.

Under the attack of hot weapons, their full of blood and courage became nothingness and meaningless resistance.

In the afternoon of the second day, Gao Pingliang finally took down Chongqing Fucheng.

At this time, the Chongqing mansion was full of corpses of white soldiers who died in battle. Gao Pingliang walked in the streets of Chongqing mansion with a dozen bodyguards. He looked at the corpses on the ground, his face full of sorrow.

"I have been fighting for so many years. I have fought with the general soldier to build slaves, bandits, and Shanxi. But I have never met this kind of team. They are obviously not our opponents, and they keep fighting against us. We attack.

When I was in Shanxi before, as long as I conquered the city walls of the Fucheng, I could take the Fucheng within half a day, but this Chongqing Mansion took me two whole days.

These white soldiers attacked me fearlessly. Although they didn't hold the city wall, they spent a lot of time in this city. Gao Pingliang looked at the corpses of the white soldiers on the ground, and sighed: "Let your subordinates bury their corpses well."These soldiers and horses are much better than those incompetent guard soldiers in the Central Plains. "

"Obey!" The messenger following Gao Pingliang clasped his fists at him and ran back.

"My lord, the main defender of the city has escaped and grabbed her nephew Qin Yiming."

Just then, a messenger ran over.

Please remember our website: (www.kanquanben.net) to read more popular novels.

Chapter 649 Your Majesty, I have important matters

"I remember that the leader of the White Armed Soldier is Qin Liangyu, this Qin Liangyu is the widow of Ma Qiancheng, for so many years, he has fought continuously for the Ming Dynasty, so he can be called a heroine.

Since she ran away, let her run away.Now that Chongqing Mansion has been taken down by us, leaving her alone will have little impact on the overall situation.

Our army is strong, even if Qin Liangyu ran out and pulled out a team, he would not be our opponent.Send an order to imprison Qin Yiming and watch him carefully. The day after tomorrow, he will be escorted to Chengdu. "

Gao Pingliang looked at the messenger and said.

The messenger saluted, and hurried away with Gao Pingliang's order.

After taking down the Chongqing government, the first thing Gao Pingliang did was to appease the local people.

This has become an old tradition among Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses. No matter where they are, as long as they take down the city, the first thing they do is to appease the local people.

Because the grain in Gao Pingliang's hands is limited, Gao Pingliang did not distribute all of the grain stored in Chongqing Fucheng to the people, but distributed part of it.

Gao Pingliang did not choose to attack immediately to attack the southern part of Chongqing Prefecture. After all, Zizhong's grain and grass had not yet been delivered.

Gao Pingliang decided not to send troops until the food and grass Zizhong was delivered.

……

Zhao Wen sat in the imperial study, looking at a map of Sichuan on the table.

"It is estimated that in one or two months, Sichuan will be able to win all. The southern part of Sichuan is Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou. There is no flat land here, and there is no clear sky for three days. The mountains are high and the forests are dense. In addition, it is summer and the weather is humid. , the miasma and mosquitoes keep coming, it may not be so easy to completely take down this place in a short while.

Moreover, the control of the Ming court over this place is still relatively weak, and the place is basically managed by chieftains.The chieftain forces are intricate, and now that Liu Wu and the others have just captured Sichuan, they have to rest.Therefore, it is still too early to attack the land of Yunnan and Guizhou. Zhao Wen murmured looking at the map on the table.

"Donglai, take out the map of Shandong Huguang." Zhao Wen looked at Chen Donglai who was standing behind him.

Chen Donglai hastily bowed in salute, and then took out the maps of Shandong and Huguang from the nearby bookshelf.

Chen Donglai spread the map on the table in front of Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen looked at the maps of Shandong and Huguang, his eyes were full of ambition.

"The land of Yunnan and Guizhou will not be taken down for a while, but Huguang and Shandong can be taken down." Zhao Wen slapped the map on the table with a slap.

"Let all the officials of the Military Academy come to see me!" Zhao Wen said loudly.

Chen Donglai hastily bowed and saluted, and then walked out of the imperial study with Zhao Wen's order.

After a while, all the officials of the Military Academy appeared in the imperial study.

Zhao Wen looked at the officials standing in the imperial study room, and said, "The soldiers and horses I put in Shanxi have been resting for a long time, and it's time to let them go out.

Now Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi have all fallen into our hands, and Sichuan is about to be taken down.Therefore, I decided to use troops against Huguang, Shandong, and strive to take these two places before the Chinese New Year.

After you go down today, make a plan for using troops in Huguang and Shandong, and report it to me in time.Also, all the factories in the city are running at full speed for me to prepare for the war. "

The officials of the Military Academy headed by Qi Qingtian bowed to Zhao Wen and received Zhao Wen's order.

Today's Zhao Wennai is the founding emperor, and he is a one-sided existence in the new dynasty. These officials in the Military Academy can only obey orders.

A considerable number of these officials in the Military Academy are counselors transferred from the army by Zhao Wen.

Counselors were originally scholars. After such a long period of training in the army, they can also skillfully use various strategies.

After Qi Qingtian and the others went down, Zhao Wen looked at Chen Donglai who was standing behind him, "Take a few people and go to the Mint."

Chen Donglai nodded, and hastily made arrangements.

Since Zhao Wen confiscated the homes of Prince Fu and other princes, he transported all the silver of these princes back to Xuanzhen. into silver coins.

Zhao Wen hadn't been to the mint for a long time, so Zhao Wen planned to inspect it today. After all, the mint was the economic lifeline of the new dynasty.

According to the rules and regulations formulated by Zhao Wen, the Mint and Daming Bank are directly under the management of the royal family. After all, it is better for such things to be in the hands of Zhao Wen.

In addition to the mint, Zhao Wen also divided the various factories in his hands in detail.

Ironworks, cement factories, glass factories, canning factories, and clothing factories are still under the management of the royal family, and private businesses are not allowed.After all, in this era, these things are either strategic materials or very valuable materials.

These factories currently have almost no income except for the cement factory, cannery factory and glass factory, and the steel factory has almost no income.After all, in this era, the private demand for steel is really too little.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhao Wen to let the royal family control these factories all the time. In the future, when the world is settled, Zhao Wen will gradually loosen these policies and allow the private sector to open these factories.

However, it is impossible for Zhao Wen to allow the private sector to run these two factories, the iron and steel plant and the cement plant.Except for the royal family, it can only be opened by the local government or the government of various ministries in the capital under the supervision of the royal family.

Zhao Wen came to the outside of the mint wearing casual clothes and riding a war horse.

The defenders outside the Mint are the Royal Guards, and their military uniforms are all new military uniforms, with golden dragon logos rusted on the collar and cuffs.

Zhao Wen walked into the mint and came to a production workshop.

The sound of the steam engine punching silver coins inside kept ringing, and silver coins were produced every moment.

Accompanied by the head of the mint, Zhao Wen inspected all the production lines.

"Your Majesty, there is less than a quarter of the silver deposits sent by His Majesty before, and in another seven or eight days, all of them will be manufactured."

Zhao Wen walked out of the mint and came outside the mint. The head of the mint followed behind Zhao Wen, explaining in detail the current work of the mint.

Zhao Wen nodded, "Strive to mint all these silver coins. In a short time, the world will be completely settled, and the whole world will use silver coins. Although it seems that a lot of silver coins have been minted now, the silver coins minted For the whole world, it’s still a drop in the bucket.”

"The next official will receive the order!" The principal saluted Zhao Wen and said respectfully.

"The food for the workers in the mint should also be better, so as not to cause problems for the personnel. We conquer the world at a faster speed, and the speed of minting silver coins must also be increased.

These workers in the mint are all skilled workers, and the food problem cannot cause workers to get sick. After all, one skilled worker is much faster than five or six apprentices. "Zhao Wen ordered.

"Your majesty takes orders! Don't worry, Your Majesty. This mint official will definitely look good on His Majesty." The master patted his chest and said solemnly.

Zhao Wen waved his hand, "I'm going back first, you go now!"

After Zhao Wen finished speaking, he stepped on his horse and headed for the palace.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the palace, Zhao Wen saw Wang Qi who was waiting for him outside the palace.

When Wang Qi saw Zhao Wen approaching, he greeted him anxiously.

"Go in and talk!" Zhao Wen jumped off his horse and looked at Wang Qi.

Wang Qi nodded and followed Zhao Wen to the imperial study.

When Zhao Wen came to the imperial study room, Zhao Wen cleared out all the people in the imperial study room, leaving only Wang Qi.

"Meet Your Majesty!" Wang Qi saluted first, then stood in front of Zhao Wen, "Your Majesty, there is a situation!"

Zhao Wen sat across from Wang Qi, behind the desk, "What's the situation? Be more specific!"

Zhao Wen frowned and looked at Wang Qi.

Wang Qi is the commander of the Dianqian Division, who is responsible for supervising civil servants.Now that Zhao Wen is going to use his troops on a large scale, if there is a problem with the officials in the city at this time, it will have a bad influence on the war.

"Your Majesty, it has something to do with Tang Ruowang. Yesterday, one of Tang Ruowang's entourage was going to Dengzhou to leave by boat and go to Java.

Nowadays, there are so many people going to Java, so Dengzhou also has sea boats going to Java.If it were ordinary people, we wouldn't care about it.

But this person was one of Tang Ruowang's followers, and His Majesty had asked his ministers to closely monitor these people before.Therefore, when he left the gate of Xuanzhen, we stopped him and conducted a strict inspection on him.

After we checked, we found a book that seemed to be related to a course taught at the university. "Wang Qi looked at Zhao Wen solemnly.

Zhao Wen once issued an order that all content in the university is prohibited from going to sea, in order to prevent it from being obtained by the West at this time.

When Zhao Wen heard that it was related to the university courses, and he was one of Tang Ruowang's attendants, and he was going to Java by sea boat, Zhao Wen suddenly became vigilant.

"Is this person Tang Ruowang's entourage? What exactly does he do? Is he a teacher at the university? Where is the book he is carrying?" Zhao Wen's eyes were half-closed, and his eyes were full of murderous intent.

"Your Majesty, the person was stopped yesterday morning. Since yesterday, we have conducted a detailed investigation on this person. According to our investigation, this person is only a follower of Tang Ruowang, and he has no position in the university. It's just Help Tang Ruowang and take care of Tang Ruowang's daily life.