With the attacking army headquarters in the west of the city, and the navy boat division that broke through the east of the city, they successfully met up on the Canzuo Bridge by the side of Hangou that passed through the city, and there was one after another shocking cheers. The sound also made the huge city of Yangzhou, which was shrouded in the "Twenty-Four Bridges and Bright Moon Night" under the gloomy sky, shake and tremble.
And on the side of the Xima Bridge in Yangzhou City, inside the Wumiao, which has become the attacking army, has just raised the exclusive green head and long light poles for command and communication; the captain in charge of the front command Li Yuyuan also walked in with joy and arched his hands:
"Congratulations Zhengjiang, the defending enemy at the last Daming Gate has also surrendered with equipment, and Yangzhou Waiguo has all entered into our army..."
"Don't slacken; it's just for the time being the outer ones, you must guard against the possibility of overturning in the sub-city..."
Zhu Cun's unmoving face revealed a sense of broadness and relief, and then continued to give orders:
"According to my order, I will let the subsequent attacks of the sub-city temporarily be released, and give priority to the elimination of the outer Guocheng district; notify the people in the Suiying Town that they can send three teams into the city to carry out preliminary preparations. Let the horse teams on standby in the camp. With the riding camp, go to the north outskirts to wait, and then send people to contact General Zhao Lang from the west side of the city to help them monitor and guard against possible fleeing enemy forces in the north of the city..."
"Continue to dispatch the engineering camp, and use the gate tower base site to build the communication tower between the west water gate, the east water gate, and the south water gate; to ensure the communication between Jiangnan and Helu. The floating boat can't stop at night, and continue to monitor the substation. The movement of the remnant enemies in the city, and a means of communicating with the lights in response to rushes at night.
Of course, for Zhu Cun, this result was both unexpected and unexpected. Although he had only six battalions when he left Jiangling, after receiving and returning along the way, he expanded to more than 20,000 people; when the six states of Jiangbei were swept away, he also expanded to more than 30,000 people. .
And after this Guangling city has been besieging those who are in late autumn and winter for more than two months; with the continuous supply of materials, soldiers and equipment from the upper reaches of Eyue, Jingxiang and Jiangnan regions; he has on hand. The power to grasp is even more different than before.
Just the battle sequence directly under the jurisdiction has expanded to eight (fully firearmed) combat barracks, fifteen (partially or half firearmed) garrison battalions, and 20 (cold weapons) temporary/assisted pawns/supplements Within the battalion, there are more than 45,000 troops in a considerable scale.
This doesn’t even count Qian Jumei’s partial divisions purging the He, Lu, Chu, Shu, Qi, Huang and other six states in the rear, as well as the boat divisions of the Taiping Marine Corps, which are responsible for blocking the walls and cutting off waterways in the west and north of the city. ; Each also has a ready-made scale of nearly ten thousand to fifteen thousand people.
In addition, there are the artillery regiments and combat engineering regiments of the strike force, which directly strengthen the special organization and technical equipment for Zhu Cunben's formation. There are also armed reclamation groups and patrol teams that are not directly part of his command sequence, but are organized by the Jiansheng Army’s engineering battalion, and other local establishments that follow orders and Jiangdong’s ambassador to deal with the aftermath.
Therefore, although it is now a limited scale of engagement with separate operations on the east and west fronts, over time, the number of troops and labor directly invested by the Taiping Metropolitan Government has reached the scale of mobilization of more than 100,000 people. This does not include the indirect mobilization of short- and medium-term labor mobilized by localities along the route.
Just to maintain the daily needs of these people and horses before the battle, hundreds of large ships must be used to transport them around the river day and night, eating tens of thousands of pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and other livestock, consuming rice, beans, wheat, Firewood forage, medicine, alcohol, and cloth clothing are even more massive.
Therefore, if everything is ready and ready to go, if you can’t go all out to calm down the enemy in Guangling City, I’m afraid that Zhu Cun will have to question his own ability or lack of abilities. The command was improper. So as the chief governor said, this is a natural result that is not so unexpected.
The only thing that surprised him was that the follow-up resistance of the Huainan (Shouhao) army did not diminish much as the city defense changed hands; and the corresponding degree of frenzy, it also somewhat caused a lot of trouble for the follow-up advancement of the attacking army. . If this is not a metropolis full of rivers and canals, as long as you don't know how many people will suffer misfortune and displacement.
But all of this can finally come to an end for a while, and Zhu Cun can also sink his mind to conceive and plan, and continue to dictate the gains and losses during this period of time and experience, together with the military experience of these years into a book "Zhu "Shi Jun Xing Ji", so as to leave a military master's work that can be passed down to the world for future generations.
"Zhengjiang, there are thirty-nine lines in the city and the heads of the chambers of commerce come to ask for an apprentice..."
At this time, there was another report from the outside world:
"This group of merchants donated quickly..."
Li Yuyuan beside him couldn't help but sneered and said:
"But it's also human nature."
Zhu Cun waved his hand indifferently:
". But I'm gone, and you have to find out. Maybe it's still useful right now."
As a pre-existing effort for the military target (Yangzhou), he also knew to some extent that this is a top-notch metropolis that is rich in land and water and rich in the southeast. A large part of it is due to its advantages as a water transportation hub and a north-south commercial port. Therefore, there are as many merchants' homes as they are far beyond the world.
Although the Taiping Army has been fighting and hostilities with Huainan for a long time, and the leader of the regime has changed several times during the period, it has not been able to influence many merchant ships and ships that rush to and from the river and coastal areas; and those who rush towards it. Profit-seeking generation.
Therefore, among the local merchants and craftsmen's guilds in Yangzhou, there is no shortage of people who have secretly communicated money with the Taiping Army or led them to retreat. On the contrary, those noble families and clansmen who are purely profiting from food and soil in other cities are relatively rare here.
In addition, even in the troubled times, the officials and wealthy families who were rich in the city of Guangling in order to stay safe and secure, among the hundreds of thousands of households in Yangzhou, are also a high proportion of scary people.
Therefore, these different groups need to be distinguished in detail and corresponding countermeasures and differentiation methods are adopted. For example, the former is tentatively an object that can be strived for, reformed, or even prioritized. The latter two are groups that require pressure to suppress and liquidate, and even allow a certain amount of overcorrection, in order to eliminate their subsequent influence.
For another example, Yangzhou, as the world's No. 1 wealthy town, is also home to a strong culture and a long history of gatherings of scholars, celebrities, and great people. Compared to Jiangling, where "planting flowers are like vegetables, pipa is more than rice", Jiangling, here is not only the luxury of "wrapped around one hundred thousand bucks, riding a crane down to Yangzhou", it is also the southeast of "the article is in the beautiful scenery". The Eye of Wenyun.
Therefore, for the local scholars and scholars, a follow-up charter for the identification and diversion of sufficient effort is also needed.
And as it became darker and shrouded in the dim moonlight, Guangling City was once famous as Luoyang and Chang'an, and in the outer heartland and the hub of water transportation, it occupies more than a dozen districts in the vast Yangzhou city. , A mess of Puti Temple.
Cui Zhiyuan, a former Huainan Festival Yaji room Silla native with chapped lips and scorched beard, also held the singer Furong, who was still standing all over her body in a panic; quietly listening to those who had gone away from the tragic fight and wailing in the dark On the street, there were waves of clappers and gongs.
It was someone shouting and preaching along the street, and there were always corresponding vague songzi.
"Sing for peace, sing for peace, the Taiping army comes for peace"
"Men, women, old and children live in peace, and the people of the scholars and people are happy."
"Sell fairness is not forced, and good people are not intrusive."
"It's not forgiving that the disabled will harm the people."
"Como can escape as a rapist,"
"..."
"Quickly came out and made a name, and it's a good scene in the world."
However, listening to these faintly rough songs, Cui Zhiyuan's heart was filled with sorrows and regrets; it was because of his carelessness and negligence under his urgency that he unintentionally attracted the rebellious soldiers. A hiding place in a nearby monastery.
As a result, the Wuxing Shen clan, which is said to come from the three famous family of Wu, was left in the dust because of the ruined house. In the end, he was able to redeem himself for himself, and escaped again and again. The turmoil in the city and the chaotic Shen Sanniang were inevitable in the end.
Cui Zhiyuan watched her, took the initiative to walk out of the hiding place and greeted the brutal and brutal insurgents with a low smile, and then he was dragged by the torn dress without hesitation in the screams and screams. Go out; just to cover up for them. In the words she explained in advance, she has been soaked in the sea of suffering in this world, and it is not bad.
However, she could be treated as an adopted daughter of Furong'er, and she could get a chance to escape from disaster and inferiority, but it was no regrets. Therefore, Cui Zhiyuan could only cover her ears with tears, allowing her to stand beside this wall. She was tortured on the spot with screams and exhortations. In the hoarse wailing, she finally became angry. The moaning/groaning was completely cut off. (End of this chapter)