Qiming 1158

Chapter 1271 Unity gentlemen

This mutiny was actually not difficult, basically the same as when Ma Yongkang invited Zhao Bunyi to be emperor.

How to invite, just add an army and drive away.

Zhao Bunyi had no personal power, and only relied on the reputation of justice and the expectations of the ministers for him. Now his expectations have failed, and his hopes have been dashed, and his fate can be imagined.

However, Ma Yongkang also suddenly discovered that it was not difficult to get Zhao Buxi to step down.

It's just that they have lived in the imperial society for a long time, and their reverence for imperial power is engraved in their heads, forming a mindset, so no matter who they are, as long as they bear the name of an emperor, it is enough to make people jealous.

This is not the ability of Zhao Buxi, but the ability of the emperor's identity, and the ability of countless outstanding people to forge a golden signboard.

With this golden signboard, a dog can make people bow their heads.

With the neat arrest of Zhao Buxi's family, the mutiny ended successfully, the officials from Sichuan and Shu in Chengdu were fully controlled by the army, and the Chengdu court was completely controlled by officials and the army sent from other places.

For the next thing, Ma Yongkang and others will rely on the performance of the two [Wu Lin's legacy] Wu Ting and Wu Gong.

Defending the city of Chengdu and waiting for the Ming army to come to aid is the only thing they have to hold on to next, otherwise, their efforts today are nothing more than making wedding dresses for others.

While the situation in Sichuan and Shu was profoundly changing, Xu Tong was not idle either.

Xu Tong also started a new round of offensive.

The strength and efficiency of the political cadre team and the part of the military logistics support provided by the Henan Corps allowed him to rectify the powerful force of [-] soldiers at the fastest speed. Deploy the [Ten Thousand Soldiers Drive] tactic.

Ever since, Xu Tong officially launched his attack on Fuzhou on September 23, the seventh year of Hongwu.

The army advanced along the Minjiang waterway and directly arrived at Fuling, the capital of Fuzhou. The county magistrate of Fuling and the governor of Fuzhou expressed their firm resistance to this legendary revolutionary army that was related to the Ming army, perhaps knowing that they could not have it. What a good ending, so just break the jar and break it.

They pulled up a resistance team of more than 2000 people, built fortifications inside and outside Fuling County, and seized the time to build ships and organize a water army in an attempt to resist the attack of the revolutionary army.

They thought their defenses were effective, but they soon discovered they were wrong.

The [-]-mile expedited order in Zhongdu allowed a division of the Shenji Battalion, originally under the command of the Henan Corps, to enter the revolutionary army and obey the command of Xu Tong, the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army.

More than 40 chariot general cannons and five general general cannons arrived at Xu Tong's army by water transport, followed by a 500-man musketeer team.

Xu Tong was very happy, and took them up the river and into Fuzhou. In the waters to the east of Fuling County, they met the defending navy. There were more than 40 ships with sailors on board, which looked quite decent.

Xu Tong had long wanted to see the actual combat effectiveness of the artillery, so he ordered the gunboats equipped with the chariot and cavalry cannons to charge in front and fired artillery to attack the Song army ships.

Then he saw the scene of Song Jun's navy annihilated under the bombardment of artillery.

More than 40 warships of the Song Army thought they had an advantage going down the river, so they launched an attack together, trying to defeat the ships of the Revolutionary Army by jumping gangs and ramming them.

Then more than a dozen ships were sunk by artillery, and more than 30 ships were captured. The sailors were either drowned or shot to death by artillery, or were swept away by the current after diving to survive.

After the Song army navy was destroyed, the water control power was controlled by the revolutionary army. The revolutionary army drove ships to the outside of Fuling County to bombard the city wall, deter the defenders in the city, and then cut off water and land traffic inside and outside the city to force the defenders in the city to surrender.

The governor of Fuzhou and the magistrate of Fuling resolutely refused to surrender, and called on the soldiers in the city to die for the Song Dynasty together.

But the big soldiers in the city didn't want to die for the Song Dynasty, and they hated the Chengdu court after experiencing Jiaozi fever, so they launched a mutiny.

The governor of Fuzhou was arrested, and the magistrate of Fuling stumbled and fell to his death while avoiding the pursuit.

On the first day of October in the seventh year of Hongwu's reign, Kaicheng, the capital of Fuling County, surrendered, and Fuzhou's resistance failed.

Xu Tong still handed over the work of Fuzhou to the political cadres led by Zhou Qiang, and immediately began to prepare for the battle against Chongqing government.

After capturing Chongqing Prefecture, there is basically no dangerous terrain to worry about all the way to the west. It is basically impossible for the Song army to defend against danger. The Chengdu court is equivalent to losing the Jihan court in Hanzhong. Just a little bit.

Therefore, conquering Chongqing Prefecture is of great significance to Xu Tong.

At present, although Chongqing Prefecture has always been an important town in Sichuan, the Song army has not set up a regular army garrison in Chongqing Prefecture, so Xu Tong believes that it is not difficult to win Chongqing Prefecture, as long as he dares to attack.

In fact, it's not that Wu Lin doesn't want to set up an army here, it's just that his plans can't keep up with the changes.

When he was planning to dispatch an army of [-] people to guard Chongqing Prefecture, the Mi riot broke out.

After finally quelling the Mi commotion, he was just about to send troops to guard the Chongqing House, and then the peasant uprising broke out in Sichuan and Shu, and he was out of control.

So much so that when Xu Tong occupied Fuzhou and threatened the Chongqing government, there were only more than 2000 newly assembled local armed forces and the newly recruited Jieliuzi team in the Chongqing government gathered in Ba County to defend against danger and prevent the revolutionary army from attacking.

Fang Qianxin, the prefect of the Chongqing government, deeply felt that the Chongqing government would not be able to hold on to it like this, so he decided that he could not sit still and find another way.

How to find another way?
Of course, it is to ask the local powerful landlords for help.

Obviously, the peasant uprising in Sichuan and Shu greatly shocked the masters. The masters realized that if they could not unite, they would be hung on the southeast branches by the cattle and horses and fluttered in the wind, so they quickly put aside their conflicts with each other, decided to unite.

In this kind of problem, the reaction speed of the gentleman is always exceedingly fast.

Fang Qianxin's request was quickly responded to, and powerful landlords led regiments and armed forces to assist the magistrate. In a short period of time, he gathered a defense team of about 6000 people for him, and there were still armed landlords going to Ba County to gather together .

It can be said that the defensive power of Chongqing government is unprecedentedly large.

Of course, to achieve such a situation, Fang Qianxin's own efforts are also indispensable.

After the Jiaozi fever, some landlords, tycoons and official figures in Chongqing Prefecture were hit and suffered heavy losses.

They are different from ordinary people who have no power. When they make trouble, it is a very dangerous signal, which will shake the foundation of the ruling court.

Fang Qianxin, the prefect of the prefecture, out of various considerations, although he did not get the permission of the imperial court, but he used his relationship to let his nephew, who was a salt official in the Baima Salt Field in Fuzhou, send a batch of salt to the Chongqing government to compensate those landlords and tyrants. Official figures.

This move played a very important role for him to clean up the situation later.

(End of this chapter)