Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 241 Captives and Capture

Zhu Yuxi was not too surprised after hearing Zeng Ying's foreign exchange report from Jiangling City.

Because it was Hao Guangming's proposal to suppress the Shun army at the head of the city with a curved gun and bombard the city gate with a large caliber of 40 mm, the purpose was to break through Jiangling City with cannon.

For Zeng Ying, Yang Zhan and others who used modern artillery to attack a city for the first time on a large scale, such a result may be surprising.

But for Hao Guangming and Zhu Wei, who had already predicted this, they only achieved the predicted effect.

However, after the conversation with Zeng Ying was over, Auntie Zhu still couldn't help laughing and said, "I'm afraid that Ren Guangrong didn't expect that Jiangling City was breached because he didn't have a chance to contact my army."

Hao Guangming said with a smile: "Siege the city with artillery, your generals in the late Ming Dynasty must have had no defenses at first, but when the tactics of warfare spread in the future, all parties will definitely be prepared.

People in war learn and improve very quickly, and it may not be long before they can figure out a way to deal with it. "

In fact, the way to deal with cannon siege is ready-made in later generations, and that is to set up trench positions outside the city.

But Aimee Zhu will definitely not tell her opponents.

"Jiangling City was captured easily, but I still have no idea what to do next." Aimee Zhu was a little bit worried while she was happy.

Before, she felt that she had a lot of soldiers under her command, but now she felt that she was stretched to use people.

Hao Guangming said: "I will not guard the isolated city. My suggestion is to reorganize the Shun army that surrendered from Jiangling City, and then take it away with the ship.

For the time being, Jiangling City was left to Li Zicheng.When the time is right in the future, you will naturally be able to regain it again. "

Hao Guangming didn't mention whether it was enough to bring some more reorganized Shunjun ships.

In fact, although Aunt Zhu's Yangtze River Navy has more than 1000 ships, there are only more than 300 ships of various types in total.

And there are only dozens of warships and cruise ships with more than 200 materials that can be installed with cannons.

The rest are civilian ships used for transportation.

After all, fighting a war is logistics.

The flintlock guns and artillery in Zhu Yuxi's army relied heavily on ammunition produced in Sichuan, so most of the civilian ships in the navy were used for logistics transportation.

There are more than 300 large and small civilian ships of the Shunjun Army in the Jiangling water fortress. When they leave Jiangling, Auntie Zhu will definitely take them with her.

In fact, if there is a reliable Ming army and government forces on the south bank of the river, Auntie Zhu can also recruit them and order them to guard Jiangling.

Although Jiangling was easily captured by her, it does not mean that Jiangling City is not tall and strong enough.

Not to mention Li Zicheng, even the Qing army didn't have as many cannons as Auntie Zhu, and what they relied on was the Hongyi cannons obtained from various sources from the Ming Dynasty.

If Auntie Zhu left a battalion of soldiers and horses, and another twenty or thirty bright-style cannons, it would be very difficult for the Shun Army and the Qing Army to break through Jiangling City.

It's a pity that the south bank of the river in Jingzhou Prefecture basically belongs to the territory of the Shun Army. Although the Ming Dynasty has some forces, they are relatively weak, and there are no reliable and capable civil servants and generals to use.

If Auntie Zhu left people to guard Jiangling, it would be to make those who stayed behind guard the isolated city.

Although she can change this situation, it may take more than ten and a half months, and it will definitely affect her plan to go to Nanzhili.

After thinking about it for a while, Aimee Zhu understood these principles, so she nodded, "It seems that this is the only way to go."

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When Ren Guangrong woke up, he found that he had sadly become a prisoner of the Ming army.

What's even more exasperating is that it was the young general of the Ming army who had ordered him to be whipped to detain him.

Obviously, what the Ming army did was to deliberately retaliate against him and humiliate him.

"Wu that boy, if you want to avenge the flogging, just come, if I want to frown, I won't take any responsibility!"

Ming Jun gave a cold smile when he heard this, and said: "You think I don't want to smoke you? If it weren't for the military regulations, I would have woken you up long ago.

In addition, listen carefully, I am the commander-in-chief of the first town of the Imperial Guard, called Quan Zhixuan, not some Wuna kid. "

"Bah!" Ren Guangrong spat, "Guanjun dog, if you have the ability to let go of me, fight with me in a dignified manner, you fucking..."

Letting Ren Guangrong's mouth become dirty, Quan Zhixuan frowned, and found a rag to cover Ren Guangrong's mouth.

After clapping his hands, he said: "Ren Guangrong, although I can't whip you to retaliate, I can tell you the current situation in Jiangling City.

Jiangling City has been captured by our army. Except for a lieutenant general named Zheng Siwei who fled from the north gate early with [-] soldiers, everyone else basically surrendered and became prisoners of our army.

This includes you and Meng Changgeng.Wondering what's going to happen to you guys? "

In the end, Quan Zhixuan saw that Ren Guangrong's face became ugly and his eyes were full of anger, and he felt that the bad breath of being whipped before had come out a lot.

Before he could say anything more, a personal soldier Qian Zong walked in from outside and said, "You should be out of your anger, right? The governor (admiral) wants to see this person, so I will send him away."

Quan Zhixuan said: "Thank you, Shangguan, for your understanding, I'm all angry about my humble position."

Mr. Qian smiled and said: "You don't need to thank me, this is all the arrangement of the warlord."

Immediately, Ren Guangrong was taken by Mr. Qian and a few soldiers to another camp on the pier, where he saw the red lady.

"I just want to ask you one thing, are you willing to surrender?" After speaking, he realized that Ren Guangrong's mouth was still blocked, so he said, "Take off the rag from his mouth."

With his mouth released, Ren Guangrong immediately glared at Hong Niangzi and said, "No need to persuade, I will never surrender!"

Hong Niangzi was not angry, but smiled and said: "In this case, I can only arrange for you to be a prisoner and a coolie.

By the way, I have to tell you one thing, your family members have also become captives, and they will not be arranged on the same boat as you.

So, unless you want to abandon your wife and children, finally do your job honestly and don't think about running away. "

Knowing that his wife and children had been arrested, Ren Guangrong immediately regretted it and wanted to change his mind.

But thinking that his younger brother was still serving as General Guo Yi in Li Zicheng's Central Army, he finally held back.

When he was taken away, he couldn't help but said: "Hong Niangzi, if you still miss the old friendship with King Chuang, don't embarrass my family!"

What Ren Guangrong said was extremely lacking in EQ.

If it was a normal situation, the general who heard it might have directly killed Ren Guangrong in order to avoid suspicion.

But the red lady was not afraid of being suspected by Auntie Zhu, so she said: "Don't worry, my red lady never bullies women and children."

It was already dark at this time, and after Ren Guangrong was taken away, Hong Niangzi used the walkie-talkie to report the situation to Aimee Zhu who stayed on the imperial boat.

Knowing that Ren Guangrong was not willing to surrender, Zhu Wei was not disappointed, after all Ren Guangrong was not a well-known Shunjun general.

Not only Ren Guangrong, but even Meng Changgeng was unwilling to surrender.

It was impossible for Auntie Zhu to release these two people, so they were all incorporated into the prisoner camp and stayed on the navy ship to do odd jobs.

It is said that it is a prisoner camp, but in fact, there are only a dozen civilian officials and generals of the Shun Army who are unwilling to surrender, and the most official positions are Ren Guangrong and Meng Changgeng.

There were originally more than 1 defenders in Jiangling City.

Excluding those who were killed or injured in the pier and the battle of defending the city, more than 3000 people were taken away by Zheng Siwei, and as many as 8000 people who died or disappeared after the city was broken, were eventually captured by the Ming army!

The next day, Zeng Ying and Yang Zhan followed Zhu Yuxi's order to screen the eight thousand prisoners.

Because both of them had experience in screening and reorganizing the soldiers of the Great Western Army in Chengdu, they screened out 5000 soldiers in just half a day and compiled them into two incomplete battalions.

As for the seizures in Jiangling City, they were also counted.

There is not much gold and silver, and the total is only 3 to [-] taels.

Other materials such as weapons and armor cannot be calculated.

On the contrary, there is a lot of food, 13 shi.

However, Aimee Zhu and Hao Guangming were not surprised by this. After all, Jingzhou already belonged to the Huguang Plain, and Huguang was also called a granary during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

That is to say, Huguang has suffered from natural disasters and wars in the past few years. In addition, the grain produced in Jingzhou Prefecture will definitely not be stored in Jiangling, otherwise they will only seize more grain in Jiangling City this time.

However, there is no way for Auntie Zhu to take away so much food, so she needs to consider how to deal with it.

After discussing with Hao Guangming at night, Aunt Zhu decided to follow Hao Guangming's suggestion.

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