nanming man

Chapter 498 Entering Wuchang East
Gao Yihuan was eager to get Yuezhou, so he didn't besiege it on all sides, but concentrated his forces to attack one city wall, not wanting the defenders in the city to resist desperately.

After the city's defenders broke through, Wei Wu's army rushed into the city quickly, but to Gao Yihuan's surprise, the battle did not end quickly.

Most of the defenders in Yuezhou City broke through from the south gate, but the stragglers in the city, as well as many family guards from big families, still caused a lot of trouble for Wei Wujun.

At noon, Wei Wujun gradually took control of the whole city, but Gao Yihuan only entered the city in the evening for safety reasons.

Although Gao Yihuan asked Zhao Daxian to maintain order in the city, casualties were unavoidable in the war, and the soldiers and civilians in the city still suffered heavy losses.

Many high-ranking households in the city were affected, the streets were full of dead bodies, and the common people hid in their homes one after another, not daring to show their faces for fear of causing disaster.

When Gao Yihuan entered Yuezhou, the atmosphere in the city was still tense, and the streets were full of patrolling soldiers to ensure public order in the city.

The soldiers knew that the commander-in-chief was perverted and didn't like to see bloody things, so a simple cleaning was carried out before he entered the city, and all the corpses in the city were transported away, but Gao Yihuan could still see the blackened blood on the ground.

Surrounded by everyone, Gao Yihuan entered the Yuezhou government office. There were scattered papers everywhere in the yard, files, official documents, boxes of books, and account books were all thrown away at will.

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, "Daji, take someone to clean up, these are all useful things."

Zhou Daji hurriedly bowed his hands and cupped his fists, leading a group of soldiers to clean up.

Gao Yihuan used the government office hall as a temporary festival hall, and called all the generals to report.

"Marshal, all the defenders in the city have been wiped out, and the rest have fled from the south city!" Wang Deren came in and reported loudly, his armor was stained with blood.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Daxian and the others walked in with excited faces.

"Marshal, this time we are prosperous. I never expected that Yuezhou City would be so rich!" Zhao Daxian walked in, and as soon as he crossed the threshold, he said cheerfully: "There is not much cash in the city, but food But the warehouses are full."

Gao Yi laughed and said, "The commander-in-chief and Zuo Liangyu turned their heads and built a fort opposite Wuchang. Hunan's food is blocked in Yuezhou, so there is naturally a lot of food!"

Given the location of the land in Yuezhou, I am afraid that not only food, but also many other supplies must be blocked in the city.

Thinking of this, Gao Yihuan ordered: "Clear out the materials in the city as soon as possible, and then let the prisoners of war be transported across the river."

After talking about this, Gao Yihuan immediately asked: "The army entered the city, did you catch Yijia?"

For this brother, Gao Yihuan can't say that he hates it. After all, he just has different ideas and each is his master.

But after all, he is an old brother, with some feelings, Gao Yihuan still hopes that he can figure it out and follow him.

The few people in the hall shook their heads, Wang Deren said: "After the last general entered the city, his subordinates beat him up and reported that most of the defenders in the city fled from the south gate, and some people fled from the west water gate by boat, but they met the sailors. Brother, the boat seems to have been rammed and sunk."

Gao Yihuan frowned and stopped mentioning this matter.

Not long after, the men and horses who had ambushed in the south came back and said that they had killed hundreds of Ming soldiers and captured more than a thousand people, and only a few cavalry escaped to the south.

So far, the Ming army in Yuezhou is basically finished after this battle.

To say that Gao Yihuan has no enmity with the Ming army in Hunan, there is no need to kill them all, but the Ming army in Yuezhou is more powerful. After fleeing to Changsha, it will be a threat to him in the future, so Gao Yihuan arranged soldiers and horses to ambush him halfway , so as not to strengthen the strength of Du Yinxi.

After conquering Yuezhou, Gao Yihuan didn't plan to stay here for a long time. He left 3000 troops to garrison the city, and he was going to march to Wuchang to seek revenge on the rightful lord.

On the pier of Xicheng, Gao Yihuan watched thousands of Zuojun prisoners of war move out bags of grain and cloth from the warehouse like ants, as well as a lot of military supplies.

As the node connecting the Yangtze River waterway and the Huxiang water system, Yuezhou has a wealth of supplies in the city, which surprised Gao Yihuan who was already prepared.

After Chen Mingxia arrived, he quickly counted the materials in the city, and finally learned that the grain storage in the city was as high as 40 shi. In addition, there were a lot of Hunan embroidery, refined iron and other materials.

The gains from beating one Yuezhou City almost exceeded the entire Changde Mansion, and the gains from several counties in Yuezhou.

This made Wei Wujun very happy. The only thing that disappointed Gao Yihuan was that there was not much cash in the city, and the price of grain dropped to only one tael or five taels of silver per stone, which greatly reduced the value of the captured money.

In the past, natural disasters were severe in the north, bandits were rampant, and food was scarce. It was necessary to sell food from the south in large sums. The food in the south had to be sold to the entire Ming Dynasty, so food prices skyrocketed.

Now that the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were at odds with each other, grain could not be sold to the north, and the price of grain in the south gradually fell.

Although the price of grain in the north is still high now, Gao Yihuan can't sell the grain to the Qing Dynasty, so he can only store the grain himself.

At this time, bags of grain were loaded onto large ships and transported to the north bank.

With this batch of grain, and Gao Yihuan's control of northern Hunan, occupying Yuezhou City, and the entire Huguang granary, it is equal to being under his control, and Wei Wujun will not worry about grain from now on.

Seeing the grain being loaded onto the ship, Gao Yihuan immediately told Chen Mingxia to deal with the aftermath in Yuezhou, and then decided to lead the army and march eastward to Wuchang.

Wuchang is located in the south of the Yangtze River, controlling the two waterways of the Yangtze River and the Han River, so its location is very important.

If Xiangyang is lost, it will be at a disadvantage in the confrontation between the north and the south. If Wuchang is lost, the small imperial court in the southeast will be at a loss.

After Gao Yihuan occupied Yuezhou, he rested for three days, and the army made some preparations, and took [-] troops, thousands of prisoners, and a large amount of food, and entered Wuchang Mansion eastward.

Right now, Wuchang is occupied by hundreds of thousands of leftist troops, and the common people are in dire straits. When Wei Wujun entered, it was a completely different scene.

The reason why warlords are said to be a cancer of the country is because the army of warlords is the personal soldiers of generals. Their first task is to maintain the rule of small groups and fight against the central government, not to defend against foreign captives.

In order to fight against the imperial court, the warlords had to expand their own troops, and if there were too many troops and no money and food to feed them, they could only let the soldiers rob them. In this way, the people were unwilling to farm the land, and finally formed a disgusting cycle. Make the whole world corrupt.

A warlord like Gao Dashuai can be said to be a special case.

Under Zuozhen's rule, Wuchang has long been in chaos, with hungry people everywhere, bandits rampant, and gentry forming villages to protect themselves.

As soon as Wei Wujun came, just like when Gao Yihuan attacked Xiangyang, people from all over the country responded and turned against him. Countless people came to join Wei Wujun.

It happened that Gao Yihuan got a batch of grain from Yuezhou. He set off from Yuezhou with less than 3 people. Before halfway there, nearly [-] villagers gathered around him.

When Gao Yihuan was on his way to march into Wuchang, the embarrassed Gao Yizhen trekked hundreds of miles and finally came to Changsha.

He saw Changsha City from a distance, and immediately dragged his exhausted body, hurried over, and said to the soldiers guarding the gate: "My name is Gao Yiyi, and I am Qianhu in Yuezhou. I want to go to the city to meet the Dufu Army!"

A Baihu sitting next to him suddenly stood up, "You are Gao Yiyi!"

Gao Yizhen was slightly taken aback, and more than a dozen soldiers had already surrounded him.

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