Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 388 Good News
Yang Chao couldn't help but hate. In just three days, these people slaughtered 40 to [-] people. They killed a small half of Yangzhou City, and the most murdered were these surrendered soldiers. Organized and not interested in killing people, it is no wonder that ordinary people hate traitors more than enemies. When they do evil, these traitors are indeed more ruthless than enemies.

What made Yang Chao hate him even more was that he lost thousands of troops in half a day today.

After fighting all night last night, Yang Chao's loss did not exceed 300 people, but today the captives were attacked by them, killing and wounding more than a thousand people, and the same number of injuries.

Of course, Yang Chao's victories were also extremely brilliant. After counting the corpses of the Qing army beheaded in the city, there were more than 8 corpses.

But Yang Chao had to appease them for the time being. If more than 15 surrendered soldiers broke out, it would be impossible to deal with them. At least he had to wait for his reinforcements to arrive before Yang Chao could rest assured.

And most of these surrendered soldiers are still very honest. They surrendered more than once anyway, just surrendered one more time. According to Yang Chao, they will be sent to Nanjing. Can the little emperor kill them when he arrives in Nanjing?
The smart ones among them are already thinking that with so many people, the little emperor must only pardon them and let them continue to serve as soldiers.

In fact, they were dispatched to the army, anyway, they were soldiers, and they continued to serve as soldiers, so what kind of punishment was this.

Then they quickly ate the hot meal sent by the people organized by Yang Chao, and they no longer doubted Yang Chao's promise.

Down-to-earth waiting to go to Nanjing.

As surrendered soldiers, they are originally a group of people who are not strong enough to resist and can betray the motherland, and they will not hesitate to betray the new master. In addition to this group of people who do not have much resistance, those who have a little bit of resistance and try to resist, the first They were killed in the resistance for a while. At that time, they plundered all night and were exhausted. When they met Yang Chao's army rushing towards them, the resistance had only a dead end.

But even so, they all caused huge casualties to Yang Chao. After all, there were more than 20 people. If a small number of people resisted, it would be a big trouble.

Assign 3000 men to guard the prisoners, 2000 men to guard the city gate, and leave 5000 men as a reserve team.

Of course, more than 3000 prisoners had to be guarded, and [-] were not enough anyway, so Yang Chao planned to recruit [-] militiamen.

At this moment in the entire city, only Yang Chao's army has a complete organization. He can manage the city according to his own ideas, but it's a pity that he doesn't have experienced management personnel, and they are not here in Huangfeng Mansion.

Notices were posted immediately, telling officials to report to Yang Chao and recruit scholars at the same time.

To Yang Chao's surprise, Shi Kefa was never found, and he disappeared without a trace, and it became a mystery ever since!

It is very troublesome to manage a city. Yang Chao alone and a group of rough soldiers are definitely not enough, and Shi Kefa is nowhere to be found, so Yang Chao can only bite the bullet.

Posting notices but failing to recruit the past officials, most of these civil officials fled before the city was destroyed, and most of the remaining ones surrendered except for a few who died for their country. For those who surrendered, Yang Chao did not intend to use them, and if he found them, he would be imprisoned directly. Then let the emperor dispose of it.

Although there are no officials, there are still those officials in the Yamen in the past. Although many were killed in the massacre, it is impossible for them all to die. At least half of them are alive. After seeing the notice, these people will arrive soon. Yang Chao reports here.

Officials are different from officials. Most of them are locals, so they are more familiar with Yangzhou and more convenient to manage. Not to mention their abilities. Even when officials are here, they are actually doing things. The bureaucracy system in China is a bit similar to the relationship between regular workers and temporary workers in the government of later generations. You will find that regular workers are all in the office, and those who bully vendors on the street are all temporary workers. Dogs fight people.

Directly appoint a housekeeper in Jiangdu County to sort out the county government, and ask him to organize all the officials from other parties. The half-hundred-year-old green-shirted official was inexplicably grateful, and he didn't know what to use to thank Yang Chao for his promotion. .

As for the upper Yangzhou Prefecture, Yang Chao has no plans to take care of it for the time being. It is only a city, which is basically under the jurisdiction of Jiangdu County. What kind of officials in Yangzhou Prefecture do you use? Under their operation, the stalls in Jiangdu County were quickly set up, and order in the city was quickly restored.

Jiangdu County is the Fuguo County of Yangzhou Prefecture. The so-called Fuguo County means that it does not have its own separate county magistrate, and it is in the same place as the Fucheng, or that the Fucheng occupies the county seat. This is very common. For example, Nanjing City is divided into Jiangning The two counties of Shangyuan and Shangyuan are both in the city of Nanjing.

Therefore, the small officials in Jiangdu County are actually managing Yangzhou City at ordinary times.

However, Yangzhou Mansion is the big yamen that governs the three nearby states and three counties, but does not directly manage the city.

Under the management of the small officials, Yangzhou began to restore peace, and the common people collected the remains of relatives and friends with grief and buried them.

Then Yang Chao sent troops to occupy all the granaries, and then went to the local grain merchants or the shopkeepers of the grain stores to discuss with these people to sell grain at a low price through their grain stores to stabilize the market.

Recruiting people is not a problem at all. Yangzhou City suffered such a catastrophe, and the production order of the city will not be restored for a while, and it may not be restored for many years. Therefore, those people who used to rely on salt merchants for a living lost their source of income for a while. Yang Chao can recruit as many people as he wants.

Before evening, 10,000 young and strong men were recruited as militiamen, and [-]+ captives were armed, making it possible for Yang Chao to form as many militias as he wanted.

The reason why we only formed 1 people and left our own [-] troops to guard the prisoners was not because we were afraid that the militiamen would not be able to take care of them, but because we were worried that these militiamen would kill people if they were irrational. Half of the people died in Yangzhou City, and almost every family went to funerals. Everyone is filial.

These militiamen have already been selected, and no family members died at the hands of the Qing army, but who can guarantee that they have no friends or relatives killed, and it is not ruled out that some people lie, if the purpose is purely to make ends meet, if If you have ulterior motives, it would be bad if you want revenge.

Although these captives are not worthy of sympathy, once they are forced to turn against them, it will be very troublesome.

So while leaving 3000 people and leading the militia to guard the prisoners, they are actually protecting the safety of the prisoners.

In addition to the militia, a large number of civilian men were also recruited to help build the city and clean up the corpses. As long as they were active, those who used to work, regardless of their age, would have food to eat.These people must be given a chance to make a living and wait for the order of the city to be restored before the labor force can be accommodated again.

Anyway, there is a lot of food in the city, and it is all food from the imperial court, which is enough to last for three months.

Yangzhou City is temporarily stable, but it is not out of danger. Duoduo may fight back at any time. Yang Chao knows that besides Duoduo, there is another Qing army going south. If Duoduo transfers that Qing army, Yangzhou may meet again soon. against attack.

But the reinforcements still haven't arrived. Yang Chao has already sent spies to Guazhou to wait for them. Once the reinforcements arrive, no matter what the situation is, they are not allowed to rest. They must rush to Yangzhou immediately regardless of the cost.

But there was no reinforcements for a day, but the Qing army appeared. Although it was only a small group of cavalry, wandering around Yangzhou, it was probably just a sentry of the Qing army, but this proved that the other party had begun to focus on Yangzhou. If he is defeated, he will definitely not let it go. He will definitely gather his troops again and return to Yangzhou.

If his reinforcements are less than a day away, there will be no safety in Yangzhou City.

On the third day, the reinforcements finally arrived. There were less than ten ships, all of which were pulling soldiers. One ship was fully loaded with more than 100 people, a total of more than 500 people. But Yang Chao already felt much more relaxed. At least the reinforcements finally arrived Arrived.

His reinforcements were really out of luck. There was a strong wind blowing on the river for five days. The reinforcements were originally on 2000 boats, but all [-] of them capsized. There were originally [-] of them, but only [-] were left. The materials are all lost.

In terms of proportion, this group of reinforcements lost more than Yang Chao. Facts have proved that Tianwei is more terrifying than the opponent.

But this is war, and you have to pay a far heavier price than dying in battle for fighting.

The state of this batch of reinforcements is also extremely bad. After being devastated by the wind and waves, all the soldiers' mental will is close to collapse, and at the same time they are very tired. What they bring is not actual combat effectiveness, but spiritual encouragement.

At the same time, these reinforcements brought some very serious news. Because Yangzhou was besieged, Doduo's hundreds of thousands of troops would go south sooner or later. It has risen to five taels of silver a load, and there is a risk of continuing to rise.

The people along the river fled into the city one after another, while the people in the north of the river tried to escape across the river in various ways. There were not enough boats and there were people who robbed them. , the people engulfed by the Yangtze River must be much more than their own soldiers.

Hearing these news, Yang Chao knew that he didn't seem to have bothered to send a message to Nanjing. Although he got the news from Guazhou, he would definitely win to Nanjing, but the news from Guazhou did not have Yang Chao's signature, so it was caught in the The imperial court may not dare to believe the rumors and gossips from all walks of life, because the news they received from official channels are quite different. Unless they can see the memorial sent back by Yang Chao himself, few people would dare to believe it. I believe that when the enemy occupies a strong city, they immediately counterattack and regain it.

The most important thing is the attitude of the common people. If the common people are unstable, order will not be restored, and prices will continue to rise. With the rise of prices, there will be a series of other variables. Whether those civil officials in Nanjing can cope with it, Yang Chaoshen said Suspect.

Good news, writing good news, not only let the court know immediately, but also let the common people know that compared with the worries of civil and military officials and the little emperor, the worries of the common people are the most realistic. If the common people are worried, it will cause social instability.

Yang Chao summoned the scholars who could be found in Yangzhou City, as well as the officers and soldiers in the army who could write, and wrote on various kinds of paper. Ten thousand, captured 16 enemies.

However, there are too few scholars. Families who can study generally have good conditions. Therefore, when looting, they are the first targets to be hit. As a result, a large number of scholars were killed, and the proportion was much higher than that of poor people. Well, in the entire city of Yangzhou, Yang Chao only recruited less than fifty scholars.

Therefore, not only scholars wrote, but Yang Chao himself wrote it himself. After an hour of surprise writing, dozens of scholars and Yang Chao wrote a total of more than 1 simple good news, and used up all the red paper that could be found for the time being. Give up, and then stamp Yang Chao's official seal on them all, and send troops on horseback to Guazhou to find a boat and send them back to Nanjing.

When the soldiers riding horses arrived in Guazhou with Yang Chao's good news, the weather turned better and the weather was calm. They crossed the river calmly, and then rode straight to Nanjing City.

When they arrived at the outskirts of Nanjing, they waved the good news and kept shouting on the horse: "Great catastrophe, great catastrophe, Yangzhou catastrophe! Uncle Loyalty captured Yangzhou, killed 16 troops, and captured 16 enemies! Catastrophe, catastrophe, Yangzhou! Great catastrophe! Uncle Zhongyi seized Yangzhou, killed [-] soldiers, and captured [-] enemies!..."

Until they rushed to the foot of the city of Nanjing and showed the guards the customs defense, they immediately entered the city, also riding horses, shouting along the way to let the people and the court know the battle situation at the same time.

(End of this chapter)