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

Because the use of curved cannons to suppress the Shun Army in the city and bombard the city gate with a large caliber of 40 mm, it was Hao Guangming's proposal, and the purpose was to use cannons to break Jiangling City.

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

But for Hao Guangming and Zhu Ma, who had long predicted this, only achieved the estimated effect.

However, after the conversation with Zeng Ying was over, Zhu Mei couldn't help but smile and said, "Ren Guangrong probably never expected that he would not have the chance to contact our army, and Jiangling City would be breached."

Hao Guangming smiled and said, "With a cannon group to attack the city, your generals in the late Ming Dynasty would definitely not be prepared at the beginning, but in the future, the tactics of war spread, all parties will definitely be prepared.

People learn and make progress in wars very quickly. Maybe it won’t take long before they can come up with solutions.”

In fact, the method to deal with cannon attacks was ready in later generations, that is, to set up trenches outside the city.

But Zhu Ma Shin will definitely not tell her opponents.

"Jiangling City was easily captured, but I still have no idea what to do later." While happy, Zhu Ma was a little worried.

Before, she thought that she had many soldiers and generals under her command, but now she felt that she was too short of her ability to use people.

Hao Guangming said: "The lonely city is not guarding. My suggestion is to reorganize the surrendered Shun army from Jiangling City and then take it away with the ship.

Jiangling City is temporarily left to Li Zicheng. When the time is right in the future, you will naturally be able to recover it again."

As for whether the Shunjun ships with more than one part of the reorganized Shunjun ships were enough, Hao Guangming did not mention it.

In fact, although Zhu Niu's Yangtze River Navy had more than 1,000 ships, the total of all kinds of warships was only more than 300.

There are only dozens of warships with more than 200 materials that can be installed with cannons.

The rest are civilian ships used for transportation.

After all, the war is about logistics.

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

The Shun Army is also used as more than 300 civilian ships of large and small in Jiangling in Jiangling. When he leaves Jiangling, Zhu Xi must have taken them away together, and he will not have to worry about not having a ship to carry people.

In fact, if there were reliable Ming army and government forces on the south bank of the Jiangnan bank, Zhu Mai could also attract him and let him seize Jiangling.

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

Li Zicheng won’t talk about it anymore. Even the Qing army did not have as many cannons as Zhu Meiyu. What they rely on was the red cannons obtained from various channels in the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Ma left a battalion of troops and horses, and then twenty or thirty Guangming artillery, it would be difficult for the Qing army to break through Jiangling City.

Unfortunately, the Jiangnan bank of Jingzhou Prefecture is basically the territory of the Shun Army. Although the Ming Dynasty had power, they were relatively weak and there were no reliable and effective civil and military officials.

If Zhu Mai kept people to guard Jiangling, it would be to trap the left-behind people in the lonely city.

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

Zhu Mai understood these truths after thinking for a moment, so she nodded, "It seems that this is the only way."

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

What's even more annoying is that the young general of the Ming army who had asked him to order the whip before.

Obviously, the Ming army did this to deliberately take revenge on him and humiliate him.

"You guy, if you want to avenge the whip, just come. I will frown and leave my surname Ren!"

Ming Jun smiled coldly after hearing this and said, "Do you think I don't want to slap you? If it weren't for the military regulations, I would have woken you up long ago.

Also, I'm the chief of the Imperial Guards' No. 1 town, and I'm called Quan Zhixuan, not that guy."

"Bah!" Ren Guangrong spitted, "Dog Officer, if you have the ability to let go, and fight me upright, you damn..."

When Ren Guangrong opened his mouth and became dirty, Quan Zhixuan frowned and found a piece of rag to block Ren Guangrong's mouth.

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

Jiangling City has been taken down by our army. Except for a subordinate general named Zheng Siwei who fled from the north gate early with three thousand soldiers, everyone else surrendered to our army's prisoners.

This is true for you and Meng Changgeng. Do you want to know what will happen to you?"

At the end, Quan Zhixuan saw that Ren Guangrong's face became ugly and his eyes were full of anger, and he felt that the anger he had been whipped out had been a lot.

He was still saying something, and a personal soldier Qian Zheng walked in outside and said, "You should be angry, right? The Governor (Admiral) wants to see this person, so I will send him away."

Quan Zhixuan said: "Thank you, Shangguan, for your understanding, all your humble aura is out."

Mr. Qian smiled and said, "No need to thank me, this is all the arrangements of the governor."

Immediately, Ren Guangrong was taken to another tent at the dock by Qian Zong and several personal soldiers and met Hong Niangzi.

"I only ask one thing, would you like to surrender?" After saying that, I realized that Ren Guangrong's mouth was still blocked, so I said, "Take off the rag from his mouth."

After his mouth was liberated, Ren Guangrong immediately glared at Hong Madam and said, "No need to persuade me, I will never surrender!"

The Hong Madam was not angry, but smiled and said, "Since that's the case, I can only arrange for you to be a prisoner and be a coolie.

By the way, I have to tell you one thing, your family has become prisoners and will not be arranged on the same boat with you.

So, unless you want to abandon your wife and children, you will work honestly in the end and don’t think about running away.”

When Ren Guangrong learned that his wife and children had been arrested, he immediately regretted it and wanted to change his words.

But after all, he thought that his younger brother was still in Li Zicheng's central army and General Guoyi, he finally held it back.

When he was taken away, he couldn't help saying, "Madam Hong, if you still remember the love you were under the command of the King of Chuang in the past, don't make things difficult for my family!"

Ren Guangrong's words can be said to be extremely emotionally literate.

If it is normal, the generals who hear him might directly kill Ren Guangrong in order to avoid suspicion.

But Hong Niang was not afraid of being suspicious of Zhu Mai, so she said, "Don't worry, I Hong Niang never bully women and children."

It was already dark at this time. After Ren Guangrong was taken away, Hongniang reported the situation to Zhu Mi who was staying on the imperial ship on the walkie-talkie.

Zhu Mei was not disappointed when she knew that Ren Guangrong was unwilling to surrender. After all, Ren Guangrong was not a very famous general of the Shun Army.

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

Zhu Ma was unable to let go of these two men, so they were all incorporated into the prisoner camp and stayed on the navy ship to do miscellaneous work.

It is said to be a prisoner camp, but in fact, there are only a dozen civil officials and military generals in the Shun Army who are unwilling to surrender, and the biggest one among them is Ren Guangrong and Meng Changgeng.

The defenders of Jiangling City originally had more than 10,000 people.

In addition to the more than 3,000 people who were killed and injured in the docks and defending the city, Zheng Siwei and the more than 8,000 people who were killed or disappeared after the city was broken, they were eventually captured by the Ming army!

The next day, Zeng Ying and Yang Zhan screened the 8,000 prisoners according to Zhu Mai's order.

Because both of them have experience in screening and reorganizing surrendered soldiers in the Daxi Army in just half a day, five thousand people were selected and two incomplete battalions were compiled.

As for the capture in Jiangling City, all the statistics were also found.

There is not much gold and silver, and the total is only 20,000 to 30,000 taels.

The remaining weapons, armor and other materials cannot be calculated.

However, I stocked up a lot of food, with a total of 130,000 stones.

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

In other words, in recent years, Huguang has also suffered from natural disasters and has experienced many wars. In addition, the grain produced in Jingzhou Prefecture will definitely not be stationed in Jiangling, otherwise they will only seize more grain in Jiangling City this time.

However, Zhu Ma couldn't take away all the food so much, so you need to consider how to deal with it.
Chapter completed!