The first day of the tenth month of the AD year.

The long streets inside and outside Yifengmen in Nanjing are already full of people of the Ming Dynasty wearing decent clothes. These two long streets once became depressed and desolate during the years under the rule of the Qing Dynasty. But now not only

It has restored its former prosperity, and under the auspices of Yu Chenglong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, the road was expanded, paved with stones from Caishiji, and willow trees were planted on both sides of the road...two connected long

There are now a lot of high-rise buildings on both sides of the street. Although the height of these high-rise buildings is limited, they are just three-story and four-story new-style enclosed buildings. But in this day and age, rows of tall enclosed buildings together still look very spectacular.

.This capital of great virtue in the Ming Dynasty has vaguely resembled the capital of the Celestial Dynasty.

Since the day before yesterday, the people of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing City have known that their grand duke and emperor Zhu Heji will return in triumph on the first day of October and return to Nanjing Yingtianfu City, which is loyal to him. And there are three more people who will return with him.

The most elite "Old Brother" town, plus a full 20,000 Eight Banners soldiers who surrendered!

At that time, a grand military parade and prisoner presentation ceremony will be held, and this military parade and prisoner presentation ceremony will also be part of the enthronement ceremony of the Grand Duke and the Emperor - the emperor should be a ruthless man with strong military virtues and a special ability to deal with disobedience.

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For Zhu Heji, the great emperor who re-established the Ming Dynasty, what could be more proof of his legitimacy and correctness, and more convincing than a major victory that could go down in history and 20,000 dejected prisoners of war?

Is Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu in Xiaoling, satisfied?

For the people of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing City, this great victory in the Battle of Huguang also heralded that the troubled times that started before the Battle of Sarhu were coming to an end. And what made them even more excited was that

Yes, the Grand Duke and Emperor who re-established the Ming Dynasty is by no means a reckless man who only values ​​martial arts and does not understand civil administration. In fact, his civil skills far exceed his illustrious martial arts. Look at the people's livelihood and prosperity in the six southeastern provinces of the Ming Dynasty today.

I know... the Hongwu Emperor who founded the Ming Dynasty was probably far inferior to today's Grand Duke and Emperor in terms of culture and governance.

The day when this grand duke and emperor rules the world will probably be the arrival of the prosperous age of the Ming Dynasty!

If there were still people who had doubts about this prospect before the Battle of Huguang, then this victory in Huguang would be enough to dispel all their doubts.

Before the victory of Huguang, the world was still divided into three parts. The Ming Dynasty only had six southeastern provinces, one province of Korea, a Dengzhou city and several small islands in Shandong, Jinzhou in Liaodong, and a small town in Hunan.

piece of land.

After the victory of Hunan, Hubei was not completely recovered except Xiangyang and Yunyang. The other places were already owned by the Ming Dynasty! Hunan province was completely owned by the Ming Dynasty. Although the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guangxi were not actually controlled by the Ming court,

Wu Yingxiong, Wu Guogui, and Zu Zeqing have all come forward to declare themselves ministers.

Regardless of whether these people are reliable, at least on paper, the Three Kingdoms have become the Northern and Southern Dynasties!

Moreover, as the "Southern Dynasty", the Ming Dynasty had the upper hand because it had absolute advantages in population, financial resources, sugar, and North Korea, an overseas province close to the Qing Dynasty's hometown in the northeast.

Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that...the Ming Dynasty will win, and the Qing Dynasty will be finished!

In order to express their love for the Grand Duke and the Emperor, the entire Nanjing Yingtianfu City was already empty of people. The welcoming team lined up from Yifeng Gate to outside the Hongwu Gate of Nanjing Imperial City. Among them were not only Nanjing people, but also people from neighboring cities.

People from the Ming Dynasty who came from the Jiangnan and Jiangbei prefectures...

Although Li Guangdi and Wang Shirong could not be regarded as real citizens of the Ming Dynasty, they also disguised themselves and came to the inner street of Yifengmen. They looked at everything around them with complex eyes - the spacious streets, the tall buildings, it seemed that

Wealthy and happy people... isn't this what they ideally want for a peaceful and prosperous age?

What the Qing Dynasty had not been able to do for more than 20 years of governing the world, this Grand Duke and Emperor did it in just a few years... Although such a peaceful and prosperous age can only appear in Nanjing, Guangzhou, Yangzhou, Quanzhou, and Chaozhou

, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, and the emerging commercial port of Shanghai. But this is much better than the Qing Dynasty!

The two people looked at each other and both showed helpless smiles - they seemed to be on the wrong team!

If I had known earlier, I would have taken refuge in the Ming Dynasty, and now I am already a highly respected official... I regret it!

Just when Wang Shirong and Li Guangdi were regretting it, the loudest cheers suddenly broke out from the Yifeng Gate!

"The Ming Dynasty is victorious! The Ming Dynasty...is invincible!"

"Long live the Ming Dynasty!"

"Long live the Holy One..."

"The Ming Dynasty is invincible!"

Wang Shirong and Li Guangdi quickly stretched their necks and looked toward Yifeng Gate. What appeared in their sights was a group of cavalry guards wearing shining breastplates and riding tall horses. The leader of the group was wearing a breastplate.

The armor is very special... the "chest" part of the breastplate is very spectacular, and the face under the saucer-shaped helmet belongs to a charming and charming woman.

Needless to say, this person is Da Bo Ling - if there is Da Bo Ling, there must be Zhu Heji!

Due to the threat of rifled guns, Zhu Heji himself could not easily show up on the street, so he had to let Da Boling do it for him.

Following this group of guard cavalry led by Da Bo Ling were the Ming army infantry columns one after another. The officers and soldiers walking in the front of these columns were all wearing polished breastplates!

Anyone familiar with the Ming Dynasty's army knows that only some of the elite infantrymen in "Old Brothers Town" will be equipped with infantry breastplates.

Therefore, these battalion-level infantry phalanxes are Zhu Heji's "old brothers" and are the elite aces of the Ming Army.

Wang Shirong and Li Guangdi both opened their eyes and counted carefully. They counted from the beginning to twenty-four.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! A total of twenty-four battalion-level columns!

It’s all the “Old Brothers” camp!

There were only eight battalions of infantry in one town of the Ming Dynasty Army, and the twenty-four battalions were all the infantry in the three towns. In other words, Zhu Heji not only returned to Nanjing, but also brought back his most elite "old soldiers".

"Brothers" town.

It can also be judged from this that the main attack route of the Ming Army's Northern Expedition is likely to be on the eastern front... It should be crossing the Huaihe River to the north, taking Xuzhou directly, and then attacking Shandong and heading north to Zhili. The direction of Liaodong and North Korea should also be

Launch an attack at the same time, attacking Beijing from two sides.

The tasks of the Huguang Ming Army were mostly diversionary.

At this moment, the people on the street burst into cheers again, but this time the words of the cheers were a bit messy.

"Eight Banners Soldiers, really Eight Banners Soldiers..."

"The clearing of demons is over, Ming Dynasty has won!"

"The demon is over..."

Wang Shirong and Li Guangdi, who were planning the next phase of the Ming army's main attack direction, also quickly looked in the direction of Yifeng Gate.

The scene they saw this time surprised them both to the extreme.

Because this time the Eight Banners soldiers are coming back... Wearing red, blue, and white cotton armor, with their heads bare, revealing their iconic braids, and there are people carrying the three flags of red, blue, and white.

The military flags. Their ranks were quite neat and formed into large vertical formations. The Eight Banners soldiers in each vertical formation all had the same flag, which showed that they were organized.

But these regular Eight Banners soldiers are now dejected, with empty hands, and panic and fear written on their faces. Moreover, on both sides of their team, there are Ming army cavalry and infantry with live ammunition guarding them...

...This means they are all prisoners!

Wang Shirong and Li Guangdi both worked in the Qing court and had seen real Eight Banners soldiers. Now of course they can see that these captured Eight Banners soldiers in front of them are genuine... not necessarily the old Eight Banners, but they are definitely

It's the Eight Banners.

This shows that during the Battle of Huguang, a large number of Eight Banners soldiers surrendered to the Ming army in an organized manner!

Wang Shirong and Li Guangdi couldn't believe their eyes... The Eight Banners soldiers actually surrendered in an organized manner, and so many people surrendered!

Judging from their uniforms and numbers, it seems that three new Eight Banners troops from Gushan surrendered together.
Chapter completed!