Chapter 428 Destruction of the Ming Dynasty. Mutiny II
Yu Zigao has been in a trance these days, and has been hiding in Hangzhou City. The people with him are Yan Siqi and his guards. In fact, to be precise, Yu Zigao has been following the Chinese military intelligence
The agents of the Ministry were hiding everywhere, and the Zhejiang government already knew that he was in Hangzhou and had begun to hunt for him.
When Yu Zigao left the Flood Area without authorization, the troops under his command rebelled. According to the laws and official customs of the Ming Dynasty, he could not escape the role of scapegoat no matter what.
Now the mutiny troops have spread to the provincial capital Hangzhou, and their numbers are increasing day by day. No matter what the outcome of the mutiny is, Yu Zigao, who is confused and desperate, understands one thing very well: his official career in the Ming Dynasty and even his personal life have been ruined.
Decided.
The city of Hangzhou was in chaos.
Ever since the "Japanese pirates" invaded the country during the Jiajing period and invaded the city of Hangzhou, Hangzhou has always been a representative of the prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River. Hangzhou, located on the edge of the West Lake, was also the "gold-selling den" of dignitaries and wealthy businessmen, with flowery streets and willow alleys, feasting and feasting.
, singing and dancing day and night, and experiencing no disaster for almost half a century.
Now, as soon as the new army rebels arrive, the surrounding suburbs of Hangzhou suddenly burst into flames. The prosperous land of the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River is plunged into a disaster of war. The bandits and mountain bandits brought in by the rebel army in the middle and later stages of the rebellion first attacked and robbed the wealthy merchants in the surrounding suburbs.
Jia, the home of the landlords and gentry, even broke into Lingyin Temple and other places, burned, killed and looted. One day later, the rebels who lost their officer leadership used cannons and powder barrels to try to blast the Hangzhou city wall on the side of Fenghuang Mountain, and then attacked Yongjinmen.
At Wangchaomen and other places, however, these rebels did not learn the professional skills well, and there were problems with the excavation of blasting holes and the placement of explosives. Moreover, the offensive launched by the rebels was very chaotic in terms of organization, command and other aspects.
After the rebels' blasting and siege plan was implemented, the blast wave after the explosives were ignited basically poured out from the breach in the city wall. It failed to collapse the city wall. Instead, it killed many rebel soldiers who were unaware of their concealment near the blasting opening.
The rebel attacks on several other city gates also failed.
In fact, there are only 5,000 Ming army defenders in Hangzhou City. The main force is the guard camp of Zhejiang Commander Luo Qing, which only has more than 1,200 people. In addition, a group of new army soldiers selected from Yiwu have not yet been assigned to the Yuyao military camp due to lack of pay. At this moment,
More than 1,000 new recruits from the Central Army who had never received training were also driven onto the city wall and became one of the main forces of the Hangzhou city defenders.
Luo Qing himself is not in Hangzhou. He is supervising the troops on the front line of Huzhou to deal with the increasingly active Chinese Army Jiangnan garrison. From his personal perspective, the sooner the Chinese Army comes over, the better. Most of their Luo family's property
He and his relatives have moved to Taiwan and Quanzhou, Fujian one after another. The Luo family has long planned that once the Chinese army launches a full-scale offensive to destroy the Ming Dynasty, Luo Qing himself will surrender immediately, and then move to Taiwan Island or Nanyang to become a wealthy family.
Weng.
The leader of Luo Qing's personal guard battalion staying in Hangzhou is a commander who is also a descendant of the Luo family, named Luo Yifei. This young officer is now surrounded by a group of the highest-ranking civil servants in Zhejiang Province in the Chief Secretary's Yamen in Hangzhou.
Asking various questions, these senior officials would never look at him seriously in normal times, but now, the prefect Yang Wan was elected as the commander-in-chief of the city defense by the Chief Secretary of Zhejiang Province and the bureaucrats of Hangzhou Prefecture. The only person under prefect Yang Wan who knew
The only person who knows how to fight is General Luo Yifei.
At the same time, Yu Zigao's personal guard captain and New Army Artillery Battalion Commander Luo Xiaoming-Luo Qing's nephew was sneaking out of Hangzhou City from the West Lake Water Gate.
Just when the rebels failed to attack the city, the secret messengers of the Chinese Army took advantage of the chaos and entered the city of Hangzhou. They used the waterway of Hangzhou Bay to convey the orders of the Chinese Army's Jiangnan Commander-in-Chief Chen Zhongji to the intelligence of the Chinese Army who was waiting in Hangzhou. Department personnel, including Yan Siqi and others who were stranded in the city:
An order from the shipowner: The Chinese Army in the south of the Yangtze River will not take action against the situation in Zhejiang. All people from the Chinese Army and the company’s intelligence department must immediately withdraw from the rebel forces and draw a clear line with the rebels. The rebel forces are controlled by the Chinese Army Intelligence Department. The troops immediately left the brigade and moved northward, trying to contact the Chinese Army's Jiangnan Defense Zone on the seaside near Haining, and then wait for an opportunity to enter Jiangnan.
Zeng Rui, director of the Domestic Bureau of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, instigated a mutiny in advance without authorization, but at this time Yin Feng did not intend to immediately launch an offensive against the Ming Dynasty; at the same time, the Chinese army, which had just finished the Battle of Liaodong, was unable to launch another major war. Because whether it is arms, grain, transportation ships, personnel organization, etc., the Chinese army needs to rest and reserve. In order to control the vast land in the interior, it also needs to expand its army.
That night, Yan Siqi got Chen Zhongji's order in a secret house at the corner of Fenghuang Mountain. After reading it, he said to Yu Zigao, who had been frowning: "Mr. Chen said in the order: The ship owner has made it clear that no one will do anything within this year." If we take action tomorrow, what are you going to do?"
Yu Zigao smiled bitterly: "What else can I do? If I go back to the court, I will definitely die. The new army I raised with my own hands is now no different than a bandit. If I go back to the ship owner, what use can I have?"
"That's wrong. Brother Luo Xiaoming has already left the city, hasn't he?"
"His artillery battalion may be taken away, and the few Fujian soldiers I personally recruited may follow him, but I estimate that the other rebel soldiers will not..."
Suddenly, there was a burst of cannon fire and musket shooting from the south of the city. This place was very close to the south of Hangzhou, so Yan Siqi and Yu Zigao heard clearly: it was coming from the rebel camp outside the city.
Yu Zigao stood up immediately: "It's Luo Xiaoming, it must be him, he started to take action..."
Yan Siqi frowned: "Listening to the sound of gunfire, it seems that there were no less than a few thousand people taking action, and the artillery camp only had a thousand people... Could something have gone wrong?" He turned to several members of the Intelligence Department and said: "Brothers, It's important to find out the information quickly. Brother Luo Xiaoming is the ship owner's direct disciple, and he is also a backbone of our Chinese army. He is one of our own."
After hearing this, Yu Zigao just smiled bitterly, shook his head slightly and sighed.
Yan Siqi arranged his men to go out to find out the news. After finishing his work, he looked back and said to Yu Zigao: "Brother Yu, I only let you know about Luo Xiaoming now. This is the intention of the ship owner, and it is also to protect you..."
Yu Zigao waved his hand: "I don't mind,... In fact, I have long suspected that Vice General Luo is one of yours. He is very familiar with various military affairs during military training, and he has a vague shadow of the Chinese Military Academy... Now There is no use saying this, the New Army is finished, my two years of hard work have been in vain, I have nowhere to go..."
Yan Siqi laughed and said: "You should have understood this a long time ago. The ship owner King said two years ago: You are working in vain to train the new army for the Ming Dynasty. Now, you have also seen that a mere new army can cost ten thousand people." No one who can fight can survive in the Ming Dynasty. As a soldier, what hope do you have here? This court has become difficult to return to. Only by reforming the past can we restore the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties in China. Brother Yu, your father is me. Waiting for the role models of Chinese soldiers, don’t you want to become soldiers like Ban Dingyuan and Huo Qubing?”
Yu Zigao's eyes suddenly flashed, he raised his head, smiled faintly, and pulled out a small gold-plated flintlock pistol from his waist: This was a souvenir that Yin Feng personally awarded to each graduate at the graduation ceremony of the Chinese Military Academy. Caressing this small flintlock pistol, which is basically a decoration, he said slowly after a long time: "I want to meet the captain of the ship..."
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On the third night when the mutinous soldiers surrounded the city of Hangzhou, the artillery battalion that reluctantly participated in the riot broke away from the rebel army and headed straight towards Haining. Outside the seawall there, more than ten three-masted cruisers of the Chinese fleet were waiting. .
It was Luo Xiaoming who led the troops out of the rebel camp; his troops were the most organized and disciplined among the New Army. Basically, after his sudden appearance, all the soldiers turned to him. Under the command of Luo Xiaoming, the artillery battalion and A few of Yu Zigao's Fujian soldiers abandoned their cannons and other heavy firearms, gathered up and headed north. On the way to the artillery camp, they clashed with other rebel troops, and a gun battle broke out in the dark night before dawn. This is Yan Siqi and Yu Zigao. The source of the gunshots Gao heard at night.
After the artillery battalion left, the rebels became even more unorganized and undisciplined. Thick smoke and fire appeared everywhere around the city of Hangzhou. More than 100,000 refugees abandoned their homes and places of origin and fled.
Yan Siqi took Yu Zigao, and with the help of the Ministry of Military Intelligence and the Ministry of Internal Affairs Intelligence, sneaked out of Hangzhou City near Wulin Gate, left Hangzhou with the help of the canal, and sneaked into the mountainous area of northwest Zhejiang. When leaving Hangzhou City, Yu Zigao He did not forget the beautiful boat girl Shi Li on the West Lake and insisted on taking her with him.
... While Yin Feng was looking at the documents from the Ministry of Military Intelligence, he asked Mei Xinlan behind him to massage his back. He was lying on the bed reading the documents. The location was Mei Xinlan's boudoir, which was surrounded by a green gauze curtain. On the big bed, the Eight Immortals table in the middle was lit with elegant and subtle sandalwood. Because she had given birth to a child, Mei Xinlan, who had a slightly plump figure, was only wearing a small coat and silk underwear. She was riding on Yin Feng, stretching out a pair of white lotus root-like lips. He rounded his arms and tapped Yin Feng's back gently.
Yin Feng suddenly said: "Look, this Yu Zigao is finally planning to change jobs. This guy finally figured it out..."
Mei Xinlan said "Hey," and slapped Yin Feng hard on the buttocks: "What dirty words are you talking about?"
Yin Feng turned around, held the almost half-naked Mei Xinlan in his arms, and said with a smile: "I didn't say anything dirty. I said that Yu Zigao has decided to join me, that is, to change jobs..."
Mei Xinlan quickly covered Yin Feng's mouth with her hand: "This jump... and other swear words,"
Yin Feng was stunned, and it took him a long time to understand: in the Ming Dynasty, job-hopping had a specific meaning. It meant that after a prostitute had been with a client for a while, she found a richer master, so she abandoned her old love and found another one. Regarding a new love, it is like a horse moving from one trough to another to graze. Therefore, this method of climbing to another high branch is vividly called "job hopping". When a client falls in love with another person, it is also considered job hopping. Mei Xinlan was born in Fireworks Willow Alley , so he was particularly sensitive to this, so Yin Feng had no choice but to take action and make up for his gaffe with actions.
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