Chapter 132, Hangzhou opens the city without blood This large-scale escape wave that occurred in the north of Hangzhou City was not hidden from the eyes of the "thief leaders" outside the city from the beginning.
In fact, as early as when several city gates in the north and east of Hangzhou City were rushed open one after another, the headquarters of Phoenix Villa mastered this information through satellite reconnaissance.
But after a brief discussion, the final attitude of the two top leaders Wang Qiu and Zhao Yingong was that they didn't care.
Uh, why doesn't it matter?
Because the purpose of the Global Chinese Travelers Alliance's war is completely different from that of the various soldiers and horses on the territory of the Ming Empire in this era: they sit on the tens of millions of square kilometers of the New World and Australia, and they have little regard for the small country of China.
Land is actually not very attractive; There are countless gold and silver mines, gemstone veins and precious timber on their land, but they are allowed to sleep just because of the lack of labor force, and they do not care about the materials in the city; behind them are the huge productivity of the modern world, and this is the creation of traditional agricultural society.
Poor wealth is simply scornful Therefore, in addition to forcing the Ming Dynasty to maintain open markets and free trade, the only strategic resource that the Global Chinese Travelers Alliance really needs to obtain from the Ming Dynasty is population.
However, because too many people have been collected from North China, Shandong, Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang during this period, which exceeds the capacity of each union republic to absorb the new population, so even the task of collecting people has been temporarily suspended.
In this way, Hangzhou in front of us becomes very useless.
Even if we win this city with bloodshed and sacrifice, what will we gain?
Grain, Rice and Fodder This expeditionary force always has plenty of food and fodder.
Even if they want to collect fresh fruits and vegetables, there is nowhere to find them in such a snowy day.
The famous gold and silver mines in South Africa are currently in the name of travelers.
If you want gold and diamonds, wouldn’t you dig them yourself?
There are a lot of silk teas in the modern world.
Just get some embroidered handicrafts as souvenirs, but you don't really need too many.
Jiangnan beauties, yes, there is some market demand for this, but modern people can really tolerate the horseshoe-shaped "three-inch golden lotus" or have the ability to talk about moral articles, painting rhythms, poems and songs with those ancient singing girls.
It is even possible You don’t even understand Hangzhou dialect?
Rather than making it so troublesome, it would be better to wait until the dust settles, wholesale some pretty-looking young girls at a high price, and find a way to slowly cultivate and educate them yourself.
Anyway, in such troubled times, you can find small businesses selling them everywhere. child's place What's more, due to the long-standing tradition of worshiping foreigners, most gay male travelers prefer to get "Ocean Horses" with blond hair and white skin.
Due to the influx of a large number of modern Chinese travelers into the world, there are generally more men than women. bring huge physiological demands.
The three major groups, Huamei, Dong'an and Lingao, are all showing off their magical powers and trying their best to contact various slave traders through their respective connections.
As a result, for more than a year, the slave markets in Algiers, Tripoli, Basra, Istanbul and Kaffa became extremely popular.
The price of young white female slaves has more than doubled, and even the previously unsalable white girls have been sold out.
Considering that there are many lolita fans among the time travelers and those who like to play nurturing games.
Faced with such a popular market, the Tatar cavalry of the Crimean Khanate are increasingly interested in going to northern Russia to "hunt" slaves.
Ahem, let’s get back to the topic.
Of course, even if the travelers ask for little from the city of Hangzhou, they still have to pay salaries to the 7,000 miscellaneous troops under their command, as well as rewards for winning the battle.
As a rule, these expenses have to be paid from Hangzhou.
Of course it is possible to loot local areas and ask for funding from superiors, but it will definitely leave a bad impression on your superiors of laziness and incompetence: If you don’t even know how to raid occupied areas, what else is it if it’s not trash?
However, it is really easy to achieve this goal, after all, there are only so many people in the whole army.
Even if all the wealthy gentry in the city ran away, after occupying Hangzhou, just cleaning the floors of various mansions and collecting the leftover belongings would be enough to satisfy the appetite of these miscellaneous troops.
What's more, after looting the suburbs of Hangzhou before, During the raids in villages and towns, these guys who have always been "thief-minded" have already made a lot of good stuff.
Unless the battle to attack Hangzhou is very difficult, just giving them some random souvenirs will be enough.
Since even if they conquered Hangzhou in the late Ming Dynasty, they wouldn't be able to get much of what they wanted, so the time travelers naturally fought the battle procrastinatingly and carelessly.
Their biggest goal is to capture Hangzhou while minimizing casualties.
Moreover, if we say that Major General Sun Yang, as the highest military commander in the Hangzhou Theater, still has the desire to make contributions and show his prestige on the Hangzhou battlefield.
Then Wang Qiu, who did not rely on military exploits to earn a living, and Zhao Yiggong, a civil servant, did not even care about their military exploits in breaking the city.
When Major General Sun Yang led four thousand main troops to Fuyang.
Wang Qiu and Zhao Yingong, who stayed in Hangzhou, had no intention of occupying Hangzhou alone and competing with Sun Yang for the credit.
Instead, they only intend to maintain the current situation, not to let their troops be wiped out or defeated by the enemy, and just wait for Major General Sun Yang to come back to harvest the fruits of victory.
However, on the current earth, there is no indigenous force in this time and space that can deal with it.
Wang Qiu, a guy with many magic weapons to protect himself, poses no threat.
Well, Li Meng, who is on the front line of the Wulin Sect battlefield, has some thoughts of making contributions.
It's a pity that he only has a few hundred men at his disposal.
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It's really not possible to capture a big city with hundreds of thousands of people.
It is estimated that many gangs in the city have more people than his troops.
Moreover, Li Meng knew some official taboos and did not dare to rob the glory that belonged to his superior, Major General Sun Yang, so he had no choice but to play with rockets outside the city.
In short, in the eyes of the travelers, although Hangzhou City must be captured, the citizens and materials in Hangzhou City are not of high value.
Since the population collection operation has been stopped, the people in the city have become a burden to them.
Rather than having to bear their food supply in the future and suppress the various riots they cause, it is better to let more of them escape now.
Therefore, the more wealthy families in Hangzhou City escape, the worse the time travelers become.
Happy, naturally will not interfere with their doomsday escape, let alone take the opportunity to attack the city on a large scale.
On the other hand, in the city of Hangzhou, which had fallen into anarchy, some people were so anxious that they couldn't stand it when they saw that the thieves were still refusing to come into the city to take over.
With the hasty escape of the Hangzhou prefect, the whole city of Hangzhou officially entered a state of anarchy, and all social order completely collapsed.
Obviously, the collapse of order is not a good thing for human society in any era.
As a result, in the city of Hangzhou, tens of thousands of citizens rushed out of the city to flee, crowding the streets near the city gate.
On the other side, many good people suddenly appeared, trying to make a fortune in the chaos, robbing homes and houses everywhere, and launched ferocious raids on shops on the street and wealthy households who had fled.
Among these eager heroes, many of them were former government officials.
Because they were familiar with the wealth of each gentry family, they were particularly professional in robbery.
Several families of wealthy businessmen from Hangzhou who were preparing to flee were intercepted and killed on the streets of the city before they could leave the city with their children and their daughters.
Naturally, all the gold and silver they carried with them were robbed, and the men were either dead or alive.
They escaped, and the female family members were also brutalized in the street.
Under normal circumstances, even if a city changes hands during a war, the local wealthy gentry will quickly come forward to organize maintenance meetings and follow-up affairs to prevent the whole city from being destroyed in chaos and violence.
If the victor does not plan to massacre the city or plunder the city, it will also issue street cleaning orders and curfews as soon as possible to prevent the city from being conquered through hard work, but the benefits will fall into the hands of those rogue idlers who take advantage of the situation.
But at this time, all the Jin gentry in Hangzhou were busy running away, or hesitating whether to leave their hometown and flee with their families, and no one could care about this for a while.
The enemies outside the city are also not interested in taking advantage of the situation to invade Hangzhou, so that the city has become a paradise for heroes from all walks of life to indulge in lawlessness.
As a result, as time went by, the chaos in Hangzhou actually intensified.
When they started killing people and buying goods, the heroes were still a little uneasy and uneasy.
But after burning, killing and looting a lot, it gradually became natural to get used to it.
At first they only dared to rob shops that lacked protection, as well as sedans and carriages trapped in congested streets.
But every so often, these scoundrels have formed a robbery group with division of labor.
While setting up roadblocks on the streets to block the fleeing convoys, they also brazenly attack the mansions of wealthy families with high-walled compounds.
So, accompanied by bursts of noisy shouts, the doors of each of the mansions with carved and painted decorations were violently broken into; cabinets with carved and painted gold decorations were violently kicked over to search for the Hale rockets that were still coming in sporadically from outside the city.
No one bothered to put it out, but many neighbors were set on fire by various thugs themselves.
Groups of thugs joined forces to besiege various mansions and engage in fierce battles with the owners of the houses.
But after breaking into the house, in order to fight for a valuable-looking thing, or a beautiful woman, or even just a delicious pastry, these thugs do not mind enthusiastically using sticks, stones and fists to each other. greeting In the catastrophe, the frail and helpless women of wealthy families were obviously the most miserable victims.
Even if they seize the last moment, take off their bright and gorgeous silk dresses, blacken their faces with soot from the stove, mess up their hair, and put on dirty rags, they still can't stop those people.
The coveted person's venomous eyes are quick to detect, and most women whose hiding places are not secretive enough will They were dragged out from the corners one by one by some energetic thugs and pushed down on the cold floor with their skirts raised above their heads.
There was a long queue behind them.
From time to time, some people would fight with fists and kicks in order to jump in line, according to the popular male style in the late Ming Dynasty.
In the social atmosphere of the country, many delicate and handsome young men were brutally murdered by monsters.
Orange fire, shrill screams, black smoke rising into the sky, and scorching heat waves For a time, there were countless unlucky wealthy gentry in Hangzhou.
Their mansions were broken into by crazy mobs, and they were beaten down in the mud and tortured in every possible way.
They even watched their wives, daughters, and concubines being brutally tortured.
There were also countless antique paintings and calligraphy with a long history. , being treated by ignorant people The thugs tore and smashed at will, and even threw them into the fire, burning them into plumes of smoke.
Various groans, cries, and curses could be heard in the sky above Hangzhou City, complementing the sound of burning flames and forming a complete sound.
A symphony of hell with death and destruction as its main theme.
In short, at dusk, the sky above the entire city of Hangzhou was already filled with thick smoke, and the maze-like winding and deep streets were slowly being swallowed up by the fire.
Under the light of the fire, there were people everywhere fighting or fighting each other.
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Crowds of people were crying frantically.
In several neighborhoods where the fighting was fiercest, the dead bodies were densely covered with blood flowing all over the street.
Under the reflection of the fire, it was particularly frightening.
Fortunately, after nightfall, another sudden heavy snowfall once again saved this city on the verge of self-destruction.
The snowflakes falling all over the sky quickly extinguished the fires in the neighborhoods, and the biting cold wind and snow drove most of the poor and ragged thugs back to their houses.
Although after this night's heavy snow, there must be more people in the city.
Many green and stiff "road corpses" were killed, and a large number of refugees who were dragging their children and families to flee north would probably freeze to death as a result, but at least the city was barely saved.
But if this continues, it will obviously not be a problem.
So, the remaining prominent figures in Hangzhou conducted some secret communication that night, and finally decided to open the door to welcome the thieves into the city.
Anyway, Hangzhou is already in such a miserable state now, and then How bad can it be?
Of course, as for how to contact and negotiate with the Kun thieves, we have to leave it to a certain scholar who claims to be proficient in "Kun affairs".
Once again, the more capable people have to do more work.
So, the next morning, when the snow stopped falling, Comrade Li Meng, who was still standing outside the Wulin Gate firing Hale rockets one after another, once again welcomed the haggard-faced, crying man with runny noses.
The tearful scholar Gao Xuan said: "I hope the military master will take pity on the people of this city and quickly enter the city to garrison.
If your army does not enter Hangzhou and suppress the market, I am afraid that this city, which shocked Sanwu, will turn into a hell." " At the same time, Li Meng was in a daze holding the gift list sent by Gao Xuan: "What are these you sent?
Tea leaves for one stone and twenty kilograms of rhubarb.
The first one can be regarded as a local specialty.
The latter one, I remember rhubarb."
It’s not something made in Hangzhou, right?”
"Well, I heard that your army can never live without these two things in their diet, so" Gao Xuan replied hesitantly.
"Who did you listen to?"
Li Meng rolled his eyes, "Forget it, tea is a good thing anyway.
The rhubarb can be given to the military doctor or used to make wine.
Well, let me see what else there is.
What a cunning boy.
Three couples, who are you treating as a rabbit?
There is no pretty girl or anything like that."
"Well, I heard that your army has strict discipline, and the army is a sunny place.
I'm afraid that women won't be able to enter, so I chose a cunning boy to sacrifice."
"What the hell kind of logic is this?
Strict discipline should lead to homosexuality.
What on earth are you guys thinking in your heads?"
After a while, the Fengshan Gate of Hangzhou, which was facing Fenghuang Villa, was creakingly pushed open from the inside after being closed for nearly a month.
Then countless people were kneeling on the main road into the city holding incense cases.
On both sides, there were people holding banners: "Welcome the King of the Song Dynasty to the city to bring peace to the people."
After another day, Major General Sun Yang returned to Hangzhou from Fuyang with great satisfaction, bringing four thousand soldiers and horses who had withstood the test of siege warfare.
In the just-concluded Battle of Fuyang, he fully exercised the offensive and street fighting abilities of his miscellaneous troops, and gained a more intuitive understanding of the pitiful combat effectiveness of the Jiangnan Ming Army.
In addition, he has accumulated certain experience and lessons about what problems will be encountered after breaking through the city, and what kind of appeasement or suppression measures should be taken, and he is confident that he can do better in the next Battle of Hangzhou.
However, when his fleet appeared outside the Houchao Gate in Hangzhou, Major General Sun Yang's smile turned into surprise.
Not only was the city gate wide open, but the red star-ringed flag of the Chinese League was also flying on top of the city.
After being stunned for a moment, he went straight to the military radio like crazy, grabbed the intercom, connected the signal, and started shouting.
"Damn, what are you doing?
Didn't you agree to wait until I come back before attacking the city?
Why do you insist on taking this credit from me?"
"Alas, the plan can't keep up with the change, Brother Sun."
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Wang Qiu on the other end of the radio sighed, and explained in a somewhat irritable voice, "Those guys in the city have already taken the initiative to open the city gate, crying and begging us to occupy it quickly.
It’s hard for us to refute other people’s sincerity, isn’t it?”
In short, no matter how twists and turns the process was, this embarrassing battle in Hangzhou has finally come to an end.
Two days later, General Huangshi, who personally led 30,000 troops to land in Ningbo, also fought hard all the way from the direction of Shangyu and Shaoxing, and finally succeeded in reaching Xiaoshan County on the south bank of the Qiantang River, across the water from Hangzhou, and with Sun Yang The seven thousand partial divisions successfully reunited.
At this point, this round of Jiangnan strategy, which was like a storm, came to an end for the time being.
In Zhejiang Province, the Allied forces successfully occupied most of the elite coastal areas from Hangzhou to Wenzhou, forcing the governor of Zhejiang to carry his remaining troops over the mountains and ridges.
Quzhou, huddled in the inland, lingered on, completely without the power to fight back.
And Emperor Yonghe, who was entrenched in southern Zhili, was shocked to find that he was surrounded by enemies from both sides and had reached a critical moment of life and death.
And in the more distant Lingnan and Guangxi, with more obvious all-round absolute advantages, the Allies there have already finished the work. s: Although I have left the group again, on this occasion of the Torch Festival, let’s light up the fire oshow7: