Chapter 266: Suppressing the rebellion in Jiangnan, completed
When I recall the south of the Yangtze River, I remember Hangzhou the most: looking for osmanthus seeds in the middle of the moon in the mountain temples, watching the tide on my pillow in the county pavilion. When will I visit again?
However, the prosperous and picturesque city of Hangzhou fell into a terrible war in the late summer and early autumn of the sixth year of Tianzhi.
After Mu Zhi rebelled, he sent 30,000 troops to attack Suzhou City. He personally led another 30,000 troops to guard Hangzhou City. These 30,000 troops included 10,000 levied civilians.
Jiangnan Admiral Qin Houxiang immediately led 20,000 troops to attack Hangzhou City. In addition, Zhejiang Governor Lu Wei also led more than 10,000 troops to participate in the attack.
During the Qing Dynasty, Fujian and Zhejiang were originally under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General of Fujian and Zhejiang. Just last year, in the fifth year of Tianzhi, Emperor Tianzhi established the Governor-General of Zhejiang, based in Wenzhou, near Fujian, on the southeast coast of Zhejiang.
Although there are only 30,000 rebels guarding Hangzhou City, there are many elite soldiers and generals among them. Hangzhou City's city defense is also strong. The three city defense systems of city walls, city gates, and moats are well built. Therefore, Qin Houxiang and Lu Wei
He led more than 30,000 troops to attack for a month but failed to break through. Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were killed and thousands of officers and soldiers were injured. However, the rebels defending the city only suffered thousands of casualties.
Attacking a city is a difficult task, especially attacking a city like Hangzhou with strong defenses and strong defenders.
Due to serious casualties, only 20,000 troops were left. After a month of continuous siege, Qin Houxiang and Lu Wei had to give up the siege and instead besieged Hangzhou without attacking. While besieging the city, they persuaded them to surrender and waited.
Bring reinforcements.
That morning, Qin Houxiang and Lu Wei stood side by side outside Hangzhou City. Lu Wei asked Qin Houxiang with a worried look: "Master Qin, can Chang'an Camp really wipe out the rebels outside Suzhou City?"
When Jia Yun led the Chang'an camp army to leave Zhenjiang and rush to Suzhou, he specially sent people to Hangzhou to inform Chang'an camp that they had arrived in the south of the Yangtze River and would take the lead in wiping out the rebels outside Suzhou city before coming to Hangzhou city.
Lu Wei, the governor of Zhejiang, was not familiar with Jia Yun. Although he had heard a lot about Jia Yun and thought that Jia Yun was a genius, he still looked down upon Jia Yun because he was very young and because Jia Yun was very young.
He had just become the governor of Chang'an and thought that Jia Yun's ability to lead the Chang'an camp was very limited.
Qin Houxiang said: "Master Lu, don't worry too much. I have already said that Chang'an Camp has a strong military. This time, almost the entire army went out to quell the rebellion in Jiangnan. A total of 40,000 troops came. Although King Wujun is young, he is a natural general.
Wizard. I believe that even if they cannot all be wiped out, the rebels outside Suzhou City will suffer heavy losses."
Lu Wei nodded, still looking worried and asked: "I just don't know when Prince Wu will lead the Chang'an camp army to Hangzhou for support?"
Qin Houxiang said: "Prince Wujun will not keep us waiting for a long time. He should be here within a few days."
Lu Weidao: "In the past three days, the rebels defending the city in Hangzhou have gone out to fight every day. Obviously, the Dongping County Prince who defends the city is no longer willing to be trapped. I'm afraid that Wu County Prince has not yet
If you lead the Chang'an camp and come here, all the troops under your banner and mine will be wiped out."
There is another thing that Lu Wei can't say, that is, if this situation really happens, he and Qin Houxiang will be doomed. They will either die in battle or escape. The two of them will lead more than 30,000 troops to attack Hangzhou City. If the entire army is annihilated,
If the two of them, as leading generals, escaped, they would be charged with serious crimes.
Qin Houxiang said: "There are not many rebel troops in the city, and the morale of the army is not stable. As long as your troops and our troops continue to besiege the city without attacking the city, Mu Zhi wants to let the rebels in the city come out of the city in a short period of time and destroy our troops.
This is just wishful thinking. Mr. Lu, I have to remind you that Mu Zhi is a traitor and is no longer the King of Dongping County in our Qing Dynasty!"
Lu Wei said awkwardly: "I was confused."
Lu Wei, the governor of Zhejiang, had the title of right minister of the Ministry of War and right deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. He was a second-grade civil servant, while Qin Houxiang, as the admiral of Jiangnan, was a first-grade military attaché. In terms of rank, Qin Houxiang was one step higher than Lu Wei.
level. Moreover, the admiral of Jiangnan was controlled by the governor of Liangjiang and not by the governor of Zhejiang. Therefore, facing Qin Houxiang, Lu Wei, the governor of Zhejiang, was inconvenient.
At this moment, a military attache suddenly rushed over and reported excitedly: "Master Qin, Master Lu, and King Wujun sent people to deliver a message, saying that the Chang'an camp has wiped out the rebels who attacked Suzhou City, and King Wujun is leading Chang'an
The battalion of troops is rushing to Hangzhou City, and they will be there in the afternoon!"
"Really? That's great!" Lu Wei's eyes lit up and he was extremely excited.
Qin Houxiang was also extremely excited and said with a smile: "As expected of Prince Wu, I knew he could do it!"
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In the afternoon, Jia Yun personally led 10,000 Chang'an camp cavalry to the outside of Hangzhou, and was warmly welcomed by Qin Houxiang and Lu Wei.
"My lord, I've finally waited for you!" Qin Houxiang was very excited.
He and Jia Yun were acquaintances. They first met because of the Battle of the Imperial Palace. Jia Yun had saved his life at that time, and later they renovated the Huainan Coal Industry together.
Qin Houxiang was really excited to see Jia Yun this time. Because the two had not seen each other for a long time, and this was the first time that Jia Yun had become the prince and queen. Moreover, for Qin Houxiang, Jia Yun this time
It is equivalent to his savior and Jiangnan's savior.
Jia Yun was worried about the battle situation here in Hangzhou City. This time she personally led 10,000 cavalry to rush here, and more than 20,000 Chang'an camp troops would arrive in two days.
After Jia Yun arrived, she didn't care about rest, and immediately discussed the war with Qin Houxiang and Lu Wei.
After some discussion, Jia Yun sent people to build a high platform and escorted Mu Chi onto the high platform. At the same time, he hung Sun Shixin's head on the high platform and showed it to Mu Zhi who was guarding Hangzhou City and also to the rebels in the city.
Immediately, Jia Yun repeated her old tricks.
He personally wrote a surrender letter. The content of this surrender letter was different from the one he had used before. The first point "Zhenjiang City has been breached" was changed to "all the rebels attacking Suzhou City".
were wiped out, Mu Chi, Mei He, and Gu Zhichong were all captured, and Sun Shixin was killed. Another addition was that if Mu Zhi abandoned the city and surrendered, Jia Yun would be willing to ask Emperor Tianzhi to keep a member of the Mu family's bloodline.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The previous surrender letter said that Zhenjiang City had been breached, which was untrue and false. However, the current surrender letter does not
It is not true, but it is all true. Jia Yun is willing to ask Emperor Tianzhi to keep a bloodline of the Mu family. This is also true. If Mu Zhi really abandons the city and surrenders, Jia Yun will indeed honor the matter, but Emperor Tianzhi will not agree.
If you agree, it's not Jia Yun's decision.
After writing the surrender letter, Jia Yun had five hundred copies copied, tied all five hundred copies of the surrender letter to arrows, and asked the archers to shoot all five hundred arrows toward the city of Hangzhou.
In addition, under Jia Yun's arrangement, Fang Degong, Cao Wu and other generals led 5,000 Chang'an camp cavalry on the road from Hangzhou to Ningbo.
I remember that when Eunuch Pang fled, he planned to go south by water from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to Hangzhou, and then from Hangzhou to Ningbo and then out to sea. This plan was discovered by Jia Yun.
Now Jia Yun suspects that Mu Zhi is also likely to flee. Once he escapes, he will probably escape to Ningbo through the East City Gate or South City Gate and then out to sea!
The order that Fang Degong, Cao Wu and other generals accepted this time was to intercept and kill Mu Zhi on the way from Hangzhou to Ningbo and capture Mu Zhi alive!
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In the evening, the sun sets in the west, all the birds return to the forest, the setting sun is like blood, and the twilight is vast.
Mu Zhi had already seen the letters of surrender. Five hundred letters of surrender had also made the already unstable military morale of the rebels defending the city of Hangzhou even more unstable, and even led to riots.
At this time, Mu Zhi stood at the head of the north gate of Hangzhou City, standing in the afterglow of the setting sun. Although he had been rebelling for many days, he was still wearing a royal hat with a hairpin tassel and a python robe of the county king.
The setting sun was as bright as blood, and the hatred in Mu Zhi's heart was as bright as blood.
He hated both Emperor Tianzhi and Jia Yun. Because Jia Yun captured Chang'an camp and destroyed the Yun family, he lost a lot of help. One of the reasons why he was eager to rebel this time was that the Yun family was destroyed.
This time Jia Yun also led the Chang'an camp to suppress the rebellion, wiped out the rebels who attacked Suzhou City, killed his most important confidant general Sun Shixin, and captured his second son Mu Chi.
Now when Mu Zhi looked at the high platform outside the city, at Mu Chi who was tied up and Sun Shixin's head hanging on the high platform, he was so filled with hatred that he wished he could kill Jia Yun with his own hands and cut Jia Yun into pieces with a thousand knives.
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The dusk was dim, and Mu Zhi's heart was confused now.
Mu Chi was tied to a high platform outside the city, and Sun Shixin's head was hung on the high platform.
In Mu Zhi's opinion, this means that the contents of the surrender letter are probably true. The rebels who attacked Suzhou City were probably wiped out, and Mei He and Gu Zhichong were probably captured.
In Mu Zhi's view, this means that Zhenjiang City may not be able to be defended, and the Zhenjiang Battalion's great support may not be saved. It means that the rebels he can mobilize at the moment only have 20,000 rebels in Hangzhou City.
There are many people, and the morale of the army is unstable. Many of them are civilians who have been recruited. The Chang'an camp has already arrived, and there may be other counter-rebellion troops arriving. This means that his rebellion is facing failure this time.
If the rebellion fails, the consequences will naturally be miserable, and everyone will be killed. Mu Zhi is not willing to bear such a result.
Although Mu Zhi rebelled this time and gave up some of his family members who were under guard in Shenjing, including his eldest son Mu Xuan, this does not mean that he does not care about family ties. He not only cares about family ties but also cares about the inheritance of the family line. Compared with
What he fears more about his own death is that his whole family will be slaughtered, because he will not be able to leave any descendants. If the Mu family of the Dongping Palace met such a tragic end, he would be very ashamed of his dead ancestors.
Yes, I can't bear such a miserable ending, and I can't be executed by everyone!
Thinking of this, Mu Zhi sighed deeply and muttered: "Run away, run away no matter what!"
Although Jia Yun said in her letter of persuasion that if Mu Zhi abandoned the city and surrendered, Jia Yun would ask Emperor Tianzhi to keep a member of the Mu family's bloodline, but Mu Zhi had no hope. For one thing, he didn't believe that Jia Yun would really do it.
If he did this, secondly, would Emperor Tianzhi forgive him lightly for the crime of rebellion? Even if Jia Yun really did this, he didn't think Emperor Tianzhi would agree.
So in his opinion, the only option is to flee now.
He had already given up on his eldest son, Mu Xuan, and now his second son, Mu Chi, could not be saved, but he still had a son, two daughters, and a younger brother, who also had children...
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It's midnight.
It's late at night and no one is quiet.
In the deep night, suddenly, the south gate of Hangzhou City opened wide, and 20,000 rebels poured out. Mu Zhi was hiding among the rebels, followed by many carriages, and his family members were hidden in the carriages.
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At present, there are only a few thousand counter-insurgency troops stationed outside the south city gate, but there are many artillery, shotguns, and crossbows. They immediately fired guns and crossbows, tenaciously resisting the rebels pouring out of the city gate.
military.
Jia Yun had anticipated that this might happen. As soon as the rebels poured out of the South City Gate, the counter-rebellion troops stationed outside the South City Gate immediately released cannons.
After the signal cannon was released, the counter-insurgency troops stationed outside the East City Gate and the West City Gate came quickly, and even the counter-insurgency troops stationed outside the North City Gate came quickly.
Despite this, the 20,000 rebels still broke through a way out outside the south city gate. Under the protection of more than 1,000 people, Mu Zhi and his family fled towards Ningbo through this way out.
Mu Zhi expected that this escape would not be smooth, and that he might be intercepted and killed on the way. But he did not expect that there would be so many counter-rebellion troops intercepted, including five thousand cavalry!
"Your Majesty is really a god in predicting events and using troops like a god!" Fang Degong, who was guarding the road from Hangzhou to Ningbo, sighed in his heart at this moment.
Cao Wu and other generals have led five thousand Chang'an camp cavalry to intercept and kill!
It would not be a difficult task for the 5,000 Chang'an camp cavalry, armed with dozens of cannons, many shotguns, and crossbows, to intercept and kill Mu Zhi and his family, who were only guarded by more than 1,000 people.
kill!
A fierce interception battle lasted for a full hour before it ended, because Mu Zhi was trying to escape during this period, and it took a lot of time to chase Mu Zhi. Fortunately, the interception battle ended after an hour.
Mu Zhi was captured by Cao Wu himself.
At this moment, Jia Yun arrived under the escort of thousands of cavalry. When she arrived, the interception and killing battle ended.
"Your Majesty, I caught Mu Zhi!"
Cao Wu personally escorted Mu Zhi to Jia Yun, said excitedly, and then asked Mu Zhi to kneel down. Mu Zhi refused to kneel down, and Cao Wu forced him to kneel down.
Jia Yun looked down at Mu Zhi who was kneeling in front of her. The Mu Zhi in front of her was not wearing a hairpin royal hat or a prince's python robe. In order to facilitate his escape, he was wearing ordinary clothes. At the moment, his long hair was disheveled and his body was dirty.
He was in a miserable state, looking more like a middle-aged prisoner than a county king.
"I will never let you go even if I'm a ghost!" Mu Zhi glared at Jia Yun and yelled resentfully.
Jia Yun was calm and composed, neither angry nor sarcastic. After all, the person who said this was about to become a dead man, and he was about to be executed by his entire family.
Mu Zhi was captured, and the rebellion in Hangzhou was suppressed. Even if Mei Kui is still defending the city in Zhenjiang and has not yet surrendered, the suppression of the rebellion in Zhenjiang is already a matter of course.
This means that Jia Yun succeeded in quickly quelling the rebellion in Jiangnan this time, which also means that if he puts down the rebellion and returns to Beijing this time, he will probably be able to become a prince by virtue of his great achievements.
Jia Yun is about to be promoted to a prince, and Mu Zhi is about to have his entire family executed. Why does Jia Yun need to be angry or sarcastic towards Mu Zhi now? Jia Yun actually has some sympathy for Mu Zhi.
He thought that if he had not been lucky enough to become the prince of Emperor Tianzhi, he would have rebelled like Mu Zhi when he was forced into a desperate situation. If the rebellion failed, he would have fled like Mu Zhi. Even though he was now a prince and was about to be promoted to a prince.
, I will also need to seize the throne in the future...