After Yang Zhan saw that Dongguan was in chaos, he immediately captured Shuimen, and then used a thousand troops to guard the three gates, leaving only one gate for entry and exit.
Anyone with a weapon on the street will be shot.
"Bah, bah, bah..."
The officers and soldiers of the Ming army were on top of the city, commanding from a high position and shooting freely.
Those Annan rebel soldiers and local ruffians had no intention of fighting for the city. After seeing the Ming army shooting their accomplices, they all ran to the south gate where there was no Ming army.
About an hour after the soldiers of the Ming army captured the city, it was difficult to see traces of people in the streets and alleys of the city. Only corpses were seen everywhere.
Some houses are burning, and the cries of some people can still be heard.
When Yang Zhan saw it, he ordered the officers and soldiers who knew Annan dialect to shout.
"The imperial officers and soldiers coming to quell the rebellion have nothing to do with ordinary people!"
"People everywhere should help each other, put out fires and rescue people, and do not neglect them. Anyone who hides in a house and cannot come out will be regarded as a rebel and will be killed!"
"..."
Hearing these shouts, they were afraid that the Ming army would regard them as rebel soldiers and kill them, or that the fire would burn their homes, etc. Finally, some people began to emerge from the houses one after another.
Most of them were men, and while they cautiously peeked at the Ming soldiers with guns and live ammunition on the lower city wall, they put out fires and rescued people, and carried out the unclaimed bodies of all the dead bodies on the road out of the city.
After nightfall, the soldiers of the Ming army retreated to the boats. Of course, there were still soldiers at the top of the city at Shuimen. They just didn't send troops to the city.
There are no lights in Dongguan City, and those that caught fire during the day have been extinguished.
Such a big city was dark and very quiet. Only a few suppressed cries could be heard occasionally, but they disappeared quickly.
Vaguely, some people took advantage of the cover of night to escape from the city gate that was not occupied by the Ming army.
After dawn the next day, the four city walls were reoccupied by the Ming army, and a search team of fifty people was sent to the city to verify the situation in the city.
In many houses, there are still corpses, but no living people. Among these corpses are old people, children, men, and women.
The things in the house had obviously been rummaged through, and broken things were everywhere.
In some houses, the living were crying around the dead. When they saw the soldiers of the Ming army appearing, they were all trembling with fear, with fear in their eyes.
One morning later, representatives from all the houses with survivors gathered at the foot of Watergate City.
Yang Zhan stood on the top of the city and looked at the crowd below. He estimated that there were probably less than a thousand people. This meant that there were only at most a thousand households left in the city, and these thousand households must have
It's not full, because according to reports from my subordinates, there are only one or two people left in some houses.
And among the people present, they were basically all men, mostly the elderly and children.
But they have one thing in common. Everyone's expression is trembling and frightened.
Also, how could they not be afraid of being soldiers after having just experienced a catastrophe? Not to mention, these soldiers were stigmatized by the officials of the Li Dynasty!
Yang Zhan looked at them, but he did not feel the joy of occupying the city. Because he thought about the tragedy that happened when bandits invaded Shu!
With this thought in his mind, he began to speak. Of course, his words would be translated into Annan dialect by his soldiers.
"Annan has been occupied by rebels, and the people have been living in dire straits. Now the emperor is wise and powerful and has sent a large army to Annan to quell the rebellion. From now on, you will all have a good life."
"The children of common people in the Ming Dynasty can study for free. If their families have difficulties, the court will also provide financial and food subsidies."
"There are two types of study, the imperial examination and the special examination of studying geology. Among them, most scholars will choose geology, at least they will no longer have to suffer from cold and hunger in the future!"
"After the imperial court suppresses the rebellion this time, peace will be restored here in Annan!"
"..."
After hearing his words, all the Annan people forgot their fear and looked at Yang Zhan with expressions of disbelief.
At least what Yang Zhan said sounds like a day that only exists in heaven. Can it really exist on earth?
Perhaps because he could see what these Annan people, by the way, would be the Ming people in the future, Yang Zhan said to them sternly: "What I have said has been popularized in the Ming Dynasty. If you don't believe it, you can just find someone Just ask!”
After he finished speaking, he began to make demands on them. Generally speaking, he asked them to organize themselves according to the streets and clean up the ruins, corpses in the houses, etc., in order to restore normalcy in Dongguan.
Among them, the officers and soldiers of the Ming army did not participate, but some of them would supervise their work. At the same time, after the work was completed, some of the property and food found would be distributed to the workers for them to take home.
Not only were the officers and soldiers of the Ming army not evil, but they showed them a bright future, and the specific actions were well-documented with rewards and punishments. This quickly stabilized the minds of the Annan people in Dongguan City, and more and more people participated. Resuming work in Dongguan.
Even later, even some women appeared and had to work, and they could get a little more money and food.
In less than three days, Dongguan City, which was full of desolation, basically returned to normal.
Of course, this normal is also relative. At least for the time being, Dongguan City is still very deserted.
After stabilizing the situation, Yang Zhan returned to the mouth of the Honghe River. After discussing with Zhang Tongchang, he reported to the capital, requesting that he focus on stabilizing the Red River Basin for the time being and not go south to attack and intimidate the Ruan family.
After all, since we have captured Dongguan so easily, there is no reason to give it back.
Moreover, the Red River Basin is a developed agricultural area. If the land is measured and managed here, it will also help the navy to use it as a base in the future, and the supplies of grain and grass materials will not need to be allocated from the Guangdong and Guangxi regions.
Yang Zhan and Zhang Tongchang did not know that after receiving the request for help from the Zheng family in the north, the Ruan family in the south not only did not send troops, but in addition to strengthening coastal defense, they also made plans to move the capital.
If you don't scare but scare, the strategic goal has actually been achieved.
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Compared with Annan, the Japanese side was much more miserable.
The Ming army captured Kyushu Island, and also granted a Tang king a title to go over and establish the Tang Kingdom. This meant that the Japanese Kingdom had no way out.
With this understanding, the daimyo on the Japanese island of Honshu and the Tokugawa shogunate were fully prepared for war.
However, they never expected that the Ming Dynasty would arm the Koreans and join the war to attack Honshu Island.
In the past, the North Korean government was incompetent and its armaments were lax, so that the surrounding forces took turns, but they only focused on internal fighting. Naturally, the combat power of the North Koreans could not be reflected.
However, after experiencing the humiliation of their country, the pain of their families being destroyed, and still eager to make meritorious deeds and become members of the Ming Dynasty, these Korean soldiers really embodied the concept of what it means to be a desperado!
After about half a year of training, this North Korean army went into battle.
They were not put into Shimonoseki, which is the closest to Kyushu Island. Instead, they avoided the Shimonoseki area, which was heavily guarded by troops. They were transported by the Ming Navy and went around to the middle of Kyushu Island. They did not attack Edo, but Osaka.
Osaka was the political center during the Toyotomi Hideyoshi period, and was only about a hundred miles away from Kyoto, where the emperor was. Of course, this was also a key defensive area for the Japanese army.
However, compared to the two important places of Shimonoseki, which is the closest place to the Ming army, and Edo, where the Tokugawa shogunate is located, the military strength is definitely weaker.
Under the cover of the Ming Dynasty's naval bombardment, the Korean soldiers landed and charged desperately. Especially because of the breastplates they were wearing, they dared to hold a flintlock gun with a bayonet and fight the Japanese pirates in hand-to-hand combat. Even if they died, they still had to pull one.
In short, when seeing the Japanese pirates' unique hairstyle, all the Koreans went crazy.
Osaka, such an important place, was a battleground for military strategists during the Japanese and Warring States Periods, but it only took one day to be flooded by Korean soldiers.
It was really flooded. Wherever these Korean soldiers passed, not a single Japanese was left alive. Moreover, before they could rest, they immediately marched towards Kyoto.
Behind them, Zeng Ying, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty Navy, was speechless. The corpses all over the ground were all with their heads missing. It was also a troublesome thing to deal with.
Fortunately, he was prepared in advance and mobilized the Tang army and civilians to clean up the battlefield, burn the bodies of the Japanese, and treat the injured Korean soldiers.
Zheng Sen, the military supervisor, didn't know whether he was born in Japan, so he couldn't bear to see him. In response, Zeng Ying just told him that the Koreans were just seeking revenge, and the things the Japanese did in Korea were not
It will be better than here. What the North Koreans are doing now is just retaliating with tooth for tooth.
Besides, the Japanese country was basically used for enfeoffing vassal kings. There was no need for the court to worry about the population.
Two days later, when the Japanese emperor was still hesitating whether to escape, Korean soldiers arrived and quickly surrounded Kyoto, so that the Japanese emperor lost the chance to escape.
The leader of the Japanese country was originally called the king. In the Tang Dynasty, they began to call themselves the emperor. In the Song Dynasty, they were recognized by the Song Dynasty. But at this time in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty called the leader of the Japanese country the king of the Japanese country. If according to the original history
After the development, it was not until modern times that the Central Plains resumed calling the leader of the Japanese country the emperor.
Before the Koreans launched an attack on Kyoto, they sent someone to ask Zeng Ying for instructions on how to deal with the Japanese emperor.
The reason for this is that the Japanese emperor is special. Although the Koreans want to kill all the Japanese, they still have to worry about the attitude of the Ming army.
In response to this, Zeng Ying just replied indifferently: "The Emperor of Ming Dynasty is not the emperor, and what kind of frog in the well dares to call himself the emperor!"