In the twenty-sixth year of the Ming Dynasty Yongli, it was the evening of May 3rd.
Guangzhou City.
The rain was pouring down in torrents.
A row of temporarily modified shield carriages was placed outside the Wuxianmen Gate Tower in Guangzhou. The cavalrymen in brocade clothes, wearing raincoats and bamboo hats, were patrolling and guarding in the heavy rain and fog. The heavy rain almost formed a rain wall, dense and impenetrable.
Under such a heavy rain, it still couldn't stop the enthusiasm of the people in the shantytowns in the south of Guangzhou City - they were all driven out of Guangzhou City by Shang Zhixin, and now of course they wanted to follow Zhu Shengren back to the city.
There are their homes and their industries in the city... These Guangzhou people seem to be in a state of poverty now, but before they were driven out of the city, most of them had some property. They were either craftsmen or businessmen, and some were landowners from all over Guangdong.
If it weren't for Shang Kexi and Shang Zhixin, father and son, who were more ruthless than the other and didn't treat Guangzhou people like them as human beings, they wouldn't have stood by Zhu San's grandson against the wealthy Qing Dynasty.
These onlookers are now blocked a hundred steps away from the Nanguan city wall of Guangzhou by the cavalry sent by Zhu Heji, and they can only watch from a distance.
Of course, most of these people went back to their shacks, dried themselves off, and changed their clothes... Some held umbrellas, some wore raincoats, and some held torches and lanterns.
Zhu Heji also sent literate officers and soldiers from Jinyi's pro-army to register them in the name of allocating housing, relief rations, and relief cloth.
When they enter Guangzhou City, they have to arrange military status for these people, at least as candidates for service. You can't let people take the benefits in vain, otherwise they will feel guilty!
Moreover, what kind of house and what kind of supplies they can get depend on their abilities!
In addition, the Jinyi officers and soldiers who followed Zhu Heji in raiding various counties in Guangfu would also be settled in Guangzhou later - they were all issued with Guangzhou household registration, and then allocated "school district housing" in the inner city of Guangzhou. From now on, it would be old Guangzhou. .
Zhu Heji himself was now wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, standing behind a temporarily modified shield car, surrounded by the "big class staff" of the Military Advisor's Office, as well as Zhuge Military Advisor, Da Bo Ling, Su Zhanshan, and Su Zhanhai The officers and soldiers of the Guards led by him. Everyone was wearing coir raincoats and bamboo hats, standing in the rain, looking at the tower in Nanguan, Guangzhou.
There should be no defenders on the Wuxianmen city tower, otherwise the suicide squad sent by Su Zhanshan would not have been allowed to blow up the city gate with "wall-penetrating bombs"!
The rain hit Zhu Heji's face, almost making him unable to open his eyes, but he still stared at the city gate with the flickering light in front of him, still mumbling to himself.
"Guangzhou... it will be my territory soon! Once Guangzhou is taken, with tens of thousands more Whampoa troops, I should be able to sweep the entire Guangdong..."
Su Zhanshan came to Zhu Heji's side at this time and said, "Sir, the artillery team is ready and can blow up the door at any time!"
Zhu Heji's army is still a bit of a grassroots team. There are no professional engineers, let alone special forces. The core of the army was the artillerymen who were not good at using smoothbore cannons and the "bearded scholars" who followed Zhu Heji.
The artillery officers and soldiers who were responsible for blowing up the doors at the moment... After Zhu Heji's sneak attack on Macau, his artillerymen did a lot of blowing down doors and walls. I’m almost training to become a blasting expert!
Even Zhu Heji's own skills in making shaped charges have greatly improved!
"Blow it up!" Zhu Heji nodded, "I can trust their craftsmanship!"
"I have the order!" Su Zhanshan immediately took the torch and waved it vigorously.
Then I saw a group of artillerymen emerging from the city gate hole holding torches, and they all hid beside the city wall outside the city gate hole.
After a while, two loud bangs were heard, and a ball of fire flashed out of the city gate.
Zhu Heji breathed a sigh of relief.
The bomb exploded, so the city gate must have been blown through... If all the Qing troops had fled, then only a few people would have to get in through the blasted hole to open the city gate.
At this moment, Zhu Heji saw a wave of torches at the city gate ahead. This was the signal from the artilleryman responsible for blowing up the gate.
"It's done!" Su Zhanshan made a voice full of surprise, "It's been blown through... Your Majesty, you can send people in now."
Zhu Heji nodded again and said with a smile: "Okay! Send people into the city... As soon as the city gate opens, the city of Guangzhou will be ours!"
When Su Zhanshan heard this, he shouted to a group of Jinyi soldiers who had been ready behind the shield car: "Choose the vanguard and attack!"
"Got the order!"
A whole collar of Jinyi infantrymen responded in unison, then held torches, divided into two teams, and walked towards the Wuxianmen Gate Tower in Guangzhou in the rain.
"Your Majesty, we have captured the Five Immortals Sect!"
When Da Bo Ling's excited and uncontrollable shouts rang in Zhu Heji's ears, Guangzhou's Five Immortals Gate had already opened wide, and a flag of the sun and moon shining brightly was planted with the Five Immortals in the midst of the wind and rain. Gate tower.
Guangzhou City has been half conquered!
If Guide Gate, the inner city closest to the Five Immortals Gate, could be captured so easily, then Guangzhou City would have been captured by Zhu Heji's army!
"Enter the city!"
Zhu Heji tried hard to suppress his excitement and loudly issued a new order, "Target, Guide Gate!"
"Got the order!" Su Zhanshan accepted the new order loudly, and then mobilized the troops to drive through the Five Immortals Gate and towards Guide Gate in the inner city.
Seeing a whole battalion of infantry and a group of artillerymen responsible for "opening the door" marching into the Five Immortals Gate, Zhu Heji smiled and said to Da Bo Ling beside him: "Sister Ling, let's change places too... .Let’s go to the Five Immortals Gate Tower!”
"Well," Da Bo Ling nodded, "I will listen to the prince!"
Zhu Heji then said to his personal camp commander Su Zhanhai: "Occupy the sea and climb to the Five Immortals Gate... I want to see with my own eyes the flag of the Ming Dynasty planted on the wall of the inner city of Guangzhou!"
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Zhu Heji had already boarded the Five Immortals Gate of Guangzhou City. Looking down from a high position, in the dusk rain and fog, a Guangzhou City that was both strange and familiar suddenly appeared in his sight.
The city of Guangzhou is quite shabby, with low and dilapidated houses as far as the eye can see. They look a bit similar to the Guanzha River Foreclosure Market... It seems that this Shang Kexi only knows how to kill people and make money, and has never thought about construction. , even the outer city of Guangzhou in front of my home has been turned into an oversized slum.
And even in such a slum, people are not allowed to live in peace and contentment, and they are kicked out.
After this typhoon and rainstorm, I really don’t know how many people will get sick and die...
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji turned around and ordered Zhuge Military Advisor and Da Bo Ling: "Let the people live in clean and comfortable inner cities... first concentrate on Guangdong Governor's Yamen, Guangzhou Fuya, Nanhai and Panyu Among the government offices such as the county government, we will gather all the sick people and arrange for strong men and women to take care of them. If you need allicin, go to Aoi to get it."
"Your Majesty truly loves the people like a son!"
"Your Majesty, you are truly the most benevolent prince in history!"
These words are not flattery, but words from the bottom of Zhuge Sanhe and Da Bo Ling's heart.
Zhu Heji really loved the people...people valued scarcity! He is used to 1.4 billion people, but now he feels that there are few people everywhere he looks, so he must cherish them.
He then ordered: "After our people enter the city, they will station themselves at Pingnan Palace, Shizi Palace and Sifang Fort... No one is allowed to go to the streets without orders. Robbery, theft, and molesting women are strictly prohibited! The lonely king will live in Shizi Palace. In addition, order the military commanders of each town to sort out their merit books, and the lonely king will reward them according to their merits!"
He laughed as he said this, "There is an entire city of Guangzhou, which is definitely enough for a reward!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers who followed him to the Five Immortals Gate Tower suddenly cheered the loudest: "Great Ming Dynasty, ten thousand victories! Long live the Saint!"
Zhu Heji quickly turned his head and looked in the direction of Guide Gate, and saw a bright red flag embroidered with golden sun and moon, already flying high on the Gate Tower!
Guangzhou! I, Daming, am back again!
