Beiyang new warlord

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The fat belly was uncomfortable, coupled with the already worried, the general manager Kang Yuanshan's old face was even more bitter like an eggplant beaten by frost, and he was begging with his fists in his hands.Today he responded to all calls, and Huizhou merchants Xi Xiaolian and Yao Guangyuan, who usually contradicted him, and several general merchants also begged sadly.

"That's right! Lord Shi, the regent's army has so many cannons, if I bombard Yangzhou City, it will all be over!"

"My lord, the city of Yangzhou treats you well! I beg you, please show mercy! The whole family of this old man lives in this city! As long as the disaster of swords and soldiers is avoided, the whole family of this old man is willing to build a shrine for your lord, and worship at all seasons." Sacrifice the kindness of your lord!"

"Master Shi, you are a good official. Even if the regent is demoted, our fellow salt merchants in Yangzhou are willing to spend money to promote you. You are still a high-ranking official!"

A sound of persuasion made Shi Kefa's face darker and rigid!

At this moment, he actually had the feeling that everyone is drunk and I am alone!

Everyone knows Mao Jue's huge ambitions. Once Jiangnan falls, how many days will it be before Mao Jue abolishes Emperor Kaiming and proclaims himself emperor?But even those colleagues in the Yingtian court who called themselves gentlemen have given up the Ming Dynasty that they fought for and gave them rights and glory, not to mention these businessmen and poor people who value profit over righteousness.

These days, there is a steady stream of officials and family members who come to Jiangbei to surrender. Ruan Dacheng, the eunuch, even the Qian family of Qian Qianyi, the leader of Donglin, and Donglin Confucianism, who read Zhu Zi every day, bring women and money with them. Humbly bowing to the new owner, the feeling that the building was about to fall was extraordinarily heavy, and Shi Kefa could hardly breathe under the pressure.

But amidst these voices of persuasion, Shi Kefa suddenly raised his head, and laughed like a lunatic looking up to the sky. The laughter was shrill like a ghost, and there was a sense of determination in the bleakness. The laughing group was still trying to persuade The salt merchants were terrified.

The next second, before the salt merchants could react, Shi Kefa suddenly snatched the torch from the soldiers around him like a lunatic, and then slammed the torch hard on the fully loaded city defense gun.

With a loud bang, amidst the pale faces of the salt merchants, the cannons were ejected fiercely, and the heavy shells knocked over a corner of the Liaozhen army that was in formation.

Hearing the screams from under the city, Kang Yuanshan's faces turned ashen, and he didn't dare to say a word anymore, he just lifted his robe and turned around and ran away. Behind them, a voice like a Shi Kefa wolf roared mournfully.

"Go to war! Go to war!"

As for the history, some posterity commented that in the history without Mao Jue, Shi Kefa faced the iron hooves of the alien race and lost Yangzhou with integrity. He is a hero, but in this time and space, it is estimated that he must become a model of stubbornness and stubborn resistance. But in any case, this battle of Yangzhou was kicked off by him.

Sitting at the back of the army, with half of his body wrapped in bandages, King Mao Liao, who was wrapped like a mummy, was also stunned by this cannon. After so many days of contact, he also thought that Yangzhou would surrender without a fight. After all, he is not a vicious Tartar. He didn't have a bad reputation for massacring cities and killing people. Now it seems that he still underestimated these stubborn old antiques.

It's just that this shot wasn't a bad thing for Mao Jue!This gave him an excuse to attack the fat and oily Yangzhou salt merchants. If Yangzhou City was taken down without bloodshed, it would be really difficult to reach out and beat a group of smiling people!

It is not Liao Zhen's character to be passively beaten. He raised his head suddenly, and Mao Jue roared high-spiritedly: "Guanyin Mountain position, counterattack!"

The messenger is like the electric current on the circuit board, flowing quickly behind the army. The man who can make a woman so excited with a single sentence is probably Mao Jue. The tall shape is like some indescribable objects. Dongjiang Under the cannon in red, for an instant, the artillery commander Sun Chun's eyes shone as if a raging flame had been ignited.

The beautiful set of battle songs she prepared finally came in handy!

First, she knelt down on one knee submissively, and responded to Mao Jue's order with a military salute. Immediately, the woman pulled out her saber and pointed at the majestic and ancient city wall of Yangzhou below the mountain. Several batches of newly recruited artillerymen rang loudly in their ears.

"What are we?"

"The eternal blizzard in the Far East!"

The muzzle of the gun had already been ready to fire these days and adjusted the firing unit. Following Sun Chun's roar, the soldier tore off the gun cover neatly and shouted in response.After taking a satisfied look at his subordinates, Sun Chun roared magnificently again.

"Let them feel what despair in a blizzard is, Master Fa!!!"

Responding to the delicate woman was the roaring sound of cannons, which shook like a mountain avalanche and ground cracks in an instant. Rows of cannons poured out flames, and Guanyin Mountain, which was originally cloudy and misty, was filled with thick white smoke in an instant. The solid iron balls dragged the tail smoke, and fell on the top of the city as densely as hail.

It was really desperation in the snowstorm. The wooden city towers with some beautiful gardens in Yangzhou collapsed in an instant. The scattered wood brought a lot of dust and slammed backwards on the heads of the houses facing the city wall. The huge roar frightened people. Those salt merchants who had just escaped not far from the city gate had their legs weak, and they knelt and sat on the ground in fear of each other. In the shopping mall, they were old Jianghu who called the wind and rain, but on the battlefield, they were as insignificant as ants.

Especially Kang Yuanshan, the general merchant who was born in Shanxi merchants, couldn't control it. He clearly felt a wave of heat emerging from his crotch.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, was scared to pee when he first went into battle. Under the doomsday artillery fire of Dongjiang, it is not uncommon for him, a small businessman, to be scared to pee.However, this destructive aura has been entangled for many years like a nightmare.

This is even true for those who watched the battle from a distance, let alone the defense officers and troops on the city wall facing the attack. In the rain of crackling shells, like bugs being killed one by one, clusters of bright red blood spread all over the city wall. On the ground, the heavy solid bullets smashed out various shocking craters next to it, and huge tortoise cracks filled the wall bricks ferociously.

After all, he is a scholar of Dongge University, the supervisor, even if Shi Kefa is the instigator of this time, there are still people who risk their lives to protect him. Just before the death blizzard, several soldiers risked their lives and pushed him to the watchtower of the city gate. Although the arrow tower has collapsed, the corners of the tower still have a certain protective effect after all. His official robes are covered with dust, and he stands out of the garbage dump in disgrace. Looking around in disbelief like a minister of the Qing Dynasty who was armed with foreign cannons.

But it wasn't over yet, suddenly, he felt a huge roar under his feet, and it was the second explosion of the drilled bomb that Mao Jue attacked Yangzhou.

Amidst the loud bang, a large piece of the north city wall, which was built during the Hongwu period of Yangzhou and had a history of more than 200 years, collapsed, and Shi Kefa fell directly to the ground.

Since the rise of artillery, the conflict between the great powers has also been a contest between cannons and fortresses. Bastions and star forts have risen one after another. However, the city walls of Yangzhou are obviously lagging behind in the ranks of fortresses. The battle begins with the bombardment, and ends with the bombardment.

The army of Liaozhen like Chaoshui marched into Yangzhou City, the last fortress of Nanming in the north of the Yangtze River, with the shouts of sergeants, declared the capture. Under the collapsed city tower, Shi Kefa was still watching the devastating scene blankly. The Dongjiang sergeant who was ordered directly dragged him by the shoulders and took him off the city wall.

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No burning, killing or looting, Mao Jue's army is definitely an outlier in this era. After entering the city, a part of the army took over the city defense along the city wall, disarmed the remaining defenders, and then escorted the more than 2 Yangzhou troops out of the city to take care of them. The team enforced vigilance one by one, ordering the panicked residents to either leave the city or stay at home. This super metropolis with a population of 80 was stabilized in just half a day.

Some people from the Huizhou Salt Merchant Association fled the city with a small amount of family wealth, and the Liaozhen Army did not go after them and let them go. Stuffed into a boat going to the south of the Yangtze River, this Dongjiang's affairs are so inexplicable that many people are rowing in the river while looking back in disbelief.

In the afternoon, a large number of soldiers from Liao Town, led by Jin Yiwei Tiqi from the Intelligence Department, visited the houses one by one. All the salt merchants who escaped were confiscated as soon as they pasted a seal on the gate of the precious Jiangnan garden. The salt merchant who lost was a letter of worship, and the regent will invite him to a banquet in the afternoon.

No one dared to refuse Mao Jue's invitation. At around [-]:[-] in the afternoon, during tea time, the governor's office where Shi Kefa stayed was once again full of guests. Salt merchants were trembling with gifts in large and small packages. Wordy file in.

This Mao Jue is stingy enough, it is said that it is a banquet, the whole table is full of canned food, canned pork, canned beans, canned mutton, canned fish, although there are many kinds of these things, how can these things fit those who are not tired of eating? Salt merchant appetite?However, even if this banquet is full of Han people, it is estimated that the salt merchants are not in the mood to eat it. There are hundreds of salt merchants, large and small, all nervously looking at the gate, and at the same time, they can't help but weigh in their hearts, this time to appease the regent's anger , How much money do you need to pay.

But the panic started when Mao Jue entered the door. It is now May, and although the north is still quite cold, Yangzhou, where the climate is abnormal, is already a little stuffy. Overcoat, with the bandages on his bare chest, came in.

In an instant, these salt merchants seemed to have found the reason for the sudden siege, and the regent was injured! ! !

They didn't know that Mao Jue smoked it himself, and the regent's guards could still be injured. The only possibility was that someone around him did it. And just two days ago, someone from the Qian family sent a Qinhuai beauty Gu Mei, but many people know that even Kang Yuanshan and Xi Xiaolian were entrusted by Qian Qianyi to handle this matter, and the word assassination immediately filled their hearts.

The legs of the two chief merchants immediately went limp, and they thumped and fell to their knees, desperately kowtowed and begged: "The villain deserves death! He deserves death!"

Following the two of them, either mourning the death of the rabbit or the fox, or gloating slightly, hundreds of salt merchants also knelt down in panic and kowtowed their heads.

"The villain is guilty, I beg the regent to be lenient!"

Originally, he came to sing bad faces, and Mao Jue certainly would not give up this opportunity. Immediately, he looked furious, and roared like thunder.

"Of course you are guilty! You actually resisted the king's heavenly soldiers with cannon fire! Today's banquet is a feast of questioning!"

As soon as these murderous words came out, several big salt merchants were immediately paralyzed with fright, and Kang Yuanshan was also lying on the ground in despair. I am afraid that he will punish the Jiuzu now?

However, to their surprise, Mao Jue was still waving at them while walking in angrily.

"Get up and sit down, I will settle accounts with you slowly!"

Here Mao Jue is the master. He let these salt merchants hold their heads upside down, and no one dared to resist. After he took his seat, a group of salt merchants took their seats obediently, just like elementary school students. , Mao Jue first took a sip of tea slowly, and then hummed "annoyed".

"Everyone, I, Mao, also came from a business background. I believe that many of you have been to Dongjiang Town of Mao Jue, so I, Mao Jue, understand you. I will release salt in April. Even if the army is fighting fiercely, I will let you out of the city, but What did you do? You did such a thing! You really disappointed Mao!"

"Prince Regent forgive me, I know I was wrong, I am willing to give up all my property, please forgive me!"

Frightened, Kang Yuanshan and the others could only grit their teeth and once again knelt on the ground, they all kowtowed heavily, but this scene made Mao Jue a little stunned, this salt merchant was so unintimidating?

A person's wealth is at least one or two million taels, which is really not a small sum. Unfortunately, Mao Jue's purpose in coming today is not for this purpose. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he finally showed a look of anger Come.

"Human life is precious! How can it be paid for with a little money?"

It's over, we really have to kill the clan first!The several salt merchants involved completely collapsed to the ground.But next, Mao Jue's words made all the salt merchants jump up almost uncontrollably.

"This king wants to ban all of your salt dens!"

Chapter 624. Another way to play