Chapter 655

Liu Jun besieged the city with hundreds of thousands of troops. Although Xu Guogong was optimistic that the city would be able to defend and certainly resist the enemy's siege, he knew very well that it was not easy to stop the wolf like Liu Jiajun. Hundreds of thousands of troops from the other side entered both land and water, and there were enough Marines to attack the city. The other side wanted people, guns and guns, It is not difficult to capture this city, but it is not easy for him to hold it.

He didn't have enough soldiers and horses, enough food, and even the army and people in the city didn't unite as one.

He is Xun GUI. His wealth is linked to the imperial court, so he has no choice but to stick to it. However, their adherence has not won the support of these ordinary people and these dignitaries. They believe that the world is bright, and you are literati and dignitaries. If you want to stick to it, they should stick to it, which has nothing to do with them.

The change of the imperial dynasty in history is like the normal communication in spring and summer. When the Ming Dynasty comes to the turn, what the little people fear most is that they can't enjoy the wealth brought by the imperial court in the peaceful and prosperous era, but they have to be buried with him when the Imperial Dynasty perishes.

To put it bluntly, almost everyone is not optimistic about Daming. They all think that Daming can't escape this disaster.

Duke Xu is a rare man with strategic vision. He knows that Nanjing is related to the life and death of Daming.

If he could hold Nanjing, drag hundreds of thousands of Liu Jun's troops here, and send troops to gather here for the imperial court to encircle and suppress Liu Jun, he would be a hero of the Ming Dynasty.

If he could not hold Nanjing city and let Liu Jun capture it quickly, Liu Jun would sweep through other state capitals like the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves. When Jiangnan fell, Daming would become a local force and could no longer command the two capitals and 13 provinces.

Then he is not the Ming Empire, the Communist Party of the world, or the Communist Party of the world. If he wants to attack the Liu family, he can't raise enough money, food and personnel.

The most important point is that once Nanjing is conquered, the wealth of his Xu family will be over, and the position of Duke won by his ancestors in hundreds of wars will be gone.

Duke Xu was also a cruel man. He received patriotic education for loyalty to the king. At the moment of life and death, he was not helpless. In order to obtain more food and resources, he did not hesitate to send troops and horses and directly copied the powerful and rich families who did not obey his orders.

They took away all their money and food for military supplies, and took all their men and women to the wall to work.

Duke Xu was thinking, what a group of unruly people. Before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, you people actually want to stand in line and join the arms of the new Lord. You don't have enough strength. What team do you stand in? Immortals fight. Why do you join in?

At the command of Duke Xu, most of the rich households in Nanjing were copied by him, and a large amount of property fell into his hands. With these property, money and food, he had more confidence.

However, when he did this, he had enough money, food and military pay, but it also brought another negative impact, that is, when he did this, it was true anger between heaven and man and anger between man and God.

Originally, as a local representative and local stakeholder, Duke Xu's family had high prestige, and everyone was willing to obey his orders. However, other people were shocked and terrified to see him copy these people at all costs and destroy the family for food.

Although he forced these people to go up the city wall to defend the city, genius knows what role they can play at the critical time, and even the opposite effect will occur.

At least since Duke Xu took these measures, although he raised more money and food, he faced another dilemma, that is, he couldn't recruit enough people.

If you had money in the past, you could recruit enough soldiers.

Jiangnan is a little rich and noble. As long as people are willing to work, they can earn money. Therefore, they have little interest in becoming a soldier. If you give people a meal in the north, you can recruit soldiers and let others work for you.

Now, since the siege of Nanjing, the price of rice in Nanjing has also begun to soar. You have enough rice, and someone is willing to work for you.

However, Duke Xu is now faced with a dilemma, that is, he has enough money and food in his hand, but he can't recruit soldiers. The main reason is that hundreds of thousands of wolf like Liu Jun and Chen Bing are outside the city. Once the city is broken, the people will certainly not be investigated. According to the rules of all dynasties, no matter who sits in the world and becomes an emperor, he must ask these people to support him, People are required to pay taxes.

However, the fate of these officers and soldiers of the former dynasty was miserable. We can refer to the tragic fate of their descendants after the Taizu emperor destroyed Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang.

In other words, these people are still not optimistic about the imperial court. They are worried that once Nanjing is broken, they will be liquidated by Liu Jun.

Not only will they be beheaded, but even their children and grandchildren will suffer. Because of this, these people would rather be hungry than join the army.

Because you are hungry, drink more water, fish and shrimp in the river, or make some wild vegetables and bark. Once you join the army, you are easy to be killed by Liu Jiajun. Even if you are killed by their cannon, you are afraid that you are not dead. Once the city is broken and Liu Jiajun is liquidated, they will have no way to go.

Liu Bu sent 100000 leaflets to the city, which played a role. Although he didn't make several major forces in the city surrender, at least these people didn't dare to oppose Liu Jun without scruples and bottom line.

Liu bu also had some spies in the city. Their spies kept asking for news day and night. Liu Bu mastered this opposition between the army and the people in the city for the first time, which made him very happy.

The biggest difficulty in attacking Nanjing is that the city is too huge. There are millions of people in the city, not under the capital. You can't kill all the millions of people because they are the enemy. As an old saying goes, no matter who sits in the world and who is the emperor, the people need to pay taxes. If you kill all the people, your world will be over.

But no matter who it is, if the other party is hostile to you, if you don't deal with him, the prestige will be lost. If everyone imitates like this and every city resists so resolutely, where will his Liu Jiajun's prestige be in the future, and it will be difficult for them to fight the next city in the future.

However, he was very satisfied with the performance of the people in Nanjing. Liu Bu was not a tough man. He knew that these poor people had no qualification to stand in line and had no freedom of choice. Once there was a war, they would inevitably be involved in one side. As long as these people did not take the initiative to join the army and fight with Liu Jiajun, Liu Bu didn't bother to argue with them.

However, if the army and people in the city work together to fight against Liu Jiajun, it will be difficult for him to capture the city. This city with a population of one million is equivalent to one million enemies. If you want to destroy one million enemies, even if you kneel on the ground and let you cut, you have to cut the knife dull.

It's hard to say that killing so many people takes a lot of time to clean up afterwards.

Now the imperial court is short of time, and Liu Jiajun is also short of time. If he can capture here next spring, sweep the south of the Yangtze River and prevent the rice grain from being transported to the north, he can achieve the purpose of cutting off the blood vessels of Daming. Without these cities as bases and the support of blood vessels, Daming will inevitably decline.

Even if the imperial court sends all his troops to attack at that time, Liu Jun can form a defense line based on these cities and stick to it. The grain base is in their hands. They can play the hand that Daming played before, that is, I will spend it with you slowly.

On the contrary, there is also an extremely terrible ending, that is, before the warm spring flowers bloom, he did not win Nanjing City, and hundreds of thousands of his troops were dragged here, deep in the mire. The Imperial Army in the North marched in and destroyed them on a large scale. Even if sun Wu was reborn and Sun Bin was reborn, it is estimated that there is no way for him.

As an old saying goes, capturing Nanjing is the key to everything.

He is still pleased with the current situation in the city. It can be said that everything is under control. As long as the people and residents in the city do not wholeheartedly oppose him, but these officials are playing, he still has a chance and can attack quickly.

At this time, great news came from Fujian in the south, that is, they succeeded in their raid, captured Anping City, captured Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhifeng alive, and also successfully recruited them. Zheng Zhilong accepted the conditions they made and was willing to hand over his fleet and military power in exchange for the king of Lu of the Liu family.

In this way, the largest fleet in the East fell into the hands of Liu Jiajun.

Liu Bu was very excited and happy to hear such good news. He saw a Lin and a half claw in history.

But I know that the Zheng family's fleet is very powerful. Even the Dutch East India Company, the most powerful small power in Nanyang, has to pay him protection fees. However, this huge fleet has not played its due role, but disappeared into history.

Liu Bu thought that if I had this huge fleet, I would have a huge dragon in my hand. It would be easy for me to cross the seven seas and dominate the world.

Since this huge fleet has become a snake in Zheng Zhilong's hands, Liu Bu will replace it and let the Dragon restore its glory and bravery.