Chapter 238

The next day, Qin Huan drove two thousand old thieves to attack the city with the ladder left by Chuang Jun.

The fire spear soldiers stood behind their hips and killed anyone who dared to retreat. As a result, they rushed in.

Ordinary young people are crying out for joy and paying back. In the past three days, they have been driven by these old thieves to attack the city. I don't know how many people have died. Now it's finally their turn.

In the face of intruders, the defenders in the city have the confidence to resist, but they really don't have much confidence in the Chinese army. People's fame is the shadow of trees.

Qin Huan just promised not to kill anyone or rob a family after entering the city. He didn't have much heart to work hard, whether it was the servants guarding the courtyard or the young guards.

This is the advantage of reputation.

After entering the city, Qin Huan did not kill anyone. The food supplies of the big family, the concubines and servant girls, were not collected for the time being, but remained the same.

He just arrested the magistrate and other officials. He would never use the current civil servants of the Ming Dynasty.

Henan governs eight prefectures and one Prefecture, of which four are Henan, Kaifeng, runing and Nanyang.

The four small houses are Huaiqing, Weihui, Zhangde and guide. Coupled with the most central Ruzhou, the geographical division is more reasonable than other provinces in the Ming Dynasty.

Although Nanyang Prefecture is one of the four major prefectures with the least number of counties, it is still not comparable to ordinary prefectures. It fully governs ten counties and two prefectures, with a huge area and a population of more than two million.

Ten counties and two prefectures, with Nanyang City as the center, are Xichuan, Neixiang and Zhenping in the west, Dengzhou, Xinye, Tang County, Tongbai and Biyang in the south, Ye County and Wuyang in the northeast, Nanzhao and Yuzhou in the north.

Except Xichuan, Neixiang and Tongbai, which are located in mountainous areas, almost all other states and counties are located in plain areas.

Moreover, the territory was rich in minerals, including coal, iron, salt, copper, gold and silver. That was why Qin Huan liked Nanyang basin.

Although he does not intend to occupy the Central Plains, he will not completely withdraw from the Central Plains. He will get Nanyang and take Xiangyang. The two houses will be connected together. At that time, he can enter the Central Plains and retreat. He can look at the world according to the breadth of the lake. It is a rare geomantic treasure.

Therefore, after conquering Nanyang mansion, King Qin kept dividing his troops and asked each commander to lead his troops to attack other states and counties, so as to exercise their ability. Even Xiaocui also took him all the way south to attack Xinye.

In just half a month, all States and counties have been broken down one after another. It's not too much to describe it with a call of arms.

After all, you can't even defend the city, not to mention other counties. In addition, the Chinese army is no better than breaking into the army, so no one is willing to carry it to the end and end up slaughtering the city.

Although the Chinese army has never been threatened, it has always been the case since ancient times. It will choose a city with the most tenacious resistance to make an example of others. Over time, there is a rule of giving orders.

This seems cruel, but it will only reduce the casualties of more people and stabilize the world faster, both for the defenders and the attackers.

Of course, if it's a foreigner, it's another matter.

The Chinese army attacked the city and pulled out the stronghold in Nanyang. Xiangyang in the South was like a great enemy and began martial law. The two sides of the Han River were blocked at the first time.

When Yang Sichang, who was in Wuchang, learned that the Chinese army was going south, he immediately led Chen Hongfan, as fierce as a tiger, and a total of more than 20000 troops to the north, so that Zuo Liangyu could continue to pursue and suppress Zhang Xianzhong.

Obviously, Yang Sichang also knows that compared with the eight kings, the threat of the king of China is greater. Once the Chinese Army breaks through Xiangyang, the half wall of the South will shake.

At this time, the eight kings and Cao Cao were divided into two groups. The eight kings fled in southern Hunan, while Cao Cao was in the Dabie Mountains and wanted to go north to runing mansion.

Although the two have been beaten and run away by the government and army, due to the complex terrain in the south, Yang Sichang has not been able to destroy them for more than half a year, but ruined Huguang in a mess.

After occupying the whole territory of Nanyang, Qin Huan did not rush to attack Xiangyang. Instead, he began to count the population and fields and waited for the arrival of the big army.

More than 3 million people do not walk together, but walk ten camps every other day, about 300000, 20 miles a day, and the tents are not demolished for the people behind to continue to live.

Ten days later, the people in front have walked more than 200 miles, and the people behind have just started. It is really hundreds of miles of company camp, which is very spectacular.

The troops at the head were responsible for setting up tents, the troops behind the hall were responsible for collecting tents, the Chinese army was responsible for transporting, maintaining law and order along the way, and more than three million people moved in an orderly manner towards the south.

Almost at the back of the hall of the Chinese army, Lu Xiangsheng took the army to the North Bank of the Yellow River. For fear of being ambushed, the leader did not rashly send elite troops to pursue.

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Ruzhou city.

Li Zicheng, the breaking king, was furious when he looked at Liu Zongmin who had almost escaped alone.

"Brother Liu, did Xiao Hua Wang really attack you without saying a word?"

"Yes, eldest brother, it's too unfair. If he didn't attack me by surprise with cavalry, wouldn't I be afraid of him?" Liu Zongmin gnashed his teeth.

"Bully people too much. Do you really think I Lao Li is easy to bully?"

"If the order goes down, the whole army will prepare for war and go south in three days."

Chuang Wang hit the table with a heavy fist, and his face was blue.

He had planned to send someone to contact the Xiaohua king to resist the imperial court together. Who would have thought that the other party suddenly went south and directly attacked Liu Zongmin's army without saying a word and occupied the land of Nanyang.

"King Chuang, please listen to what I said. Now the Chinese army is powerful. Our army has just experienced a big defeat. It's not advisable to rush south at this time."

"Yes, I broke the king, and if sun chuanting also took advantage of the situation to the south, if our army could not defeat the Chinese army at that time, it would be in a dilemma."

Although Niu Jinxing and Li Yan both took refuge in Qin Huan and song xiance assisted Niu Er, Chuang Wang still won the favor of many scholars with his reputation for many years.

There's no way. There are too many advisers in China. Without song xiance, there are Li xiance, Wang xiance, Zhao Jinxing and golden star.

At this moment, seeing that the king wanted to go south and rob the territory with the Chinese army, everyone was surprised and stood up one after another to persuade him.

"What should we do? The small people in Ruzhou are poor. How can we support hundreds of thousands of troops? At first, it was your gentlemen who suggested that I capture Nanyang. "

Li Zicheng is just pretending. He is also unwilling to go south and fight with the Chinese army.

"Your Majesty, at one time and another, my subordinates did not expect that the Chinese army would give up Kaifeng mansion. Suddenly, there was sun chuanting in the north and the Chinese army in the south. It is said that Lu Xiangsheng also led the army south. At that time, one of them will attack Ruzhou, the other will attack runing, and then work together to attack the Chinese army. Therefore, the only way out for our army is to go west to Hanzhong and give up the land of Ruzhou, Otherwise, it will certainly serve as a barrier for the Chinese army in vain. "

An old man with a gray beard stood up and said slowly, and everyone nodded frequently.

"Well, what the old man said is very true. Anyway, I'll write down this account first. I'll ask the Xiaohua king to recover it in the future. Then I'll send an order and the army will advance westward in three days."

Li Zicheng has been on the battlefield for more than ten years, and he also has some insight. He knows that today's situation, Ruzhou is not a place to stay for a long time, and it is unrealistic to go south to Nanyang. There is no other way except to go west to Hanzhong.

So he nodded, put a cruel word, went down the slope and comforted Liu Zongmin for a while.

A group of scholars were relieved when they saw this.