Since the decision had been made, Zhu Bashiyi no longer looked forward and sent someone to Sizhou to pass the order to the Third Army, ordering it

The commander of the Third Army, Li Ziyu, took a thousand auxiliary soldiers to stay in Sishui City, and the commander Xu Da and deputy commander Wang Bi, led the rest of the Third Army to attack south immediately and approached Lai'an, ready to copy Zhang Mingjian's retreat at any time.

Immediately, he ordered Zhang Shicheng and Wang Kerou, who were resting in Gaoyou, and ordered them to immediately lead their troops to Yangzhou to prepare to cross the river to launch an attack on the south bank. Finally, he ordered his first, fourth, fifth army, and the Huang army, who had just surrendered, to enter Yangzhou City, clear the streets in pieces, put out the remaining fires, and save the survivors after the disaster.

All the generals agreed to "Yes." They stepped forward to take the order arrow and immediately went to carry out the mission separately. In the early morning of the next day, they finally extinguished all the remaining fires in the city with water. The overview of the entire Yangzhou City was also led by Chen Ji and a group of staff members to roughly count it.

Yangzhou City, which was originally the richest in the world, basically became a ruin. All the gold, silver, food, and young women were plundered by Zhang Mingjian's Qing army and other remaining soldiers. They were taken to the west bank of the canal. The precious things that were too late to take, as well as furniture, clothes, bedding, etc., were all burned to ashes, and a large number of old, weak, women and children, who had no time to escape, were buried in the sea of ​​fire.

Fortunately, because the Red Turban Army was chasing too tightly, the rebels did not have time to kill all the people of Yangzhou. There were about 600,000 young and middle-aged men and women with relatively convenient legs and feet, after Zhang Mingjian led his confidants to evacuate, they also escaped from the heavens. These people hid in the hills and swamps outside the city for fourteen or five hours. When they heard that the Red Turban Army had entered the city, they supported each other and rushed back, squatting next to their completely disappeared home, crying bitterly.

Zhu Dapeng was poor in history, of course he didn't know that in the official history of another time and space, when the Qing army commander Zhang Mingjian occupied, he actually killed the people to serve military rations. In just over a year, the people in Yangzhou City were reduced to less than one-tenth of the original. When Zhu Yuanzhang sent his beloved general Liao Daheng to conquer Yangzhou and forced his surrender to Zhang Mingjian, there were only more than 40 households left in Yangzhou City, which was not even as good as a small village during the peacetime season.

Despite the reality of this time and space, because of the appearance of Zhu Dapeng's soul, Yangzhou City was restored five years ahead of schedule. Zhang Mingjian's human flesh feast ended in a hurry before he could start the banquet. After receiving the secret report from the staff, Zhu Bashiyi was still furious and slapped the table hard and asked loudly, "Where has Zhang Mingjian retreated to? Are there any of our scouts back? Where did those two Mongolian princes take their direct descendants?"

"The scout has not come back yet, but according to the report of the gentry on the west bank of the canal, Zhang Mingjian and others were walking on the water route, and the one who was most likely to go to Zhenzhou. There is a big river connected with the canal. Any boat that can be walked on the canal can basically go upstream. If you change a small boat in Liuhe, you can even go to Chuzhou all the time." Chen Ji, a soldier, walked forward and reported loudly.

"Boluo Buhua and Timur Buhua's uncle and nephew walked by water, but according to the confession of the scouts caught nearby, the uncle and nephew should have entered the Yangtze River directly and returned to Luzhou against the current. Before leaving, they captured a large number of young and strong men in Yangzhou City as laborers, loaded the entire treasury on board the ship, and appointed Zhang Mingjian as the general manager of Yangzhou Road in public, responsible for commanding all the explorers, the Han army, and the Yi soldiers who remained, to prevent our army from continuing to pursue." Another army member, Roben, also stepped forward and responded very carefully.

Because Lu Lu was old and couldn't stay up all night, he had been trying hard to train several winners selected for the first imperial examination. Therefore, Chen Ji and others made rapid progress. Now they can replace Lu Lu who handled most of the less important military affairs and were able to timely make up for Zhu Bashiyi's shortcomings.

Obviously, today Robben found some traces of conspiracy in the information he had collected hastily, so he raised it in a very tactful way. Zhu Bashiyi was stunned when he heard this, and asked Robben's words: "Qingyuan, what do you mean is that Zhang Mingjian was used as a knife. Are you sure? Can you speak more carefully? Don't worry. Before I make a decision, I can say anything, and it doesn't matter if I make a mistake."

"The subordinates are not very sure about this, but judging from the act of emptiing the treasury before Boluo Buhua's uncle and nephew leaving no money and food for Zhang Mingjian, this move is extremely unreasonable." Robin, the military officer, thought for a while and responded softly.

"I also think this matter is very strange." Chen Ji, a military officer, looked at Zhu Bashiyi's face and whispered, "In theory, even though he knew that the Qing army and several other remaining soldiers could not defend Yangzhou, Boluo did not spend his uncle and nephew, so he needed to keep more money and food to boost morale. But the uncle and nephew were the opposite, giving his subordinates the feeling that they deliberately wanted Zhang Mingjian to attack the people, and then see what your reaction would be."

"How could he guess that after Zhang Mingjian did evil, he would immediately take the banner of the Red Turban Army." Zhu Bashiyi could not believe the two of them at all, and asked with his eyes raised.

"This is Zhang Mingjian's only way to save his life. He abandons Yangzhou without fighting. If he dares to return to the Mongolian Yuan court, Boluo Buhua's uncle and nephew can throw him out to take the blame at any time. Once he raises the banner of the Red Turban Army, the chief general will inevitably throw him away." Chen Ji thought for a while and explained very seriously.

"I'm afraid Boluo is not Hua's uncle and nephew, so he has long been sure that Zhang Mingjian will not be the scapegoat." Robben, who joined the army, obviously saw more deeply than Chen Ji. He took the conversation and continued to whisper, "And once Zhang Mingjian takes the banner of the Red Turban Army, the Grand Chief will face a big trouble regardless of whether he fights or not. If he fights, there will be cracks between our Huaian Army and Bianliang. If he doesn't fight, the Grand Chief Chief will be criticized for condoning Zhang's thief as evil, and the entire Red Turban Army will also be dragged down. In the eyes of the people, from the rebel army that acts on behalf of heaven, it will be no different from the Mongolian Yuan court." (Note 1)

This is the essence of the entire conspiracy. Zhu Bashiyi couldn't help but breathe. If the facts were as Robben analyzed, the person who made the conspiracy would be too vicious and did not regard anyone left in Yangzhou as human beings. Even the Qing army and other remnants of various tribes who had served him might have been regarded as flesh-and-blooded pawns by him.

However, it is obviously not the time to investigate the entire conspiracy. What Zhu Bashiyi needs to do is to capture Zhang Mingjian, the culprit, as soon as possible, and avenge more than 100,000 innocent and tragic dead in Yangzhou City. As for whether Zhang Mingjian was deceived by others or took the initiative to take the blame, it is no longer important. The disaster in Yangzhou City was caused by him, and he must pay enough price for it.

"How many soldiers and horses are there around Zhang Mingjian? Liao Daheng and Zhu Liangzu, where have they been?" Thinking of this, Zhu Bashiyi shook his head quickly a few times, got rid of his chaotic thoughts, and continued to focus his energy on Zhang Mingjian.

"Zhu Liangzu and Liao Daheng went to Taizhou together." Chen Ji, a member of the army, thought for a while and continued to report loudly. "According to the confession of the arrested soldiers, they seemed to have noticed something the afternoon before yesterday and did not enter the city at all. Later, they found that the fire in the city was out of control, so they simply took the team eastward and parted ways with Zhang Mingjian."

"These two are still quite consciences." Zhu Bashiyi frowned and commented in a low voice. The performance of Zhu Liangzu and Liao Daheng on the battlefield left a deep impression on him, especially Zhu Liangzu and his "Yi soldiers" in their troops, with very strong combat power. Even Fu Youde, who has always been arrogant, expressed his deep admiration when he mentioned this person later. If it weren't for the fear that the Huai'an army would break up with Bianliang, it would affect Xuzhou, Fu Youde even took the initiative to propose to lead the troops in the headquarters to fight with Zhu Liangzu alone, and truly distinguish the heights.

"The two of them have only 1,500 soldiers left. If they entered the city yesterday afternoon, they would inevitably be swallowed up by Zhang Mingjian." Robben joined the army was always a conspiracy theorist. After thinking about it, he whispered to remind him.

"There are only more than 3,000 people left in total." Zhu Bashiyi frowned again, and then made a quick decision, "Send Zhu Chongba the order to set off with Mao Gui tomorrow morning."

"Yes!" Chen Ji, a military officer, looked at Zhu Bashiyi, and a strong look of admiration surged on his face.

Not to mention that Liao Daheng and Zhu Liangzu had only three thousand remaining soldiers, even if there was a complete team of ten thousand people left, they would probably not be able to stop the full attack of the chief general of Mengcheng Mao Gui. However, at this time, his chief general sent Zhu Chongba's elite Haozhou over. He probably had only one purpose, which was not to involve Guo Zixing and Zhima Li and also involved in the conflict between the Huai'an army and Bianliang.

As soon as Mao Gui and Zhu Chongba left tomorrow morning, the next one responsible for chasing Zhang Mingjian is all the teams of the Huai'an Army. Even if there is a conflict with Liu Futong's troops in the future, all the consequences will be borne by the Huai'an Army itself and will not drag down friendly forces at all.

"After looting Yangzhou, the other defeated soldiers knew that they were unforgivable, so they all took the stolen property and went to join Zhang Mingjian to surrender." With a little admiration, Luo Ben took the front half of the step forward and added loudly, "There are several more powerful soldiers and tens of thousands of households, named Liu Qiong, Xu Xing and Wu Wenhua. Each of them has about one or two thousand soldiers under their command. There is also a civil servant named Zhang Song, who was originally the governor of Luzhou. This time, Timur Buhua left him behind. Now, with many years of connections, he has collected seven or eight remaining soldiers, with a total scale of about four thousand, and he is also dependent on Zhang Mingjian. However, according to the confessions of the rioters caught, Zhang Mingjian didn't seem to like him very much. After crossing the canal yesterday, he refused to join him."

"I'm afraid I'm worried that Zhang Song will take his position. After all, he was just a ten thousand righteous soldiers. His prestige and qualifications were far inferior to Zhang Song, the governor of Luzhou." Zhu Bashiyi thought for a while and analyzed in a low voice. This was a noteworthy situation, which was convenient for defeating the enemy troops one by one. However, the information at present is still not sufficient, and it is difficult to make targeted combat plans.

Just as I was in a dilemma, I suddenly heard a noisy sound outside the tent. Then, a duck shouted in a sharp voice, "I want to see General Manager Zhu, take me to see General Manager Zhu. My master gave me a gift, which delayed my master's affairs. No one of you can afford it."
Chapter completed!