Dominate the Country

Junzhou Jingle Palace, the first of the eight palaces in Wudang Mountain, is said to be the birthplace of Zhenwu.

More than 20 years before Chen Ming was born in his previous life, this place had been completely submerged by the Danjiangkou Reservoir. Before the release of water, the local government only had time to move out a batch of cultural relics such as the archway and the turtle-carrying stele, and the original site was completely covered by the flood.

Chen Ming had never been to Wudang Mountain in his previous life, and it was obviously too late for this trip, which made him more interested in the Jingle Palace in front of him.

There were only a few Taoists guarding the palace, and Chen Ming could not tell whether they had special skills. The two did not interfere with each other. Chen Ming, who was about to leave Junzhou again, did not need to pull a few Taoists to tell stories for him. The Taoists had been living a hard life under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, so they would not come to Chen Ming now.

"If I can unify the world one day, I will definitely not stay in the imperial palace in Beijing all year round." Chen Ming loved traveling in his previous life, but unfortunately he had no money at that time. If he could achieve his goal in this life, he would definitely get what he wanted.

After returning to the army, the Chen family army captured Junzhou cleanly and neatly. The prefect of Junzhou was hanged with a white silk. The treasury, gunpowder bureau, etc. were all well preserved, especially the gunpowder bureau. There was no loyal minister of "my Qing Dynasty" who set off a big fire. A batch of gunpowder in stock and a considerable amount of sulfur, saltpeter, wicker carbon and other materials fell into the hands of the Chen family army.

The Chen family army captured the yamen runners of the Junzhou government office. These people were local snakes. They knew very well which family was working in the gunpowder bureau and the military equipment bureau. They followed the map completely and captured all of them without leaving a single one. Chen Ming left a battalion to guard the city, and also equipped it with an artillery team and a musket team, with more than 700 people to defend the city and guard the "prisoners", and the work was very easy.

At this time in Anlekou, when more than a thousand prisoners of war from Yunyang Town were escorted here, the news quickly spread to Yunyang Prefecture.

The entire Yunyang Prefecture was in chaos in an instant.

Especially the Wuchang City Guard Camp sent by Dingchang to reinforce Yunyang, the two battalions on the left and right really didn't want to stay in Yunyang Prefecture for a quarter of an hour.

The remaining troops of Yunyang Town were wiped out by Chen's army in one fell swoop. Now Yunyang Prefecture has only a thousand civilians, and their two battalions are less than 2,000 people, and there are no cannons. How can they resist Chen's army?

More importantly, Zhu Bangdao's defeat completely drained the spirit of the Yunyang defenders. Whether it was the Yunyang civilians or their Wuchang City Guard Camp, they were afraid of the Chen family army from the bottom of their hearts and no longer had the courage to resist it.

The Wuchang City Guard Camp had two camps. The right camp was stationed in the city, and the left camp and some Yunyang civilians were stationed in Yangxipu. Led by Mao Taixing, the lieutenant general of the Wuchang City Guard Camp.

Yangxipu is a rare good place in Yunyang Prefecture. It is located in the northeast of Yunyang City, facing the Han River and backed by mountains. There are three mountains, two rivers, and five fields. The terrain is high in the west and low in the east, with mountains in the north, rivers in the south, and north-south slopes. At the same time, there is a Yunzhou Beach in the Han River, where twenty families live and nearly a hundred people. If the defenders have enough cannons, they can deploy a part of them on Yunzhou Beach, clamp the Han River, and then block the north road with soldiers, and they can still defend it.

Unfortunately, Yunyang Town had already taken away all the cannons after sending troops several times, wasting the precious land of Yunzhou Beach.

Mao Taixing was absolutely unwilling to die for the people of Yunyang, and his Green Camp soldiers of the left and right camps of less than a thousand people were also unwilling to die in vain. Chen Zhi, the garrison commander of the right camp, was as anxious as a dog that could not cross the river at this time, and persuaded Mao Taixing to leave again and again.

Anyway, the soldiers in Wuchang knew that the governor of Huguang, Dingchang, had not been in good health since the beginning of summer. This nobleman of the Zhenghuang Banner, who was born in the Irgen Jueluo family, was already sixty-five years old and would not live long.

The general of Jingzhou was finished and there was no master now; if the governor of Huguang died again, who would take care of their Wuchang City garrison?

Chen Zhi did not avoid suspicion at all because he and Chen Ming were "one family five hundred years ago", and repeatedly encouraged Mao Taixing to slip away and run away as soon as possible. The target of Chen's army was obviously the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Yunyang. The Wuchang City Guard Camp took the food and ran into the mountains, waiting for Chen's army to leave before attacking and retaking Yunyang. Even if the superiors knew that they were playing tricks, they would not kill them.

I heard that it has snowed in the north and winter has come.

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Ankoudian is not far from Yangxipu. Chen Ming did not plan to stay in Ankoudian for long. He left two teams to guard the prisoners. He led two thousand soldiers and dragged cannons to Yunyang Prefecture. Yangxipu was naturally the first to bear the brunt.

Yunyang prefect Wu Heqing knew very well how the situation was developing. He asked his family to escape as soon as possible, and he prepared a pot of poisoned wine and sat quietly in the lobby of the government office, waiting for the arrival of the last moment.

The panic outside the yamen was getting louder and louder. A yamen runner ran up to the hall in a panic, "Your Excellency, the people of Wuchang, the people of Wuchang opened the south gate and ran away, they ran away..."

The yamen runner's nerves were about to collapse. The people of the left camp of Wuchang City actually abandoned the city and fled at this critical moment. There was no hope of defending the city of Yunyang. The yamen runner's tears flowed.

He blamed the Chen family army in his heart. You guys from Henan, why don't you just make trouble in Henan? Why do you still go to their poor and remote place? The yamen runner's life was originally comfortable, but now that the Chen family army has made such a fuss, it is 100% ruined!

Wu Heqing was not surprised at all that the Wuchang Green Camp abandoned the city and fled. When the news of Zhu Bangdao's defeat and the capture of more than a thousand Yunyang Town Green Camp reached his ears, Wu Heqing had expected this scene.

Did only the left camp escape? Mao Taixing would have fled with the right camp long ago. The reason why no one came back to the city to report was that the militias assigned to the right camp were probably scattered like birds and beasts, and went back to their own homes.

Wu Heqing had been in the officialdom for nearly 20 years, how could he not know those dirty things that were not allowed to be seen in the light? There was a big difference between the Wuchang Green Camp and the local officials in Yunyang. The former was reprimanded at most when Yunyang Prefecture was lost, and there was not even a reprimand during the war. The latter had only one way to go, which was death.

As for Wu Heqing, as a Jiangsu native, he could not let his children and grandchildren have no chance to make a breakthrough because of his own life, and let the whole Wu family suffer. So he could only die. Even if he didn't want to die.

I don't know when the yamen runner who came to report the news disappeared in the lobby, and the increasingly loud noise in Yunyang Prefecture City rang through Wu Heqing's ears. The entire prefectural government office, which used to be majestic and towering like an unshakable mountain, suppressed everyone's heart, did not tolerate the slightest blasphemy and contempt from the common people, and symbolized the majesty and power of the Qing Dynasty, was now as silent as a morgue.

Perhaps except for Wu Heqing, a living person, and some people imprisoned in prison, there was no one else in the entire prefectural government office.

Wu Heqing closed his eyes and waited for death! In the suddenly shaken Qing imperial power...