Great time travel

Chapter 132, Hangzhou Bloodless Kaicheng
This large-scale fleeing trend that appeared in the north of Hangzhou City has never been hidden from the eyes of the "thief leaders" outside the city from the very beginning.

In fact, as early as when several city gates in the north and east of Hangzhou City were broken open one after another, the headquarters of Phoenix Mountain Villa grasped this information through satellite reconnaissance.But after a brief discussion, the final attitude of the two top leaders, Wang Qiu and Zhao Yingong, was...it doesn't matter!
Well?Why doesn't it matter?
Because the purpose of the war launched by the Global Chinese Traversing Alliance is completely different from the soldiers and horses on the territory of the Ming Empire in this era: they are sitting on the tens of millions of square kilometers of the New World and Australia. The land is actually not very attractive; there are countless gold and silver mines, gemstone veins and precious wood on their land, but they are only allowed to sleep because of the lack of labor, and they don't care about the materials in the city; behind them is the huge productivity of the modern world , I simply scoff at the poor wealth created by the traditional agricultural society...

Therefore, in addition to forcing the Ming Dynasty to maintain an open market and free trade, the only strategic resource that the Global Chinese Travelers Alliance must obtain from the Ming Dynasty is population.However, due to the fact that too many people have been collected from North China, Shandong, Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang during this period, which exceeds the ability of the republics to absorb the new population, even the task of collecting population has been temporarily suspended.

In this way, the Hangzhou in front of me becomes very tasteless.Even if the city is captured with blood and sacrifice, what can be gained?
Grain, rice and fodder?The food and fodder of this expeditionary army is always sufficient, even if they want to collect fresh fruits and vegetables, there is nowhere to find them in this snowy day!
Gold and silver treasures?The famous South African gold mine and diamond mine are currently under the name of the traverser. If you want gold and diamonds, don't you dig it yourself?
Silk tea?There are a lot of these things in the modern world, and it is enough to get some embroidered handicrafts as souvenirs, and there is really not much needed.

Jiangnan beauties?Well, there is some market demand for this, but can modern people really tolerate the horseshoe-shaped "three-inch golden lotus"?Or have the ability to talk about moral articles, painting rhythms, poems and songs with those ancient courtesans?It is even very likely that they can’t even understand Hangzhou dialect!

Instead of making it so troublesome, it's better to wait until the dust settles, wholesale some pretty young girls at a high price and go back, and find a way to train and educate them slowly!Anyway, in this chaotic world, you can find places selling children everywhere!
What's more, due to the long-standing tradition of adoring foreigners, most gay men prefer to get golden-haired and white-skinned "big ocean horses" - due to the influx of modern Chinese time-travelers into this world (generally, there are more men than women) , and the huge physiological demands that come with it.The three major groups of Huamei, Dong'an, and Lingao are all showing their talents, desperately contacting various slave traders through their respective contacts.As a result, the slave markets in Algiers, Tripoli, Basra, Istanbul and Kaffa have become extremely hot for more than a year.The price of young white female slaves has more than doubled, and even the white girls who were relatively unsalable have been snapped up (considering that there are many lolicons and those who like to play growing games among the traversers).

In the face of such a popular market, the Tatar cavalry of the Crimean Khanate became more and more interested in "hunting" slaves in northern Russia.

Cough cough, let’s get down to business, of course, even if the traversers ask very little for Hangzhou City, they still have to pay the [-] miscellaneous troops under their command, as well as rewards for winning battles. Looting from local areas - it is of course possible to ask for funding from the superiors, but it will definitely leave a bad impression on the superiors as lazy and incompetent: if you can't even do things like search the occupied areas, what is it if it's not waste?
However, it is really easy to achieve this goal, after all, there are only so few people in the whole army.Even if all the gentry and wealthy households in the whole city run away, after occupying Hangzhou, just cleaning the floor corners of various mansions and collecting the leftover property is enough to satisfy the appetite of these miscellaneous troops-not to mention, before looting During the mopping-up operations in the towns and villages on the outskirts of Hangzhou, these guys who have always been "thieves never go empty-handed" have already caught a lot of good things.Unless the battle against Hangzhou was fought very hard, it would be enough to just give them some souvenirs.

Since even if they conquered Hangzhou in the late Ming Dynasty, they would not get much what they wanted, so the traversers naturally dragged their feet on this battle.Their biggest goal is to keep casualties to a minimum while capturing Hangzhou.

Moreover, if we say that Major General Sun Yang, who is the supreme military commander in the Hangzhou theater, still has the desire to make meritorious deeds on the Hangzhou battlefield.Then Wang Qiu, who doesn't rely on military exploits for a living, and Zhao Yingong, who is a civil servant, don't even care about the military exploits of breaking the city.

Under the circumstances that Major General Sun Yang led [-] main troops to Fuyang.Wang Qiu and Zhao Yingong, who stayed behind in Hangzhou, had no intention of occupying Hangzhou alone and tearing up their faces with Sun Yang to take credit.Instead, they only intend to maintain the current situation, don't let their troops be wiped out or defeated by the enemy, and wait for Major General Sun Yang to come back to reap the fruits of victory. It can pose any threat to Wang Qiu, a guy who has many magic weapons to protect him.

Well, Li Meng, who is on the front line of the Wulinmen battlefield, has some ideas of making contributions.It's a pity that he only has a few hundred people in his hand, and it is really powerless to capture a big city with 10 people-it is estimated that many gangs in the city have more people than his troops.Moreover, Li Meng knew a bit of taboo in the officialdom, and did not dare to snatch the glory that belonged to his boss, Major General Sun Yang, so he had no choice but to play with rockets outside the city...

In short, from the perspective of the traversers, although Hangzhou City must be taken down, the citizens and materials in Hangzhou City are not of high value.Since the collection of population has been stopped, the people in the city have become a burden to them.Rather than having to bear their food supply in the future and suppress all kinds of riots they caused, it is better to let them run away more now-so, the more wealthy and wealthy households in Hangzhou escape, the more the traversers On the contrary, the happier they are, the more naturally they will not interfere with their doomsday escape, and they have no plans to seize the opportunity to attack the city.

On the other hand, in the city of Hangzhou, which has fallen into anarchy on the other side, seeing that the Kun bandits have been reluctant to enter the city to take over, some people are so anxious that they can't stand it!

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——With the hasty escape of the prefect of Hangzhou, the whole city of Hangzhou officially entered a state of anarchy, and all social order completely collapsed.

Obviously, for human society in any era, the collapse of order is not a good thing.As a result, in the city of Hangzhou, thousands of citizens flocked out of the city to flee, crowding the streets near the city gate.On the other side, there suddenly appeared many heroes in the market who tried to make a fortune by taking advantage of the chaos and robbed their homes everywhere, launching fierce raids on the shops on the street and the fleeing rich households.

Among these heroes who are eager to try, many of them are former yamen servants, who are particularly professional in robbery because of their familiarity with the families of the gentry.Several rich merchants in Hangzhou who were about to flee were intercepted and killed on the streets of the city before they could get out of the city with their sons and daughters. Naturally, all the gold and silver belongings they carried with them were snatched away, and the men died or died. Fleeing, the female relatives were also ruined in the street...

Under normal circumstances, even if the city changes hands during the war, some local gentry and gentry will quickly stand up to organize maintenance meetings and aftermath bureaus to prevent the entire city from being destroyed in chaos and violence.On the other hand, if the victor does not plan to massacre the city or plunder, he will also immediately issue a street cleaning order and a curfew order to prevent his hard work in taking down the city, but the benefits will fall into the hands of those rascals who take advantage of the fire.

But at this time, the gentry in Hangzhou are busy running away, or are hesitating whether to leave their hometown and flee with their families, and no one cares about this for a while.And the enemies outside the city are also not interested in taking advantage of the situation to invade Hangzhou, so that this city has become a paradise for heroes from all walks of life to indulge in lawlessness...

As a result, with the passage of time, the chaos in Hangzhou actually intensified.At the beginning of killing people and stealing goods, those heroes were still a little apprehensive and uneasy.But after burning, killing and looting a lot, it gradually became a habit.At first, they only dared to rob shops that lacked protection, as well as cars and horses trapped in congested streets.But every time, these rogues have formed a robbery group with a division of labor, setting up roadblocks on the street to block the fleeing convoy, and at the same time blatantly attacking the rich mansions with high walls and compound!

So, accompanied by bursts of loud shouts, mansions with carved beams and painted buildings were brutally broken into; cupboards carved with patterns and gold were violently kicked over and searched... Hale rockets still coming in sporadically from outside the city , No one cared about putting it out, but many neighborhoods were set on fire by various thugs themselves.Crowds of thugs joined hands to besiege the mansions everywhere, and started a fierce contest with the owners of the houses.But after breaking through the gates, these thugs don't mind lovingly befriending each other with sticks, stones, and fists for what appears to be a very valuable thing, or a beautiful woman, or even just a delicious pastry. greeting……

In the catastrophe, those weak and helpless rich family members were obviously the most miserable victims.Even if they seized the last moment, took off their bright and gorgeous satin dresses, blackened their faces with soot from the stove, messed up their hair, and put on dirty and tattered clothes, they still couldn't stop those The vicious eyes of the coveted person——soon, most of the women whose hiding places were not secret enough were dragged out of the corner one by one by some energetic thugs, and pushed down on the cold floor, with their skirts lifted to the ground. There is a long queue above the head and behind, and from time to time some people fight with each other in order to jump in line... According to the social atmosphere of the popular masculinity in the late Ming Dynasty, many slender and handsome servants were also brutally murdered by the strange men!
——Orange flames, shrill screams, soaring black smoke, scorching heat waves...

For a time, in the city of Hangzhou, I don’t know how many unlucky rich men and gentry were broken into their mansions by crazy mobs, they fell down in the mud and tortured in every possible way. , being torn and smashed at will by ignorant thugs, and even thrown into the fire, burning into wisps of green smoke... All kinds of moans, cries, and curses can be heard endlessly in the sky above Hangzhou City, completely peeling off from the flames. The sound complemented each other, forming a hell symphony with death and destruction as the main theme.

In short, at dusk, thick smoke was billowing over the entire city of Hangzhou, and those labyrinth-like streets and alleys were slowly being swallowed up by the raging fire, and under the light of the fire, there were still chaos everywhere, fighting each other or fighting with each other. Crazy and crying crowds... In several neighborhoods where the fighting was the most intense, there were even more dead bodies covering the ground, densely packed with blood flowing all over the street. Under the reflection of the fire, it was particularly frightening...

Fortunately, after nightfall, another sudden heavy snowfall saved the city on the verge of self-destruction again.

——The snowflakes that fell all over the sky quickly extinguished the flames in the neighborhoods everywhere, and the biting cold wind and snow drove most of the ragged poor men and thugs back to their houses... Although after the heavy snow that night, the city There must have been a lot more green and stiff "road corpses", and the refugees who are fleeing north with their children and families are estimated to freeze to death a large number of them, but at least the city is barely preserved.

But if this continues, it is obviously not a problem... So, the remaining prominent figures in the city of Hangzhou conducted a secret connection that night, and finally decided to take the initiative to open the door to welcome the thieves into the city—anyway, Hangzhou is already in this miserable state. So, no matter how bad it is, how bad can it go?Of course, as for how to contact and negotiate with the Kun thief, we had to ask a certain scholar who claimed to be proficient in "Kun things" to do more work for those who are capable again...

So, on the second morning, when Luoxue stopped, Comrade Li Meng, who was still standing outside the Wulin Gate and firing Hale rockets, was greeted again with a haggard face and a snotty nose. Gao Xuan, the tearful scholar: "... I hope the military master has pity on the people of this city, and quickly enter the city to garrison! If the noble army does not enter Hangzhou to suppress the market, I am afraid that this city of paradise on earth, which shocked the three Wu, will be destroyed. It's Avici Hell!"

At the same time, Li Meng was in a daze holding the gift list sent by Gao Xuan: "...What are these things you sent? A stone of tea? Twenty catties of rhubarb? The first one can be regarded as a local specialty, and the latter One, I remember that rhubarb is not something produced in Hangzhou, right?"

"...Uh, I heard that your army never eats without these two things, so..." Gao Xuan replied somewhat hesitantly.

"...Who did you hear that from?" Li Meng rolled his eyes, "...Forget it, tea is a good thing anyway, rhubarb can be given to a military doctor or used to make wine... Well, let me see What else, what? The three pairs of cunning boys, who are you treating as a rabbit? There is no such thing as a beautiful girl?"

"...Uh, I heard that your army has strict discipline, and the army is the land of the sun. I am afraid that women will not be allowed in, so I chose a cunning boy to offer..."

"...What the hell kind of logic is this? If you have strict discipline, you should be gay? Hey... What are you guys thinking about?"

After a while, the Hangzhou Fengshan Gate, which is facing Fenghuang Mountain Villa, was pushed open from the inside after being closed for nearly a month, and then countless people held incense tables and knelt on the avenue entering the city. On both sides, there are still people who put up banners: "Welcome the Great Master of the Song Dynasty to enter the city and comfort the people"...

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Another day later, Major General Sun Yang returned to Hangzhou from Fuyang with [-] soldiers and horses who had experienced the test of siege warfare.

In the just-concluded battle of Fuyang, he fully exercised the attacking and street fighting abilities of these miscellaneous troops under him, and gained a more intuitive understanding of the tragic combat effectiveness of the Ming army in the south of the Yangtze River.In addition, he has also accumulated some experience and lessons about what problems he will encounter after breaking through the city, and what appeasement or suppression measures should be taken, and he is confident that he will do better in the next battle of Hangzhou...

However, when his fleet appeared outside the Chaochao Gate in Hangzhou, Major General Sun Yang's smile turned into surprise.

——Not only is the gate of the city wide open, but also the star ring flag with a red background of the Chinese League is flying above the city? ! !

After being stunned for a moment, he rushed to the military radio like crazy, grabbed the communicator to connect to the signal, and yelled.

"...Damn it! What are you guys doing? Didn't you agree to attack the city after I come back? Why do you have to take the credit from me?!"

"...Alas, the plan can't keep up with the changes! Brother Sun." Wang Qiu on the other end of the radio station sighed, and explained in a low voice, "...those guys in the city have already opened the city gate on their own initiative, crying and begging us Hurry up and occupy it, we can't refute his sincerity, can't we?"

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In short, no matter how twists and turns the process is, this embarrassing battle in Hangzhou has basically come to an end.

Two days later, General Huangshi, who personally led an army of [-] to land in Ningbo, also went all the way from Shangyu and Shaoxing, and finally succeeded in reaching Xiaoshan County on the south bank of the Qiantang River, across the water from Hangzhou. The [-] side divisions of these seven thousand divisions rendezvoused victoriously.

At this point, this round of Jiangnan Raiders, which was like a storm, came to an end for the time being.In Zhejiang Province, the Allied forces successfully occupied most of the elite coastal areas from Hangzhou to Wenzhou, forcing the governor of Zhejiang to take the remnants of troops across the mountains and huddled in Quzhou, lingering in the inland, without the power to fight back.And the Emperor Yonghe, who was entrenched in Southern Zhili, was even more shocked to find that he was under the enemy, and he had reached a critical moment of life and death!

And in the more distant Lingnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, with the more obvious all-round absolute advantage, the Allied forces there have already finished their work...

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PS: Although I have already left the group again, but on the occasion of the torch festival, let's light up a big fire according to the occasion!