Chapter 1439 Sweeping Jiangnan
"Coward, coward, come back here, I'm going to chop you off!"
Oboi roared angrily.
"My lord, run!"
A personal soldier shouted loudly.
"This general will not run away. I am the number one Baturu in the Qing Dynasty. I will not accept it!"
Aobai roared.
The next second, a bomb fell on the hill.
Accompanied by a loud bang.
The first Baturu of the Qing Dynasty turned into minced meat all over the ground.
"What a crap Baturu, nothing more than that."
Han Yu stepped on the flesh and blood under his feet and pointed the flag forward.
"Strangle the enemy and don't let any of them escape."
The cavalry corps, which had been waiting for a long time on the hillsides on both wings, received the order, urged their horses, and rushed towards the fleeing Eight Banners.
Now Han Yu’s cavalry corps has also updated its equipment.
In addition to the original sabers and palm mines, they were also equipped with short-barreled Yongli-style rifles.
Although the effective range of this gun is reduced due to the sawed-off barrel, it is convenient to use on horseback.
These cavalrymen were chasing after the Eight Banners soldiers.
While urging his horse, he aimed at the fleeing soldiers and pulled the trigger.
Bang bang bang.
Rows of fleeing soldiers were knocked down, and the enemy was weakened bit by bit, just like what the cavalry had done before, except that the weapons used were different.
Under the pursuit of the cavalry, none of the Eight Banners brought by Oboi escaped alive.
They were all caught up by the cavalry and had their heads chopped off.
Han Yu also fulfilled his promise. He stacked these people's heads together and poured quicklime into them, turning them into a huge pyramid-like sculpture.
This is the Jingguan, a symbol used to show off one’s military prowess.
Not only the Eight Banners soldiers brought by Oboi, but also the other six armies that cooperated with Oboi and attacked together were hit head-on by the various troops.
However, those troops had no cavalry and were unable to completely wipe out the enemy.
However, this was enough to scare the enemies and make them retreat back to their province in embarrassment.
Some even collapsed on the spot and turned into bandits, sweeping through the surrounding villages and making the villagers suffer terribly.
After wiping out the invading troops, Han Yu did not stop, but ordered his troops to follow and catch up, not giving the enemy a chance to breathe. At the same time, he entered the neighboring provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and others to expand the recovered areas.
In addition to the army following and pursuing to expand the results of the battle, Han Yu also ordered the navy to take action.
Although these naval forces had not been trained for long and were not very familiar with the tactics, sailing along the coast was not a problem for them.
The huge naval fleet set sail from Guangzhou Bay, and hundreds of warships sailed north along the coastline and entered the Yangtze River Estuary.
Then they followed the Yangtze River into various tributary waterways and used naval guns to support the army.
For a time, Han Yu's troops swept across the entire Jiangnan region.
Occupies half of the country.
Even the city of Jinling was captured.
After learning that the old capital had been captured, Mu Tianbo was extremely happy and quickly requested Han Yu to return to the old capital and ascend the throne to become emperor.
Han Yu actually didn't want to become emperor so early.
But he knew that he had no control over such matters.
Only if I become emperor myself can these people under me make further progress.
He doesn't need more fame and benefits, but his men do.
For the sake of his subordinates, he has to go a step further.
Moreover, after ascending the throne, he had more status and some policies were easier to implement.
"Then go to Jinling City and ascend the throne to become emperor."
Han Yu led the First Legion and those who had followed the dragon to Jinling.
Subsequently, Han Yu officially ascended the throne and became emperor according to the Ming Dynasty ceremony, and the reign was named Xuanwu.
After ascending the throne, he would confer titles to all officials.
Because he had too few talented people under his command, Han Yu took the opportunity to modify the original institutional structure of the Ming Dynasty.
For example, some provinces and cities were directly merged, such as the five provinces of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan and Shandong were merged into Zhili, the three provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui and Jiangxi were merged into Liangjiang, the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi were merged into Guangdong and Guangxi... The country is divided into eight major provinces, each province has a governor who is in charge of government affairs, but he is not allowed to interfere in military affairs by any means.
The defense of each province is the responsibility of the garrison commander.
The commanders of the corps at all levels directly obey the emperor's direct orders.
In addition, Han Yu also re-established the Jinyiwei, which was responsible for monitoring all officials, collecting enemy intelligence, and arresting enemy spies.
The commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was directly responsible to the emperor.
In order to make it easier for people to be lazy, the grand court meeting was changed to once a month.
Normally, government affairs are handled in meetings held in front of the emperor.
The meeting was led by the emperor and the ministers and vice ministers of the six ministries.
When a problem arose, the six ministries would first draft a solution. If the emperor thought it was feasible, he would stamp it on the emperor's seal to execute it. If he disagreed, he would send it back and formulate a new plan.
This greatly reduced the emperor's workload, allowing Han Yu to have more time to manage the legion and complete the task of unifying the world.
Han Yu's declaration of himself as emperor in Nanjing almost brought chaos to the Qing court.
When Oboi went on the expedition, he took with him all the elite troops he could and mobilized the Green Camp troops from various provinces.
Now, all that was left of the Qing Dynasty were the Green Camp troops of Zhili, some of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and some troops left in their hometown of Liaodong.
The entire Qing Dynasty was like a weak tiger with only a layer of skin left.
More importantly, Han Yu blocked the Yangtze River waterway and occupied Jiangnan, directly cutting off the Qing Dynasty's source of money and food.
There is less than one million taels of silver in the Qing treasury now.
For an individual, this is a huge amount of wealth that cannot be spent in several lifetimes.
But it is too little for a country.
Especially when the Qing Dynasty was defeated, he needed a lot of money to recruit soldiers and build an army to resist the Ming Dynasty.
But without money, they can do nothing.
"What should we do? The nobles, please come up with an idea."
Kangxi looked at the remaining three ministers and asked.
"Your Majesty, there are three options now ."
Everyone looked at each other, and finally it was the mature Suoni who spoke.
"What's the best strategy?"
Kangxi asked.
"The best strategy is to return to our homeland in Liaodong. Our ancestors once left us a legacy: if we can't stay inside the Great Wall, we should go back outside the Great Wall, back to our hometown."
"No, you absolutely cannot go back!"
Before Kangxi could speak, Ebilun immediately spoke out in opposition.
He has become accustomed to the glamorous world of the capital, and he would not want to go back to live a hard life now.
"What about the middle strategy?"
Kangxi asked.
"Order each province to organize militia to protect the territory and the people."
“No,” Suksaha shook his head repeatedly. Once this order was issued, it would be equivalent to lifting the ban on armed forces. By then, each province would organize a powerful armed force.
They might be able to stop the Ming army, but then what?
If we can stop the Ming army, we can naturally stop the Qing army.
What if these places follow the Ming Dynasty's example and cede land and rule their own country?
By then, will the world still belong to the Manchus?
"Just tell me the worst plan." Kangxi said helplessly.
The above two options were overturned by the regents, so what choice should he make?
"The worst option is to mobilize the army and fight a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty!"
