It will severely damage the morale of the defenders.

After Han Qian left Jinling, neither Yuan Guowei nor Jiang Huo could go against Yang Yuanpu's will. They first excluded the people in Jinyun Tower who originally belonged to Han Qian's direct lineage, which greatly weakened the power of Jinyun Tower lurking in Jinling City.

Yang En went out of the city to meet Yang Yuanpu, but there were still clues. When Yang En returned to the city, he was arrested by the official and imprisoned.

Even though Yang En withstood severe torture and beatings and did not tell anyone in the court who had other ideas and colluded with soldiers outside the city, under the high pressure of Anning Palace, he casually executed several suspicious generals, and no one

Don't dare to act rashly again.

Yang Yuanpu's plan to capture Jinling City through internal and external cooperation also went bankrupt.

This turned the general attack on Jinling City into a bloody battle, with both the enemy and ourselves suffering heavy casualties.

From mid-January to early February, both sides suffered casualties of nearly 40,000 generals, and even the attacker's casualties were slightly heavier.

However, the problem is not to mention that the civilians in the city are starving, the army is increasingly short of supplies and food, and even if the Nanya Forbidden Army can force strong men from the city to go up the wall to participate in the defense, their morale is getting weaker and weaker.

In comparison, the siege troops and horses had sufficient supplies, and a steady stream of new soldiers competing for military merit were added. Finally, the outer city wall was captured across the board before mid-February, and the siege weapons were advanced to the inner city wall.

This is the general trend, which is difficult to reverse even with conspiracy and trickery, like a rolling wheel rolling over everything.

What's more, although most of the generals under Yang Yuanpu's command hide their own small calculations, these people still have to make short-term choices in this world, and they all understand that everything they expect can only be realized after the capture of Jinling City.

Therefore, no matter how heavy the casualties are, as long as there is no stupid defeat, the besieging troops will become stronger as they fight.

Regardless of whether they are active or coerced, as well as the aborigines in the city, they mainly gather in the area between the inner city wall and the outer city wall of Jinling.

Although it was inevitable that tens of thousands of people would starve to death, and although 200,000 to 300,000 people suffered from hunger for so long and were all skinny, the vast majority of people still persisted until the end.

At this point, the situation in Anning Palace was completely over. Even if Yang Yuanpu transported food and relief to the two to three hundred thousand people and recruited the best of them to serve as cannon fodder to participate in the siege, the last remaining strength of the defenders could be exhausted.

Seeing that the situation was irreversible, Xu Hui finally decided to coerce the civil and military officials of the court and his family to flee north across the Yangtze River.

Yang Jian, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, did not commit suicide, but was actually assassinated in Wanhonglou.

Before Wan Honglou assassinated Yang Jian, he tried every means to win over Yang Jian. However, apart from his wife, children, old and young, who were under the control of Anning Palace, Yang Jian devoted all his energy to fight with the Five Tooth Army Navy in the battle of Chizhou, and the two sides had a lot of hatred.

, where are you willing to surrender?

Wan Honglou started to lurk around Yang Jian very early. In his early years, he was accepted by Yang Jian as a secret agent of the Jiang family because of his outstanding talents. He also bribed the official Fang Si who was responsible for supervising Yang Jian's wife and children, and sent the poisonous pill to Yang Jian.

He was handed over to the spy, who planned to poison Yang Jian's wife, children and children and then frame the blame on Anning Palace, forcing Yang Jian to lead his fleet to surrender to Yueyang.

As long as you are human, you will have feelings. This is also the most difficult key to control a spy who has been lurking for many years.

Although the concubine who married Yang Jian was a disciple who had been carefully trained by Wanhonglou for many years, she gave birth to children for Yang Jian and did not tell her that she had feelings for Yang Jian. She was not willing to poison her and Yang Jian with her own hands.

She gave birth to two adult children and died after struggling for a long time.

Seeing that the incident was exposed, Wan Honglou sent people to coerce General Fan Xiang of Lou's fleet army, who had already planned to defect to Yueyang but was waiting for Yang Jian's reaction, to assassinate Yang Jian while he was watching the army.

Not to mention Li Pu and Yao Xishui, no one in Yueyang wanted to see the real inside story revealed to the public. They could only claim that Yang Jian committed suicide, but several other generals in the Lou Chuanjun were angry at Fan Xiang's betrayal.

After Yang Jian's tragic death, they all followed An Ning Palace more firmly, making the Jinling Water Battle even more tragic.

It can be said that the strength of this battleship fleet was severely damaged, but nearly half of the Wuya Army navy and Fan Xiang's generals were also killed or injured, and more than 70% of the navy's warships were destroyed.

Since the shipbuilding yards outside Jinling City were destroyed, the Yueyang soldiers and horses temporarily had no remaining power to cross the river to pursue the remnants of the Anning Palace and the Shouzhou Army.

In addition to the total casualties of more than 30,000 naval officers on both sides in this battle, a large number of court ministers, their servants and servants who were coerced to cross the river, as well as the eunuchs and maids in the palace, and the official servants and servants of Jinling City, almost all

There are 1340000 people. Except for the direct family members who can ride on the naval warships, most of them can only ride on temporarily requisitioned small boats.

During the fierce battle, these small boats were firstly not strictly protected by naval warships, and secondly they could not withstand the impact of the river waves. Hundreds of large and small ships capsized and countless people drowned.

Among those who fell into the water, there were six to seven thousand people who swam back to the south bank.

Yang Yuanpu was a little better than his father Yang Mi. He detained more than 6,000 people and imprisoned those who were indeed members of Anning Palace and direct descendants of the Xu family as prisoners of war. Others were pardoned when they succeeded to the throne.

The boat escorting Yang En also capsized in the river, but a chief officer of the Zifang Division responsible for guarding Yang En was grateful for Yang En's loyalty and escorted Yang En back to the south bank in the rapid river flow, escorting Yang En back to Jinling City.

However, in any case, Yang Yuanpu successfully captured the city of Jinling, succeeded to the throne in Jinling in early March, and divided among the officials.

The edict naming Han Qian the Marquis of Qianyang was also sent out of Jinling City by Zhang Ping's disciple Anji Xiang immediately, and was delivered to Chenzhong City on March 25th, and was handed over to Han Qian.

Han Qian informed Guo Rong of the latest changes in Jinling City.

"Shen Yang was under suspicion. In order to avoid suspicion, he went to Guangde Mansion to serve as the magistrate and left the central government. How come he will return to Jinling next month to serve as a minister, work with Zhongshu and assume the power of the prime minister?" Listen to Han Qian

Having said so much, Guo Rong was still quite puzzled about Shen Yang's final appointment and appointment.

On the one hand, he felt that with Shen Yang's temperament, even if Emperor Yanyou wanted to use him, he would not accept such an appointment until the suspicion was cleared. On the other hand, could Zheng Yu, Zhang Chao, and Li Pu be...

As a vegetarian, would you agree to such an appointment?

"Wang Lin committed suicide by drinking poison in Jiangzhou in the first ten days of the month. Before she died, she left a suicide note, admitting that she was entrusted by Wang Wenqian to lurk in Yang Yuanpu to report the news..." Han Qian said lightly.

"This disciple you taught is really not weak!" Guo Rong couldn't help but smacked his lips and said.

He obviously believed that Wang Lin's death was inseparable from Yang Yuanpu, and only if Wang Lin died like this could Yang Yuanpu bring Shen Yang back to his side for reuse; and Jin Ling's appointment seemed a little urgent.

"It's not weak!" Han Qian smiled and said.

He had to admit that it was a pretty good strategy to make Wang Lin die like this. If Yang Yuanpu could really control the situation and bring Jingxiang, Shouzhou, Huaidong and other places under his control one by one, he would avoid the Jianghuai land from falling into

Even in the midst of war, he was happy to see success.

However, Yang Yuanpu was so eager to use this method to bring Shen Yang back. After all, he was not good at political affairs, but he did not dare to trust others.
Chapter completed!