"What? What did you say?"

"A group of people who were so big slipped out by them. You guys were still finding out when they ran out of six miles? Oh? Damn, how could you guys stay guarding?"

The next morning, Wang Wenyue was furious there. Several scout captains lowered their heads and were spitting on their faces by Wang Wenyue.

"One of them is not talking?" Wang Wenyue said angrily.

"It was because the officials of the brigade were negligent and did not provide any details." The captain of the scout looked up and said loudly. Wang Wenyue shouted: "Go twenty laps for me, no, thirty laps."

"Yes." The captain saluted, then turned around and ran out.

The General Staff was quite worried about the matter. They suspected that the group of Japanese people who escaped from the city last night were Tokugawa Iemitsu. From the behavior of hiding gold and silver, it can be seen that Tokugawa Iemitsu was ready to give up Edo.

"According to our plan, after conquering Edo, we captured Tokugawa Iemitsu and the senior officials of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and forced them to sign a trade treaty and paid us some small military expenses. However, this plan had to be turned back to the original plan." said the Chief of Staff.

"Just change! As long as there is silver in Edo, you can grab it." Wang Wenyue said depressedly. When they attacked Edo, they expected that Tokugawa Iemitsu might escape. As a result, from various signs, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not run out of Edo, so they formulated a new combat plan.

If this plan succeeds, it will definitely be worth a lot of money. Wang Wenyue dreams that he can get tens of millions of taels of silver to pay Zhao Yan!

According to the original combat plan, we first robbed Edo, then robbed it in the Kanto area, and then forced the Tokugawa shogunate to open trade ports across Japan through various means.

The plan cannot keep up with the changes and is ruthlessly shattered. How can Wang Wenyue not be depressed?

"Report to the brigade, twenty flying scissors have arrived in Yokohama and brought 30,000 village warriors." At this moment, a soldier entered the General Staff and reported.

"Okay, reinforcements have arrived." Wang Wenyue couldn't help but be overjoyed and ordered: "Send two thousand cavalry to guard them so that these new recruits will be attacked by Japanese people on the way."

"yes."

...After the twenty flying scissors arrived in Yokohama, the Yoko on the ship landed without any obstacles.

Sanwan Township Yong walked onto this strange land with a spear, feeling excited. Of course, some people were not so excited because they vomited a lot on the boat, and after arriving in Yokohama, they had to stay in the city to cultivate.

After a day of transport, all the supplies on the ship were unloaded, but the dock at Yokohama Port was loading things on the ship overnight.

Yokohama is one of the few industrial cities in Japan. Although its industrial level is low, there are still many valuable things. After a few days of inventory, it has also grabbed more than 1.5 million taels of goods.

The Japanese in the city became hard laborers. The Japanese in Yokohama were treated with special treatment and did not arrest them. They just ransacked the samurai and merchants, and temporarily called on the young and strong people in the city.

Of course, these Japanese people had nothing to rob, and they had no money on them. The mission of the cavalry camp was mostly to capture Japanese people.

After loading the cargo, the 70,000 Japanese slaves were also stuffed into the cabin. This was no different from transporting piglets. When they arrived in Shandong, they would probably die, but there was a way. In the absence of ships, they could only be transported as piglets.

The next afternoon, twenty flying scissors sailed out of the port again and returned to Qingdao.

The two thousand cavalry sent by the Cavalry Battalion also arrived in Yokohama. After two days of renovation, the next morning, 30,000 dynasties went to Edo under the cavalry's wings.

These 30,000 township heroes were organized into reserve regiments and divided into ten battalions, with one battalion of three thousand people.

It took two days to arrive at Edo.

Wang Wenyue immediately ordered the reserve camp to be stationed around Edo to rest. Now Wang Wenyue was much more confident and began to formulate a plan to attack Edo.

...On July 22, the Honshu Mixed Brigade launched a final attack on Edo Castle, and the artillery battalion was razed at dawn and the Edo North Castle Gate and the Drum Tower.

Ten battalions of the reserve regiment rushed into the city one after another.

A reserve gangster wearing plate armor and holding a spear fought fiercely with Japanese warriors in the city. There were many Japanese warriors in the city. They were hiding everywhere and often rushed out suddenly.

However, the battle went very smoothly, and the shogunate samurai fell under the spear of the village god. These shoguns received years of training and had no problem as spearmen. Whether it was a stabbing or a lineup, they would have it. With such cooperation, they were protected by plate armor and were invincible in the city. Before dusk, the large samurai samurai were gradually annihilated, and the remaining shogunate samurai were divided into small groups of remaining places in the city. To eliminate these small groups of samurai, the problem could be solved by letting the cooperation of ten teams of 10 people in the village gods be solved.

Wang Wenyue was very satisfied with the combat effectiveness of these township heroes. These township heroes were all wearing plate armor, which was most suitable for such street fighting, and his mixed brigade was too uncomfortable with street fighting.

Honmaru of the Tokugawa Shogunate had also been captured, and Honmaru was the place where the shogun lived, which was equivalent to the imperial palace.

As soon as he entered the city, Wang Wenyue immediately went to search for the gold and silver hidden in the shogunate under the leadership of Kawano's stupid Saburo.

When Wang Wenyue ordered people to dig up the covers on the dry well, white silver was indeed revealed below. Wang Wenyue couldn't help but be overjoyed and quickly asked someone to bring up the gold, silver and treasures in the dry well.

The dry well was very big, and I don’t know how much it was placed inside. Anyway, Wang Wenyue stood there and looked for half an hour, but the money inside had not been moved yet.

"Start up and count it." Wang Wenyue said to the people next to him, "It's better to get the report in a while."

“Yes, traveling seat.”

As a result, the gold, silver and treasures were counted until midnight before the results were counted. There were a total of five million taels of silver, plus 300,000 taels of gold, as well as other gems, jade, pearls and agates, etc. I don’t know how much it is worth. There are few people in the army who know how to estimate these things. However, it seems that there should be two or three million taels.

Now Wang Wenyue was relieved. Finally, he did not let down the establishment of the mixed brigade given by Zhao Yan, and successfully grabbed 10 million taels of silver.

In this way, the military expenditure for this battle will be obtained, and there is probably half the surplus.

Since Edo was conquered, Wang Wenyue issued a forbidden order, and sent people to block the city gates and patrol the streets at the same time.

For the next three days, Wang Wenyue had been clearing out the stubborn forces in the city.

On the fourth day, Wang Wenyue ordered the robbery of Edo.

A group of soldiers rushed into the homes of the Japanese like wolves and tigers, and searched out all the valuable things.

However, Edo's wealth exceeded Wang Wenyue's imagination.

Although there are not many products and industries are not developed compared to the Ming Dynasty, cities with such populations are even more common, but the amount of silver is very large.

Although last year's trade reduced the silver on the market by one-third, this is not that Japan's silver is almost scarce, but that a lot of silver has not been taken out for circulation.

As the most prosperous Edo and the political center of Japan, there are the most powerful people here, and naturally there are the most silver.

As long as you are a warrior's home, you can find dozens of taels of silver, and some even tens of thousands of taels. So much silver made Wang Wenyue shocked.

Resistance began to appear in Edo Castle due to the Ming army's robbery, but this was just a futile resistance. In the end, they were defeated one by one. Japanese people were taken out of the city, tied their hands with ropes, and drove them to Yokohama.

The subsequent ship also arrived five days after the arrival of the clippers, and was waiting for the transport of Japanese slaves in Yokohama.

Wang Wenyue was in Yokohama and could be said to have robbed everything. He robbed people and money. After seven or eight days of hard work, teams of Japanese people were sent to Yokohama by him, and Edo became a dead city.

After sweeping back and forth for two or three times and confirming that there were no Japanese at all in Edo, Wang Wenyue stopped and arranged a follow-up attack plan.

His goal is to completely swallow the wealthy Guangdong plains, and to grab all the money here and the people here back to Shandong to solve the lack of finance and labor in Shandong this year.

As for the goods that Edo grabbed, they were piled up and could not count them for a while. They didn't know the specific number, but there were only a dozen warehouses. The amount of gold, silver, copper and silver alone was less than 10 million taels.

At the same time, in terms of population, the Japanese in Edo reached more than 300,000. Except for the old man who stayed in Edo and left some food for them, the other 230,000 were sent to Yokohama.

... Speaking of the situation in the Central Plains, since Zhao Yan wiped out Gao Yingxiang, other thieves came to surrender. By July, more than 80 people had been collected, and all of them were sent to Shandong for resettlement.

Liu Guoneng also joined the joint suppression with a thousand backbone. At the same time, the other troops surrendered to the thief leader, and they also led some people to follow Zhao Yan to jointly suppress the suppression.

These thieves' leaders and backbones were the objects that Zhao Yan was very worried about. The reason why Hong Chengchou killed and surrendered was because he was afraid that these people would rebel again. According to the thieves' fighting method, as long as the backbones were still there, they would not be injured.

Zhao Yan led an army of 60,000 and marched in three directions.

Qin Zhiyuan led 8,000 cavalrymen to cut off Zhang Xianzhong's road to Sichuan and return to Shaanxi, while Zhao Yan led two infantry battalions to attack head-on.

As for the 30,000-unit heroes in Yingzhou, they were organized into the tenth battalion. Under the leadership of the front-line troops, they cleared out and recruited bandits from all over Huguang, and recruited refugees and poor people along the way.

In Huguang, only Zhang Xianzhong was left with a larger bandit. After solving this bandit, Zhao Yan could lead his troops into Shaanxi and attack the breeding grounds of bandits.

Zhang Xianzhong had previously entered Xiangxi. This place was a region where ethnic minorities lived in groups. There were a large number of chieftains. Ethnic minorities were already poor after being exploited by chieftains and governments. As soon as Zhang Xianzhong arrived, the prairie fire immediately formed. The number of people continued to soar, and it soared to more than 400,000 people. However, there were serious problems in supply. Although refugees in Xiangxi were easy to recruit, food was not so easy to find.

Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong emerged from Xiangxi again. At this time, Hong Chengchou was dismissed. More than 100,000 officials in Huguang were not in command. Due to a chaotic defensive state, Zhang Xianzhong conquered three counties in a row.

When he heard that Zhao Yan came to fight, facing the approaching of the Shandong army, Zhang Xianzhong was not at all confused. Instead, he did his own thing and was unscrupulous in Huguang.

It is because Xiong Wencan has arrived in Huguang at this moment, and Zhang Xianzhong firmly believes that Zhao Yan, the surrendering official army, has no good ending, because Zhao Yan is different from other official army, and the Shandong army is too strong and not easy to fool.

Xiong Wencan is very suitable for his taste. Even if he looks like Xiong Wencan, he will be fine if he thinks that he will fight back at any time.

...When Zhao Yan marched all the way to Jingzhou, he suddenly met Hong Chengchou and his party on the official road. Hong Chengchou's face was no longer depressed at this moment, but instead acted calmly. He passed by Zhao Yan's army. Both sides did not say hello, as if they had ignored the other party.

Hong Chengchou looked at the Shandong soldiers marching on the official road in the official sedan chair. After reading it, he was secretly surprised. There were only a few thousand people before, and there was no big idea. However, the elite soldiers of tens of thousands of people were not able to compete with the Ming Dynasty.

While being surprised, Hong Chengchou also felt confident. He predicted in his heart that Emperor Chongzhen would inevitably re-engage him, but it was just a matter of timing.

As long as he manages in the capital and waits for the right time, he will naturally be able to put on his official hat again. Because Zhao Yan's troops are so powerful, Emperor Chongzhen is obviously afraid. No wonder when the two sides conflicted before, he slapped Zhao Yan. The more Hong Chengchou thought about it, the more he became, and he felt even more calm. The only thing he was not sure about was Yang Sichang's attitude towards him. As the main suppression faction who had originally opposed Yang He to the left, he never expected that Yang He's son would jump into the court pavilion and become Chongzhen's most trusted civil servant.

Qin Zhiyuan rushed south and bypassed most of Zhang Xianzhong's troops and blocked directly behind Zhang Xianzhong's tail. Zhao Yan also rushed forward in a hurry. It took only five days to arrive in Changsha.

Zhang Xianzhong, who was about to attack Changsha, naturally unexpectedly, Zhao Yan came so quickly. He was originally fearless and planned to snatch him and then slap him. Then, when the limelight passed, Zhang Xianzhong, who was planning to make plans, suddenly panicked and quickly sent an envoy to deliver a letter to Zhao Yan.

The envoy entered Zhao Yan's tent and knelt down very obediently and said to Zhao Yan: "The Caomin has met the general."

"Zhang Xianzhong asked you to come, what do you want to say?" Zhao Yan asked the envoy.

"My king said that we have to appease Governor Xiong, and the general will not work hard," replied the envoy.

"Oh! Your king wants to caress Xiong Wencan?" Zhao Yan touched his beard with anger.

The messenger replied, “Yes.”

"How can I know whether it is true or false? Since I have to be entrusted, it is also very different to be entrusted to me. Go back and tell Zhang Xianzhong that I will come to me for two days. However, I will not talk about the matter of entrusting me, and I should send troops to suppress it." Zhao Yan suddenly threatened in a deep voice, and then let the personal soldiers take him out without waiting for the envoy to speak.

The messenger did not achieve any task and was so dared to go out. After returning, he told Zhang Xianzhong truthfully.

After hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong cursed: "Damn Zhao Shaxing, I really don't have a way out."

"King, Zhao Shaxing asked us to come to him and comfort him, how could there be no way to live?" A backbone next to him asked in confusion.

"Can't you scold me casually?" Zhang Xianzhong almost choked the man to death with one sentence.

At this moment, a thief came to report and said, "King, Zhao Shaxing has sent an envoy."

"Zhao Shaxing's messenger? Please come in and take a look." Zhang Xianzhong was intrigued. Since Zhao Shaxing was about to discuss, this trend was still good. If the conditions were OK, it would be okay to comfort Zhao Shaxing.

Soon, a scholar dressed as a scholar came in. The literati looked arrogant. When he saw Zhang Xianzhong, he shouted: "The court ordered officials here, so don't you kneel down and kowtow."
To be continued...