There is another war in the south! The thieves from the south are about to fight!

As the news of the war broke out from the Ming Dynasty ruling region from south to north, the gentry and merchants were panicked.

Especially the gentry and merchants who were in the People's Army ruled by their hometowns, they had escaped from there. They knew that most of the gentry and merchants who remained were searched and executed directly, but were directly demoted to coolies.

Now that war has begun, can the Ming Dynasty block the People's Army? Once the People's Army fights, where should they go?

"Go, go north."

The People's Army has not landed on the north bank of the Yangtze River, but some gentry and merchants who are closer to the north bank of the Yangtze River have made a decision. The Yangtze River may not be able to stop the People's Army. Only by walking north can we be safer. Hurry up and find a place to bury the wealth that cannot be taken away.

The lower-class people in some places far from the People's Army ruled by the People's Army did not know much about the People's Army. They were also frightened and anxious in the face of war. They could also take their families and escape into the mountains. However, many men in the families were summoned to join the army, but they could not escape. They went to the battlefield and didn't know if they still hoped to come back alive.

As many forces surrendered to the People's Army, the Ming court, far away in the capital, did not learn the news of the war breaking out at the first time. However, when the news of the People's Army's attack on the Ming Dynasty's ruling area reached the capital, the important officials of the Ming Dynasty all looked pale. They tried every means to stop the war, but they did not succeed. Can the People's Army be blocked with the current strength of the Ming Dynasty?

Upon hearing the news, Zhu Yijun's face did not change much, but his hands were clenched into fists. Facing the powerful People's Army, Zhu Yijun no longer knew what to do.

Zhejiang fell, Guizhou fell, and most areas south of the Yangtze River fell, and the battle reports were sent to the capital, which made many people feel cold.

Zhu Yijun's eyes were full of anger. The Ming army forces and the armed forces of the landlords surrendered directly in the face of the People's Army. Why did they surrender so easily? Everyone worked together to block the People's Army and surrendered to the People's Army. I don't know when the People's Army's knife will be placed on their necks one day.

Why is this happening? They are obviously all the people of the Ming Dynasty and should be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Why did they turn to the People's Army? Is the Ming Dynasty not good to them?

When the news that the People's Army had climbed the north bank of the Yangtze River reached the capital, Zhu Yijun understood that the People's Army was too strong and fighting with the People's Army was death. It was better to surrender to the People's Army and have a great chance of survival.

No matter how clear they understand, their actions of surrendering to the People's Army are unforgivable. As the people of the Ming Dynasty, how could they surrender to the enemy? They should fight and fight for the Ming Dynasty until the last person.

He drove away the eunuch and palace maid, Zhu Yijun roared loudly in the palace alone, angry, regretful, and frightened, and various emotions appeared. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, it was about to perish at the hands of Zhu Yijun. He was unwilling to accept it.

But what's the use of unwillingness to be willing to do it? Faced with the People's Army that was constantly advancing north, the Ming Dynasty was unable to resist. Whenever the People's Army arrived at a place, the local landlord armed forces or the Ming army surrendered directly, and there were too few people who dared to fight the People's Army.

In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the People's Navy fleet led by Zhou Yi escorted a part of the People's Army to land on the north bank of the Yangtze River and drove upstream along the Yangtze River channel.

Most of the navy in the Ming Dynasty entered the Yangtze River, and some surrendered to the People's Army. Some may be hesitating, and some were loyal to the Ming court. The task of the People's Navy is to destroy all the navy in the Ming court.

From Jiangyin to the Changjiang section of Dantu County in the middle of Jinling, the first battle between the People's Navy and the Ming Navy broke out. The number of ships of the Ming Navy participating in the war was only one-half of the number of ships of the People's Navy, but they bravely rushed towards the People's Navy.

When the distance between the two sides is less than one thousand meters, the People's Navy howitzers take the lead. At a distance of one thousand meters, the chance of hitting the howitzers hit is relatively low, but each grenade hitting the Ming army caused a large number of casualties. As the distance between the ships of both sides approached, more grenades hit the Ming army.

This was the first time that the Ming navy encountered such a terrifying firearm, because the explosive grenade directly caused chaos in many ships.

The Ming Navy, which was originally sluggish in morale because of the fall of the south, had a sharp decline under the attack of the People's Navy howitzers. However, the Ming Navy did not have avatar or escape, but continued to approach the People's Navy. Later, it even bombarded each other with the People's Navy, and solid shells hit the People's Navy ships.

Wars always kill people. Fortunately, the Ming Navy did not have howitzers, and solid shells hit the People's Navy, which caused very few casualties and injuries to the People's Navy, and did not cause much chaos.

The distance between the ships of the two sides was getting closer. The People's Army first used howitzers to bombard him. When the distance was less than 600 meters, the musketeers also entered the battle. Rows of lead ejections were shot at the Ming ships, directly killing the Ming soldiers on the ships, and they could only find a place to hide, and even the frequency of artillery fired greatly decreased.

According to the information collected by the Military Intelligence Department, the commander of the Ming army naval division in front of him should be Guo Yang, a person loyal to the Ming court. The Military Intelligence Department sent someone to contact Guo Yang earlier, and the agent was directly arrested by Guo Yang and tortured to death.

Zhou Yi knew that not everyone in this Ming Navy was loyal to the Ming court. Instead, there were more people loyal to Guo Tai than those loyal to the Ming court. Guo Tai was willing to fight for the Ming court, and the Ming army loyal to Guo Tai naturally followed.

If Guo Tai died, I'm afraid many people, especially the personal guards, would die, which is a very common thing in history.

The artillery of this era was difficult to sink the ship directly, and in the end, it would probably have to rely on the battle to decide the outcome of the battle. However, when the distance between the ships of both sides was less than 200 meters, the Ming navy seemed to be unable to hold on, and many ships chose to turn south or north.

In battles on land, one side may collapse when one side suffers one quarter of its troops. The same is true for the battles on the water. When the number of casualties overwhelms the courage to fight in one's heart, no matter how loyal the officer commander is to the Ming court and want to fight to the death, the lowly soldiers will not be willing to continue fighting, and there will even be cases where soldiers swing their swords at the officer commander.

The increasing number of casualties made some Ming soldiers unwilling to continue fighting. Amid the explosion on the "flagship", Guo Yang and several personal guards fell in a pool of blood together.

Guo Tai was dead. A small number of people on the flagship wanted to continue fighting to avenge Guo Tai. More people felt that this battle would definitely lose. If they didn't want to continue fighting, they would die if they fought. If they surrender, they might be able to continue to live.

So an infight occurred, and in the end, the surrendered faction with more people won.
Chapter completed!