Gao Yihuan was anxious to get Yuezhou, and did not besiege it on all sides, but only concentrated his forces to attack a city wall, not wanting the defenders in the city to resist to the death.

After the defenders of the city broke through, Wei Wu's army quickly poured into the city, but to Gao Yihuan's surprise, the battle did not end quickly.

Most of the defenders in Yuezhou City broke through from the south gate, but the stragglers in the city, as well as many large families, still caused a lot of trouble to Wei Wujun.

At noon, Wei Wu's army gradually took control of the city, but Gao Yihuan entered the city in the evening for safety reasons.

Although Gao Yihuan asked Zhao Daxian to maintain order in the city, the war could not avoid casualties, and the soldiers and civilians in the city still suffered heavy losses.

Many of the city's high-ranking families were affected, and the streets were littered with corpses, and the people were hiding in their homes, not daring to show their faces, for fear of causing trouble.

When Gao Yihuan entered Yuezhou, the atmosphere in the city was still tense, and the streets were full of patrolling soldiers to ensure law and order in the city.

The soldiers knew that the marshal was more perverted and didn't like to see bloody things, so he had done a simple cleanup before he entered the city, and the corpses in the city were all taken away, but Gao Yihuan could still see the blackened blood stains on the ground.

Gao Yihuan entered the Yuezhou Mansion surrounded by everyone, and the courtyard was full of scattered pieces of paper, volumes, official documents, boxes of books, and account books that were discarded at will.

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, "Daji, you take someone to clean up, these are all useful things." ”

Zhou Daji hurriedly bowed down and clenched his fists, and began to clean up with a team of soldiers.

Gao Yihuan used the government hall as a temporary festival hall to summon the generals to come and report.

"Marshal, all the defenders in the city have been cleared, and the remnants have fled from the southern city!" Wang Deren's armor was stained with blood, and he walked in and reported it loudly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Daxian and the others walked in with excitement.

"Dashuai, this time we are developed. I really didn't expect this Yuezhou City to be so rich! Zhao Daxian walked in, and as soon as he crossed the threshold, he heard him say happily: "There is not much silver in the city, but the grain is full of warehouses." ”

Gao Yihuan said with a smile: "Ben Shuai and Zuo Liangyu turned their faces and built a fort opposite Wuchang, the grain in Hunan is blocked in Yuezhou, and there is naturally a lot of grain!" ”

With the location of Yuezhou's field, I am afraid that not only food, but also many other materials must have been blocked in the city.

Thinking of this, Gao Yihuan ordered: "The materials in the city should be cleared out as soon as possible, and then let the prisoners of war be transported across the river." ”

After saying this, Gao Yihuan immediately asked: "The army entered the city, did you catch the righteous man?" ”

Gao Yihuan can't say that he hates this brother, after all, he just thinks differently, and each is his own master.

But after all, he is an old brother and has some feelings, Gao Yihuan still hopes that he can figure it out and follow him.

A few people in the hall shook their heads, and Wang Deren said: "After the last general entered the city, his subordinates beat him up, and most of the defenders in the city fled from the south gate, and some people fled by boat from the west water gate, but when they met the sailor's brothers, the boat seemed to have been sunk." ”

Gao Yihuan frowned and stopped mentioning the matter.

Soon after, the men and horses who had been in ambush in the south returned, saying that they had killed hundreds of Ming troops and captured more than 1,000 people, and only a few horses escaped to the south.

At this point, the Ming army in Yuezhou, after this battle, is basically over.

To say that Gao Yihuan and the Ming army in Hunan have no enmity, there is no need to kill them all, but the Ming army in Yuezhou is relatively strong, and after fleeing to Changsha, it will be a threat to him in the future, so Gao Yihuan arranged soldiers and horses to ambush him halfway, so as not to enhance the strength of Yinxi.

After conquering Yuezhou, Gao Yihuan did not intend to stay here for a long time, he left 3,000 men and horses to garrison this city, and prepared to march to Wuchang to find the main owner to take revenge.

On the wharf of Xicheng, Gao Yihuan watched thousands of prisoners of war of the Left Army, like ants moving bags of grain and cloth from the warehouse, as well as a lot of military supplies.

Yuezhou, as the node connecting the Yangtze River waterway and the Huxiang water system, has abundant materials in the city, which surprised Gao Yihuan, who had been prepared.

After Chen Mingxia arrived, he quickly counted the materials in the city, and finally learned that the grain storage in the city was as much as 400,000 stones, in addition, there were a lot of Hunan embroidery, fine iron and other materials.

The income from fighting a Yuezhou city almost exceeds the entire Changde Mansion, as well as the gains of several counties in Yuezhou.

This made Wei Wujun very happy, and the only thing that disappointed Gao Yihuan was that there was not much cash in the city, and the price of grain had fallen, and there was only one or two or five coins of silver per stone, which greatly reduced the value of the seizure.

In the past, natural disasters in the north were serious, rogues were rampant, grain was scarce, and it was necessary to sell a large amount of grain from the south, and the grain from the south had to be sold to the entire Ming Dynasty, so the price of grain soared.

Now the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty should have bad relations, and grain cannot be sold to the north, and the price of grain in the south will gradually fall.

Although the price of grain in the north is still very high, Gao Yihuan could not sell the grain to the Manchus, so he could only store the grain himself.

At this time, bags of grain were loaded onto large ships and transported to the north shore.

With this batch of grain, plus Gao Yihuan's control of northern Hunan and the occupation of Yuezhou City, the entire Huguang granary is equivalent to being under his control, and Wei Wujun will not worry about food from now on.

Seeing that the grain was loaded onto the ship, Gao Yihuan immediately explained that Chen Mingxia was in Yuezhou to deal with the aftermath, and decided to lead the army east to Wuchang.

Wuchang is located in the south of the Yangtze River, controlling the Yangtze River and the Han River, and the location is very important.

If you lose Xiangyang, you will be at a disadvantage in the north-south confrontation, and if you lose Wuchang and the small imperial court in the southeast, you will want to be peaceful.

After Gao Yihuan occupied Yuezhou, he rested for three days, and after a little preparation, he took 17,000 troops, thousands of prisoners, and a large amount of grain to the east into Wuchang Mansion.

At present, Wuchang is entrenched by hundreds of thousands of left troops, and the people are struggling to make a living.

The reason why the warlords are said to be the cancer of the state is that the army of the warlords is the private soldiers of the generals, and their first task is to maintain the rule of the small group against the central government, not to defend against foreign captives.

In order to confront the imperial court, the warlord had to strengthen his own men and horses, and if there were too many people and horses to raise money, they could only let the soldiers rob them, so that the people were unwilling to farm, and finally a disgusting circle was formed, which made the whole world rot.

A warlord like Gao Dashuai can be said to be a special case.

Under the rule of Zuo Zhen, Wuchang had long been chaotic into a pot of porridge, with hungry people everywhere, bandits rampant, and squires forming villages to protect themselves.

As soon as Wei Wujun came, just like when Gao Yihuan attacked Xiangyang, all parts of the country responded in groups, and hundreds of people came to join Wei Wujun.

It happened that Gao Yihuan got a batch of grain from Yuezhou, and he set off from Yuezhou with less than 30,000 people, and before he was halfway there, nearly 100,000 villagers had gathered around him.

When Gao Yihuan was on his way to Wuchang, the embarrassed Gao Yiqi traveled hundreds of miles and finally came to Changsha.

He saw Changsha City from a distance, immediately dragged his tired body, walked over, and said to the soldiers guarding the door: "My name is Gao Yiyan, I am a thousand households in Yuezhou, and I want to enter the city to meet the blocking army!" ”

A hundred households sitting next to him suddenly stood up, "You are Gao Yiyan!" ”

Gao Yiqi was slightly stunned, and more than a dozen soldiers had already surrounded him.

(Thanks to the 2500 reward of the big guy dancing the three armies, I like to mention the title of elder and become the first fan of this book.) ）

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