No matter how self-aware Qin Fei is, he also knows that his weight in Cai Wei's heart cannot be compared with his father-in-law, so he can't help but laugh and say, "How can my father-in-law be someone else, I think about him with you?" ”

Cai Wei snorted and laughed, and then said: "Now that Hao Duo has captured Xuzhou, you still have the heart to eat these flying vinegars, but it is important to be busy with business." ”

"How do you know that I'm not busy with business, so didn't Chen and the steps I found it?"

This Chen Hejie is not only the nephew of Xu Guangqi, who was the first to make artillery in Great Qin, but also his student, who not only learned all of Xu Guangqi's experience in making artillery, but also went to a Catholic church foundry in Quanzhou to learn the art of forging. Since Qin Fei came to him and showed him the essence of arithmetic and physics of the Xiyi Kingdoms sorted out by Cai Wei, he had developed a kind of artillery that was not easy to explode and was more powerful.

"Mr. Chen is indeed a great talent who is familiar with firearms, not only understands the method of casting, but also understands the principle of making tsuò, and has a lot of new ideas, if we can give him more time, and then develop a lighter, longer range □□, we will no longer have to fear the cavalry of the Tartars!"

"Then we have to make sure that Jiangnan is not lost, I have been watching coldly these days, and I feel that Shi Daolin is a person, although he is a party of the queen of the sun, and he is also a little selfish, but he does have a loyal heart to defend the country and the land. But although he has the ambition to protect his family and defend the country, he must also have the ability to succeed! ”

He couldn't even take care of food and was so focused on defense that he didn't get to the point, and he still insisted on his own opinions, stubborn and self-serving, but he refused to listen to others' advice. Previously, I repeatedly persuaded him to send people to guard Xuzhou and the four towns of Jiangbei, and I drew the garrison map for him, but he just didn't listen to me, it was really rotten wood that could not be carved, and as a result, Xuzhou was also occupied by the Tartars. ”

"When it is extraordinary, when you do extraordinary things, this Jinling City must not let him blindly command!"

Qin Fei had already arranged a qiē properly, and planned to pour him a few more glasses of wine on the tenth day of the first month of April by inviting Shi Daolin to the banquet, and then thought that he would suddenly have a "serious illness", so that he could take the opportunity to take over the defense of Jinling City.

It's a pity that although Qin Fei thought well, Tiangong didn't make it beautiful, he wanted to use some medicine to make people sleepy to make Shi Daolin fall ill in bed, and he couldn't be a director, but he didn't expect that just one day before he started, he himself suddenly fell first.

He always got up at midnight to practice, but when Cai Wei woke up this morning and found that he was still asleep in bed, she felt that something was wrong, and called him several times, and when she saw that he was still turning her back to him, she hurriedly pulled him over to take a look, and her heart sank suddenly.

Cai Wei saw that his face was flushed, and put his hand on his forehead, as if he had touched a piece of coal, but it was his old illness that had been committed again, and he started a high fever.

Qin Fei laughed with her the night before, saying that it was March this year, and his old illness hadn't come to him yet, thinking that it was because his kidneys were full of qi now, and even the hidden disease was cured, and this old illness might have been cured by the way.

How did he know that he was slapped in the face so soon, his old illness was neither early nor late, and he chose to attack at such a critical time, so the Hongmen banquet set up for Shi Daolin had to be postponed for a few more days.

Cai Wei was not too worried at the beginning, in the first two years, he would have a seizure every March, and each time it was only seven days, but this time he invited Dr. Miao to take a closer look, and he used medicine and needles, ten days have passed, Qin Fei's illness has not improved at all, he is still hot and cold, and he burns dizzily every day.

At this time, Shi Daolin had already left Jinling and went to Yangzhou. Because Haoduo's cavalry has already captured all the four towns in Jiangbei, if the four generals guarding the four towns can unite and be sincere, they will not be completely defeated by the Tartars in just a few days. Even before the Haoduo army could open in front of them, two of the four generals had already fought on their own, one dead and one wounded.

Shi Daolin originally thought that with the defenders of these four towns in front, he would be able to resist the Tartars for at least a month or two, and with this time, he would be able to sort out the various defenses of Jinling.

Unexpectedly, the defenders of the four towns were like ornaments, completely wiped out by the Tartars, and the army drove straight into Yangzhou.

On April 19, the 24th year of Lin De, Prince Hao Duo of Jin Guoyu gave an order, and the cavalry of the Tartars poured into Yangzhou City like a tide.

Although the garrison of Yangzhou City was not very perfect under the hasty arrangement of Shi Daolin, and even two general soldiers were assigned to surrender on the first day of the battle, they still held out for six days under the fierce fire of the Tartar Hongyi cannons, and did not fall to the enemy until April 25, when they ran out of ammunition and food.

"At first, in the battle with the Tartars, our army had a slight advantage because of the delivery of several new and improved heavy guns, and killed many Tartars, and even one of their Baylors was blown to pieces by our artillery. And because the Tartar dog emperor issued a 'shaving order' in Yanjing, forcing my Chinese children to shave their hair and change clothes, we are not allowed to wear the Han family clothes that have been worn for thousands of years, but to wear their horse coats, shave their money rat tails, and say what 'keep your head without hair, keep your hair without your head', how can people bear it? ”

"That is, not all the people in Yangzhou City are literate and hyphenated, but they also know that the 'parents of the body's hair and skin can shave their hair lightly, and they have never set such an unreasonable 'shaving and easy to obey' when they occupied the Central Plains. Therefore, the people of the city all hated the enemy, enthusiastically participated in the war, and fought together against foreign enemies. ”

"Many people rushed to the head of the city to repair the fortifications, or to assist the soldiers in patrolling the city, and even women and children were not idle, gathering bricks, stones, lime, and making swords, guns, bows, and arrows. In order to avoid the concern of their sons, some old mothers actually crashed to death on the stone monument, so that their sons could concentrate on defending the city. ”

"The number of artillery doors that only hate the Tartars is still more than ours, and all their guns are bombarded at the northwest corner of the wall, followed by a tidal wave of Tartar infantry pouring up."

"The Tartars relied on the large number of people, no matter how fierce our firepower and how dense the arrows were, they were all not afraid of death, and in the end, the corpses under the city wall in the northwest corner were piled up more and more, and some Tartars could not even climb the city wall without a ladder at all. Watching the Tartar soldiers stand on the city wall one by one, our defenders began to panic, dropped their artillery bows and arrows, and began to flee for their lives one by one, even the city gate was not guarded, everyone only thought about finding a hiding place in the city house to escape, but they didn't know that under the nest, there were no eggs, and in the end, who could escape? ”

Qiu Wuzheng, who fled back from Yangzhou, told Cai Wei and the Red Lady about the situation when Yangzhou City was broken.

Because Shi Daolin saw that Chen Hejie's artillery after the restructuring was really powerful, he ordered him to be the secretary of the military department, and he also took him with him when he went to Yangzhou. Cai Wei was afraid that he would make a mistake in the war and lose this firearm talent, so he sent Qiu Wu to follow him, strictly ordering him to ensure that if Yangzhou was not guaranteed, he would definitely ensure that Chen and Jie returned to Jinling alive.

Although he brought Chen and Jiejie back alive, both of them were injured, and they fainted when they barely ran into Jinling City. Fortunately, Cai Wei had already sent someone to guard the city gate, and hurriedly took the two of them back to the house to ask Imperial Doctor Miao to take a closer look.

When Qiu Wuyi woke up, he wanted to report the situation in Yangzhou to Cai Wei in detail.

Shi Shangshu saw that the south gate was also occupied by the Tartars, and most of the defenders under his command fled, knowing that he was unable to return to the sky, Yangzhou City could not be defended, he also had some integrity, and would rather kill himself than surrender to the Tartars, and succumb to the enemy. When the rest of his men saw that he was dead, they all fought and died. Many civilians died in street battles with the Qing soldiers or committed suicide. ”

"Because Secretary Chen was injured, we couldn't move for the time being, and we couldn't get out of the city, so we had to hide in a hidden place in the city and stay for ten days in a row. In these ten days, we have seen what the real hell on earth is! ”

"After the city was broken, the Tartars said that not only did we not take the initiative to surrender, but we dared to resist fiercely, so they slaughtered and plundered. As a result, Yangzhou has become a slaughterhouse, the air is filled with a strong smell of blood, even if we hide in the cellar, all kinds of men, women and children before death screams and wails, is still in the ears, from morning to night, never stop! ”

"I couldn't help but go out quietly to take a look, only to find that the once prosperous and wealthy Yangzhou City had long since turned into a blood-colored Shura field. There were mutilated corpses everywhere, and countless women, in particular, committed suicide by refusing humiliation. The women who were still alive were tied around their necks with long ropes, and they were as heavy as beads, and they fell step by step, and they were covered in mud; The ground is full of babies, or lined with horses' hooves, or by human feet, the liver and brain are smeared on the ground, and the crying is full of wilderness. ”

"God can't even see such a miserable situation in the world, and it has been raining heavily for several days, but even the heavy rain can't stop the Tartars from continuing their murderous atrocities of killing innocents."

"The Tartars slaughtered for ten days in a row before they closed their knives and stopped. We were finally able to get out of the cellar and go out of the city and rush back to Jinling. The road from our hiding place to the city gate was littered with dead bodies. Walking through a ditch and a pond, piling up corpses and accumulating them, pillowing hands and feet, blood entering the water and blue ochre, turning into five colors, and the pond is flat. We passed by a house, which was the residence of the court lieutenant Yongyan Yao, and entered directly from its back door, the house was deep, and there were corpses everywhere. ”

"The corpses on these roads have risen through the rain, and the green skin is like a drum, and the flesh and blood have collapsed. The filth is pressing, and the menstrual period is burning, and its anger is getting worse. Front, back, left and right, burning everywhere. The room is dense, formed like fog, and smells fishy for hundreds of miles. We almost covered our mouths and noses, wishing that we could even hide our eyes in Yangzhou City, which fled in panic. ”

"Princess, before I escaped from the city, I heard the Tartars say that they would come to attack Jinling after two days of rest. Now that His Royal Highness is sick like this, he can't be a director, whether we are guarding or fleeing, and please make a decision as soon as possible! ”