Chapter Ninety-Three: The Tide Rises and Falls

The Ming army rushed into the city of Guangzhou from the northwest of the city, and ordered several parts of the soldiers and horses in the city to go straight to the landmark buildings in the city under the leadership of the guide. The purging began from there, but the contagion of the Qing army's rout spread rapidly along the city wall from the north and west to the southeast corner of the city.

The Great North Gate and the West Gate were the first to get the news, and the Qing army defending the city broke up when they heard the news, and the Ming army took advantage of the weakness to enter. Immediately afterwards, the small north gate and the big east gate were also opened one after another, but only the city gates in the new city were closed tightly one by one.

As soon as there was something wrong with the movement on the small north gate and the big east gate, Chen Kai's controlled Ming army in western Guangdong rushed in under the leadership of Ke Chenshu, the commander of the left.

They also have the task of controlling landmark buildings, and at the same time, the task of cleaning up cannot be relaxed. Even compared to the Ming army in the west and north, they are already considered latecomers, but they are divided and cleared, and there are guides to lead the way, but they are not afraid that someone will dare to blatantly cross the line, especially those who dare to be like these strong soldiers.

The Ming army in the northeast of the city was divided into two from the small north gate, and Li Dingguo's camp governor Jin Tongwu went to seize the Zhenhai Tower at the commanding heights in the north of the city, where there was still a vassal army in the corner of the stubborn resistance, and there was intelligence that it was the troops of Shang Zhixin, the prince of Pingnan, so it was necessary to crush this Qing army as quickly as possible. On the other hand, the troops of Zhou Quanbin, the chief officer of Qianchong Town, supplemented by the escort of Qianzhen, have begun to clear the area northeast of the city.

Just like the west of the city, the main force of the feudal army is gone, and the rest of the air is a few numbers, but when the city is broken by the Ming army, it will soon lose its fear, it is nothing more than hiding in the east, and it will not pose much threat to the Ming army.

Since the Ming army broke the city from the northwest, the number of family members of the feudal soldiers who fled to the southeast continued to surge, and the northeast direction was still like that, more and less, but the work of clearing and suppressing did not appear any obstacles because of this, but the harvest was more, I don't know if it was a surprise.

In this world, there are always people who are happy and some who are worried, as if the elements are conserved. The Ming army was trying to clear it, throwing valuable things into baskets, killing every enemy who was armed, resisting, and wearing the uniform of a feudal soldier, and tying up all the others and sending them to imprison.

In the northeast of the city, east of the small north gate and north of the big east gate, the second vein of the six veins of the canal is connected to the Donghao Chung outside the city. This vein is divided into two branches in the northeast of the city, the northern branch goes west, and the southern branch naturally goes south. Not far from the separation of the two branches, a group of Ming troops guarding Qianzhen had just completed the task of clearing along the direction of the Liumai Canal, and was escorting the captives to the original Panyu Xue Palace, which would become a temporary point for holding prisoners.

"These feudal soldiers are really rich, what do you have to scrape the ground to?"

"Haven't you heard, what about the belongings of 700,000 people in Guangzhou, except for those who escaped, they can still take a little, and the rest have all fallen into the hands of these beasts.

After all, it was still not completely calmed, and the Ming army was on guard while advancing there. However, the overall situation here has been decided, and the emotions of the soldiers are not as tense as they really are, and they can't talk about jokes and jokes, but there are always whisperers, and the officers who lead the team don't care too much.

During the march, there seemed to be some noise on the side of the Liumai Canal, and the Ming army immediately became vigilant, and when they sent someone out, they soon noticed that there were still a large number of family members of the feudal soldiers hidden there, and they cowered and hid together.

"There are so many people, I'm afraid the rope is not enough."

"It's not just that the rope is not enough, but there are also not enough manpower."

The officer frowned and gave two orders, and the subordinates in charge of escorting immediately rushed to the Panyu Academy with the other prisoners. Before they could return, another team guarding the former town passed by, a patrolling force. Although the two officers were not from the same battalion, they were fellow countrymen, and the former hurriedly sent someone to find them and swallow this wealth and merit together.

At this moment, the officer's subordinates were already running back. The new officer looked at the family members of the feudal soldiers hiding in the canal, but he couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and seemed to feel a little pressured by the number: "This is too much, right?" ”

Filling the corpse in the six veins canal was already the last stage of Chen Kai's retreat, and those who escaped had already left the city, and the slowest were also waiting to get out of the city, so it was unknown about the tragedy. At this moment, the ditch is densely packed, just like the reproduction of the year, the sky has not rained, but the Ming army has already found them, and a handle of knives and guns is pointing in their direction, which makes them all tremble there.

The new officer's voice fell, and the officer who arrived first did not respond or echo, his eyelids lowered, and he even came up with a way: "I just passed by the north of the city, and I saw that a team of officers and soldiers had killed all the people hidden in the ditch, and it seemed that the banner was Wang Xing's men and horses." It's not as good as ......."

"Brother, this must not be done!" Hearing this, the officer who came first refused assertedly, and immediately explained: "The embroidery needle is an embroidery needle, we were brought out by the Duke of Dingguo. This time, the boss of the Fujun has said, no indiscriminate killing, it is still useful to capture the prisoners, let me ask the fourteen towns that we came from Chaozhou together, which one dares to defy the law? ”

This is indeed a problem, Li Dingguo's army is strictly disciplined, and Zheng Chenggong is the same, although their troops are not as good as the Yuejia army and the Qi family's army, and they always have some habits of rogues and pirates, but in this era they are already relatively well-behaved. This time, the overall situation has been decided, but not to mention the gathering of various towns, there are a large number of other system Ming troops, so many pairs of eyes are watching, it is even better to do a drip-tight job.

rejected the proposal of the latecomer, but the officer did not continue to explain, but pondered for a moment, and then shouted to the families of the feudal soldiers in the canal: "One by one, come up, and if you don't come up, you will be punished with stubborn resistance, and you will be killed!" ”

Policies can still be flexibly controlled. Here the archers and bird gunners are in place, under a burst of shouting and threats, they are afraid of death to hide here, and now there is a chance to live, and if they are not afraid of dying faster, naturally those who have loosened their will began to slowly come out and ask the Ming army to surrender.

The officer's subordinates came back and brought more ropes, and the two Ming armies didn't care about the place next to them, and forced the families of these feudal soldiers to climb up with bows and arrows and birds, and then ordered them to throw their belongings into the prepared baskets, and singled out some of them to be tied up alone, and the others were tied up in tandem and escorted in the direction of the Panyu School Palace.

Continuously, the families of the feudal soldiers became prisoners of the Ming army in the face of the flickering cold light, and went to an unknown fate. Gradually, the number of family members of the feudal soldiers in this area continued to shrink, until after a long time, only about 100 people were released, and they refused to come up at all.

Seeing this, the officer who arrived first only waved his hand, the sharp arrows were off the string, and the birds exploded, and the family members of the feudal soldiers who were still huddling together in fear for warmth were killed by the Ming army in this screaming one after another. The corpses in the pile almost blocked the water from the canal, and the wisps of water that came out of the cracks were also dyed red and slowly flowed down.

Under the shooting of the Ming army, most of Fang Cai's trembling body was no longer alive, and the others were also seriously injured, falling to the ground and groaning. Next, a dozen or so Ming soldiers went down the ditch and began to mend the knives of those who had not died for a while, and along the way, they looted their belongings.

At this time, most of the family members of the feudal soldiers along the canal and roadside had also been escorted away, and only those who were specially selected to be held alone were left.

At this time, the two officers glanced at each other, and the latecomer sneered, and then made a verdict: "The boss of the Fu army has a life, and those who wear the uniforms of the feudal soldiers will be killed!" ”

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The Ming army poured in from the northwest, west, north and east of the city, shouting and scolding, screaming, crying, and screaming quickly spread from the city gates to the center of the city.

The feudal soldiers and their families who remained in place were often either dead or captured by the Ming army. The city has been surrounded by the Ming army, and the army has broken through the city defenses, everything is only a matter of time. However, this did not prevent a large number of feudal soldiers and their families from fleeing to the south of the city, where the Qing government and the inhabitants of the city were expelled, and there were always people who hoped that they would be able to blend in with the people.

The crowd is pouring towards the four city gates in the south of the city, on the city wall of the south gate, where the hereditary official of the Guangzhou Left Guard commanded Yu Fengqi to be martyred, and the deputy general of Guangdong Fubiao is here anxiously looking at the families of the feudal soldiers who are desperately slapping the city gate, and the forehead is full of beads of sweat the size of beans, which are dripping down the contours of the face.

In the morning breeze of Layue, hot sweat came out, and the heat rose above the head, I didn't know that I was afraid that I thought that this deputy general was opening up the second vein of Ren Du, and was ready to jump down from the city tower once the peerless martial arts were practiced, and in front of the families of these feudal soldiers, I would beat all the Ming troops out of the city with my own strength, and make contributions to my Qing Dynasty and become a model of slaves in the 17th century. It's just that with a Qing army officer also sweating profusely, the atmosphere of loyalty to the country here is gone.

"How's it going?"

"If you go back to Dashuai, you will contact Chen Dashuai......"

"Are you missing an eye? Why did you contact Chen Qice, how many times have you said it, Chen Qice, Li Changrong, these people are all small people, and it is Lao Ben who really has the final say, ahh I asked you to contact Marquis Zhou and Governor Jiang, why did you go to find Chen Qice! ”

Besieged by the Ming Legion, it is a situation in the art of war that there is no soldier who must be saved, and there is no city that must be defended inside, that is, Geng Jimao, Shang Zhixin, and Xu Erxian's kind of mortal goods are still struggling, if they were not stared at by the feudal soldiers around them, they would have surrendered a long time ago, where would they end up like this.

The adjutant general struck a few of the officers who covered his head and face, and he was so angry that he almost kicked him a few times. However, the officer, who could easily see that the adjutant general had scolded a few times, had to take a breath before continuing to scold, so he took this opportunity to continue the rest of the sentence.

"Don't worry, Chen Dashuai and Chen Fujun are old acquaintances, through the relationship between Chen Dashuai, he met Zhou Houye and Jiang Dududu, both of them said that Dashuai was not a murderer who had slaughtered Guangzhou, as long as he was willing to abandon the secret and turn to the light, there will always be a future."

Saying this, the lieutenant was already overjoyed. At this time, anyone could see that Guangzhou had said goodbye to the Manchus, and even if he died here, he might not be able to leave a good reputation, not to mention that he had never thought of dying for the Qing court. Even if it's bigger, this Guangdong ground will soon be changed back to the surname Ming, and it's hard to say what will happen in the future, and the most important thing now is to save your life.

With the guarantee of Zhou Hezhi and Jiang Meiao, the deputy general asked himself if he had saved his life, and simply ordered his subordinates to never open the door, while he rushed directly to the dock to ask to see Zhou Hezhi and Jiang Meiao, and finalized the matter anyway.

Thinking of this, he immediately went to do it, went down to the city, and rode his horse through the streets. But halfway through the run, he heard the shouts of "the city gate opened" and "the city gate opened" coming from a distance.

At first, there was only a faint voice, which was not very real, but then I heard it clearly, and even if the lieutenant general forcibly pulled the reins, the war horse almost stood up, and when he controlled the horse, the movement was already so clear that it was audible.

Listen in the direction, but it is not from the north from which he came, but it seems to be coming from the west. The deputy general discerned the direction clearly, and even when he suddenly realized, he secretly scolded the Dongguan general soldiers for not daring to contact Chen Kai, and even concealed his sincerity from Li Dingguo, but now he opened the city gate in front of him, which is really hateful.

"Hurry up to the dock and welcome Chen Fujun's men and horses into the city!"

After a while, the new city began to change its flags rapidly, and the red banner of the Ming army reappeared on the head of Guangzhou, as if the martyrs who had been defending this place had returned.

When the new city was controlled by the Ming army, for those feudal soldiers and their families, there was no way to enter the earth, and what was waiting for them was the closed city gate in front of them, and the bloody butcher knives behind them, and nothing else.

Almost at the same time as the encirclement under the city unfolded, in the center of the city, a place called Jingnan Wangfu came out of the smoke. The news of Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, raising fire and self-immolation, quickly spread to the camp in the west of the city, Chen Kai looked sideways at Li Dingguo, as if this guy had a BUFF on his body, the last Sanshun king who was killed was self-immolation and died, and now there is another one. Whether this is an accident or an inevitability is difficult to say clearly, because the last number of King Sanshun is now in his hands, and he has no intention of leaving Shang Kexi with the opportunity to decide his own fate.

On the other side of the new city, the officers of the Green Battalion changed their doors one after another, and the limited recalcitrant ones were soon sent down to the underworld by their original colleagues. There are a few civil officials who committed suicide, such as the governor Li Qifeng, and others, a group of civilian officials led by the governor Li Shutai were captured by the Ming army one after another, and the next disposal will have to wait for the decision of Li Dingguo, Guo Zhiqi and Chen Kai.

The sun began at the beginning of the day, and after lunch, the clean-up in the city was largely over. In the afternoon, Chen Kai didn't set up a platform this time, and directly asked Li Dingguo and Guo Zhi to watch the ceremony, and temporarily borrowed the Guangzhou locals who had been under their command in the past few years from other Ming troops in western Guangdong, and came to a white ash mountain in the east of the city together.

This place, which only appeared in Guangzhou four years ago, is called the Common Mound, which is actually a mountain of ashes burned out of the bones of the victims of the Guangzhou Massacre!

The Qing army slaughtered the city, always to leave the monks in the city, let them be responsible for collecting the bones, burning and burying them, and other things, which can not only clean up the environment, but also avoid the plague rampant, and also use Buddhism to resolve grievances - I have slaughtered the city in the Qing Dynasty, and I have slaughtered the city with experience, which can really be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.

Here, it was the monk left behind when the Qing army slaughtered the city to collect the bones in the city and set fire to it. As a witness to this tragedy, Wang Minglei, a contemporary of the time, wrote "Sacrifice to the Common Tomb" and said: "Jiashen changed his surname and begged for death for seven years. He is innocent of the people, and then he will suffer from the six poles. Blood spattered on the streets, and ants gather to eat. The hungry bird pecked at the intestines and flew up to the north of the city. The north wind is a cow, and the skulls are piled up. Or like a pagoda, or like a mountain. The five elements are exhausted, there is no wisdom and no foolishness, no nobility and no cheapness, and they are all in the same area. This is the place that is being referred to.

The shelves were directly inserted into the ground, and the children of the Shang Geng family who were captured from the palaces of the two feudal lords were tied to it one by one, headed by Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan. The executioner was a veteran specially recruited from the counties of Chaozhou, Qiongzhou and the prefectures and counties of western Guangdong, from which he selected a master who was recognized as having the best skills, and was the chief executioner of Nanhai County, who escaped from Guangzhou that year.

It was still Ling Chi, this was the most painful and lengthy death penalty given to the tortured in the process of execution that Chen Kai knew, and it was more painful than those bells and whistles for the tortured.

During this period, the heroic souls of the more than 300,000 victims of the Guangzhou Massacre and the representatives of the local people who survived Chen Kai's rescue gathered here to watch the scene of the murderers lying in the law.

Standing in front of Shang Kexi, who was tied up with five flowers, Chen Kai shouted to the living and the deceased: "Once, I heard that this world has always been about building bridges and paving roads without bones, killing people and setting fire to gold belts, and at that time I didn't believe that this world should be like this." And today, I, Chen Kai, want to tell you that good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and the way of heaven is good for reincarnation. ”

Roars, cheers, waves of sound break through the sky and sweep across the land. Just like the waves of the Guangdong Sea, there may be times when the tide falls, but after all, it will set off thousands of waves.

(Volume 3, The Angry Waves of the Guangdong Sea, End)

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