Chapter 92: Just Like Last Night (Part II)
The defeat of the army is like a landslide and the ground cracks that cannot be stopped.
The Qing army's heavily defended western gap suddenly collapsed in just a quarter of an hour, and the Ming army took advantage of the situation to attack and easily climbed over the inner city wall that was only one person high. At the same time, with the use of beams and other tools that can be seen at hand, the inner city wall was quickly pierced through one after another, and more Ming troops poured into it more smoothly.
Each ministry that entered the city had its own tasks, and some were responsible for capturing landmark buildings, such as Pingnan and Jingnan Palaces, such as Zhenhailou in the north of the city and Yongfengcang in the south of the city, such as the yamen at all levels in the city, and then the city gates and the Gongbei Tower in the city. With these points, you can control the entire city of Guangzhou. As for the rest, it is the remnants of the Qing army that cleaned up all the alleys.
After the Qing army occupied Guangzhou four years ago, they killed all the local people and took possession of the huge old city for themselves. The feudal soldiers of Pingnan and Jingnan, their families, and clothed servants occupied the entire old city, although it did not have the name of a full city, but it was a full city. The local government of the Qing court was all rushed to the narrow new city, and now those ordinary people in the city who are not directly under the royal palace can enter the city and live there.
The Ming army entered from the northwest of the city, and now it is not very safe to find the party to lead the way, but fortunately, Chen Kai rescued a large number of people that year, and all departments of the Ming army were assigned to guides, and those guides led the way with their memory, and the Ming army ran to their respective areas of responsibility according to the plan.
Screams, shouts, and cries spread one after another in the northwest of the city, and quickly spread to the surrounding area. Guangzhou West City, from Guangxiao Temple and the west city wall are not far from the Jinyu Lane, here can be regarded as the only way from the northwest gap of the city to the west city gate, although it is only one of the many necessary roads, but there is still a team of Ming troops holding bright blades under the leadership of the guide straight to here.
"This is Jinyu Lane, where my humble uncle's family lived back then."
The guide is a native of Guangzhou, his uncle's house is here, and his house is actually not far from here, just on the other side of Guangxiao Temple. The relationship between the two families has always been excellent, but when the city was broken and their family tried their best to flee south, his uncle's family was unable to leave their homeland and was reluctant to give up this family business. Come to think of it, his uncle's family is probably also unlucky.
This group of Ming troops is Li Dingguo's Wuying battalion governor Liao Yubiao's troops, this army in the battle of Jiangmen to resist the Qing army, outstanding achievements, so after breaking the city of Guangzhou, the assigned task is also relatively easy, and there is more oil and water, that is, to clear the remnants of the Qing army in an area west of the city.
When they were in Xinhui, they had heard too many discrete stories about the Canton Massacre, and when they heard the word uncle, they could see some pain and anger on the guide's face, so they knew what was going on. Hearing this, the officer leading the team patted the guide's arm, saying that the army entered the city to avenge the victims.
"The general is reasonable, and Mr. Chen said the same thing."
Rushed into Jinyu Lane, the first few courtyards were wide open, at first glance, because of the war in the northwest of the city and escaped, divided the people to go in and turn, did not find anyone, just the guide led the team, came to a gate to the place where the gate was pressing.
"General, this is my uncle's former home."
"Okay, then start here, bang on the door!"
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In a small alley west of Guangxiao Temple, a member of the Pingnan Palace, holding a knife in his left hand, gritted his teeth, and staggered to the west.
He is not left-handed, but only because his right hand was cut off by his wrist in the battle, so he had to do this. At this moment, the incision on the wrist has been tied with a cloth. The cloth was torn off the armor of another soldier who died in battle, it was a soldier of the Jingnan Domain, and the Han army was under the yellow flag, but by this time, the yellow color on the armor had been eroded by blood to the point that there was nothing left.
Half a month ago, he went out with the army, and the army was defeated in Jiangmen, so he fled back with Xu Erxian. As a survivor, he was lucky, but this luck quickly ran out with the siege of the Ming army. When the Ming army rushed into the city, Geng Jimao was coerced by the rout and fled, Xu Erxian led them to want to fight back, but soon died under the Ming army's random guns. The two men who fled back together, a veteran who had fought for many years, and a new recruit who had just become a flag soldier five years ago, died in the melee with almost no suspense. He is the only one who survived, but he only has this half of his life left, and his heart and mind is to escape home as soon as possible and try to save the lives of his family.
Stumbling westward, he lived here for four years, using his familiarity with the terrain to evade two waves of Ming troops. Soon, he fled to Jinyu Lane, where his home was.
The Eight Banners are not only military units, but also the organizational units of civil affairs, in Liaodong, when they entered the customs, the city of Beijing is also the pattern of the Eight Banners living in pieces, defending the imperial city. Put it here for them, it's the same reason, it's nothing more than one city and two kings, plus those new feudal soldiers who have not entered the flag, and the shards are not as tight as those in the capital. However, they are indeed all in this area, and the soldiers under his command are also living in an alley.
Desperately fled back, everywhere I saw, those exquisite courtyards were basically wide open, and I don't know if the families of the feudal soldiers who lived there forgot to close them when they fled, or they were forcibly broken by the Ming army.
Walking in the alley, the ground is mostly discarded at will, from pots and pans to cloth and copper coins, thrown everywhere. Such a scene reminded him of the time when he was in Dengzhou, when he was still an ordinary Liao people, and he robbed the people of Dengzhou with those rebellious Dongjiang troops. When Kong Youde couldn't bear it anymore and fled, for fear of revenge, he didn't dare to stay there anymore, so he had to float back to the Dongjiang River and vote for Shang Kexi, who was only the deputy general of Guangludao at the time.
Thinking back to that year, since then, following the Qing army's previous battles and massacres, I look back on it like a slide in my mind. Is it the lack of blood supply to the brain caused by excessive blood loss, or the trance caused by touching the scene, the only thing he knows is the Jinyu Lane in front of him, which was also slaughtered by the team four years ago, and it seems that what he saw when he just entered the alley was roughly like this.
Fleeing all the way to the door of the house panting, the exquisite courtyard is still the same, and it seems that there is no surprise at the change of the king's flag in the city in the past four years. However, the door and he were about to leave, but it was evident that someone had forcibly broken open from the outside, and before he could stand still, a woman's scream made his heart fall to the bottom.
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Successfully smashed open the gate, and the Ming army swarmed in, and soon there were cries and screams in the courtyard.
"Armed one, shoot and kill!"
The loud shouts sounded, and the few clothed minions in the front yard threw down the sticks in their hands, knelt on the ground and asked for surrender, and loudly affirmed their identity as clothed soldiers, striving to let the Ming army understand that they were also poor people who were enslaved and oppressed by the Manchus, in order to be tolerated.
Two Ming troops were divided into two soldiers and tied them up, one in a row, in case they were taken out to sacrifice prisoners after the looting was completed. The rest of the Ming army scattered, kicked open the doors of one room after another, drove out the families of the feudal soldiers one by one, and at the same time collected every valuable thing they saw.
The guide was very familiar with this room, and pointed out the layout of the Ming army's house, and the officer rushed in with his subordinates one by one. The officer entered the master's bedroom, where there must have been a lot of business, so the guide took a chief and a few Ming soldiers to break down the door of the other room.
The Ming army rushed in, but it was a woman's boudoir. The guide had been here before, for it had been his uncle's youngest daughter, his little cousin. However, there is a difference between men and women, and I remember that the only time I came in was when his little cousin and a friend of his classmates were engaged to two families, and the girl was thin-skinned, and secretly asked him about the situation of her future husband, and she was almost ashamed of herself.
However, after four years, this is already another woman's boudoir. Rushed into the room, didn't see anyone, touched the dresser, there was no ash on it, and estimated that it was probably hiding with his parents, brothers and sisters or something.
The Ming army who rushed in was the first time to enter the woman's boudoir, as if Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden, this one turned over the dresser, that one looked for the clothes cabinet, and there was one who didn't know where to turn out a belly pocket embroidered with small lotus to show sharp corners, and several boys who had never seen the world were playing and scrambling.
There was an argument, but Shi Chang's attention shifted from the jewelry on the dresser to the bed. Approaching, picking up the quilt with a knife, and then I don't know what I thought, I tore open the sheet hanging in front of the bed, and then pulled out a girl with a double bun from under the bed.
"Damn, there's a little Tartar skin hidden!"
was dragged out by Shi Chang, even if the girl screamed, tears welled up in her eyes, and the whole person was cowering and hiding backwards, but she had no choice but to have an arm in her hand, where could she escape?
Wu struggled, Nashi Chang raised a face of resentment, directly the woman was used to the bed, and then in front of everyone, directly rode up, while slapping the woman, while tearing her clothes, at first glance it seems a bit of adultery, but if you look closely, it is more like venting the hatred that has been suppressed for many years, rather than pure desire.
In addition to the guides, most of the Ming soldiers also knew that this chief only joined the army after Li Dingguo killed Nikan. According to another man who came with him to vote, when the Eight Banners Army crossed the border, the whole family was killed by the Qing army, and when he rushed back, the men in the village, both old and young, had no heads, while his daughter-in-law and sister were lying naked on the ground, long since they lost their breath.
Shi Chang beat and tore it, and everyone stopped playing, looking at the man and woman on the bed in amazement, but it was difficult to give birth to any charming thoughts in their hearts.
The woman cried, but the long venting was far from over, or it was just the beginning. At this moment, it seemed that he heard the screams here, and the officer who led the team rushed in following the sound, saw this scene, and then strode forward and dragged the chief down.
"You lack the heart and eyes, Your Highness said that adultery is strictly forbidden, don't you understand?" Shi Chang fell off the bed, fell hard, and then stood up, and even threw himself on the bed, but was pulled by the collar by the officer: "These goods, pulled back, either into the women's camp, or not into the official mansion as a slave, when the time comes, there is a chance to play, why rush now, violate military law?!" ”
The Qing army's transit, especially in the warring provinces, has always been adulterous, captive and plundering. The officer can understand the feelings of Shi Chang, but Li Dingguo has always attached great importance to military discipline since he went out of Yunnan to resist the Qing Dynasty, and the admonition to strictly prohibit adultery is still in his ears.
The two argued, and the guide watched all this quietly, but he didn't say a word, and he didn't know what he was thinking. But at this moment, a woman dressed as a woman, with her hair disheveled, and a pair of scissors in both hands, rushed in, and saw the woman on the bed desperately clutching her clothes, curled up at the foot of the bed, and rushed up with a wow.
Then, without waiting for others to make a move, the guide drew his knife in his hand, and a loud cry rang out, and the woman was cut to the ground with a single sword, and everyone was stunned. However, the shouting of "Resistant, kill or kill" seemed to wake up the chief, but when he saw that the chief snatched the knife and rushed forward, he slashed at the woman's body like a madman, and saw that he was not alive.
The dispute soon ended. The officer commanded the woman to be tied up, and the body of the woman, who had been chopped to a bloody pulp, was carried out. At this time, the woman who was already in a trance saw the woman clearly, and a scream sounded, and then, this life and death had just been pulled to the front yard, and only a few Ming soldiers who were in charge of guarding there shouted and cursed.
"Dog Tartar, grandpa is missing your first-level merit!"
The person who came was no one else, it was the Kush who got his share. Hearing the scream, he rushed in without thinking. At a glance, in the front yard, the corpses of several men in the family were thrown there, and the clothed servants and their families had been tied up strongly, and a guarded Ming army kicked the butler's body, causing the other Ming soldiers to laugh. At this time, his wife and daughter were brought out of the backyard by several Ming soldiers, one had already been hacked to death with a knife, and the other was disheveled, and he didn't need to guess to know what had just happened.
Rage, at this moment when it should be pouring out of the heart, there is not even the slightest bit, and some are just endless sadness. Divide Kush looked at everything in front of him, time seemed to have stood still, and all that was beating in his mind was the scene after scene when he led the team to slaughter this courtyard four years ago, in the final analysis, in the end, it only turned into a sentence of "retribution", and as soon as his left hand was released, the knife fell in response.
"His Royal Highness and Chen Fujun have an order, those who wear the uniforms of the feudal soldiers will be killed!"