Chapter 687: Capture Jiangnan (7)

Trying to stabilize his mind, the Tartar general with a thick mustache and bubble eyes in the shot seemed to be on the edge of his gun.

Tian Cheng took a deep breath and decisively pulled the trigger in his hand.

"Bang"

The bullet fired from the muzzle of Tian Cheng's gun took a faint trajectory in the air and plunged headlong into the head of the Tartar general.

A fist-sized blood hole instantly formed on the head of the Tartar general, freezing his life in the territory of the Chizhou Mansion in Nanzhili.

"Prince Yu!"

Tian Cheng only heard a shout from one of the people who was with the Tartar general, and then he raised his long knife like crazy and rushed towards his commander, Meng Bo.

"Commander, shoot quickly."

Tian Cheng and several other companions hurriedly shouted.

Meng Bo didn't know if he had just finished shooting or how, he kept shaking his musket, and he directly let the general rush up.

Tian Cheng's mind was blank, and he subconsciously took out the bullet and loaded it, aiming at it.

"Bang"

The distance of less than ten zhang is simply hand-to-hand for Tian Cheng.

It's a pity that because of the cover of his own tun chief, this shot only hit the right calf of the Qing general.

The man swung his big knife and slashed at Meng Bo, as if trying to split him in half.

Suddenly, he was shot in the right leg, and the Qing army general made an "ah" sound, his right leg unconsciously weakened, and the knife in his hand was also cut off.

Meng Bo saw that the opportunity was quick, and immediately stopped fiddling with his musket, and directly picked up the gun and stabbed it diagonally.

"Puff"

There was a sound of entering the flesh, and the Qing army general looked at Meng Bo with a look of incredulity, and on him, the spear stabbed straight through his heart.

"Poof, I don't want my Kong Youde to be a hero, and he died at the hands of a nobody."

After saying that, the man fell directly to the ground and died.

"Bang", "Bang"

Several gunshots rang out, and all of Meng Bo's subordinates, who had cleared the nearby enemy troops, surrounded him.

Tian Cheng looked at his head with a look of surprise.

"Tun Chief, what did that person say just now, he said his name is Kong Youde? What did he call the other one before? ”

A hint of joy flashed on Meng Bo's face, and then he immediately cheered loudly:

"He's talking about Prince Yu!"

"Coax"

Tian Cheng and the others boiled all at once.

The people who he and the others just killed turned out to be the Tartar Prince Yu Duoduo and the traitor Kong Youde?

It's developed!

A thought flashed through the minds of Meng Bo, Tian Cheng and the others, and the soldiers who followed the entire tun all cheered.

"Duoduo is dead"

"Duoduo is dead"

With the cheers of Meng Bo and the others, the Han soldiers immediately shouted the news throughout the battlefield.

The remnants of the Qing army, which had already fallen into complete chaos, collapsed.

"Run"

The green battalion soldiers who cried for their father and mother were the first to run, and in the end, even the Jianzhou Zhenju who was mixed with them ran and fled.

Liu Ximing also heard the cheers of the front army in the rear army.

"How did Duoduo die?"

He couldn't believe it.

Shao Derong grabbed his command knife: "King, quickly order a general attack, and be sure to leave all the Qing troops behind tonight." ”

These words directly woke up Liu Ximing, and he immediately looked around and shouted:

"Reserves, all charge."

"Roar"

The 20,000 reserve troops that were still in the vicinity of the Chinese army roared wildly and rushed towards the battlefield.

Liu Ximing also moved to the battlefield under the escort of Li Biao and other personal guards, and it was obviously safest to be with his own army at this time.

The more than ten miles long front was filled with gunshots and explosions, often accompanied by the cries and begs for mercy of the Qing army.

The soldiers of the Han army were divided into nearly 10,000 squads, and under the command of their respective generals, they continued to advance in and out of the Qing army, and often one person could defeat nearly 100 Qing soldiers.

Soon, the Qing army's position resounded with a high-pitched sound of surrender.

"Kneel down to avoid death!"

"Kneel down to avoid death!"

The remnants of the Qing army, under the ubiquitous presence of the Han army, finally began to surrender one after another.

The battlefield was in shambles.

But the counterattack on the battlefield has never stopped, and there are about 40,000 real captives in Duoduo's army, although most of them have been killed, but there are still nearly 10,000 people hiding on the battlefield to fight the Han army to the end.

The Han soldiers had to brace themselves and keep an eye on every dark corner to avoid unnecessary casualties.

A ridiculous scene happened, the officers and soldiers of the green battalion of the Qing army who were about to surrender spontaneously killed Jianyu under the leadership of their generals.

Tian Cheng bypassed a camp tent and saw dozens of bloodied Green Battalion soldiers looking at him and the others with a smile on their faces.

"Don't shoot, we're all Han, and we just killed a few Tartars."

"Master Jun, does this count as a meritorious service?"

Tun Chang Meng Bo pushed Tian Cheng away to wake him up, and yelled expressionlessly:

"Don't you understand that you all kneel down and kneel to avoid death?"

"This is kneeling, this is kneeling"

A group of green battalion soldiers were so frightened that they didn't dare to laugh anymore and fell to their knees directly.

Only then did Meng Bo glance at Tian Cheng and the others, "Look at them, there are those who dare to act without mercy." ”

As there were more and more such green battalion soldiers, the Han army advanced faster and faster on the battlefield.

By the time the sky cleared, the battle that had lasted all night was finally over.

Looking at the devastated battlefield, the Han army's hundreds of thousands of troops couldn't help but chant in unison.

It is a miracle that the Qing army of 400,000 men attacked with 200,000 soldiers and horses, and broke the formation and defeated it in one day and one night.

Liu Ximing was patrolling the camp of the Qing army at this time, and Wei Jingguo took him to the corpses of Duoduo, Kong Youde and others.

"King, after verification, these people are indeed Duoduo and others."

A hint of disgust flashed in Liu Ximing's expression.

"Pass the order, identify the prisoners in the Qing army as soon as possible, and kill them all!"

"What about the corpses of the Duoduos?"

Wei Jingguo hurriedly asked.

"Beheaded, spread the word Jiangnan, in order to reassure people's hearts. By the way, the soldiers who killed Duoduo and the others have a great credit. ”

Liu Ximing spoke in a deep voice.

Duoduo is the executor of Dorgon's "shaving order" in Jiangnan, and it can be said that his hands are stained with the blood of the people of Jiangnan, so it is good to use his head to buy people's hearts.

As Liu Ximing turned around and walked out of the Qing army camp, the entire position immediately heard the sound of cheers rushing to the sky.

Tian Cheng and his comrades-in-arms picked up their own tun chief, Meng Bo, and threw it into the sky.

"Hooray!"

On the first day of August, the king of Han led an army of 200,000 troops to defeat the Qing army led by Duoduo in the Chizhou capital of Nanzhili.

The Qing army was beheaded 130,000 and 240,000 were captured.

Only 20,000 or 30,000 remnants of the Qing army fled back to Jiangnan.

After this battle, there was no one enemy of the Han army in the whole of Jiangnan.

Liu Ximing simply divided the army into four.

He led 70,000 Chinese troops to continue to storm Nanjing, while Wei Jingguo, Zheng Jingcai and others led their troops to recover Zhejiang, Lianghuai and other places.

Along the way, the state capitals that the Manchus had already occupied fell into disarray.

But what frightened the Manchu magistrates in these places was the military order of the Han king, all Han Chinese who held official positions in the Manchu Qing were to be imprisoned.

On the third day of the eighth month, the Manshui Division, who had fled back to Nanjing from the battlefield of Chizhou, had not had time to loot the wealth in the city and escape, but he suddenly found that he was surrounded again.

The four ironclad ships led by Wu Demeng rushed to Nanjing overnight, and on their ships, there were also 3,000 elite Han troops.

As soon as he saw the defenders at the head of Nanjing, Wu Demeng was overjoyed.

Looking from the river, there are not many soldiers and horses in the whole city of Nanjing, only a bunch of flags are left on it to wave in the wind.

"Order the whole ship to prepare to bombard Dinghuaimen."

The sound of "boom" and "boom" sounded on the surface of the river, and the four ironclad ships like giant beasts roared in unison, and it took less than half an hour for the gate of Dinghuai Gate, which was facing the river in Nanjing, to be blasted open.

"Brothers, prepare to land and recover Nanjing!"

Wu Demeng's face turned red, and he personally pulled out his command knife and commanded the two battalions on the battleship to charge.

Nanjing City did not stay with the Shaoqing army at this time, and when the soldiers and horses led by Wu Demeng rushed to the Dinghuai Gate, they found that there was not even a ghost shadow at the entire city gate.

"Rush"

However, as soon as he rushed into the city gate, Wu Demeng immediately noticed that something was wrong.

Just inside the Dinghuai Gate, on the entire long street, the road was full of people on both sides, all of them with their feet crossed and looking forward to the city gate.

When the red uniforms of Wu Demeng and others appeared in the eyes of the people of Nanjing, the city instantly resounded with earth-shattering cheers.

"Master Wang is here!"

Several old men with gray hair and green skin on both sides fell to their knees and wept bitterly on the spot.

"Why are you here so late, how many Han people have been killed by the Jianyu, woo woo."