"Jiangnan West Road recruits? Father! With such a big responsibility, I'm afraid that the Shi family kid won't be able to take on it, and he will ruin his father's big things when he turns around! ”

In the cabin, the lampshade is made of glass, and the outside is woven with gold wire, which softens the light of the oil lamp. Because Li Shouhan was ill, the doctor instructed: "The marshal's wet and warm situation is really fierce, and now it is finally 'pulling' back." However, this illness is caused by a fire in the heart, and it is important not to make the marshal angry and emotional anymore. Otherwise, the students will be resurrected by Bian Que Huatuo, and I am afraid that they will be helpless. ”

As Li Shouhan's eldest daughter, Li Huamei naturally knows her father's temperament well. Since the Battle of Tashan, Li Shouhan's physical hidden dangers have appeared. At that time, because of the news that Li Huamei was shot, Li Shouhan's daughter vomited blood on the spot. Since then, the root of the disease has been planted.

"In any case, nothing can happen to the lord's body!" This is the unanimous view of the Southern Guangdong Army. No matter which faction it is, it is very clear that at this time, whether the Nanyue Army will continue to operate and develop in the hinterland, or whether it will retreat to the side of the division of Nanzhong and Guangzhou, Li Shouhan will come out with major policies. The most terrible thing is that after Li Huayu died in battle, the eldest son was gone, and the heir with the most patriarchal legitimacy was gone. Once Li Shouhan has any situation, the Nanyue Army will have no successor.

Li Shouhan's illness is indeed menacing and terrifying. I fell ill all of a sudden, touched my forehead, and it was scary. burned incessantly, either shouting "Your Majesty" or shouting "Da Ming", and occasionally scolded a few words. At the time of the original victory, the bad news suddenly came from Nanjing that almost the entire territory of Jiangbei had fallen. Moreover, the people, horses, money, food, and equipment cities there almost overnight became the soldiers, horses, and horses of the Qing army. In the news that Li Shouhan got that the Qing army had already begun to cross the river with vanguard troops! How does this not make Li Shouhan anxious and angry? He has worked hard and exhausted his efforts over the years, isn't it not easy for the Ming Dynasty to change its color? For this reason, he did not hesitate to throw a large number of soldiers and horses into the Central Plains battlefield, and supplied the imperial court with a large amount of grain, grass and silver. However, these efforts are so pale in front of the word "interests" in the hearts of the gentry.

The fever for several days made Li Shouhan know nothing about things outside.

However, a few days in the mountains, a thousand years in the world.

Zhou Zaijun's "Taicheng Evening View" is a word cloud: "Walking vertically and leisurely, the grass is full of autumn." The wind and waves in Xuanwu Lake rise, swishing, and the tiger rests overnight. The river does not know sorrow, and it still flows day and night. There is also a ruthless sky and moon, leisurely, once shining on the banner out of the stone. ”

From the capture of Beijing by the Dashun army in March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen to the occupation of Nanjing by the Qing army in the following year, most of the civil and military generals of the Ming Dynasty turned like fluffy grass with the wind. Generally speaking, there is less wind and clouds, and there is more love for children. This is closely related to the corruption of officials in the late Ming Dynasty. However, when history is at a great turning point, the performance of various characters often appears to be very different, and it is difficult to accurately incorporate a certain pattern. Zhang Yi recorded, "When the Qing soldiers entered the city, hundreds of officials competed for their job names and sought to use them, and those who were convicted of the sins of the ministers from the north had a beak three feet long, and their knees were softer than cotton, and their faces were thicker than iron, and they were unconscious." Zhang Yi has experienced the changes of the two capitals, and he has not yet come out of the "new" dynasty, so it is reasonable to publish a rebuke to the heart.

Yangzhou was lost, Shi Kefa was tied up by the rebels and sent to Duoduo to ask for a reward and meritorious service The news reached Nanjing, and the Hongguang court suddenly fell into a panic, and Zhu Yousong and others still pinned their hopes on the Yangtze River at the beginning. I hope that I can delay for a few days with the help of the Yangtze River and hold on until Li Shouhan's division of the western expedition returns. However, on the 5th day of the first month of May, the Qing army entered the north bank of the Yangtze River, and on the 9th day of the first month, Duoduo ordered Meler Zhangjing Li Shutai to lead the Southern Ming generals Zhang Tianlu and Yang Chengzu to cross the river by boat at dawn at 15 miles west of Guazhou, and defeated the army of Zheng Hongkui, the Ming defense river division, at Jinshan, and then landed on the south bank and occupied Zhenjiang, and then the Manchu and Han officers and soldiers crossed the river successively. On the 10th day of the first month, Emperor Hongguang only consulted with Ma Shiying and a few eunuchs, and did not even inform other ministers of the imperial court, let alone make any arrangements, and fled from the city in the early morning.

Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying's abacus played very well. They escaped from the city of Nanjing, of course, there are special terms, such as parade, carrying, and so on. As long as they leave the city of Nanjing, whether they go to Hangzhou or go all the way west along the Yangtze River, they will first meet with Huang Degong, the prince of Yasukuni stationed in Wuhu, and then join Li Shouhan's army, they will be invincible.

However, the ideal plan is plump and real life is skinny.

When Ma Shiying escorted Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong to flee from Nanjing, in order to rest assured and for the sake of so-called secrecy, the escort armed force accompanying him was the thousands of soldiers and horses of the Yongwei battalion that Ma Shiying ordered his second son Ma Luan to control. However, he forgot that it was Li Huabao, the second son of Li Shouhan, who was in charge of the defense around the city of Nanjing. He didn't know about Zhu Yousong's exit from the city, so the garrisons at various points outside naturally didn't know about it.

In the dark night, a team of thousands of tens of thousands of people suddenly appeared around you, people shouted and neighed, and everyone should be on guard and vigilant. This is still a strict military discipline and strong combat effectiveness of the southern Guangdong army, changed to the general Ming army camp, has long been the shouting of killing shocking the sky, the sound of guns and artillery to the ground, but just stubbornly defending the camp can not come out to meet the enemy.

In the panic, the centaurs scattered. Ma Shiying's second son, Ma Luan, escorted the Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong to Lishui County, preparing to go to Taiping Mansion through Lishui. And Ma Shiying escorted the Empress Dowager Zou to Hangzhou with a pro-military battalion composed of his fellow villagers in Guizhou.

After Li Huabao learned that a large group of people had left Nanjing City at night, he had not had time to send people to find out who had such great ability to open the city at night without passing through him, the assistant Nanjing garrison. The city of Nanjing is already in chaos.

After daybreak, the gentry and "common people" in Nanjing heard that the emperor and the first assistant scholars had fled, and they immediately became a mess. Some "people" who came out of nowhere rushed into prison, invited Wang Zhiming, a young man who called himself "Prince Chongzhen", out of the prison and hugged him to the court, and ascended to the palace to announce that he was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the year name was still called the eighteenth year of Chongzhen.

Li Huabao had just ordered people to disperse these people with a platoon, and Wang Duo, a scholar of the Wuyingdian University and a scholar of the Ministry of War, gave orders to Li Huabao, the actual person in charge of Nanjing's city defense, in the capacity of the boss in charge of the secretary of the Ministry of War.

"The area around Jinshan is west to Longtan, and the soldiers are less than seven hundred, and the cardinal and marshal think that they can be hundreds of thousands of enemies, so why is this fashionable to favor the monarch?"

"The time cannot last, so that the soldiers on the left can take advantage of the victory and go downstream, and I have no class. Today, the emperor conferred the seal of his own soldiers (that is, the secretary of the military department), and the ministers tried their best to go west, so as to report to the court. ”

What does that mean? That is to say, there are not too many soldiers and horses in the area of Purple Mountain all the way to Longtan, why did your father and son deceive the emperor with Ma Shiying that they could block hundreds of thousands of enemy troops?

Now that the situation is urgent, if Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses break through the river defense and go downstream, we will have no place to die at that time. Since the emperor asked me to be the secretary of the military department, then I will do my duty for the court and be loyal to the emperor, you hand over the soldiers and horses, and let me command.

How can this be? As a soldier and a general from a feudal family, he knows that the Tai'a Sword cannot be held against others, in that case, it is to give people a handle and put his life in the hands of others. So, Li Huabao flatly refused.

"This envoy of the lower officials was appointed by the cabinet and the general to the emperor, and the emperor himself appointed him. No order shall be given unless there is a special order of the emperor. ”

Although Li Huabao gave him a blow to Wang Duo's attempt to seize military power and then control the Nanjing city defense troops and the surrounding garrisons, and nippled it in the bud. However, the chaos in Nanjing was not something that Li Huabao could control.

With the Qing soldiers Zhang Tianfu, Zhang Tianlu, Yang Chengzu and others on the south bank, and then occupied Zhenjiang, after obtaining a foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, Nanjing was shocked three times a day, rumors, and rumors spread.

Externally, Li Huabao had to reorganize the army, strengthen the defensive measures and material reserves at key points outside the city, such as Tianbao City, Dibao City, Purple Mountain, and Yuhuatai, and adjust his troops.

What made him even more disappointed, even painful and desperate, was that many of the nobles of Nanjing, who were originally regarded by the Li family and the Nanyue Army as allies that could be won over, also plunged headlong into the arms of the gentry and began to plot to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

"These dog thieves! On that day, the father used the Jianghai Joint Defense Agreement as a link and gave them immeasurable and endless benefits! Let them earn enough gold and silver, and the house is full of jewels, and there are countless beautiful houses! Now, when it is necessary to use them to help, they are so virtuous! ”

With the Qing army Li Shuotai and other authentic Eight Banners soldiers and horses crossing the river, the noble civil and military ministers led by Zhao Zhilong, the Bo of Xincheng, and Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, began to openly bring the originally secretly planned Qing surrender matters to the table to operate.

Zhao Zhilong, as a garrison minister, first mobilized troops and horses to disperse the "people" who supported the pseudo-Chongzhen prince Wang Zhiming to ascend the throne, and put Wang Zhiming back in prison. At the same time, in the name of the Nanjing garrison, he posted notices everywhere in Nanjing, announcing that he and his comrades were ready to sacrifice the city to the Qing army, and told the people in the city that there was no need to panic.

On the one hand, he openly posted a notice announcing surrender in the city, and on the other hand, he sent people out of the city to Zhenjiang to contact the Qing army, and informed the Qing army of the military deployment in the city and the reality of all places. "You can agree with the princes and horses of the Qing Dynasty to make a code, and the inside and outside should be combined, and in one fell swoop solve the Li Huabao Department of the Nanyue Army inside and outside the city, so as to prevent future troubles, thinking that we will come to see us."

If Li Huamei, Li Huayu, or even Shi Lang, Zheng Sen and any other person in the second generation of the Nanyue Army were replaced as the commander of Nanjing's garrison and city defense, they would not hesitate to declare martial law in the whole city and enter a wartime state. All those who were inclined to surrender were arrested and guarded, and even attacked first, and all of them were cut down on charges of treason and rebellion. At the same time, the gates of the city were closed and put on strict guard. With the strength of Nanjing's city defense, it should not be a problem to hold on until Li Shouhan's army returns, or Zhang Xiaohu and other fleet reinforcements from the Yangtze River Haikou arrive.

However, character determines fate. Li Huabao is not like his brothers, sisters, brothers and husbands, after the baptism of killing and decisiveness, he has gone all the way, although he has also conquered the toast, but compared with the experience of his brothers, he is still much more gentle. is not even as ruthless and experienced as his younger brother Li Huaxuan, Li Huaning and others. In other words, in the face of the surrender activities of the officials and nobles, he showed some cowardice, even timidity.

"Load all the supplies in the city into ships, take away those that can be taken away, and wet those that cannot be taken with fire at any time! Don't leave any of the craftsmen in the city for the tartars! I'm going to ask Duoduo to find someone to mend the pot and can't find it! ”

Li Huabao's whole army carried a large number of supplies, emptied almost half of the city of Nanjing, and retreated from Nanjing to Songjiang Mansion and Wusongkou by boat and car for dozens of miles. Zhao Zhilong and others wanted to do something, but they asked themselves that they didn't have that strength, so they could only pretend not to see it. Let Li Huabao transport all the grain in the city.

Li Huabao on the front foot had just withdrawn, and dozens of people on the back foot Li led Tai's forward rangers arrived outside the Hongwu Gate. Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong and Baoguo Duke Zhu Guobi surrendered from the city wall to the Qing camp to negotiate surrender. Unexpectedly, the Qing army officials they met in Li Shutai's camp were their old acquaintances.

"I didn't expect Brother Chi Leopard to take the lead! Sure enough, it is a good day, and the number of days of response is ah! "The one who received Zhao Zhilong and others in the camp of the Qing army was Shi Kecheng, the third brother of Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Soldier Department of Jianji Hall University. Shi Kecheng, the word Red Leopard, is the second and tenth Jinshi in the second year of Chongzhen, and he was awarded the Jishi. After Beijing was taken by Li Zicheng, he also conformed to the times, surrendered to Li Zicheng very well and became an official of the Dashun court. After Li Zicheng was defeated at Shanhaiguan, he fled back to the south and became a member of the "Shun Case". Shi Kefa asked the Hongguang court to be lenient with him so that he could stay in Nanjing to take care of his mother. At that time, Zhu Yousong, the blessed king who had not yet succeeded to the throne as emperor, saw Shi Kefa's face and asked him to stay in Nanjing to support Shi Kefa's mother, Mrs. Yin. However, he didn't want to, today, the younger brother of the Shi Pavilion Department, who was guarding Yangzhou and resisting the Qing army, was the first to gain popularity, shaved his hair and changed clothes, and became an official of the Qing army and his old colleagues, the same year, to discuss the matter of surrender face-to-face.

On the 15th, Duoduo led the main force of the Qing army into the outside of Nanjing, and more than 30 high-ranking officials and dignitaries, including Zhao Zhilong and Zhu Guobi, together with Xu Jiujue, Duke of Wei, Zhang Gongri, Marquis of Longping, Wang Duo, Cai Yichen, Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Li Zhan, the imperial history of Zuodu, opened the city gate and went out to welcome the suburbs.

Things went so smoothly that General Yangwei and Prince Duoduo of Heshuo Yu were a little dazed and at a loss, and the whole person seemed to be in a cloud. Listened to Dugu Hanjiang's advice from Kaifeng, ignored the walled city, and went straight to Jinling, but after more than a month, he was already under Jinling City?

Checking the results along the way, the city is needless to say, just along the way to the Qing army to surrender in front of the horse, and even changed the banner, has not yet been recognized by the Qing army for the new master to conquer the city of the generals, the total number of soldiers as many as 23, deputy generals 47, horse infantry to the standard of Duoduo to check a total of 238,300. What's more, there are still a large number of cannon fodder who do not enter the eyes of Duoduo? The number of Southern Ming soldiers who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Jiangbei alone exceeded the combined strength of Duoduo and Azig.

There were so many demotion of officials, generals, and soldiers, and only another regime that once used Nanjing as its capital, created the glory of the "golden decade", and created a glorious example of the collapse of military factories and steel factories during the war.

Under the leadership of their vice president, Wang Zhaoming and other gentlemen, there were officers above the general level (in order to compare the official positions and ranks of these general soldiers and deputy generals who surrendered to Duoduo) by 1943, there were 58 people, although the time was long and the number was small, but we brought over many formed troops! Under their leadership, the number of troops who surrendered to the enemy in formation also reached 500,000, which far exceeded the number of surrendered Ming troops. You must know that even if you add the number of soldiers and horses that Zuo Mengeng led his troops to surrender to the Qing army in the future, the Ming army will not reach 500,000 horses. Moreover, the 500,000 horses that surrendered to the enemy army immediately became the main combat strength of the 2 million puppet army in the enemy-occupied area to maintain local law and order and protect the peace of the rear. It became an important part of the suppression of the resistance that could not be opened.

Victory came too quickly, too suddenly. It made Duoduo a little dazed. Facing the table sent by the city and the surging Yangtze River behind him, he couldn't help but wonder for a while: "Could this be a trap set by the barbarians in the city for this king?!" It's like the trap that Lu Bu dug for Cao Cao in Puyang, and the ambush set by Zhuge Liang in Xinye County. All to trick the king into the city? Then the ambush in the city was everywhere, the army outside the city was killed, and the gunboats of the boat division were prominent on the river, and the hundreds of thousands of horses of the king were just like Chen Youliang back then, and they were going to be lost under the city of Nanjing! ”

Therefore, Duoduo led the army to be stationed outside Nanjing, and his line was set up in the Temple of Heaven outside Nanjing, and his troops were divided to carry Hongyi cannons to the fortresses such as Tianbao City and Dibaocheng that Li Huabao had abandoned, and aimed the heavy artillery of Wuzhenchao's battalion at the city of Nanjing.

Then, Zhang Tianfu, Zhang Tianlu, Yang Chengzu, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and other troops surrendered their soldiers and horses, and selected elites to search and guard in Nanjing.

First, he occupied the palace of the Ming Emperor, as the residence of Duoduo's Xingyuan and Bayala soldiers, and then, following the example of Beijing City, blasted out the soldiers and civilians in the east and north of Nanjing, and turned the houses in this area into barracks for the soldiers of the Eight Banners.

In the dripping rain, no one noticed that in the urn city of Hongwumen in Nanjing City, Li Huabao used white marble to write a couplet on the masonry of the city wall when he left.

"The annals of history are beautiful, although the slaves have not been destroyed, they are still lawful; Hong En was mighty, and he failed to repay the country and became an enemy. ”

Under the rain, the white marble looks unusually clean.