On May 5 of the first year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cihong led hundreds of officials to carry out the ritual of worshipping the heavens before the personal conquest.

After the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens was completed, Zhu Cihong faced the general soldiers of the towns below and the 100,000 Yinglong army. Zhao Dequan, the chief eunuch, presented the list of rebellions that had been prepared long ago, and Zhu Cihong personally read it out, and the Manchu crimes listed above were impassioned.

"Soldiers, since the rebel Nurhachi, the Manchurian betrayed my Ming Dynasty, and for decades, they have indiscriminately killed our Ming people, plundered our property, and insulted our wives and daughters. Outside the Guan, there were nearly two million Han Chinese, but all of them were regarded as slaves by the Manchus, and they could only nod their heads and bow to them, saying that the slaves were wantonly killed if they were not satisfied. Under the rule of the Manchus, they were inferior to livestock, which is a great shame for all of us Han Chinese. ”

"The Tatars are not terrible, in the past there were Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, and Mongol in the northern steppe, they were all powerful barbarians with hundreds of thousands of cavalry, they were as savage as the Manchus today, they were just as good at riding and archery, and they also regarded us Han people as livestock and trampled on them wantonly, but where are they now? I tell you that they have long perished under the wrath of our Han people, and as long as we Han people can unite, our anger can destroy all the barbarians who have trampled on us wantonly, and the Manchus will be no exception, and one day I will destroy them completely. ”

"At present, we have traitors who betray the country and the clan, they are greedy for life and afraid of death, afraid of the power of the Qing captives, and betray the country and the nation, such as Fan Wencheng, Hong Chengchou, Shang Kexi, Geng Jingzhong, Li Huaxi and others, bewitching hundreds of thousands of Han people to act as pawns of the Qing captives, and the Qing captives to go south together, and have hit Jining City, their purpose this time is very clear, they want to destroy our Ming Dynasty, and give our Han people's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, money, and even all the Han people to the Qing captives, so that all of our Han people can be the slaves of the Qing captives, and the Tatars are hateful, The traitors who help the Tartars are even more hateful! You say, should the traitor be killed? ”

"Damn it! Damn it! "In addition to hundreds of town generals and generals, all of them are Ying Long Army, 100,000 Ying Long Army has accepted the ideological baptism of loyalty to the country and finally the nation, and at the same time, under the propaganda of Daming Daily, they clearly know how the Han people who were caught by the Manchus were enslaved, and all of them firmly believed that if one day the Manchus won the world, their families, wives and children would definitely be enslaved by the Manchus, which they absolutely could not bear.

"That's right! It's damned! Now, the Qing captives and traitors have brought hundreds of thousands of troops to the south, wanting to destroy our Ming Dynasty, so that all our family members and children will become slaves of the country and become their slaves, you say, are you willing! ”

"I don't want to! We will not be slaves to the country! More than 100,000 soldiers were angry in their hearts, shouting loudly, and the sound shook the sky, almost spreading throughout the entire city of Nanjing! The momentum is magnificent, and the fighting spirit is soaring! All the people of Nanjing will never forget this day.

"Good! We will not be slaves to the country! Today, I will lead you and others to defeat the Qing captives and kill all the traitors! Long live the Ming Dynasty! Zhu Cihong raised his arms and exhaled.

"Kill the traitor! Kill the Qingyu! Long live the Ming Dynasty! All the soldiers shouted in unison again, and after hundreds of people outside the palace heard such a shout, they couldn't help but mumble! In the end, it evolved into hundreds of thousands of people following the shout, the mighty sound resounded in the sky, and even the other 250,000 soldiers on standby outside the city could hear it clearly, one by one couldn't help but stir in their hearts, the fighting spirit was boiling, and most of the people also followed the shout, this is the cry of the entire nation, no one can not be moved!

Zheng Sen was below, he also followed the shout just now, and his handsome face was flushed, and his fighting spirit was boiling! His eyes were full of reverence and he looked at Zhu Cihong's heroic posture from afar, and his heart was fascinated, this is the emperor! At this moment, Zheng Sen was completely intimidated by Zhu Cihong's heroic posture unconsciously, he was already full of patriotic thoughts of loyalty to the monarch, and his loyalty to Zhu Cihong at this moment even exceeded that of many Ying Long army generals.

"Expedition!" Zhu Cihong did not take a chariot, but boarded a white war horse, and led 100,000 Yinglong troops to step out of the city gate of Nanjing and go to the ferry by the Yangtze River, preparing to cross the river and go north, with the support of more than 100 senior generals such as the five commanders of the Yinglong army, the general soldiers of the ten towns and Zheng Sen.

Many people spontaneously escorted, and the people were united!

Hubu, an official's mansion, this official was stunned there, his heart constantly echoing with the earth-shattering cry just now, he couldn't calm down for a long time, and his eyes were full of guilt.

"Hey! The hearts of the people and the army are like this, and it is impossible for the Manchurians to win! After all, it is not my race, its heart must be different, I, Yang Kailin, am also a member of the Han people, how can I be that traitor, affect my family, and leave a stench for thousands of years. From today on, let's stop that unthinkable thought! This official had originally been bribed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty to secretly help deliver the news, but at this moment, under the influence just now, he immediately repented.

Not only this official, but all the officials in Nanjing who had been secretly bought by the Manchus either found out in their conscience, or were afraid, almost all of them repented, and did not dare to help the Manchus in secret.

On the edge of the Yangtze River, with the arrival of Zhu Cihong, 100,000 Yinglong troops, 250,000 soldiers and horses from various towns were gathered here, a total of 350,000 troops.

There were countless boats floating on the river, and a man in his forties wearing armor came to Zhu Cihong to pay respects.

"Shen Jingchao, the commander of the Yangtze River Navy Division of the Ming Dynasty, see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Let's get flat!"

"Emperor Xie!" Shen Jingchao stood up.

Zhu Cihong glanced at Shen Jingchao, this Shen Jingchao had seen him once when he personally conquered Zuo Liangyu last time, and looked at the ships on the river, Zhu Cihong estimated that there were about more than a thousand ships.

Originally, there were only more than 400 ships, but the last time Zuo Liangyu was conquered, more than 200 ships of Zuo Liangyu were captured, and later in order to prevent the Qing army from going south, the last barrier of the Yangtze River moat became the top priority of defense.

However, don't look at the Daming Navy Division has more than 1,000 ships on the Yangtze River, but most of these ships are small boats, at most dozens of ships can really go to sea, and there are less than ten ships that can be used as sea ships to go to the sea, at most the inland river fleet, Zhu Cihong sighed, there is still a long way to go to develop the Navy Division into a navy in the future.

On May 5 of the first year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhu Cihong led an army of 350,000 to cross the river to the north, preparing for a decisive battle with the Manchu Qing in Jianghuai!

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