Lishui County Commander Peng Guang just sent the Ming army away yesterday, and today ushered in the Qing army.

Peng Guang was in a cold sweat when he heard the news from the officials, the Qing army was not the same as yesterday's Ming army. Yesterday's Ming army was strictly disciplined, and they didn't enter the city at all, except for preparing a lot of meat for themselves, there was no bad deed, and the most important thing was to give money afterwards. The kind of silver coins with exquisite workmanship are very good-looking, and Peng Guang has a lot of them in his pocket now, of course, these are all rebates given by those big pig farmers. But Peng Guang knows exactly what kind of military discipline the Qing army has, and it is good not to kill people.

Thinking of this, Peng Guang wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, took off the Ming Dynasty official mansion that he had just worn for a day, and put on and took off the Qing Dynasty official mansion not long ago, fortunately, the Qing Dynasty official uniform was not lost at that time, and it seems that the Ming Dynasty official uniform should also be well preserved.

Peng Guang told his family to put away the official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, and then he took several officials such as the county captain and the county lieutenant to hurry out of the city to become a surrender faction again.

After opening the city gate, Peng Guang found that a large number of Qing cavalry had been waiting for a long time, led by a military attache of the first grade.

Peng Guang stepped forward and knelt down and said in a trembling voice: "I don't know who this general is, what is the reason for coming to my Lishui County!" ”

The Manchu general on the opposite side was Li Shutai, and after coming out of Maoshan, he separated from Hong Chengchou and came to Lishui with Zara Fenga and 5,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners. What Li Shutai and Zara Fenga agreed was to wait until the Lishui City Gate was opened and they would go in, and now seeing a county official kneeling in front of him, Li Shutai didn't say a word, and stepped forward to cut off Peng Guang's head with a knife. Later, when several officials in Lishui County saw that the Manchus had begun to kill people, they were so frightened that they stood up and ran back, and Zarafona's own soldiers shot these people down with arrows.

Li Shutai shouted at the five thousand Manchurian Eight Banners behind him: "The commander has an order!" All the Han people in Lishui City choose the strong ones to stay, and the rest will be killed, kill me! ”

The Eight Banners of Manchuria are military organizations, and the entire Manchurian nation is a soldier of the whole people, and although these Eight Banners stationed in Nanjing are all second-line troops, their combat capability is not bad, and some of their veterans have fought many battles of life and death. Now when they heard that the Lord was going to slaughter the city, they were all happy in their hearts, and they cried out, "Mother is not spicy, Baniha!" The meaning of this Manchu phrase is "Thank you, General!" After all, what Li Shuitai said was that as long as he was young and middle-aged, he didn't ask for any property, and money would become the welfare of these Manchurian Eight Banners, so he naturally wanted to thank Li Shuitai.

After receiving Li Shutai's order, all the Qing troops dismounted, rushed in while the city gate was not closed, and began to kill people and set fires everywhere. These guys are very experienced in doing this kind of thing, first sending a few hundred people to guard the four city gates, and then dividing the county into four parts and starting a big robbery.

Li Shutai looked at Zalaphona and his personal soldiers beside him, and they were all eager to try. Li Shutai said with a smile: "Lord Zha, you can also go and be happy, just have me!" ”

Zalafona had been itching for a long time, but he was also the main general no matter what he said, and it was not good to go in and grab things with a group of men. Now that I heard Li Shutai say this, I happily led people into the city.

Watching Zalafenga enter the city, Li Shutai scolded in his heart: A reckless goods, this kind of thing can also master the garrison of the Eight Banners? It looks like it's going to be replaced.

Because his father was Li Yongfang, Li Shutai was classified as the banner of the Han Army. This made him very dissatisfied, because the other half of his blood was noble clan blood, and his outer justice was Nurhachi. And because of this, he was under the control of the fool of Zalaphona, which really annoyed him.

However, the marshal Hong Chengchou promised him that as long as the defense of Nanjing was won, he would be crowned the governor of Zhejiang, which was a first-class officer, which was much better than the current position of General Jiangning.

Li Shutai imagined his future outside the city, and Lishui City became a completely different appearance. The residents of Lishui did not expect that the Qing army could be massacred when they entered the city, and when the Qing soldiers first entered the city, some people were still preparing to welcome them on both sides of the road, and they were greeted by Manchu swords and guns.

Lishui is a county seat, but because of its proximity to Nanjing, the population is still quite dense, with a total of more than 56,000 people. After a morning of slashing and slaughtering by the Qing army, there were less than 20,000 people left, and the rest of the old and weak were basically killed.

At noon, a light rain began to fall in the sky, and the Qing army's massacre of the city was basically over. The Qing army loaded hundreds of carts of some stolen gold and silver, and left Lishui with the 20,000 people of cannon fodder.

At this time, Zhu Hongsan had just led the army to cross the Qinhuai River and enter the periphery of Nanjing City.

The name of the Qinhuai River does not need to be talked about, it has two tributaries in the north and south, the north originates in Jurong County, the south originates in Lishui County, and the Fangshan outside Nanjing City converges to become the Qinhuai River, and then flows into the Yangtze River through Nanjing.

Zhu Hongsan didn't go through Qian Qianyi's explanation, and he didn't know that the small broken river in front of him was the famous Qinhuai River.

"Three gentlemen, this is the famous Qinhuai River? I really don't believe it! ”

Qian Qianyi has lived in Nanjing for many years, and is a frequent visitor to various brothels on the Qinhuai River, and laughed when he heard the emperor say this: "Your Majesty, this is only one of the tributaries of the Qinhuai River, the Rong River, and it can only be called the Qinhuai River after it merges with the Lishui River!" However, even the Qinhuai River in Nanjing City does not have the rushing momentum of the northern rivers, and the Qinhuai River is famous because he is the Qinhuai River in Nanjing! Nanjing is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and has been one of the important cities in the south of the Yangtze River since the Western Zhou Dynasty. However, the real development was only after the Yongjia Rebellion, when the royal family of the Jin Dynasty crossed to the south, bringing a large number of people and technology from the Central Plains, and Nanjing slowly developed. After the Southern Song Dynasty, the south slowly became an important grain producing area, and after the development of the family, a large number of literati and writers appeared, and Nanjing became "the land of gold powder in the Six Dynasties and the imperial state of Jinling"! ”

"Jinling Imperial Prefecture said this sentence is too good, Taizu occupied Nanjing first, and then "build the city high, slowly become the king, and accumulate grain!" "This is the achievement of hegemony! I decided to learn from Emperor Taizu as well, and also to build a high city, slow down the king, accumulate grain, and when the power is strong, I will level the north and destroy the Manchus! ”

Tong Yangjia saw that Zhu Hongsan was full of confidence, and he was embarrassed to hit him, can he compare it with the end of the Yuan Dynasty hundreds of years ago? But now I haven't even beaten Nanjing, it's a bit early to say these things, let's talk about it later!

At this moment, a light rain began to fall in the sky, and Zhu Hongsan couldn't see it well, his army was full of firearms, and his combat effectiveness was greatly reduced in the rain.

"Come on, send an order to Zhao Guodong, let him find a place to camp on the opposite bank after crossing the river, and don't leave today!"

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he turned around and asked Qian Qianyi: "Mr. Qian, where is this place, and how far is it from Nanjing!" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, after crossing the Qinhuai River, Chunhua Town has entered the boundary of Nanjing, and it is still twenty miles away from the city wall of Guo outside Nanjing!"

"Very good, rest tonight, and tomorrow there will be no movement from the Qing army, and we will attack Nanjing directly!"

At this time, Tong Yangjia whispered on the side: "Your Majesty, it's better to go to Nanjing to pay homage to Xiaoling first!" ”

Tong Yangjia's words reminded Zhu Hongsan, yes! Go to the right name first, this is the big thing! Compared with this, the occupation of Nanjing has become a trivial matter. After all, Zhu Hongsan is not as good as Zhu Youlang in terms of blood, but retaking Nanjing and paying homage to Xiaoling will make Zhu Hongsan's prestige surpass Zhu Youlang and become a real legitimate government!

"That's right! Or Mr. Tong understands me! Let's go to pay homage to the filial piety tomb first! ”

Zhu Hongsan was afraid that he couldn't compare to Zhu Youlang like this, so he touched his beard and thought of a plan in his heart.

"Three gentlemen, do you say that I said in front of Emperor Taizu that I am the bloodline of Emperor Jianwen?"

In this sentence, Lei's Tong Yangjia, Qian Qianyi, and Jiang Yueguang are scorched on the outside and tender on the inside.

Jiang Yueguang, as a traditional scholar, really looked down on Zhu Hongsan's face of selling his ancestors for glory, and stood up and said: "Your Majesty, as long as you go to pay homage to the tomb of filial piety, you are already in front of King Gui, there is no need to do this, people find that it is not beautiful!" ”

Tong Yangjia also disagreed with Zhu Hongsan's actions: "Your Majesty, Emperor Jianwen has been missing for hundreds of years, and there are many explanations for his whereabouts, but none of them say that he fled to Huguang, which is really unreliable!" ”

Qian Qianyi has a different opinion, although he is a great Confucian, he has no discipline that a scholar should have, and he can do anything to protect his power position. Now listening to Zhu Hongsan say this, Qian Qianyi said on the side: "It's not impossible to do this, Your Majesty, if you want to be a minister, I can endorse you!" ”

This is Qian Qianyi is preparing to use his Shilin fame to publicly fake Zhu Hongsan, Jiang Yueguang was anxious on the side, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, although King Gui is suspicious of the identity of your Chu clan now, but it is really true, as long as Nanchang is liberated, you will definitely be able to return your Majesty's innocence!" But pretending to be the bloodline of Emperor Jianwen is fake, even if Lord Qian does it in the real world, he is also fake, and if it is fake, it will be exposed, and it will be even more troublesome at that time! Therefore, the minister thinks that it is better to seek truth from facts, as long as we pay homage to Xiaoling and take the initiative politically, then we will win steadily, and we don't have to engage in those crooked ways! ”

Zhu Hongsan felt right when he heard Jiang Yueguang say this, he was a little flustered by Zhu Youlang's side in the past few years, and he began to rush to the doctor. You must know that you are determined to be Liu Xiu, and Liu Xiu didn't say that he changed his household registration to Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, didn't he also succeed! It seems that I don't have to look too much at the bloodline problem, now this society has guns and an army is the uncle, and the bloodline has a fart!

Zhu Hongsan, who had made up his mind, nodded and said: "It's still Mr. Jiang's words that woke up the person in the dream, I was confused by Zhu Youlang's bastard just now, my bloodline is the most valuable, don't recognize Lao Tzu!" ”

Qian Qianyi originally wanted to be in the limelight, but he didn't expect to be interrupted by Jiang Yueguang, and he was very remorseful. Unexpectedly, Zhu Hongsan continued: "Mr. Qian, there is one more thing to trouble you, you need to write the sacrificial text of the filial piety, you are Tanhua, this kind of big thing needs a great talent to do!" ”

When Qian Qianyi heard Zhu Hongsan say this, he immediately turned his sadness into joy, and wrote a memorial for the emperor, which is a supreme honor, not to mention this kind of political programmatic memorial text.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will definitely write a flower cluster to satisfy Emperor Taizu Gao!"

"Also, don't write too much, try to use the vernacular, you know I don't know how to read!"