Xu Dingbang heard Zhu Jiang say that he wanted to enter the city, but it was difficult, he received the order to protect Zhu Jiang, and did not say that Zhu Jiang's freedom was restricted.

Xu Dingbang thought about it and called the leader of the gang of people in the East Factory, and a hundred households came over to discuss what to do. That hundred households didn't have a good idea, and the order they received was to protect Zhu Jiang, and the other orders were not said. The two discussed and decided to listen to Zhu Jiang, after all, their orders were to protect him, not to put him under house arrest.

Xu Dingbang came over and said to Zhu Jiang: "Your Highness, the last general promised that you can go into the city to have a look, but you have to promise to listen to us and don't run around, it's really not safe to be in the city now!" ”

Zhu Jiang heard that Xu Dingbang agreed to his request, and nodded happily, saying that he would definitely listen to their arrangement.

Although the Qing army has now lost organized resistance, and the morale of the Ming army has been defeated here in Nancheng just now, there are still more than 50,000 Qing troops in the entire Yangzhou city. Xu Dingbang did not dare to be sloppy with his heavy responsibility, and arranged Zhu Jiang into the crowd of guards, and led a small team of more than 100 people to follow behind a company of musketeers and enter Yangzhou City.

There is a Wen River in Yangzhou City, which is a water system that leads from the West Lake, this small river passes through the entire Yangzhou City from north to south, and then flows into the canal here at the south gate. The Wen River divides the city into two parts, there are several bridges connected by the river, just now Wang Shixuan escaped and burned several bridges here in the south city, the Ming army had no choice but to go north first, first through Dongguan Street, and then through the north city in the west city, Yangzhou Mansion Yamen and two Huai salt transport division Yamen and other important targets are in the west city.

In order not to give the Qing army a chance to burn down the bridge, the new army in front of the company walked very fast and disappeared into the street after a while. Xu Dingbang looked at Zhu Jiang in the crowd, and there was no way to urge, so he could only take people and Zhu Jiang to walk slowly in Yangzhou City, which was full of dead people.

Zhu Jiang didn't want to go shopping, he was really stupid by the corpses all over the ground. Although the city of Yangzhou was slaughtered by Duoduo once four years ago, and the millions of people in the city were killed, and a few hundred people remained, but in recent years, Manchu officials transferred a large number of people from the surrounding counties, plus the canal transportation has not been cut off in the past few years, and commerce on the Grand Canal is prosperous, Yangzhou has also recovered some population in recent years, and now the whole city can have a population of 1780,000, plus the 60,000 garrison troops of the Qing army, this is more than 200,000 people.

Nancheng and Dongcheng have always been prosperous places of commerce because they are backed by the Grand Canal, with countless shops and restaurants, and Dongguan Street is known as Little Qinhuai. But now with the destruction of Yangzhou City, the soldiers and civilians in the city have once again ushered in a disaster.

It's not that Zhu Jiang has never seen dead people, and he killed a few pirates with his own hands when he killed pirates in Zhoushan a few months ago, but the scene of dead corpses everywhere like Yangzhou has never been seen in a dream.

Zhu Jiang looked at the dead people on the ground, most of them were ordinary people in colorful clothes, some were Qing soldiers wearing blue and black cotton armor, and a small number were Ming soldiers wearing red and blue military uniforms. Zhu Jiang asked Xu Dingbang beside him, "Chief Xu, were all these people killed by the Qing army?" ”

Xu Dingbang has been fighting for many years, this kind of scene is really trivial, he said as he walked: "It's not all, the Qing army escaped and killed some of them, and some of them were killed by the ten divisions, those guys were the Qing army a month ago, Jiang Blind really invested in order to fight hard, and let them plunder." ”

Zhu Jiang didn't expect that there were still his own subordinates killed here, and he asked dumbfounded: "Aren't these all our Ming people?" Why do you kill your own people? ”

Xu Dingbang was originally a rough man, he didn't know a word, and after joining Zhu Hongsan's new army, he was brainwashed, and he felt that whatever the emperor said was right, but he didn't expect that these people were still his own people.

Xu Dingbang was stammered by Zhu Jiang's question, and after thinking for a long time, he spit out a sentence: "They all have braids, naturally they are Manchu Tartars!" ”

Zhu Jiang was just about to say that the emperor had issued a holy decree in Guangzhou, whether he kept braids or not, he was a citizen of the Ming Dynasty and could not be killed for no reason, when more than 30 people rushed out of a house across the street.

As soon as Xu Dingbang saw that someone came out, he hurriedly stood in front of Zhu Jiang, and then saw that it was the new attached troops of the 10th Division. These guys probably got something good in this family, and they all smiled and smiled.

These guys came out and saw that Zhu Jiang's more than 100 people were wearing the clothes of the Ming army, and said with a smile: "Brothers, you are late, there is nothing in this house, go to the front and have a look!" With that, the guys grinned and ran to the other house.

Xu Dingbang knew that these guys didn't do anything good, but it wasn't good for themselves, and just after he relaxed, Zhu Jiang behind him said: "Sir Xu, I'm going to take a look at that house!" After Zhu Jiang finished speaking, he pointed to the house where the Ming army had just come out.

Xu Dingbang knew that there must be corpses all over the place, and said to Zhu Jiang: "Your Highness, let's go to the front, there is still a Qing army in front, and if you go in time, you can let Your Highness kill someone and open the meat!" ”

How do you know that Zhu Jiang didn't pay attention to Xu Dingbang at all, and directly squeezed through the crowd and walked into the house.

Xu Dingbang looked at the hundred households in the East Factory, and the two sighed, and there was no choice but to follow in.

This house is the residence of a salt merchant in Yangzhou, although Huai Salt has been squeezed out of shape by Guangyan in recent years, and the salt merchants have suffered a lot of losses, but the accumulation of hundreds of years still makes the salt merchants have some resistance. From this house, it can be seen that there is an ordinary portal outside the door, but when you enter it, you will find a different kind of Jiangnan garden. Between the pool, the mountain stone and the pavilion, or deep, or cheerful, or high, or low flat, the contrast is stark, the rhythm is changeable, in the limited space, according to local conditions, with the shape of the landscaping, produce the momentum of the deep mountains and Daze, close to the end of the world, intriguing.

The scenery was beautiful, but the dead man in the attic of the cloister spoiled this beauty, and there was not a single living person in the whole mansion, men and women, young and old, and some young women were stripped naked, and their lower bodies were in a mess, and they were insulted before they died.

Xu Dingbang knew that it was even more so inside, so it was better not to let Zhu Jiang see it. Xu Dingbang grabbed Zhu Jiang and said, "Your Highness, the smell of blood here is too big, let's go out!" ”

Knowing that Zhu Jiang had red eyes after seeing the dead man, he threw off Xu Dingbang and ran out of the door, distinguishing that the Ming army had entered the house just now, and then pulled out his horizontal knife and rushed over.

Xu Dingbang saw that Zhu Jiang was stimulated and knew that things were not good. He is old in the battle formation, and he knows that some people will change their hearts and do all kinds of outrageous things when they see so many dead people for the first time, but now the one who is crazy is the emperor's son, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, if Zhu Jiang is injured something, he is really sorry for the emperor's favor for his promotion.

Xu Dingbang hurriedly chased out with his subordinates, and saw Zhu Jiang running into a house.

As soon as Zhu Jiang entered the door, he heard the sound of begging for help inside, as well as the crying of women and the screams of women before they died. The group of Ming Jun was led by a squad leader, who was getting up from a woman, and when he saw Zhu Jiang coming in, he thought it was the brother of that part, and said with a smile: "Brother, you are late, but you like this to give you a refreshing feeling!" With that, he pointed to the woman on the ground who was still breathing.

Zhu Jiang saw that next to the woman was a two- or three-year-old baby corpse, with half of her head missing, and it seemed that it was the hands of these guys. Zhu Jiang couldn't control himself anymore, so he picked up the horizontal knife and slashed at the squad leader.

The squad leader didn't expect Zhu Jiang to say that he would do it, but fortunately, he only took off the armor of the lower half of his body just now, and the armor of the upper body did not take off, plus the quality of the plate armor of the Ming army was extremely good, Zhu Jiang's horizontal knife only cut through the plate armor and did not hurt the squad leader at all.

The squad leader jumped to the side, saw that he was not injured, and secretly called luck in his heart, stretched out his hand and pulled out the horizontal knife on the woman's body, pointed at Zhu Jiang and scolded: "You guy is crazy, Lao Tzu is kind enough to make you happy, and you still cut me?" See if I don't kill you! After saying that, the squad leader brandished a horizontal knife and rushed forward.

Although Zhu Jiang is tall, he is only fifteen years old after all, and he has been in the army for less than half a year, and he is the opponent of this group of veteran soldiers. At this critical moment, Xu Dingbang arrived.

Xu Dingbang saw that the squad leader was coming towards Zhu Jiang, and he didn't hesitate, took out a short gun from his arms and shot it. The plate armor of the Ming army is awesome, but it can't be used against muskets, not to mention that Xu Dingbang is less than two meters away from the squad leader. The 12-millimeter lead bullet of the musket, accelerated by the gunpowder, directly tore through the plate armor and the cowhide lining of the back, and made a fist-sized hole in the body of the squad leader.

After killing the squad leader, Xu Dingbang said to his subordinates behind him: "If you don't leave any of them, kill them all!" "These people are all veterans in the army, and the new attached army can't even fight in hand-to-hand combat, not to mention that everyone on Xu Dingbang's side is carrying two muskets. After a while, more than 30 people were shot and killed on the spot.

Now this place has belonged to the occupied area of the Ming army, and the gunfire quickly attracted a group of musketeers, and the company commander who led the team found that these people were fighting in the courtyard, and quickly raised his gun and asked loudly: "What part are you from?" Why are you fighting with others? ”

You must know that Zhu Hongsan's new army has extremely strict military law, and if you kill people in the army for no reason, you have to lose your head, Xu Dingbang was just about to speak, and the hundred households with him spoke first: "Don't shoot!" I'm a military judge, these guys are here to rob property and we see it, they want to kill people, but they didn't expect to be killed by us! ”

The company commander heard that it was from the Judge Advocate General's Office, so he put down his gun and came over to verify the identity of the hundred households in Dongchang, and then said: "In this case, please go to the Military Judge Advocate General's Office to prepare a case afterwards, and the general will leave!" "Actually, the company commander also knows that there are only more than 30 people over there, and more than 100 people here, unless the other side is crazy, how can he fight more with less? However, the company commander had already experienced the waist card of the Ming Judge Advocate General's Office, and it was not his business how this group of strange people explained to the Judge Advocate General's Office.