At this time, the land in various places is cleared, and the population clean-up work is gradually carried out, looking at the statistics on the figures, Yang Xuan was surprised, there are 1.56 million households in Hubei, and there are more than 800 households (according to the Daming household register, there are 780,000 households in Huguang Province in the 14th year of Hongwu, 4.6 million in the mouth, 770,000 in the 24th year of Hongwu, and 4.7 million in the mouth, which is less than half of Jiangxi Province. However, during the Ming Dynasty, the Huguang area has been developed, and there is a saying that the lake is familiar with the world, and the Huguang area was filled in four (Sichuan) at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, which proves that the Huguang area was quite populous in the late Ming Dynasty.

Combined with the fact that there are 65 million people in Hunan today, and 57 million people in Hubei, far more than the 44 million population in Jiangxi, it is inferred that even if there is a war, the population of Hunan and Hubei should also exceed the population of Jiangxi), and its population is more than four (Sichuan, after encountering Zhang Xianzhong, Haoge and other disasters, four (Sichuan population is only more than 6000000, more than 2.4 million quintals of land every year, more than 800,000 silver coins of Ding Fu, and 1.3 million silver coins of Shang Fu, according to the proportion of sharing, Every year, 1.3 million quintals and 1.15 million yuan of silver coins need to be handed over to the Shu royal palace for military purposes.

While the local government offices were set up to clean up the mouth of the lake, clear the land, and implement the new policy, the war at the front continued to move forward.

In the months following the capture of Wuchang, the various corps on the front advanced by leaps and bounds, and continued to retire the front before the Tartars could react.

By October of this year, the 10th town of Jin Tongwu had occupied Wushengguan and controlled more than ten counties in the Dabie Mountain area, as well as the Chenbing Huaixi area.

Liu Wenxiu, the secretary of the Privy Council, led his troops down the Yangtze River, defeated Yue Lesuo's department three times in a row, and now has occupied Ezhou and Wuxue, and the army has entered Jiujiang.

In the remote battlefield, Li Dingguo, the privy envoy, led his troops to defeat Xu Yong, who was stationed in Changde, and walked out of Xiangxi.

By early November, Yang Xuan was convening a privy military council to discuss future strategies.

After the occupation of Wuchang, there were two kinds of arguments in the upper echelons of the Volunteers.

One strategy was to continue the eastward crusade, invade the south of the Yangtze River, capture Nanzhili before the Tartars completed the counterattack, and then capture Fujian, Zhejiang, Huguang and other places.

The other is to attack Huguang with troops, completely remove the threat of the Tartars to the southwest region, and then raise troops to march eastward.

The strategists and generals below were arguing, and for a moment and a half, Yang Xuan was difficult to determine.

At this moment, he suddenly saw a horse in front of the carrier gate turning over and dismounting, Yang Xuan fixed his eyes and saw that the person who came turned out to be Wang Guoxi, a guerrilla general in the 12th town.

Led by a guard, Wang Guoxi came to the front of the seat with a dusty face, knelt down and cried.

It turned out that at the same time that the loyal and righteous army captured Wuchang City, Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming captured Guangzhou, and created the appalling Guangzhou Massacre.

Since the third year of Yongli (A.D. 1649) in October, the puppet Pingnan king Shang Kexi, the puppet Jingnan king Geng Jimao led the army to kill the city of Guangzhou, the people of Guangzhou under the leadership of Du Yunhe, the governor of the two Guangxi provinces in the Southern Ming Dynasty, everyone could not defend the city.

Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming was the first to lead the army to attack the city, but the city wall of Guangzhou is quite tall, and the Tartars have always been not good at attacking the city, after two days of fighting, the Ming army in Guangzhou City killed Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming attacked, and tried to protect the city gate.

In this case, Shang Kexi had people dig a wide trench around the city gate of Guangzhou to surround the city, and on the other hand, he cast cannons on a large scale.

On August 1, the fourth year of Yongli, the Qing army concentrated 73 artillery pieces to bombard the northwest corner of the city wall of Guangzhou.

By the next day, a miracle finally appeared, and the solid city wall of Guangzhou was blown down, with a large opening of more than 30 zhang.

Shang Kexi, who had been waiting for a long time, personally led the Qing army death squad and rushed into the city of Guangzhou.

In this way, Guangzhou was lost, and Du Yonghe had to lead thousands of troops to board large and small ships and withdraw to Qiongzhou on Hainan Island.

According to the memoirs written by the Italian missionary Wei Kuangguo, in this completely Han massacre, more than 200,000 men, women, and children died tragically under the knives of their fellow people.

At the same time, the "lonely traitor" Kong Youde also launched an attack from Quanzhou, and in August of the 4th year of Yongli, Kong Youde led his troops to kill Guilin, and Cao Zhijian and Jiao Lian were left guarding Guilin.

Cao Zhijian led the army to meet the enemy, and was defeated in successive battles, killing nearly 10,000 people, and his headquarters was also forced to the middle of the mountain.

After defeating Cao Zhijian, Kong Youde led his troops to continue to approach the city of Guilin.

At present, the only people who can take on the important task of guarding Guilin are the Dian army under the founding prince Zhao Yinxuan and the patriotic prince Hu Yiqing.

But Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing thought that He Tengwling, who was kind to them, was dead, and everyone had no obligation to use blood and life to defend the "no friendship" Guilin who stayed behind Qu Shiyun, and the two pondered and decided to lead their troops to the loyal army in Guizhou, and were reorganized into 4 troops by Yin Chengzheng

The Yunnan army's escape without a fight made Qu Shiyun so angry that he beat his chest and scolded: "The imperial court usually serves you with high lords, and the people feed you with anointed blood, but today you scattered and fled without a single arrow, and you can know that there are gods three feet above your head."

After scolding, Qu Shiyun decided to repay the country with death, and took wine and drank with Zhang Tongchang, and then was captured by the Qing army who swaggered into Guilin City on September 5.

But Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang showed the integrity of traditional scholars, and they were bent on death, and they didn't dare to kill them when they saw Kong Youde, and finally resorted to a counter-plot to let Kong Youde kill them by themselves.

After the loss of Guangzhou and Guilin one after another, Nanming suddenly fell into an unprecedented crisis, and many speculators jumped out one after another in order to get the last piece of the pie.

First of all, the general of Emperor Yongli, the prince of Qingguo, who pretended to pass on the holy decree, saw that Qu Shiyun was dead, and Qu Shiyun's general Xuanguo Gongjiao chain had fallen, regardless of the pressure of the barbarian Qing army, together with his son Chen Zengyu, in the name of banquet guests, killed Jiao Lian, who came to visit, annexed his subordinates, and became the strongest and most powerful warlord in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Chen Bangchuan's annexation action attracted a lot of upright generals to criticize, and some of them wanted to treat Chen Bangchuan's crimes, in this case Chen Bangchuan suddenly sent troops to prepare to kidnap the Yongli Emperor, so retreat can Yongli Emperor as a gift to the barbarian Qing, his own high-ranking officials Houlu, into can hijack the Southern Ming court, in order to order the princes.

However, Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang was a natural escape emperor, and found an abnormality during the march, and immediately led the guards to escape from Chen Bangchuan's round-up and fled in the direction of Nanning.

The loss of Guangzhou and Guilin was already very shocking, but now it broke out that the Southern Ming army was infighting, and Chen Bangchuan sent troops to kidnap Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang, and everyone was in an uproar after hearing it.

Zhao Ronggui, the squire of the Military Administration, shook his head and said: "If our information is correct, Du Yonghe and Li Yuanyin have an army of 100,000, how can they trap the lonely city and let the Tartars easily break through the city of Guangzhou?"

Also, Cao Zhijian also has an army of 20,000, Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing also have an army of 10,000, Jiaolian has an army of 20,000, Chen Bangchuan has an army of 30,000, Sun Kewang has an army of 20,000, and the Ming Dynasty has an army of 100,000 in Guangxi. ”

Wang Guoxi sighed and said: "Squire, you don't know that the Nanming army is mostly old, weak, women and children, and less than half of them can really withstand a war, and even fewer can be regarded as elites, how can they be like our loyal and righteous army, all of them are carefully selected loyal people."

The prince formed a loyal and righteous army, and most of the soldiers in each department were elite dead soldiers, and we could all take the lead on the battlefield, but Nanming's group of old soldiers were not like this, and they often ran far away before the battle. ”

Yin Chengqi touched the half of his beard and said, "Lord, looking at it this way, the Ming Dynasty is dead."

Let's talk about it, just after returning to Wuzhou from Zhaoqing, he didn't want to make progress, and immediately purged it, and deposed Yuan Pengnian, Jin Bao, Meng Zhengfa, Liu Xiangke and others.

After Qu Shiyun was killed this time, Chen Bangchuan immediately annexed Qu Shiyun's army, and Nanming's behavior was chilling.

Prince, the main force of the three Tartar kings is besieging Liangguang, and the prince should lead the main force eastward, occupy Nanjing, cut off the Yangtze River, and block the return of the main force of the Tartars.

Qian Bangqi shouted: "Lord, the king of Tartar Sanshun has gone against the grain, and the prince should save the people from fire and water."

The Eastern Crusade is absolutely impossible, and such an act will affect the reputation of the prince.

Although we all know that the Ming Dynasty has died four times in a row, the prince has always regarded the Ming Dynasty as the right Shuo, and we have the name of the monarch and the Emperor Yongli.

Now that Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming's army is pressing, and the emperor is in a predicament, the prince should be helped by the righteous teacher, so that the whole monarch and the ministers are righteous, and they also set an example for the ministers of the world.

Besides, the Tartars had gathered heavy troops in the south of the Yangtze River, and if they attacked rashly, they would be besieged by the enemy, and the outcome would be unpredictable. Weichen planned for the prince, and implored the prince to lead his troops to the south to relieve the siege of Liangguang.

Yang Xuan's thoughts rolled, and he suddenly walked down the steps to hold Qian Bangzhi's hand, claiming that the barbarian Qing Tartars, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming's troops are all beast armies, and since entering Middle Earth, they have burned and killed, and they are frenzied, and they are not as good as beasts.

In order to boost morale, Yang Xuan dictated the regulations on the disposal of the beast army of Tartar, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming, and after enumerating their crimes one by one, he ordered that all the captured beast soldiers be tried, and those who were found guilty of massacre were all beheaded.

Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao led their troops to slaughter the people of Guangzhou, frenzied, no different from beasts, and ordered Yousi to arrest the two of them, and execute Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao Lingchi.

Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao slaughtered the city against the civilians of the Han Dynasty, and the nine clans of his family were all among the unforgivable.

Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao's subordinate officers above the general level, annihilated the conscience, lost the hearts of the people, slaughtered the people, birds and beasts, except for those who proved that they did not directly participate in the massacre, they were all sentenced to beheading, and when the conditions were ripe, there was a division to arrest them and bring them to justice, and they were sentenced to justice.

Under the memorial tower, imitate the kneeling statue of the Yuewang Temple in Hangzhou, cast the bronze statues of Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao and other culprits with copper and iron, and let them kneel there forever to apologize to the people.

The Criminal Affairs Department was notified to set up a special task force to conduct an open investigation into the crime of Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao in massacring the people of Guangzhou, and to compile the investigation report into a book to alert future generations.

For those who are less serious, they are to be castrated, cut off their thumbs and other punishments, and their families who accompany the army are sold as slaves and maids, and women are used as camp prostitutes.

Originally, I thought that this kind of regulation would be quite controversial, but everyone thought of the various massacres of the Tartars, and thought of the nasty rat tail, and shouted one by one.