At the same time that Duoduo led the team out of Beijing, the adults of the Nanjing court did not know that a catastrophe was coming, and they were still racking their brains to find a way to defeat their political enemies.

The Donglin Party's gang of-stirring sticks just started to make a great tragedy case and a concubine case, and they saw that it had no impact on the eunuch party and Emperor Hongguang. So I'm going to have a big one, which makes up the fake prince case.

In February, someone secretly reported to Emperor Hongguang, saying that someone saw Prince Chongzhen appear in Zhejiang. This incident made Emperor Hongguang's three souls out of his body, and you must know that the legitimacy of Zhu Yousong's succession is that Chongzhen's sons are dead. And now that a prince is still alive, Zhu Yousong doesn't know how to deal with it at all (Zhu Hongsan said: Fart, these Donglin Party are really shameless, Chongzhen's three unlucky sons have all been killed by the master).

The appearance of the prince made Zhu Yousong very passive, and he had no choice but to order the eunuchs in the palace to go to Zhejiang to pick up the prince. At this time, Zhu Yousong's weak character was revealed, and he really took the prince to Nanjing on the first day of March. Zhu Yuanzhang in the grave was probably so angry that he was about to jump out, did Zhu Yousong forget how his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang treated Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming?

As soon as the prince arrived in Nanjing, he immediately became the focus of public opinion, and various factions held their own political goals, some saying that it was false, and some saying that it was true. In the end, Zhu Yousong had no choice, neither could prove that the prince was real nor fake, so he could only order Jinyiwei to be temporarily detained.

But this news reached Huguang Zuo Liangyu, and now Hou Fangyu has been with Zuo Liangyu for two months. The purpose of his coming was to ask Zuo Liangyu to send troops to the Qing Jun side and go to Nanjing to turn the eunuch party into a dead party.

But Zuo Liangyu is no longer a small soldier in the Chongzhen period, after years of conquest, he has more than 800,000 soldiers under his command, known as one million, and has become a big warlord.

Zuo Liangyu was not a good bird in the first place, when he suppressed the Liukou, he often headed both ends, saw that the enemy was weak, stepped forward to hit twice, and when he saw that the enemy was strong, he turned around and ran away regardless of his allies.

When Hongguang first established, he agreed to support the new regime under the persuasion of He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, because he had a heavy army and occupied the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the imperial court could not do anything about him, so he made him the Marquis of Ningnan and guarded Wuchang.

But at that time, the real meritorious heroes were the four towns of Jiangbei, Zuo Liangyu saw that the imperial court rewarded them with four towns, and he only gave a marquis who did not feel pain, Zuo Liangyu was very dissatisfied with Ma Shiying. In addition, Zuo Liangyu belonged to the Donglin Party, and at this time, the Nanjing Donglin Party was crushed to death by Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, so the contradiction between Zuo Liangyu and Ma Shiying was further deepened.

When his old master's son Hou Fangyu found him, Zuo Liangyu knew that the opportunity had come. But raising troops on the Qingjun side is a rebellion after all, and Zuo Liangyu can agree to send troops without being completely sure, so he has been perfunctory to Hou Fangyu.

However, things changed in March, and in February, Li Zicheng was kicked out of Shaanxi and had no way to come to Huguang. At this time, not only Zuo Liangyu's family was in Huguang, but also Li Chuang's general Bai Wang led 70,000 troops to garrison Xiangyang, and he kept pressing Zuo Liangyu (800,000 were pressed and beaten by 70,000 people, which is really enough).

At this time, there was also news of the fake prince case in Nanjing, whether it was nominally or Li Chuang's actual threat, Zuo Liangyu had to do something, so on March 23, Zuo Liangyu of Wuchang said that he was sent to Nanjing by the secret edict of the prince of the first emperor to rescue the driver, denounced Ma Shiying's guilt, and raised 800,000 soldiers and horses, claiming to be 1 million, and rushed to Nanjing downstream.

After Nanjing learned that Zuo Liangyu played the banner of the Qing monarch's side, the entire imperial court was divided into two factions. One faction is led by Shi Kefa, and they believe that the focus of defense is now on the Qing soldiers, and Zuo Liangyu's side is not to worry. The other faction is led by Ma Shiying Ruan Dacheng, they belong to the people named by Zuo Liangyu to kill, that can agree with Shi Kefa's strategy, they think that the four towns of Jiangbei should be mobilized to defeat Zuo Liangyu first, and then defend against the Qing army.

Zhu Yousong thought that Zuo Liangyu was on the side of the Qing monarch, but he was under the secret edict of the prince, and he had to clear himself as soon as he arrived in Nanjing. Therefore, he agreed with Ma Shiying's point of view and ordered Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo from the four towns of Jiangbei to be mobilized to block Zuo Liangyu on the north and south banks of the Yangtze River.

The development of events was completely beyond the imagination of the Southern Ming monarchs, Zuo Liangyu captured Jiujiang on the first day of April, and died of illness on the fourth day of April, so Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo all became useless.

However, the Manchu Qing in the north did not give the Southern Ming a chance, and Duoduo left Beijing in March, and the Qing army besieged Yangzhou on April 15. Shi Kefa was supervising the division in Yangzhou, sticking to the lonely city, when the soldiers and horses of the four towns were scattered, Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo were in the Taiping Mansion, and Gao Jie had been killed by the generals at this time.

Duoduo wrote five times, but Shi Kefa did not open the seal. After several days of siege, on the 24th, Duoduo ordered the Qing army to capture the northwest corner of Yangzhou at any cost. The Qing army swarmed to the sound of drums and artillery for the attack, and every time one Qing soldier fell under the arrow, another came up to make up for it. Soon, the corpses were piled up higher and higher, and some Qing soldiers were able to climb the walls without even a ladder.

After the Qing army attacked the city, Shi Kefa led the army and civilians to fight bloodily, but as the Qing soldiers increased more and more, the Southern Ming soldiers who defended the city also began to panic. They jumped off the city wall and fled, some of them fell to their deaths, and some of them died in the chaos in the street battles that followed. After seven days and seven nights of fierce fighting, Yangzhou City was captured by the Qing army, and the soldiers and civilians fought hard from one lane to another, and most of them died heroically. Shi Kefa attempted suicide and was captured by the Qing army, Duoduo persuaded him to surrender, Shi Kefa said: "I am a Chinese man, and I am willing to live!" I will survive the city, and I will die if the city dies! My head can be broken, but my will will not be bent! So he was heroic.

After the collapse of Yangzhou's city defense, the residents of Yangzhou City had no choice but to resign themselves to fate. Despite the heavy rains, some residents were busy burning incense, hoping to save their lives through this kind of active curryover. At the same time, they began to hide a lot of gold and silver treasures.

However, after the fall of this ancient Yangzhou city in the bloody storm, it once again faced an even greater catastrophe. Soon after the fall of the city, the commander of the Qing army, Duoduo, ordered the slaughter of the city in the name of not listening to the invitation to surrender. For a time, the prosperous fireworks alley has become a bloody slaughterhouse.

After the Qing army entered the city, they were led by the Han Chinese who surrendered from one rich household to another. The Qing soldiers first robbed the silver, and then plundered everything. The Qing army issued a notice in the city promising that those who had gone into hiding would be pardoned if they could turn themselves in, and many of those who had hidden in their homes came out. But when they came out, they were divided into piles of fifty or sixty men, and tied up with ropes under the supervision of three or four soldiers. Then he began to stab them with his spear, killing them on the spot, even those who fell to the ground.