In Zhenjiang City, the Qing army had less than 5,000 troops, and Wang Kefan also used all his strength to mobilize 20,000 Chu troops to launch a thunderous attack, and with the cooperation of Zheng's water division, it took only one morning to conquer Zhenjiang.

The main attack force had a total of four divisions, of which the 15th and 16th divisions had just completed their reorganization and came from Wang Jincai's Pingjiang battalion.

The Pingjiang battalion was originally the largest battalion of the Chu army, with a strength of nearly 20,000 troops, although more than 4,000 people were killed and wounded in the battle of Ningzhen, but there were still 15,000 people, of which the elite were organized into 15 and 16 divisions, and the remaining thousands were scattered to join other troops. The commander of the 15th Division was concurrently served by Wang Jincai, and the commander of the 16th Division, Tian Jianxiu, had just arrived in time to launch a general attack on Zhenjiang, and the results were very good, and the 16th Division was the first of the four main attacking troops to enter Zhenjiang City, defeating the defensive formation of the Qing army in one fell swoop.

The army pays the most attention to seniority, Wang Jincai brought out the most troops, so he is only temporarily serving as the commander of the 15th Division, and there will be appointments in the future, Tian Jianxiu is one of the best generals in the camp, but because the troops under his command have been exhausted, he has been responsible for miscellaneous work in the camp for the past two years, and this time he was transferred to the 16th Division as the division commander.

For the battle of the city, Tian Jianxiu obviously has a lot of experience, the cold weapon unit and the hot weapon unit are used together, the sword and shield battalion, the gun battalion and the musket battalion cooperate with each other, and the combat effectiveness of the 16th Division is brought into full play, among which the best is the second musket battalion of the 16th Division, they were the first to rush into the gap in the city wall, repelled the last counterattack of the Qing army, and killed all the way to the bell and drum tower in the center of the city, Ding Zongwang, the platoon commander of the third company and seven platoons, rushed to the highest floor, pulled out the battle flag of the Qing army, and planted the battle flag of the Ming army. The Qing army in the city soon collapsed.

In the ensuing battle to clear the remnants of the enemy, Ding Zongwang followed the second battalion of spearmen to capture the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, and more than 200 Qing troops stood in this building and resisted stubbornly, and were all wiped out by the 16th Division. After the battle, no one in the 2nd Spear Battalion cheered and celebrated, and they were all stunned by the miserable scene around them like a hell. The Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce is a large courtyard with three entrances before and after, dozens of large and small houses, and even a large stage, but at this moment there are corpses and stumps and broken arms of Han people everywhere, and some severed heads are hung on the walls and flagpoles, and the whole courtyard is diffused with a heavy bloody atmosphere, and with a smell of corpses, the smell is disgusting.

On the stage, there were rows of weapon racks on each side, and on top of each steel gun were several small corpses that had long been rotten and stinky, all of whom looked to be three or five years old. The naked women were full of horrific wounds, most of them were disemboweled, tied to the stakes of the stage and had been dead for a long time, but there was a mess next to the tables, chairs and benches under the stage, and wine bowls and wine jars and food garbage were thrown everywhere...... Ding Zongwang looked at the stage, and then looked at the audience, there seemed to be such a scene in front of him: a group of Eight Banner soldiers sat under the stage, drinking and applauding, watching the Han women on the stage being raped, killed, having their ears, fingers, chest, abdomen, and limbs cut off, dying and alive in unbearable pain, and what was even more painful was that they had to watch their children being killed by the Eight Banners.

There was a row of cells in the backyard, which was even more terrifying, all kinds of torture instruments were stained with blood, the walls had turned suspiciously black-brown, and there was a thick layer of flies lying on it, which could not be blown away, and the blood stains on the ground were even more obvious, and the entire courtyard was covered. There are not as many living people in these cells as there are dead, and there are still two or three hundred people alive, most of them are young and beautiful women, who were caught here by the Eight Banners to vent **, and they all looked dumbfounded under the cruel torture, obviously frightened. There were also many corpses in various corners of the cell, each of which died in a different way, with the only thing in common being that they were brutally abused before they died. Out of the open space in the backyard, the Chu soldiers found several "mass graves" full of corpses, where countless Han people were beheaded and buried alive, and the corpses were stacked in the pit layer by layer, and there were thousands of people in a big eye.

"These brutes, I'm going to slaughter them!" Ding Zongwang gritted his teeth, raised his knife and went straight to the Qing army prisoners who were squatting in the corner.

"What are you doing? Come back! Xiong Yuanzhong, the leader of the seventh platoon, grabbed him: "Lao Ding, you have made a great contribution today, at least you can be promoted to a company deputy, although you can breathe your anger after killing these beasts, you have to follow the food and hang, these beasts are happy, or keep them a dog's life, go to the cold water pit mine and carry stones to death." ”

"I just can't help it. I, I can't see this. Ding Zongwang's eyes were red, and he endured it again, and two lines of tears still burst out of his eyes: "In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, my family fled from the north, and the seven people walked to Huguang and I was the only one left, and the child, his mother, two sons and a daughter were all taken away by the Tartars, and it turned out that they died so miserably." ”

"It's not all like this, these Tartars are crazy, I'll try it." Xiong Yuanzhong is a native of Hubei, and after several years of life and death battles, Ding Zongwang from Henan has long become the most reliable comrade-in-arms.

Among the prisoners of the Qing army, the Eight Banners have been killed, and after these dozen or so green battalion soldiers surrendered their weapons and surrendered, they were taken aside according to the capture policy of the Chu army. Under Xiong Yuanzhong's interrogation, these green camp prisoners defended themselves one after another, did not participate in the torture and massacre, and asked the reason for the torture and massacre carried out by the Eight Banners.

"I don't know, since the siege of the city, the Eight Banners Tartars have become evil ghosts, there is no other fun except killing people every day, not only killing the people, but even our green camp is also killed, some brothers escaped from the city at night, and the whole team of brothers had to sit and behead, but the Eight Banners Tartars were all changed to Ling Chi, and the brothers were cut alive one by one with a knife, and even the hearts of the people were ......eaten."

In a desperate situation, the ugliest side of human nature was exposed, and the Qing soldiers knew that they would not live long, so they became even more crazy and tyrannical, eager to kill all the Han people and bury them.

Xiong Yuanzhong and Ding Zongwang discussed a few words, interrogated these green battalion soldiers separately, and quickly caught their flaws, in this massacre and torture, these green battalion soldiers are not as clean as they claim, whether they are actively participating or passively participating, they are more or less involved, and everyone has blood on their hands. According to their mutual revelations, the pock-faced man was particularly guilty, but he pretended to be innocent and was almost fooled out of the house by him.

When faced with the testimony of his confession, the pock-faced man was proved to be dead, but he was still desperately quibbling, Ding Zongwang was furious, stabbed him into his lower abdomen, and then stirred hard from side to side, until the pock-faced man stopped struggling and convulsing, and then slowly put his body down.

"This pock-faced man went on a rampage just now and almost hurt me, did you all see it?" Xiong Yuanzhong asked lightly, the few green camp prisoners hurriedly agreed, they were both scared and surprised, and they were still a little grateful to Xiong Yuanzhong, the so-called one does not do two endlessly, they have all heard of the Chu army's prisoner policy, but since Ding Zongwang has already killed the pock-faced man, it will be more clean to kill a few of them, Xiong Yuanzhong's words are equivalent to saving their lives.

After escorting the prisoners of the Green Camp down, Xiong Yuan patted Ding Zongwang on the shoulder and sighed: "Although it is a pleasure to kill them all, it always violates military discipline, so forget it." ”

"I'm too impulsive today, I'm sorry." Ding Zongwang's face turned pale, turned around and walked away, gathering his soldiers to clean up the battlefield and collect the corpses of Han people everywhere.

Xiong Yuanzhong looked at his back and sighed, today's scene is so miserable, he can't stand it, not to mention Ding Zongwang, who has a deep hatred of blood......

In addition to the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, there are many similar places in Zhenjiang City, where the Qing army slaughtered more than 20,000 Han Chinese during the two months of siege, on the one hand, to save food in the city, and on the other hand, to numb the nerves with brutal slaughter and hide the despair and fear in their hearts.

Soldier comrades will continue to grow and develop within the Chu army, tentacles are almost everywhere, Ding Zongwang killed the pockmarked man, it was originally an inconspicuous trivial matter, but the soldier comrades will hear the rumors, and immediately report to the military law team as an example of violating military discipline, after investigation, Ding Zongwang killed the prisoner, and immediately broke into the 16th Division station, took him away and locked him up.

Killing prisoners will not be able to resist their fate, but they will be severely punished, and the impact on the officers will be greater, if the nature is particularly strict, the possibility of a shot to the end is also existing, Ding Zongwang is just a platoon commander, such a case The military law team does not know how many cases have been handled, according to the usual practice, he was locked up first, and at the same time a handling report was issued, and Ding Zongwang was removed from his post and investigated.

No one expected that after this report was reported, it was actually beaten back by Wang Kefan, and he also made a handwritten comment on it - "Ruthless are all erections, and there are tears and heroes." ”

With the smooth implementation of the military reform, the wind direction of the rectification of military discipline finally calmed down, and the Chu army was disrupted and reorganized on a large scale, and the most important thing now is to stabilize the military discipline, no longer as strict as at the beginning, Ding Zongwang happened to catch up with this turning point, and after being locked up in the confinement room for three days, he was released unscathed, and he was still his platoon commander.

The 16th Division was temporarily stationed in Zhenjiang, Ding Zongwang and Xiong Yuanzhong lived in the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, and the soldiers of the two platoons worked for more than ten days in a row before they could barely clean up the Chamber of Commerce, all the corpses were buried and burned, the walls and the ground were repeatedly splashed with lime, and then washed with water repeatedly, and then the master was found to carry out a thorough painting and painting, and the whole yard was remodeled, and the original tragic situation could no longer be seen.

The bloodstains can be cleaned, the corpses can be buried, but the psychological wounds are the slowest to recover, the more than 200 young women are tortured, with different nervous disorders, after recovering Zhenjiang, they were all sent home by the Chu army one by one, but after a few days, they ran back one by one.

Some of their homes were gone, their families were killed by the Qing army, and their houses were burned down.

Some families are still there, but some are difficult to return to.

These women are all broken flowers and willows, and in the serious family, they will not allow them to come back to add humiliation to their families, even if they are reluctant to take them in for a while, they will inevitably suffer from all kinds of gossip, and the family will be under great pressure...... The atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty is very contradictory, on the one hand, it attaches great importance to etiquette, women are eager to hang themselves when they are touched, on the other hand, it is very open, the scholar sleeps in the willow is a very elegant thing, in the final analysis, women are just playthings, men go out to play with other women, of course, it doesn't matter, their own women must not have problems.

There were nearly three hundred young women, and more than half of them had come back.

Ding Zongwang and Xiong Yuanzhong tried their best to help them, but this kind of thing was more troublesome than killing prisoners, more than a hundred young and beautiful women stayed in the Chu army barracks, like yellow mud falling into the crotch of their pants, in case of a big trouble, it was not as simple as confinement. Ding Zongwang and Xiong Yuanzhong directly gave the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce to them, and took their soldiers to sleep at the base of the wall on the side of the road, every night, and never walked into the Chamber of Commerce lightly.

The matter was quickly reported, and it was very fast, and Li Runniang was sent to deal with the trouble.

Li Runniang's handling method was very straightforward, blocking all the two gates in the backyard and the front yard, the Chu soldiers lived in the front yard, and the women lived in the backyard.

At this moment, it is not so easy to see those women, in the two platoons of Ding Zongwang and Xiong Yuanzhong, many soldiers are stunned, they always like to stay by the wall in the backyard, even if they listen to the voices of those women, Ding Zongwang, the leader of the seventh platoon, came occasionally, and the soldiers hurriedly avoided them, but found that Ding Zongwang occupied the magpie's nest and stayed under the wall for an afternoon.

"Although these girls are pitiful, they are all broken shoes, and they are not worthy of you." Xiong Yuan came back and reminded Ding Zongwang not to go mad.

"Hey, it's not necessarily who doesn't deserve whom, I don't value this." Ding Zongwang pressed one hand on his cheek, touched a scar back and forth, and said: "Whether the daughter-in-law is good or not, I don't care about the three obedience and four virtues, the key is to live with you sincerely, if I marry another daughter-in-law, if I die on the battlefield in the future, she can be widowed for me for a year and go to get married...... Alas, my daughter-in-law used to be the best, but unfortunately it is gone. ”

Xiong Yuan nodded emphatically and diverted the topic: "Have you heard?" The 15th and 16th divisions are not in the same army, and Division Commander Wang (Wang Jincai) will probably become a military commander in the future, but our division commander (Tian Jianxiu) doesn't know yet. ”

Ding Zongwang was stunned: "Why not in an army?" ”

Xiong Yuanzhong shook his head: "I don't know, our old brother from the Pingjiang camp was broken up into frangipani this time, but fortunately, our brother's luck is not bad, and he is still under the command of Master Tian." ”R1152