Chapter 110: Heavenly Collapse (End)

Shi Lang, a native of Jinjiang County, Quanzhou Prefecture, is the nephew of Shi Fu, a major general of the Zheng Group in the Zheng Zhilong era. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 In the early years, he existed in the Zheng group as Shi Fu's subordinate general, and later with Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, he was assigned to attack Guangdong under Li Chengdong together with his uncle Shi Fu. In the second year of Yongli, Li Chengdong anyway, the Fujian military generals were squeezed out by Li Chengdong's headquarters, and Shi Lang returned to Fujian and attached himself to Zheng Chenggong's banner, becoming an important general in Zheng Chenggong's early days. Until Shi Lang killed Zheng Chenggong's general Zeng De and fled to the Qing Dynasty.

Zheng Chenggong was strict, but it was very famous in history, Shi Lang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and Zheng Chenggong immediately killed Shi Lang's father Shi Daxuan and younger brother Shi Xian. However, some people in later generations artificially beautified Shi Lang, saying that Zheng Chenggong killed Shi Lang's family for no reason, so it led to Shi Lang's surrender.

Chen Wen previously asked Geng Jimao for two people, one of whom was Shi Lang, and handed it over to Zheng Chenggong to deal with to ease the contradictions between the two sides. Of course, for Shi Lang, who has not yet shown the dew and is under the fence of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Chen Wen originally had plans to dispose of it by himself, but it may be more meaningful to return to Zhao after pondering, so he asked Zhang Jun to give this guy to Zheng Chenggong.

Pitiful, General Shi Lang, the "national hero" who recovered Taiwan for "my Qing Dynasty", did not wait for his in-law Huang Xigon and Huang Xigon's in-law Yao Qisheng to make a fortune, let alone have no chance to be reused by the Manchu Qing with the help of the power of the two, he was betrayed by the shameless traitor Geng Jimao.

Zheng Chenggong looked at Shi Lang's gaze, and in Zhang Jun's words, he probably had the heart of the guy who ate the box raw. When Zheng Chenggong raised his head, his gaze at Zhang Jun eased a lot, and he was no longer the same as when he first entered the door.

"I'm tired of Captain Zhang waiting for a day, I have a letter that needs to be sent to your family commander."

"The last will obey."

With Zheng Chenggong's temper, Shi Lang was a dead end, and the next day, Zhang Jun didn't care about the crowds of people watching the execution, so he returned to Nanchang with Zheng Chenggong's letter.

After Zhang Jun went on the road, within a few days, the people who were heading north had also arrived in Shaowufu City and had a little rest for a day. The man in the box was taken out and tied to the execution table in the city.

It was none other than Wang Zhigang, the chief soldier of the left road of Manchu Fujian, who was escorted all the way, and it was here that he was to be punished.

Wang Zhigang is the murderer of Shao Wu's massacre, but the Manchu court still uses him as the general army of Fujian Left Road stationed here, and what he does in Shao Wu is only slightly inferior to Ma Jinbao in Jinhua, and there are many Wang Zhigang who repeatedly entered Jiangxi to assist the local green camp to encircle and suppress the anti-Qing rebels. It's just that in history, Wang Zhigang was also assigned to Liaodong because of the case of bribing the great eunuch Wu Liangfu with looted goods, and finally died on the road.

It had been twelve years since Yongli, and now, as early as four years ago, he had been brought back here, just like Ma Jinbao back then.

Under the execution platform, there was already a sea of people, and the gentry and people of Shao Wu had suffered for a long time, and they all hoped day and night that this guy would not die well. And now Shao Wu's guard Zhang Zisheng has placed the tablets of Jiangxi martyrs such as the late Jiangxi Governor Jiezhongxi, Dingnan Hou Cao Dahao, Ning Hongbo, Hong Guoyu and other Jiangxi martyrs next to the tablets of Shao Wu's martyrs.

"Xie Dashuai will avenge this blood feud for us!"

The time has come, Zhang Zisheng bowed to the tablet, and bowed to the direction of Chen Wenxing's camp in Ganzhou from afar, before issuing the order to execute Ling Chi to Wang Zhigang.

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Just when the two famous generals of "my Qing Dynasty" were framed by shameless traitors, the Jiancheng of Ganzhou, which had dragged the two generals of the Ming army to death anyway, could not defend it for even a day in front of the Ming army in Zhejiang.

On August 29 of the eighth year of Yongli, Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan who was responsible for guarding Fujian in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, announced that he would draw a clear line with the Manchus anyway, with the Yongli Son of Heaven as the main one.

On the same day, Hao Jiushang, the commander-in-chief of Chaozhou in Guangdong, announced that he would be the Son of Heaven of Yongli anyway, and declared that he would join forces with Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, Chen Wen, the Duke of Xiuguo, and Zheng Chenggong, the Duke of Zhangguo, to exterminate the Qing army in Fujian and Guangdong provinces.

On the first day of the ninth month of the eighth year of Yongli, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan who was in charge of guarding Guangdong in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was expelled to Huizhou by Shang Zhixin, the eighteen-year-old prince. Shang Zhixin, with the support of several generals such as Xu Erxian, the general of the Pingnan Domain, announced that he would return to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and that he would be the main son of Yongli, and at the same time began to discuss the division of defense areas with Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, and Chen Wen, the prince of Xiuguo.

At the same time, Shang Kexi, who was expelled by his son, led the soldiers who were still loyal to him after entering Huizhou, and soon connected with Huang Yingjie, the general soldier of Huizhou, and Wu Liuqi, the general soldier stationed in the north of Chaozhou, and continued to fight for the Manchus under the banner of the king of Pingnan, but in private, they successively made a pact with Chen Wen and Hao Jiushang, the two bordering forces, and made a non-aggression against each other, only Zheng Chenggong continued to maintain military confrontation with him, and on this day sent the Fuming Marquis Lincha to lead the naval division to Huizhou, and the target was some county towns, villages and towns along the coast of Huizhou.

After the loss of Fujian and Guangdong provinces, there were several forces one after another, and the city head changed into a miracle of the king's banner. And on the day that Shang Zhixin announced that he was anyway, under Xinhui City, Sun Yunxuan, a pirate from Huizhou, Guangdong, silently watched as they besieged Xinhui County, which had been besieged for two months but was still firmly in the hands of the Qing army, and only put up a white flag shortly after a fast horse drove in.

He is a native of Haifeng, Huizhou, his father is a pirate in Guangdong, he is also a pirate, he is good at tinkering with a firearm on weekdays, this time in response to the call of Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, and the governor of Liangguang to besiege Xinhui, in addition to the determination to oppose the Qing Dynasty, more or less also have the idea of being able to touch all kinds of firearms in Li Dingguo's army.

After arriving in Xinhui, Li Dingguo himself did not appear, only one general took more than 1,000 soldiers and horses of the Ming army headquarters in the southwest, two hundred war horses, and two war elephants to participate in the siege, and the others were all local rebels like them in Guangdong.

The siege lasted for more than two months, and it was impossible to conquer it for a long time, especially Li Dingguo, who did not rush to the city until two days ago to preside over the siege. Li Dingguo came in person, the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, and as a result, a messenger entered Li Dingguo's big tent, and the siege was stopped under the military order, and the messenger entered the city again, and there was the current scene.

The banner of the Qing army fell, the city gate was wide open, and the Xinhui defenders, who had been entangled with them for two months, and the two Qing troops who assisted in defending successively left the north gate of Xinhui County, passed through the opening specially opened for them in the encirclement, and withdrew to Guangzhou Fucheng, the provincial capital of Guangdong. After the Xinhui army left the city, it quickly played the banner of the Ming army, and Li Dingguo's headquarters entered with their rebels.

"Chen Dashuai, is this considered a win?"

The Chen Dashuai in Sun Yunxuan's mouth is Chen Liangce, a general of Linghai stationed on the two islands of Shangchuan Mountain and Xiachuan Mountain, one of the Guangdong rebel army, who had just killed Gai Yipeng, the chief soldier of the Guangdong Naval Division, and seized the sea control of Guangzhou Bay for the Ming army.

"What else can I do?"

"The king is really extraordinary, and he scared the Tartars away as soon as he came." Speaking of this, Sun Yunxuan hurriedly added. "If it weren't for Chen Dashuai's slashing of Yipeng's house and breaking their thoughts, it is estimated that it would have to be delayed for a few more days."

Chen Liangce glanced at Sun Yunxuan, this little pirate leader from Huizhou learned things quickly, but he had fought too few battles, and his combat experience still needed to be increased. In addition, if you are at the bottom, you know a lot less of the inside story.

"Brother Sun, this time it's not the king who is powerful, let alone Ben Shuai. To tell you the truth, it was the Xiuguo Gong of Zhejiang who forced the Shang family to fail, and Shang Kexi's son of the old bastard forced him away, and he took people to announce in Guangzhou that he was anyway, and agreed with the king to transfer Xinhui and Xinning County in the south to the king. ”

After that, Chen Liangce didn't care about the little pirate leader standing at the gate of the city, and rode his horse into the city with the army.

After a while, Sun Yunxuan, who had been holding his mouth open for a while, swallowed his saliva, and finally put his lower teeth back away, but the small drum in his heart was still banging.

"Being so far away in Zhejiang can scare the Shang family like this, my God, how majestic this Xiu Guogong himself must be."

Thinking of this, Sun Yunxuan realized that he had been standing here for a while, and the group of old brothers behind him were already impatient, so he continued to walk towards the city.

The military camp in Xinhui City has been emptied, half of which is left for Li Dingguo's headquarters and horses, the other half is left to a few rebels with relatively large strength, and the rest of the rebels and most of Li Dingguo's soldiers and horses are still stationed in the barracks outside the city. Although he didn't have many subordinates, he also mixed in with Chen Liangce.

Walking on the avenue of Xinhui County with Chen Liangce's subordinates, Sun Yunxuan looked around, and knew that Xinhui was one of the three richest cities in Guangdong Province, and the houses outside the city had been destroyed a lot in the siege war.

"Fighting, how can the officials have the time to clean up these."

I thought about this idea in my head, but when I looked closely, the cowering people in the alley near the left were all in tattered clothes, with vegetables on their faces, and they looked like they had been hungry for a long time.

"No, it's only been two months, why is this like this."

After thinking about it, Sun Yunxuan quickly blamed this phenomenon on the poor people he saw. When the city is besieged, it must be the poor who starve first, and this truth is justified wherever it goes.

Once he thought of this, the whole person suddenly brightened, but he didn't take two steps, but a man in tattered clothes and a man with the same face rushed out, and walked in front of him to give a salute.

"This general, Zhou Shixiang, a student of the new student association, asks to see the king of Xining, please ask the general for some advice."

"You say you're a showman?"

If it weren't for a careful look and found that although this man's clothes were torn, the original material was very good, Sun Yunxuan would never believe that this beggar-like man was a scholar who had preferential land and could speak in front of the county magistrate, and he was also a showman.

It's just that Sun Yunxuan didn't know that if the scene in front of him was delayed for a few more months, what he saw would no longer be as simple as ragged clothes and a vegetable-looking face.

Historically, the Qing army defending the city began to plunder the people in the city after entering the city, even the famous scholars were not spared.

Later, what was even more frustrating was that after besieging the city for several months, when there was still enough grain and grass in the treasury to support the reinforcements, the people were captured in the city for food, and for a time "the remnants of the land were more than 10,000." Mo Zhilian, Gongsheng Li Lingchang, Sheng Yu Hao, Lu Ao, Li Jiongdeng, etc. are all meat on the anvil", "Four days out of ten, the reinforcements lifted the siege, the horses in the city have surplus millet, the soldiers have left grain, and the remaining people have no chicken bones", "Cover since being surrounded for half a year, half of the starvation died, half of the food was killed, and half of the children were plundered. Heaven descends to mourn, and there are no such miserable people. ”

Sun Yunxuan was lucky not to see the hell on earth of that scene. And the Xinhui gentry and common people like Zhou Shixiang were not reduced to the misery of their parents, wives and concubines, and their children were all the food on the plate of the Qing army, and they were only robbed of some family wealth, which was a great luck in great misfortune.

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On October 13, after several months of trekking, Yue Leshuai, Prince An, who had been named the general of Dingyuan by Shunzhi, crossed the Yangtze River and marched into Jiangning City, the ruling center of Jiangnan.

The ceremony of entering the city was carefully prepared by Ma Guozhu for a long time, and in this unfavorable situation of Hong Chengchou's death and the fall of Jiangxi Province, it was always necessary to cheer people up and let the gentry and people in Jiangnan know that the Manchus had not abandoned Jiangnan. The army led by the prince of Manchuria had arrived, and it was even more to deter the gentry in Jiangnan and prevent the people from turning away.

For this reason, Ma Guozhu not only ordered the prefectures and counties south of the Yangtze River to send officials to greet them, but also invited the local influential gentry to welcome them, even Qian Qianyi, He Wangsheng and other figures who were said to be related to the anti-Qing rebels. There was even a special invitation to them to see the majesty of the Eight Banners of Manchuria with their own eyes, arousing their fear of being dominated by the Eight Banners Army.

Trekking along the way, it was the height of summer, except for Nikan's time, he was probably the only one who was so unlucky to lead the troops on such a day.

On the way, according to the suggestion of Prince Zheng of Heshuo Jierharang, Shunzhi added 2,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners of Manchuria and 2,000 to the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the number of troops was as high as 12,000. Among them, the leader of the two thousand Han army and eight banners is one of the original four towns in Jiangbei, and it is also the only remaining Guangchang Bo Liu Liangzuo, this person is a general, who went south with Boluo when he descended to the Qing Dynasty, and also followed Tan Tai to suppress Jin Shengheng a few years ago.

In this way, the 12,000 Eight Banners Army heading south, together with the 2,000 Jiangning Left Wing Four Banners led by Jiangning General Hahamu, and the 2,300 remnants of the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou led by Pingnan General Dasu, the Eight Banners Army alone has 167,000 people, which is already a rare heavy army group since Jiangnan Dading. What's more, with the cooperation of the green battalions in Jiangnan and Zhejiang, as well as the feudal troops in Fujian and Guangdong, Yue Le has great confidence in completely destroying the Ming army in Zhejiang.

On October 13th, the sky was just right, and it was not as rainy as when Duoduo entered Nanjing, and he was also very satisfied with Ma Guozhu's welcome ceremony, especially when he saw the Han scholars with money rat tails kneeling down to greet them, how comfortable they looked.

The master is happy, that is the greatest blessing of the slave, although Ma Guozhu is an important Han minister who has been promoted in the era of Huang Taiji, but the Han people are Han people, and the status of the Han military banner is not to mention the Manchurian Eight Banners, even if it is slightly inferior to the Mongolian Eight Banners. And he, a local governor, said that he was a feudal official, but he was still a slave of the Aixin Jueluo family. What's more, the boss just died unexpectedly, and whether the crime is or not depends on the meaning of this red prince, if you are not diligent now, will you wait to be thrown to Ningguta and then be diligent?

Passing the crowd of kneeling to greet them, Yue Le and Ma Guozhu, who were in the lead, would soon enter the city gate, and the next thing was nothing more than a banquet, bribery, bribery, and banquet, and when the army was rested, they could wait until Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao's response to the order was delivered, and they could go south in a big way.

Half a horse body behind, Ma Guozhu nodded and patted the young prince who was only half his age and patted those sycophants that had not been used for a long time, but the effect was still the same as back then, at least Yue Le was still very useful.

Unexpectedly, a moment later, a fast horse rushed over, and the knight was tired to death, and he didn't care about such a grand ceremony, so he slaughtered from the war horse dozens of meters away in front of Yue Le and Ma Guozhu.

"Protect the prince!" The soldiers rushed in front of Yue Le and lined up into a human wall. Yue Le behind the human wall couldn't help frowning, and asked Ma Guozhu, the landlord, "What's the matter?" ”

"Minion, let people take a look."

Ma Guozhu wiped the sweat from his forehead, waiting for the news of his own soldiers, but unexpectedly, the personal soldiers of the Governor's Mansion carried the knight over, and the knight saw him vaguely, as his chapped lips squirmed, and the hoarse voice calmed everyone present like thunder.

"Tell the boss of the army that he is the captain of the personal army of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. From the end of August to the beginning of September, the king of Jingnan, the prince of Pingnan and Hao Jiushang, the general soldier of Chaozhou, betrayed the imperial court successively. ”

As soon as the words fell, the captain of the pro-soldier passed out, and there was silence on the left, Ma Guozhu was stunned, and as Yue Le's whip slipped from his hand, this amazing news spread among the kneeling crowd at an unimaginable speed. Even if some of them had already received the news not long ago, it did not affect the common cry in their hearts with the others around them.

"The sky south of the Yangtze River in the Manchu Dynasty has collapsed!"