Chapter 1: Whale Swallowing

Although the sentinels in the east of the city reported that thousands of Eight Banner troops fled from the Shence Gate in the northeast, it was the first time that the Eight Banner Army, as the core force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender to Chen Wen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

It is said that the fleeing Eight Banners Army was basically brought by Zilharang, and they had no relatives in Jiangning Mancheng, so they were unwilling to be captured. However, the current military strength of the Ming army, and the impact of that fiasco on their military morale are still extremely huge, especially the noble king like Zilharang has not been able to turn the tide, and the blow to them is really huge.

These Qing troops fled to those ferries downstream of Nanjing to escape back to Jiangbei by boat. The Yangtze River trend, the upper reaches of Nanjing came from south to north, and the Eight Banners Army was afraid of being intercepted by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so it chose the northeast direction that the Ming army could not besiege. Otherwise, it may be the case that the Germans tried to flee to Japan through Siberia, and the Eighth Banner Army fled upstream to the northern part of Huguang, which was controlled by the Qing army in Huguang.

In response, he had ordered the Ming navy sailors cruising the Yangtze River to sink all ships crossing from the south to the north of the Yangtze River, whether they were the Manchu Eight Banners, the Green Battalion, and the officials, or potential opponents who had fled to the Qing occupation to avoid Chen Wenfeng's attack.

The army entered the city, but Chen Wen was not in a hurry. Nanjing is such a huge city, it will take time to completely control it, and he has more important things, that is, to seek justice for those anti-Qing people who were killed by the Manchu government in connection with the Tonghai case, whether it is a real anti-Qing righteous person like Guizhuang, or a person who was framed for only having a grudge against the Manchu local officials.

Soon, the gentry in the city were brought by the Ming army entering the city to the execution site where the Qing army left the city under the guidance of the Nanjing Station of the Military Intelligence Department, and watched the ceremony with some of the gentry from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who followed the army, witnessing the scene of justice being served.

Zilharang's influence and appeal are extremely strong, and Chen Wen, who was surrounded by the Eight Banners, had no intention of sending it, in fact, the number of Eight Banners Army captured in the battle a few days ago was very small. As for the green battalion soldiers, there are quite a few, but Chen Wen does not intend to waste a batch of strong laborers of this scale, Nanjing has been recovered, and the mines in Ma'anshan have entered the plan, and the mines there are their destinations.

Nearly 1,000 Eight Banners from Manchuria, Mongolia and Han were escorted up, and the sacrificial text had been written before the expedition, and Gu Yanwu, who was in charge of drafting, finished the sacrificial text with tears. For him, this is not only a job, but also a commemoration of his old friends, especially with him, who has a strange and strange situation, and does not forget to let people talk to him when the situation is critical, and do not return to his hometown to return to Hengxuan.

At this moment, Gu Yanwu listened to Chen Wen reciting the sacrificial text loudly, and when the sacrificial text was finished, the word "kill" came out, and nearly a thousand big knives fell together. The skulls rolled to the ground, and as blood splattered out, the bodies that fell to the ground fell to the righteous places of those who had been killed, as if they were kowtowing to apologize.

"Hengxuan, have you seen it, Master Wang has recovered Nanjing, and Nanjing has been restored."

Gu Yanwu couldn't cry, the gentry from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who came with the army or followed the army were either weeping too much, or their faces were happy, but the gentry who came out of Nanjing City were mostly pale.

As for the completion of the ancestral hall used to commemorate the righteous men killed in the Tonghai case, Jiangnan should have been completely in Chen Wen's hands, and the Manchu officials who jumped up and down in the Tonghai case were indispensable for another round of blood sacrifice.

After the matter here was completed, the army also completed the control of the giant city of Nanjing, Chen Wen rode into the Jubao Gate, but a pagoda outside the city was the first to meet Chen Wen's eyes, and even as early as when he arrived, Chen Wen had already noticed this pagoda.

The glazed pagoda of Dabao'en Temple, the whole body is glazed firing, 78.2 meters high, ninety into the tower body, one hundred and forty-six ever-bright lamps inside and outside the tower, it has been the tallest building in China since its completion to decay, and it is also a miracle in the history of world architecture, and the Colosseum in Rome, the Grand Mosque of Sophia in Turkey, the Salisbury Stone Ring in England, the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, the Mausoleum of Alexander in Egypt and the Great Wall of China are listed as the Seven Wonders of the World in the Middle Ages, and are regarded as landmark buildings representing China by Westerners at that time and later generations. The most luxurious and flawless masterpiece of oriental architecture".

This pagoda is now more of a reflection of glass in the sun, brilliance is dazzling, Chen Wen originally from some literary works, in recent years have also heard some familiar mention, at night, the whole pagoda even in the bustling city of Nanjing, is also the most dazzling scene, soft light pours, like a miracle in general.

About this pagoda, later generations destroyed in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom war, Tianjing Incident, the North King Wei Changhui feared that the winged king Shi Da would hold a meeting to climb the tower to observe the movement of the defenders in the city, this loser directly ordered to destroy this miracle in the world, deserving to be unloaded by Hong Xiuquan to kill the donkey, five horses divided into corpses.

Chen Wen remembered that in his time, the Nanjing Municipal Government at that time put forward a plan for reconstruction, and even turned out a lot of treasures from the underground palace. As for what, he can't remember, after all, in that era, it seems that a lot of treasures can be turned out in the underground palace of the pagoda of a Buddhist temple, Chen Wen has seen the Leifeng Pagoda ruins on the edge of the West Lake before, and it seems that there is still a relict of the Buddha Shakyamuni in the underground palace, but he can't remember whether it is the sensational Famen Temple underground palace, or the glazed pagoda of this Dabao'en Temple.

Chen Wen didn't know that in fact, just last year, the Dutch East India Company sent an envoy to the group, and the sketch painter John Nihoman had depicted the Great Bao'en Temple and this glazed pagoda. If Chen Wen had recovered Nanjing a year earlier, he might have been able to meet this Dutch mission.

By this year, Niehommann's travelogue was published in Europe, and the glazed pagoda of the Great Treasure Temple soon became known to Europeans, and even later, the Treanon Porcelain Palace, built by Louis XIV, the Sun King of France, in Versailles 15 years later, was inspired by this pagoda.

Later, the British army, which had completed the first industrial revolution in the Opium War, disembarked one after another to visit Nanjing after arriving in Nanjing, and even all foreigners who went to Nanjing would make a special trip, which was a worthwhile trip. At that time, this pagoda, which was worshiped by Chinese and foreign people, was dilapidated due to disrepair and was no longer in its glory today.

"I hope that this pagoda can always stand here, just as the glory of Chinese civilization can only be looked up to by Siyi."

Riding his horse into the city and passing through the urn city, Chen Wen went straight to the yamen of the governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi, which would be where his line would be. As for the imperial palace in Nanjing, it has long been rebuilt into a full city in Jiangning, and Kangxi's article "On Passing Jinling" wrote: "In the past, the phoenix was majestic, but now it is ruined and ruined!" ”

However, in later generations, I did not admit that they had done the destruction of the Ming Palace in Nanjing, but claimed that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had done it. Chen Wen really couldn't understand that with Hong Xiuquan's arrogance and lasciviousness, assuming that the Ming Emperor's Palace was still there at that time, how could he go to rebuild the Liangjiang Governor's Yamen into the Heavenly King's Mansion. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, I didn't even have a brain to plant stolen goods in the Qing Dynasty, and it was really inferior to the next generation.

Of course, even if the palace is still there, it is inconvenient for Chen Wen to use it as a place to travel, and even visiting it is easy to be criticized by the world. After all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was still alive, and even if this great victory had broken the backbone of this barbarian tribe, as long as it was not completely destroyed for a day, he must not take it lightly in the slightest.

Chen Wen stepped into the governor's yamen, and the original owner, Ma Guozhu, had already committed suicide. According to the report, a large number of officials in the city have fled from the city in batches in the last two days, even the Green Battalion soldiers, Ma Guozhu has basically lost control of the decision of the Governor Battalion before this, and he can't manage it if he wants, plus the Ming army fleet locks the river, it is no wonder that Titicham will make such a decision.

The demolition of the city in Jiangning has been put on the agenda, and Liu Da, a professional household in the forced demolition, and his team have completed the demolition of the city in Hangzhou ahead of schedule, and Chen Wen plans to let him continue to Nanjing to supervise the demolition of the city in Jiangning.

For the recovery work in the upper and lower reaches of Nanjing, there are a total of six prefectures, Chen Wen plans to dispatch the Dalan Division and the Siming Division to divide the troops to attack, and it is best to look at the wind and surrender, as for the recalcitrant ones, it is as simple as that.

In the afternoon of the same day, two cavalry battalions and a mounted infantry battalion set out to pursue the Eight Banners router. After two days of repair, Chen Guobao and Ma Xin also led the army to march, but before that, the Taiping Mansion and Zhenjiang Mansion, which were close to Nanjing, had already recognized the situation. Chen Wen's condition for those green battalions was that they would accept the reorganization, and that they would be punished for participating in the Tonghai case and as reinforcements in the First Battle of Nanjing. In addition, it was strictly forbidden for them to intercept and kill the Eight Banners and rout soldiers, so as to prevent these guys from killing good people and causing greater harm to the surrounding people.

The good news came one after another, first the fleeing Eight Banners Army was defeated by the pursuing Ming army again in Changzhou Mansion, and then the wolf-like Ming army iron cavalry was even more victorious, the Eight Banners defeated the army on the one hand, and the Ming army had to fight with the Ming army in the case of chaos on the one hand, and the fleet of the Ming army on the Yangtze River was already waiting for it. Within a few days, the rout of the army that had fled from Nanjing was completely destroyed, and only a few hundred people were able to flee back to Jiangbei.

Next, the Taiping Mansion, Ningguo Mansion and Chizhou Mansion in the upper reaches of Nanjing surrendered successively, and the Zhenjiang Mansion and Changzhou Mansion in the lower reaches of Nanjing were also the same. When Ma Xin's army arrived at the city of Suzhou, Zhang Tianlu, the Manchu governor of Susong, who had made great contributions in the previous Battle of Nanjing, committed suicide by poisoning, and Zhang Zhongyuan, the governor of Jiangning, and a large number of officials surrendered.

The prefectures and counties south of the Yangtze River in Nanzhili have all recovered!

After the surrender of Chizhou Prefecture, within a few days, Fan Wencheng sent a large army to retreat westward and disengaged from the Ming army, and the threat in the direction of Huguang was easily resolved.

However, Sun Kewang did not send troops to harass him this time. Chen Wen didn't believe that Sun Kewang would suddenly discover his conscience and have feelings of forbearance for the country, but he also had no way of knowing what the reason for this was. Could it be that because his offensive was too fast, Sun Kewang couldn't react yet?

At the same time as the recovery of the south of the Yangtze River, officials and generals of the green camp in some prefectures and counties north of the Yangtze River also sent secret envoys to Nanjing to communicate with Chen Wen. Even some people who were eager to show their loyalty directly said that as long as the kings of Jiangsu and Zhejiang crossed the Yangtze River, they would immediately cut the whip anyway!

Now that the situation is very good, Chen Wen also has plans to send troops north. The Northern Expedition was far from time, once the Huai River was crossed, the harassment ability of the Qing cavalry skyrocketed, and if the problem of the grain route could not be solved for a day, he could not send troops for a day. After all, for Chen Wen, the Manchus were not the only threatening enemies and potential adversaries, and stability had to be the first priority. However, the Huainan water network is vertical and horizontal, and it can be attacked by troops first, as an advance base during the Northern Expedition.

Now that the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are in the hands of Chen Wen from Jiangxi, it is easy for the army to cross the Yangtze River, and he plans to wait for Chen Guobao and Ma Xin to stabilize the local area, and then transfer part of the army back to Nanjing to sit in the town, and then lead the army north. Anyway, with today's Manchu Qing Dynasty, they are not in a hurry for this moment.

Chen Wen sat in Nanjing, and a large number of gentry, remnants and anti-Qing people from the south and north of the Yangtze River rushed to pay their respects one after another. First, it is to celebrate Chen Wenguang's recovery of Nanjing and the miraculous feats of the two famous kings; secondly, you can take the opportunity of congratulatory congratulations to show your talents and prepare for becoming an official; At the same time, we will probe Chen Wen's tone to see what kind of inclination he has in the future, after all, this time is different from the past.

Compared with those people with all kinds of thoughts, Ping Yuan's idea is very simple, he left behind the righteous army and a few acquaintances from the shore of Taihu Lake, just to see with his own eyes this legendary figure who started from leading five hundred righteous troops for the people, and rose step by step to become the most powerful powerful feudal in the Ming Dynasty, that's all.

Nanjing, he has been here more than once, every time he will be this ancient city, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's Longxing land issued a heartfelt admiration, but this time, the Qinhuai River has long been no longer the song and swallow dance, but turned into a piece of grain and vegetable fields, but some of them even harvested but no one to do, can only be rotten in the ground.

The reason is that he heard the same year next to him say that the Qing army went south, Nanjing's status plummeted, coupled with the wanton slaughter, the prosperity naturally drifted away. As for the lack of gain, it was because of the Tonghai case, and Zilharang recruited a large number of auxiliaries for the army. There are no eyes on the battlefield, not to mention that the auxiliary soldiers often can't even eat enough food in the Qing army, but they also have to bear a high load of manual labor, and the loss of personnel is indispensable.

"In the next wind, the king of Huiji County vigorously restored the people's livelihood in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the old prosperity in Jiangnan should not take long to recover as before."

Pingyuan is very confident in Chen Wen, but most of the acquaintances in his peers are apprehensive, so that they think about it this time. For a while, there were few echoing voices, and everyone's faces were even more embarrassed.

However, at this cold moment, a carriage drove past them, and a familiar afterglow of Ping Yuan swept by, and he saw the old man and the woman in the window, and when he pointed to the carriage that was gradually moving away, he made a sound of "ahhhhh