"Wucheng captured the southwest corner, and the heads fell like rain in three days."

On the city gate tower of Tongyuan Gate, under the banner of the Jinhua Ming Army, Chen Wen silently recited this painful poem written by Li Yu, a talented man from Jinhua Mansion who was still communicating with him not long ago, six years ago.

In the first year of Jianguo Lu, on July 16, 1646, the Qing army collapsed the newly built west city wall, thus entering the city of Jinhuafu and creating the tragic massacre.

As the old lord of this city, even Cao Conglong knew about it, even if he hadn't crossed paths with Li Yu, it was impossible for Chen Wen not to know the problems that existed in the west city wall.

From the beginning of the Qing army's southward capture of the city, the Manchu government in order to deal with the huge anti-Qing army, as well as heavy taxes, grain, forced labor and other tasks, but also to feed the greedy and shameless officials from the top down, coupled with what Ma Jinbao did after moving to the town, for the officials of the city who did not dare to increase the extortion of the local area, lest it would cause a greater civil uprising, the repair work of the city wall was too burdensome.

And after Chen Wenguang recovered Jinhua Mansion, the fortifications of Anhua Town occupied too much manpower, material and financial resources, and the repair of the city wall was delayed again and again.

At this moment, the enemy army has lost its fear, and there has even been an obvious division and disintegration, and even several main generals have given up resistance and chose to surrender on their own. Since the psychological warfare was quite effective for the enemy forces in the city, Chen Wen did not plan to collapse the city wall again to recruit himself black.

The detachment led by Chen Guobao had entered the city with the help of Nei Ying, and the troops and horses led by Chen Wen had already collected various points according to the established plan. Originally, Cao Conglong was called over to be able to capture him in the area of the west city wall, but who would have thought that this guy would abandon the army and run away, and now he can only hope that Chen Guobao can stop him halfway.

It's just that since the troops guarding the western city wall have surrendered, the overall situation is completely doomed. About only a little more than an hour has passed, and the various troops that have entered the city have reported one after another that the key points that need to be controlled have been taken by the Ming army, and many of the rebels and officials who participated in the rebellion have been taken down in various yamen, Sun Yu's family, the unrebellious officers, non-commissioned officers and a small number of officials who are locked up in the prison, and the military families who are imprisoned in the barracks have also been rescued, and the resistance encountered by the troops entering the city can only be described as negligible.

The opponent has only been in the army for half a month, and the results of the training are really not very good, if the battalion directly under the town can't even settle these rookies quickly, then Chen Guobao and the training officers who participated in the training of the army can go home and farm, Chen Wen asked himself if he can't bring this level of pit goods.

Since all that remained was the work of searching for the fish that had slipped through the net, Chen Wen led a team to escort the captives into the city. Along the old road where Cao Conglong had rushed to Tongyuanmen, Chen Wen turned from the street leading directly to Tongyuanmen to Xishi, and then followed the avenue all the way to the east, to the old nest of Cao Conglong, not far from Dongshi, the Zhejiang Governor Yamen. If nothing else, the Governor would have been there.

The battle in the city was not fierce from the beginning, but along the way, the houses and shops also chose to close their doors, probably still waiting for the issuance of the notice of the people, and at the same time, they were afraid that these two Ming troops, who also served Lu Jianguo as the orthodoxy of the emperor and Ming, would be killed, so that they would end up ruined.

Chen Wen entered the city from the Tongyuan Gate, he vaguely remembered that in history, the Qing army swarmed in after knocking down a section of the city wall in the west, and the city towers in the north and south fell successively, and the defenders of Jinhua fought hard and fought bloody street battles. Zhu Dadian's wife, concubine and daughter-in-law committed suicide by throwing themselves into a well with their grandchildren one after another, and more than 20 members of the family were wiped out, and Zhu Dadian and his subordinates and staff also set fire to the powder magazine and martyred the country. After the Ming army headquarters was blown up, the remaining defenders remained steadfast and resisted, retreating to the last position, Dongshi.

To the east of Dongshi is the Gaoshantou Cliff and the Dongyang River, where the defenders made their final resistance six years ago, and finally refused to surrender under the persuasion of the Qing army, and all the heroic martyrs were in this last position.

Subsequently, the Qing army carried out a brutal massacre under the command of Aixinjue Lobolo, and the Romance of the Southern Ming Dynasty recorded that eight out of ten people were killed, and Chen Wen also heard a theory that more than 50,000 people were killed by the Qing army. The exact number is unknown, but the ruins of the city that have not been cleaned up for years tell the story of that period of history.

Without Chen Wen, it would have taken more than two hundred years for this city to completely get rid of the rule of the barbarians. However, with the appearance of Chen Wen, history was rewritten, and the city returned to the banner of the Han family five years after the massacre, but the ensuing Cao Conglong Rebellion also caused her to suffer two consecutive war disasters in less than a month. The only thing to be thankful for is that the scale of the battle is relatively small, and the two sides are quite restrained, and there is not much involvement in the people in the city, that's all.

Chen Wen didn't want to say anything about nirvana, fate, etc., he just wanted to arrest Cao Conglong and ask this second-class master: Is it surnamed He, is it the product after He Tengjiao's internal fighting dog and his wife have two or three things!

However, when Chen Wen arrived at the governor's yamen, he received the news that Cao Conglong was indeed missing, and he had not returned at all since he left in the morning.

"It's not good to fight, it's quite a good way to escape."

After not doing all the work for a while, Chen Wen had to hope that the culprit could be found in the capital city that had closed the eight city gates with the cooperation of Sun Yu, who had regained his freedom, and he still needed to finish the unfinished business.

Except for a limited number of officials who participated in the rebellion who chose to commit suicide, the rest were put in prison by the counterinsurgency army, waiting for the judgment that would come, appeased the three garrison guards of Lanxi, Wuyi and Jinyun County who chose to go anyway under the contact of Zhang Jun and others, and reaffirmed the principle that they would not be blamed for the past, but they also forfeited their military power as agreed and sent them back to the old camp to be training officers. These officers exchanged their actions for a chance to live, but it was impossible for them to lead the troops alone, but on the contrary, the garrison judges in their respective armies had to be beheaded for public display, just like the garrison judges in Tangxi County.

Next, after a discussion with Sun Yu, who had regained the prefect's rights, Chen Wen went to appease the imprisoned military families, and after dinner together, it really reassured these military families who had been scared for a month. It's just that the words "Your daughter, it's really amazing" left to Zhou Jingting and the father of the Zhou family's little sister when they left still startled the family.

After a busy day, it was not until late at night that Chen Wen temporarily freed himself from the panorama of rebellion formed by the military orders issued by Cao Conglong and the intelligence gathered by the governor's yamen, and went to the prison cell of the Fubiao battalion officers who were from the Baitou Army of Luo Chengyan to decide on other matters.

"Although you are not a member of my Jinhua Wang Division, you are not considered a traitor, but the blood feud of those subordinates who killed me cannot be counted like that. Before leaving, Zhou Xiaoniang and her brother had urged Ben Shuai to be more tolerant of Luo Chengyan's white-headed army. Therefore, Ben Shuai decided that, except for General Ni, everyone here ......"

"All have to die!" (To be continued.) )