The army crossed the Yangtze River and recovered the prefectures and counties of Huainan, and Yangzhou Prefecture bore the brunt of the attack. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Yangzhou Mansion City is located in the southwest of Yangzhou Prefecture, crossing the Yangtze River from the north of Zhenjiang Mansion City, but twenty or thirty miles away. The city is adjacent to the canal and has always been extremely prosperous and wealthy. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was even more full of flowers, businessmen gathered, industry and commerce and service industries were popular, and even the profiteering industry of Yangzhou thin horses was derived to meet the high standards of the powerful and wealthy businessmen in taking concubines.

Until the 10th of Yangzhou ten years ago, the massacre that lasted for 10 days and killed more than 800,000 people, Yangzhou's industry, commerce and service industries plummeted. There's no way, everyone has been killed by my Qing Dynasty, how can there be any karma.

Out of political considerations, Chen Wen set out from Nanjing, the army crossed the Yangtze River, Chen Wen took the Jinhua Division and the two cavalry infantry battalions of Flying Bear and Feathered Snake to the east and went straight to Yangzhou, while Li Ruixin took the Yongjia Division to the west, with the aim of occupying Luzhou, Anqing, Chuzhou, and Hezhou.

Most of the prefectures and counties north of the Yangtze River, especially those downstream on the Yangtze River, expressed goodwill to Chen Wen. It is nothing that the Manchus killed two princes in a row, after all, there have been examples of Li Dingguo and two famous kings, who knows if the Manchus will continue to go that kind of shit luck, but the large losses of the Eight Banners Army and the Northern Green Battalion, this is not a joke - a large number of losses in the core force, the Manchus rely on the decline of the hard power of the world's officials and green battalions, and it is normal for the people's hearts to fall to the side of the Ming army.

The army crossed the Yangtze River smoothly, and the officials and guards of Jiangpu and Liuhe counties, who had already announced that they were anyway, rushed to meet them, Chen Wen's treatment of them was very simple, the officials went to the civilian training class to return to the furnace, the green battalion accepted the adaptation, and those who were willing to return to their hometowns could also be appropriately issued travel expenses, and they all obeyed in the face of the strong strength of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and even cut their braids before asking to see, expressing their determination to draw a clear line with the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

On the same day, Li Ruixin sent troops to the west, while Chen Wen left a small number of troops and led the army to the east. The northeast of Jiangpu is Liuhe, and to the east of Liuhe is Yizhen County, which is subordinate to Yangzhou Prefecture, and the capital city of Yangzhou is east of Yizhen.

Everywhere the army went, the Manchu officials and the green battalion all cut their braids and put on the clothes of the Han family to open the city and surrender to Shun. Wherever Chen Wen wenwent, he left part of his army behind and went all the way east to the capital city of Yangzhou.

No different from Jiangpu, Liuhe, Yizhen and other places, the officials and green battalions of Yangzhou cut their braids early as soon as they got the news that the Ming army had crossed the Yangtze River, and knelt down ten miles out of the city to greet them.

Chen Wen did not embarrass them, and the disposal was no different from other people, and the officials, defenders, gentry and merchants in Yangzhou were all relieved. However, as a middle-aged Confucian scholar rushed out of the crowd and bowed down in front of the horse holding a book in his hand, the entire atmosphere of welcoming the army into the city immediately froze.

"Student Wang Xiuchu, the staff of the Huaiyang Inspector, the secretary of the military department and the scholar of Dongge University, dedicated the "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou" in front of the domain."

Shi Kefa's staff, Yangzhou Ten Diaries. As soon as this remark came out, the people present were either natives of Yangzhou or local magistrates, although they had not read this book, but they did not understand what the two were linked together. However, at this moment, this kind of thing happened before the Ming army entered the city, and if something variable, it might not be a good thing.

Everyone present had their own thoughts, and when they heard the words, Chen Wen immediately sent someone to invite Wang Xiuchu to come. The person who came was dressed in a common Taoist robe of Confucianism in the late Ming Dynasty, looked a little shabby, looked quite old, and looked full of sorrow, especially those eyes, the whites of the eyes were bloodshot, and it seemed that they had not slept well for a long time.

Wang Xiuchu handed the book to Chen Wen's guards, and when the guard turned around, he touched the book with a very fast hand, and after making sure that there was nothing hidden in it, he handed it to Chen Wen.

Holding it in his hand, the huge words on the cover were written by his own hands, and the book was very thin, but at the moment it was still in the ceremony of entering the city, and it was inconvenient for Chen Wen to see the end from the beginning, so he looked through it hastily, but the words that seemed to be written with blood still made him frown.

"The sound of killing is everywhere, where the knife ring sounds, the shouting is chaotic, and there are dozens or more than 100 people begging for their lives in unison; When a death came, no matter how many people in the south, they all bowed their heads and crouched, leading their necks to be stabbed, and none of them dared to escape. As for the children, they are crying and screaming, not to mention it. At noon on the sun, the more you kill and plunder, the more corpses accumulate, and the smell is unpleasant to your ears and unbearable to see. ”

"The fire is getting hotter, the trees in the tomb are burning, the light is like electricity, the sound is like a landslide, the wind is howling, the red sun is bleak, there is no light for it, and at present it is like seeing countless yaksha ghosts driving away thousands of hellish people and expelling them. In addition to being frightened, I was faint from time to time, and I didn't know that this body was in the world. ”

"On the fourth day of the first month, the sky was fine. The scorching sun is scorching, and the corpse is smoking. Left and right, burning everywhere, smoke like fog, fishy smell for dozens of miles. On that day, burnt cotton and human bones were turned into ashes to treat the sores of his brother; Weeping and unable to speak. ”

Similar passages abound in the text, and Chen Wen only read the fragments for a while, as if he was in the purgatory on earth back then, and even breathing became much more difficult.

The full text is only seven or eight thousand words, but Chen Wen just casually turned a few pages and couldn't read it anymore. In a trance, the massacre on Siming Mountain, the tragedy from Zhoushan, Wu Dengke's mention of Sun Yu's life experience and the Jinhua massacre mentioned by Li Yu later, and there are accusations from too many survivors such as Nanchang, Ganzhou, Shaowu, Jiading, Jiangyin, etc. Yangzhou Ten Diaries was just one of them, but the shock it brought him was no less than the tragedies he had seen with his own eyes.

At the end of the text, "suppressing the Jingnan of the Great Wall, and relying on the rebellion of the wolf's ambition, it is actually to install the old city; So the old nest spring swallow turned into another house Qiuhong, anti-guest-oriented. Those who have been famous in the world for more than ten years have been embarrassed so much! ", "Yu Youting Zhi Zheng Zi's words said: Those who are bad for the world in the northwest, Sun Gugu is also; The world in the southeast of the country is also a neighbor of history. "The revisionist of history said bluntly, and did not whitewash Shi Kefa because he was a staff member of Shi Kefa, and the remnants of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties used history books to whitewash and cover up the wrongs of the same party, and attacked political opponents at the expense of not hesitating to say anything.

Regarding Shi Kefa, Chen Wen knows very well what kind of person he is. He was honest and diligent, willing to die at the last moment, and had impeccable personal morality, but as a high-ranking official, he was in danger of social safety, and almost all of his decisions on military affairs were wrong, and he was inescapable of the collapse of the Hongguang Imperial Court.

Shi Kefa's failure just proves that the theory of "talking about the heart with no hands on weekdays, and repaying the king when he dies" can be described as extremely absurd. But in comparison, compared with He Tengjiao who is selfish and selfish, compared to those hypocrites who fight for power and corrupt state affairs on weekdays, but can't even die in danger, this incompetent gentleman at least has something to praise.

"Mr. Wang, please get up."

Wen Yan appeased one or two, Chen Wen then said to the Ming army officers and soldiers present, the officials and generals who surrendered to Shun and the local gentry and people: "Ten years ago, the Yangzhou massacre, this king has long known about it, and now there is more evidence from Mr. Wang's "Yangzhou Ten Diaries". Heaven and earth can be learned, blood debts should be repaid with blood, here is a great enemy, this king will be for the people in Yangzhou to repay the Jiannu! ”

"The king is mighty, the prince and prince of Huiji County!"

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At the same time as the cheers outside Yangzhou City sounded, the news that Chen Wen had killed Jierharang and took advantage of the situation to recover Nanjing also spread to all parts of the country at a very fast speed.

Two famous kings, the recovery of Nanjing, such a great achievement, whether it is the gold content of killing the Manchu princes, or the location of the recovery, the number of Qing troops annihilated, Chen Wen is already a well-deserved first person in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and it can even be said that since the Liao incident, there has never been such a famous general as Chen Wen, even Li Dingguo is much inferior.

At the same time, the death of Zilharang and the re-erection of the banner of the Ming Dynasty at the head of Nanjing, the momentum of the Manchu Qing Dynasty sweeping the world was completely reversed. While people are praising Chen Wenzhen's legendary experience in the past and present, the fear of the Manchu Qing is also constantly declining, and people in various places who were originally forced to resist the Manchu massacre have also begun to move, just waiting for the news of Chen Wen's large-scale northern expedition to come.

Half a month later, in the Qianqing Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the news that Jierharang was killed by Chen Wen in the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum was confirmed. The people present were all the magnates of the Manchu court, who regarded the Han people as pigs and sheep on weekdays, and their contempt for the Ming army had long been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, but now, except for Jidu, no one expressed their desire to avenge Yue Le and Jierharang. None of the people present were stupid, even Zilharang couldn't beat Chen Wen, let alone with their experience and ability.

"The imperial brother was killed by that Zhejiang bandit, and the imperial uncle was also killed by that Zhejiang bandit, don't you have anything to say?!"

Since the last Xiaozhuang persuasion, Shunzhi has always been on the verge of rage, and his temper is not good. The magnates present more or less knew some details, but at the moment they couldn't help it, so they quickly knelt on the ground and showed the six-character motto of "talk less, kowtow more" to the fullest, even Sony, which Shunzhi has always relied on.

In this kowtow of "slaves are incompetent, and the crime deserves death", Aobai, who is known as the first warrior in Manchuria, took the lead in making different sounds, and other magnates did not hesitate to enter a static state.

"Your Majesty, now our Qing Dynasty has reached the most critical juncture. Jiangsu and Zhejiang have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and they have been unable to make ends meet financially. The Eight Banners Army and the elite of the Green Battalion have also lost a lot in recent years, and now the morale of the banners is low, so it is really not suitable to send troops. ”

Aobai's admonition immediately aroused the echo of the other magnates, only Jidu was still angry and scolded these magnates as cowards, and repeatedly expressed to Shunzhi that he hoped to lead the army to avenge his father. However, when Shunzhi heard Aobai's words, he was like a deflated balloon, because he knew very well that what Aobai said was true!

"The most urgent thing in the country today is wealth. The annual income is 18.14 million, the annual income is 22.61 million, and the floating is 4.47 million. The state is so insufficient, all by raising soldiers. ”

This is a question mentioned in the transcript of Wang Mingyue in the ninth year of Yongli in the ninth year of Yongli. At that time, Li Dingguo was defeated by Xinhui and had retreated to Guangxi; Liu Wenxiu was defeated by Changde; And Zheng Chenggong is far from forming an army for the Battle of Nanjing. At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was still in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with an annual income of several million taels, but there was still a financial deficit of up to 4.47 million taels, and now Jiangsu and Zhejiang were lost, especially in eastern Zhejiang and Jiangxi, which were already gone last year, and now including Nanjing, Susongchang Town and Hangjiahu all fell into the hands of Chen Wen, although the cost of raising troops in the Manchu Qing Dynasty was greatly reduced, but the annual income was also greatly reduced.

As the saying goes, if there is no food, the soldiers will be scattered, and the war is not only fought by the combat effectiveness of the army, but also by the grain and grass. Now the finances are tight, looting along the way, and it is not impossible to feed the war with war, but the geographical advantage is lost, the morale within the Eight Banners is low, and more importantly, the strength of the Eight Banners Army has been sharply reduced, and it is difficult to do it even if you want to go on an expedition with labor divisions.

"The year before last, the four provincial capitals suppressed, the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison and the Eight Banners of the Han Army led by Shi Tingzhu, the eight thousand army was defeated in Jinhua, and less than 2,000 people escaped back; Last year, in the first battle of Siming Lake, 2,000 soldiers and horses from the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Mongolia and Han armies each went to war, and only more than 2,000 people fled back to Hangzhou, of which the main ones were the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the attack on Yushan deployed by Hong Chengchou's minions ended in a fiasco, and the southeast meridian standard formed by tens of thousands of northern green battalions was annihilated; And this year, Hangzhou and Nanjing were defeated in both battles, and there was even an invasion by the Haikou Bandits, and the four banners of the left wing of Jiangning in Jiangnan ......"

"Enough!"

Panting heavily, Aobai's detailed calculations of troop losses pulled him to the brink of drowning like aquatic weeds.

He has not calculated this account, since the rise of Chen Wen, the green battalion transferred from the north to the south has lost no less than 60,000, and now the number of veterans of the green battalion in various places can only barely support the defense of various places, and it is still in the absence of a big mess, and there is no way to transfer it in a few years.

In terms of the Eight Banners Army, the Han Army lost nearly 18,000 troops before and after the Eight Banners, including the Chen Han Army and the New Han Army, but the number was too huge, and it was nearly one-third of the total number of the Eight Banners of the Han Army; In contrast, the losses of the Mongolian Eight Banners were less, and the cavalry withdrew from the battlefield faster, but according to statistics, tens of thousands of Mongolian Eight Banners were also buried in Jiangsu and Zhejiang; Of course, for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the first two were vassal armies, and the degree of distress was limited, but the Manchurian Eight Banners also lost no less than 10,000 people in the three battles before and after, which can be said to be a devastating blow to the Manchurian ethnic group with less than 50,000 ding, and it can't bear it at all.

This is just Chen Wen, although the main opponent of the Manchu Qing in the past two years is Chen Wen, but Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong have not been idle, and the current Manchu Qing Dynasty can no longer even talk about foreign power and middle cadres, and there is only one step left before complete destruction!

The loss of troops and the inability to make ends meet are both big problems, but the bigger problem lies in the people's will.

When the Manchus entered the customs, they played the banner of revenge for Chongzhen, and militarily attacked the public enemies of the northern gentry and landlords, and tortured the Dashun army, coupled with the huge deterrent accumulated over the years, which was the main reason why they won the support of the northern landlord class, and even the destruction and decay when they went south also benefited from this.

But now, with the drastic decline of military strength and the reduction of the deterrent power of the Eight Banners Army, they are aliens and barbarians after all, as long as Chen Wenken shows some goodwill towards the gentry class, many of them will inevitably suddenly recall the concept called Yixia Defense. When the time comes, the north will be full of beacons, Chen Wen will take advantage of the situation to go north, and the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty can be calculated by the unit of day.

This is by no means alarmist, when the news of Zilharang's death came, some civil officials in the court raised the banner of Ding Wei, either the death of his father or the death of his mother, and even those who went directly to the seal did not even want the reward of the world. It has always been "the poor family produces filial piety, and the country is difficult to see loyal ministers", and now it is good, there is already a paragraph in the streets of Beijing, saying that it is my Qing Dynasty, and now it is "the country is difficult to produce filial piety, and the poor family sees loyal ministers", which is just the opposite.

joked, but showed the apocalyptic atmosphere to more people. Although this phenomenon is not widespread enough, and is mainly concentrated among the southern officials who have been hit by the Tongzhejiang case in recent years, and more people are still waiting and watching, the signs have already been revealed, and any disturbance in the south may cause even greater chaos.

Ao Bai, who incarnated as a data controller, worked hard, and the data obtained from the flags and cattle records were relatively real, but it made the powerful people present speechless, and even Jidu's spitting and scolding were blocked.

This time I wanted to discuss the next response, but in the main hall, the monarchs and ministers were speechless, but they couldn't find a solution anyway, not even any of them.

After a long time, looking at the request for Ding Wei on the imperial case, Shunzhi's eyes became more and more moist. Soon, the first tears crossed, and a sentence that calmed everyone present blurted out.

"I want to go back to Liaodong and hold Shanhaiguan. This Beijing city, if the Zhejiang bandits want it, they will give it to him. ”