Two days later, on October 11 of the ninth year of Yongli, the day after the vanguard composed of cavalry and mounted infantry battalions approached Nanjing, the main force of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies arrived at the city of Nanjing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Nanjing Yingtianfu, now known as Jiangning, but for the Ming army, Jiangning is a title forcibly given by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is not available, and the official document has always been called Nanjing or Yingtianfu.

This is the place of Longxing of Ming Taizu, the early Ming Dynasty Hongwu, Jianwen and the early Yongle Dynasty of the Jingshi location, the Southern Ming Dynasty Hongguang Dynasty also relied on the administrative team of Nanjing to form a government in a very short period of time.

It's a pity that the Ming city wall of Nanjing took more than 20 years to complete in that year, and there were more than 40 large-scale repairs in the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the defenders first opened the door to surrender in the face of Ming Chengzu's Jingnan army, and then in the first year of Hongguang, when the Qing army went south, the Donglin gentlemen and nobles in Nanjing did not hesitate to surrender the Qing army.

Knowing these stories, Chen Wen sighed that Nanjing is the largest city wall in the world, but any foreigner who has been here will admire the scale of its city wall and the solidity of the city defense system. But it's a pity that there is no firm defender, no matter how strong the city is, it is useless, and the scene that happened in Liaodong and Liaoxi is the best precedent, and Nanjing is even more so.

It's just that the moment he sighed and saw this ancient city with his own eyes, Chen Wen's heart was also like the soldiers under his command, full of heartfelt amazement at such a majestic city wall.

From the inside to the outside, the city of Nanjing is divided into a four-fold city wall system of palace city, imperial city, capital city and outer Guo. The outer Guo is not less than a hundred miles, it is too huge, and it is difficult to defend it due to the lack of defenders. Just like Zheng Chenggong, Chen Wen arrived near the city, and it was also outside the capital on the third floor, but Zheng Chenggong came along the Yangtze River and camped in the north of the city, while Chen Wen went from south to north, and the army was in the south.

The city wall of the capital is built according to the geographical situation of mountains, lakes and rivers, which maximizes the addition of terrain to the city defense system. The city wall is more than 60 miles long, 14 to 26 meters high, and 7 to 30 meters wide, and the cavalry can run horses and maneuver on the city wall. City gates, urn cities, water gates, bridges, moats, Tibetan caves and even women's walls, city towers and other defensive buildings are readily available, which can be said to be the culmination of China's ancient city walls.

The palace city and the imperial city are located in the southeast of the capital, which is where the imperial palace is located, wrapped in the capital, at least Chen Wen wants to watch the palace outside the city, and he needs to climb high and overlook.

The army was arrayed in the south of the city, and Chen Wen had already received a report that the Zhejiang coastal patrol sailors had recovered Chongming and captured Liang Huafeng, and now this sailor was cutting off the Yangtze River channel with the detachment of the Jiangxi Poyang Lake Naval Division to prevent the Qing army from fleeing north.

The strategic goal was achieved, but the naval divisions and ships of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang were very different from those of the Ming army in Fujian, and they had never entered the Yangtze River channel before, and their understanding of hydrology was relatively low. In this era when there are no searchlights, no radios, and no steam engines, the term truncation is not a guarantee for such a wide channel of the Yangtze River. At least the day before yesterday and late yesterday night, there were ships heading north in the direction of Nanjing, especially the day before yesterday, when the sailors found out and caught up, only the last two were sunk, and on them were the old and weak women and children of the four banners of the left wing of Jiangning in Jiangnan.

According to the claims of the rescued, the main purpose of this smuggling was to transport the bannermen from Nanjing back to Jiangbei, and the ships that set off on the same day were carrying the Eight Banners Army, and the number of them together was about 1,000. , but probably because he was afraid of making trouble in the city, Ma Guozhu also knew that there were Chen Wen's secret agents in Nanjing, so in order to keep it secret, the women and children in the city did not dare to leave it, and they all set off in batches to the north.

On the first day, the patrols of the Ming army were greatly strengthened, and the smuggling of the Qing army turned into a forced crossing, and as a result, under the large ships and huge cannons of the Ming army, they were either sunk or sunk. All in all, there are very few people who can escape to Jiangbei alive.

After the encirclement was completed, the staff suggested that they should go to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum first, but they were immediately rejected by the other staff. The reason is very simple, according to intelligence, Zheng Chenggong went to worship the filial piety mausoleum after arriving in Nanjing, and wrote a poem: "Su Linjiang swore to destroy Hu, and the male master swallowed Wu with 100,000 anger." Try to see the moat throwing the whip crossing, don't believe that the Central Plains is not surnamed Zhu! ”

The momentum is magnificent, and it is indeed worthy of Guazhou and Zhenjiang, but Zheng Chenggong did not fail in the end, so they think that this is unlucky, and they still have to break Nanjing first.

Chen Wen also thinks that it is better to break Nanjing first, it is not unlucky or anything, but his style has always sought stability.

The army is arrayed outside the Jubao Gate, and behind it is Yuhuatai, where the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army regained Nanjing during the Xinhai Revolution and fought a major battle with the Qing army. And now, two hundred and fifty-six years in advance, the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang occupied Yuhuatai without a single shot, and Nanjing has been completely exposed to the soldiers of the Han king's division.

The green camp in the city is not credible, this is already the consensus of Jiangning officialdom. In the past few days, the generals of the green battalion in the city have not been less tandem, but I don't know if Ma Guozhu will go back to shit luck, so it is not too blatant now. But in this way, the only thing Ma Guozhu can really trust is these Eight Banners Army who fled back, and even the Northern Green Battalion, which also fled back from Lishui, didn't dare to believe it.

This time, the number of the Eight Banners Army was far superior to the last time Zheng Chenggong besieged the city, but it was more dangerous than the last time. At least last time, there were reinforcements that continued to arrive, all of them were formed troops, and now, Zilharang has been defeated, and the reinforcements are probably impossible to appear, just because there are many soldiers, the formations have been scattered, and the combat effectiveness has plummeted, and the mentality of fear of war is constantly improving with the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming armies getting closer and closer.

At the head of the city, the armor of the Eight Banners Army was sent to the head of the city without re-equipping, holding weapons, watching the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang showing off their might under the city, but trembling in the autumn wind like a piece of dead leaves.

Chen Wen is now a complete victory, and naturally has no patience for the Qing army in the city. Just with a wave of his hand, a Ming army herald out on horseback, approached the city and raised an iron horn to shout to the Qing army in the city.

"According to the express order of the imperial court, the rebellion of Jianzhou was crusaded, those who abandoned their weapons and surrendered were exempted from death, and those who resisted the king were killed. The king of my family said that such a generous condition is only one day today, and once the time passes, the army will not forgive, whether it is the Eight Banners, the Green Battalion, or the civil officials or small officials, the jade will be burned! ”

"Descend early!"

"Descend early!"

"Descend early!"

“……”

The herald said that he ran a few laps under the city, so that all the Qing troops in the city could see his appearance clearly and rode back.

The method of attacking the city Chen Wen had already planned, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom used the method of blasting to attack Nanjing, Chen Wen planned to follow suit, not only the Nanjing Station of the Military Intelligence Department had already marked the weak point of the Nanjing city wall, but even he even brought Zhao Qian, an engineer expert in the army, to let the Qing army see the power of this tactic hundreds of years in advance.

As an authority on engineers in the army, Zhao Qian cultivated batches of highly skilled engineers, but he never really used blasting methods in siege warfare. This is a big pity, after all, drills and blasting are not the same. But after all, this is Nanjing, the land of Longxing in the Ming Dynasty, and it will be blown up when it is said to be blown up, and the psychological burden can be said to be very large.

Zhao Qian was a little squirming, but Chen Wen didn't care. After all, the city was built more than 200 years ago, and it can be said that it is one of the landmark buildings of China in the eyes of Westerners in this era. It's a pity that it's blown up, and it costs money to repair, for Chen Wen, who is used to living a poor life, it is a cost to be able to spend a less.

A moment later, an officer of the Eight Banners Army, claiming to be the Four Banners of the Left Wing of Jiangning in Jiangnan, came to negotiate peace with Chen Wen.

"The garrison general as a messenger?"

In the Battle of Nanjing, Khakam was not like Guan Xiaozhong and Jiang Guozhu, who were guilty of meritorious service, nor like other officers who fought with the Fujian Ming army in Zhenjiang. Whether it was the face of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or the backstage operation of his people in the Manchu court, these Chen Wen are no longer known, but today, when Zilharang was captured and the Qing army was defeated, he actually dared to come out to bargain, which aroused Chen Wen's interest, and a new trick came out of his mind.

"Send someone to find the city wall in charge of the green battalion and shout and ask them to send someone down to talk."

The city wall of Nanjing is too long, and the Eight Banners Army has a lot of numbers, but it is not able to hold the city at all, so Ma Guozhu has to let the Eight Banners Army guard the city gate and the green battalion soldiers guard the city wall, so that they can not only share the military pressure of the Eight Banners Army, but also ensure the strength of the city wall.

"The last general has seen the prince."

Walking in front of Chen Wenma, Tikhamu bowed and saluted, and the generals couldn't help frowning, and Li Ruixin pointed at him with a halberd, and shouted: "Presumptuous!" Just a barbarian, seeing the respect of my emperor and the king of Ming County, dare to be so rude? ”

With a starter, all the generals were even more angry, but Chen Wen didn't care about it.

"Forget it, a barbarian, you also know our Chinese etiquette? You don't need to be familiar with this guy. He rode on his horse, looked down at the Titicham standing on the ground, and made a judgment, at this time he was entangled in etiquette, but he looked a little bullying.

Chen Wen said to the generals, and turned to Khakhamu and asked, "You Tartar are here to find a way to survive for the Tartars in the city?" ”

This is the proper meaning, Chen Wen's current victory is not comparable to Zheng Chenggong at the beginning. In the city of Nanjing, the four banners of the left wing of Jiangning in Jiangnan have been destroyed before, and the 20,000 Eight Banners Army brought by Jierharang, due to the success of Chen Wen's tactics, launched a siege of the Eight Banners Army in which Jierharang was sitting, although it was much less than a simple defeat to escape back to Nanjing alive, but every Eight Banners Army was a treasure for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, especially the Eight Banners of Manchuria was the absolute core force, and the loss of even any one was a weakening of the Manchu Qing's hard power, and he did not dare to ignore it.

"No, the last general is here to ask the prince for the best of both worlds for the lives of the Han people in this city."

Hearing this, Chen Wen frowned, and then sneered: "This king heard correctly, you Tartar is threatening me?" ”

"The last general will not dare, the prince is powerful in the world. But the dog will jump over the wall when he is in a hurry, and the minions in the city know that they will die, and they want to break the net. The slave is Ang Bang Zhangjing, who is the left wing of Jiangning in Jiangnan, and he can't control those slaves, but he has to be responsible for the old and weak women and children in the city, and he hopes that the prince will let go of these slaves for the sake of the women and children who have never harmed the Han people, and finally guarantee that as long as the Yangtze River is crossed, Ma Guozhu will definitely hand over Jiangning intact to the prince. ”

What Kaqam said is reasonable, his official position is very high, but he can't restrain other Niulu's minions. Now they can only use the people in Nanjing City as a threat, although the slaughter of the city is likely to cause the Ming army to enter from the outside, but if it is really a dead end, it is not abnormal to vent their bestiality before dying.

As for the women and children in the city, although they are also banner people, Chen Wen's style is not as cold-blooded as the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Those old and young soldiers who weren't your soldiers of the Eight Banners? Didn't the damaging tartars be raised by women? Won't the child turn into a man-eating beast in the future? Do you say that the old and weak women and children have not harmed the Han people? Are you telling a joke to this king?! ”

This result was beyond the expectations of Titicamu, Chen Wen was right, the Manchu Qing Dynasty started from Liaodong, it was established on the bones of the Han people, and everyone in this ethnic group benefited from this feast of barbaric conquest of civilization, not only the men who killed the Han people with their own hands, but also the bones of the millions of Han people in Liaodong were gone, they could only hide in the old forests of Liaodong and tremble, without the previous massacres and national oppression in Guannei, where did their current brocade clothes and jade food come from.

Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of 70 million Han people has dropped by more than half in just a few decades. The north can also be blamed on natural disasters, class oppression, and exiles, but Liaodong and Jiangnan were peaceful and peaceful before Nurhachi raised troops with the so-called Seven Hatreds and the Qing army went south, and the population of these places was sharply reduced, if not all, by more than 90 percent of the population of these places was caused by the Manchus.

Hatred has reached this point, if in the late Qing Dynasty, there is still a need to worry about international influence and foreign power interference, but in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, in the middle of the seventeenth century, the blood debt had to be repaid with blood!

However, the people in Nanjing are also the people of the Han family, and the national vitality has declined to the point where it is today, and it is always good to die less. After all, if the person is gone, it is really gone, maybe in the eyes of the superiors, these grass people are just a bunch of numbers, but Chen Wen, who was born at the grassroots, knows very well that no matter how humble a person is, he also has the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of ordinary people, and every decision of the superior may destroy the original happiness. Sometimes, a woman's kindness is not necessarily wrong.

"This king can give those women and children a way to live, according to the Eight Banners of Hangzhou garrison, and go to the coolie camp as slaves. Otherwise, the jade will be burned, and it is no wonder that this king is burned. ”

"Coolie camp."

When Kaqam heard this word, the corners of his mouth twitched a few times. The coolie battalions of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang were very famous in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it is said that those who went in could not come out alive, and some people even said that those military buildings in Zhejiang and Jiangxi used the corpses of the Qing army as materials.

Titicamu is in the high-level, he knows more, entering the coolie camp is not a dead end, working hard still has a chance to live, Zhejiang Di Bao previously reported that a former green battalion soldier named Wang Qinian worked hard in the coolie camp, commuted his sentence out of the coolie camp, and later became a supervisor.

But this is only for the Green Battalion soldiers, the Han Army Banner that was captured in the four provincial capitals the year before last was either sold to Zheng Chenggong by Chen Wen, or died of exhaustion in the coolie camp, and even there, the former Green Battalion soldiers bullied the former Eight Banners Army has become a way to please the overseers, which shows the bad living conditions of the Eight Banners Army there.

As for the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou, Kakam had heard of it, first demolished the city, then was used to clean up the West Lake, and finally entered the coolie camp, the specific situation is not very clear, but the gap he expected was too big.

"Lord Wang, the last general knows that entering the coolie camp is a dead end, aren't you deceiving people?"

Chen Wen did not answer Tikhamu directly, but a guard approached, Chen Wen smiled and nodded, and then a green battalion officer was brought closer.

"You dog!"

Tikkam recognized this person at a glance, this officer is an officer of the Jiangnan Governor, and his intentions can be known without asking.

The Nanjing Station of the Military Intelligence Department has also done a lot of work in the city in the past two days, but in the final analysis, there is not much hope, and now this officer came to talk about the conditions, but Chen Wen did not separate them according to common sense, but directly put them together, in order to make them have such a competitive heart among themselves.

"Look, this king is not the only one who can talk about conditions, if his conditions sound more interesting to this king, then you are useless."

The dominance changed hands, and Titicham had never done business, how could he know how to deal with this situation, and even if he knew, would Chen Wen, the commander of the Ming army who had done sales back then, still give him a chance?

"Lord Wang, the city gates of Jiangning are in the hands of our Eight Banner Army, and their green camp can't open the door!"

"If you can't open it, you can't open it, won't they stab you in the back when this king is attacking the city? And they are here, only you know, and the Tartars in the city don't know, how to guard against them, have you ever thought about it? ”

This is a dead end, the defenders have two hearts, the Eight Banners know and don't know, and the people who benefit are Chen Wen. When the officer of the green battalion came over, Chen Wen's guards ordered him not to say anything when he came, otherwise he would be dead. Now that Chen Wen is using competition to force Tikkam into a corner, it will not be difficult to do the rest.

"The last general is willing to return to the city to convince the other Eight Banner Army."

Tikhamu had nothing to do, so Chen Wen let him go, as for whether Tikhamu went to fight with the green battalion soldiers after returning to the city, or really surrendered in Kaicheng, the Qing army died, anyway, Chen Wen would not care.

After a long time, the cavalry monitoring the east of the city reported that a large number of the Eight Banners army had fled from the east of the city. At the same time, the gate of Jubaomen was wide open, and a large number of Eight Banners below Titicham came out, discarded their weapons and armor in front of the Ming army, and knelt down to ask for surrender.

The ending was already doomed from the beginning of the fiasco of Zilharang, seeing this, Chen Wen gave an order, and the Ming army tied up all these Eight Banner Army, and at the same time, the morale of the army entered the city with high morale.

"Throw these tartars aside, this king will keep his word."

After that, Chen Wen pointed to another group of Eight Banners Army captured on the battlefield behind the battle, and shouted: "Come on, pull these Tartars to the place where they killed the righteous soldiers who resisted the Qing Dynasty with the Tonghai case, and behead them all, so as to comfort the souls of the loyal ministers and righteous soldiers in the sky!" ”、

(Volume 5, Tongyun Crushes the City, End)