"Jiashen changed his surname and spent seven years begging for death. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He Gu Shengmin, and then suffered six poles. Blood spattered on the streets, and ants gather to eat. The hungry bird pecked at the intestines and flew up to the north of the city. The north wind is a cow, and the skulls are piled up. Or like a pagoda, or like a mountain. The five elements are exhausted, there is no wisdom and no foolishness, no nobility and no cheapness, and they are all in the same area. ”

What Chen Wen saw was the snow-like hill outside the eastern city, which is said to be the hill piled up by the monks left behind by the Qing army after the Guangzhou massacre to transport the corpses in the city and burn them, and those white soil are not any dust, but actually the ashes of 700,000 unjust souls in Guangzhou!

The so-called common mound is the name of this columbarium mountain by the people of Guangzhou. According to records, pedestrians who came and went to Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, as long as they passed through the east gate, could see this hill formed by the accumulation of ashes two or three miles away, and looked at it like a pile of snow. Chen Wen was holding the telescope at the moment and looked at it from a farther distance, and he could still see it clearly, and he could even see the blood coming from six years ago through this snow-white.

"If you go back to Your Highness, it's the same mound."

In the fourth year of Yongli, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao besieged Guangzhou in October, and the university scholar He Wuyu had organized Chen Qice, who was still the general soldier at that time, to lead the army to send troops to contain it, but the result was defeated by the Qing army in Sanshui, and Sun Yunxuan had been in Chen Qice's army for two years, and he had heard of it.

On the first day of November of that year, the Qing army concentrated artillery bombardment of the northwest corner of the city wall. The next day, the city wall has been collapsed for 30 zhang, Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao personally went to the front line to supervise the battle, and commanded the Qing army to attack the city from Quekou.

"The massacre lasted from November 24 to December 5. They brutally killed men, women, and children, and they said nothing but "Kill!" Kill these rebellious brutes. ”

A missionary at the time wrote the above words, and the "Chronicle of the Continuation of the Ming Dynasty" also recorded that the Qing army drove the people who escaped from the city to the sea and drowned.

The tragedy of the Guangzhou Massacre was no less tragic than that of Yangzhou. Qing Xiu's "Panyu County Chronicles" mentioned that after the killing of Ding Youyi and his wife, the Panyu warden, when describing the tragic situation of the "Gengyin Catastrophe": "In the past day, the abandoned children crawled next to the corpses, still sucking their (mother's) milk, and all the passers wept. "The tragic situation of a dying baby, out of instinct, looking for the dead mother and sucking the corpse is unbearable.

"It's been six years."

Chen Wen sighed, at the same time as the Gengyin catastrophe six years ago, it was the Qing army's large-scale attack on Siming Mountain that he achieved an unimaginable victory in the midst of the fiasco. At that time, his strength was weak, and what he could save was only the more than 10,000 people in Siming Mountain, and maybe more people could escape because of this, just like Chen Guobao and them, but he couldn't prevent more people from dying from the butcher's knife of the Qing army. Guangzhou, on the other hand, was even more out of reach for him, and even if he was really in Guangzhou at that time, it would be difficult to prevent this tragedy.

"I can't bring the dead back to life, but at least, I can avenge the dead."

After looking at it for a while, Chen Wen led the team back to the camp. This time, he brought out a cavalry battalion in order to check the deployment of Shang Kexi's troops on the outskirts of Guangzhou. A cavalry battalion of thousands of iron cavalry, Chen Wen did not play the banner of the king of Yue, Shang Kexi's troops were insufficient, and he did not dare to provoke easily, and the Guangzhou side did not dare to go out easily, but let Chen Wen bypass the outermost village, and vaguely watched through the telescope to the east gate of Guangzhou.

"According to the intelligence of the Guangzhou Station of the Military Intelligence Department, the circumference of Guangzhou City is 3,796 zhang, and the height is 2 zhang 8 feet. The south of the city is adjacent to the Pearl River, which can be based on the river water; The west and east of the city have a moat. Regardless of the urn city, the city gate tower, and the fortifications should be complete, it is no accident that Du Yonghe was able to stick to October again. ”

The current city of Guangzhou was built in the Ming Dynasty, not only the three cities of Guangzhou in the Song Dynasty were combined into one, but also the southern city was added, and the northern city was extended, and the urban area was expanded by more than half than the original three cities. This most important town in southern China was not only called the southern library of the Son of Heaven in the Ming Dynasty, but also very strong.

During the Southern Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou fell twice, the first time was Shaowu and Yongli to fight for the throne, Shaowu sent the army to fight against the army of the Yongli Dynasty, and put an empty city in Guangzhou to be attacked by Li Chengdong, which was not the fault of the city, all of which were man-made; The second time was Shang Kexi's attack on Guangzhou, besieging the city for ten months, and finally relying on artillery to collapse the northwest city wall to break the city.

"Guangzhou Chengjian, Shang Kexi also deliberately divided troops within a few miles outside the city, or according to the mountain, or by the flow of water, and directly built in the villages and towns outside the city. Its intention is obvious, it is nothing more than to delay the advance of our army. ”

The General Staff Department has analyzed before, Chen Wen and a total of four divisions marched into Guangzhou, not to mention the combat effectiveness, the strength alone has already gained the upper hand, not to mention the troops, the cavalry of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies are at a disadvantage in all the battles before defeating Jierharang, even now there is no way to compare with the Manchu Qing who are loyal to the north and Liaodong and the Mongols in the south and the north of the country, but compared with these warlords in the south, they still have an advantage, Geng Jimao is like this, and Shang Kexi is no exception.

"The total amount of cavalry under Shang Kexi's department cannot be compared with our army, and when our army recovers Dongguan and Zengcheng counties, and the back road is safe, the means he can use will be even more lackluster. In the final analysis, it still depends on the attack and defense of the city. Our army has large mortars specially made for siege, which is advantageous, but this battle also has two points that are not conducive to our army, one is time, and the other is temperature. ”

Time, it is obvious that all the generals present have already received the military information that Shang Kexi asked for help from the Yongli Imperial Court and Sun Kewang. In the final analysis, the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is still the Ming army, and the Yongli is the main one, and the edict of the Son of Heaven is coming, whether to attack or not to attack will indeed cause some confusion in the hearts of the army.

As for the temperature, everyone here knows even better, Guangzhou is already hotter than Zhejiang, and now it is late April, and the soldiers have changed into thin summer military uniforms. In this kind of weather, don't think about the armor, just say that a few months in the summer season is enough to make people scratch their heads.

"We don't have so much time to spend with the surname Shang, starting tomorrow, we will capture Guangzhou within three days!"

"The last general will obey!"

Three days, in fact, have passed the half month that Shang Kexi said. According to Chen Wen's estimate, from Shang Kexi's letter to Shaozhou Deputy General Zhang Wei, it is shown that the day after tomorrow is actually the last day of the half month that Shang Kexi said. From Chaozhou to Guangzhou, the two places are more than 700 miles apart, if it weren't for the fact that Shang Kexi's cavalry was too small, and the main force was still on the way back to Guangzhou, plus Chen Wen dragged Chen Qice to escort those heavy artillery that would slow down the army's marching speed, the two compartments were intertwined, Chen Wen would never have arrived in Guangzhou so quickly.

It is one thing to arrive, and it is another thing to break the city, but if you want to attack the city, you must first pull out the other villages outside the city where Shang Kexi divides the army, and pull out these nails before the army can reach the city.

"The key to tomorrow is in this red flower granite."

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Honghua is located in the eastern suburbs of Guangzhou, and there are a total of six other villages outside the city where Shang Kexi's headquarters is located, which is the last village that Chen Wen planned to attack, but it is also the most important one, and it is also the most solid one.

Before dawn the next day, Zhang Zisheng's military intelligence to recover Dongguan and Zengcheng came one after another. It is one thing to regain the main points after the flank, but the main forces of the Luling Division, the Yuhang Division, and the Minzhong Division have not yet arrived. Regardless of Chen Wen, he didn't continue to wait, so he took the cavalry battalion that had arrived in advance of these three divisions to cooperate with the Four Ming Divisions, which were the main force, and marched towards the first village outside the city.

The army approached this outer village, and the defenders in the stockade had already discovered that there were too many cavalry in the Ming army, and they had no choice but to continue to sit in the lonely village.

The officer headed by Shang Kexi was born in a pro-soldier background, and the time he was released was not very long, not even two years, so it can be said that he was a cronie general among the cronies. With the historical achievements of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies, the probability that this stockade can hold on for a day is not very high, but this officer still took the initiative to ask for help and led his subordinates to stick to this place.

"Brothers all know that this will be the prince's personal soldiers, in Liaodong it was the prince who gave food to eat before he starved to death, and even the general's wife was entrusted with the prince's blessing and care to be able to die peacefully in this troubled world. The general's life was given by the prince, and he will die here today to repay the prince's great kindness! ”

The Ming army outside the stockade was still in formation, and the officer drank all the wine in the bowl, and then smashed the porcelain bowl on the ground. The officers were like this, and so were the officers and soldiers under his command, and the soldiers who were clamored were told before the battle that the Ming army outside the city had no habit of keeping prisoners, and they simply broke the jar and broke it, and the morale was high for a while.

It didn't take long for the Ming army outside the stockade to be ready. The officer climbed the wall of the fortress with great difficulty, and the stockade he was in was a mixture of earth, wood, brick and stone, and it was impossible to say how strong it was. Since Shang Kexi's planned defense center was Guangzhou, his stockade was guarded by a lot, but the artillery was far from being able to compare with the Ming army outside, and there were only a few artillery pieces transported from other counties. However, in the final analysis, it depends on organization and morale, and he is still somewhat confident in these two points.

"It may be hard to hold on for half a day, and the six villages have three days, and the angels should be able to arrive."

The officer secretly made up his mind, and at the same time shouted loudly to boost the morale of the guards of the garrison. The Ming army outside the stockade did not let him wait long, and soon launched an attack on the stockade.

The sound of cannons rang out one after another, and the shells came at a gallop and bombarded the wall. In an instant, the officer standing on the wall only felt that the ground was shaking, and then the center of gravity was unstable and fell on the wall.

Just the first round of shelling, the village was blasted out of a few holes, and at the same time as the second shelling, the battle formation of the Ming army also began to form a formation to kill other villages......

A moment later, the army defending the village either died or surrendered, and the only officer left was this officer, holding his slashed belly in one hand and pointing diagonally at the Ming army in front of him with his sword in the other.

"It would have been ......"

Before he could finish speaking, a spear stabbed straight into the throat, twisted and withdrawn, and the action was done in one go, and the officer immediately fell to the ground with a bang. There was an order from above that even the firemen did not have to participate in the work of cleaning up the battlefield, and handed it directly over to the auxiliary soldiers of the army. The soldiers of the brigade withdrew from the stockade in an orderly manner, and the firemen mended each corpse in the back. A recruit from Huainan cut off the officer's head, and the nausea began to lessen a lot, and then spit on the officer.

"Phew, I thought I was a hero when I was a dog for Shang Kexi's fake Tartar."

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The first stockade took only two rounds of artillery bombardment, and the infantry took it almost in a single charge, which was really a lot of strength. Chen Wen silently looked at the stockade with a telescope, then stuffed the telescope back into the holster and boarded the war horse.

At this time, Ma Xin, who was in charge of the command, said to those officers of the General Staff Department: "The plan you have formulated is too conservative, a division besieging a stockade of several hundred people, and now even the mortar and Hongyi cannons are not used. There is no need for one battalion to attack the village and two battalions to send reinforcements. Now reformulate the plan, the next three villages, the Nantang battalion, the front battalion and the rear battalion will divide their troops to attack, and we don't have so much time to spend here with Shang Kexi. ”

"Then what if Shang Kexi sends troops to help?"

The staff officer was still doing his best to think about the operation, but Ma Xin shook his head, and then said: "According to this stockade, the first five stockades, whether in terms of structure or location, are all used to delay time, and it is possible that the only one who can send troops to rescue can only be the last Honghuagang. Don't forget, we have a lot of cavalry now, and Shang Kexi can't save it, and he doesn't have the guts. ”

The job of the staff officers is to make plans according to the will of the commander, and since Ma Xin has this confidence, they can only formulate the plan as quickly as possible, and let the changed tactics be reflected through the heralds.

Without the expectation of the letter, the next three stockades did not waste any strength, and even after attacking the set goal, the Nantang battalion still had the spare strength to take down another stockade not far away.

In the first five villages, the most fierce resistance was the first, and two of the next four villages were garrisoned by Wu Liuqi and Huang Yingjie's soldiers, and the remaining two did not fight hand-to-hand for a while like the first village after the stockade was bombed. Carefully calculated, it seems that what delayed the time of the Ming army was the formation and march.

The rapid attack of the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang surprised all the defenders, Shang Kexi watched at the head of the city, and the news of the fall of the other villages outside the city came one after another, and the five villages only lasted for most of the day, and now there is only the last Honghuagang left.

"Lord Wang, as long as the last stockade lasts until night, the enemy may not really dare to fight at night. According to the general's opinion, it is better to send troops to the rescue. ”

On the east city gate, all the generals in the city were there, and Xu Erxian made a generous statement, but foreign generals such as Ma Xiong, Wu Liuqi, and Huang Yingjie couldn't wait to shrink their heads one by one. The attack of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies outside the city was too fierce, which really made them dumbfounded. It's good to defend the city, go out of the city to rescue, they may not have the courage anymore, now it's just to see Shang Kexi, Shang Kexi said yes, then let Shang Kexi's people go to the rescue, they don't have this plan.

Unexpectedly, hearing this, Shang Kexi shook his head, and then remained silent. Not long after, before the evening came, the other villages of Honghuagang were also declared lost, but the officers who observed at the head of the city and the Qing army officers who escaped from Honghuagang also brought the information that Shang Kexi needed.

"That's how the range of the enemy's Hongyi cannon and the stone-like mortar cannon turned out to be."

In an instant, Shang Kexi, who was still a little shocked by the Ming army's offensive just now, was already happy, and he saw him stroking the giant cannon at the head of the city, and the victory revealed was even more infectious.