"Kill! Kill all the dogs! ”

"Quanjie, you lead an army of 7,000, please ask Lord Xie's subordinate Cao Guoxing to lead the way and occupy Nanjing's granary, arsenal, stable camp, artillery bureau and ordnance bureau! But whoever takes advantage of the chaos to rob and destroy, whoever it is, kill! ”

"Hutongchun, you lead an army of 5,000, please ask Lord Xie's official to lead the way, attack the four water gates north of Nanjing, and capture the Jiangning Shipyard! Remember, the shipyard must be protected, and the vandals will be killed! ”

"Li Tianzhi, you lead 3,000 elite soldiers to attack Taipingmen first, and then Chaoyangmen! The full dog defenders there, try to surrender as much as possible, and those who can't surrender are driven out of the city, and our army is preserved! ”

"Han Daren, you lead 5,000 infantry to Nanjing Mangou City, mainly to surround it, supplemented by killing! The city is full of dogs, but anyone who resists in the inner city will be killed! Those who flee from the outer city, let him go! ”

"General Gao Dejie, your 5,000 main cavalry, go and fight Jubaomen and Tongjimen for me, and those who surrender will not die! Kill the recalcitrant ones! Fugitives don't chase! ”

"An Jiarong, bring your eight hundred soldiers with you, and ask Lord Xie's servants to lead the way, and fight along the city wall to the treasure gate!" Kill when you see an enemy! Fugitives don't chase! ”

On the tower of the stone city gate, he gave a series of orders in one breath, and the exhausted Lu Fat Man sat back on the chair, looking at the night scene of Nanjing that was brightly lit and full of murderous sounds, Lu Fat Man completely forgot the hardships and fatigue of seven days of running thousands of miles, a pair of bloodshot mung bean eyes were also wide open, a pair of fat hands were even more desperate to grasp the armrests on both sides of the seat, the green tendons on the back of his hands jumped violently, his wrists trembled slightly, his teeth bit his lips tightly, and he kept silently muttering in his heart, "The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, the tiger is on the dragon plate, and the Nanjing City is as solid as gold, The largest city in the South in this era, you are finally going to belong to me! It's finally mine! ”

Biting his lip to prevent himself from yelling out excitedly for a long time, Fat Lu suddenly remembered something again, and hurriedly jumped up and shouted: "Then send an order to all armies, after entering the city, they are not allowed to loot the people and merchants, and they are not allowed to destroy the silver and plunder!" Tell the soldiers that the merits of this time are extremely huge, each soldier has at least twenty taels of silver reward, the silver woman will have it in the future, but now you are not allowed to take it, first give me a firm control of Nanjing City! ”

"Twenty taels per person?" Xiao Erlang, who was born in Tubaozi, was startled and exclaimed, "Young Master, where do we have so much silver?" Each person is rewarded with less than 20 taels of silver, and 50,000 people are millions of taels of silver! ”

"General Xiao, please rest assured, this amount of silver is nothing more than a drop in the bucket for Jiangning City. Xie Dong said quietly: "The lower officials can guarantee it, not counting the private Tibetan silver, the treasury silver and the government treasury silver, just copying the homes of the Governor of Liangjiang, Jiangning Salt Road, Jiangnan Grain Road and Jiangning Weaving Several officials, you can definitely copy this silver!" And there will be more, no less! ”

"Really?" Xiao Erlang asked dumbfounded.

"Of course, Xia Guan has been an official in Jiangning for nearly two years, and he has long been clear about their details." Xie Dong smiled and said: "The army of the three good brothers came so quickly, they didn't have time to transfer the family property at all, so the people's fat and ointment they scavenged from the people must still be hidden in their homes!" ”

"Wow!" Xiao Erlang cheered, grabbed Lu Fatzi's fat arm and shook and swayed, his eyes flashed green and shouted, "Young master, we have it!" We are finally developed! This time, we've fallen into a nest of silver! ”

"After so many years of suffering by my side, it should be worth it now, right?" Fat Lu patted the top of Xiao Erlang's head, smiled, and shouted with a straight face: "Tubaozi, be happy and wait for later!" Go to the order first, we must convey the order to every soldier, if we lose the hearts of the people in Jiangnan, see how I clean you up! ”

"Order!" Xiao Erlang jumped up and agreed with his chest straight, and rushed down to give the order even after jumping, and his mouth kept chattering excitedly, "It's done!" It's sent! This time I sent it! After following the young master for so many years, I finally got through the bitterness! Ha ha......! ”

"Dirt buns!" Fat Lu scolded again, but a trace of sigh in his eyes flashed that he couldn't say anything, and muttered in his heart: "But this little dirt bun is also right, it is finally bitter, from now on, I will no longer have to be a man with my tail between my legs, no one can point fingers at me, and I no longer have to worry about this and that." ”

Just entered the city of Nanjing, and before he completely eliminated the defenders and occupied the city, he had already gotten carried away to this point, Lu Fatzi may really have a bit of Hong Xiuquan or Li Zicheng's potential - but he can't stand Lu Fatzi's luck, when Xie Dong opened the stone city gate to welcome the fat army into the city After the news reached Jubaomen, Lord Axixu, the governor of Liangjiang, and General Ha Haqiha, the deputy governor of Jiangnan, were stunned together at first, and finally came back to their senses, Lord A and General Ha first scolded Xie Dong's ancestors for eighteen generations, Then they immediately rushed back to their homes with their respective teams of pro-soldiers, packed up the gold and silver, and fled with their wives and concubines!

As a result, it is difficult to say whether Lord A and General Ha can escape for their lives with their beautiful wives and concubines and soft family property in the chaos of the army, and the main force of the defenders who still have the strength to fight is suddenly sad to the extreme, most of these Jiangnan Qing troops who have not been on the battlefield are seriously inexperienced, and no one stands up to organize and call for collective action, so they can only flee for their lives in all directions, or open the city gate to escape from the city, or flee into the city to hide in the people, or they kneel down and surrender, and many simply take off their military clothes to join the team of taking advantage of the fire to rob, However, there was no formed army to resist the Wu army's iron cavalry, so that the Wu cavalry led by Gao Dejie easily captured the main position of the Nanjing defenders, occupying the main city gates such as Sanshan Gate, Jubao Gate and Tongji Gate and their urn cities.

On the side of Dongcheng, when Li Tianzhi's army rushed to the Taiping Gate through the city of Nanjing, Mu Tianyan, the governor of Jiangning who was in charge of this city gate, did not take the lead in fleeing for his life, nor did he open the city gate and fled back to his base camp Suzhou Jiangning Governor Yamen, but simply led the defenders of the Taiping Gate to surrender collectively, and told Li Tianzhi that he had long been willing to surrender to the Wu army and join the team of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty and rejuvenating the Han Dynasty, but he never found the opportunity.

Hearing Mu Tianyan's story, and seeing Mu Tianyan take the initiative to lead the army to surrender, although Li Tianzhi didn't have time to ask Xie Dong for verification, he basically believed most of it, so Li Tianzhi immediately sent someone to protect Mu Tianyan tightly, and then turned around and killed Chaoyangmen in the southeast. Dange, the guard general of Chaoyangmen with mite blood, led the army to the death with a lot of backbone, but unfortunately the number of troops under his command was small, and the army was confused, and he did not have much combat experience - the Qing army in Nanjing had not fought for more than 20 years, and as a result, he rushed down, and as Dange was killed by the grenade of the fat army in the chaos, the more than 1,000 Qing troops in Chaoyangmen also completely collapsed, some fled out of the city, and some surrendered to the Wu army.

It's the turn of Beicheng, the Qing army guards on the Beicheng side are few, and at the same time, they take into account the five city gates of Dinghuai Gate, Yifeng Gate, Zhongfu Gate, Jinchuan Gate and Shence Gate. Hutongchun killed Yifengmen, where the Jiangning shipyard was located, Zhang Bingzhi, the Jiangning envoy who received the news, saw that the situation was urgent, and had already fled to Zhenjiang with a team of personal soldiers by boat, and the fat army quickly captured the shipyard, and seized a large number of half-finished warships and piles of shipbuilding materials in the shipyard, and then killed Zhongfumen, and the guard general Qi Techa bravely led the army to resist stubbornly, but it was also a matter of time before the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and it was only a matter of time before they completely collapsed. At the same time, the defenders of Jinchuan Gate and Shence Gate saw that the situation was not good, and they also opened the door one after another to flee for their lives, and it was only a matter of time before Beicheng fell into the hands of the fat army.

At the same time, the infantry of the Fat Army led by Quan Jie, under the guidance of the leading party officials under Xie Dong, had also seized important positions such as granaries, arsenals, stables, artillery casting bureaus, firearms bureaus and weapons workshops, and captured Zhou Lianggong of the Jiangnan Grain Road in the Qing Dynasty on the streets. Although Zhou Lianggong, who was over seventy years old, also wanted to surrender to the fat army and continue to be an official, he was too old, and he was completely hollowed out by the wine and wealth, and he was frightened and bumped down in the chaotic army, and he didn't know what hidden disease attacked, and he lost his breath before dawn, and he didn't even get the opportunity to kowtow in front of Lu Fatzi and ask for surrender.

The only thing that is more troublesome is Han Daren's side, everyone knows that mites owe countless blood debts in the south of the Yangtze River, so when Han Daren's army killed under the city of Nanjing Mite City, the city guards who were afraid of the fat army's revenge on the city naturally resisted with all their might, and the mite people in the mite city, whether they were young and strong men and women, or old and weak women and children, all boarded the city wall of the mite city to fight with the fat man, and Nanjing Mite City was the reconstruction of the former Ming Imperial City that the mites shamelessly occupied, the city wall was the most solid, and the fortifications were the most complete. The fat army led by Han Daren couldn't attack for a while.

But fortunately, Lu Fatzi's mission to Han Daren was originally to prevent the banner soldiers of Mite City from making trouble in the city and destroying important facilities in Nanjing, so Han Daren was not in a hurry to attack, and soon ordered the whole army to retreat temporarily, hold the entrance and exit from Mite City to the outer city, open the road from Mite City to the outside of the city, and let the mites in the city flee outside Nanjing City - anyway, now the Fat Army is already a sure victory, and it is the same to attack Mite City early and late to attack Mite City, and besides, the Fat Army has not yet decided whether to slaughter Nanjing Mite City to vent their hatred for the people of Jiangnan.

In the thunderous shouting and killing, the sky is getting brighter, when the sky is finally bright, the thirteen gates of Nanjing City in addition to the Chaoyang Gate leading to the outside of the city, there have been twelve fallen into the hands of the fat army, the Qing army defenders in the city have basically been emptied, the fat army soldiers also began to divide their forces, while under the guidance of the leading party began to maintain order in the city, posted a list to appease the people, while raiding the mansions of the large and small mite Qing officials in the city, searching for the fugitive mite Qing officials, hiding in the courtyard but was betrayed by the turtle Gong Liangjiang Governor A Xixu, and Cao Yin's father, Jiang Ning Weaving Cao Xi, who hid under the concubine's bed, was also captured by the soldiers of the Fat Army, and was escorted to the downstairs of Shicheng Gate and presented to Lu Fatzi. However, the deputy capital of Jiangning, Halhaqi, fled into Mite City, and is still surviving with Laha, the defender of Mite City.

After taking a nap in the chair for a while and eating some simple dry food, the hour was about to pass, and the villain's ambitious Lu Fatzi began to summon the officials of Nanjing who were captured by the Fat Army, and the first to be escorted to the city tower was Mu Tianyan, who had a relationship with Lu Fatzi. When the old friends met, Lu Fatzi asked very strangely: "Master Mu, if I remember correctly, your Jiangning Governor Yamen should be in Suzhou, right?" How did this come to Nanjing? ”

"Back to the general, I was ordered to come to Jiangning City." Mu Tianyan explained with a wry smile: "The general's divine soldiers descended from the sky, and they came so quickly that they didn't even have a chance to escape back to Suzhou, so they were surrounded in this Jiangning City. ”

"Brother Sanhao, Master Mu was summoned to Jiangning City by A Xixu." Xie Dong also explained to Mu Tianyan: "Brother Sanhao, you broke Hilgen and Zhao Guozuo in northern Jiangxi, Nanchang and Anqing were in an emergency, as soon as the news was transmitted back to Jiangning, A Xixu urgently summoned Lord Mu to escort a batch of food and salary to Jiangning, and discussed the preparation for the formation of a new armament war, but I didn't expect you to advance so quickly, the war in northern Jiangxi was fought to the city of Nanjing in less than a month after the war, and Lord Mu was blocked in the city by you. ”

After that, Xie Dong paused for a moment, and said very righteously: "Brother Sanhao, the younger brother can achieve the position of Jiangning prefect, thanks to the unstinting support of Lord Mu, the reason why the younger brother was able to open the city gate to welcome the army of Brother Mu into the city is also thanks to the secret assistance of Lord Mu, Lord Mu has no merit for Brother Sanhao, and has long had the ambition of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty and expelling the Tartars. ”

"Really?" Fat Lu was even more surprised, and said in his heart that there are also good friends of Lord Wei who are willing to help me fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore my sight, this sun should not come out of the west, right? Curious, Fat Lu couldn't help but smile and asked, "Master Mu, you shouldn't be joking, right?" If I'm not mistaken, you should be very loyal to the Mangou court? ”

"Before Mu, he was indeed loyal to the Manchu court, but at this time, at that time." Mu Tianyan replied neither humbly nor arrogantly: "When the general sends someone to raid the residence of A Xixu, the governor of Liangjiang, he will definitely find a secret decree recently given to A Xixu by the Kangxi puppet emperor - the secret decree is that the Kangxi puppet emperor ordered A Xixu to prepare 12 million taels of military salaries and 2 million stone military rations in Jiangning within two months!" And now that the green and yellow are not received, where will the food come from? In the past three years, in order to supply the needs of the war, Jiangning Province has paid tribute to the Kangxi puppet emperor with 2,761,862 taels of silver in addition to taxes. What else is there to do but scrape the ground for the people? ”

Speaking of this, Mu Tianyan paused for a moment, and added: "Besides, how Lord A Xixu is an official, Brother Xie knows very well, the general must have heard of it, the Kangxi puppet emperor asked him to prepare 12 million taels of military salaries, and he has a holy purpose, at least dare to snatch 15 million taels from the people!" The small people are really pitiful, although Mu Tianyan is not a clean official, but he can't bear to continue to help and abuse, now that the general is coming to the city, Brother Xie has already made an appointment to do internal response, why should Mu interfere and destroy Brother Xie's big business? Moreover, as soon as Jiangning City is broken, the burden on Mu Mou's body can be unloaded, so why bother to ask for hardships and act as a wolf dog for A Xixu, leaving an infamy through the ages? ”

"Brother Sanhao, Master Mu is indeed a rare official who loves the people." Xie Dong also knelt down on Lu Fatzi's knees, and said respectfully: "Brother Sanhao probably doesn't know, Master Mu is a native of Jingning, Gansu, with a lot of family resources, when he was twelve years old, there was a great drought in Jingning, and the people were hungry, Brother Mu said to his father: 'My family has thousands of stones of grain, and the warehouse is full, why not help the hungry?' Brother Mu's father was shocked, so he opened a warehouse to release grain, and saved countless victims. I also hope that the three good brothers will look at Brother Mu's love for the people, and also for the sake of the thin noodles of the lower officials, don't embarrass Brother Mu. ”

Fat Lu didn't answer, just got up and drew his knife, strode in front of Mu Tianyan, Mu Tianyan was not afraid, just stared at Fat Lu calmly, and Fat Lu first cut off Mu Tianyan's pigtails on the top of his head, and then cut the ropes on Mu Tianyan's body, put Mu Tianyan's hands up, and then hugged his fists at Mu Tianyan and said: "Brother Mu, Lu only learned today that there are really good officials in this world!" Brother Mu, please accept the worship of the little brother! ”

After that, Lu Fatzi really knelt down and saluted Mu Tianyan, and Mu Tianyan quickly knelt down and returned the salute, saying: "The general must not be like this, Mu Mou is a prisoner of the order, how can he afford such a big gift from the general?" ”

"If Brother Mu can't afford it, there will be no one in this world who can afford it anymore." Lu Fatzi said excitedly: "Brother Mu, from today onwards, you are still the governor of Jiangning, but you are the governor of Jiangning in our Great Zhou!" ”

"The general is so loving, Mu Mou dares to disobey his fate?" Mu Tianyan was very refreshed, and agreed to give Lu Fatzi his life in one bite, and took the initiative to say: "If the general can trust the lower officials, you can send an army to Suzhou with the lower officials to recruit the state capitals along the way for the general." ”

"In that case, then thank you Brother Mu." Fat Lu was overjoyed, hurriedly thanked him, and quickly picked up Mu Tianyan and ordered a banquet to entertain. At this time, the Wu sergeant flew to the city again, saying that the Wu army sailor fleet led by Li Guodong had arrived at Yifengmen, and Lu Fatzi had already learned from Xie Dong that Li Guodong had missed the meeting time because of the ambush of the Qing army's troop transport fleet.

After half an hour, Li Guodong finally led a team of people to rush to the stone city gate, and after going up to the city tower, Li Guodong immediately knelt down on Lu Fatzi's knees without saying a word, and took the initiative to ask for guilt: "The crime will delay Li Guodong's military plane, and I have come to ask the general for death!" Just because of ....... ”

"General Li, needless to say." Lu Fatzi hurriedly came up and picked up Li Guodong in person, and said with a smile: "I already know the reason, the first battle of the mud mouth, fought beautifully, and killed the main force of Jiangning Mangou in one go, which greatly reduced the siege pressure of our army and laid a solid foundation for our army to capture Nanjing." Although you did not participate in the siege of the city, you also contributed to it! ”

"General Xie is not beheaded." Li Guodong first thanked him respectfully, and then said with a smile on his face: "Probably the blessing of our Ming Taizu's heroic spirit, the main force of the full dog actually rushed to Anqing by boat, and there was no warship to protect it. Later, the last general arrived at Taiping Mansion, and heard that the general had come to attack Jiangning, so he asked the dog to lead a fleet to assist General Wang Xu in defending the city, blocking Anqing Mangou from reinforcing Nanjing, and led an army to escort artillery and ammunition to Nanjing for the general's siege of the city. ”

Speaking of this, Li Guodong added with some embarrassment: "I just didn't expect that in just one night, the general had already captured the city of Nanjing, and the artillery ammunition sent by the last general was basically useless." ”

"Who says it's useless?" Lu Fatzi retorted: "There are still some people dying in Mite City, and your artillery and ammunition will be delivered in time, and the pressure on us to attack Mite City will be much easier." ”

"Then I will go to Mite City to help in the battle immediately!" Li Guodong was also eager for meritorious service, and immediately said: "The last general's fleet has brought more than 3,000 fresh troops, just so that our infantry and cavalry can be replaced to rest and rest. ”

"Alright, you can go." Considering that the infantry and cavalry were indeed extremely tired, Lu Fatzi agreed to Li Guodong's request in one bite. At the end, Fat Lu grabbed Li Guodong again and whispered in his ear: "But after you arrive in Mite City, you don't have to rush to attack, you can do ......." ”

After listening to the siege strategy explained by Lu Fatzi, Li Guodong was overjoyed and left, while Lu Fatzi returned to the table and said with a wry smile: "Oh no, I forgot to toast General Li with a glass of wine, and I don't know if he will mind." ”

"Brother Sanhao still likes to think about others so much, but I think General Li is also a lover, so I don't mind such a trivial matter." Xie Dong comforted him, and said with a smile: "By the way, Brother Sanhao, General Li talked about weapons and ammunition - when the city is stable and Brother Sanhao is free, you must go to the Jiangning Ordnance Bureau and the Artillery Bureau on the shore of Xuanwu Lake, and the junior brother has a little surprise for you." ”

"What surprise?" Fat Lu asked.

"When the time comes, the three good brothers will know." Xie Dong sold a pass and said with a smile: "Those things were obtained by the junior brother and the Mu people with a lot of effort, and they are useless in the hands of the dog, but in the hands of the three good brothers, they may be able to play a big role." ”

"What's that? Brother Xie, say it quickly! Lu Fatzi was even more curious, hurriedly asked, and said that he would go to the ordnance camp to check it out immediately.

"General, you don't have to run so hard, let the lower officer tell you." Mu Tianyan saw that Lu Fatzi was very anxious, so he took the initiative to solve the mystery and said with a smile: "In the Ordnance Bureau and Artillery Bureau of Jiangning City, in addition to a large number of raw materials for making guns and cannons and more than 50,000 catties of gunpowder, there are also more than 400,000 catties of bile alum, more than 100,000 catties of diatomaceous earth, 120,000 catties of saltpeter, by the way, more than 10,000 catties of seaweed ash, and more than 80,000 catties of ointment. ”

"Alum? Diatomite? Saltpeter? Seaweed ash? Ointment? Fat Lu was dumbfounded, and only after a while did he exclaim and ask, "How do you know our new gunpowder formula?!" ”

"Brother Sanhao, this is too simple." Xie Dong explained with a smile: "Brother Sanhao, although we didn't know the process of the new gunpowder you created before, but it is too simple to know your main formula, whether it is to inquire about the raw materials you buy and hoard, or disguise yourself as a civilian man and mix into the firearms battalion baggage team, you can easily find out what you used to prepare the new gunpowder, and even get a little sample." Therefore, Emperor Mangou issued an order, let us hoard a large number of these materials in Jiangning City, and ask for as many as possible, while letting the craftsmen explore the preparation, while trying to spy on the preparation process of your new gunpowder, just wait for the process to be in hand, you can prepare a large number of new gunpowder immediately. ”

"Then how can you get so many? That's an exaggeration, right? Fat Lu continued to ask dumbfounded.

"As long as there is silver, manpower and material resources, it is not difficult to get these things at all." Mu Tianyan smiled and said: "Let's say gall, the Tongling Mansion in the upper reaches of Nanjing is everywhere, and no one usually wants it at all, and the copper mines are everywhere, and the pseudo-emperor Kangxi made a false decree to let the copper mines in Tongling be mined in large quantities, and hundreds of thousands of catties were obtained in less than half a year." If it weren't for the fact that there was really no pile in the warehouse, and I didn't know how to mix gunpowder with bile alum, the quantity would definitely be more than now. ”

Lu Fatzi was even more dumbfounded, and only slapped the table for a while, and sighed sincerely: "Kang Mazi, good person!" ”

(To be continued)