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Zuo Zongtang was afraid of being escorted to Tianjing, if that was the case, he would not be a simple prisoner. But he really didn't want to bow his head so quickly. Surrender is always not a glorious thing, especially if you want him to write that kind of article, there is also a problem of face. Seeing that Shi Dakai was already about to send off guests, he plucked up his courage and said hesitantly, "Zuo and Zeng Guofan are not first-class people after all, nor are they officials of the Great Manchu Dynasty, so why do you need to go to Tianjing if you want to kill them." ”

Shi Dakai looked at him carefully, shook his head and smiled lightly, "Yes, Zeng Guofan is a second-rank officer, and you are just a staff member." But are the officials alone who are really evildoers? Some despicable literati and aides are far more terrible than some incompetent officials. If you and I could see more of the true essence of China when we were young, and less fake sages and pseudo-Taoism, would we still be where we are today? What kind of new military system are you trying to create and for what purpose? Zeng Guofan has the responsibility that Zeng Guofan should bear to my China, and you Mr. Zuo are the same, the world can have today, and you can't escape your responsibility. To put it mildly, if you Mr. Zuo sat in the position of Zeng Guofan, you are far more vicious than him. ”

"Zuo is a prisoner, so naturally it makes no sense to say anything." Zuo Zongtang's bull temper suddenly came up, I have the intention of surrendering, but there must always be a reasonable step. He tilted his head and muttered, "Those who follow the will of heaven and win the hearts of the people will win the world." Yes, for the time being, there are quite a few lower-class people who have received some benefits and support you, but you don't pay attention to the sages and despise the literati, just for fear," he snorted softly from his nose.

"Who says we don't value the sages? Who says we despise literati? Shi Dakai still looked at Zuo Zongtang elegantly, "Have you ever seen us burn books and pit Confucianism?" Look at our celestial army, what other army would be so disciplined as we are? Isn't this a symbol of Chinese civilization? As for despising literati, Shi can also say something clear, not all messy cultural people are needed in the Heavenly Empire, for those shameless literati, it is necessary to use an iron fist, not only to completely defeat them spiritually, but also to eliminate them on the highest level, so as not to delay future generations. ”

Shi Dakai looked at the silent Zuo Zongtang, and smiled, "I know a few words, I can write an eight-strand essay, and I look forward to taking the exam from morning to night. The Qing Demon may need such a person very much, but the Celestial Empire does not need it. The Celestial Empire needs a talent that can be used in the world. The Celestial Empire is revitalizing new studies, and it is also necessary to send people with lofty ideals to study in the West and cultivate talents who will be useful to our country, and the so-called literati you mentioned will soon become a special kind of illiteracy. Sooner or later, it will be thrown into the dustbin of history. ”

Zuo Zongtang looked at Shi Dakai in disbelief, he also had the idea of "grandiose" to control him, but it was really not worth mentioning compared to what others said. Could this be true?

"Oh, and the providence that your Mr. Zuo said," Shi Dakai lifted the hem of the king's robe and put up his legs, "It is said that the true dragon son sits in the world." Dragons are unique to my China, and dragons will emerge from the ugly land of the Manchu Qing Dynasty? What else from the dragon into the customs. Haha, ridiculous. If Mr. Zuo is lucky, he may be able to see the true dragon who descended to the Celestial Empire in the future, and our two royal highnesses, King An and King Ning of the Celestial Empire. Do you think this is providential? Why, don't you know such heavy news? ”

"I've heard rumors." Zuo Zongtang seemed unimpressed.

"Rumors? No wonder you've lost the battle. Shi Dakai sighed, "Such a serious thing is just a rumor for you, hehe, hehe, it really can't be complimented." To tell you the truth, why did Shi's army attack Changsha first? It is our Royal Highness King An who knows that Zeng Guofan is training troops in Hengzhou, and he has not practiced it yet, and the purpose of this battle is to attack Changsha secondly, completely eliminate Zeng Guofan, and sound a wake-up call to those who still have illusions about the Qing Demon, which is the main thing. ”

He paused and looked at Zuo Zongtang, whose face was flushed, "I will tell you another piece of news, Zeng Guofan's staff Zhang Shoulin and Li Xianzhang's brothers have returned to the Celestial Empire. The Li Xianzhang brothers have begun to preside over the county affairs of Xiangxiang, and Zhang Shoulin will accompany Counselor Shi in military affairs, so we can't say that we don't pay attention to them, right? ”

Zuo Zongtang was stunned.

As Lin Haifeng left Tianjing, took a boat down the river, and arrived at Zhenjiang, the curtain of the Eastern Expedition opened.

Jiangyin is a small city, however, its unique geographical location is destined for its importance. It is located in the middle of Tianjing and Shanghai, where the Yangtze River becomes the narrowest, only more than two kilometers wide, forming the bottleneck of the Heavenly Army's naval division into Shanghai. Jiangyin is also a heroic city in the late Ming Dynasty against the Qing Dynasty, and the people here have set off a vigorous resistance movement in order to resist the Manchu Qing Dynasty's hair shaving policy, and its brilliance is not inferior to Shi Kefa's Yangzhou Defense War.

In May 1645, after the Qing army crossed the river and fell into Nanjing, the former Ming Jiangyin county absconded, and the chief secretary Mo Shiying temporarily acted as the county governor of Jiangyin, and he secretly colluded with the Qing army. In June, the Qing army sent Zhixian Fang Heng to Jiangyin. On the 26th, the Qing king Duoduo ordered the people of Jiangyin to shave their hair, and the people of Jiangyin sent representatives to apply to the new magistrate Fang Heng to keep his hair, and the traitor Fang Heng not only scolded the people, but also secretly reported that Duoduo sent troops to suppress it.

The angry people of Jiangyin arrested Fang Heng and sent him to prison, saying, "The head can be broken, but the hair must not be shaved." For a while, the people of the whole county spontaneously organized themselves and set off a tragic struggle against the Qing Dynasty. The citizens of the city went on strike, and the peasants in the four townships "took the grain and abandoned the peasants without care", and the number of people who came unexpectedly reached 200,000. They killed the puppet Zhixian County, and pushed the history of Chen Mingyu as the leader to lead the resistance to the Qing Dynasty. and repelled the Qing army's repeated attacks from Changzhou to Jiangyin. Cheng Bi, a businessman in Hui, donated 175,000 taels of silver to support the defense of the city, and also went straight to Wuhu, Suzhou, Huizhou and other places to contact foreign aid. Under his advocacy, many wealthy businessmen have donated money and materials to help defend the city.

In the face of the strong attack of more than 200,000 Qing soldiers, Chen Mingyu took the initiative to elect Yan Yingyuan, a former warden with a genius in military organization, to lead the military and command the Jiangyin defensive battle. Yan Yingyuan was invited by the people of the county to enter the city to preside over the city defense, and the Jiangyin defense battle entered the most. On the one hand, Yan Yuan should "order strictly, and those who steal and break the law" must be severely punished, "although there are many loans on the right"; On the other hand, he understands that "when a soldier is in distress, he will pour soup with his own hands, and give warm words to comfort him, and if he is harmful, he will set up a coffin, cry and bury him, and when he meets a brave soldier, he will not be named, and he will call him a brother, and in every matter, he will ask the public: Who is my brother who should be in this matter?" ”

Crossbow master Huang Minggang led more than 1,000 apprentices to make thousands of small crossbows and tens of thousands of small arrows, specializing in shooting the hands of the besiegers. Physician Ji Congxiao synthesized poison and applied it to the arrowhead, and the person who was shot died immediately when he saw blood. Not only that, Yan Yingyuan himself also created a kind of iron dart, with a long rope tied to the back, which could stab people from the city ten steps away. Since the dart head has a return hook, it can immediately pull the person who stabs it to the front of the body. Under the resistance of the people of Jiangyin, although the Qing soldiers successively concentrated in Jiangyin, the army numbered 240,000 people, but "they all feared the city and fought colorlessly.

The Qing army repeatedly attacked, suffered repeated heavy defeats, and suffered heavy casualties. The Qing army was helpless, and adopted the method of luring surrender, and the regent Doer personally ordered Zhao'an, and Duoduo himself wrote a letter to Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu. But Yan and Chen resolutely said, "I am willing to be bombarded, and I would rather die than surrender!" When Liu Liangzuo, a traitor instructed by the Qing army, came to the city to persuade him to surrender, Yan Yingyuan reprimanded him sternly, "There is a surrender general, but there is no history of surrender"! Scolding all the traitors who are not as good as dogs!

In the end, the Qing army transported twenty-four larger cannons from Nanjing, together with a total of more than 200 cannons before, concentrated on bombarding the city, the city wall of Jiangyin was collapsed, with the help of the cover of the wolf smoke cannon, the Qing soldiers from the gap in the city, swarming up, the defenders of the city could not defend, Jiangyin finally fell.

After Yan Yingyuan broke Jiangyin City, he led thousands of people to fight in the streets, and when he was seriously injured, he calmly turned his head and smiled at his subordinates, "Thank the people for me, and report the state affairs to the end"! Then he committed suicide by throwing himself into the water. It's a pity that he was rescued by the left and right, and was finally killed by the Qing soldiers. Chen Mingyu fought hand-to-hand with the enemy with a knife in the battle, suffered heavy injuries, and died heroically, and his entire family died.

Until the next day, the street fighting was not over. So, the Qing army ordered the slaughter of the city, frantically shouting to "slaughter the whole city, and then seal the knife". The remaining people in the whole city of Jiangyin fought to the death, and no one surrendered. As many as 172,000 people were slaughtered in Jiangyin, and only 53 people in the city survived. Subsequently, although the villagers of Jiangyin were forced to give in temporarily, when "the night of shaving their hair, the cry was everywhere".

Of course, Lin Haifeng will not forget this history. Therefore, before the Heavenly Army arrived in Zhenjiang, many headless posts had been circulating in the streets and alleys in Jiangyin, with a name that people knew in their hearts but were rarely willing to mention, Yan Yingyuan. It also wrote his long-cherished wish of "preferring to keep loyal hair, refuse to shave the girl's head, wear Hanfu to death, and not be a flag slave", and the day before his death, a desperate couplet left on the tower of Jiangyin City, "Eighty days with allegiance, the characters of the 17th Dynasty of Taizu, 100,000 people died with one heart, and left 300 miles of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty." ”

The people of Jiangyin finally remembered what they should be proud of, and they remembered that in those eighty-one days of bloody battle, Yan Yingyuan and the people of the city shared the same hatred and killed more than 75,000 Tartar captives, including three Manchu princes and eighteen generals. Those legends about the history of Yan Dian also quickly became the hottest private topic. The elders recounted to the younger generations what they had heard from their elders. Yan Dianshi was a god man, he used almost all the tactics in the thirty-six strategies, such as deception, ambush, fire attack, straw man borrowing arrows, pretending to be a god and playing ghosts, attacking the east and west, attacking the enemy camp at night, Chu Ge at the head of the city, etc., etc., and even used human bombs.

When telling these stories, the old people often proudly tell the younger generations of the sù family, and the most respectable are some of the old people in the city at that time. They no longer have the strength of their youth, and they can no longer directly wield weapons to kill the Qing soldiers, but for the honor of the Han people, they should be recruited by Yan Yingyuan and voluntarily go out of the city to surrender. They planted explosives in the sandwich of wooden barrels containing silver taels, and when they offered them, they suddenly ignited the fuse, and it was these old men with white hairs who burned jade together with the Qing army princes, generals, and 3,000 thieves.

In the end, the old men will always smack their mouths, shake their heads, and sigh, the people at that time had backbone, some people who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, turned their heads and led the Qing soldiers to attack Jiangyin, when they met their relatives in the city, those relatives would wave their knives or spears at these soft bones without blinking an eye, even the mother and Lao Tzu did not recognize you. The top and bottom of Jiangyin, the most known new term is "traitor", that is, the scum among the Han people.

At this time, the left army of the Eastern Expedition, with Chen Yucheng's Red Army Teaching Brigade as the vanguard, suddenly surrounded Jiangyin on three sides by night.

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