At this time, Dong Xuecheng and others noticed that Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren were both dressed in mountain armor and phoenix-winged helmets, and the middle and lower-level officers who followed them in wore eight-petal iron-tipped helmets and chain mail, and the non-commissioned officers all wore red tasseled hats, mandarin duck battle jackets and armor. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info From top to bottom, the Ming army dressed up in the same standard, apparently decided to make a complete break with the "Great Qing".

"You ...... How dare you raise an army and rebel? Being held on the neck with a knife, Dong Xuecheng's voice was a little fluttery.

"Rebellion? Master Dong laughed. Jin Shenghuan sneered, "This general was originally the military attache of the Ming Dynasty, but he was confused for a while, and now he has woken up, how can he call it a rebellion?" If Ben remembers correctly, Lord Dong is not full of people, right? As a Han Chinese, he is willing to be a Tartar dog, this is called a great rebellion against the world! ”

Dong Xuecheng's eyes widened, and he was speechless for a while.

Wang Deren stepped forward with a smile, pulled the knife around Dong Xuecheng's neck, pulled him from the chair to the center of the hall, and even tidied up his official uniform for him, and said in an exaggerated tone: "Oh, Lord Patrol, look at my memory!" I wasn't there when you came to me the other day to ask for money, and I forgot about it after being too busy these two days, and I deserved to die! When do you see it is convenient for you? I will send you the money at once, and I beg you to show mercy and forgive your sins this time, regardless of the villain's faults. Yes? ”

The soldiers and generals of Jin and Wang who were present immediately burst into laughter.

Looking at the faces of the "loyal ministers of the Great Qing Dynasty" who had been reduced to prisoners, Jin Shenghuan felt unprecedented happiness, and when he saw that the fire was almost over, he cleared his throat and said, "Don't be afraid, everyone. Ben meant nothing else. I just thought that since I had worked together for so long, it was fate. Now that General Ben and Vice General Wang have jumped out of the fire pit, they can't still watch their colleagues still struggling in the fire pit. Either way, you'll have to pull it up. Therefore, we have prepared two things for all of you. ”

After Jin Shenghuan finished speaking, he waved his hand back, and immediately another team of soldiers walked in, each holding a large wooden plate in his hand, which contained things that were both familiar and unfamiliar to the "loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty" - regimental collar shirts, black gauze hats, and belts, all of which were the costumes of Ming officials.

"That's the first one, you can choose according to your existing grades. After losing the tartar and wearing the flower feather, and putting on this black gauze hat again, we are still colleagues. If you don't want to. Speaking of this, the fierce light in Jin Shenghuan's eyes flashed, and he sneered, "That's okay, I have a second thing." ”

Immediately afterward, several more soldiers came in with heavy guillotines and placed them in the center of the hall. On the sharp blade, the blood stains have not dried.

"The newly opened blade, Fang just deliberately asked Li Guerrilla of the Fubiao Battalion to test the edge. It's very easy to use. You're welcome. ”

At this time, Chi Bianlong, Cheng Daye and the others were already so frightened that they couldn't speak, they were dumbfounded, and their bodies were like sifting chaff. But if you want to follow Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren to oppose the Qing Dynasty and return to the Ming Dynasty. They really can't make up their minds. After all, they have all experienced the days when they were officials in the Ming Dynasty before, and they can be described as worried and precarious, until they took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they can be regarded as living a comfortable life as an official. Now it is time for them to give up their superior living conditions. Risking their lives to fight against the Qing Dynasty, their feelings are no better than cutting off their heads.

"Yo! But don't scare the Patrolman. Let him think slowly! Wang Deren's expression and tone were still exaggerated, "If you scare the patrol to death." Who should be honored with Lao Tzu's silver? ”

The soldiers and generals of Jin and Wang's headquarters who were present laughed even harder.

It is said that the clay man also has three points of anger, and was humiliated by Wang Deren one after another, Dong Xuecheng's strong self-esteem began to overcome part of his fear, and he actually mustered up the courage to tremble and said: "Jin Junmen, Wang Junmen, this official advises you to rein in the precipice, and now I ...... it."

"Boom!" Before he finished speaking, Dong Xuecheng's head fell violently from his neck and rolled out a foot away. After a large rain of blood erupted from the neck cavity, the whole headless corpse fell limply.

Wang Deren withdrew his knife, wiped the blood on his face casually, and still smiled enthusiastically: "Lord Inspector has made his choice, what about the rest of you?" After speaking, he walked up to Cheng Daye, grabbed his placket, and lifted him up from the chair.

Looking at Wang Deren's bloody face, and witnessing Dong Xuecheng's fate, Cheng Daye suddenly couldn't control it, a warm current of humidity and heat soaked through his crotch in an instant, and his upper and lower teeth were fighting, but he couldn't say a word anymore. Wang Deren looked at him with a smile for a while, and then raised the knife again, and another human head fell to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Chi Bianlong, who was also stupid and failed to express his position in time, also suffered a different fate.

The back hall, which was clean and tidy half an hour ago, is now like a Shura hell. The bloodstains, three human heads, and three headless corpses made people's hearts numb when they saw it, and they also completely broke the psychological defense line of the remaining "loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty".

"Xiaguan...... The lower officials are willing to belong to the Ming Dynasty! ”

"I am willing to follow the two military sects back to the Ming Dynasty!"

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Before the second half of the night, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren took control of the entire Nanchang City. More than 1,000 Qing troops in the Fubiao battalion surrendered except for a few stubborn diehards, and half of the civil and military officials in the city were also attached, while the rest such as Dong Xuecheng and others were mercilessly executed.

After stabilizing the situation, in order to obtain the recognition and support of the Longwu court as soon as possible, Jin Shenghuan sent the curtain artist Lei Defu as a secret envoy to disguise himself as a monk, carry a Buddhist scripture, and go to Hengzhou overnight to report the situation to Emperor Longwu anyway.

By dawn, the streets and alleys of the city were plastered with notices of peace and mind. In the text, the Longwu court is respected as Zhengshuo, and there are words such as "hard work and high achievement, not only no inch, but also a hundred Ling, blood and qi are difficult to peace, and they have to serve the original owner" and so on. The content is basically true, but the problem is that Jin Shenghuan actually added the titles of "Duke of Yuguo" and "Marquis of Jianwu" to himself and Wang Deren respectively at the notice office.

This feat of self-proclaimed knighthood was also dissuaded by some subordinates at that time, on the grounds that the Longwu Dynasty had not yet registered a national duke, even Pang Yue and Wang Dongri, who had the merit of supporting the dragon, were only marquises, and now Jin Shenghuan called himself the Duke of Yuguo was afraid that it was unlikely to be recognized by the Longwu Imperial Court, but would be dissatisfied. lost the sincerity of opposing the Qing Dynasty and returning to the Ming Dynasty. But Jin Shenghuan is very confident, thinking that he will send a province and restore the Ming Dynasty for thousands of miles. How can such a great achievement not be a duke? So he rejected the suggestions of his subordinates on the grounds that "extraordinary times should be practiced" and insisted on his own opinion.

Soon. Jin Shenghuan continued to extend this "extraordinary law", took the initiative to act for the Longwu Imperial Court, and was extremely generous to seal the meritorious people.

For example, Jiang Yueguang, a scholar of the Hongguang Dynasty, was a native of Xinjian County, Nanchang Prefecture, and lived in his hometown after his dismissal, and Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren thought that he was a loyal minister of the previous dynasty and had a high prestige, so they immediately sent people to Xinjian County to invite Jiang Yueguang to go out of the mountain, and asked Jiang Yueguang to call for the near and far in the name of "the prince Taibao, the secretary of the Ministry and the secretary of the military department, and the scholar of the Zhongji Temple". Jin and Wang were very enthusiastic, but they didn't know how Old Master Jiang would feel after learning that he had been appointed as a scholar by the two Qiu Ba.

As for other positions. Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren fully followed the principle of being virtuous and not avoiding relatives, and wantonly rewarded their descendants. Jin Shenghuan's lieutenant officer Song Kuiguang was appointed as the governor of the Left Army, and Wu Zunzhou, the secretary of the shogunate, was appointed as the governor of Jiangxi to supervise the imperial history. Wang Deren's brother-in-law Huang Tianlei was appointed as the commander of the military department, and Chen Fang, the secretary of the scene, was appointed as the governor of Jiangxi. As for him, the officials are probably the guests of the two families. However, the most eye-catching thing is Jin Shenghuan's Huang Renlong, who was actually appointed as the "Governor of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan Provinces".

For a time, the entire Nanchang City returned to the scene it had under the Ming Dynasty. Anyway, the officials abandoned the flower feather and put on the regimental collar shirt and black gauze hat again; The green flag was lowered in the barracks, and the fiery red battle flag of the Ming army was raised; The people of the city were also asked to cut their braids. Wrap a headscarf to restore the shape of your hair; Some scholars with great wisdom did not even need to be urged, so they took the initiative to cut their braids and put on turbans, and changed into large-sleeved wide robes that had been pressed at the bottom of the box for a long time, and ran around the city to congratulate each other.

Now that Nanchang has been won, the next step is naturally to continue to expand the results. Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, who had won the first battle, were full of ambition to formulate a grand plan to attack Jiujiang in the north, and then advance east along the Yangtze River to take Nanjing. And it was approved by the vast majority of generals. Only Jin Shenghuan's general Huang Renlong put forward a different opinion, believing that he should go south to Ji'an first, solve his worries and then go on the northern expedition.

Today's Ji'an Province. There are Liu Wuyuan, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, Yang Yuming, the general of Southern Jiangxi, and Liu Bolu, the deputy general of Ji'an, stationed in Wan'an County, which is adjacent to Ganzhou Prefecture. With more than 7,000 soldiers in hand, he is confronting Hao Yongzhong, the general soldier of southern Jiangxi in the Ming Dynasty. The reason why Huang Renlong proposed to go south to Ji'an first. The reason is that Liu Wuyuan and the other three are all diehards loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it is almost impossible to agree to oppose the Qing Dynasty and return to the Ming Dynasty.

But I don't know what kind of considerations Jin Shenghuan had, on the grounds that "Liu Wuyuan and others have been restrained by Hao Yongzhong and are too busy to take care of themselves", he did not adopt Huang Renlong's suggestion, but only sent an envoy with a letter to the south to recruit Liu Wuyuan, and sent a team of soldiers and horses to Ruizhou to arrest Zhang Yutian.

Later, Huang Renlong proposed to Jin Shenghuan that even if he did not attack Liu Wuyuan first, he should immediately send troops to take Ji'an Mansion City in his hands. At that time, even if Liu Wuyuan insisted on refusing to surrender, he could only be confined to the area of Wan'an County, and he could not set off a big storm. And if Liu Wuyuan is allowed to seize the city of Ji'an and obtain sufficient money, food and soldiers, the situation will be difficult to manage.

Jin Shenghuan thought about it, but he did not object to this suggestion, so he asked one of his staff members to immediately take 2,000 soldiers south to take over the city of Ji'an.

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When the news of Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren's opposition to the Qing Dynasty and Ming Dynasty reached Chenzhou, in addition to Pang Yue, all the generals in Huguang Town were very shocked. Since the Tatars entered the customs and the Ming court crossed to the south, only the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but they have never heard of any high-ranking officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty who opposed the Qing Dynasty and returned to the Ming Dynasty, let alone the senior military attache who was in charge of the army of a province and the commander level. Moreover, when I was in Ganzhou a few years ago, almost all the middle and high-level generals in Huguang Town participated in the battle against Jin Shenghuan's troops, and now they suddenly learned that their former mortal enemy was actually in the same camp as themselves, and it was really difficult to calm down for a while.

But no matter what, Jin Shenghuan's is a happy event for Daming anyway, which means that Jiangxi Province is about to be reincorporated into Daming's rule, which means that there is more hope for the revival of Daming.

However, after learning that Jin Shenghuan did not immediately move south to eliminate Liu Wuyuan, but only sent a small number of soldiers and horses to take over the city of Ji'an, Zhang Yunli raised his concerns to Pang Yue: "The current situation is so good, Liu Wuyuan, Yang Yuming and others have been contained by Hao Yongzhong in the area of Wan'an County. As long as Jin Shenghuan waved his army south, he would attack Hao Yongzhong from north to south. It is completely possible to solve this worry once and for all. But now Jin Shenghuan is blindly trying to go north and ignore the enemy of Wan'an, and even tries to surrender it with a messenger. There was a bit of a mistake. ”

Pang Yue smiled and said, "What Zibin said is not unreasonable. Liu Wuyuan, Yang Yuming and others were all loyal ministers of the Manchu Tartars, and they would definitely not easily attach themselves to Jin Shenghuan, but would only pull the flag to oppose him. On the bright side, Liu Wuyuan's army in Wan'an County is indeed like a nail buried in the south, which will pose a threat to Nanchang at any time. But Jin Shenghuan is a veteran on the battlefield after all, how can he not even detect this stake? He must have done so with his own considerations. ”

"What do you mean?"

"First, to the south of Liu Wuyuan is Hao Yongzhong's army of 20,000. As long as he moved, how could Hao Yongzhong's army not follow? Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, Liu Wuyuan will not easily cut off his back road and give up his nest to attack Nanchang in the north. Second, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren suddenly reversed, and the Tartar garrisons along the Yangtze River would definitely have no time to react, so they would immediately march north at this time, so that they could surprise and rapidly expand the results of the battle. And if he goes south to attack Liu Wuyuan first, it will definitely take a lot of time. At that time, the Tartars in the Hubei and Nanzhili areas were prepared, and it would only be more difficult to carry out the Northern Expedition again. Third, and the most critical point, if Jin Shenghuan moves south to defeat Liu Wuyuan now. So how should he deal with Hao Yongzhong, who also intends to go north? Instead of watching Hao Yongzhong go north to compete for territory at that time, it is better to leave Liu Wuyuan as a barrier for the time being. ”

"The big handsome is reasonable, but I was negligent!" Zhang Yunli, who suddenly realized, smiled self-deprecatingly. Then he said, "Then since Liu Wuyuan is not a threat for the time being. With the existing forces of Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, they will go all out to march north. It shouldn't be too much of a hindrance anytime soon. Maybe it's going to be like a bamboo. ”

Pang Yue nodded, he remembered that in the original history, Jin and Wang immediately waved their troops north after raising troops against the Qing Dynasty, and the initial progress was indeed smooth, and in just one month, they advanced to the Guangji and Huangmei areas in southeastern Hubei and controlled the east-west channel of Jiujiang. At that time, the situation could be described as a very good, to the west could attack Wuchang, and He Tengjiao's jurisdiction could be connected, and to the east down the river could attack Nanjing, and the southeast could be shocked.

But later, when discussing the direction of the next march, Jin Shenghuan's subordinate Huang Renlong proposed that Liu Wuyuan should be eliminated before the Northern Expedition, and even brought out the example of Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, who rebelled against him during the Zhengde period, claiming that Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, was rashly attacking Nanjing without solving the problem of Wang Shouren of Ganzhou, which led to the final defeat. This time, Jin Shenghuan didn't insist on his own idea for some reason, and instead waved his army south to attack Liu Wuyuan. In the end, all the newly acquired land was lost, and the Manchu reinforcements led by Tan Tai and He Luohui easily advanced to the city of Nanchang, and the Jin and Wang rebelled against the Qing and returned to the Ming Dynasty.

I just don't know if history will continue to follow its original trajectory.

"Now that Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren have gone right, the court will definitely be shaken." After a while, Zhang Yunli said again, "At this time, what should our army do?" ”

"You don't have to do anything, just stabilize the current situation, and I'll talk about the rest when I come back from Guangzhou."

"Dashuai really wants to go to Guangzhou in person?"

"You think I'm just talking?" Pang Yue said with a smile, "Now that the affairs of the Dusi Yamen and the army have been put on the right track, Jin Shenghuan's target has temporarily attracted the attention of the Imperial Court, and I also happen to have a little time to breathe, and after this period of time, I may not have time to withdraw if I want to go." ”

Going to Guangzhou was decided by Pang Yue a few days ago. First, he came to see the construction of the naval division, although Shi Lang reported in the letter every time that everything was going well, Pang Yue also knew that after all, he was the supreme commander of the naval division, and he could not disengage from the soldiers for a long time. The second is to borrow the east wind of the father-in-law's family. After the death of his old man Liu Xiang, he left behind two major wealthes, one is a strong network and the other is a huge industry.

As for the benefits of connections, Pang Yue has gained a lot, since he married Liu Bing'er, those old Liu Xiang departments who were originally dormant in various places have come to vote, otherwise the formation of the sea division would not have been so smooth. The property left by Liu Xiang was later managed by his brother-in-law, Liu Bing'er's uncle Zhou Yunxuan. At the beginning of this month, Zhou Yunxuan vaguely told Pang Yue in a letter that now that Liu Bing'er is married and self-reliant, he can rest assured that he can hand over the property left by Liu Xiang in his custody. If Pang Yue had time, he could go to Guangzhou at any time to discuss this matter with him.

Of course, Pang Yue understood what his uncle meant by "deliberation", but he didn't mind this. It's not because he's greedy for money, but after becoming a family in Huguang Town, there are too many places to use money. Although they made a lot of money in Guangzhou and Jingzhou last year, if they don't open up a powerful source, there will always be a day when they will sit on the mountain. It's rare to have a little spare right now, so it's time to deal with this matter.

"When is the big guy going to leave? How many soldiers and horses will you bring? ”

"When I set out in three days, I will not bring any soldiers and horses except for my own soldiers."

"How can this be done without soldiers and horses?" Zhang Yunli hurriedly persuaded, "As the head of Huguang Town, Dashuai shoulders a heavy responsibility, but he doesn't dare to make a mistake, or ......."

Pang Yue raised a palm and blocked Zhang Yunli's next words, and said, "Without the will of the Holy Lord, how can the local town generals mobilize troops and horses at will?" Although it is an extraordinary period now, the law is no longer as strict as in the past, but my Huguang Town has to take a good lead. As for my safety, there is also the Intelligence Department responsible for ensuring it along the way, so Zibin doesn't have to worry. ”

This time he went south, Pang Yue had decided to follow lightly, but there were a few people who must be brought. One of them is, of course, his brother-in-law Liu Cheng, who took him there, whether it was facing Liu Xiang's old ministry or Zhou Yunxuan, many things were easier to speak. The second is Wang Guangtai and Zheng Siwei, two newly attached generals. Bringing these two people there, one can make Chenzhou more stable, and the other is that by the way, it will also open the eyes of these two soil buns and dispel some of their concerns. (To be continued.) )