344 Jiangnan (6)
Doomed to ruin, Sazai finally had a nervous breakdown. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
He ordered people to set fire to the city, but the minions who took the order knew that the master had gone crazy, so none of them really set fire to the city. After the people of Jiangning City summed it up, they asked the Eight Banners guarding the city to open the gate of Jiangning City and sent people out of the city to find the Wuwei army to surrender.
Sazai waited left and right to wait for the fire to start, and finally became disheartened, and set a fire to the governor's palace, burning himself and his family to death.
Chen Guozhi did not wait for his friendly army, but waited for Jiangning City to surrender. However, Chen Guozhi was worried that this was the enemy's trick to surrender, so he immediately demanded that all the gates of Jiangning City be opened, and the armed forces laid down their arms and went out of the city to surrender to the Wuwei army.
Several Eight Banner leaders had no choice but to return to the city and demand that the defenders in the city surrender. However, they want to surrender, but there are some Jiangnan scholars who have no way to retreat, if they resist to the end, they can still leave a reputation of martyrdom, at least praised by others, but if they surrender, then it will be very unsightly.
So when a certain leader went to a Jiangnan military barracks in Jiangning to ask them to surrender, he was detained by the people inside. Now the Eight Banners of Jiangning City are angry, although the Eight Banners have been canceled, but the sense of superiority of the Manchurians is still bursting, and the Tang people bully our old and young masters, even if they have powerful guns, our old and young masters don't suffer this loss, Ya, you sissies who dropped their bookbags and Lao Tzu make a mistake, do you really think that this Qing Dynasty is lucky to fall into the hands of our Manchurians?
So, the leader of the Jiangning Eight Banners led a group of Eight Banners Army to the barracks of the Jiangnan Army, but instead fought with the Jiangnan Army. said that although the Eight Banners are indeed very pustuated now, there is still no pressure to deal with the Jiangnan Army. Moreover, the Eight Banners were all armored, and they formed a battle formation to kill them, and the people of the Jiangnan Army were suddenly disadvantaged.
But after all, there are many people in the Jiangnan army. When a barracks was attacked by the Eight Banners, other militia groups from the Jiangnan Army rushed to their aid, and eventually the chaotic battle began to spread, turning into a battle that affected the whole city, and it was not clear who was fighting whom.
And Chen Guozhi heard the shouting and killing in the city, and he didn't care at all, even if the final Eight Banners battle was unfavorable. Ran out of the city to ask him for help, but he only said lightly: "Before the situation is discovered, our army will not act rashly, if you can't defeat those farmers, you will lose your swords and guns except for A, and go out of the city to stay honest." ”
After all, the soldiers of the Eight Banners were also a little angry, which was obviously despised by the Wu Wei Army, and they gritted their teeth and returned to the city.
Of course, although Chen Guozhi said that he was squeezing these Eight Banner soldiers, in fact, it was more than ten minutes later. He sent a battalion of soldiers, seized the gate controlled by the Eight Banners, and set up machine guns on the city walls. The reason behind this move was that he was afraid that the Eight Banners would really be destroyed, and the Jiangnan Army would easily capture this city gate, so Chen Guozhi would delay the fighter.
Chen Guozhi is the brigade commander of the Wuwei Army as a Tang person, in fact, except for Yu Pengxi, a brigade commander who is a Qing person, the rest of the brigade commanders are Tang people, and generally also serve as a battalion commander of the Tang Army. There are also a few who are directly dispatched to serve.
When the soldiers of the Eight Banners saw the Wuwei army coming to occupy the city gate, they were eager to give the city gate to them. A leader ran back in disgrace and brought this wave of Eight Banners into the city again.
The Wuwei Army did not participate in this chaotic battle, and actually fought all night. The damage of the Eight Banners in Jiangning was quite serious, at least eight or nine hundred people died in Jiangning, and the losses of the Jiangnan Army were not small, and they fought later. A lot of people fled. Due to the opening of the gate of Jiangning City, many people of the Jiangnan Army pretended to be ordinary people, lost their weapons, and fled from Jiangning, because many Jiangning people also ran away in order to escape the war. Therefore, it is impossible to distinguish who is a soldier and who is a citizen.
Early the next morning, Chen Guozhi learned that Sazai had self-immolated and died in the governor's palace. The Jiangnan Army was also basically wiped out by the Eight Banners and other anyway troops in the city. Chen Guozhi also brightened his heart, although many people died in Jiangning Baqi, but they kept Jiangning's full people. They set things right at the last moment, and they can be regarded as a lot of efforts, so naturally Jiaqing should be sympathetic to them, so as not to dispose of them, and some people even have to reward and comfort them.
After Jiangning was breached, one of the largest separatist forces in the Qing State was wiped out. Sazai's control over the entire Jiangnan is extremely limited, and many magistrates did not follow Sazai to fight against the imperial court. A large number of Jiangnan officials claimed that they had been with Sa Zaixu and the snake before, and they were in Cao Ying's heart in Han. Jiaqing is not stupid, most of these people are gentle and compassionate and do not deal with them harshly, but he has written down the names of these people, I am afraid that they are unlikely to be promoted in the future, or find some reason to do them later.
On the third day after Jiangning City was taken over by the Wuwei Army, Ji Yun came to Jiangning to serve as the governor of Jiangsu. His first task was to restore law and order and stability in Jiangsu, while working with the Tang people. If Jiangnan wants to be stable, it is obviously impossible without the support of the Tang people. The Tang army was stationed in Shanghai, and in this battle of Jiangnan, they sent troops at will, and captured wherever they wanted, which made people feel shocked.
Jiaqing's secret edict to Ji Yun mentioned that on the surface, the Tang people were perfunctory, if the Tang people made any demands, they would be satisfied if they were not too excessive, and in addition, they should restore production in Jiangnan as soon as possible to ensure that the imperial court would receive the income of this important fiscal and tax land, and at the same time urge the Tang army to withdraw from the Qing territory as soon as possible and return to Shanghai for stationing.
Ji Yun could only smile bitterly at this, the officials of the new court are not good, not to mention serving a good emperor, but also serving a good Tang people. The language and writing of the Tang people are no different from those of the Qing people, but the way of doing things makes many Qing officials very uncomfortable. Ji Yun also understood that it was not difficult for the Tang army to withdraw to Shanghai, but the Tang people could still exert a huge influence on Jiangnan, because at this time Jiangnan was in the hands of the Wuwei Army, which nominally belonged to the imperial court, but was controlled by the governor of the Tang Dynasty.
Jiaqing has been with the Tang people for a long time, and he also understands the urine nature of the Tang people, and he guessed correctly. Soon, the Tang people made new demands, and the governor of the United Special Administrative Region of China made it clear in a letter to Jiaqing that a group of people had played a very bad role in the rebellion in the Jiangnan region, and that the disloyalty of His Majesty the Emperor should be dealt with severely. Here, he suggested that His Majesty the Jiaqing Emperor should exile the rebel soldiers, the rebel soldiers, and their families, and the Tang State would be specifically responsible for this.
To put it bluntly, the Tang people hit the population again. (To be continued.) )