At the beginning of the sun, outside the gate of Little Ande, he galloped to the outside of the city gate, shot an arrow at the city wall, turned around and left.

The defenders of the city opened the letter in a daze and read it for a long time, and did not understand, so they handed it to the officer, and the officer could not understand it.

Nanjing's Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, who had long been ready to dedicate the city, did not dare to be careless at this time, and immediately sent Gao Mengxi, the secretary of Honglu Temple, to Sha'er Huda's tent in person!

"Sha'er Huda" at this time is stationed in Xiao'an Gate five miles away, the camp tent is tight, from a distance, the soldiers are wearing iron armor, at a glance it is the elite division, Gao Mengxi did not dare to look more, followed by a soldier guarding the door to enter, with a low head without squinting until he was led to a tent.

This is a pointed round tent of eight banners, it is indeed the camp tent of the eight banner soldiers, Gao Mengxi has seen it, so he doesn't feel strange at all, the eight banner soldiers live in the eight banner tent, what is there to be strange.

On the cloth wall at the end of the tent hung a leather with a sheep's skull on it, and a sheepskin chair under the bone, on which sat a general.

However, the general was extremely lazy, and he was lying on his side on a leather chair, covered by a pointed iron helmet, and there were three rows of guards standing in front of the general, each row had more than a dozen, Gao Mengxi occasionally saw through the cracks of people, and his face could not be seen at all.

These guards, all wearing eight-banner cotton armor, did not wear weapons in the front row, held helmets in their hands, revealing a bare skull, and some of them hung small pigtails from their shoulders in front of them.

The back two rows are more sturdy, both of them are cross-waist swords, through armor, and the whole body is wrapped in iron armor.

"When you see Lord Zhang Jing, why don't you kneel!"

Suddenly, one of the guards in the front row shouted loudly, in Manchu.

Gao Mengxi saw the guard who spoke. He is quite tall and wears a Eight Banners iron armor, which is still damaged and even bloodstained. Probably having just experienced the fighting, the only strange thing is that this guard seems to be too thin, and his eye sockets are deep, but he looks like a refugee fleeing the famine.

But Gao Mengxi didn't care much. Maybe the Manchurians are like this, after all, are they barbarians, there are tall barbarians, and there are thin and weak satisfactions.

Most of the others were like this, except for a little thin, standing here motionless, like wood, looking at their eyes, they were extremely hollow, as if they had no soul. One glance makes one feel the scalp tingle, because you will think that the other person is a dead person.

The walking corpse temperament exuded by Yang Chao after the complete despair of these people shocked Gao Mengxi at this time, and at first he was worried that it would arouse suspicion.

Gao Mengxi has the ability to be the Shaoqing of Beijing Honglu Temple, and after the city of Beijing was broken, he fled to Nanjing and was promoted to become the secretary of Honglu Temple.

Responsible for the Hajj of foreign officials, Zhufan tribute, but this year, who else will come to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. So he is an idle position, if nothing else, he should die in office, and there will be no promotion.

But I didn't expect it to really be useful for his day. But Gao Mengxi hoped that this day would not come.

I received a letter in the morning, the gatekeeper didn't know, but guessed that it was sent by the Qing army, so I didn't dare to be careless, and reported all the way to Honglu Temple, at this time Honglu Temple is Gao Mengxi, the authentic Honglu Temple Shaoqing who came from Beijing, understands Manchu. He still knows Mongolian.

So Gao Mengxi read the letter, and then reported it to Wang Duo, who consulted with other high-ranking officials and sent Gao Mengxi to the Qing army camp to discuss.

Gao Mengxi didn't want to kneel, he wanted to say that he was a high-sounding word like an envoy to the kingdom, but suddenly he thought about surrendering, so it didn't matter if he lost his prestige or not, his knees were soft and he immediately knelt down, and his knees were quite soft and soft, and they were all covered with sheepskin.

"Gao Mengxi, the criminal minister of the lower kingdom, Honglu Temple, knocks to see Lord Meile Zhangjing of the upper kingdom!"

Gao Mengxi kowtowed honestly.

When I looked up, I saw through the cracks in the people that the Mel Zhangjing nodded, and the Mel Zhangjing was wearing an extremely gorgeous red iron armor, with his head drooping, and there was a wine bottle next to him, as if he had not woken up from a hangover.

At this time, the general seemed to say something to the guard, but the voice was too small for Gao Mengxi, who was two feet away, to hear it, but soon the guard conveyed it loudly.

"Lord Sha'er Huda has an order, at three o'clock in the afternoon today, he ordered Ming Chen to open the south gate of Nanjing, and kneel outside the south gate to welcome our army. Lord Melerzhangjing wants to read to you the edict of His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty! ”

"Your subordinates obey!"

Gao Mengyu hurriedly said, he didn't feel sad about this at all, and even faintly looked forward to it, after all, what he was waiting for was surrender, and now that it was finally time to surrender, how could he not be excited.

In fact, Gao Mengxi still has a careful thought, originally he didn't have much motivation for his career, this time he sent this drudgery to him, he felt unlucky at first, but after thinking about it, isn't this his chance to make meritorious contributions, at this time, he has mastered a foreign language, isn't he the object of the Ming army and the Qing army.

Of course, there are many people in the Qing army who can speak Chinese, but among the ministers of the DPRK and China, he is the only one who can speak Manchu.

Suddenly, Gao Mengxi saw what the Eight Banners general said to the guard, and the guard shouted loudly again.

"Lord Sha'er Huda has an order, and you are waiting for the ministers, since you have surrendered, you should obey the shaved hair!"

Gao Mengxi was stunned, want to shave her hair? Didn't the Qing court abolish the shaving order, didn't Dolgon allow the people to wear Han clothes, why did he suddenly have to shave his hair again.

"Dare to ask Lord Shangguo, I heard that the shaving order has been abolished, why do I still shave my hair."

"A bold and enlightened man dares to disrespect the Holy Order!"

At this time, the guard shouted loudly in Manchu.

Gao Mengxi lowered his head: "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

"If you don't obey the rules, how can you see your intention to surrender, if you don't shave your hair, you have two hearts! My Prince's army will be killed immediately! On the day of the fall of Nanjing, you will not be left behind! ”

"The subordinates don't dare, the subordinates are wholeheartedly attached, and they are wholeheartedly attached!"

Gao Mengyu kowtowed like pounding garlic.

The guard waved his hand impatiently: "You go!" At noon today, our army entered the city, and if we do not obey the rules, we will see swordsmen! ”

After blasting Gao Mengxi away, the general on the seat stood up and stretched.

"This Eight Banners Iron Armor is really uncomfortable to wear."

The general spoke Chinese, because he was not a Manchu at all, he was Yang Chao.

Soon I saw Song Kun coming in.

Yang Chao asked, "Then Gao Mengxi didn't have any suspicions. ”

Song Kun said: "That civil official is very timid, and his subordinates follow him all the way, he doesn't dare to look at random, and he doesn't notice that our sergeants and soldiers have no braids." ”

Yang Chao nodded: "Well, bring these people back, and by the way, see if there is any news from Zhang Dawei." After such a long delay, it's time to send back the information. ”

Song Kun responded to the order and left with the dozen or so walking corpses in the front row, these people are really obedient, they will do whatever they are told to do, and they dare not disobey at all, it seems that there is only an obedient son left in this life.

This is the result of training, Yang Chao's soldiers have been trained very hard, but compared with the treatment suffered by these people, it is simply heaven, these people work in front of death every day, the slightest carelessness is to beat and scold, the slightest resistance, is to cut off the head directly, they have long been numb.

"Zhao Guozuo, you did a good job. Your sins are forgiven, and now Ben Jue is giving you a mission, you go on a big victory level! When this is done, Benjue will pardon your sins, and if you do a good job, Benjue will be entrusted with a heavy responsibility. ”

"The slave thanks the master for appreciation."

Zhao Guozuo hurriedly thanked him and didn't mention it.

Zhang Dawei soon came with the news that his clipper bypassed the Dasheng Pass and went all the way to Taiping and Wuhu, and indeed found that there were Qing troops everywhere, but the Qing army was resting, and they secretly went ashore and grabbed two tongues and asked.

It turned out that Azig's army fought with Huang Degong, and although they defeated Huang Degong's troops, after they pursued Huang Degong's soldiers and horses, they scattered very widely, and they had just gathered back and were resting.

It seems that Azig is not in a hurry to march into Nanjing, obviously he has already been in contact with the civil officials in Nanjing, and judged that Nanjing's resistance is not very good, so he plans to rest and recuperate before marching into the army.

But there is very bad news, that is, there are a lot of warships under Azig, and there are no less than 10,000 ships large and small.

These ships are Li Zicheng's ships, Li Zicheng went down from the Han River, looted the ships on the Han River, plus his own construction, tens of thousands, and later Azig attacked Li Zicheng's rear camp, seized most of the warships and supplies, and the rest of Li Zicheng forced to Hunan, and he came straight to the south of the Yangtze River.

At this time, there was silence in the court, and when Gao Mengxi said the shaving order, most of the ministers were silent.

Those who stayed in the court were all descended by the Lord, among which Wang Duo, a scholar of the university, and Qian Qianyi, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, were the heads of the scholars, and the servants Zhu Zhichen, Liang Yungou, Li Xuan, etc.; The lords were headed by Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong, Chengyi Bo Liu Kongzhao, Wei Duke Xu Yunjue, Baoguo Duke Zhang Guobi, Longping Marquis Zhang Gongri, Linhuai Marquis Li Zushu, Huaining Marquis Sun Weicheng, Lingbi Marquis Tang Guozuo, Anyuan Marquis Liu Zuochang, Yongchang Marquis Xu Hongjue, Dingyuan Marquis Deng Wenyi, Xiangcheng Bo Chang Yingjun, Daxing Bo Zou Cunyi, Ning Jin Bo Liu Yunji, Nanhe Bo Fang Yiyuan, Dongning Bo Jiao Mengxiong, Ancheng Bo Zhang Guocai, Luo Zhongbo Huang Jiuding, Cheng Anbo Guo Zuoyong, Qi Zanyuan and others coerced.

Not to mention the civil officials, these generations of princes, imperial relatives and relatives have also advocated surrender one by one, which is really despicable.

The three major power organs in Nanjing, headed by the military department Shangshu, the town guard ministers are two, the town guard eunuchs are three, and the military department is not to mention, theoretically responsible for mobilizing the army, but the actual command of the Nanjing defenders is the town guard ministers, and the town guard eunuchs have the right to supervise, that is, these three people are equivalent to mastering Nanjing's military strength.

However, after the arrival of the Qing army, among the three major power institutions, Ma Shiying fled, and the leader of the Wenchen who stayed behind became Wang Duo, and Zhao Zhilong, the minister of the town guard, both decided to surrender, but only Han Zanzhou, the eunuch, chose to commit suicide and martyrdom.

Although it was decided to surrender, or even surrendered enthusiastically, but if you want to shave your hair, it is still a little difficult to accept, the ancestors are well-dressed, and it is easy to shave your hair, so you will not become a beast, and you can surrender to a beast, if you become a beast, it is still unacceptable.

After being silent for a long time, Qian Qianyi suddenly touched his head: "This scalp is very itchy!" ”

After speaking, he left the court step by step and walked out. (To be continued.) )