Whether it is resettlement or army reorganization, it is very cumbersome and troublesome. Fortunately, Shen Tingyang and other civilian officials are in charge www.biquge.info of civil affairs, and Li Yanzhi and other cadres are in charge of military affairs, and Ren Siqi only needs to be in overall control. The Yiying system in Chongming was copied and copied from the Daishan system, and there was not much innovation at all, so soon everything was normalized.

Throughout June, more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians on Chongming Island were in the mode of immersion in development, and the situation outside became worse and worse.

On June 10, an envoy from Hangzhou arrived on Chongming Island and brought with him the decree of Emperor Hongguang.

Yue Guogong, Zuo Du Governor, Prince Taibao, this is the new title official position of Emperor Hongguang to confer Ren Siqi, and then let Ren Siqi quickly lead his subordinate troops to Hangzhou King Qin.

After dealing with the envoys, Ren Siqi gathered everyone to discuss the matter, and to his surprise, almost all of them opposed the reinforcement of Hangzhou. It is understandable that Liu Zhaoji, Mao and other generals objected, after all, the Daishan Army had just been evacuated from Yangzhou and suffered huge losses, although the total number was replenished to 50,000, and the army in Chongming also had more than 40,000, but the soldiers were newly recruited and had not yet been trained, so they had no combat effectiveness at all. Moreover, according to the report from the Jiangbei sentinel, a Qing army with more than 30,000 people arrived in Nantong, opposite Chongming, and there was an attempt to attack Chongming. There is a strong enemy outside, and there is instability inside, where can we send troops to reinforce Hangzhou! It is normal for the generals to oppose the call, but this time even Shen Tingyang, Liu Wanchun and other civilian officials are also opposed, according to Shen Tingyang, even if the Daishan army arrives in Hangzhou, it will not be able to hold it at all, with Hongguang's urine, maybe he will not wait for the reinforcements to arrive and flee.

From this incident, it can be seen that almost all the civil and military forces on Chongming Island were completely disappointed in the imperial court. Ren Siqi himself also knows that with the current power of the Daishan Army, he can't turn the tide at all, since this is the case, it is better to stay in Chongming and develop.

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After crossing the Yangtze River with his army, Duoduo soon joined Azig at Nanjing. Then, according to the order of the regent Dolgon, Azig's Western Route Army was responsible for attacking Jiangxi, Huguang and other places, while the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was in charge of Duoduo.

After the capture of Nanjing, although Azig and his troops did not slaughter the city, they also grabbed a lot of money. Satisfied, Azig led his army to evacuate Nanjing, went west against the Yangtze River, and finally stationed in Jiujiang.

After Azig led the army to leave, Duoduo immediately ordered half of his Eight Banners to be sent to Belebolo, and ordered Bolo to attack Hangzhou, be sure to capture Emperor Hongguang who fled to Hangzhou, and completely eliminate the Ming Dynasty.

The military strength of the Hongguang regime in Jiangnan was already very weak, and after the fall of the southern capital, the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River were even more rumored and unwilling, and they all surrendered to the wind. Boluo's division marched along the Grand Canal, advancing by land and water, and entered Changzhou on 30 May. On the third day of June, the Qing army reached Wuxi. Along the way, the Qing army encountered almost no resistance. It was not until the vicinity of Suzhou that there were skirmishes.

After Duoduo entered Nanjing, Huang Jiamo, the Shaoqing of the Honghu Temple of the Southern Ming Dynasty, who had ordered the Qing Dynasty, to go to Suzhou and other places to "ask for the surrender book". On 25 May, Huang Jiamo and his gang arrived at Tiger Hill outside Suzhou, and that night, Chen Shitai, the prefect of Suzhou, abandoned the city and fled. The next day, Huang Jiaduan and others were welcomed into Suzhou City, and the officials and people presented their books and came to visit.

On the 29th, Yang Wencong, the deputy envoy of the Ming Supervision Army, led 500 soldiers from Zhenjiang to Suzhou. Yang Wencong used to come to see Xie Xian in the name of entering the city and killing more than 20 people including Huang Jiadu. On the fourth day of the first month of June, more than 10,000 cavalry of the Qing army under the Boluo Department rushed to Suzhou through Wuxi. The Qing army's forward "two horses per man", a very fast cavalry force, continued to pursue Yang Wencong eastward after occupying Suzhou. On the 8th day of the first month of June, the main cavalry of the Qing army left Suzhou and marched towards Hangzhou, and the farmland on the outskirts of Suzhou was tragically ravaged by the Qing army. The next day, Bolo led his army into Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province via Wujiang. On June 12, the Qing army approached the city of Hangzhou.

Emperor Hongguang arrived in Hangzhou on May 26 on the ship Zheng Hongkui, and three days earlier, Ma Shiying escorted Empress Dowager Zou to Hangzhou by land.

Due to the surrender of the Manchu Qing Dynasty by a group of civil and military forces in Nanjing, Hongguang rebuilt the court after arriving in Yangzhou. Ma Shiying was still the first assistant of the cabinet, Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, was the secretary of the military department, and Wu Kexiao of Jiahu Dao took over as the governor of Zhejiang. Wang Zhiren, the chief soldier of Dinghai, was Wu Ningbo, transferred to the general army of Suzhou, and Fang Guoan, the chief soldier of Zhejiang, was named the marquis of Zhendong, and ordered him to send troops to guard Qianqiuling, Dusongguan, Si'an Town and other places. He also ordered the eunuch Li Guohan and the eunuch Gao Qiqian to guard Pingwang. And issued edicts everywhere, ordering the army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to be the king. In Susong, Changzhou, and eastern Zhejiang, there are tens of thousands of local garrison troops.

However, except for Fang Guoan, Wang Zhiren and other subordinates, the armies in other places refused to obey the edict, but the Duoduo Nashu in Nanjing, who was the first to grab, surrendered. Before the large army sent by Duoduo to conquer everywhere arrived, the prefectures and counties of Suzhou, Changzhou, Wuxi, and Songjiang had surrendered one after another, and the entire provinces of Nanzhili were no longer under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

For the surrendered prefectures and counties, Duoduo still appointed demoted officials to their original positions, and many Ming Dynasty officials changed from the prefect of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, and everything else remained unchanged, so more and more officials surrendered. Except for Chongming Island, all the officials of the entire Nanzhili surrendered, including Jiangyin and Jiading.

Emperor Hongguang had been frightened by the Qing army and sent Chen Hongfan as an envoy to try to negotiate peace with the Qing army. Who knew that Chen Hongfan directly surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, informed Bolo of all the details of Hangzhou, and offered Bolo a strategy to capture Hangzhou.

After returning to Hangzhou, Chen Hongfan first persuaded Zhang Bingzhen, the secretary of the military department, and then worked with Zhang Bingzhen to persuade Ma Shiying's son Ma Luan, who was in charge of palace security.

Everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty has gone, and if you resist it again, you can only be defeated and killed, if you surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Belebolo promised that Ma Luan will be named the prefect of Hangzhou. Under Chen Hongfan's persuasion, Ma Luan decisively agreed to surrender.

On June 12, the Qing army marched into Tangxi and approached the city of Hangzhou. Emperor Hongguang could no longer sit still, and reverted to his old plan, trying to escape to Zheng Hongkui's ship, and then to Fuzhou.

Ma Luan escorted Hongguang out of the city, but did not go to the sea, but went straight to the Qing army camp. Hongguang knew that the big thing was not good, and begged Ma Luan to no avail, so he got out of the carriage and refused to move forward. Ma Luan ordered his subordinates to drag Hongguang up, but because of the emperor's majesty, his soldiers did not dare to be rude to Hongguang. There was no way, Ma Luan and Chen Hongfan carried Hongguang's head and Hongguang's legs, and dragged Hongguang away from the carriage. Then Ma Luan carried Hongguang to the Qing camp.

Hongguang pleaded to no avail, and bit the back of Ma Luan's neck fiercely, biting down on a piece of meat, blood continued to flow down from Ma Luan's neck, soaking the entire back.

Hongguang was captured, Fang Guoan knew that the general trend was gone, and led his subordinate troops to retreat across the Qiantang River. Although Ma Shiying was a traitor, he had more backbone than his son, and he also retreated to Jiangdong.

On June 14, the Qing army occupied Hangzhou without much effort. Bolo took advantage of the situation to send envoys to recruit the provinces of eastern Zhejiang and the Ming vassal kings who had taken refuge in this area.

The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty who lived in the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang included Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, the king of Zhou who lived in Xiaoshan, the king of Hui, the king of Chong, who lived in Qiantang, and the king of Lu, who lived in Linhai.

Except for the king of Lu, who was far away and could not resign, the other kings rushed to Hangzhou, and then were sent to Nanjing by Bolo and Hongguang, and were later escorted back to Beijing with the withdrawal of Duoduo.

The fall of Hangzhou and the capture of Hongguang marked the complete destruction of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the complete fall of the entire land of China.

(To be continued.) )