Zhun Pagoda is the son of Hu Erhan, the founder of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and is inlaid with blue flags. At the beginning www.biquge.info of May, he was ordered to lead a detachment of divisions from Shandong to attack the area east of the canal.

On May 18, Zhun Ta occupied Xuzhou, which was basically undefended, and Li Chengdong, the former commander of Xuzhou in the Ming Dynasty, had already returned to Yangzhou on the order of Shi Kefa, and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty before entering Yangzhou City. After the easy occupation of Xuzhou, Zhun Tower did not stop, immediately sent troops along the Yellow River to the east, without encountering any resistance, took over Pizhou, Suqian, Suining, Shuyang, Taoyuan, Qinghe and other counties, the front of the army directly to Huai'an City.

On the way, Zhunta received a letter from Prince Yu, and after arriving in Huai'an, he immediately ordered an attack on Huai'an.

Huai'an is the territory of Liu Zeqing, the Marquis of Dongping, but as early as when he heard that the Qing soldiers were going east from Xuzhou, Liu Zeqing teamed up with Wang Yongji, the governor of Shandong, Tian Yang, the governor of Caodu, and a group of civil and military officers to flee to the sea along the Yellow River in dozens of large ships, and handed over the land, people, people, horses, money and grain of the 14 prefectures and counties of Huaiyang to his subordinate general Bai Yongfu as an agent.

The top boss and all the civil officials were so frightened that they fled, where did Bai Yongfu dare to resist, Zhun Ta launched an offensive slightly, and immediately surrendered Huai'an. In fact, there are more than 30,000 soldiers of Liu Zeqing's army in Huai'an City, which is five or six times the number of quasi-towers, and there are city walls to rely on, so there is no problem at all if you defend it.

But now that Nanjing has been captured, what's the use of resisting? In addition, although Liu Zeqing has many soldiers, most of them are rabble, and Liu Zeqing's division is at the bottom of the four towns in Jiangbei, and the slightly elite soldiers are all taken to the sea by Liu Zeqing, and the rest dare not resist the invincible Eight Banners.

After easily occupying Huai'an, Zhun Ta did not stop long, leaving Huai'an to the accompanying governor Zhao Fuxing, and he took the Eight Banners of his headquarters to go east along the Yellow River by boat to Yancheng, and he wanted to intercept the retreating Ming army from Yangzhou according to Duoduo's instructions.

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Yangzhou City, with the withdrawal of the last group of people, Ren Siqi and his subordinate troops also withdrew from Yangzhou City by boat. Before withdrawing, dozens of cannons placed at the head of the city were blown up with gunpowder, and then set fire everywhere, and suddenly the whole Yangzhou was in billowing smoke.

Duoduo immediately sent troops into Yangzhou, fighting the fire while searching the whole city.

There are really people who would rather die than leave their homes, and the Daishan army has no choice but to let these people go, according to statistics, there are about 30,000 or 40,000 people who do not want to leave Yangzhou, in their opinion, as long as they take the initiative to surrender, maybe the Qing soldiers will let themselves go. For some stubborn people, Ren Siqi really has no good way, with only more than 5,000 infantry left in the retreating city, it is not enough to guard against the enemy's attack, and there is no energy and manpower to check whether there are still people missing. The fierce Eight Banners poured into the doors of the people's houses, rummaging around the belongings in the houses, although the people took away the precious soft when they retreated, but the hasty retreat could not take everything away, leaving more wealth.

"The military master spares his life!" A small businessman was reluctant to let go of his family's house and shop, and his family stayed, and when he saw the vicious Qing soldiers breaking into his house, he immediately took his family to kneel in the courtyard and prayed.

The Manchu soldiers, who were born in the northeast, couldn't understand Huaiyang's words, so they directly cut off his head with a knife, and then hacked the remaining men to death with a few knives, leaving only the merchant's wife and daughter.

Seeing her husband and son die tragically in front of her, the wife fainted.

Frowning and glancing at the merchant's wife, perhaps thinking that she was too old, the full soldier stabbed her to death with a knife, and then grabbed the merchant's daughter and walked to the bedroom.

"Ah!!h The merchant's daughter let out a terrible scream.

The same scene is happening all over the city of Yangzhou. The Eight Banners soldiers, who had been blocked for a month, vented their screams with killing ** lewdness, and the screams in the city came and went, and the people cried and begged, but they couldn't escape the insults and killings of the beasts.

The good people remained in the city with the thought that the enemy would be merciful to surrender, but what awaited them was hell on earth. It is the most foolish idea to put hope in the mercy of the enemy, and perhaps it can only be understood at the cost of life, but it is too late.

A day later, Duoduo ordered the Green Battalion to be released into the city, and the ancient Yangzhou ushered in a second catastrophe. If the Eight Banners are like combs to clean up the wealth and people in Yangzhou City, then the Green Battalion soldiers are like grates and leave no grass behind.

For these green battalion soldiers, they did not show mercy to the people because they were of the same race, they treated the remaining people more cruelly than the Eight Banners, insulting and killing, and some even took pleasure in torturing the people. And the poor green battalion soldiers did not let go of all the belongings in the city, whether it was clothes, cloth, kitchen knives and axes, or needles and threads, the places they passed were clean.

Two days later, Duoduo ordered the knife to be sealed, but in fact, there was no one left in Yangzhou City to kill at this time. Because of Ren Siqi's reasons, the ten days in Yangzhou in history became three days, and the people who died under the Manchu butcher's knife changed from 800,000 to more than 30,000.

Another reason why Duoduo ordered the sword to be sealed so early was that he needed to cross the Yangtze River south as soon as possible to snatch the power of destroying the Ming. Because Ren Siqi led the resistance of the Daishan army and took the initiative to retreat, so that Duoduo's capture from Yangzhou was not as large as in history, after the Qing army broke through Yangzhou in history, it robbed all the wealth of Yangzhou, and the silver that fell into Duoduo's private pocket alone amounted to more than one million taels, and there were countless of them privately divided by the Qing soldiers.

And now the capture of Yangzhou will certainly not satisfy the appetite of Duoduo and the Qing soldiers, but it doesn't matter, there is a richer Jiangnan waiting for them to conquer!

On May 25, Duoduo led his army out of Yangzhou, and on the 26th, his troops arrived at the Guazhou Ferry, 20 days later than in history.

To the east of the canal, Ren Siqi looked back at Yangzhou, looking at the billowing smoke and dust burning over the city, as if he could hear the painful cries of the people in the city, at this moment he fell into deep self-blame, maybe he should use more drastic means to force the people to withdraw!

"Master Hou, you have done a good job!" Shen Tingyang persuaded in a hoarse voice, "With such a big city and so many people, our ability is very limited. ”

In order to urge the people to evacuate, he almost didn't get a good night's sleep for several days, watching the people left in the city being killed by the Qing soldiers, he was even more sad than Ren Siqi.

"I will definitely come back, I will definitely kill all the Manchus and traitors, and avenge the dead soldiers and villagers!" Looking at the smoky Yangzhou City, Ren Siqi solemnly made his oath in his heart!

The road ahead will be even more difficult, Ren Siqi knows that he has no time to grieve, what he has to do now is to avoid the chasing soldiers sent by the Qing soldiers, and bring the people and soldiers back to Chongming Island safely. (To be continued.) )