Chapter 439: Fu Jiangnan (2) (Text)
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The panicked Jiangnan of the people.
It's been two months, but it's just a different direction.
After the scouts entered Guangde Mansion and followed the Boluo army, they investigated the eastward direction of the Qing army. Bolo was bent on returning to Nanjing, as there were not many soldiers and horses there. If Nanjing has a business trip, not only will they lose Jiangnan, but they will also be buried in Jiangnan
Yu Qian is no longer important.
General Pinglu commanded the soldiers to gallop wildly, Meng Kang led his troops into Lin'an, and Zhu Dadian led the army to Hangzhou. Yao Qisheng led the frightened recruits from the Xiaoshan camp to deal with the battlefield in Yuqian, and marched into Huzhou Mansion a day later.
These recruits have experienced more than ten days of torture in Qianxian County, and although they are determined to die, they will inevitably have fear in their hearts. When the Qing captives retreated, everyone had ecstasy in their hearts, and they also had the joy of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe. More than 6,000 of the 40,000 recruits suffered more than 6,000 casualties in the ten-day siege of the city, and many of them were villagers who crossed the sea from Songjiang Prefecture, and each of them collected the corpses of their fellow villagers and buried them on the north mountain of Qianxian County.
Zhai Zhe met Liu Suifeng in Hangzhou, and the two discussed secretly for about a quarter of an hour.
All the soldiers who surrendered cut off their braids under the Hangzhou Mansion, and they did not even change the clothes on their bodies, and marched into Jiaxing Mansion with the Ming army, preparing to attack the Songjiang Mansion, and Wang Zhiren led the water division to meet in the Huangpu River.
Zhai Zhe personally supervised the northward march of the army, and under the command of General Pinglu, there were 30,000 regular soldiers, 20,000 righteous troops, and 20,000 descended troops, a total of 70,000 troops crossed the Huangpu River by sea. Zhang Mingzhen boarded 6 at the Wusong Clubhouse and flanked from the flank.
In the past two days, the rout has been all over the south of the Yangtze River, and all kinds of news have spread everywhere. Li Chengdong knew that Duoduo had retreated to Songjiang Mansion, but he never received him, like a frightened bird.
In the Huangpu River, the sails of the ships covered the flowing water on the river, and the flags of the Ming army on the opposite bank covered the yellow rice fields.
It was the season of rice ripening and crab fat, and the army crossed the river in batches, and Zhai Zhe wrote a letter to Li Chengdong to persuade him to surrender.
He met Xiao Zhiyan on the banks of the Huangpu River, and also met the person he didn't want to see.
The day before yesterday, after Xiao Zhiyan and others shot Duoduo's own soldiers on the shore of Henglujing, they saw that the boatman overturned the boat in the middle of the river, and it took a while to drag Duoduo, who had drunk a stomach full of water and was like a dead pig, onto the boat and rowed to the shore.
At that time, there were only eight cavalrymen left around Xiao Zhiyan, and he was afraid that he would encounter a large number of Qing soldiers on the road, so he did not dare to escort him back with great fanfare. Strip Duoduo of his clothes and tie it up like a zongzi from the trail to Jiaxing Mansion, which was recovered by Yuan Qizhou.
After he ordered someone to report the good news to Fengqin, he stayed in Jiaxing. The army was marching towards Songjiang Mansion, and he didn't need to turn back.
Zhai Zhe led the army to the outside of Jiaxing City, and Xiao Zhiyan came to visit.
When he saw Xiao Zhiyan, Zhai Zhe stretched out his right hand to high-five him.
"Brother Xiao, Jiang is still old and spicy!" He took Xiao Zhiyan's arm and walked back to the big tent. He made no secret of his closeness to Xiao Zhiyan in front of the officers and men in the army. He has changed a lot in recent years, but there is no need to be hypocritical to his friends, let alone that he has only such a friend.
Xiao Zhiyan was smiling as usual, smiling very comfortably, smiling very warmly, he could more or less understand Zhai Zhe's thoughts, "It's not my credit!" ”
A great achievement that is famous all over the world was pushed aside by him like this. What is his is his, and if it is not his, he will not force himself to take credit. From a steppe horse thief to a feudal marquis, no matter how much credit he wants, it is useless. Zhai Zhe wanted fame, but Xiao Zhiyan abandoned it.
There was a sound of footsteps outside the tent, and Fang entered the door and said, "Duoduo bring!" ”
Zhai Zhe ordered his soldiers to give Xiao Zhiyan a seat on the right side, with a stern expression.
The tent door opened, and two tall men escorted Dordor in. Dodor was tied up and down in a sturdy knot, with only one pair of legs to move, and a thick rope passed through his mouth, and he could only whine,
Zhai Zhe stood up, walked to his side, and drew his waist knife to cut the rope he had strangled his mouth. I don't know if it was because of his lack of skill, or if he did it on purpose, the tip of the knife cut a cut in his face, and the blood arched out like a wriggling earthworm under the skin.
"We've fought three times on the battlefield, and we've finally met."
Duoduo glared angrily and said, "If you want to kill, you will kill, and Hugh will talk nonsense." ”
"I'm glad to keep you in Jiangnan!" Zhai Zhe put away his knife and returned it to its sheath, "You should only die in one place." ”
His heart shrank slightly, remembering the slaughter of Yangzhou in May. He didn't see the slaughter of Yangzhou with his own eyes, but he saw Dolgon slaughtering the city in Shuozhou, and there were more than one million people in Yangzhou, which was the sin that Duo should bear.
"Take it down."
The guards tied Dord's mouth with ropes again and escorted him out of the tent.
After Duoduo came out of the tent, Fang Jin led a cowering crowd in.
Xiao Zhiyan stood up and waved his hand, "He is the righteous man who captured the captives." ”
"What's your name?"
The boatman threw himself on his knees, did not even dare to raise his head, stared at the ground, and said, "The villain's name is Wang Er." ”
Zhai Zhe was a little surprised when he saw this person's appearance, looked at Xiao Zhiyan, and saw that he nodded to confirm that it was correct, and then said: "You captured Duoduo and made great contributions, are you willing to stay in our army?" He left Wang Er in the army just to pave the way for him.
Wang Er hung his head, raised his head and glanced at Zhai Zhe, then quickly lowered his head and replied in a trembling voice: "The villain is just a boatman, he has never killed anyone on weekdays, and he doesn't dare to serve the general!"
"How dare you capture Duoduo?"
Wang Er looked a little frightened, and replied, "That villain was carried away somehow. "What an honest man, he can't say a word of grandeur.
"The villain knew that the Jurchens had killed countless Han people in Jiangnan, and the villain was from Songjiang Mansion, and he didn't have the courage to go to Chongming Island with the Hou Yuan two months ago. But when the Jurchen general arrived, the villain knew that his life was cheap and worthless, and if he could fight a Jurchen general, it would definitely be worth it. ”
The tent was quiet.
The guards were mighty and imposing. Wang Er dared to overturn Duoduo's ship in the middle of the river, but he did not dare to raise his head and speak in this military tent.
Zhai Zhe had nothing to say, and he didn't know what to say. He was able to defeat the strong with the weak and defeat Dordor, and it was with the help of countless such people. Whether in Hangzhou, Yu Qian or Ningshao, what he really relied on was hundreds of thousands of volunteers.
"You stay in our army, and I will arrange a suitable position for you, so you don't have to go into battle to fight." Zhai Zhe's tone was very gentle, for fear of frightening Wang Er again, but the general's order should not be disobeyed. The person who captured Duoduo must be the commander of the Pinglu General's Mansion, he is not as righteous as Xiao Zhiyan, otherwise he would not have come to this day.
Because of the change, he can survive so far, and he will have to face more than just Qingyu.
The army crossed the Huangpu River in one day.
Li Chengdong killed nearly 10,000 people in Songjiang, he was afraid, he was not kept by Zhai Zhe's letter, and led 20,000 soldiers to retreat to Yingtianfu like a lost dog.
Duoduo did not appear for a long time, and the Jurchen rout and the Han army surrendered as if they had lost their backbone. The Ming army took advantage of the great victory over Yu Wei and marched fifty miles in one day. The Taihu rebels took advantage of the situation, captured Wu County, and advanced to Suzhou. There were not many Qing garrisons in Suzhou and Changzhou counties, and the people cut off their braids and expelled officials from all over the country.
The closer he got to victory, the calmer Zhai Zhe became, he had waited sixteen years for this moment to reverse, so even if he was a little slower, he might miss some opportunities, but he would never allow any more accidents.
Before Fang Guoan and Zuo Ruo solved Zhang Cunren's arrival, plus the reinforcements from Chongming Island, he had 80,000 soldiers and horses, but defending the city and fighting in the field were not the same thing. Surrendering the army is a variable, and the righteous army is also a variable, and in the current situation, it is a fool's choice to fight a war with too many variables.
The army marched around the periphery of Taihu Lake through Kunshan and Changshu. Zhai Zhe did not divide his troops to capture a few recalcitrant cities, and Duoduo's defeat was a lesson from the past.
For example, Wu Shengzhao was still hiding in Suzhou City and did not come out, but Zhai Zhe did not attack. At present, there are all kinds of rumors, and the Qing captives were still in full swing four or five days ago, and not everyone believes that Duoduo was captured, so let time prove the mistakes of these people.
The Ming army made a posture of advancing to Nanjing, continuously collecting and surrendering troops along the way, and arrived at the city of Jiangyin on October 6.
Liu Liangzuo had already withdrawn his troops and left, and Yan Yingyuan led Chen Mingyu and others out of Jiangyin City for ten miles to meet Zhai Zhe. Zhai Zhe didn't walk into any of the cities along the way that begged for surrender, but Jiangyin City was different.
The banner of General Pinglu came from far and near, the mighty cavalry was like a ghost from the Shura field, and the four main generals of Jiangyin City knelt in front of Zhai Zhe's horse together, and saluted during the march, "Meet General Pinglu!" ”
Even kneeling on the ground, Yan Yingyuan was majestic.
"I arrived just in time!" Zhai Zhe dismounted, personally helped Yan Yingyuan up, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, Duoduo cooperated and didn't let me break my promise." ”
There is always a kind of sympathy between people of the same kind, Yan Yingyuan raised troops in Jiangyin, the situation was a hundred times more dangerous than Hangzhou, and Liu Liangzuo was restrained by 30,000 soldiers and horses in a lonely city, killing or injuring five or six thousand people, and the name of Jiangyin righteous warriors had already spread all over the south of the Yangtze River. Zhai Zhe admired him very much, he thought that he couldn't do better than him in Yan Yingyuan's position.
Yan Yingyuan surrendered his hand and asked for his life, "I am willing to be the vanguard of the general and recover Nanjing!" ”
"The losses of the Jiangyin rebels are not small, and they are not in a hurry." Zhai Zhe asked his soldiers to give up a horse to Yan Yingyuan, and the two walked side by side and went to Jiangyin City.
Zhai Zhe suddenly asked, "Do you have an old relationship with Liu Liangzuo?" ”
Yan Yingyuan was silent for a moment, and replied: "Before the last general came to Jiangyin, he knew Liu Liangzuo in Beijing, and he was persuaded to surrender under Jiangyin City, but I scolded him back. ”
Zhai Zhe pointed to Jiangyin City, which was riddled with holes in the distance, and asked meaningfully: "Does the Jiangyin Righteous Army regard Liu Liangzuo as a mortal enemy?" ”
The two horses moved forward slowly, and Yan Yingyuan understood what Zhai Zhe meant. This is a threshold, and he has crossed it, and he will be the general from now on. Logically, he knew that Zhai Zhe was right, but emotionally, he couldn't accept it for a while.
Zhai Zhe sighed lightly and said, "Jiangnan is weak, but Qingyu is strong. If the Han people work together, why are they afraid of the Qing captives? ”
Yan Yingyuan gritted his teeth: "The last general is willing to persuade Liu Liangzuo to surrender." ”
Zhai Zhe shook his head with a smile and said, "There is no need for this, why put you in danger, you just need to repair a few letters and send them to Zhenjiang." ”