Chapter 39: The Story of Jiangyin
When Zhao Laosan heard this, he immediately opened the porcelain bottle, opened his mouth and swallowed the medicine in it, only to feel slimy, and a mud-like liquid flowed down and fell straight into his stomach.
He swallowed the medicine, opened his mouth and said, "Fourth, even if I don't believe you as a person, I still believe in your background!" ”
It turned out that one hundred and forty-five years ago, Jiangyin, a city of heroes, resisted the invasion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there was a heroic deeds of ghosts and gods that shook the world.
At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, all the way south, and when they arrived at Jiangyin, the Ming Dynasty officials in the city, seeing that the Qing army's iron hooves could not be stopped, all hugged their heads and cried, and most of them resigned one after another, and Jiangyin surrendered to the Manchus with the general trend of the world.
Who knew that later, the Qing court sent a surrendered Ming Dynasty jinshi, named Fang Heng. On the fifth day of Fang Heng's arrival in Jiangyin, he showed a notice and issued a shaving order.
At that time, the people of Jiangyin thought that everything was easy to discuss, and on the second day, they wrote to Fang Heng to ask to stay, Fang Heng scolded, and a scholar also scolded Fang Heng: "You are a Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty, wearing a gauze hat and a round collar, but you came to be the county order of the Qing Dynasty, you are not ashamed, and you are not ugly?" ”
Fang Heng held a grudge, and it happened that the notice of the higher-level government came down, and there was a sentence of "keep your head or not keep your head, keep your head or not".
Fang Heng ordered a scribe to copy, the scribe was originally an official position that was not in the stream, not among the nine grades, but when he copied, he saw the words "keep your head without leaving your head, keep your head without leaving your head", and when he was angry, he threw his pen on the ground and said sonorously: "Just die!" Then he turned and left.
When the news spread, the people of Jiangyin City were angry, and they all said, "The head can be broken, and it must not be shaved."
Fang Heng secretly wrote to his superiors at night, asking for soldiers to encircle and suppress him, but he was informed by the officials in the yamen and secretly informed the people in the city.
So the people in the city surrounded the county government, captured Fang Heng, the whole Jiangyin City, old and young, men and women, all mobilized, led by the original master Chen Mingyu, raised the banner of the Ming Dynasty, and resisted the Qing court.
On that day, Jiangyin was full of soldiers, everyone worked hard, all fears, selfishness, completely put aside, men sharpened their blades, women and children built cities and set up ambushes, and the stingy rich people also donated generously, donated money and materials, only overnight, Jiangyin became a fortified city with copper walls and iron walls.
On this day, in 1645, the first day of the sixth month of the leap month, the most tragic and tragic scene in Chinese history slowly opened......
On the second day, the Qing army surrounded Jiangyin City with heavy troops.
The Qing army first hunted and killed volunteers outside the city, trying to cut off the foreign aid of the military and civilians in the city, and then attacked the city on a large scale, for a time the arrows were like rain, the people of Jiangyin fought bravely to kill the enemy, everyone scrambled to be the first, the people in the city did not have a shield, so they held the lid of the pot in one hand to cover it, and received the arrows in the other hand, and they could get three or four hundred thousand arrows every day.
In the face of repeated attacks by the Qing army, Chen Mingyu led the Jiangyin army and people to defend the city for more than a month, thinking that he had no talent for soldiers and was incompetent, so he elected another outgoing historian Yan Yingyuan.
Yan Yan Yingyuan was originally idle outside the city and didn't know about Jiangyin, but once invited, he did not hesitate to lead his family and embarked on this road of certain death.
Before entering the city, he passed by the Qili Temple and inscribed a poem on the wall: "There is nothing to do, and death is inevitable." ”
This master book, a classic history, is not among the nine products, belongs to the sesame mung bean big officials, but it is these two stubborn petty officials who set off a storm and waves, shocking the Manchu Tartars for more than 100 years.
After Yan Yingyuan entered the city, he counted the strength of the soldiers, distributed money and food, he used the soldiers like a god, entered the city on the ninth day of the seventh month, and sacrificed the flag order on the tenth day of the first month, and then the results were repeated.
On the 11th, the Qing soldiers attacked the north gate, the people in the city resisted desperately, the arrows rained, the Qing soldiers did not dare to advance, the commander of the seven princes was furious, and ordered nine generals to take the lead in the city, four were killed and five were wounded. The Seventh Prince personally led the army to the city, was killed by the "overlord" Liu Nai, fell off the city wall, and was crushed.
On the twelfth, the Qing soldiers still attacked the north gate, 30,000 troops built ten pontoon bridges, crossed the outer river, transported the cloud ladder to the city, another Qing army prince held his own bravery, climbed the cloud ladder, was cut off by the bamboo craftsman Yao Er, and the body was thrown under the city.
The Qing soldiers robbed the corpses, the drums on the city sounded in unison, bricks and small arrows rained down, and more than 1,000 people were killed and wounded.
The Qing army outside the city asked for the prince's head, but Yan Yingyuan refused to allow it. The Qing army also expressed its willingness to buy it with silver, and then hoisted the silver taels into the city, and ordered the soldiers to wail under the city: "Return my general's head!" Yan Yingyuan wrapped a yellow dog's head and threw it outside the city.
Until the enemy general pleaded bitterly under the city, he threw his head down. The Qing soldiers took their heads back, stitched them with their bodies, and hung their filial piety for three days.
On the fourteenth. Yan Yingyuan saw that there were many enemy soldiers, and he was really helpless, so he recruited the frail old man, surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and waited for the enemy to receive him, and then detonated the gunpowder he was secretly carrying.
For a while, the fireworks walked, the sound was like thunder, and there were countless corpses in the big tent of the Qing army, including two generals and a prince. On the same day, the Qing army hung up their filial piety and the whole camp mourned in silence.
When Yan Yingyuan first arrived in Jiangyin, he killed three Manchu princes and more than ten generals within four days.
Seeing that the Qing army could not capture the city, it dispatched troops to reinforce outside Jiangyin City, looted the people's iron pots and cast cannonballs, and sent a surrendered Ming general Liu Liangzuo to persuade him to surrender.
Yan Yingyuan said to the surrendering generals: "Since ancient times, there have been generals who surrendered, but there is no classic history of surrender. ”
Liu Liangzuo left ashamed and sighed: "The people of Jiangyin are not saved. ”
At this time, the Qing Dynasty Bellebolo pacified Songjiang, led 200,000 troops to fight Jiangyin, and used red-clothed cannons to attack the city.
The city wall collapsed in five places, and the Jiangyin people carried all the coffins in the city onto the city wall to fill the damage.
Yan Yingyuan is both wise and brave, with hundreds of schemes frequent, deception, fire attack, night attack, attack the heart, nail the cannon eye, pretend to be a god and make a ghost, and attack the west with a sound......
The people also rushed to be the first, there was not a single person who was greedy for life and death, there were not enough soldiers, prostitutes in the brothels of the city, and prisoners in the prisons were also released to help. For the sake of the nation, none of these people flinched, and none of them fled the city.
Although the morale is more and more intense and majestic, but Jiangyin lacks troops and no help, ammunition and food are exhausted, and the strength is really disparity, and finally on August 21, Jiangyin fell!
On that day, Yan Yingyuan sat in the enemy tower in the east city, looking at the gunsmoke-filled Jiangyin, and the Qing army slowly drove into the city. asked for a pen, and wrote on the door: "Eighty days with allegiance, the seventeenth dynasty of Taizu; 100,000 people died with one heart and left 300 miles of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty. ”
After putting pen to paper, he led his troops to fight on horses and killed countless Qing soldiers. was finally captured by the Qing army, and the general Liu Liangzuo saw Yan Yingyuan, patted Yingyuan's shoulder and cried loudly.
Yan Yingyuan said: "Why cry? Things have come to this point, there is only one death, kill me! ”
Bo Luo sat in the county government and wanted to see Yan Yingyuan. When Yan Yingyuan arrived in the hall, he stood upright and unyielding, scolded endlessly, and was finally tortured to death.
After Yan Yingyuan's death, all his family members were killed for not surrendering. Chen Mingyu and the Qing soldiers were seriously wounded, holding a knife and standing on the wall, not falling down until death.
The next day, the Qing army began to slaughter the city, and the people learned that Jiangyin had been broken, and resolutely went to die generously, fortunately dying first, and no one obeyed, not even prostitutes and prisoners.
Men and women, young and old, threw themselves into the water, went into the fire, killed themselves, and hanged themselves. The Inner and Outer Cheng River, the Tripping River, the Sun Lang Middle Pool, the Yudai River, the Tongta Dang River, and the Baojiaochang River were filled with corpses everywhere, stacked several times, and there were more than 200 people who threw themselves into the four wells.
The corpses in the city are pillowed, and the blood flows like a river, like a hell on earth, and the streets and alleys are full of pools and wells, and the smell is unapproachable.
The whole city was killed, and the Qing soldiers sealed their swords.
In this battle, Jiangyin defended the city for 81 days, and more than 97,000 people died in the city and more than 75,000 people died outside the city.
The Qing army repeatedly dispatched 240,000 troops, during which they persuaded them to surrender more than ten times, and even promised that Jiangyin could not shave their heads, and the Qing army could not enter the city, as long as you took off the Ming banner and erected the Qing Dynasty flag. Jiang Yin's answer is still two words: "No down!" ”
In this battle, the small city of Jiangyin was isolated and helpless, and under heavy pressure, it was bound to lose, but Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, Feng Houdun and the people of Jiangyin used 80 days of bloody struggle and 200,000 deaths, showing a dignified integrity.
In this battle, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, which swept the world in the past, became "all fearful of the city, and the battle was colorless, and those who came from the north were all afraid to hear it, and they all wished their lives to return."
In this battle, nearly 250 cannons were aimed at the small county town of Jiangyin. This is the treatment that Yuan Chonghuan and Li Zicheng did not enjoy back then.
In this battle, Jiangyin fought a bloody battle in the lonely city with 100,000 people, killing 75,000 Manchu troops, three princes, and eighteen generals.
In this battle, only fifty-three people remained in the city. These fifty-three people swore an oath to the heavens, and they would oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty for the rest of their lives, from generation to generation.
In this battle, the whole city was martyred, no one surrendered, and the thousand years were heroic, and only one righteousness was taken!
This battle is glorious in the annals of history, eternal and immortal, and the spirit of loyalty and martyrdom coexists with heaven and earth.
This is exactly what it is: the white bones are all over the field, the lonely ministers are not willing to surrender, and the pedestrians are not as good as the dead people!
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