Shaanxi Qinwangfu,

Today, Sun Kewang secretly met with a visitor in the mansion - Li Fengjiao, the foreign minister of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and Sun Kewang knew that the other party was once a feudal official of the Southern Ming Dynasty and Guangdong.

The contact between the south and the Dashun feudal domain has been going on for a long time, but the Southern Ming has never sent such a high-ranking government official, and Li Fengjiao secretly sneaked to Shaanxi this time with the banner of the Liao Wangfu as a cover. At that time, Nan Ming was showing strength to Sun Kewang, they no longer needed to hide the fact that they were in contact with other vassal kings at the same time, and it seemed that the Liao King was also determined to reach an agreement with Nan Ming, otherwise he would not have lent the banner to the Nan Ming envoy so blatantly.

"There is still no warrant from the Duke of Qi," Sun Kewang asked several times to see Huangshi's handwritten letter, but the envoys of the Southern Ming Dynasty always refused to provide it, saying that the Constituent Assembly they represented had already had the final say. Sun Kewang felt that this was a prevarication, and the other party urged him more and more urgently to make a substantive guarantee, but Sun Kewang asked for the warrant of the Duke of Qi again and again was still nowhere to be found: "So how can this king believe your guarantee?" ”

"Could it be that the promise of the Duke of Qi can reassure His Highness?" Li Fengjiao smiled and asked rhetorically, because of Shunting's eyes and ears, Qi Guogong would definitely not be able to announce the pardon of Sun Kewang with great fanfare, at most give him a written guarantee that could not be made public: "Does Duke Qi have the reputation of being true to his word?" ”

Sun Kewang knew that Huangshi's guarantees often didn't count, but one guarantee was better than nothing, but the other party insisted on settling a deal with him as a minister in the Nanming cabinet.

"Compared to His Royal Highness, he is already very clear about the current system of our dynasty," Li Fengjiao's first task is to get Sun Kewang to recognize his right to negotiate, which is also the most troublesome thing in Liaodong, but in the end Wu Sangui also accepted: "The cabinet represents the Constituent Assembly, and the resolutions passed by the Constituent Assembly will not be vetoed by the Duke of Qi." ”

Yellowstone did not want these vassal states of Li Shun to continue to exist, and made it very clear that this was the case, but the Constituent Assembly and the Cabinet did not intend to enforce Yellowstone's intentions, and they had their considerations:

First of all, after the abolition of the two yuan in the Southern Ming Dynasty last year, the total revenue of the central government and the provinces in the first fiscal year is expected to reach 40 billion yuan, of which the total budget of various military expenditures is only about 8 billion yuan, and education, welfare, and infrastructure construction are accounting for more and more of the budget share, because the mentality of the people in the provinces has begun to change - now is not the time for the Shun army to entrench in Zhejiang, Huguang, and Yunnan and directly threaten Fujian, Jiangxi, and Liangguang, when the people are willing to endure huge sacrifices to repel the threat of the Shun army; But now, as the military situation continues to improve, the people are no longer willing to continue to pay so much sacrifice, and their attention has begun to shift to daily life.

Secondly, if it was Li Shun who threatened the Constituent Assembly the most in the past, then now everyone knows that it is Huangshi, the emperors of China in the past thousand years have always crossed rivers and demolished bridges, and no one will ever be allowed to share their authority, no matter what Qi Guogong says now, no one dares to say that he will keep his promise after Li Shun is eliminated.

Now the Constituent Assembly can only feel safe when a provincial court is established, and they can only feel safer if the provinces of the whole country are parliamentary, so that they can easily monitor the movements of Qi Guogong. Neither party nor party would agree that a particular province would be under the direct control of Qi Guogong, so the Constituent Assembly was very concerned about the construction of the newly recovered provinces, and invested a lot of energy and money.

However, the construction of parliaments in these new provinces has been much slower than in the previous ones, and the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi have had a complete council system, and there are village chief elections that have been promoted for many years; There is more need to struggle to survive, survival is overwhelming, and the resistance to change is much smaller, and the entire Nanming is ready to change at that time. Later, Zhejiang, which was first recovered, also had a council, where Huangshi had also planned grassroots elections before, and the Zhejiang Provisional Provincial Secretary Yuan, who had been observing the parliamentary struggle in Fujian for many years, carried out the reform quite smoothly. However, the construction of the Qing Yuan in Hunan and Jiangsu is much more complicated, and this is still an area close to the model province, and the difficulty of Yunnan, Hubei and even the future provinces can be imagined.

Now more and more gentry and scholars are beginning to be optimistic about Nanming, and their enthusiasm for the future is also an obstacle to the construction of the local court, and they are trying to defend their traditional interests. Fortunately, the army of the Southern Ming Dynasty was still in the hands of the Constituent Assembly, and these local rebels did not dare to openly challenge the powerful Ming army, but if the Duke of Qi made small moves at this time, it would be much more difficult to implement the system of the Imperial Court.

As long as the system can gain a firm foothold in a province, then the province will have interest groups that are interested in the Constituent Assembly, and the people of the province will have a sense of identity with the country. However, such a rapid expansion has made the power of the Qing Yuan scattered, and it has made enemies on all sides and weak everywhere.

Although Qi Guogong still did not carry out any anti-parliamentary actions so far, the rapid expansion of the territory of the Southern Ming Dynasty has made the constitutionalists begin to feel difficult, and some people have put forward the argument that the constitutionalists are over-expanding, arguing that the immediate task of the constitutionalists is not to bring the whole country under the constitutional system, but also to thoroughly digest the constitutionalized provinces, and use the time of the previous generation to deeply entrench the foundation, so that the constitutional system has become deeply rooted and indestructible.

Propaganda and agitation are needed to promote constitutionalism and make it popular among the people, and the provinces that have just been reclaimed and the areas that will be recovered in the future will require a lot of investment in education, welfare, and transportation, and the Constituent Assembly has made up its mind to make such an investment, but the more provinces it will recover, the greater the investment will be, the more the power of the Constituent Assembly will be dispersed, and the stronger the resistance will be—and it is not only Yellowstone that now feels like it is sitting on the crater.

Of course, no one would have proposed a halt to the Northern Expedition, and whoever proposed to propose it at the Constituent Assembly would have been the target of public criticism, and after such great sacrifices and so long war propaganda, no armistice proposal could have been adopted or understood by the electorate today, when the dawn of the defeat of Li Shun had appeared on the horizon.

At this point, the solution was imminent, and the parliament must destroy Li Shun, a dynasty that was a great threat to the Southern Ming Dynasty, with the task of unifying the whole world, but the Constituent Assembly of the vassal states that Li Shun had divided was in no hurry to immediately incorporate it into the constitutional system. Although Huang Shi repeatedly assured that he would support the Constituent Assembly for the rest of his life, if the Constituent Assembly did not intend to pin all its hopes on the benevolence of one man, they asked themselves that although it was not enough to control the whole country, it was still possible to control most of the country.

At the cabinet meeting, Lee Bong-kyo proposed that nominal reunification and 30 to 50 years of autonomy could be the bottom line for accepting the surrender of the Beishun domains. Keeping a few vassal states has the following advantages: first, it can serve as a weak check and balance on the Duke of Qi - if Huangshi is desperate to start a civil war against the Constituent Assembly, then he will have to worry about the Constituent Assembly and the foreign vassal alliance; Second, when the Constituent Assembly was unable to control the whole country, the feudal lords would administer these territories, which was better than being directly controlled by the Qi government; Thirdly, these vassal states were very fragile and did not pose a threat to a united Ming court, and in thirty to fifty years, the constitutional system should have been deeply entrenched in the provinces directly under its jurisdiction, and it was likely to influence the public opinion of the feudal domains for so many years, and it would be a matter of course to implement the constitutional system in these feudal domains at that time.

This two-step constitutional unification plan was approved by the majority of parliamentarians, and at the briefing meeting of the three major parties, Ren Hongcheng, the prime minister of the Donglin Party, made it clear that Nanming's plan is called the constitutional unification plan, that is, all provinces must be unified under the constitutional system, and if it is clear that the time is not yet ripe, then accepting a nominal reunification is a choice that has to be made.

Considering that the Duke of Qi had mentioned the need for reunification as soon as possible on several occasions, and had also privately expressed the intention of holding accountable the "crimes against humanity" of certain vassal kings of the Shun Dynasty, the Constituent Assembly did not explicitly advocate this two-step plan of constitutional unification in its proposal, but adopted a proposal with relatively gentle wording so as not to provoke the Duke of Qi. In this authorization proposal, the Constituent Assembly stated that it would grant the Cabinet a very large authority to communicate with the vassal kings of Pak Soon and allow them to deal flexibly with the demands of each vassal for the benefit of the country and the electorate, and the scope of the authorization was set to "not allow the Cabinet to recognize the independent status of these vassal states without the consent of the Constituent Assembly." If the Cabinet acts ultra vires, then the agreement they sign will not be recognized by the Constituent Assembly.

"That is to say—" Li Fengjiao carefully explained to Sun Kewang the scope of the proposal's authorization, and finally let the other party basically understand the operation mode of Nanming's government: "As long as His Highness does not propose independence from China, then the Constituent Assembly will approve it." ”

"Will the Constituent Assembly's approval of Qi Guogong definitely approve it?"

"Yes, and in fact, it doesn't matter whether the Duke of Qi approves it or not, because the Nine Ministries are all responsible for the Constituent Assembly and the Cabinet, as long as His Highness signs the agreement, then the Ministry of Defense will not send troops into His Highness's territory, the Ministry of Finance will not ask His Highness to pay tribute, and the Ministry of Justice will not intervene in lawsuits in His Highness's territory." Li Fengjiao once again assured Sun Kewang: "I am the Minister of Foreign Affairs, I represent the Cabinet, and the agreement I sign is the Cabinet's agreement, and my other colleagues in the Ministry will abide by any agreement signed by me." ”

"If one day Miao-sama ......," Sun Kewang said heavily, although he didn't finish the second half of the sentence, but he understood what he meant.

"There is no difference between the Constituent Assembly of our dynasty, the Constituent Assembly of our dynasty is authorized by the voters, and the Cabinet is authorized by the Constituent Assembly, and the official is authorized by the Cabinet......" Li Fengjiao solemnly stated once again that as long as there is no ultra vires in any link, then this agreement will not be invalidated because of the personnel changes of the first assistant, the cabinet or even the parliament, Li Fengjiao also half-jokingly said that once the agreement is signed and takes effect, it will be placed under the jurisdiction of the Nanming Criminal Division, and if the Constituent Assembly does not abide by the agreement, Sun Kewang can even sue the Criminal Division.

Even if Sun Kewang was suspicious of the power of the cabinet - after all, he could not find any other negotiating opponent, but Nanming's conditions still made him uncomfortable: first, Nanming asked him to declare allegiance to the south, which was not a problem, and Sun Kewang did not intend to risk being wiped out and become emperor independently; Secondly, Nanming asked Sun Kewang to fight against Li Shun after the defection, and this Sun Kewang was also willing to consider that Li Shun had no skills, but the army of the King of Jin in Shanxi was worth worrying, and Sun Kewang found that Li Dingguo was an elm pimple and had no ability to judge the situation; In addition, Nanming wanted Sun Kewang to abide by the imperial constitution, although he was not busy establishing the same system as the provinces directly under the central government and surrendering all powers, but Shaanxi needed to move closer to the constitutional system, and thirty years later began the construction of the formal provincial court under the supervision of the national parliament.

This last request was something that Sun Kewang was unwilling to agree to, and he hoped to maintain a completely independent vassal state, as in the case of North Korea, but Li Fengjiao said that Shaanxi and Gansu were not Koreans, and they must be included in the constitutional territory, but Sun Kewang could enjoy a lifetime of wealth. Li Fengjiao also said that if Sun Kewang was willing, he could change the agreement to Shaanxi to keep the status quo when Sun Kewang was alive, but Sun Kewang could not agree to the change of this agreement, and he was worried that it would lead to the southern court bent on taking his own life.

In the end, after several negotiations, the two sides could not reach an agreement, Li Fengjiao did not agree to the other party's attempt to pass on the vassal state forever, while Sun Kewang hoped that the central army of the Shun army would cause more trouble for the Ming army so that he could continue to bargain.

"Your Highness, within the scope of the Cabinet's authority, I have very great powers, and no matter what kind of agreement I sign, my colleagues will implement it even if they raise objections; However, once it exceeds the scope of the Cabinet's authorization, whatever I promise His Highness today will be invalid, and as long as there is one clause that exceeds the authority, the entire agreement will be waste paper. Li Fengjiao assured Sun Kewang: "No parliament will agree that Shaanxi will never be under the jurisdiction of the Constitution, and I have not, and no cabinet will be able to receive such authorization." ”

The negotiations between the two sides did not yield any substantive results, and Li Fengjiao encountered the same resistance from the Liao domain, so the illusion of the Qin domain was not so unexpected, and he decided to sit back and wait for a while, so that the Ming army on the battlefield could exert more pressure on these vassal kings and win more negotiation capital for himself, and Li Fengjiao was very confident in this - if it weren't for the fact that the voters began to pay attention to the losses caused by the war to their vital interests, began to care about the casualties of the army, and the parliament had already regarded the Duke of Qi as the biggest threat, Li Fengjiao didn't have to come to the north to talk to these guys at all.

"His Royal Highness has a good relationship with His Royal Highness King Jin, right?" Nanming's diplomats were never able to establish a preliminary relationship with Shanxi, and Li Dingguo did not enter the oil and salt, and Li Fengjiao was like asking Sun Kewang to do him a favor.

"Good, but useless." Sun Kewang immediately guessed what Li Fengjiao wanted to do, he had already hinted at Li Dingguo several times, but the other party obviously would not consider betraying Li Shun in exchange for the survival of his vassal state: "Like General Xu, he will not surrender." ”

"Hmm." Li Fengjiao nodded, and the first step in the parliament's two-step plan is to use the strength and talent of the six provinces of Fujian, Guangzhou, Guizhou, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang to turn the seven provinces of Yunnan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, and Shandong into the homeland of the constitutional system within 30 years. The parliament estimated that the resistance to the constitutionalism in the last seven provinces would be very considerable, and the resistance in the first six provinces was still present but suppressed, so it would be very satisfying if Shanxi could be handed over to a Shun vassal who was not part of the Huangshi group to control the Constituent Assembly for several decades. For a while, he even considered giving Beizhili a certain person for thirty years - of course this person must not be Li Dingguo, he already owns Shanxi, and such a strong general will be a serious threat if the territory is too large.

"It is not enough for Shun Wang Guangge to remove all of General Xu's official positions and salaries, unless he is also turned into a wanted Qin criminal, he will not rebel." Sun Kewang has been with Xu Ping for many years, and he has a feeling that this person should actually be a royalist and not a rebel, as long as he is not expelled from the army and wanted, Sun Kewang can hardly imagine that Xu Ping will take the initiative to defect. Judging from some news in the south, including the textbooks of the Southern Military Academy, Sun Kewang felt that Xu Ping was able to endure it, and if the rebellious generals of the New Army had suffered similar grievances, they would have raised the flag and made a mess: "But do you think King Shun will make such a mistake?" Will General Xu be given a chance to escape? ”

"Well," Li Fengjiao admitted that Sun Kewang was reasonable, in troubled times, everyone rebelled and betrayed as if it was commonplace, and it was rare for someone like Xu Ping to not betray his duties as an officer, not to mention the Huangshi Group, a few henchmen took the best military attache treatment of the Ming Dynasty and hid in the dark to dismantle the platform of the Ming Dynasty, and a group of people below threw themselves back and forth except for who they had never been loyal to, that is, many of Xu Ping's subordinates also carried the identity of officers given by the imperial court when they defected to the camp. The Constituent Assembly felt that if Xu Ping was unwilling to serve in the southern army, if he was willing to surrender, the Constituent Assembly would have intended to give him Hebei, and if Xu Ping promised not to make trouble, the parliament would be very relieved, and there would probably be no twists and turns in handing over power after 30 years: "That's true. ”

……

Huai'an Mansion, Wang Gong, a cavalry general who was found to be greedy for ink, has been locked up in prison pending trial, and after the change of commander, he still uses the previous rules to manage his subordinates, although many colleagues regard the army as a tool to make money, and begin to collude with local heroes to do business, so that they can receive protection money for themselves, but Wang Gong meticulously adheres to the rules set by Xu Ping, and he has a very unpleasant quarrel with his colleagues, and his boss does not like him, and some people in his subordinates feel that he has cut off everyone's financial route.

There was a sudden commotion outside, and with a burst of messy and heavy footsteps, Wang Gong saw his old subordinate Ji Huaiyu rushing over with a few cavalrymen, and started to untie the chains on the door for him, and then opened the door.

"My lord," Ji Huaiyu shouted, "Hurry up!" Come on! ”

"What's wrong?" Wang Gong couldn't help but be surprised when he saw his subordinates come to rob the prison: "Don't you want to die?" Then Wang Gong was furious: "Are you trying to trap me in injustice? No matter how those villains spew blood, I am not afraid of shadows, and if you make such a fuss, no one will believe me if I am innocent. ”

"Don't mention it." Ji Huaiyu and a few others put the old chief up from the ground when they entered the door, and dragged him outside: "The Ming dog has been killed, and the general trend has gone." ”

"What?" Wang Gong, who was imprisoned, was unaware of the outside world, living in a high-security solitary cell, and the guards were all selected from above, and he was strictly forbidden to talk to him.

Ji Huaiyu and several other cavalry officers told him that the Ming army launched an attack in the direction of the Jianghuai Shun army from many sides at the same time, and the Ming army's covert actions were very good, and it was not until two days later that the Shun army found itself under the all-out attack of the other side. The Jianghuai defense line that Xu Ping painstakingly managed did not play a big role, the Ming army seemed to have a clear understanding of the hidden forts and trenches everywhere, and the distribution of troops of the Shun army was also very clear, almost all the main attacks were hit at the weak links of the Shun army, and there were a large number of Ming troops disguised as caravans who had crossed the border and penetrated deep into the rear of the Shun army before the main force of the Ming army, and they ignited in the rear of the Shun army before and after the Ming army launched a general attack, interfering with the communications of the Shun army, and providing intelligence for the vanguard of the Ming army. There were even infiltration units of the Ming army who directly attacked and captured some fortresses to open the way for the follow-up attacks of the Ming army—many Shun outposts were accustomed to taking bribes and were unwary of these generous caravans.

"Where is Liu Shuai?" Wang Gong shouted.

"Liu Shuai has already run away." The Ming army did not directly attack the fortified fortress city of Yangzhou, but quickly attacked the depth of the war zone, in Xu Ping's plan, Yangzhou was an important eye and a key point hindering the transportation of the Ming army, and the main focus of contention was around how to ensure the smooth flow of traffic between Yangzhou and the rear. The Ming army also thought so, as long as it successfully swept the rear of the Shun army, then Yangzhou would be just a lonely city.

After realizing that the Ming army was in danger of sweeping the Shun army in the Jianghuai area, Liu Fangliang quickly jumped out of the encirclement of the Shun army with his personal guards and arrived at the safe rear, but this affected the overall command of the Shun army, and the Ming army was not subject to the counterattack and resistance of the unified command, and the Ming army left the troops to besiege those strongholds of the Shun army with strong morale, avoiding the small force of the Shun army troops who resolutely resisted, and the main force was striding forward to sweep the entire Jianghuai battlefield.

"Where is the Ming army?" Wang Gong asked hurriedly.

"It's not far from Sanyang." One of his subordinates replied that the vanguard of the Ming army was approaching, and the city was in chaos, so they came to rescue Wang Gong without encountering resistance.

"What about the envoy of Shandong Jiedu?"

According to Xu Ping's plan in advance, if the Ming army attacked Yangzhou, then the Ming army's attack momentum would be consumed there, and if the Ming army dared to attack Huai'an Mansion in the north regardless of Yangzhou, then the Shun troops of Yangzhou and Fengyang would concentrate and launch a counterattack. But in Xu Ping's plan, the worst-case scenario was also taken into account, that is: if the Ming army had an absolute advantage to force every Shun army to be on the defensive, and then attack Huai'an, the Shun army in Huainan must do its best to defend - even in the face of the most unfavorable situation, the troops of Fengyang Mansion and Luzhou Mansion can retreat to Henan, but if Huai'an Mansion is cut off, then a large number of Shun troops in Yangzhou Mansion will be encircled and cut off from retreat and grain routes, so Xu Ping personally explained to every Shun army officer stationed in Huai'an Mansion, If the worst arises, they must fight here to the last man.

"Ran!" Ji Huaiyu replied briefly, now that the Shun army in Huai'an Province was under the unified command of Chen Zhe, and after learning of the Ming army's large-scale attack, the first thing Chen Zhe did was to use all the Shun army's baggage wagons to transport his recently earned wealth back to Shandong. Until Liu Fangliang withdrew to the safe rear and the Ming army invaded Huai'an Mansion after Chen Zhe was not finished, although in recent months with the opening of trade routes Chen Zhe has accumulated a very amazing wealth, but not so much that the Shun army's baggage team can not be lucky, this is because Chen Zhe's requisition order has not been fully implemented, many low-level officers have recently greatly expanded their family wealth, and also married new concubines in Yangzhou, after learning that the Ming army attacked large-scale, almost everyone made the same reaction as the Shandong Jiedu envoy, Vehicles were searched everywhere to move their homes and property to the safety of the rear, and many military vehicles were gone. The Ming army was approaching, and Chen Zhe was still unable to organize a strong counterattack force, so the Shandong Jiedu envoy lost the confidence to hold on, and led his cronies to evacuate Huai'an and return to Shandong.

Walking into broad daylight again, Wang Gong stared blankly at the chaotic city, the four city gates were open, there were no soldiers next to the gun emplacements, and there were no soldiers standing guard on the city tower.

"I'm not leaving," Wang Gong shook off his subordinates: "The general said that we must hold Huai'an until the last breath, otherwise we will push tens of thousands of soldiers in Yangzhou Mansion to death." ”

Ignoring the opposition of the people, Wang Gong rushed into the headquarters abandoned by the Shandong Jiedu envoy, he found a seal left in the panic, and immediately drafted a large number of orders in the name of Chen Zhe, Wang Gong first ordered the city gate to be closed, and then ordered people to immediately send these retreat orders to all parts of Yangzhou, so that the defenders immediately retreated to Shandong through Huai'an Mansion.

At the same time, Wang Gong also asked Ji Huaiyu to report to Xuzhou Mansion and other places, so that they could prepare to meet the defeated troops and resist the Ming army to maintain the smooth retreat, and when Ji Huaiyu was driven out of the city, Wang Gong shouted to him: "I won't leave if I die!" When the general returns, he will still need these troops, and he needs the Yangzhou army to defend and counterattack! ”

Although Wang Gong tried his best to strengthen the defense, by the afternoon, he still did not have enough guards for the various gates, let alone the soldiers to defend the walls.

Looking at the empty artillery positions, a cavalryman who volunteered to stay and hold on with his boss said self-deprecatingly: "Tomorrow morning, when the Ming army arrives, they will first spend a quarter of an hour to confirm that we are indeed playing an empty city plan, and then use a quarter of an hour to drive into the city and kill us all!" For half an hour, I don't know how many Yangzhou soldiers were able to escape during this period. ”

However, the next day, the Ming army did not arrive at the city, and probably marched all the way, so that the vanguard of the Ming army also felt tired and needed a little rest.

At this time, Wang Gong had already stopped a few defeated soldiers passing through the city, some of them Wang Gong looked a little familiar, and several officers seemed to have seen them in Henan: "Minggou is back, do you still remember your dead relatives?" If you don't remember, keep heading north, and if you do, stay and help me. ”

With Wang Gong's efforts, the half hour prophesied by his subordinates eventually turned into thirty-three days and nights.

At this time, it had been four days since the west gate of Huai'an City was breached, and the Ming army overwhelmed the recalcitrant enemy through fierce street fighting, and surrounded the last group of resisters in the yamen of Fucheng.

The Seventh Army, which was in charge of attacking Huai'an, was under the command of Yi Meng, with a total of 50,000 troops in the three divisions under its jurisdiction plus the independent troops under its command, and he knew that Huang Naiming, the commander-in-chief of the attack, was very dissatisfied with his progress, because tens of thousands of Li Shunyangzhou's troops used this time to escape from the net of the Ming army.

Wang Gong, who had not slept for several days and nights, climbed the inner wall of the yamen for the last time, looked around at the black and oppressive enemy troops in the outer courtyard of the yamen, and after retreating to the inner hall, Wang Gong ordered to pour oil on the wood and prepare to light the fire: "Who wants to leave, it is still too late to leave." ”

The Shun soldiers who stayed in the inner hall were wounded, and there were not many who could stand up, and all the people who heard Wang Gong's question shouted no, and those wounded soldiers who were already speechless also shook their heads with their last strength.

Wang Gong didn't say more, most of these Shun troops surrendered and didn't end well. Those officers who had previously taken bribes and were corrupt could be pardoned because they had proven that they could be bought, so there was no need for the Constituent Assembly to blame everyone on the enemy, but the pardon would still not be granted to the honest and loyal officers of the Shun Army, because they would still be a threat.

For officers like Wang Gong and soldiers with combat experience, the Ming army would line them up by the wall and shoot them en masse: releasing these men would mean that they might one day continue to fight the Ming army under the leadership of the well-supplied and Xu Ping; And the words of their imprisonment...... Why feed their enemies with taxpayers' money?

The tongue of fire gently licked the grease-coated branches, glowing brighter and brighter.

"Arise, hungry slaves.

Arise, and endure the people who are burdened. ”

Suddenly, a soldier began to sing in a low voice, Wang Gongleng paused, after Xu Ping left, this song was declared a banned song by the Prime Minister's Mansion, but in private, the soldiers would still sing it, if it was not too blatant, the officer might not care. Thinking of the ending of himself and these subordinates after a while, Wang Gong did not stop but sang with them: "The blood is already boiling, and we must fight for the truth." ”

When the phrase "the old government is a falling flower", Wang Gong and other officers and soldiers of Shun showed excitement and pride on their faces, they beat excitedly, and once again immersed themselves in the memories of the early days of the war.

"The most hateful of all are those poisonous snakes and beasts, who have eaten our flesh and blood.

Once they were wiped out, the bright red sun shone all over China. ”

Listening to the generous singing from inside, Tang Desheng and several staff officers looked at the fire and smoke rising from the inner courtyard of the yamen, and some people said puzzledly: "This is our song. ”

"Poor thief, he doesn't even have a song of his own." A staff officer sneered contemptuously.

At this time, the county government had been completely engulfed by the billowing fire, and the scorching heat wave forced the Ming soldiers to retreat into the distance, but the passionate singing was still endless:

"This is the last struggle, unite until tomorrow!"

"This is the last struggle, unite until tomorrow!"

……

There was no need to inspect the inner courtyard of the Yamen, which had been completely burned to rubble, and the Ming army, who had searched the whole city, found some more enemies who had only fainted from the wounded in the street fighting, and before the sun set, these prisoners were brought to the ruins of the Yamen, and they were left to stand in batches with their backs against the still slightly hot walls.

Looking at the pitch-black muzzles of guns lined up on the opposite side, a soldier of the Shun army trembled his lips and looked at the Ming army in front of him: the mortal enemy of his fellow villagers, the mortal enemy of his relatives, and his own mortal enemy - when Wang Gong stopped him outside the city and responded to his call to enter the city to fight to the death with Ming Dog, this soldier did not think that he could get out alive.

"This is the last struggle, unite—" The soldier suddenly shouted as well.

At this time, the gunshots rang out, and the soldiers of the Shun army, who had only sung half a sentence, were shot several times and fell together with other companions, and the Ming army stepped forward to drag the bodies of these traitors away, and then replaced them with a group of prisoners.

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