Without waiting for Huang Degong to agree, the Shun army killed in front of the Ming army commander's banner, and there were already guns and shouts everywhere, Huang Degong turned back to command the battle, and a stray bullet hit his helmet. Huang Degong was hit by this bullet and fell backwards into the dust, and the blood spurted from his head spilled into the air, splashing Emperor Hongguang's whole body. The rebels in the west and the rebels in the east, Huang Degong has always been idle for a month, and finally can't sleep here, and at the same time his tired army is wiped out.

"Dashuai." Several pro-soldiers rushed to Huang Degong's body, trying in vain to help him up, but immediately everyone understood that Huang Degong was no longer saved. The Shun army in front had already reached the front, and the cavalry of Li Chengdong on the flank crossed through the formation of the defeated Ming army, wantonly slashing and killing the defeated soldiers who lost their armor.

These Huang Degong soldiers who were in the whirlpool looked at each other a few times, suddenly stood up and ran to Emperor Hongguang, grabbed Emperor Ming and wanted to sacrifice him to the Shun army: "Emperor, I'm sorry, General Xu heard that he never killed prisoners, and he didn't rude to the first emperor back then, so you can bear with it, emperor." ”

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Before Xu Ping arrived at the battlefield, Li Chengdong and his gang personally rushed to report to him, and the last Ming army loyal to Nanjing, Huang Degong's department, was destroyed in Taipingfu, Emperor Hongguang was captured, Nanjing surrendered, and it seemed that the Southern Ming Dynasty was about to collapse. The Jiangbei Army was preparing to attack the left, this Ming army had been defeated by Huang Degong before, and now it was sandwiched between the two Shun armies on the east and west routes and became a guerrilla army, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before it was destroyed.

is very polite to Emperor Hongguang Xu Ping, if it weren't for the accident, Xu Ping should have called him Uncle Wang, just like his father called Emperor Hongguang's father.

"The king of a small country, the secretary of a large country." Xu Ping politely greeted Emperor Hongguang, after breaking through Beijing, the Shun court no longer recognized the Southern Ming Dynasty as orthodox but regarded it as a small court, and the Southern Ming Dynasty Dashun also promised himself to the country: The current nature of the war has changed from an uprising to a Ming Dynasty inheritance war, and it is a unified war carried out by the strongest princes: "Your Majesty, don't be alarmed, my lord will properly settle Your Majesty." ”

Xu Ping ordered Emperor Hongguang to prepare a chariot and send him to Beijing to meet King Shun, and for this kind of unified civil war between Chinese princes, it was customary to give knighthood to those who surrendered without death.

The magistrates of Taiping and Luzhou surrendered to Zuo Liangyu when the Qing Jun's side army came, and issued a notice calling on the gentry and people of all prefectures and counties to support Zuo Bo's crusade against traitors, after Huang Degong defeated Zuo Liangyu, the officials of these two prefectures returned to the Hongguang court anyway, and now Huang Degong's bones are not cold, these officials have rushed to surrender Xu Ping, hoping to continue to be an official under the rule of Dashun.

"The head of the city changes the king's flag." Xu Ping sighed with emotion, he didn't go to see the Taiping Prefecture magistrates who had already arrived in person, and he couldn't have seen it, since there were so many generals in the Jiangbei Army who surrendered, Xu Ping asked them to pacify the place for him, so that Nanjing's civil and military forces could serve in the Dashun system as soon as possible.

"What are you thinking?" After Zhou Dongtian heard Xu Ping's emotion, he reminded after waiting for others to leave: "Recruit and rebel, you can unify as soon as possible, and you don't have to kill on a large scale, don't be rash." ”

"I understand." Xu Ping did not mean to accept surrender, he said to Zhou Dongtian: "I just think it's weird, according to the explanation, the court is violent, the people are not living, we rebel soldiers, eliminate violence and peace, I feel that it should be good and evil, and sweep away the faint monarch and traitorous ministers." But now after the martyrdom of Emperor Ming, and the corrupt officials under him are all there, they just change the court. Daming and Dashun were just exchanged for an emperor and some courtiers, and the following, especially the officials in various counties, really didn't change a few, and they couldn't be changed. If the statue of the king is changed, I will have to try to persuade him not to act rashly. ”

"Since ancient times, the dynasty has changed, and that's it, if you refuse to surrender, you will kill every person, won't it be the Yellow Nest and the like?" Zhou Dongtian comforted: "Besides, there are a lot of changes, and since we are under the rule of Dashun, these officials have to follow the rules of our Dashun." ”

"It's not like Huang Chao, so I always help the prime minister persuade the king, but in the three years since the army, I think about it carefully, although some of the people killed deserve it, such as Sun Chuanting and others, but it's more like what Li Sima just said are loyal ministers and filial sons, General Jia, General Pu, Lord Yang......" Xu Ping counted down one by one with his fingers, until this southern expedition: "Shi Gebu, General Huang, the world is not disturbed by these people, but they are all martyred for the Ming Court, And those who disturbed the world turned into a surrender to our Dashun, and there were no more loyal ministers and filial sons left in the last days, and they were all killed by us. ”

"Since ancient times, the change of dynasty has been like this, the world can only be governed by scholars, otherwise the world will be in chaos, and there are still so few scholars and so precious. It is a person who can go to the battlefield with a knife and a gun, but he can't read it in ten or eight years. Even a high-ranking officer like Zhou Dongtian still has a sense of awe when facing even a talent, and this awe comes from the deep-rooted respect for knowledge among the Chinese people: "Your Excellency should persuade the Lord more, so that he should respect the scholars, but also not be too accustomed to them, and the faint light is a lesson from the past, they set up a court staff, not only disrespecting the scholars, but in private they are too indulgent to the scholars, ignoring their evil deeds, so that the world is in chaos." ”

"Yes," there was still a group of scholars waiting for Xu Ping to meet in Nanjing, and when they left Beijing, Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing both instructed Xu Ping, saying that the southeast is a place where scholars gather, and after Xu Ping conquered the south, he should not only make these scholars feel the prestige of Dashun, but also pay attention not to be too arrogant and humiliate the scholars. In the future, Dashun will promote his own officials to replace the demoted officials, and the southeast Shilin will definitely occupy a considerable number of places in the Dashun imperial examination, Li Zicheng hopes that the bones of the scholars promoted can be hard enough and commendable, so he specially reminded Xu Ping to treat them politely in order to cultivate the ambition of the scholars.

It was certainly a big deal to go to Nanjing to appease the scholars waiting there, but another thing was to continue to attack Zhejiang, which was not only a heavy place for taxation, but also provided a large number of weapons, gunpowder, and ships according to the six documents of the Ming Dynasty seized from Beijing, and the capture of Zhejiang could greatly alleviate Dashun's hunger for these substances.

"Lord Hou's son......" Xu Ping said in a deep voice: "He has arrived in Hangzhou with the Funing army, and it seems that it has been a long time, why did he stay in Hangzhou and not come to Nanjing?" ”

"The last general thinks that Huang Hou still wants to support King Lu, isn't King Lu in Hangzhou, now our army has captured Emperor Hongguang, it is estimated that soon Zhejiang and Fujian will be embraced," Zhou Dongtian believes that the importance of Zhejiang will not be clear to the other party, the Funing army does not come to Nanjing because of the lack of troops but other plans, Nanjing's gunpowder and ship production is already considerable, although I don't know what the results of Huguang Road are, but only Nanjing plus Zhejiang's output, Shunting can not only meet the consumption of the existing army, Moreover, it can further expand the firearms and sailor troops: "King Lu is virtuous and virtuous, and he is a famous virtuous king, so at the beginning of the year, the southeast Shilin had to support him to ascend the throne regardless of etiquette." If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't say anything, he would be the emperor of Nanming. ”

"Since he is a virtuous king, he can't be allowed to ascend the throne to win people's hearts," Xu Ping already had a plan in his heart: "I will take a team of personal soldiers to Nanjing, and the third battalion of the guards must be prepared, and when I come back, I will attack Hangzhou." ”

"Your Excellency will be back in a few days."

"It won't take a few days, I won't stay in Nanjing for long, and I'll come back as soon as I'm done," Xu Ping thought for a while, and instructed Zhou Dongtian: "Repair for seven days, if I haven't come back by then, you, Li Sima, and Brother Yu will lead the team to set off, and I will catch up with you before you arrive in Hangzhou." ”

"I just don't know what the Funing army is, and I don't know how many troops Huanghou Shizi has." Zhou Dongtian also agreed to attack Hangzhou immediately and seize the whole of Zhejiang, but he thought that Xu Ping would repair for a longer time and wait until he had clear information before sending troops to Zhejiang.

"No matter how many people he has, I only know that the Funing Army is in Hangzhou, and the Funing Army is the enemy I want to destroy, so what are you waiting for?" Xu Ping ordered the guards to prepare horses and go to Nanjing immediately, and smiled at Zhou Dongtian: "How many people are in the Funing army, we will know when we capture Hangzhou and ask the prisoners." ”

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After Emperor Hongguang was sent to the river boat, the guards of the Shun army retreated to the outer cabin, and those who stayed with Emperor Ming were his original eunuchs, and Xu Ping, who had been serving Emperor Hongguang closely, also returned to him, along with Emperor Hongguang's personal belongings and the salute he took away when he escaped from Nanjing. Xu Ping even told Emperor Hongguang that if he still needed anything, or wanted to bring something with him to Beijing, Xu Ping could also send troops to Nanjing to fetch him.

Seeing that Emperor Hongguang was still in a daze wearing a dragon robe covered with blood, his personal attendants immediately surrounded him: "Long live Lord, change your clothes." ”

As he spoke, someone took out brand new clean clothes from the gift box, intending to help Emperor Hongguang change into them.

After hearing the words of these eunuchs, Emperor Hongguang, who had been looking unrelieved since Huang Degong's death and his own capture, suddenly burst into tears and wept, and at the same time shook his head vigorously and said, "Don't change!" The clothes were not dirty at all, they were the blood of loyal ministers. ”

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Although Li Chengdong entered Nanjing with 200 people, but Nanjing actually still had the original troops stationed, and then the Shun army passed through Nanjing one by one, but none of them entered the city and went straight to Taiping Mansion to fight Huang Degong, Li Chengdong also hurriedly led his troops to leave, and handed Nanjing back over to the civil and military officials in the city.

It was not until yesterday that Huang Degong was defeated and died, and the news that Emperor Hongguang was captured and escorted to the north came, that Nanjing Wenwu was notified that Sima Yu of Dashun would lead troops to take over the defense of Nanjing.

The Shun army, which was closest to Nanjing, rushed to the outside of Nanjing at noon today, and after inspecting the customs defense documents signed by Xu Ping, the Nanjing defenders honestly drove out of the city and prepared to reorganize into the Shun army. Yu Dong led the army into the city, and he immediately convened the civil and military affairs and gentry of the whole city to discuss the matter, saying that the general would come to Nanjing to inspect in the near future, so the first task at present was to study how to do a good job in public order work and ensure the personal safety of the general, so as to prepare for the delusions of those remnants of the previous dynasty who were not dead in the future.

Although his father fled back to his hometown, Hou Fangyu still stayed in Nanjing, although his father and the general seemed to have a holiday, but Hou Fangyu was not worried about the other party's revenge on him: the new dynasty and the new atmosphere, King Shun didn't even care about Emperor Chongzhen, who dug his ancestral grave, was the general embarrassed to find trouble with the son of the person who had quarreled with him?

It was almost dark after Shunjun completed the handover work, and after Hou Fangyu had used the refreshments, he dressed up and planned to go out: "Go to Ginkgo Building." ”

The servant looked at the young master with a look of surprise, it was just in peacetime, when Emperor Hongguang was still in Nanjing, and even two days ago, at least at that time, Nanjing had not officially surrendered. But today the Shun army only entered the city, today is the first day of Nanjing's official surrender, and the flag of the regular army of Dashun on the city gate has only been hung for a few hours.

"Young master," the old servant who stayed in Nanjing couldn't help but persuade: "Why don't you stay at home today?" ”

The old servant means that even if Hou Fangyu plans to surrender, but the country has collapsed, and the emperor has been arrested and taken to Beijing, today is to pretend to be sad or pretend to be a day.

"Why don't you go?" Hou Fangyu looked back with even more surprised eyes: "Everyone must be closed today, no one will compete with me for the first card!" ”

When I arrived outside the Ginkgo Building, I only listened to the laughter inside, and the courtyard was brightly lit. Seeing this, Hou Fangyu paused and said, "Why did all of them come on the day of the collapse of this country?" Alas, I'm late again! ”

As soon as he stepped into the restaurant, Hou Fangyu heard a familiar hearty laughter, he followed the sound and retreated to open the door, the room was full of the same door, the leader was laughing happily, and greeted him after seeing Hou Fangyu: "Chaozong, you are late again, you should be fined three glasses." ”

"Qian Weng, are you here too?" Hou Fangyu was taken aback after seeing Qian Qianyi, in the past few days, Qian Qianyi has been shouting that the day the Shun army enters the city is the time when he is killed, and threatens to take his newly acquired concubine to commit suicide in the lake. When Qian Qianyi said impassionedly, Hou Fangyu also left a few tears with a sad face, but he was secretly happy in his heart, many people believed that Qian Qianyi's move would definitely move King Shun, and they, as Qian Qianyi's apprentices, grandsons or relatives and friends, could also obtain the capital to be looked down upon by King Shun - why didn't he die of this Qian Qianyi?

Probably because there were too many people asking similar questions today, Qian Qianyi seemed to have guessed what Hou Fangyu wanted to ask, and replied casually: "The water is too cold." ”

After answering briefly, Qian Qianyi laughed at the room full of fellow disciples: "The world's articles are out of Donglin!" Unless King Shun doesn't want to rule the world, can he still leave us? You see, didn't the general also come to Nanjing to see us? ”

"Qian Weng Gaojian!" A room full of people raised their glasses in congratulations.

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