At this moment, the vanguard of the Qing army has rushed into Yangzhou.

The streets and alleys are full of people calling for their fathers and mothers and fleeing for their lives. Yangzhou's famous Chaji Silk Village has four doors wide open, and some of the expensive silk satin in the past are thrown on the ground, and some of the whole horses are torn apart and rolled in the wind.

In this time of chaos, no one noticed the firewood knives of the farmers, the kitchen knives of the restaurant, the scissors of the girl's house, the sickles of harvesting crops, etc., as well as the guns, knives and swords that were thrown away at will after the Yangzhou garrison army was scattered, as if attracted by some kind of force, moved and fell to the ground, and then disappeared into the soil without a trace.

At the intersection of Wenhe Street, a full-man centurion was passing by on horseback, when suddenly a cold light jumped from under the street - it was a pair of iron scissors!

The man laughed wildly without knowing it, and whipped his horse forward, followed by dozens of soldiers behind him. But I saw that the scissors opened their edges and stabbed into the horse's belly with a "stab". Obviously, even the scissors that are laborious to cut through thick cloth, but at this moment, breaking the horseskin is like cutting tofu! The scissors went all the way up, tore open the horse's back and flew out, and slammed into the dung door of the centurion!

"Ahhh The man jumped off his horse with a scream and fell into the river, screaming like madness. A group of soldiers hurriedly wanted to come to the rescue, but saw an extremely strange scene! I saw that the saber hanging on the waist of the Manchurian, as well as the meat-eating short knife that the Manchurian people were accustomed to carrying, actually popped out the scabbard by itself, and then inserted it into the body of the former master without hesitation!

After the knife and the short dagger were inserted into the flesh, they actually made a "squeak~" sound of allowing blood, and the color gradually turned red. The sight frightened the soldiers' scalps. With a shout, turn around and run! But at this time, another cold light flew out of the ground, and it was actually an iron sickle. The scythe swirled, slicing the head of a soldier into the air. It is also inserted into the cavity, and the "squeak" sucks the blood soundly.

The hilt of the scythe swayed, like a living creature, ready to burst out and kill!

This scene is not only happening at the intersection of Wenhe Street, almost the entire streets and alleys of Yangzhou are repeating this scene! The sword flies out and slashes Hulu! Those kitchen knives and wood knives made of mortal iron were originally made of iron and had no spirituality, and it was already the limit to fly out of two steps. The pig-killing knife that chopped off the head of a dog. It's because it's actually mixed with a little cold iron inside, so that it can fly out of a distance of thousands of meters.

But once these mortal knives and iron were tempered by blood, although there were some knives with too bad materials that exploded directly. But more immediately gained a tenfold increase in flight distance!

Moreover, most of those dogs, whether generals or soldiers, carry more than one blade. That's because when the Manchus lived outside the pass, they were completely uncivilized semi-primitive tribes. They lacked smelting technology, and forging technology was rather inferior -- all thanks to a steady stream of smuggling and selling the country by Jin merchants. Only then did they obtain the strategic resource of pig iron. and a large number of skilled craftsmen.

Therefore, after these people rushed into the pass, they were particularly fond of iron tools such as swords, and everyone regarded it as beautiful. Wearing three or five knives of all sizes is nothing, and I can't wait to hang all the knives at home! Therefore, as long as the flying scissors and flying wood knives slaughter a full dog, more swords will join in. There were more and more swords flying in the air, and there was a sound of blood sucking everywhere inside and outside Yangzhou City...... From a distance, it seems that there are countless flying insects hovering over Yangzhou!

The 100,000 Manchu troops outside the city were terrified and fled uncontrollably to the north of the river. But countless blood-quenched swords still chased after each other. Leave a bloody road paved with bones from Yangzhou to the riverside! The Manchu army was slaughtered by flying swords and counterattacked by the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou. Countless people have drowned in the river! In the end, there were only two or three of the ten pavilions that could cross the river and escape......

In the afternoon, as there were more and more dead people, the rising blood and qi gradually condensed into two huge words in the sky above Yangzhou City - "Kill Hu"!

*****

In 1653, a flat boat sailed upriver from Wuxia.

In addition to the boatman who operated the boat, there were also father and daughter in the boat. The old man had white hair, was over half a hundred years old, and wore a white cloth shirt. The girl was about thirteen or fourteen years old, and she was extremely beautiful, but there was a red mole on her eyebrows, which added a trace of evil to the girl's face.

The old man looked at the river and was distracted, and the girl held her father's arm, pointing to the scenery on both sides of the strait and asking long and short questions, everything was very novel.

"That's the old country looking back at the moon!" After the old man said a word, he burst into tears. The homeland he is talking about is probably not the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty that is still surviving today.

"Father is sad again," said the girl, holding her father's arm, "and everything in this world has its own predetermined, and it is no good to grieve in vain." Besides, my father has been running around for several years, and he has done his best to his homeland, so please protect your body. ”

"Alas~ Poor Wu mourns the thoughts of the Heavenly King...... Could it be that this Da Ming is really unsavable? ”

The father and daughter in this boat are Li Ning and his daughter Li Yingqiong in "Qilu Sanying". At this time, seven years have passed since the Battle of Yangzhou, and in the past seven years, the white clouds and dogs in the world have aged the hero's liver and gall.

For the siege of Yangzhou that occurred in 1645, there are such rumors on the rivers and lakes: on that day, Prince Yu Duoduo led an army of more than 100,000 troops to besiege Yangzhou. Shi Doushi led the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou to resist and held the city for more than ten days. In the end, the Qing demon opened the east gate of Yangzhou with the general's cannonball, and then the city of Yangzhou fell. Shi Inspector shouted in the chaos, "I am Shi Inspector!" ", captured. Later, the prince of Yu Duoduo persuaded the overseer to surrender, but was reprimanded by the overseer, and Duoduo killed him in anger.

Prince Duoduo of Shiyu hated the fierceness of Yangzhou's resistance and wanted to slaughter the whole city.

However, the blood of the overseer flowed into the Wen River, but it awakened a heroic soul who had been sleeping under the city of Yangzhou, the king of martial mourning, Ran Min! The king of heaven slaughtered the army in anger, ambushed millions of corpses, and the word "kill Hu" was dozens of miles......

*****

This is a record of the first half like a novel, and the second half like a myth, but it really exists in the notes and family letters of countless people in Jiangnan at that time.

The word "kill Hu" that appeared on Yangzhou City that day was clearly visible to everyone within 20 miles! Therefore, people with a little knowledge of history will easily associate it with Ran Min, who issued the "Killing Hu Order". And the idea of hating to kill Hu Lu seems to be exactly the same as Ran Min......

So Shi Kefa, who was martyred, was with Ran Min, the king of martial mourning. was put on the altar - originally only Shi Kefa was alone. You must know that Ran Min, the king of martial mourning, has been hacked by Confucianism for thousands of years, and in the eyes of those literati, Ran Min has long been concluded by the patriarch of their ancestor! Want to overturn the case? How can it be!

They really want to pretend to be deaf and dumb and can't see. By the way, when the "pen sharpens the Spring and Autumn Period", this section will be entered into the wild history, and then the pen will be criticized.

Helplessly, Wu mourns the king of heaven, Ran Min, his old man's ambition is not dead! Following the manifestation of Yangzhou, the "Killing Hu Order" appeared several times in Jiading, Weiyang, and Haining, and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of dogs every time! This must be slaughtered every time, and then the strength of the blood sacrifice greatly frightened the Shunzhi monk. It is also alive and will be full of soldiers. Deterrence on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Now the Qing court wants to give up Jiangnan one-sidedly, and the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, which is reluctant to steal peace, has actually survived by relying on the residual power of the martial mourning king Ran Min......

This time. Even if they pinched their noses, these literati had to admit the merits of the martial king. Of course, they still don't forget the disgusting people and mourn the merits of the Heavenly King's manifestation. Half of it goes to Shi Kefa's body - Shi Inspector's death is heavier than Mount Tai! Inspector Shi is not dead. Ran Min didn't come out, wait--it was as if Ran Min was invited by Shi Kefa to help him.

So the Southern Ming and the Manchu Qing ruled across the river, and the situation seemed to be so stable.

Of course, there is also a small folk anecdote in Jiangnan, called "Tianwang Raising Knives". It's about someone's kitchen knife, firewood knife or something, as long as the bladed iron falls to the ground, the eight achievements will disappear. Everyone knows that it was Ran Min, the king of martial mourning, who was recruiting weapons for his ghost pawns. The wealthy laughed. Most of them also burn incense to worship and thank Ran Min for protecting the safety of the Jiangnan region.

And the Wumourning Tianwang Temple built everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River. There are also people who dedicate and make good swords all year round, and there is an endless stream.

If the poor are reluctant to use a kitchen knife, they need to tie a rope to the handle of the knife, and hang a beam at the end of the house, so that the kitchen knife will not fall to the ground anyway. It is reasonable for such a person to pray every New Year's holiday.

In the past seven years, Ran Min has vaguely surpassed Guan Erye and has become the guardian god of a place. Even in the Central Plains of Jiangbei, there are also people who secretly worship Ran Min. The Qing court repeatedly forbade it, but it did not dare to really let go of the killing - mainly because the Qing soldiers did not dare to dispatch, and those Han troops who surrendered ...... Don't dare! It must be known that Ran Min, the king of martial mourning, seems to hate traitors more than he hates Hu Ren! The only two times he crossed the Yangtze River and appeared in the north were because of traitors!

In June 1645, in order to please the Manchus, the traitor Sun Zhiqi proposed to the Manchus that they should order the Han people to shave their hair and keep braids - this was the second "shaving order" of the Manchus. At the moment when he knelt down, a sword flew into the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City, and put him to death in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military and Shunzhi monks! Not only that, Sun Zhiqi's family in the capital, and dozens of his family members who stayed in his hometown in Zichuan, Shandong Province, were all killed!

Shunji was almost scared crazy on the spot! Since then, he ordered the Imperial Forest Army to surround the Forbidden City, and invited countless monks to garrison the palace, chanting day and night. For a time, everyone who betrayed the country and sought glory was in danger and couldn't sleep at night, and the name of Ran Min, the king of martial mourning, resounded all over the country again!

In the court of the Northern Dynasty, although everyone angrily denounced the King of Martial Mourning for killing scholars without permission, he would be killed (isn't he already dead)! But in private, I don't know how many people wrote articles such as "Wu Mourning for the Heavenly King" and "To Ran Min" in the middle of the night, and burned them to Ran Min to defend himself - what five virtues are always the same, luck is flowing, what is forced to be helpless for the family and country, what is lying on the salary and trying the courage, and the heart is bright...... In short, there are many strange and varied tricks, and each is shameless.

After burning the sacrificial text, I don't know if Ran Min, a rough man, can understand the splendid article he wrote, in case the eyes are thrown to the blind man to see the swelling and broken? So I continued to write the memorial text! This time it was addressed to Shi Kefa. For Shi Kefa, these Han officials are very familiar, after all, everyone has been an official in the same dynasty, and even friends and the same year, how can they get a little favor...... So he came up, "Brother Shi, you persuade Wu to mourn the ...... of the Heavenly King", this is the tune.

In short, the demons of the entire Northern Dynasty danced wildly, and the monks and Taoists made a fortune in the city. Although they are all scholars, Confucius said that "the son is silent and the power is chaotic", but when the swords are cut on the head, who cares about that?!

After a few years of such a noisy scene, Ran Min, the king of martial mourning, seemed to stay in the south with peace of mind. As long as he doesn't stimulate his nerves, it seems that he will obediently be his "sword king" and never cross the Yangtze River again. So the dark clouds above everyone's heads gradually dispersed, and they went back to their own homes to find their own mothers.

In the next few years, Shunzhi gradually became obsessed with Buddhism and ignored political affairs, and the power was gradually transferred to the hands of the four ministers. The Southern Expedition was once again put on the table. Then another big event happened that shocked the world.

In 1652, Sun Kewang, a general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, had a disagreement with Li Dingguo, and wanted to lead the Qing army to detour through Sichuan into the south of the Yangtze River and present a map of the situation of the seven southwestern provinces, but was beheaded by the flying sword array and the Qing army! Not only him, but also his son and son-in-law who stayed in the army, his daughter and wife at home, and the immediate family members of his hometown of Mizhi, Shanxi, were slaughtered in one go!

Since then, no one has mentioned the invasion of the south.

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When Li Yingqiong dreams back at midnight, she can often think of the little monk she met in Yangzhou, think of him falling from the sky, think of his unearthly smile, think of his compassionate gaze, and think of him...... The two words carved with your fingers on the mud wall

- "Kill Hu"! (To be continued.) )