Chapter Seventy-Six: Jiangyin Pacification
In the Forbidden City of Beijing, on the Jinluan Palace, a group of people from Sonny and Ao Bai tried their best to oppose the shaving order and the order of change of service issued by the regent Dolgon after entering the customs.
Sonny knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the regent stipulates: The officials and people of the whole country are limited to ten days inside and outside the capital, and the Zhili and the provinces and localities are also limited to ten days to the day with cloth, and all hair is shaved. Since the time of the Yellow Emperor, the Han people have been influenced by Confucianism and filial piety. As far as the Han people are concerned, shaving their hair is an act of deceiving their teachers and destroying their ancestors and castrating their spirits, and it is a matter of integrity, and it is tolerable, but which one is unbearable? Your Majesty, if you forcibly promulgate a shaving order, it will arouse the indignation of the people, and there will be endless troubles in the future! For the sake of the eternal foundation of the Qing Dynasty, the shaving order is absolutely impossible!
Ao Bai then knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is reconsidering." The emperor and the ministers also heard that although the Han people surrendered, there were many people who refused to shave their hair and change their clothes. For example, Zhang Chun, a general who refused to shave his hair and starved to death in the temple, was widely circulated in the market; there was also a man named Chen Yu who fled into the mountains and cut off contact with his family; and Qu Dajun, a famous poet who cut his hair and became a monk. The list abounds. Ao Bai reconsidered.
Dolgon walked up to the palace and reprimanded sternly: "I have been shaving my hair for a long time, the imperial father Nurhachi led the army to capture Liaoyang, and then issued a shaving order, although it caused the Liaoyang military and people to resist and struggle, tens of thousands of people threw themselves into the Yalu River to die, but in the end Liaoyang completely surrendered to my Jurchen. When the emperor's brother Huang Taiji defeated the Koreans, he immediately ordered the Koreans to shave their hair and change their clothes, and the scope became larger and larger, and finally the Koreans completely surrendered. How many people stopped me from shaving my army when the army of the tigers and wolves of the Qing Dynasty swept through the Ming Dynasty and defeated Li Zicheng's army and entered the Shanhaiguan Pass. I personally led a large army to occupy Tongzhou and issued an order to shave my head, and within 10 days the results were achieved, and the Ming bureaucrats took this as the first step to surrender to our Qing Dynasty. The Qing army occupied the Jiangnan region and once again implemented the "shaving of hair and making it easy to wear", although the people rose up. But our army killed no less than 5,000 people in the city of Changshu, and took thousands of them captive, and submitted to them. In Fushantang, those who refused to obey the shaving order slaughtered the whole village, and finally immigrated to multiply. Although more than 30,000 people were killed in the "Three Massacres in Jiading", the stubborn people in Jiangnan were completely eliminated. And those who conquered by themselves and took refuge in their own Ming Dynasty people, there are countless people who take the initiative to accept shaving and easy to wear. It is easy to conquer a piece of land, but the most difficult thing is to convince the people of this land! By issuing a shaving order, I can know whether the surrenderers are sincere in surrendering to me, and second, I can crush the original national pride of the Han people. Why not?"
"Regent, you shave your hair: "Shaving Order": requires the people of the whole country to shave their hair in the Manchu style, that is, a piece of hair the size of a copper coin on the back of the head, braided into a thin braid, so that it can pass through the mouth of the copper coin as the standard, this kind of small braid with a rat tail of money How many Han people are willing to do it? Taoist priests don't need to shave their hair, you do this, every time the Qing Dynasty captures a city, how many people become refugees, scatter and flee, more and more people flee overseas, the perennial war has been a withering population, won't the shaving order delay the production and labor of the Qing Empire? Isn't this slowly brewing?" Sonny spread his palms and looked at Dolgon.
Dolgon looked at Empress Xiaozhuang and Emperor Shunzhi Fulin, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, if you are familiar with the classic Chinese historical books, don't you hear that the Han people have Wu Taibo running thousands of miles since ancient times, with tattoos and broken hair? Master Suo, King Zhao Wuling's Hu Fu Cavalry Shooting, also learned the Hu people's crotch pants, and today's shaving order just needs a little time for them to get used to it! The ancient hairstyle of Han men is not convenient at all in life, and it is even more troublesome to wash and tie hair, and if you have seen the Han people's wide robes and large sleeves, you can imagine how inconvenient those clothes are for farming, hunting, and other labors! This king issued an order to shave his hair and an order to change his clothes, and the old bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty also liked my Jurchen people to dress lightly in cheongsam, so they were as good as a stream, how unreasonable? How to delay agricultural production?! ”
"You!" Sonny stopped talking, thinking that Regent Dorgon's analysis made sense, so he stopped admonishing him.
"What the Imperial Father Regent said is extremely true! The shaving order and the easy obedience order will be carried out as usual!" Although Fu Lin felt uncomfortable in his heart, he still went along with the situation and affirmed Dorgon's shaving order.
After retreating from the court, Dolgon returned to the house, and just sat down without taking a breath before slapping the table, and said angrily: "Since I married Empress Xiaozhuang, the emperor canonized me as the regent of the imperial father, this Sony and Ao Bai are really against me everywhere!
After the fall of Jiangyin to the Qing Dynasty, the magistrate Fang Heng succeeded him and issued a shaving order according to the rules.
The citizens of Jiangyin petitioned to keep their hair and clothes, Fang Heng scolded, everyone was furious, causing a riot, and now it is getting more and more intense, the Jiangyin army and people are resisting to the death, and now it is getting more and more intense, and General Duoduo is also difficult to solve, and the special general will send a letter!" A general trotted all the way over to report the military situation in Jiangyin, and presented a handwritten letter from General Duoduo, Dolgon opened the letter, and the memory curtain of the Jiangyin military and civilians resisting the shaving order was instantly opened:
After Jiangyin descended to the Qing Dynasty, Fang Heng, the magistrate of the county, succeeded him, and issued a shaving order according to the rules, Jiangyin citizens petitioned to keep their hair and clothes, Fang Heng scolded: "Chongzhen hanged the coal mountain, Zhu Yousong was executed by Ling Chi, Daming forgot, why do you still have long hair?"
Everyone was furious, pointed at Fang Heng's nose and scolded: "Okay, you are a Fang County Commander, you are a Ming Jinshi, wearing a gauze hat and a round neck, and you look like a dog, but you came to be a dog official of the Tartars, and now you are still helping the Tartars to eradicate the ancient teachings of our ancestors, don't you know shame?"
Fang Heng was ashamed, shook his head, waved his hand, and said: "That's it, that's it, suspend the discussion! You are really stubborn! The Ming Japanese county order summoned all the squires and people to meet in the Temple of Literature and discuss it again in front of the sages and Confucians!"
On the second day, a group of squires and people in Huaiyin County met at the Confucian Temple, and an old squire in his eighties and with high moral standing walked up to Fang Heng on crutches and was supported by two servants, and asked: "Fang Zhixian, now that Jiangyin has completely returned to the Qing Dynasty, we should have nothing to do, right?" Why did you hear that everyone was clamoring to shave their hair?"
Fang Heng said: "Old Taizu, why did you alarm your old man?" Alas...... Submission is submission, but the country has national laws, and only shaved hair remains. ”
The squires hurried up behind the venerable old man and asked with a solemn face, "Don't you shave your hair?"
Fang Heng said: "Alas! This is the law of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it cannot be violated! It is not my power to do it! Everyone should shave their hair, keep their hair without their heads!" After that, he returned to the government.
Many squires with their families and servants began to make a commotion, Xu Yong and others gathered not to shave their hair, but knelt down together in Minglun Hall, and swore together: "The body is hairy, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it! The head can be broken, and the hair must not be shaved! How can my Chinese boy lose his body! Daming Zhongxing!" Everyone formed an anti-Qing volunteer army and shouted slogans on the street, and more and more people joined the anti-Qing volunteers.
At this time, the Changzhou government sent a document strictly ordering the shaving of hair, "On the day the decree is issued, all hair must be shaved, the principle is "keep your hair without your head, keep your head without hair", and require people of all ethnic groups to wear Manchu costumes. When the scribe wrote this, he was filled with righteous indignation, threw the pen on the ground and said: "Go to his hair and don't keep his head, keep his head without hair! Lao Tzu doesn't write! Just die!"
The news that the scribe of Fang Heng County Decree threw a pen against the Qing Dynasty quickly spread throughout Jiangyin City, and it immediately boiled. Seeing that the people did not obey, Fang Heng immediately wrote a letter to send to Zong Hao, the prefect of Changzhou, and reported that the Changzhou government asked his superiors to send troops to support, and the letter read: "The prefect has seen Qi, now the people of Jiangyin refuse to shave their hair and change clothes, gather people to riot, and the situation is becoming more and more urgent.
Fang Heng made thousands of calculations, but he didn't calculate, this secret letter was found by the righteous people, so the Jiangyin volunteers rushed into the Fangheng County Commander's Mansion on the second day, killed the Fang County Commander's family, captured Fang Heng, beheaded the Qingcha, and pushed Chen Mingyu as the leader, under the banner of "Ming Zhongxing", Jiangyin Yimin officially began to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the country.
After the news of the uprising of the people of Jiangyin spread, Zong Hao, the prefect of Changzhou, sent 300 soldiers to suppress it, and was completely annihilated by the righteous people of Jiangyin at the foot of Qinwang Mountain. Under the leadership of Chen Mingyu, the Jiangyin army and people repeatedly repelled the attacks of small groups of Qing Kou, and gradually established their own operational command battalion.
The puppet Qing Belebolo ordered Liu Liangzuo: "General Liu, I will give you 100,000 soldiers and horses, and I will exterminate the Jiangyin anti-people within a month!"
"The last general obeys the order!" After that, Liu Liangzuo led an army of 100,000 to rush to Jiangyin City and surrounded Jiangyin City. Liu Liangzuo first wrote a letter of surrender and ordered people to shoot in from outside the East City. The Jiangyin military and civilians read Liu Liangzuo's surrender letter, and everyone held a meeting together to discuss whether to surrender the Qing, and after a public discussion, they replied to the letter and refused.
Liu Liangzuo saw that the persuasion was ineffective, and said angrily: "These Diao people, they are really toasting and not eating and punishing wine! Give me a siege!" Unexpectedly, Liu Liangzuo could not attack the city twice, and the besieging soldiers were all smashed by the boulders and rolling logs on the Jiangyin City Tower, and countless people were injured by the arrows on the city tower, and they were all wailing and demoralized.
Seeing that the siege of the city was unfavorable, Liu Liangzuo ordered: "Hunt down and kill volunteers outside the city everywhere, cut off the military and civilian materials, grain and grass in Jiangyin City, and starve them to death for Lao Tzu!
Seeing that Liu Liangzuo had not moved for two days, the puppet Qing Belebolo wondered if he had the intention of rebelling, so he wrote a letter urging Liu Liangzuo to attack the city, and sent a prison army to supervise the battle. Jiangyin City's defense system is tight, like an iron bucket, Liu Liang Zuotima walked to the front of the army, waved his knife and shouted: "Release the arrow!" In an instant, the Qing army released arrows together, the arrows on Jiangyin City were like rain, and the people in the city took the pot lid in one hand to cover it, and received the arrows in the other hand, and they could get 300,000 or 400,000 arrows every day. It's a pity that the Jiangyin volunteers are a group of ordinary people after all, they have not undergone professional and strict military training, and the situation in Jiangyin City is becoming increasingly severe.
"I have someone to recommend, he is both wise and brave, but now that he has been disarmed and returned to the field, I don't know if he is willing to go out of the mountain?"
"Which hero, may I ask?" said Chen Mingyu overjoyed.
During Yan Yingyuan's tenure as the history of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of pirate ships entered the Yangtze River from Haikou and invaded Huangtian Port in Jiangyin. After hearing the news, Yan Yingyuan stepped on his war horse, held his saber in his hand, and shouted: "Good boy follow me to fight against pirates and defend my family!" He ordered everyone to take a bamboo from the bamboo forest by the river as a weapon, and guarded the riverside, and ordered people to go to the temple to get bells and drums. Amid the earth-shattering bells and drums and the shouts of the people, the pirates on the pirate ship did not know the reality on the shore and did not dare to rush ashore. Yan Yingyuan has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and he is brave and strategic. Because of his meritorious service in expelling pirates, the imperial court promoted him to the capital secretary, and later due to the dictatorship of eunuchs, the political situation of the Ming Dynasty changed abruptly, and he was temporarily detained in Jiangyin. After the establishment of power in the Southern Ming Dynasty, the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty named him the chief secretary of Guangdong Yingde. He did not go to work because his mother was ill and needed to take care of her. After the Qing army went south, he has been stranded in Jiangyin, and now his family lives in Shashan outside the city. Wang Gongluo's words woke up the dreamer, and everyone remembered Yan Yingyuan, the former warden of both wisdom and bravery, "Yes, I have also heard that this person is very wise, he can not only lead troops to fight, but also is an expert in dancing and writing!" "Yes, he is our great poet in Jiangyin, and I have already heard of it!"
Chen Mingyu specially appointed sixteen people to go out of the city overnight to Yan Yingyuan's residence in Shashan to invite him out of the mountain, and sixteen people came to Yan Yingyuan's house and knelt down and said: "Yan Dian, as we all know, you are both wise and brave in the entire Jiangyin City. Now that 100,000 Qing soldiers are approaching the city, General Chen feels that he is powerless to win this battle, and he can't bear to let the Jiangyin fathers and elders keep their hair and head and their lives are ruined, so he specially ordered us to risk death to come and respectfully ask Yan Dianzhi to come out of the mountain! If the warden refuses to allow it, we will die in front of the warden immediately, and we will not dishonor our mission!"
Yan Yingyuan was shocked and said: "All Jiangyin strong men, you must not! You can obey my orders, I can go out of the mountain to fight for the Jiangyin fathers and elders! Otherwise, if I don't do it, I will never dare to preside over it for you, so as not to cause trouble." ”
The sixteen people clasped their fists and said: "It's for the sake of the nation's righteousness, dare not only listen to orders? I will kill him immediately!"
"Okay! I promise you, lead the people of Jiangyin to drive away this group of Tartars!" After that, Yan Yingyuan took his clothes and swords, and led 600 young people from Zhutang in Jiangyin City to enter Jiangyin City with swords and weapons, and returned to the Jiangyin Volunteer Base Camp with the sixteen people.
Yan Yingyuan arranged family affairs, led the family and a group of young people in the township who volunteered to resist the Qing Dynasty to rush to the county seat, and when he passed through the Qili Temple, he asked for pen and ink and wrote the following poems on the wall:
I can't do anything about it, and there are thunderstorms all over China;
The waves of robbery are all over the green mountains, and a few people return to the battlefield.
Yan Yingyuan knew in his heart that Jiangyin City was a lonely city at the moment, and it would not be able to resist the Qing army. He has made up his mind to live and die with Jiangyin County, and generously went to the battlefield.
When Yan Yingyuan approached the side of Jiangyin City, he opened a bloody road in the Qing army with lightning speed, and entered the city under the command of Chen Mingyu.
After entering Jiangyin City, Yan Yingyuan immediately discussed with Chen Mingyu and others on how to defend against the enemy, and decided to mobilize the people of the city. Therefore, Yan Yingyuan ordered people to gather the common people of the whole city and said: "All Jiangyin fathers, elders, villagers, brothers and sisters, now that the war is imminent, each of us is a soldier! Each household shall conduct a detailed investigation according to the Ding, the strong, the old, and the young, inquire about whether there are any diseases and heirs, select young and strong men to form a militia, and train them in the morning and evening, and arrange ten militiamen for each battlement to guard the city tower on time! Women and older children take care of the elderly and children at home, and raise weapons, farm tools, food, and other materials for each household. Pay attention to and check the spies around them and the officers and soldiers who are wavering in their will and preparing to rebel!" "Good! good!" The people of Jiangyin heard that it was Yan Yingyuan who led them to resist the Qing Dynasty and shouted, and then everyone was busy, Yan Yingyuan led the leaders of the volunteers to patrol the city tower and ordered: "Jiangyin City Wuju people Wang Gong slightly guards the east gate, Wang General guards the south gate, Chen Mingyu guards the west gate, and I lead the troops to personally guard the north gate." ”
"Get the order, General Yan!" After that, Wang Gongluo, Wang Jiangzong, Chen Mingyu and others had to order their respective defenses. After some mobilization and precautionary work, the garrison in Jiangyin City was strengthened, the order was in order, the people's morale was inspired, and the morale was high. Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu are also responsible for patrolling the four gates day and night. Strictly interrogate the passers-by in Jiangyin City, purge the Qing army and traitors, and let the hunters in the city shoot the flying white doves in the city to prevent the flying pigeons from passing on the book. Under the leadership of Yan Yingyuan, all the people of Jiangyin City quickly made the best use of their talents and materials, and everyone's skills were vividly brought into play.
Yan Yingyuan is well aware of the importance of weapons in war, although Jiangyin is a battleground for the soldiers of previous dynasties, and the munitions depot also stores a certain amount of weapons, but it is obviously not enough to deal with the current 100,000 Qing soldiers besieging the city without backup. Yan Yingyuan patted Wang Gongluo on the shoulder and said, "Brother Gongluo, you and I have known each other in the past when we were fighting against the Ryukyu pirates and the Japanese pirates, and now I have an important job for you to do. On the one hand, you organized all the craftsmen in Jiangyin City* bows and arrows, fire guns and *, iron sand, sulfur fire bricks and other weapons, and on the other hand, you led your troops to follow the practice of Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period to borrow arrows, and a large number of straw men suddenly appeared on the battlements in the hazy night. "Order, General Yan!" the prince acted according to the plan, and at night the Jiangyin volunteers hung a large number of straw men on the battlements with ropes in the hazy night, pulled them up and down, and beat gongs and drums, and the drums rumbled. The Qing army under the city thought that the soldiers in Jiangyin were attacking the city at night, so they hurriedly organized archers to shoot arrows.
Liu Liangzuo relied on the strong army and constantly launched attacks, and a large number of Qing soldiers set up cloud ladders and approached the city wall under the cover of archers' rounds of arrows. The Qing army's repeated attacks were all smashed down by rolling logs and stones nailed with iron nails in the city, and the fire guns and fire bricks were fired at the Qing troops who climbed the ladder at the same time, and the ladder was instantly ignited by the fire guns and fire bricks, and some Qing soldiers were hit all over the body, and the whole body was ablaze with fire, and they rushed into the moat; the volunteers hiding behind the battlements shot sharp arrows again and again, killing batch after batch of Qing soldiers who crossed the moat. The Qing army also used a cowhide tent to block the arrows of the volunteers and forcibly attacked the city. Yan Yingyuan ordered to pour boiling tung oil on the city, and the Qing troops hiding under the cowhide tent were burned to death, screaming in pain, sitting in a panic, falling down one after another under the bows and arrows of the volunteers, or panicking and falling into the moat full of arrows and corpses. The Qing army attacked the city for more than a month, suffered heavy casualties, and could not attack for a long time, Liu Liangzuo could only borrow wine to drown his sorrows. The deputy general suggested that Liu Liangzuo continue to persuade him to surrender, but Liu Liangzuo shook his head helplessly and nodded again.
Liu Liangzuo rode to the foot of Jiangyin City and shouted: "Brother Ying Yuan, Jiangnan has now completely fallen into the hands of our army, you know that Jiangyin City has become a lonely city, good birds choose trees to perch, and those who know the times are Junjie! I remember that you were a warden in the past, and you and I also have the righteousness of comrades, and I can't bear to kill you." As long as you are willing to surrender, not only will I not blame the past, but I will also say a few kind words for you in front of the regent, and I will ensure that you will be prosperous and prosperous in the future! With your courage and ability, I will ensure that your official position is not under my Liu Liangzuo!"
Yan Yingyuan responded: "Although I am a small historian of the Ming Dynasty, I still know that loyal ministers are not two kings. General Liu, you can't flatten the Tartar rebellion, restore the Central Plains and support the Southern Ming Dynasty, and you can't ensure the peace of Jianghuai, what's the use of living?
Seeing that Jiangyin could not be attacked for a long time, the marshal of the Qing army Duoduo sent Belle Bolo to lead an army of more than 100,000 to attack. Huang Fei still has backbone, refuses to shout, and is silent in front of Jiangyin City, the anxious Liu Liangzuo stomped his feet and cut off Huang Fei's head with a knife, so scared that Wu Kui's urine came out, Wu Kui knelt on the ground and kowtowed, while tearing and persuading: "General Yan, it doesn't matter if you are a hero yourself, you must not be the Lord of Yan, and the people of Jiangyin City will be affected!"
Yan Yingyuan sternly reprimanded: "Wu Kui, as a general of the imperial court, you are bound by your hands, and you should sacrifice your life for the country! And you are so servile today, barely breathing, what kind of face do you have to live in the world?
Later, the Qing army adopted the method of Chisilie flying pigeon to pass the book - digging tunnels, but it was still unsuccessful, and Duoduo could only look at Jiangyin City and sigh. The Qing regent Dolgon and Duoduo also sent letters to persuade Yan Yingyuan to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Yan Yingyuan flatly refused: "I'd rather die than surrender." ”
The Qing army and the Jiangyin volunteers were in a stalemate for more than a month, and Liu Liangzuo was also anxious when he was urged by the pseudo-Qing Belebolo.
One day, Liu Liangzuo sent 30,000 Qing soldiers to attack the north gate guarded by Yan Yingyuan. Commander Liu Liangzuo was furious, and ordered the nine generals to drive the ladder to the city first, and the people in Jiangyin City raised their spears to stab or stab to death the nine Qing army generals, the nine people were killed and four wounded, some were shot by the volunteers with three arrows, some were cut off by the volunteers with knives, some fell directly from the ladder and fell into cripples, and some were burned to death by the rockets fired by the volunteers. Seeing this, the commander Liu Liangzuo was furious, holding a command knife, riding a horse and running in front of the three armies, shouting: "Order the three armies! A few fierce generals are selected in the ten battalions, 30,000 infantry troops, and ten cloud ladders, and the next day they will attack the city in ten places in the north city, and if there are those who escape, they will not be forgiven!" On the second day, 30,000 Qing soldiers continued to brave rolling stones, arrows, and flowing fire to storm the north gate, and Liu Liangzuo ordered people to fire artillery outside Jiangyin City, while beating gongs and drums, and shouting: "Good news! Good news! The east gate has been broken, take the north gate in one go!" The south gate has been broken, and the north gate has been taken in one go!" These false slogans boosted the morale of the Qing army, and made the volunteers defending the city of Jiangyin begin to feel uneasy in their hearts, become more and more anxious, and begin to be distracted. Soon, 30,000 Qing troops built ten pontoon bridges, crossed the outer city river together, and climbed the ladder to the city in ten places. The Qing army set up a ladder to attack the city, while from the Jiangyin city under the arrow cover, from the battlements to stand up to assassinate the Qing army's volunteers also continued to be killed and wounded by arrows, each stack of ten people, one fell, the other put on, blood stained their robes and Hanfu, but their eyes were still firm.
"Don't panic, everyone! Don't panic! That's a trick of the Tartars! The east gate and the south gate are safe and sound! Cheer up, everyone! Smash me hard! Stab me hard!" Yan Yingyuan shouted as he ordered the city to throw bricks and stones down and assassinate the Qing army with spears. For a time, the towers of Jiangyin City were littered with stones, artillery fire continued, the Qing army died countless times, the moat was full of corpses, and the river water had already been dyed red, like the setting sun.
"Give me a cannon!" General Duoduo gave an order, and two hundred red-clothed cannons were aimed at the north gate, and the volunteers on the city tower were blown up and blurred in flesh and blood, but they still came up in batches to hold on.
The Qing army general Azig was brave and brave, wearing three layers of armor, hanging two knives from his waist, carrying two knives on his back, holding two knives in his hand, and personally climbed the ladder under the cover of red-clothed cannon fire. The volunteers defending the city in the city used coffins to resist, and more than a dozen people raised their spears and stabbed into Azig's body, those spears couldn't be pierced, Azig pulled out the spear on his body, picked up his arm and threw it at Yan Yingyuan, saying that it was too late and that it was fast, a volunteer immediately pounced in front of Yan Yingyuan to block the spear, he spit blood in his mouth, and turned his head to look at Yan Yingyuan and smiled: "General, are you okay?!" Looking at the volunteer brother who died for Yan Yingyuan's gun, the volunteers on the city tower were furious, some took spears and jumped down with the Qing soldiers who climbed the city tower, and some poured themselves with oil and set themselves on fire, and slid down the ladder to burn the ladder...... Azig was also a little frightened, and suddenly a volunteer shouted: "Let's stab him in the face!" So countless volunteers raised their spears and stabbed Azig in the face, Azig was caught off guard, and was stabbed several times in the face, and immediately blood flowed all over his face, his right eye was injured and the blood flowing down his forehead, Azig didn't see it very clearly, and staggered into a big child named Tang Zhongke among the volunteers, looking at Azig with blood on his face, Tang Zhongke held an iron hook sickle in his hand and trembled, he exerted all his strength, Hooking and cutting Azig's throat hard, he saw that Azig's blood was gushing like a spring, and he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground. Yao Er, a bamboo craftsman, immediately rushed up from behind the soup and cut off Azig's head, kicking Azig's body down the city.
"Big brother, big brother, ......" Duoduo shouted hoarsely, and the Qing soldiers who were besieging the city came up one after another to rob the corpses, and the drums and drums on the city rang out in unison, and bricks, stones, and arrows rained down one after another, and the Qing soldiers suffered more than 1,000 casualties. After Azig's body was snatched back by the Qing army, there were countless arrow holes all over his body, and Duoduo's eyes were full of tears.
"Shoot me! Shoot hard!" Duoduo was annoyed and angry, and waved his long knife under Jiangyin City in a rage. Two hundred red-clothed cannons fired dozens of times in a row, and finally blasted open a crack, and thousands of Qing troops poured in, but the men in Jiangyin City were not afraid, the women were not afraid, and the old people were not afraid, and even the dolls of a few years old were extremely heroic. After the Qing army entered the city, the men and the Qing army launched the final street battle, hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons at close range, the knife was deadly, cruel, and the thousands of Qing troops who attacked the city became the turtle in the urn and were quickly extinguished. And the constant shooting of arrows on the city wall blocked the second crossing of the river by the Qing army. Under the cover of the archers of the city tower, the Jiangyin volunteers killed the Qing army that rushed to the crack of the city wall, holding a shield and an iron pot to prevent artillery fire and arrows slowly advancing, and the people behind blocked the crack of the city wall with boulders, coffins filled with soil and door panels wrapped in iron sheets, and the craftsmen quickly repaired the broken city wall, and slowly put down the corpse of the Qing army who attacked the city a few times ago from the city tower with a rope, piled up into a corpse wall, the Qing army was frightened to see, and the besiegers also looked at each other. Once again, the two sides are at a stalemate. The Jiangyin volunteers' method of repairing the city wall was repeated several times later, which gave Duoduo a headache, but he was helpless.
After reading the letter, Dolgon seemed to see the tragic battle to suppress the thieves, his eyes were moist, and his eyes gradually turned red, as if a fire was erupting, Dolgon held the letter tightly in his hand, crumpled it into a ball, he struck the pillar hard, bowed his head and roared twice, thinking to himself, "My eldest brother has been killed by you traitors, and this revenge will be avenged!" Now that the war is so fierce, they Han people are just for a tuft of hair, maybe I should really listen to the words of Sonny and Aobai, and I can't force the shaving order anymore! Dorgon was lost in thought.
"Regent, General Duoduo hopes that you can go out again and go to Jiangyin to solve Yan Yingyuan!" the general knelt down and bowed, Dolgon shook his head and pressed the Chixiao Sword with one hand, and patted the doorpost with the other and said: "Go! Of course you have to go! Send the order down! Prepare twenty horses quickly! Run to Jiangyin with me in the starry night!" As soon as the words fell, Dolgon took out his sword and rode straight to the north gate of Jiangyin City, and the general who delivered the letter and the other twenty horsemen followed closely.
Dolgon came to the north of Jiangyin City, rode to the moat and shouted to Yan Yingyuan: "Yan Dian, you are a nine-grade sesame official of the Ming Dynasty; General Yan, you are a feudal official of the Qing Dynasty! The Ming Emperor is arrogant and lascivious, stupid and incompetent, and the general is powerful, and he should shine for the society and seek the well-being of the people! I see that you are a good leader of the army, wise and brave, why don't you return to my command? I am a meritocracy in the Qing Dynasty, and I will definitely reuse you!"
Yan Yingyuan drew his sword and laughed loudly: "Under the nest, An has finished his eggs? You don't have to deceive yourself! If you have a kind, let the horse come! The head can be broken, the blood can be shed, and people must not be humiliated!"
"Hey...... I knew you would say that. I don't know how to lift it!" Dolgon laughed coldly.
"Release the arrows!" Yan Yingyuan gave an order, and thousands of arrows were fired in Jiangyin City, and thousands of arrows flew towards Dolgon.
Dorgon tightened his grip on the reins, leaped his horse, and flew into the air. Yan Yingyuan was taken aback, Dolgon immediately pulled out the Chixiao Sword, and in an instant, the sky above the north tower of Jiangyin City was covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder, a red dragon flew out of the Chixiao Sword, the red dragon flew into the lightning and roared, like a red light flew straight into his body from Dolgon's Heavenly Spirit Gai, Dolgon's body shook for a while, and his whole body began to burn, but there was no pain, he felt that there was infinite heat flowing in his body, a hundred points were penetrated, and the whole person was like an erupting volcano with unlimited energy. Dolgon flew up to the north city of Jiangyin City, raised the Chixiao Sword and slashed towards Yan Yingyuan, with a burst of "boom" sounds, a burst of firelight burst out from the Chixiao Sword, "General be careful!" As soon as the words fell, the two volunteers pushed Yan Yingyuan away and was split in half, Yan Yingyuan fell to the ground and had an arm cut off.
Dolgon flew back to the front of the three armies and ordered "open fire!" 200 red-coated cannons bombarded the city together, and the artillery fire concentrated on the collapse of a large section of the city wall in the northeast corner of Jiangyin City, and the Qing soldiers swarmed in the wind and rain. At this time, Yan Yingyuan, who had lost an arm, had just been bandaged his wounds, and when he heard the news, he knew that the city was difficult to protect, so he took pen and ink and wrote this couplet on the city tower:
Eighty days with allegiance, the figure of the seventeenth dynasty of Taizu;
100,000 people worked together to stay in the Ming Dynasty for 300 miles.
Yan Yingyuan threw his pen on his horse and led 2,000 daredevils to rush to the gap and start a street battle with the Qing soldiers. The volunteers were furious and bravely killed the enemy. Yan Yingyuan was hit by three arrows in the back, but he still killed the enemy bravely. Later, there were only more than 40 death squad members left around Yan Yingyuan, and he didn't want to fall into the hands of the enemy, so he stabbed him in the chest with a short knife and threw himself into the lake full of arrows. Because the lake was too shallow, Yan Yingyuan could only lie at the bottom of the lake. Finally discovered by a Qing soldier "He is in the lake!" The Qing army swarmed up, grabbed Yan Yingyuan, and was escorted to the Buddha Hall of Qianming Temple where Liu Liangzuo was stationed. Liu Liangzuo once again persuaded him to surrender, he said: "The big husband stands in heaven and earth, and the only way to die is to thank Zhongyi, and wait for the rats to rest and be verbose! Kill me quickly!" Duoduo heard that Yan Yingyuan was captured, and hurriedly sent someone to escort Yan to the county office where he was, Yan Yingyuan turned his back to Duoduo in the court, stood up unyieldingly, and scolded endlessly, "You turtle Tartar, you want to kill or chop, hurry up! Don't be like a girl!" Duoduo stabbed his shin with his spear, and Yan Yingyuan was bleeding. He could no longer stand, and rushed forward, refusing to kneel before the Qing army. Duoduo sneered, "Kill you like this, it's cheaper for you! If you kill my brother, I'll cut off your flesh piece by piece." Then he ordered someone to take him to Qixia Nunnery, waiting to be escorted back to Beijing and Ling Chi to be executed. The monk of Qixia Nunnery heard Yan Yingyuan's endless shouts at night, "Manchu Qing Tartars, kill me quickly!" That night, Duoduo listened to his heart and ordered him to be killed, and Yan Yingyuan was killed by the Qing army that night.
After the Qing army captured Jiangyin, 34 women, children, old and young raised fires in the county government and swore to die unyieldingly; Chen Mingyu led the volunteers to fight to the death, and he suffered dozens of heavy injuries on his body, and when he lost his breath, he stood with his back against the city wall, and shouted loudly: "The general died in a hundred battles, and the strong man returned in ten years!" After the scholar Xu Wang's family was arrested by the Qing army, the Qing army asked him: "You are a little scholar, you have never eaten a grain of official food, why did you die for the country?" Xu Wangjia's eyes widened with anger! Since ancient times, the righteousness of monarchs and ministers, whether to be an official or not to be an official? At this time, another scholar surnamed Di shouted before leaving: "I was originally an ordinary people, and today I can sacrifice heroically with Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, and other scholars and doctors, and die for the loyalty and righteousness of the nation...... How magnificent!"
Dolgon touched Azig's corpse and grieved, "Qiqi Regent, according to statistics, the Seven Kings, the Xue King, and the Ten Kings all died under the city of Jiangyin, and our army lost eighteen generals in this battle. The Qing army of 240,000 soldiers with more than 200 cannons besieged the city, with more than 67,000 dead and 7,000 dead in street battles, with a total loss of more than 75,000 soldiers. Dolgon was taken aback after hearing the report, and Duoduo ordered with red eyes: "Slaughter the city for ten days, and then seal the sword!" The Qing army slaughtered Jiangyin for ten days, more than 170,000 people died under the executioner's butcher's knife, and only 53 old and young survived.
An anonymous woman in Jiangyin bit her finger and wrote an "Untitled" poem inscribed in blood:
The rotten flesh and white bones are all over the territory, and the lonely city of ten thousand deaths has not surrendered.
Message to pedestrians to cover their noses, the living are not as fragrant as the dead.
After Dolgon put down the Jiangyin rebellion, he insisted on the original "shaving order" and "easy obedience order". Those who don't want to shave their hair will either be killed, or they will emigrate, or they will become monks and lead their hair practice. This violent act of the Qing government consolidated its rule for a while, but laid the foundation for the decline of the Qing Dynasty in the future. Heaven and earth will revolt one after another, and the Great Western Army is even more in response to the Southern Ming and Western Hunting.