Duoduo was in a state of illness and rushed to the doctor, and he impulsively wanted to take the Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang and make an attempt to open up a supply route for himself, which could not be regarded as an absolute stupid move.

Although the strength of the Qing army's sailors is really bad compared to the Ming army, the geographical location of Jinshan Temple is not too far away in the eyes of the army on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Here we must mention a few words about the topographical characteristics of Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple and even Jinshanzhou in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

Later generations of tourists who have traveled to Zhenjiang are generally not unaware of Jinshan Temple, an ancient temple that is famous and long in the history of Buddhism, although most people only know about its existence through "The Legend of the White Snake".

Many tourists arrive there at first glance and don't understand how the water in "The Legend of the White Snake" should be flooded. This is actually because the terrain of ancient Jinshanzhou is completely different from modern times.

The modern Jinshanzhou has been connected with the land on the south bank of the Yangtze River because of the alluvial sediment in the Yangtze River channel, and it is no longer a sandbar island, so it is naturally impossible to "flood Jinshan".

Jinshanzhou was only completely connected to the land south of the Yangtze River in the 19th century, and now it is the middle of the 17th century, which is not far behind. Between Shazhou Island and the land, the shallowest place can only drown Guo Feng and his ilk, and tall people can swim across the water on tiptoe.

In fact, as early as before Chongzhen's death, the Zheng family in order to operate sea trade in the south, the Zheng family crossed the trade route of Shanhai Five Roads, and there were merchants and merchants, and this Jinshanzhou and Jinshan Temple were their important strongholds around Nanjing.

Later in history, when Zheng Chenggong was in his later years (in fact, he was in his thirties, Zheng Chenggong died early) and Zhang Huangyan tried to counterattack Nanjing, he raised the military rations needed for tens of thousands of troops for long-term battles in advance and secretly hid them in Jinshan Temple under the name of Shanhai Wulu, which ensured the suddenness of the sneak attack.

At this moment, this riverside sandbar in the north of Zhenjiang City is like a bone in the throat, completely cutting off all the connections between Duoduo and Jiangbei, even if Duoduo has occupied all the territories on the mainland in the entire territory of Zhenjiang Prefecture, in the end, there is no way to take this place that is only a few dozen feet from the shore.

The warships of the Zheng family also knew that the Qing army was very strong in land warfare, and they had been patrolling back and forth on this shallow river, and there were also a large number of soldiers on the shore who were ready to attack halfway at any time, and once the Qing army wanted to launch a landing war, they would take advantage of their unstable foothold to push them down the river.

Duoduo was also forced to spend money by the lack of arms supplies, trying to do it again at any cost.

His idea can't be wrong, because manpower is originally likely to lead to the acceleration of changes in the geographical environment - at the end of the same Ming Dynasty, it is said that according to the research of later geologists, the Parrot Island in Wuchang and the Jinshan Continent in Zhenjiang should be about the same width and depth from the channel on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

However, the geological process of connecting Parrot Island with the south bank of the Yangtze River is much faster, and one of the inducements, according to the research of geologists, is that when Zhang Xianzhong fought with Zuo Liangyu, he slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people in Wuchang, filled in the corpses and broke the river, forming a dam.

Duoduo didn't need to fill the dam with the corpses of hundreds of thousands of people, he had already decided to jump over the wall in a hurry, enslave all the people of Zhenjiang Mansion, and force them to help the Qing army fill the river with knives! At least get a pontoon bridge between Gangnam and Jinshan Temple, if only you could get a dike!

If it takes one million people to fill the dam with pure human corpses, then using manpower to pile up the soil, and being shot by Jiang Xinming's army in the process of transporting the soil, and the corpses happen to be left behind and accelerate the pile-up, at most tens of thousands of lives can forcibly connect Jinshanzhou and Jiangnan.

Anyway, it is impossible for these people to read the good of the Qing army, and they have been enslaved for a long time, so why should Duoduo listen to Dorgon's advice to invite people to buy people's hearts and minds under false benevolence?

In history, the Qing army staged a temporary reduction in killing and plundering, and after entering Jiangnan, it completely gave up its acting skills, and now the difference is that Nanjing City has not yet been taken, but Duoduo refuses to come in vain.

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The brutal actions of the Duoduo army, of course, were soon discovered by Zheng Hongkui of Jinshan Temple, and he was also shocked.

But he also had to hurry up and let people resist, pull all the Hongyi cannons to Jinshan, block the river condescendingly, bombard the construction positions of the Qing army, and drive away the persecuted people to stop helping them to abuse. A large number of warships were also sent to withstand the firepower of the Qing army in Jiangnan in an attempt to disperse the construction Qing army.

On the other side, Zheng Hongkui also contacted his nephew Zheng Chenggong upstream, and asked Zheng Chenggong to ask Zhu Shuren to send more reinforcements to help them guard Jinshan Temple and maintain the river blockade in the Zhenjiang area.

Jinshan Temple, although the temple itself is on a small hill on Jiangxin Island, it is a bit dangerous, but the island itself is not surrounded by city walls, and you can only hope to prevent landing if you want to resist the enemy. Once on the island, all that remains is to defend the mountain.

Because there was no cover from the city wall, Zheng Hongkui's troops had to bear the risk of shooting at the Qing army if they wanted to resist the enemy on the beachhead. There are only some rammed earth low walls and pointed piles and wooden fence walls buried in the rammed earth on the shore, which are useless in the face of the bombardment of the Qing artillery across the bank.

Duoduo's dozens of cannons continued to blast one gap after another in the wooden fence built by the Ming army along the edge of Jinshan Continent, forcing the Ming army to stand in the open field and shoot at the Qing army dozens of feet away from the river.

If it weren't for the fact that the pontoon bridge and embankment had only been partially repaired during the first day of Duoduo's attack, and the landing had not yet been formed, Zheng Hongkui's men and horses would have suffered a lot of casualties in the confrontation alone.

Fortunately, this kind of pressure only lasted for half a day, and in the evening of the same day, Zheng Chenggong brought his troops to reinforce his uncle, and also brought some new equipment allocated by Zhu Shuren.

In addition, a batch of light Franc planes were also allocated, which could be installed on small boats, so that Zheng Chenggong could be used as a mobile force to intercept and kill Qing soldiers who tried to rush to the ferry at any time, so as to reduce the pressure on the beachhead to shoot.

From the next day, the progress of the Qing army became more and more slow, and Duoduo only got out of the first quagmire, and seemed to have a tendency to fall into the second quagmire.

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On Duoduo's side, he has really been unable to sleep and eat these days, and the setbacks, delays, and losses on the frontal battlefield have made him extremely anxious, but he still has more troubles to worry about.

Because the Qing army lost the patience to invite the hearts of the people, it finally showed its fangs and fished before Nanjing was captured, which naturally aroused the resistance of the people of Changzhen Erfu.

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Many poor people who originally thought that "someone who is not surnamed Zhu should be the emperor, in fact, it doesn't matter, as long as the people's livelihood is guaranteed, who should not be the emperor", they were also forced by this kind of killing, persecution, and grain requisition and looting, which made them miserable. Some of the people who had been expecting to withdraw with the Ming army also regretted it very much.

After all, it was impossible for the Qing army to completely control all the people in Changzhen County, so a new round of people began to take the time to flee, and they tried to take away as much as possible if they could take away a little private property and stored grain. This trend spread very fast, and in a matter of days it was possible for Dordor to see that the difficulty of looting and forcibly conscripting civilians had increased significantly.

However, the people are still useful, filling the river to build a dam and destroy the city wall, there are still many occasions in the future, and Duoduo is not good to directly slaughter the city on a large scale and rob all the food and materials. He also knew that once the news of the large-scale massacre spread, it would also inspire the Ming army's subsequent will to resist, and perhaps ordinary people from other counties would also resist with the army.

At this juncture of dilemma, there are capable people in the Qing army, a civilian official under Zhang Cunren's command, who helped him come up with an idea, which can be regarded as the inertia of history.

This civil official's name is Sun Zhiqi, a native of Zichuan, Shandong, a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, and lost his official position during the Chongzhen period because he was classified as a eunuch, and he hated the Ming Dynasty.

In March this year, as soon as the Qing army expelled Li Zicheng from Hebei, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and shaved his hair as soon as possible. So much so that he was despised by other Han officials who also surrendered, and did not want to be in the same column with him. And the Manchu officials, although they saw him shaved his hair, did not accept him to stand in line with the Manchu officials when he went to court, thinking that he was not of our race.

This Sun Zhiqi patted himself very embarrassed, he was in a difficult situation in the court, this time the prince of the two roads led the army south, and he needed civilian officials to accompany the army, and Azigna Road had Gong Dingyu, Gu Rong and other original Ming soldiers to give things, and the imperial history accompanied him, and Duoduo also needed some people along the way, Sun Zhiqi invited himself out of Beijing, which is a slight butterfly effect from the original historical resume.

But it can only be said that gold shines wherever it goes, and it stinks wherever it defends. Although Sun Zhiqi's resume has changed slightly, his determination to help the Manchurian master shave his hair and become obedient has not changed.

This time, seeing the coincidence and the need of the situation, he took the opportunity to advise Dord:

"Lord Wang, the slave thinks that if the city is slaughtered indiscriminately and unrestricted, killing and looting, it may provoke the people to help defend the city.

When the thieves and thieves coaxed the people to break the city, they still coerced and lured, saying that those who opened the city without blood would not slaughter or plunder, and the thieves would not pay for food when they came, and those who resisted would only resist for one more day and slaughter two or three percent of the population when the city was broken.

Although the method of breaking into thieves is dirty, I can also remove the chaff and preserve the essence, and choose the elders to be slightly modified for my use, which not only solves the problem of forcibly pulling the people strong, but also supplies military funds. ”

Duoduo didn't have a good impression of this Sun Zhiqi, and when he heard this advice, he was quite impatient at first: "You can't let this king imitate Li Zicheng and other ants?" Li Zicheng did something wrong, and then he died at the hands of Zhu Shuren, what is there to learn! ”

Sun Zhiqi licked his face and explained: "The prince misunderstood, and the slave thought of a trick: it is better for the prince to publicize to the outside world, my Qing Dynasty is still kind to the people, and I am here to save the people, so for the people who sincerely belong to the Qing Dynasty, I will never kill and plunder, but only kill and plunder those who are not sincere."

And to distinguish whether the people were swindlers or not, it was enough to force them to shave their hair and grow braids. If you are willing to shave your hair, you are drawing a line with those hypocritical Confucian dogs of the Han people! From now on, I believe in the Qing Dynasty! The prince promised not to kill or rob those who had shaved their hair, and to kill and rob those who did not shave their hair, so there was no need to worry about everyone being in danger, so there was a standard.

And in fact, if there are really rich people in Changzhen and even Suzhou in the future, the imperial court can also kill them and rob the money first, and then say that they haven't shaved their hair, as long as there is an excuse to calm the people's hearts, where will the people really seek verification?

The land south of the Yangtze River has been plagued by Confucianism for the longest time, rich people are often also scholars, and the more scholars they are, the more reluctant they are to shave their hair.

The servants also heard that after the king retreated from the attack on Nanjing, Shi Kefa had ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield in Nanjing, and all the wounded soldiers who saw their hair shaved and left whips were killed with swords, and they were regarded as the full soldiers of our Qing Dynasty. In this case, if the king orders the shaved hair, he can also force those who have shaved their hair to our side

Once the anti-Ming counterattack returns, these people will have to worry that they will be killed by the anti-Ming as the hardcore loyalists of my Great Qing, so as long as they shave their hair, they will have to go all the way to the dark and follow me all the way to the Great Qing. Although the king can't get in touch with Jiangbei for the time being, with the shaving order in hand, he can continue to expand the army and coercion, and he will definitely be able to win the game! ”