Emperor Zhu Changshu's resounding sentence of "those who keep their hair, righteous people, shaved their hair, and refugees" was soon spread by the propaganda agencies of the Nanjing imperial court.

All kinds of propaganda channels are almost full firepower, trying to shout at the occupied areas.

even infiltrated and preached into enemy-occupied areas through small-scale scout battles between Cao Bianjiao's side and the Qing army, or after catching some Han prisoners of war who were confirmed to be newly shaved heads, they quietly gave some silver and put them back for them to publicize.

Zheng Chenggong's side, on the battlefield of Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang, also immediately followed this routine, and screened out some of the wounded left by the Qing army when they retreated in the city defense battle, and gave them medicine to treat their wounds, and then released them to prisoners.

Duoduo didn't react at first, at first glance, the Ming army actually released the wounded who were injured outside the temple wall during the siege of the temple, and accepted it, but soon realized that rumors began to appear in the army, so he changed his course and quickly closed the scale, and no longer accepted the Ming army to release the wounded, so as not to shake the morale of the army.

But this kind of thing is not easy to block, because of the improper operation of the front line, Zheng Chenggong's next wave of releasing prisoners of war was directly shot and expelled by the cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army.

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Although the influence was quickly controlled, the army was also asked to silence their mouths, and those who dared to spread the word were immediately executed. But even so, there were still a small number of Han military banners and newly shaved puppet soldiers who knew about the Qing army's distrust and brutality towards their own people, and the seeds of this fear were slowly taking root.

Duoduo was furious about this, and found Sun Zhiqi, who helped him with the idea of shaving his hair, and scolded him with his head and face. Sun Zhiqi had no way out, so he could only do his best to help Duoduo with advice, so he racked his brains with insults and advised Duoduo:

"Lord Wang, it's a matter of the army's heart, you can no longer refuse to accept the puppet Ming army to release the wounded, but you should accept it well, but after receiving it, release these wounded into an independent battalion, keep them closely guarded, and don't allow them to talk to other soldiers who have never been captured, if there is anyone who tries to spread rumors, they will be severely executed, so that Zheng Chenggong's tricks can be prevented!"

When Duoduo heard it, Sun Zhiqi's trick made some sense, and it was true that wounded soldiers and prisoners of war could not be left unaccepted, nor could they be allowed to pass on the word, or they should be managed separately and have another appointment in their own army.

He immediately ordered the whole army to do so, and temporarily forgave Sun Zhiqi.

However, although the matter was dealt with in this way, the new policy announced by the Ming court in Nanjing finally planted a thorn in the traitorous servant army controlled by the Qing army.

Soon, the situation that Duoduo was looking forward to as "the new shaved traitor has the courage to be cannon fodder and go all the way to the black" is gone, even if Duoduo blocked the news, these traitors began to work hard, which once made Duoduo very angry.

On the side of the Ming army, with the continuous run-in of propaganda warfare, the slogans and policies of official propaganda are also advancing with the times and constantly escalating.

Soon, Zhu Shuren and Shi Kefa and Wu Meicun figured out a new policy, and began to shout at the traitors in the Qing army:

"In view of the perverse behavior of Duoduo and the forcible shaving of the refugees, in the spirit of the benevolence of the great tomorrow, he could not bear to let ordinary people be dragged into the flames of war. It is hereby announced that the imperial court's policy on the determination of refugees who have been shaved is hereby announced:

For those whose blood is confirmed to be Han shaved heads, as long as they kill a full man and the Mongolian commander leads a team to surrender, it is considered that they have been forcibly coerced to shave their hair, which is not their intention. The military exploits of the full generals who killed the full officials were recorded as usual, and the officials were rewarded according to the laws of the imperial court, and the former sins were pardoned.

Those who are unable to murder the Manchurian and Mongolian commanders, as long as they kill the chief of the puppet Qing and Han military banners for a long time, they will also be considered to be coerced into surrendering and will be pardoned for the previous crime, but the meritorious reward officer will be reduced by one grade compared to the one who killed the Manchurian and Mongolian commanders......"

Subsequently, the Nanjing Imperial Court also issued a list of "traitor chiefs of the Han Army Banner". It lists third-class traitors who can be used to exchange their heads for credit and whitewashing.

The highest level is such as Kong Youde Geng Zhongming and other old traitors who have followed the puppet Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, followed by Bai Guangen, Tang Tong and other Hebei thieves and Tartar generals who once bore historical responsibility for Chongzhen's death, plus Li Chengdong, who was the last special special list of Zhu Shuren.

In other words, as long as there are subordinate generals of Kong Youde Geng Zhongming, who kill Kong Youde Geng Zhongming to surrender, or Li Chengdong's subordinates who kill Li Chengdong to surrender, no matter what they did before, they will be deemed to have been "coerced into shaving their hair by thieves", and they will all be pardoned and returned to the officials.

This kind of flexible moral bottom line, if it is the Ming Dynasty or the Southern Ming Dynasty that has changed to another time and space, will never be issued.

Because the Southern Ming Dynasty was supposed to be a group of morally kidnapped corrupt Confucians, until the fall of Nanjing and even when they fled to Fujian, they were all advertised as "a day of disloyalty will never be used, and if you shave your hair, you will be a traitor".

How can such a policy be conducive to uniting the majority of the united front? Historically, the United Front of the Ming Dynasty was less flexible than the Qing Dynasty, so it is no wonder that the Qing Dynasty united most of the traitors and destroyed it.

Now that Zhu Shuren is doing this, it is really subtle and mysterious, and it is so wonderful that he not only flexibly adheres to the moral bottom line of loyalty, but also gives a step down - kill the chief to surrender, even if you yourself are not really a thief!

This not only gives the person who has just been forcibly shaved a chance to prove his innocence, but also gives the person who shaved his head a little earlier a chance to come back anyway, and by the way, he will be with the mud. Originally, if you opened a small stove for those who have been thieves for many years, it is easy to cause dissatisfaction, and there will be a bad negative effect on education.

When the time comes, whether Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Li Chengdong, or Tang Tong, once the battle situation is unfavorable, they must not be anxious, worrying every day that their subordinates will kill them and take their heads to make contributions, anyway!

Moreover, this kind of policy advocacy, if it is endorsed by other old ministers of the Nanjing court, it is really not good. For example, Shi Kefa, even if he agrees to this policy, the enemy will not believe it,

Because Shi Kefa has shown people for many years to be an upright moral gentleman, saying that he will temporarily follow the power and reuse the capricious killer, the enemy will definitely feel:

All of this is a temporary forbearance and wrongdoing, and in the future, when the world is resettled, it will definitely be necessary to turn over the old accounts after the autumn!

But Zhu Shuren is different, such a policy is very convincing from Zhu Shuren's propaganda caliber - this is all thanks to Zhu Shuren's notoriety of "destroying filial piety" accumulated in the past five or six years, he is famous for liking to reuse the anti-thief chief Shou Yizi who specializes in killing his father-in-law!

Since five years ago, when he first arrived in Huangzhou as a fellow intellectual, he dared to reuse Liu Sandao, who was forced into a desperate situation by the war situation, and killed his father-in-law Liu Xiyao to vote, and later Liu Sandao also used as a benchmark to do a good job under Zhu Shuren, and now he has also become a general, and his treatment has only risen but not fallen!

Not to mention that later Zhu Shuren engaged in Lin cultivation, and then forced Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, and Liu Wenxiu to vote, and let them betray their father-in-law Zhang Xianzhong.

The history of the rise of Zhu Shuren is a living history of persuading Yizi to kill his father for four years! This has a long history.

This kind of united front propaganda released by people who are willing to use the enemy to kill their fathers and sons, only those who have lost their footing and riding the wall will really believe it.

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The new round of propaganda offensive of the Ming army soon gradually took effect, and the fear and coercion that the Qing army had gathered at the beginning by relying on the shaving order were gradually completely disintegrated by the Ming army.

The strong man who was finally forcibly shaved his hair and caught him was no longer willing to work hard.

Even gradually, some grassroots officers and soldiers of the Han Army Banner who had been thieves for many years, when they were forcibly sent as cannon fodder to attack the vanguard of Jinshan Temple, and faced with the danger that they were likely to die in vain, out of fear of survival, they chose to secretly kill their commanders before the war, and then ran to the opposite Ming army position to surrender to the enemy!

For example, from the old traitor Geng Zhongming, who voted for the Tartars during the Wuqiao Mutiny in the fifth year of Chongzhen, there is a general named Chen Shaozong,

Because he was forced by Duoduo to fight the front for several days in a row and fight Zheng Chenggong to the death, out of fear of dying in vain, and feeling that the Qing army might be in great trouble this time.

So on the second night of the lunar month, on the eve of being forced to be cannon fodder again in the early morning of the next day, Chen Shaozong secretly assassinated his own Shangguan and Geng Zhongming's Han army Zhenghuang Banner right deputy banner owner Lian Cheng, and then took advantage of the chaos to kill the Qing camp and directly revolt in front of the battle.

Zheng Chenggong fought hard for many days, and he had already fought very hard, but only relying on Zhu Shuren to always control the Yangtze River waterway and continue to give him reinforcements from the waterway on the north side of Jinshan Temple, he could survive here.

Zheng Chenggong actually knew in his heart that it was the best choice to drag the Qing army here to continue to fight a defensive war of attrition, weaken the Qing army with a higher casualty exchange ratio, and change the quantity of accumulation and look forward to qualitative changes, so he has been diligent.

Now, one of the expected "qualitative changes" has finally come, because the Qing army has been unable to attack for a long time, because of the Ming army's new policy towards traitors, it has actually attracted the middle-level generals under Geng Zhongming's command to kill the master to surrender!

Although it is a pity that he failed to kill Geng Zhongming himself, but only killed a low-ranking deputy under Geng Zhongming, it was enough to shake the Qing army.

Of course, Zheng Chenggong responded to Chen Shaozong cautiously and resolutely, and at the same time, he also kept an eye on it, and disarmed Chen Shaozong's troops after putting them in the Jinshan Temple defense area, so as not to let the other party surrender by fraud, and then let the waterway fleet escort people back to Nanjing, and Zhu Shuren directly pacified and disposed of.

The Qing army was in chaos for a long time, and the Han army flag became more and more dangerous, and the morale of the long-term attack was low, and finally reached the critical point of detonation.

When Duoduo learned about it, he was also furious, killed several people who were responsible for poor supervision, and also deprived Geng Zhongming of his command, and handed over the military power of the Han army's Zhenghuang Banner to the direct command of the Manchu generals.

At this point in the battle, Duoduo also fell into hesitation, he had already understood that Zhu Shuren was using Jinshan Temple to consume with him. Although the Qing army has successfully landed, the Ming army has always guarded the mountain temple, and the key is that there is a riverside wharf behind it, which can be continuously reinforced through the Yangtze River waterway.

The Ming army is willing to consume lives with him, and in this form of combat, the elite of the Qing army will be exhausted sooner or later, and it will not be able to enter!

Duoduo had to gather his main subordinates to discuss the countermeasures again, and he had decided to abandon the attack on Jinshan Temple.

This war of attrition, which lasted for more than ten days, once again ended hastily when the Qing army lost troops and consumed countless ammunition supplies.