1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 657 Shake the World
On October 10, after a lapse of five years, Ming Dynasty officials and troops entered Nanjing City again, attracting warm welcome from hundreds of thousands of people in the city.

During the battle last night, Qin Chunli and He Boping, the defenders in the city, opened the Guanyin Gate and the Taiping Gate successively, and welcomed the Ming and Qi allied forces outside the city into Nanjing City.As the allied forces entered the city, the defense of the Qing army collapsed in an instant. Qiu Yue, the commander in chief of Hezhou, and Yu Yongshou, the commander in chief of Chuzhou, escaped from Nanjing with only a few soldiers.In the city, the Eight Banners of Manchuria except more than [-] armored riders fled the city, and all the rest were captured and killed in the city.

At night, countless rout soldiers took advantage of the chaos to loot the residents and set fire to houses. At dawn, under the strict restraint of the Qi State Marine Corps and Li Benshen's Ming Army, they killed more than a hundred looting rout soldiers successively, and the internal turmoil in the city was finally pacified.

In the past ten years, Qi's army has conquered no less than dozens of large and small cities, whether in Nanyang, Denglai, Shandong, or Liaodong. However, this is the first time that a city like Nanjing with a population of 10 .

After entering the city, all Qi soldiers were shocked by the huge city.Not to mention the area of ​​the city, but in terms of population, the city of Nanjing is much larger than the total population of Hanzhou, Qi State.After taking over part of Nanjing City Defense, I was even more amazed by its solid and thick city walls and steep and majestic terrain.If the defenders hadn't taken the initiative to open the gates of the inner and outer cities, even if the coalition forces attacked the city for several months, they might not be able to break through it.

Now that Nanjing City has been invaded, it is natural to start cleaning up and transferring materials to the city.As the center of the south of the Yangtze River, Nanjing is a tax-heavy place. There are countless kinds of materials accumulated in the city, which made the generals of the coalition army smile.

The government treasury in the city alone seized more than 130 million taels of silver, millions of copper coins, more than one million stones of rice, wheat and other grains (one stone in the Ming Dynasty = about 150 catties), iron, copper, lead, gunpowder, armor and swords. Spears and other weapons filled dozens of warehouses.

As for the officials and generals of the Qing army who had defected to the Qing court, they were all liquidated. Except for those who were extremely angry with the people, they were directly beheaded to show the public. All family property was also confiscated, plus all kinds of property seized from the homes of the Eight Banners officers and soldiers in the city, totaling more than 320 million taels of silver, 8 taels of gold, countless jewels and jade, precious cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings.

Conquering Nanjing, the coalition forces can be said to have acquired huge wealth and supplies that were unimaginable before. The Yongchu court and the navy fleet representing Qi State lost the big head, but all the officers and soldiers who participated in the war also put their own troops in the next few days. Carry-on bags and luggage are also stuffed to the brim.

In addition, the coalition forces also captured Hong Chengchou, the Assistant Manager of the Inner Court appointed by the Qing court, the Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the University Governor of the Five Provinces in Nanjing.Last night, with the support of several servants, they tried to escape from Nanjing through the south gate, but they were blocked by dozens of anti-Qing fighters on the way. Wei Shiqian, the deputy general of the Ming army who led the team, was overjoyed.

You must know that His Majesty Yongchu once said to others, "Hengjiu (Hong Chengchou's name Hengjiu) is the most important if you can't revenge the country and become enemies, harm the Ming Dynasty, and poison the world."If you can get rid of this thief in front of your majesty, you will definitely get a great merit.

For Hong Chengchou and the many gold and silver properties that the Yongchu court valued, the people of Qi State valued all kinds of craftsmen, craftsmen, doctors, scholars, and a large number of books and classics, as well as precious artifacts of the past dynasties.

Although before the Qing army captured Nanjing, people from Qi and Zheng Zhilong from Fujian poached a number of apprentice shipbuilders from the Longjiang shipyard in various ways, but for the largest shipyard in Ming Dynasty, it has The number of craftsmen, craftsmen and sailors in China is in the tens of thousands.Now that Nanjing has been captured, how can the Qi people let this shipyard go.

Regardless of whether the personnel belonging to the Longjiang Shipyard are willing or not, Qi State dispatched more than a thousand marines and township soldiers, packed them together with their families and shipped them on board, and temporarily transported them to Chongmingsha (now Chongming Island) along with all kinds of wealth and materials, waiting Subsequent migrant ships were slowly transferred back to the mainland.

On October 10, the Qing troops in Yangzhou, Pukou and other places in the north of the Yangtze River tried to cross the Yangtze River by boat to aid Nanjing. Under the shelling and collision of more than ten Qi warships, nearly a hundred Qing army boats were wiped out in the middle of the river. More than a thousand people fell into the water and drowned.

On October 10, more than 5 people from the Yang Jie Department of the Qing Army stationed in Taiping Prefecture (now Ma'anshan City) went to aid Nanjing. The army was defeated, leaving more than a thousand corpses, and fled back to Taiping Mansion in embarrassment.

On October 10, more than 9 people stationed in the Manchurian Eight Banners Xianghuang Banner in Changzhou, and more than [-] people from the Ma Yuwen Department of the Han Army, passed through Danyang and went to Jurong to support Nanjing.But outside the Ande Gate of Nanjing City, they were bombarded by the Ming and Qi allied forces at Yuhuatai, and the general's formation was broken up. Afterwards, they were shot by a platoon of guns.That night, the coalition forces, led by the Zhongyi Army, dropped dozens of bombs, broke into the Qing army's temporary camp in one fell swoop, and killed several Qing army generals during the random attack, causing the entire Qing army to disintegrate and no longer be established.

On October 10, more than 12 Li Qifeng troops of the Qing army stationed in Ningguofu (now Xuancheng City, Anhui Province) came to aid Nanjing via Dangtu and Lishui. The army attacked and defeated the Qing army. More than 3 officers and soldiers under Li Qifeng, the general soldier, were captured, [-] were killed and wounded, and the rest were defeated.
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October 10, Wuchang.

Adahafan, the third class in the Qing Dynasty (the first year of Qianlong, that is, 1736, the Chinese character is Qingcheduwei) Zu Zeyuan, governor of Huguang, opened an urgent delivery document from Anqing. He just glanced at it and his expression changed drastically. , stood up abruptly from the seat.

"My lord..." Seeing Zu Zeyuan's ferocious expression on his face and trembling, several staff members of the governor's mansion beside him quickly asked softly, "My lord, is there something going on in the south of the Yangtze River? Or is something happening in the Huaihe River?"

"Nanjing... was conquered by the Yongchu Puppet Ming Dynasty and the Naqi Fan!" Zu Zeyuan handed the documents in his hand to the trusted staff next to him, "Duoluo Shuncheng County King (Luck Dehun), Governor of the Five Provinces (Hong Chengchou), Jiangnan admiral (Zhang Tianlu), Wucai general (Bu Congshan) and dozens of military and political officials were all lost in Nanjing.... Jiangnan is afraid of great changes!"

"Yongchu's puppet Mingyuan is in Denglai, how could he cross the sea and river, and attack Nanjing?"

"The small state of the Qi Fan has many ships, and travels across the rivers, seas and lakes. It will definitely bring a large army to attack Nanjing. Qi State is our great enemy of the Qing Dynasty!"

Several staff members were silent when they heard the words.The small state of the Qi Fan wholeheartedly supported the Puppet Ming Dynasty in Yongchu, and broke through the borders of our Qing Dynasty several times, captured and killed our officials and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, and once conquered Shengjing and Liaoyang, which made our Qing Dynasty lose face. .

"My lord, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed near Nanjing. Have you ever gone to aid Nanjing to relieve the danger in the south of the Yangtze River?"

"Changzhou Mansion, Taiping Mansion, Ningguo Mansion, and even Yangzhou and Pukou in the north of the Yangtze River all sent reinforcements to Nanjing, but they were defeated one by one by the Ming army. They lost their troops and lost their generals, and they were unable to provide further reinforcements."

"However, the land of Huguang has to deal with the two fronts of Guizhou and Guangxi, and there is no spare force under the command to dispatch to Nanjing to relieve the siege."

"At present, where is Dingnan King (Kong Youde) attacking?" Zu Zeyuan turned his head and asked.

"My lord, two days ago, the king of Dingnan came to report that the army had broken through the key pass at the junction of Hunan and Guangxi - the Longhu Pass, defeated the puppet Ming Baochang Marquis Cao Zhijian, beheaded more than [-] people, and prepared to enter Guanyang. Intimidate Guilin." An aide replied with hands folded.

"Send this urgent document to King Dingnan immediately, and ask him to temporarily stop his troops." Zu Zeyuan said with a wry smile: "If the regent learns about the Nanjing incident, he will definitely gather troops from all sides and gather in the south of the Yangtze River to wipe out the puppet Ming army. , regain Nanjing."

"My lord, King Dingnan has broken through the Dragon and Tiger Pass, and he will return to Quanzhou and Guilin in one day. Even if he occupies Guangxi, it will only take a few months. If King Dingnan stops his troops in Guanyang rashly, it may be hindered. The whole situation in Guangxi!"

"Even if we occupy Guangxi, so what?" Zu Zeyuan shook his head and said, "You need to know that the south of the Yangtze River has been an important land for our Qing Dynasty's grain and fodder taxation. If it is repeated once in a while and Yongchu's false Ming takes advantage of the situation, it will be shaken. I clear the whole situation."

Half a month later, Dingnan King Kong Youde, who had conquered Quanzhou, received an urgent document from Huguang Governor Zu Zeyuan, as well as a personal letter. He was silent for a long time and then ordered the entire army to be stationed in Quanzhou. The offensive on Guangxi was stopped.

What Kong Youde didn't know was that when he defeated Cao Zhijian's tens of thousands of troops in succession at Guanyang, Quanzhou, and Gongcheng, the generals of the Ming Dynasty stationed in Guilin were already frightened. Ma Yanglin and other generals had no intention of defending the city, and led the soldiers to protect their respective families, and fled for their lives in all directions.

In the entire city of Guilin, only the governor of Guangxi Qu Shisi and 300 Portuguese soldiers he borrowed from Haojing (Macau) remained in the city.

According to the existing historical trajectory, General Kong Youde conquered Guilin without a fight, then beheaded Prince Jingjiang and his son, Qu Shixu, and Zhang Tongchang (the great-grandson of Zhang Juzheng), and occupied almost the entire territory of Guangxi in the following year.

But because the Ming and Qi allied forces conquered Nanjing in one fell swoop, Kong Youde's attack on Guangxi was blocked in Quanzhou.
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On October 10, Nanchang.

Shu Mulu Tan Tai, the first-class Jing Qi Nihafan of the Qing Dynasty, and the great general of Zhengnan, threw the document in his hand on the ground fiercely, and said in a hateful voice: "Luck Dehun, you are a child! Hong Chengchou, a cowardly Hanchen and a traitor! He even lost it." In the big city of Nanjing, more than ten thousand soldiers were killed, causing the situation in the south of the Yangtze River to be ruined, everyone deserves to die!"

The civil and military officials sitting in the hall heard the words, but they dared not speak out, they watched their noses and noses, and their noses watched their hearts, for fear that the general would be furious and punish others.

Last year, when Tan Tai led the army to pacify Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren in Jiangxi, because he hated the Nanchang soldiers and civilians who had resisted for nearly a year, he ordered the massacre of the city. More than [-] people died, and the whole Nanchang city was like a ghost.

"How is Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao doing in Guangdong?" Looking at the silent civil and military officials, Tan Tai felt a burst of relief, and his tone couldn't help but soften.

"Back to General, King Pingnan (Shang Kexi) and King Jingnan (Geng Zhongming committed suicide in fear of crime due to escaping from others, and his son Geng Jimao succeeded to the throne) reported half a month ago that the city of Guangzhou is tightly guarded, and the defenders in the city are still strong. , the army is sweeping the periphery of Guangzhou, and is stepping up casting artillery to create favorable conditions for the final capture of Guangzhou." A general of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty replied with a bow.

"Hmph, I remember that on the sixth day of the first month of this year, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao's troops had already entered the outskirts of Guangzhou. It has been seven or eight months now, why are they still wandering around outside Guangzhou? Could it be that they want to support the bandits?"

When everyone heard the words, they dared not answer immediately. Although Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao belonged to the Xianglan Banner of the Eight Banners Han Army and the Zhenghuang Banner of the Eight Banners Han Army, they were still Han Chinese after all. Guangzhou has not been recovered for more than half a year, so Tan can't help being afraid of it.

"Send people to Guangdong and inform Huishang and Geng that there are changes in the south of the Yangtze River, so don't linger around the city of Guangzhou." Tan Tai said in a muffled voice, "Also, I suggest that the two of you send a strong team and return to Jiangxi to gather together. Force, wipe out the puppet Ming army in Nanjing."

"General, King Pingnan and King Jingnan are ordered by the regent to attack Guangdong. If so, the two might refuse to send troops back to Jiangxi because they will not accept military orders abroad?" The third class Jingqi Niha Fan, Eight Banners of Manchuria, Bordered White Banner, Gushan Ezhen He Luohui said with a frown.

"...Then wait for the regent to issue an order in Beijing." Tan Tai glanced at He Luohui coldly, feeling very dissatisfied in his heart.Considering the overall situation in the south of the Yangtze River, I first transferred the troops of Shang and Geng to gather troops in Nanchang. At that time, once Beijing issued an order to suppress Nanjing, wouldn't it save more time and energy.

However, Tan Tai's position as the General of the Southern Conquest came after Jiangxi was pacified, so he naturally let go of this errand. At present, he is only temporarily guarding Nanchang to consolidate and stabilize the situation in Jiangxi. He has no control over the troops of Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao who are conquering Guangdong. power, not to mention the name of issuing orders.

Nanjing is about to be broken, and Jiangnan is bound to change. Anyone with a little knowledge of military knowledge can see that our Qing Dynasty must gather several armies in the shortest possible time, quickly enter Jiangnan, and recover Nanjing. Otherwise, the entire situation in the south will be completely destroyed. Erosion and out of control.

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October 10, Fuzhou.

"Lord Hou, Nanjing will be broken soon, and the foundation of the Qing government's rule in the south of the Yangtze River will be greatly shaken and hit. At this time, our Fujian Town should immediately attack Yuhang and Susong, and bring this rich land into our Fujian Town jurisdiction Next. In this way, in this troubled world, we will take advantage of the dangers of Fujian, control the rich land of Susong, coupled with our powerful navy, we will definitely have a place in the world today." Yang Geng said excitedly.

The Marquis of Nan'an and the Governor of Fujian Zheng Zhilong immediately nodded their heads and said with a smile, "Unexpectedly, the people of Qi really helped the Denglai Township's army break through the city of Nanjing. As a result, the whole situation in the south of the Yangtze River is very good, and it is time for my Fujian Township to expand to Great opportunity for Yuhang and Susong."

"Father, in addition to attacking Yuhang and Susong in the north, we should split up two more armies: one way, out of Xianxialing, attack Quzhou and Raozhou, and threaten Nanchang; Yonghe fought against the Qing army. In this way, the Qing army in these two places will definitely not be able to withdraw to Nanjing, which will give me more time for the Ming army who captured Nanjing to consolidate the local ruling order.”

Marquis of Nan'an and Governor of Fujian Zheng Zhilong looked at his eldest son in astonishment, with a strange expression on his face.

"Damu, there is Tan Tai, a powerful Qing army stationed in Jiangxi, with nearly [-] soldiers and horses under his command, many of whom are elite troops of the Eight Banners. What's more, Jiangxi has been fighting for years, and the locality is poor. Fujian is not beneficial either, but adds a lot of burden." Zheng Zhilong said earnestly: "In addition, Guangzhou is thousands of miles away from Fujian, and the governor of Guangdong, Du Yonghe, has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Why do we need Fujian to help. What's more, If we split up several groups of troops, wouldn't it make our Fujian troops even thinner, how can we attack Yuhang and Susong again."

"Father, the purpose of attacking Jiangxi is to restrain the Qing army and gain buffer time for the imperial army, not to capture the city and obtain money and food." Zheng Sen said: "Sending a navy to aid Guangzhou is also for this reason. Otherwise, The Qing army will inevitably mobilize elite soldiers from Guangdong and Jiangxi. If the Qing army from Jianghuai, Henan, and Hubei is added, then hundreds of thousands of Qing troops may be transferred to Jiangnan and attack Nanjing. Denglai and Qi The limited forces at our disposal may not be able to deal with it."

"Damu, if I follow your suggestion, I divide up the troops in Fujian and contain the Qing troops in several places. In the end, I will get nothing and make wedding clothes for others?" Zheng Zhilong smiled wryly, "Even so, the Yongchu court They may not regard me, Fujian, as a loyal minister and good general!...Don't say too much, just follow orders!"

"Father, those who don't plan for the overall situation don't plan for a region!" Zheng Sen said urgently, "If the Qing army wants to take back Nanjing and pacify Jiangnan, how can Yuhang and Su Song be kept?"

"Presumptuous!" Zheng Zhilong sternly reprimanded: "Huangkou Ruzi, who talks about military affairs indiscriminately, thinks that he has read a few more military books and war strategies, so he dares to come and teach me how to use troops!...and step down!"

Under Zheng Zhilong's stern gaze, Zheng Sen let out a long sigh in his heart, bowed his hands and saluted helplessly, and exited the military conference hall.

(End of this chapter)