nanming man

Chapter 836

Chen Mingxia understood Gao Yihuan's intentions very well, which was why he favored Chen Mingxia.

The traditional virtue of China is humility. Gao Yihuan can't bring himself to mention many things. He only needs to hint, and Chen Mingxia can understand what he means.

This made Gao Yihuan understand why many emperors, knowing that some courtiers are not good things, still want to reuse them, because they are more comfortable to use and can do what the emperor thinks well.

The emperor is also human and has selfish desires. There are some things that honest ministers can't do. They will only scold you, so the emperor needs these people around him.

The biggest tragedy of Chongzhen is that no one wants to be his jester, and no one wants to maintain a tacit understanding with him.

Gao Yihuan glanced at Chen Mingxia approvingly, then smiled and waved, "Okay, sir, let's go and do it! The lonely king will also remember the credit of the sir."

After Chen Mingxia left, Gao Yihuan returned to the table and wrote a letter of surrender to Taiyuan City. After having someone copy a few copies, he shot into the city.

Regarding the conditions for surrendering, Gao Yihuan considered again and again, and decided to let the city be filled with soldiers, and give Azig a way out to ensure their safety and not impose excessive punishment.

This is to prepare for the attack on Beijing in the future. If the killing is too ruthless, the Qing army in Beijing will be scared to run outside the pass, or defend Beijing to death, which is not what Gao Yihuan wants to see.

After dealing with these matters, Gao Yihuan stood alone in front of the map with his hands behind his back, lost in thought, thinking about how to avoid fighting on two fronts, and not repeat the mistakes of Chongzhen and Li Zicheng.

Gao Yihuan stared at Beijing, eyes full of desire, winning this place would be the time for him to become emperor, but how could he not be Li Zicheng's second?
The tacit cooperation between Huang Taiji and Li Zicheng earlier brought down the old Zhu family. If he entered Beijing, Dorgon, Hauge and Zhu Cihong would inevitably use the same tricks to torture Wei.

Gao Yihuan pondered for a while, how can he gather and annihilate Dorgon's remaining troops in the pass while capturing Beijing?

In Taiyuan City, a group of white-armored soldiers surrounded the two squares in the east of the city. The Eight Banners soldiers rushed into it, violently opened the doors of houses, and took away the skinny people inside.

Azig was wearing armor and riding a horse, his face was full of predation, while Luo Keduo beside him was full of melancholy. He would not eat raw meat, let alone human flesh.

Earlier, it was said that when the Qing army besieged Dalinghe and Jinzhou, the desperate Ming army had eaten human flesh. He never thought that he would have this day.

In fact, if the development followed the original trajectory, when Li Dingguo launched the Battle of Xinhui, the Qing army guarding the city would also eat human flesh.

"In the year of Jiawu (1654), Xinhui County was besieged, and the food in the city was exhausted, and the guards slaughtered the people to eat. If there is a Mo family, the wife of Lin Yingluo, the aunt, will cook it. Don't ask Yu Bing to say: 'Gu I am old, the meat is inedible, and the concubine is lucky to be plump and can be chewed by the king. "The soldiers follow him, the aunt is released, and Mo dies. If there is a Li family, the soldiers want to eat their husbands, and they cry and worship: "My husband Fifty and no son, please eat me.' Kill her, return her head to her husband, and make him bury him. There is a daughter of the Liang family, her father is humble, and she is eleven years old. Please die on behalf of her father. Soldiers can't bear to kill her. The woman said to the soldiers: "The king thinks that his daughter is small, is it not enough to fill his stomach?" He will seize the soldiers with swords, and the soldiers will kill them. All the students Wu Shi let his wife, Huang, die on behalf of his husband, and the soldiers cried and killed them. It's for the Xinhui Four Filial Piety."

From this record, we can see that the Qing army cannibalized people, but it can also be seen that as early as that time, there was no hope of fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. The vast majority of Han people had completely succumbed to the butcher's knife. Resisting, and letting the Qing army eat for whom, and advocating filial piety, it is shameless and speechless.

The entire nation has degenerated to such an extent that it can be said that it has no hope and has been reduced to a real slave.

Therefore, even if there are unyielding backbones such as Li Dingguo, Zheng Chenggong, and Zhang Huangyan fighting hard, most people have already succumbed to the general trend. In their eyes, resistance is not a good thing, but it may cause them to lose their heads. The Qing army had an order to help the rebels beheaded, and not to kill a person's head, but to kill the whole city.

They have completely succumbed to the intimidation of the Qing army, and even if their relatives are eaten, they still have no desire to resist. No matter how hard Li Dingguo and Zhang Huangyan try, it will be of no avail.

At this time, Xinhui will no longer have such a situation, but Taiyuan will face such a test.

At the time of Xinhui, the general situation of the world was relatively clear. The defenders in the city, including the people who were eaten, felt that the reinforcements of the Qing army would come sooner or later.

Back then, the Ming army gritted their teeth and stood firm on the Daling River, thinking that the Ming Dynasty would send troops to rescue them, but now that they are sticking to Taiyuan, can the Qing Dynasty still have soldiers to rescue them?

Luo Keduo had this doubt in his heart, but he didn't dare to ask Azig.

At this time, Azige looked at the scene in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "The Wei thief is showing off his martial arts outside the city, and the morale of the army in the city must be unstable. Concentrate here to live, and send bannermen to guard. Green camp generals, all unreliable ones are not used, and Han flags are replaced to command. In addition, in the whole city, more supplies should be stored. In case the outer city is destroyed, we will retreat into the city. Continue to stand firm and wait for the imperial court to come to help again."

When Azig saw the military flags, armors, and groups of captives captured by the Wei army outside the city, he knew in his heart that it was impossible to have reinforcements.

As the prince of the Qing Dynasty, Azig could count how many troops the Qing army had and how many people there were in the Eight Banners.

Looking at Wei Jun's gains, Azig knew that the Qing Dynasty was in danger, and what he could do was to stick to Taiyuan and delay time. As long as the nail in Taiyuan was there, Dorgon would be able to buy time to regroup.

"Cha!" Luo Keduo nodded hurriedly, "My lord, will the regent really send reinforcements?" He was worried that Taiyuan would be Daling River, and even if he ate human flesh, he would eventually fall.

Azig stared at him sharply, and was about to scold him, when a general rushed over, "My lord, a letter of surrender came from outside the city."

Azige turned his head when he heard the words, took the letter, opened it, read it, sneered, and crumpled it into a ball, "Gao Manzi wants to surrender this king, it's just a dream!" He was about to tear up the letter, and suddenly said: "Shoot a letter to reply to Gao Manzi, saying that the king needs time to think about it."

At dusk, on the city wall of Taiyuan, the soldiers leaned against the city head listlessly.

At this time, a soldier's nose suddenly moved, his eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "It smells like meat!"

The soldiers leaning on the city wall also smelled the fragrance, and couldn't help standing up one after another.

The Qing army was trapped for four months. At the beginning, they had three meals a day, then two meals a day, and now they can only eat porridge. The soldiers have not had a full meal for several months, let alone meat.

At this time, a few firemen picked up a box of meatloaf in the city, and the Qing soldiers' eyes lit up immediately, not caring about how there would be meat to eat. s things.

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