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Chapter 72 Suppressing the rebellion

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&nb^_^"Wucheng captured the southwest corner, and people's heads fell like rain in three days"

&nbThe city gate tower at Tongyuan Gate, under the banner of the Jinhua Ming Army, Chen Wen silently recited the painful poem written by Li Yu, a talented man from Jinhua who was still communicating with him not long ago.

&nbIn the first year of the regent Lu period, on July 16, 1646, the Qing army collapsed the newly built western city wall and entered the Jinhua City, causing the tragic massacre.

&nb As the old owner of this city, even Cao Conglong knew about things. Even if he had never had any interaction with Li Yu, Chen Wen could not not know the problems in the West City Wall.

&nbSince the Qing army heading south to capture the city, the Qing governments had to feed the officials from top to top to face the huge anti-Qing rebel army and the heavy taxes, grain, corvee and other tasks. In addition, what Ma Jinbao moved to the town later, for the officials of the city who were no longer daring to increase their efforts to extort local areas and were afraid of causing greater civil rebellion, the repair of the city wall seemed a bit too burdened.

&nb After Chen Wen recovered Jinhua Prefecture, the fortifications in Anhua Town squeezed out too much manpower, material resources and financial resources, and the repair of the city wall was delayed again and again. Even today, it is still the same old form that was built when the rebel army of the Anti-Qing Dynasty in Jinhua was first born. It is probably not as strong as before it was collapsed, let alone compare to the solid city where "the two Zhejiang cities were headed by Wu" that was rebuilt after Ma Jinbao was promoted to Admiral Susong in history.

&nb At this moment, the enemy was scared, and even there was a clear division and disintegration. Even the main generals gave up their resistance and chose to surrender. Since psychological warfare was quite effective for the enemy in the city, Chen Wen did not intend to collapse the city wall again to attract evil for him.

&nb The partial army led by Chen Guobao had already entered the city with the help of his subordinates, and the brigade of troops led by Chen Wen had already collected various key points according to the established plan. Originally, Cao Conglong was called to capture him in the area of ​​the West City Wall, but who expected that this guy would leave the army and run away. Now he could only hope that Chen Guobao could stop him halfway.

&nb However, since the troops guarding the West City Wall have surrendered, the overall situation is completely destined. After only more than an hour passed, the troops entering the city have successively rewarded the key points that need to be controlled have been taken down by the Ming army, and most of the rebels and officials involved in the rebellion have been taken down in various yamen. Sun Yu's family, the officers who were imprisoned in the prison who refused to rebel, soldiers, a small number of officials, and the military subordinates who were imprisoned in the military camp were rescued one after another. The resistance encountered by the troops entering the city can only be described as minimal.

&nb's opponents have only been in the army for half a month, and the training results are really not very good. If the town's direct battalion cannot quickly settle these rookies, then Chen Guobao and the training officers involved in the training of the army can go home to farm. Chen Wen asked himself that he could not bring this level of cheating goods.

&nb Since all that is left is to search for fish that escaped the net, Chen Wen led the team to escort the prisoners into the city. Following Cao Conglong's old road to Tongyuanmen, Chen Wen turned from the street to Tongyuanmen to the west city, and then followed the road eastward to Cao Conglong's old nest, not far from the east city. If nothing unexpected happens, the old governor should be there.

&nbThe battle in the city was not fierce from the beginning, but along the way, the houses and shops chose to close the doors, probably waiting for Anmin's notice to be issued. At the same time, they were afraid that the two Ming troops, who also worshipped the Lu Jianguo as the orthodox emperor, would be so angry that their families would be destroyed.

&nb Chen Wen entered the city from the far gate. He vaguely remembered that in history, the Qing army swarmed in after the collapse of a section of the city wall to the west. The city towers from the north and south fell one after another. The Jinhua defenders fought hard and fought bloody streets. In order to avoid being humiliated, Zhu Dadian's wife, concubines and daughter-in-law committed suicide by jumping into the well. The family lost more than 20 mouths. Zhu Dadian and his subordinates and aides also ignited the gunpowder depot and died heroically. After the Ming army command was blown up, the remaining defenders were still steadfast and unyielding, resisting step by step, retreating to the last position - Dongshi.

&nb To the east of Dong City are the cliffs of Gaoshantou and Dongyang River. Six years ago, the defenders carried out their final resistance there. Finally, under the persuasion of the Qing army, they refused to surrender, and all died bravely in this last position.

&nbThen, the Qing army carried out an inhumane massacre under the command of Aisin Gioro Boluo. The Southern Ming Romance recorded the tenth death row of victims. Chen Wen had heard a saying that more than 50,000 people were killed by the Qing army. The specific numbers are unknown, but the ruins in the city that have not been cleared for several years are silently telling that history.

&nbIf it weren't for Chen Wen, it would take more than two hundred years for this city to completely get rid of the rule of barbarians. However, with the emergence of Chen Wen, history was rewritten. The city returned to the royal army of the Han family five years after the massacre. However, the Cao Conglong Rebellion caused her to suffer two consecutive wars in less than a month. The only thing that is thankful is that the scale of the battle was relatively small, and both sides were still restrained, and there was not much involvement of the people in the city, that's all.

&nb Chen Wen didn't want to say anything about Nirvana and fate. He just wanted to arrest Cao Conglong and ask the second-rank official: Is his surname He? Is it the product after the infighting dog He Tengjiao and his mother had two or three things!

&nbHowever, when Chen Wen arrived at the Governor's Office, the news he received was indeed that Cao Conglong had disappeared, and he had never returned since he left in the morning.

&nb "It's not possible to fight, you're quite good at running away."

&nb Before doing his best, Chen Wen had to hope that the culprit would be found in the city where the eight gates had been closed, and he still needed to finish the unfinished things.

&nb Except for a limited number of officials involved in the rebellion, the others were imprisoned by the rebels, waiting for the coming trial, and appeased the three Yuan Lanxi, Wuyi and Jinyun County garrisons who chose to be corrected by Zhang Jun and others, reiterated the principle of not being blamed, but they also seized their military power as promised and sent it back to the old camp to be trainees. These officers exchanged their actions for the chance of life, but could not lead troops alone again, but in contrast, the garrison judges in their respective troops must be beheaded and displayed in public, just like the garrison judges in Tangxi County.

&nbNext, after discussing with Sun Yu, who had restored the power of the prefect, Chen Wen went to appease the imprisoned military families. After dinner together, it really made these military families who had been scared for a month feel at ease. However, the words "Your daughter is really amazing" left to Zhou Jingting and the father of the Zhou family's younger sister before leaving still scared the family.

&nb was busy all day, and it was not until late at night that Chen Wen had temporarily escaped from the panoramic rebellion made up of the military orders issued by Cao Conglong and the information collected by the governor's yamen. He turned to the prison cell of the Fubiao camp officers who were imprisoned by Luo Chengyan's Baitou Army to decide on other things.

&nb "Although you are not a member of my King of Jinhua, you are not a traitor, but the blood feuds of those subordinates who killed me cannot be forgotten. Before leaving, Mrs. Zhou and her brother urged me to be a little tolerant of Luo Chengyan's Whitehead Army. So I decided that except General Ni, everyone here..."

&nb "Everyone must die!" (To be continued.)
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