Chapter 91 Blood Sacrifice
"Li Shuai, go quickly. If you don't leave, you will have no chance!"
The Ming army's unscrupulous offensive yesterday and the situation in the city after the Ming army withdrew, all of them were seen in Hu Quancai's eyes. However, Hong Chengchou no longer had much energy to display, so he had to do so.
Now that the East City Gate has collapsed, Hu Quancai on the West City looked at the defeated soldiers in the city that had begun to surge here, and hurriedly pulled Li Benshen and whispered to him. After all, it is very difficult for him to escape, as a civil servant, he is now recruiting a military general, with the personal soldiers, servants and sharp soldiers of the brigade, the chance of survival will be greater.
However, at this moment, Li Benshen did not respond to him immediately, but just looked at the east of the city without blinking. It was not until a moment later that Hu Quan was already impatient, and he sighed, as if he had done his last effort to defend the city and Hong Chengchou, and opened the Xicheng Gate and took the Yanglong that he should have taken away.
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The army entered, and the Qing army, which had already been in chaos, completely collapsed. They either knelt down and asked to surrender, or ran to the other three gates of Guangxin Prefecture, in an attempt to escape from this dead place.
After the Ming army entered the city, the troops rushed to the city walls, yamen, warehouses and military camps according to the pre-formed plan. Military judges led the brigade of policing soldiers to patrol the entire city and maintain military discipline. The work of chasing the Qing army in the city was handed over to the prisoners who rushed to the city with the Ming army. This was the best time for them to get the chance to return home, so they would naturally not miss it easily.
As soon as the siege battle reached its most critical moment, Liu Fangming had no choice but to lead a brigade of cavalry to attack the flanks of the Ming army, trying to share the pressure for the defenders, but he was soon defeated by Wu Dengke and Li Ruixin. When the city gate fell, he led the remnants to the northwest direction, but did not enter the solid bastion - the bastion was so big, with three thousand troops stationed inside, and too many people would starve him to death.
The army entered one after another. As important places were controlled by the Ming army, the entire city was changed. What was left was the search and suppression of the remaining Qing army in the city and the pursuit of the Qing army that fled out of the city.
"Send someone outside the bastion to persuade the surrender, just ask and tell Bu Shilong that this commander will not be able to expire."
With the fall of the palace and Liu Fangming's escape, the bastion turned into an isolated city. With the power of victory, it was inevitable that the bastion defenders did not intend to accept this kind of good intention.
"I asked the troops attacking the North City Wall. They heard some of the captured prisoners that Hong Chengchou, the Southeastern governor of the Tartars, Liu Guangbi, the Jiangxi Admiral, and some other Qing army generals had fled into the bastion..."
There are two guardrails between the city and the ridge to strengthen their defense capabilities. They escaped from the city when the city was broken, but whether they would use the ridge as a springboard to escape elsewhere is a huge problem.
"If you pass the order, the guards and the second camp of Chun'an do not need to enter the city, and they will block the north and east sides of the bastion; Nantang camp will leave the city from the west gate of the city, and go north to block the way to the Tatars to escape. The guards will set out first to search and do not let the Hongzhe escape."
"The last one will follow the order."
Putting aside these three battalions, Chen Wen still has six battalions and more than 2,000 infantrymen who have not yet formed a combat barracks, but he did not intend to let them wait here.
Now the Qing Dynasty's mobile troops in Jiangxi have almost been wiped out. In addition to the two thousand green camps in Yuanzhou Prefecture, each of the remaining ones only have a few hundred green camps, and they have to be stationed in various counties and floods. In addition, only the 3,000 people from Fubiao, Jiangxi, Fubiao, Nangan, Fubiao, Town, 1,500 green camps and 5,000 green camps. The core area around Poyang Lake in Jiangxi can be called an unprepared area, so they must be taken down as soon as possible to prevent changes.
"Li Ruixin, Lou Jiye."
"The last one will be here!"
At the east gate of Guangxin Mansion City, he had just entered the city. Before he could breathe, Chen Wen began to arrange the next combat mission. In this regard, all the generals under his command were eager to try, because after many military discussions before, they had already understood the situation on the southeast battlefield, and naturally they knew very well that this peach in Jiangxi was only about to reach out to pick it.
"You two led the Iron Cavalry Camp and Feixiong Camp to the west and captured Nanchang for me. After recapturing Nanchang, Li Ruixin waited for reinforcements and cleared out several nearby prefectures and counties. Lou Jiye's army headed north and recovered Jiujiang Prefecture City, Nanhuzui and the other side of the lake, and tied the hole of Poyang Lake tightly for me."
There are three important defense areas in Jiangxi Province. One is Nanchang, the capital of the province, the second is Nangan in southern Jiangxi, and the third is Jiujiang, which guards the mouth of Poyang Lake and can cut off the Yangtze River. Jiujiang is north of Nanchang, which is also the west bank of Poyang Lake.
"I will obey the order."
The two bowed and then retreated immediately, waiting for the military discussion to end, so as to coordinate with the staff officer who accompanied the army to the details of food and grass.
"Wu Dengke"
"The last one will be here!"
"You lead Lishui Camp and Yiwu Camp to follow up after a day's rest and rush to Nanchang."
The Iron Cavalry and Feixiong Second Battalion had strong mobility, but their troops seemed too weak, so Chen Wen asked Wu Dengke to follow up with the two battalions. After arriving in Nanchang, he could start to sweep the Qing army-occupied area with this provincial capital as the center.
"I will obey the order."
"Zhang Zisheng, how can you be blessed."
"The last one will be here!"
"After you two rest for two days, you will lead Yushan Camp and Shentang Camp to attack Fuzhou Prefecture City. After taking it down, you will wait for subsequent orders."
Fuzhou Prefecture is located west of Guangxin Prefecture and southeast of Nanchang. It guards this place and can provide the minimum covering for these two key points of the Ming army gathering heavy troops.
Zhang Zisheng is a local snake in Jiangxi. He is the most excited among the generals. The Shentang Camp led by An Youfu is the strongest combat-capable of the Ming army camps in Zhejiang. With the cooperation of Shentang Camp, Yushan Camp can naturally better complete the established strategic tasks.
"I will obey the order."
There were 20,000 soldiers in his hand, but he spread all the troops out in one breath and dispersed them to various prefectures to swallow the entire Jiangxi. Chen Wen did not have that appetite. Especially now, the battalions in the north of Guangxin Prefecture are still there, and the various battalions of the Ming army were more or less damaged in this series of wars. First, they connected Guangxin Prefecture to Nanchang to form a straight line, sweeping the core area around Poyang Lake in Jiangxi, and then heading south. Anyway, the Qing Dynasty did not have any large army in the southeast that could rush to rescue.
"You guys, this summer, we will restore the entire province of Jiangxi!"
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The Ming army's clearance work began as quickly as possible, with military judges or politicians in cooperation. The Ming army of the brigade entered various yards, and even aides who followed the army wrote notices for the people's peace and security, posted them everywhere, and then brought officials from the city, Li Zheng and others to help the Ming army's peace and security.
The Qing army in the city was basically all the elite green camps drawn from the north. While enhancing its combat effectiveness, there was also a great conflict with the locals. They sneaked into stealing, robbed, and even robbed the women of the people, especially the blockade carried out by Hong Chengchou's orders in charge of the yamen. In the work of moving the territory, they even slaughtered the local people.
The conflict between the soldiers and the people here is very deep. The Qing army was originally powerful, and the people had no choice but to endure it. Now that the Ming army has entered the city, he should have revenge and revenge.
With the lower-level officials who had the original ruling structure in the city, Li Zheng and the people throughout the process of the whole process, the Ming army's clearance operation was carried out very quickly, and the entire city was cleaned up after only a afternoon.
A large number of Qing troops who had not been able to escape from the city were locked up in the Ming army's prisoner camp, but these prisoners were naturally impossible to compare with those who assisted the Ming army in siege. Those prisoners are now in the camp outside the city, holding a large bowl of white rice in one hand, while in the other hand, they keep adding vegetables from the food bowl, including vegetables and meat, and fullness. Even the injured prisoners can be treated by the Ming army, and of course they must be ranked behind the Ming army's wounded.
This was what they deserved for the Ming army to fight, but the new captives could not enjoy this treatment at all.
While the cleaning work was launched, the inspection work was also underway. First, we distinguished according to the camp heads, and picked out those who had obvious bad records in the previous Yushan Victory and this Guangxin Mansion siege, and pulled them out and chopped their heads. The rest were locked in the open space in the camp to drink wind. In order to prevent them from making any changes during the night, the Ming army even stripped their clothes and even let the auxiliary soldiers siege and raised fire to monitor them, feeling like they were treating animals.
"I still have to follow the Duke of the State. Even the old manager is no match for him. I can't see that the Tartars come."
As one of the prisoners who performed well in the siege, Wei Fushun, a surrendered man from Gansu who had just thrown his grenades off the city at first, was following a military officer and visited the tragic situation of these new prisoners with a group of prisoners who performed well.
The night in mid-May is not very cool, especially for the green camp soldiers drawn from the north. However, today the Ming army is under great pressure to attack the city. They don’t even have the chance to eat, and even more so after being captured. Now they are not only hungry, but also drinking with their butts naked. What’s more, Wei Fushun and the others heard from the officer mentioned that it seemed that these unlucky guys would have to live a few days when they were hungry.
"That's right, that's right. The old master killed more people than we have ever seen. He would have to be defeated when he saw the Duke. He is still a great man."
After just having a full meal, I watched the new prisoners starving and freezing, and after comparison, my sense of happiness immediately soared to 90,000 miles. I nodded and bowed to the Ming army I saw, for fear of causing displeasure to the Ming army and losing the superior treatment I had at this moment.
"This big, handsome man, I want to follow the Duke and return to my hometown in the future."
"Master?" the officer turned his head and asked, "Are you calling me?"
“That’s right.”
After Wei Fushun answered tremblingly, the officer in charge shook his head: "I am not a great commander. In terms of position, I am the officer in Shentang Camp. I am the officer in charge of taking you around and chatting with you today. In terms of class, I am the deputy lieutenant Zhiguo. You probably can't stand this, but you are not a great commander anyway. You can call me Huang Jianjun. In addition, there is only one general in my Zhejiang King's Division, that is the Duke."
"Yes, the villain has written it down, Huang Jianjun."
Not only this prisoner, but some of the other prisoners were eager to try this, but more of them seemed a little worried.
"Our King of Zhejiang is about rewarding merits and punishing me for mistakes. Your excellent performance in the siege battle has exceeded the line of forgiveness, so the crime has been washed away. If you have this plan, I will report to the general. Those who are worried about their family can also go back, and the king will never leave any difficulties. But..."
Everyone was relieved when they received this treatment. Although the Ming army in Zhejiang achieved a great victory that was enough to rewrite the war situation in the Southeast, it still seemed very weak compared to the huge figure in the Qing Dynasty today. Moreover, this place is Jiangxi, not the hometown of Ganzhou and Shaanxi, and the fear of becoming a ghost from a foreign land also prompted some prisoners to have great temptation to return to their hometown as soon as possible.
However, when they heard this sentence "but", their hearts immediately hanged again.
Fortunately, the officer in charge did not say anything that made them continue to panic, but said that if they left, they would have to tattoo a mark on their body. If they dared to do things for the Tartars, they would not tolerate it if they caught only one word for death.
This condition is reasonable, and everyone can't help but feel relieved. When facing the Ming army, especially the officer in charge, he is naturally very attentive, hoping that the "master" who "has the title of Deputy Captain Zhiguo" can say a few more good things to Chen Wen. Although they can't figure out what this "Deputy Captain Zhiguo" is.
The soldiers at the bottom were detained in the open space to drink wind, while the Qing officials captured in Guangxin Mansion were waiting for Chen Wen to summon him one by one in Hong Chengchou's headquarters.
Jiangxi governor Huang Zhilin.
Guangxin Prefect Huang Zhongtong.
Wu Hongdao, the magistrate of Xing'an.
Bai Guangen, the governor of the town in Jingbiaoqian.
The big inner guard and the commander of the Zuoxia Camp Zhang Dayuan.
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The civil servants and the strategic battalion of the Nanchang shogunate, Jiangxi upgraded the bid, and Jiujiang Town Biao were mostly captured and identified by the Ming army. However, he had no interest in anything like Bai Guangen and Huang Zhilin. Because these human-like dog-like officials of the Qing Dynasty were not even considered a nonsense compared to Hong Chengchou.
This can be seen from the length of the official position. The Taibao and the Prince's Taishi, who are in charge of Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian Province, governors and military affairs, and manages food and wages. The Grand Secretary Hong Chengchou. The length of this person's official position is longer than that of several high-ranking officials and generals. Even those who know nothing about history will probably understand that Mr. Hong Hengjiu is Chen Wen's biggest gain in this battle.
"Mr. Hong, I have been forced too much for two times last year. Can I feel too happy?"
Hong Chengchou, who was sick and unable to sit up, has been sank on the ground since he was dragged in by the Ming army. In addition to the Xu Chen soil blown up by breathing, he could barely prove that this was a living thing, the first hero of the Qing Dynasty who entered the pass was now like a dead body, and he didn't even react to Chen Wen's question.
However, for Chen Wen, after the former governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, Chen Jin, he once again defeated the enemy, especially Hong Chengchou, who was the strongest opponent in his life. Even if he was sturdy on the ground, it would be useless.
"I heard that this guard Zhang seems to look down on you very much. Instead, the guard Wang has always licked you. Why didn't he see him guarding him with a sword this time?"
Zhang Dayuan and Wang Fuchen were both great guards arranged by Shunzhi to protect Hong Chengchou, and in fact they also imply a layer of surveillance. Zhang Dayuan relies on Shunzhi as the backstage and was just like that of Hong Chengchou on weekdays. Although Wang Fuchen was both great guards, he was a bandit. He was already very afraid of Hong Chengchou in his early years, so he naturally took great care of him when serving him. However, when Hong Chengchou's majestic figure was completely defeated by Chen Wen, this awe was also shattered at the same time.
The Ming army killed and injured the city, and Wang Fuchen and Zhang Dayuan protected him down the city wall. Who knew that as soon as he got off the city, he rushed out of a small group of Ming troops. Zhang Dayuan protected Hong Chengchou and rose up to resist, but Wang Fuchen took Hong Chengchou as a hostage, but was pierced by a Ming army archer in the distance and was dead at that time.
Hong Chengchou had no movement anymore. He probably was used to seeing such betrayal, or he had no strength to say anything to such a traitor. He was still lying on the ground, gasping for breath, like a dead dog.
"Youdao only has the wrong name, no wrong nickname. Fake Lu Bu, with this nickname, you can do it, and Fulin waiter also put him by your side. I, Chen Wen, really don't know if he is ignorant, or I wish you would die early."
The verbal sarcasm has no effect on Hong Chengchou anymore. However, when it comes to Shunzhi, the idea of loyalty to the emperor seemed to have played some role. Hong Chengchou finally reacted and moved slightly, but did not say anything.
Just react.
Chen Wen laughed and then said to Wu Dengke: "Brother Wu, I remember that you mentioned an idea on Dalan Mountain. At that time, everyone was laughed at as a fool, right?"
Sitting in the tent, Wu Dengke had long forgotten all this matter, but another general from Dalanshan still vaguely remembered it.
"I remember that Wu Shuai said that I would like to ask Hong Chengchou if it was because the Empress Dowager of Tartars had a sleep with him."
As soon as these words came out, the hall of the headquarters burst into laughter. However, Wu Dengke was still a little embarrassed. He could no longer see the reckless man he had back then.
"Brother Wu is embarrassed, then I'll ask you for your advice." As he said that, Chen Wen walked to Hong Chengchou, squatted down, grabbed the white and loose braids and lifted Hong Chengchou's head up, and looked at him with all his eyes.
"Pooh!"
He spitted over with a mouthful of dark red bloodshot, but he didn't even spit out the short half-meter distance. Instead, he hung on Hong Chengchou's chin like a broken thread, making him look even more embarrassed.
"It turns out that it's not a dead dog. Your only remaining life is for this moment, so you are so pitiful."
After leaving Hong Chengchou, who had only one breath left, Chen Wen shouted sternly: "Want to know why I am playing tricks on you here? It's not as simple as you surrendering to the Tartars. Some of them surrender to the Tartars, but those who work as hard as you are rarely seen. For the sake of the Tartars, you can sell all the Han people, why can't I use you to find happiness?"
After sitting down again, the hall was already silent. Every general of the Ming army heard Chen Wen's anger, and they were trembling and even breathing more slowly.
"Has it been found out?"
Hearing this, an aide came out and immediately replied to Chen Wen: "The words of the Duke of Return have been found out, and it is indeed the order of the rebel Hong Chengchou."
After breaking the city today, the news that the Qing army forced the robbery of the woman in the mansion as a military prostitute quickly reached Chen Wen's ears. Looking at the exposed and scarred corpses in the Qing army camp, the suicides hanging on the trees, in order to increase morale, could have such a tragedy. In comparison, even Chen Wen's opponent, former governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, Chen Jin, was completely incomparable to Chen Wen's past.
Chapter completed!