Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, was once the capital of the Wuyue Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty. It has always been a metropolis with merchants. Together with Suzhou, it has the reputation of "there are paradise above and the Suzhou below".??.net? In the Ming Dynasty, although it was not as fashionable as Suzhou, it was also a metropolis with a population of one million, with extremely high handicraft industry.

However, the city is small after all, and it also occupies land all over the city. Although there is no city wall protection outside the city, it does not prevent the people from thriving outside the city. Streets and alleys and markets are everywhere outside the city. Especially the Beiguan Night Market outside the Wulin Gate is one of the ten scenic spots in Hangzhou. The poem in the Ming Dynasty reads: "The market in the north is like a forest, and it has been passed down to this day. The green rouge is shaken by the wind and the moon shadow, and the crimson yarn shines on the green shade. Drinking behind the building and traveling with the couplets, and the people returning on the lake are scattered in the drunkenness." It has its own unique charm of canal culture.

However, for Chen Wen at this moment, he forcibly couldn't see the charm. He was concerned about whether these streets and alleys should be moved, otherwise the obstacles and limitations would be too great when siegeing the city.

The army approached the city, but the gates of Hangzhou were all closed yesterday. The densely packed on the city were the Qing troops of the Eight Banners and Green Camp, with flags waving and guns and cannons in place, which was a serious matter.

"Master General, the envoy of the governor of the Tartars Zhejiang, asked for his visit."

"I'm sending someone here before the fight starts. Are you teasing me?"

Before the siege war begins, the attacking side always has to go through a process of persuading surrender. Just like the later saying, "People still have a dream, what if it is realized." If the defenders surrender without fighting, they will save them from using weapons. However, the attacking side has not persuaded surrender yet, but the defenders are the first to send people to negotiate, which makes Chen Wen so embarrassed.

With a smile, Chen Wen asked someone to bring the messenger up. There were three people coming for a white old man, and the other two were middle-aged men. All three were dressed as Confucian scholars.

After entering the tent, the three bowed and bowed, and Chen Wen did not choose the etiquette of why he didn't kneel down. Since Xiao Qiyuan chose Confucian scholars as envoys, he must have all had fame and fame. If he did not kneel down when he saw an official, he would not lose his prestige and would be at a disadvantage in the negotiations.

As expected, these three people were all fame and honor, and they were all fame and honor in the Ming Dynasty. One had served as a Jinshi and two Juren and gentry.

"Since you are my scholars from the Ming Dynasty, why did you open your eyes to the captive court?"

As soon as this was said, the three Confucian scholars didn't say anything and didn't care about any preferential treatment. They knelt on the ground, saying that Xiao Qiyuan threatened the lives of their whole family. They had to come out to help the "beast" who was "full of evil" and said, "one of them was a bit pitiful."

"Get up and tell me what is the traitor named Xiao who has something to say?"

The three of them got up with great gratitude, and the old man bowed and said, "Report to your highness, Xiao Zhe claimed that he wanted to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, and claimed that the enemy court had laws and held the city for 30 days, and surrendered would not involve his family. Therefore, Xiao Zhe wanted to ask Your Highness to attack 30 days later. Once the time came, he would lead all the generals and officials in the city to surrender."

This statement sounds a bit familiar, but Chen Wen didn't care, just sneered: "I am a great defeated master, Yue Le and Yibai are all awarded. What qualifications do he have to negotiate with me?"

Chen Wen was like this, and the generals in the tent were the same. Only the three messengers looked bitter and seemed to be crying in a hurry.

"Your Highness doesn't know that Xiao thief is extremely crazy. Not only us and the three others, but the thief said that as long as your Highness refuses to agree, he will let the Eight Banners Dings in the city slaughter Hangzhou. He said that those Eight Banners soldiers knew that there was only one dead end in the hands of Your Highness, so they all wanted to kill one enough, kill two and earn one, and they were not afraid of loneliness on the road to the underworld."

A metropolis of millions of people!

"Use the people of the whole city to threaten me! Good thief, he is not afraid of surrendering. Will I find an opportunity to kill him?"

Chen Wen was furious, and the three envoys were immediately scared to kneel down on the ground. Even Chen Wen's tone was not a question, and a middle-aged Confucian scholar said tremblingly: "Report to your highness, the thief said that he was not afraid of death, but he had to consider the tribe, so he had to do so."

"It's not that he is not afraid of death, he has calculated that I dare not kill him!"

If Xiao Qiyuan really surrendered, then he would be the first governor-level official to surrender Chen Wen. He would buy horse bones for a thousand gold coins in order to keep him for the Qing governors from all over the country to demonstrate his kindness and kindness. After all, Chen Jin was assassinated by a family slave, Hong Chengchou was a man who was ignorant, while Cai Shiying and Yi Yonggui would rather die than surrender.

After pondering for a moment, Chen Wen raised his head again and shouted to the three messengers: "Go back and tell the person surnamed Xiao, I, Chen Wen, can't trust him, and ask him to hand over the concubine Xigong of King Lu and the prince first, and then talk about the rest."

The concubine Rong and prince Liu Ge of the Western Palace of Zhu Yihai of the Lu Jian State were both captured in the Battle of Zhoushan. According to the old rules, Rong, who was pseudonym Chen, was given to his son-in-law's slave Ding Shoucai as his wife by Jin Li, while prince Liu Ge was given to a man named Sun Yingke and became the son of the man. Later, the Lu Jian State received news and sent someone to secretly take the silver to redeem it, but was exposed and escorted to Jiangning to execute him.

This matter was affected by the chain reaction caused by the radical change of Jin Li's fate. The involvement of the concubine Rong of Xigong and the prince Liu Ge Ding Youcai, a slave who followed Jin Li's widow, was exposed not long ago and was imprisoned in Hangzhou. However, the case is still being tried, and Chen Wen's spies in Hangzhou got the news from some channels.

The three of them didn't say much, looked at each other, and the old man who was in charge agreed to this job, saying that he would convey it to Xiao Qiyuan after returning to the city. However, Chen Wen still mentioned it specifically, asking them to tell Xiao Qiyuan without saying a word.

"Tell Xiao Qiyuan, this is not the one who has seen the concubine of the West Palace and the prince in the palace. Let him play tricks with me."

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"Chen Wen is delaying time!"

“Procrastinate?”

The staff around you are only responsible for financial planning on weekdays, while the staff in charge of military affairs do not speak up - now, leaving the opportunity to show off to your boss is the minimum workplace wisdom for subordinates. Moreover, if you say something wrong, you will not lose your word.

Xiao Qiyuan naturally understood the thoughts of his aides, but being a good teacher was inevitable for scholars, even if he was still a bannerman of the Han army flag.

"With the victory in the field, the troops are at the city, but Hangzhou is such a huge city, Chen Wen's army always needs time to prepare. Not to mention anything else, it is difficult to break the city without siege equipment."

"The master's knowledge of thousands of miles, and the students are impressed."

"Listen to one's words is better than reading for ten years."

Flatters rang one after another, but Xiao Qiyuan just smiled slightly. "Come on, invite those Niu Lu Zhangjing."

The Qing army in the city was divided into five parts. One was the remnants of the Eight Banners in Hangzhou; the second was the reinforcements defeated; the third was the rebuilt camp; the fourth was the rebuilt Fubiao camp; the fifth is the rebuilt camp.

The Qing army of various units was the best preserved by Hangzhou City Guardian. Without fighting with the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, all the veterans had suppressed the small rebels and tax-resistant people in Hangzhou, and their combat effectiveness was definitely higher than that of the yamen runners. As for the Qing Dynasty, they were originally the few elite green camps in the Qing Dynasty south of the Yangtze River, but they were defeated several times and fewer veterans. Their fear of war against the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang became increasingly serious. Instead, they became 50% and 50% of troops like the Ming army in the city.

These three Qing troops are all green camps, with a large number of them, with a total of tens of thousands of troops, but their combat effectiveness and credibility are completely incomparable to those two Eight Banners. Even if these two Eight Banners are defeated generals under Chen Wen, one of them has no way to survive when they fall into the hands of the Ming army.

The person had already gone to invite him, but one of the staff asked Xiao Qiyuan: "Hong family, will the concubine and prince of the Lu family still be released?"

"Let it go! Of course you have to let it go, but only the Rong family will be left, and the prince will still be left in our hands."

The two aides looked at each other and immediately understood what Xiao Qiyuan's intention was. After all, the concubine of the West Palace was a woman, and her innocence was defiled by the slaves below, which was far less valuable than the prince, especially when she was the oldest surviving son in the Lu Jianguo.

"Can it be the one outside the city who wants to repair the relationship with Lu Fan?"

"It's hard to say, maybe it's just to hold that prince in his hand."

"What both gentlemen said is possible, so they have to control the prince. However, the most urgent task now is to try to drag the Ming army outside the city." Speaking of this, Xiao Qiyuan thought for a while, and then added: "In addition, he must also keep an eye on the uncle and nephew of the Xu family. The feeling they gave to this official is wrong!"

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The siege of Hangzhou began, and the Ming army in Fujian also launched a siege of Nanjing. From the top of the city, the Ming army was in a mighty way. Even if it was just a claim, it looked like an army of more than 100,000.

The Qing army in the city was trembling, and the green camp was still missing, but the Eight Banners Army of the Four Left Banners of Jiangnan and Jiangning, which were few left, was almost committing suicide. The Eight Banners family in the city were either crying and shouting, or praying to gods and Buddhas, and the Eight Banners soldiers and the Yu Dings also had a strong spirit. On the one hand, they had to protect the whole city and on the other hand, they had to supervise the Green Camp in the city. They were exhausted.

The reason why they fell into their current situation was naturally Zheng Chenggong. It was only a matter of enemy countries. It was normal for the Qing army to kill the Ming army and the Ming army to kill the Qing army in turn. As a result, Guan Xiaozhong immediately became a rat crossing the street that everyone scolded, especially a rat who was still a dead rat who was insulted by his army.

The outer wall of Nanjing is said to be one hundred and eighty miles, but there are actually more than forty miles. The inner wall is surrounded by the inner city, and there are also more than sixty miles. Zheng Chenggong's army approached the city, and each unit siegeed the city. However, the city was too large. If the army was dispersed, it would become a piece of loose sand, which could be defeated in and out of the inside. Therefore, Zheng Chenggong's defense still used various parts to scatter as a fulcrum to serve as a cover for the main business. As for other places, it was hard for a skillful woman to cook without rice.

When the generals set up camp, Pan Gengzhong, the general in the main camp, spoke to Zheng Chenggong and said, "King, look at the city carefully, and it will inevitably be empty. You can attack from all sides and lean on the ladder together. This city will definitely be available."

Pan Gengzhong is an important civil servant in Zheng Chenggong's curtain, and is still in the same position as Feng Xifan's father Feng Chengshi, Chen Jinnan's prototype Chen Yonghua and others.

This proposal was recognized by Zheng Chenggong, but just as he ordered the troops to start building siege equipment, his personal soldiers came to report that it was Zheng Chenggong's previous defeated general Guan Qizhen, and the rat crossing the street who was shouting and beating all over Nanjing, sent someone to see Zheng Chenggong.

When the visitor entered the tent, he saw Zheng Chenggong lying high in the tent. As soon as he entered the tent, he fell to the ground and crawled over with all his limbs.

"It is really a blessing for the villain to see the king today."

Zheng Chenggong and the generals and staff of the tent were very satisfied with the performance of the envoy. Zheng Chenggong just defeated Guan Qizhong not long ago. Not only did he be afraid, even if he persisted, the Qing army might not have enough troops and will to persevere. In this case, the envoy here must be paid for the money and surrendered.

"Report to the king, the head of the villain said that when the king's army arrives, the defeated general should open the door and enter. However, the imperial court has a case where those who guard the city will lose thirty days, and the crime will not be as serious as their wife and children. Now all the officials and relatives in the city are in Beijing. I beg the king for thirty days to thirty days, and then the door should be opened to welcome the surrender."

As expected, it was the matter of asking for surrender, but this condition was very new. However, Zheng Chenggong looked confident in this, ordered a generous reward to the envoy, and threatened him: "The army of our vassal to attack this lonely city is just a matter of raising our toes. Since your master has come to surrender, our vassal to approve what he wants, to win the trust of the world. If the contract is breached on time, the army will not leave any grass when it invades!"

Sweet dates and big sticks, the messenger knelt down and kowtowed, promising that he would inform Guan Qizhong to leave before he turned around. The messenger left and when there was no outsider, Pan Gengzhong couldn't help but express his worries, but Zheng Chenggong didn't care about this. It was not that he could not see Pan Zhonggeng's doubts, but that there was a precedent in the prefectures and counties that surrendered without fighting after the Zhenjiang War. He needed to consider more overall issues.

"In ancient times, attacking the city was the lower, and attacking the heart was the higher. Now that we have come to surrender, we have made the appointment. If we suddenly attack it, we will not be convinced. Wait until it is not as good as the previous appointment, and then attack quickly, don't say that the people in the city are convinced, and that the world knows that our benevolent and righteous teachers are known to us. Moreover, the Emperor Taizu is here, and it is not appropriate to shake it."

The emergency attack turned into waiting for the surrender, but Zheng Chenggong did not relax his vigilance and ordered his troops to defend strictly, looking at the sun and lying on the road at night. However, within a few hours, he caught a messenger from the Qing army to ask for help, carrying a document from the Qing army in Jiangning to various places.

"The sea division has more than 200,000 warships, and more than 1,000 warships, all of which are covered with iron, arrows cannot be shot through, and swords cannot be cut into. Gua, Zhenzhen World War II, those who have lost their souls are still shocked, while those who have made wars are unable to move forward. Now they have captured Zhenjiang, Taiping, Ningguo, Pukou, **, Dantu, Fanchang, Jurong, Pujiang and other counties, Chu, and other prefectures; let alone Zhejiang bandits are watching in the south. Now they are siege of Nandu, which is as dangerous as eggs. I beg the troops to rescue and exterminate them, so as not to cause the primordial flames to break up..."

After reading the document, Zheng Chenggong laughed instead of angry. The Qing army in the city was afraid of war and the eagerness of seeking help was overflowing between the lines. After thinking carefully, the four left-wing flags in Jiangnan and Jiangning were gone, and there was nothing around that could threaten the Qing army. Even if they asked for help, where did the reinforcements come from? It was obviously frightened and helpless, and there was no need to worry anymore.

As for the heavy army group in Hangzhou...

"In contrast to what those gentry said, Chen Furen is by no means a despicable villain. From his past actions, he is undoubtedly a sincere gentleman, and he will not sit idly by and watch the enemy's army head north. And..."
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