The army crossed the Yangtze River and recaptured the prefectures and counties in Huainan. The first one was Yangzhou Prefecture.

Yangzhou Prefecture is located in the southwest of Yangzhou Prefecture, crossing the Yangtze River from Zhenjiang Prefecture, only 20 or 30 miles away. This city is adjacent to the canal and has always been an extremely prosperous place. In ancient times, it was said that it was one to one and two. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was even more flowers, merchants gathered, and industry and commerce and service industries were popular. It even led to the profit-making industry of Yangzhou Skin Horse, which was to meet the high standards of the powerful and wealthy businessmen in taking concubines.

Until ten years ago, in Yangzhou, ten days ago, the massacre that lasted ten days and was killed by more than 800,000 people, and the industry, commerce and service industries in Yangzhou plummeted. There was no way, everyone was killed by our Qing Dynasty, so there was no business that was not available.

For political reasons, Chen Wen set out from Nanjing and crossed the Yangtze River. Chen Wen took the Jinhua Division, Feixiong and Yushe, two riding infantry battalions, to head eastward to Yangzhou, while Li Ruixin took the Yongjia Division westward to occupy the two prefectures and two prefectures, Luzhou, Anqing, Chuzhou, and Hezhou.

The prefectures and counties north of the Yangtze River, especially the downstream of the Yangtze River, mostly expressed goodwill to Chen Wen. It was nothing to be killed by the Qing Dynasty in a row. After all, there were examples of two famous kings in Li Dingguo. Who knew whether the Qing Dynasty would continue to be lucky? However, the large losses of the Eight Banners Army and the Northern Green Camp were not just a joke - the large losses of core force, the Qing Dynasty relied on to intimidate officials all over the world. The decline of the hard power of the Green Camp, and the decline of people's hearts towards the Ming army.

The army successfully crossed the Yangtze River. Jiangpu, who had already announced that anyway, all the officials and generals of the two counties came to pay a visit. Chen Wen's handling of them was very simple. The officials went back to the civil service training class and the green camp accepted the adaptation. Those who were willing to return home could also pay the travel expenses appropriately. They all followed the strong strength of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They even cut their braids before asking for a meeting, expressing their determination to draw a clear line with the Qing Dynasty.

On that day, Li Ruixin sent troops to the west, while Chen Wen left a small number of troops and led his troops to the east. The northeast of Jiangpu was, and the east was Yizhen County under Yangzhou Prefecture, and the city of Yangzhou was east of Yizhen.

Wherever the army went, the Qing officials and the green camp all cut their braids and put on the Han family's clothes to open the city and surrender. Chen Wen left some of the troops at a place, heading eastward to Yangzhou Prefecture.

As soon as the officials of Yangzhou were informed that the Ming army had crossed the Yangtze River, they cut their braids early and went out of the city to welcome him ten miles away.

Chen Wen had no difficulty with them, and was just like other surrendered people in his disposal. The officials, defenders, and gentry who came out to welcome him were all relieved. However, as a middle-aged Confucian scholar rushed out of the crowd and bowed to the horses holding a book in his hand, the entire atmosphere of welcoming the army into the city immediately solidified.

"Student Wang Xiuchu, the former governor of Huaiyang, was aide to the Minister of War and the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, and presented the "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou" in front of the vassal."

Shi Kefa's aide, the tenth diary of Yangzhou. As soon as this statement came out, everyone present was either a local Yangzhou person or a local local official. Although they had never read this book, they would not understand what the two refer to together. However, this happened to the Ming army before they entered the city. If there was any change, it might not be a good thing.

Everyone present had their own thoughts. Upon hearing this, Chen Wen immediately sent someone to invite Wang Xiuchu. The person who came was wearing a Taoist robe that was common to Confucian scholars in the late Ming Dynasty. He looked a little worn, looked quite old, and looked full of sorrow, especially his eyes, with bloodshot whites on his eyes, which seemed to have a long-term poor sleep. Compared with the energetic scholars around him, it was completely different styles.

Wang Xiuchu handed the booklet to Chen Wen's guards. When the guard turned around, he touched the booklet with great speed. He made sure there was nothing hidden hidden inside and handed it to Chen Wen.

Holding it in his hand, the huge words on the cover were written by himself, and the booklet was very thin, but at the moment, it was still in the city entrance ceremony, so Chen Wen couldn't see it from the beginning and the end, so he looked through it in a hurry, but the words in it were like dipped in blood still made him frown.

"The sound of killing came everywhere, and the sound of the knife rings was filled with tears, and there were dozens or more people begging for the orders in unison. When a soldier arrived, no matter how many people in the south were, they all bowed their heads and prostrated themselves, and they were led to their necks and received a blade, and no one dared to escape. As for the children, they cried and whined, and even more so. When the sun was noon, the more severe the killing and looting, the more numerous the corpses were accumulated, and they were hard to hear and could not bear to see them."

"The fire is getting more and more intense, and the trees in the tomb are burning, the light is like lightning, the sound is like a mountain collapse, the wind is furious, the red sun is bleak, and it is gone. At present, it is like seeing countless Yaksha ghosts driving away thousands of people from hell and expelling them. In addition to being frightened, I feel dizzy at the time, and I don't know that this body is in the world."

"On the fourth day of the first lunar month, the sky is clear. The scorching sun is steaming and the corpse is smoky. It is burned everywhere, the smoke is like fog, and it smells fishy for dozens of miles. On that day, I burned cotton and human bones into ashes to cure my brother's sores; I nodded and nodded, but could not make a sound."

Similar paragraphs are everywhere in the text. Chen Wen just read the clips and felt like he was in the purgatory of the human world back then, and even breathing became much more difficult.

The full text is only seven or eight thousand words, but Chen Wen just flipped a few pages and couldn't read it anymore. In a tragedy, the tragedy of the tragedy on Siming Mountain heard from Zhoushan. Wu Dengke mentioned Sun Yu's life experience and the Jinhua Massacre mentioned by Li Yu later, and there were also complaints from too many survivors such as Nanchang, Ganzhou, Shaowu, Jiading, and Jiangyin. The Ten Diary of Yangzhou is only one of them, but the shock he brought to him was no less than the tragedy he had seen with his own eyes.

At the end of the writing, "I suppressed Jingnan in the Great Wall of Wanli, and relied on the ambition of the wolf, and finally planted the old city; so the old nest spring swallow turned into a different house in the autumn hong, and turned the guest as the main guest. Those who had been famous for more than ten years were so embarrassed!" "I said to my friend Zheng Zi: Those who ruined the world in the northwest are Sun Shangu; those who were in the southeast of the country are neighbors of Shi Dao." The writer of history said bluntly, and did not embellish him because he had been a staff member of Shi Kefa. He used historical books to paint accomplices to cover up their mistakes and attacked political enemies without hesitation. He was a very different world, and the higher the lower the right and lower the right.

Regarding Shi Kefa, Chen Wen knew very well what kind of person he was. He was honest and cautious in his human beings, and would rather die than surrender at the last moment. His personal character was impeccable. However, as a high-ranking official, he was in danger and was in danger of the country. He made almost all his decisions on military and national affairs. He had an unshirkable responsibility for the collapse of the Hongguang court.

Shi Kefa's failure proves that the theory of "talking about one's heart and mind on a normal basis and repaying the king when he is in danger" is extremely absurd. However, compared with He Tengjiao, who is selfish, and those hypocrites who fight for power and profit on weekdays, but cannot even die in danger, this incompetent gentleman has at least some praise.

"Mr. Wang, please get up."

After warmly pacifying one or two, Chen Wen then said to the Ming army soldiers present, the officials and generals and generals of surrendering Shun, and the local gentry and people: "Ten years ago, the tragic murder of Yangzhou was long known, and now there is a "Ten Diary of Yangzhou" presented by Mr. Wang. Heaven and earth can be seen, and blood debts should be repaid with blood. Here, the great revenge is here, and I will ask Jiannu for the people who were killed in Yangzhou!"

"The king's army is mighty and powerful, and the princes and lords of Kuaiji are all dating!"

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While cheers outside Yangzhou City sounded, the news that Chen Wen killed Jiergalang and took advantage of the opportunity to recover Nanjing also spread to various places at an extremely fast speed.

Two famous kings were revived by the revival of Nanjing. Such great achievements were made, whether it was the value of killing the noble kings of the Qing Dynasty or the number of Qing troops that were recovered, Chen Wen was already the most deserving of the Southern Ming Dynasty. It can even be said that since the Liao incident, there has never been a famous general like Chen Wen, even Li Dingguo is much inferior.

At the same time, Jiergalang's death and the banner of the Ming Dynasty were raised again at the head of Nanjing, and the momentum of the Qing Dynasty sweeping the world was completely reversed. While people were circulating Chen Wenzhen's legendary experience of ancient and modern times, their fear of the Qing Dynasty was also constantly declining. People in various places who had already put away their resistance due to the Qing Dynasty massacre were also about to move, waiting for the news of Chen Wen's massive Northern Expedition to come.

Half a month later, in the Qianqing Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the news that Jiergalang was killed by Chen Wen in the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum was confirmed. All the people present were powerful people from the Qing court. They usually regard Han people as pigs and sheep, and their contempt for the Ming army had already penetrated their bones. However, now, except for Jidu, no one expressed his desire to avenge Yue Le and Jiergalang. No one present was a fool, and even Jiergalang could not beat Chen Wen. With their experience, let alone their abilities.

"The emperor's brother was killed by that Zhejiang bandit, and the emperor's uncle was also killed by that Zhejiang bandit. Do you have nothing to say?!"

Since Xiaozhuang persuaded him last time, Shunzhi has always been on the verge of violence and is so bad that he is not as good as the temper. The powerful and powerful present know more or less about the details, but now they have no choice but to kneel down and express the six-character proverb of "talking less and kowtow more", to the fullest, even Sony, who has always been dependent on Shunzhi.

Amid the kowtows of "slaves are incompetent and deserve death", Oboi, known as the number one warrior in Manchuria, took the lead in making a different voice, and other powerful people entered a state of static without hesitation.

"Your Majesty, now our Qing Dynasty has reached the most critical moment. Jiangsu and Zhejiang have become enemies, and their finances have increased and decreased, and they are already in short supply. The Eight Banners Army and the elite Green Camp have also lost a lot in recent years. Now the morale of each banner is low, so it is really not appropriate to send troops."

Oboi's advice immediately aroused the consent of other powerful people. Only Jidu was still cursing these powerful people as cowards, and repeatedly expressed his hope to lead the army to fight to avenge his father. However, when Shunzhi heard Oboi's words, he seemed to be like a deflated balloon, because he knew very well that what Oboi said was true!

"The most urgent thing in the country today is wealth. The annual income of 1,814 million is strange, the annual income of 2,261 million is strange, and the annual income of 4,470,000 is strange. The reason why the national use is insufficient is all due to the maintenance of soldiers."

This is a question mentioned in the memorial of Wang Mingyue, the director of the Engineering Department, in the ninth year of Yongli. At that time, Li Dingguo was defeated by Xinhui and had retreated to Guangxi; Liu Wenxiu defeated Changde; and Zheng Chenggong was far from forming a large army in the Battle of Nanjing. At that time, Jiangsu and Zhejiang were still there, and the annual income of several million taels per year still had a fiscal deficit of up to 4.47 million taels. Now Jiangsu and Zhejiang are lost, especially in eastern Zhejiang and Jiangxi, which were gone last year. Now, including Nanjing, Susong Changzhen and Hangzhou Jiahu, have fallen into Chen Wen's hands. Although the cost of raising troops in the Qing Dynasty has been greatly reduced, the annual income has also dropped significantly.

As the saying goes, if there is no food, the war will be dispersed. Not only the combat effectiveness of the army, but the food and grass are also extremely important. Now the finances are tight, and plundering along the way is not bad, but the geographical advantage is lost, and the morale within the Eight Banners is low. What's more important is that the army's troops of the Eight Banners are sharply reduced, which is difficult to do even if you want to work hard to expedition.

"The year before yesterday, the four provincial capitals suppressed the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, together with the Eight Banners led by Shi Tingzhu, the 8,000 troops were defeated in Jinhua, and less than 2,000 people escaped back by chance. Last year, in the battle of Siming Lake, two thousand soldiers and horses of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Han army each went to fight, and only more than 2,000 people fled back to Hangzhou, mainly the Eight Banners of Mongolia. The attack on Yushan, which was deployed by Hong Chengchou, ended in a crushing defeat, and the Southeast Economic Countries formed by the Northern Green Camp was wiped out; and this year, Hangzhou and Nanjing were both defeated, and there were even pirates invading them, Jiangnan and Jiangning Left-wing Four Banners..."

"Enough!"

Gasing heavily, Obai calculating the data on the loss of troops in detail, like a water plant, pulled him to the verge of drowning.

He has calculated this account. Since Chen Wen's rise, the green camps drawn from the north and went south have lost no less than 60,000. Now the number of veterans in green camps in various places can only barely support the defense of various places. Moreover, there is no way to draw within a few years without any major chaos.

In terms of the Eight Banners Army, the Han army and the Eight Banners lost nearly 18,000 troops, including the Chen Han army and the New Han army, but the number is too huge, which is nearly one-third of the total number of the Eight Banners of the Han army. In comparison, the Mongolian Eight Banners suffered less losses, and the cavalry retreated from the battlefield faster. However, according to statistics, there were tens of thousands of Mongolian Eight Banners buried in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Of course, for the Qing Dynasty, the first two were vassals, and the degree of distress was limited, but the Eight Banners of the Manchus also lost no less than 10,000 people in the three battles. This can be said to be a destructive blow to the Manchus, which is less than 50,000 people, and it cannot bear it at all.

This is just Chen Wen. Although the main opponent of the Qing Dynasty in the past two years was Chen Wen, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong were not idle either. Now the Qing Dynasty is no longer even able to say that it is strong outside and the middle. It is only one step away from complete destruction!

Loss of troops and insufficient financial income are all major problems, but the bigger problem lies in the desire of the people.

The Qing Dynasty entered the pass and raised the banner to avenge Chongzhen, attacked the public enemies of northern gentry and landlords with military force, and carried out torture Dashun Army. In addition, the huge deterrent power accumulated over the years, this was the main reason why they won the support of the northern landlord class. Even the destruction when they went south was mostly due to this.

But now, with the sharp decline of military power and the deterrence of the Eight Banners Army, they are alien races and barbarians. As long as Chen Wen is willing to show some kindness to the gentry class, many of them will inevitably suddenly recall the concept called the defense of the Xia and the defense of the north. At that time, there will be wars everywhere in the north, and Chen Wen will take advantage of the situation to go north, and the demise of the Qing Dynasty can be calculated using the Japanese unit.

This is by no means an alarmist statement. When Jiergalang's death came, some civil servants in the court used the banner of Ding You, either his father died or his mother died. Some people even left with seals, and even rewards for the world were not needed. In history, they have always been "a filial son from a poor family, and a loyal minister from a poor family." Now, there are jokes in the city of Beijing, saying that it was my Qing Dynasty, but now it is "a filial son from a poor family, and a loyal minister from a poor family", which is just the opposite.

It is a joke, but it shows the apocalyptic atmosphere to more people. Although this phenomenon is not common enough, it is mainly concentrated among the southern officials who have been hit hard by the Tongzhe case in recent years, and more people are still waiting and watching, but the signs have been revealed, and any movement in the south may cause greater chaos.

Oboi, who turned into data control, put in effort. The data obtained from each flag and each Niulu were relatively real, but it left the powerful people present speechless, and even Ji Du's spitting and scolding was blocked.

This time, we were going to discuss the next response, but in the hall, the king and his ministers were silent, but they could not find a solution no matter what, even if they could not find any of them.

After a long time, Shunzhi's eyes became more and more wet after looking at the memorial requesting Ding You on the imperial desk. Soon, the first tear passed by, and a word that calmed everyone present was blurted out.
Chapter completed!