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When they came to the gap in the city wall, they stabbed with the officers and soldiers' long spears, and the Miao knives swiped out in unison.

"Run!"

At the moment of the battle, the officers and soldiers collapsed directly.

They were indeed elite, but their morale was demoralized by artillery bombardment.The former governor was imprisoned, the current governor was defeated, the two coaches were gone, and they were sent to leave their hometowns to fight.

"Don't go back!"

Zhou Qinxue sent out a team of supervisors, but the team of supervisors took a few steps forward and saw the iron can holding a seedling knife on the opposite side, they were also frightened and collapsed and ran away.

Someone wanted to resist, but was cut in half with a single knife.

A clean break is not an adjective.

"Surrender without killing!"

"Dang Dang Dang Dang!"

The officers and soldiers put down their weapons one after another, knelt on the ground and begged to surrender.

Zhou Qinxue sighed, turned to face the north, closed his eyes and slashed his sword.

When the news of the fall of Chenglingji came, Long Wenguang, the prefect of Yuezhou, and Li Bingqian, the general, all looked pale.

Chenglingji is the gateway to Yuezhou City, if that side is lost, this side will become a lonely city.

Moreover, the people in Yuezhou City are very unfriendly to these officers and soldiers from the north.The local people have long wanted to surrender, for fear that the resistance would be too fierce and cause unnecessary trouble for themselves.

The local people are hostile to officers and soldiers from other places, and this sentiment is becoming more and more obvious.

The officers and soldiers from other places felt angry. We crossed the river and risked our lives to defend the city for you, but you still look like this.

"Shhhhhh!"

Many arrows were shot from the earthen platform set up outside the city, all of which were letters of persuasion.

The entire army of the Dongting Lake Navy was wiped out, the governor of Huguang has been captured alive, and now Chenglingji has also fallen.These were all written in the letter of persuasion. When the literate people saw the letter, they were so frightened that they wanted to jump down and surrender on the spot.

Long Wenguang called Li Bingqian over: "General Li, please lead your troops to surrender. Bandit Zhao is not a bloodthirsty person, so there is no need to commit more crimes. Yuezhou City cannot be defended."

Zhou Qinxue smiled wryly: "My wife and children are all in my hometown. How can I follow the thief? My second son is still a juren, so we can't delay his future."

"As you like."

Long Wenguang lost his spirits and walked back to the government office.He called his servants and maids, took out the money and said: "These goods, you should divide them up, and don't leave them in the government office."

"master!"

The house slaves guessed that he wanted to commit suicide, and wept sadly.

"Go!" Long Wenguang shouted.

A group of domestic servants left one after another with the silver.

Long Wenguang untied his belt and hanged himself.

Not long after, an old servant came back.He carried Long Wenguang's body, rolled it up in a mat and waited there, hoping to send the master's ashes back to his hometown.

General Zhou Qinxue stood on the city tower, smiled miserably, and suddenly drew his sword and killed himself.

"Bingyuan, if the water in the tunnel is drained, it will take half a month at most before we can dig down to the city and release explosives!"

"No need."

Jiang Dashan put down the binoculars, and he saw the enemy general committing suicide with his own eyes.

A moment later, the city gate opened wide.

In the entire south of the Yangtze River, the top five cities in Chenggao finally surrendered by themselves.

Chongzhen should feel relieved that Yuezhou Prefecture and Chenglingji sacrificed a magistrate and two generals.

In fact, Long Wenguang didn't need to die. He was from Guangxi. Zhao Han could reach Guangxi next year at most. Wouldn't it be nice to surrender in advance to pave the way for the family?

Li Zheng set out from Changsha, and has conquered Ningxiang, Yiyang, Yuanjiang, Changde, and Taoyuan at this moment.Almost no resistance was encountered, and the whole journey was on the sidelines. Only the county magistrate of Taoyuan wanted to defend the city to the death, and was tied up by the county magistrate and the chief secretary.

With the assistance of the navy, Huang Yao led his troops to attack the city along the river, trying to reach Shizhouwei (the mentor).

As for Jiang Dashan and Jiang Liang, they attacked Wuchang Mansion (south of Wuhan) and Wuchang County (Echeng) eastward until Xingguo Prefecture bordered Jiangxi.

Only in this way can we take down the whole territory of Hunan-the mountains in western Hunan, and I am too lazy to fight for the time being.

However, Zhao Han's Hunan Province, with the Yangtze River as the boundary, included Enshi, Ezhou, Huangshi, and southern Wuhan in later generations of Hubei.

Anyway, Huguang was divided between Zhao Han and Zhang Xianzhong, the south of the Yangtze River belonged to Zhao Han, and the north of the Yangtze River belonged to Zhang Xianzhong.

The premise is that Zhang Xianzhong can eat the officers and soldiers there, and more than 3 people are huddled in the two cities.

Chapter 314 [Chong Best Internal Response Zhen]

Taiping Mansion.

Due to being unable to attack for a long time, Fei Ruhe had already divided his troops.

One thousand regular soldiers and two thousand peasant soldiers went to take over Nanjing City Defense.

Three thousand soldiers and many civilian husbands stayed in Taiping Mansion to continue the siege.

The rest of the soldiers were sent out to occupy the surrounding prefectures and counties.

"Barry Academy, someone sent a letter."

"Bring it."

Fei Ruhe knew that it was Xu Ying who sent it, and the overall situation in the south of the Yangtze River was settled, so Xu Ying quietly went to Yangzhou again.

This letter is very thick, if the piece is calculated by weight, there must be an additional courier fee.

Fei Ruhe took a rough look, looked to the north, muttered: "Chongzhen is crazy." Then he ordered, "Come here, send this letter into the city."

A soldier rushed to the bottom of the city, holding his shield and shouting: "Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows, I'm here to deliver a message!"

"Shoot to death with random arrows!"

Zheng Eryang, governor of Anlu, was afraid of some bad news.

Zheng Yu, the magistrate of Taiping, quickly persuaded: "Fu Jun, the two armies are at war, don't kill the envoy, and see what military information he sends."

Zheng Eryang didn't want to have a conflict with the magistrate, so he asked someone to hang the messenger up.

The two screened back to the left and right, and entered the tower to read the letter.

Zheng Eryang only glanced at the first page, then quickly turned to the back.Turning over and over, suddenly stopped, trembling all over.

Zheng Yu snatched the letter, confirmed that he read it correctly, and then sat down on the ground.

This is a pond newspaper from the capital. Several pond newspapers are put together, and they are all lists of officials convicted.

In the 12th year of Chongzhen in history, it took half a year for the emperor to start a large-scale liquidation, dealing with officials who failed in their duties when the Manchu Dynasty broke through, including officials who failed to encircle and suppress bandits.

He killed 33 eunuchs, civil servants, and generals in one go, and a lot of them were imprisoned for crimes, and almost everyone was demoted and punished.

Now the involvement is even wider, killing 47 people directly, and Xiong Wencan was finally put in prison.

I don't know who went to Shu to impeach, saying that Taiping Mansion had fallen, and Zheng Eryang and Zheng Yu were all thieves.Therefore, Chongzhen ordered the arrest of the two family members, the male was exiled into the army, and the female was sent to Jiaofang Division.

Zheng Yu burst into tears at the moment: "Your Majesty is confused. Even if you want to ask for a crime, you should send someone to look at it. I have not surrendered, but I am accused of crime by demoting an official. Wouldn't it make the frontline generals feel cold? No one will be willing to serve the country in the future. !"

"Why send someone to look? The river is blocked," Zheng Eryang sighed, "Even if we can cross the river smoothly, you and I must be guilty. Hehe, it's just a party dispute."

Zheng Yu said angrily: "What time is it? There is still a party struggle in the court. A governor, a magistrate, a fortified city, tens of thousands of Jiangbei new troops, are they all bargaining chips for their party struggle?"

Zheng Eryang was disheartened: "The situation in the DPRK and China is like fire and water, and it is already an endless situation."

Zheng Eryang, military theorist, medical scientist.

This gentleman is upright and upright. He once abolished King Lu's right to collect rent and conscripts, and offended a bunch of eunuchs and gentry.It was so normal that he was slandered as a thief, even the Donglin Party didn't help to speak up.

In other words, the Donglin Party was overwhelmed.

The Donglin Party clamored to restore Zhou Yanru as the head and assistant, so Xue Guoguan naturally refused to sit still.

Therefore, Xue Guoguan took advantage of Chongzhen's punishment of officials to instigate his party members to impeach the Donglin Party on a large scale, and Zheng Eryang was one of the unlucky ones.

Zheng Yu, the prefect of Taiping, was framed by the way. Who asked him to defend the city with Zheng Eryang?

Zheng Yu checked the list of criminal officers again, and found that at least half of the military governors from all over the country were questioned.Even the eunuchs who supervised the army were chopped off several times. Emperor Chongzhen was really angry this time.

The most ridiculous thing is that Chongzhen only dared to attack eunuchs, civil officials, and generals who had lost their troops.

As long as there is an army in the hands of generals, Chongzhen will "small punishments and big commandments".

For example, Zuo Liangyu, who was afraid of the enemy and ran away, was only demoted three levels and fined a few months' salary.

Generals who dare to fight tough battles, they desperately kill the enemy for the country, they may be beheaded by the emperor after the army has finished fighting.And those generals who fled, because they kept the army, they could keep their official positions and heads.

Who still wants to fight?

Zheng Yu looked more and more angry, and suddenly blackened: "Mr. Qian'an, your family and I have been lost. Our children and grandchildren have been exiled into the army, and our wives and daughters have been exiled. I am worthy of the imperial court, and the imperial court is sorry for me. I want to sacrifice the city and surrender to the bandits. Qian'an Do you still want to be loyal to the faint king?"

Zheng Eryang seemed to be out of his body, sitting there like a dead person.

He worked hard for the country all his life, but in the end he was "trapped" and his family members were exiled into the army.But he didn't follow the thief, Nanjing had surrendered, and the Taiping Mansion hadn't surrendered yet, and even organized troops to go out of the city to attack at night.

After a long time, Zheng Eryang stood up slowly, and said weakly: "If you are a fool and have no way, the Ming Dynasty will perish, so let's dedicate the city."

The two went out together and called the magistrate, and the three surrendered together.

Following them to surrender, there were more than 1 Jiangbei new troops trained by Shi Kefa.

……

Nanjing.

Li Xiangjun put on a Confucian shirt and stood with the swordsman, looking up at the river in the distance.

I heard that Zhao Tianwang is coming.

Zhao Han came from Zhenjiang. After Nanjing surrendered, Zhenjiang followed suit.The officers and soldiers who surrendered waited hard for several days before they finally waited for the soldiers of Datong to take over the city.

This is called looking forward to the wind, because Zhao Han's army was far away from Zhenjiang at that time.

"I'm coming!"

The soldiers and civilians in Nanjing shouted that there are quite a lot of onlookers today.

As the Minister of the Ministry of Officials in Nanjing, the demoted officials are temporarily under the management of Zhen Shu, who is responsible for assisting in maintaining order inside and outside Nanjing.

Zhen Shu is 70 years old this year. She was born into a family of big landlords, but she was known for her poverty when she was young.He went to Beijing to take part in the examination. He did not bring servants, did not take a carriage, and walked to the capital for more than two months. He took the opportunity to observe the people's conditions in various places along the way.

As an official in the local area, he punished the powerful, encouraged farming and farming, and made outstanding achievements, so he was promoted to a Beijing official.

Then there is no more then.

Plunging headlong into the vortex of party struggles and wasting decades of time, apart from being still poor and frugal, Zhen Shu has become the person she hated when she was young.

Standing at the front of the pier are Datong officials who arrived in recent days.

Zhen Shu looked at the backs of those officials, and suddenly felt envious.These officials are very young, all under 40 years old, and some are even under 20 years old.

What a wonderful time to be young, and to be able to concentrate on doing things without getting involved in party struggles and being unable to get out.

How good would it be if I could be 40 years younger?

Zhen Shu's eyes were moist, he didn't know who was crying, he just wanted to cry anyway.

The fleet came and stopped at the shore.

A group of personal guards disembarked first, and then Zhao Han strode down.

"Greetings to the general town!" Datong officials bowed and saluted.

Zhen Shu brought a lot of demotions, subconsciously wanted to kneel, but then remembered to tell her that this Zhao Tianwang didn't seem to like kneeling.

"Long live King Zhao, long live!"

A large number of gentry and common people knelt down, and some demoted officials followed suit.

Zhen Shu could only kneel down, everyone else knelt down, if she didn't kneel down, wouldn't she be remembered by Zhao Han?

When he was young, his bones were very hard, but it is inevitable that he will lack calcium when he is old. After decades of party struggle, he has already lost his firm will.

Li Xiangjun tiptoed to look around, and when Zhao Han approached, she finally saw his face clearly.