Nanjing city tiger in the southeast, six dynasties resort, in the history of the Eastern Wu, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Song, Qi, Liang, Chen all took this as the capital, to establish a foundation, but in addition to the Taizu of this dynasty to the south of the expedition to the north, the world is dominated, the rest are mostly destroyed by the northern regime, reduced to a short-lived dynasty.

Jinling has been a prosperous state since ancient times, but it seems to have been cursed by the way of heaven, the founding of the country here, and the death of the country here.

In April, the spring rain is falling, and the Yangtze River and Nanjing City are all hazy.

The gloomy sky, which seems to indicate the future of the Boss Empire, is also as gloomy as the sky, and there is generally no light.

The news of the destruction of Yangzhou City and Shi Kefa's death was reported to the center by the urgent express, like a blow to the head, which made the Hongguang Dynasty monarchs and ministers suddenly sober up.

The old empire wants to be partial to the south of the Yangtze River, but it can't, the four towns in Jiangbei plus one town in Wuchang, one rebellion and two surrenders, and the remaining Huang Degong town has to guard against the rebels in Zuozhen, and Liu Zeqing Town in Jiangbei, under the peak of the Qing army, does not dare to fight at all, and it is only a matter of time before the Qing Dynasty surrenders.

The dignified Chinese ****, in the face of the enemy from the north, there were no soldiers to send, the Hongguang Dynasty was broken by Yangzhou City, and the news of Shi Kefa's martyrdom was shocked, but if you want to regroup, it is already too late, and you can only fall into chaos.

Emperor Hongguang sat on the dragon throne in the court, and nearly 100 ministers in red robes and purple clothes stood below.

Emperor Hongguang is not the lord of talents, but compared with the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, he is not the worst emperor.

If he is in the prosperous era, he is only a faint king at most, but he is in the south, and the country is in danger, and if he is not careful, he will sit on the infamy of the faint king of the dead country.

Hongguang since the succession to the throne, has been facing the challenge of the Donglin party, he is not a British lord, qualifications can only be regarded as mediocre, coupled with some fetters, so that since the ascension, there is no achievement, and even left a faint name, but as the king of a country, who wants to see their own country fall into the hands of Yidi, who is willing to be the king of the country, shameless to see the ancestor in Jiuquan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Qing soldiers broke Yanghuai, Shi Qing was martyred, and the danger of the dynasty was better than that of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty!" The bad news from Jiangbei made Hongguang panic in his heart, and he had no choice but to ask the minister. "The Qing army is facing the Yangtze River, and the princes can have advice to teach me, if I can help the court tide over the crisis, I will treat it as a national soldier, and I will not be stingy with the reward of gold and silver titles."

When the court heard this, they did not say a word.

Seeing that the courtiers were silent, Hongguang couldn't help frowning, and his heart was on fire. "You and the others compete with each other on weekdays, and there are quite a lot of words, today I asked for countermeasures, why don't you say anything!"

Seeing Hongguang's anger, everyone lowered his head even lower, like more than a hundred pieces of wood, lifeless.

"Qian Qing! Thou hast thou hast thou shalt teach! The minister didn't say anything, and Hongguang had to hold back his anger and ask by name.

The person who was questioned was Qian Qianyi, the leader of Donglin, the secretary of the imperial court, and the famous scholar of Jiangnan, all of whom were active in the three major cases, that is, the left and the east, and vaguely there were people from Donglin involved, Hongguang secretly hated in his heart, and deliberately named him in the name of shouting anger.

"Your Majesty." Qian Qianyi had no choice but to hold an ivory wat and go out to play: "The minister thinks that the left has experienced the defeat of Chizhou and is no longer able to advance eastward, and Jiangbei is particularly urgent. ”

Hongguang also thought that the Qing army in Jiangbei was particularly terrifying, but the left army wanted to pull him off the horse, and there were still more than 100,000 soldiers and horses entrenched in the Anqing area, and he had to guard against it, his qualifications were mediocre, and he naturally couldn't make up his mind for a while.

"Your Majesty!" Just when Hongguang hesitated, the originally silent courtiers suddenly boiled over with Qian Qianyi's words, and the first assistant Ma Shiying came out of the ranks, holding the ivory wat and playing: "The minister thinks that the soldiers and horses of the Marquis of Jingnan can't move!" ”

"The defense of the river lies in the boat division, the boat division is strong, then the Manchu Qing Dynasty looks at the river and sighs, and the minister suggests that Xu should be relied, transfer Fujian Zheng Zhilong to help, and defend Nanjing!" Ma Shiying first admonished the emperor to deny Qian Qianyi's strategy, and then angrily pointed at the Donglin courtiers and scolded: "Wait for Donglin, want to give up Chizhou and connive at the left rebellion?" If the left is reversed, you will be in a high position, and you will die alone! Your Majesty, the soldiers and horses in Chizhou cannot be mobilized! ”

The left army went east in the name of Prince Chongzhen's secret edict, wanting to kill Ma Shiying's party and abolish Emperor Hongguang, Ma Shiying's party naturally wanted to fight back with all their might, and as Qian Qianyi and Ma Shiying spoke successively, the ministers of the two parties in the court suddenly quarreled.

When Hongguang heard this, he was already indecisive, so he naturally couldn't make up his mind, and the courtiers disputed him, which suddenly made his mind confused, and the anger in his heart came from nowhere else.

The ministers quarreled for a long time, but there was still no result, and Hongguang's face became worse and worse, to the verge of anger.

At this time, at the city gate of Nanjing, a roll of yellow dust rolled, and the horse galloped to the city, only to see a knight with a military flag on his back and hurriedly passed through the city gate.

When the defenders at the gate saw that the knight did not stop him at all, they quickly removed their horses and let him into the city.

The knight rushed through the street, startled the crowd to dodge quickly, and there was a lot of discussion, and when the knight ran to the palace gate, he saw a figure flickering, and the knight jumped off his horse and shouted: "Eight hundred miles urgent!" Those who resist die, and those who oppose die! ”

Immediately, I saw the knight running all the way, holding a military newspaper in his hand, and went straight to the court, met Hongguang, and hurriedly bowed: "Your Majesty, Jiang Waterproof Division, Zhenhai General Zheng Hongkui, hurry up the report!" ”

The quarrelling courtiers were stunned when they heard this, and the court fell into a dead silence with the knight's report.

Hongguang's face also changed greatly at this time, could it be that the Qing army had already begun to cross the river? "Come on, I will see it!"

The eunuch hurriedly took the report to the imperial case, and Hongguang picked up the report with some trembling trembling and opened it to watch.

The ministers all thought that some bad news had come, and some had even considered admonishing the emperor to flee and avoid the Qing army for the time being.

The ministers secretly observed Hongguang's complexion, and saw that his face was flushed, and the notebook in his hand trembled even more, and his heart suddenly fell to the bottom, could it be that the Qing army had really crossed the river!

"Ma Aiqing!" Hongguang read the report and was speechless for a while, but he was eager to share the joy in his heart with the ministers, so he said to his confidant minister Ma Shiying: "You can read the report to the ministers and listen to it!" ”

Ma Shiying took the report from the eunuch Lu Jiude, opened it and looked at it, and his heart was suddenly happy, so he read aloud: "Zheng Hongkui, the chief soldier of Zhenjiang, worshipped, the Qing army besieged Yangzhou on the 18th, and shelled Xicheng on the night of the 24th. ”

"On the 25th, Wang Yan, the commander of the Zhongyi Battalion, wanted to take a thousand horsemen across the river to aid Yang, and ordered the fleet to cross it."

"At noon, the minister saw the smoke billowing from Yangzhou City by the river, and then there were defeated soldiers who fled to the south bank, saying that Yangzhou was broken, and the Shi Inspector was martyred, and the minister was very afraid, afraid that the Qing army would cross the river, and ordered the fleet to patrol the river."

"At three o'clock, the minister listened to the cannon sound in the north of the river again, and knew that Yangzhou had changed."

"That night, there was a Yangzhou warrior Hu Weizong into the minister's camp, saying that Yangzhou was commanded by the loyal battalion to make Wang Yan recapture, and wanted to hold on to it, waiting for the imperial court to rescue."

"The minister thought that Yangzhou was lost and recovered, and this God blessed the Ming. Guarding Yangzhou is the Yangtze River, and the minister implores His Majesty to send reinforcements as soon as possible to support the king's command envoy to block the Qing court's troops! ”

Hongguang was unwilling to be the king of the kingdom, and Ma Shiying was also unwilling to be the minister of the fallen country. "Your Majesty, you should reward Wang Yan, the commander of the Loyal Battalion!"

"Your Majesty, Zheng Hongkui, the chief soldier of Zhenjiang, should also be rewarded!"

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that now he should get in touch with the Wang's commander, and order him to stick to Yangzhou and not lose!"

Yangzhou was lost and recovered, so that the gloomy atmosphere in the court was swept away, but the ministers continued to argue about how to reward and how to deal with it.

The mood of the princes of Nanjing has been regained with the fall and loss of Yangzhou, with ups and downs.

Wang Yan and others in Yangzhou City were extremely heavy.

The Qing army was counting the losses of the first battle in Yangzhou, and Wang Yan was also reorganizing the order in Yangzhou with Yangzhou officials.

Half a day after the Qing army broke through the city, the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou had already cleaned up nearly 50,000 corpses of civilians from all over the city.

The tragic situation of the people is unbearable, half of the city of Yangzhou with filial piety, every family mourns, and the sound of sad crying resounded throughout the city.

The survivors were heartbroken to clean up the bodies of their loved ones, and the entire family was collected by the officers and soldiers.

The corpses could no longer be buried in Yangzhou City, so the government had to organize young people to dig a big pit and bury them uniformly.

A carload of corpses arrived, making the faces of the soldiers carrying the corpses heavy, as if something was slowly awakened.

Just like in later history, the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression fought a Chinese nation, so that ordinary people also knew that they were a member of China, and the war turned into national confrontation.

At this time, the Ming army, in the face of the slaughter of the Qing army, a kind of family and country feelings, was slowly awakened, and the Yixia defense, which was originally only understood by the scholar class, also left a difference between Huayi and Yi in the hearts of ordinary Ming soldiers!

Wang Yan, together with Li Taizhen and others, stood on the edge of the pit, watching the corpses being thrown into the pit, with a heavy heart, they didn't say a word, just silently watched the soldiers bury.

Li Taizhen followed King Chuang, and later followed Gao Jie, all of whom had seen the scene of the people being slaughtered, but he had never seen such a tragic scene, and he had never been so angry and wanted revenge so strongly.

"General Li knows, how can we keep our Han people from being slaughtered by foreign races?" Wang Yan's eyes were deep, and he suddenly asked Li Taizhen beside him.

"The last general is stupid, please also ask the commander to give advice!" Li Taizhen was slightly stunned when he heard this, but this was also a problem that bothered him, so he clenched his fists slightly and said humbly.

"Our Han nationality has a population of 10,000, but it was beaten by tens of thousands of Manchu Qing Dynasty and had no power to fight back, all because the people and the soldiers and generals only knew the small family and did not know that there was a country!" Wang Yan looked at the corpses full of pits, his eyes wandered, and his thoughts seemed to drift into the distance. "If the people and soldiers all know the great defense of Yixia, and the nation and state are all clear, there can be a strong China, how dare Yidi peep into China!"