Chapter 456 Entering the City to Deal with the Aftermath
In the seventeenth century, ten cities with a population of more than 500,000 were six in China, Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Yangzhou, and four others, two in Europe, Paris and Constantinople, one in Mumbai, India, and one in Edo, Japan.
This alone can be seen that although Quanzhou is not as strong as Nanjing and Guangzhou, Quanzhou is definitely Wangzhou.
As early as the Chunyou period of the Southern Song Dynasty, the number of households in Quanzhou increased to 255,000, from Shangzhou to Wangzhou, after the Ming Dynasty, because of the weakening of the sea ban, the population declined, but there are still more than 100,000 people in the city.
Li Laiheng led the army from the north city into Quanzhou, he was a little depressed in his heart, he thought that he was the first to take Quanzhou, but he didn't expect that Zheng Jun in the south city actually entered the city first, which made him depressed, really a little unwilling.
The Ming army entered the city, swept the remnants of the Qing soldiers along the streets, only to see that the city was full of black and dried bloodstains, half of the houses in the city were empty, Li Laiheng carried a big gun, casually pushed the door into a house, but found that there were several corpses lying in the courtyard, presumably killed by the robbed Qing soldiers, he frowned slightly, and asked the soldiers to dig a pit in the courtyard and bury the family together.
The same situation, several other Ming armies have also encountered, since the Ming army all the way into the hinterland of Fujian, retreated into the Qing army in Quanzhou, has been in turmoil, the Qing army faced huge mental pressure, began to do mischief in the city, indiscriminately killing innocents.
Zhao Guozuo and others were not firm in their will to defend Quanzhou, and they were hesitating between defending the city and abandoning the city, thinking that if they abandoned the city, they would not be able to give up an intact Quanzhou to the Ming army, so he did not stop the atrocities of the Qing soldiers in the city.
Who knew that the Ming army broke Quanzhou in two days, and the Qing soldiers didn't even have time to clean up the corpses, so they were beaten and dispersed and lost Quanzhou.
Wang Yan, who entered the city from the west gate, also stood in the courtyard where the whole family was killed, the old woman and the old man in the courtyard both threw themselves to the ground, with a deep wound on the back, from the shoulder blade to the waist, the young man died on his back, his chest and abdomen, several blood holes stabbed by spears, shocking, he still held the kitchen knife tightly in his right hand, his eyes were wide open, and he did not blink to death.
In the bedroom, a woman died on the bed, her flesh and blood were blurred, she was obviously tortured inhumanly before she died, on the wardrobe on the side, a spear was inserted from the cabinet door, the barrel of the gun was already black because of bloodstains, and in the half-hidden cabinet door, a five or six-year-old girl was nailed to the cabinet with a spear, her eyes were full of horror.
This scene, Wang Yan saw when he entered Yangzhou, and he also saw it when he relieved the siege of Xiangyang, and it is precisely because of these that the surviving Yangzhou talents firmly occupied behind him, and Zhu Dadian, who was known for his greed for money, swore to die with his family, and Jiangyin people would rather die in the whole city than endure humiliation and steal life, because this is a deep hatred in the sea of blood, this is a great shame, as long as there is courage, they will not be willing, unwilling to lose like this, unwilling to live in humiliation, unwilling to have revenge and cannot be avenged.
More than 100,000 Quanzhou people were bullied by the Qing soldiers, and when the Ming army entered the city, the people in the city began to boil.
Compared with the rule of the Qing soldiers, Quanzhou in the Ming Dynasty and Quanzhou in the Zheng era, the life of Quanzhou people was rich and stable, while Quanzhou under the rule of the Qing soldiers was full of terror and blackmail.
The Zheng family regards Fujian as private property, so the management is very attentive, the entire northern Ming Dynasty because of the problem of food, was beaten to sparse pieces, the people are not happy, Fujian as a province with many mountains and few land, a large population, but under the governance of the Zheng family, there was no famine, but through trade self-sufficiency, people's livelihood is stable.
After being ruled by the Qing soldiers, the Qing army exploited the people of Fujian, forced them to shave their hair and change clothes, and cut off the sea trade, which made the price of Fujian rice soar and the people could not survive, so the land of Fujian was actually more nostalgic for the Zheng era.
At this time, Wang Yan instructed his subordinates to bury the corpses in the city, continue to search for the rout, kill the people who took advantage of the chaos and plunder, and then went to Zhao Guozuo's mansion.
In the past few years, the treasury of Quanzhou City has been moved by Wang Yan once, the Qing army has moved once, and Zheng Chenggong has also moved once, it is estimated that the warehouse is now full of rats, Wang Yan killed the Qing officials, and killed the sweetness, so with intuition, he went straight to Zhao Guozuo's mansion first.
Along the way, the gentry and people of Quanzhou began to spontaneously welcome the Ming army into the city, with a trace of trepidation on their faces, but there were also tears left because of joy.
Compared with the Ming army entering the city in the north and west, the direction of the Zheng army entering the city in the south is undoubtedly much more lively, and the joy on the street is like thunder, but the cry is also shocking, making Wang Yan frequently stop and watch to the south.
At this time, Wang Yan was already surrounded by dozens of squire elders, crying to him, what they had suffered in the past few days, Wang Yan had to comfort these villagers with kind words and send them back.
On both sides of the street, from time to time, Qing soldiers were pulled out of the courtyard by the Ming army, and then escorted to the camp outside the city by a team, everyone was dejected and panicked.
Zheng Jun in the south of the city also captured a lot of prisoners, but Zheng Chenggong directly tied hundreds of Qing soldiers to the Jinjiang River, and there was already a sea of people outside the city, and the southern city of Quanzhou almost fell out of the city, tens of thousands of people were crowded on the river beach as long as ten miles, and the people were full of voices, waiting for a scene of revenge for them.
More than four or five hundred Qing soldiers kneeling, their hands and feet were tied behind their backs, their mouths were gagged, most of them were frightened and pale, most of them were full of evil, looting property, killing innocents, raping women, all of them were full of evil deeds, but there were also local Qing soldiers who did not participate in it, but Zheng Chenggong was obviously not ready to distinguish, and wanted to kill them all in order to vent the anger of the people.
Wang Yanyuan was about to go to Zhao Guozuo's mansion, but when he heard the news, he ordered Li Guo to continue the raid, and then appeared in Nancheng with dozens of generals.
Seeing this posture, he knew that Zheng Chenggong wanted to vent his anger and buy the hearts of the people, so he asked Liu Shun to take the prisoners captured by the Wuzhong Army to the riverside.
After a while, the number of Qing soldiers who were tied up and kneeling on the river beach reached two thousand, Zheng Chenggong saw this, and saw that tens of thousands of people were already surrounded, he slowly nodded and ordered: "Behead!" ”
"Boom! Boom! Boom! \u000bThe dull drum beat above the city, and tens of thousands of people boiled, shouting like thunder, and the crowd was excited, "Kill them!" ”
At this time, Zheng's black soldiers appeared on the scene, and each of these black ghosts held a pair of snowy swords, and slashed them fiercely, rolling off their heads and spurting blood.
The knife was extremely sharp, a knife down, the head of the person was separated, clean and neat, two thousand Qing soldiers were all killed on the bank of the Jinjiang River, the corpses were directly kicked into the river, two thousand floating corpses, along with the river, directly drifted into the sea, becoming food for fish, tens of thousands of people suddenly burst into cheers, and the sound went straight to the sky.
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