As soon as Shang Zhixiao's Han Eight Banner Army saw the Ming army, they all stepped forward and raised their arms tied with white towels and signaled to the Ming army: "We are abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, we are our own people, don't beat us!" ”

When Li Yangzhi saw Shang Zhixiao's people coming, he hurriedly rushed to Chen Python, threw away his weapon and knelt on the ground, kowtowing again and again: "General, I am Li Yangzhi, I abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, please help the general!" ”

Chen Python knew that this Li Yangzhi was also a "famous general" of the Qing Army in Guangzhou, he looked at this person for a long time, and asked suspiciously: "General Li, since you are abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, why don't you have a white towel on your arm?" ”

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Shang Zhixiao also arrived, he saw Li Yangzhi kneeling in front of Chen Python from a distance, and the sword in his hand pointed at Li Yangzhi and shouted: "This general in front, this Tartar is Li Yangzhi!" It is the leader of the Han Army in Guangzhou! He also asked the general to hand over the head of this fake Tartar to Shang, and he asked for the head of this fake Tartar to make a vote! ”

"General help!" Li Yangzhi knelt on the ground and begged bitterly, "We surrendered, you won't kill and surrender, right?" ”

Chen Python drank Shang Zhixiao: "General Shang, this fake Tartar has surrendered, you have the heart to do it, we recognize your merits, why do you need to take General Li as a vote?" Your dedication to Guangzhou City is the best vote! ”

"Thank you, General, for saving your life! Thank you, General, for saving your life! Li Yangzhi knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

Shang Zhixiao arched his hand: "Please also ask this general to take Shang to see your handsome!" ”

"General Shang is not in a hurry! Please kill the Tartars first! After this battle, I will naturally introduce you to meet the handsome! Chen Python returned the salute. Chen Python knew that since the person in front of him was surnamed Shang, he would definitely not be a small person, not Shang Zhixin who took the initiative to dedicate the city, but also Shang Kexi's other sons or clansmen.

Pingnan Palace, Shang Kexi was lying on the sickbed, the situation in Guangzhou was precarious, Shang Kexi had already piled up firewood in the backyard, wanting to raise fire at the critical moment, follow Kong Youde and go away, and be loyal to the Qing court.

"Why is it so noisy outside?" Shang Kexi heard the shouting and killing sound outside the palace, as well as the roar of muskets from the street from time to time, and the explosion of explosives thrown by the Ming army was actually a grenade explosion, but Shang Kexi didn't know what it was, and thought it was a thunderstorm.

"Lord Wang! Rajah! Big things are wrong! The Puppet Ming Haikou has entered the city! The butler hurried in.

Shang Kexi was furious: "Isn't the prince guarding the city?" I have 30,000 kings in Guangzhou, and at least 70,000 or 80,000 people, how could thieves break the city so quickly? How did that rebel defend the city? ”

The housekeeper said, "The city is in chaos!" It's all my court officers and soldiers killing each other! ”

At this time, Shang Zhixin broke into the Pingnan Mansion with a group of personal soldiers.

Seeing this, the guards of the palace hurriedly stepped forward to stop them.

"Get out of here!" Shang Zhixin pushed away Shang Kexi's guards.

"You rebel! How is the city of Guangzhou guarded? Our army in the city is strong, even if we let the pigs defend it, we didn't lose it so quickly! When Shang Kexi saw his son, he was immediately furious, pointing at his son's nose and scolding.

Shang Zhixin snorted coldly, and suddenly walked behind Shang Kexi with an arrow step, showed scissors in his hand, and with a click, Shang Kexi's gray braid fell to the ground.

"Welcome the old prince to the Ming Dynasty!" Shang Zhixin and a group of pro-soldiers suddenly knelt on one knee and bowed.

Shang Kexi was unexpectedly cut off by his son's braids, and he was old and injured before he could react for a while, but he saw his son kneeling on the ground with a group of personal soldiers, shouting "Great rebellion" in his mouth, and then he understood that Guangzhou City was dedicated to the "Haikou rebels" by his son! Shang Kexi only felt that his eyes were shining with gold stars, and he screamed, spitting out a mouthful of blood from his mouth.

"Rebel! Sure enough, you have bad intentions! Shang Kexi pointed at his son with trembling fingers, "It turns out that Guangzhou City is also dedicated to the thief, right?" ”

Shang Zhixin sneered and said, "Father, the child is just abandoning the darkness and turning to the light!" Guangzhou City can't be defended! Therefore, the child dedicated the thirteenth sister to the king of Nanhai County, and the child also opened the city to welcome the king! Congratulations, Father! In the future, you will be the father-in-law of the king of Nanhai County! In the future, we will all be a family, and I believe that the king of Nanhai will not embarrass our family. ”

"Rebel! Lao Tzu killed you! Shang Kexi reached out to pull out the golden knife, but Shang Zhixin took the golden knife away.

Shang Zhixin threw the knife he had snatched to a personal soldier, turned his head and arched his hand to Shang Kexi, and said with a smile: "Father, you are old, and your skills are no longer good, so you should be an idle prince in peace, and the prince of the Ming Dynasty is not the same as the prince of the Qing Dynasty?" ”

"Rebel! Get out! Lao Tzu doesn't have a son like you! Shang Kexi pointed to his son's nose and roared hoarsely.

"Since it's your father, you're going to say it, so it's time for the child to go out!" With a weird smile on his face, Shang Zhixin waved his hand and beckoned his soldiers to withdraw from the Pingnan Palace.

"Rebel! I'm mad at me! Lone is not a slave with three surnames! Lonely and loyal to the Qing Dynasty, he would rather die than rebel! "Shang Kexi, who is old, blind in one eye, and lame in one leg, roared hoarsely in the palace of Pingnan.

Shang Zhixin led people to the outside of the mansion, and after a while, his confidant Zhang Yongxiang pointed in the direction of the palace and exclaimed: "Little prince, look at that, the big thing is not good!" The palace is on fire! ”

The old thing that doesn't die is really old! But it's better if he's dead! If he doesn't die, no matter what the Ming army says, he has to be a prince, right? Now that he's dead, this prince is none other than me! Shang Zhi secretly thought in his confidence, but on the surface, he put on a helpless look, and sighed: "I didn't expect my father to be so loyal to the court, and would rather die than go to Daming with his children to enjoy happiness, it's really a pity!" ”

In the palace, the flames were soaring, and Shang Kexi, who was lame, sat on the fire and shouted, his wife Yang had committed suicide by taking poison. In fact, the Yang family is also a continuation of the string, the former wife Liu, when the Liu family failed to escape during the Shangkexi Dengzhou Rebellion, the main wife Liu and another concubine committed suicide by poisoning in the chaos, and was posthumously named the wife of Zhishun Wang by Huang Taiji. After Shang Kexi arrived in Liaodong, Huang Taiji found a woman surnamed Yang for Shang Kexi from the population of the looters.

Now accompanied Shang Kexi for more than 30 years Yang committed suicide by poisoning, side princesses Shu and Hu were also forced to commit suicide by Shang Kexi, thirty-four sons in the house, twelve daughters who were still unmarried and still left in the house, a total of forty-six children, most of the daughters who remained in the house were forced to commit suicide by Shang Kexi, and when they met those who refused to commit suicide, Shang Kexi hacked her daughter to death with a knife. Of the twelve daughters who remained in the house, only three survived by hiding.

Most of his sons also died, and Shang Kexi killed his daughter because he was worried that his daughter would not end well in the hands of the Ming army. As for those sons, Shang Kexi didn't want them to be charged with betraying the court, and secondly, he knew the character of his eldest son Shang Zhixin, and Shang Zhixin would never be merciful to his younger brothers, even if they could live, they would not have a good life.

Seeing that a sky-high fire was burning in the Pingnan Palace, the Ming army that had already entered the city also rushed to Shangfu. Many people in the Ming army were captured not long ago by the Qing army of the Green Battalion, and the military discipline of these people was naturally not as good as the original veterans.

"Kill!" The red-eyed Ming soldiers entered the Shang Mansion, cut down men when they saw them, kidnapped them when they saw women, and looted them when they saw gold and silver treasures. If it weren't for the military discipline regulations, the captured women were also trophies of war and had to be handed over to the superiors for unified management, I am afraid that these soldiers would have started to do mischief long ago. Naturally, the property they looted must also be handed over, and the Qiongzhou army has regulations that the looted property is also war booty and must be handed over. But those who plunder a lot of money have made a great deal of merit and have a lot of money to distribute, so everyone is desperately stuffing gold and silver treasures into their pockets.

Wang Xinyu occupied a territory with more men and fewer women, and attached great importance to the captured women, and the women captured in the war were all uniformly arranged and distributed to the meritorious soldiers as trophies.

The chaotic Ming soldiers rushed into the Pingnan Palace, and when they saw the man in Shangfu, they greeted him with a knife, and for a while, the sword flashed, blood splashed, screamed again and again, and the head rolled to the ground. Shang Kexi's granddaughter, the remaining daughter, as well as the maid and daughter-in-law saw the red-eyed Ming army rushing over, and they all let out screams, their faces were discolored, and they were running around. But how did they outrun the soldiers?

When the Ming soldiers saw the woman, they chased after her, knocked down with a sweep of the hall, or directly stopped the waist and carried it. The soldiers carried the women who had become trophies and walked out of the Shangfu happily.

The capture of a woman is also counted as a war exploit in the same way as looting gold and silver treasures. As long as they did not arrest women from good families to pretend to be the female dependents of Qing court officials, the Ming army always treated the captured women as much as possible. Of course, if a woman from a good family is caught pretending to be a female relative of a prisoner's family, or if he robs the property of innocent people, he will be severely punished by military law.

The fire ignited in the Pingnan Wangfu gradually extinguished, and thousands of the lords, servants and clansmen of the Shangfu died scatteredly, almost all the men were killed, some old and ugly women were also killed, and the young and beautiful women left, whether they were maids or young ladies of Shangfu, or daughters-in-law, became the trophies of the Ming army.

Shang Kexi has a total of thirty-seven sons, in addition to Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao's filial piety, there is also a seventh son Shang Zhilong in Beijing as a proton, the remaining thirty-four sons, only a few of the youngest survived, and the rest were either killed by Shang Kexi himself, or later the Ming army rushed into the Pingnan palace and was killed in the chaos.

Seeing that the Ming army was looting Shangfu, Shang Zhixin did not dare to interfere, so he could only watch as the Ming soldiers took advantage of the fire to loot and loot the huge Pingnan Palace.

"Little prince, the old prince's mansion has been looted." Zhang Wenxuan lowered his voice and said to Shang Zhixin.

Shang Zhixin shook his head helplessly: "This fire was set by my father himself, he burned down the Pingnan Palace, and also killed my younger brothers and sisters!" Otherwise, if my brother and they refuse to surrender, this son can only kill his relatives in order to show his loyalty! ”

There was regret in his mouth, but Shang Zhi thought in confidence: I don't know if Shang Zhixiao's guy is dead, if he dies in the chaos, it will be the best, and it will save me, the eldest brother, from giving him a knife.

While he was talking, suddenly Li Tianzhi came to report: "Little prince, the second prince Shang Zhixiao has gone anyway, he led people to kill a lot of Tartars in the city, and now he has led troops to the Ming army camp." ”

Hearing the news, Shang Zhixin only felt that his brain was "buzzing" on the spot, he and his younger brother Shang Zhixiao were brothers, and they were really mortal enemies! Shang Zhixiao secretly cooperated with Kong Sizhen, and more than once secretly gave Shang Zhixin a hand and foot, just to seize his position as the son.

As soon as the Ming army rushed into Shangfu to plunder, Shang Zhixin especially hoped that his younger brother could be killed by the Ming army. If Shang Zhixiao was not in the palace, then Shang Zhixin wanted to "kill his relatives with righteousness" and killed this younger brother with his own hands. On the one hand, he used Shang Zhixiao's head as a vote, and on the other hand, he also cleared his confidants.

Who knew that now Shang Zhixiao not only did not die, but also defected to the Ming army anyway! This made Shang Zhixin feel a headache.

"Little prince, what should I do now? Not only did the second prince not die, but he also made it clear anyway! Zhang Yongxiang asked in a low voice. He knew that Shang Zhixin wished that Shang Zhixiao would die immediately.

"Let's go, let's go to the camp of the Ming army and tell them that my younger brother didn't want to surrender in the first place, he is completely at both ends of the first mouse, and he will rudder when he sees the wind! He didn't really surrender at all, let the Ming army kill him, at least he had to get one to exile him overseas. Shang Zhixin's eyes let out two grim and cold colors.

In the camp of the Chinese army of the Ming army, the military advisor Wang Yuyou sat on the Taishi chair in the middle of the Chinese army's big tent, and Chen Python brought Shang Zhixiao, who had just finished anyway, to see Wang Yuyou.

"It turned out to be the second prince, General Shang Zhixiao! Since it is to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, then we welcome! Wang Yuyou smiled, stroked his beard and nodded. Although he knew very well that Shang Zhixiao was the rudder of the wind and temporarily decided to surrender, but the Ming army must be kind to those who take the initiative to come to surrender, at least for the time being, there is something that needs to be settled, that is a matter of the future, and now it must win the hearts of the people.

"Thank you, Strategist!" Shang Zhixiao knelt on one knee and arched his hand to Wang Yuyou.

"Wait!" Shang Zhixin's voice came from outside the Chinese army's tent.

"Little prince, you came just in time, you brothers are happy to see each other!" Wang Yuyou looked at Shang Zhixin who walked in, stroked his beard and said with a smile.

Shang Zhixin walked up to him and arched his hand and said, "Military advisor!" The younger brother of this son is a fraud! This person is completely the first rat at both ends, and he sees the wind and makes the rudder! He won't really surrender at all! Just to save your dog's life! This son decided to kill his relatives in righteousness, and asked the military advisor to kill Shang Zhixiao immediately! ”

Damn, you're too vicious, aren't you? Shang Zhixiao cursed in his heart, raised his head, and bowed his hand to Wang Yuyou: "Military advisor!" Shang is not what the eldest brother said, he is really here to vote! So-and-so also killed a lot of Tartars! I also hope that the military division will see clearly! ”

Wang Yuyou turned his head to look at Shang Zhixin: "Little prince, you said that your brother came to deceive him, what evidence do you have?" (To be continued.) )