Under the inner city of Ningbo, more than 3,000 prisoners of the Qing army were escorted to the city and knelt on the ground in several rows. Some of the captives who knew that calamity was coming, wept, scolded, and sighed.

At the head of the inner city, Fan Chengmo and a Qing general stood at the head of the city, looking at the Qing army prisoners under the city, and they knew what was going to happen next. The eyes of the Qing soldiers at the head of the city showed a sad look of a dead rabbit and a fox. They don't know how long the inner city will last, and as long as the inner city is breached, their fate will be the same.

"Bring up the bodies of the dead!" Wang Xinyu ordered.

The Ming soldiers carried out the corpses of the dead people from the gaps in the city, from the breached city gates in several places. The bodies were piled up more and more, there were more than 400 bodies, most of them were women, children and old people, each with extreme fear on their faces before death, these were relatively complete corpses, that is, they had been pierced by a projectile, or they had been cut with a knife or stabbed with a gun.

When the surrounding people saw these corpses, many of them recognized their relatives inside, and the crowd cried loudly.

"Also, bring those bodies up!" Wang Xinyu said.

The Ming soldiers carried some pieces of corpses that were not so much corpses, or minced meat, internal organs, bones, human parts, and the like. These are the corpses of civilians who have been shattered by shells, and it is no longer possible to distinguish whether they are men or women, old people or young people. Among them, there is a broken leg thinner than an arm, and a pair of children's shoes are also worn on the small foot, which is obviously a broken leg of a child.

"Wow" Many of the people around finally couldn't bear it anymore and squatted on the ground and vomited heavily.

The Qing soldiers at the head of the city were also frightened by the tragic situation of the people, and many of them turned around and began to vomit.

"Draw it!" Wang Xinyu gave an order to Zhu Qi, a reporter accompanying the army.

Zhu Qian walked to the side of the corpses of the people, and a pungent smell of blood and burnt paste came, which made people feel very uncomfortable in their stomachs. But after all, Zhu Qian is also a person who has seen the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, he settled down, sat on a bench, and asked the boy to hand over the drawing board and pen and ink, and drew the tragic situation of the common people, and made a record on the painting.

But when Zhu Qian saw a swaddling woman with only the upper half of her body left and still holding the baby tightly in her hand, he couldn't help but step forward and untie the swaddling clothes, and he was stunned for a moment: there was only a lump of rotten meat inside, and he couldn't tell that it was once a living baby!

"Mother! Brother! A little girl screamed and rushed out of the crowd and threw herself at the bodies of the mother and child. A man in the back also rushed out and hugged the remains of the woman and her son.

After a while, the man stopped crying, turned his head, and glared at Zhu Qi with red eyes: "It's all you!" Why do you shoot at unarmed women, children, the elderly and the weak? If it weren't for you, they wouldn't have died! ”

Zhu Qian can't speak, he can only "ahhhhh

Wang Xinyu walked out, stood in front of the man, pulled up the man's braids, pointed at the Qing soldiers at the head of the city with his left hand and roared, "You raise your head for me to take a look!" We are not the ones who killed your wife and children! It is precisely these Tartars who stand at the head of the city! Our royal division has come to attack the city in order to regain the lost territory, so that you can get rid of this ugly braid on your head! But what about the tartars? They forced you people to stand on the top of the city to be cannon fodder! Would your wife and children have died without them? If we don't come here, do you want you to have this braid for the rest of your life, and for your children and grandchildren? ”

After speaking, Wang Xinyu pulled out a knife and cut off the man's braids with one sword.

Wang Yuyou stood up, raised his voice and shouted: "Fathers and fellow villagers, do you think that if we don't open fire, you will be able to survive? Here is the battle of Xinhui ten years ago, which is the puppet court's commendation of the fake Tartars of Xinhui! There are also commendations for some so-called chastity women! See for yourselves! ”

When the common people saw that it was a man of literati who spoke, they all fell silent. After all, ordinary people still respect scholars, especially in the Ningshao area, where the style of writing is particularly strong, and the difficulty of the imperial examination in the Ningshao area has been the highest over the years, and the number of people who go out to become officials is also the most.

A few years ago, the Qing court also issued an announcement commending some women for their husbands, brothers, and in-laws who were voluntarily taken by the Qing army as rations and eaten. After all, this incident happened not far away, and the people in the city also knew about it. This time, Wang Yuyou brought the commendation announcement of the Qing army ten years ago, and the common people gathered around one after another, picking up the announcement that Wang Yuyou sprinkled on the ground and competing for onlookers.

Needless to say, literate people can naturally understand; Most of the people were illiterate, so they asked those who were literate what was written on it.

"The announcement was written about the tragic situation of a family, but it was described by the imperial court as a righteous act of the people of Xinhui to help defend the city! Ay! The people of Xinhui are so miserable! A talented person sighed.

"Didn't they get eaten of their own free will?" Someone asked.

Xiucai sneered: "If the officers and soldiers of the inner city come out to eat you, will you be willing to be eaten?" ”

The man who asked him was speechless. Indeed, who wants to die! And when he dies, he will be eaten into his stomach.

Wang Yuyou raised his voice again and shouted: "Fathers and fellow villagers! You've seen it too! What if we don't fire our guns and continue the siege? You too will be eaten by the Tartars, just like the people of the New Church! Those Tartars inside, they are inhuman! Especially fake Tartars, they are more hateful than real ones! ”

Among the people, a few scholars also chimed in: "Yes, my lord is right! If the king doesn't open fire, the people in the city will only die! ”

"It is these Tartars who are before you who are the plague of the people! We will now put them to death and avenge your people!" Wang Yuyou pointed to the Qing prisoner kneeling on the ground and shouted.

The number of civilians killed by the Ming army in the siege of the city under artillery fire, bullets and swords has been counted, and a total of more than 1,100 civilians were killed. In fact, such a result is very good, if the method of besieging the city is adopted because it is unbearable to open fire, it is estimated that the death toll of the people will increase by at least ten times!

As for the Ningbo Minzhuang who died during the Ming army's siege, Wang Xinyu did not count them in the number of casualties among the people, because they took up arms to assist the Qing army in defending the city, and they could only be counted among the casualties of the Qing army. However, the treatment of the captured Minzhuang was different from that of the Qing prisoners, who had to be executed in full, and the captured Minzhuang would be sent to Sakhalin Island in the north to be used as labor.

"Ningbo Green Camp harms the people, and the crime is unforgivable! All the captured Qing soldiers were executed! Zhang Jingting, a military cadet, stood in front and loudly announced Wang Xinyu's order.

"Prepare for execution!" Wang Xinyu gave an order.

The first batch of more than 100 Qing prisoners were brought out and knelt on the ground.

"We don't want to die!" The Qing prisoners screamed loudly.

It was useless for the Qing captives to struggle and beg for more, they were lined up in front of the knife and axemen, and they felt that the sword and axe hands behind them had come up, and their whole bodies trembled violently. Many people don't know that their pants are wet, and many more are crying loudly.

"Slash!" The small flag in Luo Xiang's hand fell hard.

A row of swords flashed, and no matter whether these captives were once the commanders, even the chiefs, the generals, the thousand generals, or the capitals and garrisons, they were all cut off by people like ordinary soldiers. The headless corpse lay under the city, unable to distinguish whether it was an officer or a soldier. Eventually, the corpses will be dragged out of the city and burned to ashes.

More than 3,000 Qing soldiers were taken prisoner, and all of them were beheaded within an hour.

The green battalion soldiers at the head of the city were shocked, they never thought that Wang Xinyu would be so ruthless and kill all the more than 3,000 captured green battalion soldiers! Thinking that the inner city would not last long, after the city was broken, he would become a headless ghost like the captives under the city, and the morale of the Qing army at the head of the city was low, and he completely lost his fighting spirit, feeling like he was waiting for death.

Wang Xinyu made another move: in the afternoon, all the large and small artillery pieces were transported into the city, and they were lined up outside the inner city, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the city wall. Under the city, the Ming army began to renovate buildings, building watchtowers on some relatively solid buildings and building siege positions.

"Marshal, now you can let people shout and tell the green camp Qing army in the city that if they are willing to give up resistance and take the initiative to open the city gate and surrender, they can be spared death! If you can kill Fan Chengmo and make a great contribution, not only do you not have to serve hard labor, but you can also get a reward of 2,000 taels of silver! Wang Yuyou offered another strategy.

"This is a brilliant plan, it can quickly break the military spirit of the fake Tartars! Maybe someone will really rebel and cut off Fan Chengmo's head to invite credit! Even if no one will rebel, the fake Tartars in the city have no intention of defending the city! Wang Xinyu said with a smile.

The shouters sent by the Ming army waved the white flag in their hands, walked to the place under the city, raised their voices and shouted to the city: "Brothers in the green camp in the city, listen! We have the virtue of a good life, and we are not willing to kill more innocents! More than 1,100 people have been killed or wounded, and we have already paid off our debts with the lives of 3,000 green battalion soldiers! As the saying goes, there is a debtor who is wronged, and it is Fan Chengmo who orders the scourge of the people! He's the real culprit! As long as you are willing to open the gates and come out and surrender, we can guarantee your lives! If you can kill Fan Chengmo and surrender in Kaicheng, you will be rewarded with two thousand taels of silver, and you will not be punished in any way! You can join us! But if you resist stubbornly and are determined to accompany Fan Chengmo to the funeral, we can only continue to kill prisoners! ”

The Ming army's shouting made the green battalion Qing soldiers in the city see the hope of surviving again, of course, this hope of survival is to take the initiative to open the city gate and put the Ming army inside, or take the initiative to kill Fan Chengmo.

Fan Chengmo yelled angrily: "Hurry up and release the arrow!" Shoot this Ming dog! Whoever shoots the Ming dog to death, the official has a reward! ”

But few of the Qing soldiers at the head of the city reacted, but raised their heads and looked at Fan Chengmo with a strange gaze. I don't know what words to describe that kind of gaze, in short, Fan Chengmo was horrified by the Qing soldiers of the Green Battalion, and he felt as if someone wanted to take credit for his head. Although most of the Qing soldiers will not have a chance to cut off their own heads, they will most likely open the city and surrender!

Fan Chengmo was horrified by the Qing soldiers of the Green Battalion, and he hurriedly called Tian Xiong and Zhang Jie.

"The king of the city is a traitor, ruthless, insidious and cunning! He used this trick, and the official was worried that someone would rebel and betray the court! You two, keep an eye on those green battalion generals! The gates must be guarded by cronies! Don't let anyone else get closer! Violators, behead! Fan Chengmo said to Tian Xiong and Zhang Jie.

"Wow!" The two knelt on the ground and hit a thousand.

Although Zhang Jie and the two verbally agreed, he actually already had an idea in his heart. Who wouldn't want to live? Only if Kaesong surrenders, or kills Fan Chengmo, can he live.

Tian Xiong, who was more loyal, said secretly in his heart: Lord Futai, why didn't you listen to the general's advice at the beginning! If you hadn't insisted on taking the people as hostages, you wouldn't have harmed the people of the city and the brothers of the Green Camp! Hey, the matter has come to this, and the lower officials can only fight to the death and be loyal to the court to the death!

Zhang Jie secretly said in his heart: Lord Futai, I'm sorry for the general! When the Ming army attacks the city, the last general will lead the troops into your mansion and take your head to the Ming army! This is not only for the last general, but also for the thousands of soldiers under the command of the last general!

After Fan Chengmo finished explaining, he turned around and left the city. But after he arrived in the city, he felt uneasy, and always felt that even Tian Xiong and Zhang Jie, the two anti-bone boys, might betray him. So he called a group of Eight Banner soldiers.

There are not many Eight Banners soldiers in Ningbo City, and there are less than 100 people left. The ordinary Manchus and Baoyi in the city were also organized, and Fan Chengmo easily formed a "quasi-eight banner" army of more than 1,000 people.

This so-called "Eight Banner Soldiers" are all composed of the old and weak soldiers, women, children and clothed minions of the banner people, although they are a rabble, their loyalty is absolutely credible. The thief Wang Yu's people just shouted, saying that they could spare the green camp, but they didn't say that they wouldn't slaughter the city. In order for the people of the city banner to survive, these old and weak soldiers, women and children, and clothed minions will definitely fight to the death.

"Attention! Keep an eye on Tian Xiong and Zhang Jie's two barbarians! The official is worried that they will rebel! If they rebel, kill them immediately! Fan Chengmo explained to the Eight Banners.

He didn't know that Tian Xiong was actually loyal to him, and at this time, anyone would feel suspicious, even Tian Xiong, who was the most loyal to the Qing court, he felt that he could not be trusted.

Besides, after Zhang Jie retreated, he gathered his own personal soldiers together and secretly discussed how to act.

"We can only open the city and let the Ming army in! Or go and kill Fan Chengmo! Otherwise, none of us will want to live! Zhang Jie lowered his voice and said to the soldiers.

"As long as the adult wants to do something, the humble duty will definitely do it! Even if the adults want to let the lowly position kill the emperor in the north, the lowly position is not good to blink an eye! A few pro-soldiers said.

One of the soldiers asked suspiciously, "But if the adult surrenders in Kaicheng, or kills Fan Chengmo, what will happen to the adult's family?" The court will not spare your family. (To be continued.) )