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The slaughter at the head of Chuzhou City has entered a white heat, and the flying wind and snow cannot cool the anger of both sides;

From time to time, the locust-like arrows under the city rise into the air and shoot at the head of the city, and after several waves of arrows, it is often when the tartars roar up the ladder.

The Qin army on the city braved the enemy and arrows, struggled to cut off the barbs on the enemy's ladder, and then worked together to push the ladder away from the city with a hairpin;

Strings of tartars fell along with the ladder, and some fell directly into the icy moat, and without even hitting the water, they were carried to the bottom of the river by the heavy iron coats.

And the Qin army at the head of the city often paid the price of their lives, many of the Tartars are very accurate in archery, as soon as the Qin army shows its head slightly, it will penetrate the face door with a sharp arrowhead and show off the bones.

"Hang!" Liu Shun, the general banner, roared, and the soldiers under his command, shouted the trumpet to twist up the heavy rolling log, "Release!" In his roar, the rolling log smashed down again, and the tartars that had climbed halfway were smashed off by the head, one by one, and the screams continued.

Compared with arrows and guns, it is more practical to deal with the enemy troops rushing to the city, but to roll wood, stones, fire oil, etc.

The enemy climbed up the ladder, and dozens of pounds of gravel fell on the head, whether you were a shield or armor, it would not help, and the huge stones could smash people to break their limbs and shatter their bones.

The battlefield of a hundred battles is shattered in iron clothes, and the south of the city has been surrounded by several times.

Shang Yi didn't know those magnificent verses of Lu Dao, he only knew that Lu Dao wanted revenge, and several brothers around him fell in a pool of blood, among which Liu Shun, the chief banner, had just been shot into his left eye socket by a strong arrow and was carried down by the military doctor. The screams were endless, and the intense pain made him roll back and forth, and the young men who carried him had to struggle to press Liu Shun's body. so as not to let him roll off the stretcher.

There were corpses everywhere above and below the city, and the shouts, groans, and swords and arrows were terrifying to hear.

On this battlefield where the pot was boiling, Shang Yi, who had experienced a hundred battles, maintained a gloomy and indifferent attitude, and he leaned against the battlement. Ignoring the arrows flying by, he calmly pressed the bullet into the barrel and then stuffed it into a ball of paper. Compacting the bullet.

Doing so multiplies the residue in the barrel after the shot, but ensures that the bullet doesn't fall out first when firing from the dive.

The north wind blew the snowflakes on his face, turning his beard white one by one.

When he was ready, he asked Li Ping, who was next to him, to put a shield on the battlement. His icy gaze searched for the prey through the gaps that had been left behind.

Maller. Although Shang Yi didn't know his name, this Qing general wore two armors and commanded the siege under the city, and Liu Shun, the general banner, was shot in the left eye by him.

After locking on Male's figure, Shang Yi ignored the fact that there were already Tartars on the left not far behind, and nearly ten of his men were rushing up to fight, he calmly aimed, this was already the third shot he had hunted for Maller. We must not miss again this time.

Bang!

The whistling bullets, with a feeble rage, struck Male's face in an instant. At a distance of about ten paces, the power of the bullet was amazing, and Maller's entire head was blown open, and his majestic body fell to the ground.

"Lord Zhangjing!"

"Ah, Lord Zhangjing is dead!"

The nearby Tartars screamed in panic and became a mess.

Taking advantage of the chaos in the city, Shang Yi jumped up and roared loudly and ordered, "Shoot!" Shoot fast! ”

The Qin army at the head of the city immediately pressed all to the edge of the battlement, shot at the city, and at the same time threw down the earth-shattering thunder, fierce explosions one after another, the Qing army commanded the siege of the general was killed, morale was greatly damaged, and then under this fierce blow, the casualties were heavy, and the corpses all over the ground had to be thrown down to retreat.

The first wave of the Tartars' attack was finally repulsed. The south gate and the east gate were ordered by Qin Mu, and they did not hide their strength, and more than 200 Tartars were killed in this battle, and the corpses were spread all over the city gate, and the thick smell of blood made people feel sick.

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Chuzhou is only 100 miles away from Jinling, the Qing army killed Chuzhou, the atmosphere in Jinling City can not help but be a little tense, there are sailors led by Liu Zhongqin on the Yangtze River, and all private boats are forbidden to dock on the north bank.

On the north shore, there was a large number of ranger reconnaissance and early warning. At the gates of Jinling City, there are soldiers checking the pedestrians entering and leaving. The Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division also strengthened patrols in the city to strictly investigate spies.

However, in general, the lives of the citizens have not been greatly affected, and a large number of scholars still gather in the restaurant and tea shop every day, and they mainly discuss two topics, one is the war in Jiangbei. The first is the ideological wave promoted by Gu Yanwu and Fu Qingzhu.

Moreover, the degree of attention to this ideological wave is no less than that of the war in Jiangbei. In the past, there was Jin Shengsian and Jin Gongnan, the "double gold combination" with one enemy and one hundred, shining brightly.

Then another person jumped out, and he was in the limelight for a while, one of these two people was named Huang Zongxi, and the other was Wang Fuzhi.

Wang Fuzhi, the word and farmer, the name Jiang Zhai, is a native of Wang Yaping, south of Hengzhou Prefecture. He was not yet thirty years old, but he became famous at a young age, and when Zhang Xianzhong heard about his name when he went south to Huguang, he sent someone to recruit him, and he and his brother hid in the mountains and refused to be recruited.

He is a rookie of the Huxiang school, and his articles are excellently written, his words are sharp, and his thoughts are deep. After Gu Yanwu and Fu Qingzhu set off a wave of ideas to criticize the eight strands and criticize Zhu Chenglixue, he couldn't sit still and hurried to Jinling.

His remarks on the first day of his arrival in Jinling were destined to be a blockbuster.

At the literati gathering in Taoyedu, he loudly criticized the idealism that insisted on seeking reason outside the qi, "reason comes before qi" and "reason comes first", that is, the spirituality precedes the existence of matter.

He emphasized that "qi" is the entity of yin and yang change, and reason is the regularity of the change process. Reason is the principle of qi, and there is no false and isolated reason outside the qi. Reason is not only in the qi, but also in the movement of the qi, which has its inevitable regularity.

This is typical materialism. It is a powerful refutation of Zhu Chengli's view that spirit precedes material existence. At the same time, it was pointed out that it was Zhu Cheng's idea of seeking "reason" from reality that led Confucianism to the extreme.

In fact, Wang Fuzhi is by no means the first person to deny Zhu Cheng's science.

Although Zhu Cheng's science has always been the mainstream thought of the Ming Dynasty, since Wang Yangming put forward the idea of "the unity of knowledge and action", it has actually represented the beginning of scholars' reflection on Zhu Cheng's science and the limited negation of it.

It's just that no one has criticized or denied Zhu Chengli so clearly like Wang Fuzhi.

Therefore, as soon as his doctrine was proposed, it immediately caused a strong shock, and many people came to him every day to debate it.

Huang Zongxi's name is no less than that of Wang Fuzhi, and he also opposes Zhu Cheng's theory of "reason comes before qi", believing that "reason" is not an objectively existing material entity, but the law of movement of "qi", and believes that "temperament and human heart are popular bodies, and public things are also". This is similar to Wang Fuzhi's theory.

Huang Zongxi admired Wang Yangming's idea of "learning from things, integrating knowledge with action", and praised Qin Mu for opening a "physics" course in Yuelu Academy, believing that this kind of doctrine that seeks the inner truth of the operation of all things is the same as the knowledge of things in the study of mind.

And the reason why he caused a sensation was not because he put forward basically the same views as Wang Fuzhi, he was better than Wang Fuzhi, and not only challenged Zhu Cheng's science, but also challenged the imperial power.

He said that the original purpose of establishing a monarch was to "make the world benefit from it" and "to free the world from its harms," that is, to produce a monarch is to make the monarch shoulder the responsibility of suppressing private interests and promoting public interests.

For the sovereign, his duties are primary, and power is subordinate to the duty and then serves the fulfillment of his duty. The monarch is only a public servant of the world.

He proposed that "the ancients were mainly based on the world, the king was the guest, and the ruler of the whole world was the operator, and the world was also". This is basically a fundamental denial of the legitimacy of the monarch's "family and world" behavior.

At this point, even Qin Mu didn't expect that under the tide of ideas he set off, someone would dare to stand up and deny the legitimacy of the "family world".

The thoughts of Huang Zongxi and Wang Fuzhi echoed the guidance of Gu Yanwu and Fu Qingzhu, which caused great repercussions.

Those who support Zhu Cheng's science have jumped out to write articles to refute it, and the intensity of this ideological collision is really no less than the great war in Jiangbei.

Yang Tinglin and the others in the court couldn't care about the debate of the scholars, Qin Mu suddenly changed his plan, and even ordered Su Jin to retreat to Lai'an County, so that there were only 8,000 men left in Chuzhou.

As the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. Qin Mu is the lord of a country, trapped in Chuzhou, with few soldiers, is this still possible?

Zhuge Min, Yang Tinglin, Du Yinxi, Bian Di, Liu Boquan, Bai Tie, Song Yingxing, Qin Qiubai and a large number of civilian officials killed the military department together, and asked He Liang to immediately transfer troops north to rescue Chuzhou.

He Liang, the secretary of the military department, and Gu Junen, the waiter, became the target of public criticism for a while.

He Liang was helpless, took out the will sent back by Qin Mu to show everyone, and said aggrievedly: "I understand your feelings, but King Qin has a will, and this official will not dare to resist and disobey the will." ”

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