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Chapter 367 Revival of the First City

General Shang Jianbao was scared out of his wits, hiding in the yamen all day like a woman must be hopeless.

All over the city, people are in panic.

At the critical moment, Vice President Heng Song stepped forward.

After the defeat of Dangyang, Heng Song knew that the bandits would definitely attack Jingzhou, so he actively prepared for the battle and trained the Eight Banners soldiers day and night.After Shang Jianbao didn't care about anything, Heng Song immediately took over the important task of guarding Jingzhou.

He ordered all males over 12 years old in the city to go to the city to help guard, except those with disabilities, and they also had to learn archery and gun shooting every day.

The women are each given a knife handle, and they also go to the city to help defend at critical times.

If the city is broken, the woman will kill her own children with this knife and then commit suicide, so as not to be humiliated by the bandits.

They even asked people to kill more than [-] special Han Chinese who collected feces, shaved their hair, and swept the streets for the Manchus in the city, lest these people take the opportunity to cause chaos.

After Heng Song's arrangement, the soldiers of the Eight Banners who were originally scattered in a regiment were united. The old and the young went to the city together, vowing to fight to the end with the Xinghan bandits outside the city.

Because otherwise, they have no way out.

When people know that death is coming, they are not willing to wait for death for the last chance.

However, the Jingzhou Eight Banners, which have been in peace for nearly a hundred years, are no slower than the Jingshi Eight Banners. Nearly half of the banner soldiers can't draw their bows at all, and less than one-third of them can shoot muskets. Compared with the green camp, it is much worse.

As a result, many green camps are reluctant to go with the Eight Banners when they go out, because they think that the Eight Banners will hold back.

What has been able to defend until now is not the ability passed down from the ancestors, but the extremely tall and strong city wall that was built to resist Wu Sangui's rebels back then.

If it weren't for the tall city walls, the whole city would have been captured the day before yesterday.

The thousands of Green Battalion soldiers captured by the Xinghan Army have been attacking for two days in a row, with more than a thousand casualties, but their sacrifices are not worthless. All signs indicate that the Eight Banners soldiers in the city are about to run out.

Even the Han people standing on the walls of the outer city to watch the excitement could see this. Some of them even yelled at the Eight Banners soldiers all over the city through the wall: "Can you do it? If you can't, come out and surrender as your grandson!" , call us Han people grandpa!"

Gu Shidao, the commander of the Xinghan Army, heard the shouts of those common people, and he rarely smiled easily, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

A few months ago, the "Han traitors" who insisted on the clothes of the Han family and refused to be Manchurian slaves were still in the mountains, fighting for the succession of the Han family, but now they gathered tens of thousands to attack the Manchurian soldiers. City, things are turning upside down too fast to be true.

And all of this was only because of the decision he made to preserve his bloodline.

No one thought that this decision would be the beginning of the Han family's reappearance of their homeland.

Looking at Beijing from a distance, thinking of the fake Tartar son-in-law Yuan Guang despised, and thinking of his own daughter, his heart softened for no reason.

Before long, he will be a grandfather.

A few years ago, he had a pair of twin Taiwanese grandchildren, but these two children died under the butcher's knife of the Qing army together with their parents.

When the eyes moved back to the city again, those green battalion soldiers who cut off their braids and attacked the city were shouting and banging on the city gate heavily.

The green camp soldiers climbing the ladder are even more like ants.

The counterattacks of the Eight Banners soldiers on the city were sparse, and it seemed that they might be able to break through the city today.

If Master Wen had a spirit in the sky, seeing this scene, Jiuquan should be smiling.

The great-grandfather of the Gu family was Gu Qing, the deputy general of Wen Anzhi, the governor of the Yongli Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty. The old governor left his last words before his death: "I would rather die than surrender to the Qing Dynasty."

So far, Gu Qing led more than [-] soldiers and civilians into the mountains of Jinchuan. They lived with the local people, planted together, intermarried with each other, and continued to resist the aggression of the Qing army.

A whole hundred years.

"After the whole city is destroyed, these green battalion soldiers can be broken up and organized into various departments. They can make up a division, and they can also be of great use."

Gu Shidao said it to his nephew Gu An.

If Gu Shidao is the first generation, then his nephew Gu Mingyuan is the second generation, and this grandnephew Gu An is the third generation.

There is only one man left in a generation.

In order to resist the Qing Dynasty, the Gu family paid the price of six generations of [-] people in a hundred years.

It is precisely because of the tragic sacrifice that Gu Shidao was able to become the new leader supported by the survivors of Jinchuan after his father-in-law Wang Qiu was killed by the Qing court.

Gu An nodded and asked, "Third Grandpa, I'm sure we can break through the city today, what about the Tartars inside?"

"Of course they were all killed!"

Wang Ang, the veteran Xuezheng who surrendered in Yichang, gave the correct answer without even thinking about it.

"All killed?"

Gu An, who was only 19 years old, was a little startled. There were tens of thousands of Tartars in the city, including many women and children.

"Little general, you should know that the Tartars are no different from animals. In the past, the scholars and bureaucrats talked about morality, thinking that the Tartars could be benevolent and righteous, so that they could envy China and get close to China, but they don't know that the Tartars are the most cunning. Keep the heart of destroying China. If China is strong, he will be afraid; if China is weak, this generation will take advantage of it.

Throughout the millennium history of China, there was the Wuhu before, the Mongol Yuan later, and Manchuria today.When those people entered China, they didn't talk about civilization, they only had a tyrannical heart, they killed my bloody people, slaughtered my bare-handed people, changed my clothes, and cut off my civilization, just to make me a slave and become another beast! "

The 62-year-old Xuezheng was very emotional. He cupped his hands at Commander Gu, who was a teenager younger than himself, and said: "The Manchurian invasion of China is a catastrophe for thousands of years. For the Han people, it is even more sinful. Therefore, the students thought that after breaking down the city, they should massacre the city, and make the whole city of Jingzhou the first city for the revival of the Han family, so as to wake up people with lofty ideals from all over the world to unite and overthrow the Manchurian tartars!"

"Reviving the first city?"

Gu Shidao stared at the city of Jingzhou full of gunpowder smoke, and thought of the words in the secret letter that his son-in-law asked to bring to him.

Immediately without any hesitation, an order was issued to destroy the city, keeping women but not men.

Indeed, as Wang Laoxuezheng said, massacring the whole city of Jingzhou in the great cause of "expelling the Tartars and restoring China" will achieve an effect that is difficult for a hundred thousand soldiers to achieve.

No matter how tall the city wall was, the Eight Banners soldiers without medicine and arrows still couldn't withstand the continuous intensive attacks of the Xinghan army.

More than two hundred soldiers from the former Jingmen Prefecture Garrison Battalion took the lead in climbing the city.

With a knife, Zong Song Er chopped down an old tartar who couldn't even stand still, and threw a crying young man rushing up to avenge his grandfather from the city wall.

Before the boy's shouting stopped, his body fell to the ground heavily, with a "plop", his head fell to the ground and shattered into a flowering gourd.

The Eight Banners soldiers, who were all over, lost their last fighting spirit. Many old Eight Banners soldiers sat slumped on the ground, allowing the Xinghan army to climb up from the crenel, and then they were beheaded by these red-eyed original green battalion soldiers.

The gate of the city was finally knocked open, and a division of the Xinghan army rushed in from the hole in the gate.

In addition to the shouts of killing, the cheers of the Han people in the outer city resounded from all directions.

"It's over."

Heng Song has tried his best, but the performance of the flag soldiers really made him despair.

Tens of thousands of people can't even defend a city!

The Eight Banners deserve to die!
"Your Majesty, this slave is sorry for Qing Dynasty!"

Heng Song, struggling to jump down from the city wall, was in a daze, and returned to the battlefield where his ancestors dared to chase thousands of Ming troops.

The Manchurians at that time were truly invincible warriors.

Heng Song's jump was like a signal flare, and soon, soldiers of the Eight Banners jumped off the city wall one after another.

"The Tartars jumped, the Tartars jumped!"

"One, two, three. Damn, can't count!"

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The Han people who watched the battle seemed to be watching a big drama, admiring the city that suddenly separated them 100 years ago, and ushered in the end scene under the setting sun.

A grizzled old man in the crowd burst into tears suddenly, and murmured to his descendants, "Is our old house still there, is our ancestral hall still there?"

(End of this chapter)