Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 348

"Report!"

The hurried report interrupted the discussion between Yan Wogong and Jiangning's left-behind officers and generals, and Jingbiao Zhongjun came in.

"What's the panic?"

"Chen Hongfan, the deputy envoy who went to the Ming camp to negotiate a peace, was tied up by the Ming Supervisor, and has been pushed to the bottom of the city. He will be executed in public!"

Yan Wo stood up vigorously.

The other officers and generals were also shocked.

"How dare he?" Jiang Ning Bingbei's fingers trembled in disbelief.I thought that although Jiang Ning was in danger for a while, the Qing Dynasty was still far stronger than the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Qing Dynasty took the initiative to seek peace, it was just a way to delay the army. They also offered a million taels of silver. This is a great sincerity. They should be happy. steps.

"Do you really want to kill Chen Hongfan or just pretend?"

"It is really going to be cut, and it will be cut soon."

Yan Wogong pondered, "Go, go to the city to have a look."

The faces of the Taoists turned pale, "How dare they, how dare they." Someone said, "The Ming Dynasty is going to be desperate, what should we do, what should we do?"

A group of people came to the city gate anxiously.

The Nanjing city of the Ming Dynasty is very unique. It is different from the general square city. Nanjing does not follow the old system. The city wall of Beijing is longer, and the circumference of the outer city is more than 120 miles. It is known as the largest city in the world.

The entire city of Nanjing is composed of the palace city, the imperial city, the capital city and the outer city.

Since ancient times, there has been a reputation of dragons and tigers here. Zhongshan is in the east, Shicheng is in the west, there is a large water surface of Xuanwu Lake in the north, the Qinhuai River flows around the city in the south, and the Yangtze River lies in the north.

The old city is located at the confluence of the Qinhuai River and the Yangtze River. It is the hub of the city's external traffic. It has dense residents, prosperous commerce, and a large number of handicraft workshops.

It is close to the imperial city, and most of the residences of ministers are concentrated here.

The sixteen large restaurants ordered by the emperor are distributed in the southwest of Shangshihong's old city.

The imperial city is located on the east side of the old city, adjacent to Fugui Mountain, a branch of Zhongshan Mountain in the north, and Qinhuai River in the south. It is not only convenient for water transportation, but also closely connected with the old city.

Although the low-lying terrain is a disadvantage, it is surrounded by mountains and is an important point for military strategists.

There are eighteen gates in Waiguo City. The city wall is more than 120 miles long, 8-10 meters high, and 6-8 meters wide.

To the west of the city, outside the Yifeng Gate.

Zhu Yihai looked at this magnificent city of Nanjing, and couldn't help sighing that this city is really amazing.

Let’s just talk about this city wall, a typical gravity dam structure, trapezoidal body cross-section, this traditional Chinese city wall is extremely strong, the interior is rammed with three-component soil, and the outer part is wrapped with huge city bricks. In the era of cold weapons, ballistas and catapults were used It is very difficult to destroy. Even in the era of mixing hot and cold weapons, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the late Qing Dynasty attacked Nanjing by suppressing the city with artillery, and then did civil engineering work, and used explosives to blow up the city wall to break the city. Later, the Qing army regained Nanjing, and it was also a long-term siege. Coupled with this old method, it took several months to blow down the city wall and enter the city.

It is said that the Japanese invaders bombarded the city wall of Nanjing with wild bombardment, which only flattened the upper structure of the city wall, and the shells hit the city wall only left bullet craters.

Bringing the Urban cannons that Ottomans blasted through Constantinople could not shake the city walls of Nanjing.

Even if the red cannons of [-] jin and [-] jin seized by Zhu Yihai Shenji Town can at most destroy the city gates and parapets, they are helpless against this solid city wall.

However, no matter how strong a city is, it needs people to guard it.

Nanjing's quadruple city walls, leaning against rivers and mountains, are magnificent and large in scale, but this has also become a weak point in defense, that is, there are too many gates and walls to be defended, and too many troops are needed.

There are eighteen gates in the outer city, and thirteen gates in the inner city.

In the Hongwu era when Zhu Yuanzhang sat in Nanjing, Nanjing had an army of about 30 guards, which was more than enough to guard these. However, after the capital was moved, the garrison strength in Nanjing was greatly reduced.

But now, there are only [-] soldiers in Nanjing City, and they are all Han soldiers from the Green Battalion.

The most frightening thing was the supreme commander Gao Yan Jinglue, who was Zhu Yihai's own person.

To break Jiangning City, Zhu Yihai is indeed within reach, but he is not in a hurry to enter the city right now.

The huge city of Nanjing has no soldiers to defend, and now it has become a nightmare for the defenders.

Nanjing is undoubtedly of great significance to the Ming army, so in the eyes of the Qing army, the Ming army will definitely go all out to seize Nanjing if it has a chance.

So they will definitely come to rescue Nanjing.

"Bring Chen Hongfan up!"

On the side of the [-]-meter-wide moat, the Ming army lined up under the city.

The sun and moon flags dance vigorously.

Chen Hongfan, the envoy from the north, was escorted up, naked and in a state of embarrassment.

Across the [-]-meter moat, on the three-foot-high Yifengmen City, my father, the governor of the five provinces, stood expressionlessly, and a group of officials stood beside him, because the main officials in Nanjing were about to die. Those who went to rescue the soldiers, now only some low-level officials such as Taoists and Tongzhi are left.

Looking at the neat military appearance of the Ming army outside the city, all of them looked pale.

Especially when standing on the city gate tower, you can still see the Mingshui division fleet covering the sky and the sun on the water of the Yangtze River two miles away.

"Accordingly, the Ming army sent an army to occupy Shangyuanmen to the Mufu Mountain outside Guanyinmen. Another army went around Gaoqiaomen and Shangfangmen in the southeast, and another navy marched along the Qinhuai River to the west. Gate, outside the Jiangdong Gate..."

Yan Wogong immediately understood the deployment of Jian Guo, which was mainly deployed to the west of Nanjing near the river, and then separated into two partial divisions and deployed to the east of Nanjing.

The navy is in the Yangtze River and Qinhuai River.

The infantry of the imperial battalion spread out in the west. Although the Ming army did not encircle all the gates of Nanjing City, they basically deployed outside the seven gates.

Even if the Qing army only defended these seven city gates, it would be very difficult. What's more, the Ming army had superior strength. If they only defended these seven city gates, the Ming army could undoubtedly turn to attack other city gates at any time.

No matter how you fight this battle, there is no hope. Although the city is strong, there are too few defenders.

"Chen Hongfan, kneel in the direction of Xiaoling!"

"You were born in Wanli martial arts. Since the year of Tianqi, you have successively served as Gaotai Guerrilla, Hongshuihe General, and Shaanxi Xingdu Commander. After committing crimes, you were demoted to Qingyun General, and then served as Kaiyuan General. Fang, later clinging to Quan Xun, got the post of general soldier in Juyongguan. In the first year of Chongzhen, he was promoted to Nanjing Yoududu Mansion Qianshi, Admiral Dajiaochang, and later promoted to Yoududu, then transferred to Zhejiang. For four years, he was stationed in Changping. In the year of Kong Youde's rebellion, you led 3000 people to participate in the quelling of the rebellion. After the war, you bribed the right eunuch, and you were named the prince's junior teacher. For seven years, you guarded Denglai.

The Qing army entered the pass to attack Xuan and Da, and you returned to defend Juyongguan and Changping without an inch of success.For ten years, North Korea was in a hurry, and the imperial court granted you the general seal of Pinglu, and led eight thousand soldiers to rescue, but there was no merit.When the Qing army attacked Phi Island, you fled without a fight and went to Guanglu Island, so you were dismissed again. "

The elder Xu Shiqi counted Chen Hongfan's many crimes with a stern voice.

"In the 11th year of Chongzhen, you made friends with officials and paid heavy bribes, and then you were appointed. You were transferred to Xiong Wencan's command, and together with Zuo Liangyu, you suppressed Zhang Xianzhong in Yunxi.

Back then, Zhang Xianzhong, the general of the general Wang Wei, was executed for participating in the mutiny and broke the law. As a general in Yansui, you got a bribe from him to plead with Wang Wei, the general of the army. Big trouble.That Zhang Xianzhong specially engraved your portrait in the army, calling it your parents.

Later, Zhang Xianzhong was encircled and defeated repeatedly. Knowing that you were leading the army, he contacted you with a large amount of gold, silver and jewels, and you set up a bridge to recruit security.

You were dismissed again because of your ineffective suppression, but you can return to Denglai by paying bribes.

After the Jiashen Incident, Jingnan Wang Huang Degong invited you to Qin Wang, but you refused.

King Fu came to the throne in Nanjing, and you bribed Ma Shiying to be the admiral of the five coastal towns. Later, you volunteered and invited the North envoy.

Originally, the imperial court appointed you as the envoy to the north because you have been in the army for a long time and have a good relationship with Wu Sangui and others. Who would have thought that you harbored evil intentions and had already secretly linked up with your son-in-law Tang Qilong and his father Tang Yushi who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. As soon as he arrived in Beijing, he betrayed the minister Zuo Maodi, and finally returned to the south alone, and went everywhere to persuade the Qing court to surrender. When he entered Gao Jie's camp, he falsely claimed that Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo, who were powerful in the Qing army, had surrendered secretly. Seeing that Gao Jie refused to surrender, he ran away overnight Going to Nanjing, while lying that the Qing army intends to divide the north and the south, deceiving the monarchs and ministers in the court, and secretly recruiting surrender everywhere, saying that the Qing army is a formidable enemy,
Chen Hongfan, you are a living Qin Hui! "

"Later when Nanjing surrendered, you pretended to be a loyal minister and went to Hangzhou. You secretly threatened and persuaded King Lu to surrender, and you were ordered to make another envoy to the north..."

"Chen Hongfan, you are the number one traitor in Ming Dynasty!"

Chen Hongfan, who was naked, didn't want to go south as an envoy, but he had no choice but to come under the order of the regent. After coming, he thought that even if he failed to surrender, it would not be too dangerous, because the Qing army was powerful after all.

Unexpectedly, he came all the way south, and the situation took a turn for the worse.

What's more, he didn't expect that Lu Jianguo was so tough.

It is completely different from Hongguang and Luwang.

At this moment, he could only kowtow and beg for mercy, and said tremblingly, "The two countries are fighting each other, so don't behead them!"

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, even the strong Chen Hongfan was shivering from the cold, with runny nose, and the fear made him tremble even more.

"His Royal Highness, please forgive me. I have been an envoy for the imperial court to discuss peace, and I have never surrendered in secret!"

Zhu Yihai said disdainfully, "When death is imminent, how dare you lie?"

"Come here, bring a fishing net, strangle this traitor, and execute him Ling Chi, right under the city of Nanjing, right in front of the Xiaoling Mausoleum, in front of countless soldiers, kill this traitor and sacrifice to the flag!"

A fishing net covered Chen Hongfan and strangled him tightly. Skilled executioners came up and cut off the meat that had been stretched out of the net piece by piece.

Every time the knife was cut, Chen Hongfan screamed.

On the gate of Yifeng.

Following his screams, the officers and generals of the Qing Dynasty also had their hearts pumping.

Yan Wogong asked, "Did Qian Shangshu and Emperor Hongguang invite you?"

"coming."

Qian Qianyi came, followed by Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong who was almost carried by several scriptures. The obese Zhu Yousong was as pale as paper, exhausted and weak, his legs could not move at all, and he was supported by the pacesetters come up.

After being carried to the city and hearing the screams, look forward again.

"Your Majesty, the Governor of Lu disregarded etiquette and tortured and killed Admiral Chen in the city." Yan Wogong saluted Zhu Yousong.

Hearing this, Zhu Yousong couldn't stand it any longer, his whole body trembled violently, and suddenly passed out.

(End of this chapter)