Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 255 The Xinhui Tragedy
The erection of the stele of offering sacrifices to Geng Yin made the people of Guangzhou and the province of Guangdong completely return to the new Ming Dynasty led by Zhu Kezang.

People admire Zhu Kezang's demeanor and bearing, and are even more impressed by his pattern and mind.

This makes it easier for Zhu Kezang to recruit talents and hold imperial examinations in Guangdong in the next step!
Of course, even if Zhu Kezang showed the revival of Confucianism and powerful military power, many scholars felt that the Qing Dynasty had already won the world, and Zhu Kezang's new Ming Dynasty was just a grasshopper jumping around after autumn, and it would not last for a few days.

These readers are all watching.

Just when Zhu Kezang was going smoothly to attack Chaozhou, he still encountered something that made him a little angry.

"Xinhui County refuses to surrender?" Zhu Kezang took Wang Xianwu's battle report and showed a strange expression. Daming Wude is so abundant, benevolent and righteous, how could he be ignorant!

He vaguely remembered the story of Xinhui, so he hurriedly asked his father-in-law Chen Yonghua who knew a little about everything.

Chen Yonghua usually gave people a very friendly look, with a gentle smile, but when he mentioned Xinhui County, his face was clouded.

Chen Yonghua snorted coldly and said, "What a Xinhui County. When I was reading articles, I heard people say that 'Xinhui is in the north, and Yashan is in the south'. Today I saw it and it really lived up to its reputation."

"Father-in-law, what's going on!" Zhu Kezang also became curious. He rarely saw Chen Yonghua look like this, and he was obviously a little bit off guard.

It turned out that in the eighth year of Yongli, Li Dingguo, the King of Jin of the Ming Dynasty, once again invaded Guangdong to implement a strategic plan concerning the fate of Nanming.

At that time, Jin Wang Li Dingguo's plan was to invade Guangdong, which is ten times richer than Guangxi, so as to realize the integration of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Fujian. Once successful, Nanming will no longer fight alone!
For this reason, he contacted Guo Xing Ye in Jinxia many times, hoping to achieve a great master in Guangdong with Guo Xing Ye.

At that time, Jin Wang Li Dingguo had about [-] to [-] troops, but the Qing army was weak in Guangdong, and the troops of the Shang family and the Geng family were mainly concentrated in Guangzhou.

Li Dingguo also fully learned the lessons of the previous Zhaoqing battle, and he won consecutive battles at the beginning of the war.

It's just that this battle eventually became a lingering nightmare for the Nanming's number one God of War.

Li Dingguo besieged Xinhui for ten months, but he still had no way to deal with the city.

Rumor has it that the Qing army took advantage of Li Dingguo's soft heart and resorted to various rogue tricks.

During Li Dingguo's three large-scale siege battles, the Qing army stationed in Xinhui repeatedly expelled the people as cannon fodder. Li Dingguo couldn't bear it, so he gave up the attack again and again.

The details are as follows: when the Ming army arrived at the root of the city wall by digging tunnels and blasted the city wall, and was about to organize cannons to bombard the gap, the Xinhui Qing army drove out the people to move stones in an orderly manner, and blocked the gap one by one.

When the Ming army used sunflower trunks to make "bundled greens" and piled them up to form steps to climb up the city wall, the Qing army in Xinhui asked the people to dig a gap in the city wall to climb out, and moved the "bundled greens" into the city one by one.

Li Dingguo had no choice but to use his superior force to implement a long-term siege to trap and starve the Xinhui Qing army to death.

The Xinhui Qing army had already formulated a plan to keep the city at all costs, and also adopted various unscrupulous guard methods against Li Dingguo's "kindness and weakness" that could not bear to hurt the people.

In terms of internal propaganda, the Qing army in Xinhui publicized the terrible consequences of losing the defense: Once the defense was lost, the Qing government would send troops to counterattack, and there would be an extinct massacre on the day when the city was recaptured, because the Yangzhou incident happened not long ago. The common people are also afraid.

As a result, the people had no choice but to stand by the Qing army and support them in defending the city, so they were willing to be driven out.

Some people commented that Li Dingguo's war was a hero meeting a scoundrel.

After Li Dingguo besieged Xinhui City for three months, there was no more food and grass in Xinhui City.

At that time, Li Dingguo's army also encountered a large-scale plague, and both sides were desperately holding on to a chance.

Li Dingguo originally wanted to expect Guoxing Lord's army to meet with him as agreed, but Guoxing Lord's side was unable to send troops for various reasons, because at that time Fujian was also under great pressure from the Qing army. In October, Guo Xingye still risked the loss of the Xiamen base and sent a fleet of tens of thousands of people to the south to serve the king, and allocated 10 months of food and salaries to the fleet.

The siege of Xinhui began in June of the eighth year of Yongli. That is to say, Guo Xingye spent four months mobilizing troops and managed to gather tens of thousands of people to support King Jin.

Four months is actually not too much.

The Qing Dynasty had already dispatched the Eight Banners Army to the south, and the Eight Banners Army of the Han Dynasty joined forces with Pingnan King Shang Kexi and Jingnan King Geng Jimao to lie dormant in Sanshui, Guangdong, waiting for an opportunity to support Xinhui.

At this critical time, the Qing army in Xinhui decided to ask the people in the city to contribute "rations" from every household.

During the implementation process, many loyal women emerged.

"Xinhui County Chronicles" records that there was a daughter-in-law surnamed Mo who was dependent on her mother-in-law. Mo kowtowed and asked to die in place of her mother-in-law. The guard said, "What a filial and good daughter-in-law!" and agreed to her request.

There was another woman surnamed Li. Her husband was arrested by the guards and was about to be killed. Li cried and said: "My husband has no sons. If I kill him, I will kill off all descendants of his family. Even if I am alive What's the use?"

The guard also agreed, and handed over her bones to her husband to take them home for burial.

There was also a poor scholar named Liang. His ten-year-old daughter asked to replace him. The guard was moved and released their father and daughter together.

However, after the city siege was lifted in December of that year, the remaining people felt safe, so not many people hated the Qing army.

Regarding this period of history, the original text of "Xinhui County Chronicle" said: "Since being besieged for half a year, half of the people died of starvation. The sky is in chaos, and there has never been such a tragic person."

However, this text records the tragic situation caused by the war, but it rarely criticizes the Qing army in Xinhui, which is strange.

While Xinhui City was going through the precarious food crisis by all means, more than half of Li Dingguo's army outside the city was killed or injured by the plague.

The reinforcements from the Qing government took the opportunity to attack, and the Eight Banners Qing soldiers joined forces with the Ping and Jing Erfan armies to attack back and forth, and bombarded Li Dingguo's most powerful elephant soldiers with cannons.

After four days of fierce fighting, all of Li Dingguo's army collapsed at the foot of Guifeng Mountain outside the north gate of Xinhui today. The tens of thousands of troops finally fled back to Yunnan with only a few thousand people.

After the Battle of Xinhui, Li Dingguo lost his elite, and since then he has no strength to march into Guangdong, and the hope of Nanming's revival has come to naught.

In this war, Li Dingguo failed to capture the city because of his compassion for the people, while the Xinhui Qing army defended the city because of cannibalism.

In moral terms, it is really difficult to comment on such a war.

All normal human values ​​are thus distorted in the war.

When it came to the part of Guo Xing Ye, Chen Yonghua was also a little embarrassed, but he still said it truthfully, this battle of Xinhui was a rare black spot for Guo Xing Ye.

"It's unreasonable! The new society must pay the price!"

(End of this chapter)