scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 295 The Good Man Kang Mazi

"Kill—! Kill all the dogs!"

"In the whole festival, you lead an army of [-]. Please ask Mr. Xie's subordinate Cao Guoxing to lead the way to occupy Nanjing's granary, arsenal, stable camp, artillery bureau, and military bureau! Anyone who loots and sabotages, no matter who they are, kill! "

"Hu Tongchun, you lead an army of five thousand, please lead the way by Mr. Xie's yamen servants, attack the four water gates north of Nanjing, and capture the Jiangning shipyard! Remember, the shipyard must be well protected. Deliberate saboteurs will be killed immediately!"

"Li Tianzhi, lead [-] elite soldiers to attack Taiping Gate first, and then Chaoyang Gate! The guards there are full of dogs, try to surrender, and those who cannot be surrendered should be driven out of the city, and the protection of our army is the top priority!"

"Han Daren, you lead [-] infantry and go to Mangou City in Nanjing. The main purpose is to encircle and kill as a supplement! The city is full of dogs, but anyone who resists entering the inner city will be killed without mercy! Anyone who escapes from the outer city, let him go !"

"General Gao Dejie, your [-] main cavalry, go and fight for me at the Jubao Gate and Tongji Gate. Those who surrender will not die! Those who resist will be killed! Those who flee will not be chased!"

"An Jiarong, bring your [-] soldiers with you, please lead the way with your lord Xie's servants, and fight along the city wall to Jubaomen! Kill the enemy when you see them! Do not pursue the fugitives!"

On the tower of Shichengmen, he gave a series of orders in one breath, and the exhausted Fatty Lu sat back on the chair. Looking at the brightly lit night scene of Nanjing full of killing noises, Fatty Lu completely forgot the hardship and exhaustion of running thousands of miles for seven days , a pair of bloodshot mung bean eyes are also wide open, and a pair of fat hands are desperately grasping the armrests on both sides of the seat. He muttered, "The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, the fortified city of Nanjing, the largest city in the south of this era, you will finally belong to me! Finally, you will belong to me!"

Biting his lips tightly to prevent himself from yelling excitedly for a long time, Fatty Lu suddenly remembered something again, jumped up and shouted: "Order to all the troops, after entering the city, you are not allowed to loot the people's businesses, let alone rape and plunder! Tell the soldiers Ladies and gentlemen, the contribution this time is extremely great, every soldier has at least 20 taels of silver as a reward, women will have plenty of silver in the future, but they are not allowed to take it now, let me firmly control Nanjing City first!"

"20 taels per person?" Xiao Erlang, who was born in a bumpkin, was taken aback and exclaimed, "Young master, where did we get so much money? Each person is less than 20 taels of silver, and 5 people are worth hundreds of dollars." Ten thousand taels of silver!"

"General Xiao, please rest assured that this amount of money is nothing more than a drop in the bucket for Jiangning City." Xie Dong said calmly: "The lower officials can guarantee it, and it does not count as private silver, vassal treasury and treasury Silver, just by copying the homes of the governors of Liangjiang, Jiangning Salt Road, Jiangnan Liangdao, and Jiangning Zhizhi, they can definitely get this amount of money! And there will be more, not less!"

"Really?" Xiao Erlang asked dumbfounded.

"Of course, I have been an official in Jiangning for nearly two years, and I have already figured out their details." Xie Dong smiled, and said: "The army of the three good brothers came so fast, they are not at all. It’s too late to transfer the family property, so all the people’s fat and people’s anointing that they looted from the people must still be hidden in their homes!”

"Wow!" Xiao Erlang cheered, grabbing Fatty Lu's fat arm and shaking it again and again, his eyes glowing green, he shouted, "Master, we've made it! We've finally developed! This time, we're out Into the silver den!"

"After so many years of suffering by my side, should you feel it's worth it now?" Fatty Lu patted the top of Xiao Erlang's head, smiled, and then said with a straight face: "You bumpkin, be happy and wait later! Go pass the order first , we must convey the order to every soldier, if we lose the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, see how I will deal with you!"

"Decree!" Xiao Erlang jumped up and puffed up his chest to agree, and then rushed down to deliver the order, still muttering excitedly, "I have done it! I have done it! This time I have done it! After following the young master for so many years, I finally got through it!" It’s the end of all hardships! Haha...!"

"Roundrel!" Fatty Lu cursed again, but there was a flash of sigh in his eyes that he couldn't say anything, and he murmured in his heart: "But this little bumpkin is right, it's hard work, from now on. From now on, I will no longer have to be a man with my tail between my legs, no one will tell me what to do, and I will no longer have to worry about this or that."

He has just entered Nanjing City, and has not completely wiped out the defenders and occupied the city, but he has already become so complacent. Maybe Lu Fatty really has the potential of Hong Xiuquan or Li Zicheng-but he can't stand Lu Fatty. Luckily, when Xie Dong opened the stone city gate After the news of welcoming the fat man's army into the city reached Jubaomen, the governor of Liangjiang, Mr. Ashisha, and the deputy governor of Jiangnan, General Hale Haqiha, were dumbfounded at first, and finally came back to their senses. Mr. A and General Ha first yelled at Xie Dong Eighteen generations of ancestors, and immediately rushed back to their homes with their own soldiers, packed up the gold and silver, took their wives and concubines and fled for their lives!

As a result, it is difficult to say whether Master Ah and General Ha can escape with their beautiful wives and concubines and family property in the midst of the chaos. The Jiangnan Qing army who had never been on the battlefield was seriously inexperienced, and no one stood up to organize and call for collective action, so they could only scatter and flee for their lives, either opened the city gates and escaped outside the city, or fled into the city to hide among the people, and then Otherwise, they would kneel down and surrender, and many of them simply took off their military uniforms and joined the looting team, but there was no organized army to resist the Wu army's cavalry, so that the Wu army's cavalry led by Gao Dejie easily captured the main force of the Nanjing defenders. The positions occupied the main gates of Sanshan Gate, Jubao Gate and Tongji Gate and their urns.

On the East City side, when Li Tianzhi's army rushed through Nanjing City to the Taiping Gate, the Jiangning Governor Mu Tianyan who was in charge of the gate did not take the lead in running for his life, nor did he open the gate and flee back to his headquarters in Suzhou Jiangning Governor's Yamen. He simply led the Taiping Gate defenders to surrender collectively, and told Li Tianzhi that he had long wanted to surrender to the Wu army, and joined the anti-Qing and Ming-ming, Xinghan and Manchurian teams, but he never found an opportunity. The reason why Xie Dong was able to welcome the fat army smoothly this time The main force entered the city, and he also made great contributions.

Hearing Mu Tianyan's narration, and seeing Mu Tianyan take the initiative to lead the army to surrender, although Li Tianzhi had no time to ask Xie Dong for confirmation, he basically believed most of it, so Li Tianzhi immediately sent people to closely protect Mu Tianyan, and then turned around again Kill Chaoyang Gate in the southeast.Dange, the Chaoyang Gate guard of mite blood, led his army to fight to the death. It is a pity that his army is small in number, chaotic, and has little combat experience—the Nanjing Qing army has not fought for more than [-] years. , As a result, after rushing down, as Tange was killed by the grenade of the fat army in the chaos, the more than a thousand Qing troops in Chaoyangmen also completely collapsed, some fled out of the city, and some surrendered to the Wu army.

It was Beicheng's turn. There were few Qing army guards in Beicheng, and at the same time, they were taking care of the five gates of Dinghuai Gate, Yifeng Gate, Zhongfu Gate, Jinchuan Gate and Shence Gate. It was because of his weakness that Hu Tongchun, the fierce general of the fat army, took down the Dinghuai gate almost effortlessly.When Hu Tongchun went to Yifengmen where the Jiangning shipyard was located, Zhang Bingzhi, the inspector of Jiangning who received the news, saw that the situation was urgent, and had already taken a team of soldiers and fled to Zhenjiang by boat. The fat man quickly captured the shipyard and captured the A large number of semi-finished warships and piles of shipbuilding materials in the shipyard, and then rushed to Zhongfu Gate. The guard Chitcha boldly led the army to resist, but the soldiers had no will to fight, and it was only a matter of time before they completely collapsed.At the same time, the defenders of Jinchuan Gate and Shence Gate saw that the situation was not good, and they all opened the gates and fled for their lives one after another. It was only a matter of time before the North City fell into the hands of the fat man's army.

At the same time, under the guidance of Xie Dong's leading party yamen, the infantry of the Fat Man Army led by Quan Jie has also seized important positions such as the granary, arsenal, stables, cannon casting bureau, firearms bureau, and weapon workshop. Zhou Lianggong, the mite Qingjiang Jiangnan Grain Road, was captured alive on the street.Although Zhou Lianggong, who is over seventy years old, wanted to surrender to the fat army and continue to be an official, but he was too old, and his body was completely hollowed out by wine, sex and wealth. , He died before dawn, and he didn't even get a chance to kowtow in front of Fatty Lu to surrender.

The only more troublesome thing is Han Daren's side. Everyone knows that mites have owed countless blood debts in Jiangnan, so when Han Daren's army went to the city of Nanjing, the flag guards who were afraid of the fat man's army massacring the city for revenge were naturally risking their lives. Resistance, and the mite people in the mite city, whether they are young and strong, men, women, old or weak, women and children, all climbed the wall of the mite city to fight with the fat man, and the Nanjing mite city is the reconstruction of the former Ming imperial city that the mite people shamelessly invaded , the city wall is the strongest, and the fortifications are the most complete. The fat army led by Han Daren was unable to attack for a while.

But fortunately, Fatty Lu’s mission to Han Daren was to prevent the mite city flag soldiers from making trouble in the city and destroying important facilities in Nanjing, so Han Daren was not in a hurry to attack, and soon ordered the entire army to retreat temporarily and defend mite city The entrance and exit leading to the outer city, let go of the road leading to the outside of the city, and let the people in the city flee to the outside of Nanjing—anyway, the fat army is already sure of victory, and it is the same to attack the city early or late. Besides, the fat army has not yet decided whether to massacre Nanjing Mite City to vent hatred for the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

Amidst the sound of thunder and killing, the sky gradually brightened, and when it was finally fully lit, twelve of the thirteen city gates of Nanjing City, except the Chaoyang Gate leading to the outside of the city, had already fallen into the hands of the Fatty Army. , the Qing army guards in the city have basically been wiped out, and the fat man army officers and soldiers have also begun to divide their forces. While maintaining order in the city under the guidance of the leading party, posting bulletins to appease the people, while checking the city's big and small Qing officials. In the mansion, the fugitive Miqing officials were hunted down, the governor of Liangjiang, A Xixu, who hid in the brothel but was betrayed by the turtle, and Cao Yin's father, Jiang Ning, weaving Cao Xi, who hid under the concubine's bed, were also captured by the fat man's army. They escorted them all to the downstairs of Shicheng Gate and offered them to Fatty Lu.On the contrary, Jiang Ning's deputy commander, Hale Haqi, fled into Mite City, and is still lingering with Raha, the defender of Mite City.

After taking a nap in the chair for a while and eating some simple dry food, the hour was about to pass, and Fatty Lu, who was a villain, began to summon officials of all sizes in Nanjing who were captured by the Fatty Army. Mu Tianyan who had a relationship with Fatty Lu once.When the old friend met, Fatty Lu asked very strangely: "Lord Mu, if I remember correctly, your Jiangning governor's office should be in Suzhou, right? Why did you come to Nanjing?"

"Back to the general, I was ordered to come to Jiangning City." Mu Tianyan explained with a wry smile: "The general descended from the sky, and came so quickly, I didn't even have a chance to escape back to Suzhou, so I was surrounded Here in Jiangning City."

"Brother Sanhao, Mr. Mu was summoned to Jiangning City by A Xixu." Xie Dong also explained for Mu Tianyan: "Brother Sanhao, you broke Xiergen and Zhao Guozuo in northern Jiangxi, Nanchang and Anqing were in emergency together, and the news just came back In Jiangning, A Xixu hurriedly summoned Mr. Mu to escort a batch of rations to Jiangning, and discussed the preparations for the formation of a new army to prepare for the war, but I didn't expect that you, the third brother, advanced so fast that you reached Nanjing less than a month after the end of the war in northern Jiangxi Under the city, Master Mu is blocked in the city by you."

After all, Xie Dong paused for a moment, and said in a very loyal way: "Brother Sanhao, the younger brother was able to become the prefect of Jiangning, all thanks to Lord Mu's generous support, the reason why the younger brother was able to open the city gate to welcome the army of Sanhao brothers into the city , It all depends on Master Mu's secret assistance, Master Mu has done nothing wrong to the three good brothers, and he has long had the ambition to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and expel the Tartars, and I hope the three good brothers will investigate clearly."

"Really?" Fatty Lu was even more surprised, thinking that some of Lord Wei's good friends were willing to help me fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. The sun must come out from the west, right?Out of curiosity, Fatty Lu couldn't help but asked with a smile: "Lord Mu, are you joking? If I remember correctly, you should be very loyal to the Mangou court?"

"Before, Mu was really loyal to the Manchu Qing court, but at this time, at that time." Mu Tianyan replied neither humble nor overbearing: "When the general sends people to search the residence of the governor of Liangjiang, Ashixu, he will definitely find the Kangxi false emperor. A secret decree was recently given to Axixu—— According to the secret decree, the puppet emperor of Kangxi ordered Axixu to prepare 200 million taels of military pay and 200 million shi of military rations in Jiangning within two months! Now that there is no supply, where does the food come from? In the past three years, in order to supply the needs of the war, the province of Jiangning has paid 760 taels of silver to the Kangxi puppet emperor in addition to taxes, and the private merchants have long been overwhelmed. Where does the money come from to prepare a huge amount of silver taels? Besides scraping the ground for the common people, what else is there to do?"

Speaking of this, Mu Tianyan paused, and added: "Besides, brother Xie is very clear about the status of Master Ashishu. The general must have heard about it. The Kangxi false emperor asked him to prepare 200 million yuan. Two military salaries, he has the imperial decree, at least he dares to seize 500 million taels from the people! The common people are really pitiful. Although Mu Tianyan is not a clean official, he can't bear to continue to help the tyrant. Now the general is coming to the city, thank you Brother has already made an appointment to be an internal response, so why does Mu need to interfere and sabotage Brother Xie's important affairs? Moreover, once Jiangning City is broken, Mu can be relieved of his heavy burden, so why bother to ask for trouble and give it to Xie? Xu acted as a wolfhound, leaving behind eternal infamy?"

"Brother Sanhao, Mr. Mu is indeed a rare official who loves the people." Xie Dong also knelt down to Fatty Lu, cupped his hands and said respectfully: "Brother Sanhao probably doesn't know that Mr. Mu is from Jingning, Gansu Province, and his family background Quite thick, when he was 12 years old, there was a severe drought in Jingning, and the people were hungry. Brother Mu said to his father: "My family has thousands of stones of grain, and the warehouse is full of surplus. Why don't you help the hungry people?" Brother Mu's father was shocked, so he opened Putting food in the warehouse and rescuing countless victims of disasters. I also hope that the three good brothers will not embarrass brother Mu for the sake of brother Mu's love for the people, and also for the sake of being a low-level official."

Fatty Lu didn't answer, he just got up and drew his knife, and strode towards Mu Tianyan. Mu Tianyan showed no fear, just stared at Fatty Lu calmly. Putting the rope on his body, he held Mu Tianyan's hands together, and said to Mu Tianyan, "Brother Mu, Lu just found out today that there are really good officials in this world! Brother Mu, please be respected by my younger brother!"

After all, Fatty Lu really knelt down to salute Mu Tianyan, and Mu Tianyan hurriedly knelt down to return the salute, and said, "You must not do this, a general. Mu is a prisoner, how can he be a general like this?" Great gift?"

"Brother Mu, if you can't afford it, no one in this world can afford it anymore." Fatty Lu said excitedly, "Brother Mu, from today onwards, you are still the governor of Jiangning, but the governor of Jiangning in our Great Zhou!"

"The general loves you so much, how dare Mu refuse to obey his orders?" Mu Tianyan was very forthright, and immediately agreed to work for Fatty Lu, and then said: "If the general trusts the subordinate, you can send an army to go south to Suzhou with the subordinate to serve Generals surrender state capitals along the way."

"Since that's the case, thank you brother Mu." Fatty Lu was overjoyed, and quickly cupped his hands to thank him, and quickly helped Mu Tianyan, and ordered a banquet for him.At this time, the soldiers of the Wu army flew to the city again, saying that the Wu army navy fleet led by Li Guodong had arrived at Yifeng Gate, and Fatty Lu had already learned from Xie Dong that Li Guodong was here because he ambushed the Qing army fleet. I missed the meeting time, so I was overjoyed when I heard the news, and immediately ordered to hear it, and also ordered that A Xixu, Cao Xi and other officials should be put in jail temporarily, while I waited for Li Guodong and his son, while accompanying Xie Dong and Mu Tianyan for a banquet .

After half an hour, Li Guodong finally led a group of people to the Shicheng Gate. After reaching the tower, Li Guodong immediately knelt down to Fatty Lu without saying a word, and offered to ask for his sin: "The crime will cause Li Guodong to delay the military plane. Please die to the general! Just because..."

"General Li, needless to say." Fatty Lu hurried up to help Li Guodong himself, and said with a smile, "I already know the reason. The Nichakou battle was a beautiful one. It killed the main force of Jiangning Mangou in one go, greatly reducing the pressure on Li Guodong. The siege pressure of our army has laid a solid foundation for our army to capture Nanjing. Although you did not participate in the siege in this battle, you have made great contributions!"

"Thank you, General." Li Guodong first thanked him respectfully, and then said with a smile on his face: "Probably because of the blessing of the heroic spirit of our Great Ming Taizu, the main force of Mangou rushed to Anqing by boat, and there is no warship to protect it. The last general found this piece of fat delivered to his door, so he boldly gave up the plan to join forces with the general, and set up an ambush at Nichakou, and he really killed the dog-filled troop fleet. Afterwards, the last general arrived in Taiping Hearing that the general had come to attack Jiangning, he asked Quanzi to lead a fleet to assist General Wang Xu in defending the city and prevent Anqing Mangou from reinforcing Nanjing. He led an army to escort the artillery and ammunition to Nanjing for the general to attack. For the city."

Speaking of this, Li Guodong added with some embarrassment: "It's just that I didn't expect that in just one night, the general had already captured Nanjing City, and the artillery ammunition sent by the general was basically useless."

"Who said it's useless?" Fatty Lu retorted: "There are still some of them dying in Mite City. If your artillery and ammunition are delivered in time, the pressure on us to attack Mite City will be much easier."

"Then the general will go to Mite City to help the battle!" Li Guodong is also eager to make contributions, and immediately said: "The final general's fleet has brought more than 3000 fresh troops, which is just right for our infantry and cavalry to take a rest. The final general asks the general for permission , let the last general go and lead the army to attack the city."

"Okay, you go." Considering that the infantry and cavalry were indeed extremely exhausted, Fatty Lu agreed to Li Guodong's request in one gulp.In the end, Fatty Lu grabbed Li Guodong again, and whispered in his ear: "But after you arrive at Mite City, you don't have to rush to attack, you can do this..."

After listening to the siege strategy explained by Fatty Lu, Li Guodong took the order and left overjoyed, while Fatty Lu returned to the table and said with a wry smile: "Oh no, I forgot to toast General Li. I don't know if he will." would mind."

"Brother Sanhao still likes to think for others so much, but I think General Li is also a man of temperament, and I don't think he would mind such small things." Xie Dong comforted him, then smiled and said: "By the way, Brother Sanhao, General Li said As for weapons and ammunition—when the city is stabilized and Sanhao brothers are free, they must go to the Jiangning Military Bureau and Artillery Bureau by the Xuanwu Lake, and I have a little surprise for you."

"What surprise?" Fatty Lu asked in a daze.

"Brother Sanhao will know when the time comes." Xie Dong let it go, and said with a smile: "The little brother and Mr. Mu spent a lot of effort to get those things, and they are useless in the hands of Man Gou, but in the hands of Brother Sanhao , might be of great help.”

"What? Brother Xie, tell me quickly!" Fatty Lu was even more curious, and hurriedly asked, and said that he would go to the military camp to check immediately.

"General, you don't have to run so hard, I'll tell you." Seeing that Fatty Lu was very anxious, Mu Tianyan took the initiative to reveal the mystery, and said with a smile: "Jiangning City's Ordnance Bureau and Artillery Bureau In addition to a large number of raw materials for making guns and more than 5 catties of gunpowder, there are also more than 40 catties of bile alum, 10,000+ catties of diatomaceous earth, 12 catties of saltpeter, and by the way, more than 1 catties Seaweed ash, more than 8 catties of ointment."

"Bile alum? Diatomaceous earth? Saltpeter? Seaweed ash? Ointment?" Fatty Lu was dumbfounded, and after a while he exclaimed and asked, "How do you know our new gunpowder formula?!"

"Brother Sanhao, this is too simple." Xie Dong explained with a smile: "Brother Sanhao, you created a new type of gunpowder. Although we didn't know the craftsmanship before, it is too simple to know your main formula. You can easily find out what kind of new gunpowder you have used to prepare the new gunpowder, or even get a few samples. Therefore, the Emperor Mangou decreed, let us Jiangning City Hoard these materials in large quantities, and ask for as much as possible, let the craftsmen explore the preparation, and at the same time find ways to spy on your new-style gunpowder preparation process, as soon as you have the craft, you can prepare a large amount of new-style gunpowder.”

"Then how did you get so much? Isn't it too exaggerated?" Fatty Lu continued to ask dumbfounded.

"As long as you have money, manpower and material resources, these things are not difficult to get at all." Mu Tianyan said with a smile: "For example, gallstones are everywhere in the Tongling Mansion in the upper reaches of Nanjing. Usually no one wants them. Copper mines are everywhere. A false decree by Emperor Kangxi allowed the copper mines in Tongling to be exploited in large quantities, and within half a year, hundreds of thousands of catties could be obtained. If it weren’t for the fact that the warehouses couldn’t hold them all, and they never knew what to do with the copper mines. With gunpowder, the quantity must be more than now."

Fatty Lu was even more stunned. He patted the table after a while, and sighed sincerely: "Kang Mazi, you are a good man!"

(End of this chapter)