Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 98

Time hastened to October, and Anlu City was becoming more and more prosperous, but Nanchang, which set off the anti-Tartar tide, was besieged and devastated for a long time.After several months of besieging the city, the price of food in the city increased to 60 taels a stone. The hungry people killed people to eat, and demolished houses to cook.Many people who were not willing to go to the dead came out over the wall, but Tan Tai, the commander of the Tatars, had already ordered that no matter whether deserters or deserters were captured, they would all be slaughtered.As a result, soldiers and civilians who escaped from the city were brutally murdered every day.The city of Nanchang is on the verge of collapse, and it is time for crisis!
At this time, there are many internal contradictions in Remnant, and the struggle continues.The attached peasant army was squeezed out and unable to gather combat power.He Tengjiao, who was in charge of leading the army to attack Hunan, had generals who were afraid of death and soldiers who were cowardly. , The Qing army was in disarray, invincible against each other, lost ten thousand ranks, captured ten thousand horses, captured all the wind cranes, and ten thousand big yellow boats abandoned the river and rushed down the river mouth, and the city of Hui was settled."

"Today, Jin and Wang Rifa's forward Liu Yipeng led 28 troops, joined the army in Chu, listened to the dispatch of the supervisor, and the fire cards went straight to Ling County. Gaolu of Ganzhou heard that Li Chengdong's [-] troops had arrived in Nanxiong. On September [-], he fled into Xingguo, In the valley area of ​​Yudu, the officials of Ji and Jiangxi have been appointed, and the two prefectures are in peace."

It was He Tengjiao who lied about the great victories in Nanchang, Ji'an, and Ganzhou in Jiangxi, which made the court of the remnant Ming naturally think that the siege of Nanchang had been lifted and there was no need to rescue it.Therefore, the reinforcements that Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren were looking forward to never arrived.Nanchang City could only resist alone.

Not only that, He Tengjiao is also jealous of the virtuous and capable, because he ruined the good situation because of his own selfishness.

In the fifth year of Shunzhi and April in the second year of Yongli, Du Yinxi and Ma Jinzhong took advantage of the opportunity of the three traitors Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi to withdraw from Hunan and regain Changde.Afterwards, Chen Youlong, the general who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, also announced in Jingzhou that he would oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and led his people to join him.

Chen Youlong was originally Liu Chengyin's general, but he was forced to surrender by the master general.Because he was unwilling to surrender, the tartars forced him to lead troops to attack He Tengjiao's hometown and captured He Tengjiao's family members in order to persecute him.

Anyway, after that, Chen Youlong's troops attacked cities and villages all the way, including Jingzhou, Liping, Wugang, Xinhua, Baoqing and other places.All of a sudden, Remnant Ming's momentum in Hunan rose sharply, and he was on the verge of winning Changsha.

At this time, He Tengjiao, who had been hiding in Guilin, Guangxi, was eager to steal the first contribution to Fuxiang.And because of his grievances with Chen Youlong, he actually ordered Nan'an Hou Hao Yongzhong to lead his troops from Liuzhou north to Jingzhou area to attack Chen Youlong's troops.Unprepared, Chen Youlong's entire army was defeated, and fled to Guangxi with the remnants of the defeated soldiers to appeal to the Yongli court.

He Tengjiao's move provoked the Ming army to kill each other, and single-handedly ruined the overall strategic situation of restoring Hunan and aiding Jiangxi.Because of the self-confrontation of the Nanming army, the Qing army in Hunan was able to breathe.Delaying the recovery of Quanxiang and the rescue of Jiangxi Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren caused extremely serious consequences.

Li Chengdong also rescued Nanchang twice.In July, Li Chengdong led [-] troops out of Nanxiong for the first time to attack Ganzhou and rescue Nanchang.Gao Jinku, the guard of Ganzhou, pretended to surrender, and Gao Jinku said that if the Qing army did not arrive in autumn, he would pay money and surrender.

In late September, when Li Chengdong attacked Ganzhou for the second time, the governor of Jiangxi Liu Wuyuan sent the dead to the city at night to attack, and then divided his troops into east, west and south to defeat him.Li Chengdong rode his horse and ran first, and the soldiers rushed to cross the river to escape. Tens of thousands of people drowned, and the vitality of the Ming army was seriously injured.Li Chengdong was forced to withdraw his troops from Nan'an and return to Guangzhou.

In this way, even though the Yuyuan Army, Lvliangshan Rebel Army, and Guanzhong Peasant Rebel Army launched a wide-ranging offensive in the rear of the Tartars, the area controlled by Remnant expanded to Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Guangdong provinces for a while. .However, with the precarious situation in Nanchang and the failure of Li Chengdong's two rescue efforts, Remnant's momentum has declined.

History always makes people sigh like this, and good opportunities slip away from Remnant's hands time after time.It seems that this further proves that the Tartars are really destined.

Fortunately, behind the Tartars, there is still an army determined to resist the Tartars.

In the past two months, the headquarters of the security regiment mobilized two battalions of troops to ransack the homes of hundreds of landlords in De'an Prefecture. While confiscating countless gold, silver and grain, it also destroyed the local ruling structure and created an opportunity for the farmers' association to enter the country. The countryside has laid a good foundation.

At the same time of great development, Qiu Tianxing felt that he had too few manpower, especially the lack of local cadres.Just hundreds of people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, if they are all spread out, I am afraid that there will be less than one cadre in a village!
Although some bureaucrats from the former Ming Dynasty and officials from the Tazi court wanted to join the security regiment system, Qiu Tianxing was more hesitant.In the [-] Revolution in the previous life, a large number of bureaucrats and constitutionalists were mixed into the revolutionary system in this way.Although it effectively fueled the progress of the revolution, the power that originally belonged to the revolutionary party has since fallen by the wayside.

Qiu Tianxing wasn't worried about the loss of power to the security group, but what he was worried about was that these people's anti-Tartar spirit was not strong, and they might surrender in the face of the threats and lures of the Tartars.The damage to the security group will be far greater than the damage to the Tartars.

Not afraid of god-like opponents, but afraid of pig-like teammates.

Therefore, after gritting his teeth, Qiu Tianxing gave up his desire to rapidly expand the power of the security group, and determined to be self-reliant.Except for a few trusted subordinates and family members of the regiment headquarters, Qiu Tianxing trusted no one, let alone those outside the security regiment system.

Therefore, constrained by the lack of grassroots cadres, the security regiment slowly slowed down the establishment of peasant associations in various places.

At the same time, the military security regiment has not made much progress in restoring combat power.Although a large number of weapons were seized in the last battle of Anlu, compared to the expanded number of security forces, weapons are still lacking.Often two or even three people share a weapon, and they have to divide it up during training. One pair practices stabbing, and the other pair can only practice goose steps.Although many blacksmith shops worked hard to make weapons every day, they still couldn't get enough.

As the landlords in De'an Mansion were wiped out, the morale of the regiment members gradually dropped.There is no military salary for regiment members, and the only way to make money is to seize them.Home raids are also a way of seizure.Therefore, no capture means no income. Although I can eat three meals a day, I still think about the white money and bright copper in my heart.

Civil affairs, military affairs, food, taxation, public security, etc., all these made Qiu Tianxing extremely worried.The joy of taking down Anlu City and setting up a security regiment earlier has long since disappeared, and all that remains is worry.The young Qiu Tianxing now has several gray hairs.

It's just that even though he is worried every day, Qiu Tianxing is still concerned about the battle situation in Nanchang.

The lips are dead, the teeth are cold, once Nanchang is broken, and Guangdong is lost, the Tartars will definitely sweep the rear with soldiers, and their team will be in danger.The three traitor teams of Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi stationed in Wuchang and Hankou are not far from De'an Mansion, and they can approach the city within a few days.

Worried, Qiu Tianxing ignored everyone's busy affairs and invited Zhou Zhen, Liu Jincai, Zhang Zhuangcheng, Zhang Liansheng and Zhang Chengwu to discuss countermeasures together.

(End of this chapter)