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Chapter 1 Sixty, Nanjing!Nanjing!
The raging flames of war are burning in Jinling, the largest city in the world!

In the past, the Qinhuai River, full of incomplete corpses, was full of incomplete corpses on the Qinhuai River, which was full of paper and gold. .

Facing the bloody swords and guns and the raging fire, millions of Nanjing citizens who were belatedly realized that they were in the battlefield all of a sudden, could not help but howl like ghosts and wolves, and ran away with their heads in their arms, but thousands of them still died in the Under sword and fire.

And more and more troops are still entering this largest city in China, turning all the prosperity into ashes.

In the early days of this battle, both the Ming army and the Qing army each controlled half of Nanjing City, fighting both inside and outside the city.

Judging from the comparison of military strength, Emperor Chongzhen brought over 5000 soldiers and horses from Dashengguan, plus the cronies and armed tenants mobilized by the nobles of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing City, there were more than 6000 people in total.The Qing army around Huang Taiji only had [-] people, plus his allies, that is, the few remaining buddies that the gentlemen of Donglin could still control, the total number was no more than [-], which was equivalent to a pair of ten on the battlefield.

However, although Emperor Chongzhen's Ming army had [-] people, it contained a lot of moisture.Because there are not only many mobs temporarily mobilized by Wei Guogong and other Nanjing nobles-the elite Ding family generals who are more capable of fighting, after all, they are only a few, and there are also [-] soldiers from the original Nanjing court who were taken in in the Battle of Wuhu. Loyalty is very worrying.That is to say, nearly half of the [-] Ming troops were made up.

Even among the remaining more than 3 Ming troops, not all of them were soldiers who could go into battle, but all the coolies and handymen were included.

On the other hand, although there were only 6000 people in Huang Taiji at the beginning, 5000 of them were elites of the Eight Banners who were used to fighting tough battles.Moreover, his follow-up troops are still rushing over from the Zhenjiang Ferry in the east for reinforcements.In addition, before Emperor Chongzhen sent troops into the city, Huang Taiji took control of the Imperial City of Nanjing one step ahead.

But despite this, the strength advantage of the Ming army is still obvious.Moreover, whether it is the rice fields in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River or the narrow streets and alleys in the city of Jinling, they are extremely unsuitable places for northern cavalry to gallop. They can't even form a more complicated infantry phalanx. brawl.The Qing army, accustomed to defeating enemies in field battles and galloping on iron cavalry, was obviously not very adaptable to such low-tech battles.

In order to boost morale, Emperor Chongzhen erected a yellow canopy on the Zhengyang Gate, and personally beat the drum with a hammer to encourage the soldiers to fight the enemy bravely.Coach Lu Xiangsheng set up the only few heavy artillery at hand on the ruins of Stone City, a military fortress with a long history in Nanjing, and violently bombarded the blocks where the Qing army gathered.As for the citizens in Nanjing, although they were deeply resentful towards the Ming and Qing armies that caused this catastrophe, they still hate the Jurchen Tartars with ugly braids more than the familiar Ming army. When the opportunity arises, they attack these Tartars in groups.

In the extremely chaotic street fighting, even women and children holding bricks and sticks are useful.No matter how good your kung fu is, you can knock down a brick if you throw it over. The seemingly inconspicuous bricks and sticks are quite powerful in sneak attacks in alleys.

As a result, as a large number of Ming troops entered the city one after another, as well as the siege of Nanjing citizens, the four thousand Qing troops under Huang Taiji's command were squeezed out of Nanjing little by little despite their efforts to fight.The Nanjing city gates that were originally controlled by the Qing army also changed hands one after another.

Although Huang Taiji did not care about his dignity as the emperor, he risked his life to lead a team to fight in the streets and alleys of Nanjing. Even two of the horses under his crotch were knocked over, and two flower pots were hit on his head and back. , a brick, a sap, and a small half pot of boiling water, he was finally beaten to the point of bleeding and passed out, but this heroic performance of the first soldier still could not restore the decline of the Qing army and its allies of the Donglin Party.After a day and night of melee, the Ming army first blasted Hongwu Gate with artillery, broke into the imperial city, and regained the key stronghold of the imperial palace.Then it continued to compress the space for the activities of the remaining Qing troops, and once besieged Huang Taiji near the Shence Gate.When the situation of the Qing army was at its most critical, Huang Taiji himself was unconscious, with less than a hundred guards around him. The left and right attendants had already shaved his head, put on monk clothes, and were going to try to escort him to escape disguised as a monk.

However, because Emperor Chongzhen's navy was relatively weak and unable to cut off the Yangtze River route, the Qing army, which had previously assembled in Yangzhou in the north of the Yangtze River, was constantly crossing the river to help.And Huang Taiji was ruthless in order to seize Jiangnan, betting almost all of the Qing Empire's betting capital in one go.In addition to leaving the Zhengbai and Xiangbai banner soldiers and horses of the three brothers Dorgon, who were responsible for staying in the rear base camps of Xuzhou and Lunan, the Manchurian soldiers of the other six banners, and the remaining Han army flags, Mongolian army flags, etc. , as well as the obedient Han soldiers from all walks of life, all of them were dragged to Jiangnan by him!

In this way, since the Ming army failed to wipe out Huang Taiji's vanguard of the Qing army in a short period of time, as one after another Qing army arrived from Zhenjiang one after another, the battlefield situation in Nanjing gradually began to reverse again.The encirclement circle of Shence Gate that was once formed was broken away by the back-up Qing army, and Huang Taiji also turned the corner.Next, from Xuanwu Lake, Mufu Mountain, to Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum in Zhongshan, it became a battlefield where the two armies fought fiercely.

As the delusion of the quick battle went bankrupt, the disorderly and chaotic battle continued day after day, and one after another exquisite temple or mansion was burned to the ground. Although the Ming army still had the upper hand, it was still unable to win a complete victory, and even continued Can't control the whole city of Nanjing.

Since the Nanjing Imperial Palace was too close to the front line of the battlefield where the two sides fought repeatedly, and had become dilapidated in the flames of war, Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to set up an imperial camp in the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum in Zhongshan. A long and hard battle.But Huang Taiji set up a big camp in Yanziji at the foot of the Shogunate Mountain, and swore to the Eight Banners soldiers that he would never give up until he took Nanjing this time!
It should be noted that although Huang Taiji’s Qing army is a foreign guest army, it is not without supporters in this area of ​​Jiangnan—just like a person who wants to commit suicide, if one suicide fails, they usually don’t have the courage to start a second one immediately. Like suicide.The Donglin party members who had already been discouraged by the situation saw that the Qing army was marching south, and it seemed that the Emperor Chongzhen who came to settle accounts with them might not be able to sit in the Golden Luan Hall, so their thoughts fluttered again.

Among them, the two masterminds of the "borrowing teachers to assist in the suppression" this time, the chief assistant Zhou Yanru and his student Zhang Pu, one was on the Nanjing battlefield to guide the Qing army on geography and raise food and fodder, and the other was to supervise the navy ships at the Zhenjiang Ferry. Yangzhou transported Qing soldiers and horses.And some other Donglin gentlemen who hadn't run far also stood up one after another. Although the regular army under the Nanjing court had all collapsed, these people quickly organized a vote by virtue of their local influence. The mob came to Nanjing to help the "Friends of the Qing Dynasty" on the battlefield, and went to Nanjing to grab something.

However, although the Donglin Party is a local snake in the south of the Yangtze River, the current Emperor Chongzhen is also not considered an outsider.

After discovering that these Donglin gentlemen, who are full of moral articles, have once again refreshed their lower limit, so much so that they do not hesitate to seek refuge with the Tartars and oppose themselves, the orthodox emperor, to the end. While urging reinforcements from the rear of Huguang and Jiangxi, he immediately summoned the nobles of Nanjing who had defected to him, as well as the local officials who had defected to him, and asked them to mobilize the villagers to crusade against the Donglin rebellious party, and the women who got the wealth could take it for themselves Of.As a result, it quickly led to a sharp expansion of the scale and scope of the war.

——The Donglin Party in the south of the Yangtze River has of course had no father, no king, and no government in these years, and even advocated the liberalization of the landlord class like the Polish farm owners at the same time.However, the 200-year orthodox authority of the Ming court represented by Emperor Chongzhen is not so easy to obliterate after all.And the local forces in the south of the Yangtze River have not yet reached the level where the Donglin Party can overwhelm the sky with one hand-after all, the Donglin Party is not a modern revolutionary party with a strict structure and a commanding hand, but a loose political club similar to the landlords and gentry. Organization, joining the party and leaving the party are commonplace.However, it is impossible for the big gentry in any place to be monolithic, so as many local supporters as the Donglin Party has, there are also as many deadly enemies.

More importantly, friends who have studied zoology know that even the most primitive paramecium has the biological instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, let alone humans with rich thinking ability?Right now, the false Emperor Yonghe supported by the Donglin Party has fled without a trace. If he doesn't make things right and returns to His Majesty Chongzhen's camp, what choice can he make?Are you going to be a slave to these stinky Jurchen Tartars?
As a result, under the torment of these two major political forces, large-scale gang fights broke out among landlords and regiments first in the surrounding area of ​​Nanjing, and then in the whole of Jiangnan.Many big landlords raised their respective banners and settled their old and new enmity with knives and guns.In addition, all kinds of rice-grabbing riots among the people have not yet subsided, and the chaotic parties organized by martial arts heroes from all walks of life are still jumping. In addition, there are branches of the Wenxiang Sect, which also follow the Qing army across the river. They entered the folks in the south of the Yangtze River together and caused all kinds of disturbances...Ming army, Qing army, cults, landlords, water bandits, bandits, hungry people, all kinds of forces appeared together, making this peaceful and rich Jiangnan water town, It was completely smashed into a pot of porridge.

On November 3, the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Ming and Qing armies, which had been stalemate for many days, finally formed a general confrontation on the Nanjing battlefield.Among them, after many times of reinforcements and daily attrition, the Qing army had about 9 people left, entrenched in the Mufu Mountain area on the banks of the Yangtze River, and at the same time controlled a small urban area near Shence Gate in the north of Nanjing.The total strength of the Ming army reached [-], and they occupied the Zhongshan Lizhai where the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is located. At the same time, they controlled most of the urban area of ​​Nanjing. Advantage.

At this point, a big battle that will determine the future fate of the south will soon be waged on the narrow plain on the east bank of Xuanwu Lake between Shogunate Mountain and Zhongshan Mountain. Sitting in the Jinluan Temple in Nanjing, reuniting the fragmented Ming Empire, or conquering the south of the Yangtze River by the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, and reviving the short-lived Qing Empire, all must come to a result in this decisive battle.

However, just when the decisive battle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties was about to break out, Emperor Chongzhen, who had been exhausted from fighting in Nanjing for a long time, was just clenching his teeth with a spirit, but learned from a travel-worn envoy that Bad news about a fire in his own backyard.

"...What? Has Huguang changed? Wuchang and Xiangyang have fallen?! Wen Tiren and the chief assistant have escaped with the queen and prince?!"

——When Emperor Chongzhen and Huang Taiji fought fiercely in Nanjing, the rogues who had been dormant in the Central Plains for a long time took the opportunity to launch a big operation and went straight to his rear: Li Zicheng entered Xiangyang from Henan and swept the upper reaches of the Han River; Zhang Xianzhong from Huaixi They crossed the Dabie Mountains and entered Hanyang, and then crossed the river and captured Wuchang.Wen Tiren, the chief assistant who was staying in Wuchang, was unable to resist at all, so he had to escort the royal family members to board the ship, and hurriedly fled downstream.

What's more terrible is that before Emperor Chongzhen ordered the news to be blocked, the bad news had already spread in the army...