Chapter 95 Xiao Qiyuan commits suicide (please subscribe for support)

Author: Scholar Wu

Chapter 95 Xiao Qiyuan commits suicide (please subscribe for support)

Hangzhou Mancheng is the first large-scale Mancheng built by the Eight Banners in the south of the Yangtze River. The construction of Mancheng is actually different from the "enclosure" in the north, but in essence it is used by the Eight Banners to exploit Han people and wealthy households.

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Because it is close to the West Lake, it was once a gathering place for the rich in the Ming Dynasty, and it can be said to be the "golden area" of Hangzhou City. In order to build the city, the Eight Banners forcibly demolished houses and relocated people here, causing a large number of people to be displaced. It also hindered the residents of Hangzhou.

The main access to Gushan and West Lake has had a great impact on the local economy and people's livelihood.

Not only that, the settled Eight Banners quickly took advantage of their own advantages to occupy people's property and engage in loan sharking activities. People who were unable to repay the loan sharks in time were forcibly captured and used as their own domestic slaves, and the Hangzhou government was powerless to do anything about it.

When Hangzhou Mancheng was first built, no Han people were allowed to enter. However, with the booming loan sharking industry, the business acumen of these Eight Banners men was gradually stimulated. So Mancheng gradually allowed ordinary merchants to pass through. Of course,

The prerequisite is to pay a hefty "toll".

In addition to the thousands of Eight Banner family members, there are also many domestic slaves in the city of Hangzhou. However, with the annihilation of the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, there are only a few hundred Eight Banners, old and weak, who have taken up arms in the city.

Guard the whole city.

As the old Eight Banner during the Nurhaci period, Lu Dahai was once the Niulu Zhangjing of the Zhenghong Banner. Now the whole city of Hangzhou is leaderless, and he, the most senior, was elected to command this group of old, weak, women and children.

However, as the master of Mancheng in Hangzhou, these Eight Banners are still "unstoppable". If it were not for the urgent siege by the Ming army, Lu Dahai would not even allow the Green Camp of Hangzhou to enter Mancheng. He told Xiao Qiyuan that everyone in the Eight Banners

They are skilled with bows and horses, and if necessary, even the old, weak, women and children can take up arms to defend the city.

At this time, Lu Dahai only had hundreds of children in their early teens and elderly people over 60 years old. However, as the proud Eight Banners of Manchuria, they still could not accept the reality that they needed Green Camp to help defend the city.

Lu Dahai made things difficult for Hou Qianhai's subordinates in every possible way. Not only did he call him a slave in person, but he also kept withholding supplies that should be sent to the Green Camp. Hou Qianhai was furious.

Therefore, facing the olive branch offered by the Ming army, Hou Qianhai readily accepted it.

Hou Qianhai directly opened the Qiantang Gate and put the Chongming Battalion into Mancheng. However, Lu Shanhai had already received orders from Qian Mo. The Chongming Battalion was only responsible for occupying various gates in Mancheng and would not participate in the massacre of the Eight Banners family members in the city.

On the one hand, the reputation of massacre of women and children was not good, and Qian Mo did not want Lu Shanhai to get this "notoriety".

What's more important is that Qian Mo is currently short of troops and needs to quickly absorb a large number of Qing troops who have surrendered. Hou Qianhai massacred the entire city, so naturally he completely sided with Qian Mo, so Qian Mo could use him with confidence and boldness.

Since Zhang Tianlu, the Jiangnan admiral, was killed by his subordinates before, Hou Qianhai was the first general of the Qing army to formally pledge allegiance to Qian Mo, and this man did not have many blood debts from the Han people, so Qian Mo naturally wanted to promote him and put him in a more important position.

All at once.

Although his calf was injured and he had difficulty moving, Hou Qianhai also understood the importance of obtaining the "certificate of surrender" from Mancheng, and still personally directed the massacre of the Eight Banners family members.

Hou Qianhai led his men into the general's office in the southwest corner of the city and killed everyone on sight without saying a word.

After all, Lu Dahai was old and had already fallen asleep at this time. However, as soon as he heard the shouts of killing outside, he quickly got up, picked up his saber and rushed into the courtyard.

I could only hear screams everywhere in the yard. The coated slaves had already knelt down and surrendered. The remaining women and children were being hacked to death by these "dog slaves". A Manchu boy in his early ten years slashed at a Green Camp soldier with a knife.

, was instantly pierced through the chest by two spears.

Lu Dahai was furious. The sixty-year-old old man felt like wind was blowing under his feet. He quickly rushed to the two green soldiers. He held the opponent's spear and raised his hand to chop them down with a knife.

He hit the soldier. Then he nimbly dodged another soldier's spear, got up and slashed at him.

At this time, he felt as if he was several decades younger and had endless strength. How could these cowardly Han people stop him, a warrior of the Eight Banners? In the blink of an eye, 4 or 5 Green Camp soldiers were killed by them.

Suddenly there was a "bang" sound, and his calf was hit by a firecracker. He had to kneel down on one knee, and the nearby Green Camp took the opportunity to put a knife and gun on his neck.

Unwilling to be humiliated, Lu Dahai still held his knife on the ground and tried to stand up. He could not kneel down to these Han "dog slaves". So a soldier directly pierced his other leg with a spear, forcing him to kneel down.

On the ground.

At this time, Lu Dahai ignored the pain in his legs and struggled desperately like a crazy beast. His gray braids and blood stains on his face made him look particularly ferocious.

When he saw Hou Qianhai, he even cursed loudly: "Hou Qianhai, you are a bitch and a slave. If you dare to cause trouble, you will die a good death."

Seeing Lu Dahai's furious look, Hou Qianhai was not angry and said: "Come here, bring me this old Tartar son of a bitch."

I saw Lu Dahai's 7-year-old grandson being dragged over by his pigtails by a green camp soldier. The green camp soldier even cursed and said: "You are an immature wolf cub, and you actually bit me. If it weren't for the general

If Lord Bing wanted to live, I would have killed him long ago."

Lu Dahai's two sons and several older grandsons had all been killed in the battle before, and this little grandson was his only thought.

At this time, Hou Qianhai said with a smile: "You damn old Tatar, as long as you call me 'master' and say 'slaves deserve to die', I will give you and me a happy death."

"Did you see that pot? Otherwise I will cook this little brat in front of you."

This scene is actually not unfamiliar to Lu Dahai. From Liaodong to the Central Plains and then to Jiangnan, he has tortured and killed Han people countless times and treated them as slaves.

In his eyes, this was a matter of course. These "Han dogs" were born to be slaves of the Manchus. However, when this "naturalness" reflected itself on him, he could no longer accept it.

In fact, Lu Dahai's heart had begun to collapse. He wanted to beg for mercy, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them out.

At this time, he could only look at Hou Qianhai with pleading eyes, hoping that this former slave could give him a trace of mercy so that his little grandson could die happily.

It's just that he has seen too many pleading eyes like this, but how has he ever given those people even a trace of mercy?

Maybe this is the reincarnation of heaven and retribution.

He no longer had the courage to read any more, so he had to close his eyes silently and accept God's punishment for him.

Suddenly there was a "bang" sound, and his grandson was directly shot to death by Huang Bao.

Huang Bao said: "Qian Mo, the governor of Suhu in the Ming Dynasty, has issued an order: all the family members of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia in the city of Hangzhou will be executed, and the rest will be escorted to Tianmu Mountain for work. All the forced Han slaves will be released. Our officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are not allowed to annihilate women.

Seize people's property and offenders will be killed without mercy."

"I also hope that General Hou will restrain his men and not violate Governor Qian's orders."

Now that he was angry enough, Hou Qianhai was not in the mood to play with Lu Dahai anymore, so he chopped off his head with a knife and ordered all the Eight Banners family members in the city to be executed.

It has to be said that these Tatars are barbaric in nature, even the old, weak, women and children are capable of fighting. After the Ming army wiped out the Tatars all over the city walls, the Green Camp massacred these old, weak, women and children and even killed dozens of people.

Before dawn, the Ming army successively captured other city gates in Hangzhou, as well as the Gunpowder Bureau, Manufacturing Bureau, Hangzhou Governor's Yamen and other important locations.

Most of the other sects were young men temporarily recruited by Xiao Qiyuan. They quickly surrendered without much resistance. Only the Qing army from the Wulin sect was the main force of Xiao Qiyuan's men. When the guard saw that the Ming army was

A direct attack on the Wulin Gate from both sides of the city walls and inside the city concluded that Hangzhou City had been lost. They simply gave up the city gate and led hundreds of people to escape directly from Hangzhou City.

Fortunately, Qian An's Jiaxing camp was equipped with war horses and quickly caught up with and intercepted them, annihilating this part of the Qing army by the Guxin River.

At this time, except for Xiao Yuanshan who led less than 1,500 remaining soldiers and was trapped on Wushan Mountain in Hangzhou City, the entire Hangzhou had been occupied by the Ming army.

Wushan is located in the southwest corner of Hangzhou City. It has undulating mountains, with Qiantang River on the left and West Lake on the right. It is composed of Baoyue, Emei, Qianshan, Ziyang, Qibao, Yunju and other hills. The height of the mountains is no more than 100 meters.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Yue fought for the land, so it was named Wu Mountain; it is also said that Wu was mistakenly named Wu because of Wu Zixu, so there was Zixu Temple on the mountain, so it was called Xu Mountain; during the Wuyue Kingdom in the Five Dynasties, there was a City God Temple on the mountain, also known as City God Mountain; in the Tang Dynasty,

At that time, it was often called Qingshan, but now it is generally called Wushan.

Its east, north and northwest are mostly overlooking the streets and streets. To the south, you can overlook the Qiantang River and Pingchou on both sides of the bank. Going up to Wushan Mountain, you still have the feeling of flying above and beyond. You can also take in the scenic spots of Hangzhou's river, mountains, lakes and city. It is a famous attraction in Hangzhou.

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Gu Yanwu sighed: "There are many Taoist temples and historical sites on Wu Mountain. It is a pity that it has become a battlefield. Is Xiao Qiyuan really determined to fight to the end?"

Huang Yu said: "Xiao Qiyuan has refused to surrender. Now we have no choice but to attack the mountain by force."

Qian Mo said: "It seems that Xiao Qiyuan is so disappointed with us that he even resorted to the 'think about it' strategy. It's a pity that we don't have time. The reinforcements from Fujian will arrive in Hangzhou in two days, otherwise they can still accompany us."

Xiao Qiyuan, play for a while longer."

"Brothers' lives are the most precious. First seize the Qing army's artillery position on the hilltop in the south. Then directly turn the muzzle of the gun to blast Xiao Qiyuan. There is no need to have any scruples."

Although there were still 10 red-coated cannons on the Qing army's artillery position at this time, the Ming army was already close at hand, and the red-coated cannons with extremely slow firing rates were almost useless.

The Ming army set up a lightweight squatting cannon and aimed it at the Qing army on the artillery position. The Qing army was unable to shoot at close range targets at all.

Before the charging Ming army could rush into position, the 500 Qing troops above surrendered.

Qian Mo really looked down upon these red cannons of the Qing army, but they could be used to deal with Xiao Qiyuan right now.

The surrendered Qing gunners, under the command of the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, began to turn their guns around and prepare to bombard the Chenghuang Pavilion.

The Chenghuang Pavilion was built in the Southern Song Dynasty. It has brackets and flying eaves, and looks like a fairy-mountain palace standing on the top of Wushan Mountain. It is one of the iconic landscapes of Hangzhou.

Xiao Qiyuan's base camp is located on the Chenghuang Pavilion of the Chenghuang Temple.

Although Wushan itself is not high, it was very difficult for the Ming army to pretend to attack along the mountain road.

The Qing army only needed to throw a few rolling logs down the mountain road to knock down a large area of ​​the Ming army.

Although the Lumi gun had an advantage in terms of range, the Ming army was still unable to attack it, and instead suffered hundreds of casualties.

Fortunately, those who were holding large shields to open the way were all surrendered Qing soldiers, and the Shenji Battalion just hid behind and fired.

Lu Shanhai said: "It would be great if the armored troops from the Jingnan Camp were here. We could use the heavy armored infantry to fight up the mountain."

So Qian Mo ordered Huang Yu to pull all the Tiger Crouching Artillery from the previous artillery positions of the Qing Army. Although it took some time, they had no choice but to use artillery to clear the way.

After all, these Qing troops who surrendered to Qian Mo were also used to collect them, so there was little point in sacrificing themselves here in vain.

This mountain land rover squat gun is the only gun that can be transported after being disassembled. Other artillery pieces are really inconvenient to transport.

But at this time, the red cannon had adjusted its muzzle and started shooting towards the City God's Pavilion in the distance.

Although they were several kilometers apart, fortunately the target was large enough, and some red cannons continued to hit the Chenghuang Pavilion. However, these red cannons were not equipped with explosive bullets, and the lethality of solid bullets could only rely on blind cats to kill mice.

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To be continued...