Chapter 92 Like Last Night (Part 2)
Defeat is as unstoppable as the collapse of a mountain.
The western gap that was heavily defended by the Qing army suddenly collapsed in just a quarter of an hour. The Ming army took advantage of the situation and rushed in, easily climbing over the inner city wall that was only one person high. At the same time, using readily available tools such as beams and wood, the inner city wall was built.
Holes were soon opened one after another, and more Ming troops poured in more smoothly.
All the ministries entering the city have their own tasks. Some are responsible for capturing landmark buildings, such as Pingnan and Jingnan Palace, such as Zhenhai Tower in the north of the city and Yongfengcang in the south, such as all levels of government offices in the city, and various city gates and
Gongbei Tower and other places in the city. With these key points, the entire city of Guangzhou can be controlled. As for the others, the remnants of the Qing army can be wiped out in all lanes.
After the Qing army occupied Guangzhou four years ago, they killed all the local people and took the huge old city as their own. The soldiers of the two vassals of Pingnan and Jingnan, their families, and slaves occupied the area.
Although the entire old city did not have the name of being a city, it was actually a city. The local officials of the Qing government were all moved into the narrow new city. Now the common people in the city who are not directly under the palace can enter the city.
They all live there.
The Ming army entered from the northwest of the city, and it was not very safe to find a leading party. Fortunately, Chen Kai rescued a large number of people. Each department of the Ming army was assigned guides. With those guides leading the way based on their memory, each Ming army rushed to the direction as planned.
respective areas of responsibility.
Screams, curses, and cries started one after another in the northwest of the city, and quickly spread to the surrounding areas. In the west city of Guangzhou, Jinyu Lane, which is not far from Guangxiao Temple and the West City Wall, can be regarded as
Although the only road from the gap in the northwest of the city to the west gate is just one of many roads that must be passed, there is still a group of Ming troops holding bright weapons and running straight under the leadership of the guide.
Come here.
"This is Jinyu Lane. My uncle's family, who was a humble employee, lived here back then."
The guide is a native of Guangzhou. His uncle's home is here. In fact, his home is not far from here. It is on the other side of Guangxiao Temple. The relationship between the two families has always been excellent, but when the city was destroyed,
While their family was trying their best to flee south, his uncle's family was reluctant to leave their homeland and were reluctant to part with the family fortune. As a result, they did not get the news until they arrived in Chaozhou, saying that the Qing army had carried out a massacre there, and the people who stayed in the city were
They were all dead. Thinking about it, his uncle's family was probably also unlucky.
This group of Ming troops is the unit of Liao Yubiao, the commander of the Wuying Battalion under Li Dingguo. This unit fought against the Qing army in the Battle of Jiangmen and made outstanding achievements. Therefore, after defeating the city of Guangzhou, the tasks assigned to it were relatively easy, and the oil and water were also relatively easy.
There were more, and that was to clear out the remnants of the Qing army in an area west of the city.
When they were in Xinhui, they had heard too many scattered stories about the Guangzhou Massacre. When they heard the word "uncle" and saw some pain and anger on the guide's face, they knew what was going on. After hearing this, the leader
The officer patted the guide's arm and said that the army had entered the city to avenge the victims.
"The general's words are right, Mr. Chen also said so."
After rushing into Jinyu Lane, the first few courtyards were wide open. It seemed that everyone had escaped because of the fighting in the northwest of the city. I sent some people to go in and look around, but no one was found. It happened that the guide was leading the team.
, came to a place where the gate was approaching.
"General, this is my uncle's former home."
"Okay, let's start from here, hit the door!"
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In a small alley to the west of Guangxiao Temple, Bakushe, a member of Prince Pingnan's palace, held a knife in his left hand, gritted his teeth, and staggered away towards the west.
He is not left-handed. He had to be like this because his right hand was chopped off at the wrist in the battle just now. At this moment, the incision on the wrist has been tied up with cloth. The cloth came from the armor of another vassal soldier who died in the battle.
What was torn off was a vassal soldier of the Jingnan vassal, and the Han army was carrying a yellow flag. However, by this time, the yellow color on the armor had been eroded by the blood, and nothing was left.
Half a month ago, he went on an expedition with the army. The army was defeated in Jiangmen, and he fled back with Xu Erxian. As a survivor, he was lucky, but this luck was quickly used up as the Ming army besieged the city. When the Ming Dynasty
The army rushed into the city, and Geng Jimao was trapped by the defeated troops and fled. Xu Erxian and them wanted to make a counterattack, but they were quickly killed by the Ming army's gunfire. The two men who escaped together, one of whom had been fighting for many years,
The veterans and a new recruit who had just become a bannerman five years ago all died in that melee with almost no suspense. He was the only one who survived, but only this was left.
With half his life left, all he wanted to do was escape home as soon as possible and try to save the lives of his family.
He stumbled and fled westward, and lived here for four years. He used his familiarity with the terrain to escape the pursuit of two waves of Ming troops. Soon, he escaped to Jinyu Lane, where his home was.
The Eight Banners are both a military unit and an organizational unit of civil affairs. This was the case in Liaodong. After entering the Pass, the Eight Banners lived in separate groups in Beijing and defended the imperial city. The same principle applies to them here. It is nothing more than one city and two
The king, plus the new vassal soldiers who have not joined the banner, are not as neatly divided as in the capital. However, they are still divided into this area, and all the vassal soldiers under his command are
They all live together in an alley.
After desperately escaping, I saw that the exquisite courtyards were mostly wide open. I don’t know if the family members of the vassal soldiers who lived there forgot to close them when they fled, or if they were forcibly opened by the Ming army.
of.
Walking in the alley, there were a lot of randomly discarded things on the ground, ranging from pots and pans to cloth and copper coins. Such scenes reminded him of the time when he was in Dengzhou, when he
He was still an ordinary Liao citizen, and he followed the rebellious Dongjiang army to rob the people of Dengzhou. When Kong Youde and the others couldn't bear it anymore, they fled. For fear of revenge, he did not dare to stay there any longer, so he had to float back to Dongjiang and surrendered.
At that time, Shang Kexi was only the deputy general of Guanglu Island.
Thinking back to that year, from then on, following the Qing army's successive battles and massacres, he reviewed them like a slideshow in his mind. Was it the lack of blood supply to the brain caused by excessive blood loss, or was he in a trance due to being moved by the scene? The only thing he knew was
The Jinyu Alley in front of us was also massacred by a team four years ago. It seemed that this was what we saw when we first entered the alley.
Panting all the way to the door of his house, he found that the exquisite courtyard remained the same, and he seemed not at all surprised by the changes in the king's flag on the city wall in the past four years. However, when he left, the door was obviously forcibly opened from the outside.
, before he could stand still, a woman's scream made his heart plummet to the bottom.
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After successfully knocking open the door, the Ming army swarmed in, and soon cries and screams could be heard in the house.
"Those armed with weapons will be killed without mercy!"
There was loud shouting, and the few slaves in the front yard immediately dropped the sticks in their hands, knelt down and asked to surrender, and loudly stated their status as slaves, trying to let the Ming army understand that they were also enslaved by the Manchus.
, the poor people who oppressed, in order to be tolerated.
Two Ming troops were divided and tied up, one behind the other, in preparation for being taken out as prisoners after the search was completed. The other Ming troops dispersed, kicked open the doors of each room, and captured the vassal soldiers among them.
The family members rushed out one by one and collected every valuable thing they saw.
The guide was very familiar with this place. He pointed out the layout of the house to the Ming army, and the officer rushed in with his subordinates one by one. The officer entered the owner's bedroom. There must be a lot of things there, so the guide took
A commander and several Ming soldiers broke open the door of another room.
The Ming army rushed in, but here was a woman's boudoir. The guide had been here before, because his uncle's little daughter, his little cousin, once lived here. But there are differences between men and women, remember
The only time he came in was when his little cousin got engaged to a classmate and friend of his. The girl was so shy that she secretly asked him about her future husband's situation. She was almost ashamed.
However, four years later, this place was already another woman's boudoir. I rushed into the room and saw no one. I touched the dressing table and there was no dust on it. I guessed that she was probably hiding with her parents, brothers and sisters.
Already.
The Ming army who rushed in was the first time he entered a woman's boudoir. It was as if Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden. One looked through the dressing table, another looked in the clothes cabinet, and another found an embroidered embroidery from somewhere.
Xiao He had just revealed her sharp bellyband, and several boys who had never seen the world started to play and fight over it.
While they were arguing here, Shi Chang's attention shifted from the jewelry on the dressing table to the bed. He walked closer and used a knife to lift off the quilt. Then he thought of something and pulled off the sheet hanging in front of the bed.
Then, a girl with a double bun was pulled out from under the bed.
"Damn it, there's still a little bit of a Tartar girl hiding inside!"
Being pulled out by the chief, the girl immediately screamed, tears welling up in her eyes, and she also shrank back and hid, but one of her arms was helplessly held in someone's hand, and then she
Where can you escape?
Struggling on his own, Na Shichang had a look of resentment on his face. He immediately put the woman on the bed, and then in front of everyone, he directly rode up on the woman, slapped the woman in the face, and tore her clothes.
At first glance, it looks a bit like adultery, but upon closer inspection, it seems more like venting out the hatred that has been suppressed for many years rather than pure desire.
In addition to the guide, most of the Ming soldiers also knew that this leader joined the army after Li Dingguo killed Nikan. According to another man who came with him to surrender, the Eight Banners Army was passing through the border at that time, and his whole family was killed by the Qing army.
Killing Liang was a crime, and when he rushed back, all the men in the village, young and old, had no heads, while his wife and sister were lying naked on the ground, lifeless.
Shi Chang was beating and tearing until everyone stopped playing and looked at the man and woman on the bed with their mouths open, but it was difficult for them to have any charming thoughts in their hearts.
The woman was crying, but her long venting was far from over, or it was just the beginning. At this moment, she seemed to hear the screams, and the officer leading the team rushed in following the sound.
At this scene, he strode forward and pulled the long one down.
"You are so heartless. His Highness said that adultery is strictly prohibited, don't you understand?" Shi Chang fell off the bed, fell hard, then stood up, and even threw himself on the bed.
, but was grabbed by the collar by the officer: "If you take these things back, they will either go into the women's camp or into the government as slaves. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to play when the time comes. Why rush now and violate military law?!"
When the Qing army crossed the border, especially in the warring provinces, they always committed rape, robbery and robbery. The officers could understand Shi Chang's mood, but Li Dingguo had always attached great importance to military discipline since he came out of Yunnan to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and the admonishment of strictly prohibiting adultery was still heard.
, here he dares to commit a crime against the wind, even if he wants to take care of his subordinates, it is not something like this.
The two argued, and the guide watched all of this quietly without saying a word, and he didn't know what he was thinking. But at this moment, a woman dressed as a woman, with disheveled hair, and holding a pair of scissors tightly in both hands
Then he rushed in. Seeing the woman on the bed desperately clutching her clothes and huddled at the foot of the bed, she rushed up with a cry.
Next, before anyone else could take action, the guide drew his sword in his hand, shouted loudly, and chopped the woman to the ground with just one blow. Everyone was stunned. But the sound of "Resister, resister,
The violent shout of "shoot to death" seemed to wake up the chief, but when he saw the chief grabbed the knife, he rushed forward and slashed at the woman like crazy with one knife after another.
Alive.
The dispute ended quickly. The officer ordered the woman to be tied up, and at the same time, he also carried out the body of the woman who had been chopped to pieces. At this time, the woman who was already in a trance looked at
After seeing the woman clearly, a scream rang out, and then, this life and death was just dragged to the front yard, and several Ming soldiers who were in charge of guarding there were heard yelling and cursing.
"Dog Tatar, grandpa is in need of your head to record the merits!"
The person who came was none other than Fende Pakush. Hearing the scream, he rushed in without thinking. At a glance, in the front yard, there were several corpses of male members of the family thrown there, including
The slaves and their family members had been tied up tightly. A guarding Ming army kicked the housekeeper, causing other Ming soldiers to laugh. At this time, his wife and daughter were beaten by several Ming soldiers.
Jun got it out from the backyard. One had been hacked to death, while the other was disheveled. You didn't need to guess to know what had just happened.
There was not even a trace of rage at this moment when it should be pouring out from the bottom of his heart. Instead, there was only endless sadness. It was so painful that when Pakush looked at everything in front of him, time seemed to have stopped, and everything was beating in his mind.
It was the scene after scene when he led the team to slaughter this yard four years ago. In the final analysis, it only turned into a sentence of "retribution". He let go of his left hand and the knife fell with a sound.
Chapter completed!