The troops of the Yongding Camp cleaned up the mess and captured a few people hiding alive from the houses. Yu Qian then wrote a letter and asked them to take the letter back to Jiujiang City.
At this time, people in Jiujiang City were in panic. The scouts outside the city heard the sound of gunshots, and people felt that Wang Shishun and his party were in danger. When the remaining soldiers brought back a letter stamped with the seal of the Jianwen regime, they reported the ambush.
, the generals were completely sure that the other party had broken up with each other.
The man who stayed to guard the city was called Song Yi. This man was Wang Shishun's married brother, and he was someone General Wang could trust. Wang Shishun was born in the military. In the Ming Dynasty, military households had a special status, and they usually married women from military households;
Song Yi was also from a military household, but his family background was not as good as that of Wang Shishun. He was also young and had not made much achievements in the military household, and his prestige was not enough. In the past, he relied on his brother-in-law's relationship to dominate the camp.
When the bad news about Wang Shishun came, Song Yi was shocked and angry at the same time. He was about to defend the city in place of his brother-in-law and take revenge against the Huguang army. This man with a round face, big eyes and a beard turned blue, and his hands were trembling.
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A fellow countryman who had always been close to Nanjing advised: "The current situation in Nanjing is very critical. The soldiers are like rootless men with no hope of reinforcements. We are foreign soldiers in Jiujiang City and have always been unpopular. The soldiers have no intention of defending this place. The war may be disadvantageous."
Another fellow countryman said more directly: "There is a saying that is hard to hear. Brother Song's prestige in the camp cannot be compared with that of General Wang. You were only temporarily appointed by General Wang to preside over Jiujiang City. Now,
General Wang is in trouble and cannot be contacted in Nanjing. Do the soldiers deny you or are you making two different claims? How can we defend the city and fight if we can't control the army?"
Song Yi refused to listen and said: "If my brother-in-law is not here, I am the commander of the Jiujiang Army. Who can exceed my authority?"
Then he ordered each battalion to prepare for war and take turns to go to the city to guard.
At the beginning, the situation was good. The troops in the camp were well-organized and habitually obeyed the orders of the Chinese Army. When no one took the lead, no one stood up to disobey the orders of the Chinese Army.
...Not two days later, the slave of Wang Shishun's house discovered Shao's body in the mansion. The slave was so frightened that he reported it to the official.
The prefect of Jiujiang City had been changed after the city was dedicated to the Han Dynasty by military generals, but they still appointed civil servants with great reputations as prefects. Usually only civil servants could stabilize the administrative system. This prefect was a bureaucrat appointed by the Han Dynasty.
, but the Han Dynasty was not monolithic, and the prefects and military generals could not urinate in a pot. After this person took office, his official power was reduced because he united and won over the local gentry. Only in this way did his reputation and prestige have people to support and praise Wu Sha Mao.
The prefect was a roving official, and most of the other officials were local cowards. Both of them were alienated from the garrison generals. When this happened, the officials hit it off immediately. Murder cases were within the scope of the government's authority, so a fair trial was required.
The Shao family belonged to a local gentry family, and the officials had known about it for a long time, so they issued tickets to the Shao family to let them identify the body on the spot.
When Mr. Shao came to the palace with a sad face, he saw that the prefect in red robes had already arrived in person, and a group of officials in green robes and yamen servants had already gathered outside the house. The prefect asked Mr. Shao to go in and identify the person, right?
The young lady of the Shao family.
After everyone entered the door, the bed inside had been moved to its position, the floor had been pried open, and there was a pit nearly five feet deep on the ground. The excavated soil was piled beside the pit. The pit was empty, and the body had been carried.
He took it out and put it aside, covering it with a white cloth. It was early summer, and the body was already a bit smelly, and the room was filled with a suffocating rotten smell.
The officer next to him stepped forward and carefully opened the white cloth. When Mr. Shao took a look, the miserable scene in front of him made him fall backwards. Others hurriedly supported him. He saw that the female corpse was disheveled, her hair was disheveled, and she was only wrapped in an obscene garment.
She was tied with a silk belt, and her shoulders and chest were half-naked, as if she had been humiliated and defiled before her death. In fact, Shaw had just gotten up and was urged to dress up before she could. Her eyes were still open.
He looked like he was still dead, and the pinch marks on his neck became more and more obvious as the body gradually deteriorated. All in all, it looked very miserable.
Mr. Shao suddenly burst into tears, and no one could stop him.
The magistrate had an iron face and said solemnly in front of everyone: "After an autopsy, the victim Shao had been dead for more than three days (Wang Shishun was still living in the house at the time). The deceased's throat was broken and there were finger marks on the neck. The cause of death was
He was killed. A servant in the mansion testified that this room was the bedroom of Jiujiang garrison Wang Shishun... The witness and the evidence were taken back to the Yamen. After careful deduction from the Second Hall of the mansion, the trial will be held tomorrow. The body will be collected by his family.
Return to the earth."
It is very obvious that this kind of case has been finalized. The Communist Party of China decided that Wang Shishun killed his concubine.
The public trial the next day caused even more uproar. It was the biggest event in Jiujiang City in recent days besides the military threat. The so-called public trial meant that the case was heard in public in the lobby.
Sit in and listen, and you can raise questions if you have any doubts about the officials' inferences. Although ordinary people who like to watch onlookers can't go to the lobby to watch, they can listen to the excitement outside the yamen, and someone will come out at any time to talk about the process and results of the trial.
If a case is tried in this way, the result is usually fair. After all, in the eyes of the public, if a leader confuses right and wrong and ignores common sense, his reputation will be ruined and he will lose credibility in the hearts of the gentry and the common people. How can he govern the place well in the future?
The smoothest thing about this case is that it is said that Wang Shishun is dead, so it is much easier to pin the crime on him. Otherwise, the local magistrate will be really embarrassed. How can he find a general with a heavy army in this situation?
Song Yi, who succeeded Wang Shishun, reacted too slowly. By the time he realized the problem, the murder case had already been decided in public. Wang Shishun's reputation was even worse among the local gentry and common people, and even the soldiers in the camp would not agree with his misdeeds.
At this moment, the Yongding Camp of the Huguang Army had already dispatched troops to the city, and the sound of ceremonial cannons could be heard clearly in the city. "Governor of Jiangxi" Yu Qian sent people to the city to issue an ultimatum.
The city gates were opened, and the army attacked the city.
The local officials and gentry found out that Yu Qian was a Jinshi, and they all talked about the hope that the defenders would dedicate the city to prevent the people from suffering the disaster of war. The generals in the camp also had many words, hoping that Song Yi would lead everyone to surrender... Although Yu Qian trapped Wang Shishun and killed him, things happened
His actions were not very kind, but after all, Wang Shishun was guilty of the "ten sins" and others killed him openly. The recent murder cases revealed in the palace also make people believe that Wang Shishun is not a good bird, and his guilt is credible. Moreover, the Jiujiang Army is known as
Eighty thousand, excluding the fictitious and filling figures, there are still twenty to thirty thousand soldiers. After all, Yu Qian is not just a civil servant, so how can he trap and kill thousands of people?
Song Yi's fellow villagers once again went to the Central Army and said: "Brother Song's power is not enough to convince the public, and it is not suitable to go against people's hearts. General Wang's massacre of the Shao family greatly disappointed the public, and Brother Song was appointed by General Wang to take charge of the Central Army.
At this time, we made a decisive decision to dedicate the city for its safety."
Song Yi is now a little bit more accepting of it, but he knows his identity and considers that Yu Qian is ruthless. Will he be able to let him go when the time comes? So he hesitates.
He was also afraid, so he asked a fellow countryman to guard the camp with his own bodyguard, replacing the original bodyguard.
Unexpectedly, that night, someone suddenly started a fire outside the Chinese army and the crowd was noisy. Someone among them shouted: "Kill Song Yi, the little boy in Rukou, everyone will have a way to survive!" The night fell, and I didn't know how many people there were. The guards and inspectors guarding the camp saw the flames.
He dared to go up to fight, but he ran away in the face of the wind.
There were only a few dozen people in the crowd and they easily poured into the Chinese army, and suddenly there was a chaos inside. The leader of the rebel general led people into the Chinese army's tent, but Song Yi was missing. He had already heard the news in advance.
He ran away. The generals of the rebel army touched the bed, and it was still hot. They knew that Song Yi had left not long ago. However, the rebel soldiers were few and could not control the central army. At this time, it was difficult to catch Song Yi in the chaos. The leading general suddenly felt
Not good.
But fortunately everyone had discussed it beforehand, and after being reminded by the general, the leading general hurriedly stepped forward to shout in the camp to stabilize the people in the Chinese army, and at the same time sent people to inform the familiar generals who had been in contact with each other: The Chinese army had been captured
, come and work together.
Some generals arrived one after another, and then they went to invite people from other camps. Everyone brought many subordinates to prepare for the unexpected. For a time, the generals inside and outside the big tent were surrounded by soldiers. Everyone was noisy for a while, and an elder was temporarily recommended to talk to them.
The veteran gave orders to the leader and directly occupied the Chinese army.
In the early morning, Song Yi was taken to the army by the gentry and their servants. It turned out that Song Yi ran out all night and went to the city to find a place to hide, but there was too much movement in the middle of the night and he was discovered by the squires in the city. People contacted their friends and brought them together.
The people went in and caught Song Yi. There were only two people around him.
The generals who planned the plot were afraid that something might happen, so they immediately beheaded Song Yi and his entourage; and he was also afraid that his fellow countrymen would hold grudges afterwards, so they sent troops to rush into the camps of those generals without asking any questions, and hacked them to death with random swords.
Then the new Chinese army united with the prefect's Yamen, and together they compiled a letter and sent people out of the city to negotiate the conditions for the dedication of the city.
Yu Qian was overjoyed when he heard that he immediately wrote back: The officials, soldiers and civilians in the city had no fault. They were all citizens of the Ming Dynasty. Now the culprit has been punished. As long as the city is opened and accepts Emperor Jianwen's edict, and does not disturb the people or commit crimes, everyone will be punished by the law.
Protection. In order to reassure the soldiers, Yu Qian asked the Jiujiang Army to leave the city and hand over the key defense areas before completing the surrender without having to surrender their weapons.
The officers and soldiers in the city quickly agreed to surrender, and the generals simply unloaded their weapons and opened the door to ask for surrender. Anyway, if you surrender the fortress defenses, it doesn't matter whether you disarm or not. If the city is gone, there is no food and no supplies, you can regret it and fight again.
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Yu Qian then arrogantly led the Yongding Battalion troops into the city gate, lined up with ceremonial guards and entered the city without any bloodshed. The officials and generals inside and outside the city gate knelt all the way again. Yu Qian shouted in person on horseback: "Scholars with merit are exempt from kneeling.
, accompanied him to the government office to discuss merits, rewards, and discuss important matters together."