Chapter 255 Xinhui Massacre

The erection of the monument to commemorate Gengyin's calamity made Guangzhou people and Guangdong province completely return to the new Ming Dynasty led by Zhu Kezang.

People admired Zhu Kezang's style and magnanimity, and were even more impressed by his structure and mind.

This made it easier for Zhu Kezang to recruit talents and hold imperial examinations in Guangdong in the next step!

Of course, even though Zhu Kezang showed the revival of Confucianism and powerful military force, many scholars felt that the Qing Dynasty had already aspired to the world, and Zhu Kezang's new Ming Dynasty was just a grasshopper jumping after the autumn, and it would not last a few days.

These readers are all watching.

Just when Zhu Kezang was going smoothly and preparing to attack Chaozhou Prefecture, he encountered something that made him a little angry.

"Xinhui County refuses to surrender?" Zhu Kezang took Wang Xianwu's battle report and showed a strange expression. The Ming Dynasty was so full of martial virtue and unparalleled benevolence and righteousness, how could there be such ignorance!

He vaguely remembered the story of Xinhui, so he quickly asked his father-in-law Chen Yonghua, who knew a little about everything.

Chen Yonghua usually looks very friendly and has a gentle smile, but when he mentioned Xinhui County, his face became clouded.

Chen Yonghua snorted coldly and said: "What a great Xinhui County. When I was reading articles, I heard people say, 'Xinhui is in the north, and Yashan faces to the south.' When I saw it today, it was indeed well-deserved."

"Father-in-law, what's going on!" Zhu Kezang also became curious. He rarely saw Chen Yonghua with such an expression, and it was obvious that his defense was broken.

In terms of internal propaganda, the Qing army in Xinhui trumpeted the terrible consequences of losing the city: once it fell, the Qing government would send troops to counterattack, and there would be a catastrophic massacre when the city was recaptured, because the Yangzhou incident happened not long ago.

The common people are also afraid.

At this critical moment, the Qing army in Xinhui decided to ask every household in the city to contribute "rations."

There was another woman named Li. Her husband was captured by the guard and was about to be killed. Ms. Li cried and said: "My husband has no son yet. If I kill him, his family's descendants will be wiped out. Even if I live, I will have no son."

What’s the use?”

Just as Xinhui City was using all means to survive the precarious food crisis, more than half of Li Dingguo's army outside the city was killed or injured by the plague.

Li Dingguo originally wanted to expect Guo Xingye's army to join him in Xinhui as scheduled, but Guo Xingye's side was repeatedly unable to send troops due to various reasons, because Fujian was also facing great pressure from the Qing army at that time, but in the eighth year of Yongli

In October, Guo Xingye still risked the loss of Xiamen base and sent a fleet of tens of thousands of people south to serve the king, and allocated the fleet with 10 months of food and wages.

The reinforcements of the Qing court took the opportunity to attack. The Qing soldiers of the Eight Banners joined forces with Ping and Jing and the two feudal lords to attack in front and back, using cannons to disrupt Li Dingguo's most powerful elephant formation.

After four days of fierce fighting, all Li Dingguo's army collapsed at the foot of Guifeng Mountain outside the north gate of Xinhui today. Only a few thousand of the tens of thousands of troops finally fled back to Yunnan.

During the implementation process, many loyal and martyr women emerged.

At that time, Jin King Li Dingguo's plan was to invade Guangdong, which has ten times the wealth of Guangxi, so as to integrate Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Fujian. Once successful, Nanming will no longer fight alone!

For this reason, he contacted Mr. Guo Xing in Jinxia many times, hoping that he and Mr. Guo could have a grand meeting in Guangdong.

In this war, Li Dingguo failed to capture the city because of his compassion for the people, while the Xinhui Qing army defended the city because of cannibalism.

However, this text records the tragic situation caused by the war, but there is little criticism of the Qing army in Xinhui, which is strange.

The siege of Xinhui began in June of the eighth year of Yongli. In other words, Guo Xingye spent four months mobilizing troops and barely managed to gather tens of thousands of people to support the King of Jin.

At that time, King Li Dingguo of Jin had about 40,000 to 50,000 troops, but the Qing army was weak in Guangdong, and the forces of the Shang family and the Geng family were mainly concentrated in Guangzhou.

The specifics are as follows: When the Ming army reached the base of the city wall by digging tunnels and blew open the city wall, and when they were about to organize artillery to blast the gap, the Qing army in Xinhui expelled the people and came out in an orderly manner to move stones and fill the gap one by one.

Four months is actually not too much.

The guard agreed and gave her body to her husband to take home for burial.

However, after the city siege was lifted in December of that year, the remaining people felt safe, so not many people hated the Qing army.

Regarding this period of history, the original text of "Xinhui County Chronicle" says: "Since the siege for half a year, half of them died of hunger. There has been chaos and chaos from heaven, and there has never been such a tragedy."

When the Ming army tied sunflower trunks into "bundles" and piled them into steps to climb the city wall, the Qing army in Xinhui asked the people to dig holes in the city wall and climb out, and moved the "bundles" into the city one by one.

Li Dingguo had no choice but to use his superior strength to implement a long-term siege, hoping to starve the Xinhui Qing army to death.

Rumors say that the Qing army took advantage of Li Dingguo's soft heart and resorted to various rogue tricks.

It's just that this battle eventually became a lingering nightmare for the No. 1 War God of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

During Li Dingguo's three large-scale sieges, the Qing troops stationed in Xinhui repeatedly expelled the people as cannon fodder. Li Dingguo couldn't bear it, so he gave up the attack again and again.

The Qing army in Xinhui had already formulated a plan to protect the city at all costs, and also adopted various unscrupulous defense methods in response to Li Dingguo's "kind weakness" that could not bear to harm the people.

After the Battle of Xinhui, Li Dingguo lost all his elite troops. From then on, he no longer had the strength to march into Guangdong, and the hope of the revival of the Southern Ming Dynasty came to nothing.

Some people commented that Li Dingguo's war was a hero meeting a scoundrel.

It turned out that in the eighth year of Yongli reign, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin Dynasty in Ming Dynasty, once again invaded Guangdong and implemented a strategic plan that was crucial to the fate of Nanming.

Li Dingguo besieged Xinhui for ten months, but he was still unable to do anything about the city.

The Qing Dynasty had already sent the Eight Banners Army southward to unite with Pingnan King Shang Kexi. The Han Eight Banners Army of Jingnan King Geng Jimao was dormant in Sanshui, Guangdong, waiting for an opportunity to support Xinhui.

"Xinhui County Chronicle" records that there was a daughter-in-law named Mo who was dependent on her mother-in-law. Mo kowtowed and asked to die for her mother-in-law. The guard general said: "What a filial and good daughter-in-law!" and agreed to her request.

After Li Dingguo besieged Xinhui City for three months, there was no more food and grass in Xinhui City.

As a result, the people had no choice but to side with the Qing army and support them in defending the city, so they were willing to be driven away.

Li Dingguo also fully learned the lessons from the previous Battle of Zhaoqing. At the beginning of the war, he fought and won consecutively.

At that time, Li Dingguo's army also encountered a large-scale plague, and both sides clung on to a slim chance of survival.

There was also a poor scholar named Liang. His ten-year-old daughter asked to be replaced. The guard was moved and released the father and daughter together.

From a moral perspective, it is really difficult to comment on such a war.

All normal human values ​​have been distorted in war.

When it came to the part about Mr. Guo Xingye, Chen Yonghua was a little embarrassed, but he still told the truth. This battle in Xinhui was a rare black spot for Mr. Guo Xingye.

"This is unreasonable! The new club must pay the price!"
Chapter completed!