Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Zhou Shixiang is going to go to Hangzhou. If time permits, he wants to go to Fuzhou in person, because he wants to have a meeting with Guoxing.

Before finally using force to conquer Jinxia, ​​Zhou Shixiang had to try his best to discuss the possibility of "peace" with the surname. If the national surname Ken takes the overall situation as the top priority, abandons the Zheng family and declares the independence of the vassal, and enters the dynasty, Zhou Shixiang will naturally treat him favorably. Otherwise, there will only be a battle to see the outcome of the battle.

As for Zheng Jing, Zhou Shixiang did not take it to heart yet. The fact that Zheng Jing privately accepted Wu Sangui's title of Prince Min of the Yongli court had already been reported by the Military Intelligence Department. However, Zheng Jing's current position is not strong, and the father-son rebellion has caused great harm to the country's surname, and the impact on Zheng Jing, the "rebellious son", is not small. Zhou Shixiang didn't believe that the "shizi faction" in Jinxia really had the confidence and loyalty to protect the emperor. Gan Hui has already left for Fujian by sea. Whether Zheng Sen is willing to meet Zhou Shixiang will soon be known.

In Fujian, Suna led the sixth town, and three independent brigades adapted from Zhejiang Qing Army and Ma Fengzhi's Ministry to march to Fujian in two routes, one led by Suna himself, to Shaoxing, Ningbo, through Taizhou, Wenzhou, and entered Fujian. ; Another Lusuna's lieutenant, Eduo, led Yanzhou, Jinhua, and Chuzhou to attack Fujian.

When the Zhejiang Taiping Army invaded Fujian, the territory of Zhejiang was not completely peaceful. After the two prefectures of Ningbo and Taizhou fell in Hangzhou, they sent envoys to surrender, and the Qing army in Taizhou, led by the prefect Zhu Junsheng, held on to resist. Suna attacked Taizhou Fucheng with a brigade of soldiers, but was unable to defeat it for three days. Zhu Junsheng took the Taiping army as a rogue soldier, and in the name of killing all the gentry wherever he went, he encouraged the Taizhou gentry to train rural soldiers to reject the Taiping army.

On August 26, the gentry group of Xianju and Tiantai counties took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Taiping army besieged Taizhou Fucheng, and when the rear forces were empty, they plotted to seize the county seat and cut off the food route of the Taiping army. However, due to the leak of the news, Suna was able to take precautions in time. He arrested and beheaded more than 70 people. He then divided his troops to encircle and suppress more than 10,000 villagers and rioters, beheading more than 1,000 people. The rest were disarmed and sent back to the village for custody.

After the gentry and chaos in Taizhou were pacified, the Fucheng alone was unable to support it. On September 4, the east gate was blasted by a hole attack, and Zhu Junsheng, the prefect of the prefecture, jumped into the city to commit suicide, and more than 4,000 Qing troops, officials and young men in the city were slaughtered. After the Taizhou massacre, part of the Wenzhou Qing army, Zhang Huang, fled to Fujian, and the rest fled if they surrendered.

The Eduo Road Taiping Army progressed smoothly in the early stage. They won the three prefectures of Yanzhou, Jinhua and Chuzhou without the resistance of the Qing army. When they attacked the Quzhou government, they were stubbornly resisted by the Manchu and Han troops led by Zhang Jing, the Zuobuzheng of Fujian. . After the Taiping army captured Quzhou, Zhang Jing led the rest of his troops to retreat to Jiangshan County, swearing not to surrender. Eduo personally led troops and horses to surround Jiangshan City on all sides. Under the command of Zhang Jing, the Qing army resisted in the city, and red-clothed cannons were transferred from Fujian. Dasu sent more than 400 soldiers to help the battle, causing heavy losses to the Eduo Department. More than 3,000 green battalions and bandit soldiers from the original Jinhua, Yanzhou, and Chuzhou prefectures were turned into cannon fodder by Eduo. Army chaos. After the suppression of Ying Xiao, Eduo became fierce and ordered to kill all the descendants who participated in the rebellion.

Fourteen days after the onslaught, the Eduo Department finally captured Jiangshan County on September 12. Zhang Jing and his cronies rushed to the Gunpowder Bureau when the city was broken, ignited the lead, and made a bang for his Qing master. After the Taiping army of the Eduo tribe entered the city, due to the poor siege of the city for several days, heavy casualties, and the morale of the army were low, they even ordered to take more than a thousand female relatives of the Qing army and children of officials and gentry in the city to the outside of the city to reward the three armies.

In the city, there were old people with high morals and respected people who came forward to dissuade them, saying that the Taiping Army was the master of King Daming, how could they do such a beast. Eduo said angrily: "When my soldiers attacked the city, why didn't I see you dissuade the Qing army from laying down their weapons? When my soldiers bloodied the city, why didn't I see you shed half a tear? Now I just kidnap some Qing soldiers, you just wait. Jumping out, but what is An’s heart? If you want to put people back, it’s okay, I will learn from the Qing army in the future, and leave women but not men in Jiangshan City, can you wait and see?”

The old man didn't dare to say anything. On September 15, the Taiping Army of the Eduo Department set off from Jiangshan and crossed the Xianxia Ridge without any resistance. The soldiers pointed directly at Jianningfu, an important town in northwestern Fujian. At the same time, the East Road Taiping Army, under the leadership of Suna, set out from Pingyang, Wenzhou, and occupied the Fenshui Pass, the gateway to Fujian, without a single soldier. At this point, there is no danger to stop the Taiping army in Fujian, and the restoration of the province is a foregone conclusion.

On September 10, the seventh town from Chaohui, Guangdong, headed north, under the leadership of the town general Hu Qili, captured Tongshan and Nanzhao under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou Prefecture. Qing Zhangzhou prefect Dong Xueming, deputy general Lin Changquan and others opened the door to surrender. After the recovery of Zhangzhou, Hu Qili immediately marched to Quanzhou according to the original plan of the military. The tenth town of Zhutong, which started from Nanxiong, also entered the Tingzhou Prefecture in Fujian via Huichang in Jiangxi.

The Taiping army marched in unison from four routes, and all four routes played the song of triumph. Except for Fuzhou and Shaowu, the whole province of Fujian fell into the hands of the Taiping army. Dasu, who only had the second government in his hands, was unable to stop the Taiping army, and it was difficult to even organize a decent counter-offensive. Zhang Jing died in battle in Jiangshan, and the news that his entire army was annihilated came, and Da Su knew that he could not escape his death. Every day, I just huddle in the Fuzhou General's Mansion, drinking to drink and worrying, and I don't care.

The Eight Banners garrisoned in Fuzhou and their families also felt more and more that the sky was about to collapse. For the Taiping Army, the Manchu soldiers were all panicked. Nearby there are Guangzhou Mancheng, Hangzhou Mancheng, and Jiangning Mancheng far away. It can be said that since the Taiping Army started its troops, no one has survived where Manchu is located. Such revenge naturally makes the Fuzhou Eight Banners both despair and anger~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The so-called fall will also die, not falling will also die, it is better to work hard. In the face of the dead end, the Fuzhou Eight Banners soldiers were wildly beastly, and they hunted and killed the Han people in the city and plundered them.

For seventeen days, forty-five out of ten Han people in Fuzhou were slaughtered, twenty-three out of ten fell into a well in the Shenhe River, and only one in ten escaped from the city. From the seventy old men to the unspoken infants, all males were killed by the Manchu soldiers. There were dozens of women hiding in the monk's dormitory in the city, but with a sound of a child, they were all searched and killed, and the blood was pouring out like a gushing storm.

When the atrocities in Fuzhou reached Zhou Shixiang, it was September 29, and the atrocities continued. He told Gu Yanwu, who had just arrived in Songjiang, what happened in Fuzhou.

Gu Yanwu sighed and said, "Since ancient times, the country has been destroyed, and the world has been destroyed. If you change your surname and change your name to call it the death of the country, you will be full of benevolence and righteousness, and when you lead animals to eat people, people will eat each other, which is called the destruction of the world."

Zhou Shixiang was half-understood, and could not help but ask: "Does that gentleman think that since Jiashen, my Ming Dynasty has perished the country or the world?"

"Manchu leads beasts to eat people, destroys my Chinese clothes and crowns, treats my people like livestock, and naturally destroys the world. That's why you know how to protect the world, and then know how to protect your country. Those who protect the country are their rulers and their ministers, and those who eat meat seek it; People in the world are the cheapness of the common man. There is nothing to blame."