Anqing is the west gate into Jiangnan. The most important thing is to calm people's hearts immediately and start taking over the entire Jiangnan.

Wanjun, surrounded by Li Chengdong and other surrendered generals, were walking towards the city of Anqing. At this time, soldiers from the Chinese Army came over and escorted several disheveled men. The leader of the team officer said, "Sir, there are rebels in the city who are taking the opportunity to harm people."

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Before Wan Jun could speak, the detained men were already kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, and said to Li Chengdong, "Sir, help me, we are just playing with a few women."

Li Chengdong winked and said angrily, "You bastards, you should ask the adults for your request. I don't care about this matter."

Those few people turned around and kowtowed to Wanjun, shouting together, "Sir, please spare your life. We just fought with the barbarians all night and killed them. Please spare our lives!"

Li Chengdong said, "Sir, the first two are my own soldiers. They fought very bravely this morning."

Wan Jun heard what Li Chengdong meant, but military discipline is the foundation of the Huaxia Army, so he calmly said, "Then you must discipline your subordinates well. Now these people are openly harming the people in the city. General Li, what do you think?"

How to deal with it?"

Li Chengdong was originally a peasant army. Later, he followed Gao Jie and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. When the Qing army reached Xuzhou, he surrendered to the Qing army. From a small soldier to now a senior official, he can be called an old fox. After listening to Wan Jun's words, he kept saying:

, "I don't dare, I don't dare. Since the general has surrendered to you, he is your subordinate, and it is entirely up to you to make the decision."

When Wan Jun heard this, he was not polite to him and said directly, "Okay! It's rare that General Li understands justice so well."

After saying that, Wan Jun turned to the people and soldiers and said loudly, "You have all heard it. General Li understands the righteousness. In this case, he dragged these people to the crossroads and chopped them down. He told all the troops that since he surrendered to China

The army must strictly abide by the military discipline of the Huaxia Army, and anyone who dares to disturb the people and harm the people will be killed without mercy!"

The people kneeling on the roadside were stunned when they heard this. When they reacted, their eyes were full of tears. They all kowtowed and shouted, "The benevolent sir is invincible, and the Chinese army is invincible!"

Several Chinese soldiers received military orders, dragged down the men who were wailing and begging for mercy, took them to the crossroads, and beheaded them. After a while, their heads were passed over.

These warlords, with thousands of troops under their command, looked at the livid Li Chengdong and said, "The Hu people are fleeing to Nanjing. General, please lead your troops to pursue them immediately. I am waiting for good news from the general."

Li Chengdong said, "The last general takes orders," and then left with his troops and horses.

Wanjun issued a notice to calm the people in Anqing City, and sent Chinese troops everywhere to arrest the rebels and pacify the exiles.

After spending a day in Anqing, the Chinese army headed east along the Yangtze River. When they first arrived in Wuhu, they received even more exciting good news: Nanjing was recovered!

According to a messenger, after the news of the defeat of the Qing army in the Battle of Anqing spread, the surrender officials of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing city had their thoughts wandering. Headed by Qian Qianyi, they contacted the volunteers who opposed the shaving of their hair and sent troops to guard various parts of Nanjing to prevent them from letting go.

The defeated Qing army entered, and Duduo and his 100,000 remaining soldiers had no choice but to retreat to Huai'an.

As expected before the war, the chain reaction of the Qing army's defeat in Anqing had begun, and the situation in the entire Jiangnan region had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Not long after arriving in Wuhu, Nanjing sent a liaison envoy to arrive with a surrender letter, which said, "General Wan defeated the Hu people, a remarkable feat that will last forever. The people in the south of the Yangtze River look forward to the arrival of the general, like a long drought looking forward to the rain, like a wanderer looking forward to his return.

The countryside is like a child looking forward to its nurse."

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Wan Jun felt a chill in his heart when he saw the pen. These Jiangnan literati were full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but all their thoughts were devoted to amassing money and playing with women.

Now that he has experienced a catastrophe by barbarians, he is still so spineless.

Wan Jun sent Nanjing's surrender letter to the generals. Cui Ziyi read it and said with a smile, "Then let's go to Nanjing and meet us kids for a while."

Chen Bajiao and others laughed together, and Wan Jun smiled and remembered the story of Qian Qianyi in history.

When the Manchu and Qing troops arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, the great scholar Qian Qianyi and his concubine Liu Rushi agreed to commit suicide by throwing themselves into a lake to die for their country. Unexpectedly, they lingered for a long time by the lake. At the urging of his concubine Liu Rushi, Qian Qianyi finally jumped into the water.

, but they quickly got up again and shouted, "The water is too cold." So they gave up and sacrificed their lives for the country. They turned around and together with the Nanjing officials, opened the door and surrendered to the Qing army.

Later, the Qing army ordered them to shave their hair and change their clothes. The Jiangnan literati took Qian Qianyi as the leader and they met to resist the Hu people's order to shave their hair. Unexpectedly, when we met the next day, Qian Qianyi had already grown the money rat tail of the Hu people.

, and also insisted that growing hair would cause an itchy scalp.

The literati from the south of the Yangtze River talked about benevolence and morality but kept silent about morality. When the Qing Dynasty's butcher knife came to the south of the Yangtze River, these Donglin gentlemen all showed their wretched faces, and they were worse than ordinary people whose heads could be cut but not shaved.

Wan Jun thought, "These soft bones have long forgotten the Ming Dynasty and China. I would like to see what this 'itchy scalp' looks like!"

Historically, Nanjing was a city with a lot of misfortunes. Since ancient times, Nanjing has suffered from military disasters many times, but it has also repeatedly rebuilt prosperity from the rubble and smoke. Moreover, in history, the Central Plains was occupied by foreigners, and the Han nation was about to be annihilated.

When a disaster strikes, they usually choose to go to Nanjing to recuperate, and then resolve to make the Northern Expedition and restore China. As long as Nanjing is still there, the Han people can make a comeback.

Nanjing is the first city in the world with a population of more than one million. It has a developed economy and a prosperous culture. It has preserved the Zhengshuo of Chinese culture in the south of the Yangtze River.

Of course, in the hearts of thousands of people, Nanjing still has a sad term "Nanjing Massacre". When China is weak, foreign races will take the opportunity to invade.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten. This is a lesson learned in blood and tears.

After receiving Nanjing's surrender, the army did not move forward in a hurry. Whether Jiangnan can be pacified depends on whether Nanjing can swallow it.

On November 20th, Wanjun was fully prepared and marched to Nanjing with two divisions.

Heavy snow has fallen all over the city of Nanjing. In less than half an hour, the Purple Mountain in the distance and the nearby roads have been covered with a layer of white.

A pioneer cavalry battalion of the Chinese Army arrived outside Hongwu Gate first. In the heavy snow, the red flag of the Chinese Army was like fire, and the gold stars and dragon patterns were swimming in the wind.

Outside the Hongwu Gate, the people were still the same people. Zhu Guobi, the protector of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Jiujue, the Duke of Wei, Qian Qianyi, the Minister of Rites, Wang Duo, the university scholar, Li Zhan, the imperial censor, and more than 30 high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and a group of gentry opened the city

Gate, go out to meet the people on the outskirts of the city.

All officials knelt in the ice and snow, waiting together to welcome the Chinese army into the city.

Soon the Chinese army arrived outside Hongwu Gate, and the four regiments entered the city first. Wan Jun led Cui Ziyi and others to the kneeling people.

In May, the Qing army was also kneeling here to surrender outside the Hongwu Gate. Now, in just six months, the bureaucrats were kneeling here to surrender again.

Outside Hongwu Gate, it was like a grand satire, tearing apart the pretense of all the ministers and saints.

Zhu Guobi was the Ming Dynasty

Everyone wanted to promote Zhu Guobi as the leader, but Zhu Guobi refused to do so and scolded everyone, "It is extremely shameless. I, the great Ming Baoguo, did not protect the country at all. Instead, I switched sides to two dynasties in just six months. What do you do?"

I have served as an official of the Qing Dynasty for six months, and now you want me to take the lead and surrender as the Duke of the Ming Dynasty. I will lose my face in my crotch."

Zhu Guobi disagreed, and everyone had no choice but to recommend Qian Qianyi, the Minister of Rites, to take the lead.

Wan Jun rode a bay-red horse, and behind him were a group of senior generals of the Chinese army, riding their horses with momentum like a rainbow.

Seeing the leader of the Chinese army arriving, Qian Qianyi took a few steps forward on his knees and said loudly, "Qian Qianyi, the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, pays homage to your Excellency!"

After saying that, Qian Qianyi smashed his head to the ground, and everyone behind him fell in obeisance and lay down on the snow.

Wan Jun didn't answer. The horse's hooves clattered close to him. He reined in the horse's rope and stopped. He didn't ask Qian Qianyi and others to get up.

Wan Jun dismounted, stood in front of Qian Qianyi, and said slowly, "I didn't hear clearly just now. Did you say you were the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty or the Minister of Rites of the Manchu people?"

Wan Jun asked, how could Qian Qianyi not know what it meant? His old face turned red with embarrassment, and he knocked his head on the ground without looking up. After waiting for a long time, Wan Jun sighed, "Everyone, get up!"

Qian Qianyi and others stood up in fear, and then Wan Jun saw this Donglin scholar, with curved eyebrows and good eyes, a thin face, a long beard dyed with frost, and wearing a dark blue cloak. He looked quite handsome.

The appearance of being divided into immortals.

These people offered the city to surrender, but they still had some Han conscience. Wanjun could not be too harsh and ungrateful, so he loudly said, "Anyway, you have done a great job by offering the city, and the matter of surrendering to the barbarians will not be pursued."

Qian Qianyi said, "Your Majesty, it is clear to you that when the barbarians came, the troops were so strong that we could not withstand them. In order to save the people of Jiangnan from being massacred, we had no choice but to surrender and become thieves. But we are waiting for Master Wang with eagerness every day."

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Li Zhan, the imperial censor behind him, also said, "Yes, when the Hu people invaded Yangzhou, they massacred the city for ten days in a row. There were 830,000 people in the city, and in the end there were only less than a hundred people left. It was brutal and bloody.

It is simply unlike the human world. The Hu people claimed that if Nanjing resisted, they would massacre the city like Yangzhou, so we endured the humiliation and endured the heavy burden."

Wan Jun smiled and said, "In that case, on behalf of the tens of millions of people in Jiangnan, I would like to thank you for surrendering and saving your life."

Qian Qianyi heard the irony in the words, knelt on the ground and said, "I dare not, please forgive me."

Behind him, a group of surrendered ministers knelt on the ground again. Many of the generals of the Chinese army were just men of the grasslands at first, and the Jiangnan princes were legendary figures. Now they are so servile, making everyone look down upon them even more.

Cui Ziyi said, "Sir, let's enter the city quickly. We will be late at the right time. There are still many miles to the inner city of Nanjing from here."

Hearing this, Wan Jun waved his hands for everyone to stand up and shouted loudly, "Enter the city!"

After saying that, he took the lead and got on his horse, leading everyone into the city of Nanjing.

Cui Ziyi is right. When the Ming Dynasty was founded, Taizu Zhu Hongwu followed Liu Bowen's strategy and built high walls and extensive grain storage. This Nanjing building was extremely grand.
Chapter completed!