Chapter 292 The Shave Order for the Birth of Curves
Duduo was in a state of terminal illness and sought medical treatment. He impulsively wanted to take over the Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang and try to open up a supply route for himself. This could not be regarded as an absolute fool's errand.
Although the naval strength of the Qing army was really poor compared to the Ming army, the geographical location of Jinshan Temple was not too far away in the eyes of the army on the south bank of the Yangtze River.
Here I must mention a few words about the topographic features of Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple and even Jinshanzhou in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Tourists from later generations who have traveled to Zhenjiang will generally know about Jinshan Temple - this ancient temple is very famous and has a long history in the history of Buddhism, although most people only know of its existence through "The Legend of the White Snake".
When many tourists arrive there, at first glance, they don’t understand how the Jinshan Mountains are flooded with water in "The Legend of the White Snake". This is actually because the topography of Jinshanzhou in ancient times was completely different from modern times.
Modern Jinshan Island has been integrated with the land on the south bank of the Yangtze River due to the alluvial sedimentation of the Yangtze River channel. It is no longer a sandbar island, and naturally cannot "water overflow Jinshan Island".
It was only around the 19th century that Jinshanzhou was completely connected to the mainland of Jiangnan. It is now the middle of the 17th century, and the difference is not that far away. The shallowest place between the sandbank island and the mainland can only drown people like Guo Feng and others.
A tall person can swim through it even if he stands on tiptoe and treads water.
The Zheng family especially likes to run this stronghold. In fact, before Chongzhen died, the Zheng family used the Shanhai 5th Road in order to operate maritime trade in the south. There were traders and merchants. Jinshan Island and Jinshan Temple were their operations in Nanjing.
Important strongholds in the surrounding areas.
Historically, when Zheng Chenggong joined forces with Zhang Huangyan in his later years (actually in his thirties, Zheng Chenggong died early) in an attempt to counterattack Nanjing, he raised the rations needed for tens of thousands of troops for long-term operations in advance using the Shanhai 5th Road business name, and secretly hid them in the
In Jinshan Temple, this ensured the surprise of the sneak attack.
At this moment, this riverside sandbank in the north of Zhenjiang City is like a bone stuck in the throat, completely cutting off all connections between Duduo and Jiangbei. Even though Duduo has occupied all the territory on the mainland of Zhenjiang Prefecture, in the end it just happened
There is nothing we can do about this place, which is only a few dozen feet away from the shore.
The warships of the Zheng family also knew that the Qing army was very strong in land warfare, so they kept patrolling this narrow stretch of river. There were also a large number of soldiers on the shore ready to attack halfway across the river. Once the Qing army wanted to launch a landing battle, they would take advantage of the fact that their foothold was not stable.
They pushed him down the river.
Duduo was also cut off from arms supplies and was forced to spend a lot of money in an attempt to do it again regardless of the cost.
His idea is not wrong, because manpower is inherently likely to accelerate changes in the geographical environment - in the same late Ming Dynasty, it is said that according to the research of later geologists, Wuchang's Parrot Island and Zhenjiang's Jinshan Island were about 30 kilometers away from the south bank of the Yangtze River.
The width, narrowness and depth should be about the same.
However, the geological process connecting Parrot Island to the south bank of the Yangtze River is much faster. One of the incentives, according to geologists' research, is that during the battle between Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu, hundreds of thousands of people in Wuchang were massacred, their corpses were filled up and the river was cut off, forming a dam. Parrot Island
The people around me have a few inches of cream that does not spread during menstruation, which accelerates the sedimentation of river sand.
Duduo didn't even need to fill the dam with the corpses of hundreds of thousands of people. He had already decided to jump over the wall, enslave all the people in Zhenjiang Prefecture, and force them at knifepoint to help the Qing army fill the river! At least build a pontoon bridge between Jiangnan and Jinshan Temple.
It would be better if we could build a dam!
If it takes one million people to fill a dam purely with human corpses, and if they use manpower to pile up the soil, and if they are shot and killed by Jiang Xinming's army during the transportation of the soil, and the corpses happen to be left behind and the pile is accelerated, then tens of thousands of people at most can be used to forcibly connect Jinshan Continent with the
Jiangnan.
Anyway, it is impossible for these people to appreciate the kindness of the Qing army and have been enslaved for a long time. Why should Duduo listen to Dorgon's hypocritical suggestions to win people's hearts?
Historically, the Qing army performed less killing and looting for a while, and it was also after entering Jiangnan that it completely gave up acting. The only thing missing now is that the city of Nanjing has not yet been captured, but Duduo is not willing to come in vain.
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Of course, the brutal behavior of the Duduo Army was quickly discovered by Zheng Hongkui of Jinshan Temple. He was also shocked.
But they had to quickly resist people, and pulled the Hongyi artillery to Jinshan Mountain, blocking the river from a high position, bombarding the Qing army's construction positions, and driving the forced people away from helping the evildoers. A large number of warships were also sent to resist the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River.
firepower, trying to disperse the Qing construction troops.
On the other side, Zheng Hongkui also contacted his nephew Zheng Chenggong upstream, asking Zheng Chenggong to ask Zhu Shuren to send more reinforcements to help guard Jinshan Temple and maintain the river blockade in Zhenjiang.
Jinshan Temple, although the temple itself is on a hill on Jiangxin Island, is a bit dangerous, the island itself is not surrounded by a city wall, so the only way to resist the enemy is to prevent landings. Once on the island, the only thing left is to guard the mountain.
Head.
Because there was no protection from the city wall, Zheng Hongkui's troops had to bear the risk of shooting at the Qing army if they wanted to resist the enemy on the beach. There were only low walls of rammed earth and picket fence walls buried in the rammed earth to block arrows.
It was okay if it was lost, but it was completely useless when faced with the Qing artillery bombardment from across the bank.
Dodo's dozens of cannons continued to blast one gap after another in the wooden fence built by the Ming army along the edge of Jinshan Island, forcing the Ming army to stand in the open space and shoot at the Qing army across the river dozens of feet away.
If it hadn't been for the first day of Duduo's attack, the pontoon bridge and embankment had only been partially repaired, and a landing had not yet been formed. Zheng Hongkui's few troops would have suffered a lot of casualties just from the crossfire.
Fortunately, this pressure only lasted for half a day. In the evening of that day, Zheng Chenggong brought his troops to reinforce his uncle. He also brought some new equipment allocated by Zhu Shuren, including breastplates made in Wuchang.
The former deputy can be regarded as reinforcing the Ming army's ability to resist the enemy on the beach.
In addition, a batch of light-weight Folang machines were allocated, which could be mounted on small boats, so that Zheng Chenggong could be used as a mobile force to intercept Qing soldiers trying to cross the river at any time, thus reducing the pressure on the beachhead.
Starting from the second day, the progress of the Qing army became slower and slower. Duduo had just escaped from the first quagmire and seemed to be on the verge of falling into the second quagmire.
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Duduo has been having trouble sleeping and eating these past few days. The setbacks, delays, and losses on the frontal battlefield have made him extremely anxious, but he still has more troubles to worry about.
Because the Qing army lost the patience to win over the people, they finally bared their fangs and fished in the lake before Nanjing was captured, which naturally aroused the resistance of the people in Changzhen and the second prefecture.
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Many poor people who originally thought that "it doesn't matter if someone other than Zhu is the emperor, as long as people's livelihood is guaranteed, no matter who is the emperor," have also been subjected to this kind of killing, coercion, and food plundering, which has made them miserable. Some
Those who originally had high expectations and did not retreat with the Ming army also regretted it extremely.
After all, the Qing army could not completely control everyone in the counties of Changzhen, so a new round of people began to flee, taking away as much private property and food as they could. This trend spread very quickly, and in a short time
In just a few days, Duduo could see that the difficulty of robbing and forcibly recruiting people was significantly increasing.
However, the common people are still useful. They fill rivers, build dams, and carry earth to destroy city walls. There will be many occasions in the future that will be needed. Duduo cannot just massacre the city on a large scale and rob all the food supplies. He also knows that once the news of a large-scale massacre spreads,
If it is opened, it will also inspire the Ming army's will to resist in the future. Maybe ordinary people in other counties will join the army in resisting.
At this critical juncture, there was a capable person in the Qing army, a civilian official under Zhang Cunren, who fell in love with him and came up with an idea. It can be regarded as the inertia of history.
This civil servant's name was Sun Zhixian, a native of Zichuan, Shandong. He was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi. During the Chongzhen period, he was classified as an eunuch and lost his official position. He deeply hated the Ming Dynasty.
In March of this year, as soon as the Qing army expelled Li Zicheng from Hebei, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and shaved his hair immediately. As a result, he was despised by other Han officials who also surrendered and did not want to be ranked with him. As for the Manchu officials,
Although he saw that he had shaved his head, he did not accept him as standing with the Manchu officials when he went to court, thinking that he was not of my race.
This Sun Zhixian flattered himself and embarrassed him, and he was in a difficult situation in the court. This time, the two princes led the army to the south, and they both needed civilian officials to accompany the army. On the Ajigna Road, there were Gong Dingzi, Gu Rong and other former Ming Dynasty military officers to help, and the censor
Duduo also needed some people along the way, so Sun Zhixian invited himself out of the capital, which was a slight butterfly effect from the original historical resume.
But it can only be said that gold will shine wherever it goes, but answers will stink wherever they go. Although Sun Zhixian's resume has changed slightly, his determination to help the Manchu master shave his hair and change his clothes has not changed.
Seeing the coincidence this time and the need of the situation, he took the opportunity to advise Duduo:
"Your Majesty, I think that if we slaughter and loot the city indiscriminately and without restrictions, the people may be provoked to help Ni Ming defend the city.
Intruders, when the Western thieves coaxed the people to break into the city, they used coercion and inducement. They said that those who opened the city without blood would not be slaughtered or looted. When the intruders came, they would not pay for food. Those who resisted would only resist for one more day, and they would slaughter more when they broke through the city.
Two to three percent of the population.
Although the method of breaking and entering is dirty, we in the Qing Dynasty can also eliminate the bad and retain the good, gather more to benefit the few, select the elders and slightly modify them for our use, which not only solves the problem of forcibly strengthening the people, but also supplies military resources.
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Duduo didn't have a good impression of Sun Zhixian. Hearing this advice, he was quite impatient at first: "Why don't you ask me to imitate an ant like Li Zicheng? Li Zicheng acted recklessly and died at the hands of Zhu Shuren. What is there to learn from?
of!"
Sun Zhixian licked his face and explained: "Your Majesty has misunderstood, and the slave has thought of a different strategy: Why don't you tell the public that our Qing Dynasty still treats the people well and is here to save the people, so we will never do anything to the people who sincerely join the Qing Dynasty?"
Killing and looting will only kill and plunder those who are not sincere and pretend to surrender.
To distinguish whether people are pretending to surrender, you only need to force them to shave their hair and grow pigtails. If you are willing to shave your hair, you will draw a clear line with those hypocritical Confucian dogs of the Han people! From now on, you will believe in me, the Qing Dynasty! Your Majesty promises not to kill or rob those shaved heads.
If you only kill those who have their hair cut off, and only rob those who don’t shave their hair, you don’t have to worry about everyone being in danger. At least there is a standard.
And in fact, if there are wealthy households in Changzhen or even Suzhou in the future, the court can kill them and take away their money first, and then they have not shaved their heads. As long as there is an excuse to calm the people, how can the people really go to seek proof?
The land south of the Yangtze River has been plagued by Confucianism for the longest time. Rich people are often scholars, and the more scholars are, the less willing they are to shave their heads. The king announced that he should keep his hair or not, and he should kill the fewest people.
Wouldn't it be best to collect the most money, food, and military supplies to get the best of both worlds?
The servant also heard that after the king retreated from Nanjing, Shi Kefa ordered the soldiers who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty to clean up the battlefield in Nanjing. Any wounded soldiers who saw shaved heads and whips were killed with a sword, and they were regarded as Manchu soldiers of our Qing Dynasty.
In this way, as long as your Majesty orders people to shave their heads, they can still force those who have shaved their heads to our side.
Once the counter-attack comes back from the Ming Dynasty, these people will worry about being regarded as die-hard loyalists of the Qing Dynasty and being killed by the Ming Dynasty. So as long as they shave their heads, they will have to go all the way to the dark side and follow the Qing Dynasty. Your Majesty
Although we are unable to contact Jiangbei for the time being, with the hair-cutting order in hand, we can continue to expand the army and coerce it, and we will definitely win the battle!"