Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 235
Spring is in full bloom, but Li Shutai in Fuzhou is feeling cold all over.Originally, he saw that the Qing Dynasty had unified the world, and as a hero he could enjoy the glory for generations, but he did not expect that a dragon entered the sea and turned the world into chaos.The Qing army has been defeated repeatedly in battles. So far, Fuzhou City under his control is like an isolated island in the south, and the rest of the state capitals controlled by the Manchu Qing have all been recovered.

Although Li Sutai led the Qing army to eliminate Zheng Jing's forces a few months ago, which can be regarded as a boost to the Qing Dynasty, it still couldn't save the defeat.

The troops of the two divisions of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army had already arrived in Fuzhou, and the news also came that the troops of Da Su and Ma Degong had been wiped out in Quanzhou.Although the news was shocking, Li Sutai felt that it made sense at all.Li Sutai also knew a lot about the situation of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army.The Ming army has excellent weapons, sufficient food and grass, and high morale, which is really difficult to match.

Li Sutai didn't even bother to inspect the Green Battalion of the Fuzhou City Defense Association anymore. Fuzhou still has some Han Army Eight Banner Battalions, and now everyone is depressed and has no intention of fighting.

Being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day is basically the portrayal of Li Soltai today.

"How did things get to where they are today? More than a year ago, the Qing Dynasty was still in full swing, and the whole world surrendered. How come half of the world has been lost today?" Li Sutai was also depressed, with dark circles under his eyes.He is already an old man who is almost 60 years old, and his body and spirit are not as good as before. Just recently, he has clearly felt that death is coming to him.

Compared with the Qing army, Fuzhou people have nothing to fear.Many people in Fuzhou have contacts, relatives and friends in Guangdong or Zhejiang. In addition to the secret information spread by Jin Yiwei, people in Fuzhou have heard that the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army has the appearance of the king's teacher. .

The prince is a benevolent king. In addition to exempting food and tax for 1-3 years, he will also recruit poor people, distribute land, and arrange work for them so that everyone can have enough to eat.

In Fuzhou City, many people were already waiting eagerly for the Ming army to enter the city.There were even some people from slightly wealthy families who began to prepare some fine wine and gifts to reward the officers and soldiers when the Ming army entered the city.

Li Sutai also had a general idea of ​​what was going on in the city, and he couldn't help sighing: "People's hearts are gone in the Qing Dynasty."

He didn't want to admit that people's hearts had never been on the side of the boar skin.

Hai Chenggong Huang Wu also found Li Sutai at this juncture, and said: "Your Excellency, we have reached this juncture. The soldiers in the battalion are unwilling to fight. The people of the whole city are looking forward to Ming Dynasty. It should be time to make a decision."

Li Sutai looked at Huang Wu, although he was angry, but he felt it was right in his heart, he said: "Mr. Haicheng, could it be that you have been bribed by Nanming and are going to rebel against the court?"

This Huang Wu was a little younger than Li Sutai. He used to be a servant. Later, he took refuge in Zheng Chenggong and was reused by Zheng Chenggong. However, he was afraid of being punished by Zheng Chenggong because of his defeat.However, what really gave Huang Wu a "big name" in history was because he wrote a letter to the Qing court, prompting the Qing court to promulgate the "Moving Sea Order", which caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries, millions of people were displaced, and caused major disasters. disaster.

And it was such a person, at this juncture, who actually wanted to vote back to Nanming.

Li Shuitai couldn't help mocking him and said: "Mr. Haicheng, I heard that Zhu Cixuan has never had a good face when dealing with capricious people. He has expressed his hatred for the sea-moving order many times. If you surrender, I'm afraid you will fall too." Nothing good will happen."

Huang Wu's expression remained unchanged, facing Li Suitai, he said: "Your Excellency is right. To His Royal Highness, I, Huang Wu, have committed a heinous crime. But what if I dedicate Fuzhou City to him? Now surrender to Daming, even if the Crown Prince is an old man. He hates me to the bone, but he will never kill me. At most, he will send me, Huang Wu, to Nanyang. There are hundreds of people in my Huang family. It’s just a change of place. At least my life will be saved. But if I don’t surrender, After fighting for the Tatars with you, Governor Li, to the end, the prince will definitely cut my body into thousands of pieces, even like the two princes Shang Geng, kill everyone in my family, destroy my ancestral temple, open the grave and expose my body."

Li Shuitai was extremely astonished, he never thought that Huang Wu chose to seek refuge with Nanming for the simple sake of not dying.He also wanted to say that if he fought hard in Fuzhou, even if he died in battle, he would be considered loyal to the Qing Dynasty.But he also knew that people like Huang Wu were different from him.

Li Sutai was born in Liaodong Han, and he worked beside Nurhachi when he was 12 years old. Although he is Han, he is no different from Tartars.Huang Wu is a native of Fujian, and he has no sense of identity with the Qing Dynasty, and may even hate the Tartars.He could betray Zheng Chenggong for the sake of fame, wealth and survival, and now he can betray Manqing as well.

Li Shutai scolded: "Left and right, take this person down!"

But he shouted for a long time, but no one came out.

Huang Wu smiled, and said to Li Sutai, who was already very old: "Master Li, you want to die, and you have done your honor to the Qing Dynasty, but there are still many people under you who don't want to die. The whole city is like this." There are thousands of people, who are not Han Chinese. If they surrender at this time, everyone can still have a way out and go home to farm. After following you, Mr. Li, the battle is gone. I am afraid that there is not even a grave. Most of the generals in the green camp in the city have long been with them. Now that Nanming is on the line, everyone is waiting for the Ming army to enter the city. You see, Mr. Li, you are still alive, so you are not in the way of everyone."

Huang Wu threw down the three-zhang white silk and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, please go on your way."

Li Soltai's chest was bullying strongly, as if his eyes could breathe fire.But soon he also calmed down, after all, he had already waited for death.

His old body has made it impossible for him, who has been a soldier all his life, to resist Huang Wu. He also believes that there may be many green camp soldiers waiting outside, and rivers of blood will flow if he moves here.

He bent down, slowly picked up the white silk on the ground, looked at it for a long time, and sighed.So without even glancing at Huang Wu, he walked into the inner room with Bai Ling.

After a while, when Huang Wu went in to look again, he saw Li Sutai hanging from the beam.

Huang Wu shook his head. In fact, he didn't like this ending.He originally wanted to contribute, but Jin Yiwei's hidden message clearly conveyed the prince's intention to him. Even if he, Huang Wu, could offset his merits, he would not be able to make up for it.The prince is kind enough to spare him his life.However, his family wanted to remain anonymous and go to places outside the Central Plains.Huang Wu must die with his crime on his back.

In order to survive, he compromised.

On the tenth day of April in the 17th year of Yongli's reign, Fuzhou was recovered. The last city in the south was controlled by Bai Mingxiu, and his series of tasks were completed.

(End of this chapter)