Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 292 The Inner City
The Ming army finally entered the city in large groups, and the resistance inside the city was already very weak, especially in the outer city. The streets were very clean, and no soldiers of the Qing army wanted to fight street battles with the Ming army by means of barricades.Once Tongzhou was defeated, they knew it was over, not to mention the sudden appearance of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops outside the city.

Bai Mingxiu ordered the Ming troops to occupy the main locations in the city, and personally led his troops into the inner city to wipe out the last Qing troops.Compared with the outer city, the inner city is a completely different situation.

The bannermen, who could not form an organization at all, desperately used bird guns like fire sticks, and some even held things like bamboo poles to resist the arrival of the Ming army.

"Block them, don't let them in!" In one courtyard after another, the banner people tried their best to block the gates, doing futile resistance.

Several flagmen even carried water tanks to the gate and gathered in the yard, holding matchlock guns nervously. In the inner yard, women and children who hadn't had time to evacuate hugged and cried.

They did not expect that what happened to many people in the capital would be their turn.

Outside the courtyard, Li Wan explained to the soldiers under his command: "Every house and every courtyard must be cleaned up for me. The people living in this inner city are all banner people. Who knows if they deliberately want to defy me, Daming, or not?" Who will be blamed for the deaths and injuries of our military brothers at that time?"

The soldiers found it very reasonable when they heard it, so they took the squad as a unit and began to clean up from house to house.

No problem in name, but in fact the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army implemented Bai Mingxiu's policy of expulsion against Tartars.Young and middle-aged people were all executed for crimes against Ming Dynasty; old and weak women and children were directly arrested and then sent to Dagu for loading. Java was a very suitable new home for them.

"Listen to the Tartars inside. It is a felony to maliciously resist my Ming Dynasty Restoration Army. If you don't open the gate again, we will launch a strong attack, causing unnecessary casualties. The responsibility lies with you!" Li Wan yelled.

The people inside are also sober: "Who will believe your nonsense! You are going to kill our bannermen."

Li Wan sighed, and said, "If you are so sensible, there is nothing you can do about it."

He waved his hand, and the soldier next to him pulled a grenade and threw it through the courtyard wall.

There was a bang, and the people inside also exploded: "We surrender, we surrender, don't throw that palm mine again!"

The soldiers of the Great Ming Fuguo Army here have already identified the approximate location through their voices, and then chose another direction to avoid possible attacks. Over the courtyard wall.

This kind of cooperative climbing ability is the most basic training of the Ming Dynasty's Restoration Army, and the soldiers of the Independent Guards Brigade are very familiar with it.

The soldiers of the National Restoration Army who had crossed the wall immediately raised their rifles and opened fire on the group of banner men. A dozen people were shot dead immediately, and the rest lost their courage to continue fighting and cried instead. Shouting and running around.

Just like this, every courtyard in the inner city was baptized by the Ming Dynasty's Restoration Army.Anyone who resists even a little bit will surely be met with even more brutal suppression.For those who simply surrendered, some troops would leave them a way to survive, tying them up like black slaves and stringing them up with a big rope.

In fact, there are not many decent young and middle-aged men in the inner city. The continuous wars have greatly consumed the manpower of the Manchurians, and those who can be sent to the battlefield are basically on the battlefield now.

These captured bannermen did not know whether they were lucky or unlucky.Bai Mingxiu didn't intend to execute these people directly, anyway, there were not many left, so they simply formed a labor group and sent them to the colony to do coolies.

Li Wan cleaned up several houses and killed some people, but he didn't think it was very meaningful.Compared to dealing with these cowardly Tartars, Li Wan still felt that killing those self-righteous Tartars was more interesting.

Gao Ning found Li Wan at this time and said: "There are a large number of people in the northwest of the city who wanted to escape from the city, but they were driven back by our friendly troops outside the city. The Manchu clan, especially at this time, may be among them the little Tartar emperor and the old Tartar empress.”

Li Wan regained his spirits and said, "Then what are you waiting for, let's go! It's a great achievement to catch the little Tartar emperor."

The two brothers led their own company's soldiers to the scene and found that friendly troops had already blocked the fleeing crowd from several directions.If someone acts without authorization and wants to break through, he will be shot immediately.

Gao Ning and Li Wan saw several military officers surrounding an old man with injuries, so they rushed over to ask what was going on.

The leader was also a company commander, and the company commander replied: "This old eunuch... er, old man, said that he stabbed the false emperor of the Tartars to death. He was a former eunuch in the Ming Palace, and he was loyal to Ming Dynasty. down."

Gao Ning and Li Wan were also surprised. This kind of story, which was only seen in novels, did not expect to happen.

Zhang Kuizhen was wounded a lot. If the Ming army hadn't arrived and the Manchu guards were afraid and abandoned him, he would have died by now.

"Military lords, hurry up and take down the Tartars and puppet emperors. They are among this group of people. Just now those Qing palace guards snatched the body of the Tartars and puppet emperors."

After a while, several soldiers arrived dragging the body of a young man and asked Zhang Kuizhen to identify him.

Zhang Kuizhen glanced at the corpse, yelled at the corpse, "It's him, this is the Tartar false emperor stabbed to death by the miscellaneous family."

The company commanders here also asked some maids and eunuchs from the Qing Palace to identify them, and they were sure that the dead boy was Aisin Gioro Xuanye.

Gao Ning said at this time: "Among this group of refugees, there must be a large number of important people from the Qing court, and none of them can be let go. The most important thing now is Bumbutai, the fake empress dowager. As long as there are people in this group Find an old lady who is about the same age, and ask those palace maids and eunuchs to identify them, and that's enough."

This was not a difficult idea, and everyone immediately asked the soldiers to find out all the old women inside.

When it was not half done, I heard someone shouting: "Don't worry about it, Aijia is here!"

While speaking, Xiao Zhuang, who was full of majesty in his brows, appeared from the crowd in a peasant sarong.

Xiaozhuang made a generous declaration of death and raised his voice: "The Qing Dynasty has perished today, and the mourning family cannot be blamed for it. Today, the country has died, and it is shameful to see Taizong and the late emperor. However, the mourning family is the empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty. If you and others are disrespectful, it is also Lost the dignity of tomorrow’s dynasty.”

Li Wan was furious: "You old woman, you have so many ridiculous theories? It's you Tatars who have trampled on the Ming Dynasty's dignity and dignity. Now you want us to treat you with courtesy. You really have no brains." sick!"

As he said that, Li Wan directly tied Xiaozhuang with a thick rope, and tied him with other captive bannermen, just like wearing a grasshopper.

(End of this chapter)