Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 90 Sin City
Bai Mingxiu occupied Guangzhou and won the support of the people, and many counties in Guangdong Province also surrendered.It has only been ten years since the Qing government captured Guangdong, and the wars have basically never stopped during this period.The people were very resistant to the Manchu Qing court that shaved their hair and changed their clothes easily, and they were full of nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty.The officials of the prefectures and counties are basically fools.

Of course, there are also people who feel that the Manchu Qing has already won the world, and Nanming is just a grasshopper jumping around after autumn, and it won't last for a few days.These people are still watching the situation, at least until the Ming army has not approached the city, they will not voluntarily surrender to Bai Mingxiu.

However, several prefectures and counties near Guangzhou basically surrendered to Nanming, including Shunde County, Dongguan County, Baoan County, Xiangshan County, Sanshui County, and Xinning County.Some places outside of Guangzhou also surrendered and changed flags. Suddenly, the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army led by the Prince of Ming Dynasty swept south of the Five Ridges.

However, Bai Mingxiu still encountered something that made him a little annoyed.

"Xinhui County refuses to surrender?" Bai Mingxiu asked Nie Guanyong, the head of the 101st Regiment, who is now the acting brigade commander of the Independent Brigade of the Daming Restoration Army, with a clouded face.

Nie Guanyong usually has a very friendly look and a gentle smile, but at this time the head of the regiment looked a little restrained, and he told Bai Mingxiu: "Reporting to Your Highness, the envoy we sent to Xinhui didn't even have the gate of the county seat. Go in, Xinhui County has been closed."

Bai Mingxiu snorted coldly, and said, "What a Xinhui County. When I was reading articles, I heard people say that 'Xinhui is in the north, and Yashan is in the south'. Seeing it today really deserves its reputation."

In the eighth year of Yongli (1654), Li Dingguo entered Guangdong again to implement a strategic plan concerning the fate of Nanming.At that time, Li Dingguo's plan was to invade Guangdong, which was ten times richer than Guangxi, so as to realize a good pattern in which Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong and Fujian merged together, and the main forces of Nanming no longer fought alone.For this reason, he contacted Zheng Chenggong in Jinxia many times, hoping to meet Zheng Chenggong in Guangdong.

At that time, Li Dingguo's army was [-] to [-], while the Qing army was weak, and the troops of the two domains were mainly concentrated in Guangzhou.Li Dingguo also fully learned the lessons of the previous Zhaoqing battle, and he won consecutive battles at the beginning of the war.Li Dingguo chose Xinhui in the south of Guangzhou as the place to join forces with Zheng Jun, so he attacked Xinhui with all his strength.

It's just that this battle eventually became the lingering nightmare of this Nanming No.1 general.Li Dingguo besieged Xinhui for ten months, but he still had no way to deal with the city.Various rumors said that the Qing army took advantage of Li Dingguo's soft heart and resorted to various rogue tricks.

Li Dingguo carried out three large-scale offensives and battles, while the Xinhui Qing army repeatedly expelled the people as cannon fodder, which made Li Dingguo cast a rat weapon and failed.

When the Ming army arrived at the root of the city wall by digging tunnels and blasted open the city wall, and was about to organize cannons to bombard the gap, the Xinhui Qing army drove out the people in an orderly manner to move stones and block back the gap one by one; When the "Jianqing" was piled up to form steps to climb up the city wall, the Qing army in Xinhui asked the people to dig a gap in the city wall to climb out, and moved the "Jianqing" into the city one by one.

Li Dingguo was afraid of hurting innocent people, so he didn't dare to do it, which caused the failure.

However, a few months after Xinhui was besieged, due to the lack of military rations, there was even a case of using the human flesh of the people as military rations. The original text of "Xinhui County Chronicle" records: "Since being besieged for half a year, half of the people died of hunger, half of those who killed food, and half of their children were plundered. There is no such tragedy in the sky."

At that time, there were a large number of women who actively climbed oil pans to serve as military rations in order to replace their husbands and family members. Later, many people were regarded as chaste and martyrs.During the entire siege period, more than 1 people were cooked as military rations, most of them were old and weak women who could not directly serve as labor force, and even some famous scholars became the anvil of the Qing army. Meat.

Finally, reinforcements from the Qing army arrived, and the demoralized and disease-ridden Ming army was finally defeated.And Nanming's last chance was lost.

It is actually quite ridiculous to talk about the reason why Xinhui people desperately helped the Qing army defend the city.Because the Qing army slaughtered the city all the way, tragedies such as the Ten Days of Yangzhou, the Three Massacres of Jiading, and the Calamity of Gengyin had already happened.The Qing army publicized locally that if Xinhui was breached by the Ming army, then the Qing army would attack the city again and slaughter Xinhui completely.

The Xinhui people were afraid, so they desperately helped the Qing army defend the city.He even did not hesitate to eat his own women, children, the old and the weak and scholars in the city.

And the subtext of this motivation is that they are not afraid of the Ming army at all, because Li Dingguo cherishes his feathers and will not make life difficult for the people, let alone massacre the city.So they bully honest people, and instead associate with villains and murderers. This is really a very poignant and ironic human drama.

Only eight years have passed since that battle, and the cannibals still live in that city.But now there is no Qing army stationed in Xinhui at all, but the city still chooses to resist Bai Mingxiu.

Sister Lion stood beside Bai Mingxiu, looked at him intently, and asked, "What does Your Highness want to do?"

Bai Mingxiu was silent for a while, and finally said: "I don't want such a city full of sin and filth to continue to exist."

Nie Guanyong was taken aback, and asked, "Your Highness, do you want to massacre the city?"

Bai Mingxiu shook his head: "This kind of thing cannot be done by our Ming Dynasty Restoration Army. The heart of this country has been destroyed, so people in this country can do such a heinous thing. We are affirming the shining of our nation At the same time as being great, I also see ignorance, cruelty, numbness and sadness. This city of sin almost destroyed the entire country and dragged our nation into the next 200 years of ignorance. So, since I am here, and I am going to destroy this sinful city. Nie Guanyong, I order you to lead the 101st Regiment to attack Xinhui County. After capturing the city, move all the people in the city out. Lion, you are also accompanying. Here After the city is empty, I want you to use your main guns to level the county. If the main guns are not enough, I can prepare more explosives for you. When I go to see it later, I want to see It's rubble!"

Nie Guanyong immediately saluted, "Yes!"

Sister Lion asked, "Are you sure this is okay? You may create tens of thousands of homeless refugees, and each of them may be full of hatred for you."

Bai Mingxiu nodded, "It's okay, let them hate me, because I hate them too. Under the avalanche, no snowflake is innocent. Prepare the boat, and then I will let the people who participated in that disgusting city defense battle , all migrated to Java, and let them enrich the colony. People, they are always responsible for what they do.”

(End of this chapter)