In 1583, Nurhaci was granted the title of commander of Jianzhou Left Guard, unifying all Jurchen tribes. 【Read full text】
In 1616, Nurhaci established a country in Hetuala and called it Khan, with the country's name being Jin.
In 1635, Huang Taiji abolished the old clan name "Zhushen" and named the clan "Manzhou".
In 1642, during the Battle of Songjin in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Chengchou was captured and Zu Dashou surrendered.
In 1643, Huang Taiji died of illness, and his ninth son, Fulin, succeeded him as Shunzhi.
In 1644, Li Zicheng captured Beijing and Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide in Jingshan.
In April 1645, the Qing army besieged Yangzhou City on a large scale, led by Duduo, Prince of Henan of the Qing Dynasty. Shi Kefa, Minister of War of the Southern Ming Dynasty, led the army and people of Yangzhou to resist the Qing army. After the defensive battle failed, Shi Kefa refused to surrender and was killed. The Qing army massacred more than 800,000 people in Yangzhou for ten days, which is known in history as the "Ten Days of Yangzhou"!
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"Capture Yangzhou and deploy troops for ten days! The sword will not be sheathed and the horse will not return to its trough!"
Under Yangzhou City, hundreds of thousands of Manchu military camps stretched for dozens of miles. At this time, Duduo's camp was still twenty miles away from Yangzhou City, and the vanguard had already arrived at Yangzhou City! When Duduo's order to "not seal the sword for ten days" came, the banner army shouted loudly. Everyone was gearing up like wild beasts, licking their lips with bloodthirsty, and arrogant! At this time, there were no reinforcements outside Yangzhou City, and there were no soldiers or soldiers inside. Helmets and armor were abandoned everywhere, and the people were running around and crying. Before the Qing army began to attack the city, the city was already in chaos.
The Ming Dynasty has come to an end. It is rotten to death from the foundation, and it has to drag countless people to be buried with it. Chongzhen had just died and King Fu succeeded to the throne. As soon as he ascended the throne, he indulged in wine and sex. He simply had the idea of enjoying the day and resurrecting the country. He did not have anything in his mind. A court in the Southern Ming Dynasty was about to be destroyed. King Fu was drunk and dreaming, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were still at war with each other. They were fighting for power internally and in a mess externally. Generals like Gao Jie directly sent troops to plunder Weiyang. Killing the common people was even more brutal than the Manchus!
Shi Kefa even advocated "uniting the captives to quell the invaders" - that is, uniting with the Manchus and first annihilating the forces of Li Zicheng's rebel army - does it look familiar? Later, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties borrowed troops from the foreigners to annihilate the Boxer Rebellion, which was exactly the same... haha. When Shi Kefa failed in his power struggle. He was assigned to supervise the army in Jiangbei and garrison Yangzhou. At that time, Yangzhou was clearly about to face the Manchu army, but he still foolishly arranged for Gao Jie to lead his army north to Henan, hoping to "assist" the Qing army in the crusade against Li Zicheng, and was still dreaming of "recovering the Central Plains."
Then the Qing army took the opportunity to go south. Zuo Liangyu, who was heavily armed in Nanming, went to attack Nanjing to clear his mother's side! In order to resist Zuo Liangyu, Ma Shiying immediately mobilized all Jiang Fang's troops... So the Manchus had no obstacles on their way and drove straight to Yangzhou City!
Later, Zuo Liangyu was defeated and died, and his son immediately led his army to surrender to the Manchus... This was almost a microcosm of Nanming at that time. Nanming fought with Li Zicheng, and Nanming himself also fought internally. Then no matter who was defeated or saw that the situation was not good, he immediately surrendered to the Manchus. It has to be said that the Manchu army is getting bigger and bigger like this. Cixi's "I would rather give gifts to friends than to domestic slaves" is probably not her patent. It is the same after the decay of imperial power!
In fact, the Manchu army at that time was not unstoppable, because it was not like the later Opium War. China's technology was overall behind that of the Western world, and its flesh and blood could not stop foreign guns and artillery.
At that time, generals such as He Tengjiao, Li Dingguo, and Liu Wenxiu all defeated the Manchus. The situation once made the Manchus want to completely abandon the southwest. The helpless and decaying Nanming court and various speculative warlords were like two big iron balls tied to their feet, and Wu Sangui, a lackey, was enough. Eventually dragging the entire Chinese nation into the abyss...
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"Alas, Inspector Shi may not be able to save his life. Seeing another military disaster in Yangzhou, I don't know how many lives will be lost! It's so pitiful!"
The speaker's words are sad. But he was not a soldier guarding the city of Yangzhou, nor even a citizen guarding the land. This person's name is Bai Guyi, also known as Zhui Yunsou. He is a man among the immortals who has escaped from the world and cultivates immortality. He is also known as the "Two Elders of Songshan" together with Qingcheng's headmaster Gaosou Zhumei. He is extremely senior in the world of spiritual practice, even half a generation ahead of Emei's Master Qiankun Zhengqi Miaoyi Zhenren.
At this moment, he was standing at the highest point of Yangzhou City. On the turret of Yandao Yamen, Wang Yang, who was sad about the past and cherished the present, sighed. But he saw the ants running and wailing under his feet, but he had no intention of saving them. "It's destiny, what can I do?"
In the world of practitioners, countless great powers have calculated that Yangzhou is about to suffer a disaster. But they either think that "the way of heaven is permanent, and it will not survive for Yao, nor perish for Jie." This means that it is none of my business if human beings kill and kill, and I am no longer a human being; others think that all this is fate. It is destined - those Yangzhou people are destined to die, Manchus and animals are destined to kill - everything in the world has its own destiny, so any efforts are in vain.
There are even people from the Demon Sect lurking in Yangzhou City, just waiting for the blood to flow into a river, then they will gather the souls, devour the bones, launch a huge blood sacrifice, and refine several powerful magic weapons! As for human life... isn't that material? People in the righteous way turn a blind eye, maybe with the idea of "you refine the magic weapon, I will steal it and continue to use it in a different way".
As for why Bai Guyi appeared here, he came here for Li Yingqiong, the daughter of Li Ning, one of the "Three Heroes of Qilu". Li Yingqiong is only ten years old now, but she is indeed one of the "Three Heroes and Two Clouds" appointed by the previous head of the Emei Sect, Chang Mei Zhenren, who has ascended to heaven. She is a key figure in the great success of the Emei Sect! Li Ning is now acting as a rebel against the Manchus in Yangzhou City. Master Miaoyi is deeply afraid that if Li Yingqiong makes a mistake during this time of chaos, the entire Emei Sect may regret it! Therefore, please wear Yunsou Bai Guyi for personal protection.
At this time, Yangzhou City was surrounded by the Banner Corps, and several cannons were launched from the army in front of the city gate. Looking around from the top of the city tower, all the fields are covered in darkness are human heads, and the ones shining brightly are weapons!
Seeing this scene, the leader standing on the tower, who was dressed as a civil servant but wearing a pair of armor, shook his body.
"Superintendent!" "Help Superintendent!" The people around him suddenly became confused. They were supporting him, fanning him, and even those who pressed people's philtrum and handed him cold water were very busy. Li Yingqiong's father, Li Ning, was among this group of people because of his strong martial arts skills. Seeing this scene, he shook his head and smiled bitterly. How can he fight like this? Just then, a strange whistling sound was heard. Among those present, Bai Guyi, who was hiding aside, was the first to raise his head.
I saw a green light wrapping a group of things. Falling straight down from the high sky - look at the direction of the fall, it is exactly at the tower where the man is standing!
Bai Guyi was stunned by this sudden situation. Because looking at the direction of the fall, it turned out to be hitting the "supervisor" straight. A sense of absurdity suddenly arose in his heart. Could it be that this Yangzhou city is about to be massacred, and that the people will not survive until dusk at most? ! Do you have to let that person die without any delay? ! The way of heaven is so harsh! I don’t know how many sins that person named Supervisor has accumulated in his previous life...
"Supervisor!" Amidst the screams of those people, a green light slammed right onto the spot where the Supervisor had just been standing! Although the supervisor was pulled by Li Ning, he barely escaped being hit on the head! But he couldn't escape the ensuing impact. He flew out of the tower and fell down.
When everyone was shocked, they saw the green light falling to the ground and pushing the dust around it to disperse, revealing a five or six-year-old child! What's even more surprising is that as soon as the child showed up, he raised his middle finger in the air and yelled, "God, you're trying to trick me!"
Who else could it be if it wasn't Lu Yuan...
But before he could finish his words, he heard the piercing whistling of the horns again!
Countless people blurted out a sentence in their minds. "Come back?!" On the contrary, the child reacted the fastest. His face changed drastically and he simply jumped down in the direction where the supervisor fell from the building! The Supervisor was barely being helped up by several people, with only half of his life left in the fall. He was still muttering "Let me slow down, let me slow down"... When he looked up, he saw another person. The black shadow smashed down, and suddenly there was only one thought left in his mind, "My life is at risk!"
The second sound came faster, after seeing what was falling. A group of wolves and pigs jumped down from the watchtower! It turned out that the whistling sound was sharper than last time, and what was wrapped in the hot wind was a dark Tang-style long knife!
As soon as everyone landed, they heard a loud noise like a mountain falling apart behind them. The long knife hit the watchtower straight, and then the entire watchtower collapsed.
When the dust cleared, the watchtower was in ruins! A group of people looked at me and looked at you, all of them looked disgraced, and the supervisor was even beaten to the point of unconsciousness! Instead, it was the child. His eyes moved wildly, looking fearless. Everyone immediately hated him! One person gritted his teeth and shouted, "That's a demon descended from heaven! We should kill this beast to avenge the governor!"
"Yes, avenge the Governor!" One person shouted, and everyone echoed. The sound of revenge was heard, and countless swords were slashed at the child's head!
"Hey! Revenge, he's not dead yet..." The child argued loudly, seemingly ignoring the fact that he was being attacked by a sword. Many people turned around and closed their eyes, unable to bear to watch the scene of him being dismembered. At that moment, a pair of small hands suddenly stretched out from behind him and hugged him, then rolled along and blended into the crowd.
"Come with me quickly," Lu Yuan heard someone say. He didn't have much control over this powerless body, but he was dragged by the person and stumbled into the alley next to him. After running for a few steps, he finally saw clearly that the person dragging him running was actually a child about his age. Looking at the headband and long hair from behind, she is still a girl!
The two of them wandered through alleys, twisted and turned several times, and finally left the noisy people behind. It wasn't until he was in an uninhabited alley that the girl let go of her hand, pushed him to sit against the wall, and then sat down herself, breathing heavily.
When the girl saw that Lu Yuan was still dumbfounded and confused at this moment, she suddenly became angry and said bitterly, "Do you know who the person you just smashed was?"
"Who is it?" Lu Yuan turned around helplessly.
"Supervisor Shi Kefa!" the girl said loudly.
"And~" Lu Yuan sneered at the person she said. Except for dying for his country in the end, Shi Kefa never did anything right in most of his life, so there is nothing to make a fuss about. But... he looked at the two small red moles on the girl's eyebrows, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"Um, can I ask the girl your name?" He asked with some fear.
"Me?" The girl, who was equally ashen-faced and tomboy-like, just curled her lips and said her maiden name casually, "My name is Li Yingqiong."
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ps: At the beginning of the new volume, I didn’t want to write the previous paragraph. But in order to prevent some people from being as jabbering as they were in the Yitian scroll, it is better to write something better. (To be continued.)
