At this moment, the Qing army's forwards had rushed into Yangzhou.
The streets and alleys are full of people calling for their fathers and mothers and running for their lives. The famous Chaji Silk and Satin Shop in Yangzhou has four doors wide open. Some of the expensive silks and satins in the past were thrown to the ground, and some were torn apart and rolled up in the wind.
In this chaotic time of war, no one noticed the hatchets from farmers, kitchen knives from restaurants, scissors from girls' homes, sickles for harvesting crops, etc., as well as the guns, knives and swords dropped casually after the Yangzhou garrison collapsed. All of them seemed to be attracted by some kind of force. They moved and fell to the ground, and then disappeared into the soil and disappeared without a trace.
At the intersection of Wenhe Street, a Manchu centurion was passing by on horseback when a cold light suddenly jumped out from under the street - it was a pair of iron scissors!
The Manchu people laughed wildly without knowing it, and whipped their horses forward, followed by dozens of soldiers behind them. But he saw the scissors opening their blades and stabbing into the horse's belly with a "stab" sound. Scissors that obviously have trouble even cutting through thick cloth are cutting through horsehide like tofu! The scissors went all the way up, tore open the horse's back and flew out, ruthlessly entering the Manchu centurion's dung door!
"Ahhh!" The man screamed, jumped off his horse, fell into the Wen River, and roared like a madman. A group of soldiers hurriedly wanted to come forward to rescue, but they saw an extremely strange sight! I saw that the saber hung on the Manchu man's waist and the short sword that the Manchu man was accustomed to carry popped out of the scabbard by themselves, and then penetrated into the body of the former owner without hesitation!
After the knife and dagger were inserted into the vagina, they made a "squeaking" sound, and the color gradually turned red. This sight was so frightening that the soldiers' scalps went numb, and they turned around and ran away with a shout! But at this moment, another cold light flew out from the ground, and it turned out to be an iron sickle. The sickle rotated, and after slicing off the head of the leading soldier, it also penetrated into the cavity, sucking the blood with a "squeaking" sound.
The handle of the sickle was swinging, as if it were a living creature ready to kill at any moment!
This scene didn’t just happen at the intersection of Wenhe Street, it was repeated in almost the entire streets and alleys of Yangzhou! The sword flew out and killed the Hulu! Those kitchen knives and hatchets made of iron. Originally, the iron itself had no spirituality, and it would be the limit for him to fly even two steps. The pig-killing knife that chopped off the head of Duduo Dog was able to fly several thousand meters because it had a bit of cold iron mixed into it.
But after these ordinary swords and iron are refined with blood, they become more powerful. Although some knives made of too bad materials exploded directly, many more immediately gained a tenfold or hundredfold increase in flight distance!
Moreover, most of those Mangou generals and soldiers carried more than one weapon. That's because when the Manchus lived outside the customs, they were completely uncivilized and semi-primitive tribes. They lack both smelting technology and poor forging technology - they all rely on the continuous smuggling and betrayal of Shanxi merchants. Only then did they obtain the strategic resource of pig iron and a large number of skilled craftsmen.
Therefore, after these people rushed into the pass, they were particularly fond of iron weapons such as swords, and everyone regarded them as beautiful. Wearing three or five large and small knives is nothing at all. I wish I could hang all the knives at home on my body! Therefore, as long as the flying scissors and flying hatchets kill a full dog, more swords will join in. There are more and more swords flying in the air, and there are blood-sucking sounds everywhere inside and outside Yangzhou City... Looking from a distance, it seems like there are countless flying insects hovering over Yangzhou!
The 100,000 Manchu troops outside the city were so frightened that they fled uncontrollably to the north of the Yangtze River and collapsed. But countless blood-quenched swords still chased behind them relentlessly, leaving a bloody road paved with corpses from Yangzhou to the riverside! The Manchu army was slaughtered by flying swords. Countless people were drowned by the river when Yangzhou soldiers and civilians counterattacked! In the end, only two or three of the ten pavilions were able to cross the river and escape...
In the afternoon, as more and more people died, the rising blood gradually condensed into two huge words over Yangzhou City - "Kill Hu"!
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In 1653, a small boat sailed upstream from Wu Gorge.
In addition to the boatman of boat C, there were also a father and daughter in the boat. The old man has white beard and hair, over fifty years old, and wears a starched white shirt. The girl is about thirteen or fourteen years old. She was extremely beautiful, but a red mole between her eyebrows added a hint of evil to the girl's face.
The old man looked at the river, lost in thought, and the girl held her father's arm. Pointing at the scenery on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and asking questions, everything was very novel.
"How worthy of our motherland to look back at the bright moon!" After the old man said this, he burst into tears. The homeland he was talking about was probably not the small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty that is still surviving today.
"Father is feeling sad again," the girl hugged her father's arm tightly and persuaded him. "Everything in this world has its own destiny, and there is no benefit in just being sad. Moreover, my father has been running around for several years and has done his best to the motherland. Please protect your health."
"Alas~ What a pity King Wu Daotian's intention to show his sage... Is this Ming Dynasty really beyond saving?"
The father and daughter in this boat are none other than Li Ning and his daughter Li Yingqiong in the "Three Heroes of Qi and Lu". At this time, seven years have passed since the Battle of Yangzhou. In these seven years, the world has turned white, but the hero's liver and gallbladder have grown old.
Regarding the siege of Yangzhou in 1645, the rumors in the world are as follows: On that day, Prince Duduo of Yu led an army of hundreds of thousands to siege Yangzhou. Supervisor Shi led Yangzhou's soldiers and civilians to rise up to resist and defend the city for more than ten days. In the end, Qing Yao used the general's cannon to open the east gate of Yangzhou, and the city of Yangzhou fell. Supervisor Shi shouted in the rebellious army, "I am Supervisor Shi!" and was captured. Later Prince Duduo of Yu persuaded the governor to surrender, but he was scolded by the governor and Duduo killed him in anger.
At that time, Prince Duduo of Yu hated the fierce resistance of Yangzhou and wanted to massacre the entire city.
However, the blood of the governor flowed into the Wen River, and it awakened the spirit of a hero who had been sleeping under Yangzhou City, Ran Min, the King of Wu Ao Tian! The King of Heaven massacred his army in anger, and laid an ambush with millions of corpses. The word "Kill Hu" was prominently displayed for dozens of miles...
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This is a record that looks like a novel in the first half and a myth in the second half, but it truly exists in the notes and family letters of countless people in Jiangnan at that time.
The words "Kill Hu" that appeared on Yangzhou City that day were clearly visible to everyone within twenty miles! Therefore, people with a little bit of historical knowledge will easily connect it with Ran Min who issued the "Kill Hu Order". And the desire to kill all the Hulu seemed to be exactly the same as Ran Min's...
Therefore, Shi Kefa, who died for his country, and Ran Min, the king of martial arts, were promoted to the altar - originally Shi Kefa was the only one. You must know that Ran Min, the King of Wu Dao, has been blackmailed by Confucianism for thousands of years. In the eyes of those literati, Ran Min has long been condemned by the ancestors of their ancestors! Want to overturn the verdict? How can it be!
They really want to pretend to be deaf and dumb and can't see it, and by the way, when "the pen is sharpening the Spring and Autumn Period", this paragraph will be recorded in the unofficial history, and then they will criticize it with words and pens.
Unfortunately, King Ran Min, the king of martial arts, is still ambitious! Following the demonstration in Yangzhou, the "Killing Hu Ling" appeared several times in Jiading, Weiyang, and Haining, killing tens of thousands of dogs each time! This will kill Hulu every time. Then the intensity of the blood sacrifice greatly frightened Monk Shunzhi. He also effectively blocked the Manchu army's front on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Nowadays, the Qing court is one-sided and wants to give up Jiangnan, and the small court of Nanming is living in peace. It was actually saved by the remaining power of Wu Dao Tianwang Ran Min...
At this time, even if they pinch their noses, these literati have to admit the achievements of King Wu Daotian. Of course, they still did not forget the merits of the disgusting man and the emperor Wu Ming. Half of it goes to Shi Kefa - Inspector Shi's death is more important than Mount Tai! Governor Shi will not die, Ran Min will not come out, and so on - it is as if Ran Min was invited by Shi Kefa to help him.
So the Southern Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty ruled across the river, and the situation seemed to be stable.
Of course, there is also a little interesting folk story in Jiangnan called "The King of Heaven Recruiting Swords". What I'm talking about is kitchen knives, hatchets, etc., as long as the bladed iron tool falls on the ground, 80% of it will disappear. Everyone knew that it was Ran Min, the King of Wu Dao, who was recruiting weapons for his ghost soldiers. Wealthy people would laugh it off and probably burn incense to worship. Thank you Ran Min for keeping Jiangnan safe.
As for the Wudao Tianwang Temple that was built everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, there was an endless stream of swords made by people who donated them all year round.
If poor people are reluctant to part with their kitchen knives, they need to tie a rope to the handle of the knife and hang it from the roof beam so that the knife cannot fall to the ground. It is reasonable for such a family to pray during the holidays.
After seven years, Ran Min vaguely surpassed Guan Erye and became the patron saint of the place. It is in the Jiangbei Central Plains area. Some people also secretly paid homage to Ran Min. The Qing court repeatedly banned it, but they didn't dare to really let go of the killings - mainly because the Qing soldiers didn't dare to send out, and those Han troops who surrendered... didn't even dare! It should be noted that Ran Min, the King of Wu Dao, seems to hate the Hu people in addition to hating them. I hate Han J even more! The only two times he crossed the Yangtze River and appeared in the north were both because of the Han Dynasty!
In June 1645, in order to please the Manchus, Emperor Sun Zhixian of the Han Dynasty proposed to the Qing Dynasty that the Han people should be ordered to shave their hair and leave braids - this was the second "hair shaving order" of the Qing Dynasty. At the moment when he knelt down to worship, a sword flew into the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City. Put him to death in front of the Manchu civil and military officials and the Shunzhi monks! Not only that, Sun Zhixian's entire family in the capital, and dozens of his family members who stayed in his hometown in Zichuan, Shandong Province, were all killed!
Shunzhi was almost frightened crazy on the spot! From then on, he ordered the Royal Guards to surround the Forbidden City, and invited countless monks to garrison the palace, chanting sutras day and night. For a time, everyone who betrayed the country and sought glory was in danger and couldn't sleep at night. The name of Ran Min, the king of Wu mourning, once again resounded across the country!
In the court of the Northern Dynasty, although everyone angrily criticized Wu Dao Tianwang for killing scholars and would surely die violently (isn’t he already dead?), but in private, I don’t know how many people wrote "Sacrifice to Wu Dao Tian Wang" and "To Ran Min" in the middle of the night. Articles like this were burned to Ran Min to defend himself - about the five virtues that have always been there and the flow of luck, about being helpless for the sake of the family and the country, about working hard and being courageous and yearning for the Ming Dynasty... In short, there are all kinds of strange things and many tricks. All shameless.
After burning the memorial text, I didn't know what to do. I didn't know if Ran Min, a rough man, could understand the beautiful article he wrote. What if his charming eyes were turned on by a blind man? So continue to write the memorial text! This time it was written to Shi Kefa. These Han officials were very familiar with Shi Kefa. After all, they had served as officials in the same dynasty and were even friends and were of the same age. How could we build some friendship... So he came up and said, "Brother Shi, please advise Wu Miao." King of Heaven…”, that’s the tune.
In short, the whole Northern Dynasty was full of demons and monks and Taoists making great profits. Although they are all scholars, Confucius once said, "The master has no words, strange powers, and confuses the gods." But when the swords are all about to chop off the head, who cares about that? !
After a few years of such turmoil, Ran Min, the King of Wu Dao, seemed to be staying in the south in peace and contentment. As long as his nerves are not stimulated, it seems that he will become his "King of Raising Swords" and never cross the Yangtze River again. So the dark clouds above everyone's heads gradually dispersed, and everyone went back to their homes to find their mothers.
In the following years, Shunzhi gradually became obsessed with Buddhism and ignored political affairs, and power gradually transferred to the hands of the four ministers Gu Ming. The issue of the Southern Expedition was once again brought to the table. Then another major event happened that shocked the world——
In 1652, the Southern Ming general Sun Kewang was at odds with Li Dingguo and wanted to lure the Qing army to detour from Sichuan to the south of the Yangtze River and presented a map of the situation of the seven southwest provinces. As a result, he was killed by a flying sword formation and was killed in front of the Qing army! Not only him, but also his son and son-in-law who stayed in the army, his daughter and wife at home, and his immediate family members in his hometown of Mizhi, Shanxi, were all slaughtered!
From then on, no one mentioned the invasion of the south.
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When Li Yingqiong returns from her dream at midnight, she often thinks of the little monk she met in Yangzhou, of his falling from the sky, of his extraordinary smile, of his compassionate eyes, of him... Carved with his fingers on the mud wall Those two words
——"Kill Hu"! (To be continued.)
