Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 502 Purge Gentlemen and National Thieves (Chapter 21)
At this time, Gong Zhaolu, who swears allegiance to the Qing Dynasty to the death, also stood guard on the city gate with the bravery he summoned. He didn't know much about war. In his consciousness, it seemed that defending the city was still relying on the city wall , and then use firearms and bows to suppress the siege enemy.

Therefore, Gong Zhaolu has been waiting for the guards to appear, but what he didn't expect was that what he waited for was not the officers and soldiers of the guards but the shells of the artillery battalion of the guards.

Thousands of shells landed on the walls of Weihui Mansion without any mistakes, and only a small number of shells landed outside and inside the walls.

This is the unparalleled shooting accuracy of the Guards artillery, coupled with the powerful explosive force formed by the nitration explosives and the heavy iron bullets, the city wall of Weihui Mansion City and the people on it were blown up in an instant. It collapsed directly into a series of ruins.

Gong Zhaolu was lucky, the only city wall he was in hadn't collapsed yet, but he was dumbfounded when he looked around and found Nuo Da's Weihui Mansion collapsed into ruins in an instant.

He never thought that the war was played like this, Gong Zhaolu was stunned, and he began to regret that he wanted to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty.

But when he thought that even if he did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty, he would be punished for the crime of collaborating with the enemy, so he couldn't help crying:
"My God, how could this be, how could this be!"

In the suddenly bright scenery outside the city, most of the [-] defenders turned into howling defeated soldiers in an instant. At this time, Xiang Degong, the prefect of Weihui Mansion, was also dumbfounded.

"Weihui Mansion is so ruined? Rao cannons in red can't be so fast, so violent, Weihui Mansion is a big city, it was the residence of Zhu Mingfan Wang Lu Wang! The city has always been high and thick, what should I do? ?”

Xiang Degong, the magistrate of Weihui Mansion, knelt and sat on the ground wanting to cry without tears.

At this time, Zhou Xiangguang, the commander of the First Cavalry Battalion of the First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards, had personally led the cavalry of the Guards to kill him.

The cavalry sword in Zhou Xiangguang's hand was already extremely hungry. He hadn't encountered any decent resistance all the way from Yangwu, and at most killed a few gentry, so now he can see the Qing army bravely guarding Huicheng. As soon as Huicheng broke through the city, he immediately rushed in.

"Kill!"

But Zhou Xiangguang was dumbfounded when he entered Weihui City, because there was no Qing army in the whole Weihui City that he wanted to kill. dying wounded.

"Let the artillery battalion fire fewer cannons in the future, and let us cavalry play!"

Zhou Xiangguang was a little depressed, but he still rushed to the Weihui Mansion with his officers and soldiers. At this time, there were still a few Qing soldiers in the Weihui Mansion, but these Qing soldiers just knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. There is no meaning to resist.

Zhou Xiangguang had no choice but to send a few cavalry to finish off these Qing troops, and even arrested Xiang Degong, the magistrate of Weihui Mansion.

"You actually became the magistrate of Jianlu. It seems that you were born as a Jinshi of Jianlu. Say, who asked you to join the Tartars!"

At this time, Zhou Xiangguang could only use Xiang Degong, the magistrate of Weihui Mansion, to soothe his mood, so he took the initiative to interrogate Xiang Degong.

"My lord, I don't know what kind of tartar you are. I'm a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning, I just thought that the Ming Dynasty had not yet died, so I got admitted to Jinshi in a daze, and then I became an official. My lord, you have learned a lot. As long as the big master is willing to spare the little one, the little one is willing to do anything, and the little one will shave this braid!"

Xiang Degong broke down and kowtowed his head.

"Put it down, the officials of the Qing Dynasty hang up and beat him first, don't beat him to death, and wait for our people to come to judge and execute! How can we do it if we don't Ling Chi!"

As Zhou Xiangguang was speaking, a cavalry soldier under his command came on horseback: "Commander, there is a man on the city wall. He seems to be a scholar, and he is still wearing a Confucian robe."

"Go, take this commander to have a look."

Zhou Xiangguang rushed over immediately.

At this time, Gong Zhaolu was very depressed. Now he is trapped on the city wall about ten feet high. He can neither jump off nor stay on it. After all, it is winter, and he will not starve to death if he stays outside like this. Also freeze to death.

"I really know how to play!"

Zhou Xiangguang couldn't help laughing, and only ordered: "Don't worry about him, everyone will continue to search and suppress the remnants of the enemy, and not a single gentry with a reputation in the city will be let go. These people were not loyal to the Ming Dynasty at the beginning, and they were willing to be traitors of the Qing Dynasty. Death is not a pity!"

Soon, the guard cavalry under Zhou Xiangguang began to wipe out these gentry who worked for the Qing Dynasty.

"Huang Qing conquered the world for the Ming Dynasty, saved the people from fire and water, and opened up the prosperity of prosperity." Wang Liangliang, a cavalryman, found an article from a gentry desk named Kuang Shounian, and couldn't help but read a few words, furious He kicked Kuang Shounian, who was kneeling on the ground, to the ground, and slashed fiercely with his saber:

"If it weren't for you brazen people, why would Daming perish!"

"Doctor Shun Shun of the Qing Dynasty is in charge of the academician's workshop of the Hanlin Academy. It seems that this family is still a high-ranking official in the Qing Dynasty. Break in and kill him without leaving any traces!"

The cavalry of the Guards led Zong Ning Zhiyuan and a cavalry to break into a large family, and a slave wanted to stop him:
"What are you doing! Do you know whose mansion this is, my master is a high official in the capital!"

"Go to your high-ranking official, a big man and 0 traitors are almost the same!"

Ning Zhiyuan cut the slave in half with a single knife first, and the dozen or so slaves who followed were dumbfounded when they saw this, and hurriedly ran back.

"It's the slaves and maidservants in this mansion who can stay aside. It's the master in this mansion who comes forward to lead the death. The master of the house doesn't think about the country's grace and does things for the Hu people. As his relatives, he should be implicated by him. , and you don’t have to blame anyone, if you want to blame, blame your patriarch for having no shame and no loyalty, we are going to restore justice for China, we have to do something extraordinary, kill!"

Pfft!

Under the shadow of swords and blood, the family members of the Qing court official began to pay for the crime of treason on behalf of their patriarch.

"Master Jun, please forgive me. I don't know what my second brother has done. He told us to build the memorial archway. I am willing to be a citizen of Ming Dynasty. I don't want anything. Donate it, the little one just wants to survive, woo woo!"

At this time, a gentry crawled on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

"Now I want to be a citizen of Ming Dynasty. It's a good idea. Why did I go earlier? In the past, His Majesty the Emperor repeatedly issued decrees that the soldiers and people in the north should go south immediately. His Majesty personally decreed that if you don't abandon the king, you will not abandon the king." Wait, but what are you doing, for five years, when will the people who want to be Daming have no chance to go south, now they know how to beg for mercy, the law of heaven is clear, how can they be lightly forgiven!"

Ning Zhiyuan chopped off the squire's head.

(End of this chapter)