Sixty-seven, the army is at the city, and the dilemma is

Sixty-seven, the army is at the city, and the dilemma is

Early in the morning of September 28, outside Nanjing

The scenery of Jiangnan in the golden autumn season is so beautiful that it is intoxicating.

A few rays of rose-like clouds gradually emerge from the eastern sky, pure and beautiful, like a touch of rouge on the lips of a beautiful man in Jiangnan. The brilliant morning light bursts out ribbons through the dense clouds, rolling with dazzling golden light.

Under this autumn sunshine, there are green trees, gurgling streams, jingyiǎ bridges, green bamboo forests, and neat rice fields and vegetable beds... The lotus flowers in the pond have not yet withered yet, but the fragrant golden osmanthus has already smelled, which is really a beautiful autumn scenery in the south of the Yangtze River!

However, in the suburbs of Nanjing, there is no village girl picking lotus in the pond, nor is there a shepherd boy returning late in the setting sun. People from Jiangnan, who should have been soft in the folk customs, are shouting slogans of blood and killing in their literary soft Wu language.

Feili stood on a green mountain and looked at the majestic walls of the ancient capital ahead.

Although the mountain here is not too high, the autumn wind on the top of the mountain is extremely strong, carrying the coldness from the north, making him feel cool all over. At the foot of the mountain, the dense bamboo forests are like a large green ocean, rustling with the airflow.

Unfortunately, it is such an elegant and beautiful land, but now someone wants to defile it with blood and war.

——In the middle of the plain at the foot of the mountain, in a village covered with green bamboos, a large number of ragged serfs were driven to the entrance of the village by another group of revolutionaries who were almost the same as their outfits, and gathered timidly under the swords and guns.

On the wooden stakes at the entrance of the village, there were many Eight Banners who were struggling like dead dogs, almost all of them were covered in blood and covered in bruises.

Then, a kind-hearted uncle or aunt stood up and passionately preached to them the great principle of "expelling the Tartars and returning my rivers and mountains". Then, under the supervision and urgency of the other revolutionaries, they trembled and took turns to use a dagger to queule the children of the Eight Banners who were tied up and were scattered in line to show that they had cut off the past.

Next, these serfs who had just stabbed the male protagonist with a knife will be taken into the original landlord's house by several revolutionaries. There, they will be surprised to find that the owners of the house here - the official wife of the banner landlord and the big sisters, were stripped of their clothes and tied tightly, and had socks or handkerchiefs stuffed in their mouths across the bed or even a table, looking at themselves with shame and resentment...

So, after a sharp moan mixed with fear and pleasure, and a low roar filled with pleasure and numbness, these originally cowardly coat slaves quickly gained a lofty consciousness and evolved into the most determined revolutionaries and cannon fodder soldiers.

——Killed the Eight Banners Masters, slandered the Manchus, and the Revolutionary Party also specially sent several Manchus back to the capital to report the news. There is no possibility of death without evidence... If they do not revolution, will there be any way to survive under the imperial city?

However, it is a bit too despicable to be "forced revolution" like this overlord!

Divide-Separation-Line

Therefore, seeing this scene that can be called the scene of Liangshan, even though it is not the genuine Knight King who is so noble that he is not a person, but now he is wearing a blue and white war dress and steel armor to become King Arthur's blonde vampire NV Professor Rebecca couldn't help but sigh deeply.

——Not only was the violent means of the revolutionaries too ugly, but also the imperial military and civilians who were incredibly weak at this time.

"...No desperate resistance, no hostile gaze, and no heroic performance. Before we even need to do it ourselves, the people here have already killed themselves into a group... Should we be considered invaders or liberators?"

Standing on the beautiful hills, she observed the towering giant city ahead while saying sarcastic words.

"............... In my opinion, I'm afraid neither of them can be discussed."

Feili said lightly, "...As invaders, our troops are far from enough; as liberators, we obviously do not have such noble feelings. So, now we are just a group of debt collectors fighting for money! They just ignited a fire bucket!"

"... Since we came just to collect debts, why don't you agree to excavate those two imperial tombs?"

Hearing such an answer, Rebecca couldn't help but curl her lips, turn slightly, and point to a red wall glazed tiles hidden by lush pine and cypress at the foot of the mountain behind. "... According to the debt collection process of usury merchants, shouldn't we beat the other party first and then move some valuable things from the debtor's house? People are also looking for any famous swords and swords in the grave, which are worthy of this outfit... "

...Hey, my dearest teacher Rebecca, since you like to become a knight king so much, can you stop thinking about dirty work like tomb robbers all day long?! The heroic spirit of the King of Britain will cry in the sky of another world!

While secretly complaining, Feili did not forget to organize the words and sentences to answer Rebecca's question, "...I'm sorry, although I also hope to get some money as soon as possible to make up for military expenditure. However, in the traditional customs of this country, the extreme attention to ancestors and ancestral temples, if we excavate the imperial tomb, it may completely anger the emperor who is owed to the debt, so that he would rather fight for the country and the family than compromise with us... Moreover, looking at the current down-and-out appearance of this Tatar court, it is difficult to say how many burial objects can be found in the underground palace of the imperial tomb.

Therefore, if there is no treasure found in the tomb, but the enemy is united in the enemy and refuses to surrender, resulting in the debt of 50 million taels of silver being unable to be recovered, at most two months later, the iǎ vault on the Xiangrui will be exhausted and our army will be cut off!”

"...Is this really the case? But why do I feel that the locals are more active than us in destroying the cultural relics of our country! Look, the various cemeteries of officials and gentry on the Purple Gold Mountain, as well as some monuments, have been dug out so many pits in just one day and one night. Even those two imperial tombs, if we hadn't been stationed by our people, would have been destroyed long ago!"

Professor NV retorted disapprovingly, and pointed at the mess around the imperial tomb. This was originally a group of cemeteries for princes and ministers, surrounded by beautiful royal gardens. Between the green pines and cypresses, there were many stone tablets recording the merits of the dead, and there were also many beautifully decorated temples for incense and offering sacrifices to these dead big men. But at this moment, they were smashed and burned, almost turning into ruins.

"...Tsk tsk, if you just collect gold, silver and treasures in the cemetery and ancestral halls, it would be nothing strange. Even these stone tablets that are not in trouble will be pushed down and smashed... Could it be that these revolutionaries have too much strength and nowhere to use them?"

When Feili heard this, she looked down and found a group of excited revolutionaries surrounding a majestic and beautiful white marble monument, shouting and yelling about barbaric destruction. While they smashed the root of the monument with a sledgehammer, they used ropes to tug the tip of the monument. Soon, in a burst of cheers and smoke, they pulled it to the ground and shattered it into stone chips on the ground.

This made Feili feel a little puzzled - if the enemy in front of her is not fighting, why are you competing with these stones?

"...Rebecca NV scholars, we are not barbarians who hate civilization! But the stone tablets of the ancestral temples left by the Great Jin court at the foot of the Purple Gold Mountain are not memorable places and monuments in the eyes of our revolutionaries, but rather the mark of shame left by the Tatar rulers!"

At this moment, Admiral Li Huamei, who had directed the above sabotage operations, rushed back and was about to discuss the next combat deployment. Hearing the ironic accusations of the Great Arcane Rebecca, he immediately replied loudly.

Speaking of this, she pointed to the temple monument that was being destroyed by the revolutionaries, and shouted in a deep voice, "... That is the monument of the merits that the Tatars pacified Jiangnan! And the tombs of the 'Pingnan meritorious officials'! Haha, in the ten days of Yangzhou, the three massacres of Jiading, the Jiangyin massacre... The resentment of millions of innocent undeads lingered here! Since we want to restore the rivers and mountains, how can we allow the traces of these barbarians to defile the hometown of Jiangnan?!"

"...But this will at least further stimulate the Manchu nobles in the city and strengthen their determination to fight."

Rebecca calmly pointed out this disadvantage, "...but we just hope that the court will surrender as soon as possible and pay off the debt obediently."

"...What can these Tatars who can't even ride horses and can't pull a bow at this time even if they want to jump over the wall in a hurry? Since our revolutionary party has reached the city of Nanjing, if we still have to shrink our hands and dare not make a big fuss, what are the revolutionaries?!"

Admiral Li Huamei smiled and relaxed her arms, waved her hand disapprovingly.

"...The key to the failure of the revolution to succeed is always because of the disunity of the revolutionary party itself. The Tatar court, as the enemy, has long become an empty shell, as if the dead bones in the tomb, and it is like a dry bone in the tomb, and it is just a habit. If the court is willing to surrender, it doesn't matter if you excavate the imperial tomb. And if the court is determined to break the can and give up, and you don't have to die, besides killing the Forbidden City and open the Tartar Emperor's treasure house and move things directly, what can you do to successfully collect debts?"

"...Haha, it's true. It's really hard to imagine that the military power of this Tatar court has weakened to such a vulnerable level - it has almost penetrated into a sieve by your revolutionary party, and it can hardly be able to maintain itself!"

When he thought of this tragic army that was slack in the court and the more slack morale, General Fili Taylor couldn't help but laugh, "...Hehe, speaking of it, when I was fighting on the Japanese archipelago last year, I met those shogunate flag-born warriors who had forgotten how to swing their swords, and the so-called "military artsists" who only wrote fantasy iǎ, I often thought that there were more wasteful troops in the world than this place? Alas, I never thought that when I arrived at the Xianglong Empire, I was very surprised to find that there were actually!"

He said in a rather contemptuous and disdainful attitude that made everyone around him laugh.

"...Yes, I was actually scrambling to sell the arms and food we were our enemies, and because of the price war, there was an internal strife that broke out... It was really unimaginable that there would be such an army in the world..."

Lieutenant General Daniel, who had just brought the third batch of reinforcements from Shanghai, also came forward with a relaxed expression and said.

When Feili led a unit to penetrate the Yangtze River and directly attacked the imperial capital Nanjing, the ships of the Narel Far East Fleet, which were originally stationed in the home port of Nagasaki, also continued to carry various armed forces urgently plundered by the Nagasaki court and the Far East colonial authorities on Kyushu Island, rushing on the East China Sea route and reaching the devastated Shanghai Port. These new forces that came across the ocean soon greatly enriched the garrison forces in the concession, and liberated the original garrison forces and could be transferred to other aspects.

Therefore, just at noon yesterday, Lieutenant General Daniel led 600 jingling soldiers, four warships and eight cargo ships, and met with Feili's main force in Yanziji. That night, they also participated in the first shelling of Nanjing City. Due to the barrier of the city wall, it was not easy to observe the results of the battle, but at least a large area of ​​the city was burned. Moreover, the enemy's counterattack was quite mild, not only insufficient range, but also extremely poor accuracy. Except for a few nearly missing splashes that wet the deck, none of the entire fleet was injured by counterattack artillery fire!

Moreover, Lieutenant General Daniel's support fleet not only followed the "water market" composed of countless iǎ vendors, but also some green camp soldiers stationed along the river took the opportunity to start business with the invaders, and even fire, swords, guns and cannons were willing to sell them at low prices! And there were two groups of green camp soldiers bidding for each other, and even conflicts arose in front of Lieutenant General Daniel - which shocked the Lieutenant General Jin Jingling.

"...They have no choice, because these guns and cannons are usually locked up by the superiors and are not trained. Now they will not be used even if they are sent to their hands. If they are really fighting, they will definitely be killed. Therefore, they will be sold for money and earn some travel expenses to break up and go home. They will no longer eat this bowl of silenced rice that is too dangerous... Our revolutionary party mainly uses this way to easily obtain large-scale supplements of ammunition and weapons."

Admiral Li Huamei shrugged her shoulders and explained to the "inexplicably surprised" "foreign friendly forces".

"... Moreover, according to the information sent by local revolutionary comrades, the green camp soldiers in various parts of Jiangnan have generally owed military pay for more than one year, and some have not paid any pay for even three years. The combat effectiveness and morale have been wiped out, and there is naturally not much loyalty left.

In fact, it is still very happy to have guns and cannons to sell. A few times ago, I had just sneaked into an enemy camp with a number of scouts, but only found a group of luo-bodied men who were not even wearing underwear. Their commanders had embezzled all their military uniforms... so they had to let them wear sacks and enter the prisoner-of-war camp with bare butts. Now more than half of them have been let go. The rest have been educated by us and joined the revolutionary army on the spot..."

What's worse is that because Feili initially had the idea of ​​light-fast forwarding and quick battle, the ammunition and supplies carried by the army were very limited and could not withstand long-term combat. Even if the artillery broke the city wall, there was no enough cannon fodder to fill it into the blood mill of street fighting.
Chapter completed!