Chapter 997 Xiangyang Decisive Battle (1)
Fighting these group training is simply abusing food, and it can be said that it is just vulnerable.
The iron-armored knife player climbed up to the top of the city, chopped melons and vegetables and chopped the Lian Yong who fled everywhere. The stubborn people were cut to death, and the nimble Qing soldiers threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground.
"Boom" The simple city gate of Tucheng was blown up, and the Huai army soldiers rushed into the city like a tide.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the training soldiers knelt down and surrendered. A few officers led some personal soldiers to resist stubbornly. As a result, the new Huai Army arrived and a few rows of guns turned all the guys who resisted stubbornly into sieves.
"Report, our army has broken the city!" A correspondent soldier came to report.
"This is the city that has been broken? It's simply vulnerable!" Han Dashan said with a smile.
Li Guodong laughed: "Our style of play is simple and crude, and it is directly crushed!"
In this battle, the Huai Army captured the Tucheng built by the Qing army at an extremely slight cost and annihilated 50,000 troops.
The surrendered regiments knelt on the ground one after another. The Huai Army soldiers came over with a knife in their hands, scaring the brave men to beg for mercy: "Give up your life! Give up your life! We have surrendered, don't kill us!"
"Don't be afraid, don't behead your head, just check the braids, and all those with braids are cut." said a Huai Army officer.
In these local gang training, no one has shaved their hair and braids. Because of Li Guodong's arrival and Sun Zhixie was killed by Li Hong's people early, Dorgon did not force the shaving order after entering the pass, but only required officials and Green Camp soldiers to shaved their hair and braids, and the people of the people were free. Of course, if scholars want to pass the exam, they must shaved their hair and change their clothes. Most of these gang training are children of ordinary people. They are not knitted by Green Camp soldiers, and there is no forced charity.
The Huai Army inspected the prisoners, pulled out the guys with shaved hair and braids, forced them to cut off their braids, and then sent them back to the prisoner-of-war camp. Afterwards, these prisoners were all tied into auxiliary soldiers, and simply put on their cloaks and used them as cannon fodder.
The Ming army broke through the Tucheng. Juren Liu fled home and wanted to commit suicide indecisiveness, but when he really wanted to commit suicide, he couldn't do anything. He tried to draw his sword and commit suicide, but the knife was placed on his neck, so he couldn't put it hard. He wanted to jump into the water and commit suicide. He remembered that he could swim. This method was definitely not possible. He wanted to commit suicide by taking poison, but he couldn't find the poison for a while.
Juren Liu finally thought of a way to commit suicide by swallowing gold. He hurriedly grabbed a handful of Jin Yezi and stuffed it into his mouth. Then he endured the severe pain in his throat and swallowed Jin Yezi in one gulp. At this moment, the Ming soldiers who pushed open the door and broke in happened to see Juren Liu who was swallowing gold and committing suicide.
"This kid swallowed the golden leaves! Cut his belly open!" a leading officer shouted.
Several soldiers rushed up immediately and pressed Juren Liu to the ground. The officer pulled out his knife, stripped Liu Juren of his clothes, cut open his abdomen with one knife, and found no golden leaves in his stomach. He pulled the knife up and found the golden leaves in his esophagus.
The poor Juren Liu was not dead yet, and his stomach was broken, and his intestines were pulled out of the ground. He still wailed in pain for a long time before he died.
All of Liu Juren's family were arrested. His eldest son was rampant in the village for his crimes. After being tried by the Huai Army, he was sentenced to death and taken to the execution ground to be beheaded. His wife bullied her concubines and maids on weekdays and was sentenced to be sent to the Huanxi Bureau as slaves. His other sons were also slaves and were respectively sent to the iron ore in Qiongzhou and coal mines in Annan. His concubines and maids were all detained in a room.
A few days later, a large group of drunken burly men opened the door and happily carried the women on the arrow and carried them out.
The Huai Army, which had won a great victory, continued to advance northward, and led all the way to annihilate the regiment training in the surrounding countryside. More than 50,000 Qing army training in the surrounding area was vulnerable. When he heard about the news of the Huai Army, he fled. The Huai Army easily attacked the city of Chengtian Prefecture without any effort.
Although Chengtian Prefecture has been renamed Anlu Prefecture by the Qing Dynasty, the Ming army still called it Chengtian Prefecture.
Chen Huilin, the prefect of Anlu Prefecture, was originally a Ming official during the Chongzhen period. He had resisted the rebel army, but later surrendered to Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army and was appointed as the prefect of Hanyang by Zhang Xianzhong. Later, Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan in the west and ran back to his hometown. The Qing army occupied Xiangyang, and he was invited by Hong Chengchou to serve as the prefect of Anlu.
The magistrate Gao Lianjie said, "Mr. Shen, now the Ming army is in the northern expedition, and more than 100,000 regiments outside the city are vulnerable. Those who practice bravery actually have this saying: Those who flee when they look at the wind are the best brave! Those who flee when they hear the wind are the best brave, and those who flee when they mistakenly hear the wind are the best brave! How can such a mob resist the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition? Lord. Shen, you and I were ministers of the Ming Dynasty, but now the Ming Dynasty is back, why do you still have to resist? Why do you open the city gate and surrender to the Ming Dynasty."
Chen Huilin smiled bitterly: "Shen was originally a Ming minister. He first surrendered to the Western thief and then to Jiannu. Now he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. The word "loyalty and righteousness" has long been trampled by me."
Gao Lianjie said: "Since we have become three ministers, what's wrong with being four ministers? Moreover, we were originally from the Ming Dynasty. After joining Jiannu, Jiannu asked us officials to shave our hair and change our clothes. Now that the Ming Dynasty is back, we can change our original official uniforms again. We can cut off our braids and grow our hair again. Why don't we open the door to welcome the king's army?"
"Okay!" Chen Huilin nodded, "Tell me my order and open the city gate immediately to welcome the royal army to the northern expedition!"
There were not many Qing soldiers stationed in Anlu Prefecture City. It was said that there was a Thousand General Officer stationed, but because of the empty salary, there were actually less than 500 people.
The Qing army chief was not interested in fighting. He heard that the prefect and the county magistrate were planning to open the city to surrender, so he agreed immediately. The next thing was simple. The Qing army tore off the green flag hanging on the top of the city, opened the city gate, and welcomed the Ming army into the city.
In this way, the Ming army entered Anlu Mansion without bloodshed, and then Li Guodong ordered the Anlu Mansion to be transformed back to Chengtian Mansion.
Not far away, news of Anlu Qing army's defeat came.
"More than 100,000 regiments were completely wiped out within three days! Li Lao Er is so powerful!" Hong Chengchou was so angry that he overturned the table.
Tong Tulai said: "My Lord Jingli, our Xiangyang is the most powerful city in the world, with a high city and a deep pool. As long as we defend Xiangyang, it will be difficult to conquer the army of the Southern Barbarians, right? So the officials suggested that we should never leave the city again, we should defend the city."
All the generals agreed and said that Tong Tulai's plan was feasible.
Hong Chengchou said: "What if the Nanman sieges the city? What should we do?"
Tong Tulai replied: "Mr. Jinglei, did you hold on to Xiangyang for six years?"
Hong Chengchou sneered: "This is the same as the south fighting the north? The north fighting the south, Xiangyang can obtain supplies from the south with the Han River! But now the Southern Barbarians are in the northern expedition, and we are defending Xiangyang. If Minggou besieged the city, where can we get supplies from?"
Everyone was stunned. This was indeed a serious problem. No one had considered this. Xiangyang defended against attacks from the north, which was a strong city that was attacked by iron; but used to defend against attacks from the south, it would become an isolated city! Once the city was surrounded by the Ming army, Xiangyang would be isolated and no one of the Qing troops in the city could escape.
Hong Chengchou said: "We must go out of the city to fight in the field. With the advantage of military strength, we will defeat Minggou in one fell swoop! If we lose, we still have a chance to run away. Just leave a small number of troops to defend the city, and Minggou will find it difficult to break through Xiangyang! Xiangyang is still in the hands of our army, and our main force retreated into the mountainous area behind to restrain Minggou. Minggou dared not pursue our army nor besiege Xiangyang! In this way, our army has the opportunity to turn defeat into victory!"
Chapter completed!