Chapter 494 Persuading to surrender Lushun
Lushun Port.
After several days of attack, the coalition forces gradually pulled out Lushunkou, the strongholds outside the Qing army, and seized various forts.
At this time, Tang Tong had already shrunk all the remaining 20,000 Qing troops into Lushun City.
Lushun City was previously operated by Dongjiang Town, but was later destroyed by the Qing army.
A few years ago, Zhao Ming led a fleet northward, reoccupied the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, and transferred more than 100,000 Shandong people to settle down.
In order to restrain the Qing army in the north, Zhao Ming sent a lot of supplies to the Liaodong Peninsula, rebuilt Lushun City, and strengthened the city's defense.
Not long ago, the Qing army took advantage of the main force of the Ming army in Jiangnan to resist the attack from the Mandahai Sea and had no time to take care of Liaodong, so they sent troops to raid and occupied Lushun City.
This time, the Qing soldiers did not destroy the city. Instead, at the suggestion of Hong Chengchou, they continued to strengthen and improve the defense of Lushun City.
At this time, Lushun was more a fortress than a city.
On the wall of Lushun, Tang Tong led a group of generals such as Han Chaoxuan, Yu Yin, and Li Qisheng to inspect the wall.
In the past two days, the coalition forces stopped attacking, but the Qing army was not surprised by this. Instead, they were a little worried about what plans the Ming army was planning.
At this time, Tang Tong walked to the city wall, held the wall with one hand, and looked at the coalition camp in the distance, with a solemn expression.
"I didn't expect that the enemy could actually attract so many soldiers!" Han Chaoxuan, who was standing beside him, shouted.
North Korea is far away from Zhao Ming's nest. South Korea and Chaoxuan always thought that there were only 10,000 or 20,000 Ming troops, but Zhao Ming actually brought nearly 100,000 troops.
"Don't worry!" Tang Tong gave Han Chaoxuan a blank look, slapped the walls, and said in a deep voice: "This Lushun City is strong in defense. Not to mention that Zhao Zamaola has 100,000 rabies, even if it comes a million, you can't easily conquer Lushun."
Tang Tong said this with confidence.
When Zhao Ming rebuilt Lushun City, considering the threats faced by Lushun, he focused on choosing a terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack when choosing a site.
Tang Tong introduced: "Look at this city, built on the mountain, backed by the bay, it is impossible for the enemy to capture the city without killing and injuring tens of thousands. Moreover, the soldiers of the Zhongtang Lord gathered in Shengjing, which means that behind the pirates, the pirates will definitely not dare to attack the city with all their strength, and will inevitably retreat in the end."
The defense of Lushun City is indeed relatively complete. After years of operation, it has become a fortress. In addition, Lushun and Shenyang are mutually supportive, so it is indeed difficult to attack.
After hearing Tang Tong's words, everyone nodded reluctantly, but Yu Yin said, "Military Gate, Lushun has strong defense, and it is also true that he echoes Hongzhongtang. If the city has sufficient food, Huyi thought it would be fine to stick to it for a year. But now there is no food and grass in the city, and the enemy does not need to attack for a force. At most half a month, he can take Lushun without blood."
Tang Tong frowned. Lushun City is a military city. There are no people or relatives in the city, and all the Qing soldiers stationed there are.
In this way, it was impossible for the Qing army to plunder the people. There was no amount of food in the warehouse, and there was no amount of food at all.
Tang Tong couldn't help but ask: "How long is the food in the city?"
Yu Yin managed the Qing army's food and grass, "it was only enough for ten days!"
When many Qing generals heard the words, they were in an uproar. Tang Tong hurriedly took everyone aside to prevent the soldiers guarding the city from hearing it.
"It's only enough for ten days?" Tang Tong confirmed.
Yu Yin said: "Food and grass are a major event in the military, so how can you laugh at the humble position? Shandong has not been docked again since it transported 6,000 Henan troops. Now we are in the city, which is equivalent to eating up the mountains."
The troops and horses were moving before they moved their food and grass, which showed the status of food in the war. If the Qing army in the city knew that the food was only enough for ten days to eat, the morale of the army would be shaken.
Seeing that everyone was depressed, Tang Tong hurriedly comforted him: "Don't panic about food. Lord Zhongtang has already written a letter and asked the court to allocate grain. It is said that the court has decided to cross the sea to transport grain. I believe that the fleet that transported grain will dock in the near future."
As he was talking, the soldiers in the city suddenly exclaimed, "There are ships on the sea!"
"Is it a grain ship?" Everyone was happy when they heard the words and hurried to the city wall.
Tang Tong quickly looked up and saw a sail shadow appearing in the distance, but he just couldn't see it in detail.
Tang Tong hurriedly took the Qianli Mile Mile Mile to watch it. The camera looked at the sea. The circular vision was filled with a three-masted gunship with sails storming.
Tang Tong felt a stern heart, moved the camera upwards, and saw a blue-bottomed sun and moon flag hanging on the main mast, and his face suddenly sank, "It's Ming army!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard the words. Looking at the huge fleet in the distance, their faces looked ugly.
During the Yellow Sea Battle, the Ming army severely damaged the Qing navy, sank and injured hundreds of warships, captured more than 100 ships, only dozens of warships and a small amount of food ships, fled back to Shandong, and the Qing navy was severely injured and almost destroyed the entire army.
At this time, when Tang Tongguan found out the military fleet, Zhao Ming also pulled out the thousand-mile mirror and observed Lushun City.
Zhao Ming looked at the city wall and saw flags everywhere on it. He knew that the city had sufficient troops, but he was not worried at all.
Although there were many Qing soldiers in the city, the connection with Shenyang by land had been cut off by the Ming army. Now the Ming army defeated the Qing navy again, cut off the connection between Lushun and Shandong, and completely cut off the supply of Lushun. The failure of Lushun Qing army was inevitable.
Now, except for starving to death, the Qing army had only two ways to surrender, and there was almost no other choice.
Zhao Ming observed for a while, and then ordered: "After the docking, the seized will be displayed to the enemy in the city to see, then kill Shi Lang in front of the city, and order the Qing army in the city to open the city and surrender within three days. Otherwise, the day the city is broken, there will be no chicken or dog left."
"As for order!" The Ming general clasped his fists loudly.
Not long after, the Ming army fleet sailed into the Lushun entrance under the gaze of the Qing army in Lushun.
At this time, the fleet was docked, and the Ming army immediately sent a team of soldiers to pile the captured Qing army flags, weapons, and armor under the city of Lushun.
Seeing this, Tang Tong and others looked extremely gloomy, but at this moment, Han Chaoxuan and others exclaimed, "It's Admiral Shi Langshi!"
The Jin army and the Qing army soldiers of the Henan army boarded a ship from Dengzhou and came to Liaodong.
When they were in Dengzhou, most of them had visited Shi Lang, so they met Shi Lang.
Everyone's exclamations shocked Tang Tong. He quickly looked closely and saw Ming Jun escorting someone to the city. If it were Shi Lang, who was it?
The Ming saber and axeman pressed Shi Lang to the ground, and then shouted loudly: "This is Shi Lang, the admiral of the Manqing Shui Master!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a white light flashed and blood spurted, and Shi Lang's head was chopped off.
This scene instantly shocked Tang Tong and others, making everyone shudder, and Adam's apples squirmed and looked at each other.
Chapter completed!