Huang Taiji looked at the small earthen town on the other side of the river with a gloomy look.
It has been three days, and this ordinary little town has not been conquered yet.
The guard general of this small town has figured out that he is a slave of the Ma family. His name is Ma Xi. I have never heard of it. He has been working with Ma Dengyun as an officer before. He was appointed as a general this year. He is responsible for guarding Chifeng.
The outpost of the city is Pinghu Fort.
Huang Taiji regretted that he did not attack the city on the first day. After all, it was not easy for such a large team to settle down. With 200,000 people, big trouble would have occurred if this was not done well.
Therefore, he ordered at that time not to worry about the Ming army in the city. He first sent an envoy to persuade them to surrender. Then the army set up camp first.
What ability can a little-known little Karami have? If he doesn't surrender, he will destroy this city in one go tomorrow.
Marching in this season is really a chore. A strong wind blew in the snowfield in the northeast, and the snow foam went straight into the mouths of the leaders. They did not have the clothes with tightened cuffs and collars like Yang Fan's army. They also had no hoods. They were all frozen to death.
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My nose was red from the cold, my beard was covered with ice chips, and my eyebrows were covered with frost.
Huang Taiji is tall and very fat after gaining weight in middle age. He suffers from severe high blood pressure and heart disease, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, pulmonary heart disease and other common diseases in Northeast China. Arthritis is also very serious. He suffers more than others. But
, he can’t do it without personally leading the expedition.
His status is far from consolidated now. Although Mang Gurtai was destroyed by Yang Fan in Mongolia with the Zhenglan Banner, Mang Gurtai was still imprisoned by Yang Fan. However, Amin and Daishan still put a lot of pressure on him.
He must prove his ability with a victory.
That is to capture more slaves and supplies for the Eight Banners. Now they are so short of supplies that they can no longer survive. If this continues, they really have to go back to the old forest to hunt and replenish supplies.
The Han people in Liaodong could not bear the abuse and continued to resist, coupled with more than ten years of drought and cold. The famine wiped out millions of people, and four to five million people fled. They were abused and massacred, and millions more died.
There are only a few hundred thousand Han slaves now.
Moreover, these slaves did not work hard, and the food they grew could not even feed themselves. Anyway, they had no share in the food grown. Only the Eight Banners masters would give them some leftovers when they were full. They had to praise them for raising the nuns.
A worthy virtue.
It's surprising that Han slaves could farm the land well for them. In addition, the climate has become colder and there have been droughts for more than ten years. In many cases, the yields cannot even be recovered from the seeds.
The Manchus entered the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty six times. According to Manchu and Qing records, they looted five times and robbed a total of 1 million people. However, by the fifth year of Shunzhi, the number of slaves in the entire Eight Banners was less than 230,000. It can be seen that they tortured many people to death.
people.
Therefore, every time they entered the Ming Dynasty in large numbers. Although the Ming army pulled back, the people of the Ming Dynasty actively resisted because no one wanted to be captured and tortured to death by them. They did not know how to be slave owners and did not know how to use and feed them.
, breeding slaves. How to make slaves exert their maximum labor force.
This is completely different from the slave owners in the American South. Their management and use of slaves was very clumsy, simple and crude. Except for killing all the slaves in a few years, it had no effect. Therefore, even though they robbed 1 million slaves
, they still cannot support themselves. They can only keep entering the border to rob.
Because they couldn't maintain their lives without robbing. They didn't learn how to manage the economy and social production until they entered the customs. It was just that after entering the customs, the surrendered Ming Dynasty civil servants managed it for them. In the next two hundred years, they managed the national economy.
The government and administration also relied on Han officials.
Most of the Eight Banners are military attachés. Although there are a large number of Manchus in the governors, governors, admirals, and six ministers of each province, they are almost all used to restrain Han officials of the same level. Their ability in this area is very poor. Use
Sushun said that there are a lot of bastards among the Manchus, most of them are uneducated and only know how to get money.
After Ma Xi saw the Eight Banners Army on the first day, he immediately ordered the four city gates to be blocked with stones. Then he lit beacons and reported the news to the rear. He organized all the adult men and women in the city and waited until dark
.Fetch water from the well and sprinkle it on the outside of the city wall.
The next day, what Huang Taiji saw was a shining silver ice city, and the heads of the envoys sent to persuade him to surrender hung on the city gate. He was so angry that he was furious.
Ma Xi spread all kinds of rumors about slave abuse in the city, which frightened the people in the city. The people in this city were all sent to the city for committing crimes. There were about a thousand families. Their men were given here.
The army collected fodder, fed horses, worked as porters, and engaged in various labors. The women washed, mended, and made clothes to earn money.
Ma Xi's remarks scared them a lot. What Master Ma Xi meant was that men should bring a kitchen knife and women should bring a pair of scissors. When the time comes, they would rather die than be caught. They would not be able to bear it.
sin.
At this time, the whole city was frightened. They worked desperately all night, carrying water to the city wall and pouring it down. Overnight, a three-foot-thick layer of ice crust froze on the outer wall of the small city.
The night on the grassland in this season is more than minus 20 degrees, and it is as cold as steel overnight. The ice wall is extremely smooth, and it is extremely difficult for people to climb. The frozen ice is very hard, and if you dig it down with a pickaxe, you will be like a
White spots. Unless it melts naturally in the spring of next year, it won't be able to hit it with Fran machine cannon bombardment.
This time when the slaves came out, they only brought Fran machine guns and general cannons below No. 3. After all, the red cannons were too heavy and they couldn't move them. They had thirty or forty red cannons including the Luzon bronze cannon.
I didn't bring any cannon.
Huang Taiji didn't expect that after just one day's delay, the other party would do this.
"Li Yongfang, your Han army flag has firearms. First use cannons and muskets to hit it and see how it goes." Huang Taiji said to Li Yongfang with water dripping from his face.
"Zha, this slave is going to fire." Li Yongfang took out a set of command flags from his arms, picked out one, raised it and waved it.
After a while, an artillery team of five to six hundred people ran in front of the army. One by one, Fran machine cannons were aimed at the city walls and gates.
