While the Jin army was busy preparing siege equipment, Jinzhou City was also brightly lit and busy.
Under the orders of Qiu Hejia, the governor of Liaodong, Shi Dayong, who acted as Jinzhou's defense agent, must do everything possible to organize the defense of Jinzhou City.
He didn't know whether Hong Tai would come to attack Jinzhou immediately after dawn, but he knew that Zu Dashou's death would definitely anger Hong Tai.
Even if it were him, he would definitely be angered by Zu Dashou's death. After sieging the city for so long, he forced Zu Dashou to surrender with his troops. He was killed without having any effect at all, and Jinzhou was still an extremely empty city. Hong
If Tai didn’t lead the army to attack, I’m afraid it’s not Hong Tai.[
Jinzhou Defense has been organized since Shi Dayong escaped last night. Sun Chengzong rushed to Shanhaiguan overnight. Although Song Wei was the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, he only had seven men under his command, and Qiu Hejia was not trusted by him, so Qiu Hejia did not ask him to organize
Instead, he fully supported Shi Dayong in organizing the defense of the city. It could be said that he had completely delegated power. As soon as the soldiers and civilians in the city needed supplies to defend the city, Shi Dayong could immediately mobilize them.
The reinforcements were defeated and Dalinghe City was in danger. Qiu Hejia could no longer care so much. He understood that his position as governor of Liaodong was probably coming to an end. If Jinzhou was lost again, he would have no choice but to kill himself to thank the world.
Song Wei was self-aware. After the defeat, he was completely disillusioned. He also had a good impression of Shi Dayong, so he did not interfere with Shi Dayong's organization to defend the city. Others, such as Zuo Liangyu and others, either had lower official positions than Shi Dayong, or were
The soldiers and horses were not as good as Shi Dayong's, and it was even less likely that he would jump out to oppose Shi Dayong's responsibility for city defense.
In this way, Shi Dayong has the "humanity" aspect. He has the full support of Qiu Hejia, the tacit support of Song Wei, and the obedience of all the generals. The Songshan Army of the headquarters is united, and the Jinzhou garrison is
, basically nothing will go wrong.
However, "harmony" only exists in the army, but there are some troubles among the people.
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The news of the annihilation of the army was known to everyone in Jinzhou City as the deserters returned. The wealthy households began to pack up their belongings and prepare to flee to Ningyuan before the Jin army came to attack the city. The common people also helped the old and young and began to retreat, but when
After they arrived at the south gate, they were told by the defenders that the governor had issued an order. From now on, no one could leave Jinzhou, and even a chicken must stay in Jinzhou.
The gentry who knew the details of the garrison in the city did not believe that Jinzhou could be defended. They were afraid that Jinzhou would be besieged by the Jin army like Dalinghe City. They were afraid that after the city was broken, their whole family, young and old, would be taken captive by Jian slaves to the north and become their
As a slave, the wealth accumulated through hard work becomes the possession of others.
After asking people to go to the prefect's yamen and the governor's yamen to intercede, some timid gentry began to mobilize the fleeing Jinzhou people to cause trouble. They surrounded the city gate and pushed the defenders, yelling at the governor Qiu Hejia and the guard Shi Dayong, saying that they were doing it for themselves.
One person lives and dies, and the whole city is buried with him!
Under the deliberate exaggeration of the gentry's slaves, coupled with the fear of slave creation for more than ten years, the people began to boil. They followed the slaves and began to attack the city gate. The agitators even used wooden sticks to attack the defenders.
The defenders at the south gate were five hundred soldiers led by Liu Zeyi and Wang An. They were already very willing to fight. Liu Zeyi and Wang An even secretly discussed leading their troops to flee Jinzhou. Therefore, facing the attack of the people, they simply opened the city.
He opened the gate, preparing to let the people out of the city, and then take advantage of the chaos to escape. But the moment the city gate was just opened, Songshan Army guard Huang An arrived with a thousand Changping soldiers. Seeing the chaos, he drove away the people with spears without caring about the situation.
.He is so fierce and vicious, and there is no trace of him being an official or military officer.
The common people were suddenly blocked by the evil army and dared not speak out in anger. The gentry were eager to escape and knew that most of the Songshan Army were recruits from Changping in Guan Nei. Except for the generals, none of them had experienced combat. So they had the idea of bullying the recruits. He ordered his servants to organize hundreds of gangsters in the city and openly attacked the Songshan Army with weapons.
Seeing that the big family dared to openly organize Lai's army to attack, Huang An was furious and ordered a counterattack without hesitation. After a while of killing, dozens of servants and Lai were killed. When the rest of the people saw that Songshan's army really dared to kill people, they all ran away in fear. And fled, becoming birds and beasts and scattered.
When the main envoy saw this, he was so frightened that he quickly slipped back home. The door was closed tightly, and the envoy supported it with a big log behind, for fear that the Songshan army would break in. Fortunately, the Songshan army only wanted to disperse the people and did not intend to kill anyone. I will cause trouble for them in the future.
After the people were dispersed one by one, Chen Ang, the prefect of Jinzhou, organized dozens of people from the Yamen's office and the governor's Yamen secretary's office to ride in the city and announce one by one, and posted notices, asking the people not to panic, to stay in their own duties, and not to cause chaos in the city. Otherwise, they will be regarded as slave-building spies and killed.
Most of the people had experienced wars, and some had experienced the destruction of the cities of Fushun, Shenyang, and Liaoyang. They knew that Jiannu liked to send spies to sneak into the city, incite the people to disrupt the city, cause chaos to the defenders, and then take the opportunity to open the city gates and let Jiannu in.
The current situation is very similar to that of the past, not to mention that many of the instigators are indeed slave builders. Therefore, after seeing the official notice, most of the people calmed down and began to organize young people to defend themselves under the organization of the elders. The city's prefect's Yamen also had corresponding officials to deal with it. The riot lasted less than an hour and was suppressed. The soldiers and civilians in Jinzhou City began to prepare for the defense of the city.
Shi Dayong also asked Qiu Hejia to order Liu Zeyi, Wang An, Ge Qing, Wu Dalang and other guards to be transferred to the north gate. The regiment training generals went to the north gate and uniformly obeyed his orders. Huang An guarded the south gate, Shao Wu guarded the west gate, and Jiang Wanli guarded the east gate. He personally guarded the north gate.
At this time, the Ming army in the city was not only 2,000 or 3,000 men as Hu Daxian and other surrendered generals estimated, but there were 2,300 guardsmen, 1,200 Zuo Liangyu's troops, 3,300 Shi Dayong's Songshan troops, and others gathered together. 2,600 troops were defeated, and the total strength reached nearly 10,000 people.[
It's just that among the nearly 10,000 defenders, the soldiers of the regiment training guard were unable to fight and could be basically ignored. Zuo Liangyu's tribe barely maintained its organizational structure and had gone through a big battle, but its troops were too few. Those defeated soldiers fled all the way back, souls. They were all frightened and could not recover for a while. As for the 3,300 people under Shi Dayong, except for the 300 Songshan veterans, the remaining 3,000 were Changping recruits. Although they ran around the battlefield and fought with the Jin army, They fought small-scale fierce battles, but most of them were just traveling and did not really experience the baptism of war. Therefore, the Ming army of 10,000 people, after discounting, can only really use 3,000 people.
However, Shi Dayong is not afraid. The city walls of Jinzhou are tall and strong, and there are Hongyi cannons and more than 60 small cannons of various types. They are on the defensive side. As long as everyone works together to organize the military and civilian forces, the Jin army may not be able to attack!