After investigation, it was found that 141 of the captives were only sons, over 40 years old, more than 270 were under 18 years old, and the remaining captives numbered more than 2,100.
The selected prisoners were each given dozens of coins, some dry biscuits and grains, and were ordered to return home immediately, while the remaining prisoners were ordered to be sent to the army immediately.
As soon as the news came out, the prisoners were in an uproar, because the officers and soldiers promised them to return home last night, but now they changed their attitude and asked them to continue serving as soldiers, which was difficult for the prisoners to accept.
However, no prisoner dared to question the Jinzhou Army's order. They had been frightened by last night's massacre and had lost the courage to resist.
In the end, they can only comfort themselves that it is better to be a rebel than to be an officer and a soldier. It is better to be an officer and a soldier than to be a rebel.[
After being mobilized, the Wolf Cavalry Army was expanded to 300 men, led by Cao Bianjiao.
Another Qingqi battalion was built with 250 soldiers, commanded by Jiang Wanli. Peng Dachui and his thirty-eight men were asked to join the Qingqi battalion. Shi Dayong temporarily appointed Peng Dachui as the commander-in-chief and ordered him to follow the Qingqi operations. Regarding this appointment
, Peng Dachui had no objection.
Two thousand prisoners were selected to form the infantry left battalion and the infantry right battalion. Each battalion had one hundred Jinzhou soldiers and one thousand prisoners. The two battalions totaled two thousand two hundred people.
The infantry's left battalion officer Shao Wu and right battalion officer Li Dashan.
In addition, Qi Sanbao organized a transport camp, manned by five hundred former rebels, responsible for the transportation of grain and grass, setting up camps and other logistical matters.
In terms of weapons, there are a considerable number of firearms, including the 260 standard muskets discarded by the Beijing camp in Qiushui Town, the new 270 muskets held by Chen Shi's Liao soldiers and made with heavy money by Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, and 540 muskets brought by the rebels from North Zhili.
Guns captured by the Ming army.
There are 250 long swords, 2,300 spears, 780 spears, more than 80 axes, and 1,200 shields.
The four medium-sized cannons are new-type cannons that Sun Yuanhua asked the Portuguese in Macau to build. They are light in weight and can be transported by horse-drawn carriages. They are estimated to weigh more than three hundred kilograms. No one knows how powerful they are. Since there are no gunners in the camp, no one knows how to operate them.
cannons, so the four cannons were considered useful. I couldn't bear to throw them away, so I had to drag them with the baggage camp and dispose of them later when I returned to Jinzhou.
The fire blunderbuss in Jingying was probably made by the Imperial Guards, so the Ministry of Industry made them very fine and the workmanship was better than the blunderbuss held by the Jinzhou army.
The 270 new guns made by the Portuguese are shorter than the fire guns held by the Ming army, but there is no difference in structure. They are also loaded with explosives in the front. But after asking the prisoners, they learned that the range of these fire guns is longer.
The guns of the army are far away, and there is no need to worry about the danger of exploding the barrel.
Shi Dayong, who knew little about fire guns, was naturally happy when he heard that the guns could hit far without exploding the barrel. He gave all the new guns to the Jinzhou Army, and the ones eliminated by the Jinzhou Army were given to the infantry left camp for use.
In this way, the left battalion of infantry is equipped with all kinds of firecrackers, while the right battalion of infantry is equipped with all kinds of weapons, including all kinds of weapons.
In the afternoon, Zhao Xueqi finally returned with Wang Tiande's 500 rebels. The reason why he was delayed until now was because they were pursued by Lu soldiers in Shandong.
When Zhao Xueqi found Wang Tiande and told him that Shahe had been captured and Chen You died in battle, Wang Tiande was shocked and didn't know what to do.
Lu soldiers pursued them later, and Liao troops blocked the road ahead. These hundreds of rebels were unable to escape.
After seeing how powerful Xiao Yi was, Wang Tiande finally agreed to follow Zhao Xueqi anyway. However, the Lu soldiers did not know that they had decided to fight anyway. Seeing that the rebel army was small, only a few hundred people, the Lu soldiers pursued them, but they could not give up.
If they dared to get too close, they followed behind them until Wang Tiande led his troops out of Shandong, and the Lu soldiers stopped chasing.
Shi Dayong met Wang Tiande and had no special impression of the traitor general nicknamed "Wang Da Fool". After interrogating him, he was about to ask more about Kong Youde when Gao Qiqian of Shang County sent someone.
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This time, it was not the eunuchs from the Royal Horse Prison who came here, but hundreds of households from a Beijing camp. The purpose of coming was not to make things difficult for the Jinzhou Army or to seize spoils of war, but to hand over to Shi Dayong a copy of the latest Tang newspaper issued by the imperial court.
In addition, he told Shi Dayong a piece of news - Dengzhou had fallen.
Strong fortresses are always breached from within. Sun Yuanhua did not expect that Geng Zhongming would rebel.
Late at night on the fourteenth day of the Dengzhou Defense Battle, Geng Zhongming, Chen Guangfu and other Dongjiang Liao generals responded from inside to open the city gate, and the rebels swarmed in from the east gate of Dengzhou - Dengzhou fell!
General Zhang Keda committed suicide and martyred his country, but Sun Yuanhua was caught in a dilemma. On the one hand, he was a Confucian scholar, and Confucian education required him to sacrifice his life for righteousness. At the same time, he was a Catholic, and Catholic teaching required him to cherish himself and not harm himself.
In the end, Sun Yuanhua chose to commit suicide but did not die. Kong Youde first asked Sun Yuanhua to be the leader and lead them and the court to continue their work. After Sun Yuanhua sternly refused, Kong Youde released Sun Yuanhua, remembering Sun Yuanhua's previous support and support.
Also captured were a large number of officials including the Penglai County magistrate, counselor, chief soldier, and staff general, and 12 Portuguese officers including the Portuguese chief instructor Xi Teixeira Correa were killed in the battle.
The fall of Dengzhou caused Kong Youde's strength to expand rapidly. He not only received 6,000 Liao soldiers, but also 3,000 war horses, a salary of 1.1 million taels, more than 20 Hongyi cannons, 300 Western cannons, and the rest.
There are countless firearms and armored weapons. It can be said that the entire Liao Town's military supplies have become Kong Youde's bag.
After their strength expanded, Kong Youde and others began to establish a puppet regime. They first elected the eldest Li Jiucheng to be the marshal of the capital, followed by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming. They also used the captured Denglai governor's seal to give orders.
Laizhou County.
Just yesterday, the rebels relied on their advanced artillery capabilities to conquer Huang County.
The fall of Dengzhou put Shi Dayong's Jinzhou Army into a dilemma, because the order he received was to go to Dengzhou to relieve the siege, but now that Dengzhou has been occupied by Kong Youde, it makes no sense for him to go to Dengzhou again.
But compared with the Tang newspaper in his hand, Shi Dayong was much less shocked by the fall of Dengzhou.
There were three major events in the Tang newspaper. The first was that Sun Chengzong resigned due to the defeat at Dalinghe.
The second incident was that the governor of Liaodong, Qiu Hejia, was recalled to the capital by the emperor due to illness and was unable to attend to duties. Sun Yao, the deputy censor of the capital, was appointed as the governor of Liaodong.
The third thing is that the imperial court mobilized Liao troops to enter the pass again, and there were 5,000 troops at one time.
The Liao army was commanded by Jin Guoqi, the general of Ji Town, Jin Guochen, the deputy general, Zu Dabi, Zu Dashou's cousin, who was known as "Zu Er Madman", and Zu Kuan, a domestic servant.
The three things taken together seemed like a bolt from the blue to Shi Dayong, causing him to stay there in a daze, without responding for a long time. The man from the Beijing Camp called him several times before he came back to his senses.