Mang Gurtai fired no less than a thousand messages into the city of Shenyang. Most of these messages were confiscated by the Jin army on top of the city, but many were secretly hidden by the Jin soldiers, and some were directly shot into the city near the city wall. Residential area. Therefore, although Dai Shan strictly ordered the news to be blocked, the contents of the memorandum still spread in the city.
There is so much black material about Hong Tai in Mang Gur Tai's article. Some Shenyang soldiers and civilians have heard of it occasionally, but some dare not even think about it. What kind of jn, n, and n-sister is already a beast beyond their imagination. For example, if what Mang Gurtai said is true, then Hong Tai is really not worthy of being the khan of the Great Jin Kingdom. What shocked and frightened them even more was that Mang Gurtai actually said in his letter that he had invited ten Wan Ming's army, armed with thousands of artillery pieces, could conquer Shenyang overnight if he wanted to. In order to prevent the lives of the soldiers and civilians in the city from being ruined and the people's property to be destroyed, they persuaded them to surrender in advance to avoid casualties.
The memorandum clearly promised that as long as Shenyang soldiers and civilians, regardless of banner, Han or Mongolian, opened the city gate to let the army enter the city, the officers and soldiers would be promoted to five levels and rewarded with thousands of gold coins; the civilians could also be immediately freed from slavery and rewarded with thousands of gold coins if they were willing to serve as officials. In short, a large number of titles, official positions, and gold and silver rewards are waiting for these soldiers and civilians who are willing to respond. On the contrary, after the army breaks the city, those who are stubborn and stubborn will be confiscated and exterminated, and all the chickens and dogs will be killed. Do not stay.
Mang Gurtai's original intention was to intimidate the Jin army in the city not to fight desperately, but he did not expect that the city misunderstood that he and the Ming army would massacre the city after breaking through.
The soldiers and civilians in Shenyang City, regardless of Banner, Han, or Mongolian, have not experienced the Massacre of the Eight Banners. There are initiators, participants, and victims of the Massacre, so they all know what the Massacre means. Therefore, the soldiers and civilians in the city were panicked for a while. Don't be complacent because you are worried that the Ming army will really massacre the city after entering it, and you are even more worried that some people will be tempted by the heavy reward to attack the city. The former are mostly Han people in the city, and the latter are naturally the bannermen, Mongols and those die-hard Han people. jn people.
Daishan's painstaking efforts over the past few days were no match for the reality that the Ming army was approaching the city. As the content of the memorandum spread rapidly, an undercurrent surged in Shenyang City, and the bannermen and Han people were even more suspicious of each other. The bannermen were afraid that the Han people would open the city and respond. The Ming army and the Han people were afraid that the bannermen would massacre them crazily before they died, and they were even more afraid that the bannermen would use them as cannon fodder for the defense of the city.
Fortunately, Daishan was well prepared and had transferred all the elite bannermen to the inner city. The bannermen in the outer city also moved as much as possible to the inner city. This allowed the outer city to remain calm on the surface and did not attack the city during the Ming army's siege. Before that, a large-scale conflict between Manchu and Han took place.
At this time, even a spark can cause the outer city to explode. You must know that there are a hundred thousand Han people in the outer city. The army attacking the city outside the city is also a Han army, and the Manchus in the city are only five or six years old. Thousands of people, and the remaining more than 30,000 are the old, weak, women and children who are sent to fight by the men at home. If the Han people really break out, there is no need for the Ming army to attack the city, Shenyang itself will be in chaos first.[
Fortunately for Daishan and the Eight Banners dignitaries, those Han people had been slaves for too long and had lost their blood. Although they were jealous and afraid of the bannermen, no one dared to gather in crowds to riot. In addition, those Han who had surrendered in the early years and the family members of the Han army who went to war spontaneously began to monitor their neighbors and Han people. This freed up the Jin soldiers, who were seriously short of manpower, to strengthen the defense of the inner city without having to send manpower to patrol the streets to shock the Han people. .
Mang Gurtai told Shi Dayong that Daishan would not recruit Han people from the outer city to help in the war. In fact, Daishan did it. Not only did he recruit Han people to the city to help in the war, but he also handed over the defense of the outer city to the Han people. He was responsible for the outer city of Shenyang. The defenders were the third-ranking Mele Zhang Jingsun Degong and the Han army's deputy general Shi Tingzhu.
These two are Han people whom Daishan absolutely trusts. The former has made great contributions to the Jin Dynasty. If it were not for Sun Degong, the Ming army would not have been defeated so miserably in Guangning. The latter not only followed Sun Degong in front of the formation to rebel against the Ming army, but also severely damaged the Ming army. In the Battle of Daling River, they were instrumental in persuading Zu Dashou to surrender. Therefore, the two were trustworthy "good friends" of the Manchurians. They were also raised by Lao Nu and Hong Tai'en. Not only were they given important responsibilities, but they also married Banner women as their wives. , their loyalty to the Kingdom of Jin and the Aisin Gioro family is even stronger than that of some Manchus. Therefore, the two of them and Dai Jin are already grasshoppers on a rope, and they can't escape even if they want to.
Based on the "contribution" they had done for the Jin Army back then, without even thinking about it, they knew what would happen to them after the Ming Army broke through the city. Therefore, Daishan couldn't be more at ease with entrusting the defense of the outer city to them. (Author's note: At that time, intermarriage between Manchu and Han was still allowed. It was not until the Qing army entered the customs that intermarriage between Manchu and Han was prohibited. Han women were allowed to marry banner men, but flag women were not allowed to marry Han men. Note, the Manchu Eight Banners and the Han Army Banner were carried into Han men are not counted. Strictly speaking, they are no longer considered Han people.)
Sun Degong was actually quite unlucky. He shouldn't have appeared in Shenyang City because his station was Tieling. The reason why he was in Shenyang was because he heard that Hong Tai's expedition to Mongolia was a complete victory and he won the imperial seal. They rushed to Shenyang City to participate in the great effort of "persuading people to move in". God knows, the Ming army made the wrong move, and they suddenly came from Liaonan, where Dajin was the most empty, and swept all the way, beating Dajin even before he could fight back. Li Manggurtai suddenly turned against Da Jin and dedicated the city of Liaoyang to the Ming army, which caught him off guard and was trapped alive in the empty city of Shenyang.
Sun Degong was very self-aware of how he would be treated after being captured by the Ming army. Therefore, after receiving the order from Daishan, he and Shi Tingzhu immediately led their retainers to take over the newly recruited three thousand Han troops. The three thousand Han troops were all They were the elite of the original Ming Liaodong Army who surrendered to the Jin Army with Zu Dashou last year.
Zu Dashou died mysteriously outside Jinzhou City. Hong Tai immediately ordered various banners to divide his men, and the rest were incorporated into Tong Yangxing's Han army banner. In this expedition to Mongolia, except for a small number of Han army banners from various places in southern Liaoning, Most of the Han army banners accompanied them on the expedition. These three thousand people were all assigned to serve as slaves in the houses of Baylor, Beizi, and the Eight Banners generals and ministers. In order to alleviate the shortage of troops, Daishan requisitioned the slaves from each Baylor house. Qi Dingwai then set his sights on these former Ming and Liaodong elites.
Dai Shan was not afraid that the elites of the original Ming army would reorganize to rebel against him, because the people who led these Ming armies were their former masters - Zu Zerun, Zu Zehong, Zu Zechuan, Zu Zechuan, the sons of Zu Dashou. Dacheng and other generals who paid gold in honor of their ancestors.
Like other military leaders of the Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong Army under Zu Dashou was completely his private army. The soldiers were only loyal to their superiors, not to the Ming Emperor who was far away. Therefore, Zu Dashou decided to surrender, in addition to A very small number of generals such as He Kegang who were unwilling to pay the money "committed suicide" and died abroad. Most of them accepted their fate. Even if they paid the money, their loyalty to their ancestral family remained unchanged. Therefore, the ancestral family is still there, and Sun Degong is still there. Watching with Shi Tingzhu, Daishan was not worried that these former Ming army elites would have different intentions.