Chapter four hundred and ninety-eight the city broke and the army died
"You are very talented and aware of current affairs. Our country is looking for talents. If you are not enough to prepare for envoys, you will use them and marry them. How can you not be favored and honored to be ranked with my first-class ministers? If you are
If you want to fight, how can my arrow recognize you? If you can't win, what's the point of dying? If you leave the city and surrender, our troops will not come back, and your soldiers will be safe. If my army enters the city, the men, women, old and weak will be shocked and defeated.
It’s not good for your people. Don’t say that I’m yelling at you. If you miss this great plan, you’ll regret it. You’ll know how to decide whether to surrender or not. Don’t be unbearable and do something against my words if you’re angry for a moment!”
Nearly forty years old, Li Yongfang, a strong guerrilla from Fushun City, stood in full armor on the crenellations of the south gate. Looking at the Eight Banners Army in the mountains outside the city, he ordered his sergeants to prepare equipment to defend the city while folding Nurhachi's surrender letter.
So he took it into his arms and asked the Han citizen who came with the surrender letter to go out of the city and tell Nurhaci that Li Yongfang was willing to surrender.
A cunning rabbit has three burrows to be prepared. Nurhachi was right when he said that Li Yongfang knew the current affairs. Li Yongfang did not expect that Nurhachi would dare to attack the city with great fanfare, but he knew that Nurhachi was a person who never stopped doing anything.
Now that the army has been raised, it means a complete break with the Ming Dynasty. Li Yongfang is dead or alive. Today, there are only 1,200 sergeants in Fushun City, and the 800 infantry stationed at Shilima City in the east of the city have been killed by the emperor.
Taiji's Zhengbai Banner Army was defeated, and the leader of the army, General Zhang Ba, was now being held high on a wooden pole by Sergeant Houjin and displayed outside the city.
Li Yongfang knew that the Eight Banners Army was good at field battles and bad at attacking cities, so although the enemy was outnumbered, he still wanted to defend. Who wouldn't want to be a loyal minister and leave his name in history? Moreover, his family members are still in Liaoyang, so he wanted to try
Whether it can be defended at once depends on whether it can be held for one day. Reinforcements should arrive from Shenyang eighty miles away. Reinforcements from Kaiyuan and Liaoyang two hundred miles away will also arrive soon. However, looking at the Jurchen steps outside the city
The cavalry flags are divided into eight colors. It can be seen that Nurhachi's Eight Banners Army was mobilized in full force. Even if the Liao and Shen reinforcements arrived in time, they would still be unable to resist the fierce Jianzhou Jurchens. Li Yongfang had been in the army in Liaodong for many years, and he was against the Ming army.
I still know quite a bit about his combat effectiveness.
Fushun's garrison king Mingyin has ordered the only ten squatting tiger cannons in Fushun City to be pushed up to the top of the city to bombard the Hou Jin army outside the city. However, these tiger squatting cannons have been in disrepair for a long time. It rained heavily last night. The barrels are still intact. The sergeant is ready.
The gunpowder projectiles were also in a hurry, and they finally fired a shot, but they failed to hurt the Hou Jin Army at the bottom of the city. Then the Jin Army had launched a tidal wave of offensive. More than a hundred ladders were built towards the city wall, and the Hou Jin armored soldiers were holding swords and shields.
Climb up quickly
Fushun City was built in the 17th year of Hongwu. At first, the city wall was only three miles in circumference. Over the past two hundred years, it has been gradually expanded and now it is a large city with a circumference of ten miles. The city wall made of bluestone is not unsound, but it is difficult to defend and attack the city.
There was a huge disparity in numbers. Nurhaci was determined to win. He had 12,000 cavalry to attack a thousand soldiers defending the city. If he still couldn't capture Fushun City, he would have no choice but to immediately lead his troops to retreat to Hurha.
Fushun garrison Wang Mingyin was a fierce general. He commanded the sergeants to use stones to block the Jin army from ascending the city. Although the Ming army lacked training on weekdays, they also knew the consequences of breaking the city. They fought bravely, using bows and arrows, muskets, stones and dung juice.
It was used, but the Jin army had no choice but to set up more than a hundred ladders and attack fiercely. Moreover, the archers of the Jin army were extremely accurate. When the Ming army defending the city showed its head at the crenellation, an arrow shot with a "swish" and hit the head.
was penetrated
A brave warrior in armor from the Houjin Dynasty jumped up from the ladder to the top of the city. With two "Clang Clang" sounds, he used his shield to block the two knives of the Ming army defending the city. The ladder knife in his hand slashed backwards like lightning, killing a Ming soldier.
He screamed, his waist was cut off, and blood spurted out. Three Ming soldiers surrounded him. One of them stabbed the Houjin armored soldier in the back with a spear. Unexpectedly, the tip of the spear was blocked by the cloth armor and could not penetrate.
He thrust again, and then the golden armored soldier twisted his body, smashed his shield back, and broke the gun pole. When the soldier who was guarding the city couldn't help but rushed forward, the golden armored soldier cut off a head with one sword.
It flew up in a "puffy" manner, and the blood in the neck was splashing and spraying.
This Houjin armored soldier is Niulu Zhangjing under the Zhengbai Banner. He is wearing three layers of heavy armor. The innermost layer is expensive chain armor, then a layer of iron armor, and the outermost layer is covered with a layer of iron inlay.
He was wearing cotton armor. Ordinary muskets and arrows could not hurt him with such heavy armor. In just a moment, four Ming soldiers who defended the city died under his sword. Behind him, a group of gold-clad soldiers were quickly filing in from the ladder.
And up.
Wang Mingyin roared and led several soldiers to rush towards this side. Now that the enemy has boarded the city, the defense line has been torn apart. The enemies who boarded the city must be eliminated as soon as possible and the ladder must be blocked, otherwise the situation will be over.
At this moment, an arrow shot from the city, hitting Wang Mingyin's neck without a word. Wang Mingyin fell to the ground and twitched to death without saying a word. The soldier next to him was rushed up by Zhang Jing, the Niulu Zhangjing with the white flag, and he died in the blink of an eye.
Killed two people.
In such a short period of time, seven or eight armored soldiers of the Hou Jin Dynasty had already boarded the Fushun City Wall. The defenders at the city head were in chaos. The fifty soldiers of the Hou Jin Dynasty who had sneaked into the city disguised as horse merchants were already burning and killing people everywhere.
The fall of Fushun City was inevitable.
Li Yongfang wore the official uniform of a Ming military general and rode out of the city to surrender to Houjin. When he saw Nurhachi, Li Yongfang dismounted and knelt on the roadside, saying: "Surrender Li Yongfang to pay homage to Yingming Khan."
Nurhachi rode his horse over with a proud expression on his face. Li Yongfang, who was the guard general of Fushun before, could stand up to him, but now Li Yongfang knelt in front of him, and the authority of the Ming Dynasty was trampled under his horse's hooves.
For Hou Jin, Li Yongfang was the first general to be demoted in the Ming Dynasty. Nurhachi decided to give him preferential treatment. He bowed his hands in response to the gift on his horse and comforted him with gentle words. He immediately ordered the soldiers and civilians in Fushun City to kill anyone who dared to resist, and those who did not resist.
They were all registered and adopted, and all their belongings were plundered.
On September 29th, the Eight Banners Army of the Later Jin Dynasty captured more than ten large and small towns and more than 4,000 small villages in Fushun and the surrounding areas. They captured 300,000 livestock and distributed them to the banner owners on the spot. Huge material benefits were given to the Later Jin Dynasty.
The army was overjoyed. The destruction of Fushun City greatly expanded Nurhaci's ambition to invade.
When the Eight Banner Leaders were distributing prisoners on September 30, there was a student named Fan Wencheng who came from Shenyang to Fushun to visit his relatives. Unable to bear the humiliation, he shouted that he was a descendant of Fan Zhongyan, a famous official in the Song Dynasty. Huang Taiji heard about his fate
His subordinate Zhang Jing treated Fan Wencheng kindly.
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The alarm of the fall of Fushun City reached Beijing on the fifth day of October. Emperor Wanli was shocked when he received the report from Li Weihan, the governor of Liaodong, and responded very quickly: "The cunning captors are planning to capture the border city, and all prevention and suppression matters will be handled by the local officials.
When military pay is stepped up and troops are mobilized to support the troops, the ministry will consider and issue a report."
After the sergeants in the capital learned about the news of establishing slaves, although they were surprised, they still thought that establishing slaves was a temporary act of power. The major generals in Fushun city were inferior and neglected defense. When the soldiers from Liaoyang and Shenyang arrived,
The slave chiefs would be tied up, so the people of the Ming Dynasty did not take this border police to heart. They had a heated conversation after tea and dinner, and continued to live their own lives.
On October 16, another emergency warning was sent from Liaodong: Zhang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, led his army to rescue Fushun, and all the troops were killed.
This news shocked the city of Beijing. The general died in battle. This was shocking. Some rumors about the brutality of slave-building had also spread to the capital. The people of the Ming Dynasty finally felt the threat from the Hou Jin Dynasty. For a time, alleys and squares were everywhere.
Let’s talk about Liaodong.
On the morning of October 17th, Zhang Yuan read the latest issue of the Dibao in Zhan Shifu. This issue of the Dibao was all about the military situation in Liaodong. The full text of Nurhaci's "Seven Great Hatreds" was recorded. This made Zhang Yuan
Zhang Yuan was a little surprised. Wasn't this propaganda for Nurhaci? When he saw that "there was a drought in Jianzhou in the past few years and the people had no food, I sent my envoy Nalanbakshi to North Korea to borrow food. Zhang Yuan, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, actually sent me
The envoys were taken captive to Beijing, and the humiliation was extremely intolerable. Therefore, Zhang Yuan understood the intention of publishing these "Seven Hatreds". This was obviously a premeditated plan by Yao Zongwen and his party to attack him.
It seems that it won't be long before someone accuses Zhang Yuan of irritating Nurhachi and causing the war in Liaodong.
Zhang Yuan shook his head and continued to read the report in the newspaper about the annihilation of Zhang Chengyin's entire army in Liaodong. Zhang Chengyin received an urgent report of the fall of Fushun on the first day of October, and immediately led his deputy general Po Tingxiang and his general Pu Shifang to launch a guerrilla attack.
Liang Rugui led 10,000 troops to rescue Fushun. The army set out from Liaoyang on the second day of October and arrived at Fushun on the fourth day of the lunar month.
Then they set fire to everything, and there was no one alive in the city. There was no human habitation for hundreds of miles around. The Han people who dared to resist were killed, and the remaining 300,000 livestock were on their way back to Jianzhou.
Zhang Chengzhuan immediately ordered his troops to be divided into five groups to pursue them. They caught up with Nurhachi's Eight Banners Army at Xelidian, twenty miles away from the border. It was the sixth day of October. The Ming Army's Fifth Group was on a hill outside Xelidian.
They gathered around and set up camps in three places. They dug trenches and lined up firearms. They were well prepared. However, when the Eight Banners Army of Houjin attacked, the Ming army found that the first round of artillery and musket fire did little damage to the soldiers of Houjin.
The enemy's bows and arrows posed a great threat to them. The camp that they thought was impregnable suddenly collapsed. Once the camp was broken, there was a one-sided massacre. The leader Zhang Chengyin and the general Pu Shifang were killed in the battle. The deputy general Po Tingxiang and the guerrillas in the back mountain camp
Liang Rugui originally had a chance to lead his 4,000 soldiers to break out, but when he heard that General Zhang was trapped in the front mountain, he bravely led his troops to rescue them. Then they all fell. Only a few hundred of the 10,000 Ming army fled back to Liaoyang, and he brought 100 soldiers with him.
Cannons, 800 small cannons and 3,000 muskets all became the spoils of the Jin Army. 9,000 horses and 7,000 pieces of armor also all belonged to the Eight Banners Army. Zhang Chengyin sent troops from Liaoyang to rescue Fushun in order to pursue the enemy as soon as possible.
The army and Liaoyang war horses were all requisitioned. In this battle, most of the strength of the entire Liaodong Ming Army was lost.
After reading the newspaper, Zhang Yuan felt sad: Zhang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, died in the battle. Three months ago, Zhang Chengyin personally sent him and the envoy out of Guangyuan City.