There was a raging fire, broken bricks and tiles, thick smoke filled the sky, the smell was unbearable, and corpses were everywhere.【】
Looking at the tragic scene of Jinzhou City in front of them, the Jinan generals all had tears in their eyes, looked sad and angry, and spoke for a long time before ordering their subordinates: "Go into the city and search to see if there are any survivors."
"twitter!"
Several subordinates hurriedly rode their horses and led troops into the city to carefully search for the surviving people. However, after searching and shouting all over the city, the large Jinzhou City seemed like an empty city, except for the "thunderbolt" sound coming from the burning wood.
"The sound was heard, and no echo was heard again.
The dead city, the empty city, except for the corpses scattered everywhere, there are no living things, not even cats or dogs. Everything is so strangely quiet, so quiet that it is suffocating, so quiet that it makes people jump.
Even though these Eight Banners soldiers from Jinan killed many Han people, when they saw the miserable situation in the city, everyone changed their color and trembled. A chill went straight from their backs to the back of their heads, fear, unreasonable fear, as if they were going to die.
Like one of these many dead bodies, a chill came from the bottom of my heart.
After searching for more than an hour, they still couldn't find it, so the subordinates returned to Du Biqi with their heads down.
"General, there is no one alive."
"The rebels were so ruthless. They killed everyone in the city, even the children. They were simply not human beings, they were beasts! Beasts!"
"These thieves are worse than animals!"
"Not a single one alive?"
Listening to the curses of the subordinates, they all closed their eyes in pain and clenched their fists tightly. Suddenly their eyes opened, filled with chills, and they gritted their teeth and said, "Go back!"
On the second day of September, the generals of Jinan all rushed to Shengjing with their flying horses to report that Jinzhou was defeated by the bandit army. All the people in the city were slaughtered, and the bandit army disappeared without a trace.
Kangxi was shocked when he heard the news, and ordered Anjun Wang Yuele to lead 10,000 troops south to Jinzhou to search for traces of the bandits. He also ordered Shengjing General An Zhuhu's troops to occupy Qinghe within three days and clear out the bandit army in the Black Mountains to encircle them.
The main force of the Qingyuan bandits.
On the same day, Eza, the king of Xin County, led 14,000 troops out of Qingyuan. On the third day of September, the Qing army, under the command of Prince Kang Jie, launched an attack on the Guanning army facing them.
On the fourth day of September, Prince Fusui of Su led an army of 11,000 men, including Tong Guogang, to attack Fushun again. Because the Qing army brought four general cannons in Shengjing City, the second regiment of Guanning's vanguard division in the city was unable to fight, and the city was destroyed.
, the second regiment was completely wiped out, and regiment leader Lin Jiafeng took advantage of the chaos and led more than a hundred troops to break through.
Upon hearing that Fushun had been restored, Kangxi was overjoyed and urgently ordered the Fushun Qing army to march to Yongling in order to cut off the main force of the Qing rebels' northward escape route.
On the sixth day of September, Kangxi personally led the main force of the imperial camp, 40,000 men, to Qingyuan. At this point, the vigorous defense battle of Qingyuan began.
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After breaking through Jinzhou, Zhao Qiang led the southward army without any delay and quickly advanced along the Liaoxi Corridor towards Shanhaiguan.
Jinzhou is only three days away from Shengjing, so Zhao Qiang has only two days at most. Within these two days, he must go south as quickly as possible to capture Shanhaiguan. Otherwise, not only will the troops going south be trapped and killed by the Qing army,
In the danger of the Western Liaoning Corridor, the Qingyuan vanguard and guard divisions will also be surrounded and annihilated by the Qing army.
Going south to enter the customs was a risky move. The stakes were not only the lives of the more than 11,000 soldiers of the army going south, but also the lives of the 20,000 soldiers of the vanguard and guards divisions who stayed in Qingyuan. The latter was responsible for
The danger is more serious than the former. They will face a heavy encirclement and suppression by the Qing army. If Zhao Qiang cannot capture Beijing and force Kangxi to return to the army, then the two divisions of the vanguard and the guards will be finished, and the Guan Ning army will also be completely finished.
The risk was too great, but the temptation was also too great, so great that Zhao Qiang had no choice but to put all his money on it!
The time difference is two days, and everything depends on these two days. If we can't capture Shanhaiguan within two days before the Qing army arrives, everything will be over. But as long as we capture it, it will be a big change in the situation and the change of dynasty.
The era has begun!
On the first day of September, they fell into Ningyuan; on the second day, they fell into Housuo; on the third day, they fell into Shalingyi; on the fourth day, they fell into Yong'an.
Along the way, no chickens or dogs were left behind. The 300-mile-long Liaoxi Corridor was completely turned into a human zone. Whenever the army passed by, there were many houses and empty houses. Even Wang Yuele of Anjun, who noticed that Guan Ning was entering the pass from the south, led his troops to pursue him.
At that time, he cried bitterly and howled loudly to the sky, feeling so sad that he didn't want to live.
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"Open the door quickly, open the door quickly!"
The sky had already darkened, and the gate of Shanhaiguan had been closed early. However, what the green battalion soldiers on guard at the top of the city did not expect was that there was a group of hundreds of Eight Banners cavalry holding torches and calling the door.
"Who are you?" Guo Yousong, the commander-in-chief on duty at the top of the city, heard someone shouting "Guan" below the city and hurriedly asked.
The Eight Banners soldiers below the city had a bearded man who looked like a military commander and shouted impatiently at the top of the city: "We are from the forward battalion, open the door quickly and let us in!"
From the forward camp? When Guo Yousong heard that the other party was from the forward camp, he hurriedly greeted Na Zuo with a smile on his face: "Sir, wait a moment, I will open the door right now!"
The Qianfeng Battalion is the emperor's own army, the elite of the Eight Banners. Guo Yousong, a small green battalion commander, would not dare to ask people why they want to enter the customs so late. All they know is that they have to open and close the door quickly, otherwise the gentlemen of the Qianfeng Battalion will get angry.
, not to mention that I am a small boss, even the senior general can't bear it. It is better to do less than to do more. Why are you asking so many questions? The main thing is to open the door quickly.
The door had just been opened, and before Guo Yousong had time to say hello, the military men from the forward battalion had already rushed into the pass, not caring that there were still a few green battalion soldiers under the pass.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious!"
Seeing that the Eight Banners men from the vanguard camp were about to bump into him, Guo Yousong was so frightened that he quickly stepped aside and shouted to the soldiers who were opening and closing the door: "Get aside, don't call it a collision!"
, Why are you so arrogant! Looking at the vanguard soldiers who rushed in, Guo Yousong cursed a few times in his heart, but he did not dare to express any dissatisfaction. He led a few of his subordinates to huddle aside, for fear of being beaten.
These arrogant and domineering vanguard soldiers were hit.
When we were facing down the city wall just now, we estimated that there were three to four hundred soldiers in this vanguard camp. But as we were about to get through, more cavalrymen carrying torches came from the official road to the north. There were quite a few people in the distance.
I'm afraid there are thousands of people.
Oh my god, the emperor has returned to the capital? Seeing this situation, Guo Yousong was so frightened that he stuck out his tongue. Looking at the situation, it was probably not the emperor who had returned to the capital. It looked more and more like him. He lifted his pants and knelt down when the imperial driver came over.
"Hey, that's not right!"
Just as Guo Yousong was anxiously waiting for the imperial chariot to arrive, one of his men beside him screamed and pointed at the forward battalion cavalry who were galloping towards the pass.
"What's wrong?"
Guo Yousong rolled his eyes at this subordinate and asked him to put his hand down quickly. Why not point at the forward camp like this? If any Eight Banners soldiers don't like it, come over and whip you. There will be no place to spit out the pain.
Unexpectedly, the face of this subordinate slowly turned pale, and the hand pointing at the cavalry began to shake, and his mouth was trembling: "Yes, you are right, behind their heads... behind their heads..." They must be very scared, this Green Camp
Bing was so frightened that he could not speak.
Guo Yousong also went to the direction where the green battalion soldiers pointed, which were the backs of the heads of the forward battalion soldiers. He didn't see anything at first, but when he took a closer look, his face turned green. It turned out that there were no braids on the back of the heads of the forward battalion soldiers.
He yelled "No!" and started to run. Unexpectedly, before he could turn around, he felt a pain in his back. From the corner of his eye, he saw a long knife being lifted from the direction of his back. There was blood on the knight's side.
The hand has moved far away into the pass.
On the fifth day of September, Guan Ning's army pretended to be a Qing army and pretended to open the gate of Shanhaiguan. The defenders surrendered directly to Lvying Shanhaiwei, leaving the gates of Beijing wide open.
After taking Shanhaiguan, Zhao Qiang left a regiment to control the gate, and the rest of the troops fought towards Beijing overnight. At the same time, the news that "the army was defeated by the bandits and the emperor committed suicide in Shengjing" began to spread in Yongping Prefecture.