Kumamoto... is less than a hundred miles away from Saga...
Cao Yuanzhao's troops, who were hiding in the day and walking at night, passed through the Kyushu Mountains on the next night and marched secretly above Kumamoto Castle!
Why say it is above?
Because Kumamoto Castle... is located under the Kyushu Mountains!
At this time, Cao Yuanzhao was standing in the dense forest on the top of the mountain, looking down at the entire city with a telescope...
Unfortunately... before the sun came out, all he could see was a little ignition and a darkness...
And the real difficulty in this battle has also come...
That is how to capture this city while also capturing it, before Kato Kiyomasa and his son commit suicide, and ask about the whereabouts of the defense map to go out to sea!
The Japanese samurai... If you can't beat him, you will find out your own fault. Cao Yuanzhao has a thorough understanding, so he is also in trouble at this moment...
"Send the order! The entire army must not raise stoves, must not use open flames, must not set up camps, and must not fire guns!"
He planned to accumulate energy and wait until dawn to observe the structure of the city before making corresponding arrangements.
Since you agree to the coach, you must do it! Do it well!
After making up this decision and issued four bans, Cao Yuanzhao found a tree root to lie under him and sleep with his clothes...
The well-trained soldiers of Xingtian Camp were even more upset. They found a place to sleep. As usual, the battalion that carried out the first wave of alert began to look around without any instructions or reminders...
But this time... they put down their rifles on their backs and instead dispatched the magic crossbows and arrow branches in the baggage truck.
Silence, murder and looting... Nothing is more suitable than a composite crossbow!
As time goes by, the sun gradually rises...
When the first morning light shone on Cao Yuanzhao's face, Cao Yuanzhao, who was already half asleep and half awake, immediately opened his eyes, raised his telescope and looked around at the city at the foot of the mountain. According to the scale on the telescope, he measured the height and width of a group of castles and the distance between them and the troops...
Must be fast...
It is too close to the city and the mountain is not very high... You may encounter people around you hunting or chopping wood at any time! If you are leaked and told by someone to the Japanese army below, then this secret marching will be in vain!
He must find the most suitable solution in the shortest time and implement it quickly!
Plus the highest fifth floor of Ishigaki... one main pavilion, two secondary pavilions... Kato Kiyomasa himself must be in the highest main pavilion, and the drawings and coastal defense maps in his hand are either in the basement or the Tianshou Pavilion!
From this mountain... more than three thousand big strides and four thousand big strides...the wind direction...
Cao Yuanzhao put his hand on the tip of his tongue and licked it, raising it in the air...
The wind is southwest! Just right!!
Wind power...
Cao Yuanzhao grabbed a handful of grass from the ground and loosened his palms three and a half feet away from the ground... Observing the distance between the grass and the position he stood after it landed...
Wind power is two and a half cents!
"Order the Xingtian Camp to start preparing Xingtian!"
"How many frames are they prepared?"
"All!!" Cao Yuanzhao didn't raise his head and continued to pick up the branches and slash it on the ground... At this moment... he used all the knowledge he learned in Tongshun Camp. In that year, he not only came into contact with all military tactics and strategies, but also achieved full marks in the assessment of tactical applications and calculation applications!
The learning and understanding abilities of the ancients were never worse than those of us modern people...
But when he returned to Jinzhou under the pretext of going to Jinzhou to dig out his old subordinates, he immediately raised the banner of resistance and commanded his command to launch a fierce battle with the Later Jin in Jinzhou! He defeated the Later Jin army several times!
Time... also moved from the fourth year of Chongzhen to the fifteenth year of Chongzhen...
Zu Dashou... was surrounded again...
This time, it was Ningyuan City under his feet...
What’s worse than the last time is that this time, not only did it take for ammunition and food to be exhausted, but it was also impossible to even rely on the rescue... Because at that time, Sun Chengzong had already retired and returned home, and there were only a group of Donglin Party left in the court who could only talk big!
Break through... can't break out...
Be firmly guarding... I will run out of ammunition and food...
Just as Zu Dashou was worried about the group of soldiers under his hands who were pale and thin and could not even get up... Huang Taiji ordered someone to send him a letter of persuasion to surrender...
The content of the letter is roughly: I let you go once last time, but you... betrayed my trust and fought with me for many years. Now... you are surrounded by me again... But my door is still open to you! As long as you are willing to surrender, I will still treat you as before and let you be my general! You can't count on those stinky scholars in the court... The reinforcements can't even see a shadow!
Of course, I value the loyalty and courage of the general, but you have already tried your best... Is such a court really worthy of your continued life? General Yuan, I was wronged and was criticized just because of my "secret letter". Think about you... Even if you die here, I believe that no one in the court will think of you! You will only treat you as a general of the defeated army!
Instead of doing this... why don't you think more for yourself...and think more for your subordinates...
I have to say...
Huang Taiji is indeed a hero!
Zu Dashou had betrayed him once. If it were a narrow-minded person, let alone persuade him to surrender, he would have the heart to eat him alive!
But the other party... knew that he could easily capture him alive when he attacked the city, but he still gave him an olive branch and treated him very well... Compared with the court that was chaotic by the Donglin Party at that time... what choice should be made is simply healing...
This time... Zu Dashou finally agreed to vote...
And this time... he never fled back to the Ming Dynasty...
Compared with Hong Chengchou, who was extremely thorough in betrayal, Zu Dashou has always been a controversial object among historians.
Say he was treason... He seemed to have done nothing except writing a letter of persuasion to Wu Sangui... He refused to even lead the troops to fight, and eventually ended up being under house arrest by the Later Jin Dynasty...
But if you want to say that he is loyal and righteous... In the end, he did not preserve his reputation and died in the battlefield...
At the same time, he did do all the duties he should do as a soldier. In order to defend the city, he had eaten flesh and endured bitter cold. He even used the means of false surrender to continue to resist. Even after the Qing court entered the pass, Zu Dashou died of illness. Emperor Shunzhi also gave sacrifices according to the law of a first-rank minister of Han official, and sacrificed twice to commend his loyalty...
People...
Often it is such a contradiction...
You can't judge a person's merits and demerits, nor can you judge a person's good or bad...
He can always judge...it is only his choice...
So what kind of achievements and sins will the "Zu Dashou" in this world do?