The total strength of the Qing army along the Yellow River was nearly 300,000. Xuzhou recruited troops and horses all the way south, and gathered most of the 300,000 elite troops. Most of the Manchu Eight Banners soldiers were also under Xuzhou City.
Now one hundred thousand elite troops were destroyed in one fell swoop. Under the internal and external attacks of the Dashun army, all the troops in Dorgon's hands, except for a few rangers who escaped from the encirclement, the rest were annihilated by the Shun army near Xuzhou.
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Kong Youde and Xian Guoan were surrounded by the flooded rivers and isolated on the high ground used by the Qing army to place artillery. They had no boats and could only sigh in the muddy water. Facing the Shun army soldiers who were surrounded by boats, they had no choice but to
He watched helplessly as he was disarmed by the intruders.
Dorgon had already surrendered, so why did they, the Han vassal kings, have the need to resist to the end? Kong Youde was different from Shang Kexi. He was already prepared to stab Dorgon in the back when the war situation went against him, but Xu Du came from Xuzhou
The city gates suddenly opened and people rushed out in different directions. Kong Youde was caught off guard and lost all the capital he could to bargain on the ground.
Now the Shun army was driving the ships captured from the Ming army. After tens of thousands of troops surrounded the Han army, Xian Guoan's face was extremely ugly. He wanted to comfort Kong Youde with a few words, but he didn't expect that Kong Youde had already cut off the braid with a dagger.
hair.
Kong Youde looked at the dozens of boats swimming over, threw his pigtails into the muddy water, and shouted:
"Kong Youde in Dongjiang...Kong Youde in Dongjiang, pay homage to the founder of the new dynasty!"
The general who led the boats to make a forced landing on the remaining Han soldiers of the Qing army was certainly not Li Laiheng. When Li met a middle-level general who was in charge of the local guards, he was suddenly called "the master of the founding of the new dynasty" by Kong Youde, and he was heartbroken.
Shivered.
Is this traitor and traitor to the king deliberately causing trouble for himself? Do you really think that our Prince Jin is a broad-minded person?
Li Jiyu cursed in a low voice: "This dog traitor is a traitor. It's rare for me to gain military glory. Does he have to say such ignorant nonsense? What a beast, it makes people want to kill him with one arrow."
Shen Jingbang hurriedly advised: "General, general...general, don't be nervous, let's go up to the mound quickly and capture all the remaining defeated soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. After all, we will gain another military exploit."
A living rebel king is still worth more than a dead rebel king, so why kill them? How to deal with these prisoners in the future depends on His Highness the King of Jin. You must not make any arbitrary decisions."
Of course Li Jiyu knew that the King of Jin Li Laiheng was a person who could not rub his eyes, so how could he dare to act rashly? It was nothing more than a random curse on Qing captives.
After all, in the Battle of Xuzhou, a group of old Yuzhai soldiers he brought specially from Henan were also killed and injured, and many of the old brothers from the village were killed by Kong Youde's cannon.
In the Battle of Xuzhou, the Qing army's 100,000-strong army was completely wiped out, and the number of people who fled was no more than 10,000. Just during the period when the Shun army was clearing the battlefield, more than 10,000 more prisoners were captured. But similarly, the Dashun army also paid a heavy price.
Quite a heavy price to pay.
Inside Xuzhou City, more than half of the defenders were killed or wounded, and more than 6,000 combatants were killed; outside Xuzhou City, there were 80,000 reinforcements on the three battlefields on the left, center and right, and more than 10,000 people were killed. The total casualties reached about 30,000 to 40,000.
The army suffered more than half its casualties, and the consumption of horses, guns, gunpowder, and arrows reached the level of one hundred thousand.
Deep hatred filled the hearts of all the soldiers in the army. On the battlefield for dozens of miles, corpses were everywhere, and the most horrific ones were the remains that were shattered by artillery shells.
But compared with the Manchus in Cizhou, in Daming, in southwestern Shandong...compared with their crimes of burning, robbing and massacring cities again and again, they are so gentle and kind that they are not worth mentioning!
Shen Jingbang said in a low voice: "General, this is Kong Youde. Kong Youde from Dongjiang Town. This man was a rebel from Denglai in the former Ming Dynasty. He was named the King of Obedience by Hong Tai, the chief of the Donglu slaves. It is a great achievement for us to capture this man."
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Li Jiyu snorted coldly. In the tragic battle of Xuzhou, even his own guards were almost wiped out. One of Li Jiyu's most trusted guards, Kang Dayan, was seriously injured. He was blinded by the Qing soldiers and almost died. These
Hatred, does it disappear as soon as the enemy surrenders?
Shen Jingbang added: "I heard that the Qing army still has hundreds of thousands of troops in Hebei. Although they are all partial troops and defeated generals, they still have the strength to fight. The King of Jin must have focused on this when he recruited the remaining Eastern captives.
General, please don’t create extraneous problems.”
Li Jiyu said bluntly: "I understand! It's just that our army brothers suffered too many casualties. In the future, the Donglu will have to repay their debts. Go, let's go to the mound and capture all the traitors and traitors such as Kong Youde."
The Shun soldiers were numerous and powerful, and they all had boats. The remaining Qing army was divided and surrounded by mud and water on small mounds, with no power to resist.
Even if Xian Guoan wants to fight to the death, Dorgon has already surrendered, and Kong Youde has now made a gesture of surrendering by cutting off his braid. Which blind soldier will die with him?
Helpless, Xian Guoan also threw his sword into the water. With a plop, the dream of the Wuqiao rebels for ten years was finally over, and they would finally have to accept the court's trial.
But this court was named Dashun.
Li Ji met the guards under his command and docked the boats one after another around the mound. After they landed on the shore with their swords in hand, they formed a crescent-shaped array and slowly approached the remaining Qing troops.
However, the trapped beast fight that the Shun Army expected did not appear. All the Qing and Han soldiers followed Kong Youde and Xian Guoan and threw their weapons into the water one after another. In order to dispel the Shun Army's hesitation and alert, many more soldiers followed.
The Qing soldiers also took off their broken armors and threw them all into the water.
After a thumping sound, a large group of Qing soldiers knelt down, knocked their heads on the ground, and shouted: "Surrender to Chuang! Yield to Chuang!" There was no longer any intention to fight.
Kang Dayan, who fought in the Battle of Xuzhou and became blind, sat in a small boat at the rear of the Shunjun fleet and did not go ashore.
Kang Da's eyes were lost. He still didn't know who the man he saw who looked like his brother during the fierce battle with Shang Kexi's Qing army was? Could that man be Kang Dahai?
It's a pity that the man is already dead, and his body is not intact.
The sun went straight down the mountain, and the red light reflected the sunset. The setting sun was like blood, making the atmosphere on the battlefield even more gloomy. Vultures and crows hovered in the sky for a long time, but because the large number of soldiers who were cleaning up the battlefield never left, these scavengers
The birds of prey have been unable to get a full meal.
All surrendered Qing clan clans, vassal kings, generals, and soldiers were disarmed and stripped of their armor. Outside the Xiguan Gate of Xuzhou City, the Qing army's cloth-faced armor and various firearms, swords, and guns were piled up
Such as mountains - what Kang Dayan saw just now, there are more than 10,000 to 20,000 pieces.
Li Laiheng also ordered that all captured Qing soldiers must cut off their braids. Otherwise, the Dashun Army will not consider those who are unwilling to cut off their braids to have given up resistance. They can only be regarded as fighting soldiers and must be punished.
Complete annihilation.
Leave your hair in braids but not your hair, leave your hair in braids but not your braids.
"I am a pacifist." Li Laiheng said, "I will not implement such a policy on women and children like Dorgon. But all the soldiers of Donglu will wear their braids but not their hair, and their hair will not grow their braids...
Or die."
All the prisoners of the Qing army were then imprisoned in Xuzhou City. Xuzhou soldiers and civilians who had suffered greatly from the siege watched on. They crowded at the city gate and the cross street. When they saw the Shun army soldiers entering the city, they laughed like thunder.
As soon as he saw the Qing prisoners being escorted into the city, his eyes blazed with anger and hatred.
Many family members and friends of Xuzhou people died in this arduous battle to defend the city. Many people could not control their emotions. Many militiamen with weapons even wanted to rush directly into the ranks of the Qing army and start killing.
Good to vent hatred.
Until Gu Kecheng, who was still seriously injured, appeared in person. He stood on the towering city gate platform and repeatedly preached to the people the capture policy of the Dashun Army and how the Dashun Army would regain Hebei in the future.
Strategy, the restless hearts of Xuzhou's soldiers and civilians were barely controlled.