Chapter 69 The descendants do not kill, the court treats the prisoners preferentially
"Put down your weapons! Those who surrender will not be killed!"
As the sound of muskets gradually became less and less, and the arrows fired gradually became sparse, the simple "inner urn city" space inside the east gate of Qizhou was already filled with corpses on pillows.
The remaining bandit soldiers, who had to hide among the corpses of their comrades to avoid lead bullets, were completely beaten to the point of mental collapse. They were trembling numbly and unable to offer any resistance.
Seeing that the situation was completely under control, Zuo Zixiong also asked the soldiers to shout slogans to persuade them to surrender, and then began to clean the battlefield. Not to mention, there were quite a few soldiers who had not been killed yet.
After a random search, some soldiers who were frightened or pretending to be dead were found, and then the prisoners were tied up.
The wounded were seriously wounded and wailing, and even the wounded who could not survive were sent to the road by officers and soldiers to end their suffering.
Chen Shuren originally did not want to go on a killing spree, because he felt that these were all Han people after all, and it was an internal struggle among the people of the Ming Dynasty. They could not be as cruel as they were to the Tatars. Those who could be incorporated and reformed had to be incorporated and reformed.
But Chen Shuren underestimated the hatred of the regiment training in the city - today is different from the past. Liu Xiyao came this time to take revenge and deceive others, but regardless of the people's support, he massacred and plundered so many villages outside the city.
The soldiers who were trained in the regiment were all locals, especially those who came from good peasant families. They had more or less relatives outside the city. Now that their relatives had been robbed and killed by bandits, the soldiers' anger could not be stopped at all.
After Shen Shuren's dissuasion, they reluctantly managed to "do more damage only when they see the seriously wounded", which was already a very restrained approach.
After this incident, Shen Shuren also gained a new understanding of his view of bandits: it is true that this is internal fighting among the Han people, but whether to give preferential treatment to adaptations in the future depends on the nature of each family of bandits. If it is a wanton massacre of innocent people For common people, they must be punished relatively severely.
After all, what some thieves preach is to kill rich households and grab money. But after so many years of chaos in the Ming Dynasty, how can there be so many rich households in the north that have been robbed? After conquering a city, what if there are too few rich households to solve the problem of money and food? Can it be like Tianqi? How did you “never forget your original intention” during the years?
The total social resources are insufficient, productivity is too low, coupled with natural and man-made disasters, everything is in vain.
While Chen Shuren was fighting in his heart, Zuo Zixiong already roughly knew the outcome of this battle after a short period of cleaning up.
At least half of the three thousand soldiers Niu Ziquan brought to the city were lost. Among them, seven to eight hundred were directly killed or seriously injured after entering the city gate. There are estimated to be three to four hundred more outside the city wall. Shot dead bodies.
The final number of those who surrendered and those who were slightly wounded and captured in the city were between three and five hundred. In the end, the rear group of nearly a thousand people did not have time to enter the city and fled directly after being defeated.
However, because he tortured the prisoners and learned that both Yi Dou Gu and Niu Zi had died in the rebellion, Zuo Zixiong could fully conclude that the thousands of people who had fled were leaderless and would probably not go back to join Liu Xiyao.
The power of the officers and soldiers has frightened these people out of fear, and no one wants to gamble their lives a second time.
The most they can do is to flee into the mountains east of Qizhou to rob some food and hide temporarily, so in the subsequent battles, there is no need to worry too much about this part of the force directly joining the battlefield.
After the frontal battlefield is over, as long as the Chenshu people can win, it shouldn't be difficult to recruit these people again.
Zuo Zixiong briefly reported the results of the battle, and Shen Shuren was also very satisfied. He asked the soldiers to take a drink of water, and then ordered them to continue their efforts:
"Zuo Dusi, we don't have time to rest, so just treat it as a hard work and quickly take the firearms team to the west city. Shen Lian and Lu Datou are still fighting. When Liu Xiyao saw the fire in the city, he must have thought that he I have successfully defrauded the east gate with my careful work. Now that we are attacking the enemy, you should take the head of Yi Dou Gu and go to reinforce it in person to break Liu Xiyao's morale."
Zuo Zixiong received the order, hurriedly filled a skin bag with tons of water, and immediately mounted his horse and drove through the city with the firearms team.
…
At the same time, Qizhou Ximen.
Under the afterglow of dusk, Liu Xiyao's troops were still attacking bravely regardless of casualties.
Qizhou City was originally built along the north bank of the Qishui River. It had to match the terrain of the river valley, and the south side was protected by the Qishui River. The city wall could be repaired at a lower cost, so the shape of the city was long from east to west and short from north to south, with at least 100 meters between the east and west gates. Six or seven miles.
Liu Xiyao just saw the fire in the city, and vaguely heard the noise of thousands of troops shouting for death in the distance, but he couldn't hear the details. Of course, he thought that Niu Ziquan and Yi Dougu had succeeded in cheating the door, and the city was completely in chaos.
Therefore, he immediately launched an attack on the Ximen side - it was impossible not to attack at all. He had also collected intelligence on the enemy before the war, and knew that Chen Shuren had a full regiment training guard station, and the number of people should not be more than 100,000. There are fewer people and horses in the part after the cow has completely circled.
Even if they deceive the city gate and fall into a street fight, if Chen Shuren's troops press all their strength to Niu Ziquan's side, even if Niu Ziquan's numbers are quite large, they may not be able to win completely.
At this time, it was very important for Ximen to launch a fierce attack to contain the strength of the officers and soldiers and further shake the confidence of the officers and soldiers.
Liu Xiyao also spared no expense. Even though he only had dozens of temporary flying ladders made of bamboo poles, plus three logs cut from whole trees, and no other siege equipment at all, he dared to let the soldiers attack with this.
Flying ladders were set up on the top of the city one after another, and under the cover of a small number of fire cannons, ants immediately began to attack the city.
Shen Lian and Lu Datou at the top of the city were also relatively calm. However, when they first heard that the bandits also had fire guns, they were slightly surprised, but they quickly recovered -
In the battle the day before yesterday, the bandits were mainly cavalry and came quickly over a long distance, so they did not carry firearms. This time, Liu Xiyao's main force came slowly and marched slowly, and they brought more comprehensive equipment.
By the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the bandits from various tribes and the army had been fighting for a long time, and the old thieves had more or less captured the guns of the army.
The three top thieves, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, even had cannons, and they could use them to blast the city gates and walls.
Liu Xiyao's side was relatively poor, with a main force of 10,000 people and only less than 200 firearms.
When the bandits fired the first volley of guns, they frightened the city defenders into a slight panic. However, the officers and soldiers later found that no one seemed to have been hit, and they gradually regained their courage.
The firearms used by the bandits obviously have the same ammunition format as the firearms used by the Ming army to fight the Qing army. It can even be said that they were collected from the Ming army's border troops.
The Qing army's Tiezha cotton armor had a very high armor wearing rate, and that kind of armor had an excellent defensive effect against shotguns.
As a result, since the late Apocalypse, the proportion of shotguns in the standard ammunition of the Ming army has been getting smaller and smaller, and the proportion of single-point bullets has been getting higher and higher. The tradition of using shotguns to fight Japanese pirates left over from the Qi Jiguang era has basically disappeared.
The bandits handed over the muskets used to deal with the Qing army and used them directly, but they knew that they did not know why. They did not expect that "the power of shotguns is enough to deal with lightly armored and unarmored targets, but the firepower density can be increased several times." The truth immediately created a clear contrast with Shen Shuren's troops.
As the two sides exchanged fire with cannons, the defenders at the top of the city all used shotguns, which were extremely effective against the crowds of people below surrounded by hedgehogs and ants from a high position. They didn't even need to take aim at all, and they quickly inflicted heavy casualties on the bandits.
Although Liu Xiyao felt something was wrong, he did not dare to give up and continued to urge the supervisor frantically.
It's a pity that the soldiers on the flying ladder cannot form an effective continuous troop transport at all. After being swept away by a shotgun at close range, at least three or four soldiers can fall down in line.
Those who were lucky enough to rush to the top of the city alive were only two or three people at most. Then they found that their comrades behind them had broken off, or the nearby friendly forces' flying ladders were directly smashed by the army's rolling logs and rocks. These people also quickly came up.
Lu Datou was beheaded while leading the team to fight and plug the leak.
"Your Majesty, we can't fight any more! The casualties are too heavy! Something is wrong! There are only a few hundred officers and soldiers at Ximen. How can they still defend so tenaciously? It seems that morale has not been dampened at all. Is it because Niu Ziquan in the east is being attacked?
Repulsed?"
Several generals came to Liu Xiyao with mournful expressions on their faces. One of them was hit in the face by a shotgun while supervising the battle, and his face was covered with blood. They all came to Liu Xiyao to beg to withdraw their troops.
In less than a quarter of an hour of fierce attack, the lives of hundreds of brothers were already lost under the city wall, and more wounded people fled back wailing or were pulled back. The overall morale of the bandit side was affected by this.
But Liu Xiyao did not give up: "No, keep attacking me! I vow to avenge Xiong'er today! Then send people over the mountains and around the city to see how the situation is in the west! What's going on with Niu Ziquan? Even if we don't succeed, we still can't.
It's time to take the initiative to send scouts to report. It's already been a quarter of an hour, and the scouts who have traveled six or seven miles over the mountain should have arrived long ago!"
"Your Majesty! We really can't fight! Even if the soldiers are still willing to fight with their lives, more than twenty of the ladders have been broken. There are so many people blocking the remaining half of the ladder. That is the job of the gunmen of the army.
target!
The army's gunmen are more than ten times more numerous than the number of flying ladders we have left! Ten people aim at a ladder and take turns firing, and we are letting our men die in vain!"
There were also some loyal subordinates who relied on their kindness and tried to persuade them. However, Liu Xiyao hit him in the face with a scabbard and slapped him staggering. It was obvious that Liu Xiyao had become red-eyed with gambling and completely lost.
That's amazing.
This persistence cost at least thousands of casualties.
Liu Xiyao sent scouts over the mountains and around the city to explore the east side. After more than half a quarter of an hour, the scouts did not come back, but they waited for the official reinforcements at the top of the city. It turned out that Zuo Zixiong, with thousands of reinforcements, finally came from the east gate.
Came here.
Zuo Zixiong originally wanted to follow Lord Tongzhi's instructions and immediately shout and make noise, and then throw a dozen heads of heads off the wall to destroy the military morale of the bandits.
But he saw that Lu Datou and Shen Lian, one leading a short-soldier team and the other leading a firearms team, actually guarded the gate very well. There was no danger at all. Zuo Zixiong also adapted to the situation and slightly adjusted the plan.
"Master Tongzhi asked me to immediately clamor to retreat from the enemy. This was based on the consideration that 'Shen Lian and Lu Datou may not be able to defend'. Now that we have fought well and the enemy is still jealous, it is better to take the opportunity to kill more and wait.
When the enemy collapses and retreats, it is not too late to shout to lower morale."
Zuo Zixiong thought so, so he just let people fire guns and arrows without saying a word. In the end, Liu Xiyao's army couldn't bear it anymore and doubled the firepower. He was beaten completely and was stunned.
After leaving hundreds of corpses behind, it completely collapsed.
Zuo Zixiong waited for the bandits to officially collapse, then threw Yi Dougu's head down, and the whole army shouted:
"Wash Liu Xiyao's neck and wait for death! You have fallen into the trap of my Tongzhi master again! All the cattle have been killed by my family! Listen, Liu Xiyao's head! Those who kill Liu Xiyao's head will be forgiven for their previous sins.
!Can also be used as a garrison officer!"
Please remember the first domain name of this book:. Mobile version reading URL: