Chapter Twenty-Six: Fear

My father-in-law was hungry, so he took out half of the cake he had eaten at noon from his arms and chewed it. Chew a few bites, pick up a water bladder and drink a few sips, swallow it into your stomach, which makes people look really admirable.

This is really a good father-in-law who loves soldiers like a son, leads by example, and shares weal and woe with soldiers!

It is indeed a good example for internal officials, and I hope that everyone in my eunuchs will learn from Gonggong Wei!

The order to attack soon reached two infantry brigades.

In the sound of a sharp whistle, Hu Quan and Kimura respectively led their respective brigades of officers and soldiers to attack the Yongdian Fort wall.

Like Xiao Dian fighting, the Imperial Guard is still at the forefront. Only this time they each wore double armor and each had a weapon.

The cavalry did not participate in the siege, but cruised and maneuvered in the rear.

After discovering that the Ming army was attacking the city, Dardai also made people blow the horn.

A deep horn reminds everyone inside the castle that the battle has begun.

The battle was fierce, and the Jurchen defenders, who had relied on the walls of the fortress and had no living forces to be attacked, showed great tenacity. They relied on the city wall to protect it, and used long and short bows to shoot the soldiers of the Ming Emperor's army. And when the imperial army approached the city wall, stones and logs were dropped from above, so that the two attacks of the imperial army did not achieve an effective breakthrough.

Father-in-law Wei, who was well-fed, had been watching the battle, and he found a very interesting thing.

That is, the defenders on the city wall are not all Jurchens, there are many Han people with Han hair to help the Jurchens, and their combat effectiveness is not low, and they show great hatred for the Ming army. Often, after the companion was shot, the rest of the people did not feel frightened and could not be at ease, but quickly took over the gap of their companions and used various weapons to launch a counterattack against the Ming army under the city.

Gonggong Wei did not attribute this phenomenon to the enslavement of human nature, but believed that it was a sin created by Li Chengliang.

It is certain that most of these Han Chinese who swore to die for the Jurchens should have defected to Jianzhou on their own initiative, and that they were forced to do so because of the massacres committed by the Ming army during the forced relocation of the Han people.

Xiong Tingbi pointed out in a note to the imperial court after half a year of investigation that at least 30,000 Han people were killed by officers and soldiers during the forced relocation, and tens of thousands died on the way. The total number of residents of Kuandian Liubao is more than 60,000 households, and the number of people is more than 300,000. This means that almost all of the surviving residents of Liubao have relatives killed by officers and soldiers.

Then, whether they took the initiative to defect or were taken captive, the Han people under the rule of Jianzhou had a deep blood feud with the Ming army. In this way, the Yongdian Han people and the Jurchens rebelled against the Ming Imperial Army together, and there was no need for too many reasons.

At worst, Li Chengliang's withdrawal of the Six Forts of Kuandian not only gave Nurhachi a large amount of land, but also enabled him to gain the support of no less than 100,000 Han residents.

In the end, this is as he said to the imperial court, there is no need to defend the six forts, and the withdrawal of the army and civilians can save a lot of silver and preserve strength. Or do you open your eyes and talk nonsense, and openly raise your enemies.

Who knows.

Anyway, the father-in-law felt that in the eyes of the Han people in Yongdianbao, his father-in-law Wei and the Ming Imperial Army under his department were definitely not the righteous party.

In his father-in-law's previous life, there was a revolutionary article in the last years of the puppet Qing Dynasty, saying, "May my Liao people not forget Li Chengliang", but unfortunately, the Liao people in Kuandian Liubao probably don't think so.

It is precisely the Manchu Qing Dynasty who really does not forget Li Chengliang, and the black-faced old man is very good to Li Chengliang.

Sometimes, a stupid decision costs not only a life, but also a nation.

Gonggong Wei didn't want to be a villain, he always thought that he had an aura of justice on him, but in this scene in front of him, he had to admit that he was a villain.

The sins created by others will be borne by his father-in-law Wei. And whether from his side or from the other party's point of view, he Wei Gonggong is not a good person.

It's a very delicate thing.

The battle is still going on, the fighting is still being staged, the soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense are fighting bloodily, and the little confusion and sigh of the father-in-law will soon disappear in the face of blood and fire.

He was still very patient, and although the two attacks of the imperial army did not make progress, the casualties were not large. And in local areas, the Jianzhou garrison on the city wall was always suppressed.

The situation of the Imperial Guard was not optimistic, more than half of the dead and wounded, the captain Fei Gulun was also wounded, and the rest of the team retreated in embarrassment under the command of another captain, the Han Niu Zhu.

Gonggong Wei did not put the remaining imperial guards back into the city to serve as cannon fodder, these people now have the value of their existence, and there is no need to lose them in vain.

"Tell Hu Quan and Dongcun that our family will enter the city in half an hour."

Grandpa Wei stood up and patted his buttocks casually.

………..

Repelled two attacks by the Ming army in succession, which made Dardai and the Jurchen defenders in the fort very excited and excited. Taking advantage of the retreat of the Ming army, Dardai and his subordinates inspected the city, cheering up the Jurchen sons and daughters, and at the same time affirming the outstanding Han Aha.

Two Han Ahabs who shot several people in the Ming army were rewarded on the spot, and they will officially enter the flag after the war, which is what the Han Aha often say is fortunate to carry the flag.

After the flag is raised, these two Han Ahabs will no longer be Han Chinese, but real Jurchens, and their wives and children will also be free in an instant, and they will no longer be clothed by armored people. If they can still make war exploits in the future, they will also have their own Ahha, and they can even become Bashiku, vests, generations, and even assistant leaders and co-leaders in the banner......

What a glorious thing this is that makes people yearn for it, and it also makes all Han people jealous!

The two of them "pounced" on their knees on the ground, kowtowed desperately to Lord Jiala, burst into tears, and swore to follow Lord Ezhen from now on, and swore not to share the sky with the Ming people.

Lord Ezhen was very satisfied with their performance, and he happily said to his subordinate Jurchen officers: "Don't underestimate the raising of the flag, this can make the Han people completely become our Jurchens." We will often raise the flag in the future, so that more and more Han people will become our Jurchens, and there will be more and more of our Jurchens. There are many Jurchens in us, and the Han people are definitely not our opponents, you must know that the Jurchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, and they are invincible! ….”

Where there is a reward, there is a punishment.

The two Han Chinese, who had been lucky enough to carry the flag, were ordered to tie up dozens of their compatriots who refused to contribute, let them plead bitterly, and then cut off their heads in front of their wives and daughters.

"If anyone refuses to help, the end will be the same as them!"

Dardai looked at the Han Aha and their wives and children viciously, and then drew a knife and cut off the neck of an old Han woman who didn't know what was going on.

No one knew why Lord Ezhen killed this old Han woman, and no one wanted to know, because the life of this old Han woman was nothing but a despicable pig and dog in their eyes.

Dardai wiped the knife back and forth over the old woman's clothes, enjoying the fearful gazes of the Han women and children and the Ahabs looking at him.