Chapter 36: The Massacre

Chapter XXXVI: The Massacre

In December of the second year of Chongzhen, outside Shenyang was already a world of dripping water into ice. Tents were scattered across the ground, and soldiers and horses were huddled together so that they would not freeze themselves. In such a situation, even if a lot of cotton clothes are prepared, it is still inevitable that there will be some non-combat attrition.

After just two days in Shenyang, hundreds of people have already frozen to death or frostbite. If it weren't for Chen Cheng, this number would have multiplied several times. But after waiting for two days, the preparations are almost complete, so there is no need to continue waiting.

At the head of the city, the Jurchens looked at the battleship "Bright with the Sun" that suddenly appeared outside the city, and they were all dumbfounded. I don't know what this thing is made of steel, but the big pipes on it are very yellow and violent.

Soon, the fears of the defenders of the city became a reality. Two 280mm cannons took turns firing, and each shell turned into scorched earth within a radius of several tens of meters. How can the power of the battleship's main guns be stopped by the ancient city walls?

With a cannon shot, a large section of the city wall was blown down, and the morale of the people in Shenyang fell sharply. The Han army cheered together. The second shell did not hit the city walls, but landed inside the city. Half-ton shells smashed through the palaces in Shenyang, killing more than a dozen people and stomping many houses.

Just two shots were fired, and the city was already in a panic. The rest of the men did not dare to continue defending the city, so they opened the gates and ran further north. Chen Cheng ordered the infantry to enter the city, and then released the cavalry to chase and kill the old and weak Jurchens in the ice and snow. Just a dozen years ago, the rising Jianzhou Jurchen once killed hundreds of thousands of Han people who fled south in the ice and snow. Later, they slaughtered millions of Han Chinese in Liaodong.

For example, today's reincarnation was replaced by the Han army's pursuit of the Jurchens who were fleeing. In such a snowy situation, most people will freeze to death on the way to escape. Although the Jurchens are a fishing and hunting people, they will be knocked down by the bitter cold weather without preparation.

After the Han army broke through Shenyang, in retaliation, they carried out an indiscriminate massacre of the Jianzhou Jurchens. This time, not only were all the men killed, but even those Gegefujin or something were also killed cleanly. However, women are different from men, and they are still of some use until they are killed.

By the time the Han army had withdrawn from Shenyang five days later, the city, which had been renamed "Shengjing", had become a dead city. The streets and courtyards of the city were littered with corpses. Because of the cold of heaven and earth, Chen Cheng did not stay to dig pits for the dead, but after burning the corpses of his own soldiers, he continued to march to Liaoyang.

There were originally many Mongols in Shengjing, but these people did not stay with the Jurchens when the Han army killed, but chose to escape. After Shenyang was breached, the Mongols who were watching nearby no longer had the courage to stay and fled faster than rabbits.

They spread the news of the Han army's attack everywhere. The Jurchens in the land of Liaodong knew that they had an inseparable blood feud with the Han people, and they did not have enough troops to defend, so they could only abandon those large and small strongholds and flee to the south.

By the time the Han army appeared under the city of Liaoyang, the city was crowded with Jurchens who had fled to the city. They looked in horror at the mighty army outside the city, each cursing their enemies incessantly, and their faces full of horror. The defenders of Liaoyang were not as good as Shenyang, and the outcome of the battle would certainly not be any different.

First of all, the defenders of the city immediately understood why a fortified city like Shenyang could be broken in a matter of days. There were not only Jurchens and Mongols in Liaoyang City, but also many Han Chinese. At this point, what else is there to say? As soon as the Mongols and Han Chinese combined, they reversed on the spot.

They opened the gates of the city to welcome the new conquerors into the city. The Jurchens in the city naturally refused to be captured, and they knew what would happen to them if they fell into the hands of the Han Chinese. Women, old people, and children all took up their weapons and made their last dying struggles, but in front of infantry guns and flintlock muskets, no matter how brave they were, they would be blown to pieces.

The battle in the city lasted all day, tens of thousands of Jurchens died cleanly, plus the previous losses in Shenyang City, a third of the Jianzhou Jurchens had been killed, and many others disappeared in the ice and snow. Houjin is a bandit group that relies on force to maintain its rule. When they lost militarily, not only the Mongols and Han Chinese would rebel, but even some of the Jurchens.

The savage Jurchen and the Jianzhou Jurchen are not the same thing, and they also have a blood feud with the Aixin Jueluo family. Those people responded to Liu Xingzuo's call and launched a counterattack against the Jianzhou Jurchens. Liu Xingzuo was arrested by the Jurchens since he was a child, and he was very clear about the internal situation of the Jurchens, and he alone could be worth 10,000 elite soldiers.

From the Yalu River to Shenyang, and then from Shenyang to Liaoyang, Liu Xingzuo was the most powerful and most meritorious among the generals under Chen Cheng. In recognition of his merits, Chen Cheng stuffed the Jurchens, Mongols and Han Chinese who surrendered to Liu Xingzuo, making his troops more than 5,000 people, and promoted his military rank to lieutenant general.

This made the people in Dongjiang Town very envious, they were also demoted generals, they were still brigadier generals, and they had all been promoted to lieutenant generals. Whether it is the strength of troops or military ranks, the gap is getting wider and wider. After the capture of Liaoyang, the Han army did not return to the Korean Peninsula, but stayed in Liaoyang.

Now is the coldest time of the day, and wouldn't it be more comfortable to have a city to shelter from the wind and snow than to march in the snow?

So Chen Cheng and Lin Mengchu took more than 30,000 soldiers and horses to live in the city, and while waiting for the main force of the Jurchens, they trained the army by the way.

In fact, the matter of training troops is not so difficult, Chen Cheng is already familiar with how to train the army, and he can't be more familiar with it. If you want to train an elite army, it will take at least more than a year, but = if you only require this army to be able to understand simple orders, then it will not take that long, a month or two.

The most important thing is to enforce the ban. When the army was reorganized in Liaoyang, Chen Cheng was also unrelenting and dared to disobey military orders. I train from morning to night, every day is eating, training, sleeping, and so on.

There are those who can't stand such strict military discipline, and with the soldiers clamoring, Lin Mengchu immediately suppressed it with two songs under the command of Kawanaka Jiya. All the officers involved in the disturbance were beheaded, the soldiers were killed by eleven whips, and the rest of the men were all confiscated from their weapons and armor and put into the coolie battalion for use.

Chen Cheng's army adhered to the harsh style of the Qin and Han dynasties, and it was very happy to kill the enemy, and it was just as happy to kill his own people. Many of the officers who participated in the disturbance were relatively capable of fighting, and their heads were also hung on the head of the city. A powerful infantry song, said to be revoked, and it was revoked.

This style of governing the army immediately made the newcomers understand that these people in the Han Kingdom are different from the bigwigs in Liaozhen and the imperial court. Not to mention eating empty salaries, do you dare to try to deduct military salaries? Once it is verified, no matter who you are, you will all be pulled out and cut.

The Han army stayed in Liaoyang City for two months, if it weren't for the fact that there was more grain and grass in Shenyang and Liaoyang, I was afraid that the army would have run out of food a long time ago. Of course, Chen Cheng still has enough food in his hands for 30,000 people to eat for a month, but it is used in an emergency, and he will not take it out until it is critical.

Because of the rescue of many Liao people, the consumption of grain and grass in the army was faster than expected. Seeing that the grain reserves were about to be used, the Houjin army finally withdrew from the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. The soldiers and horses under the command of Hong Tai grabbed a lot of good things, and fought several battles with the soldiers of the kings of all walks of life, winning and losing each other, but in general, they won more and lost less.

If it weren't for the rumors outside that Shenyang's hometown was attacked by the Han army, he would have stayed for a while longer, and only after the ice and snow melted and the roads hardened would he retreat.

It is said that the Han army summoned a black dragon and collapsed the city wall of Shenyang. Some say that tens of thousands of Jurchens inside and outside Shenyang were killed, and there are also that the Han army was waiting for Hongtai to go to the decisive battle in Liaoyang. There are all kinds of theories, Hong Tai was able to say to himself at first that this was fake news released by the Ming people, which was used to disturb the morale of the army, but when more and more news came, and even the Jurchens who escaped from Liaoyang and Shenyang said so, Hong Tai not only panicked.

This time he entered the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, which he forcibly promoted in order to consolidate his power, and it seems to have received very good results for the time being. The various banner owners Baylor were much more respectful to him, but if his hometown was really raided, those who were now respectful to him would definitely turn their faces immediately.

At the end of January of the third year of Chongzhen, Hongtai led the army to spare a big circle and returned to Liaodong. On the way to the march, more and more unfavorable news was received, and most of the officers and men in the army could not help but make a big uproar when they learned that Liaoyang and Shenyang and other places had been breached, and that their wives and children had been slaughtered.

At this time, Hongtai had not yet established absolute authority, and Dai Shan, Mang Gurtai brought Abatai, Yuetuo, Zierharang and others to find Hongtai to explain. Hong Tai saw that the matter could not be hidden, so he revealed the truth and the situation.

"Shenyang has indeed been broken by the enemy, and the people in the city have been killed and injured countless times!"

"How dare those North Koreans do that?"

"I heard that the Mongols and the Han opened the gates of Liaoyang together, which led to the loss of Liaoyang. After the North Koreans entered the city, all our family members were killed! ”

"God-damned Han Chinese, God-damned Mongols, and Koreans!"

Someone drew his sword and shouted, "Kill all these people first, and then go and fight the enemy to the death!" ”

There were many Mongols and Han Chinese, as well as some Koreans, all of whom were killed by the Jurchens, and most of the Han Chinese were slaughtered, and only a few escaped.

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