Chapter 869: Skinning people alive and forcing Liaoyang
The surging blood immediately dyed the entire Kong Youde's head like a blood gourd, and he was convulsed all over, shouting loudly, the sound was palpitating.
Xu Sanyi gritted his teeth, probed the tip of the knife into the depths of the scalp and stirred, completely separated the scalp from the skull, then abandoned the knife, held one end of the scalp with both hands, and exerted another force, with a soft sound, Kong Youde from the top of his head to the neck, all the skin was peeled off.
In the surging blood, the white bones, the dark red wriggling muscles, the pale tendons, and the dark cyan jumping blood vessels appeared and disappeared in the blood, and the pair of eyes that had been stripped of their eyelids and looked like ghosts, bulging and bulging, were even more shocking.
Among the onlookers of the Tang army and the captured Qing army, a large number of people could not bear to watch, and quietly twisted their heads to the side, and many people began to vomit nausea.
It's just that Monk An at this time, as if watching a work of art, with a slight smile on his face, watched Xu San continue to peel down until a complete human skin was completely peeled off from Kong Youde's body.
After the entire human skin was completely peeled off, Kong Youde, who had been struggling violently, finally lowered his head and did not move again.
He's dead.
This obedient king of the Qing Dynasty finally came to the end of his life with this extremely terrifying and humiliating death, which can be regarded as the first burial of the Qing court who served him.
Monk An sighed slightly, rubbed his hands gently, and looked unfinished.
"Pass on the order of this town, peel off the human skin of Kong Youde, put it in the weeds, sew up the skin, and write next to it, Kong Youde, a traitor in the Ming Dynasty, was born as a traitor and died in hell. Send someone to Liaoyang City again, so that the defenders in the city can watch it well! ”
"Order!"
Three days later, the surging tide of hundreds of thousands of Tang troops, as well as more than 20,000 Shang family soldiers and horses led by Shang Zhixin, finally appeared in the south of Liaoyang City.
As the morning sun rises, the soldiers and horses of the Tang army emerging from the horizon are boundless and overwhelming, like a black frenzy rolling up from the edge of the earth, and immediately roar towards Liaoyang City.
At this time, at the head of Liaoshi City, the guard general Jierharang and a group of defenders saw the Tang army surging like this, and everyone's faces were full of miserable whiteness.
During the period when the Tang army went to Anping Mountain to fight against King Ershun, 150,000 Azig soldiers and horses who rushed back from Jinzhou finally rushed back to Shengjing after running around the clock.
Afterwards, Dolgon immediately distributed 60,000 of the soldiers and horses, immediately went south to Liaoyang, and handed them over to the garrison general Zilharang to strengthen the garrison of Liaoyang City. And this group of soldiers and horses finally arrived in Liaoyang City the day before the Tang army rushed to Liaoyang City, so as to join more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city, so that the defenders in the city reached more than 90,000 people, plus the temporary requisition of the whole city, the defenders in the city reached 1560,000 people.
With so many defenders, coupled with the strong defensive measures of Liaoyang City, the defender Jierharang was relieved, and finally had the confidence and determination to firmly garrison Liaoyang City.
It's just that now, when they see that the Tang army has so many soldiers and horses, they put on a posture of aiming for an all-out attack on Liaoyang City, but they keep beating drums in their hearts.
The Tang army is so strong in soldiers and horses, and there are a large number of firearms to help, if it really attacks Liaoyang with all its might, Liaoyang City can be desperately preserved, but I am afraid that it will also suffer heavy losses and the city will be destroyed.
It's just that now that the enemy army has come to the door, it is impossible not to fight to the death.
"Pass on the king's order, the whole army is ready to defend the city with all its might, and there must be no slackness! If there is a slack person, regardless of the young and strong soldiers, they will not be spared! Zilharang commanded sharply.
"Huh!"
The Tang army marched quickly, and in less than half an hour, the entire Liaoyang City was tightly surrounded.
Looking from the sky, the huge Liaoyang City has been surrounded by the Tang Army, like a dead leaf floating on the sea.
Just when the Qing army at the head of Liaoyang City began to prepare nervously, several cavalry of the Tang Army rushed towards the head of Liaoyang City.
"Prince Zheng, you see, they have something in their hands, as if they are hanging a person."
The guard next to him, pointing at the Tang cavalry who was rushing from afar, his voice trembled, and his face was shocked.
When Zilharang heard this, he immediately raised the clairvoyant mirror to look, and he saw at a glance that the Tang cavalry at the forefront was holding a wooden pole in his hand, and a human fur sac fluttering in the wind was hung on the wooden pole, and a large wooden plaque was nailed next to the wooden pole.
When he saw the contents of the wooden pole clearly, Zilharang's face instantly turned pale.
Oh my God, what hangs on it is the corpse of Gongshun Wang Kong Youde!
From this point of view, what the remnants of the Confucian army who fled to Liaoyang City said was true, the king of Sanshun, Shang Kexi rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and the other Huaishun king Geng Zhongming died in battle, and Kong Youde was captured alive by the Tang army after fainting, which is true!
It's a pity that the Tang army was so cruel, and the obedient king of the Qing Dynasty was skinned and executed in such a cruel way, and then stuffed with weeds and transported to Liaoyang City to demonstrate to himself.
For a while, Zilharang felt quite sad to avoid death, standing at the head of the city, he was dizzy for a while, and almost planted himself in the city, but fortunately the soldiers next to him supported him in time.
Soon, as the cavalry of the Tang army approached and circled the city, the defenders at the head of the city saw clearly the terrifying human fur sac of Kong Youde, the king of Gongshun, and everyone's face was full of horror. There are also many timid people, standing at the head of the city, and they are uneasy.
As if he had seen the appearance of the Qing army at the head of the city, the cavalry of the Tang Army, who was running around the city, shouted proudly: "Wait a minute!" Your obedient king Kong Youde, because of his stubborn resistance to the end and refusal to surrender, has been skinned alive by our army and refilled with grass to fill his corpse. Now it is specially sent to the city of Liaoyang, so that you Tartars who don't know life and death can take a look, this is the end of a forced confrontation with our army! The cavalry of the Tang Army ran around the city with human skin sacs, and kept shouting loudly, which made the faces of the troops at the head of the city look like dirt and their morale was greatly reduced.
Unexpectedly, Tang Jun was so ruthless, skinned and tortured Kong Youde, and now he came to Liaoyang City to show off, this is simply a great humiliation!
In particular, the main general, Zilharang, gritted his teeth even more, and his face was red with shame.
Damn, it's so insulting!
It's just that the Tang army is so powerful and morale is like a rainbow, and the defenders in the city are only less than half of the number of soldiers and horses of the Tang army, how dare they go out of the city to face it.
Therefore, at the moment, no matter how uncomfortable Zilharang's heart is, he can only grit his teeth and hold on.
What Jile Harang didn't expect was that after the Tang cavalry circled Liaoyang twice, they threw the wooden pole with Kong Youde's corpse hanging outside the south gate, and then whistled and ran away without a trace.
Seeing that the cavalry of the Tang Army had lost Kong Youde's body bag and left, Jierharang was stunned for a moment, and immediately shouted loudly: "Quick, quickly send someone down and take off Kong Youde's skin!" ”
When several white-toothed soldiers heard this order, they immediately roped down from the city, hurriedly tied up the human fur sacs, and carefully hung them up to the city together with the wooden plaques next to them.
Zilharang walked briskly, and carefully examined the human fur sac, which had dried up and had a foul smell due to the exposure to the sun for several days, and then carefully read the words on the big wooden sign word by word.
His lips trembled, the muscles on his thin face trembled, and tears began to glisten in his eyes.
"Tang Jun is such a bastard, he is so ruthless, he dares to peel the skin and pull the grass of my Qing Dynasty, it is simply inhumane, it is simply mad!" Zilharang muttered in his mouth, but his face became more and more distorted with resentment.
"Tang Jun! Li Xiao! If I don't kill you, I won't be a man! ”
Zilharan put down the wooden sign and threw it to the ground, gritting his teeth and spitting out the words word by word.
At this moment, a howling and crying sound came from behind him.
Zierharang turned his head to look, but saw that it was Kong Youde's own daughter Kong Siniang, staggering from behind him.
It turned out that Kong Siniang had always been taken as a hostage and lived in Shengjing City, which could be regarded as a selfish precaution by the Qing court against Kong Youde. After hearing that General Kong Youde led all the soldiers and horses to return to Liaoyang, she could no longer hold back her longing, and immediately proposed to the imperial court that she wanted to go to Liaoyang City to see her father.
Because Liaoyang and Shengjing were quite close, Dolgon agreed to her request after a little consideration, so Kong Siniang went south with the soldiers and horses who came to aid Liaoyang and came to Liaoyang City.
But she didn't expect that she, who was eager to see her father, was here, and saw her father's human skin and corpse, which was simply the most terrifying news in the world.
Kong Siniang, who heard the news, almost fainted, and finally woke up, but when she heard that the Tang army had left Kong Youde's corpse skin and was hung up to the city by the Qing army, she couldn't bear it anymore, and hurriedly ran onto the horse road and came to watch.
About five steps away from the fur sac of Kong Youde placed on the ground, Kong Siniang knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to the fur sac.
"Daddy! Daughter Kong Siniang is one step late, I can't save you in time, I hate it so much, I hate it so much! Kong Siniang beat her chest and cried.
The surrounding Qing soldiers saw her crying heartbroken, and everyone couldn't bear it, and their faces were sad, and their morale became more and more low.
Kong Siniang cried for a while before she finally stopped crying, she slowly raised her head, and her face was already hideous.
With a swipe on the ground, Kong Siniang took out a detoxification knife, wiped it on her forehead, and the blood that diffused immediately dyed her forehead into a blood-red color.
Kong Siniang wiped a handful of blood with her hand, crawled forward, and smeared the blood on Adali's human fur sac.
"Dad, I, Kong Siniang, although I am a woman, I also make a blood oath to the sky here, not to kill Li Xiao, I swear not to be a person! I will definitely use the dog head of Li Na to pay tribute to your loyal and brave soul! ”
Kong Siniang gritted her teeth and finished speaking, grabbed her head and fell to the ground, crying again.
A thin black hand gently patted Kong Siniang's shoulder.
Kong Siniang looked up and happened to meet Zilharang's concerned and pitying gaze.
"Prince Zheng......" Kong Siniang choked up and couldn't speak.
"Kong Siniang, cry if you want to, be obedient to the king Kong Youde has a spirit in the sky, and you will be very pleased to know that you have the intention of avenging him." Jierharang gently stroked Kong Siniang's scalp and comforted him softly. "Siniang, don't worry, my whole city will definitely work hard to repel the attack of the Tang army, and will definitely use their corpses and blood to comfort your father's soul in the sky."
When Kong Siniang heard this, she couldn't help it anymore, hugged Ji'erharang's thigh, and howled loudly, the blood on her forehead even dyed Ji'erharang's fine iron knee pads bright red. Seeing him so sad, Zilharan and the guards were not moved.
Zilharang then ordered to send people to put this person's fur sac and burial center, temporarily stored in a cool place in the city, and prepared to be escorted back to Shengjing by his daughter Kong Siniang after the Tang army retreated, and buried ceremoniously.
It's just that at this time, although Zilharang is strong on the surface, in his heart, he is already excited and angry.
Because, since he came to Liaoyang to serve as the lord of the city, he has seen that in the Liaozhong region, where the original products were prosperous and populated, the villages and towns everywhere have become a black and scorched ruins, and the people have been taken away by the Tang army, and there is no half of a person, and even the crops and acres have been completely destroyed.
Along the way, the entire Liaozhong region is like a desolate land where the world has just opened, with hazel and hazel recklessness and no traces. It is hard to imagine that these places were once the most prosperous places in the Qing Dynasty.
Zierharang can already imagine that this is the case in Liaozhong, and the Yingkou and other places occupied by the Tang army earlier are estimated to be worse than Fuzhou.
We must teach Li Xiao a heavy lesson, and we can't let Tang Jun be so rampant and presumptuous.
We must hold Liaoyang, and under this Liaoyang city, we must give Li Xiao's Tang army a heavy and fierce blow!
If not, the Tang army will continue to ride on the head of the Qing Dynasty to and pee, if this important town of Liaoyang, that is, the Tokyo City of the Qing Dynasty, is captured, the face of the Qing Dynasty will be lost!
Moreover, if Liaoyang is lost, Shengjing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, will no longer have a barrier to defend, and it will also fall into the heavy encirclement of the Tang army.
Such a scene, don't say you see it yourself, even if you think about it, it's a nightmare.
"Pass on the king's order, and the whole army will be tightly defended to prevent the Tang army from suddenly attacking the city! The arrogance of the Tang Army must be completely dispelled under Liaoyang City! Zilharang gritted his teeth again and gave a military order fiercely.
"Huh!"
At this moment, in the formation of the Tang army, a line suddenly split like a wave cracking, and a Tang army general wearing an eight-petal tasseled helmet, steel mountain pattern armor, copper boots, and a bright red cloak was riding his horse towards the south gate of Liaoyang under the protection of a group of guards with the same armor.
Seeing the person dressed like this, Zilharang secretly said in his heart, in the eyes of this person, there is no doubt that this person must be the chief general of the Tang Army.
He guessed correctly, the general of the Tang Army was the monk of Chang'an, the second town of the commander of the Tang Army. Now, surrounded by a group of guards, he will soon be a stone's throw away from the south gate.
At this time, one of the guards next to him pulled his neck and shouted to the city, "Hey! Listen, people in the city! My lord will be a monk, and if you want to talk to the lord of the city, please go to Tongyu quickly! ”
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