Chapter 28: Inside and Out of the City (Second Update, Asking for Support)
Because the artillery of the Ming army outside the city did not fire for a night, the city of Shenyang was relatively quiet in the early morning, and the soldiers and civilians in the city could also seize this free time to eat a hot meal. After all, no one knows when the Ming army will continue to fire shells into the city. And no one knows whether the shells will fall on their heads.
"In my life, I always earn one more day of life!"
Again, Nalan Xingde thought of the words that the fifth master often said when he was alive, the fifth master was an old man who entered the customs from the dragon, and he was an errand boy for the emperor since he beat Emperor Taizu. Decades of wind and rain, what kind of wind and waves have you not seen?
But even so, his old man had never seen such a formation. Even when the cannonballs rained down on the city, they didn't know what was going to happen. The eyes were fixed on the sparkling cannonballs of the hat, and then there was a "boom", and there were no people.
He didn't live even a day, and on the first day the shells fell, his old man left.
Although Nalan Xingde was not very old, he also saw that there were more people who died on the first day, and later the big guy knew that he hid in the cellar. In this way, there is no longer any fear of the artillery of the Ming army.
It's in the cellar, it's too dark.
"Xingde, hurry up and eat!"
Listening to Eniang's shout, Nalan Xingde got up and ran towards the yard, although the house collapsed, but the family set up a stove in the yard, so that they could eat a few bites of hot rice, but these days the big guys eat by luck, after all, no one knows, when will this cannonball fall? Sometimes the cannonballs fall while eating.
When he went to eat, Nalan Xingde's eyes looked farther away, and he saw that the sun had jumped out of the city wall, and the sky was dyed red by the morning glow, but the sky above Shengjing City was still surrounded by misty gray mist, and the fireworks that rose from somewhere rose in a curling way, making the gray fog in the air a little thicker......
The subordinates on the side saw that the young master was in a daze there, so they could speak on the side.
"Eat quickly, young master, don't ...... later"
Before the next person could finish speaking, there was a dull whistling sound in the air piercing the sky.
"Quick, master, hide in the cellar......"
For the past few days, these people who would only stand there in a daze when they heard the sound now know what is coming as soon as they hear this sound, it is a cannon!
Before the cannon fell, people were already running around like frightened rabbits among the broken walls, and those who fell to the ground were trampled on by other people before they could get up, and the cries for help came and went.
Everyone was running for their lives in terror, and when Nalan Xingde was dragged by Eniang's hand and ran towards the cellar, he still looked to the left and right, and he wanted to remember it all.
On the first day before the Ming army opened fire in the city, a shell fell not far from his home, killing the family and injuring several others. When he crawled out from under the big bed left by his grandfather after the shelling stopped, he found that the window of the hall had been cracked, and one pane had been shattered, and later he found a piece of shrapnel scattered on the wall of the house, and half of the iron piece with a large hand had been smashed into the wall, and if it had hit a man, he would have killed him.
Since five days ago, the artillery shells of the Ming army have been raining non-stop, blowing countless homes into broken walls, blasting countless people into the western sky, and countless babies who are waiting to be fed have either been killed or orphaned, and most of their mothers have fallen in pools of blood......
"Mother, why don't those Han people care about the lives of the people in the city, don't they know that there are so many people in the city?"
Sitting on the box, Nalan Xingde looked at Eniang with some puzzlement, he couldn't imagine why those people fought so hard. Completely disregarding their lives and deaths.
"Nalan, they're Han!"
The woman watched her son say something he might never understand.
Just as she was speaking, suddenly, with a heavy thud, it was as if a heavy object had fallen on top of her head, so that the top of the cellar was smashed with a lot of dust. The faces of the people hiding in the cellar changed.
"Eniang, what's wrong?"
Nalan was a little nervous and ran to Eniang's arms to find some safe comfort, when suddenly there was a loud bang, and the cellar roof collapsed violently......
Today's artillery fire seems to be a little more intense than usual. The cannonballs rained down on the city one by one, but it was only a moment's work, and the city was filled with gunsmoke. And in the smoke of gunfire, I don't know how many people were killed by shells.
Before he could even shout to the people nearby, "Get down ......," he was thrown into the air, and when he was thrown into the air, he only felt like a leaf scorched by fire, and after being scorched, he was swept up by a gust of wind, and he floated back and forth in the air a few times, and then slowly fell into darkness.
I don't know how long later, when Narinha woke up, he only felt a wave of dizziness. No, he didn't even feel anything, he didn't feel anything, he felt as if he was dead, he couldn't feel anything anymore, he just felt a darkness, which reminded him of the moment when the blind bear pounced, just like now, there was no feeling, only the darkness of a black hole.
Am I dead......
"Help, help me......"
Then he heard a faint voice calling there, it sounded familiar, was it his? He only felt that the sound was drowned out by the deafening explosion just as it was made, and it seemed that everything was gone.
"Adult ......"
Suddenly, another voice shouted at him anxiously.
"My lord, I'm going to the medical officer, you must hold on to ......"
In the darkness of the black hole, he heard a voice, and then he felt himself begin to float upwards, and at the same time felt a wave of fatigue, a wave of sleepiness......
"Medic? Why did you go to the hospital?"
"My lord, you've been injured......
A voice was panting and saying, who is it? It also sounds familiar.
Who is it?
He struggled to figure out who it was. There was a sudden boom, and as the explosion sounded again, consciousness reunited with the separated body. The senses and perception are back. A sharp, burning headache struck immediately...... He only felt extremely difficult to breathe...... The jolt on the stretcher made him feel sick, and when he finally opened one eye, he could see a small patch of sky, cloudy and hazy, with puffs of black smoke drifting by from time to time. I stumbled upon a glimpse of bare tree branches, and the burning roof......
Frightened commotion all around, dull explosions......
When he heard that Narinha was still alive, his own very ugly face that day would have looked a little better, and that Rinha was his son, the future heir of the Sauron tribe, and he almost lost his life in the shelling just now. His son survived, but what about the others? They didn't even see what the Ming army looked like, and they died in this city. died under the fire of the Ming army, and looked at those Ming troops who seemed to really want to raze this Shengjing City to the ground. If we continue to fight like this. It's not that hard.
"Lord Zuoling, if we continue like this, our Sauron Department will be completely finished!"
Babuqi, who was covered with gunpowder, looked at Na Lingha and saw that he was a little hesitant, so he whispered.
"Lord Zuoling, Nabahai recruited us over, but he ran away by himself, and became the emperor from Nurhachi, when did he treat our Sauron Department as an extraordinary? Only when they use us, will they say that "the inner and outer Jurchens are of the same origin", but in their eyes, we are the Jurchens, but we are the border wild people who are "brave and not afraid of death, and one person can kill the tiger". Otherwise, why can they go to the Central Plains to enjoy happiness, but ignore us......"
Babu Liu's words made Na Lingha's whole person fall into silence, of course he knew that for the court of the Great Qing Kingdom, they were different from the banner people. Isn't the reason why he is willing to work for the Qing Dynasty is to earn the identity of a banner man?
But now? Look at the current situation, even the Qing Dynasty has reached the point of precariousness, even if it is mixed with the identity of a banner person, what about it? In the end, he may die under the fire of the Ming army.
He looked at Sheng Jing who was caught in the artillery fire, and looked at Ding Zhuang who was surrounded by gunsmoke, the two thousand Ding Zhuang he brought this time were all the strongest men in the Sauron Department, if they lost their lives here, then in the future, anyone could bully the Sauron Department.
"Lord Zuoling, it seems that the Great Qing Kingdom is not going to work, maybe, their emperor, this will have already been cut off by the Ming army, I think, let's make plans as soon as possible......"
Everyone's words and my words, so that the whole person of Na Lin Ha fell into contemplation, although he is the leader of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but it is just a false position, just like logically speaking, he is still the Ming Dynasty's Tuguan Qianhu, of course, that was a few generations ago, since more than a hundred years ago, the Ming Dynasty has not been a Sauron official.
"Plan ahead......
Looking out of the city, Na Lingha fell into deep thought, he hesitated for a moment, and then stared at the outside of the city and said.
"Well, if that's the case......"
There are many times when things develop unexpectedly, and when Yu Shujie received the news from the city, he even said with some astonishment.
"Do you know what this person is, and what the commander of the Jianhe Guard is?"
The question of command made those staff officers stunned, they really didn't know very well, but Fang Yizhi said on the side.
"If I'm not mistaken, it should be that during the Yongle period, I set up a guard post in the territory of Solin in the Ming Dynasty, and at that time set up a guard post such as Bu Lahan Wei, Jian He Wei, Mu He Wei, Wuli Xishan Wei, Guli River Wei, etc., and appointed the leaders of the various departments of Sauron as the commander, commander and commander of these guard posts. But almost, during the Wanli period, we basically no longer canonize the local officials, and then Nurhachi rebelled, this Nuergan Dusi Zhuwei was either destroyed by it, or surrendered, naturally lost contact with my Ming Dynasty, and now this Na Lin Ha re-promoted the old post, it must be to regain the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, after all, now the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not seen the trend of yesterday, these local officials are often just grass on the wall, today I am strong in the Ming Dynasty, they are naturally willing to surrender me! ”
For the understanding of the Northeast, Fang Yizhi is more because of the history books, and it is precisely because of this that he hopes to be able to enter the city as soon as possible, and then recruit some available people, whether they are banner people or Han people, he needs some people who really understand the Northeast and understand the local people of the Northeast to help him turn the Northeast into a province that interferes with the Central Plains.
"Hmph, it's a group of wallgrass that sees the wind and rudders!"
With a snort, Zhang Xiaowu said to Shujie.
"Command, let them dedicate the city first, and wait until they dedicate the city......"
Just when Zhang Xiaowu wanted to say that he would settle the account after the city was dedicated, he only heard Fang Yizhi retort on the side.
"Yu Command, this matter must not be, at present, the Eight Banners of the Northeast Manchu Qing Dynasty are only more than 10,000 Ding Zhuang, but there are 100,000 Jurchen households, if we can take the opportunity to collect and surrender the Jurchen tribes, not only can they not suffer from the Northeast in the short term, but when the Northeast immigrants are full, it is not too late to make plans!"
Afraid that Yu Shujie would object, seeing that he did not immediately express his position, Fang Yizhi added.
"Commander Yu, this is also what the king meant."
"Mr. Fang misunderstood!"
Yu Shujie said with a smile.
"What I'm thinking about now is not how to kill them, but how to use them, Na Ba Hai is recruiting Jurchens everywhere, if you can't solve Ba Hai, it will definitely be in the northeast, and now this Na Lin Ha is sent to the door, but I have an idea......
Looking at Zhang Xiaowu and the others, Yu Shujie said with a smile.
"Since he Bahai can use those "powerful tiger" daughters as soldiers, why can't we use them? Raze to raze! If he wants to surrender, then give them a chance, but this opportunity depends on them to fight for it! And ......"
With a twist of his head, Yu Shujie said again.
"Immediately send someone to inform the king that Shengjing has been restored, and the homeland of Liaodong has been restored!"
"Commander, will it be a little early, it is better to wait until tomorrow, and then report after Kecheng."
Although Sheng Jing has not recovered yet, Yu Shujie seems extremely confident, and when he is reminded of him, he just laughs.
"Brother Zhang, do you think it is possible for that Lin Ha to surrender now? Maybe he's more anxious than us, this is the last ship, if you can't board this ship, when the time comes, it's not just as simple as losing your life! Let's send this news to Shanhaiguan as soon as possible, so that the king can rest assured as soon as possible! ”