"Chapter 4: The Surrender of the Two Whites"
The weak will never be tolerant, and tolerance is a trait of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)
When Kerde, Kochili, Kardasu, and Murcha went to the three surrender camps to select additional cavalry, they all selected the elite cavalry that had surrendered to each banner; in other words, the twenty most elite cavalry of the New Eight Banners, Niu Lu 6,000 cavalry, had been brought under their command.
In the evening, after Elder and the others took their old friends and deceased to swear allegiance to Bai Feng, these people changed from the original captives to the future leaders and assistants of the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon;
The fifty-nine Niu Lu and 17,700 cavalry, the most elite of the 100,000 New Eight Banners Army, had been taken over by Bai Feng, and even their garrisons had been transferred to a brand new barracks, instead of being a prisoner camp; however, the time was still not ripe for the formation of the Tianlong Eight Banners.
Before starting to form the Eight Banners of the Heavenly Dragon, the first thing Bai Feng had to do was to solve the problem of the two white flags, and at this moment, the positive white flag of Solgo and the white flag of Subahai were still stubbornly resisting in the county town of Belfort and the county town of Pomer Les Dams.
The simplest and most brutal way to completely solve the two white flags that were stubbornly resisting was for Bai Feng to directly order Quintus and Ranocchia to lead the army to attack the city, and it was obvious that this method would not do the slightest benefit except for causing considerable losses to Bai Feng's army.
Especially under the premise that the other six banners of the New Eight Banners all surrendered, the two white flags, which were the weakest in combat and were heavily encircled, had almost no motivation to hold on; Bai Feng believed that as long as he led Dolgon and other surrender banner owners to persuade him to surrender, Solgo and Subahai would definitely surrender.
After handing over the defense of Langxiang County and the guard of more than 80,000 troops of the New Eight Banners to the Yulin Legion and the Agni Legion, Bai Feng took their personal guards and cavalry units directly under him, as well as Jurchen Baylor such as Dolgon, and went straight to the nearby Belfort County City.
The so-called cavalry troops directly under him were not Donald's cavalry corps, but the cavalry of the Eight Banners under the command of Frost and others, and more than 17,000 cavalrymen wearing six banners of cotton armor gathered together, which looked quite imposing, which made Bai Feng very satisfied.
Although Bai Feng himself was not a member of the Appearance Association, and he did not believe in how strong an army equipped with bells and whistles could be, he had to admit that the cotton armor unique to the Jurchens was indeed a practical and beautiful piece of armor.
On the premise that the combat effectiveness remains unchanged, Bai Feng, who has a little obsessive-compulsive disorder and has a good aesthetic appearance, still prefers to let the army under his command show a little majesty; from this point of view, the cotton armor of the Eight Banners Cavalry is in line with Bai Feng's two requirements.
With the elite cavalry of Protest and others opening the way, the march from Longchamps to Belfort was still very fast, and in just a few days, Bai Feng came to the outskirts of Belfort County.
After the army of Quintus and the army of Bai Feng were combined, the total strength of the Celestial Dragon army besieging Belfort County directly exceeded 100,000, and the 17,000 cavalry with the white flag and 5,000 infantry with the white flag in the city were impossible to hold the city of Belfort.
On the morning of the second day after the heavy siege of Belfort County, Bai Feng first sent his 100,000 troops under his command to attack the Zhengbai Banner trapped in the county seat, and then asked Dolgon and Urgudai to come forward and persuade Solgo to surrender.
Murhaqi, who used to have the deepest personal relationship with Solgo, has been 'killed in battle', and Urgudai, who was previously allied with Solgo, is undoubtedly the most suitable person to persuade him to surrender; as for Dolgon, his appearance is only to prove the destruction of the six banners of two yellows, two reds, and two blues.
A war that must be lost may not be impossible to fight, but a warrior that an ally hopes for will not be able to hold on, and when Solgo is sure that the other six banners are a fact, as long as he does not want to go to destruction with his white flag, he will make the right choice.
Sure enough, Dolgon and Urgudet's entry into the city was not stopped by the soldiers of the White Banner defenders, which in itself speaks to Solgo's attitude, and about ten minutes later, Solgo, who had made a decision, ordered his men to open the gates and surrender to Baifeng.
Seventeen thousand White Banner cavalry and five thousand White Banner infantry, along with Solgo himself, were taken prisoner by White Peak, and in a hurry, White Peak left only Cavani and Moya's 56th Army in Belfort County, while the rest of the army marched west with him.
There are still 15,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry in the white flag of Subahai, which defended the county town of Pomerleidams, and the overall strength is no weaker than that of the white flag of Solgo, and even the walls of the county town of Pomerian are taller and stronger than those of Belfort.
It's just that, in the face of absolute strength, the tall and strong city walls cannot play a decisive role at all, and if the white flag of Suba Hai refuses to surrender, then the only way waiting for them is to perish, which is the cruelty of fate.
Just like when the Eight Banners of Jianzhou had just occupied Langxiang Province, the cavalry of the Eight Banners at that time slaughtered how many innocent Tianlong people and how many Tianlong noble families were bloodied; the cruelty of fate always turns around, and no one can escape the bitter time.
The march of more than 100,000 troops was much slower than when he reached Belfort, and after half a month had passed, Bai Feng saw the outline of the county town of Pomerian Dams, which also meant that the curtain of this war was finally falling.
After Bai Feng led his army to join up with Ranocchia's army, the number of Celestial Dragons besieging the city of Pomereledamus exceeded 200,000, which was ten times more than the white-flaged defenders in the city, not counting the weakness of the white-flaged cavalry who were not good at defending the city.
In fact, when Dorgon, Urgudet, and Solgo appeared near the gates on horseback, Subahai, who knew everything, had already given up his resistance, so much so that before Dolgon had even entered the city, he ordered the gates to be opened.
After the more than 30,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry of the two white flags were taken prisoner, Bai Feng did not make much trouble for the more than 30,000 cavalry of the two white flags, but the 10,000 infantry, thousands of them, were directly hanged by Bai Feng because their sins were too serious.
Not all the infantry of the New Eight Banners are qualified to be incorporated into the Death Battalion, for those infantry whose hands are stained with the blood of the people of Tianlong, Bai Feng will only kill them without mercy;
Bai Feng could accept the helpless killing of the New Eight Banner infantry on the battlefield, but he could not tolerate their cruelty to ordinary people; could it be that Bai Feng could still trust those traitorous scum who could raise butcher knives against their unarmed compatriots and villagers?
More than 1,300 traitors who had killed innocent people for no reason were all executed in public by Bai Feng's orders, and the remaining frightened infantry would be incorporated into the death battalions of Lister and Fury in the future to atone for their mistakes in the next war.