The way the Datang Army attacked the city has basically formed a routine in the past few years, and the superintendent on the opposite side also knows that the Datang Army will play like this, and has always tried every means to carry out targeted defense.

But a few years have passed since the Tang Army, and it still plays like this!

Why, because even if the Ming army knew that the Tang Army was attacking the city like this, they didn't have any way!

Shelling, digging communication trenches, tunnels, blasting, assault battalions, after this whole process, the current Ming army is basically without the power to resist.

The same is true for the attack on Jingzhou City now, the Second Infantry Division, with absolute artillery superiority, filled the moat and dug tunnels for blasting.

With the launch of the attack on the second day, when two huge noises came from Jingzhou City, it was announced that the Second Infantry Division had launched a general attack on Jingzhou City!

The assault troops of the 2nd Infantry Division launched an assault from the two sections of the blown up city wall, and although the Ming army resisted desperately, it was still unable to stop the advance of the 2nd Infantry Division!

In the afternoon of the same day, the troops of the Second Infantry Division had successfully captured most of the city walls, and the defenders in Jingzhou City did not have a second city wall for them to retreat and continue to defend to the death.

The defenders in the city at the beginning of the city wall was broken through, or the last stubborn resistance, they struggled hard, kicked their feet, twisted their bodies, and danced their hands, but under the fierce offensive of the Tang Army, all resistance was in vain, and in the end, after they exhausted their last strength, they could only lie down and let the Tang Army enter and exit!

In the evening, the 4th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division, which took the lead in entering the city, successfully captured the headquarters of the avant-garde of the left army of the superintendent in the city, and incidentally conquered the buildings of the prefect's yamen and other important institutions in the city.

However, due to the chaos, the Tang Army was unable to stop the Ming army in the city from burning down many warehouses, and the fire began to spread to many other buildings in the city.

When night came, there were fires in many places in the entire Jingzhou City, and thick smoke shrouded the entire city, and the Second Infantry Division after entering the city continued to block the main roads in the city on the one hand, clearing out the chaotic soldiers in the city, and on the other hand, began to organize the young and strong people and prisoners of war in the city to extinguish the fire.

They didn't want Jingzhou City, which they had fought so hard to fight, end up in ruins.

Speaking of which, this is also a defect of many cities in China at present, that is, the resistance to fire is too poor!

Because of the architectural tradition, the buildings in China are all brick and wood structures, and buildings that use a lot of wood are easy to catch fire, and if the buildings of the streets are connected together, a private house catches fire, and it is very likely that the entire street will be burned.

In order to reduce fires, the Datang Patrol Police Department is not allowed to set up a special fire extinguishing agency, basically every local patrol police station will set up a fire fighting agency, specializing in fire extinguishing, but even so, it is difficult to completely eliminate the hidden danger of large-scale fires.

Naturally, there was no fire department in Jingzhou, which had just been defeated, and the Second Infantry Division could only organize the young men and prisoners of war in the city to extinguish the fire.

As for the officers and men of the 2nd Infantry Division, they don't have the spare time to put out the fires themselves, and they still need to hunt down the defeated soldiers scattered all over the city.

In the process of attacking the city, they did not kill or wound too many Ming soldiers, because after breaking through the city wall, the Ming army itself was defeated, and countless Ming soldiers took off their uniforms, and then became civilians and hid, trying to get by.

However, the Tang Army has long been familiar with the matter of searching for and arresting the rout, and directly blocked the whole city, and then began to gather the people in the city.

Among them, all outsiders and those who have no local accent are the key objects of suspicion, and those who resist are directly killed!

Unless it is a relative who identifies and comes to collect someone, otherwise, it will basically be gathered on the spot.

If you want to ask if it will be difficult to operate like this, in fact, it is not difficult at all, because there are generally not many residents in the city in these years, and there are only a few thousand people in the ordinary county seat, and there are only tens of thousands of people in the capital city, unless it is a big city like Jinling City, otherwise, the permanent population in a large city is rarely more than 100,000.

The permanent population of Jingzhou City is only tens of thousands, but the garrison army is tens of thousands.

When searching for a defeated soldier, if there is a young man, not to mention the percentage, but at least half of the chance, this young man may be a rout!

However, fortunately, the reputation of the Tang Army for treating prisoners well has already spread throughout China, and it basically will not kill prisoners of war, so many of those captured prisoners of war did not resist.

If you are caught, you will only be a coolie for a few years at most, but your life will generally be saved.

What's more, when the Tang Army treated the prisoners of war of the Ming Army, it was also treated differently, needless to say, the middle and senior generals, the killing of those who should be killed, the imprisonment of those who should be imprisoned, and the exile of exile, well, most of them will be imprisoned, and a very small number of diehards will be sentenced to death as a typical example.

If a junior officer is a junior officer, he is usually imprisoned for a period of time, and if he is willing to join the army, and if he has passed the test in all aspects, he can also arrange various crash courses, and then continue to serve in the army after being assigned.

Ordinary guards and young people will basically be directly incorporated into various reclamation regiments, and they will go to reclaim barren land for a few years, or build official roads and various water conservancy facilities, and generally speaking, they will be sent home after two or three years, and when they encounter amnesty, they can be even earlier.

Some technical arms, such as cavalry, artillery, sword and shield soldiers, etc., usually try their best to persuade them to continue to serve in the army, these technical arms are difficult to cultivate, and the Datang Army is also relatively lacking in these technical arms, if they are willing to continue to serve in the army, after ideological education and simple training, they will be assigned to serve in various units.

As for ordinary infantrymen, those who have also been selected, are willing to join the army, and have passed the quality test, then they are directly thrown into the recruit training camp for training, and after passing the training, they are assigned to various units, which is basically treated as ordinary recruits.

Those whose quality is not up to par, or who are unwilling to continue to serve in the army, will be assigned to the cantonment regiment.

Generally speaking, there are still a small number of low-level officers and ordinary soldiers of the Ming Army New Army who have passed the quality test and are willing to take the initiative to join the Datang Army, which is not to say that they are unwilling to join the Datang Army, but because their quality is generally not up to the mark.

The Datang Army's requirements for the quality of soldiers in all aspects are getting higher and higher, especially in terms of physical requirements, whether it is height or weight, there are clear regulations.

The latest, in the recruitment regulations of Xuanping's six years, clear and strict requirements have been given for the recruitment of recruits of all branches of the military!

The minimum recruitment requirements for ordinary soldiers are: height must not be less than 1.55 meters, be able to lift 100 pounds of heavy objects, march 10 kilometers lightly within an hour, age 18 to 25 years old, strong, healthy, and free from any diseases.

Then it is very important to stipulate that you must be a good family and not have any bad discipline.

Theoretically, anyone who does not have any criminal record can do so, but in fact, when recruiting, basically all children from rural areas are recruited, and children from citizens are not allowed.

And the above is just the most basic requirements, and when it comes to all branches of the military, there are still higher clear requirements, such as artillery, which requires a height of more than 1.6 meters and strong physical fitness.

And the grenadiers are required to be more than 1.7 meters tall!

These are only the conditions for the Tang Army to recruit new recruits by itself, if it is recruited from prisoners of war, then it is still floating on this condition, and it is not a relatively good prisoner of war, so it is basically not wanted.

Therefore, the vast majority of prisoners of war, they ended up in the cantonment regiment, whether they wanted to or not!

Of course, there are a very small number of diehards, such as those who stubbornly resisted to the end, and finally were forced to surrender these Ming soldiers, the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi expressed his admiration for your courage to resist, so we will also give you the treatment of courage that can be foiled, and will not be sent to the cantonment regiments, because the Ming prisoners of war in the cantonment regiments are a group of soft bones, and put these brave Ming soldiers and prisoners of war with them, which is an insult to these warriors!

Therefore, the Datang Army will organize them into various prisoner of war camps, and then send them to various mining areas under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to mine, and dig until they die!

In this way, they can be worthy of their courage!

Of course, the above treatment does not include the rebel troops and the rebel generals!

For the Ming army that rebelled and surrendered, the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi has always maintained preferential treatment, and those who are willing to continue to serve in the army after training after selection, and the officers will also be given considerable rank treatment.

For those who are unwilling to continue in the army, the soldiers are sent home with travel expenses, and the officers can also be arranged for civilian duties.

In short, the treatment is quite generous!

Many of the Ming prisoners of war in Jingzhou City belonged to ordinary prisoners of war, and they were neither diehards who resisted resolutely, nor were they Ming soldiers who rebelled and surrendered, so they were disposed of according to ordinary prisoners of war.

The Second Infantry Division captured Jingzhou, and at this time, Fei Qinxiang personally led reinforcements, but they had not yet arrived in Jingzhou!

There was no way, they got the news a little late, and when they reported that they came over with reinforcements, they had to delay a lot of time on the way, and finally when Fei Qinxiang arrived twenty miles away from Jingzhou City with the 6,000 troops after the convergence, he found that Jingzhou City had already changed owners.

Now it is a difficult choice for Fei Qinxiang: should he counterattack Jingzhou, return to Anlu Prefecture, or enter Sichuan in the west?