Chapter 742: Misunderstanding
If the Qing army did not want to be trapped and starved to death, defending the defense line and competing for time to harvest wheat was the most important thing.
With the experience that the Seoul defense line could not withstand even half a day, and how sharply and widely publicized the artillery fire of the "Red Banner Army" by many Qing troops who fled back, the Han army and the Goryeo soldiers probably would not have the fighting spirit.
There are also Jiang Xin, Lu Yuanhua, Xie Hu, Dou Kuai, etc., and Infernal Affairs hyped the fact that Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun, turned against and led the Han army and the Goryeo soldiers to kill all the 4,000 Manchu and Mongolian cavalry below Arjin.
If the defenders of the Pyongyang defense line do not need to fight, I am afraid that they will become a plate of scattered sand, and it is really difficult to say whether it is also like the Seoul defense line.
Duoduo is also a person, killing Han people is like slaughtering pigs and dogs, and treating Han officials as leper dogs, which can be seen from the fact that he once snatched Fan Wencheng's concubine and played for a few days before returning it.
Huaishun King Geng Zhongming was able to kill the Eight Banners general Arzin Xian Seoul to surrender to the "Red Banner Army", didn't King Gongshun have the possibility of killing Duoduo and offering Pyongyang to surrender to the "Red Banner Army"?
Feeling that he is in danger, will Duoduo preemptively take down Kong Youde?
There is a world of difference between the quality of the soldiers stationed in Pyongyang and the men and horses who assisted in the defense of Seoul.
Because it was Duoduo, the banner owner, who personally led 3,000 men and horses with white flags, these 3,000 people were of course the elite of the white flags.
The 7,000 Mongol cavalry was also different, not all of them were composed of Mongol soldiers from other domains, but there were 3,000 Korqin cavalry led by Manzhu Xili.
After Jiang Xin and the other five or six hundred people fled back to the Pyongyang defense line, they were basically not troubled by anyone, because there were too many Goryeo and Han Chinese who fled back from the Seoul defense line during this time.
Kong Youde met with Jiang Xin and asked what happened to the fall in Hancheng, and Zhang Hongmo, Yang Huazheng, Duan Xueli, and others knew that their old friends had fled back to find out.
Jiang Xin is also the kind of general who can only fight a war, but is very good at other aspects, he knows the essentials of lying, all the details must tell the truth, and only lie at the key point.
He honestly told Kong Youde that he was blinded by the artillery fire of the "Red Banner Army" when he was guarding the trenches south of Seoul, and he had no chance to retreat from the command of Seoul and dispersed directly.
Regarding the defection of King Huaishun, I still heard from a few Han soldiers who ran out of Seoul on the way to Pyongyang.
In order to make the Jiannu and Tartars separate from the Han army and the Goryeo soldiers, and develop from mutual distrust to mutual vigilance, the "Red Banner Army" has widely publicized Geng Zhongming's defection during this time.
At the same time as arranging the shouts, a lot of leaflets were also printed and distributed in the areas actually controlled by Jiannu, not only to publicize the Manchu military and people on the Korean Peninsula, but also to Liaodong and southern Liaonan at the same time.
The Daming Di Bao and the "Red Flag Daily" all reported on a large scale, deliberately publicizing that the defective Han army and Goryeo soldiers actually killed 1,500 Jiannu and 2,500 Tartars.
At this time, Geng Zhongming, Xue Dahu and other generals who defected in Seoul were still on their way to Tianjin Wei, and no one could predict that Geng Zhongming would die violently.
Moreover, the news of Geng Zhongming's death was not conducive to plotting against the Qing army, and the "Red Flag Army" would deliberately block it.
Kong Youde also has his own intelligence sources, and he can confirm that his old partner Geng Zhongming rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and returned to the Ming Dynasty again.
Now I learned from Jiang Xin's mouth that the trench network outside Hancheng had not been held for half a day, and more than 20,000 Qing troops collapsed, and finally understood why Geng Er chose to defect.
Kong Youde is not an immortal, of course, it is impossible to predict that Geng Zhongming was completely in a desperate situation and made crazy moves, which led to the misunderstanding of the family members, so there was a chaotic battle, and in the end, it was difficult to ride a tiger and had to simply turn back.
He analyzed that the reason for Geng Zhongming's defection was that he realized that the "Red Banner Army" had taken Seoul overnight.
Rather than being killed or captured by the "Red Banner Army" and sent to Lingchi, it is better to take the risk of taking the 4,000 heads of the Mongolian cavalry to regain the future for himself and his subordinates.
Most of the traitors have the selfishness of dead friends and not dead poor people, and although they are inferior in front of Jiannu, they hate and hate those beasts in their bones, and take their heads to buy their lives, Kong Youde is willing to do such a deal!
After listening to Jiang Xin's narration, Kong Youde sighed, the experience of Seoul, and the ending of Pyongyang City can be imagined.
However, there are 3,000 elite soldiers with white flags, 7,000 Tatar cavalry, and 4,500 Qiding and Aha with white flags.
If he followed Geng Zhongming's example, would it be okay to use the heads of Jiannu and Tartar to atone for his sins and pave the way for his return to the Ming Dynasty?
The answer is no, because Duoduo clearly does not trust the Han and Koreans.
When he led his men to Korea, he immediately occupied the city of Pyongyang, and the 8,000 Han and Korean soldiers in the city were all re-selected by Duoduo himself with Qiding and Aha, and the generals were also white-flaged generals.
Kong Youdeok, who was in charge of guarding Pyongyang's outer defensive line, had nearly 60,000 organized soldiers and civilians, half of whom were Goryeo Minzhuang.
Duoduo was more ruthless, as long as it was found that all the officers above the rank of 100 were placed in Pyongyang City, the purpose was to keep these people as hostages.
As a result, the population of Pyongyang is more than 100,000, and there is a lot of hoarding of materials and food, and the soldiers and civilians stationed outside the city need to receive food every three days so that they do not go hungry.
Duoduo still has a lot of ghost ideas, he not only takes hostages, but also controls food and military supplies, and if he is attacked, he will abandon tens of thousands of people on the periphery, and then kill the common people and hostages.
The grain and grass in Pyongyang can satisfy 10,000 Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, 5,000 Qiding and Aha, and 8,000 selected Han and Goryeo soldiers for two years.
This is not sensational, if you encounter a siege, with the cruelty of Duoduo, you will definitely kill all the people in the city without blinking.
Zhang Hongmo was more familiar with his friend Jiang Xin's urine sex, and he didn't believe that he would come to Pyongyang with hundreds of people to continue to wait for the "Red Flag Army" to attack.
For it is lawful to do so by thyself? When I was in Seoul, I found that the "Red Banner Army" called and surrendered directly, how easy was it? So many generals have surrendered, and there is not one more of him.
At this time, his life is at stake, if Jiang Xin came with a different intention, wouldn't he also have the possibility of being pitted to death?
He thought that if his friend put it aside first, he had to ask to understand the purpose of Jiang Xin's return.
Zhang Hongmo laughed dryly twice, and said: "Brother Jiang, to be able to break out of the encirclement of the 'Red Flag Army' must have experienced nine deaths and a lifetime, my brother looks like a lucky general, and he didn't hurt a single hair." ”
Jiang Xin had already had a draft, and replied with a smile: "Brother Zhang, don't come unharmed, the younger brother is not a lucky general, and he has no ability to break through the encirclement of the 'Red Flag Army'."
That was because the 'Red Banner Army' looked down on our combat effectiveness, and did not encircle us at all, and when they found us fleeing, they did not deliberately chase after us, and deliberately let us live. ”
Kong Youde, who wanted to be chased by the "Red Flag Army" and almost died in the sea, wondered: "Today's 'Red Flag Army' has changed sex? Are they also willing to open the net and not chase and fight? ”