Chapter 502: New Year 1

In the face of the fierce Qi army, the last defenders of King Jin mustered up their courage and desperately blocked the gap in the palace wall to make a final resistance.

This is really the last resistance, the attacker as usual first with a musket at the huge gap volley, dense lead bullets flew through, all the armor soldiers blocking the gap were cut down piece by piece, the momentum of the Jin army was depressed, the Qi army melee soldiers immediately seized the opportunity to rush into the puppet palace from the gap.

The Jin army did not back down at all, taking advantage of the relatively narrow terrain at the gap, which was difficult for the Qi army to carry out some geographical advantages, desperately resisted, and the soldiers on both sides roared frantically, and the sound of blades colliding was endless.

The constant whistle sounded in the fierce battle, it was the commando leader who led the charge calling for support and indicating his position, and the rhythmic brass horn outside the fence kept replying, which was the commander's request to hold on to the front line and promised reinforcements to come.

Zuo Helin mixed in the crowd of soldiers who selected the vanguards, and fought with the Tartar armor soldiers without a head, he stabbed his waist knife deep into the abdomen of a Jurchen armor soldier, and did not draw the knife, he took out a mace from this battle result and threw it out, and the mace smashed on the head of another Jurchen armor soldier, and he fell down in response.

Then Zuo Helin stood in place, regardless of his back, holding his bow in his hand very calmly, and shot arrow by arrow at the nearest Tartar.

The first arrow hit the neck of a Jurchen soldier, followed by a second arrow that pierced the eye socket of another soldier, and the third arrow hit the chest of the soldier but failed to penetrate it on the chain mail, so Zuo Helin made up another arrow.

After shooting three enemies in a row, he suddenly realized that although the Jurchens in front of him were very strong and heroic, they didn't seem to be very strong, just blindly waving the weapons in their hands and rushing around, with no tactical literacy at all, and they didn't seem to have a command.

Otherwise, they shouldn't have allowed themselves to shoot so many arrows while standing still in the melee.

In fact, Zuo Helin's feelings are not wrong, compared to ten years ago, or even five years ago, the combat effectiveness of the true female and real armor soldiers has seriously declined.

Because of the continuous defeat by the Qi army and the serious loss of veterans with combat experience, the Jin State was forced to break the distinction between the true Jurchens and the raw Jurchens four years ago, and directly dispersed all the raw Jurchens into various mooke, and the treatment was exactly the same as the real Jurchens.

However, this was still not enough, and in the following years, the Jin Kingdom lost its annual coins from Jiangnan, lost the vassal state of Goryeo, and suffered a series of attacks on the mainland, and the economy completely collapsed.

Unable to get enough food supplements, the princes did not dare to convene the whole army for a drill, so they could only "train with war" through hunting and expeditions.

This has caused a serious decline in the combat skills of the armored soldiers replenished by the Jin Army in the past five years, as well as the decline in the physical fitness of young people caused by malnutrition.

Today's Jin army, the fighting quality is no longer the kind of army style of the peak of the feudal army, even if the cold weapon is white-edged combat, they are far from being the opponent of the Qi army that can ensure food and training intensity.

Occasionally, if you encounter a white-knuckle battle master like Zuo Helin, it is inevitable that you will suffer a big loss.

In fact, looking at the entire battlefield, the Qi army has been advancing steadily, and the Jin army shouting and shouting seems to be very brave, but if you look closely, they have brought few casualties to the Qi army, and they have been retreating step by step, and more than ten minutes have passed, and they have even been driven away by the Qi army from the gap for a long distance.

This space allowed more Qi troops to enter the battlefield, and flintlock muskezeers began to appear in the swarming Qi army, and some people instructed musketeers to shoot at the Jin army in groups of five, and the Jin army fell one by one in the dense gunfire.

The victory is decided.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, the gates of the puppet palace were opened, and two small blasts were carried out by sappers on the south and north sides of the wall, opening two new points of attack.

More Qi troops entered the battlefield, and they were now able to exert their absolute superiority in strength, and the resistance of the Jurchen armor soldiers quickly became weak.

At around a quarter past ten, all the armor soldiers in the courtyard of the puppet palace had been wiped out, and the Qi army captured the Ten Kings Hall one by one, and the last hundred or so Jurchen armor soldiers surrounded their emperor and Wanyan Zongbi and held on to the Great Political Palace.

However, Gongsun Sheng didn't plan to give them more time.

The Qi army brought up three 4-pound cannons from the rear and fired at the Dazheng Hall twenty paces away, thousands of Qi army musketeers and archers joined it, and the wooden Dazheng Hall was crumbling in this terrifying firepower, and fires broke out in many places, although they were quickly extinguished, but this further consumed the already small physical strength of the Jurchen armor soldiers.

In the end, there were even many gorgeously dressed women among the people scurrying around in the Dazheng Palace—they were the harem concubines of the Pseudo-Jin Emperor and the families of high-ranking nobles.

At half past ten, before the Qi army was about to launch the final attack, the golden dragon flag that had been fluttering in the rain of bullets was removed from the palace of the puppet Jin Kingdom, and replaced with a white flag that was temporarily made by Bai Aya.

Wanyan Hera, the puppet emperor of the Jin State, finally gave up all hope and confidence, and surrendered to the Qi army with the injured and unconscious Wanyan Zongbi, the last one hundred and ninety-two armor soldiers, and more than 2,000 harem concubines, palace maids, eunuchs, and the families of the high-ranking nobles of the puppet Jin State crowded in the Dazheng Palace.

Before the arrival of the first day of the sixth year of Longdao, the Qi army occupied Liaoyang, which existed for nearly forty years, and the Jurchen Dajin Kingdom, which had brought great disasters to the surrounding peoples, was thus destroyed.

Of course, the destruction is only in name, Wanyan Zonggan and Wanyan Zongwang still have tens of thousands of troops in northern Liaobei, although they are not dangerous, but they are still a trouble.

And for Gongsun Sheng, the work after the victory was no less important, even as dangerous (in his opinion).

Amid the deafening cheers of the soldiers, Gongsun Sheng led the gendarmerie (suppression soldiers) troops into the puppet palace, and he issued several orders in succession:

The puppet emperor of the Jin State was imprisoned alone in the palace of the puppet Liao king (Wanyan Zonggan's mansion), which was closest to the Dazheng Palace.

The first clan to be captured alive was extremely fierce and Yan Zongbi was seriously injured and sent to the military hospital of the Qi army.

All the captured Jurchen soldiers were taken out of Liaoyang and imprisoned outside the city.

The families of the captured Jurchen nobles were held separately according to men and women: men, young and old, were imprisoned in Liaoyang City in groups of 100 people, while women were imprisoned in the other Ten Kings Hall.

The relatives of the Jurchen nobles (there were five or six thousand people here) who were captured from other official residences in Liaoyang City also did the same.

The sons of the gold lord Wanyan Hera were imprisoned in the Song Dynasty Palace (Wanyan Zongwang Mansion), and his wives and concubines were all imprisoned in the Dazheng Palace.

In Gongsun Sheng's view, these Jurchen pseudo-emperors and noble daughters were both important symbols of victory and valuable trophies.

When the Great Zhou Dynasty moved south, the female relatives of the clan who had no time to escape were all looted and insulted by the Tartars, and Gongsun Sheng was a little unsure whether Xu Shiyang, who had strong nationalist sentiments, would retaliate back with these Jurchen royal noble women.