Chapter 614: The End of the Diehard
Zheng Jun has also heard of the policies and credibility of the Tiance Army, and in the battle of the Taiwan Strait a year ago, more than 10,000 Zheng troops led by Zheng Cai were captured, and the Tiance Army did not abuse these people.
The captives of the Zheng family were only sentenced to three years of hard labor, punished to build roads, and treated similarly to the Ming army captured before, with food and accommodation and a living allowance of one or two silver per month.
One or two pieces of silver is not low, some low-status Zheng Jun may not be able to get so much in Zheng Zhilong's army, Zheng Jun is not much better than the Ming army, and some bad habits are also learned from the Ming army.
The reason for such lenient treatment is that there are many prisoners, reducing the number of guards and cultivating the consciousness of the prisoners.
Wang Yue needed to convert these Han captives, not treat them as slaves. Two years ago, in the war with the Ming army in Beijing, 130,000 people were captured at once, which was converted through a generous policy and propaganda brainwashing offensive, otherwise a large number of troops would be needed to guard it, and the cost-effectiveness ratio was too low.
Ordinary soldiers of the Ming army actually had a very hard time, after they realized that being a prisoner in the starting point city was better than being a Ming army, and they had money to get, and they didn't have to work hard, as long as they performed well, they could regain their freedom after three years, and the people who worked in the starting point city could still get the same pay and equal pay.
Therefore, the captured Zheng soldiers are also treated similarly, and those who perform well also have family leave and reimbursement of round-trip expenses, how intimate does this be?
Of course, European prisoners or natives did not enjoy such treatment, and they served their sentences in the mines.
Some of those captives came back to visit their relatives, and the prisoner policy of the Tiance Army also spread to Fujian. Most of these captives who came back from visiting relatives came to pick up their relatives in the past, and their relatives belonged to free immigrants who were able to enjoy the immigration policy of the starting point city, and they accounted for a large part of Taiwan's later spontaneous immigrants.
Zheng Zhilong knew very well that these prisoners who came back from visiting relatives were Wang Yue's offensive against him to disintegrate the army's heart, and he dealt with a group of people very much, and also gave an order to come back and arrest a group. Since then, the family visitors have to come back secretly, which is one of the main reasons why Wang Yue wants to solve Zheng Zhilong as soon as possible, because Taiwan needs more spontaneous immigrants, and Nanyang needs more.
The effect of persuasion was very good, more and more Zheng troops chose to surrender, and under the ferocious blows of the Tiance army, the morale of the Zheng army was already very low.
After the infantry of the Tiance army entered the city, there were only sporadic battles, and there were many stubborn people in the Zheng army, but under the automatic fire of the Tiance army, all resistance was like floating clouds, so the main work of the Tiance army entering the city became to collect prisoners and escort them out of the city.
The heaviest battles took place in the center and left, where the former Thousand Households were stationed.
"A bunch of eight lambs, gullible to the enemy's persuasion, forgot the kindness of my Zheng family." Zheng Zhibao learned about the battle situation in the city and jumped like thunder.
His personal guards and some die-hard backbones, more than 2,000 people retreated to the vicinity of the Ya subordinates, and under the instigation of Zheng Zhibao, they were ready to resist to the death.
As the elite unit of Zheng Jun, there were more than 500 of these troops equipped with arquebuses, and most of these guns were purchased through the Portuguese in Macao, which was also one of Zheng Zhilong's measures to reorganize the army.
"Smack, smack, smack!" Hundreds of arquebuses fired at the approaching armored vehicles.
"When, when, when!" The impact of lead bullets on the steel plate of the armored vehicle was as dense as if it had been hit by hail. The combat mode of the Tiance Army is to accompany the attack of armored vehicles, and the personnel are basically advancing in a skirmish line behind the armored vehicles.
However, the maximum range of the arquebus can also reach 400 meters, although it is not accurate, but the platoon of guns is fired indiscriminately, and it can still be a blind cat to meet a dead mouse, and immediately two soldiers of the Tiance Army were hit by stray bullets and fell to the ground.
Because of the difference in weapons, there were few casualties in the Tiance Army, and one of the two soldiers hit by stray bullets died on the spot, and the other was hit in the arm, and the blood flowed immediately.
The casualties of their comrades-in-arms aroused the anger of the Tiance army, and the soldiers of a company that attacked near the Ya began to shoot frantically at the Zheng army at the front gate of the Ya in various concealed positions.
"Dada, dada, dada!" The Type 95 automatic rifle hit like rain, and Zheng Jun fell to the ground one after another.
"Tong, Tong, Tong! Tong, Tong, Tong! "The on-board machine guns of the two armored vehicles also sprayed scorching flames.
"Through, snort...... Rumble! The two recoilless guns also began to speak, and the projectiles shot straight out and exploded in front of the Ya Gate, and dozens of Zheng soldiers were blown away.
Several soldiers of the Tiance Army continued to advance forward by relying on obstacles, reaching a predetermined distance, and several grenades were projected, "Boom, boom, boom!" The steel balls splashed everywhere, and the soldiers of the Zheng army immediately fell in all directions.
Zheng Jun's arquebus team died in just one minute under the frantic blow of a company of the Tiance Army, and carried out hundreds of Zheng Jun who were helping the musket team.
In the face of the frenzied attack of the Tiance army, and seeing with his own eyes the speed of casualties of the musketeers, the other Zheng troops, who were lucky enough not to be shot, retreated in panic to defend their subordinates.
"Listen to the people inside, surrender immediately, and you will not die." After solving the Zheng army outside the ya, Tiance Army routinely shouted.
Hearing the shouts outside, the eyes of more than a thousand Zheng Jun in the ya's subordinates diverged and they were flustered. Now everyone knows that now the general trend is gone, any resistance is futile, they saw the battle in front of the door just now, they are far from others, and they can't fight at all.
Seeing that the will of the soldiers was shaken, Zheng Zhibao yelled: "Don't believe their nonsense, we still have 20,000 troops in the city, and there are tens of thousands of reinforcements in Tong'an. ”
He had to use nonsense to stabilize the army's heart, and said that Zheng Zhilong would drag down the Tiance army in the center and left, and buy time, but he didn't even win an hour, and Zheng Zhibao was a little embarrassed.
Most of the leaders who retreated into the Ya were die-hard loyalists of the Zheng family, and with these people, almost no one in the remnants dared to go out on their own and surrender alone.
After the routine shouting procedure was completed, the Tiance army lost patience, and at this time, a part of the Tiance army also rushed to the vicinity of the Ya subordinates, and then the Tiance army launched an attack on the Ya subordinates.
More than 100 grenades were thrown into the courtyard of the ya, emitting a dense "boom, boom, boom!" The explosion was followed by a wave of more than a hundred grenades. The area of the ya's subordinates was not large, and when he was caught off guard, Zheng Jun, who was gathered indecently, immediately insured a small half.
The projectiles fired by the eight recoilless guns hit the gate and wall of the subordinate government one after another, the gate of the subordinate government shattered, the wall collapsed with a bang, and three armored vehicles rushed in first.