Chapter 39: Release the beast in your heart!
"Kill, burn, trample!
Warriors of the Ming Dynasty, let your fire of revenge burn everything in this city, let your sword cut off the heads of aliens, let your armor be stained with the blood of Jiannu, here you punish on behalf of heaven, just like the founding fathers of Emperor Taizu, to sweep away the bloody flesh of this land, and trample all the Tartars who dare to invade the Han land under the iron hoof.
Remember, chickens and dogs don't stay!
Remember to kill, rob, burn! ”
Standing on the inside of the Yong'anmen city wall, Yang Qing shouted at the surging cavalry under his feet like an evil villain.
The latter is exactly what he encouraged.
Although Li Zicheng is indeed not as brutal as our Daqing smear, his subordinates are indeed not kings, these veterans who have followed him for many years are also very good at burning, killing and looting, and they galloped wildly after entering Jinzhou, they completely substituted Yang Qing into the state that Yang Qing expected. Without hesitation, the cavalry that diverted along the streets and alleys stretched out their torches to all the flammable materials nearby, hay, houses, trees, and the shops of the Jin merchants on both sides, and everything that could be ignited was ignited by them, and the flames rose in an instant under the southeast wind and swept forward. And with the flames swept on both sides, all the Shun troops on those galloping horses frantically slashed and killed the inhabitants who fled from both sides, whether they were Jiannu with pigtails or Jin merchants without braids, all of them mercilessly knocked down and trampled under the horses' hooves, nailed them to the ground with awl guns, and cut off their heads with Yanling knives, killing like a pack of wolves rushing into the sheepfold.
The Qing army, which rushed out in haste, had no power to fight back.
The main force of the Qing army in Jinzhou is going south, and those who stay here are nothing more than some old and weak, in addition to their families, even if it is the elite of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, it is difficult to win without numerical superiority against the elite of this Shun army, not to mention the old and weak who are at the bottom of the combat effectiveness.
Especially since there are not enough of them.
Especially because of the suddenness of the raid, the vast majority of the Qing troops were scattered at home, it was impossible to assemble, and the Qing army was not to say that they were all in the barracks, theoretically they were all soldiers, under normal circumstances, as long as they were not on duty, they were at home, and their homes were scattered in a city of several square kilometers, it was impossible to assemble in this situation, they almost just rushed out of their homes with weapons, and they ran into a group of galloping Shun troops and then were trampled under the horse's hooves in a blink of an eye.
More than 1,000 cavalry soon all entered the city.
At the same time, the first warship full of soldiers also docked, and the remaining Shun infantry and Yang Qing's Jinyi guards and domestic slaves were the first to go ashore, and they rushed forward into the city gate with the same excitement, and even the sailors who drove the ships did not care about their own ships, and grabbed their weapons to join the attack. In other words, Jinzhou is also the largest Manchu city in this area, they have just harvested a lot in Niuzhuang, it is obvious that they can harvest more here, in fact, if even these sailors are counted, the total strength of Yang Qing's army is more than 8,000, after all, the sailing ships of this era usually have to be driven by dozens of people.
This army, which was eight times the size of the Jinzhou defenders, rushed into Jinzhou from the open Yong'an Gate, and then began their crazy killing.
Kill, rob, burn!
There's nothing like that to boost morale!
Soldiers who incarnate as beasts are usually able to burst out several times their combat effectiveness, even if the sailor who has never won a battle is extremely fierce at the moment, it is said that Yang Qing really can't let them become the Yue family army or the Qi family army in a short period of time, but it is still no problem to let them become the green battalion after the Qing army enters the customs in a short period of time. As long as they let go of the beasts in their hearts, they continued to rush into the houses of the Eight Banners Warriors in the city and lit the flames, killing all the old and sick who were left inside because the young and strong were fighting in the south, and then stuffed all the gold, silver and jewelry they could find into their arms, and then roared excitedly at the sky.
Wailing, screaming swept through Jinzhou as they and the fire they carried spread.
Then Yang Qing's favorite appeared.
His freshly braided house slaves were burning in high spirits, and at the same time explaining to the slaves in person, especially the handful of hair that spread out on the top of their heads became a sign that the slaves were ready to move. Then soon some people couldn't bear it anymore, cut off the braids on the back of their heads, took all the weapons they could find, and raised their butcher knives towards the families of the Qing army, and in this way, the rebellion of the slaves completely destroyed the city. Although the vast majority of slaves were driven south as dead soldiers to be cannon fodder, there was no problem with a thousand people left here, and their addition not only made up for the losses of Yang Qing's army, but even increased the number of troops.
Just a quarter of an hour later, Jinzhou was completely turned into a sea of fire.
Everything is set on fire.
The buildings of this era are all wooden, and even a large part of them are grass roofs, which are as flammable as oil after years of sun and rain, and can burn half of the city if you are not careful, not to mention this large-scale deliberate arson, and it is tens of thousands of people working together, and no one is fighting the fire. In the end, everything was burning, and the houses, shops, and government offices were all engulfed in the flames that rose into the sky, and even in some places they did not even dare to venture into the attacking army, and they fled with Xie's vicious pleasure outside to block the people inside, shooting them to death like rabbits at the last moment of escaping the flames.
Especially the granary as the primary target.
These granaries were captured and set on fire by a team of Shun troops led by Li Laiheng himself, and hundreds of thousands of stone grains, together with the warehouses where they were stored, were turning into a spectacular flame, decorating the starry night sky with the fire dragon that reached into the sky. This is all hoarded by Jin merchants for the Qing army's sea transportation, and even took many years to hoard, including some of the Qing army's entry into the customs and looting, in case they enter the customs and loot for the next time, it can be said that this is the logistics support of the Qing army in the entire western Liaoning corridor, and the Qing army relies on this on the entire battlefield. Therefore, after burning these grains, not to mention Dolgon's entire army of 70,000, even Ning Yuan and the Qing army in the former place had no food, although Ning Yuan was abandoned by Wu Sangui, but before he withdrew, he also destroyed everything that could be destroyed.
And the hoarding of cattle farms was also destroyed.
Without the grain reserves in these two places, and without the continued blood transfusion of the Jin merchants, Dolgon not only could not sustain his army to fight, but even Shenyang and other places had to begin to endure hunger and cold.
If you can't fight, you can't loot.
If you can't rob them, you can't feed yourself in the bitter cold of the Xiaoice period.
And then they will starve to death.
This is the original history of the Jin merchants and other profiteers and even some stupid and greedy Ming officials to the Qing Dynasty, if not for them, the Ming Dynasty wanted to solve the problem of Jiannu only need to blockade, the land lock off the Rehe Mountains and the north of the Xilamulun River trade route, the sea blockade of all the ports in Liaodong, not a grain of grain put in, it will not be long before the Jiannu internal competition for the limited resources that can not feed everyone will have to kill each other.
Unfortunately, this can't be done.
Even front-line officials sold them grain.
Yang Qing enjoyed this scene with satisfaction.
It's just that at this time, his position has been changed from Yong'an Gate to the Bell and Drum Tower in the center of the city, and at his feet is the only assembled more than fifty Qing troops, these people originally wanted to control the Bell and Drum Tower to condescendingly block this crossroads with cannons, but unfortunately a violent beast turned them into a pile of dead corpses. At the same time, the whole of Jinzhou was already in turmoil, and almost all the streets and alleys were filled with reveling Mingshun troops and rebellious slaves, and the number of the latter was still increasing. After all, at this time, who did not have a few slaves in the Eight Banners Jian'er family, and almost all the slaves were responsible for the agricultural production of the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty, killing the rest in the northeast, and capturing them in the past passes, even including those captured in Korea, it can be said that the political, military, and economic system of a slave country has been perfected.
And then just wait to carry it forward.
But now these slaves are not completely domesticated.
"That's all you see?"
Li Laiheng, who was killed in blood, galloped under the bell and drum tower, raised his head and shouted to Yang Qing, who was still sitting on it.
"Bengong is tired, little plum, kneel down!"
Yang Qing waved his hand and said.
Li Laiheng glanced at him with contempt and ran straight into the Qing army that had just rushed out in front of him.
The latter was about thirty people, and in the middle was an obvious senior general, after looking at this side with a fiery gaze, he turned as fast as he could, dispersed a group of sailor soldiers who were carnivaling in front of him, and rushed straight to the East Gate Ningyuan Gate in the distance, but they were still a step late after all, and then they were hit by Li Laiheng from the side and rear, and the soldiers next to the general quickly turned around and fought with Li Laiheng's subordinates, but the general continued to run forward and flee.
Yang Qing was quite helpless to pick up Fang Tian's painting halberd to hook the muzzle of a Furlong machine gun next door, and pulled it to himself very casually, and then used the Fang Tianhua halberd to fork the ignition rod that was still burning the fire rope on the ground next to him, and put the fire rope into the ignition hole......
Blazing flames erupted.
I saw that the general suddenly shook as if he had been beaten, and then fell from the horse, and the next moment Li Laiheng rushed straight to him from those personal soldiers, and nailed this guy who was still struggling to get up to the ground, and then he jumped off the horse and pulled out the knife, and chopped off the head with a knife in the desperate gaze of the Qing general.
"The head of the family, this is the source of Jiannu's Zhenghuang Banner Han Army Gushan Liu."
A house slave beside Yang Qing reminded him.
"Traitor, traitor of Han!"
Yang Qing corrected his mistakes in a serious manner.
"Yes, it's a traitor, this person is Jiannu's Zhenghuangqi traitor Gushan Liu Zhiyuan, who is responsible for supervising the construction of cannons for Jiannu in Jinzhou, and after Ai Duli went south, he temporarily stayed in Jinzhou to command the armies."
The slave quickly changed his words.
"Cannons? Ah, by the way, this is Jiannu's cannon casting base! ”
Yang Qing said suddenly.