Chapter 221: Leave nothing for the Tartars
The next day, compared to the crowds of Hetuala, today seemed a little quiet.
The "crackling" sound of the fire was intertwined with the mournful shouts, and of course, the city was too big, and there were still many places where black smoke was still billowing out.
More than a dozen soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion were walking on the street, when they suddenly heard the cry of pain, they stopped, and looked around vigilantly with knives.
It didn't take long to see the source of the sound, a banner woman holding a baby a few months old, huddled in the half-collapsed house, and did not dare to come out.
The soldiers approached a few steps, and the wailing came from the feet of the banner woman, which turned out to be a slave in his thirties who was pressed by the beam of the house, and kept screaming.
"It's a Tartar."
When one of the soldiers saw this, he stepped forward with his sword, and seemed to want to kill the bannermen, but was held back by another soldier, who shouted:
"Ding Kui, what are you doing?"
"What are you doing, kill the Tartars!"
The soldier who was called Ding Quina glanced back at the person who shouted, but his footsteps still did not stop, no matter how the Jiannu woman begged for mercy, he directly put the knife on the man's neck.
"Just leave their family alive, how pitiful this woman and child are!"
Except for the soldier who shouted, the rest of the soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion stood still and looked coldly.
Ding Kui laughed, pointed to the land, and said loudly:
"Poor, you actually told Lao Tzu that these Tartars are pitiful!?" He roared, and pointed to the sky again: "Do you know how many Han bones are buried under this land, and do you know how many unjust souls are watching in this sky?" ”
"Do you think these Tartars are pitiful, how can they ever think that my father and mother are pitiful, how can they ever think that my ruined sister is pitiful!!"
Ding Kui's words made these soldiers angry, and even the one who was pulled at the beginning stopped talking, he was not from Liaodong, and he had not experienced the hatred of being killed by the Tartars and occupying the land, so some things naturally could not be said more.
At this time, the tartar who was tied around his neck said in Chinese:
"When the Eight Banners warriors come back, none of you can escape, none of you can escape!"
"Fuck your shit, I'm going to cut your whole family now!!" Ding Kui swung the knife down with all his might, and as blood gushed out, the Tartar's cruel words came to an abrupt end.
"The small ones are also cut, if you don't cut them, will you keep them to grow up and take revenge on our family."
"Yes, none of the Tartars are left, they are all cut down!"
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"General, the Tartar ladies have all been arrested, except for those who are unwilling to leave and are killed, there are still thirty-two people left, what about those Tartar women?"
In the Khan Palace, Huang Yang came quickly, and he hugged his fists and asked from afar.
"It's all gone."
Hearing Wang Zheng's words, Dong Youyin was puzzled:
"General, why are these Tartars released, if they are all released, I am afraid that they will be killed by the soldiers if they can't get out of the city."
Hearing this, Wang Zheng turned around and said:
"The Tartars in this city have almost been killed, how can anyone report to the slave chieftain, only when these frightened palace maids run over, Huang Taiji will believe that our Dengzhou camp has captured Hetuala."
As he spoke, Wang Zheng turned around and said:
"Passing on the general's military order, none of these palace maids are allowed to move, let them out of the city, and the baggage team will bring the dry food needed all the way, pour diesel fuel all over the city, and when they leave, there will be less fire, and nothing will be left for the tartars."
Dong Youyin and Gao Liang immediately clasped their fists and said yes loudly.
On November 1 of the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Dengzhou battalion suddenly appeared in Jianzhou, captured the "Xingjing" - Hetuala with a thunderous force, and immediately turned to withdraw the army on the second day of the capture of Hetuala.
When the soldiers left, they were ordered by Wang Zheng to hang the headless corpse of Princess Dongguo at the head of the southern outer city, and burned the Xingjing City.
The fire burned throughout the city for three days.
The Dengzhou battalion had run out of food, and after capturing Hetuala, Wang Zheng considered the speed of his march when he came, and decided to take only ten days' supplies in the city, and immediately abandoned the city that had already been in his hands and retreated south.
In fact, the retreat still depends on Huang Taiji and Dolgon, in order to let the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry quickly support back and forth in Liaodong, they have not done anything else, but they have rebuilt the pipeline here several times.
When Wang Zheng came with the Dengzhou camp, because he had to hide, he had to go around left and right along the way, and he avoided it if he could, and it took a month to march to the city of Hetuala.
When he came back, he was fleeing for his life, and without this concern, the Dengzhou battalion drove at full speed, followed the official road all the way south, and it only took three days to reach the range of Kuandian Liubao.
This speed is a bit amazing, but compared to the Qi family's army traveling hundreds of miles at night and thousands of miles a day, the Dengzhou battalion is obviously still a little worse, and after a short rest, Wang Zheng ordered the camp to be pulled out the next morning.
The training of the soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion was continuous every day, and there was no gold, silver and heavy equipment to drag them down, so they ran fast and went straight to Lushunkou along the line of Donggou and Zhuanghe.
Just one day before the Wendeng camp arrived at the range of the six forts of Kuandian, more than a dozen Jiannu women came to Fushun Pass on the outskirts of Shengjing, where a thousand Qing soldiers with red flags were stationed all year round, led by a Jialai Ezhen.
After seeing the comer, the Qing soldiers with red flags in the city immediately bent their bows and arrows and said nothing.
"Stop coming, or you will release the arrows!"
"Open the city gate quickly, we are from Xingjing, this is Princess Dongguo's personal palace maid!"
These words were shouted in Manchu, and it was absolutely impossible for the Han people to speak such fluent Manchu words, and seeing the service of these women, the Qing soldiers defending the city believed it twice, and immediately opened the city.
Niu Lu Ezhen came out with a few Qing soldiers with yellow flags, and when he saw the weather-beaten appearance of these palace maids, he asked worriedly:
"Does Princess Dongguo have anything to say to Shengjing, but how can you be so embarrassed, did you encounter some bold Han untouchables on the way?"
"Princess, princess, she's dead!" As the palace maid spoke, she cried loudly, and the rest of the dozen or so palace maids hugged each other and cried bitterly.
This situation frightened Niu Lu's forehead, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "You can't talk nonsense!" Princess Dongguo is even respected by the emperor, how can she be beheaded? ”
"A few days ago, four or five thousand southern barbarians somehow sneaked to the city, Xingjing City has always been a city gate, it has been a long time, there has never been an accident, but this time it was taken advantage of by these southern barbarians, we escaped all the way, the city is over, it's over..."
These palace maids talked nonsense, and they heard that this Niu Lu's forehead was really big, but he still didn't believe it in his heart, and he was asking carefully, but he saw a few cavalrymen with yellow flags rushing from the direction of Jianzhou Road, and the one who started shouted in Manchu:
"Akniulu, it's not good, Xingjing, Xingjing!"
"What's wrong with Xingjing, what's wrong with you?" Ake anxiously asked, in fact, now that he had believed it for six minutes, a feeling of not being second rose in his heart, so he asked a few times in a row.
"Xingjing was destroyed by the Southern Barbarians!"
The person who came was a patrol vest with a yellow flag, and he shouted with a crying voice: "That miserable, when I went, there was a fire burning in the city, and the corpses of the flag people were all over the city, none of them survived, and there was a fishy smell everywhere!" ”
Ake's brain buzzed, he suddenly thought of something, and asked in a trembling voice:
"Then I'm Ama and Eniang." Seeing that the person who came just shook his head, he suddenly looked at the red flag armor around him who still didn't understand the situation, and shouted:
"Quick, go to Tongzhi Jialai, use the fastest fast horse to inform the emperor, go quickly!!"
Waiting for the reported infantry to run away in a hurry, Ake sat on the ground, looked in the direction of Xingjing, threw the helmet with red flags to the ground, and cried:
"How can this be, how can something happen to Xingjing, Amma~, Eniang~!"
After sitting for a long time, the red flag Niu Lu got up suddenly, and said to himself:
"This cow is wrong for me, I want to go back to Xingjing, I want to see my Ama and Eniang!"
Ake took off his red flag Niu Lu armor, turned on his horse and went straight to Xingjing.