Chapter 691: Chain Reaction
The news that Li Xin, the envoy of Lushun Town, led his army north by boat to take the sea route to raid Fuzhou City was like a boulder thrown into a small pond, which really stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and soon brought a series of chain reactions in the originally calm hinterland of Liaodong, especially on both sides of the Yalu River.
In the early morning of the 26th, Li Xin, Zhang Kedu and others killed all the men in the city and firmly controlled Fuzhou City.
At noon on the same day, the main army of the two roads with white flags that went to attack Jinzhou City and Hongzui Fort with the order of Feng Duoduo received a distress message sent by the guards of the yamen with white flags in the city before the city of Fuzhou was broken.
After receiving an urgent report from Fuzhou City, whether it was Yilden and Turg, who had just led their troops to the vicinity of Hongzui Fort, or Samushika and Tanbu, who had just arrived outside Jinzhou City, they were all shocked and couldn't believe their eyes.
When Li Xin led his army to attack Fuzhou City after the ambush ended, the remnants of the soldiers with white flags who fled back to Fuzhou City in embarrassment, although they did not see Duoduo's corpse with their own eyes, they could be sure that their banner owner, the Ten Belle Duoduo of the Dajin Kingdom, must be more than auspicious.
Especially these remnants of the white flag who followed Baduli to rescue Duoduo, many people saw the scene of Baduli being shot and falling off his horse.
Therefore, the news that these remnants of the white flag brought back to the state city is also inseparable, which is basically accurate.
At that time, the officials who stayed behind in the yamen with white flags in the city, taking advantage of the fact that the Ming army had not yet surrounded Fuzhou City, immediately sent several horsemen to the south and east to find the chief of the white flag, the assistant minister and Gushan Ezhen to report for help.
In the evening of the same day, the city of Fuzhou was broken, and the Ming soldiers who raided entered the city with the heads of Duoduo and Ba Duli, and quickly broke the will of the defenders in the city and the Jurchen old and weak to resist.
But at the same time, the news of the defeat and death of the troops of Duoduo and Baduli was transmitted to the Yirdon and Samushka armies who were about to return urgently at noon on the 27th, along with some of the Jurchens who had escaped from the city.
Knowing that the city of Fuzhou was broken and that his own banner lord Belle Duoduo had been defeated and killed because of the danger of sending troops to ambush before the city of Fuzhou was broken, Ilden immediately sent someone north to send the news to Gaizhou and report to Dolgon, the commander-in-chief of the defense of southern Liaoning.
At the same time, Yirdan abandoned the siege of Fort Red Mouth, and Samushka, who also received these news, abandoned the siege of the city of Jinzhou.
The two of them each led the army with white flags on their own roads, accumulating more than 4,800 people, and rushed to the direction of Fuzhou City, in an attempt to capture Huizhou City in one fell swoop.
On the night of the 27th, Yierden and Turg led the Eastern Route Army with white flags to rush to the city of Fuzhou, and launched a fierce attack on the north gate of the temporarily restored city in the early morning of the next day.
However, it is a pity that although only two days have passed, the current Fuzhou City is no longer the Fuzhou City that Yilden and Turg and others were familiar with in the past.
Along the way, along with the thirty Chongzhen rear-loading smoothbore mother cannons brought by the ship, as well as thousands of thunderbolts and fierce fire oil bombs that were originally stored on the battleship of the Denglai Naval Division, Li Xin and others were all transferred to the city the day after they took Fuzhou City.
When Ilden, Turg and others attacked Fuzhou City under the banner of avenging the white-flaged banner lord Duoduo and the old and weak women and children with the white flag left behind in the city, these firearms brought by the army and had been transferred to the city in time immediately came in handy.
More than 2,000 Chongzhen flintlock muskets gathered at the north gate, as well as 20 artillery pieces urgently mobilized, as well as a large number of thunderbolts and fierce fire oil bombs, inflicted heavy casualties on the East Route Army, which once stormed the north gate at the cost of casualties.
From the early morning around midnight when Ilden and Turg ordered the attack, to Turg personally led the army to attack the city and fell to the ground, a total of less than an hour, the road led by Ilden with white flags has been killed and wounded, and finally left thousands of corpses under the north gate of Fuzhou City, with the seriously injured white flag Gushan Ezhen Turg retreated in a hurry.
At noon of the same day, Samushka and Tan Bu led the Southern Route Army besieging Jinzhou City, and also gathered the white flag defenders in the various forts south of Fuzhou City, and rushed to the outside of Fuzhou City together.
After Yilden contacted him, the two joined forces and launched another attack on the east gate of Fuzhou City.
Li Xin, Zhang Kedu and others once again relied on the dense muskets at the head of the city, as well as thunderbolts and fierce fire oil bombs, Tan Bu led the army to launch an offensive.
In the afternoon of the same day, Ilden and the others finally recognized the situation, knowing that the firearms of the Ming army in the city were too sharp, and the number of men and horses attacking the city with white flags was not large.
In this way, in the afternoon of the same day, Yirden, Samushka and Tambuk took Turg, who was seriously wounded and bleeding and unconscious, and the remaining 3,000 people of the army with white flags, also full of unwillingness and anxiety, and mounted their horses and headed north.
Gaizhou City is about more than 200 miles away from Fuzhou City, and along the way, there are Yongning Fort, Fifty Zhai Fort, Xiongyue Fort, Shenjingzi Fort, etc., which originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty and now belong to the two white flags of Jianyu.
That night, Yierden left Tan Bu with a seriously injured white flag Gushan Ezhen Turge and more than 3,000 white flag and armor bannermen, stationed in the area of Yongning Fort and Fifty Zhai Fort, eighty miles north of Fuzhou City.
On the morning of October 29, in the city of Gaizhou, above the second hall of the Yamen of the White Flag, there was a sudden roar full of anger.
"Benbel has put his brother in your hands and left you to take care of it! I have repeatedly told you to ensure his safety, is this how you take care of him!? You say, you minions, how did you promise Benbel in the first place!? ”
With this roar came the sound of porcelain falling to the ground and shattering!
In the past year, Dolgon, the owner of the Zhengbai Banner who has been sitting in Gaizhou and Haizhou with 20 Niu Lu with the positive white flag, suddenly heard the news that his younger brother Duoduo was defeated and died outside Fuzhou City, and he suddenly became angry.
Ilden first explained that the army had raided Fuzhou, but Dolgon was unimpressed and did not take it seriously.
Then, Yilden said that the city of Fuzhou was broken, and the Ming soldiers who guarded the palace in Lushun Town occupied the city of Fuzhou, and Dolgon still maintained a cold posture, holding a tea bowl and continuing to drink tea.
But when Ilden finally told the reason for the destruction of the city of Fuzhou, and the news of the defeat and death of the Duoduo soldiers, Dolgon stood up at that time, blushed, his eyes widened, pointed to Ilden's nose, stared at Ilden's eyes, and said word by word:
"Ilden, what did you say!?"
Ilden knew that the Dolgon and Doldo brothers had been dependent on each other since childhood, and their feelings were very deep, so on the way to Gaizhou, he had been thinking about how to report these news to Dolgon and explain the reason, but when it came to the end, he did not dare to say anything other than to say it directly.
Ildan and Samush can tell me one by one, and after telling the whole story in a hurry, they lie on the ground and plead guilty.
Immediately afterwards, in the Zhengbai Flag Yamen in Gaizhou City, there was a roar of Dolgon, and there was a crackling sound of smashing objects.
After smashing everything that could be smashed in front of him, Dolgon was still angry, and snatched a horsewhip from the hand of the attendant, and whipped it at the heads and faces of Yirdon and Samushka.
Yirdan and Samushka are both old men from the time of the old slave Nuer Hachi, but in the end they are just minions of the wild boar skin family.
Although Dolgon was not their top master, in the end, Dolgon was the favorite son of the old slave back then, and he was one of the masters of their people.
At this time, Dolgon took the horsewhip and whipped it again and again in the face of Ilden, and slapped it in Samushka's face, but the two men did not dare to dodge or resist in any way, but silently straightened up, and let Dolgon roar and keep whipping!
After a long time, Dolgon's anger subsided slightly, threw his whip on the ground, and sat back down in his chair.
Looking at Ilden and Samushka, whose foreheads, faces, and necks were covered with blood, Dolgon said slowly: "So, how many centaurs are still in Duoduo's white flag?" ”
Ilden, who had been beaten by Dolgon's horsewhip and had his skin and flesh and his face covered in blood, endured the severe pain in his head, face and neck, and recounted the situation in which they led their army to counterattack Fuzhou City and led their army to retreat to the fortress fifty miles north.
Dorgon was speechless for a long time.