The general attack army led by Yang Ritian had a smooth journey, but the progress was slow.

The allied forces were unable to deploy their forces in the narrow Shimen waterway, and Yang Ritian brought in the tiger squat artillery of the Han army, which had just turned against the water, to follow behind the defeated Manchurian soldiers. The fleeing Manchurian soldiers showed signs of stagnation, and Yang Ritian ordered the artillery to be fired.

As soon as the tiger squatting cannon sounded, the Manchurian soldiers immediately rushed to flee, but the more they robbed, the more no one could escape. The Manchurian soldiers completely blocked the roads.

The pursuing coalition then shouted: "Abandon your weapons and don't kill!" The Manchurian soldiers, who had no hope of escaping in the end, had no choice but to surrender, but escorting these captives to withdraw from the cramped battlefield was also a problem.

The intercom kept coming from the critical call of the chief of staff, and Yang Ritian realized that he had underestimated the danger of the battle at Shapozi before the war.

Before the war, because the chief of staff Sun Dingliao was eager for revenge, he proposed this operational plan to cut off the Manchurian army. Yang Ritian and Sun Yi had no experience in defending the city, and seeing that Sun Dingliao was very sure, they unanimously agreed.

Zhu Junshi had reservations about this plan, and he kept muttering: "Don't stop returning to the teacher, don't chase after the poor, and the rabbit will bite people when ...... is in a hurry."

But Zhu Junshi had no say in military affairs.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Junshi said that as soon as the battle of Shapozi began, the Manchurian soldiers fought back frantically regardless of casualties, and the battle situation in Shapozi deteriorated rapidly.

Yang Ritian thought about it, and calculated from the time that it would take at least one and a half hours for the Minfu brigade to deliver the follow-up materials to reach Shapozi. The general attacking army was blocked on the road, and it could not rush through. The only way now is to send a sailor along the waterway first.

Yang Ritian summoned Bu Nineteen and explained briefly and clearly that Shapozi's situation was urgent. The armored ships were ordered not to wait for the land troops, but to carry more gunpowder and explosives to urgently reinforce Sun Dingliao.

Three armored ships set sail at once.

The ships crossed the Manchurian soldiers and immediately caused a great commotion in the ranks of the defeated Manchurian army.

Bu 19 didn't want to entangle with the Manchurian soldiers along the way, but seeing this scene, he had an idea and ordered the gunner to shout all the way:

"Your retreat has been cut off, and there is only one way to resist and die!"

"Zhu Shenbing will abandon his weapons and not kill, and send you back to the old forest!"

"Generals and guards are not humiliated when they are captured!"

"The Han army surrendered to the Ming Dynasty!"

"The Mongols surrendered and sent back to Mongolia!"

This trick really worked, and many Manchurian soldiers began to hesitate.

Bu XIX ordered, don't care about ammunition, and fire a few cannons at the Manchurian soldiers who are openly provoking the armored ship!

The three armored ships fired their guns and ballistas in unison.

After a brutal blow, the Manchurian ranks were quiet.

The gunner continued to shout:

"There are no dead corpses who dare to resist!"

"Supervise each other and guard against rebellion by people who don't care about everyone's life or death!"

In this way, the three armored ships shouted all the way to deter artillery bombardment.

It is not easy to grasp what the mentality of the Manchurian soldiers was, but at least the Manchurian soldiers took the initiative to give up attacking the ships in the river, and the armored ships consumed less ammunition.

The closer you get to Shapozi, the more difficult the waterway becomes. On the one hand, the number of abandoned carts and dead horses in the river increased, blocking the waterway. On the other hand, in places where the river is narrow, the water spray alone can no longer withstand the turbulent current;

Bu 19 had no choice but to send sailors down the river. While cleaning the waterways, he is responsible for pushing and pulling the boats.

The fleet finally turned the mountain pass, and saw that the battle on the sand slope was already white-hot, and the veterans of the third battalion were tragically using "human flesh rolling wood".

Bu 19 ignored the range and immediately ordered to fire.

"Boom", "boom" cannon sounded.

Zilharang's Manchurian offensive was abrupt, and the morale of the three battalions on Shapozi was greatly boosted.

The lead seeds of the tiger squat cannon and the bombs of the ballista fell into the crowd of Manchurian soldiers in front of the fleet, and the Manchurian soldiers were in chaos.

Some of the Manchurian soldiers ran backwards, and some rushed forward. The rout that rushed forward immediately disrupted Zilharang's deployment at the bottom of the slope.

Bu Nineteen viciously ordered all gunpowder and explosives to be destroyed! If you don't succeed, you will be benevolent!

The three armored ships were advancing slowly and pouring artillery fire.

The dense explosions seemed to have no end, driving away the Manchurian soldiers, who had lost the last shred of self-confidence. The Manchurian soldiers rushed across the Shapozi like a frightened herd of horses, carrying the desperately screaming commander Zilharang, and fled all the way north without daring to turn back.

Sun Dingliao, who was red-eyed on Shapozi, ordered Li Guang to guard the position on the front side, and personally led the defenders behind him to counterattack.

The soldiers brandished three-eyed guns and waist swords, and the men brandished axes and shovels, and shouted from the steep slope to kill. Seeing that the general situation had gone, the Manchurian armored soldiers rushed down the hill in a row.

The two armies converged victoriously under Shapozi, and the first thing Sun Dingliao said when he saw Bu 19 was: "How many explosives are there?" ”

Bu Nineteen put his hands in a bunch: "It's gone!" It's all gone! ”

Sun Dingliao hurriedly said: "Then what should I do?" ”

Bu Nineteen said: "There is no way, there is only a way to sing the empty city plan." ”

Sun Dingliao was ruthless, "Okay! Just sing an empty city plan! ”

As a result, the two armored ships violently blocked the waterway, one south and one north. Bu 19 personally led his command ship back to support Sun Dingliao's courage.

Sun Dingliao led a small group of soldiers with high morale to receive the Manchurian soldiers on the south side of Shapozi to abandon their weapons and surrender!

The Manchurian soldiers had just witnessed the ferocity of the three armored ships, and now they saw that Sun Dingliao's squad had no fear, so they had to hope that the allied forces would be able to speak their minds and abandon their weapons without killing.

"Abandoning weapons and not killing" was the established policy of the allied forces before the war, which violated the general principle of fighting between the two armies at this time, and not only the Manchurian generals were suspicious, but many people in the allied forces could not figure it out at first.

In the era of Chongzhen's fifth year, the general principle for dealing with captured enemies was "kill if you don't surrender, and kill if you surrender if you're not sincere." ”

What is surrender is to transform into a soldier and become the enemy of the original master.

What is abandonment is to lay down one's arms and take the initiative to become a prisoner.

There is a huge difference between the two.

According to Zhu Junshi's standard explanation for the non-commissioned officers of the coalition army, most of the Manchurian soldiers were sick and suffering from a disease called "dead diaphragm". These patients were also victims of Manchukuo, but after being bullied for a long time, they became heart disease and took the initiative to become Manchukuo's minions.

The ordinary soldiers of the coalition army understood that Manchukuo had a kind of witchcraft, which could lose people's minds after a long time. Manchukuo used witchcraft to turn poor people into his accomplices. It is impossible for the coalition forces to kill all the poor people, so they can only break the witchcraft of Manchukuo and slowly restore their minds.

Therefore, Sun Dingliao's surrendered team treated the captives more of a merciful attitude.

They assured the Manchurians: "Lay down your arms, they will never kill you, and they will not ask you to surrender." ”

"It's Mongolian, let you go back to the steppe in a few days."

"It's the Jurchens, let you go back to your original hometown in a few days."

"It's Han, those who want to go back to the Ming Dynasty can go back to the Ming Dynasty, and those who don't want to go back to the Ming Dynasty can stay."

"Even if it is a Manchurian, as long as they take the initiative to lay down their arms, we promise not to kill."

"See our cannon boats? If you don't lay down your arms, you will be left dead at once! ”

The Manchurian soldiers could only choose to believe the words of these people, and they dropped their swords one after another.