Chapter Ninety-Four: Siege and Plunder
On July 27 of the fourth year of Ming Chongzhen, it was destined to be an extraordinary day, on this day, Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of the Later Jin Tartars, sent troops in Shenyang, and more than 40,000 people from the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and went straight to the Daling River, on the way to gather more than 50,000 Mongolian tribes, attack the Ming army, open the battle of the Daling River, and dominate Liaodong from then on. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
On this day, Li Jing of Daizhou, Jinzhong, Shanxi, with an army of about 5,000 people, called himself the governor, and commanded the troops to attack Shenchi, Fanzhi, and Wutai counties, and the people everywhere were already overwhelmed, and they rose up one after another, in response to Li Jing, and with the military general Zhao Mosheng commanding a battalion, both out of Wutai, there are Wutai people Gu Pu and Gu Hui brothers as the guide.
Straight into Wutai, more than 10,000 people from all over the country, the momentum is huge, Wutai County is frightened, can not be caught off guard, heard that the county town is lost, and hangs himself directly in the back office.
In this way, Wutai was easily captured, Li Jing personally led the personal guard battalion and the people into Shenchi County, first entered the county, fought bravely with the Shenchi official army and township, beheaded 30 levels, the rest were dispersed, and no longer joined the army, Li Jing then sent a large army, went deep into the townships and villages, encouraged the peasants, and won thousands of troops.
"Report~~~ Lord, in the towns and villages west of the city, there are big families who have fortified and defended them, and our brothers have injured seventy or eighty of them, and they can't enter."
"Oh? There is still anyone who dares to resist? When Li Jing heard this, he immediately became interested, looked at the personal guard team led by his family, and greeted directly, "Li Fugui!" ”
Li Jing built the army, mostly with his own relatives as the captains of each battalion, controlling the grassroots soldiers and horses, and now Li Fugui used to be a bitter haha, and he also became the first captain of the pro-guard battalion, commanding one hundred and fifty people, at this moment I heard Li Jing greet, and suddenly came out, "In!" ”
Li Jing said murderously, "You lead the men and horses of the headquarters, bring twenty artillery vehicles, and lead five hundred people, go to capture this village, and pass the order down, if the fortress is broken, no one will be left!" ”
Li Fugui was naturally convinced of his words, "Yes!" ”
Since the whole army has not been mentioned, Li Jing's personal guard battalion, only 500 people, but most of them are from the imperial court, this expedition, Li Jing deliberately took 80 artillery carts from the warehouse of Ningwu Daguan, said that it was a car, but also pulled by manpower, with hundreds of catties of artillery erected on the top, to carry out, very convenient.
This time, Li Jing brought 50 artillery cars along the way, divided into 20 cars of Li Fugui, and the rest were taken to the county seat, ready to attack the city wall......
"County Zun, what's the matter!" I saw that on the wall of the south gate of Shenchi, the local clans and officials stood on the wall battlements, looking at the army of displaced people who were building cannons not far away, looking at the rows of erected artillery, each with a desperate face, and almost no intention to dare to fight.
The county lord trembled and said, "What about the errand who went to the remote pass to ask for help?" ”
"My lord, when is it, the one who asks for help will set off, even if he travels thousands of miles a day, he won't be able to get there." A nearby big clan frowned when he heard this, and he was angry, "My lord still wants to think of something, hurry up and send someone to guard the city wall." ”
Shenchi County, east of Ningwu Pass, west of the head of the pass, left and right two passes, countless soldiers, in the past did not feel any danger at all, but now the east of Ningwu Pass is broken, when the sudden flow of militia came to the city, Shenchi County was not prepared at all, was caught off guard, the county's garrison, almost zero.
The people who will come up to the city wall to guard it are nothing more than the small officials in the county, and there is no one who is a soldier at all, and then there are the private soldiers of the big clans in the county, but this will be kung fu, in the face of the black and suppressed artillery below, how can they hold it by their own people? !
Li Jing's army was stationed, beckoning people from all walks of life to cut down trees and make ladders, just waiting for everything to be ready, Fang gave an order, and fired cannons with the general's cannon to attack Shenchi.
In this way, only a few rounds were sent, hitting the wall, and calling the private soldiers of the officials guarding the city of Shenchi County to cry for their fathers and mothers, and some even lost their weapons and ran home directly, still how, how the big clan screamed, and did not care, Li Jing stood on the high mountain outside the city, vaguely saw the cannon making a contribution, and directly ordered his command to attack the city.
The defenders have long lost their will to fight, at this moment seeing the homeless people attacking the city, everyone trembles with fright, where do they dare to resist, only a drum sound, Shenchi Nancheng is called to break through, there is no fight at all, there are artillery, where is the general state and county can resist.
When Tan Wu led the army into the city first and cleared out the remnants of the enemy, Li Jing entered the city with his guards, only to see a person under his own command, and saw him wearing a green robe, he immediately opened his mouth in surprise, "You are the county magistrate of this county?" ”
You must know that along the way, the magistrate has also seen a few, but they are either suicides, or they are tough and not like words, this scared and trembling, or the first time I saw it, I couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Where is the majesty of Nazhi County at this moment, just let the two small soldiers carry it, almost unable to stand, and the teeth can't stop trembling, "Also, please spare the king's life." ”
It's just a matter of his own life, this county knows that he wants to cry without tears, and when he broke the city, he wanted to leave, but the city was broken too quickly, and he didn't have time at all, so he asked Li Jing's personal guards to catch up and be captured directly.
Li Jing only asked, "Would you like to surrender me?" Seeing that he didn't answer, he immediately laughed dumbly, and he didn't want to die, and he didn't want to surrender, where is there such a good thing in this world, but now, he doesn't dare to do too much, after all, he still wants to be recruited in the future, and he has to let people take him down, so that he can be taken care of.
Tan Wu, who entered the city in advance, turned around at this moment, and behind him was a string of big clans, and asked directly, "My lord, there are big clans in the county who resist and kill several of my brothers, and now they are all called to take it, how to handle it?" ”
Li Jing just glanced at these bound people with disgust, and actually dared to look at his family with hateful eyes, and waved his hand directly, "Pull them all down and cut them!" Confiscation of family property and distribution to the ownerless. ”
Up to now, Li Jing can't turn back on the one hand, he can only go all the way to the black, and the big clans he encounters along the way, as long as he dares to resist, will all be punished, and no hidden dangers will be left, so he will distribute all their land to the landless peasants, and then bewitch them, recruit the peasants as soldiers, and train them to go into battle.
In this way, as long as the imperial court weighs the pros and cons and finds that the encirclement and suppression of their own losses are too great, they will have the opportunity to recruit security, and then show their own strength, after deterring the imperial court, whether to advance or retreat, the initiative is in their own hands.
But on the way, only need a decisive defeat, there will be no peace, their own land, offended the landlords of the whole world, regardless of whether they can receive Zhao'an, even if they reluctantly surrender to the imperial court, it is also difficult, and they will definitely be attacked by all sides, but fortunately, Li Jing did not have any expectations for the Ming Dynasty at all, it was nothing more than borrowing land to recuperate.
Once the time is ripe, it is imperative to overthrow the decaying Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, no matter the rogues or the Tartars, they are all doomed to die in their own hands, the rotten bureaucratic mechanism is hopeless, and the innovation from the lowest level of violent means is the best means to build the society they want......
Thank you Sihuo, Huihui, Bangfeng, Doudou, Sister Chengcheng for the reward, bow down and thank you~~~