Chapter 53: Jinzhou is besieged
"Boom, boom, blow up those Tartars for me!" Zu Dashou waved his sword and shouted in Jinzhou City Tower. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhou Renyuan, dressed in gold armor and three hundred guards, stood behind Zu Dashou. The Hongyi cannon on the city tower kept roaring, and the Qing soldiers attacking in the distance of the city tower kept screaming and fell to the ground, and the corpses of the Qing soldiers were piled up around the city wall.
This is the fourth day that the Qing army has attacked Jinzhou, but the city of Jinzhou is still standing upright, and the Qing army has lost nearly 2,000 people in the past four days.
Dolgon was anxious, walking anxiously around the big tent, he had failed once in the northwest of the Ming Kingdom, if he failed in Jinzhou again this time, I am afraid that Huang Taiji would not spare himself, and Prince Zheng Jierharang and Wuying County King Azig were also worried.
At this time, Hauge rushed into the big tent, panting, "Our reinforcements are coming!" ”
"What? Great, how many people are coming? Dolgon smiled.
"Thirty thousand came, and my first warrior of the Qing Dynasty, Batu Lu Aobai, led the men and horses of XHQ." Hauge said.
"Good! The emperor is still thoughtful, knowing that the city of Jinzhou is strong, and with these 30,000 reinforcements, taking Jinzhou is just around the corner. Dolgon swept away all his worries and said happily.
I saw a bearded Manchu general in his twenties enter the account, knelt down on one knee and said, "Ao Bai, I came to help the crown prince and the princes on the order of my Qing Emperor." ”
"Melerzhangjing, please, with the help of my first warrior of the Qing Dynasty, this king is like a tiger with wings, haha--" Dolgon smiled and lifted himself up.
On the second day, the tired soldiers of the white flag and the two blue flags retreated to rest, and the new force brought by Aobai began to attack Jinzhou.
Ao Bai held a mace behind the army and waved it and shouted, "Warriors of the Qing Dynasty, let the Ming dog of Jinzhou City see the courage of my Qing warriors, the first to climb the city tower will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, a thousand cattle and sheep, and a cow record!" Rush it all for me! ”
Stimulated by the reward, the Qing soldiers howled and rushed to Jinzhou City with the ladder to climb the city. Zhou Renyuan, who was at the head of Jinzhou City, saw that these Qing soldiers were brightly dressed, and said to Zu Dashou, "It's not good, it's the reinforcements of the Tartars!" ”
Zu Dashou disagreed, and said, "Even if there are more Tartar reinforcements, they will all be buried under this Jinzhou city." Artillery ready! ”
When the soldiers of the Aobai Department rushed to the city tower, the Hongyi cannons in Jinzhou began to fire again, but these Qing soldiers were not afraid of death, and only ran forward, completely ignoring the shells around them to smash on their sides.
Zu Dashou saw that the Qing soldiers were advancing too fast and had already entered the range of the Furlong machine, so he hurriedly ordered, "The Furlong machine is ready, launch!" ”
Less than three hundred steps away from the city wall, a black and oppressive shotgun exploded above the heads of the Qing soldiers, and the Qing soldiers were blown up and fell in pieces, and the Qing soldiers raised their shields to protect themselves, and the speed slowed down. The Qing soldier Niu Lu behind him kept shouting, "Don't stop! Rush me! ”
The Qing soldiers picked up speed again, and there were already ladders approaching the city walls. "Fire the firebolt!" Zu Dashou shouted.
Puffs of white smoke rose from the city walls, and the firecrackers and archers on the city tower fired at the same time, and the Qing soldiers attacking in the front row fell screaming from time to time.
"Archers shoot at the walls!" The Qing soldiers who pressed the formation ordered one after another. The archers of the Qing soldiers kept shooting at the city wall, and the fire gunners and archers on the city wall were constantly hit by arrows, and some of them fell off the city tower with a scream.
Zhou Renyuan took off the big bow behind him, and shot an arrow at the Qing soldier Niu Lu under his command, and shot through his head at once. Then, he took a few more steps, aiming at another Qing soldier Niu Lu with another arrow, and another head piercing. In less than half a pillar of incense, Zhou Renyuan had already shot eight Qing soldiers Niu Lu.
The Qing soldiers were horrified and shouted one after another, "The Ming army has archers!" Evacuate! Without Niu Lu's command, the Qing soldiers threw down the siege ladder and retreated back.
Ao Bai jumped straight to his feet from behind the formation and shouted, "Don't retreat!" Don't go back! Give me all rush! ”
A Qing military leader ran over and said with a sad face: "Meler Zhangjing, there are archers in the Ming army city, and eight Niu Lu have been shot dead!" The soldiers couldn't hold back the bullets and withdrew them! ”
Ao Bai sighed and said, "Originally, I thought I could make a head, but I didn't want to fight this Jinzhou City so hard, just withdraw it!" ”
When Dorgon and Zilharang saw that Aobai's soldiers were retreating like a tidal wave, they hurried to Aobai and shouted, "Mel Zhangjing, why don't your soldiers rush forward?" The king's order is to besiege on all sides, and those who retreat from the battle will be killed! ”
Ao Bai said helplessly, "Lord Wang, it's not that the last general doesn't want to rush up, but before he attacked for half an hour, the Niu Lu who pressed the formation was basically shot to death by the archers of the Ming army in the opposite city." ”
Dolgon was horrified in his heart, and said fiercely, "Two hundred steps can kill my Qing warriors with one arrow, it must be the Yongming King of the Ming Kingdom, only his strong bow can shoot so far!" At that time, I should have found an opportunity to kill him during the peace talks, I really regret that I didn't do it at the beginning! ”
"What? The archer in this city is the Yongming King of the Ming Kingdom? Ao Bai said angrily, "He shot and wounded my prince that day, causing him to die of serious injuries, and I will definitely behead him, and I have avenged the prince's revenge!" ”
"Melle Zhangjing deserves to be my first warrior in the Qing Dynasty, good ambition!" Zilharang praised: "But now that the Ming army lives in the city, it is not easy to conquer, I have to find a way to lead the Ming army out of the city." ”
Dolgon pondered for a moment and said, "I have a plan, but I'm afraid it will go against the emperor's original intention." ”
"What strategy? Prince Rui said to hear it! Zilharang asked.
"We can arrest the Han people in this vicinity, use them as forwards, and force them to go to this Jinzhou City, and our army will follow closely behind, and see if the Ming army of Jinzhou can open the city gate. In case this Ming army goes out to rescue, let's take the opportunity to attack the city gate, if the Ming army does not come out to rescue these Han people, our army has also approached the city wall, can avoid the loss of soldiers. Dolgon said proudly.
Hauge, Zilharang and Azig said with worried faces, "The emperor has long ordered that the Han people of Liaodong should not be slaughtered again, isn't it against the emperor's will to do so?" ”
Ao Bai didn't care, and said: "Can the humble lives of the Han people compare to the lives of my Qing warriors?" I see Prince Rui's plan in action! ”
Dolgon smirked, "We just held the Han people in custody and didn't kill them with swords, so this is not a massacre of the Han people." Haha--"
The people of Jierharang also laughed, and Ao Bai praised repeatedly, "It's still Prince Rui's mastery!" Only Hauge's face changed slightly, wondering what difference this had from a massacre?
In the afternoon of the same day, the Qing soldiers began to attack again. Zu Dashou said to Zhou Renyuan, "Lord Wang, it seems that this Tartar is not dead, it seems that this time Huang Taiji has to take my Jinzhou City before he will give up." ”
Zhou Renyuan smiled and said, "The Tartar thief is not dead, it seems that this is another hard battle." ”
The sentry of the city wall suddenly shouted, "General, look, something is wrong with the Tartars this time. ”
Zhou Renyuan and Zu Dashou looked out of the city, Zhou Renyuan's face changed greatly, and he said hatefully, "Despicable and shameless Tartars, they actually use my people as shields!" ”
Zu Dashou also scolded, "Tartars are so unbearable, they are really not as good as pigs and dogs!" ”
The soldiers defending the city asked one after another, "General, lord, to fight or not to fight?" ”
Zhou Renyuan looked at the dense and ragged people of the Ming Dynasty in front of the Qing soldiers, staggering, and the Qing soldiers behind kept whipping them, scolding in their mouths, "Go forward!" ”
The people had tears in their eyes, some women were sobbing incessantly, and some children were so frightened that they wept.
One of the soldiers on the city wall showed his head and shouted: "Retreat, you guys! Go back! ”
Hearing only a "whoosh", a cold arrow was shot from the Qing army behind the people, and the soldier screamed "ah" and fell. The Qing troops behind had already carried the ladder to the city wall.
Zhou Renyuan's face turned pale and said, "Governor Zuo, let's shoot." ”
Zu Dashou waved his hand and shouted three times in a row, "Open the cannon!" Fire! Fire! ”
The gunners on the city walls immediately reloaded, lit the fuse, and turned away with red eyes, they could not bear to see the people of the Ming Dynasty fall under their shells.
I only heard a few loud noises of "boom" and "boom", and the shells fired by the Hongyi cannon smashed directly into the Qing army and the Han people in front, and the people were so frightened that they fled one after another, and a middle-aged Han man in his forties waved his arms and shouted, "Anyway, the front is also dead, and the back is also dead, we fought with those Tartars!" Saying that, he waved his fist and rushed into the Qing soldiers, fighting, and the rest of the people, whether old or weak, also began to fight with the Qing army behind, but they were unarmed where they were the opponents of the murderous Qing soldiers, and after a while, they were all killed by the Qing army, and even the children were not spared.
Zhou Renyuan's eyes were torn apart in the city tower, and he took off his big bow and kept shooting arrows, and the Qing army kept being shot to the ground and fell to the ground. The artillerymen of the city tower were also indignant, constantly firing running shells, and shouting in their mouths, "Blow up those **** Tartars and avenge my Ming people." A deafening roar suddenly sounded in the city tower: "Kill the Tartars and avenge the people of the Ming Dynasty!" Avenge! ”
After the Qing army, Dolgon and Zilharang and others saw that the Ming army did not fire the cannon at first, and they were still complacent, but then they did not expect the city tower to open fire, and then these Han people fought with their own soldiers and were killed, Dolgon's heart felt ominous. Listening to the sound of "revenge" roaring on the city tower, he knew that his plan had failed, but it only aroused the fighting spirit of the Jinzhou defenders even more.
He said helplessly to Zilharang, "It's better to tell the warriors to withdraw!" Zilharang nodded, and ordered, "Order, Mingjin withdraws his troops, and fights again another day!" ”
As the sound of the sound of the dwarp sounded, the Qing troops besieging the city retreated one after another. Zhou Renyuan said to Zu Dashou, "Governor Zuo, send some soldiers to the outside of the city tonight to get some Tartar corpses, and they will be used tomorrow!" ”
Zu Da Shouqi said: "What is the use of the prince to take the corpse of that tartar?" ”
Zhou Renyuan's eyes were full of anger and said, "With the other way, give back to the other!" If you dare to do the first year of junior high school, I will do fifteen! Hum! ”
On the seventh day of the siege of Jinzhou, when the Qing army attacked again, they stopped one after another, with both anger and pain in their eyes.
"What's going on?" Dorgon turned to his men and asked, "Why doesn't the army rush forward?" ”
One of his subordinates, Niu Lu, ran up crying and said, "Lord, the city wall is full of the remains of the brothers!" ”
"What?" Dolgon's throat was so sweet that he almost spurted out a mouthful of blood, and he staggered on his horse. Azig on the side grabbed him and said, "It seems that the attack will not be successful today!" ”
Dolgon hated and said, "This king is ruthless, this Yongming king of the Ming Kingdom is more ruthless than me!" Tell the soldiers to withdraw, pass on the king's order, and negotiate with the Ming army to retrieve the remains of my warriors. ”
After Zhou Renyuan received Dolgon's request to retrieve the remains of the Tartars killed in battle, he said, "Yes, but we also want to retrieve the bodies of my Ming people in exchange." ”
Next, there was a rare calm scene on this war-torn battlefield, according to the agreement, the Qing army retreated ten miles, and the Ming and Qing dynasties each sent a team of 50 people to pick up the remains they wanted.
The Qing army sent the crown prince Haoge to show respect for the dead Qing army, and on the Jinzhou side, Zhou Renyuan personally led the team to welcome back the remains of the people. When the bodies of these people were sent to the city of Jinzhou one by one, Zhou Renyuan covered the bodies with a white cloth and covered all the bodies, a total of 137 bodies.
Zhou Renyuan said loudly, "The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, these people are my heroes of the Ming Dynasty, because they died for the country, and they died as they deserved, and they died heroically!" Let's see them off together! ”
Shen Tieshan pulled out a short gun and shouted to the sky, "Ready-release!" The fifty guards around him "banged" into the sky.
"Salute!" Shen Tieshan then shouted.
Zhou Renyuan and the Ming army took off their helmets one after another and bowed deeply towards the remains of these people!
Seeing this scene, Hauge couldn't help but sigh, "King Yongming, I hope that in the next life, we will not be enemies, but friends!" ”