Chapter 526: Life and Death

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The north gate of Datong is wide open.

The sound of fighting and the flames in the city were at their highest. Half of the sky was red, and the light of the fire obscured the moonlight.

A sentry gallops from the light into the darkness, and emerges from the darkness under a torch. Until he arrived in front of a neat group of cavalry, the sentry horse turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee, and said: "Lord Qiqi, the towers of the four cities have all been captured, and only Jiang Zhuo is still stubbornly resisting in the Governor's Palace."

Dolgon listened closely, and the screams in the city could be heard for more than a dozen miles.

The sentry fell to his knees and waited for the regent's reply.

Two cold words spat out from between Dorgon's lips: "Slaughter the city"

Not slaughtering the city could not eliminate the anger and powerlessness in his heart, only blood could ⊥ these Han people fear.

The Datong rebellion was a turning point in the change of the situation between the north and the south, and before that, although the Ming army had regained Jiangnan, it was still under the siege of the Qing court. The Qing soldiers either crossed south from Yangzhou, or went down from Huguang, only need to be slowly polished, the war is protracted, and Jiangnan must not support it for a long time.

But now it's different, he conquered Datong City, but the Jurchen elite was delayed under this city for a year. At this moment, the soldiers are tired, and they don't know when they will have to wait until they want to launch a large-scale southern invasion. Crucially, having lost Huguang, he was left with no food. Without the wealth of Jiangnan and the grain of Huguang, the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it may be to the Qing court.

Xiangyang, yes, and Xiangyang, he had to go to the rescue of Xiangyang.

The sentry galloped back, shouting excitedly: "The general has a life, slaughter the city"

"Slaughter of the City"

"Slaughter of the City"

The Jurchens' eyes were red, and these two words meant that they could wantonly kill men, rob women, and possess wealth.

After the city gate was opened, there was not much resistance in Datong City, and the city was full of people who were about to starve to death and people who were starving half to death.

Lei Yanqian was wearing iron armor, holding a wide thick knife in his right hand, and he was followed by eight hundred soldiers, all of whom were his cronies who had followed him for many years, and there were more than a dozen people who followed him from the grassland.

The screams were intermittent, Lei Yanqian lowered his head, and the soldiers behind him also hung their heads. Those piercing screams, the screaming people seemed to turn into phantoms, and rushed towards Lei Yanqian with their teeth and claws.

"Don't blame me, really don't blame me"

"You were meant to die, if you want to blame Jiang Zhen for pulling you into a dead end, if you want to blame Zhai Zhe for deceiving you"

Lei Yanqian unconsciously touched his lips with his hand, thinking of the human flesh he had eaten in the past few days, a stream of sour water came out of his stomach, and he suddenly vomited. Datong City was besieged for a year, and the food in the city was exhausted, and he gave up since Jiang Zhuo began to kill women for military food half a month ago.

In the first month of the army, he had a mortal heart. But the original intention was not always the same, and now he didn't want to die, so he secretly contacted the Qing soldiers outside the city and opened the north gate of Datong at the time of Hai.

"The regent has an order to slaughter the city"

The call of the Jurchen cavalry reached his ears, and the knife in Lei Yanqian's hand fell to the ground. The neatly arranged soldiers squeezed in again, worried that the Jurchens would kill sexually, and even they were swept into it.

There was still fighting in the city, and there were more than 300 people left around Jiang Pai, who were besieged in the yamen of the governor's mansion.

There was a tide of captives around, and Jiang Jian knew that the general trend had gone, so he still drew his sword and fought bloodily, hoping that he could pull one more Jurchen as a companion, and he would not be so painful when he died. The Qing soldiers entered the city too suddenly, and he had nightmares every night recently, and he already had a premonition that something bad would happen, but he really didn't expect such a defeat.

The bird's gun had already burst, and the long knife had already curled.

The people around him fell one by one, "That's it, that's it" Jiang Jian only had the last bit of strength, and was about to draw his knife and slash it at his neck, when suddenly the besieging Qing soldiers retreated like a tide.

A Jurchen general stood twenty paces away, none other than Azig, who had led him to the west a year earlier.

"Mr. Jiang"

"Hmph" Jiang Ji looked at the sky with two eyes.

"Don't you want to see Lei Yanqian?"

Jiang Ji spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm on the ground, and the short knife on his neck slashed inward, blood spurting out from behind the small wound. He sat down slowly in the chair behind him, leaning his back against the chair, sticky blood coming from the widening gap, down his chest, down his thighs, down his knees, down his leather boots, and falling to the ground.

The five remaining pro-soldiers around screamed: "Adult" each drew a knife and cut it in his throat, and threw his corpse around Jiang Jiao.

He has descended to the thief, descended to the Qing captivity, and returned to the Ming Dynasty, at least at the moment of death, he is very relieved.

Azig waited quietly for a moment, then pointed to Jiang Ping's corpse and ordered: "Decapitate his head"

From night to dawn, and then from dawn to night, the sound of fighting in Datong City slowly subsided.

Lei Yanqian was brought to Dolgon, and there were 100,000 people, but only these 800 remained. They survived

"Your name is Lei Yanqian"

Lei Yanqian touched his knees to the ground and replied in a hoarse voice: "The last will be"

"You used to have an old relationship with Zhai Zhe in the grassland?"

"Yes, back then, Zhai thief was cruel and cold, hypocritical and cunning, I saw through his face, and I had already detached from him" This was Lei Yanqian's hidden pain, and he was even worried that Dolgon would not let him go because of this. After many rebellions, it was taboo for the Han people to hold military power in the Qing court, and his relationship with Zhai Zhe was a great danger in the eyes of outsiders.

Dolgon stared at him coldly, and said for a long time: "Get up, you have contributed to the city of Datong, and led your soldiers and horses into the red flag."

"Thank you, Lord Wang" Lei Yanqian kowtowed with the most humble courtesy.

Dorgon turned his horse forward and ordered: "Follow me into the city"

The white-armored soldiers with white flags escorted the regent of the Qing court into the quiet city of Datong. The corpses in the streets have been cleaned, and the ruins left by the burning houses are still there. Dolgon stationed on his horse and walked around the head ring of Datong City, with a wide field of vision around him, and the barracks outside the city on all sides were displayed in front of him.

"What a Datong City"

He admired, he sighed. But his dream of conquering the world was shattered by this fortified city.

"Behead this city to shock the hearts of the Han people in the world"

Azig, who was following behind, was a little stunned and asked, "Kill this city?" ”

Ma Guozhu, a Han man who followed behind, quickly understood, but he didn't dare to steal the limelight from Azig, so he didn't dare to answer.

Dolgon's fingers changed for a week, and said slowly: "Dismantle the head of this city."

It was only then that he understood what Dorgon meant, and replied, ""

Under the city of Datong, a large number of rebels in Shanxi went from Henan to Huguang, and only a little scabies was hidden in the Taihang Mountains.

Dolgon was worried that Xiangyang City would be captured by the Ming army and completely lose Huguang, so he had the heart to lead his troops to the south to help, but the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners fought in Datong for a year, and they were tired and tired, so they were unwilling to go to the south to fight again.

The only available soldiers and horses in the Qing court was Wu Sangui's Guanning cavalry, and at the same time as collecting the troops, he sent an order to Wu Sangui, who was stationed in Luzhou, and ordered him to immediately lead his troops to Nanyang and gallop to Xiangyang.