Chapter 370: Intimidation and Seizure of the City

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The hero of Shanhaiguan is not just a wall. Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, in order to resist the barbaric Jurchen Tatar invasion, the Ming Dynasty has continuously built a large number of fortresses on the Jinzhou line. As long as the troops are well supplied, it is simply impossible to completely break through with the military power of the Tartars.

Of course, if a certain garrison general quietly lets people go, that's two things.

These forts were so fortified that even in the era of guns and cannons, they were still not so easy to take down. The famous "I don't want casualties, I just want Tower Hill" that happened in the war in this world is enough to prove its difficulty.

On the entire defensive line, Gaotai Fort, Daxing Fort, Xingshan, Songshan, Dalinghe Fort, and so on are not fertile fields in Pingchuan, and if the blockers can make up their minds to risk their lives, the attacking troops will have to pay an extremely heavy price for every step forward. This is not to mention the core of Jinzhou.

But in today's battle, Yang Hao occupies the advantage of attacking from the south to the north, and can mobilize the navy to assist at any time, there is a hot air balloon in the sky to watch the enemy's formation, and if necessary, he can also set up an airplane to strike ...... in the air. In terms of the level of weapons and equipment alone, the main force of the revolutionary army at this time is no worse than the PLA of this world, and the performance of heavy weapons is much more than that.

With such a great advantage in force, the enemy on the opposite side has no fighting spirit at all, and from top to bottom they either raise their hands and surrender, or flee with their heads shrunk. Along the way, the forward units of the revolutionary army patronized and captured prisoners. The chances of actually firing a gun are close to zero.

It's just a smooth and long-term drive. Kill all the way to the city of Jinzhou. Key strongholds such as Songshan and Xingshan were taken one after another, and they had more spare strength to go to Dalinghe Fort and attack Yiju by going north.

Yang Hao's command followed forward to Ningyuan Prefecture, and when he saw the situation map of the troops spreading into the war zone like the tide, he couldn't help but sigh lightly: "The Manchu Qing Dynasty is really exhausted, and this last unit loyal to them has no fighting spirit, it seems that we were too careful about the form before." ”

Shi Jianfei's eyes flickered, he couldn't tell whether he was angry or disappointed, and said in a muffled voice: "People's hearts are turned back to this. The Manchu court had a little bit of a motivated heart. The hope of a change for a people accustomed to its rule will also give us tenfold resistance. It's a pity that with their stubbornness and conservatism, it is the maximum limit to be able to maintain their rule to this day. ”

As an outstanding soldier from the old Qing Dynasty, Shi Jianfei worked hard to show off his talents in the study and examination, and then switched from Rong to martial arts, thinking that he could try to find a way to rejuvenate the country with his enthusiasm and patriotism.

But he finally found out. The whole country has become a pool of stagnant water that cannot be stirred, and everyone is only staring at the small profits in front of them. Ignoring the laws of the country and its own responsibilities, he frantically digs into the corners of the country to damage the public and private interests. This situation and this scene can be easily corroborated from history, so as to judge what the final outcome will be.

Not to mention, in the last years of the collapsed Ming Dynasty, the court was full of self-proclaimed "gentlemen" Donglin Party rogue-hooligan literati, providing sufficient protective umbrellas for the noble landlord class that covered the world, and completely emptied the imperial power. Concealing the land and population, not paying taxes, and "floating" the emperor's hard-earned military expenses, leaving the country with no money and food to relieve the disaster and no money to support the war.

Similarly, the officers at the front have formed a system that is almost private, and each class of officers frantically divides up the salaries, and the soldiers at the bottom live as slaves without dignity and security.

From top to bottom, the whole country is lying on the huge imperial body to knock on the bones and eat the marrow, and the so-called responsibility of strengthening the country only stays in the mouths of scholars such as "Fushe". And the biggest effect of similar Huanghuang Dayan is nothing more than the prostitutes they use to soak those Qin Huai Bayan and others.

Comparing the major event of saving the rise and fall of the country with prostitution, one can imagine what kind of things the people of the Shilin class in the late Ming Dynasty had in their heads, and what kind of bastards they themselves were.

As for Emperor Chongzhen, needless to say, from the moment he took the initiative to kill Jinyiwei and dismiss the only group of eunuchs who were loyal to him, he was doomed to failure.

This collective death from top to bottom took decades of hard work to finally exhaust the vitality of the Ming Dynasty. The gas has been exhausted, so that Houjin, who has a population of hundreds of thousands, has picked up a ready-made big bargain. What followed was the long period of more than 200 years in which all strata of the country paid the price for their misdeeds.

The current situation in the Qing Kingdom is very similar, the young emperor is impatient and reckless, and there is a circle of young ministers who can talk about cannons, concocting all kinds of unrealistic plans to make him happy. And behind him, there is always a towering shadow hanging in the sky, that is the Empress Dowager Cixi, who will bear the great black cauldron of the destruction of the entire dynasty in the future.

What about the ministers? Just look at what the governors across the country are doing. The Qing Dynasty has not yet died, and they have all begun to accumulate money and wealth to protect themselves one by one, even if the British help, the taxes will still not be collected.

This is the time when the country is in a "critical autumn".

Compared with the former Ming Dynasty, the good people are the Han family, and they can't be suppressed without killing tens of millions of dollars. (Probably more than a few hundred million, didn't there be many Manchu officials who recorded in their little books that Zhang Xianzhong killed 600 million people in Sichuan?) But the strange thing is that the Qing army actually captured the Great Western Kingdom after the population of Sichuan was killed for a full thirteen years, so in the past thirteen years, the Qing army has been crawling and advancing on land? Or have they been fighting ghosts for more than ten years?! Of course, those few Qing court royal literati who wrote books will definitely become great gods when they get modern to write dark online articles, which is really imaginative! )

It took two hundred years for the Manchu Qing Dynasty to "enter China and then become China", and now, as long as it is prompted, its barbarian nature is immediately revealed, and it has become an important weapon for anti-Qing aspirants to attack its weakness.

Shi Jianfei has followed Yang Hao for two years, and when he is exposed to it and thinks about it himself, he knows that he really poured all his blood on the dog's eyes before. The rule of this decaying dynasty is hopeless, and it is not worthy of his loyalty. The value of his life should be embodied in the rebuilding and rejuvenation of the entire Chinese nation.

Yang Hao is also taking this as the core. It took two whole years for the body to walk. Step by step, it proves its manifesto and ideals. Point out a glorious avenue for all those who have the world in mind.

Those who maintain the old order of the old dynasty that will be overthrown will either be ruthlessly defeated and struggled, or they will be ashamed to lay down their arms, give up resistance, and accept a just trial.

This is the case with the Qing generals on the front line of Shanhaiguan.

The battle was like this, and Yang Hao's previous plan of "sharpening the team with war" would not work. Without a bloody battle, the troops could not temper their spirits. Consciousness is not the hard-won nature of peace and light. If this continues, in the future, when encountering a steady stream of armies of foreign powers, they will inevitably suffer losses and make up for this lesson at a greater cost.

At best, it is to make the great cause of national reunification pay a lower price, shed less blood and sacrifice, and greatly reduce the probability of having your hands stained with the blood of your compatriots, so that the pressure in your heart may be less in the future? …… This can be regarded as a hypocrisy in the heart of a person who came out of the era of peace.

Not to mention Yang Hao's headache on how to adjust the strategic progress, in Jinzhou City, more than 10,000 Yi troops are all shrinking into it. When the revolutionary army approached, the troops rushed past from below. The Qing troops on the city wall looked at each other with frightened eyes, trembling and not knowing what to do.

Boss Song Qing didn't stay in the government office and sulked. He stood on the tower with a calm face. Indifferently watched the neatly looked troops rolling away in the distance, and Ma Yukun, who abandoned the position and was defeated, took off his top and stood calmly on the side, unable to tell whether he was happy or sad.

When the group of troops had completely passed and the rising smoke and dust slowly dissipated, Song Qing suddenly asked, "These soldiers and horses, in the past, were mostly under the command of Nie Gongting and Yuan Weiting, right?" ”

Ma Yukun didn't know why, so he was stunned for a moment and nodded: "It is said that it is." The revolutionary army attacked Lutai by surprise, stormed the Dingwu army, captured more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, except for a few who were disarmed and returned to their hometowns, and selected 30,000 of them to be re-integrated into the new army and reorganized and trained. ”

This information is not secret, Yang Hao also deliberately let the outside world know the fine style of the revolutionary army, and deliberately publicized it through the media, so that everyone who wants to know can know a thing or two, let alone a high-ranking officer or general.

Song Qing sighed: "The same soldier, but only washed away for a few months, and now he has been reborn, not only is he not afraid of fighting, but he is also thirsty for war." If it is said that when the Taiping Army was pacified, there was still the lure of being promoted to an official and making a fortune by sealing his wife and son, but what did the revolutionary army rely on? ”

He didn't mention the slogans that were common in peasant uprisings, such as "equal to the rich and the poor", which had been proven countless times to be used to fool the lower classes of the people into sending them to death. Even if Li Zicheng did the best, after entering the capital, he still burned, killed, plundered, arrogant, and lascivious, how to do it? To put it bluntly, they are all a group of grass robbers, and they can't complain that generations of Confucian scholars look down on them.

Ma Yukun couldn't figure out what the old man meant, so he had to follow his words: "According to what I heard from my humble position, there is also a military merit system in the revolutionary army, and the officers emphasize equality and unity, and they preach their great righteousness of saving the country day and night. Anyone who chooses one of them can talk freely about all kinds of righteousness and believe in it, just like the Buddhists and the like. And everyone is so united that it is difficult to shake it. ”

"This is where they are strong, and it is what makes Yang Dingshi very different from everyone else!"

Song Qing sighed from the bottom of his heart, and he was as clear about these internal information.

The revolutionary army's ideological education work was so powerful that people of this era were afraid. They've all fought against fanatical religious people, and that's a desperate rush. With a bunch of lies full of loopholes, the Taiping army can fool people in half the country into going crazy with them, and the sky is falling apart. Yang Hao's set of theories that have been practiced and profoundly summarized over time is simply a program of action that can be used directly, not only taking care of every detail, but also allowing everyone to witness their operability, achievability, and sustainability.

Although most of the generals at the end of the Qing Dynasty were old and coarse, and they didn't know much about big characters, they still had the vision that they had trained all their lives. Song Qing and others are enough to realize that even if Yang Hao does not have such advanced guns and equipment, the revolutionary army armed with ideological weapons alone and holding the same backward firearms can still defeat the contemporary opponents.

A force united with ideals and convictions is almost invincible.

Having said this, Ma Yukun suddenly understood the old handsome's thoughts, and the old face couldn't help but blush slightly, revealing a little shame.

Indeed, the strength of the revolutionary army is obvious to all, and foreigners cannot defeat him. What else? But Tama Junmen chose not to resist. This is a shame of his duty as a soldier. Inexcusable.

Song Qing's old eyes glanced slightly, and he noticed all the changes in his expression, the corners of his mouth and beard trembled slightly, and he said leisurely: "Speaking of which, you and I have been loyal and dutiful to the imperial court." In today's world, great changes are imminent, and the great powers are waiting for the left, and as a soldier, you should do your best to serve the service, even if you are broken to pieces. This is a of internal strife. can do less, and also have the face to meet the ancestors. ”

Ma Yukun bowed and saluted: "Your Excellency is kind, I am ashamed of my humble duties, and I am grateful." ”

Song Qing waved his hand: "Don't mention it, let's wait to see what means the kid surnamed Yang has, and if he continues to use the sword and soldiers, he will break the old man's military heart." ”

Ma Yu Kunming Bai, Lao Shuai is deliberately releasing water and passively resisting. All in all, no matter how you Yang Hao tossed, my old man stayed in the city and didn't go out. You go from below, and you hit wherever you like. Anyway, we just don't mess with you. The words of surrender must not be spoken, and the old man must have face for the rest of his life.

On the other hand, Yang Hao's side wants to rely on the strength of the soldiers and horses, trying to force one head, and he can't say that the old man wants to fight him. There is no immortal in war? Song Qing and these people have been accustomed to killing all their lives, and they have long honed a hard-hearted heart, no matter how many people die, it will only be Yang Hao's revolutionary army that will be uncomfortable in the end.

This depends on whether they can tacitly understand each other, and whether the revolutionary army has that wisdom.

Song Qing is not so simple to wait. In the series of defense areas from Shanhaiguan to the outskirts of Jinzhou, most of them were deployed troops who did not listen to his calls, and now they were basically captured and scattered. In Jinzhou City, the core ten battalions are completely loyal to his old base, and the other soldiers and horses are just servant positions, and they can't make big waves. Therefore, he doesn't have to worry about being bought by the revolutionary army early, and suddenly making it difficult to get down.

What happened to Nie Shicheng is unforgettable!

Yang Hao didn't let the old man wait too long. Just after the main force of the revolutionary army succeeded in occupying the deserted Yizhou in Jinzhou, and ensuring that the flanks would not be disturbed, they concentrated on deploying elite troops to cross the Daling River, occupy pastures, and reach Quang Ninh in the front, facing the defensive front of the Qing army in Shengjing from afar.

At the same time, the propaganda units of the revolutionary army went into action, and hot air balloons carrying a large number of leaflets were thrown overhead. The amount is large enough to ensure that each person has several equal portions in his hand. The content of it is mostly pictures, enough for ninety percent of the illiterate people to see clearly, as long as the surrender of the city, everyone has money and food, and the revolutionary army treats prisoners preferentially.

Not only that, but the hot air balloon is also equipped with high-power speakers, which use standard Mandarin to promote various preferential policies around the clock, so that everyone with normal ears can hear clearly.

This hand alone has frightened most of the Qing army and the people of Jinzhou City!

Who has ever seen something that can fly in the sky these days! In particular, the body of the hot air balloon is extraordinarily large, suspended in mid-air like a fairy means, at that time, there were many superstitious over-superstitious kneeling kowtows, but also to the "thunder sound" passed down from above in horror.

In addition, after the artillery regiment directly under it arrived from the rear, several battalions dispersed and opened up their positions in the most open field of vision, so that the Qing officers and soldiers at the head of the city could clearly see the thick body tubes. Then, a special "fire drill" was announced, and the officials and people in the city were told not to worry when they heard the loud noise.

This Nima is sincerely worrying, okay!

I didn't know about it, but now I got the news, so more people flocked to the city wall than ever before. Under the watchful eye, a battalion of 122mm howitzers fired at a hill closer to the city, pouring more than 100 grenades in one go.

This number is really not much in modern warfare. But in the era of most solid bullets, the shock brought by high-explosive grenades is all the big before!

There was a loud thunderbolt and thunder, and people were shocked for several kilometers from a distance, and their ears were numb and their heads were foggy, and then they saw a series of fires rising from the lush mountains! Hundreds of explosions joined together, engulfing a small hill entirely, and the boiling fireworks converged into a thick mushroom cloud, which soared towards the sky! The flickering red light, like demons and monsters grinning at people, frightened the officials and people all over the city who couldn't stand up straight with trembling legs, and even more so peeing their pants!

After the smoke passed, a large chunk of the hill was cut off (in fact, all the trees and vegetation were destroyed). The Qing army in the city looked at the muzzle of the smoke in horror, and then thought that there were several times more such weapons in other directions, and the morale of the army completely fell to the bottom.

They all understand now that if they don't surrender, they may not know when the shell will fall on their heads, blowing them to pieces and killing all their bodies!

After the bombardment, no one in the government or the people could afford to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and the tide of surrender and death suddenly swept the whole city. Even if it was a loyal officer, he had to carefully plan for his life and death at this moment, and after gathering in private to discuss, he jointly appealed to Song Qing.

Lao Shuai looked at a bunch of cronies brought out by himself, and sighed helplessly: "The kid surnamed Yang is amazing!" Coercion and temptation are both soft and hard, and the old man can't eat him. That's it, you can do whatever you like. ”

On the second day of the artillery threat, Song Qing and Ma Yukun and other generals were coerced by their subordinate officers to surrender in Kaecheng. The two veterans refused to obey and were "wounded" by their subordinates and sent to a military hospital for "rescue".

Yang Haoming knew that they were putting on a show, and he didn't think much of it, so why not solve the obstacles quickly at such a low cost and fulfill their reputation?

After leaving the city to the reserve forces to regain control, the large army continued to advance, and this time, it was difficult for them to pass the level without blood. Just near the Big and Small Black Mountain Forts, the forward troops bumped into the Shengjing Qing army who came to the rescue! (My novel "Liding 1894" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)