Chapter 417: The Battle of Shenyang (4)

Mang Gurtai shot more than 1,000 inscriptions into the city of Shenyang, most of which were confiscated by the Jin army at the head of the city, but many of them were still hidden by the Jin soldiers, and some were shot directly into the residential areas near the city wall. Therefore, although Dai Shan strictly ordered the news to be blocked, the content of the text still spread in the city.

There are too many black materials about Hong Tai on Mang Gurtai's text, some Shenyang soldiers and civilians have occasionally heard it, but some of them dare not think about it, what kind of adultery of mothers and adulterous sisters is already beyond their brains can imagine, if what Mang Gurtai said is true, then Hong Tai is really not worthy of being the Khan of the Great Jin Kingdom. What made them even more shocked and frightened was that Mang Gurtai actually said in the inscription that he had invited 100,000 Ming troops, carrying thousands of large and small artillery, and as long as he wanted, he could break through Shenyang overnight. Now, in order to prevent the lives of the soldiers in the city from being ruined and the people's industries from being destroyed, they were persuaded to surrender first to avoid unnecessary casualties.

It was clearly promised in the text that as long as the soldiers and civilians of Shenyang, regardless of the banner, Han and Mongolian, but someone opened the city gate to enlarge the army and entered the city, the officers and soldiers would be promoted to five levels and rewarded with a thousand gold; The people can also be immediately freed from slavery, rewarded with a thousand gold, and those who are willing to serve as officials are also given appointments. In short, a large number of knighthoods and official positions and countless gold and silver rewards awaited these willing soldiers and civilians. On the contrary, after the army broke the city, those who were stubborn and stubborn resisted would be to raid their homes and exterminate their clans, and kill a chicken and dog.

Mang Gurtai originally intended to intimidate the Jin army in the city not to fight to the death, but he didn't expect to make the city misunderstand that he and the Ming army were going to slaughter the city after breaking the city.

The soldiers and civilians in the city of Shenyang, regardless of the banners, Han and Mongols, who have not experienced the Eight Banners Massacre, there are initiators, participants in the massacre, and victims of the massacre, so they all know what it means to massacre the city. Therefore, for a while, the soldiers and civilians in the city were panicked, worried that the Ming army would really slaughter the city after entering the city, and even more worried that someone would be tempted by the heavy reward to open the city. The former are mostly Han people in the city, and the latter are naturally banner people, Mongols and those hardcore traitors

Dai Shan's hard work in the past few days is finally the reality that the Ming army is in the city, with the rapid spread of the content of the text, Shenyang City suddenly undercurrent surged, and the flag and Han were even more suspicious of each other. The banner people were afraid that the Han people would open the city to respond to the Ming army, and the Han people were afraid that the banner people would slaughter them frantically before they died, and they were even more afraid that the flag people would use them as cannon fodder to defend the city.

Fortunately, Dai Shan had already prepared and had transferred all the elite bannermen to the inner city, and the bannermen in the outer city also moved to the inner city as much as possible, so that the outer city remained calm on the surface, and there was no large-scale Manchu-Han conflict before the Ming army attacked the city.

At this time, even a spark can make the outer city explode, you must know that there are 100,000 Han people in the outer city, and the army attacking the city outside the city is also the army of the Han people, and the full people in the city are only five or six thousand, and the remaining 30,000 are the old and weak women and children of the men in the family. If the Han people really rebelled, there was no need for the Ming army to attack the city, and Shenyang itself would be in chaos first.

Fortunately, those Han people have been slaves for too long, and they have lost their blood, although they are suspicious and afraid of the banner people, but no one dares to gather people to riot. In addition, those Han soldiers who had been attached to the Han army in the early years and their families who went out to fight for the Han army spontaneously monitored the neighbors and Han people, so that the seriously understaffed Jin soldiers could free up their hands to strengthen the defense of the inner city, instead of sending people to patrol the streets to shock the Han people.

Mang Gurtai said to Shi Dayong that Dai Shan would not levy Han people from the outer city to help in the war, but the fact was that Dai Shan did, he not only requisitioned the Han people to the city to help in the war, but also handed over the defense of the outer city to the Han people. In charge of the defense of the outer city of Shenyang were the third-class Meile Zhangjing Sun Degong, and the deputy general of the Han Army Banner, Shi Tingzhu.

These two are Han people who are absolutely trusted by Daishan, the former has made great contributions to the Jin country, if it were not for Sun Degong, the Ming army would not have been defeated so badly in Guangning back then. And the latter not only fought against the Ming army before Sun Degong's battle, but also persuaded Zu Dashou to surrender in the Battle of Daling River. Therefore, the two are the "good friends" trusted by the Manchurians, and they are also raised by the old slave and Hong Taien, who not only give them important responsibilities, but also marry the banner woman as their wife, and their loyalty to the Jin State and Aixin Jueluo family is even stronger than that of some Manchus. So the two of them and Daikin are already grasshoppers on a rope, and they can't run away even if they want to.

Based on the "merits" that the two of them did for the Jin Army back then, they don't have to think about it, and they also know what will happen to them after the Daoming Army breaks the city, so he handed over the defense of the outer city to the two of them, and Dai Shan is the most relieved. (Author's note: At that time, intermarriage between Manchu and Han was still allowed, and it was not until after the Qing army entered the customs that intermarriage between Manchu and Han was prohibited. Note, the Han men who carried into the Manchu Eight Banners and the Han Army Flag are not counted, strictly speaking, they are no longer Han people)

Sun Degong was actually quite unlucky, he should not have appeared in Shenyang City, because his station was Tieling, and the reason why he was in Shenyang was only because he heard that Hong Tai's expedition to Mongolia won a complete victory and won the jade seal of the country, so he rushed to Shenyang City to participate in the "persuasion" of the great achievement. God knows which tendon the Ming army made the wrong move, and it would suddenly kill from Dajin's emptiest Liaonan, and swept all the way, so that Dajin had no power to fight back. Mang Gurtai suddenly reversed Dajin and dedicated Liaoyang City to the Ming army, which caught him off guard and was blocked alive in the empty city of Shenyang.

Sun Degong was very self-aware of what kind of treatment he would receive after being captured by the Ming army, so after receiving Dai Shan's order, he and Shi Tingzhu immediately led his own soldiers to take over the newly recruited 3,000 Han army. The 3,000 Han troops were all the elite of the Liaodong Army of the former Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the Jin Army with Zu Dashou last year.

Zu Dashou mysteriously died outside the city of Jinzhou, Hong Tai immediately let the banners divide up his subordinates, and the rest were incorporated into the Han army banner of Tong Yang, and most of the Han army banners accompanied the expedition to Mongolia except for a small number of Han army flags in southern Liaoning. And these 3,000 people were all divided into slavery and servitude in the palaces of the generals and colonels of the various banners. In order to alleviate the shortage of troops, Dai Shan requisitioned and distributed the banners on the Baylor Mansion, and hit these former elites of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong.

Dai Shan is not afraid that these elites of the original Ming army will reorganize themselves to rebel, because it is their former master who commands these Ming troops - Zu Zerun, Zu Zehong, Zu Zechuan, Zu Dacheng, and other generals who descended with Zu Dashou.

Like the other military leaders of the Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong Army under Zu Dashou was entirely his personal army, and the soldiers were only loyal to their superiors, not to the Ming Emperor who was far away in Beijing. Therefore, Zu Dashou decided to surrender, except for a very small number of generals who committed suicide and martyrdom with He Kegang and other generals who were unwilling to reduce their gold, most of them accepted their fate, even if the gold was reduced, their loyalty to the ancestral family still did not change. Therefore, with the ancestral family here, as well as Sun Degong and Shi Tingzhu watching, Dai Shan is not worried that these elites of the original Ming army will have different intentions.