Chapter 449: The Great Retreat (1)

The sudden heavy snow changed the retreat plan of the Jinzhou army, and under Shi Dayong's insistence, a tragic massacre began quietly.

The first to be killed was Mang Gurtai, who was under house arrest in the artillery battalion station, and was dragged by the Ming army with five horses to divide the body, and then his son Epilun and others were killed one after another.

Before Epilun and his aunt Mang Guji could see Mang Guertai, they were tricked into the door hole by He Rufeng, the Jinzhou garrison stationed at Fengtianmen, into the door hole and beat him to death.

Before he died, he was extremely painful, and he would not let go of the shameless broken man Shi Dayong when he called out to be a ghost.

Mang Guji died simply, and the Ming army hit her in the chest with a bang, turning this Hada princess double. The milk was so slammed that he died before he could even scream miserably.

After the death of Mang Gurtai father and son, the Han army banner general loyal to the Jinzhou army with the cooperation of the Jinzhou cavalry to kill the inner city of Liaoyang banner soldiers, Ezhen Baijia died under the chaotic knife, and all the Han people with blue flags surrendered to the Ming army.

There are Liaoyang banner soldiers who are willing to surrender, but the Ming army is not accepted, beheaded, and cut the rank.

So far, there are no Eight Banners men in Shenyang City, and there is no love for Xinjueluo, together with the Jin soldiers who died in the city, the Ming army killed a total of 12,006 Shenyang Eight Banner Men (7,500 military achievements can be counted)

After more than 20,000 women of the Eight Banners imprisoned in the Khan's palace were selected by the Jinzhou army, the rest were burned with the Khan's palace, which Hongtai had built at great expense.

More than 3,000 young and beautiful banner women, together with more than 2,000 Han palace maids and eunuchs, withdrew to southern Liaoning with the Ming army. Among the flag girls are Hong Tai's two concubines, Ye He and Yan Zha, as well as a number of Beile Fujin and Side Fujin. Dolgon Zhengfu Jin Borgigit clan, side Fujin Borzigit, Duoduo Zhengfu Jin Ming Antaiji's daughter Dazhe and other women are all included.

Dayong arranged for these women and the gold, silver and jewelry recovered from the inner city to retreat first, and Jiang Wanli was responsible for the retreat task, and along the way protected the 1,000 cavalry discussed by Peng Sihai, Peng Dazhui's nephew, with more than 600 large and small carriages and more than 8,000 personnel.

The second group to leave the city was the men and horses of the artillery battalion, and they retreated with them more than 300 carts full of grain, 200 carts of cloth, silk, ginseng, mink, etc., and 160 carts of armor and weapons. The people in charge of the retreat were Shen Yi and Dong Zhong of the artillery battalion, and the number of people who retreated this time was 9,200.

The third batch of people going out of the city is a 200 cart full of the heads of the men of the Eight Banners, and the current number of carts is the head of the male Ding of the Aixin Jueluo clan. These heads were cared for like treasures by the Ming army, far more important than those gold and silver treasures. In addition to the young Ding head without counting military merits, there are 8,600 heads of the Eight Banners and 1,500 heads of the Han Army.

The Ming Dynasty counted merit by the first rank, and the wealth in Shenyang City was enough to make the Jinzhou army a rich man, but the military merit was more valued by the Jinzhou army. Including Shi Dayong, everyone wanted to get an official reward from the Ming court. Therefore, when arranging the third group of retreats, Dayong was the first to order all the enemy soldiers to be taken away.

In addition to the head used to count military merits, another 3,500 war horses from the major Baylor mansions retreated together, responsible for the retreat task is Geng Zhongming monk Kexi, along the way to protect in addition to the left battalion of the infantry army two thousand households 2,400 soldiers, there are 1,600 new Han troops, 1,500 auxiliary soldiers, more than 6,000 personnel.

The three batches of people and horses set off on the 20th, 21st, and 23rd, and Liaoyang has announced the express horse in advance, and should be ready to respond before the 30th.

Dayong ordered Cao Bianjiao to retreat immediately, so as not to be trapped by the wind and snow, but Cao Bianjiao sent people to say that he is now stationed near Xipingbao, and it has not snowed here, so there is no need to worry about the retreat of heavy cavalry for the time being.

Dayong was worried that Cao Bianjiao's cavalry was not many, and if Hong Taiqin led the elite cavalry to cross the main force and march towards Shenyang, Cao's troops might not be the enemy, so he had the intention to let Cao Bianjiao retreat quickly, but the wind and snow made the messenger lose his way, and he could only wait for the weather to clear before making a plan.

The heavy snow in Shenyang has been falling for three days one after another, except for the blizzard at the beginning, the snow behind is not big, but the wind is very strong, blowing people's faces ache.

In the past few days, in addition to trying their best to arrange a retreat, the Ming army also informed the Han people in the outer city through the Han officials of the former Later Jin regime that those who were willing to withdraw to southern Liaoning with the Ming army could join the army, but they needed to bring their own carriages, horses, food, and warm clothes, and the Ming army only provided protection along the way, and the Han people took care of the rest.

Under such harsh conditions, there were naturally very few people who responded to the Ming army, and at the end of the day, only more than 8,000 Han people were willing to withdraw to southern Liaoning with the army, and the rest did not move.

Seeing this, the Ming army did not make any other moves, let alone forcibly recruit Han people into the army, let alone loot Han people's property and women, which made the Han people in the outer city calm down, and it seemed that the army of Heavenly Mandate Khan was coming back soon, otherwise why would the Ming army retreat in such a hurry. Out of fear of the Eight Banners, many Han people who originally wanted to return to the Ming Dynasty also had a wait-and-see mentality, they were very worried that if they followed the Ming army and were caught by the Eight Banners, it would be a dead end, not to mention that the Ming army could not provide them with much help, who was willing to travel thousands of miles in the ice and snow, and they would die?

After the general reported the movements of the Han people to Dayong, Dayong did not say anything, only arranged for the more than 8,000 Han people to go out of the city immediately, and came up with his latest invention——— the snow warping car.

The design of the snow warp is very simple, and the materials are simple, which is not useful anywhere else, but it is a sharp weapon in the ice and snow. Dayong also remembered the snow warped cart after seeing that the carriage out of the city was difficult to walk on and the loading capacity was not large. After a simple drawing, he called for someone to gather the Hermes-epitek craftsmen in the city and let them build dozens of samples overnight. After getting the test outside the city, he immediately demolished many yamen in the inner city, gathered tens of thousands of pieces of wood to build a snow warp car, and built more than 5,000 snow warped cars. In addition to horse-drawn carts, these snow wagons are also made with dogs. In order to transport people away as much as possible, Dayong ordered all the livestock in Shenyang to be used, in addition to dogs, a lot of cattle were also found, which greatly increased the transportation capacity of the Ming army.

According to Lin Junyi's statistics, the large-scale use of snow sheath vehicles can increase the carrying capacity of the Jinzhou Army by a quarter. Don't underestimate this quarter, if you change it to the population, it will save 10,000 lives, and if it is exchanged for goods and food, it is enough to support tens of thousands of troops for half a year.

Most of the booty, grain, gold and silver in the city have been transported, and the rest does not occupy much carriage and snow chariot, so Lin Junyi, Guo Cheng and others once again asked Dayong for their lives, whether they could forcibly arrange for some Han people from the outer city to leave the city, so as not to give them their lives in vain.

After thinking about it, Dayong agreed that the Ming army would force 10,000 Han people out of the city, but these 10,000 Han people must be women and children, and the rest of the people will go if they want to, and if they don't want to go, they will follow them.

After receiving Dayong's order, Lin Junyi and others immediately began to arrange for the Han people to go out of the city, and the Ming army broke down the door from house to house, ordering the women and children of the family to leave the city immediately. Under the threat of force by the Ming army, more than 4,000 children and more than 6,000 women were forced out of the city. The husbands and fathers of women and children who cried and cried to go with them were also agreed, and so, together with the more than 8,000 people in advance, nearly 30,000 people were willing to leave the city. But this number also tested the transportation capacity of the Jinzhou army, and Dayong was quite unhappy after knowing the road, because a large number of chariots and horses had withdrawn to Liaoyang with the first three groups of men and horses, and now the loading capacity of the city has been improved after the snow warping car, but it can only barely transport less than 20,000 people out of the city. The number he gave to Lin Junyi was 10,000, but they got nearly 20,000 people out, a full 10,000 more, how can this go?

Dayong didn't blame the generals for being soft-hearted, how could he not be in pain, they were all descendants of Yan and Huang, and how could he bear to poison them, so he did not blame Lin Junyi and others for violating the order, but asked them to immediately demolish the houses in the outer city and build as many snow warps as possible

It's not that the bones haven't been updated in the past two days, but I received a notice that I am not allowed to write about the massacre or violence again, and I have to pay attention to the policy, so I am entangled in how to write it later. Some places still need to be changed, so stop for these two days.