1o-17 Burning Shengjing

The current Red Shirt Army is different from the previous Red Shirt Regiment, in the past, Liu Ziguang relied on a fierce word to fight, the whole army was extremely brave, and the war was put to death and then born, now it is not as good as before, the slaves turned over and became masters, all of them have a lot of money and a lot of wives and children, and the style of fighting has also changed, that is, it all depends on firepower.

Liu Ziguang's salary to his subordinates is definitely the best, but he does not raise idlers, and he has to conduct martial arts assessments every month, but if he doesn't pass the pass, he will be eliminated, and enough silver will return to his hometown to become a rich man, so those who remain are people with excellent military skills, plus there are constantly newcomers who have undergone systematic military education to join, and the current Red Shirts are still amazing in combat effectiveness.

According to the 6th War Regulations of the Red Shirts, the two armies engaged each other, and the artillery came first, first covering the fire to disrupt the enemy's formation, and then the advance of the musket phalanx, and the musket and saber cavalry were interspersed and divided, and the whole tactical process was like a storm, inheriting the fierce tradition of the old Red Shirt regiment.

Since it was mainly firepower, the ammunition in the baggage naturally accounted for the majority, and a boatload of gunpowder was transported from Qingdao, as well as a large number of lead bullets and shells, and at the same time, the Red Shirts also collected pig iron in the local area to cast shells on the spot, hoarded grain and grass equipment, and prepared for two-way combat.

The ambitious Liu Ziguang will not be trapped in Shanhaiguan, although he does not have many soldiers and horses in his hands, but it is an advanced army equipped with hot weapons, how can he put the Qing soldiers with spears and bows and arrows in his eyes, after the red shirt army gains a firm foothold, it will take Yongping Mansion as the center, attack in both directions, take Liaodong in the east, and disturb the Beijing division in the west.

There are a total of 50,000 people in the Red Shirt Army and the Beiyang Naval Division, half of whom are sailors of the Boat Division, as well as logistics personnel such as craftsmen and machine operators, and only 16,000 people can really be used for front-line operations, including the Sailor Buyong, the Wutang Scholars, and the students of the 6th Army of the Song Dynasty. Liu Ziguang personally led a battalion of the Red Shirt Army, a battalion of the Sailor Bu Yong and the Xuemen of the Jiangwutang to the east by boat, and Li Yan led most of the Red Shirt Army to attack the west to harass the area of Beijing and Tianjin.

In the establishment of the Ming army, the battalion is the basic unit, and each battalion of the regular forbidden army has about 3,000 people, Liu Ziguang's army is different from the forbidden army, it is a small battalion, plus more than 1,000 logistics personnel, and the two battalions of soldiers plus the student soldiers are less than 3,000 people in total.

At the same time, Li Yan also led the army to the west, occupying Zunhua Zhili Prefecture, causing huge pressure on the Qing army in Beijing and Tianjin, the Qing army's small armed forces and Li Yan's troops tried to make contact, and were beaten to the ground, and did not dare to fight, so they could only retreat into the big city to hold on, Li Yan's light army rushed into the big city and did not want to occupy the big city, even if it was occupied, there were not enough troops to hold it, it was to show off the mighty roar, looking for an opportunity to annihilate the enemy's living forces.

Hong Chengchou is responsible for leading the army to the south, Tuhai is responsible for the security of the north, he knows that the Ming army has sharp weapons, and does not dare to kill its edge, although there are strong forces such as the Jianrui Battalion, the Xiaocai Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, etc., but before the artillery is not mass-produced, it still cannot fight head-on with the Ming army, so he has to rely on high walls and deep ditches to preserve his strength. The Ming army was in a no-man's land in Zhili, and even the light cavalry broke into the city of Beijing, but no Qing army dared to face the battle. At this time, Peng Chun had already returned to Tuhai's tent to listen to orders, and he had been rejected by Tuhai many times, so he could only watch the small group of cavalry of the Ming army below smash their fists on the city wall with hatred.

On the Liaodong side, Nalan Mingzhu, who had just returned from Goryeo, met an envoy from the capital when he arrived in Shengjing, and was surprised after learning about the battle situation, and hurriedly returned to Goryeo to ask for help, and at the same time ordered the Fengtian general stationed in Shengjing to prepare his men and horses to prepare to attack Shanhaiguan in the south.

The tactical thinking of the full lover still failed to keep up with Liu Ziguang's beat, Shengjing's soldiers and horses were originally symbolic, and the people stationed in the old capital of the Qing Dynasty were only some old and weak, and they didn't even have training at ordinary times, and when they swayed and gathered, Liu Ziguang's soldiers had already arrived in Shengjing.

The enemy came too fast, Liaodong was vast and sparsely populated, the Ming army rarely encountered village pedestrians along the Liaobei River all the way, and they rolled up the Ming character banner, even if someone saw it, they didn't know that the Ming army was coming, and when they were about to reach Shengjing, the army landed on the shore and rushed to Shengjing lightly.

Liu Ziguang left hundreds of soldiers on the ship to guard the equipment, and personally led 2,000 men and horses to advance to Shengjing, this army is all light infantry, there are no war horses and artillery, but each soldier carries a bazooka, and when he encounters a village along the way, he directly rushes in to grab cattle and horses and vehicles, and strengthens the marching degree of the troops.

After half a day's rapid march, a towering city appeared in front of you, this is the famous Shenyang City, but also the former capital of the Qing Dynasty, the residents of this city are mainly Manchus, no more than fighting in the Central Plains have a mass base, so Liu Ziguang ordered the whole army, after entering the city, all those who resist will be killed, regardless of men and women.

Shengjing City is the administrative, cultural and economic center of the entire Liaodong, there are still some defensive forces, the soldiers defending the city saw that there was an army coming from afar and sent a warning signal, closed the city gate, and reported to General Fengtian, the soldiers were clumsy and couldn't say clearly, only said that they couldn't distinguish the army with the banner uniform, and General Fengtian was also a muddy person, because the Ming army appeared at the south gate of Shengjing, so he first thought of it was the reinforcements from Goryeo?

General Fengtian said: "Don't panic, it must be Lord Mingzhu who led the Goryeo army to arrive." Before the words fell, there was an explosion outside, one after another, and then a thunderous killing sound, which stunned General Fengtian, and the city was broken too quickly.

In fact, it's not fast at all, although Shengjing is big, it is also relatively speaking, compared to the city wall of Beijing City, it is simply pediatric, and there is no protection of the urn city, it is just a simple city gate, which is like a void in front of the bazooka of the Red Shirts. The city gate collapsed after the three rockets hit, and the Ming army unfurled its flag and blasted in, and the defenders did not even have time to enter the city at this time.

The Ming army rushed into the south gate, met a group of banner soldiers carrying bows, arrows, knives and guns, met the brave on the narrow road, rushed to the front of the Ming army raised his hand is a gun, and then held the bayonet to kill the past, the Qing army was caught off guard, was thrown down a piece, but the man who grew up between the white mountains and black waters is not a bad seed, just facing the Ming army to come up, the two armies fought together, the Qing army is not a well-trained red-shirt opponent after all, it lasted for a while or was defeated, the Ming army continued to enter the city, while climbing the city wall to occupy the commanding heights, while encircling and suppressing the remnants of the Qing army.

Shengjing is the rear of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so there are not many garrisons, but only 3,000 soldiers and horses, where can the enemy beat Liu Ziguang's tiger and wolf division in the case of little difference in strength, and all of them were annihilated in half a day, and General Fengtian was also killed in the chaos of the army, and Shengjing fell into the hands of the Ming army.

The Ming army quickly occupied important positions such as the Fengtian General's Mansion, the Manchu Forbidden City, and the treasury barracks, Liu Ziguang entered the Forbidden City in a military suit, and couldn't help but smile dumbly: "This Nurhachi's palace is not much bigger than the landlord's old fortune's house." ”

This is true, the Shengjing Palace and the Beijing Palace are definitely not on the same level, and even Liu Ziguang's Marquis Mansion is not as good, it is a three-entry courtyard, with two cross-courtyards, a high platform at the back, the harem is a harem, and the harem is three large tile houses.

Liu Ziguang briefly visited the layout of the palace, then returned to the Chongzheng Palace, sat on the throne where Nurhachi and Huang Taiji had sat and gave orders, confiscated all the gold and silver in Shengjing, took what could be moved, and burned what could not be taken.

This order brought endless disasters to the people of Shengjing, the red shirts first robbed the silver in the treasury, and then robbed the treasures in the palace, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, the addiction came up and couldn't collect it, and began to stretch out their black hands to the people, they were also smart, the small door and small courtyard didn't pay attention to it at all, and if you want to rob it, you will grab the big family, what kind of place is Shengjing, that is the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, many families have wide relatives in Beijing, and the fat and oily rich people have it, the red shirts broke into the door and looted the gold and silver treasures of others, The knife that dared to resist was cut to death mercilessly, and even a few soldiers who were too strong in hormone secretion saw the beautiful Manchu girl with animal desire, stripped off her clothes and ravaged it.

Liu Ziguang sat in the palace and naturally didn't know what was happening outside, he sat on the throne and asked his subordinates to help him take a picture, and then he walked around, and then said with some reluctance: "Burn it." ”

The palace was set on fire like this, and Liu Ziguang sighed a little sadly when he walked out of the palace gate, if it wasn't for the morale of the Manchus, he was unwilling to burn down such a monument.

Walking on Shengjing Street, there is noise everywhere on both sides, from time to time there are sporadic firecracker sounds, as well as women's crying, men's drinking, dog barking has not stopped, carrying packages full of treasures soldiers from time to time proudly out of the door of a mansion, the most outrageous is that a guy actually robbed a girl out, had to be brought back to Nanjing as a concubine, Liu Ziguang turned his face on the spot, drank the order to take it down left and right, tear off the rank badge and then do the punishment, "Robbing money is to hit the enemy's economy, robbing the girls is not right!" Liu Ziguang said eloquently.

There were hundreds of good horses in the Shengjing barracks, all of which were pulled out, and the red-shirted army quickly turned from infantry to cavalry, pulling a long series of carriages full of gold and silver, heading towards the Liao River, leaving behind a city with thick smoke billowing behind them.

Liu Ziguang looked back at Shengjing, thoughtfully, and said to the deputy general beside him: "I remember that there are three imperial tombs near Shengjing, so I just burned them together." ”