Chapter 423: The Battle of Shenyang (10)
In the battle of the Great South Gate, the Jinzhou army did not have a single soldier or casualties, and even the "Allied Army" Mang Gurtai Department only suffered 23 casualties (one fell from the ladder and died when he ascended the city). On the other hand, the Jin army defending the city was full of corpses, and the head was cut afterwards, and it was counted as 925.
This battle also enabled the Jinzhou army to truly feel the tremendous power of the concentrated use of artillery, and there was no doubt about Dayong's move to establish an artillery battalion, and the army's attention to artillery also reached an unprecedented height through this battle, and also cleared the way for the opening of the Dengzhou Artillery Command School in the future.
After the opening of the Great South Gate, the Jinzhou army entered the city one after another, and Mang Gurtai was eager for revenge and led his troops to the inner city.
The Jinzhou army controlled the Great South Gate with a thousand households in the left battalion of the infantry army, and the rest of the troops captured the remaining seven gates under the command of generals such as Jiang Wanli, Geng Zhongming, Li Zhongfu, Xiang Tai, and Shang Kexi, and made sure to ensure that every gate in Shenyang was in the hands of the Ming army.
The bombardment of the Battle of the Great South Gate caused some of the people's houses behind the Great South Gate to be bombed, and the dry weather and the fact that most of the houses were made of wood caused a fire, which caused panic among the residents of the South Gate. Fortunately, there was no strong wind that day, and only more than 300 houses were burned down, and it did not spread to other places, so with the assistance of the Ming army at the Great South Gate, the fire was quickly controlled. As for the resettlement of the affected residents, the Ming army could not take care of it for the time being, and only ordered them to live temporarily with neighbors or relatives in the city.
Less than half an hour after the Great South Gate was breached, the defenders of Tianyou Gate (Little South Gate) surrendered to the Ming army under the leadership of Liu Tianlu, Zhang Cunren, and Cao Gongcheng, deputy generals of the Han Army Banner. In addition to the 800 Han troops in the department, the three generals also captured alive Shi Tingzhu, the deputy general of the Han Army Banner who supervised the army, and rescued the former Daming Taifu Temple Shaoqing and Zhang Chun, who were imprisoned in the Sanguan Temple.
After accepting the surrender of Liu Tianlu and others, he immediately reported to Dayong on Pegasus, asking for instructions on how to deal with these generals and troops, and also asked for instructions on how to arrange Zhang Chun, a soldier who had already ordered Dayong to search and rescue.
After receiving Geng Zhongming's urgent report, Dayong was also a little surprised, he didn't have a good impression of the group of generals under Zu Dashou at all, but reason still made him not make a stupid decision. He ordered Geng Zhongming to treat the generals politely and not to be bullied, and still regarded them as the guards of Tianyoumen, and temporarily placed Zhang Chun in Tianyoumen, and waited for the Ming army to enter the inner city and completely sweep away the strength of the Eight Banners in the city before making arrangements.
Geng Zhongming was also born in the Dengzhou rebel army, so naturally he did not have any natural aversion to the generals, he had a sense of sympathy for Liu Tianlu, Zhang Cunren and others, and did not look the other way, and honestly carried out the Dayong military order, and did not deprive the subordinates of the three generals, and after letting them change their flags and change their banners, they led their troops to the inner city.
Liu Tianlu and Zhang Cunren were anxious to make meritorious contributions, so they asked themselves to lead their troops to attack the inner city with the Jinzhou army, and the Tianyou Gate guard was handed over to Cao Gongcheng to be responsible.
Geng Zhongming thought about it and agreed, the Jinzhou army did not have many troops entering the city, this Shenyang city is so big, and the inner city has not been taken, it is really a good thing for the Jinzhou army to be able to get the cooperation of the generals. Compared with the newcomers to the Jinzhou Army, these generals who have lived in Shenyang City for more than a year can be regarded as local snakes, and with the help of these local snakes who are familiar with the situation in the city, the Jinzhou Army can naturally reduce a lot of trouble.
The white-haired Zhang Chun was also very excited after seeing the banner of the Ming army, and strongly requested to attack the inner city with the army, and he wanted to witness the grand event of the Ming army attacking the palace of Nuting Khan. Geng Zhongming categorically refused his request, and Liu Tianlu and Zhang Cunren both pointed to Zhang Chunneng to speak for their past gold reduction after returning to Daming, how could they see this old man taking risks again, so they both persuaded him.
In the end, under Geng Zhongming's kind words to appease, Zhang Chun also knew that he was old, and now the city was in chaos, and the Ming army was busy attacking the inner city, so it was difficult to take care of him, so he reluctantly agreed to stay in Tianyoumen and wait for Hou Jie's news. Cao Gongcheng also repeatedly promised to take care of Boss Zhang Chun, so Geng Zhongming was relieved to take Liu and Zhang to kill the two generals in the inner city.
As the news spread that the Ming army broke the Great South Gate and entered the city, the defenders of the Inner Zhimen and the Outer Gate surrendered to the Ming army under the leadership of the Ming generals Zhang Hongmo and Hu Daxian.
The defenders of Dizaimen and Fushengmen have been scattered before the arrival of the Ming army, among which the Fushengmen guards Zu Dashou's adopted son Zu Kefa and Yizi Zu Keyuan surrendered to the Ming army.
Under the leadership of Zu Zerun, Zu Dacheng and others, the defenders of Fujinmen and Huaiyuanmen did not choose to surrender to the Ming army, but chose to retreat to the inner city.
After learning from the mouth of the surrendered general that Dai Shan withdrew the elite of the Eight Banners and most of the bannermen in Shenyang City to the inner city to hold on, Dayong immediately ordered all departments not to burn and loot in the outer city, and not to discriminate against the surrendered army, and continue to defend where they were originally defended.
After all, Shenyang is the capital of the Jin people, and the savings of goods are far from being comparable to other cities in the Jin Kingdom, in order to prevent the subordinates who are burned and looted all the way from southern Liaoning from being lured by the prosperity of Shenyang City, and then looting the outer city without going down, causing the Han people in the outer city to riot, so that the Jin army in the inner city can take advantage of it. In addition to strictly ordering those who dared to loot without permission to be beheaded, Dayong also ordered Guo Cheng and Li Gu to lead their own troops and 2,000 surrender to Aha to inspect the city.
There were nearly 100,000 inhabitants of the outer city, most of whom were Han people, and although these Han people belonged to the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, it was not easy to massacre them without determining whether they were guilty or not. In addition, the Ming army entered the city with less than 10,000 people, and if the brutality of the Ming army caused these Han people to riot, I am afraid that the Ming army would not be able to change from the victor who entered the city to the defeated army driven out of the city.
The fruits of victory are in front of him, and Dayong will not let this great achievement slip out of his hands no matter what, so he must strictly enforce military discipline and achieve the "autumn without committing any crimes" that the Jinzhou army has never done after crossing the sea before the overall situation is decided.
The urban pattern of "eight gates to eight streets" in Shenyang City was conducive to the Ming army's breakthrough of the city, and also helped the Ming army to control the city in the fastest time. After Guo Cheng and Li Gu took control of the main streets, they reissued the "martial law order" when there was no longer a single resident on the street, and with the help of Aha and the surrendered Han officials, they continuously sounded gongs and read them to the residents of the city.
The Ming army's guarantee of the safety of the residents in the notice made the residents of the city feel a little relieved, and after seeing that the Ming army did not burn and loot in the city, the people's hearts quickly moved closer to the Ming army. Some Han officials and officials whose homes were in the outer city also began to sneak out of their homes and find the nearest Ming army to seek a solution. Dayong treated these people the same as those generals, and ordered them to cooperate with the Ming army to stabilize the situation with their original official positions.
When the Ming army broke the city, it was late, and it was the easiest to have an accident at night, so after the arrangements were made, Dayong personally led his troops to the inner city, and after watching the inner city from afar, Dayong ordered two artillery thousands of households to gather outside the inner city to wait for dawn.