Chapter 512: Two Choices of Braids or Death

Jinzhouwei is just a defensive city in Liaodong Town, the city is not large, but there are more than 100 banner people and Han people living here.

After the Second Army of the Guards entered the Acropolis of Jinzhou, these bannermen and Han people were relatively numb to the appearance of the Guards, and even showed hatred.

Because among the cavalry of the Qing army annihilated by the Guards, many of them were their relatives.

It was also the first time that the officers and soldiers of the Second Guards Army felt this kind of feeling of not being close to the people, but it was precisely because of this strangeness that the officers and soldiers of the Guards had little kindness to these people.

Of course, Qin Zuoming, as the chief officer of the Guards, did not carry out a large-scale massacre of these banner people at the beginning after receiving sufficient supplies, but first issued a military order, requiring the people of each household to cut their braids and grow their hair within three days, and wear Hanfu, learn Chinese and speak Chinese, otherwise they would be directly shot on the grounds that they did not want to submit to the Ming Dynasty.

Many people are still willing to choose to accept the cut of braids and hair, many of them have begun to speak Liaodi Chinese, and naturally there is no objection to Xi Chinese characters, after all, as civilians in this era and there is not much connection between words, but there are also banner people who are unwilling to give up their noble flag people's identity, and even directly scold the guards as Nanban.

The Guards were naturally not polite, and each Guards began to have a pair of scissors and a gun, either choosing to cut their braids to survive or choosing to eat guns and bullets to bury their own Qing Dynasty.

The Guards entered the Golden Acropolis on the night of December 15, and the cleansing and sinicization movement that began in the early morning of the 16th, there is little difference between the Manchus and Hans in Liaodong, except for some of the upper Manchurian military aristocrats, there is almost no difference between the people at the bottom, and the Ming Dynasty wants to achieve complete rule over these places and completely eliminate the banner people, and it is no longer realistic to eliminate them by physical annihilation, unless all the people here are killed.

But after all, the Guards are not completely devoid of ideas and civilized troops, so the best way is to carry out a thorough sinicization here, whether you are a flag person or a Han person, from now on you can only have one identity, that is, Han people, Han people of the Ming Dynasty, if you want to return to the flag culture, you will never tolerate it.

Beginning in the early morning of the 16th, the click of scissors and the firing of rifled guns rang out for a day, and a cartload of braids was carried out along with a cart of corpses, and in this way the Guards cleaned up the Golden State Acropolis.

Not only will the identity of the flag man be completely erased in this world, but the words left by the flag man must also be erased, all the books written in Manchu have been copied and destroyed, the inscriptions and houses engraved with Manchu have been demolished, and the political work officials under the command of the governor of the Corps have begun to popularize in the surrounding areas after taking over Jinzhou Wei.

For example, those who can know more than 1,000 Chinese characters can be allocated an additional five acres of land by Huangzhuang, and those who report that they speak the language of the banner people will be rewarded with 10 yuan of silver, so that after a few months, the civilians in Jinzhouwei have begun to actively accept Sinicization.

This is the best way for advanced civilizations to retaliate against backward civilizations, you can only physically destroy me but eventually become me, and I want you to disappear completely, without leaving a trace of your true colors, and one day in the future, maybe you yourself will forget the enemies of the empire to which you once swore allegiance.

The 2nd Guards Army continued northward and arrived at Shiheyi on the morning of 24 December.

And Ye Keshu, the governor of Shengjing, had also learned the news of the Second Army of the Guards Army occupying Jinzhouwei at this time, and also knew that the Gaodi Department was completely annihilated and the Guards forced to implement the Sinicization and eliminate the Eight Banners civilization in Jinzhouwei, just like the anger of the Han people when they faced the Chinese civilization that had been restored for more than 200 years was forcibly changed by the Manchu iron hoof, Ye Keshu was also very angry and even panicked.

"This Ming army is different from the previous Ming army, he is not just here to loot and kill, they are here to destroy us, not even to destroy our flesh, he wants to erase everything from us, so that our children and grandchildren will forget who their ancestors were! It's just terrible, and we can't let their plot succeed! ”

Sheng Jing's head Ye Keshu said coldly.

After all, their Manchurian military aristocracy finally made the Han people become their obedient people of the Qing Dynasty by shaving their hair and changing clothes, and now the Ming army used this way of cutting braids and learning Chinese to make the banner people become the obedient people of the Ming Dynasty than he was even more afraid to hear the Guards slaughtering the banner people.

For this reason, Ye Keshu dispatched all the Manchurian iron cavalry in the entire Shengjing area, and ambushed in the area of Xiaoheshan, Shiheyi was near Xiaoheshan, so as long as the Second Army of the Guards crossed Shiheyi, it would be ambushed by Ye Keshu's iron cavalry.

Now it is a harsh winter, there is snow all around, only the Shiheyi area is blocked by the small black mountain to block a cold current, coupled with the proximity to the river valley, making this the only convenient passage for the army, but the exit and entrance near this area is also the only place conducive to cavalry charge, so after the second army of the Guards entered Shiheyi, these Qing Manchurian iron cavalry rushed in.

Ye Keshu wanted to attack him by surprise, so his Manchu armor soldiers first took advantage of the Guards in the jungle of the Little Black Mountain to get rid of the Guards scouts, and a group of Guards scouts appeared in the ambush circle of a group of Manchu cavalry, and these Manchurian cavalry took the lead in shooting an arrow in the throat of one of the Guards scouts by virtue of their familiarity with the geography of this area.

Immediately afterwards, several more guards scouts were hit by arrows, but there were still two guards scouts who reacted and immediately fired signal flares, when the signal flares sounded, Ye Keshu knew that his intention to surprise was revealed, so he simply rushed forward with the main force of cavalry, and in an instant, the rumbling sound sounded all around.

Although he failed to take it by surprise, Ye Keshu thought that he could still inflict heavy losses on the Ming army, because first of all, the terrain in this area was very narrow due to the fact that one side faced the mountain and the other side faced the river, and the 100,000 horses of the Ming army could not take care of each other in this area, and his Manchu iron cavalry could dive downward, while the cavalry of the Ming army was difficult to feint, and secondly, it was difficult for the artillery of the Ming army to expand the formation and turn the direction.

That is to say, in his Ye Keshu's view, the Ming army is now trapped here like a trapped beast, he Ye Keshu can attack the Ming army from any direction, he knows that the Ming army's firearms are sharp, but his cavalry attacks from all directions, and the Ming army's firearms are difficult to suppress his charge, and he also ordered to avoid the Ming army's firearms, and the main direction of attack is on the Ming army's artillery and cavalry.

"Stupid Ming Dog! This official wants to reproduce the Salhu of the year! ”

Ye Keshu clenched his teeth and said.

(End of chapter)