"Peasant soldiers go to war!"

"Peasant soldiers go to war!"

When Liu Dazhang heard the voice of the missionary, he stood up and picked up the iron-headed wooden gun he had sharpened.

Suddenly, Liu Dazhang put away the wooden gun again and ran into a room with a rope. He tied up his pregnant wife and said to the women and children in the house who could not go to war: "Help me to take care of my mother-in-law, don't be a spy of the Tartars!" ”

"Captain Liu, go ahead, we'll show you!" Another pregnant woman said.

Liu Dazhang's wife cried: "I'm going to give you a baby, and you still can't trust me?" ”

"I'll talk about it when you get out of cubs." Liu Dazhang put down a sentence and went out with a gun without looking back.

Liu Dazhang's wife was his former hostess, a Manchurian woman who was taken captive by the Datong army.

As for the house, most of them were snatched back. There were Manchurian women, Han Chinese women, and even Mongolian women. They are all pregnant, and the Liaodong Peninsula is about to usher in a wave of fertility.

There were so many people in the city that there were almost no more houses to live in, and these pregnant women were taken care of in a centralized manner.

"Peasant soldiers go to war, peasant soldiers go to war!"

Liu Dazhang shouted along the way that he was a serf last year, and this year he has become the captain of the peasant soldiers of the Datong Army, and he manages thirty Liaodong peasant soldiers under his command.

didn't go far, Jin Guozhen also brought the peasants over.

Jin Guozhen led the Korean peasant soldiers, all of whom were Korean serfs captured by the Manchus, and it was the Datong Army that liberated them and gave them land to cultivate.

There are also a large number of women who are not pregnant, who are also organized to carry supplies, and can also carry weapons into battle at critical moments. These are the families of the officers and men of the 11th Division, the parents and children stayed in their hometown, and the wife moved to Liaodong to live with her husband - the 11th Division has been stationed in Liaodong for a long time, and the husband and wife must be reunited.

Outside the city of Gaizhou, the Manchus were already preparing to attack.

Jin Guozhen didn't need the missionary to boost morale, so he said to the North Korean peasants: "We were all taken from Korea by the Tatars, and ten of us left our hometowns, and at most one or two are still alive now." If there is not enough food to eat, the Tartars will starve us to death; If it's too cold in winter, you'll freeze to death. Usually farming for tartars, tired and tired, I can't eat enough. Do you still want to live that life? ”

"I don't want to!" North Korean peasant soldiers roared.

Jin Guozhen said again: "The heavenly soldiers and generals of the Datong Army, rescue us from the hands of the Tartars." Many of you don't have surnames, and Datong Army has given you your own surname, what a kindness! The king of Joseon does not give you a surname, and the Tartars do not give you a surname, and only the Daedong army allows you to have a surname. The Datong army also gave you a share of the land, and also assigned you women to marry and start a family. If the city of Gaizhou is breached, your fields will be gone, your homes will be gone, your wives will be gone, and your family names will be gone. Do you want to fight hard with the Datong army? ”

"Fight! Fight! ”

The Korean peasant soldiers roared hysterically, as if they could pounce at any moment and bite the enemy with their teeth.

Jin Guozhen casually pointed to a peasant soldier and asked, "What's your name?" “

"Zhao Dinggui!" The peasant replied.

Jin Guozhen asked again: "Why is it called Zhao Dinggui!" ”

Zhao Dinggui roared and replied: "Zhao of Datong Emperor Zhao Bodhisattva, Dinggui of General Hu Dinggui!" ”

Jin Guozhen asked another person: "What is your name?" ”

The peasant soldier replied: "Hu kills the captives, General Hu's Hu, kills all the Tartar captives!" ”

Jin Guozhen said to the Korean peasant soldiers: "You people, either follow His Majesty the Emperor's surname Zhao, or follow General Hu's surname Hu. Although everyone came from Korea, they will all be Chinese and well-known people of the Celestial Empire. We are born as Zhao Bodhisattva people, and death is Zhao Bodhisattva's ghost, long live His Majesty Emperor Zhao Bodhisattva! ”

"Long live His Majesty Emperor Zhao Bodhisattva!"

These North Korean peasants and soldiers were almost fanatical, and their eyes were red one by one.

When the Korean lord surrendered, the Manchus took 500,000 people from Korea. Either die of illness, or die of exhaustion, or freeze to death, or starve to death, or even be cannon fodder during the siege of the city, at this time it has long been one or two.

They have suffered too many crimes, and even if they are honest serfs, they are very likely to die an unnatural death. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, we will never want to live a dark life again.

In the mouths of the people of Liaodong, Zhao Han's nickname is not Zhao Tianwang and Mr. Zhao, but Zhao Bodhisattva who saves suffering.

There is no doctor in remote villages, and if you are sick, you usually kneel and pray for Zhao Bodhisattva's blessing.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The shelling continued, and the Manchu artillery aimed at the Datong artillery on the city wall. The artillery of the Datong Army was aimed at the wagons that were pushed from the trenches and earthen wall passages.

A large number of people boiled gold juice and boiling oil in the city, and then moved to the city after boiling, so as not to accidentally be knocked over by artillery.

The Manchu camp in the south of the city, from the pontoon bridge that had been erected long ago, went around to the north bank of the Daqing River, and hit the east, west, and north sides of the city of Gaizhou—the south side was by the river.

At this time, the reinforcements of Lu Xiangsheng and others could not attack halfway at all. Because of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's crossing site, there were fortifications on both banks, and it took almost two months to repair like an iron barrel.

Similarly, although Dolgon had more than 70,000 Eight Banner soldiers, he would rather bombard the city of Gaizhou all the time than attack the reinforcement camp of more than 20,000 people. Because the fortifications of the reinforcement camp are also getting stronger and stronger, if they cannot be broken quickly, it is likely that the defenders in the city will seize the opportunity to attack the Manchu army in the north and south at a critical moment.

Seeing the wolf smoke rising from Gaizhou City, Li Zheng ordered: "Take a boat and go around the back of the Tartar!" ”

Some of the ships were sent to the cavalry to attack and disturb. The remaining ships will definitely not be able to transport the army at once, so they can only be divided into several batches and transported slowly.

Fearing being attacked by the Manchus, the landing site was chosen on a beach ten miles northwest of Gaizhou.

The first landing force quickly built simple fortifications with baggage, and held there to meet the next group of friendly troops.

"Your Royal Highness the Regent, there is a Southern Barbarian army landing from the sea behind you!" The Manchu sentinels soon discovered the situation.

Dorgon said, "Leave him alone, beware of the camp. ”

It is impossible to turn around and send reinforcements first, because the siege has already begun.

The early siege troops were all soldiers and people, which were used to consume the garrison materials of the Datong army.

These people were the most miserable, carrying baggage when marching, building fortifications when stationed, serving as cannon fodder during sieges, and part-time as military rations when there was a shortage of food.

Treating people as military rations is the norm of war.

The Liaodong border army of the Ming Dynasty was besieged for several months at every turn, and Zu Dashou even defended it for a year or two. How can there be so much food? It's just a people's husband!

Due to the ditches and earthen walls of the Manchu Dynasty, they were already very close to the city wall, and the soldiers and men could rush to the city in a few minutes.

They were defeated again and again, and they were forced to die again and again by the Manchu military law team.

Between the back and forth consumption, the number of dead people will soon reach thousands.

Sun An is a pawn, that is, a soldier who is clothed with the army.

During Huang Taiji's reign in the Manchu Dynasty, the pawn class had been abolished, and the Eight Banners Army had become more regularized. But it was only canceled in the system, and when the war was really fought, the nobles of the Eight Banners still brought their pawns to help the nobles rob and carry goods.

Sun An belongs to the second generation of Baoyi, his father died of the plague in Beizhili, so he replaced his father to make a military coat.

His main achievement was to follow his master to rob in Beizhili.

Some time ago, he returned to Liaodong and followed his master to North Korea to rob. North Korea had a good harvest that time, and the owner rewarded him with two buckets of rice and a North Korean woman as his wife.

However, he really doesn't want to be cannon fodder!

"Bang bang bang!"

There was a gunshot on the city wall, and Sun An fell to the ground in fright.

The man behind him was killed, but he still rushed forward by inertia, and immediately fell on Sun An.

Sun An struggled a little, and suddenly blessed his soul, so he lay there and pretended to be dead.

Cannon fodder to pretend to be dead, more than one or two!

It was a long day, and it was almost evening, and Dolgon ordered the troops to be collected.

Wait until tomorrow to continue consumption.

The hustle and bustle of the battlefield gradually became quiet, and Sun An carefully crawled out from under the corpse. Little by little, he crawled to the gap in the wall, and when he got closer, he shouted: "I surrender, I don't want to die, I have come to surrender." I'm not a spy, bind me up!" ”

This voice immediately reminded the cannon fodder who pretended to be dead.

One after another, hundreds of people stretched out their hands to indicate that they had no weapons, and climbed towards the gap in the city wall in a gesture of surrender.

Hu Dinggui thought about it for a while and ordered: "Tie them all up, after the war, the people will divide the fields and settle down, and the soldiers will use them as coolies." ”

For days on end, it was consumed.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty consumed human lives, and the Datong Army consumed materials to defend the city.

Gradually, he began to have soldiers in the cannon fodder, wanting to take advantage of the slack of the defenders to suddenly launch an attack on the city wall.

This situation made it impossible for the Datong army to ignore every attack, and the consumption of materials to defend the city increased exponentially.

Rolling logs and rocks can be brought back after dark, but there is not much hot oil and gold juice left.

Finally, the Manchus began their official siege of the city.

The carts were shattered by artillery, and the exposed Eight Banners could only accelerate towards the city wall.

"Bang!"

A piece of sawdust flew from the shattering of the cart and slammed into Turai's cheek.

Although a tooth was knocked loose, this small injury is nothing, and the real headache is that the car is gone. Turai drew his sword and shouted: "Run, rush!" ”

Turai is Aobai's cousin, in history, participated in the Battle of Daling River, the Battle of Songjin, the Battle of Shanhaiguan, Emperor Hongguang of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Emperor Longwu were captured by him with his troops.

The two brothers, Turai and Aobai, were Hauge's loyal henchmen and were thrown out by Dorgon to lay down their lives to attack the city.

A cannonball jumped up from the ground, and the soldiers beside Turai were lazily smashed by the iron bullet, and then flew behind and killed several more in succession.

This side was the most ferocious, because there was a gap in the wall that had been blown down.

"Old Yang!"

On the city wall, a regimental commander shouted in mourning.

But not far from him, Yang Ye, the commander-in-chief of the artillery of the 11th Division of the Datong Army, was killed.

Yang Ye was born in Xiucai, he was proficient in arithmetic when he was a teenager, and later studied mathematics systematically. He has only been in the army for four years, and because of his talents, he was promoted quickly, but now he died unexpectedly in Gaizhou.

It was really an accident, Yang Ye was directing the artillery to adjust the angle, and a Manchu cannonball flew in, smashing the bricks of the women's wall, and then the bricks hit Yang Ye's head.

"Boom, boom!"

The artillery of the Datong army vented its anger with shells.

Turaijin was running and charging when a cannonball whistled. At first, he didn't feel it, as if he had been rubbed by something, and inertia carried his body backwards.

After a few more seconds, Turai felt a sharp pain: "Ah! Yes! My arm is gone! ”

Cannons used to defend cities are prone to ricochet because of their angles. Thurai was broken in the arm by a ricochet, and before the shell stopped, four more were killed and wounded with blood.

Suddenly, the artillery on both sides stopped one after another.

Because the Manchu siege force was close to the city, the Manchu artillery stopped because they were afraid of accidental injury, and the Datong artillery stopped because the angle was too large to hit.

The Manchus successfully pushed over more than a dozen carts, as well as many ladders with wooden shields.

The chariot is mostly in front of the gap in the city wall, but it is a pity that Gaizhou City did not imitate the fortress and used the large acute angle enemy platform of Ningyuan, so that a short firepower blind spot was formed, and the fire gun and bow and arrow could not attack the enemy behind the chariot.

"Bang bang bang!"

The Manchu firecrackers, standing on the steps of the chariot, fired through the firing holes towards the gap in the city wall.

The fallen wall forms an earth-stone platform three meters high, twelve meters wide, and six meters thick.

The ladder was erected, and Ao Bai commanded the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and quickly climbed up the earth and stone platform along the ladder. Only half of his body climbed, he lay on the edge of the earth and stone platform, and forcefully pulled away the heavy arrow of the Manchu Qing.

Before they could shoot heavy arrows, the walls on both sides of the city frantically smashed down 10,000 enemies.