"Kill!"

Yang Zhenqing led his troops into the city, looked at the large houses that were burned down, and looked at the corpses of Tartars all over the street, and suddenly couldn't help frowning.

He himself had killed Tartar civilians, but that was out of hatred and even more so for military purposes.

And Saihe, who defected, was purely indiscriminately killing innocents, and he was attacking his clansmen!

Of course, it is also possible that Saich did not regard the Tartars of Ximu City as a clansman.

The Eight Banners Army defending the city was caught off guard by the combination of the inside and the outside. About 2,000 people took advantage of the chaos to flee and ran towards Haizhou in the north.

And Sahe's soldiers did not chase and kill, but stayed in the city to rob and kill people everywhere.

Yang Zhenqing was afraid that Saihe would be blind and did not dare to give an order to stop it, anyway, all those who were killed were Tartars. When he saw Sahe, he only said, "Give me half of the goods in the city......

"General, take it!" Saich was even happier.

Yang Zhenqing's words made Saihe completely relieved. In his opinion, all the generals in the world are the same, nothing more than greed for money and power. What southern barbarians want to kill all the Manchurians, even if they surrender, it is purely Dolgon's intimidation.

He has made meritorious contributions to the city, and he will definitely rise in the new dynasty of Datong in the future.

He took advantage of the chaos to rob a lot of goods, plus the goods of the family, even if the land was divided, it didn't matter, these money and grain could be squandered for several lifetimes.

Yang Zhenqing warned sharply: "Remember, don't loot and kill Han people again!" ”

"The last general obeys!"

Saihe accepted the order very sincerely, because the Han people in Liaodong, except for those traitors, what did the coats and serfs have to rob? If you want to rob it, you will rob the Manchurian nobles, and they will be rich one by one!

The more Saihe thought about it, the happier he became, looking forward to following the Datong army to fight, and it was best to grab it all the way to Heilongjiang and earn a fortune that could not be spent in several lifetimes.

Clansman?

Hehe, only the Jurchens who live in Muxi (Xinbin County) are the tribesmen of Saihe, and it doesn't matter how many Jurchens die elsewhere.

After taking over the city defense, Yang Zhenqing immediately wrote a letter to report.

He used to be a hunter in the mountains, he had never read a book, and he had been fighting in the past few years, and he only found time to study two or three hundred words, and even had to ask the mission officer to help write the war report.

After writing the specific process of seizing the city, Yang Zhenqing said to the missionary: "Add a few more words." Saich was a man with great ambitions, and Dolgon did not suppress him, but he didn't pay much attention to him, so he dared to rebel against his parents and relatives. He was a Tartar, but he attacked the Tartar commoners. His men killed at least 2,000 Tartar civilians for looting goods. He also killed some Han serfs, not for money, but simply to kill crazy. This person can't be reused, it's better to find an opportunity to get rid of it, otherwise there will definitely be trouble in the future. ”

……

Outside the city of Yaozhou.

Tens of thousands of Datong troops have filled in the moat and are constantly bombarding the city walls.

Dolgon's army, stationed a few miles northeast of the city, formed a rivalry with Yaozhou City.

Every day there are small battles going on for some favorable terrain outside the city.

In the barracks.

Dolgon's face was cold, but he pretended to be calm, and said to Ahsan with a smile: "It is worthy of your own son, your father betrayed the Qing Dynasty, your brothers and nephews, and yourself, also betrayed the Qing Dynasty. Your second son is a colt, how do you want to be treated preferentially in the Qing Dynasty? Now, your eldest son, who killed Zhenguo Gong and seized Ximu City, what are you going to do? ”

Ah Shan kowtowed frantically: "If the godson is not strict, the sinner should die!" ”

"I see that you are very strict with your godson." Dorgon scoffed.

Ahsan continued to kowtow.

Dolgon said, "The Manchurian nobles have already discussed. Deprive you of all your cattle and give them to the Arzin Commander. Half of your family's property will be confiscated! As for you, you have to think about it until the battle is over. ”

Ahsan collapsed directly, and at the same time felt glad that there was still hope if he was not executed.

"." Dorgon said angrily.

Ah Shan bowed down and scolded his son ten thousand times in his heart.

Even if you want to defect, you should say it, Dad should prepare well in advance. Run away without a sound, do you want to kill your father, your brother, wife and children?

Ah Shan was taken back to Haizhou and placed under house arrest, hoping that his son would come to save him, and only begged the Datong Army to break through Yaozhou as soon as possible, and then take Haizhou to rescue him.

There was only Dorgon left in the tent, and he felt really tired.

In the past two years, people's hearts have been scattered, exactly the same as in the late Nurhachi period.

As a result of the forced requisition of food, a large number of civilians and serfs starved to death. The nobles and generals, although not greatly affected, felt that the Manchu regime was bound to fall, and began to quietly make plans for themselves.

Dolgon often misses Huang Taiji, and when Huang Taiji came to power, it was also the general situation, how did he revitalize the Qing Dynasty?

At that time, Adahai defected, and Huang Taiji ordered the four major Baylors to recover together. In this way, he was not ready to be punished, or Arzin denounced other crimes, and Huang Taiji decided to kill Adahai.

Shouldn't I learn from Huang Taiji and be kind to those defectors?

Perhaps it is time to write a letter and ask Sach to return with his troops, and the crime of defection is not to blame.

But Saih killed the prince of Zhenguo and killed Dorgon's own nephew, how could he forgive the great sin?

The more Dolgon thought about it, the more upset he became, he wanted to learn everything, but he couldn't learn it at all.

What will Huang Taiji do in the face of this situation?

Dolgon suddenly had a thought, if only Huang Taiji were still alive. Everything is carried by Huang Taiji, no matter what trouble can be solved, and he doesn't have to worry so hard.

Two military orders were quickly issued, one for Hauge to return with the army, and one for the Qiding to defend Haizhou.

At this moment, Hu Dinggui looked at Yaozhou City, and regretted that he hadn't ripped off all the city walls at the beginning.

Yaozhou lies between Gaizhou and Haizhou, and when he led his troops to raid Liaodong, Yaozhou was so dilapidated that there were few people left. On the way back to the army, Hu Dinggui only demolished one section of the city wall due to lack of manpower.

Now that the city wall has been repaired, the Datong army must occupy the city if it wants to go north.

Reading the battle report sent by Yang Zhenqing, Hu Dinggui hated Saihe very much. It is not because of Sakh's status as a Tartar, but because he kills innocents indiscriminately and treats human life like a mustard.

Saihe is not soft on killing Jurchen civilians, how many Han people have he killed over the years?

This kind of executioner, even if he sacrifices the city and makes meritorious contributions, will be liquidated in the future!

"Bear with it for the time being," Li Zheng said, "if you attack Saihe, the rest of the Tartars will have to fight hard, because even meritorious service will die." ”

Hu Dinggui said: "I just feel disgusting. To put it bluntly, I'd rather have more dead people and personally defeat the city than recover the city through such people. ”

Xiao Zongxian said: "If you can die less, you should die as little as possible." Every soldier of the Datong Army has a wife and children at home. ”

"Don't talk about that," Li Zheng said with a smile, "Ximu City is taken, and Haizhou is close at hand." Even if the main force of the Tartars cannot be annihilated in this battle, troops can be sent to Haizhou at any time in the future. We've already won half of this battle, so don't be in a hurry, just slowly collapse the city wall. ”

Xiao Zongxian nodded and said: "According to the news sent back by the Tartars, in order to fight, the Tartars even ordered the bannermen to pay more grain. If we delay him for another three months, the Tartars' rations will be gone, but our food will be sufficient. ”

"Then drag on slowly." Hu Dinggui said with a smile.

……

Phoenix.

Naudai personally led his troops out of the fortress, trying to kill the people who were digging the trenches.

The trench was a zigzag structure, and the defenders of the fortress were difficult to hit with their guns, cannons, and bows and arrows.

Naudai rushed out halfway, and the Datong troops in the trench stood up and opened fire. And from the chest down, it is all in the trench, and there are very few exposed parts.

"Bang bang bang!"

More than thirty cavalrymen were shot in succession, and Naudai's cavalry also returned fire with cavalry, but the hit rate was negligible.

When the cavalry approached the trench, they were forced to slow down, and suddenly more Datong musketeers appeared.

"Bang bang bang!"

Another round of shooting, bringing down more than seventy riders at once.

At the same time, spears stretched out from the trenches.

Naudai planned to rush to the trench and then dismount and jump into the trench to fight. But the formation in front of him made Nau Dai's scalp numb, so he had to rein in his horse and return to the fortress.

The Datong army did not pursue, but stayed in the trench and watched the people continue to excavate.

After digging for another two days, I finally dug up the outer soil slope and continued to dig up the slope along the soil slope.

Naudai ordered to take the initiative to attack, and if he didn't attack, he dug through the dirt slope.

In a battle, the Eight Banners Army suffered more than 40 casualties, and the Datong Army suffered six casualties, and the Tartars chose to abandon the peripheral fortifications.

Then continue to dig, digging through the dirt slope, digging through the outer fortifications, all the way to the foot of the fortress.

The Z-shaped pit gradually turned into a circular pit road, and Lu Xiangsheng planned to use the pit to directly enclose the fortress. Then through the circular tunnel, dig a horizontal and vertical tunnel, so that the Tartars do not know where to dig the tunnel to bury explosives.

Naudai did not dare to stay in the fortress any longer, threw down the defenders of the fortress, and rushed back to Phoenix City with his cavalry before the ring tunnel was formed.

His troops were too small to go out of the city to fight.

"Boom!"

A few days later, a deafening explosion rang out, and one of the walls of the fortress was blown down by gunpowder.

Facing arrows and bullets, the Datong army rushed through the gap, and after killing and wounding more than 40 people, they quickly rushed into the interior of the fortress.

More than 300 defenders of the fortress were all annihilated by the Datong army.

Occupying the fortress, Lu Xiangsheng finally came to the outside of Phoenix City, and continued to camp and dig a trench.

He didn't think about relying on traitors to seize the city, so he completely followed his own style of play, digging all the way to bury explosives.

Watching the Datong army digging little by little, looking at the occupied fortress in the distance, the morale of the Eight Banners defenders in Phoenix City plummeted.

Zhang Fengyan began to act, he went out on crutches, saying that he would fight with the southern barbarians.

Naodai liked this kind of warrior very much, and quickly promoted Zhang Fengyan and threw five hundred Sinicized Jurchens to him as commanders.

"Second Brother Zhang, Tartar is really not good, we are willing to follow you to make trouble."

"The Tatars are barbarians, not even the Jurchens. What kind of Jurchens are they? The Jurchens within the Great Wall of Liaodong are the real Jurchens, and the people outside the Great Wall are all barbarians! ”

"I've long been unaccustomed to seeing tartars, I used to keep my hair like the Han people, but now I have shaved my hair and braided pig's tail. It's ugly to death! ”

"Second Brother Zhang, hurry up, if you don't do it, Phoenix City will be occupied, and we won't be able to make meritorious contributions!"

“……”

Lu Xiangsheng was not in a hurry to attack the city, but the Sinicized Jurchens in the city were in a hurry to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and return to the Datong court.