"The casualties are out." Wang Yaochen handed over a report.

Wang Tingchen unfolded it and suddenly became silent.

From the day of the cannon fodder siege to the complete occupation of the city, the casualties of the Datong army are as follows:

1,552 were killed, 743 were seriously wounded, and 3,639 were lightly wounded, bringing the casualty rate to 43.9.

Wang Tingchen was a border general of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army lost tens of thousands of dollars at every turn, but there were no immediate casualties that made him heartbroken.

These are all cavalrymen who have been trained for several years, and each one is extremely valuable. Many people died in battle, either by rolling logs, by bows and arrows, or by siege after ascending the city.

Even if they die, they deserve to die on the battlefield galloping on horseback, and it is not worth their lives to die during the siege!

Wang Yaochen comforted: "These Tartars defending the city are all the elites of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, and they are still desperate one by one. If it weren't for the southern city wall to kill the enemy generals, and then flank the west city to open the city gate, the Tartar soldiers would have been desperate. We have killed and injured so many people, in fact...... Not wronged. “

"I understand," Wang Tingchen sighed, "but these are all soldiers that we have trained with our own hands, and the cavalry division has been formed so far, but I didn't expect to lose the most during the siege of the city." “

Wang Yaochen said: "There is also good news, the city is full of wheat and livestock. Most of the wheat was just harvested this year, and the Tartars were collected and prepared to be used as military rations to support the Sarhun side. The livestock was also collected to transport military rations, and now they have all been seized by us. ”

Wang Tingchen said: "If we arrive a few days earlier, the Tartars will definitely not have time to gather troops, and they will easily take the city." In the end, the speed of the attack is too slow, and it shouldn't be so much time wasted in the north. “

"Who knew that the Tartars were just drawing troops?" Wang Yaochen.

The cavalry division swept through the villages in the north, just to quickly cut off the living force of the Tartars. As a result, after the sweep, I realized that the situation was not right, the number of Tartars in the countryside was too small, and many young and strong people were drawn to fight.

Wang Tingchen cleaned up his mood and said: "Order the whole army, repair for two days, the seriously wounded and military doctors will stay, and the rest of the troops will continue to attack!" ”

Here you can go straight to the main battlefield, march along the Huifa River, Baiyun River, and Hunhe River, and only need to climb a few low mountains on the way.

But the distance was quite long, 300 miles, and the march in the valleys and mountains could not be fast.

A few days later, the cavalry division passed through a place called Siping, which already belonged to the territory of Qingyuan County in later generations.

"Smash the Armory!"

"If there is resistance, it doesn't matter if you shoot and kill, all the craftsmen will be arrested!"

Hundreds of years later, there are many "Siping" in the Northeast, such as Big Siping Town, North Siping Township, and Small Siping Village. Without exception, it must be the bow and arrow production base of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Manchu meaning of "Siping" is "arrow shaft".

At this moment, on the battlefield in the south, Yang Zhenqing's independent regiment was also attacking Xiaosiping Village, Dasiping Town, hundreds of years after Siping.

Yang Zhenqing set out from Yahu Pass (in the territory of Weiziyu Town), crossed the Great Wall of Liao, and went straight to Dasiping Town.

There is also a lot of land outside the Crow Pass, which is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Li Chengliang gave up the six castles without authorization on the grounds that "the land is lonely and difficult to defend", and gave them to Nurhachi.

As for the Kuandian area further south, it was too lazy to attack. The Ming Dynasty built a lot of fortresses in Kuandian, including Kuandian Fort, New Dian Fort, Yongdian Fort, Dadian Fort, and Long Dian Fort. After the Manchu occupation, the local people were forcibly relocated and had been abandoned for twenty or thirty years.

It wasn't until Da Yu'er moved the capital to Hetuara that there were people to reclaim Kuandian.

However, the population is still sparse, and there are only twenty or thirty households in one village, and even only a few households in many places.

Those who are lofty in the mountains and mountains are simply wasting grain and grass to go to collect sporadic tartars.

It is much more comfortable to go out of the eastern part of the Raven Kanto, as long as you lay a few castles along the way, twenty miles to the east is the gold mine of the Tartars, and thirty miles to the southeast is the bow and arrow production base of the Tartars.

Front Fort.

There are mountains on all sides, mountains on the south, and a narrow valley between the two mountains.

The independent regiment traveled day and night, took a small boat unexpectedly, and chose to go ashore after passing the castle.

The castle's keeper is called Dai Qing, a name that has become flooded. There are not too many Mongols and Jurchens called Dai Qing, Dai Qin, and Dai Qing, which means "brave".

Even Dorgon, before he was crowned king, was "Morgen Daiqing", that is, "wise warrior".

The Dai Qing in front of him is probably not very brave. When he woke up, he found that thousands of enemies had appeared in the rear of the castle, and his face turned pale with fright.

The role of the former fort is to block the army, and a few cadres do not carry baggage, and it is easy to row over.

"You go and persuade to surrender!" Yang Zhen Qingdao.

A warrior from the Sinicized Jurchen background quickly ran to the bottom of the castle, opened his throat and shouted: "Listen to the defenders inside, 200,000 Datongtian soldiers have surrounded Salhu. The puppet Qing court is about to be gone. If you resist stubbornly, you will die with the pseudo-Qing. Kaesong surrendered, and there was still a chance to live! “

The Tartar archers, after listening to the words carefully, did not choose to release the arrows Dai Qing began to be silent, hesitating whether to surrender or not, and when Nurhachi had just raised his army, it was a fat shortage to defend this place. Because the Yahu Pass in front of it is an important trade route between the Ming Dynasty and the Jianzhou Jurchens, and a large amount of oil and water can be fished here every month.

But now, trade is banned, and garrisoning this fort is the same as distribution, and it may be attacked by the Datong army at any time.

"Arrest someone!

Without waiting for the defenders to make a decision, Yang Zhenqing gave the order to move.

The castle is not big enough to accommodate too many people. There were only a hundred and ten defenders inside, and their families all worked in the valley north of the castle.

Yang Zhenqing left a thousand men to block the castle, and the remaining soldiers divided into several squads and began to sweep the river valley to the north.

"Bang bang bang!"

Gunshots were constantly heard, and the defenders were worried about their families, and they all lost their desire to fight.

In fact, they had no fighting spirit in the first place, and even the sentry on duty at night was lazy, otherwise how could Yang Zhenqing easily go around to the back of the castle.

Most of the real Tartar elites were taken away by Mandahai, and those hard bones were bumped into by the cavalry division. And these in front of him are all ordinary bannermen turned into the Eight Banners Army, as long as they are young and strong, crooked melons and cracked dates can also join the army, many people don't even have cotton armor, they just wear leather armor to fight.

Dai Qing looked left and right and found that the soldier had a sad face, and he didn't look like he was guarding the castle at all.

"Open the door and surrender!"

Dai Qing gritted his teeth and said.

He didn't want to bury the Manchus, and he wasn't a Manchurian nobleman. On the contrary, he followed the Manchu Dynasty to fight, and his two elder brothers had died, and the goods that his father and brother had stolen from the Han land had long been lost in Haizhou and not brought out.

It is an exaggeration to say that Dai Qing, as the castle guard, can't even afford to drink sorghum wine, so he can just have a full stomach.

More than 100 Tartar soldiers left the castle one after another.

Yang Zhenqing confiscated their armor and sneered: "I only gave you a chance to live, but you didn't all survive." Let's line up and draw lots, draw one out of ten, and kill one out of ten. If you are unlucky, you will be beheaded, and you will be blamed for others! You Tartars, you deserve to die! “

This practice is a serious violation of military discipline.

But Yang Zhenqing doesn't care so much, it doesn't matter if he is promoted or not, he joined the army just to kill the Tartars. If he hadn't been on a military mission, he would have killed all the Tartars who surrendered!

The Tartar soldiers who surrendered were horrified when they heard this, but they were fortunate.

Kill one out of ten, and you have a good chance of survival.

They have been disarmed, and they can only be forced to draw lots. In a group of 10 people, they blindly smoke weeds, and if they draw the short ones, they will be beheaded.

"Spare my life, I don't want to die!"

The first unlucky guy appeared, trying to struggle to escape, but was held down by the Datong soldiers. is in the same group as him, but they all showed expressions for the rest of their lives, glad that it was not themselves who were beheaded.

"I... I'm going to draw lots too? Dai Qing trembled with fright.

Yang Zhenqing smiled: "It's all the same!"

Dai Qing didn't dare to look at it anymore, closed his eyes and reached out, touching a weed and pulling it out.

When he opened his eyes again, he was in ecstasy, and he sat paralyzed on the ground.

The last group, less than 10 people.

Yang Zhenqing pointed to the Tartar captives captured in the village, selected a few of the most robust, and made up ten to continue the draw.

This practice is even worse, at the end of this war, his title will definitely be gone, and he will not even be able to lead troops in the country, and most of them will be thrown to Luzon as an officer.

Knowing that the castle had been occupied, the grain transporters a few miles away in the rear led the mules and horses carrying heavy loads and hurried to join the army as fast as possible.

Yang Zhenqing said: "Divide a hundred peasant soldiers to garrison this fort, and divide twenty soldiers to guard these Tartar civilians. All those Tartars who did not die will follow me to fight, and if you kill two or more Tartars, I will forgive you for your past sins! “

That's it, Dai Qing, who had just surrendered, . took his soldiers and continued to march with Yang Zhenqing.

Yang Zhenqing's hand seems to be risky, but he is actually well versed in the psychology of surrendering troops. These Tartars have abandoned the city and surrendered,

Even if he returned to the Manchu Dynasty, he would be questioned.

What's more, they just drew lots and escaped from the ghost gate. If it is a rebellion, wouldn't the life and death lottery just now be in vain?

Moreover, many of their families are in the hands of the Datong Army!

Drawing lots to kill people is not just venting anger.

It is not only Liwei, but also the thoughts and emotions of the captives.

Dai Qing's two elder brothers died at the hands of the Datong army, and he himself was almost killed just now. But this guy was still giving a lecture to the soldiers: "Listen well, kill two Tartars and you can clear your sins." For the sake of my family, for myself, kill me all fiercely! Kill the Tartars, kill the Tartars! ”

"Kill the Tartars, kill the Tartars!"

A group of Tartar soldiers who had no fighting spirit, who had just surrendered, actually shouted to kill the Tartars, and seemed to have a fighting spirit.

Follow the Taizi River and continue to the east for more than ten miles, and you will come to the second castle.

Yang Zhenqing said to Dai Qing: "You go and persuade to surrender, if you can obey the generals and surrender, you don't have to kill two Tartars to get away with it!"

Dai Qing was overjoyed, knelt down and kowtowed to Yang Zhenqing, and then rushed to the castle in a hurry: "Amba, I'm Dai Qing, and I've already sent the Datong Heavenly Soldiers." You also surrender quickly and give you a chance to live. On the side of Salhu, 500,000 Datongtian soldiers have surrounded Salhu City. Do you still want to bury the little emperor? “

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