Chapter 102: Steel Torrent
Ma Laxi was furious when he heard the words of the Ming army's persuasion to surrender, and the Qing warriors had fallen into such a situation.
He looked around angrily, then looked at the thousands of soldiers around him, straightened his face, and shouted at the mountainside: "Who are you waiting for? How dare you recruit us and others, don't you know how powerful I am in the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty? ”
"The one who slays you!"
When Malashi heard this, he was even angrier, "Arrogant! And the one who killed me? Lao Tzu will not obey your wishes! ”
When the words fell, he shouted in Jurchen language: "Qing warriors, we can't die here in vain, the emperor still needs our allegiance, dismount, and surrender!" ”
After listening to the order of the main general, although some people were unhappy, but between life and death, no one disobeyed the order, and said in his heart, maybe Malasi had another plan?
The captives threw away their sabers and bows and arrows, took off their armor, and jumped off their horses.
Ni Yuanlu looked at the movements of the builders in the valley and was overjoyed, "The task assigned by the emperor has finally been completed." ”
On the mountainside, the Ming army shouted again: "Drive the war horses to the east side, and the personnel go to the west side!" ”
At this point, the captives had no choice, they whipped their horses and rushed to the west, and the Ming cavalry saw it, and quickly sent people to collect it, placed it in the rear of their own team, and still looked at the prisoners.
After Jianlu disarmed and moved to the west for a hundred steps, Ni Yuanlu whispered a few words to the messenger and patted him on the shoulder, his eyes were meaningful.
The pawn looked strange and shouted loudly: "Emperor Ming said that you were born as a prisoner and lived in a bitter cold place, so it is understandable to go south to loot." Surrounded today, he should have been sent to hell. But the emperor specially gave grace to send you to wait for reincarnation, and in the next life, you will be born in the Ming Dynasty and share the wealth! ”
Most of them believe in shamanism and Buddhism, and they must have understood very well what hell, reincarnation, and the afterlife are all about, and when they heard this, they suddenly knew that they had been deceived, and they shouted angrily one by one, and quickly ran to their weapons.
"Kill!"
Ni Yuanlu calmly ordered.
The Ming troops on both sides of the mountainside and on the east side formed horizontal formations, pulled the trigger one after another, and countless crossbow arrows galloped down.
Without the protection of the armor, the captives were completely defenseless, and a patch of arrows fell to the ground, and soon, a red stream flowed down the low-lying area......
Ni Yuanlu looked at the corpses of the captives, his face was solemn, he slowly walked to the valley, and said slowly:
"Set the offering table, set the sacrifice!"
The soldiers had already prepared what they needed and began to set up.
Half an hour later, Chongzhen, who got the news, led the Juyong Pass garrison and the newly surrendered men and horses to this place.
For a time, nearly 100,000 people blocked the water around the valley.
Zhu Youjian took Ni Yuanlu, Gao Di and other important ministers, tidied up their clothes, took heavy steps, slowly stepped forward, lit three incense sticks, and inserted them into the incense burner.
"Kneel!"
Tian Shouxin shouted.
All the Ming soldiers knelt on the spot.
Ni Yuanlu said loudly: "The people of Shanxi who died in vain, I, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, personally commanded, killed more than 10,000 prisoners, and avenged you!" ”
The Ming army all looked solemn, they naturally heard about the tragedy of the massacre of the city in Shanxi, and when they heard the word revenge, they immediately understood the intention of killing the soldiers and burning incense to pay tribute.
Zhu Youjian poured three glasses of wine, sprinkled them in front of the offering table, turned around, looked around, and shouted: "Whoever offends my Ming will be punished, and whoever kills my people will be killed!" ”
The valley is low-lying, surrounded by mountains, and with the blessing of echoes, Chongzhen's sonorous and powerful voice rushes into the ears of every soldier and cleanses their souls.
The surrender of the army was even more shocking.
They had been ravaged by the Jian, and they watched the people being slaughtered, pretending to be deaf and blind, and did not dare to resist.
Now Chongzhen is in person, and the whole army that killed the captives is wiped out while talking and laughing, and everyone admires Chongzhen as a god of war in their hearts.
"My Emperor is mighty! My Emperor is mighty! My Emperor is mighty! ”
The shouting in the valley shook the sky, like the roar of a divine beast, startling the birds in the mountains and hiding the mountain beasts.
The shouting continued for a long time, and Zhu Youjian raised his hands before gradually quieting down.
"Soldiers," Zhu Youjian yelled, "go west with me and recover Shanxi!" Kill into Datong and get the money! Get food! Kill! ”
"Take the money! Get food! Kill! ”
"Take the money! Get food! Kill the captives......"
In the midst of this cries one after another, Gao Di and Ni Yuanlu quickly organized their men and horses, issued military orders, and marched west in batches.
The morale of the Ming army was high, like a torrent of steel, rushing rapidly in the mountains.
Just after noon, they rushed to the city of Yanqing.
Previously, Nikan had transferred almost all the soldiers and horses east of Datong, and at this time Yanqing only had 1,000 Han troops and 100 real captives.
Seeing that tens of thousands of Ming troops were like rainbows and murderous, the Han army in the city immediately turned around and killed the real captives, opened the door and surrendered.
It was in Zhu Youjian's expectation to easily take Yanqing, and after the Ming army left 3,000 defenders, it quickly went west.
The soldiers left behind opened the treasury, distributed food, and pacified the people, and at the same time hung the heads of the prisoners on the surrounding city walls and the villages and roadsides within 20 miles to inspire people's hearts.
Two hours later, the army arrived at Xuanfu, the military town of the Ming Dynasty, although it was built tall and majestic, but it could not stop the footsteps of the Ming army at all.
Seeing that the Ming army was strong, the defenders of the city hurriedly closed the city gate and prepared to hold on.
I didn't want the Ming army to leave only 20,000 people, and the rest of the army continued to move westward without stopping, heading straight for Datong.
In another two hours, the Ming army under Xuanfu attacked several times and found that the defenders of Xuanfu were less than 2,000 people.
Overjoyed, braving the rain of arrows that was not dense, he quickly rushed to the city gate, fired mortars horizontally, and continued to bombard the gate.
In just a stick of incense time, the city gate was blown down, and 20,000 Ming troops roared and rushed into the city.
In less than an hour, the city of Xuanfu calmed down.
Under the command of the generals, the soldiers organized the people to distribute food in an orderly manner, and at the same time selected several teams of men and horses, carrying hundreds of captives, marching around the city, and recruiting the people scattered in the mountains and forests to return to the city.
The Jianyu Three-Way Army was fighting outside, and there were no Jianyu senior generals in the north of Jin to defend it, and the residents in the city were also fleeing from death, almost all of them were empty cities.
Zhu Youjian divided his troops along the way, recovered the city, gathered the people, and the people in northern Shanxi were all happy.
After several days of slaughtering the city, there were no more people in Datong. Because of the large amount of grain, grass, gold and silver gathered in the city, Azig arranged an army of 10,000 to guard it. Who would have wanted to be transferred by Nikan to attack Juyong Pass.
By the time of You, the main force of the Ming army, under the leadership of Chongzhen, arrived 5 miles east of Datong City.
It was summer, it was dark late, and Datong had not closed the city gate.
The garrison was even more lax, as if there was no war.
It turned out that the defenders in the city knew that there were no enemy troops in Shanxi, and everything was under the control of the Qing Dynasty, so they did not defend at all.
And because these days, there are always large teams of baggage to transport materials, the city gate is closed, opened, opened, very time-consuming and laborious, the city gate defenders are so tired that they complain for days, and finally simply stop closing the door.
This will see the yellow sand on the east side, hear the sound of horses' hooves rolling, the Jianyu guards thought that Nikan had returned to the city victorious, and hurriedly moved the horses' stakes, cleaned the city gates, and sprinkled water outside the gates to prevent dust.
Some of the low-level officers were dressed neatly and lined up at the city gate, ready to welcome their masters back to the city.
Da Da Da ......
The Ming army did not stop and pounced like a flood beast.
"Oops, it's not the master, it's the Ming army!" Some of the captives saw the comer and shouted loudly.
The captives, who were diligently sprinkling water, threw the basin and ran to the city.
The officers were even more alert, shouting to close the door quickly, and the rabbits rushed into the city.