Chapter 152: Blessings
Where the city wall collapsed, there were no captives, and the Ming army continued to enter the city, flintlock pistols continued to sound, and grenades exploded everywhere, like harvesting wheat, harvesting the lives of the captured soldiers.
About half an hour.
The most radical captives had already been killed, and the Han Baoyi, finding that the Ming army had the upper hand, cut off their braids one after another, joined in, and the siege battle became smooth.
In another half an hour, the Ming army basically controlled the whole city.
However, the search for remnants of the enemy in the later period continued.
Smoke billowed from the city, and from time to time there were shouts of killing.
Now, with more Han Chinese under the leadership of Bao Yi, the Ming army can find the hiding places of the scattered captives more quickly.
The city gates, granaries, silver warehouses, and military arsenals of the Golden State were also completely controlled.
After about an hour, the shouting and wailing in the city gradually stopped, and the houses were completely searched.
When it was determined that there was no more resistance in the city, the Ming army gathered all the Han Chinese in an open area in the city.
began to identify them one by one, to prevent the real captives from impersonating, and to catch the traitors of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.
In fact, this is very simple, the oily face and the big waist are quickly caught.
Then it was the Han people who determined their identities to come forward to identify.
These Han people have long been oppressed, and when they learn that both the real captives and traitors will be executed, they will naturally not be timid and afraid.
Every time a soldier of the Eight Banners was pulled out, the Ming army would be killed on the spot.
Seeing that the former high-ranking master had become a headless corpse, more people stood up, new and old grievances were avenged together, and the begging for mercy in Jinzhou City continued, the screams were endless, and the cheers echoed for a long time.
During the siege of the city, the real captives who surrendered first were tied up by the five flowers, and the Ming army with a cold look escorted them outside the city, lined up in row after row, and aimed at the muzzles of the black holes.
The captives suddenly realized that something was wrong, and some people struggled violently.
"That's not right, didn't you say that you knelt on the ground and don't kill!" Some of the captives could speak Chinese and shouted in terror.
"Lying to you, what, dissatisfied?" The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty shouted.
Lin Yuantai stopped the soldiers and said loudly: "How can Da Ming not believe what he says!" ”
When the captives heard this, they immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.
In particular, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty cried one by one and told the difficult history of their forced errands.
"We Daming, since we said that we will not kill if we kneel on the ground, we naturally can't be untrustworthy. That's why you're alive until now! ”
"Long live Daming!" The captives shouted.
"However, you all came here just now, which means that you have not been kneeling, and you have already stood up! So, kill! ”
Bang bang bang......
As soon as Lin Yuantai's word "kill" came out, the soldier immediately pulled the trigger.
After a bloody storm, there was not a single living captive soldier ahead.
The same scene was seen at other execution sites.
After the execution, the chief criminal officer read the forgiveness decree written by Chongzhen and gave them the gift to become subjects of the Ming Dynasty in the next life!
These executioners, whose hands were stained with the blood of the Han Chinese, finally received the blessings they deserved.
"Vice General Lin, all the Tartars in the city have been executed! In addition, the losses of our troops were also pointed out, a total of 412 people were killed and 345 wounded. There are currently 4,456 people available in the city! ”
"yes, got it."
Lin Yuantai was in front of the Jinzhou City Tower to listen to the report of the soldiers.
After he entered the city, he immediately ascended to this commanding height, cautiously controlling the situation in the city, although he also knew that casualties were inevitable, and he also knew that this was a rare victory for the Ming army for many years, but he was still heartbroken.
Although the battle loss of 1 to 4 was not a luxury in the past.
In the battle of Salxu, Houjin lost nearly 50,000 troops to the Ming army at a very small cost.
In the Battle of Daling River, Huang Taiji led his army to besiege and kill nearly 30,000 Ming troops and capture nearly 20,000 prisoners.
In the battle of Songjin, the 130,000 army of the Ming Dynasty was wiped out......
In the wars between the Ming and the Jurchens, there were fewer victories and more defeats. Now the great victory of attacking Lushun and winning Jinzhou will surely go down in history.
Lin Yuantai pondered for a moment and said slowly:
"Erect a monument to the brothers who died in battle! Half of the heads of the more than 2,800 captives that were killed were hung at the city gate and by the roads outside the city. The other half sent people to the north and hung them up in Fuzhou. ”
"Yes!" The soldier solemnly gave a fist salute.
"Send 2,000 people back to Lushun to help Zheng Zongbing find out the land as soon as possible and start dividing the land!"
"Yes. Humble and then order troops back. ”
After the battle, the Han people outside Jinzhou who did not choose to go south also entered the city, and together with the compatriots in the city, they happily helped the Ming army deal with the follow-up matters.
Those who were physically strong began to help the Ming army repair the collapsed city walls.
Those old and weak women and children did their best to help the Ming army cook porridge and repair clothes.
Those who could read and write were requisitioned to the government office early, and on the same day began to compile a register of land properties, register the population, and clarify the materials in the city.
They found that these Ming troops were different from what they remembered. They slaughtered their enemies with ferocity and cruelty, but treated the people with extraordinary gentleness.
Unlike the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they were incompetent in killing prisoners, powerless in suppressing bandits, and disturbing the people first.
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The Han people who rushed to Lushun first were in amazement all the way.
They were surprised to find that the southern Liaoning had been fighting for several days, and the farmland south of Jinzhou was undamaged.
They were shocked to see that on the way to Lushun, every five miles, there was a big tree with braided heads on the side of the road.
When they arrived in Lushun one after another, when they saw the neat line of Ming officers and soldiers, and saw the sun and moon flags flying high at the head of the city, they felt like they were going home.
They also saw the crimson flying dragon flag, the azure blue dragon flag, and the verdant leaping dragon flag. Knowing that it was the newly established Ming New Army of Emperor Chongzhen, national pride filled his heart.
Zheng Zhibao's favorite thing to do every day is to stand at the head of the city, look inward at the bustling people, and look out at the people of Jinzhou who continue to enter the city.
"This is my Lushun! These are the people of my district! Hahaha...... "He laughs like this all the time.
What made him even happier was what Zheng Sen said to him when he left:
"The emperor intends to build Lushun into the largest commercial port in the north, so that all the merchant ships on the Daming Sea can berth and do business here!"
Zheng Zhibao was excited at that time, Lushun, the ice-free port that Daming can count.
If the imperial court fully supports it, he can become a half-official and half-merchant emperor, not only the profits of the ocean-going business, but also the protection fees paid by merchant ships in the past.
Therefore, he immediately gave up the idea of secretly collecting land to fill his own pockets, and strictly according to Chongzhen's will, after setting aside part of the military land, he distributed most of the land to the people, and at the same time made it clear that as long as the owner of the field did not leave southern Liaoning, the imperial court would never collect the land endowment!
The news quickly spread throughout Lushun, and the people rushed to help the Ming army measure the land, and they waited for the fields to be divided.
A day later, the soldiers who returned to Jinzhou arrived, and the great cause of dividing the fields was in full swing in Lushun......
At the same time, the instructors of the Ming army walked out of the barracks as planned and went to the fields to carry out ideological education for the people.
They took advantage of the opportunity of the field division briefing, combined with the form of heart-to-heart talks in the fields, and took the opportunity of the people's distribution of cultivated land to imperceptibly spread the idea of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism.
It not only widely disseminated the idea of being grateful to Chongzhen and supporting the Ming Dynasty, but also deeply implanted the consciousness of actively joining the army and defending the country into the hearts of the people.
A few days later, a speedboat sailed from Tianjin Port, and the second person in the inner court, Hu Kaifei, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial superintendent, dressed in a dark color costume, walked off the ship.
He glanced around, and when he saw Zheng Zhibao, he immediately walked over with a smile: "Zheng Zongbing, our family is so polite!" ”
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