Chapter 373

The gate of Jinzhou City was wide open, and out of the city gate came a burly man wearing silver armor, this man was Zu Dachun, and he was also Zu Dashou's fourth brother, he was a person with no sense of existence in the ancestral army.

He is not as good as Zu Dabi, not as good as Zu Dacheng, not as brave and capable as Zu Dale, but in fact, he is the most important person in the Zu family's army, at least no one can ignore Zu Dachun's existence, because he served as the commander of the Marshal Mansion in the Guanning Army and the general of Jinzhou City.

It is equivalent to the head of the Central Guard Regiment of the Guanning Army.

Zu Dachun looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "The last general is willing to surrender!" ”

Zu Dachun was willing to surrender to Cheng Shijie, it was really not because of the deterrence of the Ning Navy, nor Cheng Shijie's prestige, but because of Zu Dashou's plan, he was forced by Zu Dacheng and had to take refuge in Jiannu, Zu Dabi and Zu Dale stood on the opposite side of the Guanning Army under his secret instruction and continued to be loyal to Daming. As for Zu Dachun, he took refuge in Cheng Shijie.

This is like the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang's three brothers, the eldest Zhuge Jin, loyal to Eastern Wu, is an important minister of Eastern Wu, an official to the general, leading the Yuzhou pastor, as for the clan brother Zhuge Dan took refuge in the Wei State.

The reason why the three Zhuge Liang brothers chose different countries is mainly because they each have different talents and specialties, which can be best reflected and realized in different countries. The purpose of Zhuge Liang's three brothers defecting to the three countries of Wei, Shu and Wu was mainly to seek the interests of themselves and their families, and to make certain contributions to the development of various countries.

Eggs are not put in one basket, this is the most common way of the family, not only him, just like Shang Kexi and Shang Keyi brothers, in history, Shang Kexi became a big traitor, but his brother Shang Keyi fought to the end for the Ming Dynasty and died martyrdom.

Zu Dashou has no good way, because the times create heroes, when he became the head of the Guanning Army and the Liaoxi Generals, he represented the Liaoxi Generals, the Guanning Army, a warlord interest group, he was already a great minister in the Ming Dynasty, and he actually got no benefits from surrendering to the Manchus.

However, he did not dare not surrender.

Cheng Shijie led the pro-guard regiment and the Liaodong Management Committee into Jinzhou City, while Zu Dachun renovated the Jinzhou General Military Mansion, as if they had known that Cheng Shijie was coming.

Cheng Shijie directly ordered the officials of Songshan, Jinzhou Youtun, Xingshan, Jinzhou Zhongtun, Daxingbao, Gaoqiaobao, Tashanbao, Sunjiawa, Bijiashan, Lianshan, Huludao, Ningyuanwei, Juehuadao, Ningyuan Zhongwei, Ningyuan Zhongwei, Ningyuan Zhongwei, Ningyuan Qiantunwei, and Ningyuan Zhongqianwei, including Shanhaiguan, to come to the meeting.

On August 21, the ninth year of Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie entered the occupation of Jinzhou, as the new boss of Liaoxi, he did not dare not give face, of course, few people were willing to arrive at the army of the Ning Navy, you know, although Cheng Shijie stopped in Jinzhou, there were four integrated brigades, nearly 120,000 troops, and together with the Guanning army defense army of more than 40 castles such as Yizhou Wei and Guangning Right Tunwei Thirteen Mountains, more than 20,000 Guanning troops surrendered, and he was anxious to make meritorious contributions in front of the new boss.

There is no need for the Ning Navy to make a move, and the surrendered Guan Ning Army will teach them how to behave, because they are too close to the Liaodong Ning Navy, and they know the Ning Navy too well.

You must know that an ordinary soldier of the Ning Navy can now receive one or two dollars of silver at a normal time every month, and is issued four sets of military uniforms, four pairs of shoes, and bedding every year.

Just like the soldiers of the Ning Navy who went to Lanzhou to fight, they are more than 4,000 miles away from Liaodong, and their wartime allowance is four times their military salary, which means that an ordinary soldier of the Ning Navy can get one or two taels of silver, plus four taels of silver, and can get five times the military salary every month, that is, six taels of silver.

As the officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy, every time they beheaded a first-level enemy, the Jiannu reward was the highest, and they could be rewarded with seventy-five acres of land, followed by fifty acres of land by the Mongolian Tatars, even if it was an ordinary rebel, there was also a reward of ten acres.

In this Northern Expedition, Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang took away 65,000 foot horses, and the rest were old, weak, sick and disabled, cutting one was ten acres of land, and more than 20,000 of them surrendered, and the remaining Guanning army only had 50,000 or 60,000 people, that is, 560,000 acres of land, which was too little, and it was not enough at all.

"Xu Lao Er, you also surrender to the, aren't you Zu Shuai's most loyal minions?"

"I'm not stupid, my cousin voted for Cheng Shuai three years ago, and now there are more than 500 acres of land in Liaodong, he cut six Jiannu heads before and after, I followed Zu Shuai, and the Jiannu heads were not over twenty years earlier, and Lao Tzu doesn't even have half an acre of land now!"

"Ma Hezi, why did you vote for Cheng Shuai!"

"Zu Shuai has surrendered to Jiannu, I don't want to surrender Jiannu, I'm afraid I won't be able to enter the ancestral grave! Besides, how good it is to follow Cheng Shuai! ”

"In front is the Acropolis of Quang Ninh, I hope I help the bastards not to surrender!"

"Yes, if they also surrender, we won't be able to get military merit, old guys like us, Ning Haijun can't accept it, we can only be Tuntian soldiers!"

When the forward troops of the Guanning Army arrived at the Ningyuan Acropolis, Ning Yuanwei not only refused to surrender, but fired artillery at the Guanning Army.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

A row of cannonballs flew from the wall of the Ningyuan Acropolis and landed in the formation of the Guanning army, and the solid shells relied on the huge kinetic energy to plow more than a dozen flesh alleys in the Guanning army's surrender formation. At least more than 100 Guanning troops were either killed or wounded.

Instead of being afraid, these Guanning troops laughed loudly: "Great, they didn't surrender!" ”

The Ning Navy made a promise to these Guanning troops that in the next battle, once they were injured or killed, they would enjoy the treatment of Ning Navy soldiers, which also meant that if they died, they would be compensated 36 times the monthly military salary at one time, as well as 100 acres of bereavement land, and this 100 acres also enjoyed tax exemption for five years, half tax for ten years, children are exempt from tuition, books, and room and board fees for schooling, and their families are also exempt from certain taxes when doing business.

Without saying a word, these Guanning troops organized another attack, but their equipment was too poor, and in the absence of artillery, the second attack was also repulsed.

Five attacks before and after, casualties of nearly 2,000 people, still have no way to take this fortified city, as the city of Yuan Chonghuan's famous battle, Ning Yuanwei's artillery fire should be regarded as the largest city, even more than the artillery of Beijing City, Beijing City has light, medium and heavy Franc machine artillery 256 guns.

However, Ningyuan City has 18 heavy Hongyi cannons at the level of general cannons (5,000 heavy), more than 290 medium-sized Hongyi cannons (2,000 heavy) Fulong machine artillery, and if you add artillery such as bowl mouth guns and tiger squat cannons, there are no less than five or six hundred. This is too

"There's a kind!"

When Shang Keyi, the commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Ning Navy, arrived,

Later, when the main force of the Ning Navy arrived, they directly set up an artillery regiment, a full four artillery battalions, with 96 three-inch guns and 36 rocket launchers.

At present, the artillery of the Ning Navy has canceled the equipment of the Franc machine, the bowl mouth gun, and the flying thunder gun, and all the three-inch field guns.

In the face of the Ning Navy with more than a hundred artillery pieces, the Guan Ning Army on Ningyuan City was not worried, they had an absolute numerical advantage. However, the problem is that quantity does not equal combat effectiveness.

When the 204th Artillery Regiment of the Ning Navy was building an artillery position, the artillery on Ning Yuan City opened fire again, and soon they found that the fast-firing Franc machine gun in their hands could not reach the artillery position of the Ning Navy.

Only medium-sized Hongyi cannons can be obtained, but although the Hongyi cannons have a long range, they have a slow rate of fire, slow heat dissipation, and low accuracy.

Just when Ning Yuancheng fired the first round of test-firing artillery shells at the artillery position of the Ning Navy, before they could fire the second round of shells, the 36 rocket artillery pieces immediately adjusted their firing angles.

The biggest advantage of rocket artillery is the fast launch speed, in just half a minute, the rocket artillery completed the launch preparations, and the gunners who operated the rocket artillery lit the fuse that was tied into a bunch, and then hid far away.

More than ten seconds later, thirty-six six-pack rocket launchers were in full swing, and two hundred and sixteen fire dragons rushed out of the launch tube with a roar, pulling out straight parabolas, and pounced on Ning Yuancheng with their teeth and claws, and in an instant, a rocket artillery shell smashed on the top of the defenders of Ning Yuanwei's Guan Ning army.

With the telescope, you can see that on the city wall of Ningyuan City, or inside the city wall, almost every corner has a dazzling explosion point, and the small explosion point instantly expands into a huge fireball, piece by piece, row by row, clump by cluster, forming a dense and terrifying flame forest, covering almost the entire Ningyuan City.

The thunderous explosion shook the entire Ningyuan City, the city walls shook from side to side, and the shock wave of the explosion was wrapped in shrapnel, flames, and countless rubble, rampage, knocking down houses, uprooting trees, and leveling everything it encountered!

It was only after the rocket artillery bombardment that the artillery position of the Ning Navy was completed, and ninety-six three-inch guns began to fire shells at the Ningyuan Acropolis.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

A fierce cannon fire rang out, and a volley of shells flew over, and the shells landed at the crowded city gates. The cannonball smashed into the pile of people in a daze, exploded violently, and the fire rushed up, all everyone saw was a terrifying picture that could not be seen in the blood pool of hell, countless Ningyuan defenders disappeared without a trace in a flash of firelight, arms and thighs flew wildly in the air, and the human organs were smashed down with their heads and faces, almost burying the survivors alive!

With the explosion point as the center, the soldiers of the Ningyuan defenders fell down in a large area, some of them had their arms cut off, some of their thighs were cut off, some of their stomachs were blown up, their intestines all flowed out, and some were cut into two pieces! After the explosion, the noisy battlefield fell into a deathly silence.

The soldiers of the Guanning Army who surrendered looked at the blank area covered with pulp and flesh as if they were enchanted, and their bodies trembled.

"It's so dangerous, fortunately, we surrendered quickly!"

These Guanning troops surrendered, although they are older, but most of them are veterans, they have experienced a hundred battles, I don't know how many battles they have fought, but how have they ever seen such a bloody and terrifying picture?

After only three or four rounds of shelling, Ningyuan City became purgatory, I don't know how many Guan Ning soldiers were caught in the fire, and there were no bones, let alone how many people were trapped in the fire and struggled to scream, however, who else could save them? Who would dare to rush into Ningyuan City, which had been turned into a furnace, to save them?

The battle of Ningyuan City was the only large-scale battle in which the Ning Navy won the entire western Liaoning, but from the beginning to the end of this battle, in less than half an hour, this city, which is known as the city with the strongest firepower in the Ming Dynasty, only insisted on five rounds of artillery bombardment, that is, two rounds of rocket artillery, more than 400 rocket artillery shells, plus more than 500 flowering cannons, and they collapsed.

Jinzhou City, this city has changed hands, the original ancestral banner has been replaced by the Chengning banner, which was originally guarded on the city wall, or the Guanning army in the city, the fiery red mandarin duck battle jacket has also disappeared, replaced by a pitch black. Black cloak, black battle flag, black armor.

The streets of Jinzhou City are very tidy, the dilapidated houses have been repaired, and it is not a new look, but at least it will not rain heavily outside the house and light rain inside the house. There are a lot of garbage stations in the city, all the garbage is thrown there, every day someone puts the garbage on the car and pulls it out of the city to deal with it, there are people patrolling the street from time to time, and seeing people littering, spitting, setting up stalls or something, not to mention, fines!

The armbands of these guys have two big words written on them: Chengguan! This is a strategic strike force that makes the whole world tremble, and it is also a group of super hateful guys, no matter where they go, there are always people who look at them with an unkind look, it seems that whether it is ancient or modern, the chengguan is not welcomed!

The city gate of Jinzhou City was wide open, and countless officials and generals from all over the country came to Jinzhou to meet Cheng Shijie, of course, the most important thing is that Jinzhou, which was originally short of commerce, has a large number of materials at this time, and the quality and price are cheap, so that the people of Jinzhou really feel the benefits of Cheng Shijie, cheap and durable, beautiful and sturdy boots, shoes, the cheapest is still the salt in southern Liaoning, where each bag of salt only needs six yuan, two catties per bag, this price they don't even dare to think.

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Sanshen Mountain, hot spring valley.

The snow was falling heavily and the temperature plummeted, but fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng rushed here with a large army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and if there were no natural hot springs in the valley, this snowstorm could make the Northern Expeditionary Army disappear from the world.

Of course, now the life of the Ming Northern Expedition army is not easy, the original 200,000 troops of the horse, only less than 50,000 people can successfully come here, which means that from the Sanshen Mountain to the hot spring valley This is less than a hundred miles of road, the Ming Dynasty died more than 150,000 horses.

The soldiers of the Ming army who were able to successfully rush into the hot spring valley seemed to have completely lost their feelings, and it was not until the two bowls of porridge that they were sure that they were still alive, thinking of the countless robes that were buried on the road to the hot spring valley, everyone was sad and cried bitterly, and the cry seemed to tear apart the heart, which was sad! 、

As the king of a country, Emperor Chongzhen's treatment is naturally not comparable to ordinary Ming soldiers, on the way to break through, even Lu Xiangsheng has to rely on gnawing trees to chew grass roots to satisfy hunger, Emperor Chongzhen still has a food supply, not hungry.

Now that he has entered the hot spring valley, Lu Xiangsheng naturally did his best, not only for Emperor Chongzhen to renovate a wooden house with an area of more than 100 square meters according to the suitability of the place, this wooden house was built in a hot spring, and under the wooden house is forty or fifty degrees of hot spring water, even if the weather is cold, it is like burning the floor heating, not too cold.

The imperial chef beside Emperor Chongzhen even made a table of sumptuous wine and food for him to enjoy. It's just that after more than 20 days of purgatory-like encounters, this king of a country is already in shape and haggard, he is indeed very hungry, and he wants to eat a big meal, but the painful cry from not far away makes him unable to swallow it at all.

More than 300,000 horses, just because of his impulse, 300,000 horses were buried like this, how many 300,000 horses can there be for him to squander in the entire Ming Dynasty?

These 300,000 people are all bloody men who are not afraid of strong enemies, and they are also a force that Da Ming has finally accumulated, and they were lost like this, and they were cut off together with countless lives, as well as the good situation that Cheng Shijie and Lu Xiangsheng worked hard for.

As soon as he thought of this, Emperor Chongzhen's heart was like a knife, and even the bear's paw and phoenix cheeks couldn't swallow it. He was silent for a long time, and whispered to these thin generals: "I'm sorry for all Aiqing, I'm sorry for these 300,000 loyal and brave Ming soldiers!" I'm even more ashamed of the common people! ”

The king of a country cannot admit mistakes, he is the son of heaven, the darling of heaven, and he will never make mistakes. Even if the emperor really did something wrong, he couldn't admit it, and if he really wanted to admit it, he had to wait until he died, and then the successor would admit his mistake for him, which has been the case since ancient times.

Now Chongzhen admitted his mistake in front of many generals, which is unprecedented, but the generals have no reaction, not to mention that it is absolutely impossible to kowtow and accuse in fear of sincerity, and even his expression has not changed much.

Nine deaths, one life, outlaw breakthrough, when the Sanshen Mountain was encircled, there were still more than 130,000 horses, however, now there are less than 50,000 horses. They are so tired that they don't have the strength to think about other things, and they are not Wenchen, they can't learn Wenchen's tricks, they think that Chongzhen's rash Northern Expedition was wrong from the beginning, and it is too late to admit his mistake now!

Don't say anything about the majesty of the Son of Heaven, don't say that the old man admits his mistake, even if he kneels on the ground and kowtows a hundred times, can the hundreds of thousands of robes who died in battle come back to life?

Almost all the soldiers were extremely disappointed in Chongzhen, the emperor, and it could even be said that they were extremely disappointed.

Although they rushed into the hot spring valley, which can be used to resist the severe cold of the weather, the problem is that they do not have much food and grass, and the full load is less than 2,000 stones, which is equivalent to five liters of grain per person. It's just equivalent to a day-and-a-half-day supply in normal times.

Five liters of food, how many days can you last if you save it?

What's next?

(End of chapter)