To the east of Yanqing Prefecture, more than 8,300 prisoners escorted by the commander-in-chief of the left center of the former battalion were assembled in the cold wind.
These more than 8,000 Mongolian captive soldiers were all shirtless and shivering in the severe winter wind. Some of the wounded soldiers could no longer hold up. Many wounded soldiers had fainted, but there was no companion to help them.
For the Mongols, battles between tribes are very common. If you lose today, you will become a prisoner of another tribe tomorrow and fight for the winner. There is no strong sense of belonging.
Being defeated and captured by the Ming Dynasty's army is no different in essence. Most Mongolian soldiers believe that as long as the war is over and the Qing Dynasty spends some money to redeem them, it won't be long before they become soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners of Mongolia. , and he can go south again to conquer various places in the Ming Dynasty. Then he will have as many women, money and food as he wants.
But after more than 8,000 captive soldiers stood in the cold wind for a while, everyone began to notice something unusual. Some of those wounded soldiers had even frozen to death. The New Army soldiers and horses waiting around them were still indifferent. They were not at all the way the Ming army treated Qing prisoners in the past. They either killed them directly or locked them up and asked for ransom. What are they going to do now?
After a while, more than 100,000 soldiers of the New Army had gathered around and surrounded Yanqing Prefecture City. As a large banner appeared, the soldiers of all the battalions cheered thunderously, and the soldiers of the army shouted "Victory" with great momentum. .
This large scroll is red in color, with a big Chinese character "Liu" written on it. There are two slightly smaller battle flags next to it. One is the sun, moon and golden wave battle flag of the Ming Dynasty, and the other battle flag reads "General Secretary of the Ming Dynasty".
Supervise the local admiral in Shandong to oversee military affairs, food and salary, river management and civil affairs."
Under the three-sided banner, Liu Yan was wearing fine steel armor and a tiger skin cloak. He was riding majestically on a war horse. He was observing the city of Yanqing Prefecture with a telescope. When he saw Jierhalang and Ah After Batai, Haoge, Azig, and Baiyintu raised their battle flags, they smiled and said to Miao Shao, Xun Jingyun, and Wu Guojin beside them: "Don't you see Huang Taiji? Now the Qing army is at the end of its rope, and Huang Taiji is still If he doesn’t show up, I think he’s either getting worse and unable to get out of bed, or he’s planning a way out in the city.”
Miao Shao said proudly: "A way out? Governor, what other way out can the Tatars have now? I think they only have a dead end!"
"No wait."
Liu Yan took a breath, and white mist spread around his mouth. According to the measurement standards of later generations, Liu Yan estimated that the current temperature must be at least ten degrees below zero, and those Mongolian prisoners were almost there.
"Now that the audience is complete, let's start singing!"
"yes!"
Then Miao Shao excitedly rode his horse and arrived in front of more than 8,000 prisoners. Behind him were hundreds of soldiers from the guard camp who brought a large number of swords, guns and other weapons. In addition, a large number of baggage soldiers brought a lot of ladders. Place them in the wilderness east of Yanqing Prefecture, about a hundred steps away from the city wall, in front of more than 8,000 captives.
Miao Shao reined in his horse, and then shouted loudly: "Now I will give you a way out. Pick up the weapons and ladders in front, rush up to attack the city, or those who come back will be given fifty silver coins and can choose to join Ming Shandong." New army, or return to the grassland and go home!”
Miao Shao's voice was in the empty space
The word "Winter Wilderness" spread, and all the captives heard it clearly. The more than 8,000 captives were dumbfounded. Isn't this something the Ming army did?
Then Miao Shao shouted loudly: "If anyone is unwilling, take him out and behead him now!"
At this moment, except for the biting wind howling among the army, no one among the thousands of prisoners spoke, and everyone was struggling in a tangled manner.
Miao Shao looked at everyone coldly, then looked back at the city head, then rode his horse to Liu Yan's side, and then said loudly to the soldiers of the guard camp: "The whole camp is on alert, let's start!"
"yes!"
After receiving the order, Wu Xingzhou, the guerrilla general on the left side of the Guards Battalion, shouted loudly: "All prisoners, listen, start attacking!"
Then the more than 10,000 soldiers in the Guards Battalion raised their cannons and aimed them at more than 8,000 Mongolian captives. As long as the prisoners made any movement or stood still without charging, they would be beaten into sieves immediately.
"You're going to die anyway. If you rush forward, you still have a chance to go home!"
Niu Luzhen, a Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner, roared, then rushed forward first, picked up a sword from the ground, summoned dozens of captive soldiers from the Zhenghuang Banner around him, and began to rush towards Yanqing Prefecture City.
Afterwards, thousands of Mongolian soldiers began to charge, and many even began to fight for weapons on the ground. Many people also carried ladders and roared towards the city wall.
There is no moat in Yanqing Prefecture City, and the trenches, horse-proofing, sheep and horse walls and other facilities outside the city have been abandoned for a long time, so the thousands of Mongolian captives did not encounter any obstruction.
Of course, there are also many people who are fishing in troubled waters and do not really charge. Instead, they move forward among the crowd, trying to see the situation or take the opportunity to escape.
suddenly, count
There were violent sounds of gunshots coming from behind the thousands of Mongolian prisoners. Many people looked back and saw that one or two hundred prisoners of various banners were still standing in place and did not follow the large group of people to charge. At this time, they had been captured by the new army. All the soldiers in the guard camp were shot dead and turned into cold corpses.
"It's really killing!"
All the Mongolian prisoners were shocked, and their pace accelerated a bit. The captive soldiers mixed in the crowd also began to charge forward desperately.
On the top of the city, Jierhalang, Azig, Hauge, Abatai, Baiyintu and others were stunned. The soldiers and horses of the Qing army on the city were constantly screaming and roaring at this moment. scolded the Mongol captives.
But between life and death, the Mongolian prisoners had no choice at all and rushed forward one after another.
Those Mongolian prisoners will no longer join the Qing army anyway. At this moment, who doesn’t know that the Qing army is already a grasshopper after the autumn. There is not much time left to be arrogant. At this time, no one will follow the Qing army anymore. It's dark.
"Fire the arrow!"
On the top of the city, Azig and Haug roared almost in unison. Thousands of arrows were fired at once, and the dense arrows killed a large number of Mongolian prisoners in an instant.
At this time, the Mongolian prisoners who rushed to the city not only did not have armor, they did not even have clothes. They were all shirtless and had no defense ability at all. They had no chance to set up ladders when they rushed to the city. They fell down after being hit by arrows, and soon the city was empty. There was a thick layer of corpses piled up.
"Kill! Kill for me!"
Haug was roaring crazily at this time, wanting to kill all the rebellious Mongols. There are more than 8,000 Mongol prisoners, why can't they
Fight to the death with Liu Yan's tribe, inflict the greatest damage to Liu Yan's tribe, but rush over and raise the sword to the masters. Is there any justice?
The Manchurian soldiers and horses with two yellow flags on the top of the city drew their bows and fired arrows. The faces of these soldiers were ferocious. They slaughtered their original companions without any hesitation. They cursed and kept firing arrows. Arrows rained down from the top of the city. The thousands of Mongolian prisoners who rushed up were quickly killed, leaving only at least two thousand corpses.
The bodies were surrounded by blood, and in the cold wind, they were frozen together in the blink of an eye, becoming an inseparable whole.
Liu Yan looked at the Mongolian prisoners who fled back in panic. There was no special expression on his face. He just said coldly to Miao Shao: "Kill me!"
Miao Shao had been waiting for a long time and roared loudly: "Fire!"
boom!
The large horizontal formation of the Guards Battalion was already ready and was gathering behind thousands of Mongolian prisoners, to the east of Yanqing Prefecture.
At this moment, Miao Shao gave an order, and thick smoke spewed out instantly. The intensive firepower was far more lethal than the arrow rain on the city. The retreating Mongolian prisoners fell to the ground one after another. The dead Mongolian prisoners were considered lucky, but the injured prisoners who fell to the ground suffered tremendous pain, curled up and wailed on the cold ground, and then were trampled by countless pairs of feet, and soon they were gone. sound.
"put!"
The guards battalion continued to fire volleys, and soon a huge "smoke belt" was formed in front of the formation. The Mongolian prisoners who had no defense at all could not rush through, and they were completely slaughtered lambs.
In less than half an hour, more than 8,300 prisoners of all Mongolian banners were
Under the "pincer attack" between the new army's guard camp and the Qing army in the city, they were all massacred in the wilderness to the east of Yanqing Prefecture.
At this time, the smoke gradually dissipated. Liu Yan waved his hand, and the flag of the Chinese Army began to wave violently. The battalions of the New Army and the garrison began to advance forward until they reached the position of 120 steps from Yanqing Prefecture City. Then they stopped one after another.
There are no artillery on Yanqing Prefecture City. At this distance, the Qing army's bows and arrows cannot shoot at all, but the New Army's artillery battalion can directly bombard any part of the city.
"Order the artillery battalion to prepare, with the east side as the main attack direction, and the other sides to coordinate the attack!"
"yes!"
Miao Shao asked: "Master Governor, should we wait until the artillery battalion stops shelling before each battalion attacks again?"
Liu Yan nodded and said, "Okay, listen to the Chinese army's orders!"
"yes!"
On the east wall of Yanqing Prefecture, Jierhalang looked at the new army and garrison battalions that had almost advanced to the front, and hurriedly said to Hauge: "Prince Su will return to the Zhizhou Yamen immediately to take charge. I will wait here to supervise the battle!"
Haug nodded with a livid face, warned everyone to be careful, and hurried back to the city.
At this time, Jierhalang discussed with Azig, Abatai, and Baiyintu, and finally decided that Baiyintu would lead the Manchurian troops with yellow flags to station in the east, and Jierhalang would lead the Manchurian troops. Soldiers and horses with the Inlaid Blue Banner guarded the north, Abatai's Manchurian Zhenglan Banner soldiers and horses guarded the south, and Azige led more than 3,000 Manchurian soldiers and horses with the Inlaid White Banner guarded the west.
As for the Manzhou Zhenghuang Banner troops and horses, everyone had always believed that they could not be mobilized for the time being, so they were all concentrated around the Zhizhou Yamen in the city and handed over to Hauge for command and mobilization.
At the same time, several people also unanimously decided to kill the two Han armies of Ma Guangyuan and Geng Zhongming.
All the yellow flag soldiers and horses were mobilized to the east, using these Han army flag soldiers and horses as cannon fodder to consume as much of Liu Yan's troops as possible and delay as much as possible.
Soon, Manchuria banner soldiers and horses began to mobilize, and Ma Guangyuan and Geng Zhongming also led the Han army to rush over with two yellow flags. When the two came to the top of the city, the generals under their command were shouting and deploying defenses, but they failed. I saw that the Manchurian troops with yellow flags on the top of the city were quickly withdrawing, and they were all distributed to the gates of the city and the houses along the city wall.
Ma Guangyuan and Geng Zhongming looked at each other, both of them feeling dissatisfied. How long has this been going on? These Manchus are still acting arrogantly, treating the flags and soldiers of the Han army as human beings. Shouldn't we unite now to fight against Liu Yan's soldiers and horses?
"Haha, Master, are there some Manchu troops deployed on top of the city?"
Ma Guangyuan is the slave of Gushan Ezhen of the Han Army's Xianghuang Banner, and Gushan'ezhen Baiyintu of the Manchuria Xianghuang Banner. Even if Baiyintu is not the flag owner, he can still do whatever he wants with Ma Guangyuan.
At this time, Baiyintu looked at the outside of the city with a solemn expression. In the distance, the artillery battalion led by Qian Qian was already in place and the artillery positions were being deployed. The artillery was being mobilized one after another, and many artillery had already begun to be loaded.
Baiyintu was thinking about how to block Liu Yan's artillery fire, but his thoughts were interrupted by Ma Guangyuan. He suddenly became angry and hit Ma Guangyuan's face with a whip. A long blood mark instantly appeared on Ma Guangyuan's face.
But even so, Ma Guangyuan did not dare to say anything. Instead, he hurriedly knelt down and begged his master not to be angry.
This is the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is completely backward slavery
Everywhere they went, they copied this system of masters and slaves, turning every civilized place into a barbaric wilderness.
"Damn slave! Just do whatever I ask you to do, what nonsense is that!"
"Hey! This slave is talking too much."
Baiyintu glared at Ma Guangyuan, then looked at Geng Zhongming, who was beside him with a sad look, and then said angrily: "Go check the sandbags on the top of the city immediately. They must be deployed in place. Do you understand?"
"嗻!"
Then Baiyintu angrily went to the city tower and took a seat. The elite Bajala battalion from the brigade beside him also followed. Along the way, he kept reprimanding the two yellow flag soldiers of the Han army who were busy guarding the city.
"asshole!"
Ma Guangyuan touched his red and swollen cheek and cursed in a low voice involuntarily.
Geng Zhongming hurriedly signaled Ma Guangyuan to be careful, then sighed and said: "We are all slaves. This is how the master treats his slaves. This is fate!"
Ma Guangyuan immediately looked outside the city. At this time, the New Army's artillery battalion had basically been deployed. Looking at the artillery pieces and the more than 100,000 elite troops outside the city, he couldn't help but shudder, and something he didn't expect came out of his heart. A thought: "If we offer the city at this time, can we find another way to survive?"
