The chief instructor, Senti, walked to the intersection of North and South Streets holding a paper loudspeaker. Two long card players guarded him, and cannonballs flew overhead from time to time.
Senti shrank his neck. Even though he knew that the long shield in front of him was of little use, he still comforted himself by saying that Jiannu's cannonballs would not hurt him.
"Brothers Zhengbaiqi on the opposite side!"
Senti shouted, and the man with the white flag Niu Luzhen behind him shouted in Manchu.
"Huang Taiji has abandoned you. We personally counted you on the Wengcheng. You only have a thousand soldiers. Do you know how many troops there are in the Kaiyuan Army? One hundred thousand! A full one hundred thousand. Your master Huang Taiji is fleeing with gold, silver and jewelry. Go to Hetuala and leave you fools to defend here, your great sweat didn’t even leave you a grain of food!”
Senti patted Niu Luzhen on the shoulder and said to him:
"The translation was very fast. After this battle, I asked Mr. Liu to let you come to the Training Bureau instead of going to North Korea to dig coal."
Niu Lu'erzhen nodded gratefully. He was well-informed in Houjin, so he naturally knew what the final outcome of mining would be.
"Okay, follow me and continue shouting."
Senti took out a piece of rice paper filled with words. He knew that Mandarin was not good at all. After Liu Zhaosun assigned him this task just now, he wrote all the words needed to recruit and surrender on the paper.
"Ping Liaohou is not only the marquis of the Ming Dynasty, but also the Tian Khan of Jianzhou Mongolia. He is older than your Houjin Khan. His old man said that no matter whether Baoyi or Zhenyi surrender to the Kaiyuan Army now, they will But forgetting the past, I will go back to Kaiyuan and give you land and housing. If I can kill the cow, I will really... Wait, there is wind."
A gust of wind blew Dongguan Zai's teeth chattering, and the rice paper he held in his hand danced with the wind and almost flew away without catching it.
"windy."
Shouting full of Lingnan flavor rang out on the North and South Streets. Behind the barricades, some coated soldiers looked at the surrounding Zhenyi with obviously different eyes.
"If a general above Niulu'ezhen comes to surrender, he will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver. The land and houses will be divided immediately to save the lives of your whole family! If the soldiers in Baoyi and armor come to surrender with the head of Niulu'ezhen, they will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver and the land will be divided. Divide houses."
"Brothers, don't work for Huang Taiji anymore. Liaodong is not the Liaodong he loves Xinjieluo. It belongs to all of you. Marquis Pingliao will give you a stick of incense and time to think about it. If you don't surrender, when the divine fire comes from the sky, you will have to Just like those Wu Zhen Hachao at the top of the city, they are all burned alive. There are three hundred artillery pieces of the Kaiyuan Army, and they are all targeting you right now. There are two ways, either surrender and live a good life, or follow Houjin Khan who abandoned you. Buried with him! You choose for yourself!"
Before Senti finished shouting, the barricade suddenly fired loudly a hundred steps away, and the last five seven-pounders of Zhengbai Banner roared and bombarded this direction. Fortunately, both shells hit the wall of Wengcheng, and the masonry debris was like debris. It seemed to be raining heavily.
Niulu Ezhen, who was wearing a white flag, quickly dragged the thin Senti back behind the shield car.
Senti, like his master Yuan Chonghuan, was a master who risked his life in fighting. He was angered by the sudden attack of Jiannu. He stepped back and shouted loudly:
"If you don't drink a toast, you'll have to drink wine as a penalty! It's really hard to see the coffin without shedding tears! What a bunch of street boys!"
Jiannu's shelling in the middle of the street immediately caused artillery fire back from the top of Wengcheng. More than a dozen field guns bombarded the middle of the street at the same time. After a series of shellings, Zhengbai Banner's remaining five seven-pound cannons were beaten to pieces. The gunner of the gun, Wu Zhenhachao, was killed on the spot.
Deng Changxiong passed through Wengcheng and personally directed the ensuing street battle. Seeing that the artillery in the middle of the street had been destroyed, General Deng Qian pointed his command flag forward and said loudly:
"Pass the North-South Street and attack the Khan's Palace to the north! Huang Taiji is still in Hetuala City, capture him!"
The soldiers of the 2000th headquarters rushed out of the corridor of Wengcheng and onto the North-South Street where corpses were strewn. The gunmen, in groups of ten, ran forward a few steps, then stood and fired a volley at the money rattails shaking in the distance. .
Without artillery support, the Houjin soldiers guarding behind the barricades could only use rifles and bows to block the Kaiyuan army. Baoyi kept running out of the shops on both sides of the street to surrender to the Kaiyuan army. They dragged their slender money rat tails with them. Rows of people knelt down under the eaves, just like how they rushed to surrender when the slaves invaded the cities in Liaodong.
"Those who put down their weapons and kneel on the spot will be spared from death. The rest will be killed!"
General Deng Qian gave an order, and the spearmen followed the gunmen, stepping on the corpses of the Hou Jin soldiers layer by layer on the ground, and quickly advanced to the north. These fierce spear soldiers lowered their heads from time to time to replenish the injured Hou Jin soldiers on the ground. Take a shot.
The fire gunmen advanced to about a hundred steps away from the fortress in the middle of the street. The windows on the second floor facing the street on both sides suddenly opened, and a dense wave of heavy arrows flew down. The two rows of fire gunmen in front were unable to dodge, and they all fell down in the dense rain of arrows.
The gunmen behind them hurriedly hid under the eaves on both sides, leaning their heads to shoot at the Jiannu archers above.
"We have reached the Tatar lair, and Huang Taiji will fight us tooth and nail."
Liu Zhaosun stood on the west gate of the Urn City, surrounded by the burning corpses of slaves. The auxiliary soldiers were still busy building the bridge, and no one paid attention to these Tatar corpses.
Liu Zhaosun shifted his gaze away from the flames of the corpse and followed the crackling fire gun in the distance towards the North and South Streets.
"Zheng Baiqi is still going to fight against the trapped beasts, but I want to see who can survive who! Let the 5000 Headquarters take over, search every house, and let the new recruits practice their skills!"
The ordering soldiers immediately galloped towards the North-South Street and conveyed orders to Zhu Dong who was commanding the battle in front. After Shao Jiechun died in the battle, he became the temporary commander-in-chief of the 5000 headquarters, responsible for commanding the more than 1000 surviving remnants.
Kang Yingqian looked at the Zhengbai Banner troops pushing back on the North-South Street and whispered to Liu Zhaosun:
"Marquis Ping Liao, why let the soldiers lose their lives in vain? Didn't we already occupy the top of the Wengcheng city? We brought in a few artillery pieces and blasted those houses. No matter how many Tatars were killed!"
Liu Zhaosun looked at him kindly and said with a smile:
"Master Kang, does he know how many Han people there are in Hetuala City besides the Eight Banners of Jiannu?"
Kang Yingqian saw that Liu Zhaosun wanted to be a woman, so he couldn't help but retort:
"The Han people are just coated slaves, and few of them are innocent. Besides, they are common people today, and they may be coated soldiers pushing shield carts tomorrow."
After hearing this, Liu Zhaosun fell into deep thought. In the offensive and defensive battles of the city in this era, there was no distinction between civilians and soldiers. As long as civilians performed military service, they would be called to the top of the city to throw a few stones and pour two plates of gold juice. This is also one of the reasons why the victorious side in ancient wars would massacre the city at every turn.
When Kang Yingqian saw that Liu Zhaosun was silent, he thought he had acquiesced. He was about to turn around and give Han Zhenyi the order to bombard the east gate in the distance when he heard Marquis Pingliao say:
"You must not do this. You must not kill the people in the city. Otherwise, I will be no different from Nurhachi!"
