A bombardment caused all the mid-level and senior generals guarding the gates of the city to die in the city along with Shang Jiabao.
At this time, the low-level generals stationed at the city gate could not mobilize the remaining troops to resist the incoming enemies.
The Eight Banners soldiers who defended the city were gone, and the continued resistance was nothing more than a fight between trapped beasts.
These Eight Banners soldiers who are still alive may have heard the words of Tumenshi and others at the top of the city to persuade them to surrender, and they will definitely resist desperately. But all the defenders who heard the persuasion to surrender at the top of the city died. Everything happened too fast. Before the news came, the city gates were attacked.
At this time, those loyal and brave men who were loyal to "our Qing Dynasty" were chopped down to the ground by the bandit suppressing troops who rushed in, and they lay there bleeding and wailing.
Faced with such a situation, among a group of bewildered Eight Banners soldiers, a voice suddenly exclaimed: "Look, isn't that our Lord Tumenshi who is holding the white flag?"
Following the speaker's direction, many Eight Banners soldiers looked over. Sure enough, Tumen was rushing over with his men as the vanguard of the bandit suppression army at this moment.
"Master Shi, Master Shi. This way..." At the corner of a house in the northeast corner of Mancheng, a defensive lieutenant wearing a blue flag uniform waved and called to Tumen who was coming over.
When Tumen looked for his voice, he saw that the defensive lieutenant was leading dozens of his men to hide there, and his screams were filled with the joy of finding his own people. Without saying much, Tu Menshi led his men to where these Eight Banners soldiers were.
"Master Shi, what is all this going on? Why did the rebels break in? What should we do now?" The defensive lieutenant asked continuously as he looked at Tumen who was approaching.
It turned out that the defensive lieutenant didn't know that Tumenshi had surrendered, and thought he was just driven back by the bandit suppressing army.
When Tumen arrived in front of the defender, he took advantage of the defender's lack of preparedness and pulled out the knife in his hand, put it on his neck, and shouted loudly: "Nisanlei, will you surrender or die?"
Nissan looked at the sword on his neck. Even though the weather was hot in the afternoon, he could still feel that the sword made of fine steel was so cold.
Nisanrai looked at Tumen in disbelief and asked, "Master Shi, what's going on with you? Do you mean you surrendered to the rebels?"
"Don't talk nonsense here. I'm very busy and in a hurry. Are you going to surrender with me or die now?" Tumen didn't look at Nissanlei much, and there was no hint of politeness in his words.
"Well, I..." Nisanlai hesitated for a moment, trying to understand the general outline of the matter. However, the pupils in his eyes suddenly expanded, and then quickly narrowed back down.
At this moment, a blood mark appeared on his neck where the knife was held, and the blood even began to seep onto Tumenshi's blade. It was obvious that Tumen Shi was really not prepared to give him more time to think about it slowly.
The pain in his neck also made Nissanle realize that Tumenshi was definitely not joking. Nissanlai shouted hurriedly:
"Master Shi, I surrender, I surrender, don't kill me."
"Very good, let them all put down their weapons and kneel aside to surrender." Tumenshi ordered with satisfaction.
"Yes, yes. I humbly obey my orders." Nissanle quickly replied. Then he turned his head and shouted loudly to his subordinates behind him:
"Have you all heard this? If you don't want to die, put down your weapons immediately."
The Eight Banners soldiers who heard this looked at each other and had no idea. Those who were loyal to Nisanlai also put down their weapons upon hearing this. The other Eight Banners soldiers would only surrender if they saw him.
"Harry Mai, you take a few people to collect their weapons, and then hand them over to the bandit-suppressing army officers at the back." Tu Menshi ordered a subordinate beside him without looking back.
"Come on, this slave takes your orders."
After Harimai led the people to quickly collect the weapons discarded by Nisanlai's subordinates in surrender, Tumenshi also led the others to find their families.
The bandit-suppressing army has told them that they should be the vanguard to find their families as soon as possible to avoid being killed by the bandit-suppressing army. So time is urgent, so I can't help Tumen not being nervous at all times.
Jingzhou was only realized by the Manchu Qing Dynasty after the "Three Feudatories Rebellion". For this reason, when Mancheng was established in the 22nd year of Kangxi's reign, all the 4,000 defenders in the city were soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and there was not a single Han flag.
The characteristic of the Eight Banners system is that flags are used to control people, that is, flags are used to control troops. Anyone who is affiliated with the Eight Banners can serve as a soldier.
Since the "San Francisco Rebellion", the whole city of Jingzhou has been in peace. The Manchu Qing Dynasty exempted the banner people from taxes and labor. The banner people in the city received high salaries every month and did not work. In addition, the land left to them by the previous "enclosure" made the banner people naturally "create people" comfortably.
Today, there are nearly 20,000 bannermen in the city of Jingzhou. Although there are many Manchu banner people in the city, so many years of comfortable life have made them decadent.
At this time, the entire city was tightly surrounded by tens of thousands of bandit suppressing troops, and all the people in the city were frightened.
From the siege battles in the past few days, they all understood that these bandit suppressing troops besieging them were not the Han people who had been bullied by them before and did not dare to fight back.
Although the city of Jingzhou is not small, Tumenshi is already very familiar with the location of his house. No matter how messy the battlefield was, it couldn't stop him from running home. As for the men who followed him, they were also sent back to look for their families and took refuge together in the mansion when they came to Tumen.
Tumen Mansion is a courtyard with five entrances and five exits.
A tall plaque hangs on the eaves, with the three words "Tumen Mansion" written in regular regular script. There is a pair of stone lions at the door, and a foot behind the three stone steps is a closed iron ring door.
Looking at the closed door of his home, Tu Menshi's heart tightened.
"It would be best if nothing happens to the people in the family."
"Bang bang bang..."
Tumen didn't dare to think any more and hurriedly ran to the door. He picked up the iron ring embedded in the door and knocked on the door panel vigorously.
"Is there anyone? Open the door quickly." Tu Menshi shouted eagerly.
"But the master is back?" The old gatekeeper's voice came from Tumen Mansion.
During the Qing Dynasty, being a gatekeeper for a large banner family was also a job that could be passed on to children and grandchildren.
Although the old janitor had opened the door for Tu Menshi for nearly half his life, Tu Menshi just couldn't remember the name of the old man who opened the door. After all, according to Tumen Shi, there is really no need to remember it.
"Yes, open the door quickly." Tu Menshi said in a habitual tone.
"Chiacri..."
After a low knock, the door was opened quickly.
"Master..." When the old man saw Tu Men at the door, he knelt down and asked naturally.
"Well..." Tumenshi didn't understand why he responded to the gatekeeper today. Then without considering whether the door was opened wide enough, he hurriedly stepped in.
"The master has returned home..."
