"Dang...dang...dang..."
In the battlefield, the weapons of both sides collided, and the sound continued. As you come and go, people are constantly injured and falling to the ground.
Fighting on the battlefield is no better than fighting on the streets, and individual bravery will never be put to good use. Those who can defeat a hundred with one on the battlefield are mostly legends.
A group of Qing soldiers who were forced and had no intention of fighting, Fabag quickly let Murado and his group entangle and besiege them.
As the saying goes, it is difficult for two hands to defeat four punches. As the swords clashed, after a few rounds, Fabage had Mulado's men cut down and fell to the ground, bleeding.
With the death of Vabag, the last courage of the Zhenghong Banner soldiers he led to resist also disappeared. The flag soldiers holding the red flag chose to surrender one after another. Then, they were detained by the bandit suppressing army behind them.
Since the gate of Mancheng was captured by the bandit suppressing army, the Manchus in the city lost their confidence in defense and began to run around in panic.
Although the land of Jingzhou is important, the real war was only during the Kangxi Dynasty when Wu Sangui's troops attacked and occupied it during the "San Francisco Rebellion". Most of the Manchu Eight Banners soldiers stationed here today have never experienced war.
The Manchu Eight Banners soldiers in this city had gone to the city for defense earlier, and it was none other than Shang Jiabao's good mobilization. Shang Jiabao ordered that anyone who dared to disobey and refused to go to the battlefield would be beheaded immediately, and the whole family would be demoted as slaves and exiled to Ning Guta. To do this, they had to go to the scalp.
At the same time, the Manchu and Qing court treated the Manchu flag soldiers very well. Manchurian soldiers can receive a monthly salary that is nearly twice as high as that of Green Camp soldiers. Counting as infantrymen, the monthly salary of the Green Camp infantry was one tael of silver and three dou of rice; the monthly salary of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners infantry was one tael of silver and fifteen dou of rice. The officers of the green battalion can withhold the pay, but no one dares to withhold the pay of the Eight Banners soldiers at this time, because the flag soldiers will make a scene.
They can be selected as training soldiers since they are young, and the flag soldiers with monthly salary realize that they can easily deal with the bandit suppressing army who are just "mud-legged" ones. However, reality slapped them in the face.
The war continued to expand, and as the bandit suppression troops continued to occupy the city, the bannermen in the city were hiding in all directions.
It's not that the Manchus couldn't see Zhang Rui's intention, but compared to the despair of his whole family's demise, there was only a glimmer of hope for survival. These surrendered soldiers must also firmly grasp this only life-saving straw.
Survival and resistance are two beliefs that are intertwined. Bannermen all over the city are constantly fighting for their own opinions.
Time passed, and gradually, the sounds of resisting fighting throughout the city gradually faded away. The last Eight Banners soldier who chose to resist was stabbed to death by the surrender soldiers. The whole city was completely captured, and the entire Jingzhou City completely belonged to the bandit-suppressing army.
War is always synonymous with destruction.
After the war, the whole city was in a mess. Fires can be seen everywhere, and there are knife marks and blood stains from the battlefield. There were many corpses of flag soldiers lying on the ground waiting to be cleared. The wounded soldiers who surrendered were lucky enough to be rescued. As for the wounded soldiers who chose to resist, they were shot one by one.
Inside Jingzhou City, outside Mancheng City Gate
Although Mancheng had been attacked by the bandit-suppressing army, considering the possibility of danger, Zhang Rui, who was concerned about the safety of the bandit-suppressing army, had to give up the idea of entering Mancheng under the "request" from his staff generals and others.
As the fighting in Manchuria ended, the surrendered Manchurian Eight Banners generals also left the city with the bandit-suppressing army inspectors who accompanied them to record them, waiting for Zhang Rui to give them the final verdict.
In the open space where Zhang Rui was, kneeling was a deputy assistant leader from Jingzhou City, with Tu Menshi and two other assistant leaders. Two of them are being treated for serious injuries.
"Brother Six, are you really going to let those Tatar soldiers go like this?" Ma Jiulu asked Zhang Ruizuo, who was not far in front of him.
Some time ago, when the bandit suppressing army led by Ma Jiulu attacked the city, the Manchus in Jingzhou City killed many soldiers. Therefore, Ma Jiulu naturally did not have a good impression of the Manchus in Jingzhou City. If Zhang Rui had not issued an order for the Manchus to surrender, Ma Jiulu would definitely have massacred the city.
Although Zhang Rui did change the order temporarily, Ma Jiulu did not admit it. Zhang Rui's order caused almost minimal casualties to the bandit-suppressing troops attacking the city.
"Why don't we let him go? Our bandit-suppressing army has always kept its word, so how can we go back on our word?" Zhang Rui said to Ma Jiulu with a slight reproach.
Zhang Rui's words made the Eight Banners generals who were waiting on the sidelines breathe a sigh of relief. So they all knelt down in front of Zhang Rui and said, "I'm humble... no, I'm... a slave. Thank you Sixth Brother for your kindness."
"Don't thank me yet. If you know the current situation, I will naturally no longer hold you accountable. However, those who will fight against my bandit-suppressing army even to death, don't blame me for holding them accountable." Zhang Rui was unceremonious. He said to the kneeling Eight Banners general.
"This is natural, this is natural." These Eight Banners generals hurriedly replied, and at the same time they were quite emotional in their hearts, how many bannermen must have died.
In the 21st year of Qianlong's reign, the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Since the beginning of this year, the Manchu and Qing court has been fighting on two fronts: the north and the south.
Yongzheng spent fourteen years of "working hard" to replenish the treasury of the Manchu Qing court, which had been almost defeated by Kangxi.
Since Qianlong ascended the throne twenty years ago, the treasury has made huge expenditures: such as the construction of the Old Summer Palace, the selection of women in the south of the Yangtze River, the raids on Jinchuan and Jinchuan, etc. But the national treasury has never been reduced. Without it, it’s just heavy taxation.
The Manchu and Qing courts did not understand the imperial court, but the people of the Ming Dynasty collectively resisted taxation and beat the tax collectors. But in the Qing Dynasty, anyone who dared to delay taxes would be beheaded, and it was normal for anyone who dared to gather a crowd to resist taxes to massacre the city. If it weren't for the importance of taxation, how could Qianlong have so many uncollectible taxes that he could have exempted them for a long time?
The national treasury was sufficient, and Qianlong was not worried about the problem that the treasury would be unable to support the two-front war.
In April, Qianlong visited Qufu and came back after visiting the Confucius Temple. Finally, he received a rare piece of good news this year at the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City: the Qing army recovered Ili, and the rebellious Amursana fled to Kazakhstan.
The good news coming from the northwest made the Qing court cheer and sing, and all the ministers shouted that Emperor Qianlong's sage was great, and his literary, political and martial arts were as far as the Han and Tang Dynasties.
At the same time, they all patted their chests and recognized Duke Fu Heng with full confidence in the imperial court's efforts to quell the war in the south.
In order to pursue the victory, Qianlong issued orders to march west and north to Kazakhstan and continue to pursue Amursana.
At this time, Fu Heng, a bachelor who was supposed to follow Qianlong's order and go to Erlinghabilga to organize military affairs, was suffering from a headache in Nanchang City.
"What? The rebels hiding in Shaoguan, Guangdong have attacked Ganzhou?" Fu Heng from the Nanchang government office asked in disbelief.
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