The outer city of Peiping was destroyed, and the people in the city cheered. Many people spontaneously brought out food to entertain the soldiers who entered the city. However, they were all rejected by the officers and soldiers of the Yi Army, and they were told: "The Eight Military Disciplines of the Yi Army must not take advantage of the common people."
Such strict military discipline made the people in the city feel at ease. At the same time, he also developed an unprecedented favorable impression of Emperor Yi Zhang Rui.
If it were the army of the Qing Dynasty, even if it didn't involve plundering and looting, it would still have to be extorted. Of course, another possibility would be to massacre the city directly.
Even in order to appease the surrendered Han Army Banners and prevent them from worrying about their families in Mancheng, the Yijun took the initiative to propose to the Eight Banners in the inner city to exchange prisoners for the families of Han Army Banners living in Mancheng.
This operation of Yijun made even Fucha Mingrui sigh.
You must know that the prisoners captured by the Yi Army were all the young and strong men of the Eight Banners, and those who were exchanged for them were old, weak, women and children. What is contained in this, any general will understand. But the generals of Yijun still did so.
It can only be said that the general leading this time is too kind to a woman and is not suitable for commanding an army.
How could Fucha Mingrui refuse such a good thing? If he refused, his minions would probably criticize him.
Moreover, there were more than 10,000 Eight Banners soldiers captured by the Yi army. Returning these soldiers to the city could greatly alleviate the shortage of troops. Isn't it much more effective than the old, weak, women and children? ,
As a result, the substitutions for both sides were quickly completed.
But Fucha Mingrui, who originally thought he had taken advantage of it, never imagined that this was the beginning of this defensive nightmare.
On the second night after the prisoner exchange, those Eight Banners prisoners who had been expecting a lot opened the city gate and let the Yi army outside the city enter the inner city.
The besieged Fucha Mingrui didn't understand what happened until he was arrested. He yelled and cursed at the Eight Banners who betrayed them: "What is it for?"
And those Eight Banners soldiers told him with shame on their faces that they just wanted to protect their families.
It turned out that after the Yi Army captured these people, they were dragged to experience the power of the Yi Army's heavy artillery shells and heavy incendiary bombs, so that they could accept surrender and assist the Yi Army in attacking the inner city. Otherwise, these artillery shells and incendiary bombs would The entire inner city will be wiped out and everyone will die.
After feeling the incomparable power of the weapon, how many people can still think of resisting? What's more, those who didn't agree were executed one by one, and the rest had no choice but to agree as if they were resigned to their fate, and hand over their surrender certificates, and this was how the prisoner exchange took place.
The end of August in the fifth year of natural selection (the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign)
The inner city of Peiping fell into the hands of the Yi army in an unexpected way, which also announced that the entire Peking was defeated by the Yi army.
Yijun also kept his promise to those who surrendered to the army and would not harm their families. However, for those Eight Banners soldiers and their families who resisted and vowed to be loyal to their master, Yijun was no longer benevolent as a woman, one by one. liquidation.
For a time, the capital was filled with people. Under the insults and cries of those people, the Eight Banners soldiers who were surrendered could only lower their heads to silently execute military orders and chop off machetes at those people.
In this battle, the Yi army mobilized a large number of young Eight Banners soldiers from all over the city. The Eight Banners surrendered about 40,000 troops in the city, the Green Camp surrendered 30,000 troops, and 8,000 troops were recruited from the capital. The total fighting force was 100,000 people to face the Manchu reinforcements coming from Baoding, Zhangjiakou and Chengde.
At the same time, after occupying the entire territory of Shandong, the Tiger Army once again sent troops to break through Hengshui where Fucha Fu Heng was stationed. Fucha Fu Heng could only lead the escaped remnants back to Baoding Mancheng; the Chiye Army also breached Xingtai. Then the troops pointed at Shijiazhuang. At this time, the Guards in Shanxi also broke through Taiyuan, and their frontline pointed at Zhangjia Gui's Yangquan.
The battle situation is intertwined
Mancheng in Zhangjiakou, Mancheng in Baoding and Mancheng in Chengde could be said to have "all come out" to rescue the capital. The three forces together brought the surrounding green battalion troops with a total of 310,000 troops, so that in In the city defense of these three places, strong Manchu women were used to patrol the city.
first to arrive
On the outskirts of the capital was Zhangjiakou's army, but what they never expected was that the Yi army would break through the city of Beiping so quickly. The news they received was that the Yi army only had an army of more than 20,000 people.
What made them even more unexpected was that because Da Yi blocked the news that Peiping had been conquered, the Manchu and Qing troops coming to help from outside had no idea that the entire Peiping had been conquered. They even prepared to join the Peking defenders to encircle Yi's army. .
It is precisely because of this that the Qing troops from Zhangjiakou relaxed their vigilance towards the "Beiping defenders" who came to receive them.
In their minds, it was obviously impossible for the 20,000 troops of the Yi Military Region to besiege and attack the huge city of Beiping.
After hearing that the Eight Banners troops from Baoding and Chengde were approaching in the near future, Zhangjiakou's city-wide commander Womucha was even more happy and asked the army to rest and prepare. When the other two groups arrived, they would attack the troops outside Peiping City. The Yi army launched a general attack, and then it was time for the death of those Yi army who did not know the heights of the sky and the earth.
But what they didn't expect was that the Yi army came to sneak attack the camp that night. With the cooperation of the Peiping army, the main force led by the city's commander Wo Mucha was also deceived into various barbicans in Beiping City and allowed to be slaughtered.
All the military rations accompanying the Zhangjiakou Eight Banners were also transferred out by the Peiping defenders under the pretext.
At dawn one night, when Womucha found that his army had been surrounded by the Peking garrison, he knew that he had been deceived and cursed the Yi army that besieged them for being despicable and shameless.
But the end was done, leaving Womucha with only regret.
He knew that although the defenders of Peiping had not launched an attack on the besieged army yet, it was not because they were afraid, but because they were waiting for an opportunity to reduce their casualties.
The troops in the army have lost all their rations. If they are not replenished, there is no need for the besieged people to attack. They will be hungry for several meals and will not be able to stand up. There is no need to talk about fighting.
In fact, the army was already starving from the commotion last night to this morning. If some people didn't carry a few rations with them, the army would probably have started to make a fuss.
Womu Chayebu never thought of sending people out to charge before the army still had strength, trying to open the encirclement, but in the end he only received heavy casualties.
Of course, it is not that Womucha did not comfort the army by saying that the Qing troops from Chengde and Baoding will arrive tomorrow at most, so that everyone can protect each other. After they arrive, the siege of the army will definitely be lifted.
