On the afternoon of the next day, Womucha did not wait for news of the arrival of the armies from Baoding and Chengde. On the contrary, most of the hungry armies carrying rations began to fight with each other for a bite to eat.
As a child of the Eight Banners who has always been pampered, how could he ever go hungry for so long?
There were also those who were not convinced and chose to continue breaking out, but they were all shot one by one and became corpses on the ground.
In front of the bloody corpse, no matter how stubborn the person is, he has to lower his head and continue to endure hunger.
In order to keep the army going, Womucha could only order the killing of horses to maintain it. However, Da Yi's entourage also took away a large number of troops and horses when they occupied and transferred the military rations to the Eight Banners in Zhangjiakou, so there were not many troops and horses they could kill.
In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, the horse meat that was killed was naturally given priority to the Eight Banners disciples. The green camp could only get very little, and only those who were strong and capable could get it. Many people in the green camp did not even have a horse tail. Since they couldn't get a share, they could only continue to drink water and dig grass roots to satisfy their hunger with the army followers.
Another night passed, and many people in the morning were so hungry that they couldn't stand it anymore and ran directly to Yijun to surrender.
Of course, these are mainly the servants who have no role to play and some green campers who are half-starved to death due to lack of food.
There is no way to continue to be hungry. They must starve to death.
Furthermore, they feared the Manchus more than they loved them. Looking at this situation, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is almost about to perish. People like themselves no longer need to be afraid of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's subsequent liquidation. If they want them to die for the Manchu Qing Dynasty like this, they think the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not worthy.
Regarding the turmoil in the military camp, Womucha could only turn a blind eye and send people to stop them symbolically, but he could not send people to kill them all.
In fact, he couldn't do it either.
Because these people act secretly, it would be too energy-consuming to carry out large-scale prevention and investigation.
The horse meat killed yesterday is almost finished. Even if the soldiers below eat frugally, they can't support too many people, and one horse can't even divide many people.
Now it is possible to allow the soldiers below to save a little bit of energy, and not to use swords and guns if they can. This will only make them hungry faster.
What he has to do now is to maintain military discipline and wait for the Baoding and Chengde armies to come to relieve the siege. The other things are irrelevant.
That afternoon, Womucha finally received news about the armies from Baoding and Chengde.
It turned out that the armies from Chengde and Baoding were indeed supposed to arrive, but something unexpected happened and they did not arrive.
Chengde received news and found that a large number of Yijun ships had landed on Qinhuangdao, and it was eventually confirmed that a large number of Yijun ships had landed on Qinhuangdao, preparing to launch an attack on Chengde.
After receiving the news, in order to prevent himself from being surrounded, Qianlong immediately left Chengde with the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government under the escort of heavy troops and headed for the old capital of Shenyang.
Therefore, Chengde now has no soldiers to defend. It is obviously impossible to expect the old, weak, women and children in Chengde to defend the menacing Yi army.
Moreover, the Eight Banners disciples in Chengde also refused.
So the Chengde Eight Banners reinforcements withdrew to Chengde overnight.
It’s similar in Baoding.
They received news that the Yi army, with the cooperation of the rebels in the city, had conquered Shijiazhuang in one fell swoop. Now the two fronts of Dayi's troops had been directed towards Baoding.
In order to understand the siege of the capital, the Eight Banners Army in Baoding had already mobilized all their troops. The city only relied on a stretched force and a group of old, weak, women and children to defend the city, which was obviously impossible. Although Fu Cha Fu Heng also led a large number of troops back to Baoding City, they were naturally very worried about whether Mancheng outside the city could be defended.
After hearing that the Eight Banners in Chengde had withdrawn, they also retreated.
Womucha never imagined that what he was waiting for would be such news. No wonder the Yi army besieging them could be so patient and slowly besiege them. It turned out that they had known such news early in the morning.
That evening, Yijun made a large pot of hot porridge and steamed buns at the edge of the position and issued a notice formally recruiting them to surrender.
The fragrant rice is an unparalleled temptation for people who have been hungry for two days.
Although rumors began to spread on the battlefield that the two armies from Baoding and Chengde had already left and were unlikely to come, Womucha insisted that there was no such thing.
At the same time, he once again asked people to kill some war horses and give priority to supplying the Eight Banners soldiers around him in preparation for another breakout.
The military camp slaughtered horses again, and the Green Camp, which originally got some horse broth, now got none.
Such an unfair thing naturally caused the green camp below to be in an uproar.
And Womucha also prepared an excuse, saying that giving them this meal was to give them the strength to break out and come back to find reinforcements.
Thinking about the corpses all over the ground, they seemed relieved again.
However, when the men and horses of the Han Army Banner among the Eight Banners also wanted to get horse meat to eat, they were told that they were not worthy.
Since the seventh year of Emperor Qianlong's reign, an order was issued to allow those who did not have the merit of "conforming to the dragon" to raise the flag. The children of the Han Army Banner were basically living a precarious life, and the people of the Han Army Banner were also among them. People with banners such as Manchuria and Mongolia looked down upon it.
Because once they leave the flag and become Han citizens outside, their status will no longer be equal.
After three cleanings, there were basically not many bannermen of the Han army in each banner in Zhangjiakou. Although these days have become slightly better after the rise of Yijun, they still can't forget the scene of crying and fighting when the Han army flag around them was forced to take out the flag.
The Manchus had always looked down upon the Han people, and even those who had taken the Han military flag were not necessarily much better off.
Seeing this, the people of the Han Army Banner could only leave in anger.
Looking back, those people with the Han Army Banner became more and more angry as they thought about it.
Since the Manchus don't like us so much, why are we still here?
Now the world is dominated by us Han people. If we, the people of the Han Army Banner, can help the Aixinjueluo family to conquer the country, we can naturally help the Emperor of Dayi to conquer the country.
Then, as soon as the people under the Han banner gathered together, they ran to surrender to the Yi army.
The people from the Green Camp saw it and followed the Han Banner people to surrender.
Slowly, more and more teams began to surrender.
Of course, if someone wants to betray and surrender, there will be someone who will uphold their loyalty. As a result, those who wanted to be loyal to the Manchus from the Green Camp and the Han Army Flag drew their swords at those who wanted to surrender. Of course, these people were quickly killed by the combined efforts of those who wanted to surrender.
Soon, the Eight Banners' military camp in Zhangjiakou became turbulent again.
