"Your Highness, I have the guts to speak out. Meng Qiaofang is capricious. If you let this person go, it will be like letting the tiger go back to the mountain!"
It took a lot of effort for Yi State to capture this guy. The prince wanted to let him go with just one word. He was naturally very unhappy. After Meng Qiaofang left, he asked for instructions again.
"'Returning to the mountain' is true, but 'letting the tiger go' is not true. Does Aiqing think that I can't see it? This is called 'letting go before death'! The two sons of this tiger are still outside the pass. , this is what I need to take into consideration. If Meng Qiaofang is reused, this person will definitely rebel in the future. If Meng Qiaofang is executed and only he dies, this will not be enough to avenge the people of the Ming Dynasty who died tragically under his sword. I I just want to let Meng Qiaofang’s family taste the taste of divine punishment, hum!”
Did all three of Meng Qiaofang's sons suffer from smallpox?
If you don’t get it, I’ll let you get it for free!
Your biological father is my courier, ensuring that the smallpox virus is delivered to your home!
Raise this thing for two days first, and then inject it with smallpox virus the day before it is released.
Otherwise, if there is a delay on the road, the outbreak will occur in advance. How can the whole family be infected?
The injection method is very simple, that is, let the doctor and the nurse clean the wound...
"Your Highness is wise, but at the end of the day, he is stupid and almost ruined His Highness's important affairs!"
Only then did Yi Bang realize that the prince had already known Meng Qiaofang's character very well, and he was just taking advantage of him for fun.
Although the prince did not explain what "God's Punishment" was, based on the previous experience of Junmin in the city being inoculated with "immortal energy", Yi Bangcai had a rough guess.
This method is quite ingenious. I never thought of it. The prince is still far-sighted, wise and mighty, strategizing, and able to win thousands of miles away...
"It's not surprising if you don't know. Meng Qiaofang knew you were blocking her, so she became suspicious, and she never imagined his fate! The special forces fought well this time, and after the war, the court will honor the silver reward. But it can only get half of the silver, and the other half. It can be regarded as my training fee for you. The specific amount each person can receive will be calculated based on the battle report submitted by the Ai Qing and their respective military ranks. If there is another war in the city, the special forces will have to go out to fight. Otherwise, they can temporarily stay in the city. The camp on the south side of Donghua Gate is resting, and I will send someone to take you there."
At present, this is the seed that the pocket special forces have finally cultivated. A certain prince is still waiting to expand production next year.
As long as we can repel the braids in the city, we can't let them all die in battle. Even if we lose half of our troops, it will be a loss. Now that we are all gone, we can just give up.
This is a small-scale business. If you put all the capital into it, it will be too difficult to expand the scale in the future. Even if you can, the time will have to be postponed.
The camp for the temporary rest of the special forces is on the same side of the outer court and very close to the East Palace. Ordinary orders can be issued by phone. If necessary, you can reach the East Palace within one minute by riding a horse.
"Your Highness is wise and will obey your orders!"
Yi Bangcai did a rough calculation in his mind and found that the reported results were worth more than 170,000 taels of silver. Even if they could only be cashed in, it would still be more than 87,000 taels.
Even excluding the reward money from the logistics support team, the twenty or so of them can still share almost 40,000 taels. On average, each person can get more than a thousand taels of silver, which is a pretty good income.
When he gets the money, he can buy another good "skinny horse". In addition to the one he already has at home, he can hug him when he goes to bed...
"When you enter the court, ask the food supervisor to make thirty portions of large-sized braised pork rice. If it's just finished, just deliver it directly. Aiqing will wait for a while and go out with the rice in a while."
The special forces are the apple of a certain prince's eye, and their treatment will naturally not be the same as that of other troops. Ordinary losers can eat hamburgers, but this troop can eat Xiaozao and enjoy braised pork rice.
"On behalf of all the soldiers, I would like to thank His Highness for His grace!"
When he heard that he could eat braised pork rice, Yi Bangcai, who had been fighting for a long time, immediately felt his mouth watering and his stomach began to growl. Although restaurants outside also sell braised pork rice, it is definitely not as delicious as the imperial meal.
"Okay, after dinner, check the weapons and take the time to rest!"
The latest battle report has not yet been sent, and the prince is not very clear about the battle situation ahead. He can only let the special forces leave and rest first, and then patiently wait for Zhou Yuji's call.
As the sky gradually darkened, the two sides fought until sunset, and night was about to fall.
However, for the Qing army, especially the Eight Banners soldiers, a disastrous scene happened.
The Ming army did not launch another large-scale artillery bombardment, nor did they send additional cavalry to rush around, but the situation was worse than that.
That is, the Four Banners of the Han Army, the Tianyou Army, and the Tianyou Army, which were mainly surrendered soldiers and newly recruited soldiers in the city, began to surrender to the Ming Army in droves!
Due to the complete failure of the large-scale counterattack launched previously, it accelerated the number of casualties on our side and the advancement speed of the Ming army.
In front of the mighty Ming army, the Qing army lost its ability to resist and was beaten back steadily, unable to hold back at all.
However, the entrance to the cave was either blocked by artillery fire, collapsed by artillery shells, or occupied by the Ming army. There were only a handful of holes through which one could escape from the city.
Thousands of people crowded in front of a usable cave entrance and crawled in like crazy. As a result, most of them failed to get in and were knocked to the ground by the Ming army's artillery fire.
After dozens of previous shellings and constant corrections, the landing point of the Ming army's artillery at the city head was very precise, which caused a devastating blow to the Qing soldiers who thought of entering the cave.
Because of drilling holes, the number of Qing soldiers injured by artillery fire was no less than nearly a thousand.
If you don't enter the cave, you will see Ming troops coming from all directions.
If you can't beat him again and again, you may be tortured to death by the kind of bullets that can burn through your bones.
After realizing that they were in a desperate situation, even under the strict orders of the generals and captains, the soldiers of the Four Banners of the Han Army, the Tianyou Army, and the Tianyou Army began to ignore their superiors and beg for surrender from the nearby Ming army in order to survive.
As long as you can survive, it doesn't matter if you have no shame or not. Working for someone is not selling out. We are all Han people, working for the Ming Dynasty... Isn't working for the Ming Dynasty an act of abandoning the dark and turning to the bright?
The Eight Banners soldiers had no time to suppress these duplicitous rats. They also knew that if they didn't run away, they would be dumped by the barbarians in the city.
Let’s put aside the matter of capturing the Manming Imperial City for now. We have to go out to clean up the broken troops, treat the wounded soldiers, and brainstorm ideas before we worry about it.
As a large number of senior generals died in battle, disappeared or were even captured, the departments of Zhenghui Banner, Xianghui Banner, and Zhenglan Banner lost their masters and command, and thousands of Eight Banners soldiers were in chaos like sheep.
There are many Eight Banners and servant troops fighting in the city, and the total strength is still tens of thousands.
But in this current situation, who has the intention to continue competing with the barbarian who becomes more and more courageous as he fights?
It would be better if they didn't counterattack. If they did, they would probably kill or injure two to three thousand people in a quarter of an hour.
Every time the Qing army pushed further east, it had to pay a heavy price.
If we could really hit the foot of Manming Imperial City, I'm afraid there wouldn't be many people left.
The bullets used by the dog barbarians are terrible, the clubs are terrible, the chariots are terrible, and the airships are even more terrible.
Everything in this city that could threaten his safety was extremely terrifying, as if he was being targeted.
No matter what the Eight Banners masters thought, the slave soldiers thought that the slaves were going to have their intestines punched out by the barbarians.
The nonsense that Shizi's Qing soldiers are invincible and invincible in close combat is completely deceptive.
After entering the city, there were many hand-to-hand battles. What was the result?
The dog barbarian didn't kill many people, but he himself died a lot, and the appearance of his death was even worse than that of a dog!
Some people are foaming at the mouth due to poisoning!
Some were burned through the bones by bullets!
He was cut in half by a cannonball again!
Some people had iron balls blasted into their brains!
There were also corpses burned by fire oil...
It is very common for people to have missing arms and legs. Apart from not drinking the "smell-smelling" golden juice this time, it is basically a complete package!
"Hero, spare your life!"
"Heroes don't rush to kill!"
"I'm waiting for you!"
"I wish to surrender..."
After a bold person took the lead, the remaining slave soldiers saw that the Ming army did not continue to kill, so they began to run to the opposite side with a sense of luck.
"Damn! No surrender!"
"Who dares to surrender...what do you want to do?"
"Nothing else! It's just a petition!"
Niu Luzhangjing and other officers still wanted to stop them sternly. As masters who had tasted the benefits, their families were outside the customs. Even if there was a glimmer of hope of victory or escape, they would not surrender to Man Ming.
However, the poor and ordinary soldiers were desperate. If they continued to resist in the afternoon, they would die without a burial place. In order to please their new masters, they started to work as kidnappers.
His boss happens to be the best man, and with this as a bargaining chip, he can at least make his new master happy, and maybe he can save his life!
The boss usually enslaves everyone, but now he has caused public outrage, which is the perfect time to take action on him.
This hundred or so kilograms of meat, if it is delayed, can be cut into many slices!
This guy had all the benefits before, now it’s best to let him continue to have all the responsibilities alone!
With a new master, the old master is no longer needed.
The human heart is made of flesh. As long as the new master is happy, he will kill, chop, explode, even cramp, peel off the skin, and light sky lanterns. No one will have any objection!
"Hero, spare your life! I have already surrendered! It's these rebels who are blocking me!"
The guy who was tied up like a pig still wanted to argue that as long as Daming was willing to let things go, he could still survive.
"Stop farting like that!"
"Just now you strictly ordered me not to surrender until I wait!"
"Exactly! My dear fellows, this is the man with the most iron heart and the most effective...Dog Tartar!"
A group of subordinates betrayed the boss, and it would be better for him to die than for everyone to die.
"Put him down and don't let him go. Someone is here to separate this man from the others and take him to the rear for custody!"
The Ming army who was responsible for receiving the prisoners all wanted to watch a show. It would be better to continue dog biting dog until blood bleeds.
These slave soldiers did not dare to go head-to-head with the Eight Banners Dog Tatars. Seeing their defeat, they immediately turned around and begged for surrender. They were all cowards.
"Surrender when defeated?"
Zhou Yujida, who had received his reward, despised these slave soldiers in his heart. He had acted as a helper to the tiger before, but now he knelt down and begged for surrender.
Fortunately, it is up to the prince to punish such shameless people, otherwise he would have killed all the prisoners!
Keeping these people is a disaster, and sooner or later they will threaten the safety of the king and the people.
Zhou Yuji wanted to persuade His Highness the Crown Prince not to be merciful.
But this is also a good thing, as it can greatly speed up the siege and killing of the dog Tatars in the city.
After all the pseudo-Tatars have surrendered, the only ones left are the real Tatars who try to continue to resist.
Just those few thousand people, if everyone rides a horse, they might be able to create a storm.
But at this time, he had thousands of cavalry and hundreds of chariots, so it was relatively easy to deal with the real Tatars without horses.
Even if they don't use chariots and order thousands of cavalry to charge forward, they can still defeat the Eight Banners soldiers who claim to be victorious in every battle.
His Royal Highness hopes to end the fighting before dark, but judging from the current situation, even if a large number of pseudo-Tatars surrender, the end of the fighting may be delayed.
"Your Highness is in trouble, Donglu invaded the central city from the north! The phone line connecting to the new city is no longer available!"
"Oh? This is a rare thing! It seems that some people have already taken action!"
If the situation is true, then Xu Dingguo is unreliable. This guy who has two legs finally showed his true colors at the critical moment.
If you dare to cut my phone line, you are slapping me in the face!
Even if Huang Taiji makes more breakthroughs, a certain prince can block it with soldiers and stew the water!
Of course, the established national policy of “stewing the Qing Dynasty in an iron pot” will not change!
The established tactics of retreating to defend and waiting for opportunities to counterattack will not change!
What has changed? ? ?
Of course it’s the human heart!
"How many Donglu troops have entered the city?"
"According to Ma Wenzhi's report, it is estimated to be less than five thousand!"
"If that's the case, it's easy to handle!"
Xu Ding's army has five thousand soldiers, but more than half of them are newly recruited soldiers. At this time, he rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and the new soldiers may not be able to listen to him.
Including the braids entering the city, the total strength should be about 10,000.
This is an estimate, and the actual strength of the opponent is still unclear.
To our own disadvantage, most of the mobile troops in the city are besieging the braid in the inner city, and for the time being, no more troops can be mobilized to put out the "braid disaster" in the new city.
A certain prince could only hope that Zhou Yuji could end the battle as soon as possible, so that he could return to the new city and block the enemy forces in the northern part of the new city.
However, Xu Dingguo's troops rebelled, and the people who took refuge in the new city suffered. Seeing that victory was about to come, many innocent people were about to die tragically.
It seems that Feng Quan's deception worked to some extent, otherwise Xu Dingguo would probably continue to lurk in the Ming Dynasty.
Seeing tens of thousands of people entering the city from the cave, Huang Taiji was about to win, and Xu Dingguo hurriedly turned his gun.
This is because I am afraid that I will fall behind. If I help now, I can get some leftovers.
But he probably doesn't know the specific battle situation here, otherwise his jaw will drop.
After hearing that tens of thousands of dog Tatars had been annihilated, it was unclear whether the National Assembly would stop doing anything.
"Dad, now that we have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, are we still considered heroes?"
Seeing the large number of Eight Banners soldiers appearing around him, Xu Er'an, the eldest son who dreamed of promotion and fortune, asked in a low voice.
"Don't be impatient, good birds choose trees to roost in!"
Regarding whether to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Xu Dingguo had been thinking about it for several days since returning from the Qing army camp.
After learning that the inner city had been captured by the Qing army and hearing the rumble of cannons, he weighed the pros and cons for a long time before making up his mind.
If the Ming Dynasty lost to the Qing Dynasty because of God's will, then it would be better to surrender late than to surrender early.
He didn't dare think about getting promoted to a higher rank, as long as he could keep his position as chief military officer.
Zu Dashou had no choice but to surrender at the Daling River, but Huang Taiji was tolerant.
He was guarding the capital. His contribution, no matter how great, was at least greater than that of Zu Dashou, right?
Xu Dingguo's psychological expectation is that he is at least a general military officer. It would be better if the Emperor Taiji Longyan was delighted and received a reward.
In order to allow the Qing army to enter the city, Xu Dingguo replaced some of the defenders at the top of the city with his old troops. At the same time, he had to suppress the new soldiers who resisted orders, but he lost many soldiers from his old troops.
But now that 3,000 Eight Banners soldiers entered the city, he suddenly felt a lot more relieved. As long as the Eight Banners soldiers entered the city, his glory and wealth would be saved.
In these troubled times, saving your own life first, and then saving your official position is equivalent to saving your future life. These are all tied to a rope.
