"Qingyao is here, run!"
"Qingyao is here, run to Danya Mountain...if you don't run, you will die!"
"Qing Yao is coming to slaughter the city, run to Tian Heng Mountain!"
"Qing Yao's team is here, run to Sanxian Mountain..."
As the panicked shouts became louder and louder, many places in Dengzhou City were already looking like apocalyptic scenes! Although there are only a thousand Qing troops in Huncheng, the number of Nianganchu and Confucian troops who are causing trouble in the city is only a few hundred if you add them to the number of troops. And the 20,000 troops led by Yue Le and Chang Ning are still ten or twenty miles away from the city. But the outer city of Dengzhou was already a chaotic scene with the city broken and people fleeing.
The chaos was only in the section between Dadongmen and Daximen in Dengzhou, plus the fence city between Dananmen Street.
The outer city of Dengzhou is in the shape of a moon. One end of the city wall is on the seaside near Tianheng Mountain and Dengzhou Commercial Port to the west of the inner city of Dengzhou, and the other end is on the seaside near Sanxian Mountain to the west of the inner city of Dengzhou. The Dadongmen and Daximen are not close to the seaside, but open in the "waist" of Dengzhou's outer city. The two gates are connected by a long straight street. Sanxian Mountain, Dengzhou Inner City, Dengzhou Water City, Tianheng Mountain, Danya Mountain and Dengzhou Commercial Port are all in the north of the long street. The commercial port of Dengzhou stretches along the long street. There are many shops on both sides of the long street, making it the most prosperous place in Dengzhou.
There are also two main roads that extend from the large and small south gates of Dengzhou Outer City to the inner city of Dengzhou and Dengzhou Water City, and form a cross-shaped intersection on the long street between the Daxi Gate and Dadong Gate. Dengzhou's high-end residential area, Fence City, is located between the long streets inside the Big and Small South Gates.
According to the agreement between Cao Xi and Liu Fengtian, the leader of the Confucian secret hall in Dengzhou, his men and horses from the sticky pole were responsible for attacking the big east gate, while Liu Fengtian led the people to attack the small south gate. .
But for some reason, Liu Fengtian actually led the Confucian disciples to set a fire in Fence City and ignited dozens of sugar and medicine sky thunders. It was both an arson and an explosion, which frightened all the "new Dengzhou people" who were fools in the fence city to abandon their family properties and ran to Sanxian Mountain, Tianheng Mountain, and Danya Mountain with only bonds, banknotes, and bankbooks. ...As for whether anyone will be hacked to death by Confucian disciples while running or if they run too hastily and forget something important, it's hard to say.
This is all bad for clearing the demon. She can live a normal life, so why do she need a sneak attack? There is no martial ethics at all.
And when there were explosions and fires here in Fence City, Dengzhou Commercial Port was also in chaos.
Dengzhou Commercial Port has always been cold in the east and hot in the west, because the west side of the commercial port is close to Dengzhou Commercial Port. As for the Dadong Gate of Dengzhou Outer City, which Cao Xi and the others attacked, it was clearly to the west of Dengzhou Commercial Port, and Cao Xi and Liu Fengtian did not arrange anyone to go there to cause trouble... But somehow , the west side of Dengzhou Commercial Port also became chaotic. Not only did a fire break out, but people everywhere shouted "Qingyao is coming", which scared all the merchants, big and small, and ran towards Tianheng Mountain.
They all knew the reputation of the Qing soldiers massacring the city.
In addition, since people from various prefectures and counties in Dengzhou Prefecture continued to seek refuge in Dengzhou Prefecture during this period, Dengzhou Town and the Dengzhou Prefecture’s Yamen set up many tents and shacks near Sanxian Mountain, Tianheng Mountain, and Danya Mountain to provide food. The refugees were given shelter and thick cotton-padded clothes, quilts and a lot of food rations were given to them. And due to an "omission" in management, Dengzhou Town sent people to distribute more than one million Shaanxi steamed buns that were baked very hard and dry to these refugees yesterday...
And today, when the news came that "the Qingyao is coming", the "muddleheaded" Dengzhou Town immediately did not know how to organize the refugees to resist. Instead, it "muddleheadedly" issued the order to board the ship and evacuate.
The docks in the outer city of Dengzhou "happened" to be full of sand boats ready to go. The sailors on the sand boats also "happened" to be in the port, and a large number of Dengzhou Town officers and soldiers also "happened" to carry out executions on the docks. Don't know what the task is. So Princess Kunxing, who was in charge of the government and military affairs of Dengzhou, made a prompt decision and issued an evacuation order.
When the evacuation order was conveyed to various piers, it was already dark, but the piers were brightly lit, and the ships moored in the harbor also hung lanterns with Arabic numerals on them. The numbers on the boats took turns to move to the berths, and the refugees who were already under the control of the officers and soldiers of Dengzhou Town were put on the ships one by one.
There was also a person on the pier holding a loudspeaker made of hard cowhide to make propaganda: "Don't be afraid, everyone, the King of Heaven is benevolent and will not ignore you... The camp on Changshan Island is now empty, big guy You can stay here as long as you want, and you will have food and drink to keep. When the war in Dengzhou is over, everyone will come back to live and work in peace and contentment..."
And just as they were shouting, there were intense bursts of gunfire from time to time near the Dadong Gate of Dengzhou Outer City, and from time to time there was the roar of artillery!
Obviously, the war is tense!
When they thought of the benevolence and righteousness of King Zhu Tian, the cruelty of Kang Mazi, and the possibility of returning to Dengzhou to live a peaceful life in the future, the people who had already run to the dock no longer hesitated, and all of them dragged their families under the arrangement of the officers and soldiers of Dengzhou Town. Obediently boarded the ship.
Of course, there are too many people to transport, and even if it is just a ferry to Changshan Island, it cannot be transported in one or two trips. I'm afraid it will take ten days and a half of continuous transfer!
So beside the pier where these refugees gathered, fences and sheds had been erected long ago to provide shelter from the wind and snow, and firewood was also prepared for lighting fires and heating. Of course, the quantity was sufficient... It was really a good arrangement. Clearly!
Yue Lehe had already climbed onto the East Gate Tower of Dengzhou Outer City at this time of year. Looking at the brightly lit lights in the dark night, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Yue Le nodded and said with a smile: "The traitor is about to run away... It seems that we have won a great victory this time, and we can report our victory to the emperor!"
Chang Ning also said with a relaxed face: "Our Qing Dynasty's national affairs are back... The emperor won in Korea, beheaded the Korean king who betrayed our Qing Dynasty, and also plundered countless people and property! And we have a great victory in Dengzhou. Although the inner city of Dengzhou is not so easy to capture, as long as we capture the outer city, we will be the rebels who trap Dengzhou, and most of the territory in Penglai, Fushan, Ninghai, Rongcheng and other prefectures and counties will be captured. It can be recovered. This can be considered an unprecedented victory!"
Cao Xi, Cao Yin, and Liu Fengtian, the leader of the Confucian secret hall in Dengzhou, also went to the city. They were all relieved when they heard the two princes boasting about themselves.
To be honest, the battle of Dengzhou is not easy at all!
Not to mention the city of Dengzhou, the Dengzhou commercial port and the money of those people in Dengzhou fence city... I really beat them hard, I don’t know how many people they will offend!
Now this is really a happy ending for everyone!
The emperor's side is easy to explain, and the big guys in the court should also be satisfied. The local sages from all over the country... they may not be very satisfied, but they can barely accept it.
At the same time, on the wall of the inner city of Dengzhou, Princess Kunxing saw that the Dengzhou commercial port she participated in the operation was destroyed. She felt very uncomfortable and sighed softly: "No wonder the king wants to hide in Nanjing... ....He should have known this was going to happen!"
Zhu Shangxian followed her. Hearing what she said, he felt a little sad, but he still laughed twice and comforted: "Who made the world's population so small now? If it weren't for this, who would be willing to leave their hometown and go to Liaodong? Liaodong? If there are always soldiers but no people, there will be no way to prosper. Now with the 200,000 to 300,000 people relocated from Dengzhou, Lushunkou will be the new Dengzhou in less than three years. With the new Dengzhou as a back-up , we will be sure of Pingliao in five years!"
In fact, the ending of Dengzhou Free City was doomed from the beginning! This is just the stepping stone for landing in Liaodong. Now that the Ming army has landed in Liaodong, Dengzhou is naturally no longer important.
Princess Kunxing nodded: "After five years of pacifying Liao... After pacifying Liao, it's now Beijing's turn, right? I haven't been to the Forbidden City in Beijing for many years, nor have I paid homage to the late emperor. Already..."
