The commanding officer who was originally left as the supervisor of the army had his life taken away by the artillery fire because he did not avoid it when the Tiger Character Banner bombarded Ziyang City.
Once a person dies, Huang Qianhu has no one to restrain him.
As soon as he escaped, the remaining soldiers fled to the city as long as they were still alive.
The entire city wall near the west city gate was deserted, with only some bodies killed by cannons left on the city.
As the siege party, a thousand-man team of the Tiger Flag climbed the city wall through the ladder without any obstruction.
The stumps and broken arms scattered on the city wall did not show any signs of movement to the Tiger-Character soldiers who climbed onto the city wall. Instead, they shot the corpses one by one to prevent any living officers and soldiers from ambush among the corpses.
War is inherently cruel, and life and death is the normal state of war.
"Go and check if there are any officers and soldiers ambushing nearby. A team of people will open the city gate and arrange for our people to enter the city." The captain of the Thousand People team leader explained the task.
Opening the city gate makes it easier for large groups of soldiers and horses to enter the city, especially the cannons of the artillery team, which can only be transported into the city through the city gate.
The officers and soldiers guarding Xicheng had already fled, and the city gate was quickly opened by the soldiers of the Tiger Flag.
The few remaining thousands-man troops outside the city entered the city along the city gate.
The captain of the thousand-man team who was the first to attack the city left a large team to guard the city gate and clean up the corpses on the ground. He took the remaining soldiers to the city.
Ziyang City is the capital city of Yanzhou Prefecture. There is the Prince Lu's Palace in the city. In addition, there are government offices, county offices, and guard commander offices. It is an important city in Yanzhou.
Moreover, Ren Chengwei was also responsible for monitoring the Kong family in Qufu.
After capturing Xicheng, Tiger Character Banner did not experience any tragic battles. On the contrary, the Ming army defending the city experienced heavy casualties.
Without the city wall to rely on, Ziyang City could no longer stop the Tiger Flag army from attacking.
As tiger-character flag soldiers and horses entered the city one after another, there was less and less resistance in the city.
The first Yamen captured by the Tiger-Character Banner army was the Wei Commander Yamen.
However, apart from the policemen and guards on duty, no one in the yamen was a senior military attache serving as city guard. Not even a single command officer was left. The highest-ranking one was actually an experienced officer.
Along with the capture of the Wei Commander's Yamen, the second one to be captured was the County Yamen. The County Magistrate Huang Yunzhong was directly captured, and not one of them, including the Registrar and the Director, escaped.
And just when a team of several hundred people carrying the tiger-character flag was about to rush to the government office, thick smoke billowed out of the government office, and soon flames broke out.
At this time, they could not care about anything else, and the tiger-character flag soldiers who came to attack the government office began to put out the fire.
Most of them are wooden structures. If the fire cannot be extinguished as soon as possible, more houses will be burned down, and the losses will increase.
After all, the government office will be the future government office of the Tiger Character Banner, and fighting fires is also saving one's own things.
Fortunately, the fire was put out before it completely burned, and only a few houses were burned.
The cause of the fire prevention was also found. The prefect of Yanzhou received the news that the Xicheng city was destroyed. Knowing that the situation was over, he committed suicide by preventing the fire and setting himself on fire in the name of his loyal ministers.
Human beings are the most contradictory things.
The magistrate of Yanzhou made a lot of money in his position as a magistrate, and he also did not lack filial piety in the middle and backstage of the court. He was definitely not an upright official, but more of a dim official who was greedy for money, but he was such an official who was willing to die for the Ming Dynasty.
However, the Tiger Flag soldiers who extinguished the fire did not care whether the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty died or not. In their eyes, the life of a magistrate of the Ming Dynasty was not as valuable as the burned houses.
"It's a pity. If I had known I would have gone to Prince Lu's Mansion. This time it's better. I didn't get much credit. I also destroyed a few houses. These damn dog officials destroyed the people's wealth and their wealth." He led the team to the mansion. The yamen's soldier captain looked at the charred corpses on the ground and cursed.
I don’t know whether he was scolding himself for not catching the magistrate and having too little credit, or whether he was scolding the several houses that were burned down, or both.
On the other side, rushing to the Lu Palace were the other two thousand-man teams from the First Battle Barracks.
The reason why so many people go to Prince Lu's Mansion is not because there are so few people that they can't take over Prince Lu's Mansion, but because the King of Lu's clan has gone through so many generations, including county kings, generals of the country, captains, and a lot of people from the same line of King Lu. people.
Except for some poor descendants of King Lu surnamed Zhu who are no longer registered and are no different from ordinary people, all the other registered people of King Lu's clan must be arrested and their property confiscated.
Especially the wealth in the Lu Palace has been accumulated since the Hongwu period. It has been passed down for so many generations, and it has already become extremely wealthy. Without people, it is difficult to even move the property.
King Lu did not have the courage to die for his country like the magistrate of Yanzhou.
His choice was to close the door of Prince Lu's Mansion tightly, hide in Prince Lu's Mansion without showing his head, imitate the ostrich, bury his head in the soil, and lie to himself.
"Blast the door open with cannon." The captain of the 2,000-man team looked at the closed door of Prince Lu's Mansion in front of him, and immediately asked people to come over and bombard the door with cannon.
After hearing this, another thousand-man team captain on the side hurriedly stopped him and said: "From now on, this place belongs to our Tiger Flag. If the door is damaged by cannon, we will have to pay for repairs later."
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"Simple, let someone call the door and tell them that if they don't open the door after ten breaths, they will bloodbath the Prince Lu's Mansion."
"It's up to you, just do it."
The two of you decided after discussing it word by word.
Some soldiers conveyed the words of the two thousand-man captains to the people in Prince Lu's palace.
Someone was guarding the palace gate of Prince Lu's palace. When he heard that he would not open the door, he would start a bloodbath. The guard was so frightened that he immediately opened the palace door and let in the tiger-character flag soldiers outside.
"My method will work!" The thousand-man captain who came up with the idea smiled and said immediately, "A group of people will take over the palace gate. Others will enter Prince Lu's Mansion and count the property. They are not allowed to take or hide it privately. If If someone is found to have taken it privately, he will be deprived of his status as a soldier and sent to the grasslands for mining. The captain of his team will be demoted to an ordinary soldier, the squad leader will receive a demerit, and he will not be promoted within a year."
These words must be said every time when attacking the feudal prince's palace.
It's not that they don't trust the soldiers below, it's that these vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty are too rich. Just hiding a few good things can be enough for half a lifetime of wealth, so the officers leading the troops have to be careful.
Soon, groups of soldiers filed in and entered Prince Lu's Mansion.
The soldiers who entered Prince Lu's Mansion were not only responsible for confiscating the property of Prince Lu's Mansion, they were also responsible for hunting down the maids, eunuchs, and other personnel in Prince Lu's Mansion. King Lu and several of his sons were even searched. the key of.
King Lu, Prince Lu and his son who were hiding in King Lu's Mansion didn't know how to escape at all, or they didn't know where to escape. They all hid in King Lu's bedroom. All the Tiger Flag soldiers who were found here were captured. stand up.
