At this time, the defenders in Guangning Zhongqiansuo City also learned the news of Huang Taiji's death from the arrows shot in by the Chu army.
But they didn't believe it, thinking that this was just a small way for the Chu army to shake their morale.
Compared with these 'rumors', they have a more serious problem, that is, they have no reinforcements!
After Haug's cavalry was completely defeated two days ago, they became an isolated city defender without external aid, and they also knew that they were unlikely to receive reinforcements in a short time.
Even if there are tens of thousands of infantry and artillerymen on the front guard side of Guangning, don't expect to be able to run over smoothly without the cover of cavalry.
Because once they left the city, they lacked cavalry cover and could easily be intercepted and ambushed by the Chu army.
In modern times, the three arms of cavalry, infantry and artillery are indispensable.
Needless to say, infantry is the main force of the Chinese army in field battles and the main force in sieges. It can also maintain multiple arms at a low cost and is an indispensable core force in most armies.
You can also use cavalry instead, but the price/performance ratio is too low and the gain outweighs the gain.
Artillery, on the East Asian battlefield, has been the core force even more than a hundred years ago. The various vehicle arrays and various light artillery built by Qi Jiguang in the northern frontier army are the core force, and various tactics are based on Designed to utilize the power of light artillery.
But now, the Chu army took the lead in moving long-barreled artillery onto lightweight two-wheeled artillery carts in the East Asian battlefield, and supplemented it with a lead carriage, allowing the heavy long-barreled artillery to quickly maneuver in the field, and then appeared In just a few years, field artillery became popular in East Asia. The Ming army in the past and the current Dongdu people imitated this kind of field artillery on a large scale.
By now, when the Chu army and the Dongji people were fighting, field artillery had become an indispensable and important weapon for both sides.
If one side lacks field artillery, then it lacks long-range firepower. When the two sides engage in a large-scale battle, the enemy's artillery will calmly and elegantly use artillery to gradually call them names.
With the continuous bombardment, soldiers will inevitably suffer a large number of casualties, the formation will gradually collapse, and finally a comprehensive defeat will become inevitable.
The same is true for the cavalry. The unique rapid mobility of the cavalry, especially the short-distance rapid mobility on the battlefield, allows the cavalry to play a huge role and effectively threaten the enemy's flanks.
If there is no effective cavalry cover, the infantry and artillery can protect themselves, but don't expect to continue operations on a large scale. They may even be besieged in the barren mountains and forests and eventually run out of ammunition and food.
Before, Hauge led the Eastern Capture Cavalry into battle, hoping to attack the Chu army, destroy the Chu army's siege, and indirectly rescue Guangning Zhongqian.
As for the Chu army, they sent out the First Cavalry Corps and the Guards Cavalry Detachment in a tit-for-tat manner to conduct interception operations to cover the infantry and artillery in the rear.
As a result, the Chu army used the new cavalry to defeat the enemy's left wing, which in turn caused a major collapse of Hauge's troops. Twenty thousand Dongfeng cavalry were wiped out in one day, leaving only a few thousand defeated soldiers who fled to Guangning to garrison.
When the defenders of Guangning Zhongqian Post discovered that the cavalry under Hauge's command outside the northern suburbs had been defeated, they were already in despair.
Anyone who looks at the more than 20,000 elite cavalry that they clearly have the upper hand is defeated in just half a day, and it is impossible to obtain reinforcements in a short time, and at the same time they themselves are not sure of resisting for too long, they have to despair……
The reason why they haven't completely collapsed is simply because the Chu army hasn't launched a general offensive in the past two days!
So when the Chu army launched a general offensive, under the bombardment of hundreds of artillery and the successive attacks of tens of thousands of infantry, the more than 20,000 Dongchen garrison in the front post completely collapsed without any surprise.
Guangning Zhongqian Fortress, a strategic location that had been controlled and operated by the Dongqi people for a long time and had built complete fortifications and stocked a large amount of food and ammunition, was breached by the Chu army after holding on for several days.
Thousands of the defenders in the city died in the battle, and the rest surrendered.
In the evening of the 429th of the 6th year of Chengshun, Army General Zuo Yingzhe, commander of the Third Army of the Dachu Empire, led a group of senior generals of the Third Army and several senior generals of the Guards to enter the Guangning Zhongqian Post.
After entering this city, Zuo Yingzhe also discovered that this city was different from many cities he had captured in the past. This place could not be considered a city at all because there were not many ordinary civilians in the city.
At the same time, a large number of buildings in the city are basically official functional buildings. Various city fortifications, warehouses, government offices, and military camps together constitute the main buildings of this city. There are not many ordinary houses at all.
This place used to be a border town under the control of the Ming army. At the earliest, it was actually just a settlement station for the Qianhu Station in front of Guangning Guards. This can be seen from the name of the city: Guangning Zhongqian Station.
In the early one or two hundred years, this place was just an ordinary residence for a thousand households. However, as Mongolia moved eastward to the Liaohetao area, this place gradually became important.
And when the Dongji people rose up strongly, captured Shenyang, and controlled the Mongols in the Liaohetao area, the entire Western Liaoning Corridor became the front line.
Jinzhou in the front became a forward battlefield support point, while Guangning Zhongqiansuo, Qiantunwei and other cities in the rear also became military fortresses.
After Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui surrendered to the East, the East captives took over the city, because this was the closest fortress city to Shanhaiguan, and because the East captives attached great importance to this place, they not only stationed heavy troops here, but also built large-scale construction projects. The city walls were heightened and reinforced, and a large number of fortifications were excavated and built.
During this process, the number of ordinary people in Zhongqiansuo City also decreased rapidly, with only a small number of family members of the Liaoxi Army still living in the city. The rest of the ordinary people were either captured and built various fortifications and died on the construction site, or He was treated as a slave and forcibly moved to the rear by the Eastern captors.
By the time the Chu army broke through the city, not many ordinary people could be seen!
There were not many ordinary people in the city, so the military had no scruples and went on a killing spree, hunting down and killing some of the rebels in the city.
Among them are many former soldiers of the Western Liao Dynasty from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.
Although the defenders in the Zhongqian Suo included several thousand troops from the Dongli headquarters, most of them were composed of the Han Eight Banners. Some of these Han Eight Banners were the Old Han Eight Banners, and quite a few were former Liaoxi Army who had defected to the past.
But even though they were begging for mercy on their knees and shouting that they were Han people, the Chu army did not give them any preferential treatment.
I already have a rat tail on the back of my head, and I also fought for the Chu army for the Dongji people. Now that you claim that I am one of your own, don’t kill me...
This is not a joke!
Besides, the Western Liao Army used to be an army of warlords and vassal towns. If it is held to death, it can only be regarded as the Ming Army. However, it has nothing to do with the Chu Army. The two sides fought before and were not lenient at all.
After the Chu army entered the city, including those who had surrendered before, and those who were subsequently cordoned off and hunted throughout the city, a total of nearly 20,000 prisoners were captured.
For these people, the Chu army will definitely not directly select them and add them to the army as it did with the Ming army's surrender in the past, even if they are just a garrison or a second-class division.
According to the decision of the high-level empire before the war, all prisoners of war and recalcitrants on the Northeast battlefield who disobey the administrators will be executed on the spot, and those who obey the administrators will be incorporated into prisoner-of-war camps.
They will spend the rest of their lives in the many large official construction sites and various mines in the Industrial Department of the Dachu Empire.
There are no reclamation camps, construction camps, transportation camps or other things that the Chu Empire used to house prisoners of war surrendered by the Ming army in the past. There are only unified prisoner of war camps.
This is a war between foreign nations, not a battle between the Chu Empire and the Ming Empire to fight for the unification of the world. The nature is different, and the strategies for treating prisoners and surrendering soldiers are naturally different.
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They were not slaughtered directly to avoid large-scale killing of prisoners. In the end, the remaining enemy troops refused to surrender, which made the battle more troublesome and caused too many casualties on our side.
In order to reduce the enemy's resistance in subsequent battles, sometimes it is necessary to give them a way to survive...
Otherwise, surrender is death, and resistance is death. Many of them would rather fight to the death.
If you surrender, although you will lose your freedom and can only work as a coolie in the future, you can still survive. Even if you don't have enough to eat and work too much, you will die of exhaustion in just a few years, but it will only be a few years. What happens next.
At least, they would be alive when they surrendered.
Well, most people are afraid of death.
There are brave people who ignore death, but in an army with a size of more than 100 or 200,000 people, such brave people are definitely very few. Most soldiers are ordinary people, and most ordinary people are afraid of death!
This is also the main reason why the more than 20,000 defenders in Guangning Zhongqiansuo finally surrendered on a large scale after thousands of people were killed and wounded.
They don't want to die!
Zuo Yingzhe held a post-war meeting in Zhongqiansuo City in Guangning that night. On the one hand, he summarized the experience of gains and losses in the battle, on the other hand, he discussed military exploits and the like, and then arranged the disposal of various prisoners of war and trophies.
In post-war matters, prisoners of war were not actually managed by the Third Army. Anyway, the weapons and armors had been confiscated. These unarmed prisoners of war could not resist. They randomly sent some people to watch, and then waited for the Hebei garrison commander at the rear. Just accept the escort troops sent by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and then send them to the coal mine of Luanzhou, Tangshan by the Ministry of Industry...
The coal mines there are in a period of large-scale development and are in urgent need of a large amount of free young labor!
By the way, the roads from the mining area to the seaside port can also be repaired.
Among many post-war matters, the statistics, transfer and distribution of various materials were more important, because tens of thousands of mules and horses were involved, including tens of thousands of high-quality riding horses that could serve as cavalry mounts.
