An army of several hundred people did not carry any siege equipment. It was undoubtedly a bit of a fantasy to capture a city.
But Zhu Yunzhen looked very serious.
This is also an important reason why the new army was forced to march quickly to reach Songjiang Fucheng as quickly as possible.
The new army is equipped with weapons that span the ages.
Have brand new combat thoughts and concepts.
It is impossible for the Japanese pirates and rebels to find a way to deal with such an army in a short time.
Therefore, even if the overall recovery lasts for three to five days or even longer, it will not have any impact on the battle situation.
But the people of Songjiang are still under the control of Japanese pirates and rebels, and may be suffering the most brutal ravages.
Secondly, even if you have guns, it will not be easy to attack the city without heavy artillery to knock down the city walls.
The method Zhu Yunxuan came up with to solve the problem was to fight quickly and win quickly.
The Japanese pirates and rebels have been defeated under Jiaxing City and are fleeing in all directions.
Last night, he specially asked Jiaxing's garrison to pursue them all night long.
Zhu Yunxuan didn't care how many heads he could harvest, otherwise, if he directly let the new army chase him, he would definitely be able to harvest more.
His main purpose was to prevent the Japanese pirates and rebels from having any breathing space.
Even when escaping back to Songjiang City, we have to take a detour.
Because the road directly back to Songjiang is undoubtedly the one with the most pursuers.
In order to escape for their lives, they had to spread out.
In addition, many people were tired, hungry, and exhausted. Although they ran away, they could no longer escape and had to find a place to hide.
Therefore, although the new army only set off early the next morning to come to Songjiang Fucheng.
But once the new army marched fast enough, they traveled more than 130 miles in one day.
Secondly, the defeated army who fled for their lives did not dare to flee along the road like the new army. Instead, they hid here and there, and their speed was naturally much slower than that of the new army.
In addition to the hundreds of Japanese pirates who actually came from the East, the remaining servants, including Zhang Shicheng's old troops and private salt dealers, were already shattered after seeing the power of the new army.
They were originally a mob, and they relied on the Japanese pirates when they became powerful.
Now that the Japanese pirates were defeated, most of them became birds and beasts and scattered around.
Only a small part of them would think of escaping back.
Therefore, as long as the new army is fast enough, it is possible to reach Songjiang Fucheng before the fled Japanese pirates and other rebels come back.
At this time, Songjiang Fucheng had only a handful of people left behind, making it almost an empty city.
When Zhu Yunzhen saw from a distance that even the city gate was not closed, he knew that the development of things was almost exactly as he expected.
The Japanese pirates didn't even have any preparations.
Maybe they haven't even received news of the defeat from the front.
Therefore, Zhu Yunzhen immediately issued the order to attack the city without hesitation.
One hundred new troops, equipped with breech-loading guns and fixed-load ammunition, took the lead in charging.
They do not need to temporarily load gunpowder, and the efficiency of shooting is the fastest, suitable for charging and shooting at the same time.
At this time, Jiaxing City has fallen into a hell on earth.
Many people in later generations believed that massacre meant that the enemy troops entered the city and then killed everyone they saw until they killed everyone and left no one behind.
But in fact, although this situation does occur, it is very, very rare.
Because slaughtering a city is often not the purpose, but looting money is the fundamental.
It is not cost-effective to kill everyone directly and lose all the gold and silver treasures.
The real slaughter of the city is to appease the people after entering the city, and then the soldiers start to come to the people in twos and threes and ask for money.
If he didn't give it, he would threaten to chop off his hands and feet, or even kill him.
For example, kill the elderly in the family first, or kill the children.
Force the other party to give up money, otherwise, they will continue to kill.
There is often no fixed amount, it depends on the mood of the rebel and whether you can hand over the money that satisfies him.
If there is a daughter at home, or if the wife is beautiful, the rebel soldiers will obviously not let her go.
And all this is just the beginning.
Because there will be a second batch of rebel soldiers, a third batch of rebel soldiers...
Round after round of searching, round after round of asking, round after round of killing.
Even if you can escape the first and second rounds, you can't escape the next three, four, and five rounds...
Once they cannot hand over the money that satisfies the rebels, they will kill people without mercy.
This is what scares the most.
There was a vague hope of survival, but it was actually very slim.
After rounds of extortion, he was drained of all his money and then brutally killed.
Before dying, you may have to endure endless torture.
After seven and ten days of such ravages, there were basically very few people left alive in the city.
Killed them all.
This is what massacres look like in most cases!
The Japanese pirates' methods were much more cruel than those of ordinary rebels.
The traitors who attached themselves to the Japanese pirates were even more heartless.
In addition to robbing wealth, they also took pleasure in torturing and killing people to satisfy their perverted hobbies.
Near the city gate, a group of girls were driven into a corner.
More than a hundred Japanese pirates were enjoying themselves.
Not far away, there were many servants who had defected to the Japanese pirates. They knelt down and flattered the Japanese pirates.
"Sir, these are the youngest and most beautiful women in the city. The young ones searched for them for a long time before they found them all and gave them to the adults to enjoy."
"Hahaha!"
A Japanese pirate Jiejie smiled, holding a bottle of wine in his hand, and poured wine into his mouth from time to time.
He walked towards a terrified girl and pushed her to the ground.
Tear it apart!
The girl's clothes were torn apart.
"don't want!"
The girl resisted desperately.
But the more this happened, the more it aroused the Japanese pirates' animal desires.
The other Japanese pirates were watching happily.
They drank and cheered.
"This little girl is so cute, she's good-looking, and she's hot too!"
"Yamamoto Twenty-eight, you have to work harder and kill her to death!"
"Are you okay? Do you want me to come?"
…
The women were all trembling with fear, one of them huddled up, and began to become numb in despair.
The traitors standing aside were much more numerous than the Japanese pirates.
After witnessing this scene, not only did he not save his own people, but he also cheered.
"My lord is mighty!"
"Well done, sir!"
"Being ravaged by adults is a blessing we have gained through three lifetimes of cultivation."
…
Their behavior is a hundred times more hateful than the Japanese pirates.
"Gaga, little girl, I like it."
Yamamoto Twenty-eight began to take off his clothes.
"elder sister!"
Just when he was about to pounce, a seven or eight-year-old girl came out of nowhere and stopped in front of the girl.
"Xixi, why did you come out? Hide quickly!"
The girl was frightened and cried out in panic.
The little girl did not hide away. Although she was timid, she still mustered up her courage and glared at Yamamoto Twenty-eight, who was walking over step by step.
"demon!"
She cursed harshly.
"Hahaha!"
Yamamoto Twenty-eight laughed instead.
"This one with thin skin and tender meat must be more flavorful than your sister, quack..."
His face was ferocious, his humanity had long been lost, and he was worse than a beast.
Looking at the little girl in front of him, he was ready to attack her.
"Xixi go away."
The girl rushed over and tried to stop the Japanese pirates.
But how can her strength compare to the brutal Yamamoto Twenty-eight?
Snapped!
The girl was pushed hard to the ground.
Yamamoto Twenty-eight smiled ferociously, and was about to extend his claws towards the little girl Xixi.
"Oops! There's an enemy attack!"
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded.
Kato Masaru, the Japanese pirate leader who stayed behind in Songjiang Prefecture, hurriedly asked: "Where did the enemy come from?"
The main force of the Japanese pirates led a large number of servants to attack Jiaxing.
In the neighboring Suzhou Prefecture, there were not many Ming troops.
Before Ming's reinforcements arrived, they would only defend but not attack.
Logically speaking, Songjiang Fucheng should be absolutely safe at this time.
"over there!"
The person who warned them pointed at the new army rushing towards the city gate.
Kato Masaichi's expression suddenly changed.
"Close the city gate quickly! Open the city gate quickly!"
he shouted at the top of his lungs.
However, it was already too late.
"boom!"
A Japanese pirate was about to close the city gate when he was shot down.
Then, bang bang bang...
The gunfire sounded like extremely loud firecrackers, continuously.
A famous Japanese pirate fell down immediately.
The city gate soon became a river of blood, and the New Army soldiers shouted and rushed towards the city gate as fast as possible.
The Japanese pirates and the traitorous servants who were attached to them had not yet recovered from the extreme shock, but the new army had already entered the city!
In just a short time, hundreds of people had been shot.
Most of them are the most elite Japanese pirates.
The new troops pouring into the city were like a flood that had been released, rolling down unstoppably.
Destroy all the forces of resistance like overwhelming force.
"Run away!"
Neither the Japanese pirates nor the army of servants recruited had ever seen such a terrifying scene.
The weapons in the hands of these people are unknown.
Just taking aim, there was a deafening bang, and then someone fell down.
It's like heavenly soldiers descending from the sky, sweeping everything.
The Japanese pirates and the servant army, who had been extremely ferocious and arrogant just now, were all terrified.
One by one, they ran away as fast as possible.
The scene at the foot of Jiaxing City was repeated again.
Only, this time it was not in the wild, but in the city.
The New Army soldiers started a new chase.
boom!
boom!
boom!
Gunfire continued.
Unlike in the wild, the only escape routes in the city are streets.
But once he ran to the street, he was exposed to the sight of the New Army soldiers and became a living target for gunfire.
You can still escape in all directions on the plains, but the city is restricted by houses.
but.
The Japanese pirates and traitor servants soon discovered this.
They immediately rushed towards the rooms on both sides of the street.
And this just played into the hands of the New Army.
They were in no rush to clean up and just rushed straight down the street.
From the west city gate, rush to the east city gate.
They wanted to close the city gate before the Japanese pirates and traitors in the city escaped from the army.
Close the door and beat the dog.
Zhu Yunxuan had already made arrangements.
Once the Japanese pirates escape, they will definitely go to the seaside and escape by boat.
The traitor servants either fled to the sea with the Japanese pirates, or they turned into civilians and blended into the common people.
Suddenly, he became a victimized common people again.
It was difficult for the court to find them out.
This is also a key reason why it was extremely difficult to suppress Japanese invaders in the Ming Dynasty.
When they gather, they become bandits; when they disperse, they become common people. They will be suppressed endlessly.
But if you lock them in the city, they won't be able to escape.
The Japanese pirates and traitor servants only focused on escaping and escaping, and did not think about this at all.
Soon, the city gates on all sides fell into the hands of the new army.
Only a few Japanese pirates and traitor servants escaped.
Zhu Yunzhen's carriage, supported by a group of royal guards, slowly drove into the city.
The sight is devastated.
Destroyed houses, burned buildings...
On the streets, corpses of murdered people were lying everywhere.
Many were left with missing limbs.
His hands and feet were cut off, and his head was beheaded.
Some people were even disemboweled and their internal organs dug out.
In the corner of the street, there was a group of women who had been insulted and were so frightened that they hugged their bodies tightly and collapsed into a ball of exhaustion.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would be hard to imagine such a purgatory on earth.
"They are worse than these beasts!"
Zhu Yunxuan gritted his teeth.
The hatred for the Japanese pirates and their traitorous servants rose to an unprecedented level.
"For Gusou, we must find them all, and don't let anyone go."
"The suffering they inflicted on the people of Ming Dynasty, I want them to pay back a hundred times."
(End of chapter)
