"That Lu Xiangsheng is extremely foolish and loyal, stubborn and unwilling to accept His Majesty's kindness!" Fan Wencheng did not dare to lie and replied truthfully.
After Huang Taiji heard this, he sneered and said, "Since you failed to live up to my good intentions, don't blame me for being struck by thunder!"
He has been planning the war in Pyongyang for a long time and must win it.
Of course Huang Taiji knew that the war in Pyongyang could not be dragged on forever.
In fact, the Korean War initiated by the Qing Dynasty could not be prolonged no matter whether it attacked any town, because the Qing Dynasty could not afford a protracted siege war.
Based on this, while he was stationing troops in Zhenjiang Fort and waiting for news, he was already preparing for the battle in Pyongyang. He said he wanted a thunderous strike, and he had something to rely on.
At this time, he saw him shouting loudly: "Come on, pass on my orders, assemble the catapult in front of the camp, and show the Ming army on the top of the city the meeting gift I have prepared for them!"
Because of the lessons learned from the Battle of Lushun, Huang Taiji knew that he could not defeat the Ming army just with artillery bombardment. Therefore, he thought of a trick and used the catapult that was eliminated by the artillery.
Compared with artillery, catapults are easier to build for building captives, and they do not require artillery skills. Counterweight catapults are already mature. Over the years, Jianlu has also accumulated enough craftsmen to build more catapults for Jianlu in one go.
If you attack a strong city like Jinzhou, there are too many artillery defenses, and too many catapults are useless. However, he didn't believe it when it came to Pyongyang City. Would the Ming army have so many Hongyi cannons? At least the original North Korea didn't have it.
So, following Huang Taiji's order, in front of Jianlu's camp, carts were rolled out one after another from the military camp, and the things on the carts were unloaded, pile after pile, and there was a long queue. The long one-shaped ones couldn't even be arranged in a "two" shape. It only took more than an hour to see the prototype of the catapults, and finally turned into a complete catapult.
After those carts unloaded the catapult accessories, they were driven away by Jianlu and went to the Datong River and wherever there were stones. They transported cartloads of stones as big as millstones and piled them in front of Jianlu's military camp. Piles after piles, it’s scary to look at them.
Jianlu was also quite arrogant. He told the defenders on top of Pyongyang City that I was going to flood Pyongyang City with a sea of catapults!
Even more than that, after those carts finished transporting the stones, they began digging and bagging the soil within the sight of Pyongyang's defenders. Bag after bag was transported to the catapults and piled up like a hill. This is another message to the defenders on top of the Pyongyang city. In addition to the catapults, they also need to pile up mountains of earth, fill in the moat, and fill in the city walls.
Everything was done under the eyes of the defenders at the top of Pyongyang City, just for them to see.
By evening, Jianlu was almost ready. As far as the eye can see outside the city, there are countless catapults, piles of stones, and hills of soil bags, all placed there majestically.
Seeing the defenders on top of Pyongyang City, they felt nervous again, but there was still some comfort. The Governor is personally in charge and has already put great effort into the city's defense. Outside Pyongyang City, not only was there a moat, but the ground was dug into uneven areas with large and small pits. Just these pits made it impossible for Jianlu to push the catapult closer. Moreover, there are many artillery pieces on the city. If Jianlu wanted to attack the city with catapults, he would first pay a huge price.
However, they seemed to have guessed what the defenders at the top of the city were thinking. At some point, they saw groups of captives in the distance, driving the Korean people to gather towards the military camp. With this number, there are at least tens of thousands of people.
Lu Xiangsheng, who was familiar with Jianlu's fighting style, couldn't help but feel his heart sink when he saw it. It was obvious that Jianlu had also expected this. They were planning to use the lives of these Korean people to fill up all the injustices outside the city and pave the way for Jianlu's siege. Be prepared for anything.
Lu Xiangsheng had to admit that Jianlu had indeed made very thorough preparations in order to capture Pyongyang City. It seems that the battle in Pyongyang is more difficult than I imagined. I don’t know how long I can last?
However, things have reached this point, and only the soldiers can cover up the water and the earth!
At night, Jianlu had already begun to drive the Korean people away to fill the pits outside the city. When it gets dark, more than half of the city has been filled.
Then, all the Jianlu troops came out and were all lined up outside Pyongyang.
The cavalry roared and surrounded the city. The sound of horse hooves and shouts mixed with each other and rushed towards the city of Pyongyang.
As for the Jianlu infantry and archers, they lined up in groups. The number alone was at least tens of thousands. Other infantrymen stood beside the catapults, waiting for the pseudo-emperor Huang Taiji's order to push the catapults together towards Pyongyang City.
There were even some soldiers, all shirtless, who had already begun to carry the stones as big as millstones, loading them one by one, and parked behind the catapults, ready to provide stone bullets for the catapults.
In addition, there were about seven to eight thousand Korean people in ragged clothes, who were forced by the prisoners with swords and guns to the edge of the soil bags. Judging from this posture, they are forcing North Korean people to carry bags of soil to fill the moat.
Everything looks ready.
On top of the city, the soldiers of the Ming and North Korean armies were also prepared, and a big battle was about to begin.
At this time, Huang Taiji, surrounded by many leaders of the Jianlu prisoners, came out majestically from the military camp with the emperor's guard of honor.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" Nearly 100,000 people knelt on the ground and shouted in unison, the momentum was extremely powerful!
With a wave of Huang Taiji's hand, the densely packed heads of people outside the city stood up and down like waves.
Huang Taiji looked at all this and felt extremely satisfied: The Qing army was invincible. Anyone who dared to be an enemy of the Qing Dynasty would be crushed by his own army!
With this in mind, he turned to look at Fan Wencheng, who was wearing armor and a helmet, and said, "Fan Qing, go and shout. I will finally give Lu Xiangsheng a chance to surrender unconditionally immediately, otherwise the city of Pyongyang will be destroyed and no chickens or dogs will be left!"
When he said this, he remembered that the Ming emperor actually released senior Ming officials twice and asked him to surrender unconditionally.
Haha, this time, I also want the feudal officials of the Ming Dynasty to surrender unconditionally. Anyway, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was just talking, but I will never be just talking. This is the last chance. If we still persist in our stubbornness and stubbornness, Pyongyang will be destroyed and no chickens or dogs will be left.
Here, Fan Wencheng received the order and had to step forward to shout again.
But this time, Lu Xiangsheng didn't reply to him at all. He replied with a sharp arrow with a "swish" sound.
Fortunately, Fan Wencheng had already been on guard and quickly raised the shield at hand to block it in time.
With a "ding" sound, the sharp arrow fell to the ground, but the shock made Fan Wencheng's arm feel a little uncomfortable, which made him secretly surprised. This Lu Xiangsheng's innate supernatural power is indeed well-deserved!
Huang Taiji saw this situation from a distance behind, and he knew what Lu Xiangsheng meant on the top of the city without Fan Wencheng coming back to report it.
So, he reached out and pulled out his sword, raised it towards the top of Pyongyang City, and shouted loudly: "Preach my will and attack the city!"
"Woooooooo..."
More than a dozen horns were blown at the same time, echoing over the city of Pyongyang, marking the beginning of the Battle of Pyongyang.
Outside Pyongyang, Jianlu first forced the Korean people with swords and guns to carry heavy bags of soil and began to rush towards the moat.
Of course, just because they are Korean people on top of the city, they will not be allowed to fill in the moat. The rain of arrows began to cover, and immediately, the land outside Pyongyang was dyed red with blood.
If the Korean people advance, they will be shot by the defenders at the top of the city. If they retreat, they will be executed on the spot by the Jianlu who supervises the battle. In troubled times, human life is as cheap as a dog, and it applies to any common people. At this moment, their lives were even worse than those of dogs. Forced by the enemy, he died on the land outside Pyongyang, and his body was even thrown into the moat.
At the same time, there was another movement in the Jianlu army formation. The catapults, one after another, began to move slowly together as the military orders from Jianlu were passed down. Under the push of many Jianlu, they began to move together. Some huge catapults even used animal power to draw fibers.
Tens of thousands of Jianlu archers also marched towards the city of Pyongyang in groups. They held walking bows in hand, spread out their formation, and waited until they were within shooting range, then used their rain of arrows to draw the catapults closer to reduce unnecessary losses.
The war machine has been activated. From the beginning of the battle for Pyongyang, Jianlu used all his strength to deliver a thunderous blow to the city of Pyongyang.
On the top of Pyongyang City, Lu Xiangsheng watched all this with a calm face, and then issued military orders one after another.
By this time, the defenders on the city had no free time to be afraid. As the military order was passed down, it began to move.
Outside the city, Huang Taiji pointed at the top of Pyongyang City and asked with a smile: "When do you think we can get down to Pyongyang City?"
"Father, I think that if you don't use it for an hour and throw a few catapults, the city of Pyongyang will belong to the Qing Dynasty!" Hauge was the first to reply, with a loud, joyful and cheerful voice. .
Yue Tuo also followed with a smile and said: "Your Majesty kills a chicken with a sledgehammer, it will definitely be decided in one battle!"
After the others heard this, they were carrying people in sedan chairs, and they were obviously going to fight to Pyongyang. If they didn't say a word at this time, they had objections to the emperor's wiseness and martial prowess!
Huang Taiji laughed immediately after listening to their words.
This battle indeed cost him a lot of thought, and he even mobilized most of the Qing Dynasty's available troops, just to win the fight against the goshawk and the rabbit, so as to prevent the war from dragging on for a long time.
Now, seeing all the results put into practice, Huang Taiji is of course happy and feels satisfied.
However, at this moment, a horse suddenly came galloping towards me. Looking at the flag on his back, it turned out to be Eight Hundred Miles Urgent.
Except for the Jianlu who went into the war, all the other Jianlu couldn't help but be a little surprised when they saw the hurried messenger from 800 miles away. They didn't know what was going on, so they turned their heads to pay attention.
Huang Taiji also saw it. For some reason, he felt a bad feeling in his heart.
When did this feeling begin? It seems like it was caused by that fellow Daishan! Could it be that something bad happened suddenly this time?
As he thought this, the messenger who had been rushing for 800 miles arrived in front of the emperor. The yellow mandarin stepped forward to stop him for verification, and then immediately let him go before Huang Taiji's eyes.
"Your Majesty, Haizhou has been attacked by the Ming army. It's extremely urgent!" As he said this, the messenger fell to the ground. He couldn't even take off the long tube containing the memorial from his body.
Huang Taiji and the Jianlu leader beside him were stunned when they heard this. They never expected that Haizhou would be attacked by the Ming army, and they would rush to ask for help. Isn't Dorgon in Tashan? Where did this Ming army come from? what is going on?
With doubts in his mind, Huang Taiji quickly unfolded the memorial presented in his yellow jacket and started reading it immediately.
Everyone immediately stared at Huang Taiji, trying to see something from his face. At this time, the massive siege seemed to have been forgotten by them.
I saw Huang Taiji's eyes moving. After a quick look, his face suddenly changed and became particularly ugly, even uglier than when Xian Khan died.
In this urgent memorial from Haizhou, it is said that a large number of Ming cavalry appeared outside Haizhou City, at least tens of thousands of them, and they all carried the heads of many money rat tails. After preliminary verification, it should be He is the leader of the Qing army in Tashan. This means that the Qing army in Tashan will most likely suffer a disastrous defeat or even be completely annihilated. Now that Haizhou is in danger, we kindly ask Huang Taiji to send reinforcements as soon as possible. Otherwise, if Haizhou falls, the Ming army will threaten Anshan Post, the gateway to Liaoyang.
Huang Taiji flattened the memorial, his eyes were red, and he looked up at the Pyongyang battle that was starting in front of him.
If he withdraws his troops and returns reinforcements at this time, he will definitely not be willing to do so. I don’t know how much thought he spent on planning the battle for Pyongyang, and how much manpower and material resources the Qing Dynasty spent on it. How could he return without success? However, soldiers are valuable and quick, and rescuing troops is like putting out fire, and there is no delay.
However, he still didn't believe it and felt that Haizhou's memorial was exaggerated.
Among other things, in order to prevent this possible situation, Huang Taiji asked Dorgon to lead more than 10,000 troops to garrison Tashan, just to guard against any unusual movements by Guan Ning's army. In addition, with his authorization, Dorgon went to negotiate with Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao in the Ming Dynasty, about the matter of King De. He believed that Hong Chengchou, as a minister of the Zhu family, must treat it with care as it related to the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty. If he dared to send troops under such circumstances, King De would undoubtedly die. Can Hong Chengchou bear this responsibility?
From this, Huang Taiji once again confirmed that this memorial must be exaggerated. Based on Dorgon's ability, counting the time, only a few days have passed, and it is absolutely impossible to lose miserably.
After understanding this, he came back to his senses and found that everyone was looking at him, and many of them had worried faces.
Then, Huang Taiji's fat face suddenly showed a smile and said: "It's okay, it's just harassment by the Ming army! Please use your life to capture Pyongyang City first, and then teach Guan Ning's army a lesson!"
