Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 735 Hami City Breakdown

Anyway, Dorgon died at the right time.

Now that the Little Ice Age has not yet ended, the entire Northeast has entered winter in September, followed by a long cold winter, which lasts until February of the next year.

Therefore, even if the Ming army learned of changes in the north, it could not change the situation at all, and it was even very difficult to act.

Relying on the two yellow flags, Emperor Shunzhi successfully captured Azig, and directly trapped him in the mansion, making it difficult to move.

It is precisely because of this that he was able to govern himself.

As soon as he came into contact with the affairs of the imperial court, the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty impeached Hauge one after another.
It is said that he abandoned thousands of Han Eight Banners and stayed in Shengjing, so that the Han Army Eight Banners suffered heavy losses and were forced to become prisoners.

Hauge heard this and wanted to argue, but he was powerless. This stain could not be shaken off.

Only Zhenglan Qi supported him, and the two white flags belonged to Dorgon's forces. They looked down on Hauge the most and immediately supported the emperor.

Therefore, Shunzhi took advantage of the situation, removed Hauge from his post, and demoted him from prince to Baylor, and imprisoned him in the mansion.

As a result, the most threatening Hauge and Azig were all imprisoned. Except for the veteran minister Jierharang, Shunzhi could be said to have monopolized power and completely secured his position.

At this time, in the northwest region, Gao Yigong was also good at taking advantage of the weather, and planned to use tens of thousands of light cavalry to attack Hami City in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, the Hami people are also of Mongol origin, and there are scouts everywhere, and there are countless herds, so the sneak attack leaked the news.

Helpless, can only attack the city.

Outside the city of Hami, camps were everywhere in a short period of time, which made people tremble with fear.

The clouds in the sky were extremely low, so low that people worried that they might fall on the roof of the attic in Hami City.

The small snowflakes in the air were blown across by the wind, like catkins in late spring, or like paper money at a funeral, adding a bit of sadness for no reason.

Battelle boarded the tower and quickly returned to the hall with an extremely ugly expression on his face.

He is a descendant of King Hami. Although the Yarkands occupied the city of Hami, they are also Mongols after all. They have a city but it is difficult to govern, and they can only rely on tribes.

That's why Battle was able to control the power of Hami and guard the easternmost territory of Yarkand.

"Let's drop!"

As soon as they returned to the chamber, all the nobles started shouting.

"What nonsense, you didn't even fight a game, why did you surrender?"

Battelle scolded angrily: "The Khanate still has tens of thousands of troops in Turpan. If we surrender, what will we do in the future?"

"City lord? Can we beat the Ming army?"

"Always fight!" Battelle shook his head: "This is a world of ice and snow, let's see how he attacks the city."

In this way, Hami City continued to choose to stick to it.

Gao Yigong sneered, looking at the low Hami city wall: "My infantry is here, what is the little Hami city?"

"Siege—"

"Crack!" The wooden ladder was pressed against the wooden post on the wall at once, and a Hami soldier hurried up to lift it, but unexpectedly an arrow hit his face with a "swish", and the soldier went to lift the ladder with the center of gravity at the front. As soon as his body softened, he quickly fell off the wall.

At this time, a row of Hami army soldiers stepped forward with their bows in hand, and heard the shout of "Fang".

"Crackling..." The Ming army gathered under the wall suddenly screamed, but they still climbed the cold ladder.

On the city gate, a huge shield car came slowly, covering the crashing car and hitting the city gate.

"Boom—"

One time, two times, three times, more than ten times later, the decayed city gate was smashed open.

When did the Mongols see such formations?
They are also not good at defending the city. How could they have expected that the lowered city gate would be breached? How many years have they not seen such a siege in the Western Regions?

This Han-style siege method became popular again in the Western Regions.

After the city gate was opened, a row of musketeers came forward listening to the military order, picked up their firearms and blasted at the dark city gate, causing gunpowder smoke to rise.

Arrows flew randomly above their heads, tinkling and hitting the helmet shoulder armor, and occasionally some people were injured.

At this moment, the entire city of Hami had already fallen.

The shieldmen who followed behind immediately explored the way forward, and quickly took down the entire street to cover the cavalry attack.

"Escape—" Battelle had no choice but to lead the remaining thousands of people to flee.

Unfortunately, he forgot that tens of thousands of Qingqi outside the city have been watching this for a long time.

As soon as he left the city, he was immediately besieged, and almost his entire army was wiped out, so he surrendered as a last resort.

The city of Hami was won, and the income of the entire Hami area was greatly improved. The moment they got their household registration, everyone was happy.

Gao Yigong laughed loudly: "As expected of Hami City, with a population of 100,000 people, it can become a city."

"Hami Mansion has been established today."

However, after entering the city, Gao Yigong's biggest problem was that he ran into the domed Peace Temple.

"It's really different! No wonder the Yaerqiang Kingdom was excluded."

Gao Yigong was a little confused.

He still knows the purpose of the court.

Using Buddhism to disintegrate people's hearts and thus contribute to the rule of Ming Dynasty, so whether it is in Mongolia or Gansu, Gao Yigong strongly supports Buddhism and dare not slack off in the slightest.

He is not familiar with the Peace Sect!
"Anyway, surround the temple with me, and no one is allowed to trespass."

Gao Yigong made a conservative plan.

Such an action will immediately have an immediate effect.

Receiving the goodwill protection of the Ming army, the resistance in Hami was extremely weak. Under the leadership of several mullahs, they surrendered to the Ming army.

Mongols and businessmen also surrendered one after another, expressing their willingness to join Daming.

With Hami as the center, more than 10 tribes and castles in the vicinity surrendered one after another.

Gao Yigong was overjoyed, and even prepared to put incense in the temple and prepare large incense candles.

But after someone said, in the end it was absolutely out of this idea, so as not to be self-defeating.

The Peace Sect at this time is different from that of later generations.

Even in a sense, in the feudal society, the teaching of peace played a positive role in boosting combat effectiveness.

In a sense, religion is a tool to maintain rule, and the Peace Church is no exception. It is not as conservative as later generations think, and even in some respects, it is more open than Catholicism.

For example, the Ottoman Empire, although it was a peace religion country, never excluded and massacred infidels like Western Europe.

In contrast, the Ottoman Empire allowed others to keep their faith by paying an extra tax.

It is also such an open attitude that made the Ottoman Empire strong for hundreds of years and maintained a huge territory spanning Europe, Asia and Africa.

Therefore, as soon as the Peace Sect encounters Gao Yigong, it will immediately show an attitude of submission, as long as Daming supports its development.

Even if you don't support it, don't persecute it.

However, when Gao Yigong learned that they were willing to surrender, they could even enter Beijing to meet the emperor if conditions permit.

You are faster than Buddhism, can you let people get used to it?
"Sensational?"

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