I am one year older than Chongzhen

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

"Put down your weapons and surrender. The Xinghe Army will not kill the prisoners!"

The south gate is already in hand, and the infantry of the Xinghe Army can shout slogans and advance in formation!

It took a total of one and a half hours from the beginning of the siege to the breach of the city.

Breaking the city does not mean that the city has been captured, the fierce street fighting has just begun!

The 3,800 cavalrymen did not act as spectators. They were patrolled around the Dengzhou city wall under the leadership of Huang Yi himself.

Not only to prevent the rebels from escaping from the city, but also to deter the Ming army from trying to fish in troubled waters!

Huang Yi is not afraid of death, but he must die well!

The rebels have a lot of artillery, and siege battles and street battles are all hand-to-hand. It is impossible for Huang Yi to charge on the front line.

Not only did Huang Yi not participate in the charge, all the generals had to perform their duties.

The person who leads the charge under his command is at most Bai Zong and does not advocate it. In more cases, it is the seventh-level or seventh-level cultural teachers, general flags, small flags, and non-commissioned officers who charge at the front line.

The seventh-level cultural instructors, general flags, and small flags are similar to the platoon leader, deputy platoon leader, and squad leader during World War I and World War II. They are among the grassroots officers with the highest proportion of casualties.

The rebels resisted fiercely at first, using barricades to organize their defenses and constant fire from Franz's machine guns and Daihatsu tribute guns.

The heavy armored infantry of the Xinghe Army suffered a lot of casualties!

When the infantry generals led by Chang Yongliang and Tan Hanming were blocked by the rebels on Gulou Street, they adopted the tactic of outflanking the rebels.

Xu Erniu and Wei Dazhuang led 20 strong miners' auxiliary soldiers to knock, knock and dig hard, breaking through three brick walls of the Shenzhen compound in less than one breath.

Rebels who were stubbornly resisting at the barricades were constantly being surrounded and annihilated. The Xinghe Army became more and more courageous as they fought, and the rebels were gradually divided and surrounded.

If you know yourself and your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger!

In order to know each other well, Huang Yi used cultural classes every night to explain the layout of Dengzhou to officers above the general banner level.

The sand table and Dengzhou model in the war room have not only been confirmed many times by Sun Yuanhua, Wang Yu, Song Guanglan, Zhang Tao and other criminal officials familiar with Dengzhou City.

Hundreds of former residents of Dengzhou were also found to point out the location of their homes and to determine the error between the model and the city.

Therefore, the clever literary instructors and combat officers all memorize the attack range of their own troops.

After being intercepted by the rebels, officers like Chang Yongliang and Tan Hanming who were good at thinking were able to make the decision in the shortest time which walls to break through and accurately get behind the enemy.

All the resistance of the rebels was in vain. After a short while, they were attacked from the side and attacked from behind, and their morale suffered a heavy blow.

After a fierce battle until the afternoon, a whole group of rebels finally gave up resistance and raised their hands to surrender.

Gradually, more and more rebel camps surrendered.

The last straw that broke the camel's back was the surrender of more than 300 rebels led by Wang Zideng and Chen Guangfu.

In order to compete for meritorious service and performance, the two of them picked up the thin iron trumpet and shouted to the former Paoze!

Wang Zideng even called Li Jiucheng's name directly, telling him that as long as he surrendered, the Xinghe Army would ensure that he and his son would survive!

Chen Guangfu was also very active. He shouted the names of Chen Youshi, Su Yougong, Geng Zhongming and other old brothers in Dongjiang Town, urging them not to use their arms as a trap and to surrender quickly to save their lives.

Huang Yi could do it to save the lives of one or two named Dongjiang Town rebel generals.

It’s really impossible to give Li Jiucheng and Li Yingyuan a way to survive!

Huang Yi knows best what kind of temper Emperor Chongzhen is! The destructive power of the Wuqiao Mutiny was too great. Chongzhen hated these traitors from the bottom of his heart, and it was difficult to eliminate his hatred without cutting them into pieces.

Historically, he even refused to spare Sun Yuanhua's life and showed no mercy to Xu Guangqi, a veteran of three dynasties.

Sun Yuanhua did commit a serious crime, but he also had bright spots.

He only wanted to die under Li Jiucheng's coercion and inducement. Doesn't this prove his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty?

Xu Guangqi begged for mercy for Sun Yuanhua. What's the big deal if he was open to the outside world and had to let Sun Yuanhua's head fall to the ground?

Compared with Sun Yuanhua and Zu Dashou, who also lost his city and territory, which one deserves to die more?

Zu Dashou also had a record of abandoning the emperor, abandoning millions of people in the capital who were tortured by the slaves and escaping from the capital city, and also committed a new case of killing He Kegang.

He chose to defraud Huang Taiji's trust and flee back to Jinzhou because he was loyal to the emperor and the Ming Dynasty.

It's because he has been in Liaodong for a long time and knows that the slaves there are miserable. The Han officials who surrendered are also slaves. They grovel all day long and eat chaff when there is a famine.

The ancestral family has deep roots in Liaodong and earns tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of Liao's salary every year. The ancestral birthday has a wonderful life, which must be much more comfortable than that of Emperor Chongzhen.

Wouldn’t it be nice for Zu Dashou to be a local emperor and warlord in Liaodong? How could I be willing to look up to Jian Nu!

Therefore, some historians commented that Chongzhen was bullying, cold and unkind, he was indecisive in handling major affairs, but he was decisive in killing ministers.

Huang Yi could foresee that the captured rebel generals would not only die in Chongzhen's hands, but would also die badly!

But instead of telling the truth, he acquiesced.

hehe! How do you understand that the Xinghe Army left a way for the rebel generals to survive?

It should be that the Xinghe Army did not kill prisoners.

It is true that the Xinghe Army did not kill prisoners, but they had to keep the named rebel generals alive and escort them to the capital to be handed over to the emperor.

This is the duty and rule of the counter-rebellion army. You must do it whether you like it or not. You cannot decide who to let go and who to keep privately!

Thick ice blocked Dengzhou Water City, preventing the rebels from escaping by sea.

The more than thirty miles of earth wall built by the Ming army has been soaked with water and turned into a thick ice wall.

It is difficult to destroy even with heavy artillery.

There was certainly no way for the rebels to escape by land.

They were running out of options, and surrender was the only way to temporarily save their lives.

If Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Li Yingyuan, etc. were deceived into surrendering, would Emperor Chongzhen, who killed ministers like chickens, be merciful?

It depends on fate!

There were too many scholar-bureaucrats in Shandong and Denglai who had their families destroyed. Huang Yi felt that these people would definitely die anyway.

This battle was actually the first actual combat of the 200-mini gunner, and the weapons of the era played a huge role.

The two hundred best musketeers were worthy of the miniguns in their hands, and they basically fired without missing a beat.

The theoretical effective range of the mini gun is more than 800 meters. When the Xinghe army attacked the city, the well gate had been pushed to fifty steps away from the city wall.

At such a close distance, holding a mini gun and shooting from above, of course there was no place for the rebels to gain a foothold at the top of the city.

Next, Jinglan continued to push forward until it reached the city wall.

The floor of the well is only three or four feet higher than the crenellations of the city wall, and the musketeers can jump to the blood-stained city head with one leap.

Only a dozen of the more than a thousand musketeers were unlucky. When they landed, they stepped on the frozen blood and slipped and sprained their feet.

However, the young soldiers were so enthusiastic about fighting that they could not get out of the firing line despite being slightly injured, and still limped forward. (End of chapter)