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Chapter 69 The descendants do not kill, the court treats the prisoners preferentially

"Put down your weapons! Those who surrender will not be killed!"

As the sound of muskets gradually decreased, and the shooting of arrows gradually became rarer, the simple "inner urn city" space in the east gate of Qizhou had been piled up with pillowed corpses.

The rest of the bandit soldiers who hid in the corpses of their comrades to avoid the lead bullets were also completely beaten to a mental breakdown, numb and sluggishly shivering, unable to make any resistance.

Seeing that the situation was completely under control, Zuo Zixiong also asked the soldiers to shout slogans to persuade them to surrender, and then began to clean the battlefield.Needless to say, there are quite a few soldiers who have not been killed in the arena.

After a random search, some soldiers who were frightened or pretending to be dead were turned out, and then the prisoners were tied up.

Seriously wounded and howling, the wounded who saw that they could not live were also sent by officers and soldiers to end their suffering.

Shen Shuren didn't want to start a massacre at first, because he felt that these were all Han people after all, and it was an internal struggle among the people of Ming Dynasty. They couldn't be as cruel as they were to the Tartars.

But Shen Shuren underestimated the hatred of the regiment training in the city - today is different from the past, Liu Xiyao came this time, cheated for revenge, but disregarded the hearts of the people, slaughtered and looted so many villages outside the city.

The soldiers trained by the regiment are all locals, especially those who come from good farmers. More or less relatives are outside the city. Now that relatives are robbed and killed by thieves, the anger of the soldiers cannot be stopped at all.

Under Shen Shuren's persuasion, they managed to "make up the knife only when they saw the seriously injured", which was already very restrained.

After this incident, Shen Shuren also gained a new understanding of his view of rogues: it is true that this is an internal struggle among the Han people, but whether to give preferential treatment to adaptations in the future depends on the nature of each rogue family.If it is wanton massacre of innocent people, it must be punished relatively severely.

After all, some thieves preached that they killed rich households and robbed them of money, but after so many years of chaos in Ming Dynasty, how could there be so many rich households left in the north who were robbed?To conquer a city, there are too few wealthy households to solve the problem of money and food?Can you still "never forget your original intention" like in the days of Tianqi?
The total resources of the society are not enough, the productivity is too low, coupled with natural disasters and man-made disasters, it is useless to say anything.

While Shen Shuren was at war with heaven and man, Zuo Zixiong already knew the outcome of the battle after a brief cleaning.

At least half of the [-] deceitful city soldiers brought by Niu Ziquan were lost. Among them, seven to eight hundred were killed directly after entering the city gate and were seriously injured.It is estimated that there are three or four hundred bodies shot outside the city wall.

There were three to five hundred people in the city who finally surrendered and those who were slightly injured and captured.In the end, the rear team of nearly a thousand people did not have time to enter the city, and fled directly after the defeat.

However, because the prisoners were tortured and learned that Yidougu and Niuzi all died in the rebel army, Zuo Zixiong could fully judge that the thousands of people who fled had no leaders, and they probably would not go back to join Liu Xiyao.

The strength of the officers and soldiers has frightened these people, and no one wants to gamble with their lives a second time.

At best, they would flee into the mountains east of Qizhou to rob some food and hide temporarily, so in the follow-up battles, there was no need to worry too much about these forces joining the battlefield directly.

After the frontal battle is over, as long as Shen Shuren can win, it shouldn't be difficult to recruit these people.

Zuo Zixiong briefly reported the results of the battle, and Shen Shuren was also very satisfied. He let the soldiers drink a little bit of water, and then told them to make persistent efforts:

"Zuo Dusi, I don't have time to rest, so let's work hard and take the firearms team to the west city. Shen Lian and Lu Datou are still fighting. Liu Xiyao saw the fire in the city, so he must think that he His secret work has succeeded in defrauding the east gate. Now that you are attacking the enemy, you should take the head of Yidou Valley and go to reinforce it yourself, so that Liu Xiyao's morale will be broken."

Zuo Zixiong got the order, hurriedly filled a skin bag with tons of water, and immediately got on his horse and led the firearms team across the city.

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At the same time, Qizhou Ximen.

Under the afterglow of dusk, Liu Xiyao's troops were still attacking bravely regardless of casualties.

The city of Qizhou was originally built along the north bank of the Qishui River. It had to match the terrain of the river valley, and the south side was covered by the Qishui River. The city wall could be repaired at a lower cost. Therefore, the shape of the city is long from east to west and short from north to south. Six or seven miles.

Liu Xiyao saw the fire in the city just now, and vaguely heard the noise of thousands of troops shouting and killing in the distance, but he couldn't hear the details clearly. Of course, he thought that Niu Ziquan and Yidougu cheated the door, and the city was completely in chaos.

Therefore, he also immediately launched an attack on Ximen's side - it is impossible not to attack at all. He also collected information on the enemy army before the battle, and he knew that Shen Shuren had a full-staffed regiment training center, and the number should not be as large as Niu Ziquan. The part behind the circle has fewer people.

Even if they cheated to open the city gate and fell into a street fight, if Shen Shuren's troops pressed all their strength to Niu Ziquan's side, the number of Niu Ziquan might not be complete.

At this time, it is very important for Ximen's fierce attack to contain the army's strength and further shake the confidence of the army.

Liu Xiyao did not hesitate to pay any price. He obviously only had dozens of flying ladders made of temporary bamboo poles, plus three rams cut from whole trees. He had no other siege equipment at all, so he dared to let the soldiers attack with this.

The flying ladders climbed onto the top of the city one after another, and under the cover of a small number of firecrackers, they immediately began to attach themselves to the city.

Shen Lian and Lu Datou at the top of the city were also considered calm, but they were slightly surprised when they first heard that the thieves also had firecrackers, but they quickly recovered——

In the battle the day before yesterday, the thieves were mainly cavalry, and they rushed over long distances quickly, so they did not carry firearms.This time, Liu Xiyao's main force came on a slow march, with relatively comprehensive equipment.

In the 13th year of Chongzhen, the thieves and the official army had been fighting for a long time, and those old thieves more or less captured the firearms of the official army.

Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai, the three top thieves, even have cannons, and they can use cannons to bombard the city gates and walls.

Liu Xiyao's side is still relatively poor, with a main force of 1 people and less than [-] firearms.

When the bandits fired the first volley of guns, the defenders at the top of the city were frightened into a slight panic, but then the officers and soldiers found that no one seemed to be missed, and gradually regained their courage.

The firearms used by the thieves obviously have the same ammunition system as the firearms used by the Ming army to fight the Qing army, and it can even be said that they were handed over from the Ming army's frontier army.

The Qing army's Tieza cotton armor has a very high armor rate, and that kind of armor has a very good defense effect against shotgun.

As a result, since the late period of the apocalypse in the Ming army, the proportion of shotguns in standard ammunition has become less and less, and the proportion of single-headed ammunition has become higher and higher. The tradition of shooting Japanese pirates with shotguns left by Qi Jiguang's era has basically disappeared.

The thieves handed over the muskets used against the Qing army and used them directly, but they didn’t know why. They didn’t expect the simple statement that “the shotguns are powerful enough to deal with lightly armored and unarmored targets, but the firepower density can be increased several times.” In truth, there was an obvious contrast with Shen Shuren's troops.

As the two sides shot each other, the defenders at the top of the city all used shotguns, condescending against the crowd of hedgehogs and ants below. They didn't need to aim at all, and the bandits were killed and injured very quickly.

Although Liu Xiyao felt that something was wrong, he didn't dare to vent his strength, and still urged the supervisor frantically.

It's a pity that the soldiers on the ladder can't form an effective continuous troop delivery at all.Swept by a shotgun at close range, at least three or four soldiers will fall down in line.

Those who were lucky enough to rush to the top of the city alive were at most two or three people, and then found that the comrades behind were out of gear, or the flying ladder of the friendly army who was close to the advantage was directly broken by the rolling logs and stones of the officers and soldiers.These people were also quickly beheaded when Lu Datou led a team to save and plug the leak.

"My lord, I can't fight any more! The casualties are too heavy! This is a bit wrong! The officers and soldiers are only a few hundred people in the west gate, so why are they still defending so tenaciously? Repelled it?"

Several generals in a row were crying and mournful, and some of them were even shot in the face by a shotgun during the battle, and their faces were covered with blood. They all came to Liu Xiyao to ask for troops to withdraw.

In less than a quarter of an hour of onslaught, hundreds of brothers died under the city wall, and many more wounded fled or were dragged back screaming.The overall morale of the thieves was affected by this.

But Liu Xiyao still didn't give up: "No, keep attacking me! I vow to avenge Xiong'er today! Then send people to go over the mountains and go around the city to see how the situation is going to the west! What's going on with Niu Ziquan? It's time to send scouts to report. It's been a quarter of an hour, and the scouts who traveled six or seven miles across the mountain should have arrived long ago!"

"My lord! I can't fight anymore! Even if the soldiers are still willing to use their lives, more than [-] ladders have been smashed, and so many people are blocking the remaining half of the ladders. That is the work of the officers and soldiers. target!
The number of gunners in the official army is more than ten times more than the number of ladders we have left!Ten people take turns aiming at a ladder and firing guns, we are letting the sons die in vain! "

There are also a few generals who are loyal, relying on their own sympathy, and still persuading them hard.However, Liu Xiyao slapped him on the face with a scabbard, causing him to stagger. It was obvious that Liu Xiyao was too red-eyed from gambling and couldn't afford to lose.

This insistence, at least at the cost of thousands of casualties.

Liu Xiyao sent scouts to go over the mountains and circle the city to the east to investigate, and after more than a quarter of an hour, the scouts did not come back, but they waited for the reinforcements from the officials at the top of the city.It turned out that Zuo Zixiong finally came from the east gate with thousands of reinforcements.

Originally, Zuo Zixiong wanted to follow Master Tongzhi's orders, immediately make a noise, and then throw Yidougu's head over the wall, so as to hit the morale of the bandits.

But he saw that Lu Datou and Shen Lian, a team with short soldiers and a team with firearms, actually guarded the gate very well, without any danger at all. Zuo Zixiong also adapted to the situation and adjusted his plan a little.

"Your Majesty Tongzhi told me to call back the enemy immediately, it was based on the consideration that 'Shen Lian and Lu Datou might not be able to defend', now that we have fought well and the enemy is still red-eyed, why not take this opportunity to kill more, wait When the enemy collapses and retreats, it's not too late to shout to demoralize."

Zuo Zixiong thought so, so he just let people shoot guns and arrows fiercely, but kept silent.In the end, it was Liu Xiyao's army who couldn't bear it and became doubled in firepower. They were completely beaten and left hundreds of corpses behind, and then they collapsed completely.

Zuo Zixiong and other bandits officially collapsed, and then threw the head of Yidougu down, and the whole army shouted:

"Liu Thief, wash your neck and wait to die! You have fallen into the trap of my Master Tongzhi again! A bucket of grains and cows have been killed by my Lord! Listen up, thief soldiers! Kill Liu Xiyao's head and offer it to forgive your previous crimes." ! You can even do it for a garrison officer!"

(End of this chapter)