Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 512 Two Choices: Braid or Death
Jinzhouwei is just a defensive city in Liaodong Town. The city is not big, but there are hundreds of bannermen and Han people living here.

After the Second Guards Army entered Jinzhou Weicheng, these bannermen and Han people were relatively numb to the appearance of the Guards, and even showed hatred.

Because many of the cavalry of the Qing army wiped out by the Guards were their relatives.

It was also the first time for the officers and soldiers of the Second Guards Army to feel this feeling of not being approached by the people, but it was precisely because of this strange feeling that the officers and soldiers of the Guards Army had no goodwill towards these people.

Of course, Qin Zuoming, the commander-in-chief of the Guards, did not start a large-scale massacre of these bannermen after receiving sufficient supplies. Cut braids and grow hair within a few days, and wear Hanfu, learn Chinese and speak Chinese, otherwise, he will be shot directly on the grounds that he does not want to submit to Ming Dynasty.

Many people are still willing to accept braid cutting and long hair. Many of them have already started to speak Liao Chinese, and they naturally have no objection to learning Chinese characters. After all, as ordinary people in this era, there is not much connection between writing and writing, but there are also bannermen who are unwilling. Abandoning his honorable status as a bannerman, he even directly scolded the guards as Nanman.

Naturally, the guards were not too polite, and each guard began to prepare a pair of scissors and a gun, and either chose to cut their braids to survive or choose to eat bullets for their Qing dynasty.

The Guards entered Jinwei City on the night of December [-]th. The cleansing and sinicization campaign began on the morning of the [-]th. There is not much difference between Manchu and Han in the Liaodong area. Except for some upper-level Manchu military nobles, there is almost no difference between the lower-level people. If the Ming Dynasty wanted to completely rule these places and wipe out the banner people, it would be unrealistic to eliminate them physically, unless all the people here were killed.

But after all, the Guards are not an army completely devoid of ideas and civilization, so the best way is to completely Sinicize here. Whether you are a bannerman or a Han Chinese, from now on you can only have one identity, that is, Han Chinese, Ming Dynasty The Han Chinese will never tolerate it if they have the slightest desire to return to the bannerman culture.

Starting from the early morning of the [-]th, the sound of scissors clicking and rifle shooting sounded all day long. A carload of braids was also shipped out at the same time as a carload of corpses. The guards cleaned up the Golden State Acropolis in this way.

Not only should the identity of the Bannerman be completely erased from this world, but the writings left by the Bannerman must also be erased. All books written in Manchu were confiscated and destroyed. It was demolished, and the political officials under the governor of the Corps began to spread in the surrounding area after taking over the Golden State Guard.

In addition, the political and industrial officials of the guards who took over the Jinzhou Guard will carry out compulsory popularization of Chinese characters for these ordinary civilians. There is a reward of ten silver dollars, so that after a few months in Jinzhouwei, the common people have begun to actively accept Sinicization.

This is the best way for advanced civilizations to take revenge on backward civilizations. You can only destroy me physically but you will eventually become me. Now, I want you to disappear completely without leaving any trace of your true colors. Until a certain day in the future , maybe you yourself will forget the enemies of the empire that you swore to serve to the death.

The Second Army of the Guards continued northward and arrived at Shiheyi on the morning of December 24.

At this time, Ye Keshu, the general manager of Shengjing, has also learned the news that the Second Guards Army has occupied Jinzhouwei, and also knows that the Gaodi Department has been wiped out and that the Guards have forced Sinicization and the elimination of the Eight Banners civilization in Jinzhouwei. Just like the anger of the Han people when faced with the Chinese civilization that had been restored for more than 200 years and was forcibly changed by the Manchus, Ye Keshu was also very angry and even panicked.

"This Ming army is different from the previous Ming army. They are not just here to plunder and kill us. They are here to destroy us, not even as simple as destroying our bodies. He wants to erase everything about us, let us Our children and grandchildren have forgotten who their ancestors were! This is simply too horrible, and we must not allow their schemes to succeed!"

Ye Keshu, the manager of Shengjing, said coldly.

After all, the military nobles of Manchuria managed to make the Han people become obedient citizens of the Qing Dynasty by shaving their hair and changing clothes. Now the Ming army uses this method of cutting braids and learning Chinese to make the bannermen become obedient citizens of the Ming Dynasty. The Guards massacred the bannermen, but they still felt afraid.

For this reason, Ye Keshu dispatched all the Manchurian cavalry in the entire Shengjing area, and ambushed in Xiaoheishan. Shiheyi is near Xiaoheishan. Therefore, as long as the Second Guards Army passes Shiheyi, it will be attacked by Ye Keshu. Iron cavalry ambush.

Now it is severe winter, and there is snow all around. Only the area of ​​Shiheyi is blocked by a cold current, and it is close to the river valley, making it the only main road that the army can easily pass through. The vicinity of the exit and entrance is also the only place that is conducive to the cavalry charge, so after the Second Guards Army entered Shiheyi, the Manchu cavalry of the Qing army all rushed over.

What Ye Keshu wanted was to catch him by surprise, so his Manchu armored soldiers first took advantage of the guards' inattention in the Xiaoheishan jungle to get rid of the Guards' scouts. Within the ambush circle of the cavalry, these Manchu cavalry relied on their familiarity with the geography of this area to take the lead in shooting an arrow in the throat of a guard scout.

Immediately afterwards, several guard scouts were hit by arrows, but two guard scouts reacted to this and immediately fired the signal flare. The main force of the cavalry rushed forward first, and in an instant, rumbling sounds resounded all around.

Although he failed to catch the Ming army by surprise, Ye Keshu believed that he could still severely damage the Ming army, because first of all, the terrain in this area is very narrow because it faces a mountain on one side and a river on the other. , His Manchu iron cavalry can dive down, but it is difficult for the cavalry of the Ming army to feign an attack, and it is also difficult for the artillery of the Ming army to deploy formation and change direction.

In other words, in Ye Keshu's view, the Ming army is now trapped here like a trapped beast. Ye Keshu can attack the Ming army from any direction. He knows that the Ming army has sharp weapons, but his cavalry Attacking from all directions, the Ming army's firearms could hardly suppress his charge, and he also ordered to avoid the Ming army's firearms, and the main attack direction was placed on the Ming army's artillery and cavalry.

"Stupid Ming dog! I want to reproduce the old Saarhu!"

Ye Keshu clenched his teeth and said.

(End of this chapter)