Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 516
The First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards appeared at the Huaiyuan Gate outside Shengjing City.

The eight city gates of Shengjing City are Neizhi Gate, Fujin Gate, Tianyou Gate, Desheng Gate, Wailan Gate, Huaiyuan Gate, Dizai Gate and Fusheng Gate.

The Huaiyuan Gate is the main entrance to the east of Shengjing City, and it is guarded by Ahani, the deputy governor of the Zhenglan Banner. In addition to the Qing army guarding the city, there are five cannons in red.

The First Guards Corps has a total of more than [-] people, including eight infantry battalions, two infantry battalions directly under the Corps, and two artillery battalions, one heavy artillery battalion and one light artillery battalion, and three infantry battalions. There are three cavalry battalions, one of which is directly under the cavalry battalion, and there are also attached non-combatants and political officials.

It took more than [-] people to set up camp outside Shengjing City for three days. Except for one cavalry battalion directly under it to defend the Chinese army camp, two cavalry battalions guarded the Huaiyuan Gate and the Neizhi Gate and the left and right sides respectively. God bless the door.

The two artillery battalions are located in the center of the back of the Chinese army camp, and on both sides of the artillery battalion there are two infantry battalions. In the center of the front of the camp.

The Qing army in Shengjing City did not dare to go out of the city to harass the First Corps of the Second Guards Army during this period. After all, Ye Keshu already knew how sharp the guards' firearms were.

Because the army was stimulated by the cold when crossing the river, in order to prevent the occurrence of wind-cold symptoms, at this time the entire First Corps of the Guards required everyone to drink a bowl of ginger soup every day. Wan Jiang Tang rode his horse out of the camp and went to the front to pick up the binoculars to inspect the city defense situation of Shengjing City.

"Why are Shengjing city full of unarmed civilians?"

Qin Zuoming asked himself in surprise, when Mao Jukui, the commander of the cavalry, came over: "Deputy Marshal, we found that Shengjing City is full of civilians, numbering no less than [-], and the entire Shengjing City is crowded. With braids and Han clothes, Jianlu wants to tell us that the people on these city walls are all Han Chinese, and if we want to fire artillery, we must kill these Han civilians first?"

"Although the Han people in the Liao land were ruled by Jianlu five years ago, they are still the people of our Han family. They are different from the banner people. If killing them is against the military discipline and the righteousness of the compatriots, I really didn't expect these Qing soldiers to be so despicable. The people of my Han family are meat shields!"

Qin Zuoming couldn't help clenching his iron fists with anger.

"What should we do now?" Governor Lu Yuding also asked.

"Deputy Marshal, the general thinks that these Qing troops can't threaten us by doing this. Our artillery not only has heavy artillery, but we also have three-pound rifled flat-fire guns. It is fast and with propellant nitration explosives, it is not a problem to blow open the city gate of Shengjing, and the range of this type of flat-fire gun is extremely long, but there are only three guns and only six rounds of shells. , please show me!"

At this time, Zhang Yuan, the commander of the artillery battalion, expressed his opinion, and Qin Zuoming replied without hesitation: "Just use the flat-firing cannon. It doesn't matter if you run out of shells. If the shells are gone, we can use them again, but the army that protects the people If the honor is gone, it will be difficult to pick it up again. Pass down the order to kill all the bannermen in the city after the siege! Since these people dare to be unkind to the people of our Han family, we don’t have to be righteous to these bannermen. The braids of the Han people have been cut, which is convenient for us to execute all these bannermen and banner soldiers without distinguishing them!"

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At this time, on the city wall of Shengjing, all the Han people were forcibly driven here by the Qing army, and once the Han people dared to come down from the city wall, the Qing army would directly stab the Han people to the ground with a single shot.

At this time, a woman from the Han family was about to take two steps back inside the city wall, when a Qing soldier walked up directly holding a spear: "What are you doing! Stand back for me!"

"Mr. Jun, I want to relieve myself. Is it inconvenient if there are so many people here? Let the servants go back to relieve themselves first and then come up."

The Han woman couldn't help begging.

"There are many things!" The Qing army flag soldier made a gesture of waving. The Han woman thought that the Qing army flag soldier agreed, so she hurriedly walked down the city wall, but the Qing army flag soldier suddenly stabbed into the city wall. The belly of the Han woman sneered: "You lowly Han dog! What's so convenient, why don't you just go home and solve it after seeing a dog pooping and urinating! Hahaha!"

The Qing army bannerman laughed proudly.

At this time, Ye Keshu, the general manager of Shengjing, also smiled: "That's the way it should be. What are these Han dogs who are only worthy of being slaves? Let me know. No matter what requests these Han dogs have, they are not allowed to go to the city. As long as they dare If you say one more word, you will be stabbed to death!"

This Han woman was clutching her stomach in pain. She hated and was in pain at the moment, but she had no choice but to fall to the ground. Seeing this, the other Han people did not dare to show their anger and just bowed their heads. head.

At this time, the child of the Han woman ran over and shouted: "Mother! Mother!"

Pfft!

Ye Keshu, the general manager of Shengjing, happened to be next to the child at this time. When he thought that it was these Han people who caused him to lose his left arm that day, he picked up the child and threw him out of the city wall.

The child fell off the wall.

At this time, Ahani, the vice-captain of the Zhenglan Banner of Manchuria beside Ye Keshu, even shouted and flattered him: "Your Excellency, you have great strength!"

Some Qing soldiers couldn't help laughing, and looked at the guards outside the city wall proudly. They thought that the guards hadn't fired artillery to bombard the city wall at this time, and they must have feared the Han people on the city wall and dared not enter the city again. , so these Qing troops became more and more confident.

Mao Jukui, the commander of the Cavalry Battalion of the Guards, saw the Han child thrown out from the two-foot-high city wall, so he hurriedly rode his horse and galloped to hug the child.

Under the powerful impact, he himself also fell off the horse, but he managed to save the child.

At this time, Ahani, the deputy governor of the Zhenglan Banner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, sneered and aimed at Mao Jukui with an arrow. After all, Mao Jukui was already very close to the city wall of Shengjing because he saved the child at this time, and he happened to be able to hit the guard cavalry with one arrow. Battalion Commander Mao Jukui.

"Ahani, why don't you kill two birds with one stone and let these smart dogs see the archery skills of my Qing warriors!"

After Ye Keshu said with a sneer, Ahani immediately took an arrow and prepared to shoot two arrows in a row to kill Mao Jukui and the children Mao Jukui had saved.

Snapped!
Qin Zuoming came over at some point, and fired a shot. The bullets from the Chongzhen Type 22 rifled gun shot directly at Ahani's left hand holding the bow, which was immediately bloody.

Ah!
Ahani screamed, and the bow and arrow in his hand fell to the ground, his face full of astonishment.

Ye Keshu also hurriedly pulled Ahani back, and he couldn't laugh at this moment, and stared at Qin Zuoming viciously, wishing to cut Qin Zuoming into pieces.

Ahani gritted his teeth in pain. He pinched the throat of a Han citizen angrily, and strangled the Han citizen to death: "If you dare to hurt my hand, I will kill ten of you Han people!"

(End of this chapter)