Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 533 Makes the Thief Scared

More and more infantrymen of the Guards went up to the city wall of Guancheng by climbing the ladder.

Because the gate of the main city had been sealed, even the cavalry and artillery of the guards had to enter Shanhaiguan by climbing the ladder.

When Jiao Lian and Zhang Huangyan also climbed up to the Shanhaiguan City, the entire Shanhaiguan was already overcrowded, with the sound of fighting and gunshots everywhere.

Today's Qing army knows that it has no way out, so it dares to fight, and even fights with the guards and the Korean army with flesh and blood.

But once the Qing army rushed out from somewhere to fight hand-to-hand with the Guards or the Korean army.

Other guards or North Korean troops would immediately pick up their rifles and beat the Qing army to death.

The Qing army could only retreat while fighting the Guards and the Korean army.

Snapped!
A guard infantryman killed another Qing soldier, while the rest of the Qing soldiers started to crawl when they saw this.

At this time, the guard infantry on a city wall shot and killed one immediately upon seeing this.

A guard cavalry rushed over and hacked another Qing soldier to death.

At the same time, beside the moat at the southeast gate, more than a dozen North Korean soldiers were besieging four Qing soldiers, and three of them were frantically stabbing a Qing soldier with their bayonets.

More and more Qing troops were wiped out.

When the sun fell and the rain fell, the entire Shanhai Pass calmed down, and the officers and soldiers of the Guards who had been fighting for a whole day rested.

Some sat on the ground panting, some leaned against the city wall, and some lay directly on the carriage.

But everyone held their rifles and swords tightly in their hands.

At this time, the artilleryman was working hard to hoist the cannons up and down the city, and complained that other brothers would not come to help.

In the end, the Korean army replaced other guards to carry artillery and luggage into Guancheng for the artillery.

Zhang Huangyan shouted first: "Shanhai Pass has been recovered!"

"Shanhai Pass has been recovered!"

"Shanhai Pass has been recovered!"

"Shanhai Pass has been recovered!"

At this time, all the officers and soldiers of the Guards stood up, shouting loudly, and some even hugged and cheered.

After all, in this era, the recovery of Shanhaiguan is of great significance to them.

Because regaining Shanhaiguan means regaining the northeast gate of Ming Dynasty, and also blocked the way for the Manchus to retreat, directly dividing the Manchus' hometown of Hetuala and the current Manchus in Beijing into two parts.

And now the recovery of Shanhaiguan means the recovery of Beidu is just around the corner!

The Guards officers and soldiers were indeed very happy and excited.

After regaining Shanhaiguan, the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army has completed the combat mission assigned by Qin Zuoming, the commander-in-chief and governor of the Second Guards Army.

The military discipline of the Guards is to rest and reorganize before the next combat mission is issued.

Therefore, after regaining Shanhaiguan, the Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards did not immediately enter the pass and march towards Jizhou and Gyeonggi. Instead, they conducted training, paid compensation to the casualties, transported supplies, punished bannermen and traitors, and restored people's livelihood. , confiscating the land and wealth of the Manchurian military aristocrats and Han Chinese military landlords.

Zu Zehong failed to escape in the end, and was chased by the cavalry of the Guards and captured alive.

However, Zu Zehong has a lot of backbone, neither begging for mercy like his elder brother Zu Zepu nor shameless like his father Zu Dashou, when he saw Zhang Huangyan, he just said: "If you want to kill or cut, please do it!"

"Of course I'm going to kill you, but before I kill you, I have to show you something and bring him here!"

Zhang Huangyan ordered people to take Zu Zehong to a big screen wall in front of the main gate of the southwest main city of Shanhaiguan Pass:
"I heard that you are the only Juren in your ancestral family?
Look at the engravings on it, they are all the evil deeds of your ancestors! '

The official ordered people to engrave all the complaints of the Liao people against your ancestors on it.

As long as everyone who enters and exits Shanhaiguan will see the evil deeds done by your ancestors.

There is a separate write about you, Zu Zehong.

Needless to say, he took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty and became a traitor. He insulted young girls. He once killed five prostitutes in one night and wiped out three families.
Zu Zehong, since you are a student, how can you be more hateful than your fourth brother Zu Zeqing who knows how to dance with knives and guns? At most, he just gambled, ate and killed people, tsk tsk, you do all these shameless things After all, you should know better than me what the result will be if you leave it to future generations! "

Although it was spoken by ordinary people, but Zhang Huangyan is also a man of outstanding literary talent, so he personally polished it up, writing Zu Zehong's scandals and evils vividly and making people feel angry.

Even Zu Zehong couldn't believe that he was so shameless after seeing it for himself. He has always had a good face, and he wanted to save the reputation of being a chastity for the Qing Dynasty, but now his face turned red when he saw this. :
"You are vicious!"

"Is this officer vicious? Compared to what you have done, this officer is not that vicious. At most, he is just mean. Sorry, I have always been very mean to Han thieves. If you don't believe me, ask the officers and soldiers of the entire corps , as long as I am Zhang Huangyan, I will tolerate bullying and scolding me, but for a traitor like you, I can't wait to eat my flesh and lay aside my skin!"

Zhang Huangyan said again: "By the way, I also specially turned these stories of yours into dramas, and then let the people of the whole Liao region sing them. The bully third young master Zehong, I think it is very attractive. In the future I'm afraid you are more famous than me, Zhang Huangyan."

After hearing this, Zu Zehong couldn't help but heartbroken and said: "Everyone is a scholar, why do you treat me as a scholar!"

"Scholar, I'm not a scholar. I'm a national soldier of the Guards, an official of the Ming Dynasty, and a son of the Han family. Although I read books, I read them with loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness. It's not a book like yours that recognizes a thief as a father."

As soon as Zhang Huangyan said that, he turned around and told others: "Go and call the people in the entire Shanhaiguan area, and kill him in front of all the people."

After Zhang Huangyan finished speaking, Zu Zehong suddenly stopped him: "Slow down!"

Zhang Huangyan stopped and looked back at Zu Zehong.

But Zu Zehong knelt down directly, kowtowed to the south, and then kowtowed to Zhang Huangyan: "Master, student Zu Zehong, please take pity on the students. Can you not record these things for everyone to see? , I really can't afford to lose this person!"

"If you know you can't afford to lose this person, why did you go there?"

Zhang Huangyan left.

But Zu Zehong burst into tears and shouted: "My God, why is this happening!"

Zu Zehong was eventually executed by Ling Chi.

And the evil deeds of him, their ancestors, and the former Wu family and other Han military landlords and Manchurian military nobles in Liao were spread to the people of Liao by various means by the political workers of the Second Guards Army.

In the end, the reputation of these people was completely discredited in Liao, and Ming's rule in this area was also consolidated.

(End of this chapter)