Chapter 53 The fall of Jinzhou

"What, Zu Dashou did something to you? God help me!"

"Today, Zu Dashou suddenly asked my brother to go to the inner city for discussion. My brother had a stomachache and couldn't go, so he sent the left army general to kill us."

Jierhalang looked excited. He had just brought the two-banner army, totaling ten thousand people, to the Daling River. He originally planned to repair the military fort and then attack Jinzhou.

In that case, with the cooperation of the Mongolian tribes, the outer city of Jinzhou can be easily defeated, but without the cooperation, the advance and retreat will be orderly.

But before the plan to build a military fort was started, civil strife broke out in Jinzhou. The party that was beaten still agreed to surrender its own people. Isn't this God blessing me?

"Your Majesty, is there any fraud?"

"No, I believe in the Mongolian brothers."

Jierharang's righteous words made Wu Bashi look moved.

In fact, even if it is fake, Jierhalang is not afraid. From Dalinghe to Jinzhou, there are spies for the slave establishment, and any unusual ambush has been discovered long ago.

He was not afraid of an ambush, and there was nothing to be afraid of when he rushed to Jinzhou. He immediately ordered people to lead his cavalry and horseback to support, and the remaining infantry and Han troops would set off later.

In the inner city of Jinzhou, Zu Dashou was walking uneasily. Zuo Junjiang was always his most trusted subordinate. He believed that Qian Hongwen was reliable in his work and would definitely not leak the news that he was going to take action.

Just as he was thinking about it, Zhang Heilong, a member of the Jinzhou Jinyiwei family, hurried over.

"Commander, in the direction of Dongguan, the Mongolian military headquarters rebelled and turned into slaves. The left army and the rebels started fighting!"

"Which side won?"

Wang Heihu looked at Zu Dashou's unsurprised look and knew that Zu Dashou must have arranged this matter, but this was the result.

"Commander, the Mongolian troops dispersed the left army and blocked the east city gate. Now the east city gate cannot be opened temporarily, and other commanders are providing support."

"What!"

Zu Dashou could not imagine how things turned out like this, so he quickly put on his battle armor and walked towards the city gate. Wu Basi's men were still fighting hard with other defenders who came to support them.

Six thousand Mongolian troops and tens of thousands of Jinzhou garrison fought back and forth. The city gate was recaptured, and the elite soldiers in the city began to rush out.

Qian Wenhong was stabbed twice on his body and was taken to the city gate by the soldiers. He stared hard at the flag that ordered the door to be closed, and he already greeted women from eighteen generations up and down.

"Jian Nu is here!"

"The Tatars are coming, retreat quickly!"

The Ming general who was fighting with the Mongolian troops suddenly saw a group of cavalry rushing in from the Dongguan City Gate. These cavalry were extremely skilled in killing people immediately.

The soldiers guarding the city have been fighting with the slaves all year round, and have developed the ability to evade and retreat in an orderly manner.

It was only two hours before Zu Dashou rushed to the door and was about to cordially greet Qian Wenhong, a guy with little success, when he saw the retreating Ming army.

"Government troops, rush forward quickly, don't let Jiannu rush in."

"Commander, Jiannu has captured the Dongguan City Gate. It's too late. Close the gate quickly!"

When Jierhalang led the Chinese cavalry to the inner city gate, the inner city sergeants had already completely closed the city gate.

Standing five hundred steps away from the city wall, Jierhalang, dressed in leather armor, spread out his flag array and looked at Zu Dashou on the city wall from a distance.

"My lord, oh my lord, you are finally here."

"General Wu, thank you for your hard work. Lead your people to rest in an orderly manner, and then work with us to count out the officials and people in the outer city of Jinzhou who are willing to surrender as soon as possible."

Looking at Wu Basi who looked like he was looking for his father, although he felt contempt for a while, Jierhalang said to him kindly.

Now, not only can we not break his heart, but we must try our best to win him over, so that he will help him even more to clear out the Jinzhou Outer City. When the Qing army leaves, the Jinzhou Outer City will have been abandoned.

Zu Dashou at the top of the city watched the slave-building activities outside the city and wanted to fire a few shots. However, after nearly a year of tug-of-war, there was not much gunpowder left. He could only watch the slave-building people burning, killing and looting outside the city.

In the 14th year of Chongzhen, on February 27, Jinzhou Dongguan guard Wu Bashi was instigated by the Qing army to rebel. After being discovered by Zu Dashou, he rebelled in advance.

The Jinzhou defenders fought with the Qing army and rebels outside the outer city, but were helplessly defeated. The Jinzhou defenders all retreated to the inner city.

The garrison outside the city and the Ming army who had no time to evacuate, except for some who died in the battle, a total of more than 200 officials surrendered.

Jinzhou was besieged by Jilharang, a banner of Manchu soldiers, a banner of Mongolian soldiers, a banner of Han coated soldiers, and a total of 35,000 Jinzhou surrendered generals.

Seeing that Zu Dashou had no choice but to send people to break out of the encirclement, he carried messages to Songshan, Xingshan and Ningyuan to seek reinforcements.

"Commander, I didn't expect to reach this point."

"I didn't expect it, Commander. Who knew Wu Basi had already reacted? If I had known, I shouldn't have taken action today. I feel ashamed to trust Your Majesty."

Zu Dashou said to Wang Hu with an annoyed look on his face.

"It doesn't matter if you are trapped. Our people have been stationed in the wild for a long time. At this time, we have sent people to deliver the message. As long as the commander-in-chief defends, Jinzhou will be saved."

"But there is a shortage of food in the city. Didn't Your Majesty say that there are things flying in the sky delivering food? Wang Baihu, please ask Your Majesty to allocate a batch of food and grass first!"

"The food and grass will be delivered in half a month. Just don't worry, Marshal. The Marshal and I are both in the city. I'm not worried. What is the Marshal worried about?"

"You are not worried, but I still have to face tens of thousands of people below. Jinzhou only has enough food for one month. They are anxious. They don't know that His Majesty will deliver food."

Zu Dashou said angrily and continued to worry. It was not like Zu Dashou didn't know what was going on in the court.

I was frightened by the glowing thing at first and really believed it. But when I calmed down and thought about it, I already owed a lot of money from Liaoning. Is there still a way to send food to Jinzhou?

What's more, someone flying in the sky actually believed it after being coaxed by a talking thing.

Different from Zu Dashou's general discomfort, Jierhalang received the Ming army's surrender in the house that had been temporarily cleared.

"Haha, now, outside of Shanhaiguan, there is no other city that can resist our Qing Dynasty!"

"General, Jinzhou is difficult to capture. We still need to guard against the Ming army's attack. When will we withdraw to Yizhou?"

Wu Basi, who had just surrendered, couldn't wait to cut off his rat tail and followed Jierhalang, who also had a money rat tail.

"We need to be on guard. I'm just afraid that the Ming army won't come. If they come, I'll make sure they don't come back."

"But there are more than 100,000 troops near Shanhaiguan. If the Ming army gathers, it will only take two days to reach Jinzhou."

"More than one hundred thousand? Hahahaha!"

Jierhalang seemed to have heard a joke. Wu Basi laughed in confusion. Isn't an army of more than 100,000 people many? Can these tens of thousands of people resist more than 100,000 people?

"The so-called more than 100,000 people, if it were a field battle, 10,000 of our Qing army would be enough to kill them, so what are you afraid of?

Now that the Ming army has been trained by Hong Chengchou, they dared to fight against the Qing Dynasty in the field last year. If the nails in Jinzhou are not removed, it will be more difficult for the Qing Dynasty to deal with the Ming Dynasty."
Chapter completed!