The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 738
Wu Xiang only verbally comforted Zhang Cunren and said: "Master Zhang, don't do this, General Zhenglu didn't intend to kill you, but sent it to the capital for the emperor to decide.

There are a lot of talents among the generals of the 'Red Banner Army', and the general who conquered captives may not care about a general like you who has been fighting in Liaodong for many years.

However, there are very few generals in the Ming Dynasty who can fight and dare to fight. Maybe Emperor Chongzhen will leave you to serve the Ming Dynasty again. "

Hearing these words, Zhang Cunren, who was already in despair, had the hope of living again in his heart.

He who was unwilling to eat, suddenly had a big appetite, holding the fat chicken with his dirty hands, and his mouth was full of oil.

Zhang Cunren downed a sip of General Triumph Brand high-grade liquor, and praised: "Good wine, Mr. Wu, I have remembered this meal of wine and meat. If there is a chance to survive, I will definitely reward you generously in the future!"

Wu Xiang smiled and said: "You have to remember, if you have a chance to survive, you have to hide from the 'Red Banner Army'. No matter how hard you try, you can't be the opponent of General Zhenglu."

"Oh! I regret it! I really didn't know that the 'Red Banner Army' was already so powerful. If I had known earlier, I would have led my family to capture Geng Zhongming and turn against him.

If it succeeds, I am afraid that I should now be a guest of the 'Red Banner Army' instead of a prisoner. "

Wu Xiang knew the old generals of the Guanning Army best. After the death of Zhao Shoujiao, Man Gui, He Kegang and other hard-bodied men, the rest were brought down by his uncle, Zu Dashou. Having milk is the mother's thing, and most of them are obedient to the slave masters.

When the old general Guan Ning on the Qing side learned that Geng Zhongming, Jiang Xin, Xue Dahu and other generals who had defected had been left alive, and learned that Zhang Cunren, who had not had time to surrender and was beaten beyond recognition, could not escape death.

It is estimated that in the next offensive and defensive battle of Jinzhou and the battle for Fuzhou, there will be countless defections.

Wu Xiang sighed and said: "General Zhenglu is a dragon among men. With him, five years of Ping Liao is just waiting for nothing. My brain is just waiting for Bill. I believe that with your experience and lessons, I am willing to accompany you again." There will not be too many former Ming generals who were buried as slaves."

Zhang Cunren nodded and said: "As long as there is a little way, how can the good Han people accept the stupid and barbaric Jiannu as their masters? They used to do that just to survive. If they find that following Jiannu will inevitably lead to death, who will continue to commit crimes?"

Wu Xiang stood up and left, leaving a sentence: "It's too late to regret! Why are you thinking about it now?"

Zhang Cunren was dumbfounded when he heard the words, and suddenly wept again...

The "Red Banner Army" did not take advantage of the chaos to seize the city, and there was chaos in Seoul for most of the day and night.

At noon the next day, Geng Zhongming, Xue Dahu, etc., who basically wiped out the slaves and Tartars in the city, raised a white flag at the top of the city.

Persuading the surrender and disintegrating the Qing army was effective. The soldiers and civilians in Seoul surrendered without a fight, but the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" cheered very few.

The first city captured in the Battle of Ping-Liao was of milestone significance, and the ceremony of entering the city should always be more grand.

The three battalions directly under Song Pengfei, Mao Chenglu, and Liu Fenyong entered the city in a neat queue of 1 people.

Song Pengfei, Sun Chuanting, Zheng Xiaowen, Mao Chenglu, Sun Yuanhua, Zheng Zhihui, Liang Tingdong, etc. dozens of civil and military generals rode tall horses at the forefront, and the soldiers and civilians of Seoul lined the road to welcome them.

The current Huang Han is the key protection target of civil servants and military generals. Who can be sure that there are no desperadoes there just after Seoul surrendered?
In case the general Zhenglu was attacked by random arrows and guns when he entered the city on a tall horse, who can bear such responsibility?
Therefore, Song Pengfei and Sun Chuanting strongly demanded that the Guards Battalion and General Zhenglu remain stationed outside the city, and wait for the army entering the city to confirm that the situation in Seoul was under control before asking the general to set up a camp in Seoul.

Song Pengfei, Zheng Xiaowen, etc. started to be busy on the day they entered the city. The people under their command checked their household registrations, counted seizures, sealed up warehouses, etc., and their work was carried out in an orderly manner.

The main job of the surrendered Han and Goryeo soldiers was to transport tens of thousands of corpses out of the city for burial. This job was relatively easy, and a deep trench dug in the northernmost section of Seoul was used.

The naked and headless corpses of Jiannu and Tartars were thrown down and filled with soil, and it was considered safe for them to be buried in the ground.

The rebels who died in the battle were treated better. They left the whole body and clothes on them, and they were arranged neatly when they were buried...

Every battalion of the "Red Banner Army" regular army is equipped with a field hospital. Now all the doctors, nurses, and medical soldiers are very busy, because there are really many wounded and injured in the city, and the number of them may be close to [-].

Preliminary statistics two days later, captured Seoul to get 10,000+ stones of grain, more than 50 taels of gold and silver treasures in silver, more than 1 large animals such as mules, horses, cattle and donkeys...

In fact, it is very good that a city does not need to go through artillery fire, brutal offensive and defensive warfare, and street fighting.

Every adult in Seoul will become a laborer to rebuild the four counties of the Han Dynasty. With a large amount of arable land and the cultivated land that has been abandoned for a long time, there are so many villagers needed to win the whole of North Korea.

Reducing the number of soldiers and civilians who died in the war will naturally increase the number of villagers. Under the leadership of Huang Han, every villager is actually a taxpayer, because the food produced by the villagers means endless wealth.

It is a hard rule not to kill prisoners and kill the Qing army who voluntarily surrendered. Even if there are thousands of Huang Han who don't want to see Geng Zhongming alive, they can only give up.

Wu Xiang was good at observing words and demeanor, seeing that Huang Han and many "Red Banner Army" generals were unable to raise their spirits, she knew it.

He learned that General Zhenglu was going to deliver the surrendered generals headed by Geng Zhongming to the capital and hand them over to the emperor for disposal. He offered to be an escort officer.

Since there will be close to 80 people who will be relegated from the ranks above Qian Zong, Wu Xiang asked for orders and took the only four servants around him to choose a manpower to gather a Bai Zong to undertake the task of escorting.

Before leaving, Wu Xiang begged to see Huang Han in private, and he spoke convincingly. Geng Zhongming seemed to be in very bad health, and it was unknown whether he would die of illness on the ship or not.

This is Wu Xiang, who has more wit and less wisdom, came to test.

Seeing that Wu Xiang was so knowledgeable and interesting, Huang Han didn't say much, but said on the spot that Wu Sanfu, who had followed Zu Dashou in the military camp for more than three years, would be the town governor of the "Red Banner Army" with a hundred-level rank and belonged to the Mao Chenglu camp.

Understood, the smart Wu Xiang immediately knelt down to thank General Zhenglu for supporting Wu Sanfu, and then began to select personnel.

The more than one hundred people selected by Wu Xiang all had relatives who died in Denglai without exception, and the chief executive was Zhang Geng, who hated Geng Zhongming to the bone. They deliberately chose an old-fashioned three-masted gunboat to ride on.

As for what kind of inhuman abuse Geng Zhongming received during the ten days at sea, Huang Han didn't know.

Anyway, when they arrived in Tianjinwei, King Huaishun of the Manchu Qing Dynasty died. The soldiers on the full ship and the dozens of surrendered generals who were escorted all spoke convincingly that Geng Zhongming died suddenly of an old illness.

(End of this chapter)