The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 746 Misunderstanding
If the Qing army does not want to be trapped and starve to death, defending the defense line to compete for time to harvest wheat is the most important thing.

With the lessons learned from the fact that the defense line of Seoul could not hold up even for a long time, and many Qing troops who fled back widely publicized how sharp the artillery fire of the "Red Banner Army" was, the Han army and Korean soldiers probably would not have fighting spirit.

In addition, Jiang Xin, Lu Yuanhua, Xie Hu, Dou Kuai, etc. Infernal Affairs publicized the fact that Geng Zhongming, king of Huaishun, defected and led the Han army and Koryo soldiers to kill all [-] Mongolian cavalry below Alzin.

The defenders of Pyongyang's defense line may become a mess if they don't need to fight. It's hard to say whether they are also fighting with their own people like the Seoul defense line.

Who is Duduo, who kills Han people like pigs and dogs, and treats Han officials like mangy dogs. It can be seen that he once snatched Fan Wencheng's concubine to play with for a few days and then returned it.

Huaishun King Geng Zhongming was able to kill the Eight Banners general Arzin and surrender to the "Red Banner Army" in Seoul. Didn't King Gongshun kill Duoduo Xian Pyongyang and surrender to the "Red Banner Army"?
Will Dodo, who feels in danger, take Kong Youde pre-emptively?

There is a world of difference in the quality of the Jiannu stationed in Pyongyang and the troops defending Seoul.

Because it was Duoduo, the banner owner, who personally led the 3000 inlaid white banner men and horses, these [-] people were of course the elite of the inlaid white banner.

The [-] Mongolian cavalry are also different. Not all of them are composed of Mongolian soldiers from the outer vassals, but there are [-] Horqin cavalry led by Manzhu Xili.

After Jiang Xin and other 600 people fled back to the Pyongyang defense line, they were basically not troubled by anyone, because there were too many Koreans and Han Chinese who fled back from the Seoul defense line during this period.

Kong Youde met Jiang Xin and asked what happened in Seoul. Zhang Hongmo, Yang Huazheng, Duan Xueli, etc. knew that their old friends had escaped and came to find out.

Jiang Xin is also the kind of general who can only fight in battle and is good at other aspects. He knows the essentials of lying, he must tell the truth in all the details, and he can only lie at the key points.

He told Kong Youde honestly that when he was guarding the trenches in the south of Seoul, he was blinded by the artillery fire of the "Red Banner Army", and he had no chance to retreat to defend Seoul's subordinates and collapsed directly.

Regarding the defection of King Huaishun, I heard a few Han soldiers who ran out of Seoul on the way to Pyongyang.

In order to make the Jiannu and Tartars alienate from the Han army and Koryo soldiers, and develop from mutual distrust to mutual wariness, the "Red Banner Army" has widely publicized Geng Zhongming's defection during this period.

While arranging the propaganda, many leaflets were also printed and distributed in the actual control area of ​​​​Jiannu, not only to propagate to the soldiers and civilians of the Qing Dynasty on the Korean peninsula, but also to Liaodong and Liaonan at the same time.

The Daming Mansion Newspaper and the "Red Flag Daily" both made large-scale reports, deliberately publicizing that the rebellious Han and Goryeo soldiers actually killed all [-] Jiannu and [-] Tartars.

At this time, Geng Zhongming, Xue Dahu and other generals who had defected in Seoul were still on their way to Tianjin Wei. No one could have predicted that Geng Zhongming would die suddenly.

Moreover, the news of Geng Zhongming's death is not conducive to instigating against the Qing army, and the "Red Banner Army" will deliberately block it.

Kong Youde also had his own source of information, and he was able to confirm that his old partner Geng Zhongming had turned against the Qing Dynasty and returned to the Ming Dynasty again.

Now I learned from Jiang Xin that the [-]-odd Qing army collapsed after the trench network around Seoul hadn't been defended for half a day, and I finally understood why Geng Er chose to defect.

Kong Youde is not a god, and of course it is impossible to predict that Geng Zhongming's crazy actions caused the servants to misunderstand the chaotic war, and finally had to turn against him.

He analyzed the reason for Geng Zhongming's defection because he realized that the "Red Banner Army" took Seoul overnight.

Rather than being beaten to death or being captured by the "Red Banner Army" and sent to the capital Lingchi, it is better to take the risk of defecting and get [-] heads of the Mongolian cavalry to re-gain the future for yourself and your subordinates.

Most of the traitors have the selfishness of dead friends and poor people. Besides, although they are humble in front of Jiannu, they hate and hate those beasts in their bones, and take their heads to buy their own lives. Kong Youde is willing to do such a deal!
After listening to Jiang Xin's narration, Kong Youde sighed, the end of Pyongyang can be imagined after the lessons learned from Seoul.

However, there are three thousand elite soldiers with Xiangbai Banner, seven thousand Tartar cavalry, and four or five thousand Banner Ding and Ahha accompanying the army with Xiangbai Banner.

If he followed Geng Zhongming's example and used the heads of Jiannu and Tartars to atone for his sins and pave the way for him to return to Ming Dynasty?
The answer is no, because Duoduo clearly distrusts Han and Korean people.

When he led the troops to North Korea, he immediately occupied the city of Pyongyang. The [-] Han soldiers and Korean soldiers in the city were re-selected by Doduo himself with Banner Ding and Aha, and the generals also served as generals with white banners.

Kong Youde was responsible for guarding the outer defense line of Pyongyang, and he had nearly [-] soldiers and civilians organized in his hands, half of whom were Korean Minzhuang.

Duduo is more ruthless, as long as he finds out that all the senior officials above the Baizong have a small family in the army, all of them are placed in the city of Pyongyang, and the purpose is of course to keep these people as hostages.

Therefore, the population in Pyongyang is 10,000+, and a lot of supplies and food have been hoarded. The soldiers and civilians stationed outside the city need to get food every three days so that they can not be hungry.

Doduo still has quite a lot of ghost ideas. He not only detains hostages, but also controls food and military supplies. If he is attacked, he will abandon tens of thousands of people in the periphery, and then kill ordinary people and hostages.

The food and grass in the city of Pyongyang can satisfy [-] Mongolian cavalrymen and [-] Banner Ding and Aha, and [-] selected Han and Goryeo soldiers will eat for two years.

This is not sensational. If the city is under siege, with Duduo's cruelty, he will definitely kill all the people in the city without blinking an eye.

Zhang Hongmo is more familiar with his friend Jiang Xin's urination, and he does not believe that he will bring hundreds of people to Pyongyang and continue to wait for the "Red Banner Army" to attack.

Because it is wrong to judge others by oneself?How easy is it to find out that the "Red Banner Army" is calling and surrendering directly in Seoul?So many generals have surrendered and he is not one more.

At this time, life is at stake. If Jiang Xin came here with a different intention, wouldn't he also have the possibility of being cheated to death?
He thought it was his friend who put it aside first, and then he had to ask Jiang Xin to understand the purpose of coming back.

Zhang Hongmo laughed dryly, and said, "Brother Jiang, it must have been a near-death experience to break out from the encirclement of the 'Red Banner Army'. My brother looks like a lucky general, and he didn't even hurt a single hair."

Jiang Xin had already prepared the draft, and replied with a smile: "Brother Zhang is safe and sound, and my younger brother is not a lucky general, nor is he capable of breaking out of the encirclement of the 'Red Banner Army'.

That's because the 'Red Banner Army' didn't look down on our fighting power, they didn't start the siege at all, and they didn't deliberately chase us when they found us fleeing, and deliberately let us live. "

Thinking of Kong Youde, who was chased by the "Red Banner Army" and nearly drowned in the sea back then, he wondered: "Now the 'Red Banner Army' has changed their nature? Are they willing to keep chasing and beating?"

(End of this chapter)