The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 78 Windfall
More and more light cavalry rushed into the city gate, and the stubborn Qing soldiers at the gate were quickly strangled to death.

"Rush!" The light cavalry commander swung his spear, and rushed towards the reinforcements of the Qing army rushing towards the city gate, with Qianqi closely following behind.

The remaining cavalry archers who were blocked outside the city gate also quickly entered the city. After dismounting, they cleaned up the corpses at the gate of the city. Some people were assigned to handle the gate, and some of them went up the city wall along the climbing road to wipe out the Qing soldiers above.

For infantry to deal with cavalry, it needs at least three times the number to form an formation to compete with cavalry, and there are high requirements in terms of weapons and equipment, defense, and personnel quality, otherwise it will be a disaster for infantry to meet cavalry.

There are not many remaining Qing soldiers in Liaoyang City, there are only a thousand soldiers left, and most of them are veterans.After guarding the treasury, government offices, city gates, city walls, and patrols, the remaining troops are only four to five hundred people.

Jia Laerzhen of the Qing army thought that he would be able to arrive in time to block the city gate, but he did not expect that these unknown enemies fought so fiercely and fearlessly. poured in.

Looking at the tall and strong horses of the enemy, the lances shining coldly in the sun, and the indifferent faces of the cavalry, the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty clearly knew that the city of Liaoyang would not be guaranteed. Shiha shouted: "Leave the city from the north gate, hurry up and report to the emperor and Prince Rui, please send troops to rescue quickly."

The two Gershhas froze for a moment, took orders in unison, then turned their heads and ran towards the north gate.

The captain of the light cavalry took a panoramic view of all this and didn't care, because Jiang Chuan had already ordered that the fleeing enemies need not be chased and killed, and they always need to leave a few reports, otherwise the original meaning of this battle would be lost.

The light cavalry quickly crashed into the Qing soldiers. People shouted and neighed, spears waved, and blood spattered. It was almost a massacre.

Not long after, the largest group of Qing soldiers in Liaoyang City was completely strangled, and Jia Laezhen of the Qing soldier was killed by smashing his breastbone with a lance by the commander of the light cavalry.

"Take a few prisoners and ask them to see how many troops are still in the city. If you encounter any rebels, you will be killed on the spot. In addition, send people to control the treasury, granary and other city gates. I will go to meet you."

The commander of the light cavalry wiped his spear on the clothes of Jia Laerzhen, a Qing soldier, and then gave orders to the centurions behind him, and they all took the order and left.

When Jiang Chuan rode his horse slowly through the blood-stained South Gate of Liaoyang, the first thing he saw were corpses lined up on both sides of the road.

On the right are those of the Qing soldiers, while on the left are the remains of his fallen soldiers.

Jiang Chuan got off his horse and slowly walked in front of these soldiers who had been silent forever, his eyes swept over everyone's face, and finally fell on the man with wide eyes, arms tightly hugged, mouth full of blood On a soldier.

This is the body of the cavalry commander who died at the last moment of the victory.

"My lord, our centurion was attacked by the enemy, and finally he hugged the enemy and bit the enemy's throat and died together." The centurion of the cavalry archers guarding the city gate whispered behind Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan moved his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end he couldn't say anything. He just attached himself to the commander-in-chief's face and brushed it lightly with his hand. When he moved away, his eyes were quietly closed.

Although it was not the first time he had experienced the death of soldiers, Jiang Chuan still felt very depressed and heavy looking at these soldiers who died in battle.

Compassion does not command soldiers, although it is only four words, it expresses the two most basic psychological qualities that a qualified commander must cultivate, a hard heart and a tenacious will far beyond ordinary people.

Jiang Chuan knew that he still had a long way to go on this road.

"Contain the remains of your commander and brothers. When we go back, we will take them home." Jiang Chuan took a deep breath to calm down his fluctuating emotions. The husband commanded.

"No!" The centurion clasped his fists and accepted the order.

"From now on, you will be temporarily in charge of the cavalry archers as commander-in-chief." Jiang Chuan thought for a while and said again.

"Your subordinates will definitely live up to their mission!" the centurion said in a deep voice.

"My lord, all the remnants of the enemy in the city have been wiped out, and the treasury and granary have been sealed. After interrogating the prisoners, I learned that Liaoyang City has only a thousand troops, which is consistent with the information we got before. Besides, except for a few who escaped, we wiped out the soldiers this time. There were more than 700 Tartars, and more than 100 were captured."

The commander of the light cavalry who followed Jiang Chuan reported the results of the battle in a loud voice.

"Where are the treasury and the granary? Let's go and see. This Liaoyang City is the bridgehead for the Tartars to attack Daming. They should have stockpiled a lot of food, grass and supplies. Maybe we've made a fortune this time." Jiang Chuan was gloomy when he heard the news. My mood suddenly improved a lot.

Although the purpose of attacking Liaoyang was to encircle Wei and save Zhao and force the Tartars to withdraw from Datong, but if they can make a fortune by the way, that would of course be a great thing.

Jiang Chuan led the people to the granary first.

Liaoyang City was originally the bridgehead for the Ming army to fight against the Manchu Qing. In order to garrison troops for a long time, several large granaries were originally seen to store military rations.After being occupied by the Qing soldiers, it became the bridgehead for the Qing soldiers to invade the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, these granaries were expanded and repaired.

At this time, standing in front of Jiang Chuan, the dozen or so as high as the three-story building in the later generations, and the Zhou Chang was as big as half a basketball court, which made Jiang Chuan's mouth wide open.

And he didn't need to get close, he could see the sharp grains from the top of the grain store, they were all golden wheat.

Except when Jiang Chuan saw the big granary when he went to the grain station in the town with his father when he was a child and handed in the public grain, when had he seen so much grain.

Be good, I'm afraid there must be a 10,000+ stone, right?Jiang Chuan had no idea, but made a rough estimate in his mind.

"My lord, the granary guard of this granary was caught just now. He said that there are a total of 35 shi of grain, including wheat, corn, soybeans, black beans and other grains. This time Dorgon took ten Wanshi, there are 25 shi left, of which 20 are wheat, and the rest are grains." Seeing Jiang Chuan's surprised expression, the captain of the light cavalry came over and reported.

"25 shi? Really rich, rich! With this food, I will not starve to death even if I hide in the valley for a few years. And I can gather more people. Gold in prosperous times, food in troubled times, This thing is worth more than gold now." Jiang Chuan was ecstatic in his heart, he didn't expect that he would gain such a big gain from his temporary decision to fight Liaoyang this time, what a surprise.

"My lord, it's just so much food, let's transport it back?" Jiang Chuan's good mood was suddenly stuck by the commander's words.

This is indeed a big problem. My 3000 people are all cavalry, so I can't transport food.

"Let's talk about this later, there will always be a solution. Let's go to the treasury and see how much money the Tartars have left for us." The treasury left, and the others quickly followed.

　The second update arrives. I don’t feel well today. If I’m lazy, I’ll be on the second update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)