Ming Empire

Chapter 16 The Victor's Stance

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"This general is Cao Yue, the deputy general of Cao Zongbing of the Great Ming Dongxie Army. It was this general and Cao Zongbing who led the army into Huang Taiji's camp that day, and almost took his old nest away. Huang Taiji didn't learn his lesson. If you strengthen Shengjing's defenses, then you will be impolite. This time, he completely copied his lair, haha," Cao Yue jumped off his horse, and walked up to Daishan step by step, "My father once defeated the emperor under the city of Beijing. Taiji and you are good, now I am better than him, even the capital of your slaves, haha!"

As Cao Yue said, he unexpectedly raised the saber in his hand and slashed at Daishan's right arm.

With a scream of "Ah...", Daishan's right arm was cut and blood flowed.Fortunately, Cao Yue didn't hit hard, otherwise Daishan's right arm would be useless.The soldiers around Daishan wanted to rush forward to rescue them, but the arrows in the hands of several soldiers around Cao Yue knocked them to the ground, and no one dared to act rashly.

Dai Shan, whose left arm was chopped off, was startled and angry. His face was ashen and he shouted, "You...you are Cao Wenzhao's son?"

Among the generals of the Ming Dynasty, Daishan, the most heroic and skilled in battle, knows that the only generals surnamed Cao who have defeated the Qing army are Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao.Cao Bianjiao is still young, and the person in front of him who calls himself Cao Yue should be Cao Wenzhao's son.In the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji besieged Beijing, and Cao Wenzhao followed Yuan Chonghuan into King Guanqin and made great military exploits.In the next few years, Cao Wenzhao defeated the Manchu Qing army several times, and made repeated contributions in the battle against the civil uprisings in the pass, which was well known by the Manchus.

"That's right, you still remember my father," Cao Yue proudly looked at the distorted Daishan, and then at the terrified women and children who were hugging each other. The pride couldn't be described in words. But he didn't forget the most important thing, and immediately ordered, "Daishan, you immediately send someone inside and outside the city to order everyone under you to put down their weapons and surrender, otherwise they will be killed without mercy."

Watching Cao Yue's eyes fall on the women and children behind him, Daishan finally chose to compromise, leaving only one of the few soldiers around him, "Wu Qi, go to the various sects immediately and put down your weapons. Stop resisting."

Huang Taiji's women and children were all in the hands of Cao Yue, and he was also a prisoner. Daishan had no other choice.

The few remaining soldiers around Daishan were all wounded, as was the soldier named Wu Qi.After hearing Daishan's order, Wu Qi struggled a few words, and finally went reluctantly.

At this time, the battle outside the palace was going on fiercely.

According to Cao Yue's instructions, Qianzong Zhao Liang led more than [-] Ming troops to guard the Daqing Gate, and Cao Qian led more than [-] family members to guard the Shengjing South Gate.These two places were violently attacked by the Qing army.Of course, Daqingmen was attacked far more violently than Nanmen.

The imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty was attacked by the Ming army, and the Qing army inside and outside the city all fought back like crazy.

Zhao Liang is an outstanding figure in the Cao family army. He has fought with Cao Wenzhao for many years. During the Battle of Songshan, he also fully appreciated the power of musket shooting in sections. Therefore, when he was holding on to the Daqing Gate, he took advantage of the city's height and it was very easy. To meet the attacking Qing army.Rows of muskets fired, and the Qing army who attacked desperately fell outside the gate of Daqing.

Most of the more than 800 flagmen of the two yellow flags in the two military camps in the city were wiped out in the camps. Most of the remaining [-] Qing soldiers fell in the battle to retake the Daqing Gate and the South Gate. They stopped resisting in Daishan. When the order came, there were less than [-] Qing soldiers who still had the strength to launch an attack.

Daishan's order was not effectively implemented, and the Qing army, which was red-eyed, was already in chaos, and many people rushed to kill desperately.Daishan's order caused even greater confusion. One part of the Qing army stopped resisting, while the other part continued to charge.

The Ming army with sufficient ammunition, although some muskets malfunctioned due to continuous shooting, the tall city walls and the good quality of the sergeants made up for this shortcoming, and the battle between the two sides eventually turned into a one-sided massacre.

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"General Cao, as long as you leave here, I am willing to give you all the wealth in the city." After calming down, the treacherous Daishan began to negotiate terms with Cao Yue. "This king is also willing to follow you."

Except that these people around him cannot be harmed, he can give anything else, even his own life.

"Your wealth originally belonged to me, Da Ming, and it was all stolen from me. Of course, everything must be returned. As for your life, it also belongs to this general now. You are not qualified to negotiate terms with this general," said Daishan Cao Yue dismissed his proposal.

"Then...you...what are you going to do?" An ominous premonition rose in Daishan's heart.

"Daishan, let me tell you, what you have done to the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty before, I will repay you twice today!" Cao Yue was too lazy to talk to Daishan any more. All the adult men were tied up, and then all the soldiers around Daishan beheaded in public, and all the women and children who became his captives were put under custody again.

Originally, Cao Yue planned to kill all the Manchus after entering Shengjing City, no matter women or children, but after seeing a large group of helpless crying women and children crowded together, looking trembling, his killing Sex fades unconsciously.

He is not a beast, he can't do something as inhuman as the Manchu Jiannu, who slaughtered men, women, and children.

But he will not be too merciful, these women and children of Huang Taiji fall into his hands, he will definitely "deal with" them easily.Of course, Cao Yue will decide how to deal with these women and children depending on the progress of the battle. If the battle situation in the city is not good, or the reinforcements of the Qing army return to Shengjing, then he will take these women and children as hostages, and even kill them all , and then abandoned the city and fled.

Daishan and those women and children were all imprisoned in the Chongzheng Palace. He personally brought a hundred family members under custody, and the rest continued to clear the remaining resistance forces in the Manchu Palace.

After setting things up and driving those women and children to Chongzheng Hall, Cao Yue received a report that our army had completely controlled the situation in Shengjing, most of the Qing army was wiped out, and our casualties were less than a hundred. ride.

Cao Yue was overjoyed by such a brilliant record, and he immediately ordered to continue hunting down the remaining slave men, and collected firearms and various ammunition in the city, as well as food, property, and horses, and was ready to retreat at any time.

The situation was under control, and Cao Yue's hanging heart was finally relieved.Thanks to Huang Taiji for attacking Songshan and Jinzhou with all his strength, which gave him an opportunity to take advantage of. Next, it is time for him to humiliate Huang Taiji and Jiannu.

Sitting on the dragon chair in the Chongzheng Hall, looking at the captives in the first hall, Cao Yue felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart that he didn't know how to describe.

He ordered his servants to separate the men and women among the captives, and asked Daishan to identify them separately.

At this time, Cao Jie came to report that his troops killed Shuosai, the fifth son of Huang Taiji, in the chaos.

Hearing this, Cao Yue sneered and ordered all the children among those captured to be pulled out and beheaded.He knew that the boy who could live in the palace could only be the son of Huang Taiji, and he would not leave Huang Taiji's son behind.

Huang Taiji’s eldest son Haoge led the battle in Songshan, his second son Luoge, third son Luo Bohui and eighth son Youshang, fourth son Ye Bushu followed Huang Taiji in Songshan, fifth son Shuo Saiyin was only 13 years old and did not go out with him and stayed in Sheng Jing led the Boy Scouts of the Two Yellow Banners, but died in the chaos.The six young sons Gao Sai, the seventh Chang Shu, the nine Fulin, the ten Tao Sai, the eleven Bomu Boguer, Gao Sai, Chang Shu, Fulin, Tao Sai and Bo Mu remained in the palace. Bogor all became Cao Yue's captives.

Without any mercy, Cao Yue ordered the sergeant to pull these people out and behead them. There was a burst of crying in the hall. When the mother was desperately protecting her child, one of the women was particularly crazy, desperately protecting the young child beside her. Let go, when other men were pulled away, she was still fighting fiercely.

Seeing this woman, Cao Yue frowned and thought for a while, then strode up to the mother and son, then turned his head and asked Dai Shan, who had quickly followed, "Who is she?"

Daishan didn't dare to say anything, so he could only kneel on the ground and beg for mercy, asking Cao Yue to let these people go.

At this time, a dignified woman rushed to the front, plopped and knelt down and begged Cao Yue for mercy: "General, save you and let them go. I am the queen of the Qing Dynasty. If something is coming towards me, please let them go!" ,just kill me."

"Huangji's queen?" Cao Yue didn't know much about Huangtaiji's queen. He never watched Qing court dramas in later generations, and he was also not interested in Qingchuan stories that later generations talked about. He knew Huang Taiji's women. Later, she was named Empress Xiaozhuang, the woman named Da Yuer, and Xiaozhuang's elder sister, it is said that she was born to be charming, and she was very skilled in that aspect, Hai Lanzhu, who could make men want to die.

The woman who claimed to be the queen stood up and begged him for mercy on her knees, but he was stunned.At this time, the woman who was desperately protecting the little boy just now also knelt down in front of Cao Yue with a plop. After speaking Manchu to the woman who claimed to be the queen, she begged Cao Yue for mercy in Chinese, "General, let them go!" , We are willing to bear any punishment, don’t kill them, they are still children.”

At this time, the other women also knelt down, crying and begging for mercy.

"They are children, but in a few years, they will be the executioners who slaughtered the people of Ming Dynasty," Cao Yue said coldly, looking at the two beautiful women kneeling in front of him, "there are more than two hundred people from Liaodong. All the Han people were killed by you Manchus, and there were thousands of women and children among them, when you killed them, did you ever think about how you feel today?"

No one answered, and the woman's crying stopped, only some suppressed sobs.

Seeing that no one answered, Cao Yue didn't bother to express any indignant words, walked up to Zhe Zhe, raised her chin naturally, and asked flatly, "Are you the queen of Huang Taiji?"

Zhezhe nodded slightly, lowered his eyes, not daring to look at Cao Yue.

"Huang Taiji's queen doesn't look very good, what kind of eyesight," Cao Yue muttered.

Zhe Zhe actually looks pretty good, but she is getting older. A woman in her forties, no matter how beautiful she was when she was young, is already a wilted flower, but her figure is still pretty good, with a choppy look.

Zhezhe didn't expect Cao Yue to say that, he was stunned for a moment, Cao Yue had already let go of her, walked to the other side, and also reached out to lift up the other woman who was kneeling beside Zhezhe, "Who are you?"

"I...I...I am Bumbutai, Concubine Zhuang of the Yongfu Palace of the Qing Dynasty!"

"Oh?" Cao Yue's eyes showed surprise, "Zhuang Concubine Bumbutai, nicknamed Da Yuer?"

(End of this chapter)