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  Chapter 451 449 [Zhao Bodhisattva's followers]

   "Peasants and soldiers go to war!"

   "Peasants and soldiers go to war!"

  When Liu Dazhang heard the missionary officer's voice, he stood up quickly and picked up the iron-headed wooden gun he had made.

  Suddenly, Liu Dazhang put away the wooden gun again, and ran into a room with the rope. He **** his pregnant wife, and said to the women and children in the house who could not join the war: "Help watch over me, don't be a spy for the Tartars!"

   "Captain Liu, go ahead, we'll take care of you!" Another pregnant woman said.

  Liu Dazhang's wife cried: "I'm going to give birth to you soon, you still can't believe me?"

   "We'll talk about it after you give birth to the cub." Liu Dazhang put down his sentence and went out with his gun without looking back.

  Liu Dazhang's wife was his former mistress, a Manchu woman who was taken away by the Datong army.

  As for the things in the house, most of them were snatched back. There are Manchu women, Han women, and even Mongolian women. They are all pregnant, and the Liaodong Peninsula is about to usher in a wave of births.

  Too many people were evacuated from the city, and the houses were almost not enough to live in. These pregnant women were taken care of intensively.

   "Peasants go to war, peasants go to war!"

   Liu Dazhang yelled along the way that he was still a serf last year, but this year he has become the captain of the Datong Army, and he is in charge of 30 Liaodong peasants and soldiers.

   Not far away, Jin Guozhen brought the farmers over.

  Jin Guozhen was in charge of the Korean peasants and soldiers, who were all Korean serfs captured by the Qing Dynasty. It was the Datong Army who liberated them and divided them into fields for farming.

   There are also a large number of non-pregnant women who are also organized to carry supplies, and they can also go into battle with weapons at critical moments. These are the families of the soldiers of the 11th Division. Parents and children stay in their hometown, and the wives move to Liaodong to live with their husbands—the 11th Division has been stationed in Liaodong for a long time, so the husband and wife must be reunited.

   Outside the city of Gaizhou, the Manchu and Qing forces are ready to attack.

Jin Guozhen didn't even need a mission officer to boost morale, but he said to the North Korean peasants and soldiers: "We were all taken away from North Korea by the Tartars. Ten of us left our hometown, and at most one or two are still alive. There is not enough food, the Tartars Just let us starve to death; if it is too cold in winter, we will freeze to death. We usually farm the land for the Tartars, and we can’t get enough to eat. Do you still want to live like that?”

   "I don't want to!" North Korean peasants and soldiers roared.

Jin Guozhen also said: "The heavenly soldiers and generals of the Datong Army rescued us from the Tartars. Many of you have no surnames. The Datong Army let you have your own surnames. What a kindness! I will give you surnames, but the Tartars will not give you surnames. Only the Datong Army will give you surnames. The Datong Army will also allocate fields for you, and assign women to marry and start families. If Gaizhou City is captured, your fields will be gone. , your homes are gone, your wives are gone, and your surnames are gone. Do you want to work hard with the Datong Army?"

   "Fight! Fight!"

  The Korean peasants and soldiers roared hysterically, as if they could jump out at any time and bite the enemy with their teeth.

  Jin Guozhen pointed to a peasant soldier and asked, "What's your name?"

   "Zhao Dinggui!" The peasant soldier replied.

  Jin Guozhen asked again: "Why is it called Zhao Dinggui!"

  Zhao Dinggui roared and replied: "Zhao of Datong Emperor Zhao Bodhisattva, Dinggui of General Hu Dinggui!"

  Jin Guozhen asked another person: "What's your name?"

  The peasant soldier replied: "Hu kill the captives, Hu of General Hu, kill all the captives of the Tartars!"

Jin Guozhen said to the Korean peasants and soldiers: "You people, either follow the emperor's surname Zhao, or follow General Hu's surname Hu. Although you are all from North Korea, you will all be Chinese from now on, and you will be a well-known citizen of the Celestial Dynasty. We are the people of Bodhisattva Zhao at birth, and Bodhisattva Zhao's ghost at death, long live His Majesty the Emperor Zhao Bodhisattva!"

   "Long live His Majesty Emperor Zhao Bodhisattva!"

  These Korean peasants and soldiers were almost fanatical, and their eyes were red.

  When the lord of North Korea surrendered, the Manchu Qing plundered half a million people from North Korea. Either die of illness, or exhaustion, or freeze to death, or starve to death, or even be used as cannon fodder during the siege. At this time, one out of ten has already survived.

  They have suffered too much, even if they are honest serfs, they are very likely to die abnormally. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I never want to live a life of darkness again.

   Among the common people in Liaodong, Zhao Han's nickname is not Zhao Tianwang or Mr. Zhao, but Zhao Bodhisattva who saves suffering.

   There are no doctors in remote villages. If you get sick, you will kneel down and pray to Zhao Bodhisattva for blessing.

   "Boom boom boom!"

  The bombardment continued, and the Qing artillery was aimed at the Datong artillery on the city wall. The artillery of the Datong Army aimed at the chariots pushed over from the trenches and earth wall passages.

  A large number of people boiled golden juice and boiling oil in the city, and then moved to the city after boiling, so as not to be accidentally smashed by artillery.

  The Manchu camp in the south of the city, from the pontoon bridge that had been built long ago, went around to the north bank of the Daqing River, and concentrated on attacking the east, west, and north sides of Gaizhou City—the south side was close to the river.

  At this time, the reinforcements from Lu Xiangsheng and others could not attack halfway. Because the place where the river was crossed in the Qing Dynasty, there were fortifications on both sides of the river, and it took almost two months to repair it like an iron barrel.

   Similarly, although Dorgon has more than 70,000 Eight Banners soldiers, he would rather bombard Gaizhou City all the time than attack the reinforcement camp with more than 20,000 soldiers. Because the fortifications of the reinforcement camp were getting stronger and stronger. If they could not be broken down quickly, the defenders in the city would probably seize the opportunity to attack the Manchu and Qing troops north and south at the critical moment.

  Seeing the rising smoke from Gaizhou City, Li Zheng ordered: "Take a boat and go around behind the Tartars!"

   Some ships were sent to the cavalry to harass. The remaining ships certainly cannot transport the army at one time, and can only be transported slowly in several batches.

  Due to the fear of being attacked by the Manchu Qing, the landing site was chosen on the beach ten miles northwest of Gaizhou.

  The first batch of landing troops quickly built simple fortifications with supplies, and stood there to meet the next batch of friendly troops.

   "His Royal Highness, there is a Nanman army landing from the sea behind you!" Man Qing's sentry cavalry soon discovered the situation.

  Dorgon said: "Leave him alone, beware of the big camp."

   Can't turn around and fight reinforcements first, because the siege has already begun.

  The early siege troops were all soldiers and civilians to consume the supplies of the Datong Army.

  These peasants are the worst. They carry baggage when marching, build fortifications when stationed, serve as cannon fodder when attacking a city, and can also work part-time as military rations when there is a shortage of food.

   Treating civilian husbands as military rations is a normal state of war.

  The Liaodong Frontier Army of the Ming Dynasty was often besieged for several months, and Zu Dashou even defended it for a year or two. How can there be so much food? It's just eating folks!

  Due to the trenches and earthen walls of the Qing Dynasty, they were already very close to the city wall, and soldiers and civilian husbands could rush to the city in a few minutes.

  They were defeated time and time again, and were forced to die by the military law team of the Manchu Qing again and again.

   During the back and forth consumption, thousands of civilians died quickly.

  Sun An is a soldier, that is, he is dressed in the army.

  During Huang Taiji's rule of the Qing Dynasty, the soldiers were abolished, and the Eight Banners Army became more regular. But it was only abolished in the system, and in real wars, the Eight Banners nobles still brought their soldiers to help the nobles rob and carry their goods.

  Sun An belongs to the second generation of coats. His father died of the plague in Beizhili, so he replaced his father as a coat with the army.

  His main achievement was to follow his master to rob in Beizhili.

  I returned to Liaodong some time ago, and followed my master to North Korea to rob. The harvest in North Korea was good. The master rewarded him with two buckets of rice and a North Korean woman as his wife.

  But, he really doesn't want to be cannon fodder!

   "Bang bang bang!"

  There was a gunshot on the city wall, and Sun An was so frightened that he fell to the ground.

  The civilian husband behind him was beaten to death, but he still rushed forward by inertia, and immediately fell on Sun An.

  Sun An struggled a bit, and suddenly felt blessed, so he just lay there and pretended to be dead.

   There are more than one or two cannon fodder pretending to be dead!

   It took a full half a day, and it was almost evening when Dorgon ordered to withdraw his troops.

   Wait until tomorrow to continue consuming.

  The hustle and bustle of the battlefield gradually became quiet, and Sun An carefully crawled out from under the corpse. Little by little, he climbed towards the gap in the city wall, and after approaching, he shouted: "I surrender, I don't want to die, I have come to surrender. I am not a spy, you should tie me up!"

   This voice immediately reminded the cannon fodder who pretended to be dead.

   There were hundreds of people one after another, stretching out their hands to show that they had no weapons, and crawled towards the gap in the city wall in the posture of raising their hands in surrender.

  Hu Dinggui thought for a while, and ordered: "Let's tie them all up. After the war, they will be screened. The peasants will divide the land and settle down, and the servants will use it as coolies."

   Consumed for several days in a row.

  The Qing Dynasty consumed human life, and the Datong Army consumed supplies for defending the city.

   Gradually, soldiers began to be sandwiched among the cannon fodder, trying to attack the city wall suddenly while the defenders were relaxing.

  This situation made it impossible for the Datong Army to underestimate every attack, and the consumption of defense materials doubled.

  The logs and rocks can still be brought back after dark, but there is not much hot oil and golden juice left.

  Finally, the Manchu Qing began to officially attack the city.

   One car after another was crushed by the artillery, and the exposed Eight Banners soldiers could only speed up and charge towards the city wall.

   "Boom!"

  A piece of sawdust flew out from the shattered cart, and pierced Tulai's cheek hard.

  Although a tooth was knocked loose, this minor injury is nothing. The real headache is that the car is gone. Tulai drew his sword and shouted, "Run and rush over!"

  Turai is Oboi's cousin. Historically, he participated in the Battle of Dalinghe, Songjin, and Shanhaiguan. He led troops to capture Hongguang Emperor and Longwu Emperor of Nanming.

  Tulai and Aobai brothers are Haoge's loyal confidantes, and they were thrown out by Dorgon to attack the city with their lives.

  A cannonball jumped from the ground, and the soldiers around Tulai were smashed in the middle by the iron bullet, and then flew to the back and killed several of them one after another.

   This side has the most fierce firepower, because the front is the gap in the city wall that was blown down.

   "Lao Yang!"

  On the city wall, a group leader roared in grief.

  But not far from him, Yang Ye, the artillery commander of the 11th Division of the Datong Army, was killed.

  Yang Ye was born as a scholar. He was proficient in arithmetic when he was young, and later studied mathematics systematically. He had only been in the army for four years. Because of his talent, he was promoted very quickly, but now he died unexpectedly in Gaizhou.

   It was really an accident. Yang Ye was directing the artillery to adjust the angle, when a full-filled shell flew over and smashed the bricks of the female wall into the air, and then the brick hit Yang Ye's head.

   "Boom boom boom!"

  The artillery of the Datong Army vented their anger with shells.

  Turai was running and charging, when a shell roared towards him. He didn't feel it at first, as if he was rubbed by something, and the inertia led his body to lean back.

   After a few more seconds, Tulai felt severe pain: "Ah! Ah! My arm is gone!"

  The cannons used to defend the city are prone to ricochets because of the angle. Tulai's arm was broken by a ricochet, and before the shells stopped, four more were killed and injured with blood stains.

  Suddenly, the artillery from both sides stopped one after another.

  Because the Manchu siege troops were approaching the city, the Manchu artillery stopped because they were afraid of accidental injury, and the Datong artillery stopped because the angle was too large to hit.

  The Manchu Qing successfully pushed over a dozen carts, and there were also many ladders with wooden shields.

   Most of the chariots are in front of the gap in the city wall. Unfortunately, Gaizhou City did not imitate the bastion, and used the sharp-angled enemy towers like Ningyuan, which formed a short-term dead angle of firepower.

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

  The gunfire soldiers of the Qing Dynasty stood on the steps of the car and fired at the gap in the city wall through the shooting holes.

  The fallen wall formed a three-meter-high, twelve-meter-wide, and six-meter-thick earth-rock platform.

  The ladder was set up, and Oboi commanded the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and quickly climbed up the earth-rock platform along the ladder. After climbing up half of his body, he lay on the edge of the earth-stone platform and pulled Manqing's heavy arrow away with all his strength.

  Before they shot their heavy arrows, thousands of enemies were smashed down on the walls on both sides.

  (end of this chapter)