"Whoosh...... Whoosh ......"

Hundreds of arrows flew down from the city walls, and the sharp arrows effortlessly pierced the bodies of the dozens of Manchurians who rushed to the front, pinning them firmly to the ground. Some of these Manchus who were hit by arrows died on the spot, and some of the vigorous ones were rolling on the ground in pain and screaming, and those Manchus who were lucky enough not to be hit by arrows looked at the people who fell in a pool of blood and pointed to the city wall and scolded, and for a time the whole city wall was full of Manchu shouting and scolding.

After the first round of arrow rain, the archers on the city wall saw their own people killed by their own arrows, many people's eyes showed unbearable color, the second round of arrows for a time could not be shot, but was scolded and whipped by the officers, some Qing troops were angry and set up a longbow to shoot towards the Jiangning army farther away, but those arrows lost speed after flying more than a hundred steps and could only fall to the ground helplessly.

Looking at the Jiangning army four or five hundred steps away, the Qing army was so angry that they scolded, but those who wanted to shoot at this distance had no weapons that could fight at all except for bed crossbows, trebuchets and artillery and other long-range weapons, and these weapons were also not available in the Qing army.

In fact, this can't blame the incompetence of the Qing army, since Nurhachi raised his troops with thirteen pairs of armor, the Manchus have maintained an invincible momentum in the battle against the Ming army, otherwise they would not have moved the capital three times from Hetuara to Liaoyang and then to Liaoyang in just over ten years, and these places were originally the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and it can be said that the Manchus developed by plundering the wealth of the Ming Dynasty and slaughtering the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Jiangning army suffered heavy losses in the two Jinzhou battles, the Manchurians did not expect that the Ming army would boldly attack their own capital, and naturally they would not place bed crossbows and trebuchets on the city walls.

Seeing that the ladders were about to be erected, Haoge was also anxious, in addition to strictly ordering Du Du and the officers of the blue banner to shoot arrows under the city, he also sent dozens of Goshha to personally supervise the battle, but anyone who saw that there was a disadvantage in the battle or could not bear to shoot arrows at their own people was a knife down, under the strict orders of Haoge and Du Du, the Qing army also had to harden their hearts and keep shooting arrows at their own people, and after a while, the first batch of Manchu people who were responsible for erecting cloud ladders all died under the arrows of their own people.

After seeing this scene, Geng Bingyi, who was supervising the battle in the back, did not look anxious, he waved his hand with a faint expression, and a group of full people were pressed up, under the threat of bayonets and firearms, they had to rush to the city wall and continue to build ladders, and what was waiting for them was naturally a rain of arrows.

In this way, the Jiang Ning army continued to drive the captured Manchu people to set up ladders to impact the city wall, and the Qing army on the city wall did not dare to let them erect ladders, so they could only shoot them one by one under the city wall.

Looking at the layers of corpses spread under the city wall, many Qing soldiers felt that they were about to collapse, you must know that these people are their clansmen, and there may be their relatives, friends and even relatives among these people, but now these people are being shot in front of the battle by their own hands, this feeling can make people desperate.

A Qing army archer saw with his own eyes that a boy who was only thirteen or fourteen years old was shot through the chest by an arrow he shot and fell to the ground, and those eyes looked at him so helplessly that he completely collapsed. Looking at the clansmen in front of him who were still coming towards the city wall, he yelled and threw away the longbow in his hand and stood up, shouting with all his might: "You can't kill anymore, you can't kill anymore, they are all our people...... Ah......h

Before the archer could finish speaking, his voice stopped abruptly, and a bloody knife tip came out of his chest, only to see a Niu Lu Zhangjing standing behind him, and after drawing out his long knife, he said to the Qing soldiers around him: "You all remember to Lao Tzu, whoever dares to escape from the battle like this guy, Lao Tzu will send him to see Lord Yama." If you let the Ming army attack the city, not only you will die, but even your relatives and relatives in the city will die, and now you will continue to kill Lao Tzu! ”

Looking at Niu Lu with a murderous face, the surrounding Qing troops fell silent for a moment, and then began to shoot arrows towards the city......

In the Ming army array outside Shengjing City, watching a famous man being driven forward, and being shot by the Qing army at the head of the city like a target under the city, the corpses were stacked layer by layer like stacks of Arhats, and many Ming army generals were amazed.

Huang Zhenye, the commander of the second infantry battalion, put down the binoculars and said to Geng Bingyi, the commander of the first battalion beside him: "Old Geng, a few days ago, I was still wondering, what did Master Hou do when he asked the cavalry battalion to catch so many Tartars, these old, weak, sick and disabled people can't work, our battalion doesn't have much food, so keep them to waste our food?" Now I know that the emotional lord is letting those dog Tartars attack the city for us! This trick is really amazing, didn't those Tartars say that they want to let our corpses pave the city wall, and now we do as they wish, but these corpses are paved with the corpses of Tartars! ”

With the intensification of the Qing army's counterattack, the Manchu people driven by the Jiangning army gradually increased from two or three hundred at a time to five or six hundred or even seven or eight hundred.

In just one morning, the number of people who died in front of the South City Gate reached seven or eight thousand, and the entire South City Gate was covered with dense corpses.

In fact, it stands to reason that with their past experience, after a big battle, let alone seven or eight thousand people died, even tens of thousands of casualties are also very common for them, but in the past, most of the dead and wounded were the Ming army and the people of the Ming Kingdom, and it was the first time they had seen a scene like today, where all the dead and wounded were full of people.

You must know that although the current Great Qing Kingdom claims to have a population of more than one million, most of them are captured Han Chinese, Koreans, and second and third class people such as armor people, Baoyi, auxiliary soldiers and other places in Mongolia, and the Manchus who are the first-class bannermen are only four or five hundred thousand, but now they have been killed seven or eight thousand in just one morning, and how many Manchus in the entire Qing Dynasty are enough for them to kill like this, and it will not take a few days to kill all the Manchus in the Great Qing Dynasty.

Looking at the steady stream of men and women rushing towards the city gate, Du Du, who has always been known for his fierceness, finally took a long breath and said: "I finally understand, why the Jiangning army is only besieging and shelling us these days and not attacking the city, it turns out that they are using this method to attract our attention, but secretly they are going around to plunder our people of the Qing Dynasty, so as to prepare for today's siege, Yang Feng, you are so vicious!" ”

Hauge on the side didn't speak, he closed his eyes in pain, although he was a little rough and a little reckless, but that didn't mean he was stupid. What is the most precious thing about the Qing Dynasty? It's not land, it's not wealth, it's population, and if all the people of Manchu are dead, then what will be left of the Qing Dynasty?

At this time, Haoge and Du Du were in pain, they hated Yang Feng as much as all the Qing troops, this guy actually used this method of losing his conscience to attack the city, such a person deserves to go to hell. It's just that while they cursed each other, they forgot that this method of attacking the city was not unique to the Ming army, but it was the Manchus who used it the most, and the Manchus used this method to capture a lot of Ming army cities over the years. Some people are like this, and there is no problem at all if they do the same thing themselves, but once others do those dozens of sins, they cannot redeem their conscience, and only the state officials are allowed to set fires and the people are not allowed to light the lamps, which is what they are talking about.

At this time, Du Du's voice sounded in his ears: "Big brother, why don't you secretly open a city gate and let the people outside enter the city, the warriors on the city wall will soon be unable to hold on." ”

Hauge suddenly opened his eyes, and his painful expression became solemn again.

"Absolutely not!" Haoge's voice became extremely resolute, "Who knows if there are any spies among the people outside who have infiltrated the Ming army, if the spies of the Ming army are allowed to take the opportunity to sneak in, the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”

"What then?" The temper of whoever killed himself all morning also became irritable, and Du Du said impatiently: "Who knows how many of us have been captured by the Jiang Ning army, we can't kill them all." Now that the morale of the warriors in the city has fallen to its lowest point, I fear that it will not be long before they mutiniate if they are forced to slaughter their own men. ”

"Mutiny?"

Hauge's expression became frozen after hearing this, he had fought a lot with Huang Taiji and Nurhachi over the years, of course, he knew that even the strongest army's tolerance level was not unlimited, once it exceeded the army's tolerance limit, unpredictable consequences would occur, and mutiny was one of the most troublesome.

In a hurry, Haoge suddenly thought of a method, and he immediately said: "Du Du, you immediately go to the city and arrest five hundred Han people, I don't care what method you use, in short, the sooner the better, understand?" ”

"Catch 500 Han Chinese on the city wall?" Du Du rolled his eyes, and immediately understood what Haoge meant, but he said with some embarrassment: "It's just that Big Brother, those Han people are either the clothed servants of various provinces or the Han people who come to our Shengjing to do business, is it really good for us to do this?" ”

"What's so bad." Hauge said fiercely: "If anyone is not satisfied, let him come and tell me in person, and I will make him "satisfied"!" ”

"Huh!"

Du Du didn't say anything, and immediately went down the city wall.

To say that there are still a lot of Han people in Shengjing City, most of them are clothed slaves who have been captured by the Manchurians over the years, and some of them have come to Shengjing to do business, and there are quite a few of them.

After a while, 500 Han people who had been tied up were quickly escorted to the city, and behind these Han people stood a row of fierce Qing soldiers.

Then, I saw a Jialazhangjing shouting loudly at the head of the city: "The Han people below, you listen to me." If you don't stop the shameless behavior of our Manchu people, from now on, for every Manchu we kill or injure a Manchu, we will also kill a Han Chinese, and these Han people will take revenge for what you have just done. Come...... Chop me! ”

As the words of this Jia Lazhangjing fell, I saw a flash of sword light, and the heads rolled down from the city head, and the Qing soldiers actually cut off the heads of all the 1,000 Han people on the city head, and after killing these Han people, those Qing soldiers suddenly let out bursts of cheers, and the originally low morale began to recover.

Contrary to the Qing soldiers who were cheering at the head of the city, the Jiangning troops under the city fell into silence, they didn't expect the Qing soldiers to have this hand.

Geng Bingyi also hurriedly found Yang Feng and asked: "Master Hou, the Tartars are probably forced by us to be anxious and start slaughtering the Han people in the city, what should we do now?" ”

Looking at the Qing army cheering at the head of the city, Yang Feng's face also showed a look of surprise: "It seems that Ben Hou underestimated them, but I didn't expect that Hao Ge to think of using the same method to take revenge on Ben Hou so quickly." ”

Geng Bingyi said a little reluctantly: "But Master Hou, the last general has just seen it, except for a small number of those Han people in the city who were arrested, many of them are wearing silk and satin, and eight or nine out of ten are profiteers who come to Shengjing to do business, let's ignore them at all!" ”

Yang Feng sighed lightly: "Whether they are here to do business in Shengjing or the Han people who have been captured, they are all the people of my Ming Dynasty, and we can't watch them being killed in front of us, pass on the order of Benhou, and immediately stop driving those Tartars to attack the city." ”

"The last general understands!" Geng Bingyi went down stupidly.

Soon, the Manchurian people outside the city who were about to be driven to attack the city were escorted down, and this scene was also clearly seen by the Qing army at the head of the city, and soon there was an earth-shattering cheer on the city wall, and many Qing troops were so happy that they danced, if they shot their own people like this again, I am afraid that they would collapse after a while.

Haoge and Du Du at the head of the city also let out a long breath almost at the same time, it seems that Yang Feng still has a weakness, if he really ignores the safety of those Han people and insists on continuing to drive the Manchus to attack the city, then there is really only the same fate, and both will be defeated.

However, they also knew that although the Jiangning army had stopped driving the Manchurians to attack the city, what was next was the beginning of the main drama, and it was still unknown whether they could hold out until the reinforcements arrived......