Chapter 953: Surround Gao Yingxiang
The ancient capital of Xi'an has thick walls, abundant grain and grass, and there are no less than 500,000 rogues and common people, of which no less than 150,000 young and middle-aged people can participate in defending the city.
After many confirmations, Gao Yingxiang and most of the bones of the big thieves were surrounded, and Sun Chuanting and Chen Qiyu, two civil officials who had suppressed the thieves for many years, were inexplicably excited.
The past is vivid, how can they be willing to fight snakes again and not die?
In the past, he had besieged the Liukou many times, but unfortunately in the end, they all fell short, the main reason was that the Ming civil officials and generals had their own ghosts, and the soldiers spared their lives and loved money and refused to fight hard.
Now with the "Red Flag Army" with one heart, great things can be done!
When Sun Chuanting and Chen Qiyu deployed the encirclement, they resolutely did not adopt the method of encircling three and one, that is, they wanted to satisfy the plan of completely destroying the living forces of the Liukou in this battle, and refused to allow them to flee into the mountainous areas to increase the difficulty of encirclement and suppression.
They believe in the combat effectiveness of the "Red Banner Army" and believe that these brave soldiers can manage the encirclement into an impregnable wall.
But the capture of Xi'an could not replicate the pattern of burning Shenyang, burning four or five hundred thousand Han people to death, even if more than half of these people were rogues or their families were small, Huang Han could not do this.
It is not possible to adopt the mode of long-term siege, because when there is a real shortage of food, the first to starve to death must be the common people, and the old camp of the rogue will definitely hold on to it until the end.
Qin Liangyu only knew that the "Han King" had completed Pingliao, but he did not know the details of the "Red Banner Army's" seizure of Shenyang.
After the old lady saw Hanzi, who had become a marquis, she specially set up a banquet to invite Hanzi and Sun Chuanting, Chen Qiyu and other civil and military generals to drink, and asked about the beginning and end of the entire Pingliao War during the banquet.
The civilian and military generals who had experienced the Pingliao War were willing to drink while talking about the war that lasted more than a year, especially the Hanzi who was not absent from almost every major war.
Han Zi respects Mrs. Qin in his heart, and has always regarded himself as a junior, of course, he knows everything and says everything, he not only talked about the shock of the duel of hundreds of thousands of cavalry, but also told about the tragic scene of Shenyang turning into scorched earth after the fire.
Hanzi told Qin Liangyu and the generals of the white pole soldiers very sincerely that if Xi'an was taken by seizing Shenyang, there would definitely be no one of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city.
Therefore, the "King of Han" issued an order to attack the city as the bottom as the attack, and to take a propaganda offensive to break the military morale of the Liukou as much as possible, and to win the surrender of the Liukou was the main task in the future.
Qin Liangyu listened to it with relish, and the Iron Horse Binghe appeared in his mind, and he seemed to hear a wave of shouting and killing in his ears.
She learned that the "Red Flag Army" could obviously kill the Liukou in Xi'an City at her fingertips, but because of her good intentions, she gave up the most simple and effective burning of the city, and praised it greatly.
During this time, the old woman was full of suspicions, realizing the disobedience of the "Han King", she wanted to pacify the Liukou as soon as possible and enter Beijing to see the situation, and prepare to be loyal to Emperor Chongzhen.
In Qin Liangyu's mind, righteousness is greater than family affection, and she will definitely meet the "King of Han" who dares to usurp the throne.
It's just that she doesn't know that time has passed, and she only represents her personally, maybe she can't even command her own son Ma Xianglin, and the possibility of commanding thousands of troops and horses to go to war with the "Red Flag Army" is zero.
The "King of Han" deliberately gave money and food to win over the soldiers of the white pole soldiers, which has lasted for several years, and the Sichuan people emphasize feelings and righteousness, and now the "Red Banner Army" and the white pole soldiers are simply like a family, where can they fight?
How many foolish and loyal people like Qin Liangyu in the last Ming Dynasty? The vast majority of generals in Sichuan will analyze the pros and cons, the son-in-law of the Sichuan people, "King Han", will be the emperor, where will the Sichuan people suffer?
Moreover, in recent years, the kindness of the "King of Han" has benefited the entire land of Shuzhong, bringing food and clothing to thousands of hungry people.
Ma Xianglin once fought Jiannu in a bloody battle in the Hunhe River, not only lost an eye, but also lost thousands of elite white-pole soldiers, so he didn't know the combat effectiveness of Jiannu.
Listening to Hanzi's narration of the cavalry battle, I could feel how powerful the fighting power of Jiannu, who was burned by the fire, should be in order to survive.
However, the knights of the "Red Banner Army" did not flinch, they dared to fight and won the battle, and the "Red Banner Army" broke the myth that "the Jurchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, and they are invincible", and this sentence will become a big joke in the future.
Thinking about this period of time and the "Red Flag Army" to fight together, the white pole soldiers should be one of the strongest armies in the Ming Dynasty, but compared with the "Red Flag Army", the gap is so big.
The vast majority of the "Red Banner Army" in the mainland are Class B battalions, even so Ma Xianglin can "see the gap at a glance", not to mention the Class A battalion and cavalry battalion outside the country?
The combat effectiveness and discipline of the "Red Banner Army" and the generals in Shuzhong are naturally obvious to all, and no one has the illusion that the "Red Banner Army" will be defeated against the "King of Han."
Instead, they are looking forward to the time when the "Han King" sits on the country to divide power, and they will be able to get close to the water and get the moon first.
Although Qin Liangyu has been taken care of by Huang Han over the years, she has a lot of money on hand, but she has always been thrifty, and the wine banquet she arranged is actually not extravagant, and she does not use high-end wine "Yangchun Bai", and even the mid-range wine "General Triumph" is only used in the last grade.
Although the wine is ordinary and the dishes are ordinary, it does not affect the friendship between the two armies at all, and many Shuzhong generals take advantage of the wine to toast the generals of the "Red Banner Army", generally expressing a meaning.
In the future, we will work together with one master, and I hope to help you a lot!
Qin Yanyi, Zhang Fengyi, Qin Rong, Ma Lanhua, Ma Yuefeng and a group of female generals accompanied Qin Liangyu, deliberately covering up the drunken gaffes of the generals, not wanting Qin Liangyu to be stimulated.
Ma Xianglin, Qin Gongming, Qin Yiming, Ma Xianghe and other white-pole generals were full of pride, they opened their minds and drank, and they all vowed to make great achievements in the next Xi'an offensive and defensive battle to welcome the arrival of the new dynasty.
Xi'an City has strong barriers, and Gao Yingxiang, who does not admit defeat, is still talking and laughing when he is encircled, and he is planning a beautiful defensive counterattack.
However, the rogues found that the Ming army besieging Xi'an was also in the deep ditch barrier, and it was obvious that the other party was preparing to trap them.
The rogues did not wait for the Ming army to attack, but saw hundreds of big red hot air balloons soaring into the sky, and the heroic "flying army" rode the good wind to the ancient city of Xi'an.
There was an uproar in Xi'an City, and the rogues were all like stupid, Li Yan, Xing Hongniang, Gao Yigong, Liu Zhe and other big leaders also saw the "Red Flag Army" go to the sky for the first time, and Leng Keke stared at the hot air balloon in the sky in a daze.
Fortunately, the "flying army" did not throw Molotov cocktails this time, but leaflets with pictures and texts, otherwise the crowd on the ground who seemed to be stupid would have turned into roast duck on the stove.
The content of the leaflet was concise and clear, and the purpose was to tell everyone in Xi'an that the "Red Banner Army" gave preferential treatment to prisoners, and that there was a way to survive if they chose to surrender, and there was a way to die if they stubbornly resisted.
This battle of the heart and mind cannot be completed overnight, it will always drag on for a while, and in order to reduce the casualties on both sides, they can only slowly grind their tongues with the rogues.
The propaganda team interrogated the surrendered rogues and obtained a lot of information about the rogues in Xi'an, and found some of the families of the rogues outside the city.
In the following days, outside the city of Xi'an, there were often sad voices of mothers calling their sons home, tearful wives calling their husbands hoarsely, and children crying heartbreakingly when they called their fathers......