Chapter 274: Under the Battle of Seoul
Carrying a sack full of dirt and sand, the morale-high North Koreans rushed to the moat and dropped the sack. The resistance of the Korean Eight Banners and the Korean Green Battalion at the head of the city www.biquge.info was very weak, and occasionally a few bold guys poked their heads out to shoot arrows and fired, and they were beaten into a hornet's nest by the Ming army musketeers.
The North Koreans suffered little damage and quickly filled a section of the moat.
"Storm the city and kill all the Tartars!" Ri Pyo issued an order to the Korean Minzhuang.
A group of Korean people who served as death squads were given weapons, and during this time, small boats anchored on the banks of the Han River brought not only food and ammunition, but also a batch of armor, shields, and weapons. The armor is iron armor made of machines, which is thin but has good protection. The shield is covered with a layer of iron on the outside of wood, and the weapon is a cold weapon such as a sword and spear. In the eyes of the Korean people, this kind of equipment is already very sophisticated and good equipment.
"Kill the Tartars!" The Koreans shouted and rushed over the filled moat, rushed to the gap in the wall that had been opened by artillery, set up a small ladder, and climbed up the gap.
The breach opened by the bombardment was not the collapse of the entire wall, but the small foundation of the wall, which was piled up with rammed earth and broken bricks forming a slope. Just add up the short ladders and climb over the foundation of the wall to climb up the slope to the top of the city.
The Korean Eight Banners and the Korean Green Battalion soldiers defending the city resisted on both sides of the gap, and the feathered arrows and bird guns were shot down, and the first group of Korean people who rushed through the moat fell. The musketeers of the Ming Army of the Nanyang Marine Corps, who followed behind the Korean Minzhuang, opened fire, and the Marines, who were all equipped with Mini shells, fought accurately and quickly, and several rounds of bullets flew up, and the Korean Eight Banners and the Korean Green Battalion soldiers who stood on the walls on both sides of the gap rolled down from the rubble.
Under the cover of the Ming army's firepower, the North Korean people rushed to the gap.
Most of the North Korean Eight Banners and North Korean Green Battalions guarding both sides of the gap ran away, leaving only a few guys who didn't know whether they were brave or stupid, still standing there to resist, only to be swallowed up by the angry North Korean people in the blink of an eye.
"Don't quit! Go up! Retreater, slash! "Amida, the commander of the Qing army, stood behind the Koreans with the warlords. The supervising team was composed of Manchu, Mongolian, Han and Han Eight Banners and Green Battalion soldiers, and the retreating Korean Eight Banners and Korean Green Battalion soldiers were killed by the Qing army, and even Amida hacked three Koreans to death with his own hands.
The defeat of the army was like a mountain, and the morale of the North Korean Eight Banners and the North Korean Green Battalion was originally low, and they were attacked again, and with only 500 Eight Banner soldiers and 1,000 Green Battalion soldiers, they could not stop the defeated Koreans at all.
The defeated soldiers rushed over, enveloped Amida and the Qing army, and retreated into the city.
The Korean people shouted and slaughtered the top of the city tower, killed the Korean Eight Banners and the Korean Green Camp stationed on it, and controlled the city gate tower and the top of the urn city. Later, a group of Korean people who killed the city opened the city gate.
"Kill!" The Korean people who had been waiting at the gate of the city for a long time let out an earth-shattering roar and poured into the city.
It means that the red light of the critical situation in the city is raised in the Bell and Drum Tower, and then two red lights are raised, which means that the city is about to be destroyed. Soon the third red light was raised, which meant that the enemy was pouring into the city from multiple directions, and it was already in danger, in fact, it was equivalent to the destruction of the city.
"The city is broken! The city is broken! The Ming army and the Korean people who were besieging the city let out thunderous cheers.
On a number of city gate towers, the Ming banner and the Wang Zi Shuai flag were raised, which means that these city gate towers have been controlled by the Ming army.
"Rubbish! Those North Koreans are a bunch of rubbish! It's just vulnerable! There are so many people, even a group of peasants who have just put down their hoes and picked up knives can't beat them! Amida was so angry that she scolded.
The Qiongzhou army and the Korean people poured into the city, and the Korean Eight Banners and the Korean Green Battalion soldiers took off their military uniforms one after another, changed into the clothes of the common people, and hid in the homes of the North Korean civilians in the city, and some North Korean soldiers even cut off the braids at the back of their heads.
Seeing that the general trend had gone, Amida surrendered to the Qiongzhou Army with the remaining more than 300 Eight Banner soldiers and more than 700 Green Battalion soldiers. is also because the capital has been lost, Kangxi has already fled from the capital, and Amida is not loyal to a Qing court that has fled and lost its legitimacy.
"Are you Qing or Korean?" Wang Yu asked.
Amida replied: "We are all Qing people, not incompetent Koreans!" Except for a few Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, the rest were Han Chinese. ”
"Since you are from the Qing Dynasty, surrender and avoid death. Now that the Qing Kingdom has declared itself a vassal to us, as long as you surrender, this domain will not kill you. But capital sins can be avoided, but living sins cannot be escaped. I will give you two ways, one is to immigrate overseas; The second is to join our army, starting with auxiliaries. Wang Yu said.
"Ministers?" Amida was stunned.
Wang Yu asked people to take out the agreement on peace talks with the Qing court, which clearly stated that the Qing Empire was renamed the Qing Kingdom, and it became a vassal state to the Ming Dynasty.
"Since we are ministers, why didn't the marshal let us go back to the emperor?" Amida asked.
"Because of your crimes in Korea, our army is attacking, and you still have to resist. For that point, it deserves to be punished. If it was left three or four years ago, and the defenders refused to surrender before we attacked the city, after the city was broken, the main general and the chief officer who defended the city were beheaded. Now that the world is decided, this clan is unwilling to kill more, so he will let you wait. Wang Yu replied.
Amida thought for a moment and chose to emigrate overseas.
The Qing army in Seoul surrendered, and the Korean Minzhuang and Qiongju armies that invaded the city began to clear the remnants of the enemy in the city. Most of the North Korean Eight Banners and North Korean Green Battalion soldiers hid in civilian homes, causing some trouble for the search and arrest work. According to Ri Yong's request, none of these North Koreans can let go.
"All these scum must be searched out, and no one can be spared!" Li Zhuo said angrily.
"But the thieves are all broken into pieces and hiding in people's homes, and it is not easy for us to find out." Khadedi replied.
Wang Yuyou stroked his beard and said with a smile: "It's not simple? A notice was issued to tell the Korean people in the city that if the North Korean Eight Banners and the North Korean Green Camp were reported, regardless of men, women, and children, as long as one of them came out, they would be rewarded with two taels of silver! If you conceal it and don't report it, you will be guilty of the same crime as the North Korean Eight Banners and the Green Battalion! ”
The Ming army posted notices everywhere, and also sent people to beat gongs and drums to publicize the contents of the notices everywhere, so that illiterate people could also know what was written on the notices.
After learning that the Ming army had issued a notice, some Korean people in the city could not resist the temptation of silver, and reported the Korean Eight Banners and the Korean Green Camp that had worked hard for the Manchus. Some North Korean civilians were afraid of being implicated, and they also identified the North Korean Eight Banners and the North Korean Green Battalion, and some even led the Ming army to search for those people.
Originally, the Korean Eight Banners and the Korean Green Camp gave the Korean people a very bad impression, and when the Qing court was in Korea, they aided and abused the Koreans, and treated the Koreans more ruthlessly than the Qing soldiers to the Koreans, and now they have all been pushed out by the Koreans.