Chapter 349: The Rakshasa People's Stubborn Resistance
Nalan Mingzhu returned to the city and told Kangxi several conditions for surrender: keep the Qing vassal king, but all the braids must be cut, the Qing army must all accept the reorganization and merge into the Ming army, and the Ming army will send officers to receive the surrender, and only a few hundred vassal kings' guards are allowed to remain; Hand over the Rakshasas and break with the Rakshasas from then on; handed over the eight families of the Jin merchants, and escorted the Jin merchants and traitors back to Beijing for trial; Send protons into Beijing, after which Kangxi can go west, and the fief of the Qing State is in the west of the territory of the original Great Food Empire, today's Persia to Lumi.
In the end, Mingzhu said: "The Ming and Mongols outside the city gave us two hours, and they said that after Weichen returned, if we did not open the door and surrender within two hours, they said that we refused to surrender and were going to attack the city." ”
"Then I don't have the opportunity to enter the Central Plains again? Still want to cut off your braids? Isn't this the severance of the foundation of our bannermen? Kangxi kicked over a chair in front of him.
"Grandson, now that our banner people can save their lives, it is a great luck! Grandson, you have also seen how powerful the pseudo-Ming firearms are! A firearm that is much farther away than a bow and arrow, a firearm that can be fired in bursts, what chance do we have of entering the Central Plains? Bumu Butai sighed.
Tu Hai knelt on the ground and said a thousand times: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, we still have a chance!" Now although the puppet Ming has returned to the capital, Wang Cheng and Yongli are not of the same mind, and the puppet Ming will have infighting sooner or later! At that time, we will still have a chance in the Qing Dynasty! Didn't they let us go west? We will go all the way west, conquer the territory of the Heavenly Sect, and co-opt them. Wait until the pseudo-Ming internal strife ends, and then we will turn back and kill back to the Central Plains. ”
"Infighting?" Bu Mu Butai shook his head bitterly, "Pseudo-Ming will cause infighting, but do you think, Yongli or Wu Yingqi, who of them is the opponent of Wang Rebellion?" In this world, it will neither be the Qing Dynasty nor the Ming Dynasty, and sooner or later it will be the king's rebellion! With the king's sophisticated firearms, isn't it easy to destroy Yongli? Let's not think about it. ”
Mingzhu's son Nalan Xingde said: "Your Majesty, Lafayette, as long as the flag people can leave a life, they are already content." ”
The reason why Wang Yu is willing to let go of the remaining banner people is because when they entered the customs, the banner people who owed the blood debt of the Han people were basically dead, some died of illness, some were killed, even if some old Tartars were captured a few years ago, they are almost dead now, and those who are not dead are still suffering endless torture.
Bahai dug the embankment of the Yellow River, and all the debts owed were repaid, and the Qing army in Bahai was completely wiped out.
Now there are more than 500,000 banner people who are fleeing to Beihai, and less than 100,000 people remain, and these people who survive are all the second and third generations of the Eight Banners born in Guannei, Wang Yu is not worried that these people will turn up the storm. As soon as it was adapted, the Qing army ceased to exist, and then cut the braids of the banner people and carried out sinicization, and the Eight Banners no longer existed.
After some painful deliberation, Bumu Butai finally issued an order to let the Qing army in the city go out of the city and surrender.
It was also when Nalan Mingzhu went out of the city to negotiate, Cherniaev, a Russian officer in the city, gathered several of his cronies together to discuss countermeasures.
"General, it seems that the Tatars are planning to surrender to the Ming people! These shameless barbarians, who, for their own lives, are likely to betray us! A Russian military officer said.
"yes, we can't just be tied up!" Another Russian soldier said.
Chernyaev's face was gloomy: "Although there are many Tatars, they are not our opponents at all!" If they really want to hand us over to the Ming people, we will fight with them! Pass my order, go and occupy the fort in the northwest corner first! ”
The Russian army went straight to the fort in the northwest of Beihai City, and at the gate of the fort, there were several coated infantry standing guards, and there were more than a dozen Russian gunners and more than 30 coated gunners on the fort. Seeing the Russian army coming up with great momentum, the clothed soldiers at the gate blocked the way of the Russian army: "What are you doing here?" ”
"Kill!" Chernyaev gave an order.
The two Russian soldiers in the front suddenly picked up their big axes and chopped off their heads and faces, and the heads of the two clothed soldiers fell to the ground.
"Hurry up!" Chernyaev shouted.
The murderous Russian army rushed into the castle and fought all the way up the steps. The oncoming clothed soldiers met the Russian soldiers, and they were slashed and killed by the tall Russian soldiers with an axe as soon as they looked at their faces. The Russians rushed to the top of the castle, leaving the corpses of the clothed soldiers on the steps. The Russian soldiers at the back closed the gate of the fortress and waited in the shooting hole.
"Bang" Although the Russians tried their best to avoid making a movement, one of the clothed soldiers pulled the trigger of the musket in his hand before he died.
"Who's firing the guns?" Tu Hai asked.
After a short time, someone came back and reported: "Master Tu, it's not good! The Rakshasas killed our men and occupied the fort in the northwest corner! ”
"Abominable Rakshasas! Pass my order, immediately organize a manpower attack, must capture the fort, and capture all the Rakshasas! Tuhai gave the order.
The Qing soldiers launched an attack in the direction of the fort, and the Russian troops stationed on the fort lit the artillery, and the whistling shells smashed into the crowd of Qing troops, and immediately knocked over more than a dozen Qing soldiers. Then another shell whistled, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers flew their flesh and blood.
The battery where the Russians fired was actually a kind of castle, and the walls of the battery were densely packed with shooting holes. But when the Qing soldiers approached the fort, tongues of fire spat out from the shooting holes, and the bullets drilled into the crowd, raising a diffuse blood mist, and the Qing soldiers fell screaming.
"There seems to be a fight in the city." Hearing the sound of gunfire coming from inside the city, Cheng Gon said to Zheng Xian.
Zheng Xi smiled: "It seems that the Rakshasa people are unwilling to be captured, and they have a fight with the dogs!" That's the best, let them kill each other for two hours! When the time comes, the full dog will naturally open the door and surrender! ”
The Russians' castle was not so easy to conquer, more than 2,000 Qing soldiers surrounded the castle and attacked fiercely for two hours, and more than 100 corpses fell outside the castle, but they could not get close to the castle door.
Listening to the sound of gunfire coming from the direction of the fort, Mingzhu said anxiously: "The time given to us by the Ming people and the Mongols has come, but we haven't taken the Rakshasa yet, what should we do?" ”
Bumu Butai said: "Open the city gate first and surrender to the Ming and Mongols." As for the Rakshasas, we've done our best, so let them deal with it. ”
The gates of the Beihai Imperial City were opened, and Kangxi and Bumu Butai led the Qing troops out of the city and surrendered, leaving only more than 1,000 people to surround the forts occupied by the Russian army, so as not to allow the Russians to take the opportunity to escape.
The Ming army entered the city and launched an attack on the artillery batteries where the Russians were entrenched. Taking advantage of the superiority in weapons, the Ming army suppressed the fire of the Russians, and then let the demolition team go up. In a series of deafening explosions, the castle collapsed, and Chernyaev and more than 200 Russian soldiers were buried in the rubble.