Chapter Forty-Six: The Third of the Eight Elite Banners
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Around Yizhou, all the villages were plagued by the Eight Banners, and the Eight Banners soldiers, who had looted the surrounding area, escorted the Korean young men who were strung together and walked out of the village, the old people and children of North Korea drove the car, and the women were put on the car. There were also some North Koreans who were escorted out of the village by Qing soldiers and drove their livestock.
The Qing soldiers snatched their things and let them drive their own livestock, no one wanted to do such a thing, but the Qing soldiers had a way, entered a village and ransacked it, and when they encountered someone who resisted, they cut off their heads. killed a few who resisted, and the rest of the people honestly followed the Qing soldiers.
Tuhai gave the order: "It is not easy to cut down trees in winter, let the Koreans tear down their houses and build siege weapons." ”
Anyway, few of these Koreans survived in the end, men, even children and the elderly, were driven to attack the city, women, old and ugly, treated the same as men, and dragged to the siege; The young and beautiful was picked up by the official as a concubine, and the rest of the reward was given to the Qing soldiers to vent, and after venting, they could be pulled back and sold to Qinglou to sell some silver. A woman who is too young can also be brought back as a maid and raised to talk about it.
Under the coercion of the Qing army, the Koreans had no choice but to demolish their houses. A few of them resisted and cut off their heads on the spot and hung them up with the heads of a group of people they had killed before to deter other North Koreans.
The Qing army captured more than 20,000 Korean civilians and plundered a large amount of grain and livestock. After three days and three nights of construction, simple siege weapons such as simple ladders and shield carts were built. Then, the Qing army began to attack the city.
The weather was so cold that the moats under the castle were frozen, and in order to prevent the defenders from burning the ice with oil tanks, even if the moat froze, the Koreans had to be expelled, and sandbags were filled into the moat with shield carts.
"Siege!" Tuhai gave an order.
With more than 300 Eight Banner soldiers from his Niulu, holding steel swords, and escorting auxiliaries composed of 1,000 Korean young and middle-aged people, Etuhun pushed the shield cart to the direction of the Yizhou city wall step by step.
At the head of the city, the North Korean soldiers looked at the North Korean people pushing shield carts and pulling sandbags, and they couldn't bear it. But when they saw the Korean people throwing sandbags all over the moat, the Korean officer at the head of the city gave an order: "Open the gun!" Shoot the arrows! Kill them! If they don't die, we die! ”
At the head of the city of Yizhou, birds and cannons roared, clusters of firelight erupted, the archers and crossbowmen at the head of the city shot arrows rained down, and the young Korean men who were throwing sandbags under the city suddenly flowed into a river of blood, and the corpses kept falling into the moat, falling on the ice, and the snow-covered ice was stained red with blood.
The Korean soldiers at the head of the city opened fire, and the Korean people who were driven away by the Qing soldiers were so frightened that they retreated.
"Kill!" Etu Hun, who had already killed several Koreans, had already been inspired by the most primitive brutality in his heart, and he took his own soldiers, wielding steel knives, and began to kill those unarmed Koreans who had retreated. In the blink of an eye, more than 500 North Koreans were cut down in the snow. The Koreans, who had not died, saw that they were going to be killed, so they had to turn their heads again and continue to fill the moat.
Under the coercion of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers, the Korean people kept pulling sandbags to fill the moat, and finally spread the sandbags from this side of the moat to the opposite side, and the sandbags were piled up on the ice, but because of the effect of gravity, the ice broke and the sandbags sank into the water. Someone came up from behind and continued to throw sandbags, and finally filled in a large section of the moat.
When the Koreans crossed the moat and began to attack the city with improvised ladders, the fire of the defenders at the head of the city became more intense, and bows, arrows, projectiles, and shotguns rained down like a torrential rain, and pieces of Koreans fell under the city.
The North Korean people braved the rain of bullets and rushed across the filled moat, and when they arrived at the bottom of the city, they set up a simple ladder under the city, and the rolling wood and stones, oil cans, wolf tooth beats, and yaksha beat fell on the top of the city, and a raging fire broke under the city, and one after another the ladder continued to break, and the North Koreans on it cried and fell into the sea of fire.
At the head of the city, 10,000 enemies were thrown down, exploding in the crowd of Koreans, and the ironclad terrestris flew in all directions, and swaths of Koreans fell in the smoke of gunpowder.
The firearms battalion of the Han Eight Banners under the city also opened fire, and the cannonballs whistled and smashed on the top of the city, blowing up the battlements of the women's wall, and knocking down many Korean soldiers defending the city. Rows of bullets were fired, and from time to time, North Korean soldiers who were attacking with their heads were shot and fell from the city. The elite archers of the Eight Banners outside the gate also approached the city, stretched out their bows and arrows, and shot rows of random arrows at the city.
The Korean soldiers defending the city also began to suffer casualties, and there were many casualties, especially the arrows of the Eight Banners outside the Guan, which were shot hard and accurately, as long as the head was exposed from behind the battlement, it would be shot by an arrow in the face.
The Qing army attacked for seven days in a row, and more than 10,000 Korean youths, old people, children and some old women who were used as cannon fodder died under the city, and less than 2,000 people remained from more than 10,000 cannon fodder, but several slopes were filled out by sandbags and corpses under the city wall, although they had not yet reached the city, but the slopes were not far from the city.
The general attack began, the Qing army set up cannons, and bombarded the city head fiercely, so that the scarred female wall battlements of the city head burst and shattered one after another, and the defenders at the city head suffered heavy casualties.
From the remaining more than 2,000 North Korean cannon fodder, plus more than 2,000 Korean prisoners who had been captured before, they pushed the shield cart and pushed it up the slope.
There are sandbags on the shield cart, and there are thick wooden planks that are combined by multiple door panels, and when the shield cart is pushed up, the sandbags are thrown down, and the wooden planks can be put directly on the head of the city, so that the Qing soldiers behind can kill them.
The defenders at the head of the city may have realized that this was the most critical moment, and the Korean soldiers stationed at the head of the city braved the projectiles and feathers and arrows under the city, and constantly beckoned down with birds, bows and arrows, rolling logs and stones, and various tools to defend the city. Constantly there were shield carts that were knocked over, and there were also shield carts that were shot by rockets and smashed by canisters of fire and oil, igniting a raging fire.
When the road leading to the city was finally filled, Zhang Asi and a group of Han Eight Banner soldiers jumped up.
"The Great Qing Dynasty is mighty! Kill! Zhang Ah Si shouted, holding a shield steel knife, and rushed up the slope with a shout.
Groups of Qing troops poured towards the slope, and the elite Eight Banners outside the pass used precise archery skills to cover the heavily armored Han Eight Banners and launched a final attack on the city.
Zhang Asi was the first to jump onto the city, and he slashed a North Korean soldier with a single sword. Another Korean soldier stabbed at him with a spear, but he blocked it with a shield, and another Han Eight Banner soldier behind him rushed up and cut down the Korean soldier with a knife.
On the city wall, the shouts of killing shook the sky, and more and more Qing soldiers killed the city.