Chapter 476: Sweeping Operation
Operation 476 Sweep
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Tens of thousands of Yongning people poured out of the city, and a grain distribution station was set up in Liu Chong at the gate of the city, but all the people who came out of the city could come here to receive food.
"Come on, women, children, women and children each have three catties of food, and adult men can exchange five catties of food for braids, and they are all lined up!"
The grain here is ordinary rice noodles, not sweet potatoes, so it is given relatively little.
But it is these three or five catties of grain, if these people boil gruel every day, it is enough for them to last for more than half a month.
When they arrived in Jinzhou, there were hundreds of thousands of stone of sweet potatoes from land and sea, which were enough to feed these people who had migrated over.
At the gate of the city, a white dragon sergeant roared loudly, and more than a dozen white dragon sergeants around him maintained order.
I saw that the people of Yongning who dragged their families out of the city one by one, those adult males would cut off the rat's tail at the back of their heads and come to the White Dragon Army's food distribution to receive food.
Yongning has been occupied by the Tartars for more than ten years, and the people here have long been forced by the Tartars to shave their hair, and the men all have a pig's tail.
Now, Liu Chong wants them to cut off the pig's tail and be the people of the Ming Dynasty again.
The people who came, whether they were women, children, children, or adult men, each of them could get food and a set of cotton clothes, which were all looted by the White Dragon Army from several large families in the city.
Because of the food and cotton clothes, the people in Yongning City were more cooperative in relocating, and those who dared to cause trouble were all executed by the White Dragon Army.
As all the people withdrew from Yongning City, the White Dragon Army burned down the entire city, and since they could not occupy this place for the time being, they would never leave it to the Tartars.
After the implementation of these two measures, cutting the whip and burning the city, basically made those Yongning people completely lose their nostalgia for this place, and at this time he had to move to Jinzhou.
In this way, Liu Chong is not worried, these Yongning people will not move away.
Subsequently, Liu Chongzai left a confidant general and led 500 soldiers to be responsible for the relocation of these Yongning people.
The rest of the soldiers under his own leadership rushed to Fuzhou more than 30 miles south overnight.
As a result, at noon the next day, the flag of the Ming Dynasty and the military flag of the White Dragon Army were planted on the gate of Fuzhou.
The process of Liu Chong leading the army to break through Fuzhou City can be described as quite easy.
After the White Dragon Army fired a few shrapnel grenades at the head of Fuzhou City, they pushed dozens of artillery pieces, including the twelve-pounder and howitzer, to the city and bombarded the Fuzhou City Gate.
Dozens of artillery pieces, without interference, bombarded for half an hour, and finally collapsed the city gate of Fuzhou.
Fortunately, the city wall of Fuzhou is not very strong, and the old artillery on the city wall of the Tartar is completely an ornament for the White Dragon Army.
The artillery of the White Dragon Army was outside the city, and they could not only load and open the cannons without any scruples, but it took half an hour to blast open the gate of Fuzhou.
In the final analysis, the caliber of the artillery brought by the White Dragon Army is too small, even if it is a twelve-pound howitzer for siege cities, it is a bit difficult to see, let alone the six- or eight-pound artillery.
These artillery pieces are strong in the field, but when it comes to siege, it is still those large-caliber artillery, or even mortars, that are cool.
However, there is no way, at this time, Liu Chong can only make do with it, he is now bullying the Tartars that there is no artillery in their hands that can fight back against them, otherwise Fuzhou City would not be so easy to take.
After the Fuzhou city gate was blown down, the infantry of the 'Zhenliao' regiment escorted the musketeers and killed them all the way through the collapsed city gate.
The sharp flintlock pistol, coupled with a large number of light small artillery such as tiger squat and Franc machine, hit the Tartars and traitor soldiers in the city, and complained bitterly.
Fuzhou is in the territory of the Tartars, and it is not considered to be close to the front line of the Ming Dynasty.
Especially after the Tartars eliminated Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town, the coastal areas of the Tartars became stable and there were no worries.
But today, the Tartars never imagined that there would be a powerful Ming army that would be killed from the sea.
The Tartars were stationed in Fuzhou City, far less than the ones in Yongning City, about 200 Tartars, plus more than 800 other Menghan coats.
And not long ago, Huang Taiji sent 100 Tartar soldiers and 200 Mongolian soldiers from Fuzhou to the north and rushed to Jinzhou, but at this time, the defenders in the city were only about 500 people.
When the White Dragon Army blasted open the city gates with cannons, the Tartars and Mongol soldiers resisted desperately.
And the five hundred traitor soldiers decisively chose to surrender after encountering a round of devastating blows from the White Dragon Army Musket Battalion.
When the Tartars and Mongol soldiers in Fuzhou City were all annihilated, Fuzhou City fell intact into the hands of the White Dragon Army.
"Fortunately, there are few Tartar soldiers in Fuzhou City, and we can break the city fast enough, they didn't even have time to burn the grain and cloth in the warehouse, so it's cheaper for us now."
An adjutant general walked over and reported to Liu Chongyu with a big laugh.
"Yes, that's good, when we move the people of Fuzhou, these grains and cloths will just be used." Liu nodded emphatically.
"However, General, there is not much grain in those warehouses in Fuzhou City, at most there is only a thousand stones."
A logistics officer took the account book that had just been sorted out and reported to Liu Chongyu: "This Fuzhou is far less rich than Yongning!" ”
"How many count, immediately organize the people to relocate, or the old way, directly distribute it to the relocated people outside the city, and also save us from moving back.
However, since there was not enough grain and cotton cloth in the storehouses in the city, we had to scrape together it from the big landlords in the city. Liu Zhong said calmly.
"By the way, General, there is also a Tartar ranch here in Fuzhou, just now our people occupied this ranch, and found hundreds of war horses in it, as well as many mares and foals!"
"What? Great, the order is to bring all these horses back to Golden State, and by the way, you must protect those mares and foals. ”
"Yes."
The White Dragon Army lacked war horses, which Liu Chong naturally knew, so he attached so much importance to the ranch he occupied this time and the war horses he captured.
Although Fuzhou is not as rich as Yongning, with Liu Chong taking Fuzhou, the harvest is also huge.
On the one hand, there is the population, and the population of Fuzhou is also quite large, there are tens of thousands of people, and Liu Chong is ready to move all of them to Jinzhou.
On the other hand, it is these war horses, especially in the Fuzhou ranch, those mares are what Li Zixiao has always hoped for.
Because of these mares, which have not been castrated, they can set up their own pastures and breed their own war horses.
You must know that for a long time, the Tartars have forbidden the trade of war horses in the pass, let alone the mare, that is, not a single hair can flow into the pass.
"In just a few days, we broke Port Arthur, Nanguanbao, Jinzhou City, Yongning City and Fuzhou City one after another.
Geng Zhongming probably fled north to Gaizhou, presumably the Tartars would soon know the situation here, but for a while, the Tartars estimated that they would not be able to catch up.
Because the Jinzhou side is about to fight, Huang Taiji will not send Tartars over at this time, but it is estimated that a small number of Tartars will come over.
The time left for us is quite sufficient, seize the time, and take advantage of this opportunity to send troops to Fuzhou and Yongning for a thorough sweep.
Completely remove all the people of these two places, and give the Tartars a complete clear of the wall. Liu Zhong proposed.
"General, aren't we going to fight Gaizhou?" Someone asked.
"Gaizhou is a hundred miles away from Fuzhou, and now Geng Zhongming estimates that he has already fled to Gaizhou, and the Tartars of Gaizhou should be on guard.
Let's rush over again, I don't know if we can take down Gaizhou, instead of being greedy and chewing more, it is better to digest the Fuzhou and Yongning that we have laid first. ”
"That's right, I support the general's decision, Gaizhou is too far away, eat Fuzhou and Yongning first, and move all the people here, whether Gaizhou wants to fight or not, let's wait and see."
A general seconded.
"Well, go down and carry it out, and remember to send out more sentry horses, and scatter them thirty miles away, and keep an eye on the movement of the Tartars to the north.
Hurry up and sweep it, the relocation policy is still the same as that of Yongning City, distributing food and cotton clothes to the relocated people.
The first team went to raid the homes of several large families in Fuzhou City, and took away all the ones that could be taken away, and burned all the ones that could not be taken away, and did not leave them to the Tartars at all.
You remember, the people who are willing to move are the people of our Ming Dynasty, and those who insist on refusing to move are the slaves of the Tartars.
The general said that we should be amiable to our own people, and we should not be so polite to the enemy's people. ”
Liu Zhong said to his generals.
"Yes, General, my subordinates understand." Everyone responded in unison.
At this time, Geng Zhong had indeed fled to Gaizhou, bringing the news of the loss of Yongning to Gaizhou, causing a shock to the Tartars.
Gaizhou City, already in the north of the Liaodong Peninsula, is also a relatively important city on the Liaodong Peninsula, a strategic place, and the Tartars sent heavy troops to guard it.
The Tartars of Gaizhou did not act rashly, and immediately sent someone to send a letter to Huang Taiji, who had arrived at Xiping Fort at this time, informing Huang Taiji of the situation on the Liaodong Peninsula at this time.
Huang Taiji, who had left Shenyang, had already arrived at Xiping Fort at this time, preparing to continue to Guangning to direct the Tartars' war in Jinzhou.
At this time, the situation in Jinzhou became more and more solemn, because of the Tartar construction of Yizhou, aggressive posture, the Ming army was constantly increasing troops here.
Similarly, Huang Taiji saw that the time was almost up, and he was also dispatching troops to prepare for a fight with the Ming army here in Songjin.
Because, according to Huang Taiji's strategic vision, instead of letting them Tatar lead the army into the pass, it is better to attract the main force of the Ming army out of the pass.
In this way, fighting in the area of Songjin, the local advantage of the Ming army was completely eliminated.
It's just that what Huang Taiji didn't expect was that seeing that his layout in Jinzhou was about to be completed, it was time to close the net.
Unexpectedly, their backyard caught fire at this time.
"Waste, it's all a bunch of waste, Zachdan waste, Geng Zhongming is also waste, there are more than 3,000 people in Yongning City, and it was a shame that people broke through it in half a day!"
Huang Taiji of Xiping Fort, after seeing the information sent by the Gaizhou Tartars, thundered and roared loudly.
(End of chapter)