Chapter 228: Archaeological Excavation
On the north bank of the Donghun River in Shengjing City, there is a huge mausoleum, surrounded by a city wall, with a magnificent complex of buildings inside, which looks like a suburban palace. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis mausoleum is Fuling, which is the mausoleum of the old slave.
Garrisoned in Fuling are the descendants of the old slave's uncle's family and the descendants of the aunt's family, including the Xitara clan of the mother's uncle's family, the Ilgen Jueluo clan and the Sakda clan of the aunt's family, and a total of 65 officials of the uncle and aunt Zhangjing and 100 soldiers of the uncle and aunt's grandson.
Fuling is not far from Shengjing City, and when Zheng attacked the Shengjing Imperial City, the rumbling cannon sound reached Fuling.
"What's going on in Shengjing City? What's the shot? The Sitara clan, who was stationed in Fuling, was very surprised.
"Let's send someone to Shengjing City to take a look and see what's going on!" Ilgen Jue Roche said.
A fast horse left Fuling and galloped in the direction of Shengjing.
In the snow, three Ming soldiers wearing white cloaks were lying in ambush, staring at the road leading from Fuling to Shengjing City. Seeing a Eight Banners soldier out of Fuling and galloping in the direction of Shengjing, one of them did not pull the trigger at night, and a gunshot rang out, and a blood flower erupted from the head of the Eight Banners and fell from the horse.
Almost at the same moment, a fast horse also ran out of the Zhaoling Tomb in the north of the city, and soon after a gunshot was heard in the snow, and the Eight Banners soldiers who came out of the Zhaoling Tomb were also shot and killed.
After that, Fuling successively sent three fast horses, and Zhaoling also sent two fast horses, these five Eight Banner cavalry were all meat buns and dogs, and they all were sniped by the Ming army at night on the way.
The Qing soldiers in Fuling could not wait for the news of Shengjing's feedback for a long time, and several officials guarding the tomb argued, and some people said that they would send more people to Shengjing, but they were opposed by the Sakda clan: "No! There are 100 soldiers, and there is no news from the four of them, and there will be no one here if we go out again! When the time comes, if the thieves come to the Taizu Mausoleum, where can we stop it? ”
After some arguments, in the end, the Qing army guarding the tomb did not dare to send people to Shengjing again. However, Ilgenjue Luo suggested that someone should be sent to Liaoyang to report the news.
The officials guarding the tomb approved the proposal, and sent three messengers to cross the Hunhe River on horseback, make a detour to the east, avoid a possible ambush, and attempt to report the news to Liaoyang. Who knew that the messenger who came out still ran into the Ming army who was ambushed nearby, and all three messengers were shot, and none of them could escape.
The officials and the Eight Banners in Fuling spent three days in anxiety, they did not dare to send out, and they did not dare to flee from Fuling without authorization, so they could only sit in it every day and bow to the old slave buried inside, hoping that the old slave could bless the thieves outside not to target Fuling, so that they could protect the old slave here safely.
Unfortunately, it was impossible for the old slave to manifest and bless them, and on the fourth day, a large convoy of four-horse sleds appeared on the snow outside, galloping in the direction of Fuling.
"It's a thief!" Suddenly seeing the strange convoy appearing on the snow, Sitara was shocked, "There are too many! There are so many thieves! It's all tanks! At least three hundred tanks! ”
The Qing soldiers guarding the tomb were still surprised, the climate was cold, icy and snowy, and the snow was up to their knees, how could these cars run so fast on the snow? How did the opponent do it? It wasn't until the Qing soldiers saw that the cars had no wheels and were walking in the snow on two skateboards that they understood what was going on. But when they understand, it will be their end.
As soon as the Ming army arrived at the gate of Fuling, they launched an attack on the Qing army guarding the tomb.
The cannons mounted on the sled carts were removed, and the Ming soldiers dug a clearing in the snow, fixed the artillery mount of the cannons in the open space, set up the cannons, and began to load the shells. A few minutes later, the first shell, with a piercing whistling sound, smashed into the Fuling gate.
"The thieves are coming to attack Fuling!" The Qing soldiers guarding the tomb were ready to meet the battle, hiding in the building behind the gate, just waiting for the Ming army to attack the gate.
After a few rounds of shells, the gate of Fuling was blasted open, and groups of Ming infantry poured into Fuling, followed by more than a hundred cavalrymen on horseback.
A row of feather arrows shot out of the building in front of the "whoosh", and many of the Ming soldiers who poured into the tomb were hit by arrows.
I don't know when the rifled gunners who climbed up to the city gate tower picked up their guns and kept shooting at the houses where the Qing archers were hiding, killing several sharpshooters. Then the Ming army rushed to the door of the house and threw a volley of grenades. In a series of explosions, the Qing soldiers hiding inside suffered heavy casualties.
The Ming army rushed towards the one hundred and eight steps of Tianzhu Mountain, and in front of them came a row of Eight Banner soldiers armed with swords and guns.
"Fire!" The Ming garrison roared.
More than 60 musketeers lined up in five rows, and the muskets fired in turns, and none of the more than 30 Qing soldiers who rushed over could rush in front of the Ming army, and all of them were beaten into a hornet's nest halfway through, and rolled down the steps one after another.
The Ming army rushed up the steps, after more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the Ming army completely controlled Fuling, only 11 of the more than 100 Qing soldiers stationed in Fuling were captured, the rest were all killed, 65 officials guarding the tomb were killed 14 people, and the rest were captured. In addition, the Ming army also captured more than 800 family members of officials, family members of flag soldiers, and clothed servants who guarded the tomb.
The Fuling Palace was occupied by the Ming army, and the captives were escorted to the open ground outside the mausoleum.
"Say it! Where is the entrance to the dungeon? Just say it, and you can guarantee the safety of all of you! Cao Conglong looked coldly at an elderly Ilgen Jueluo clan official guarding the tomb.
"Phew!" After all, the mausoleum guard official is a relative of the old slave, and he still has a backbone, "Despicable Han dog!" You don't want to know the entrance to the dungeon! ”
"Pull it down! Slashed! Cao Conglong roared.
"Wait!" A Ming army officer who had served in Jinyiwei said, "My lord, this matter will be handled by the lowly position!" The humble position once worked in Yingtianfu Jinyiwei, and when he entered our Jinyiwei Zhao Prison, even if it was a stone, he could make him speak! Let the lowly officials interrogate them, and they will definitely be able to ask the words from the mouths of these Jiannu! ”
Cao Conglong nodded, and handed over the matter of interrogating the prisoner to the officer.
Although the strength of the factory guards was seriously weakened during the Chongzhen period, the methods of Jinyiwei interrogating prisoners were not wasted at all, as long as they were arrested in Zhaojiao, Jinyiwei had various means to make prisoners speak.
A large room in the Fuling Ground Palace was temporarily converted into a cell for interrogating the prisoners, and the Ming army officer took a group of soldiers under his command and began the interrogation of the prisoners. As soon as he came up, the Ming army first gave one of the old bannermen an appetizer. The so-called hors d'oeuvres are first whipped with a whip, then scalded with a soldering iron, and after the coma has passed, then doused with melted snow water to wake up. As for the various means in the back, slowly increase the weight little by little.