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After chasing to Chenliu, there were [-] Han troops and Eight Banners in the city, and it was Dorgon who stayed to stop the pursuers.

These Eight Banners of the Han Army were also unlucky, and they were obviously abandoned.But their wives, children, and children are all in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and they will be punished if they dare to abandon the city and flee.If you ignore your family and choose to surrender to the Datong Army, there will probably be no good end.

Can only hold on.

In desperation, the viciousness was manifested. The Eight Banners of the Han Army burned, killed, looted and insulted women in Kaifeng.

In just half a day, the Datong Army captured Kaifeng.Because the city is too big, 2000 people can't defend it under siege from all sides.

Moreover, there are people in the city to help!

After Zhao Han led his troops into the city, a few gentry and a large number of civilians knelt down on the street and cried, "Your Majesty, you must decide for the common people!"

Zhao Han asked, "What happened?"

A gentry took off his hat, showing his tail of money, and said angrily: "These Tartar soldiers rob goods and rape women, but they take pleasure in killing people. They force all the people in the city to shave their hair, and those who don't shave their hair will be punished." Kill, Xiaomin... Xiaomin had no choice but to shave his hair to save his life..."

It's no wonder that when the Datong army attacked Kaifeng, as soon as they landed from the moat by boat, the people in the city had already revolted.

Zhao Han asked about the specific situation, and when he learned that thousands of people in Kaifeng had been killed and dozens of women committed suicide, he was immediately angry.He asked, "How many prisoners were taken?"

It has not been checked clearly, and some of the Eight Banners of the Han army ran into houses to hide after the city was broken.

Another half an hour later, Li Zheng came over to report: "More than 600 captives are all from the Eight Banners of the Han Army. They knew that they would die, so they forced the people in the city to shave their hair, and tortured them to death when they met those who refused to shave their hair. The general who led the army It is Liu Wuyuan, the commander of the Eight Banners of the Puppet Qing and Han Army, who passed out after being injured."

Zu Dashou once feigned surrender. Although he took the opportunity to escape, several sons and a large number of frontier generals really surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

This Liu Wuyuan is one of them, and now he is not only a member of the Han army flag, but also awarded the hereditary third-class captain of light vehicles.Several of his sons were all officials in the Qing Dynasty. After being left behind this time, he could only choose to die himself, so that his sons would be reused by the Qing Dynasty.

"Bring people here." Zhao Han said.

Liu Wuyuan estimated that he lost too much blood, his face was pale, and his body was weak.Since Zhao Han wanted to see him, the people below were afraid that he would die, so they even bandaged the wound.

A basin of cold water was poured out, and Liu Wuyuan opened his eyes.

Zhao Han asked, "It's fine if you want to die, why do you want to kill innocent people?"

Liu Wuyuan remained silent.

Zhao Han didn't bother to ask any more, because he suddenly found it boring.He waved his hand and said, "Not one of these prisoners of the Han army banner will be left behind, and all of them will be beheaded for public display. As for this man, there is no need to execute him immediately. For one limb, immediately burn the wound to death with a branding iron, bandage him to stop the bleeding, and be sure to chop off all four limbs before dying!"

Liu Wuyuan finally panicked, and shouted: "If you want to kill, you can kill, why should you be so humiliated?"

"You also know that this is humiliation? Have you thought about the people in the city?" Zhao Han was full of anger, and shouted, "Take him down, so that he can heal his injuries and prevent him from committing suicide!"

Hundreds of prisoners of the Han army banner were dragged out of the city and lined up one by one to beheaded.

Countless people who were forced to shave their hair had already cut off their braids and went out of the city wearing hats to watch.Those without hats also wrap their heads with cloth handkerchiefs.

With one blow, his head fell to the ground.

"it is good!"

The people cheered and cheered.

"Bah, pah!"

Zhao Kuan was one of the executioners. He was also forced to shave his head and volunteered to ask for help in execution.

After spitting twice and rubbing his hands, Zhao Kuan raised his sword again, and shouted to the onlookers: "Everyone, old and young neighbors, watch out, my Zhao Da's sword is fast or not!"

A gentry shouted: "Zhao Da, don't let the Tartars die quickly, it's better to cut off half of the neck with one knife, and hurt these dogs to death!"

"No, no, no, the craftsmanship can't be broken." Zhao Kuan waved his hands again and again, he has his own professionalism.

Swinging the knife again, the head fell to the ground, as expected, the craftsmanship was exquisite.

"it is good!"

The people sincerely admired it.

Lu Xiangsheng led the Xiao cavalry and took the dragon cavalry with him. Ten thousand cavalry bypassed Kaifeng and went straight after the Tartars.

He led his troops to a crossing point, and before charging, nearly ten thousand people knelt down and begged for surrender.

Shanxi's general Tu Guobao threw away his weapon, trotted forward, ran close and knelt down again: "Shuai Lu, we don't want to cross the river with the Tartars. This is where the soldiers and generals are, and the place where the Tartars cross the river is still there. Further east."

Lu Xiangsheng remained expressionless and scolded, "Lead the way!"

Chapter 428 [The plague is the enemy]

Dorgon had already crossed the river with more than 30 cannons, and put the cannons on the opposite bank.

As for the soldiers of the Eight Banners, the Eight Banners of Manchuria crossed the river first, followed by the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army were in charge of the rear.At this moment, most of the Eight Banners of the Han Army had crossed the river, and there were only a few thousand Wuzhenchao Ha camps left.

"Boom boom boom!"

Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to chase after him, and the Manchu and Qing artillery on the other side fired immediately.

"Spread out the formation!"

"The dragoons light the match!"

Kong Youde stood on the other side of the Yellow River, and one of the Han army's banner firearms soldiers who had not yet crossed the river was his only son Kong Tingxun.

Dorgon ordered: "All the boats are destroyed, don't cross the river to pick up people. As for the Han army flag on the other side, as many as you can come over."

Kong Youde hesitated to speak, he didn't dare to disobey his orders, so he could only direct the artillery to shoot at the Datong cavalry who surrounded them.

After a while, Dorgon said with an ugly face: "Don't worry about it, the whole army is going out!"

It's not that Dorgon didn't save him, but those Han army flags were scrambling to board the boat and cross the river.Among them are more than 2000 firecrackers. If they lined up by the river and supported by artillery, it is entirely possible for the heavy infantry to cross the river safely.

But in this case, who is willing to sacrifice himself for others and risk his life to cover the escape of friendly troops?

Kong Tingxun, who was in charge of the firecrackers, rushed to board the boat himself, and the rest of the firecrackers followed suit.It is impossible to line up at all, and it is a mess everywhere, with heavy infantry and musketeers pushing each other.

The ship was full and could not leave the shore, and there were always soldiers who wanted to go up.

Ever since, the soldiers who had boarded the ship swung their knives at those who had not boarded the ship.There were even firecrackers, shooting at the soldiers climbing the ship, and the roaring, crying, cursing, and begging on the shore were loud.

Seeing this situation, Lu Xiangsheng only ordered hundreds of dragoons to rush over and fire guns at these Han army flags in an extremely scattered formation.

The scene suddenly became more chaotic, and several ships were directly overturned.

As the Manchu artillery on the opposite bank was dragged away, Lu Xiangsheng ordered the cavalry to charge.

The flags of the Han army who had not yet boarded the ship jumped into the river to flee for their lives, and some of them knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Bang bang bang!"

The dragoons came to the river, got off their horses, raised their guns, and fired at the enemy on board.

Kong Youde's only son, Kong Tingxun, had successfully boarded the boat, and the boat was more than ten meters away from the shore.However, several people on the boat were shot, and Kong Tingxun was pushed into the Yellow River by his own soldiers under panic and shoving.

"Pull... Ha... Gu Gu Gu Gu... Pull me up..."

Kong Tingxun couldn't swim, so he struggled and shouted in the water. In a blink of an eye, he drifted a few meters downstream and hit the bottom of another boat.

Feeling dizzy, he choked on a few more sips of water, and Kong Tingxun emerged from the water again.

"Ah!"

Another Han army flag was shot and fell into the water, hitting Kong Tingxun's side.This guy hugged the soldier's body as a life-saving straw, but it was still sinking.

After a while of ups and downs, my stomach was finally full, and all my strength was exhausted, and I sank with endless fear.

……

With the withdrawal of the Qing army, the various counties of Kaifeng prefecture will decide.

Immediately afterwards, Huaiqing Mansion, Weihui Mansion, and Zhangde Mansion were attached.Even the Daming Mansion and Guangping Mansion, which belonged to Northern Zhili, quickly changed their banners, and civil servants and military generals shouted long live the Emperor Zhao.

It is impossible for these guys to continue to be officials, and it would be nice if they could not be severely punished.

For demoting officials and generals, Zhao Han has already formulated standards for handling them.

The first class, those who have made meritorious deeds.

When the war situation was uncertain, he was not attacked by the Datong army, but took the initiative to rebel against the Qing Dynasty.Or at a critical moment, the outcome is not yet decided, and they defect.Regardless of the papers, officials and military generals, these are all meritorious service. Past crimes are not blamed, and rewards will be given as appropriate.

For example, Huang Fei and Ma Jinzhong in Shandong, and Yuan Shizhong, Jiang Yu, and Jiang Xuan in Henan.

These must be commended, especially Jiang Xuan, who was killed in the fight with Wu Sangui in order to cover Datong's pawns, and his spirit can be sent to the Temple of Heroes for worship.

The living Huang Fei and other generals were first recalled to Nanjing to study Datong theory, and then assigned to various troops to visit and study training.When the No.12 Division of the Datong Army is formed in the future, they can directly serve as regiment-level officers, and the number of troops in command is 1500.

As for the leaders of the rebel army, they also went to Nanjing to study first, and those who were willing to serve as soldiers were given positions as appropriate.

Those who have studied like Yan Yingyuan can directly become the county magistrate because of their great achievements.

The second class is to surrender anyway, and to follow the wind.

Facing the front of the Datong army, give up resistance and surrender immediately.Or the overall situation has been decided, and the flag is changed upon hearing the news.

These people still have to be interrogated. If they commit a lot of evil, they can be spared the death penalty, but they cannot escape the death penalty.Those who commit the most heinous crimes cannot be exempted from the death penalty, and not killing them is not enough to cause the people to be angry.

For example, the soil national treasure that was surrendered by the Yellow River was born as a water bandit, greedy and cruel.

Historically, this guy was the first governor of Jiangning in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who massacred Jiangnan anti-Qing martyrs.After pacifying the south of the Yangtze River, he searched for money and harmed the people, causing public grievances to boil. Even the Manchu Qing court couldn't stand it. He became the first general to be sentenced to death for corruption and selling private salt.

In this time and space, Tu Guobao came to Henan with the Qing army, and killed countless people when he went to the countryside to collect food.

Surrender is also death!

The third category is surrender after the battle, which is directly classified as a prisoner of war.

All middle and high-level generals were beheaded without further interrogation.After being interrogated by low-level military officers, ordinary soldiers were all beaten as criminals. If they stopped committing crimes within five years, they could apply to the government to become good citizens.

"Your Majesty, good news from the Eighth Division!"

"Bring it."

Zhao Han read the battle report carefully, but it was the Eighth Division led by Liu Zhu, who led troops to attack Baofeng County after quickly capturing Lushan County.

The guard of this city will be Zhenghuang Banner Meilezhangjing (Deputy Capital Commander) Andari, who followed Nurhachi very early on and is regarded as a minority shareholder of Manqing Company.If he hadn't been suppressed by Huang Taiji, and he often committed crimes, he would have been knighted by this time.

Andali is conceited that he has made countless meritorious deeds, and he doesn't pay attention to the Datong Army.

He did not choose to defend the city, but took the initiative to attack. He had three Manchurian Eight Banners under his command, and a Han Army Banner with 500 soldiers.

As for the end, he was hunted down by Li Dingguo and his dragoons, who chased him for hundreds of miles and captured him alive.

The journey of Liu Zhu and Li Dingguo was on the edge of the battle, and Andari took the initiative to seek field battles. The whole battle process can be said to be the easiest.

After An Dali was wiped out, Liu Zhu and Li Dingguo took advantage of the opportunity to take down the five counties in Ruzhou.

Then he attacked Henan Mansion. Because it was blocked by Longmen Pass, he turned to attack Dengfeng first, and at the same time succeeded in a surprise attack on Xuanyuan Pass.

They were about to go out and march into Yanshi, when the news of Dorgon's withdrawal came, Luoyang, Yanshi and other cities all surrendered.

During Zhao Han's expedition this time, the armies from all walks of life won successive victories, but there were also very bad situations.

The troops of Fei Ruhe and Zhang Tieniu had more than 3000 Datong soldiers infected with the plague because they fought in Shandong, the hardest-hit area.

There is no way to prevent it, and in the army, a large number of people gather, and the transmission speed is even faster.

He couldn't find any special medicine, so he had to drink Wu Youke's traditional Chinese medicine decoction to improve his own resistance to fight the plague.

……

Shandong.

Azige's army was besieged in Jinan City, and Fei Ruhe, Zhang Tieniu, Huang Fei, and Ma Jinzhong had joined forces.

As for the other rebels and descendants, only a few young and strong were selected to guard the cities, and the rest were all disbanded and distributed to the nearest households.

There is no shortage of fields, only population.

"Boom boom boom!"

The artillery bombarded the city wall continuously, but the generals were talking about other things, and all of them were wearing masks.

Fei Ruhe said with a broken head, "Another 19 people were diagnosed with the plague yesterday. Damn it, the number of soldiers under my command who died of the plague was countless times more than those who died in battle. What kind of battle did you fight?"

Zhang Tieniu sighed and said, "Oh, there are more in my camp, 36 of them were infected with the plague yesterday."

Huang Fei smiled wryly: "It's not unusual. I've been in Shandong for several years. I usually don't dare to train soldiers. If they get together, they will do bad things."

"You are in Denglei, the plague is not severe, but it is severe in my place." Ma Jinzhong was at the center of the plague.

Fei Ruhe said: "Hurry up and finish this battle, find a place to rest and gather troops to fight, this plague will never stop."

The two divisions in Shandong, after the fighting subsided, it was impossible to go north again.

Non-combat attrition is too serious!