In the midst of the situation, the gunshots gradually subsided.
Bodies can be seen everywhere in the city.
The streets were crowded with bannermen holding their heads in their hands.
As long as they made the slightest movement, guns would fly out and kill them on the spot.
The Guards infantry occupied all the commanding heights in Gaiping, overlooking and monitoring the entire city.
"Report, a total of more than 9,200 enemy prisoners were captured in this battle.
Please give instructions on how to deal with them."
A general asked Xia Yan for instructions.
"Except for their slaves, women and children who were wrapped with the flag, all other bannermen, including those who were wrapped with the flag, were executed.
In addition, even if they were wrapped with the flag, those who had gone on expeditions with their masters and received military merit awards would also be executed."
"Follow orders" There is no nonsense and superfluous expression of emotion in the Guards.
Once the military order is given, it will be executed immediately.
The officers took the Eight Banners roster, household registration, and military merit award account books seized from the government office.
Check by name one by one.
Bannermen of various colors squatting on the street were dragged out by their pigtails one after another.
They were taken to the sandy land outside the city gate in batches.
A few of them were piled into a group.
Their braids were tied together and they were gathered together to guard them.
The bannermen who were dragged out from behind guessed that they were going to be executed collectively.
Some people started wailing and begging for mercy, and some people were already incontinent.
Among them are Baoyi bannermen of Mongolian, Han and Korean origin, as well as Zhengshen bannermen, and even many Ezhen at all levels.
For the lowest-level slaves, women and children who follow the flag among the remaining more than 6,000 eight banners.
The Guards announced to them that the flag status was immediately invalidated.
Both men and women can live alone, and of course they can also join a family of their own accord.
The land, real estate and other means of production left by the banner household heads will be temporarily distributed and used by them through free agreement.
After the world is settled in the future, the government will make detailed plans.
For those who were kidnapped from far away and now want to return to their hometown, the government will arrange for them to be escorted back in batches regularly at the appropriate time.
Why Xia Hua is so lenient to the women and children of the bannermen is that he has his own ethical and moral values of not killing women and children.
What's more important is that most of these women were also captured slaves.
They became so-called wives and concubines after being raped by bannermen and giving birth to children.
If the master is not an ordinary bannerman from a wealthy family, he will still be treated as a slave.
In addition, the Eight Banners system itself also regarded civilian women as slave objects.
Except for the Aisin Gioro Sect, no matter what their origin.
Women's marriages must be designated by senior officials at all levels, from Gushan to Niulu.
Parents cannot make the decision, let alone themselves.
The Guards also recruited city garrison troops on the spot.
But it is a pity that the slaves who have been enslaved for a long time have difficulty changing their psychological roles for a while, or they are worried that the Ming army will not be stationed here for a long time, and they are worried that the Qing army will retaliate after they arrive.
Not many people responded.
After patient mobilization by the Guards, only five to six hundred men came forward to sign up.
They were all Han farmers in Liaodong before the Later Jin Dynasty occupied the Liao River Basin.
Xia Hua also expected this and vaccinated Xia Yan before setting off.
Recruiting five to six hundred people was beyond expectations.
Xia Yan immediately gave them swords, guns, bows and horses from the Eight Banners arsenal, and asked them to help the two hundred guards stay in Gaiping.
But the first thing they have to do now is execution.
Swing your sword to kill the bannermen who were bundled into a ball.
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One is to let them practice their courage, and the other is to cut off their escape route.
The bannermen, whose heads were tied together with braids, struggled desperately, but they were all killed by knives and bayonets.
The guards only stayed in Gaiping for two days, and Xia Yan continued to advance along the Liao River towards Shengjing with the remaining troops.
Draft horses galloped, pulling chariots one after another, and artillery carts flew past the road.
At the front of the convoy, there were many scouts carrying revolvers and cavalry sabers.
They were holding telescopes and were wandering through the fields on both sides of the road to watch.
During this march, Xia Yan did not attack any more cities, but directly penetrated the Shenyang Guards of the Ming Dynasty and Shengjing of the Qing Dynasty.
On the way forward, when we encountered the county town, we also detoured around it.
On the way, they encountered some small groups of Eight Banners soldiers who intercepted them.
Before the large army could stop, they were all wiped out by the reconnaissance scouts.
Three days later, the Guards troops arrived at the gates of Shenyang City.
Prince Zheng Jierhalang and Zu Dashou, who were staying behind in Shengjing, were in a panic.
The entire Qing Dynasty did not expect that the Ming army would dare to plunder the Qing hinterland at this time.
This has never happened since the death of Pi Dao Mao Wenlong.
Now that most of the men in the entire Eight Banners, including those who have followed the flag, have been transferred to the pass, there are only about 20,000 regular flag soldiers left in Liaodong.
Even including the slaves who have followed the flag, there are only six people in total.
More than 10,000 people.
Moreover, most of these 60,000 people are old, weak, sick, and disabled, and they are distributed in cities all over Kanto.
Two days ago, Jierhalang issued an emergency transfer order to Ezhen, who was left behind in Gushan, Jiala and Niulu of each banner.
Now there are 30,000 horses arriving in Shengjing in time, of which more than 20,000 are slaves.
On the tower, a Jia La E Zhen looked into the distance.
Half an hour ago, a bloodstained vest knight came to report that the Ming army had arrived.
But he had been waiting here for more than half an hour, but he did not see the scene of the army gathering under the city as he had imagined.
Hey, did this scout make a mistake?
He was wondering.
Very far away, a puff of smoke seemed to rise, and dozens of black spots in the sky suddenly came into view.
"What the hell is this?"
Before he could finish his words, the rumble of cannons was heard.
Then suddenly there was a loud explosion next to him.
When he opened his eyes again, he found that he was already under the city.
His lower body was completely numb.
He raised the upper half of his body with both hands, only to find that the lower half of his thighs were empty.
Strangely, he felt no pain.
It turned out that his spine was broken.
Booms of gunfire were heard in the distance, and the soldiers gathered on the top of the city were either killed by field artillery shells or sniped by riflemen.
Jia La Ezhen tried his best to look into the distance again, but still couldn't see a single figure, and then his body went limp and fell to the ground.
Even to the end of his life, he could not understand this unequal "transcendent visual range war".
The surviving flag soldiers at the top of the city were also scattered with a blast.
Among the incoming artillery shells at this time, there were more solid shells or chain shells fired by the 18-pound field artillery.
One after another, they bombarded the sealed city gate and On the front of the city wall, grenades continued to be thrown towards the city head and into the city.
After the bombardment lasted for an hour, the 5,000 Eight Banners cavalry circled back from the west of Shenyang City, trying to find and annihilate the Ming army's artillery array.
Dozens of people spread out to search for the source of the gunfire, but before they could see anyone, they were shot down one by one amidst the banging gunfire.
A knight commander with a background as a scout used his sharp eyes to scan the grass in the distance, and suddenly discovered that two miles away, at the end of his field of vision, there were faint wisps of white smoke.
If you look carefully, that should be where the Ming army's artillery array is.
He immediately raised the flag, blew the horn, and galloped away with hundreds or thousands of horses.
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When the cavalry was still three hundred meters away, a bullet pierced the head of the cavalry leader.
The remaining cavalry continued to run wildly.
When the cavalry rushed forward another twenty meters, it seemed that all the bullets were whizzing towards them.
The whizzing sound of bullets was accompanied by plasma and brain matter being splashed everywhere.
In addition, there was also a very special, intermittent chug sound.
Three hundred meters away, several one-ton Montini guns were spitting out tongues of flame and shooting out dense pellets.
Their rate of fire is only 200 rounds per minute, and there are only 37 bullets in one cartridge.
The soldiers operating the guns have to change the cartridge every ten seconds.
The performance is far inferior to that of a real machine gun, but it can still cause significant damage to dense horse formations.
Nearly a thousand people went to see the King of Hell in a matter of seconds
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