Lin Feng expanded the glass factory and produced glasses, binoculars, and rolling bearings.
On June 27, the ninth year of Chongzhen, Prince Azik of Wuying led more than 60,000 Qing and Mongolian soldiers to break through Dushikou and enter Chang 'an Ridge from Diao E Castle.
When the Qing army entered the pass, Lin Feng strengthened his guard and strictly guarded Fan Village. He ordered the sentry cavalry to station at the nearby fort pier to monitor the nearby military movements at all times. He also sent his servants to Tianjin-Wei City to gather information and let them deliver important news to Fan manor at any time.
News came one after another:
On July 3, the capital was under martial law. Emperor Chongzhen urgently ordered eunuchs Li Guofu to guard Zijing Pass, Xu Jinzhong to guard Daoma Pass, Zhang Yuanheng to guard Longquan Pass and Cui Liangyong to guard Gu Pass. A few days later, he ordered Duke of Cheng Zhu Chunchen to patrol the border.
On July 4, Chao Pichang, the commander of Tianjin, was ordered to rescue the capital and stationed in Changping Prefecture northwest of the capital.
On July 5, the Qing army met in Yanqing, the capital, captured Yanqing Prefecture City and entered Juyong Pass.
For the next ten days, the battle in the capital was calm, and there was no bad news.
However, on July 19th, a piece of shocking bad news came from the front line. Qing "Raoyu Baylor" Abbatai and Yangguli led their troops to break Xifengkou and led 30,000 Qing troops from the east to attack the capital area. They echoed the Azik soldiers from the west and pointed straight at Tianjin.
On the 20th day of the 7th month, an even more shocking piece of news came: On July 17, the Qing army suddenly appeared at Changping City from behind Tianshou Mountain and attacked Changping City. The surrendered people should be inside. The Qing army captured Changping. Chao Pichang, the commander of the Ming Dynasty, surrendered to the Qing army. Wang Xizhong, the eunuch guarding the tomb, Wang Yigui and Zhao Yue, the chief of the Ministry of Revenue, Wang Yuzuo, the judge Hu Weizhong, Guo Yong, Xue Zheng Xie Huailiang, Chang Shiguang, and Xian Zhenji, the garrison, did not surrender and died.
This was a shocking piece of news. The soldiers had gathered together to defend the city. Chang Ping Zhou, which was known as " the important place of the Meer royal family," had been captured. Many high-ranking officials had either died in battle or been killed. From then on, the Qing army could approach the capital city directly.
When Lin Feng led his army out, they encountered not only the Qing army, but also a group of civilians captured by the Qing army. Before they could see the Qing army clearly, they were shocked by the earth-shattering wails. The soldiers rode their horses to a high place and saw a furious scene.
More than 20 Qing soldiers waved machetes and whips as they chased a group of ragged Ming people on the plains to the west. There were three to four hundred people, and it was unknown which prefecture or county they were from. It was possible that the state and county they lived in had been attacked by the Tartars, and they had encountered the Tartars on their way out, so they had fallen into the hands of the Tartars.
The Tartars would not stop attacking the city, and once they encountered fierce resistance, they would massacre the city. The commoners who had their cities broken through could only survive by fleeing.
Unfortunately, this group of people still encountered the Tartars on their way to escape.
There were men and women among the commoners. Some women and children were even carrying their children, crying as they ran. The old people who couldn't run fell from time to time. Some struggled on the ground and could stand up to continue running. Some fell to the ground and couldn't get up again, forever lying on the ground.
The children who lacked stamina gradually could not run anymore, and one of them fell behind. A tartar saw this backward child and came up with a knife.
Blood splattered everywhere. The child was slashed in the neck. Blood sprayed more than a meter high and he fell into a pool of blood.
The Tartar who had killed the man succeeded in his attack. He laughed loudly, raising his blood-stained saber and shouting.
A woman among the refugees saw this scene and cried loudly. She staggered to the back of the crowd and walked towards the child's body.
The tartar next to her whipped the woman's face, causing her skin to split open and her flesh to split open. She fell to the ground.
A man in the crowd couldn't stand this scene anymore and howled loudly. He passed through the fleeing crowd and rushed toward the murderous Tartar without caring about anything, wanting to avenge his child.
But before he could take two steps, a heavily armored tartar rushed over. The tartar swung his long saber and slashed at the man's back. The man screamed and fell to the ground like a sandbag, never getting up again.
After killing two people, the Tartars became even more excited and shouted to drive the people to the west. However, the sight of the Tartars killing two civilians frightened the fleeing civilians. The commoners didn't know whether the Tartars wanted to kill them or drive them away. They were afraid that they would be killed by the Tartars if they ran west, so they scattered and fled south.
The Tartars saw that the fleeing Ming people had dispersed, so they shouted and rode to the southernmost side, slashing at the people running in front.
A bare-chested man was caught up by an armored tartar and stabbed in the back. He spat out blood and fell to the ground with a miserable cry.
A woman carrying a child was caught up by a tartar wearing cotton armor. She was slashed in the back and fell to the ground with a plop. The one-and-a-half-year-old child in her arms was smashed to the ground. He was probably injured and let out a shrill cry.
The tartar wearing cotton armor grinned and drove the horse, letting the horse trample on the crying baby. The warhorse's heavy hooves smashed heavily on the baby's body, until the child was badly mutilated and unable to cry.
More than twenty Tartars killed more than a dozen people in succession before they managed to scare off the people who had scattered to the south. They gathered the panicked people again and drove them to the west.
Seeing such a tragic scene, the eyes of the soldiers of the two squads of the Vanguard Selection Group turned red.
It was said that human lives were as cheap as dogs in troubled times, but when had the Chinese people ever suffered such a massacre?
The soldier shouted,"Squad leader, let's go up and fight these tartars!"”
"Squad Leader Yao, let's go and kill these damn tartars!”
"Squad Leader Yao, let's save these commoners!”
The commander of these two classes was the class monitor of the first class, Yao Changle. He put down his binoculars and pondered for a while before looking at the class monitor of the third class. Seeing that the class monitor of the third class was also furious, Yao Changle nodded and said,"If we capture one or two of them alive, our patrol mission will be considered meritorious. Let's go!"
The sixteen soldiers made up their minds, loaded their rifles, and rode toward the Tartars.
The scouts rode for a hundred meters and slowed down when they were three hundred and fifty meters away from the Tartars. They slowly approached the Tartars. When the Tartars saw Yao Changle's team, they shouted. Dozens of Tartars used Manchu language to communicate with each other. In the end, five Tartars were left behind to watch over the people, and twenty-four people were sent to kill the scouts.
Those Tartars were used to killing Ming soldiers and were very arrogant. Usually, even a hundred Ming soldiers would be crushed by these Tartars, so how could they put these sixteen Ming soldiers in their eyes? They brandished their swords and brandished their claws, gradually increasing the speed of their horses as they charged over.
Seeing the Tartars charging over, the scouts jumped off their horses and squatted on the ground to aim at the enemy.
Three hundred meters, two hundred fifty meters, two hundred meters.
"All of you are aiming!" Yao Changle shouted. Let them get within a hundred steps before firing!"
A hundred steps was a hundred and fifty meters. It would be more accurate to hit the enemy at a hundred and fifty meters. The scouts held their breaths and aimed their muskets at the approaching Tartars, ready to fire.
180 meters, 160 meters, 150 meters!
"Fire!" Yao Changle shouted.”
The sixteen rifles spat out tongues of fire and shot the conical mini bullets out of the barrels, rushing toward the Tartars a hundred paces away at high speed. In the first volley, thirteen of the high-speed rotating sharp bullets hit the enemy.
Ten of the Tartars were the Qing army's 'Bujia' and wore cotton armor embedded with iron sheets. But how could these cotton armors block the high-speed spinning Mini Bullets? The iron piece embedded in the cotton armor was instantly penetrated by the Mini Bullet. The Mini Bullet made a hole in the cotton armor and plunged into the body under the armor. It spun and crushed the organs under the skin.
The five beetles were hit by the bullets and fell to the ground with a miserable cry. Soon, they were dead.
There were five tartars who were not wearing armor or were only wearing cotton armor without iron plates. They were even less able to resist the mini-bullets. The three followers were hit by the Mini Bullets, and their internal organs were crushed by the bullets. They immediately lost their combat ability and fell off their horses.
Nine of the twenty-four Tartars were the elite "vest" of the Tartars, wearing heavy armor. Three of the vests were hit by the Mini Rifle. However, these vests wore two layers of armor, and under the cotton armor embedded with iron sheets, there was a layer of chain mail. At a distance of 150 meters, the momentum of the Mini Bullet weakened after passing through two layers of armor. It did not immediately kill the three vests, but only caused minor injuries to them.
The three avatars were injured, and their faces became even more ferocious as they howled loudly.
Two of the bullets did not hit anyone, but the warhorses. One of the warhorses fell to the ground and convulsed after being shot, pressing a vest on its back under the horse. The other warhorse stood up after it was injured and threw one of its armor behind it.
The fallen horses and people in front caused chaos among the Tartars behind. A warhorse of the Infantry did not have time to turn its head around and tripped over the corpses in front of it. The horse lost its front hooves and fell headfirst to the ground, half dead from the fall of the vest on its back.
The Tartars that were thrown off their horses also temporarily lost their fighting strength.
Half of the Tartars, who had been so arrogant just a moment ago, had been crippled by the riflemen. A single volley had caused eleven Tartars to lose their fighting strength. Only then did the Tartars realize that they had encountered a strong enemy and panicked. The road ahead was blocked by horses and human corpses on the ground. If they wanted to continue charging, they had to stop and bypass these obstacles. The speed of the charge was greatly reduced. And the Great Ming soldiers in front could shoot again at any time!
This wasn't a battle, this was an execution! Where did this Great Ming army come from? How could they be so strong?
The few remaining Infantry Beetles and servants immediately lost their will to fight and raised their whips to escape.
In the Later Jin Dynasty, or in other words, the commanders of the Qing army were called Zhuanda. Each Zhuanda was in charge of ten people. Among these nine, one of them was Zhuanda, the leader of this group of Tartars. He did not wait for the few Infantry Beetle and Servants to escape. Instead, he slashed at the back of one of the Servants who was trying to escape, killing him on his horse.
"Those who retreat will die!"
Even if they fled, they would still be hunted down by the vest. There was no way out, so the Tartars could only charge forward. Hearing Zhuanda's howl, the few Infantry Beetles and servants who wanted to escape turned their horses around again, gritted their teeth, and rushed forward with the vest. These Ming soldiers were armed. The musketeers were slow to reload. As long as they charged into the ranks of the Ming army, the Ming army would be scattered.
The 12 Tartars went around the corpses on the ground and howled as they charged towards the two squads of the Vanguard Selection Group.
100 meters, 80 meters, 60 meters. The soldiers of the Vanguard Selection Group had finished reloading and raised their Mini rifles again.
"Shoot!"
Sixteen rifles fired at the 12 Tartars, the minis that represented death.
The Mini Bullet was sealed in the chamber of the gun and had a fast initial velocity. Furthermore, the cone-shaped bullet spun at a high speed, and its armor-piercing ability far exceeded that of a musket. As long as the bullets were fired from a distance of 70 to 80 meters, the conical Mini Bullets could penetrate the double armor of the Qing army. At a distance of 60 meters, even a Tartar vest wearing two layers of armor would be immediately punched through.
With a distance of only 60 meters, the seven vests in front became the best targets for the Mini Rifle. All of them were hit, and their bodies were instantly pierced with bloody holes, blood splattering everywhere. The bullets that penetrated the armor were not evenly rotated due to the uneven force, and the lethality was even more shocking. These bullets stirred randomly in the bodies of the seven avatars, instantly causing them to spit out blood and lose their lives.
Thump, thump, thump. The seven elite Tartars who had killed countless people immediately fell to the ground.
The four beetles behind did not escape the fate of death. They were all shot by Mini and fell off their horses.
After two volleys, only one of the Tartars was left alive.
The follower knew that the firearms of these Great Ming soldiers had a long range and fast reloading speed, so he knew that he would die if he ran to the back. He made up his mind and shouted loudly to boost his courage. He rode his horse around the corpses in front of him and accelerated towards the sixteen infantrymen.
He relied on his battle-hardened bravery to crush these firearms soldiers and save his life.
He didn't know that these riflemen were experts who had been practicing their bayonet every day for months.
"Mount the bayonet!"
The infantrymen quickly took out the bayonet from the scabbard at their waists, twisted it on the muzzle a few times, and installed the bayonet.
"Stab!"
On the opposite side of the guard, seven or eight bayonet stabbed out, like the thorns of a hedgehog, stabbing the last Qing soldier to death on the horse.
Seeing that the 24 main forces were killed by the Ming soldiers, the five followers guarding the Ming people did not dare to come up and fight again. They abandoned the people and ran away on horses.
The scouts killed the heavily wounded Tartars and cut off their heads along with the Tartars who were killed in the battle, obtaining nineteen heads. They also tied up the five tartars who had lost their fighting ability after being shot in the hands and feet, as well as the ones who had not been shot but had been injured by their horses.
These Tartars had killed too many Ming soldiers and commoners over the years and had accumulated their prestige for a long time. Now that they were defeated, they had yet to react. They were tied up and kneeling on the ground, glaring at the scouts and cursing.
The scouts were resentful that these tartars had just slaughtered the people. They punched and kicked the tied tartars, beating them half to death. The two most arrogant ones had lost a few teeth.
"Who asked you to slaughter the people of my Ming Dynasty!”
"I'll beat you bastards to death!"
"You dare to charge into the pass to seek death?"
The five Tartars were beaten until their mouths and noses bled, and they fell to the ground one by one. Only then did they become obedient and no longer dare to glare at the soldiers of the Vanguard Selection Group.
The scouts had gained a lot from this trip.
First, there were nineteen heads and five captives.
Next were horses and armor. The scouts had seized twenty warhorses and twenty-six sets of armor. The armor had holes in it after being hit by Mini Bullets, but it could still be used after being repaired by blacksmiths.
When the civilians who had nowhere to run saw the scouts kill more than 20 Tartars, it was as if they had seen divine soldiers. They knew that they could only survive if they followed these soldiers. More than 300 people rushed over and knelt in front of the scouts, begging them to take them in.
"Soldier Master! Bring us along!"
"Soldier Master! We have nowhere to run!"
"Soldiers, don't leave us alone! Soldier Master!"
The elderly and women collectively prostrated themselves on the ground and kowtowed desperately, making the onlookers feel sad.
The scouts saw that the commoners were so pitiful, so they could only bring them back to the city and bring them all the way to Fan Manor. When the people saw that the soldiers were willing to take them in, they were deeply grateful along the way and spoke endlessly.
Fortunately, the scouts had seen the civilians being slaughtered by the Tartars and knew that there were no spies among them. Otherwise, with the current atmosphere of the enemy, the Fan family might not dare to take in these people.
Lin Feng was sitting in the Fan manor's Commander Qian Office, dealing with all kinds of news. When he suddenly heard that the scouts had captured five live Tartars and saved more than three hundred civilians, he immediately praised and rewarded the scouts. He also ordered the soldiers who knew Manchu to interrogate these Tartars, hoping to get some information.
As for the refugees who had followed them, they were placed in the south of Fan Manor, living in the shacks where the masons had lived. After some investigation, it was confirmed that they were all citizens of Baodi County, refugees who had escaped south when the city was breached. Now that they had escaped to the Fan manor, they were considered to have survived. Li Zhi asked the Food Department to provide the refugees with three meals of porridge every day and let these refugees participate in the city defense construction.
When the Tartars retreat, these people can return to Baodi County.
The five Tartars were interrogated for a day. At first, they were stubborn, but after being tortured, they became honest and confessed their background.
It turned out that these tartars were the subordinates of the Qing Zheng Huang Qi Super Grade Duke Yang Guli.
The Eight Banners system was an organizational system created by the old slave Nurhachi. At the time of its establishment, it was stipulated that every 300 soldiers would be a Niulu, and there would be one Niulu Ezhen, five Niulu would be a Jiala, one Jiala Ezhen, five Jiala would be a Gushan, and one Gushan Ezhen, which was the flag master. When it was first built, there were only three flags: black flag, white flag and red flag. In the 43rd year of Wanli, the three flags were divided into eight because of "Yiguang", and from then on, there were eight flags.
With the development of the Qing Dynasty, the number of people in the Eight Banners increased. Some of them had more than twenty-five people. At the same time, with the expansion of the Manchu Empire, there were the Eight Banners of the Mongol Empire and the Eight Banners of the Han Empire.
The True Yellow Banners were the top three banners of the Eight Banners. The top three banners did not have a banner master and were the emperor's personal guards.
Super Duke was a title of nobility in the Qing Dynasty. It was the highest rank among the titles of meritorious officials with different surnames. Its status was only second to the imperial family's Baylor.
Yanguli brought 40 bulls with him and 12,000 soldiers to attack the city in the northwest of Tianjin. Baodi County was conquered by Yanguli. Yanguli was currently stationed fifty miles northwest of Fan manor, preparing to attack the core area of Tianjin from the south to test the city defense.
In a few days, Yanguli would attack Fan Manor.
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