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Only one person can climb up at a time, and if there are too many people, they may be crushed to pieces.

When they lifted the ladder to the gate, it was already dark, and there was not even a ghost on the wall.

Five hundred soldiers climbed up one by one.

A ladder was also crushed on the way, but it didn't matter, there was snow to cushion the fall.

When all the soldiers climbed up the wall, Yang Zhenqing dispersed the team into dozens of groups, and ran from house to house to knock on the door.

Yang Zhenqing went to knock on the door of the tower in person, and the Eight Banners army inside was warming up by the stove.

Hearing a knock on the door, someone opened the door cursing.

The wind and snow poured in, and the knives and guns came out, leaving several corpses in the house.

Guancheng is very small, and it is full of family members of the defenders, and there are also some Han craftsmen who have defected to the Qing Dynasty.

There are so many people who are black and blind, and they can't control so many, regardless of the Manchus and Hans, they will kill all living people.

The closed gate was also slowly opened, and the Han people who stayed in the valley to the east came over with their livestock carrying grain.After quickly burning snow and boiling hot water to soak their feet, many people's feet were frozen stiff. There are fears that dozens of people will face the risk of toe necrosis.

Overnight, Yang Zhenqing occupied a large area of ​​Lingguan.

No one can escape, even if there are still people who have not been killed, they will be blocked in the city and unable to get out.

Chapter 522 [One city and two passes, I want them all]

Two days later, Dopolo arrived late.

They were exhausted and shivering from the cold.At this time, I don't want to chase and kill the enemy, I just want to go into the house to warm up early, if this continues, I will freeze to death.

"The deputy commander of the Mongolian Yellow Banner is here, the guard will come out and answer quickly!" A personal guard was sent to shout.

For the past two days, Yang Zhenqing has been resting.

Not to mention the number of Han people who were severely frozen, there were more than 30 injuries among the soldiers of the Independence Battalion, four of whom had their toes amputated urgently.

Regarding frostbite, the local methods of the common people in Liaodong were proved to be inadvisable by Datong military doctors, and could only be used when there were no conditions.

If possible, do not rub the skin. Using cold water or snow to rub will increase the scope and symptoms of frostbite.In a warm room, apply hot compresses with a wet towel, and soak your feet in warm water after the hot compresses—the water temperature should not be too hot.

During this period, all soldiers and common people who could speak Manchu were dressed in Qing soldiers' uniforms.

"Don't panic, don't show cowardice, the more casual the better," Yang Zhenqing warned, "Remember, you are the Eight Banners Army, you are not the Datong Army!"

The soldier nodded his promise, dragged his feet to the city wall, and said impatiently: "It's the cold winter months, can we let people pass?"

The personal guards immediately scolded: "The deputy commander of Mongolia Xianghuang Banner is here, and the guard of Dapanling Pass will show up soon!"

The soldiers of the Independent Battalion pretended to be surprised, and said hastily, "I...I'll report right away."

After a long time, Dopolo got impatient with the wait, and the former soldier from the independent battalion appeared with another soldier from the independent battalion.

Both of them wrapped their whole bodies tightly, only their mouth, nose and eyes were exposed, and they were not afraid of being recognized.

The soldier who arrived later said: "The general is drunk and can't wake up. What is the military order?"

It is normal to drink alcohol in winter.

Duopolo didn't think much about it, he was shivering from the cold, and urged him personally: "Open the door quickly, prepare more hot water, and bring a few jars of wine, the stronger the wine, the better!"

"Yes!"

After the door was closed and opened, Dopoluo walked out on the snow, the horse was led by his personal guards, the snow was too thick to ride a horse.

Hundreds of Eight Banners troops filed in without realizing the danger at all.

I have been dawdling before, besides trying to be realistic in acting, I was also procrastinating for the independent battalion to set up the battlefield, and now they have all arrived at the shooting position.

It's a pity that Guancheng is too small, and there is no design for the urn city, otherwise it will be staged to catch the turtle in the urn.

The soldier imitated the military salute of the Qing Dynasty, nodded and bowed to greet him: "This way, Dutong, please, come in and drink to warm up. The hot water will take some time to boil."

Dopolo and several personal guards were taken to the house where the ambush was hidden.

The rest of the Qing army was also divided into several groups and taken away.

Yang Zhenqing stood on the city wall and watched, with a grin on his face.His whole family was killed by Duo Duo, and he only wanted revenge for the rest of his life, not counting killing Duo Duo, and he wanted to kill Dorgon himself.

Seeing that it was almost done, Yang Zhenqing picked up the copper whistle and blew it suddenly.

The nearby sections of the city wall also blew copper whistles.

"Woo! Whoa! Whoa!"

"Bang bang bang bang!"

After the copper whistle sounded, gunshots followed one after another.

The doors and windows of the houses on both sides of the street were suddenly opened, and then a handful of firecrackers fired at the Qing troops walking through the street.

"Why are there so many gunshots?" Duopolo stood up in shock as soon as he entered the room and sat down.

The independent battalion fighters who brought them in quickly escaped from the room.

Dopolo's personal guards chased them out, and they fired guns in front of them. The survivors were so frightened that they quickly hid in the house.

Dopolo was so frightened that he pushed open the window and wanted to escape, but he was greeted by two long guns, and he was stabbed and fell into the snow on the spot.

Seizing the city on a snowy night two days ago, and now closing the door to beat the dog, all went so smoothly that it is unbelievable.

Moreover, not a single enemy could escape, and all the city gates were closed.

Two consecutive victories, Shimen Pass in the west and Xiuyan City in the east, none of the Eight Banners soldiers knew about it.

Then continue to cheat!

When the wind and snow stopped for a while, Yang Zhenqing led the troops to set off, all changed into the equipment of the Eight Banners Army, and fled to Xiuyan City in a "worry" covered in blood.

Arriving in the evening, they rushed outside the northern city. A soldier shouted in panic in Manchu: "Hurry up and open the city, we have been ambushed by the Nanman! Dutong, Dutong is injured!"

These guys, covered in blood, limping and running in the snow, really looked like they were defeated.

Yang Zhenqing was still supported by two soldiers and seemed to be seriously injured.

The Qing army guarding the city did not suspect him, and hurriedly opened the city gate, and some officers ran to check Yang Zhenqing's "injury".

"kill!"

Soldiers from the Independence Battalion stormed up, quickly occupied the city gate, and then rushed into the city to kill anyone they saw.

There are only one hundred defenders left in Xiuyan City, how can they resist?

After thirty or forty people died, all the remaining defenders fled, and all the Manchus in the city also fled.Those Manchus, mostly old and weak, women and children, were temporarily recruited by Dopolo because they were young and strong, and they were taken to Dapanling Pass to die.

Seeing hundreds of people escaped from the city, Yang Zhenqing smiled with satisfaction: "There's no need to chase them. It's cold winter, and they don't bring any food. If they can escape from the mountains alive, it's their fate."

This time the city made a lot of money by cheating the city. The Manchus around Xiuyan City were attacked and killed several times by Yang Zhenqing, and all their livestock and food were moved into the city.

A lot of food, a lot of livestock!

After another half a month, the weather was completely clear. Yang Zhenqing left dozens of people to guard the city, and then led the troops back to Dapanling Pass, allowing the Han people there to migrate to Xiuyan City.

This product is not stopped yet, it is delicious and delicious in Dapanling Pass, and we will start again when it snows.

Now that the supplies are more abundant, I am less worried about my feet being frostbitten.

They guessed it again, and Xue Ye took Shimen Pass.

The Qing troops at Shimen Pass, even if the guards were vigilant, would only pay attention to the west direction. How could they expect that there would be enemies coming from behind them?In a daze, Yang Zhenqing snatched it away.

When the snow cleared, Yang Zhenqing sent someone to report to Gaizhou.

Hu Dinggui, who was stationed in Gaizhou City, thought he had misheard when he received the news: "You said that Battalion Commander Yang led hundreds of people to take down Xiuyan City, Dapanling Pass, and Shimen Pass?"

"Yes!"

The soldier who reported the letter held his head high, his tone extremely proud.

Hu Dinggui was speechless for a while, and choked out two words for a long time: "Okay, okay!"

Yang Zhenqing's operation is equivalent to completely opening up the mountains in southern Liaoning.If you go north and take Ximu City, you can send troops directly from the mountains to attack Haizhou.

Even if Ximu City cannot be captured, based on the results of the battle, the Qing army will not be afraid of coming from the mountains in the future, and the rear of Jinzhou, Fuzhou, and Gaizhou will be completely stable.Even Jinzhou and Fuzhou no longer need to garrison troops, and all three divisions will be sent to the front line of Gaizhou.

Seizing one city and two gates in the mountains has little economic and people's livelihood value, but it has great strategic significance.

It is precisely because of the importance of Xiuyan City that Dorgon sent a deputy governor to garrison, and this deputy governor is Fei Yingdong's grandson.

Dopolo is indeed very timid in battle, but he has been battle-tested after all.

It's better to be a little cowardly, so as not to be lured out of the city, you just need to be cowardly and stick to it in the city.

Who would have thought that Yang Zhenqing and Duopolo, one manipulating like a god and the other like a ghost, could fight like this.

If Ximu City was not too far away, and the weather was more severe, Yang Zhenqing even wanted to take Ximu City down.In that case, his troops would be less than fifty miles away from Haizhou, and they could go out to greet the Tartars at any time.

Let's put it this way, although Yang Zhenqing's territory is all mountainous, in terms of its area alone, it is the sum of the land occupied by the Datong Army in Liaodong in recent years.

Today, half of the territory of the Datong Army in Liaodong was taken by Yang Zhenqing.

Several teachers stationed in Liaodong were dumbfounded when they received the news, and the meritorious documents were also sent to Nanjing after the spring.

The officials of the Ministry of War were dumbfounded when they saw the map. They had never been to the mountains in southern Liaoning, and they didn't know that they were so poor that they didn't want to shit.They were just very intuitive, and found that the Datong Army's territory in Liaodong suddenly doubled.And this huge battle result was created by a battalion commander with five hundred soldiers.

Pang Chunlai was overjoyed, and went to Zhao Han with the battle report, and said with a smile, "This man Yang Zhenqing, it's good to get a name."

"The teacher values ​​this person, so give him a good promotion!"

Zhao Han joked: "The independent battalion was expanded into an independent regiment, and it was a reinforced regiment of 3000 people. Its strength was not included in the divisions, and it was responsible for stationing at Xiuyan City, Dapanling Pass and Shimen Pass. The soldiers asked him to replenish on the spot and recruit local troops. The Han people are soldiers, and how they can be trained depends on how capable they are."

In the mountains in southern Liaoning, it is not easy to transport military rations, and I am too lazy to dispatch reserve troops to expand.

Except for the initial 3000 members of this so-called 500-strong regiment, the rest are considered half-farming and half-war peasants and soldiers, all of whom were serfs from the mountains in southern Liaoning.They plowed the land and fought at the same time. Usually, they only needed to send people to guard the mountain passes. When they encountered Tartars, they immediately entered the city and entered the pass to defend.

Yang Zhenqing also created a legend. In less than three years as a soldier, he was quickly promoted from a soldier to a regiment commander, and his promotion speed was faster than that of Hu Dinggui.

The story about Yang Zhenqing was also quickly released. The whole family was killed by Man Qing, his parents, wife and children died tragically, and he was determined to take revenge, and finally made great military achievements in Liaodong.

After the opera was staged, it also followed.

It was adapted by folk writers, adding many children's love and changing Yang Zhenqing's background.

What Yang Zhenqing is a descendant of the generals of the Yang family, and his direct ancestor is Yang Zaixing, a famous anti-gold general in the Southern Song Dynasty and Yue Fei's subordinate.After the fall of the Song Dynasty, Yang Zaixing's descendants kept their names incognito, and their art of war and martial arts were passed down from generation to generation.

Today, His Majesty the Emperor of Datong is a descendant of Zhao Song, and Yang Zhenqing, a descendant of Yang Zaixing, also came into the world as a star of Wuqu. God destined him to assist the blood of the old master.

After making up and making up, Yang Zhenqing became a master of martial arts.With big arms and round waist, eight feet in length, and five catties of rice a day, he can take the head of an enemy general among ten thousand armies.

It was Yang Zhenqing who used lightness kung fu to capture a large area of ​​Ling Pass on a snowy night, and killed the Qing army guarding the pass without leaving any behind.

When Zhao Han found this book, he was amused and laughed out loud. Scholars are still too busy.

However, the prosperity of the market proves that the social economy is developing, and more and more people can afford it and can read and write.

Chapter 523 [Cao Thief]

When Yang Zhenqing captured Xiuyan City skillfully, Zhao Han moved into the Forbidden City in a few days in Nanjing.

Li Xiangjun's official promotion was slow, but her actual status was very high, because she had become a female official who organized memorials for the emperor.

Before the emperor went to work, Li Xiangjun was already in his seat, and there were several female officials holding memorials behind him.

The memorials were all processed by the cabinet, and were classified by Li Xiangjun.In particular, the memorials that are related to each other are all posted yellow with female officials, and are listed on separate papers.

It was very convenient for the emperor to review and review it, and he could search it immediately. Similar to memorials, which were approved at one time, it can be said to save time, labor and effort.

Of course, in order to prevent the female officials from playing tricks, when Zhao Han reviewed the memorials, he randomly selected a copy, instead of reviewing from top to bottom or from bottom to top.

When Zhao Han came to work, Li Xiangjun had already studied ink.

In addition to the female officials and maids of honor, there are two civil servants sitting.They belonged to the history of daily life, and ran with the emperor every day, recording the emperor's words and deeds, good and bad things must be written down.

Which concubine the emperor sleeps with must be recorded in the daily notes. This kind of statement is pure nonsense-historians are not allowed to go to the harem unless they are ordered, and they must not know where the emperor sleeps at night.

Han Yue wrote: "On such and such a day, I reviewed the memorial at eight o'clock in the morning."

Then put down the pen and read the book by yourself.Only when Zhao Han summoned the ministers to discuss a certain memorial, would he start working again.

The wording "eight o'clock in the morning" was strictly demanded by Zhao Han. Now clocks and watches are popular in cities, and some rich men in the country also have clocks in their homes.

Zhao Han sat down, glanced at the memorial, and randomly selected it from the pile in the Ministry of Punishment.

Just looking at the beginning, I was very upset. The deputy envoy of Henan Transshipment was found to be corrupt when transporting food for resettlement of immigrants.This is a nest case involving more than 20 officials, and it is considered the biggest corruption case this year.