The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 214 Nirvana
Shouts like a tsunami rang out around the big tent.

The Kaiyuan army's several attacks were unsuccessful and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Nearly ten thousand soldiers piled up in front of the Khan's palace, forming a sea of blood and corpses.

On that day, Huang Taiji hurriedly held a coronation ceremony, changed the name of the Later Jin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, proclaimed himself the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and changed the reign title to Xuantong.

The second year of Taichang was the first year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty.

After learning about this, Kang Yingqian saw that Ping Liaohou would not live long and the people of Kaiyuan were in unrest, so he abandoned the dark and joined the light, leading his generals to surrender to the Qing.

Huang Taiji personally went out of the palace to welcome him and appointed Kang Yingqian as the Minister of War and Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion of the Qing Dynasty.

On February 19th of the first year of the Xuantong reign, it was a bitterly cold day. Sun Chuanting was escorting Ping Liaohou to retreat northwards. The 1,000th headquarters was escorting them. People kept getting lost and falling behind along the way. They were also attacked by Liaozhen servants. When they finally returned to Kaiyuan, there were only less than a thousand soldiers left.

Deng Changxiong and Wang Zengbin fought to the death. The 2,500 men from the 2000th headquarters and the 2,000 cavalry from the cavalry battalion blocked the Suzi River and covered Ping Liaohou's retreat to the north.

At Suzihe River, Deng Changxiong saw Ping Liaohou for the last time. Liu Zhaosun was already on his deathbed and could not speak.

"Lord Sun, I wish I had listened to your advice earlier and let that traitor Kang Yingqian succeed. I leave the Marquis of Ping Liao to you. Deng will be leaving first! We brothers will meet again in the underworld!"

Sun Chuanting shed tears sadly and looked up at Deng Changxiong, seeing him turn around and resolutely rush towards the enemy camp.

The Kaiyuan army was torn apart, with five out of ten combat soldiers killed, either surrendering or fleeing.

Huang Taiji seized the opportunity and, regardless of the scorching summer heat, personally led the two yellow flags into a decisive battle, defeating the cavalry battalion in one fell swoop and killing Wang Zengbin and Deng Changxiong in battle.

In March, the Qing army swept across Liaodong.

With the help of the Wukong Sect members, Fushun fell quickly and the Qing army massacred the city for three days.

The Liaozhen military leaders who had been watching for a long time noticed the changes in the battlefield situation and joined the campaign against Liu Zhaosun. Under the leadership of Emperor Xuantong, an army of 100,000 swept across the cities in Liaodong.

In April of the first year of the Xuantong reign, Yuan Chonghuan fought to the death and refused to surrender. He held Kuandian for three months. When he ran out of ammunition and food, and the city was broken, Yuan Chonghuan rode his horse into the enemy camp and died in battle.

Huang Taiji ordered the massacre of Kuandian and the destruction of Yuan Chonghuan's bones.

On April 9, Tieling fell and the Qing army massacred the city. Sun Chuanting led the last 3,000 soldiers to retreat to Kaiyuan.

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On the first day of May, the coalition forces of the Eight Banners Mongols and the Liaozhen, totaling 120,000 people, besieged Kaiyuan City, the base camp of Liu Zhaosun. Huang Taiji did not know that Liu Zhaosun had already been critically ill.

On the second day of May, Huang Taiji sent Kang Yingqian as an envoy to Kaiyuan to persuade them to surrender. Emperor Xuantong stated that this war was only to avenge the deaths in Hetuala and to avenge the Ming Emperor. Innocent civilians should not be implicated. Just hand over Liu Zhaosun, and the rest of the people, as long as they surrender, can serve the Qing Dynasty.

Sun Chuanting beheaded Kang Yingqian and refused to surrender.

Huang Taiji was furious and dispatched 49 red-haired cannons to surround Kaiyuan on all four sides, bombarding it day and night.

Twenty thousand Baoyi and Jurchens followed one after another and climbed the city wall like ants. Under the cover of shield carts, the Baoyi built an earthen wall a hundred meters outside the city. The earthen wall was higher than the Kaiyuan city wall. Wuzhenhachao climbed up the earthen wall and fired at the Kaiyuan army with flintlock rifles.

The last three thousand soldiers rose up to resist and used various firearms to shoot and kill the Qing army.

The artillery battalion used all the weapons in the workshop on the battlefield.

The new rockets clashed with the Red Cannons. The whistling sound of the Divine Fire Flying Swallow falling to the ground resounded throughout the wilderness, and the orange-red tail flame lit up the night, which was creepy.

The roar of the Red Cannon tore through the night sky, like the roar of a wild beast, announcing the end of the Han people in Liaodong.

Knowing that they could not escape the fate of being massacred, the people of all ethnic groups in Kaiyuan spontaneously climbed to the top of the city walls to resist the Qing army.

The able-bodied men swung stones and smashed the Baoyi who were clinging to the city walls, while the women and children hid behind the battlements and shot at the enemy troops lined up in the distance with their bird guns.

Tanks of boiling gold liquid poured down, scalding dung water poured down on the enemy's heads. The fearless Baoyi fell off the ladder with screams, leaving only white bones on their heads...

The Qing army attacked fiercely for half a month, but Kaiyuan City remained unmoved, which made Emperor Xuantong furious.

The bodies of the bondservants were piled up to the same level as the Kaiyuan city walls, and the moat was filled with the corpses of the Eight Banners soldiers, blocking the flow of the river.

On May 26, Ping Liaohou died of illness, and the spies in the city passed the news back to the Qing army camp.

The morale of the Eight Banners soldiers was high. Emperor Xuantong summoned all his ministers and said, "This is the will of heaven. Heaven will destroy the traitor Liu!"
The next day, the Red Cannon blasted a breach in the north city. Huang Taiji, wearing armor and holding sharp weapons, led the Qing army and Liaozhen servants to rush in.

Kaiyuan fell, and Sun Chuanting and his 3,000 soldiers were all killed in the battle.

Just before the city was broken, Qiao Yiqi, Song Yingxing and others escaped from the city and fled to Shandong.

General Anyuan has given birth to a son for Marquis Ping Liao.

Qiao Yiqi planned to support Liu Zhaosun's son and continue fighting to the death.

Emperor Xuantong ordered a ten-day massacre in Kaiyuan, leaving no one alive.

Kaiyuan General's Mansion.

Huang Taiji personally led the Yellow Banner Bayara to the Kaiyuan General's Mansion, preparing to grind Liu Zhaosun into dust and capture the imperial concubine Yang Qing'er alive.

Pei Dahu led his two hundred guards to fight desperately. After losing two Niulu armored soldiers, the Qing army called in artillery bombardment. Pei Dahu, Lin Yu, Wu Xiao, Du Du and others were all killed in the battle.

"Dig up the body of Liu the thief and bring him back to Hetuala for punishment!"

At Huang Taiji's command, the Qing army rushed in through the broken gate of the general's mansion.

Thick smoke billowed in the yard, a fire broke out in the wing room, and explosions were heard on all sides.

Huang Taiji's horse was frightened and ran away. A huge mushroom cloud rose above the general's mansion, and more than 200 Qing soldiers were blown to pieces.

Yang Qing'er hugged her husband's body and muttered to herself.

Bumbutai dropped the torch.

The tung oil on the ground ignited instantly, and tens of thousands of pounds of gunpowder in the general's mansion exploded violently.

In the flames, the lady and her husband turned into nothingness.

In April of the third year of Taichang, upon receiving the news of Liu Zhaosun's defeat, the court immediately launched a retaliatory action.

Denglai Governor Yuan Keli was imprisoned and sentenced to death for treason, and three county magistrates of Dengzhou were implicated. At the end of April, Tianjin Wei Coast Defense Commissioner Yang Hao died suddenly in his home.

In July, the Beijing Camp entered Shandong and attacked the Wendeng Camp together with the Liao Town led by Zu Dashou. The two thousand Kaiyuan soldiers stationed in Wendeng fought desperately, but eventually ran out of ammunition and food and were defeated by tens of thousands of enemy troops.

Qiao Yiqi personally escorted Jin Yuji and her son out of Wendeng.

Weihaiwei Yingzui Port.

After watching the Fu ship disappear into the vast sea and sky, Qiao Yiqi raised the imperial sword and committed suicide.

"General Liu, see you in the next life!"

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The world has changed so much, a dream lasted for a thousand years, tears have dried up. When I woke up, the world was vast and the lights were dim.

The sound of muskets exploding from a few miles away seemed to be far away in the sky.

Old Song had his back to him, concentrating on decocting medicine.

The air was filled with the fragrance of medicine, and Liu Zhaosun felt a long-lost sense of emotion in his heart.

I wonder if this nightmare will come true in the end?
Jin Yuji also lay on this bed and had a very long dream.

Later, all her dreams came true.

Liu Zhaosun's heart tightened, and he looked at Old Song's thin back, and said nervously:
"Did you take it down?"

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Thousands of rockets dipped in tung oil were fired at the trench-filling vehicle. The front fender of the trench-filling vehicle was instantly ignited by the rockets, and the fire spread. The guards let out screams.

The pacification soldier in charge raised his bow and shouted to the bannermen:

"Don't stop! Keep filling! Anyone who retreats will die!"

The guards who had been hiding behind the baffle rushed out, took off the dead man's clothes, and tried their best to put out the flames.

Another burst of dense rain of arrows fell, and Baoyi who was putting out the fire was shot into a hedgehog.

Seeing this, the people around screamed and ran away.

The closer they were to the Khan's palace, the more fierce the counterattack of the Later Jin soldiers.

What lay before us was the last breastwork. After breaking through it, there were only two trenches behind it.

Then the road was flat and the shield carts could reach the walls of the Khan's palace.

In other words, as long as this breastwork is broken through, the Later Jin will be completely destroyed - at least that's what Sun Chuanting thought.

This is the fourth breastwork.

In order to capture the first three lines, the soldiers and the Baoyi paid a heavy price.

Especially the bannermen. In just half an hour, less than 3,000 of the 5,000 bannermen were left.

Of the more than 2,000 bannermen who died, half were shot to death by the Later Jin archers, and the other half were killed by the pacification soldiers and combat soldiers with muskets and spears.

Under the joint attack of the attacking and defending sides, the baoyi trapped between the Kaiyuan Army and the Later Jin Army perished at a speed visible to the naked eye, their lives as dead as weeds.

Their humble lives were worth only two bags of dirt and rocks.

"Don't even think about surrendering to the Jiannu. They'll kill you all. Hurry up and move! Fill two bags of earth and rocks, and you'll survive! Fill quickly!"

The instructor held up a loud speaker and continued to incite these poor people.

Dongguanzi no longer promised the ants money and women, but only assured them that they would survive after filling the trench.

In fact, this is also a scam.

According to Sun Chuanting's plan, after the trenches were filled, the Baoyi would still be needed as cannon fodder.

Sun Chuanting's blasting tactics were quite similar to those used by the Chuang army more than 20 years later.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng. He drove cannon fodder forward and asked the old, weak and sick to get close to the city wall, take down a blue brick, and return to save their lives.

Because of Liu Zhaosun's time travel, Sun Chuanting has to practice his arch-enemy Li Chuang's siege tactics in advance.

After filling the trench, the Kaiyuan army concentrated their artillery fire on the city wall to open a small gap, and then asked the baoyi to go forward and dig bricks, one brick at a time.

When all the Baoyi were killed or wounded, the soldiers used shield carts as cover and stuffed coffins and pottery jars filled with gunpowder into the gaps in the city wall.

When the gunpowder exploded, it was the end of Huang Taiji.

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A scream was heard in the distance, and Sun Chuanting returned to reality.

The reality was slightly different from his plan.

The Baoyi who was hiding behind the wooden board was ignited by the fire and rolled on the ground howling.

The two trench-filling vehicles were completely scrapped and turned into two huge fireballs. Blown by the strong wind, they rolled over the densely packed tentacles. At the same time, a dense rain of arrows fell again over the passage.

The Baoyi who were filling the trench could no longer bear it. Ignoring the threat of the spears behind them, they dropped the cloth bags filled with earth and stones and ran away screaming.

Many people fell into the horse traps and were pierced by sharp wooden stakes. They did not die immediately, but let out screams that were not like human voices.

The Kaiyuan archers followed the Baoyi and shot at the breastwork, but because of the shield provided by the breastwork, their attacks posed no threat to the Later Jin archers. Instead, they themselves suffered heavy casualties.

The flintlock soldiers raised their guns and fired another volley. The lead bullets splashed a rain of blood among the crowd of empresses, and countless intestines and internal organs were scattered on the ground.

The tragic scene calmed the fanatical Baoyi a little. They turned around, picked up the cloth bags and continued to fill the trenches.

Some people squatted on the ground, screaming and shouting, their spirits broken.

They were quickly killed by the Later Jin archers and Kaiyuan musketeers.

Another hail of arrows flew over the breastwork, and the soldiers filling the trench in front were shot down. Seeing this, the people behind wanted to turn back.

The musketeer pulled the trigger without hesitation, white smoke rose, and dozens of armored personnel were shot and fell.

"Those who retreat will die! After filling this time, you can live!"

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The fire soldiers built an earthen slope outside the Khan's palace, which was about two meters high and extended for two hundred steps.

A team of musketeers climbed up the slope and fired at the breastwork in the distance.

The flintlock rifle's superior attack finally changed the battlefield situation, and the enemy could no longer shoot arrows at ease. The number of projectiles targeting the armor was also greatly reduced.

Seeing this, the men in coats at the back quickly picked up their sandbags and rushed towards the trench and horse pit in front.

There were only thirty steps left to the breastwork. The Kaiyuan pacification soldiers supervising the battle from behind blew bamboo whistles, and the bannermen filling the trenches in front dropped their cloth bags and ran back for their lives as if they had been pardoned.

"Throw stone mines at twenty paces, and attack with spearmen at ten paces. The flintlock soldiers will provide cover. Take this breastwork and kill all the Tartars! Leave no one alive!"

The war drums are beating.

Amid the rapid bamboo whistles of the captains of each flag, twenty tall and thick shield carts, braving the sparse rain of arrows, ruthlessly rolled over the burning corpses of the Baoyi soldiers and quickly approached the last breastwork of the Later Jin soldiers.

(End of this chapter)